TTic ate AN IMAGINATIVE ROMANCE OF ARCTIC EXPLORATION. WEITTEN FOE THE DISPATCH BY HERBERT D. WARD. SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTEKS. In a sleeping car onrnevlng from the West to Chleazo are sir chance acquaintances, Millionaire Tanderlvn. ot Chicago: Prof. Wilder, inventor of tho Aeropole: Sergeant Will twig, -who was with Grcelvand with Lockwood on their Polar expeditions; Royal Sterne, a technical institute student: Jack Hardy, who is going into real estate in Chicago, and Fred erick Ball, an astronomical tutor. Out of a jesting remaik a geiions expedition to the "orth Pole in I'roC Wilder's airship is arranzed. Jlillionairo Vanderlyn furnishes the moncv. Wilder the conveyance. Willtwig tho experience, and the three younger men the enthusiasm. Just as they start officers arrive to serve an injunction on Wilder. The action is brought by Hennepin, who claims the aliship is his invention. After some exciting ox- Jierienees the officois are persuaded to desist. The airhip gets off, and when over Lake ilicUlsan Sergeant Willtwig remembers that he left his supply of matches in Chicago. Only lew can be lonnd in the pockets of the explorers and they are preserved as ir they wore pold. Soon a strange, new sickness steals over the party. It is like seasickness, only more severe. While thev are prostrated by it they nanowly escape dashing against a mountain top in Canada. All goes well until In the far north they espy a ship In the ice and from It a man Is signaling. CHAPTER YII. THE HIGHEST JLLTITTTDE. The four men confronted each other in alarm. The white faie, the drawn expres sion of the leader of the expedition, af frighted the three men who were left in the cabin; the excitement of those who had seen the man in the abandoned ship below them communicated itself to the chiefs face and added thereon deeper lines of anx iety. "What is it?" they simultaneously cried. "There's a ship below and a fellow wav ing something on it that's all," said Jack Hardy, almost beside himself at the first evidence ho had seen of Arctio horrors. "What's up with you?" "Where?" demanded the Sergeant Im peratively, disregarding the last interroga tive. The anxious furrows of his face deepened still more. He knew too well what Polar abandonment and Arctio de spair meant. "There!" pointed the tutor. "Use this glass lookl " " Can't we stop and take him in?" asked Eoyal. "Of course we must." "We can't!" This cold-blooded answer came from the engine room. There stood the inventor at the doorway, every nerve quivering. ".My God!" he ejaculated, putting one hand to his brow, "We can't! Ve simply can't! " At this extraordinary speech, which emanated from the sensitive lips of the most tender-hearted man among them, Jack and Itoval ftarted forwarif with a mutual impulse of horror. Youth is geuer ous, and the boys of the party would have each given their last cent o'r shared their last mouthful to keep a fellow creature Irom suflering. It was incredible to them that the Sergeant, who had been himself steeped in suffering, should not have the came sentiments. Simultaneously the thought passed their minds that the air sickness had clutched him again, and turned bis wits. "What do you mean?" demanded Jack Hardy. "You "wouldn't let a fellow die in your sight! I say, stop the car and let's go to him." "That's the ticket," added Koyal Sterne with quivering lips. "I say confound the North Pole. We'll save that poor iellow down there." The two young men approached the in ventor threateningly, who, in his turn, trembled violently, but did not flinch. Sergeant Willtwig, who had been look ing carefully with a glass out of the open stern inuow at the derelict which was cow far behind, turned at the sound ot these hot words, and approached the two men. "Halt!" he cried commaudingiy. "Who are you that dare to gie orders on this ship? You are liable to arrest. Do you think we are careless of human life? Im perative circumstances demand that we do not descend, and when we do, may God heln us!" The heroic tone of the Sergeant's voice cweJ the young mm. They turned back. Thev perceived that some unloreseeu;dauger menaced their expedition, perhaps vitality. The tutor looked on dismayed. "Proi. Wilder," asked the Sergeant lift ing a white lace to the inventer, "is it safe lor you to slow the Aeropole down?" The uord "safe" was ominous as the tone in which the question was uttered. The lour riveted theirgaze upon the haggard engi neer. He shook lu head hopelessly and turned away. "Well, then," said the Sergeant, "put her about. We well return to the abandoned r? The Ilighezt latitude, Hurrafi! ship. Let us descend to an altitude of 200 feet. What's her speed uon?" Heturned to the tutor anxiously. The youngest member of the expedition consulted the air gauge, and answered: "One hundred and fifty-two." At these words, not in themselves pain fuLthe Sergeant aud the inventor exchanged a meaning look. "What the dickens is the row. anyway?" blurted out Hoys), like a child, unable to bear the ignorance of the apparent mystery any longer. "I will tell you in a few minutes, nfter we have done what we can for the unfortun ate man below," replied the chief. By this time the airship had described a huge c.rcle, and was making back for the tcene of t-tarvation and despair. ".But if you are not going to descend, how on earth can you do anything? " in quired Royal, wonderingly. "UauU me your kevs'to the provision closet," was all that the Sergeant deigned to anfevvpr. Toe quiet tutor caught the idea. "Ah!" he exclaimed, pointing to the open window at the bottom of the car. The commander nodded. "We will drop two months' provisions and some furs," aid the Sergeant, laconi cally. Already he was throwing boxes of pem mican, canned meats, vegetables and fruits madlv into the main room. "There he is!" cried Jack peering ahead and below. "I'll bet vou a dollar he hasn't cfire!" "It's his own fault, then," answered Ser geant Willtwig. "He has plenty of fuel, tri'.ere is the v.hole ship." "But perhaps he hasn't a match! " "That is probably so; then of what use are the provisions?" suggested the tutor. -7 -gs-Rv- yjg' "How can he eat what will ba frozen as hard as steel in an hour's time." This thought, which was probably the truth of the dismal matter, affected the company aboard the Aeropole according to their temperaments. "He ought to have devised some means of lighting up," said Prof. Wilder. "Poor, poor fellow!" breathed the tutor, softly. "I'll bet he'd give a thousand dollars for a lucifer." replied Jack Hardy, dryly. 'Why not drop him down a few?" sug gested RoyaL "That is what humauity calls for, nnd what we must do," said the leader of the expdition with a hollow voice. "Ah!" whistled Royal to himself. He had forgotten. He now understood. The Sergeant took from his breast pocket the tirecious tin box that coutained all the matches they possessed. He counted them again eagerly, as if hoping that a recount would increase their number. But not Thero remained exactly 31, and no more, "How many 6hall we give him, gentle men?" he asked. "It is for you to say." There was a silence, for cone dared an swer. "Shall we give him more than one?" de manded the Sergeant in an expressionless tone. The four men nodded eagerly. "Three?" continued their leader. The travelers looked at each other doubt fully. Jack half shook his head. "Yes!" said the tutor bravely. Prof. Wilder encouraged this decision with a vigorous and generous assent ot the head. "Four?" continued Sergeant Willtwig, pitilessly. No one could tell by his voice whether he inclined to give four or not. Faces dark with doubt met the inquiring glance of the Sergeant. There was no an swer this time. That extra match might save their own lives; it might also do as much for the outcast below. The hazard was too great for an expression of lib erality. "I say, Capt'n," broke In the tutor at this point, "Give him his share, and be done with it There are 31 give the fellow five. My conscience won't be clean unless you da" This munificent suggestion created a sen sation, but the leader's face lost none of its stolidity. His eyes softened for a moment, as the young man spoke, and then regained tneir set expression. "All right," sang ont Jack Hardy reck lessly, "of course, let them go!" The rest nodded doubtfully. How for the first time the Sergeant "gave his own opinion. "There will be one match left over. Think : for a moment, gentlemen, of this i loneliness, and his suffering. We ' man's owe him all we can give. We cannot with safety descend to take him in! Yon shall soon understand. But we can add that extra match with our blessing!' his voice ! . i broke. Who else but he in this mixed party understood the possibilities of Arctio privations of which the pen may never write? Yet for him to give that match was heroio sacrifice of self. That slender bit ot wood, capped with phosphorous, might prove under certain circumstances the absolute salvation of their own Polar ex pedition. The men looked at each other blankly. Was this the leader who spoke? Was this the unmoved man, whom they were accus tomed to fear a little and respect much? But may not a man be unmoved at his own peril yet melt at the distress ot others, and be more ot a man for a' that? "For heaven's sake do what you think best. Give them all if you want to! Only don't look so. I'll go crazy if this goes on." For the first time the tutor lost his equi poise. His organization was as delicate as one of his chronometers. The rest of the party quickly seconded the noble sugges tion of the Sergeant and 25 matches were replaced in the tin box, which the Sergeant put in his breast pocket Now the provisions, wrapped in tins and furs, were ready to drop through the trap door in the bottom of the airship. The Captain had written a note explaining the leason of their apparent heartlessness, and. the whereabouts of the six precious matches, and expressing the hope that the party might be able to return to rescue the castaway, in two weeks perhaps. The little bundles of lite rolled and toppled and lell nnd bounded a hundred fe t below them by the side of the ice-nipped whaler. Then the Aeropole sped on again. The passengers fancied they heard a cry of joy overtake thtir wonderful flight Through glasses they saw a skeleton stag ger to the heaven-sent provisions, and fall upon his knees, aud lift up his hands and bless them. Tnere was moisture in the eyes of Ser geant Willtwig as he looked. Jack and Royal, who at first had expressed mutinous signs w uissausiaction &e wnat mev were pleased to can a uniaue case of inhuman- I Sty," became silent They began to respect i their leader profoundly. A man who could be as hard as steel, and as soft as fleece J when tenderness was required, was one to ' follow. I "What .Inpt cha nn. -r. -n.uo a manded the commander of the' tutor, as if ! pumug irum 1113 imna tne moving signu "Only 128, sir; we are slowing down. v nat uocs u mean The inventor cast a desnairing look at the Sergeant and groaned. Sergeant Willtwig now drew the mem bers of this Polar expedition about the door of the engine-room and spoke: "Gentlemen, the machinery of our airship has become deranged." "Not out of gear," interrupted the inven tor with a hectic blush of pride. "Every part is all riht. It simply is losing power. It won't go." "But it is going. Then what is the mat ter?" cried Royal impulsively, thinking himself intensely practical. "What does she gauge?" asked the inven tor with a nod at the tutor. "One huudred and twenty-seven." "You see! She is losing "every minute. I call it a case of nervous prosfration," ex plained the inventor sadly. "I have known engines to do the samething. A locomo tive is like a thoroughbred horse. It has its moods. They get off thei feed. They are apt to suffer for lack of energy. Then suddenly the disinclination of work passes off, and everything goes all right. All engineers understand this," ho urged, gazing into the incredulous faces of his companions. "It is not infrequent or absurd. Now my engine here this electrical machinery is of a high er order. It is more like a human being. It ia as sensitive as a woman. This is a terrible journey. My engine understands it. She is troubled; she is frightened; she has nervous prostration; she is refusing to work. Good God, sirs! I can't blame ner, for it is cold, coldand dangerous, and she is" my child!" As he spoke he patted a huge ooil of wire with unutterable tenderness. "You see," proceeded Prof. Wilder with shaken voice, "the responsibility we have put upon her has been too prolonged. When J you were boys didn't you "let the old cat die uuli jou caueu it, wnen vuc awjug stopped gradually of its own volition? Here is a gradual collapse. She is slowly hut surely giving out'f He again looked at the tutor inquiringly. "A hundred and twenty," answered the tutor gravely. "Gentlemen, if we had not gone back to the shipwreck, even at this rate 01 decrease of speed, we should have attained the Pole." "And if she had stopped paused for an instant she might not have been able to start again for a week or perhaps a month. We simply could not descend to the poor fellow's relief. The machine needs a thor ough rest." The inventor spoko as if he werea nurse attending an overworked and worried patient, and, indeed, perhaps he was right. "This is a go. How near can we come?" exclaimed Jack Hardy. "I voto we go back as far as we can. If we've got to be stuck anywhere with a dyspeptic engine, I vote to be as near home as possible." "Ho," answered the Sergeant decisively. "We go ahead. Safety lies in advance. Belief, if we must need it, would miss us anywhere except at the Pole." "One hundred and fifteen!" interjaculated the tutor. "If she can only hold out five hours," thought the leader to himself. Every mile gained by air was equivalent to five hours nntold hardship by ice. How often had it taken an expedition nine hours to make an advance of two or even three miles! Four miles a day in that unlrod region is a suc cessful trip. Six miles is unusual. Nine miles a miracle. Without eating, without smoking al most without talking, the five sat watching the dying machinery. The buzz of wheels took to themselves lower and lower tones. Now and then a tremor shook the vessel, not of dislocation, but as if it were a horse overridden. At last the Aeropole only made 30 miles an hour. The Sergeant was biting his lips to restrain his terrible impatience. He had stationed himself in the bow window, and was searching the horizon incessantly with his glass. Suddenly ho gave a start of recognition. "There!" he exclaimed, pointing down to a black vertical line in the distance. "There Is our pfllrnt Tho i1ffhcf lntitujlA avai reached by human foot! Only 100 miles past that, and we will yet conquer the un- conqueraDler The Sergeant was in an ecstasy of emo tion. His hrp.ftth rftmft fnsf and flm -nnn . -,-, - ,.-v -. huu. of it enveloped his companions. The car sped over this undiscovered country faster than any previous device of human ingen uity had ever done. It was bitterly cold. The men shivered in an atmosphere far be low zero, hut they did not notice this. Suddenly, the commander of the expedi tion turned to his companions, with a face charged with excitement: "Yell, boys, yell!" he shouted. "Where is the flog of the Union?" "Mnd as a March hare," whispered Jack to Royal. "I say it's horribly cold." But the tutor caught the Sergeant's two hands and held them. The same indescriba ble elation clutched them both and bound them together. "Hurrah!" cried the tutor with choking voice. "The highest latitude! Hurrah!" At that moment an ominious whizzing arrested the enthusiasm of the explorers. 7b Be Continued Kext Sunday. EXTINCT CA.TB AND DOGS. Carious Feline ana Canine Creatures That Formerly Existed. "There used to be cats in North America 100,000years ago," said a paleontologist to a writer for the Washington Star. "Great carniverous creatures of the feline tribe roamed over this country then in enormous numbers. They are all extinct, and have left only their bones behind to tell the story of how they lived and what they fed upon. One often reads of the art by which the naturalist is able to restore the skeleton of an animal from a single bone, and in fact a good many mistakes have been made through over-confidence on the part of learned gentlemen in reconstructing fossils by theory from insufficient material. But there is no possibility of mistaking the testimony afforded by the teeth. Thev tiIl ! all about the manner of existence led bv their former owner, giving accurately the habits, diet and approximate age of the beast "Thus it is very fortunate that teeth last longer than any other objects in nature. At this day are found in a perfect state of pres- ervation the molars and incisors which were. used to chew with by the mighty reptiles of millions ot years ago. It is irom his dentition that science declares man to be carnivorous only by habit and not by nature. I spoke ot that the other day to "a young man in search of information, who replied impolitely: 'So is a hen.' When I asked him what he meant by that he said that the dentition of a hen would certainly not indicate that it was carnivorous by na ture, and yet it evidently was so, judging from its addiction to worms nnd preference for flesh in general. However, as I was go ing to remark, the piercing aud cutting teeth of some of these cats of long ago are the most perfectly adapted instruments for cutting purposes that ever were seen, being unequaled by any manufactured tools for such uses. ratches for Kid Gloves. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. "Kid gloves will rip despite our best efforts to keep them iu good condition," said au exquisite young man at the South ern last night "But we have at last learned how to mend them. Instead of sewing up the rent, as formerly, we now take a small piece ot court plaster or surgeon's plaster (the latter is the better), turn the glove wrong side out and neatly apply the plaster over the rent or rip, first having drawn the rent part of the glove nicely together." Buoise Is absolutely the best Insect ex terminator ever discovered. Positively non poisonous and easy to use. 23 cents. Food for the Solitary Sailor. GRACEFUL BEAUTIES That Will Grow Luxuriantly at tho Beck of the Youns: Gardener. . PLANTING THE LITTLE SEEDS. Wonders Wrought by Hay Sunshine and the Spring-lime bhowers. USEFUL DINTS FOB THE AMATEURS WB1TTIX ran tok dispatch. 1 Nothing Is so delightful for our young ptople, espeoially our girls, than home gardening. It is a healthful recreation and a perpetual aid to the understanding of nature's wonders. Let me suggest the Drummond phlox gardens will be interesting all summer. They repay any care with a wonderful readi ness and wealth of loveliness. Now, on May 10, say, you have your seeds and your tools, your beds all forked, manured, hoed, raked and ready for planting. One thing more you need a piece of board about two feet long and seven inches wide. You stand by your little plot of brown earth and think of all it holds for you of beauty and delight, that you are the magician who will call forth all that sweet pageant from the silent, passive soil. It seems a very simple thing, the planting of a seed, hut I never do it without a feeling of awe, as if it were a sacred thing among the mysteries of God. You kneel by the little plot if the ground is damp bring a mat or a piece of folded carpet to kneel on, for you don't wish to take a cold as the first step in your gardening. Dow to Plant the Seeds. You lay your bit of board straight aoross the bed about four inches from the end. You lean one arm on It to hold it firm, and with a little stiok draw a furrow an Inch deep in the earth along Its edge, straight and equal as you can in depth all tho way. Into this begin to drop your seeds as evenly as may be they are so large you can gee them distinctly. When you have sown that furrow make another on the opposite edge of the board and fill that Then lift the board aud lay it down carefully on the other side of the last furrow and again make a groove along the edge and plant, and so on to the end of the bed The width of the board gives you just the right distance be tween the rows and saves a deal of trouble in measuring. Now with your hand draw over the seeds the earth that was displaced In making the furrow; it will givo them Just the right depth of covering about twica their di ameter. That is the rule for planting al most all seeds. Now tako your board and lay it over each row, leap on it gently to make the earth perfectly firm not packed hard, but firm. Do this all along the length of the bed till it is literally smooth as a carpet Now take your watering-pot and lightly sprinkle the bed all over. Don't sprinkle too long in one place, or vou will wash out your seeds; go round and round the bed, holding the watering-pot high as you can to make the shower as gentle as possible. You need only just to make the surface damp. Keeping an Kye on the Weeds. Wnter the bed lightly every night at sun set unless it should rain. If the soft May showers desoend, every drop is precious there is nothing so good as the sweet rain ot heaven for our gardens. If the weather is warm and your watering is faithfully done, jou should see in a week, or ten days at most, faint green shoots along the straight lines yon planted. And now I will show you the advantages of planting so carefully in Btraight lines Before the phlox itself appears vou will see green shoots coming up all other the bed, doubtless. These are the weeds that you will have to watch and fight with all your might, for they are stronger and more de termined than I can find any words to tell you. While thev are yet "young pull up every one. You know where your precious flowers are they are safe in their orderly processions of straight lines. Pull up every green thing between these lines and then pass your little handfork like a comb to and fro in the soil to remove roots and disturb new sprouts, but be very careful not to go too near vour phlox plants, except to pull with careful finger and thumb the little weeds that have sprouted very near. This vou will have to repeat again and again new weeds keep coming in succession. A Garden of Sweet Peas. In the second or third week in May you may transplant vour sweet peas from the house boxes to the open-air garden. People do not generally know that sweet peas are most easily and successfully transplanted. 1 discovered it for myself accidentally in fact, I was driven to it by my little friend, the song-sparrow, at the Isles of Shoals. The place is possessed by these dear, friendly little birds whose song is sweeter than words can express, but they will hardly let me plant at all out of doors, scratching up and eating the seeds as fast as I can put them in. They are so tame, they sit on the fence of my little inclosure and eye me askance if they see me at work putting seeds in the ground, and the moment I leave the spot, or they think 1 have left it, down they swoop and go from one end to the other of my carefully planted furrows and take every seed, leaving only the empty hollow groove freshly dug out by their little feet It is trying, and when I do plant out of doors I am obliged to have a cover of woven wire to fit over my flower beds to keep off the dear little pests. They are especially trying in the case of sweet peas, for they wait till the peas begin to sprout and then they devour every single one! Transplanting the Little Bcantlcs. Now for the fun of transplanting! It is the most enchanting work in the world. If the day is overcast very good, but if it is the sunniest ever dawned no matter: if vou put down your plants as I shall teach you they will not droop a leaf in the hottest sun. Your little garden bed is all ready, your boxes of treasures about you. Now take your hoe and make a straight line about tour inches from the edge of your bed, lengthwise; if you find difficulty in making it straignt, tasce a string tied to two sticks, push the sticks into the ground, drawing the strings tight between,aud you will have your straight line. Take the hoe and cut down evenly from this line, drawing the earth toward you and leaving the smooth cutting six inches deep against which to stand your plants for support Slip your hand into one corner of your plant box down to the very bottom and take up carefully a few pca plants. Once a few removed, the rest will come up easily. Don't break the long white roots or dis lodge the little pea still clinging there it you can help it Stand each plant against the wall you have sliced down smooth with ) our hoe. Put the plants in, not more than three inches apart, with the roots straight down, but if very long no matter if the ends lie horizontally an inch in the bottom of the trench; draw the earth half way up over them loosely so to hold them in place, and then gently fill the trench with water, draw the rest of the earth about the roots, press it firmly with your hands about each separate plaut, making each stand perfectly straight and even, and be careful that all the root is perfectly covered; indeed, the earth may come up an inch about each slen der stem without doing any harm.' This is delightful work, and when your first row is done you will look at it with joy and pride, so green, so fresh, so promising it will he. How lo Make i'ansles Thrive. You can scarcely make the soil too rich or keep it too moist for the well-being of pan sies. For the euriching of your bed four feet, by two wide I should put a bushel at least of well-rotted cow manure and mix it most thoroughly with the soil. And if you can find a spot which the sun reaches for only half the day they will flourish much better than if they have his light contin ually and their flowers will be twioe as large. Pansies love the shade If you make your bed under some tree, thev will like it much. If you are sowing seeds, fol low the instructions for the phlox gardens. If you are transplanting, you must set the little plants about four inches apart. When nil are in and the bed is full, water them copiously; if the sun shines, cover them with newspapers pegged down till evening, and then take off the coverings don't for get If next day is bright and hot, cover once more, keep" wet, and in a few davs the bed will be safe. I think the poppy gardens must have three beds four feet long and two wide. Then we can plant each kind by itself, California poppies in one, in the second tho mixed carnation poppies, and in the last the wonderful Shirleys. I should add a peck of sand with the half bushel of manure to each bed. Cover the seeds with only a slight layer ot soil about twice their thickness; hardly a layer at all in the case of the Shirley seeds, for they are so delicate as to be almost invisible; the carnations are much larger, the Californias larger still. Cover them with newspapers and water every night ("unless the weather is wet for two or three days.) They should be up in a week if the weather is favorable. Nnjtnrtlnmj Make a Nice Showing. Those who choose nasturtiums for a gar den will have but little care, for they flour ish in all sorts of soils and don't want water ing unless there should be a desperate drought, and onoe freed from weeds they take care of themselves almost entirely. The seeds themselves are most interesting. They are carefully ornamented. Deep grooves run parallel to each other from end to end of the seed, which is like a clumsy, Dutch boat in shape, but what a freight of loveliness each carries below its shelving deck! A nasturtium garden need not be ma nured. I have found the poorer the soil the richer the flowers will be. If the soil should bo rich the plants will run to leaves and the flowers will be comparatively few. Plaut them, after your bed is thoroughly laid out as for phlox, in straight lines as much as six inches apart, at least, for-they must have room on all sides to grow. Cover them a half an inch deep, press down the earth and leave them. They will germinate more rapidly if you wter tne bed at night if the weather is dry. But after they are up I never water th'em any more; they don't like it; don't need it Put your row of climbers against tho house, or a fence or large rocks. For roso campion gardens plant the fine seeds that are very like ponpy seeds, in the same way as the phlox seeds. Celia Thaxteb. DBITEB ANTS IN AFEICA, They IIhvb Enormous Appetites and Are Dreaded Dy Everybody. "Tho most terrible of insects aro tho 'driver' ants of West Africa," Bajd an ento mologist to a Washington Star writer. "They are so called because they drive before them while on march all othor living creatures, no, animal being able to withstand them. No beast, however formidable, dares to cross their track, and they will destroy in a single night all the pigs and fowls on a farm. The huge igusna lizards fall victims to them, as do snakes and all other reptiles. It is said that they begin their attack on the snake by biting its eyes and so blinding the prey, which, instead of running away, writhes helplessly in one spot Natives of Africa assert that when the. great python has crushed its captive inits folds it does not devour it at once, but makes a circuit of at least a mile in diameter iu order to see whether, an army of driver ants is on the march in the neighborhood. If so, it glides off and abandons its prey, which will soon bs eaten by the ants. "If an army of these ants approaches a village the entire population is compelled to fly. Sometimes the people may be obliged to take to the water in order to save themselves. The insects travel in the night and on clondy days, because they are quickly killed by the direct ravs of the. sun. Should the sun come out while they are making a journey they construct a continu ous arch over their path out of earth agglu tinated by a fluid excreted from their mouths. In cloudy weather an arch for the protection of the marching woKers is con structed of the bodies of the larger soldier ants, whose widely txtendedjaws, long legs and projecting antenco, intertwining, form a sort ot network. In case of an alarm the arch is instantly broken and the insects which composed it join other soldiers on the flanks of the line, who seem to be act ing as scouts, running about furiously in pursuit of the enemy. The alarm over, the arch is renewed and the column proceeds as before." HAK3 APPBOACHING THE EABTH. It TTllI Be Near In August, When Astrono mers Will Investigate. Washington Star. The mouth of August next is expected to bring important if not wonderful and sen sational developments in the study of our mysterious heavenly little kins woman. On the 5th of next August Mars will arrive at a point opposite this earth, which it reaches but once in 15 years, where the distance between the two planets will be reduced from 141,000,000 miles to 35,000,000 miles. Upon that night a thousand tele scopes will be leveled at the planet, which will pose in refulgent beauty in theSouthern skies, and a thousand eyes will seek to pierce the veil ot distance that conceals the knowledge for which science thirsts. Wonderful results are expected by rea son of the marvelous improvements that have been made in astronomical instruments within 15 years and since the lost most favorable observation was made. With the powerful lenses and the photographic ap pliances of to-day it will be as it the far away visitor tempted by curiosity, had drawn nearer to the earth than ever. Al though Mars will be 35,000,000 miles away, the powerful Lick telescope will magnify her to a size as if viewed at a distance of but 17,500 miles. Mars but 17,500 miles away! What wonder, then, that astrono mers are feverish with anxiety lor August to come! IS CATAKIU1 CIJKABI.ET A Serious Question to 31 any People Ans wered. The difficulty with which catarrh is cured has led to the "invention of a host of reme dies which produce temporary relief only. The unthinking masses expect to find some remedy which will cure them in a few days, and to take advantage of this false hope many compounds, which have instant, but transient effect, have been devised. The peo ple try these catarrh cures one after another, but disappointment is the invariable result, until very many sincerely believe that no cure is possible. In the majority of cases (especially those of less than two years' duration) catarrh can be cured in a few weeks by the proper use of Pe-ru-na. Some cases are cured by six bot tles, others by four, and we have not a few testimonials who have professed a cure from even one bottle of this remedy. Where a case of catarrh has existed for five or, ten years a permanent cure cannot be reasona bly hoped for in less than three or four months, and in some rare cases the continued use of Pe-ru-na for one year his been neces sary to effect a permanent cure. But, un less the case is very old or complicated, a permanent cure is sure. A valuable pamphlet of thirty-two pages setting forth in detail the treatment of catarrh, coughs, colds, sore throat, bron chitis and consumption, in every phase of the disease, will be sent free to any address by The Pe-ru-na Drug Manufacturing Co. of Columbus, Ohio. This book .should be in everv household, as it contains a great deal of reliable information as to the cure and prevention of all catarrhal and kindred dis eases. Coachtito umbrellas, at Bobebi L. AIoWjlttt A Co.'s, Jewelers, tusu S3 Fifth avenue. TKAINING THE LIONS. The Fellow That Eoars as a Kluff Is , the One Easiest to Teach. A GREEN EYE MEANS DANGER. Eow the Professional Goe3 at It to Tut Up One of His Tricks. COLONEL LOOSE'S FIRST EXPERIENCE fwaiTTEir ron the dispatch. 1 "No, everyone cannot be a lion-tamer, neither can every Hon be tamed." Colonel Boone big Colonel Daniel Boone, once of the Confederate army, lor many years superintendent of the national zoolog ical gardens of Peru, and at one time milr tary instructor in the Peruvian army was talking to me about lion taming. He had just finished an exhibition wfth his own trained beasts in the theater near by. In one corner of the round performing cage the five great cats had slept until the Colonel's step upon the floor wakened them slept much as house cats sleep, rolled together gracefully, their paws intertwin ine and their heads thrown backward for comfort At the word of command the lions roused themselves and after a glance at their mas ter sprang to their leet, crowaing upon each other's heels in their frightened haste to escape from their sleeping pen into the performing ring. The Tricks That Are Fopnlar. , Then they went through their tricks while the band p'layed, and the audfence kept very still. Only once did the people ap plaud and that wa3 when the trainer's as sistant drew her head from the mouth of the ugly, snarling lioness. But all was qnickly stilled when the Colonel threw himself full length upon the floor and rolled and played with the biggest of the lions as In the Lion's Moutli. though he had been a schoolboy and the lion a dog. Had one of the' brutes chosen at that moment to vent the rage that he really feels against his master in one quick blow of his great paw but he didn't "I knew he wouldn't when I laid down," said the trainer afterward, "otherwise I should never have lain down. I can tell, of course, whether it is safe to begin my per formance or not. There are ways of know, ing I shall tell you later on. There was once, thongh, when I went through a per formance without that knowledge. It was shortly after the close of the war. I was living in Lynchburg, Va., with my folks and was trving to repaT the family estate by dealing in tobacco. There came Cos tello's circus to town one day. Among the performers was Herr Engel, who was killed by tieer the next year in Hayti a great tiger' trainer in his day. Hehada cage of trained tigers. After "the show, in tho village hotel, I met him and someone asked me if I was afraid of tigers. I said that I was not This talk led to a foolish wager that on the next day. which was Sunday, I should go into the tigers' den. The Deed of a Dare Devil. "The next morning I met my friends and thev asked me whether I was going to go Into the cage. 'Of course,' I said, but I really had forgotten all about it We picked up Herr Engel somewhere and went clown to tne Darn wnerc me tuacancn. stored oyer night preparatory to moving to the next town. . " 'You're not going into that cage,' said one man. 'You had better look pleasant and pay your bet' "I said that I would follow the trainer, and follow him I did. He first put on a big linen duster, and taking his whip he sprang through the door and put the brutes through their paces. When he came out I put on the duster, took the whip and leaped into cage like a whirlwind I yelled at the frightened tigers, beat them right and lelt and sent them cowering into their corners. The trainer and my friends stood around dumb with amazement. " 'Give me the hoop,' I called out 'I II go through the whole show.' " 'You'll come out at once that's what you'll do!' shouted Engel. 'You've risked enough for one day.' "I was not angry. I went out liRe a shot, and for the first time in five minutes my heart dropped down into its proper place. On a Tricycle. When I reached the ground I asked Engel whv he wore the duster. He laughed and said that I would have been just as sate without it He had put it on simply be cause he wore his best suit of clothe, and did not want to get them soiled. A few weeks later Engel was bitten by one of his Eets, and the circus men sent for me to take is place. Conraff Not All That's Needed. "That is the way I became an animal trainer. I have been in the business here, in South America, Europe and Africa ever since. It doesn't take courage alone. Take, for instance, my man Carl, who has been with Hagenbeck in Hamburg since he wa3 a baby and I have had him 13 years. He can do everything with my lions', but make them perform. He sweeps out their cage half a dozen times a day and he feeds them and caresses them. They will trun away from him and come to him, but they would not act for him. A man must have a peculiar knack which I cannot explain to make him a trainer. "Then only one lion out ot three can be trained. Zou can't make an acrobat out of every bov who goes into a gymnasium, can you' I have caught some lions in Algier, but all that I have now I bought. Most of them came from the Great Eastern Show that went to pieces at Cincinnati. None of the brutes were tamed even, and they were all strangers to me, I had only a k 1 1 short time to make my selection, but I didn't require all of that It is easier to pick out a lion that can be tamed than a man who can be taught a trade. I walk up to the cage where Mr. Iiion sits. I hit the bars with my whip and make pretence of putting my hand between them. Dors'nt Llko a Trracheroas Lion. "If the lion throws himself against the irons with a great spring aud roar, I know that he is all right If he sulks in one cor ner or comes up to the bars quietly like a cat coming upon a mouse, I do not want him. The noisy lion is a bluffer. He makes his bluff when he makes his soring. The quiet lion is treacherous. All lions are cowards. When I go into the cage where sg&SSk JSgss y 4&T ., XL JJLiiS. N . Kasssrar ' .-yAs? wm Jmi$v w ' .W ' .tfWSAW i. Amiu,: a JWMJIkM mmszr rj k WM fr ,& ,f Wwy ft&b wWwffl . mi - 4zzviv.a 7 ffj Colonel Daniel Boone. my noisy lion is and fire off a few blank cartridges from my revolver aud beat him a few times over his nose with my whip he growls, dances and then slinks away saying to himself: " 'What on earth does all this mean? I thought thatT had that man scared to death. I guess that I ain't so frightening as I thought I was.' "The bluffer can be tamed sufficiently to let me go into the cage without danger in a week's time, but there is never any safety with a sneak-lion. Another thing. The lion must be not over two years old and he must be straight-hacked "and strong. A weak lion breaks down very quickly dur ing training. Such a brute is worth from 51,000 to $1,500 untrained. When he is trained he is worth from 53,000 to ?5,000, and sometimes more. It takes several years to train lions perfectly. The first step is to show them that I tm the master. Next I teach them that I do not intend to hurt them unless they disobey me. I begin caressing them with the "end of my whip and I do it gently. It is not safe to ven ture with your hand at first After this, which takes weeks, aud even months some times, I teach them to take food from my hands. When a lion's ryes Get Green. "When a lion disobeys I punish him, but I do it with judgment. There is a point be yond which it is dangerous to go. My left arm has no muscles Irom the elbow up. I whipped a lion one bow too many in Quito, Chili. If his teeth had not been worn with age I would not be alive to-day. When a lion crouches down, and his eyes tnrn green, aud his tail stops waving from side to side and merely wiggles at the end like the rattles on a rattler, look oat I stop then and give him a chance to quiet down. Some times I call assistance or do anything that I cau do to distract his attention from me, and then I escape." "What is the easiest trick to teach a lion?" I asked. "After getting him to come to me at command, to make him lie down. You can't throw a lion on his side with your hands as you would throw a dog in training it After this, mounting a chair or pedestal is the easiest. But all this takes months of daily work patient work. Never give up; that is the lion's trainer's motto. In Waking a lion mount a chair I generally p'ut his meat on the seat nnd accustom him to eat it from there. Then by degrees I jeoax him torBut one paw on the chair. When he has done this I pet him. In the course ot time I induce" him to put both forepaws on the chair. Now comes the struggle. He does not want to put up his hind feet I force him to do this by tapping them with my whip until he hops up to avoid punishment When he has once learned what I want him to do I have little trouble with him. But all this takes time." "I suppose the hardest trick is putting your head in the lion's mouth?" Your Head In a Lion's Jlouth. "On the contrary, it is one of the easiest and safest I hold the mouth open with both hands, ana J. can teei tne least attempt to bring the jaws together with fiiy fingers. This gives me a chance to withdraw my head in time. It U well, however, to know your beast pretty thoroughly before trying it "After I have once taught a lion a trick he never forgets it, and each time he does it e.isier than before. The hardest trick is to drive a lion in a chariot. I have some times worked for years to teach that. After I have the harness adjusted, which takes months, I jump into the chariot and trust to Providence. The lion dashes away like the wind and never stops until he is winded. It's a lively race, I tell von, and must be repeated hundreds of times before I can rely on the steed to submit to a public exhibition. Another hard trick is the see-saw. I worked for a year before I taught Parnell to crawl backward up the plank and allow himself to be jolted up and down." "How about taming a lion by looking into his eyes "You might as well tame him by fixing your eyes ou his tail. I look in my lion's eyes to see what the expression may be. There 13 where I find the danger signal. If the signal says 'go ahead' then I "can turn my back on Mr. Lion and go ahead salely. I never turn my back on him, however, within reach of his paws outside ot the bars. Inside the cjge I am master, out if I turn my back-when I am outside and am within reach I court instant death. "Tigers are more manageable than lions when once they are trained, but they are naruer 10 iram uuu mane less spirited per formers. One of the most interesting tricks my lions do is to ride npon a tricycle which is made expressly for the purpose. Alter I have once trained a lion to stand on it in position to ride he cannot help going for ward very well. The tricyle i sloly pushed at first and then one treadle goes up while the other goes down, ine lion instinct ively pushes dawn on it and that sends 'the other tieadle up. He keeps on pushing on the uppermost one and by thus doing keeps the wheels in motion. BEN-JA31IX NOETHROP. ADVBT1SING IN THE SKY. The Vaulted Blao Can Now Be Used by .Enterprising Tradesmen. Philadelphia Telegraph. The newest horror is not Deeming nor the Paris Anarchists. It is considerably worse than either. An esteemed scientific co temporary says that genuine sky-signs can now be installed for the enterprising adver tiser. By a simple arrangement of mirrors, reflecticg glasses, and light3, a sort of gi gantic magic lantern can be set up, by which images can be thrown upon the clouds. You will be able to advertise your wares, in letters 100 leet long, on the skies, so that they will be visible over a dozen counties. As if this truly awful prospect were not enough, we are told that these sky signs can be made luminous, so that they will blaze all night! Heine, in one of his rhapsodies, said that he would like to snatch a burning pine irom its Norway mountains and write with it the name of "Agnes" in letters of fire on the skies. But he would probably not have cared toadorn the firmament with a blazing description of somebody's patent trouser stretcher, or a glowing picture of a lady wearing the latest thing in hygienic corsets. Bcai3E will banish roaches, bedbugs, etc., from your housa forever. 23 cents. HALF A MILLION HOOPS Two Shops Turn Ont All the Boy3 and Girls of America Use. LARGELY A BAND PROCESS. How the Strips Are Given a Bath Before Eendinjj Into Shape. UNIQUE FORMS TO PLEASE THE EIB fWRITTES FOR T1IE DISPATCH. 1 The youngest clerk in any big wholesale) toy store knows that "hooples" mean roll ing hoops. How they came to be called hooples in the toy trade is more than lean tell you. Even Father Johnson, at one tima the largest manufacturer of hooples in America, could not give me a reason. "They have always been called hooples by the trade," he said to me, "but never by tho boys and girls who roll them. When I was a youngster we always called them rolling hoops as the children do to-day." Ten years ago there were about 3,000 gross, or 432,000 rolling hoops, made in this coun try. Last year the same number were sent to market, no more and no less. The hoop making industry has not keep pace with the increase in population, because of the popu larity of the tricycle, bicycle and other rival toys. Boys would rather ride a wheel than roll one. So, to-day, 65 men in two factor ies, one in New England and one in New York State, make the half million hoops that are sent out annually. The two fac tories are in small towns where there is good water power and plenty of hardwood timber. Their labor is cheap and the materials are found directly at their doors. Mr. Johnson once had a large hoople factory in New York City, but he was forced to abandon that line of business because he could not compete with the country manufacturers. The Hoops Am Matte by Hand. With the exception of the sawing the work in making hoops is done by hand. The best wood is the American ash, which is also the best wood for kite frames and other Some of the Fancy Hoops. toys requiring lightness and strength com bined. The next b?st woods are the oak, chestnut and a species of baswood called whitewoodby the manufacturers. The ash hoop costs more money than the other kinds, and is worth it, as it really outlasts two made out of inferior woods. Great care is taken in selecting logs for the hoople factories. They must be from trees of sec ond growth, straight and free from knot". The logs are hauled to the mills in the fall and early winter. The hoop-making season begins in December and ends in May. The largest hoops sold are 48 inches in diameter. The smallest ordinary size is 23 inches. There are intermediate sizesall the way from one limit to the other. When the logs have been selected they are sawed into boards half an inch thick. Thi3 is a little thicker than the hoops, to alIow for planing. These boards are then sawed into proper lengths, winch are 8 inches loneer than the hoops, to allow the ends to be lapped one over the other 3t their juncture. The boards are put on a table from the top of which protrude the sharp edges ol G, 8, 10 or 12 circular saws which are set half an inch apart Over these the boards are run. They go in whole and come out amid a shower of sawdn3t in c!can,wsmooth sticks just half an inch square. Atfer this they are planed flat and smooth and the ends are tapered down to a fine edge so that when they are joined together there will be no lump to prevent their rolling smoothly. Steaming, the Sticks tor Bendlns. Now they are ready for the steam boxes. The steam boxes are long closets made either of wood or iron. Steam pipes empty into each end of them. The slender strips are piled in and the steam is turned on. In this Russian bath, so to speak, the wood is kept from one to three hours, depending upon its age and quality. The older the wood is the more steaming it needi. When it has become softened and pliant the steam is turned off and the worktpen take out the sticks one by one and shape them over the "forms." These forms are wooden cylin ders about 2 feet long and varying from 22 to 48 inches in diameter. For every size of hoop there is a separate form; The work man fastens one end of a stick in a clamp on top of the form and winds the stick around the cylinder until the other end joins the clamped one. Then he takes a tack from between his lips, the hoopmaker's tack bov, and nails the ends firmly together. He then slips it off of the form and the hoop is put away to dry. Most of the painted hoops are merely dipned in vats of paint, and then hung up to drv The higher-priced or "fancy" hoops are painted bv hand with a brush. The sim plest of all the "fancy" hoops is called the "plain chime." Along the inside of the rim four to eight sleighbclN are fastened, at equal distance apart When this hoop is rolled thebelU give out a tuneful jingia which gives pleasure to the ear. Seme or tho Fancy Dsslgni. The chime hoop with a handle is an alto gether diflerent affair. The hoop has spokes like a wheel and through the axis there is a bolt to which a handle is attached. This hoop is pushed like a one-wheeled baby carriage. The handle is hand-made and painted. The spokes are brightly colored and the bells are set into the handle instead of being in the hoop itself. These hoops are) made in a variety of styles. One of the pret tiest has four wire spokes, on each side of which there are two pretty spools with lit tle tin washers between them. As the wheel revolves these spools slide from one end of their spoke3 to the other, while the tin jingles merrily. A rolling hoop of real beauty is the "star chime." The hoop is made precisely the same as the ordinary kind. The only dif ference consists of a series of colored cords which are rigged from the inner edge of the hoop so that they can lorm a five-poin'ed star in the center. The middle of the star is a piece of wood, star-shaped, and gayly painted. Sleighbellsarefasten-din the cord at the points' of the star, and when this hoop is rolled it is the loudest aud most musical of all. Little girls who like pretty things often use ribbons instead of cord and make stars and other designs inside their hoops, with fluttering bows at the center and at the crossings of the ribbons. In the way of games with hoops, Amer ican boys and girls are iar behind tho French. In this country these sports ara confined almost wholly to simple trundling and an occasional race. James Noetos. Kallrooil I'opnlarlty In Japan. Spare MomenU. Japan bids fair to rival Great Britain In railway popularity, for although railways have been only very recently introduced there the proportion of passengers to mile age is very high. When the railway from Yokohama to Tokio, 18 miles long, was opened in 1872. there were carried the fol lowing year on that line 1,223,071 persons, and 2,172,105 in 1834. There are already 1,128 miles of railway in Japan, and accord ing to tho last annual return, 20,598,920 traveled on them in the coursiot 12 mouths. Fits All nts itopped free by Dr. Kllne'i Great Nerve Restorer, io Ht after first day's use. Mar velotu cures. Treatise and t: 00 trial bottle free to Fit catej. Vt. Kline, 831 Arch it, flUU.. F. la "..'. ' ( m V. 1 MftitlilffffTTiTfltTf 1iTirftlliilti1i 3mSf&&usidii
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