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Over tbe polar snows, under thooplo aky,
Out on the silent prairie, or on the restless
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llarprr't Wetkly.
A SUMMER IDYL.
Tbe train was appro ichiDgRhinebeck
"Miss Barrow raised ber eves . from the
Tjovel between which and the river, the
doodles ky slid tbe Rreen bank
opposite, fresh in all the freshness o'
earlvjnne, .h hod been desultorily
dividing Iter attention, and her maid
began (fathering rip her wraps. One o
two paafengera in tbe tame ear did the
same for theirs, and anion them a
young man f twentv-eieht or ao, with
a fair rnnataohe, who had traveled
opposite "Alias Burrow ir m New York
absorb. 4 in a scientific mwazine. He
waa a "candaome fellow, bat more dis
tins aished-lookiDB than haLdsome, and
dressed with quiet, unimpeachable
Correctness. These two qnalitiea Mies
Barrow had noticed in a casual way
when her eye happened once or twice
to fall on her f llow travt ler, for she
thought a great deal of both of them
The latter, indeed, is a finbject to which
women pay more attention than men are
aware.
As the young lady alighted on the
platform at Rbiuebeck an urbane servant
met her and announced that Miss Ham
rslej's carriage was waitiug and that
Miss Hamersley regretted not feeling
strong enough to diive down herself.
Tbe man remained l hind to seo to the
luggage and the caniage drove off. In
rounding tbe corner to tho other side
of the platform Muss Barrow saw again
her fellow tr .voler with the fair mus
tache; ho was I'pfaHicg to Miss Ham
orsley's man, the latter having possessed
himself of bis portmanteau, and as They
passed she heard him saw! "Nevermind;
I'll take another vehicle."
Apparently, then, the gentleman was
guest of Miss Hamersley. Two or
three years before the knowledge Would
probably have afforded Miss Barrow
some gratification, very natural under
the cir-.utubtances. The prospect sug
gested possibilities which would cer
tainly have added an Unexpected zest to
ber solitary visit to an elderly maiden
lady in delicate health at an isolated
country house. But a disappointment
which Miss Barrow had experienced not
long since, through a man to whom she
had been engaged, had changed all such
feelings. As she herself hod said t her
old friend, Miss Hamersley: "1 not only
feel as if I never again would cure for
anv man, but the whole sex has grown
indifferent to me."
The drive was quite a long one, and
the sun was shooting rays of slanting
light between the trees and across the
lawns of the well-kept gronnds when
the old Hamersley mansion came in
sight. On the vine-olad porch stood
Miss Hamersley herself, looking like
a piuture of Revolutionary times with
her small, delioate face, her pray silk
dress and wealth of puffed white hair.
Well, my young friend," she said,
" bo I have you at last. Let me look at
you." 8be raised MUs Barrow's veil
and kissed her cheek. " As pretty as
ever. Now let me take you to youj
room whv, what's this? Jack Tra vers,
I declarer
It waa Miss Barrow's fellow traveler,
whose vehicle had followed hers at a
. little distance, and who now drove up
and sprang to the ground.
"I expected you to-morrow," said
Miss Hamersley, laying her band affec
tionately on the ypung man's shoulder.
" I should have telegraphed "
"Never mind. You're always wel
oome. Maud, let me introduoe my
nephew, Mr. Travers, Miss Barrow."
A few minutes later, when Miss Ham
ersley, had joined Maud Barrow in her
room she said: "I hope you will lire
Jack Travers. Cat X know you will.
He's a splendid follow."
" I daresay I shall like him," replied,
the. young lady.
" I know, of course, that you will
not except in a friendly way, and that's
just why I asked him up while you wens
he'e. The fact is you are very similarly
situated. Jack has not gotten over an
unlucky love affair, and if I had him
meet some irl who would have fallen
in love with him it would have been a
bad thing for the girl, as it would be a
bad thing for any man who I should in
vite and who would fall in love with
you. is it is, yea and Jack are both
nvu I ner able to the tender passion, and
can bVoei best oi fiiends accordingly.
Yo'.i will pet on nicely, and yonr visit
will be lens of a bore than it would be
in tbe solitary society of an old woman
like roe "
A little later Jack Travers came upon
his aunt and asked: "Who is this young
lady you have with you, dear aunt?"
"Someone," was the reply, "whose
heart is full of a memory though,
really, why she should still think of
that brute of a man who treated her
so outrageously is a mystery to me
and who not only will not expect you to
fall a victim to her charms and begin a
flirtation instanter, but would think
anything of the sort a great bore. So
you need not exert yourself."
"Indeed? That's a comfort. But
what a singular girl," and if he had
spoken bis mind he would have added,
"and what a beautiful girl, too," for
just then Maud entered, having laid
aside her traveling dress and thick veil
for a long dinner dress of pale blue,
which showed to remarkable advantage
the brilliancy and the piquant charm of
ber face ; the warm fairness of her
skin, and the light glossy brewn of her
soft hair.
Miss Uamersley's explanations to both
her g nests had the effect of putting
them thoroughly at their ease with each
ether, and the dinner was a gay one.
By tho time it was over they had dis
co voted that they had many ideas in
common, and many points of sympathy.
Tho long Jnue twilight had not yet
faded, und Miss Hamersley suggested
that her nephew should take Miss Bar
row to the parapet to see the view.
" I'or,'' she raid, " I can't go about
nn;ch, BDd you must entertain each
otlif r. '
Tbo viow was extended, for the Hani
i r.Mlcy pl.ee stood high. Jaok Travers
Im.tH'd against tbe' parapet, while Miss
Burrow looked around her. Suddenly
"hrt glanced up and caught his eyes
fixed on her.
" 1 olteu think what a delightful exist
ence your aunt's is in this place," she
Maid. ' There is such a harmony in
it. She lit a the place, and the place fits
ber."
" My aunt is a charming woman. It
iri a pity she never married."
' A pity. I don't see that her condi
tiou us it is could be bettered. If she
had married she would have run the
chance of getting some obi-tioate man
with not a thought in sympathy with
hers, who would have been putting
down bis foot eternally and making her
life a bore."
" Yon don't take a sentimental view
of marriage," remarked Travers.
"No. I am not sentimental. Perhaps
I am hard." ,
Travers glanced at her, with the blaok
lace she had thrown around her head as
u protection from the dampness cling
ing about her soft, piquant face und
whito throat, aud thought she did not
look so.
Bat Mies Barrow did not seem in
clined to pursue the subject further.
She turned to go back to the house. In
doing so she brushed her fan from the
parapet. Travers stopped to pick it up,
and noticed that it had a large metal
ring attached. Instead of laying it in
Maud's outstretched hand he (dipped
the ring over her wrist The wrist was
very ptetty, aud bo was the hand, and
Travers experienced a subtle pleasure
in performing this familiar little act.
He glanced up quickly ; but the young
lady's eyes were averted.
The next morning Travers proposed
to take advantage of the cool, line day
for a horseback ride. Miss Barrow was
willing, and a couple of hours later
they were under way. The roads were
in good condition, the air was exhilarat
ing, and MiBS Hamersley's horses were
capital. The color came into Maud's
oheeks and her eyes shone like stars
As for Travers, it did not seem to him
that he had ever enjoyed such a ride
before. By-and-bye, however, be said:
" Don't you think we had better turn
back, Miss Barrow I It may be too
much for you.
" Oh, I am not tired. I am thirsty,
though."
Travers looked around him. "I
think I could get you a glass of water at
that little house on tbe top of that
slope, but I don't like the idea of
leaving you alone. '
" Oh, I shall go, too. It will be a
ohangefrom riding," said Maud. " You
can tie the horses here."
Tbe olimb proved to be a rougher
path than she had imagined, but she
would not be persuaded to take Travers'
arm,
" No, no," she laughed, and stepped
quietly to one side. In doing so she
stumbled over her habit and uttered a
little cry of pain.
" Mies Barrow I what is the matter T'
exolaimed Travers.
" 1 I'm afraid I have sprained my
foot. Let ns tarn back," she murmured
faintly. She took a step or two, and
then stopped again, flushing and paling
alternately.
Travers looked into her face.
" You moant," Le said, " that you
can't walk a step. You must let me
carry you."
k' Oh, no, no."
" Miss BarroW, this is really unrea
sonable. I must insist." And without
more words he rained her in his arms
and began descending tbe slope again.
Maud crimsoned and a faint flush rose
in Travers' cheeks also. The wind blew
a sti ay wisp of her hair against his face,
and with it the faint perfume of violets
she had on her handkerchief. When
he reached the foot of the slope and
lifted her on her horse his heart was
beating rather fast, and Maud was
trembling a little.
" Does your ankle still pain so much?'
he said, softly. She shook her head.
u. hey rode slowly home throng n tne
green fields, almost in silence. Travers,
while constantly watobf al of his com
panion, seemed to be distrait. " I sup
pose he is thinking of that girl he waa
in love with," said Maud to herself,
and for a young lady to whom the mas
culine sex had grown indifferent she
certainly allowed the supposition to
give her a oonsidetable pang.
Miss Barrow, for the next week, lay
on a couch which waa wheeled from the
house to the grounds as she felt inclined
to sit indoors or out. Miss Hamersley
and Travers took turns in reading to
her, bat the latter offloe in this respect
was rather a sinecure. He always found
after a few momenta that it was much
more pleasant to have Maud talk to
him, and to be able to look at ner.
Thia tendency, indeed, in a few days
grew into such a distracting wish to be
always near her that Travers might
nave been alarmed had be cbosen to
question himself and his feelings. But
he did not choose to.
Oae warm afternoon he came into the
library, where she lay on a lounge near
the open window, with a cluster of red
moss-roses in his hand.
"They are the first of the season," he
said. Maud raised her hand for them,
and he stood looking down at her. She
wore a thin white dress, and looked
prettier than he had over seen her.
Her cheeka were a little flushed, and
her hair tossed about a trifle as if she
had just been asleep. She seemed too
listless and comfortable to move, but
thanked him with a bright glance, and
pressed the roses against her face. ( Pres
ently his persistent gaze appeared to
tmbarraBS her, for she said, not a little
uneasily:
"How hot it is I Why don't you sit
down?"
Travers sat down mechanically, still
withent speaking. Miss Barrow glanced
at him, and her eyes began to sparkle
mischievously.
" Perhaps I should not have ' asked
you to sit down, though," she said
demurely. "You might have been con
templating a speedy exit for the pur
pose of smoking a cigar."
"I assure you, I was thinking cf
nothing of the sort, Misa Barrow."
" Not thinking of smoking ? I fancied
thero was no hour of the day a'man did
not t inns oi that."
"He may make an exception when he
is in the society of ladies.
"Indeed he does not, or I have yet to
learn it. Oh, women are not of as much
importance as that to men 1" Her tone
bad changed, and she spoke the last
words bitterly.
" That is what that brute of a man
she waa engaged to has taught her,1
thought Travers. " I should like to "
Be started up, and completed his pious
wish with regard to the said man at the
window.
But Maud waa in a strange mood this
afternoon. When she spoke her tone
was quite di Cerent again.
"Are you angry ?" she asked, softly,
"Angry no." he replied, coming
back and standing before her. " How
tantalizing you are to-day," he broke
out alter a pause.
She took no heed.
" To show you I did not intend to be
rude, I will give you a rose," she said
"shall I T'
"Yes," he whispered.
" Stoop down," she murmured. He
knelt beside the lounge, and she passed
the stem of the rose through his button
hole. Her little white fingers were very
near his face, and he saw that they
began to tremble. Suddenly he caught
them both in one of his, and before she
could stir, without knowing himself
what he waa doing, he threw his arm
around her and kissed her.
The next instant he waa on his feet.
Maud, crimson and palpitating, stood
before him, supporting herself against
the lounge.
"You have insulted me"
" Miss Barrow Maud ! Forgive mel
Pardon me I I did not know what I was
doing, I love you so I"
"It is an insult," she cried again.
' Leave me leave me 1" And throwing
herself baok on the lounge she burst
into a passion of tears. Travers, curs
ing hia folly, left the room.
That evening he told hia aunt he
should have to go to New York for a
few days. Maud heard the announce
ment calmly and took leave of him very
coolly. During the days that followed
she never spoke of him to Miss Hamers
ley, except once when, in an olaboiately
careless way, she inquired whether the
girl to whom Mr. Travers had been
engaged was very pretty. On the other
hand she did not seem at all averse to
hearing her old friend's eulogies of her
favorite nephew. Thia Misa Hamersley
notioed, as well as that, as the week
wore on, her young niece grew very
restless and nervous. Bat, whatever
bar thoughts were, she kept ner own
counsel.
After Travers had been gone a fort
night Maud came out of the house one
evening toward sundown. She was
slowly crossing the lawn, with her long
dress trailing over the gross, when the
raised her eyes and saw him standing
not six feet from her. She stood quite
still, not startled; she waa too over
whelmingly glad for that. She had just
been thinking of him indeed when,
for days had she not ? and Baying to
herself that of course he would not
come back, that she could not expeot it
when she had dismissed him so summa
rily; and now there he waa before her.
Still she spoke lightly aa be came for
ward and took her band.
"Ion reappear like a ghost," she
said. " Did you spring from the ground
or drop from the skies 7"
Travers laid the band she bad given
him on his arm and led her toward tbe
parapet where they had stood together
on the first evening of ner arrival.
When they reached it he said:" Yon
know why I have oome back, Maud. I
love you with mv whole Heart and soul
and strength, and I have come back to
tell you so; to tell you that I cannot
live without you Stip," he con
tinned, aa she waa about to speak, " I
know what yon will say, that it is too
Budden, that I have not known you long
enough. Well, I don't ask yon to ac
cept me now. I will wait only let me
think that you will care a little for me
by-and-bye. Will you, Maud f
He leaned over her and looked into
her eyes.
Alas I Maud could nave said tbat she
cared much more than a little for him
then. But she was wise and knew that
a man should never be given more than
he asks for, but rather less. So she
only murmured, " Perhaps I may," and
Travers, with hia eyea fixed on ner
sweet faoe and the roguish dimples at
the corners of her mouth, waa content.
Presently he said:
" Am I pardoned my misdemeanor of
the other day? Yes? Then you should
let me repeat it to show that I am for
given." But thia time Misa Barrow drew her
self away with much dienity.
" Not at all. x or shame, Jack, Uive
me your arm and we will go back to the
house. And, mind you, let me explain
to your aunt first."
And she did. But, to her surprise,
Miss Hamersley was not surprised at
all. Indeed, some months later, when
they were both talking about Miss Bar
row s approaching marriage, such a
v learn of mischief came all at once over
the older lady's faoe that the younger
one suddenly said she believed Miss
Hamersley bad invited Jack and berselt
to her place In J une with an ulterior
motive. ' Well, frankly, I did," owned
Jack's aunt. ' You were the two nioest
young people I knew, and it was my
opinion you should make a match of it.
As to tbe fact of your ootn having been
in love before being a barrier, that was
absurd, of courso. All you needed was
a chance to unfold a charming little
idyl, and I knew no better place than
this for such an idyl "
Swords.
The first weapon used by man was
probably a club; and it is also likely
feiat in lime missis maaa oi very noiu
wood, and somewhat sharpened on one
or more sides, so as to inflict a more
deadly wound. Wooden weapons of
this kind are now in use by some sav
age races. Then it was found that
more effective weapons of the sort
could be made of a harder substance,
and short, unwieldy swords were bewn
out of stone, very much aa our Iudians
made their arrow-heads of flint. Bat a
sword of thia kind, although a terrible
weapon in tbe bunds of a strong man,
was brittle and apt to break ; and to in
time, when the use and value of metals
came to be understood, swords were
made of these substances. The early
Romans, and some other nations, had
strong, heavy swords made of brocza.
But when iron and steel came into use
it wa9 quiokly peroeived that they were
tho metals of which offensive weapons
should be made.
By a careful study of the form and
use of the sword, from its first inven
tion until the present time, we may get
a (rood idea of the manner in which ia
various ages military operations were
carried on. At first men fought at close
Quarters, like the beasts they imitated,
But as the arts of warfare began to be
improved, and aa civilization and en
lightenment progressed, men seemed
anxious to get farther and farther away
from one another when they fought,
and so the sword gradually became
longer and longer, until, in the middle
ages, a man's sword was sometimea as
Ions aa himself.
But there ia a limit to this sort of
thing, and when the use of projectiles
which would kill at a great distance be
came general, it was found that a soldier
was seldom near enough to hia enemy
to reach him with his sword; and at tbe
present day it is seldom used in actual
warfare except by cavalrymen, and these
frequently depend as much on the Are
arms they carry aa upon their sabers. It
is said that cavalry charges, in whioh
the swords of the riders are depended
npon to rout the enemy, do not fte
qnently oconr in the warfare of the pres
ent day; and those naval battles of wnion
all have read, where the opposing ships
are run side by side, and the sailors of
one, cutlass in hand, spring upon tLe
deck of the other and engage in a hand
to hand fight, are now seldom heard of,
Our iron clad ships fire at one another
from a great distance, or ene of them
comes smashing into another with its
terrible steel ram ; and a sword would
be a very useless thing to a modern
sailor. Our armies lie a mile or two
apart and pop at eaoh other with long
range rifles and heavy cannon, and to
the great body of the opposing forces
swords would only be an incumbrance.
Ht. jichata.
General Skobeleffs Carepr.
The late General Micbael Skobeleff
was probably the most popular man in
Russia and the most picturesque soldier
in Enrope. In peace be tfexcelled the
swells of the kingdom in hia fondness
for the luxuries of dress and the dainti
ness of hia tastes. In war he waa the
embodiment of bravery and the personi
fication of reckless fury. Clad in a
white uniform that glittered with gold
braid, and mounted on a white horse,
he led hia men to victories snatched
out of the very gulfs of death, and it
waa said of those he commanded that
they idolized him, and seemed to
prefer death at the heels of hia
horse to victory under any other
commander. He waa of aoldierly
carriage and fine physique, black-eyed
brown-haired and full-bearded. He came
of a race of soldiers. His grand-father,
rather and himself were all generals
and chevaliers of St. Oaorge, and valor
got eaoh one his title and honors.
Michael waa the youngest Russian gen
eral. He was graduated from the Mili
tary Academy in St, Petersburg in 1868,
and, without serving in the Guards, he
at once pitched into battle in Turkestan
at tbe head of a corps of Cossacks. He
waa then twenty-five years old. He re
mained in Turkestan until 1871, and
went thenoeto the Caucasus on the stall
of the Grand Dnke Michael. Later he
commanded a battalion of the Seventy
fourth regiment of the line, and
in 1873 he was transferred to Khiva,
where the czar was fightiig the khan.
When the formality of military disci
pline hampered him in thia campaign,
he deliberated disobeyed orders and at
the same time gave evidence of his
eenius as a soldier. In the same cam
paign, in order to finish and deliver
his report to General Jiauiman, be ana
MacGahan. the famous war correspond
ent, remained in the palace of tho khaa
when it seemed madness to tarry there
For this and a reconnoissanoe in dis
guise to the Turcoman desert he was
given the cross of St. George of the
fourth class. When Don Carlos was
flghtini? for the throne of Spain Skobe
leff joined his staff avowedly to study
war out of Rassia, but probably because
he could not keep away from war.
As a cavalry commander he fought in
Turkestan, and here, at night, with 150
men, he dashed into the main camp of
the enemy, who, imagining the Russian
army upon them, fled without taking
even their turbans. JNot one oi mobe
leiTfl men was killed or wounded. Tern,
porarily left in command he stormed
and took the city of Namanyah, which
had revolted. For this, though he was
but thirty-two years old, he waa made a
major-general. Jn the second war witn
Khohland he compelled the kban toeur
render, and when that country was an
nexed was made its governor and given
the third class cross of St. George. His
next brilliant feat waa in tbe Russo-
Turkish war. He had been on tbe staff
of the Grand Duke Micbael, been trans
ferred to the staff of his father, s
lieutenant-general, and his father's com'
maud being broken up, be found him
nelf out of employment where the
tightim? waa heaviest, lie remained in
tbe army aa a volunteer, and sent hia
name rii triuK through itussia by cross
ing the Danube on horseback, sword in
hand, at tbe head of a few men, and
driving the Turks from their positions
overlooking Sistowa. Again, almost in
the next dispatches, he was reported at
the siege of Plevna, at the head of a
whirlwind of cavalrymen, actually pen
etrating the fortifications. Bat the in
fantry npon whom he relied failed, and
Skobeleff had to retire. In the second
battle of Plevna he captured two re
doubts, and, after defending them for
twenty four hours against the incessant
hail of lead from a vastly su
perior force, he waa forced back, still
fighting like a bulldog. He lost 8,009
out of 12,000 men, had seven horses
shot from under him, and when the last
had gone led the way into the redoubt
on foot, waving his oiamond-hilted
word.
His greatest military feat was, when,
with 20,000 men, he stormed and took
Lovtsoba in Bulgaria, and won a strate
gical point behind Osmaa Pasha's
army. The war was not half over when
be was made lieutenant-general and
commander of the Sixteenth division.
When Radetzky and Prince Mersky had
both been repulsed by Vessel Pasha at
Shonova, Skobeleff made tbe Pasha
surrender. At the czar's' order he en
tered Adrianople. With hia already
famous command be waa long before
Constantinople, and finally had charge
of all the Russian foroes retiring from
Turkey.
Since the war tbe world outside Rus
sia heard but little of him, though two
thirds of hia oonntrymen worshiped
him aa the foremost champion of Pan
slavist theories. Love for him was said
to be one of the few things in which
the country and the czar were holly in
accord. Last February his soldierly
bluntness gave him world-wide promi
nence. It was at a dinner of Servian
tulenta in Paris tbat he declared a
uuggle between the Slavs and Tentons
inevitable. He said it would be long
and bloody, but the Slavs would con
quer. He had the world for hia hearers,
and Europe waited anxiously for an ex
planation. Skobeleff disavowed any
desire to make trouble, or any authority
to speak as he did, and the czar re
provod him with signal mildness, and
sent him to Turkestan for a time. He
was thirty-nine years old.
Children wear Mother Hubbard and
Kate G i ten away dresses of Turkey-red
calico, with white muslin pokes or
guimpes and sleeves.
A Leap for Lire.
The citldel of Cairo, Egypt, stands
on a steep, rocky bluff above the city,
the relative positions of the two bitig
very much those of the capitil and the
lower town at Washington. It wan the
favorite residence of the famous Esrp-
tian dictator of the last generation,
Mebemet All Pasha, who strongly forti
fied it and kept a number of heavy
cannon constantly pointed from its walla
at tbe city below to overawe the disaffec
tion which hia iron rule inevitably pro
duced. The walla are still in tolerable
repair, and might give some trouble to
a force unprovided with heavy siege ar
tillery. Above the ramparts are visible
at a considerable distance the tall, slen
der, white minarets of the Muhamme-
dteh mosque, built by Mehemet All.
Thia ia one of the principal ornamenta
of Cairo, its interior being decorated
with a richne68 of coloring unmatched
in the world, except, perhaps, by the
Albambra palace at Grenade, in iron
of the main entrance lies a vast paved
quadrangle surrounded by a low colon
nade, whioh has acquired a tragic histori
cal renown as tbe scene of the famous
"masaaore of the Mamelukes" by order
of tbe pasha. Mehemet, finding in tho
turbulent independence of these war
like chiefs a formidable
obstacle to his cherished
scheme of absolute power, invited them
to a banquet in the court-yard oi tne
citadel. They rashly accepted the
rteacherous courtesy, and were suddenly
fired upon in the midst of their revel by
a detachment of soldiers concealed in
the encircling colonnade. All peri-hed
save one, the son of the prinoipal chief,
who, alone preserving his presence of
mind, threw himself npon the ground
and succeeded in reaching his horse,
which was tied to an adjoining pillar.
Springing upon its back he cut his way
through the swarming assailants, and,
finding the gates shut against him, took
a flying leap from the top of the wall, a
height of eighty feet. The horse waa
killed on the spot, but the daring
Mameluke, escaping with a broken
limto, crawled away and hid himself be
fore he could be overtaken.
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.
The transpiration from a forest is
nearly twice aa great aa the evaporation
from an equal area of free soil.
There is reason to believe that ants
produce sounds of such high pitoh tbat
they are inaudible to the human ear.
Remains of a remarkable bird of the
Eocene epooh have been found near
Rheims by M. de Lemoinne. The bird
waa at least ten feet high when ereot,
with a much larger skull than that of
the ostrich, and affinities it is believed
to the duck.
It ia reported that a telegram and a
telephonic message from Brussels were
recently received simultaneously over
one wire at Paris. The system is the
work of the Belgian meteorological
bureau, Herr Van Kisselberghe, and if
sucoessfal must prove very valuable.
Colors fade under the influence of
the electric- light, as in snnlight, but
M. Ddoaux find that the effect is weaker.
With an arc light of 200 candle power
the influence upon oil and water paint
ings and colored wool seemed to be
about one fourth aa powerful as sun
light influence.
A Wealthy Newsboy.
"Without doubt the richest newsboy
in the country is Mike Mykens, of Den
ver, Colorado. He is supposed to be
worth 850,000, which he has invested in
Denver real estate. He is not yet ready
to retire from business, but from early
morning until midnight may be seen
upon the atreeta crying, 'Boston, New
York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cincin
nati, St. Louis and KnFas City morn
ing papers.' In connection with his
paper stand he has a bootblack's
chair, whioh he generally leavea in
charge of an assiatant. He sells hia
papera at a uniform prioe of teu cents
each, and long experience has made
him very expert in detecting at a glance
from what part of the country any ono
cf the strangers who throng the streets
of Denver hails. ' Ran after that old
man with a white choker and sell him
a EuoUju Ilerald, be will say to his as
sistant ; or Work off a San Francisoo
Bulletin on that slippery-looking cuss
under the awning.' Mykens ia no
longer a boy, but he ia likely to remain
a newboy for years to come."
Tower City, Dakota, Las a water sup
ply from a remarkable artesian well,
the nature of whioh seems to deservo
close examination by geologists ou the
spot. When the earth was penetrated
560 foot salt water was obtained.
Twenty feet further down a gravelly
stratum was straok, yielding also salt
water. After boring down 604 ftet
fresh water mixed with quicksand came
up. Now, from a depth of 675 feet,
there ia a flow of pure water of steadily
increasing quantity.
Who can deservedly be called a con.
queror? He who conquers hisranooroua
passions, and endeavors to turn his
enemy into a friend. Thou sbak n?t
say, "I will lo7e the wise, but the un
wise I will hate;" but thou bhalt love all
mankind.
After trying his hand at many things
in various parts of the country, James
Harris one day took it into his head to
plant a few orange tress at Ocala,
Florida. He now owns 75,000 of the
trees and btU an annual income fro a
them of &30.000.