SULLIVAN JSSk W. H. CHENEY, Publilher. VOL. XI. Philadelphia has 23,000 more women than men. The Chinese postal service, which id slow and crude, is controlled by many private companies. According to life insurance statistics the average of man's life has increased five per cent, during the last twenty-five years. Lord Dunraven values the English "pleasure fleet" at §50,000,000, and says it finds employment for six or seven thousand men at sea, besides those on shore. A woman writer for an Eastern pub lication attempts to explain why so many rich Americau girls marry titled foreigners. It is, she says, because the young society men of this country ape foreign manners, and the girls prefer the genuine article to the imitation. The Rural New Yorker says: The day is coming when every milk dairy man will be compelled by law to have a veterinarian examine his cows regularly and give them a character for health. Why shouldn't wc know there is health in our milk as well as wealth in out fertilizer? It is a curious fact, muses the Chicago Herald, that the father of Alexander Grabame Bell once devised an alphabet of "visible speech" to represent all the sounds of which the human voice is capable, and that his son, from teaching deaf mutes, should have enlarged the possibilities of sound almost to in finity. A food enthusiast has arisen, who says that the banana is the universal food and clothing of the human race, nc claims that before long bread, muflin9, por ridge, soup, pies, and sausages will be made out of bananas. Besides that, an indelible ink can be made out of the skin, and a beautiful cloth can be made out of the fibre. Says the Boston Transcript: "Few geographies mention the district in tho South known as the 'Poor Man's Belt.' It is a tract of country generally very sar.dy and producing little tiiubor save the long leafed pine. It begins not far south of Richmond, Va., and extends along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts into Texas. Its length is not far from 1800 miles, whilo it is from 50 to 150 miles in width. The soil is poor, but the forests produce not only lumber iu abundance, but also large quantities of pitch, t«r and turpentine. It got a bad uamc during anti-bellum days because no cotton was raised in it, but, since the South is beginning to look elsewhere than to the cotton field for its wealth, the 'Poor Man's Belt' promises to be come oue of the richest paits of the Southern States." One of the most remarkable schemes cf the day, in tho opinion of tho New York World, is the plan of Sir Cecil Rhode;, the Premier of Cape Colony, South Africa, to build a telegraph line from the Cape to E:jypt. Sir Cecil, it is said, is now on his way to Cairo to look after details, and the project, chi merical as it may seem, has been indorsed by many public men in England. Sir Cecil's proposition takes the British fancy, because his telegraph is intended chiefly as the first thread upon which r. great British empire in Africa is to be strung. It is believed in England that tho Germans will yet get out of Africa and leave their extensivo possessions on the cast coast to the Union Jack. Then England will have tho unbroken right of way from the Cape to Cairo, by the way of Zanzibar aad the district of the Great Lakes. The Society for the Protection of Birds appears to be making headway in Eng land. According to its second annual report, which has just been issued, the number of members has increased from 1200 to 2500. There is evidently plenty of work for them to do if they wish to preserve birds of bright plumage from the annihilation threatened by the de mands of fashion. It appears that even so common, hardy and prolific a bird as the goldfinch is in danger of extinction. The fashion of mounting whole birds on hats and bonnets has been peculiarly fatal. What the society is anxious to bring about is the extension of the wild birds protection act, the operation of which begins too late and ends too soon In the year to be of much practical ben efit. The report points out that it is not only the direct slaughter of birds for which fashion is responsible. There is an enormous demand nowadays for real winter berries for the purpose of feminine adornment. As a result a good many birds which escape the snare of the fowler die of starvation for lack of their natural food. Artificial berries last longer than the real and look just as pretty, while the manufacture of them would provide employment for many destitute women. THE SWEET, SAD YEARS. The sweet, aad years, the sun, the rain. Alas I too quickly did they wane, For each some boon, some blessing bore; Of smiles and tears each had ita store, Its checkered lot of bliss and pain. Although It idle be and Tain, Yet cannot I the wish restrain That I had held them evermore. The sweet, sad years! Like echo of an old refrain That long within the mind has lain, I keep repeating o'er and o'er, "Nothing can e'er the past restore, Nothing bring back the years again, The sweet, sad years." —Rev. Charles D. Bell. DUALLA. BY HENRY M. STANLEY. »HILE proceeding the chartered steamer Albion, we own canoe, swung himself aboard our tie craft with a lanyard, accosted me with, "Want a boy, sirl" "No." "Me good boy, sir. Do anything." "No, thank you." "I hear you goto Africa, and want men. I been to America, been 'fore the mast, been coachman, been butler in Brooklyn, with Mr. Hincs. I'd like to go with you, sir." "Why, you are quite a prodigy I How old are you?" "Seventeen, sir." I now examined him closely. He was a tall, shapely, comely, intelligent young man, with curly silk hair and a look of "quite ready for anything" about him. "Well, what wages do you want?" •'Anything you like to give, sir. Dol lar, two dollar, three dollar a month. You find out yourself bj-m'-by what I worth. If I'm no good, no money." '•Why, you are extraordinary; I'll give you ten shillings a month, and we shall see afterward. Eh?" "Aw-right, sir." And upon these terms Dualla, the Somalia boy, entered my service. For several months I did not pay much heed to him. There had been no occasion for any exhibition of superior ability or courage. 1 observed, however, that on Sunday Dualla attracted every eye by the splendor and varigated colors of his dress. One time he would resemble a young Genoese dandy, another day he would astonish us by a rich Mussulman attire, the text he would emerge from his cabin a la Zanzibar, in tarboosh and khansu, but always exceedingly trim and clean. Still we had several smart young Zanzibaiis, who, though not such exquisites as Dualla, were, nevertheless, favorites for their intelligence and dash, and as yet there was no chance for promotion. One day new rifles were served to Company No. 1. They were taught how to manipulate them, and how to disconnect their parts. Finally a target was set up at a point blank range, and a prize was offered to the best shot, and in order to show the Zanzibaris what good shooting was, five European officers were requested to step forward and exhibit their skill. But, to my shame, not one white man hit the target. Dualla was called upon. Straight as an arrow he stood a second and fired, plugging the target near the center. A few weeks later while engaged on the highway for the wagons. I wished to make an "indent" for provisions on the Main Depot below, and asked the commissariat officer how many rations he had distributed that morning. He took out his note book and turned the leaves over backward and forward so often that at last I got impatient and said: "Do yon mean to say you do not re member how many rations you are daily serving out?" "I'll tell you directly, sir." I waited pen in hand for another five minutes. My time was valuable; every minute was precious. "Here, Dualla," lat last cried. "Tell this gentleman how many rations he served out this morning," never suspect ing that he did know, but as an indirect chaff at the commissariat. "One hundred and forty-eight, sir. One hundred and forty-eight pounds rice, one hundred and forty-eight pounds beans," he replied. "How do you know," I asked, aston ished. "I help weigh them, sir." •'That will do, thank you." At Stanley Pool an officer requested the loan of our new steel barge that he might proceed up river and visit his friends at the next station. The steel boat pulled twelve oars and, completely equipped and launched on the Upper Congo, had cost us about SBOO. It was lent with an injunction that on his return he should draw her up carefully on the beach out of barm's way and padlock her chain. The Lieu tenant faithfully promised, went up river, and on coming back reported him self and assured me of the security of the boat. The next morning the boat was need ed for special service. But she was not on the beach, and no one knew what had become of her. The Lieutenant was questioned, and it was discovered that he had given the orders lor securing the boat, but had not waited to see his orders carried out. The crew, it then transpired, had simply rowed her ashore, and each man had sprung out and gone to bia own mess. It was then obvious to all of us that the surge from the Great Cataract, which was but two miles below, had entered LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1893. the cove, lifted the boat clear of 'the strand, and receding toward the terrible vortex, had borne her away with all her equipment aboard. Though it appeared hopeless we should ever hear of the boat again, four several triplets of messengers were dis patched in as many directions across country to warn the natives down river and offer rewards for her recovery; and I set off with Dualla and another toward the Great Cataract of Kintamo, over the hill of Leopoldville. On reaching the summit overlooking the cataract, Stretch, one of the young attendants, with his sharp eyes, de tected the boat about midstream, stranded upon a reef, the lower psrt of which seemed to hang over the edge of the roaring cataract. With my glass I could see her like a tiny speck compared to the mile-wide river. Above the reef the puissant Congo was treacherously placid, but we, who bad so often crossed it two miles above the station within view of the gulf, had often occasion to dread its terrible velocity, and below the reef it was all a scene of remorseless fury, a countless series of tossing waves and spray crowned crests, and here and there veritable towers which were no sooner formed than they seemed to be swung bodily into the air, to be fol lowed by others. The oye was fascinated by the wild picture of tremendous strength and incessant rage which the Great Cataract furnished at this view of it. One could gaze at it for hours, for its suggestion of ceaseless passion, power and its awful engulphing ness, while its hoarso roar is in fit volume accompaniment to the watery horror. I sat down and studied the river above the reef. From our side the boat was quite seven hundred yards, and about one thousand yards from the opposite bank. The low rock on which she lay was probably fifty yards in width, and rose a boat a foot above the water, and by one of thoie surges caused by the vicinity of the cataract and shifting cur rents the beat had doubtless been swayed aside and rested in what appeared to be the beginning of a groove or a channel. Various plans were vaguely formed for saving her, but were dismissed,owing to the imminent danger. A foot rise in the river wou'd also sweep the boat over the reef into certain destruction. We returned to the station. At our beach were a paddle steamer and a canoe. We set a mark by driving a peg at the water line, and resolved to wait and see whether the river rose or fell. Twenty hours later the river had sub sided six inches. I went back to the hill of Leopoldrille. The boat was higher out of the water, the reef was larger and extended further up the river in a low gray tongue of rock. That was one great comfort, On the third day the river had sub sided several inches more; the reef was still larger. Dualla was by my side, and looking at the river I conceived a plan which I audibly revealed, saying that, "If I were younger and had not so many responsibilities on me I could save her. I would have likod such a job. But whom have I that could be trusted for a deli cate task as this? And if a single life were lost I should never forgive myself. Yet if ] had a man who could remember in structions and obey them to the letter that boat would be in our cove in a short time." "Can I do it, sir?" asked Dualla, as though I had been addressing him. "You, sho! I was thinking of a dar ing young officer who could learn his lesson by heart, and act according. What could you do?" "I could try, sir." "No doubt you could try, my boy; but it wants a head as well as a bold heart here." "Well, sir, I do not see myself how anybody could get to that boat. I think she is already lost, for she is only five yards from the cataract, and long before we could get to the reef we should be over the falls, as the current flows like a flying arrow. But how do you think, sir, any one could get there?" "Well, the thing is easy, provided one was sure of his crew. I would take that new coil of Manilla rope which is in our store room and which is 300 yards long, and I would tie one end of it to our steamer anchor. I would then choose the best canoe men in the camp, man our canoe at the beach, strike out boldly for the centre of the river from our cove, and when I saw that the boat and Teef were directly below me I would sieer straight toward them. When about two hundred and fifty yards above the reef point I would then drop my an chor and pay out the hawser half its length. The other half, after making fast at the bow of the canoe, I would pay out along the length of the canoe, make fast at the stern, and then the best man shouldswim down to the boat with the other end of the rope and make it fast to the ring bolt at the boat's bow. Then the rest of the crew would float down by the rope to the reef, and all hands, after putting an oar under her bow, would roll the boat up bit by bit over the reef until she waa afloat. All the crew, except the steersman, would S then haul themselves hand over hand to the canoe, and when all were aboard would haul the boat abreast of the canoe. Then I would transfer all the crew, ex cept the steersman, into the boat, and, pulling up boat and canoe until the an chor was near atrip, seat everybody in his place with every oar out and ready; then, at a word, lift the anchor into the boat, and away we would fly for this shore, and we should fetch up well above the Cataract. Do you see? What do you think of that, Dualla?" "Oh, I can do that perfectly," cried Dualla. my lad; you would forget every word I said, and then I should lose you; for no boat can live in that cata ract." "No, sir; I feel I can do it; and, if you leave it to me, it will be done." "Very well, then; but take your time and think of it. Take all day and think of it. The river is falling steadily and ths rainy season it over. Now, I should like to heur first whether you can re member what I said." And Dualla, with his wonderful memory, repeated the operation word for word as I had de scribed it. After that Dualla was left to himself for the day, and when I retired, for the night I had heard no word. ' The next morning, while I was taking my bath, I heard a great shout in the station, and looking out of the window, I saw the Zanzibaris rushing frantically to the beach. They were shortly after seen marching in procession to my house with Dualla hoisted high, and seated like a hero on their shoulcktrs. At the door I met them, and, gravely taking off my cap, said, "Good morning, Mr. Dualla." Dualla le&ied smartly to the ground, and saluting, said, "The boat is at the beach, sir." "Thank you, Dualla; there are three cheques for you, for £25 each. One is from Lieutenant ——, who was the cause of the great danger you have been put to; the second is on behalf of the Inter national Association, for saving their property; the third is from myself, for your bravery. Out of the jaws of death. Out of the mouth of hell. Thank God I" Dualla performed many other brilliant feats, but after six yoars' service with me on the Congo he had £4OO pounds in Bank of England stock and a complete kit. He subsequently took service with Captain James in his expe dition through Somaliland, and latei was employed by Mr. G 8. Mac kenzie, of the I. B. E. A. Company, in East Africa, at a salary of £lB per month. He is the same Dualla who is mentioned so often and so creditably in Captain Lugard's dispatches as having assisted him so loyally and so cleverly in his negotiations with the Mahomme dans of Uganda.—Pall Mall Budget. A Bird's Eye Tiew ol Dahomey. Although previously but little known to outsiders, Dahomey has been brought by tue recent French invasion into the light of the world's attention. It will, therefore, be timely to call to mind some of the more important features of this African State, a few of which are here given: "Dahomey, situated on the western coast of Africa, comprises an area of 4000 square miles, and reaches from the Yor uba States on the east to Ashanti on the western boundary, which is marked by the river Volta. On the north lies the Wangera territory. Once the largest and most powerful kingdom on the slave coast, it has been greatly reduced by long and disastrous wars with neighbor ing States. Its population is estimated at 250,000. The capital is Abomey, in the interior, and its seaport is Whydah, seventy miles away. "The monarchy, /ouuued early in the Seventeenth Century, is of an absolute type. King Behanziu maintaining, be sides ordinary soldiery, the now famous body guard of 6000 Amazons, or female troops, who are well disciplined and formidable warriors. The natives, who are fetish worshipers and of pure Afri can blood, are industrious farmers, pro ducing and exporting maize, cattle, ivory, India rubber and the oil made in Upper Guinea. The hostili ties with France first began in 1890, arising from the disputed stations, on the South coast, of Porto Novo and Eotonu. A peace was concluded in October of that year, but lasted only until this sum mer." In spite of their extreme barbarism the Dahomeyans were found by the French to possess tht of modern warfare. They hav > been accustomed to practice cruel out Ages upon traveler! and mis sionaries in the past, and their subjuga tion by France, after a most stubborn resistance, is a matter of congratulation to the civilized world. —Mail and Ex press. Photographing Towel Sounds. At the recent International Congress of Physiology at Liege, Professor Herman demonstrated his method of photograph ing the sound of vowels. The vowels were sung out before one of Edison's phonographs. Immediately afterward they were reproduced very slowly, and the vibrations recorded by a microphone. The latter was furnished with a mirror, which reflected the light of an eleotric lamp upon a registering cylinder, covered with sensitized paper and protected by another cylinder with a small opening which gave passage to the rays of light from the reflector. By this means was obtained very distinct photographic traces, and the constancy was remark able for the different letters.—New York Commercial Advertiser. Traeing the Name "Ches9." The word "chess" is said to be a cor ruption of the Arabic word "sheikh," meaning chief or king. The.game came westward by way of Persia, where the word sheikh became shah. It was the game of the king. The term "check" is merely to give notice that the king is attacked, and "checkmate" means "the king is dead;" tho verb mata being from the same root as the Spanish matador, the slayer of the bull. The word check, whether verb or noun, may be traced through several curious ramifications back to the Persian and Arabic. Even the word exchequer is curiously tangled up in this verbal network.—Churchman. Marvels of Shoemaklng. The Boston Globe says that in a pair of fine shoes there are < two sewed pieces, two inner soles, two stiffenlnga, two pieces of steel to give a spring to the in step, two rands, twelve heel pieces, two sole linings, twenty upper pieces, thirty tacks, twelve naila in the heela and twenty buttons, to say nothing of thread, both silk and flax, but the wonder is found in the rapidity with which these multitudinous pieces are combined in a single completed work, for, as an exper iment, some shoe factories have from the leather compteted a pair of shoes in less than an hour and a half, and, as a test, a single pair of men's shoevhave been finished in twenty minutes. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Metal money is bacteria proof. London omnibuses are to be lighted Jjj electricity. It is twelve years since Pasteur began his notable experi nenta in germ culture. The atmosphere, if compressed, would make a sea thirty-five feet deep around the globe. .A case of bleeding through the sound skin is the subject of a European med ical report. The moon, whether full or not, has not the slightest effect either upon food, the weather or the mental condition of insane persons. The English Board of Agriculture has classed glanders and farcy as one disease, and any animal suffering from which is to be slaughtered at once. Statistics in London show that in that city the consumption of gas is steadily increasing, notwithstanding the more general adoption of electric light. Some of the English pumping engines perform work equaling the raising of 120,000,000 gallons one foot high by the consumption or 100-weight of coal. Experiments with bi-sulphide of car bon show that it will destroy all stages ef the insect known as bean weevil eggs, larvae of all sizes, pupce and adults. The moth has a fur jacket and the butterfly none, because the nocturnal habits of the moth require it; the diurnal movements of the butterfly do not. The Queen of the Belgians has just ordered two or three phonographs, the purpose of which is to record her maj esty's extempore compositions on the piano. Comparison of results of the sunshine recorder at Greenwich, England, for fourteen years, shows that throughout the year the average daily amount of sun shine is little more than three hours. The first hos Ital in America devoted exclusively to the treatment of dogs was opened December 30th, as an adjunot to the veterinary department of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Compressed air for cleaning can is used on the Union Pacific Railroad at Its Portland (Oregon) shops. The air, un der a pressure of fifty pounds per square inch, Is delivered from a flexible hose with a small nozzle, and is used as water would be. Ice one to two inches thick will bear men. Two inches thick is estimated fit to bear infantry; four inches thick to bear cavalry or light guns; six inches to bear teams with moderate loads or heavy field guns; eight inches teams with heavy loads. Charles H. F.cqfc, the New York State botanist, claims that thirty new species of fungi have been found during the year. Of the fifty-nine edible species illustrated in his annual report, he states that at least ».C above the level of the river below tV> falls, so that more than three quarters of the possible force is wasted. The old Hydraulic Canal gives in all only about 6000 available horse power. The new method is the same principle differently applied. A canal has been cut from above the rapids as in Dey's plan; but it runs only a short distance before it reaches the pits, which are 120 feet deep. A sheer fall through great pipes is thus obtained, which is nearly as groat as the height of the falls. Thus far the work was comparatively easy. The fun came in giving the water a vent from the bottom of the whoelpits. This was accomplished by the construc tion of a great tunnel through solid lime stone rock, from the wheolpits to below the falls. The water abstracted from the river thus flows for a short distance through the canal, then takes its big tumble through the pits down to the turbine wheels, and then flows through the tunnel to the river's lower level. This tunnel is 8713 feet long, twenty eight feejjf 1 gh and eighteen feet broad, in semi-&cular form. It is bricked up along its whole length, an undertaking which has consumed 13,000,000 cubes of baked clay, and which, had it been done by a single bricklayer, would have occupied his entire attention for twenty four years. It was thought to be a bet ter plan to employ 7000 men in its con struction, however, and they have man aged to dig it £td line it in a little less than three years, having kept hard at it day and night. The total cost of the enterprise so far has been a trifle of $2,500,000. With the wheelpits already finished or under way, the plant will develop a minimum of 120,000 horse power. This would be more than sufficient to run seven of the largest steamships afloat, and steamships are not easy things to run. It is highly improbable, however, that the power from the falls will be utilized in ocean navigation. But if the dreams of the projectors of this big entorprise come true, some things almost as remarkable as that would be are likely to occur. Its pro motors have been devoting almost as much attention to studying how to trans mit the power as they have to studying how to develop it. In order to increase the power it will be necessary only to dig new wheel pits. The canal and the tunnel are big enough to hold water for 1,000,000 horse power, and that is what the company places its maximum capacity at. Of course there are sneers, but the company ha* Niagara Falls and the engineers on its side, and seems likely to come out ahead. They Eat Dog. It is said that dogs aro slaughtered at Munich for gastronomic purposes in large and increasing numbers. They are openly sold in the markets with no attempt at disguise, and there is an in creasing demand for the meat, which is openly bought and served at table just as any other meat. It is said that the cus tom of eating tbese animals wa? intro duced into the Bavarian capital by the Italian laborers who have settled there in large numbers.—New Orleans Picayune. The historic chateau at Cirey, France, has been sold to a rich manufacturer for $500,000. It was once the home of Vol taire. > NO. 14. VhE SONO Oft THE ICE. Sing ho! sing hoi for the skater, oh! For the flying feet and the winds that blow! For-the blood, that runs to the eheek, to glow Like the western Ay 1 81ng ho! once more for the flying shorel And the great long cracks in our icy floor? And the tree tops that wail ot the sad no more Of thad*— gone by I Sing ho! sing ho! as we glide and go Where the pines on the edge of tbe shore bend low. Over the ice, and the stream's still flow As in times gone by I Sing ho! once more while tbe pine tops roar With a song that they sing to us o'er and o'er As the old sun walks through the great red door Of the western sky! —Charles O. Rogers, in Outing HUMOR OF THE DAT. A chafing dish—Crow. Cold feet—Two feet of snow. Creature comforts—Household peta. A partial payment—The favorite'a salary. An old-timer—Your great grand father's clock.—Troy Press. The editor may enjoy good health, always "in a critical condition." —Puck. Talk about your transformations t We have seen a square man turn round. Statesman. Some philanthropic women seer, to work everywhere except at bonis. Somerville Journal. Qreat wit may be allied to madness, but the stupid man need not brag of his superior sanity.—Puck. "Here's another case of kidnapping," said the messenger boy who found a comrade asleep.—Washington Post. A man may be supejior to false social standards, yet it makes him uncomfort able to be cut by his barber.—Puck. A young man never thoroughly appreciates his own insignificance until be attends his own wedding.—Puck. In Missouri they sell Shetland ponies by the perpendicular foot, and the pur chaser has to pony up.—Chicago Tri bune. Mincer—"What brought about all this trouble between Morgan and his wife? Is his mind unsettled?" Parsons—"No, it was his coffee." Mrs. Singer—"Patti has a diamond ring worth $5000." Mr. Singer—"Oh, well, I wager she got it for a mere song." —Jeweler's Weekly. Mrs. Trolley—"3o tell m<3, Mr. Kan vass, which is the greatost work ol art?" Mr. Kauvass—"Selling the paint ings."—New York Sun. "Jenny, do you know what a miracle is?" "Yea'm. Ma says if you don't marry our new parson it will be a miracle."—Brooklyn Life. Martin—"How well Miss Green bough keeps her age!" Mrs. Grinder—"Why, of course I nothing would induce her to give it away."—lnter-Ocean. "I really feel that I am a public example of pole-lightness," said the caibon as it was putin readiness for the electric current.—Washington Star. "Our gardener will make a good vil lain in o melodrama." "Why so?" "Because he is always laying out plots that amount to nothing in the end."— Boston Gazette. Eleanor—"Don't you think Miss Noyes plays with great feelingf" Tom (dryly)—" Yea; she does seem to feel about for the notes a good deal."—Har vard Lampoon. On the Ocean Greyhound: Captain Saylors—"l'm sorry to say, madame, we're delayed. The vessel's broke her shaft, ma'am." Mrs. J. S. (sympatheti cally)—"Ob, dear! Can't you fix it with this hairpin?"— Chicago News Record. "The great problem that I have to deal with," said the keeper of the im becile asylum, "is to find some occupa tion for the people under my cbkrge." "Wby not set them to inventing college yells," asked the visitor.—Buffalo Ex press. Old Lady (to chemist) —"I want a box of canine pills." Chemist—' 1 What's the matter with the dog?" Old Lady (in dignantly)—"l want you to understand, sir, my husband is a gentleman." (Chemist puts up quinine pills in pro found silence.) —Philadelphia Times. NoTel Climbing Device. A French inventor has devised a novel and practical arrangement for use by firemen and others to facilitate rope climbing, and, at the same time, to per mit the climber to havo free use of hia hands. The apparatus consists of two boards joined by a hinge, a hole passing through both the hinge apd the boards, and the extremities of the latter arc pro vided with straps, which can be fastened to the feet of the man using the appara tus. The method of climbing involved in this arrangement is simple. When the foet attached to the boards aro lifted the rope is free, but the moment the feet are pressed down on the two boards the rope is firmly gripped. It is only neces sary, therefore, to Mift the body with both hands as far as possible, and it can then be held by the hinged clamps until anothor lift is made. By the use of a belt to hold the body close to the rope the hands may be left free for work.— Fire and Water. A Cartons Spring. Three miles north of Aurora, in Al bany County, Wyoming, a stone bluff rises abruptly from the plains to a hight of 600 foot. Thirty feet from the ground tbe rock has a torn and jagged appear ance as if it had been struck by light ning. From the clefts thus formed there gushes forth a spriug, or springs, of magnificent water, the volume being quite large.—American Farmer.