SULLIVAN JBSB REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY. Publisher. VOL. XIII. Parisian policemen arc being mount ed on bicycles. Tho polico officials are bound to get thieves on the run, comments tho Hartford Journal. In tho opinion of an expert the sub stitution of the Italian for tho Irish man and tho German in laboring cir clos is the prime causo of tho falling off in sunstroke. There are nbout 08,000 postoffices in tho United States. About 07,000 of them do not pay their rnuning ex penses. Tho profit of tho New York j)ostofiicc is §1,000,000 a year. The Japanese are now making ten uis rackets, and some of tbem, tho New York Ledger learns, arc imported to the United States. Tho workman ship is uncommonly fine, and all tho materials look durable. Europeans in Japan havo long played tenuis, and the game originated a good deal nearer Japan than Europe. It was the Bad minton brought to England by East Indian travelers. Tho national guardsmen of New York will hereafter bo presented by the Stato with a handsome medal for long service. These medals are to bo presented for a service of thirty, twenty-fivo, tweuty, fifteen and ten years, and are designed to bo manu factured of eighteen karat solid gold, gold and silver, silver aud bronze, and bronze, according to tho increased years of servico. Thero is no differ ence in tho design, excopt that tho medal for thirty years is set with brilliants. Heat holidays havo now been estab lished by law in the public schools of Switzerland, and, in tho opinion of the New York Tribune, our education al authorities might do worse than take a hint from this enterprising and progressive little republic, which for centuries has been famed for its en lightenment and cjiumon-senso. Ilec ognizing the well known fact that tho brain cannot work properly when the heat is excessive, the children oro dis missed from their tasks whenever tho thermometer go La' abovo a certain point. W ere this sensiblo regulation to bo adopted in this country stops would havo to bo taken to safeguard tho thermometers from being nefari ously doctored by the enterprising American schoolbov. Dr. Erwiu F. Smith, of tho depart ment of agriculture, described to tho American Association for the Advance ment of Scienco tlio other day an im portant discovery that he has mado of a pest which has been giving great and increasing trouble to tho watermelon raisers of tho South. It is n fungus growth, which attacks tho vines under tho ground, speedily stopping up tho minute water ducts of the plant, and causing it to wither away. He asserts that this year tho South has lost many thousands of dollars' worth of melons through tho ravages of this disease. Dr. Smith does not suggest any remedy for tho disease, but ho thinks that a good deal might bo dono for its oxtor miuntion by burning tho old vinos. Ho thinks that many farmers aro re sponsible for its spread, as they aro accustomed to gather up tho old vinos, and allow tbem to rot on their com post honp3 for manure. Tho Russian thistle, that has created BO much disturbance in tho Dakotas as to causa a bill to bo introduced in Congress appropriating money for it3 eradication, has made its appearanco in Illinois, states tho Chicago Record, and tho farmers aro called upon to do thoir utmost to eradicate tho import ed pest. Tho worst feature of tho weed is tho groat rapidity with which its spreads over vast areas of territory, the :;ceJ being easily scattered by tho wind. It is not a hard weed to deal with if taken in time, for it is au au nual plant, and if cut before needing —the last half of August—it is effectu ally destroyed. It is not so difficult a weed to deal with as tho Canada thistle, which seems to thrivo by re peated cutting. If tho Russian this tle has secured a foothold in this State, it is very likely to eproad fast and far. Onco established in tho highways and i.loug railroad tracks, all attempts to dislodge it will be of little avail. Tho country highway seems to bo devoted to tho propagation of nox ious woods-, while tho right of way of a railroad company is not kept with much idea of killing weeds. Tho Rus- Bian thistle is eagerly eaten by sheep, and, if cut when young, io liked by cattlo. It is not a worse pest on a farm than the ox-eye daisy. But tho farmers of Illinois have onough to contend with without tho Russian Ihistlo being added to their burdens, and eclf-interest should prompt them to a Tigorou3 warfare against this new ly arrived foreigner. TWO SONGS. VV AND AWAY IN THE MORNINO. Tldo's at full; tho wave breaks whito (Oh, up and away in tho morning) ; Blue is tho blown grass, rod is tho height; Washed with tho Bun tho sail shinos whito (Oh, up and away in tho morning). Wldo is tho world in tho laughing sun up and away in tho morning). Work'* to bo dono ami wealth's to bo won Ere a man turn homo with the homing sun (Oh, up and away in tho morning). Long is tho heart's hope, long r.s tho day (Oh, up and away in tho morning). Heart hath its will and hand hath its way Till tho world rolls over and ends tho day (Ob, up and away in the morning). It's home that wo toll for all day long (Oh, up nnd away In tho morning). Hand ou tho lino and heart in tho song, Tho labor ot lovo will not seem long (Oh, up and away in tho morning). HOME, HOME IN THE EVENING, When tho crows fly in from soa (Oh, home, homo in tho evening), My lovo in his boat comes back to ma, Over tho tumbling loagues of soa (Oh, home, homo in tho evening). And when tho sun drops over tho hill (Oh, homo, homo in tho evening), My happy eyes they tako their fill Of watching my lovo as ho climbs tho hill (Oh, home, heme in the evening). And when tho dew falls over the land (Ob, homo, homo in tho evening), I hold In my hand his dearest hand, Tho happiest woman in all tho land (Oh, homo, homo In tho evening). « * » » « All day sho sang by tho cottago door (Oil, homo, home in tho ovening) ; At sundown came his boat to the shore— But ho to tho hoarthsldo comes no more, Home, homo in the evening. —Charles G. D. Roberts, in tho Century. KITTY'S ADVENTURE, fOOD-BY, clear." "A'safo journoy and a pleasant Tlic train began to move. Miss Kitty Belwhistlo distributed a fare well series of nods fond of tho Chol niondeleys, now that she was leav ing them. Thoy were sorry to lose their guest un doubtedly. Their brother sorrowed also, but not as one without hope. Business of a pressing nature was likely to tako him up to London in tho course of a week or so. Kitty, experienced hand that she was, had not spent three weeks at Northwitch Grango for nothing. Tho understanding between herself and the heir of tho Northwich acres was pretty definito, that young gentleman flattered himself. They wero almost, if not exactly, engaged. Kitty had mado tho usual stipula tion. If, within tho spaco of twelve months from date, she met somebody else she liked better than dear Chub bington, all that had paßsed between them was henceforth to be regarded as an idle dream. If ou tho other hand, she did not, then— Kitty pulled up the window and Bank back into her comfortable corner seat. Tho iirst-class compartment contained no other passenger than the charming young lady in tho sealskin coat and crimson-leathered toque who consulted her complexion in tho strip of looking glass before sho fell to overhauling her bags and packages. The journey was tedious, and would bo certain to bo a cold one upon this keen, frosty January day. But Kitty, who always was distin guished by admirable forethought in matters where her own well-being was concerned, had got all her littlo com forts arouud her. "Eau de cologne? Yes, tho house maid put it in. How stupid of Parker to catch bronchitis ! Of course, I was obliged to leave her behind. If I had insistod on her traveling she would have been sure to incur a fresh chill and die on me out of spite. "If anything in the shapa of an ad venture could possibly present itself in tho course of tho humdrum seven hours' railway journoy between Nor wich and Liverpool, I should bo in clined to welcome it, unless it came in tho form of a railway smash. Ugh! Tho bare idea makes one shudder. "Let mo just peep at the luncheon basket. Tongue nnd turkey sand wiches, hard-boiled eggs and anchovy ditto, abottlo of cold tea, half a pine and a bag of roaccaroous. Perhaps Chubby superintended tho arrange ments. Poor Chubby I" And Kitty smiled a heartless littlo smile at the remembrance of Chubby's pink tinged nose and toarful eyes. Thon she opened a brand new railway novel, "The Fang of tho Adder," anil immersed herself in tho most thrilling chapter of that electrical work: "Forked and lurid flashos of IlKbtnfag ftbeenlly playod overt ha mldnifilit nr.uro. A low peul of thunder rumblod overhead ns Paulina Knlnod the churchyard. Bbo reached tho lonely rL-stlm; plaoo of tho man whom her heart had worshiped, the man whom hor relentless hand had guldod to his doom. "Did ho but know it, Ohorrlnnton Ciiim was bitterly avenged. "As sobs thickened in his murderess's strangling throat an 1 sho 3'inlc forward amid tho matted aud t:.nglcd tfrassos—what happened? '•A hacd touched bur on theshoulder. A voice said hoarsely"— "Kimpton, Kimpton! Chango 'ere for Carbury and Walsing." Tbo train f,lowed nnd stopped, with n jerk. Kitty shut tho book and let down the window. Something darkened tho car^iago LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1894. door. A dark-faced, mustached, fur coated stranger got in hurriedly. He tramplod on Miss Belwhistle's toes and apologized floridly. His tone offended her cars; tho perfume which exhaled from his garments offendod a still more sensitive perception. Ho tramp'ed on Kitty's toes again 03 ho received into his arms a heavy bundle, tho helpless figure of another man, aud deposited it in a further corner of tho compartment, with evi dent difficulty. Another mustached, scented and fur-coated stranger followed and sat himsolf down in tho seat immediately opposite Miss Bolwhistle. Kitty, in a stato of freezing indif ference to the admiring manifestations of her vis-a-vis, resumed her perusal of "Tho Fang of the Adder." Tho two mustaehed and fur-coated individuals interchanged a sentonco or two in an uudertono aud then settled down to their respective news papers. Tho invalid lay back help lessly in his corner, swaying from sido to side with the motion of tho carriage. Ho was small of staturo and slight of limb. Ho woro a gray-flapped traveling cap, tied under the chin, and a long gray ulster. From under neath the edge of tho ulster poepod a pair of tiny little feet inpatent-leather boots. As much c. his profile as was visible to Kitty's observation was perfectly regular and of a waxen delicacy. Tho ungloved right hand, which rested stillly on his kneo, was small and dazzingly whito. "Oh," exclaimed Miss Bolwhistle involuntarily as tho express rounded a curvo and tho invalid lurched violently to the right. The mustaehed and scented strang ers looked over their newspapers. Kitty had half risen from her seat, "Anything wrong, miss?" inquired No. 1 in accents of oily vulgarity. The train steadied; the invalid loft off wobbling. Kitty sank among her rugs and parcels. ' 'J.—I beg your pardon. I—l was afraid tho—your friend was going to faint." 6ho breathed. To cover her confusion sho stopped for her book, which lay sprawling on tho floor. "Tho young lady thought Mr. Walker might be feeling ill, Sig. Don zo," remarked No. 2. "Toll him to answer liisself if he's got any manners in him," tho signor added, and looked at the invalid. Immediately Mr. Walker spoke in a queer, highly pitched voice, which seemed to como from under tho seat which he occupied. "I thank you, miss, for your kind inquiries and beg to say I am quite well." Kitty began to regret the exclama tion of alarm into which sho had been betrayed. She began to wonder how long it would be beforo the next stop page would afford her an opportunity of exchanging to another carriage. This horrible pair were evidontly bent upon improving tho occasion. Rosenbaum offered her a comic pa per. Dec'ined with thanks. Tho signor produced a silver flask of cognac, which might havo con tained about a quart, aud audaciously invitoil tho young lady to tost tho quality of its contents. Declined with thanks. Upon which both tho signor and Mr. Rosenbaum applied themselves to the liquor with great good will. They produced huge packages of sandwiches and ate with gusto and without offer ing tho invalid a share of their sup plies. Kitty burned with indignation and was conscious of a yearning in tho di rection of her well filled luncheon basket, but dread of provoking the civilities of her companions staid her. Sho would chango at tho next station thoy stoppod at, and then— Thank goodness—an old town rising out of tho suowy landscape! The ompty noiso and bustlo of a station succeeding. Sho collected her lug gage hastily ; she peered arxiously out of tho window searching for a porter. "By your leave, miss," said tho odi ous voice of Koscnbaum. Ho opened tho door and jumped out upon tho platform. Tho signor followed. Thoy vanished, arm in arm, into the refresh ment room. "Porter," cried Miss Belwhistlo, but no functionary rosponded to her call. She leaned out of tho window. Sho waved her muff. Sho called to the porter again without success. There was a dull crash, a sickening thnd, behind her. Sho turned. Tho invalid Mr. Walker he/I tumbled out of his seat and lay prostrate on the floor. Before tho affrighted girl could utter a scream for help tho express moved on. Whore, whoro wore thoso callous companions of tho sick man? Doubtless Rosenbaum aud tho signor had been loft. Sho raised tho heal of tho insensi ble man. Ho was lighter than she had expected and strangely, strangely etiffer. Sho opened his collar with a shaking hand. She got out tho bottlo of tea and endeavored to pour a littlo down his throat. Useless. Tbo rigid lips wero not to bo forced apart. She romovod tho traveling cap and wet his foro hend and temples with eau de cologno. He showed no signs of roviving. She wiped his faco with her handkerchief and—oh, horror! Tho faint color vanished from his cheoks, his lips turned pale. Tho sick man had boon painted. Sho looked at him more closely. Tho strauge light blue eyes that main tained their horrible unwinking stare, the deadly color of the face and tho icy coldness of its contact struck a chill to her. Bho felt at his heart. Not a beat! Mr. Walkor was dead— dead! Had his murderors—they must bo his murderers—painted tho dead face with tho hues of life, deceived her eye« with rougo aud powder as they had deceived her ears with a ventrilo quial trick? Had they not made good their escape, leaving their help less dupe alone—alone with their victim? And at last tho express slackened speed, jolted, stopped. Thoy were at Ely. Sho might scream now, and she did. "What's here? Gentlemen ill, miss? What do yon say?" Thus the guard. "There hasbeeu murder here," sha said, looking out upon tho throng of facos that surrounded tho carriage door. "Telograh to tho last stopping place. I can describe tho guilty wrctchos who have done this awful deed. Ah, thero they are !" Hero thoy were indeed, the guilty wretches. Dared they brazen it out? Did they mean to deny all knowledgo of tho dead man? "This is a serious charge, yon know, gentlomen, I must trouble you to come along with mo." "With pleasure, Mr. Polizeman," said tho signor, with horrible light ness. "But wo look at tliisoorpo morto here first, with your kind obligement. Why will pretty young ladies shriek at everything? My good Bosenbaum, you havo better tho Euglish language, l'loase explain." Rosenbaumdrew a largo poster from the bulging pocket of his fur coat. Ho gravely handed it to tho station-mas ter. It bore this inscription: TO-NIGHT. At tho Temple ot Varieties, Ely. Herr Ilosonbaura and Blg. Denzo, Tho M irvolous Conjurors and Ventriloquists, In ThoirUnp irallelod Eatortaininout, In which tho ANI.U ITED DUAIMY will al3o take pirt. COME EARLY. "This here jointed wooden figure with tho wax face and hands," wont on Rosenbaum, "is tho dummy. Ho usually travels in tho guard's van, but the guard couldn't guarantee his reach ing Ely in condition to appear beforo tho public, having a fox-terrier pup in charge as was given to worrying. So we took him in the carriage with us. At the last station wo stopped at, mo and tho signor, gets out for a drink, and tho train having started sooner than wo bargained for we whipped into a second-class compartment. Sorry tho young lady has been frightenod. Ain't you, gignor?" "Estremvuioute 1" said Sig. Denzo. —Gentlewoman. Mexican Skill With the Itope. "The cowboys of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona are all skilled in the art of using tho lasso," said Louis Ed wards, of Santa Jw. "I used to be in tho ranching lino myself, and onco thought I could throw a rope as straight as any man living. But that was beforo I mixed to any extent with tho Mexicans. As good as tho Ameri can cowboys are, they can't hold a candle to a Groaser when it comes to tho roping busiuoss. They can do things with hemp that no other mor tals can over hope to accomplish. As tho Australianjstands out pre-eminently in throwing tho boomerang, so does tho ignorant son of tho 'land of God and liberty' exceed all other men in this ono accomplishment. "A Mexican will chaso a steer at full speed, and while ho guides his bronco with ono hand, whirl his ropo with tho other, audit isn't onco in a thou sand times that tho nooso will fail to catch just whoi-o the rider meant. A favorite trick with them is to Btick a lot of long-handled knives in the ground close together withiu tho limits of a narrow circle, and bet with out siders that they can ride past at raoe liorso speed aud pick up any one of tho knives designated with a rope. Thoy aro good marksmen with the ride, too, but iu this regard tho cowboys aro fully their peers."—Washington Post. Englishmen (irow Taller. Francis Galton has collocted somft interesting facts iu regard to the ef fect of athletics and improved physi cal condition during tho last forty years on tho physique of the middle classes. Mr. Galton gives instructive ovi denco of tho amelioration of tho upper middle class. When he was an under graduate at Cambridge, from 1840 to 1844, although but fivo feet nine and three-fourths inches in height, he was taller than tho majority of his fellows. In addressing them he habitue lly lowered his eyes, and if in a crowd he would roadily see over tho heads of the people. Writing in 1893 he states that ho no longer possesses theso advantages. Altered social conditions, in his opinion, have helped to improve the bodily powers and address of his class; Buch conditions, for instance, as more wholosoir o and abundant food, better cooking, warmer clothing, moderation in tho uso of alcohol, better ventilated sleeping rooms, more change through vacations, and, lastly, more healthy lives led by womon in their girlhood. —St. Louis Globo-Domocrat. A Yaso ot Gold. Tho Dopartmcnt of Greek anJ Roman Antiquities, British Museum, has quite recently secured by purobase ono of the choicest examples of ancient art in solid gold which even that great collection possesses. It is a vase of this motal in its pnrest condition, without soulptnres, measuring nearly oight inches in height, about four inches in diameter, and in shape most liko a pelieo when deprived of its handles. It is of Roman origin, per haps of the poriod of Augustus. An inscription on tho bottom of the vessel indicates that its weight nearly cor responds to two pound troy of tho modern scalo. It was lately found by a spongo diver in tho sea ofl tho Island of Samos, ind may be all that remains of a wreck which occurred thero nearly 2000 years ago.—Tho Athe naeum. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A fly's egg will hatch in twelve hours. Entomologists estimato that 10,000,- 000 species of insects exist. Thero is harmony and discord in tho combination of odors, ns thero is in musio. Carriages propelled by electricity derived from a storage battery are common in Berlin. Aluminum felloes in bicyclc3 are ex pected soon os an improveinout ou wood in both lightness au 1 strength. Willie Jones, of Girardvillo, Penu., having lost his shin boues by bloo I poisoning, has been supplied by a sur geon with new ones of iudia rubber. Dr. Biggs, of the New York Board of Health, who has boeu in Europe in vestigating Dr. Koch's new treatment for dphtheria, says that it is an abso lute cure if applied in time. The phylloxera, or tho vino pest, is making such ravages in tho sherry wino districts of Spain that the Gov ernment has appropriated $100,00) for the extermination of tho disease. The utility of the mosquito is be yond question. It is born in tLe swamps, and feeds upon animal and vegetable matter, which, if allowed to decompose, would fill the air with poisonous gases. Tho vital principle is preserved in seeds and eggs, fruits and vegetable during cold woather, because they have a heat of their own. The tem perature of au egg or apple, down to tho freozing point, is always several degrees above that of the surrounding air. Tho Japanesa aro r3ally a very pro gressive pooplo. The School of Sci ence at Yokohama is remarkably thor ough. One of tho naval officials, Ya raana, has succeeded in producing a new steel, at tho Tanaka Government factory, which is provon to be a most remarkablo metal. The Government ha:; adopted it. A living specimen of tho largest an 1 most deadly enako known has boon addod to tho Zoological Gardens ot London. It grows twelvo to fourteen feet in length, and is hooded like tho cobra. It occurs in India, Burma and in tho East Indian archipelago, living in forests anl jungles aud read ily climbing trees. Tho Icolanic scientist, Th. Thorod eson, is at present engaged in a verv interesting series of geological obser vations on his native island, for which he has received generous Government support. The special object of his study is tho sands and glaciers in tho district of Austur-Skaptafell and tho groat glacier Vatnajokull, in Hi J southeastern part of Iceland. A French electrical journal, in re ply to an offer of an award of §10,003 by tho French Government to the in ventor of a simple an 1 stiro method of determining fraud in tho production of alcoholic liquors, suggests that a knowlodgo of tho electrical conduc tivity with that of the density might be a sufficient means, if tho liquors ba brought to the temperature of molt ing ice. A Peacock's Utile (>amc. Sol. Stophan has made a discovery Tip at tho Zoo. Tho big peacock has for several weeks made a practice of going every afternoon to tho entrance gate and parading back and forth across tho path for half an hour. This action occasioned no remark for a time, but after awhilo it was noticed that tho fowl came regularly at 4 o'clock and at no other hour, and al ways remained about half an hour, after which it would walk away an I go about tho lawns as usual till tho following afternoon. For tho past week a watch has been kept on it, and at last the socret is discovered. Near tho gate is a Klaus door, leading to a cellar in tho hillside, and about 4 o'clock tho light falls on tho door so that the peacock cau seo himself as in a mirror whon ho walks past. He evi dently takes grervt delight in looking at himself. Tho straugo part of tho affair is that he should know just when to come, as tho reflection is clear and distinct only abont half an hour after 4 o'clock.—Cincinnati Times-Star. A Street Car Hearse. One of the San Francisco railway Companies has constructed an electric funeral car for tho San Mateo Cjmo tery. Tho car is named Cypress Lawn. It is thirty feet in length an.l is divided into two compartments, tho forward twenty feet in length and tho roar ten foot. Tho former is richly upholstered, tapestried and carpeted, and twelve plush seats arc arranged to seat twenty-four persons. In tho rear, or funeral compartment, soats on each side, capable of soatiug twenty, aro ar ranged for relatives and near friends, and in tho oentro is the bier on which the casket stands. As San Francisco has an oxtensivo system of electric railways tho car can bo employed throughout the city, and will, to some extent, it is expected, supersede tho uso of hearses and carriages for fu nerals. Tho cost of building it was about S2OOO. —Philadelphia Record. Cold Water Is Best. Ice water is said to bo one of tho deadliest foes of tho American pooplo, and its temptation i'j especially in* cidious in the days oi summer. An excellent substitute for roal iced water, or water mado of ioy tempera ture by containing ice, is a pitclior or caraffe of water which has stood for some hours in tho rofrigerator. The water is then cold enough to be very agreeable, more so than at the paralyz ing temperature of ico itself; one has a pleasing consciousness of hygionia virtue in drinking it nud it lias the added excellence of saving both trouble and ico in its preparation. Rochester Poet-Express, Terms---SI.OO in Advance ; 51.25 after Three Months. MODERN "OAST DEFENSE. AN IMPREGNABLE SYSTEM OS SEABOARD FORTIFICATIONS. What Would Happen If a Hostile Fleet Should Attack New York— -44 Danger Areas " in the Harbor. WHAT with pneumatio dy namite guns, ten and twelve-inch steel rifles, twelve-inch steol mortars, automatic gun-lifts that play with great fifty-two ton cannon as if they were toys, and all the other recent im provements iu coast defense, tho day is noar when New York City will bo protected from danger of invasion by sea by an impregnable system of forti fications. When that day comes the artilleryman's fun will bo over, for promiscuous target practice is hardly possible with big guns whose life is less thau fifty rounds, while each shot costs SIOOO. And should an enemy's fleeet attack New York, he will have still less fun, for then he will bo stuck away under a bomb-proof, where he won't know whether he scored a hit or a miss, because he won't see what he's shooting at. Although not new, this will proba bly seem to tho public tho most inter esting phase of the development of modern ordnance. Thero is no exag geration in it, either. When the pro posed system of fortifications is fin ished, should there ever bo an attack from tho sea only a few dozen officers and men would be whero they could 6ee tho attacking fleet at all. Almost all officers and men would be below bomb-proofs, in concrete, steel-lined gun-lifts or deep in vaulted mortar pits. Down there, whero nothing can bo seen except the huge breech blocks of the great guns and tho complicated machinery for moving them, the can non wil bo loaded, aimed, raised over the steel platod parapet and firod, and not a man will know what ho fired at or whether tho shot did any execu tion. The method by which this is ac complished is much more simple than would be expected from this state ment. It is this: Tho United States Engineer Corps has carefully plotted out on a map all tho channels and deep-water basins and holes around New York, aud then tho map has been covered with little squares, each of is numbered. Each square represents the "danger area" to a ship; shat is, a shot fired anywhere in would hit a vessel stationed there. Now suppose all tho different firts have their mor tar batteries, gntnlifts, etc., which have been designed for them, and an invad ing fleet is sighted approaching Sandy Hook. At once every gun's company is told oft to its station. The officer iu command of each gun has a table giving the numbers of the squares, and opposite each number to' lug him just what elevation and ' jut lateral direction ho must give his jannon in order to get the range. Each gun is conuected by telegraph with an observation tower, in which are the officers commanding operations to gether with signalmen and other as sistants. They aro all provided with range-finders and glasses, and the map with the numbered squares is spread out before them. As soon as thg positions of the ships cau be fixed, one of the officers begins to plot the course of the vessels on the chart. Finally, say one of tho ships passes into square No. 27, and it is de cided to fire at her when she gets into square No. 28. "Tick, tick," says the telegraph to all the grim, hidden men behind the grim, hidden guns. "Train guns on square No. 28." Around swing the guns, and tho of ficers olevate or depress them by aid of level and azimuth. All is ready. The observers in the towers have seen the doomed ship steam into square 28. "Ready !" soys the telegraph. Up goes the great twelve-inch gun on its disappearing carriage. Up flies the ten-inch rifle on its big gun lift. The dynamite guns and the mortars don't move. They aro already trained on the square because they fire at a great angle. The ship passes into the square. "Fire ["ticks the tolegraph. With a crash that shakes the earth flames burst from a dozen different points and the next instant a quarter of a hundred projectiles fall on the ship. The guns drop back behind their parapets and tho deafened, powder-blackened men clean them quickly and load again. They have nothing else to do. Thoy cannot tell what effect their fire has had. Thoy have seen nothing. Thoy can hear nothing unless shells from the ships fall on their gun pits and tear up the earth above them, trying to get at them. This is no more theory. It has been proved iu practice that with tho accuracy now absolutely attained by tho modern breeoh-loading, all-steel, rifled cannon and the all-stepl, rifled mortars, shot after shot canbedroppod into a spaoe less than that occupied by a modern ocean steamship. The mortars will be placed in bat teries of sixteen, consisting of groups of four, and the aggregate weight of the shells, if the sixteen bo fired at onco, would be 10,000 pounds, besides being filled with explosive charges. At a tost at a range of five and n half miles, ten consecutive shots all fell within a space 195 1-8 yards long and 8} yards wide, about the same space as that occupied by an ocean steamship. Thus, if an entire mortar battery, a twelvo-inoh and a ton-inoh gun, wore all fired together (naturally not a likely circumstance) ) 1,800 pounds of steel would fall in ono square. No battle-ship afloat would bo ablo to withstand this torriflo assault.—Now York World. Seeds 2000 year* old have been known to sprout. NO. 2. ADVERTISE RIGHT ALONG. When trade Is flush, and with a rush Largo orders to you come, •'You'll find it wise to advertise," And keep things on tho "hum." Whentradela poor don't close tho door; Tho rule is still the same : "You'll llnd It wl9o to ndvertise," And thoreby win fresh fame. Indeed 'tis true whato'er . ou do, This Is tho safest plan, "You'll lin 1 it wiso to ndvertlso" For then you lead the van. —Henry Morrill Warren. IlUifOU OF THE DAY. High society is often simply low so ciety in line raiment.—Albany Argus. St. Louis now having a depot, trains will probably Htop there for way pas sengers.—Chicago Mail. Teacher—"What is discretion?" Bad Boy—"Gittin' ovor th' fence first when ye call 'nothor feller named."— Puck. A soldier in summer camp making love to a pretty girl shows the pleas anter side of a courtmartial.—Phila delphia Tirno3. Tho Opposite: Jonos (facetiously) "Got a wife at last, eh?" Smith (sol emnly)— "No, my wife got a husband at last .'"--Vogue. Amy "How can I influance Charlio to propose?" Mablc "Get some one to toll him you'd bo sure to reject him."—Detroit Free Press. "It's all up with me," groaned Sky lite as he sank on tho eighth stairway endeavoring to reach his flat after a hard day's labor.—Boston Courier. Littlo drops o." water Sprinkled Into stocks Leave the gentle lamblet Qjlto bereft of rocks. —Philadelphia Life. The reason whypeoplo who see what thoy think are ghosts never grapplo with them is that they know it is dan gerous to hug a delusion. —Boston Transcript. Love for tho sea is felt when one leans over tho rail of a ship, looking out over the doep blue ocean, feeling ready to give up everything for it.— Texas Siftings. "They say Sphoftley was badly hit by that handsomo Miss Phlirtem the other night." "I'm not surprised. I saw her throw her eyes at him several times."—Buffalo Courier. Van Pelt —"Are you a believe' the theory that one should marry a wife his opposite in temperament?" Enpec—"Don't bother about that; they 'ro all opposite enough."—Puck. I rather think I'm getting old— I feel it in my bones : Aud girls who eallod mo Undo Boh Now call mo Mlstor Jones ! —Harper's Basar. A girl is perfectly justified in look' ing with suspicion oil a young mac who tries to convince her that diamond rings are no longer fashionable foren gagemeDt purposes. Merchant Trav eler. Judge—"Yon say your boy was kept in tho honso nights and read books. What books?" Father (of tho youthful accused) —" 'The Boy Ban dits of Bombay' series."--Boston Transcript. "Conductor," said tho weary com muter, "I wish you would open this window for me." "Oh, you do, do you?" returned tho conductor. "Do you take me for a 'strong man?' " Harper's Bazar. Maude— "Ob, ho wroto mo a lovely poem. It began, 'When yon would know why men go mad, go gazo into your mirror' " Bertha— "What bosh J Yon'ro not, so ugly as all that."—Pear son's Weekly. Wife—"Tho doctor says I will gain ten or fifteen pounds if I go away for a month. Cau't I go, dear?" Hus band— "Not much ! Why, not one of your gowns would fit you then."— New York Herald. Wylie (talking over college days) "Aud whatever beoamo of Duller, tho only follow iu the class who was al ways at tho foot ?" De Bigcjs—"Pro fessional chiropodist, the last I heard." —Buffalo Courier. Second Husband "You needn't prowl because I don't work. All your first husband did Wrt3 to whittle." Weary Wife—"Yes; but I always fonnd enough shavin ;s after ho got through to build tho fire iu tho morn ing."—Syracuso Post. "And what's your rca