IF SUN AND LOVE WERE DEA©. No rosy morn, no radiant noon, No purple glory in the West. , No dim twilight, no star?, no moon. Nothing but darkness, death and rt If only the sun were dead, sweetheart If on'y the sun were dta No tender word, no soft caress. No eyes would shine with love's sweet 2, No light, quick touch of t*u lerness Nothing oq earth wer* worth desire If only love were dead, sweetheart, If only love wera dea I. The sunlight fills the world with bloo*n, Bhow9 us the arch of sapphire skieo, The light of love disperses gloom, And makes of earth a paradise. Nor sun nor love is dead, sweetheart Nor sun nor love is dead. —Miller Turvis, in Womankini THE FROST-LILY. Ji' AJRNETTA J. HALLIDAV. MI D 8 O M AfER, Waka had come, i This is the great - ' est festival of the i year among the Norse peasantry, and in Vik, the cluster of little nestle in the bend John's Eve was kept with danc ing, and drinking and song. The old belief of the Noithmen, that those born near the sound of trany waters are endowed with natu gift of music, made the Vik iiddlert ought far and wide for the June me. ry-makings of St. John's fete; and bel re many houses in the little village the Wolmor fire burned brightly in token of the noisy betrothal within. Somewhat removed from the gayety ami revels of the night, the small white dwelling of old Liof Thure nes tled in the long grasses full of clover blooms, with a gravel pathed garden at one side, overflowing with old fash ioned pink and white rose trees ; and a long white fence at the other, leading ; down to a quay and the tossing green ' fjord, which looked violet black in the ihadows of the night. The family of Tlmre was an old on", and had lived in the same spot for gen erations, looking at the grand, gray, fir clad mountains and the wild, moss grown boulders, and listening to the wash of the great water against the little landing stage. The present oc cupants of the place where old Liof, who had never known a day's variation from his accustomed routine | in his life time; his six yel- j low-haired, strong-limbed sons, who looked like nothing so much as pictures of the old Norse Vikings; and the pride of her father's heart, sweet, im perious Clerda. the acknowledged beauty of Vik. who looked at him with her mother's eves and face, and spoke to him in the tones of the woman whose life had gone out eighteen years ago when she gave to her husband the girl baby for whom he had so longed. Oerda was wilful and spoiled and tantalizing. Her brothers had long lost all patience with her because she had laughed in the face of every honest fellow who would have married her, and because she loved many strange things that had no beauty to the sons of Liof Thure; the magpies, which are as much s part of Norse scenery as the invariable birches and pines; the blue gentianß of the snow-capped heights; i the yellow and white water-lilies of the Norwegian tarns, and the lady-ferns, I which the first cold snow-winds of win ter tinged with bright scarlet. She \ gave to the wind and the weather the love that should have been a husband s, and worshiped the swift, wild rain which made the moss and ferns so love ly, and the flushing of the waters and the brilliant heavens above them when the sun went down. She loved to paddle her boat idly about the shores of the fjord, watching the colors deepening in the sky, and the gloom which spreads itself over all nature as the day dies, when she should have been merrymak ing instead, with some Norst lover, after the fashion of her people. Of admirers, who would have will ingly become something dearer, she had had more than any other maiden in Vik. She was bright with an intel ligence for beyond the average Scandi navian girl, such as was that, of Hor berg, the peasant painter of Sweden. She loved nature with the unconscious ness of the Greek and the passion of the German ; but she was practical aud well skilled in thfc arts which attract a Norse husband. She could prepare the flesh of the reindeer most delic iously with cream, which is used so lavishly in Norwogian cookery ; she knew the concoction of each of the many cheeses beloved of the Scandinavian; phe could bake great round rye cakes a foot ami a half in diameter, and so flavor and dry them for the winter that they were like confection*; and the large attic chamber of her father's house was hung around with her wardrobe, most of which washer own handiwork—snow white wool aprons with brilliant red borders, linens, colored prints, em broidered bodices, deer-skin coats, snow shoes and winter boots; for Liof was a well to*do peasant, and had brought up his daughter in the belief that plenty of cleanliness in the matter of raimant elevated the Nor- i wegian woman above her Swedish 1 sister. But to-night there was no sound of joy from the white house so clo.se to the fjord. No light gleamed from the windows, and a hush seemed to have settled over the place, in marked con trast to the revels of the neighbor hood. Sweet-smelling odors of frag rant new-made hay filled the air, and a savage-looking cow, which wore a collar and a tinkling bell, was just wandering home from the far-off fields, and was the only sign of life about the Thure homestead. Old Liof had gone for a visit with two Norwegians just returned from a fifteen-years' sojourn in the Western States of America. They found old Norway very slow after the nervous bustle of the New World. The boys were making the most of their holiday, and had trudged away early in the morning, each bearing gifts to his sweetheart. Gerda had persistently refused to join in the pleasures of the festival of St. John, and had strayed out this delicious night, going from boulder to boulder, until she had clam- ■ bored nearly to the top of the moun tain through th 2 lichen, whortleberries ' and ferns. She had moped all day, said the great, rough brothers, Olaf and Bvn nnd Nils and Bruu and Rolf; while Jarl, the youngest and more nearly in sympathy with his sister, had watched her wistfully wheu she was among the red-currant bushes of the garden and whispered softly to his brothers: ".She , will never forget him!" One year before, upon this very St. John's eve. the little steamer j which came tri-weekly from the Norse capitol, bringing with it a breath of the great world, in the shape of tourists who found 1 fjord-traveling a charming novelty, j had stopped at the little quay nearest to Liot Thure's dwelling, late in the ; afternoon, when the purest of purple shadows were lying over the lake. | Gerda stood waiting for its arrival, ' and the mate handed to her a small parcel, which from its size and shape one could easily guess contained a 1 pair of new shoes. I "Great heavens, what a lovely girl!" ; exclaimed a voice in English as the I boat moved away, and, looking upward 1 at the steamer's tiny deck, Gerda saw a man whose dark eyes spoke to her plainly the sentiments which her Norse ear failed to comprehend. The superb fringes of her large, dark blue eyes drooped as she walked away. He was an artist and an American, of ' that she was sure, for he had had j sketch-book and pencil in hand, and | bore about him the general air of I assurance which characterizes the | American at home and abroad, i She had seen many of them i who had passed through Vik, I | finding a constant interest in the exquisite scenery of the fjord, aud the mountains of the waterfalls and ; the stretches of green slope, with the I hay stacked on the wooden fences to | dry; she smiled again the next after . noon when she turned her boat home- I ward after a long ramble, and reinem bered his toue and glance. The evening was coming on, and the J setting sun tinged the snow-tops a faint ' 1 pink, while the green grass on the j mountain-side was covered with white I duisies, like, a powder of pearls. Her boat was filled with harebells and purplish heath-plants and ferns and ! mignonette, and as she reached the ; small wooden bridge which stretched i across an arm of the fjord, she saw a ! stranger leaning upon the rail and ' watching her. It required no second glimpse to assure the Norse girl that it was he whose admiration of her had I been so outspoken upon the steamer ; the night before. In a moment he was | at her side. j "Let me help you," he exclaimed as | she gathered the boat's fragrant freight jin her arms, after making the tiny craft fast, and although the tongue i in which -he spoke was a stranger to her, she needed no dictionary to iu terpret liis actions as he walked home j ward beside her, and easily persuaded j j old Liof Thure to accommodate him as i a boarder. I He was a landscape-student from New Orleans, with dreams and a great am -5 bit ion, and he had come to paint the , wild beauties of the Norse scenery and ! the glinting sunshine which laughed ; through the tall, swaying pines. For six months he had lived in the family of Liof Thure, and had acquired enough of the Norwegian to tell them of the distant city of his birth, of his hopes, and his prospects ami his friends. Me had learned to listen with the keenest pleasure to the sweet voice of Gerda during the long days and even ings, when she explained to him the lore of her country aud the folk-tales jo• he North—of the castle of the pirate i Erik, and the three hunters turned to stone- of the mystery of the parsley bed ami the milk-white deer and the white worm of the witches; and how the spectre-cross in the en chanted garden frightened the Finnish I sorcerers. Gerda and he had taken ] long strolls together over the gray' mountains and the little green patches of held where peasant-girls in scarlet and blue were raking the grass; or they had wandered to the village at evening and watched the boats heaped high with hay coming in, or the fish ing-smacks gliding lazily out to sea; ami Gerda would tell the stranger how the rose-colored haresfoot was dyed with the blood of Charles XII. ; or of the black stork that built its nest among the anemones and dog-violets of the marshes; and how a stalk of j clover worn by a man was a sure charm against women with false complexions, hair and teeth; and the American) ; looking at the cheeks of his companion) which were dashed with a color richer than the freshest peach-bloom, had laughed and thrown away the trefoil IU his buttonhole as he told her in j broken Norse that.it was needless. And as the days went by, the idea of a picture which should show the beauty of Gerda to the world filled his brain, and the hours when she posed to him as a model passed too swiftly for them both. There was no word of love between them, but day by day the American *a\v the sweet womanliness of this Northern girl, the rich nature still un developed, though responsive with poignant feeling to each vibration of his own artistic soul, the spirit of true life, unfettered with the contractions and ceremonies of conventionality, a life high and wide, like the blue Scan dinavian heaven above ; he saw all this, he felt the inspiration of this continual contact with nature, and yet he did not tell her that his whole heart was hers, because of the elder brother across the sea, who wpuld have deemed it an un changeable blot upon many genera tions of financial prosperity, that the soleshnrer with himself of many Ameri can dollars should marry a Norse peas ant girl. Finally tha picture was completed. There was the wide fjord stretching out to the ocean with silence and solitude on its waves, which caught the blood red reflections of an angry sky. There was not a vessel in sight, and so well bad the artist caught the spirit of the scene that the slow, majestic sweep of the heaving rollers seemed to die out without breaking, and to give place to others, and against the gathering dark ness the exquisite slenderness of a wo man's figure stood clear cut upon the canvas. She wore a white skirt and white bodice, the dainty sleeves re vealing more than half of the round, dimpled arms, which hung down and J were clasped in front of her; from the white cap upon her head the great braids of pale-gold hair extended be low the waist line; the eyes, which were of the purple blueness of water of great depth, looked out ward over the wares, and the whole face expressed subdued force and 6weet seriousness. It was the portrait of a woman whosß heart knew not yet the thrill of love, but had experienced the sadness of home undefined longing. It was a matchless picture, a master piece of the artist's power ; and as he mixed his colors and labored over it, but one name seemed suitable to the American as he thought of Gerdl. 4 'So pure, so fresh, fo cold !" he had said to himself; and when obi Liof Thure first saw the painting and read the name of "The Frost Lily," he was quick to grasp its significance aud to realize what had prompted the stranger iu his house to call the gem of his Norse collection by the name of the most prized and the most unattaina ble of the Scandinavian flora. "It dies when they take it from the snow-bitten waters of its mountain tarns," thought the old man sadly. "Does he think to take her away from me to the country across the waters? The child would die in those great cit'es?" But he was wise in his way and said nothing, although he could have chosen for his Gerda one of the white-skinned, serpent-eyed North men of her own race. Brown eyes and hair aud beard did not accord with the Scandinavian ideas of free dom and manliness. When every detail of the picture had beeu made as p arfect as brush and colors aud the critical taste of the artist could render it, the American packed up his palettes and canvases, and bade good-by to the snug farm house where he had eaten and slept and worked for so many months. When he said farewell to Gerda, it was in the presence of her father and brothers; thera was a close quick pressure of the hand, and he had jumped into the sledge which was waiting to speed him over the frozen snow away from his love to the near est station of the continental trains. That WHS nearly half a year ago ; and through all the long months tidings had come from him but once, when he had sent a great medal of gold which the picture had taken in some famous exhibition, with the words, "Gerda, in remembrance of Ralph!" And it was upon all this that Gerda was thinking, this anniversary of their meeting, as she strayed aimlessly upon the mountain side, and listened to the merry voices singing upon the fjord below, or the rush of some mountain stream not fur from her feet. She paused a moment, and looking downward, taking oil her cap and pushing back the rebellious locks of ; thick, soft hair with which the breeze loved to play upon her temples. It was a quarter to ten, and only half darkness; there was a sweet, fresh smell of fir and pine wood, and whifls from the drying hay in the air, while the moon had risen, outlining the mountain shades in deep violet and black; the colored lights, red aud white and green, which the villagers were burning gleamed iu the soft dusk. As Gerda turned to descend the side, a little boat darted out from the shadows of the fjord, and rowed swift ly through the long path of silver light v *>icli the moon rays threw upon the waters. The road down the moun tain so wound about it at intervals it commanded a view of the fjord, so Gerda saw the boat near the shore afc ] she herelf approached the valley. To the rower she paid little hoed, simply j noting that ho wore the holiday cos tume of the Norse peasant, in scarlet ! and brown. As the boat shot under the bridge, toward the pier, the man looked up ward with a glad cry. "Gerda!" said he, "Gerda, don't you know me?" As the keel rasped upon the shore, ho leaped from the boat aud held his two hands out for hers. "Dear-Eyes," he exclaimed in .'lie Norse love words, "Do you love me?" And what did Dear-Eyes do but nestle with a great throb of content . against his heart! I "I have come straight from New | Orleans to you," he cried. "It is one year ago to-night since I first saw you, and I could not stay away another day. I stopped yester day to buy this costume which is to be mine in the future, Gerda, and then I came on to you, sweet heart, to be with you always if you ; will hav w me." He paused an instant. to press her head to his shoulder ten derly before he continued: "I could not ask you to leave everything that has made you what you are, and go across the seas with me. There is nothing about you that I would change for the world, and so I am come to you, Gerda. When we are married, we will live right here in this pure air and amid all this grand scenery ; our life shall be the same simple, primitive one that has made you the woman I love. I am a Norseman hereafter foi your sake!" Gerda looked into his eyes with rap turous fondness. The moon hung in the dark blue ether, like a round shield over woods and hills and waters, flood* ing the mountain path with ghostly shadows and silvery light, and as the soft beams fell npon her and ethereal ized her beauty, the American held hei to him in an ecstasy of tenderness. "Have you nothing to ask me, Dear- Eyes?" he murmured, as he pressed his cheek against hers. "Have you nothing to ask me of the home 01 friends or family I have left?" "No," answered Gerda, "I hava you, and I love you so that there is no room for any other interest in my heart!" Life's goldon paradise opened for them, and unquestioning and content they entered in.—Romance. WISE WORDS. Dollars are delightful. The morning is tho tonic of the day. Every smile chases a wrinkle away. Pleasure is time ; happiness is etern ity Most people don't know wliy they marry. A fool and a fast horse are soon parted. A flower has nothing to do hut look pretty and he sweet. Before saying an unkind thing ol one think how you would like to have it said of you. Talebearers and talebearers are alike guilty; the one hath devil in his tongue, the other in his ear. Circumstances form the character, hut like petrifying waters, they too often harden while they form. To have given pleasure or benefit to even one humau being, is a recollec tion that may well sweeten life. The beloved of the Almighty are thj rieh who have the humility of the poor, aud the poor who have the mag* uanimity of the rich. These two things, contradictory aa J they may seem, must go together manly dependence and manly inde pendence, manly reliance and manly self-reliance. They who provide much wealth for their children, but neglect to improve them iu Tirtue, do like those who feed their horses high, but never train them to character and success. "To be employed," said tho poet Gray, "is to be happy." "It is I letter to wear out than rust out," said Bishop Cumberland. "Have we not all eternity to rest in?" exclaimed Ar unuld. Too Many Dogs. Tin Savannah News says that the : papers of Georgia anil of the neighbor ; States are up in arms against sheep-killing dogs, and are clamoring for some efficient legislation on the subject. "There is no doubt," it says, "that a plague of worthless dogs exists all over the South, to the detriment of everybody, even their owners. But how are they to be got rid of? Nine men in ten who own dogs, no matter how worthless, will fight for them, and there have been numbers of tragedies brought about through the kicking or shooting of a dog too mean and worth less to let live. The plan of taxing worthless dogs out of existence has been tried in the South ami found wanting. The people who own dogs will not endure such a tax. They guard their right to own dogs as jeal ously as the right to own horses and land, and the candidate for the Legis lature who would let it he known that he was an enemy of hounds would hardly secure an election. Then how are they to ho reached? The man who solves the problem satisfactorily will bo a benefactor to the South. For there aro in Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi thousands of acres of pasture lands that could, and would, lie devoted to sheep raising, if the dogs were removed. Until they are put out of the way tho wool industry will not amount to much in either State."—New Orlcaus Picayune. Welding by Electricity. Two Belgians have discovered a mi .hod of welding by electricity which will he of immense use in the arts. Electricity forced into water separates it into its component parts, hydogen and oxygen. A glass jar with a leaden lining is connected with a conductor of positive electrioitv. A pair ol tongues connected with a negative pole and having insulated handles is used to take up a bar of iron, for instaneo, and put tho end in water. The oxygen is forced to the leaden lining while the hydrogen collects about the submerged metal, which quickly produces an intense hoat. The j hydrogen, being a poor conductor, ; offers intense resistance to the cur rent, and this generates the heat. It is shown the most refractory ores con be fused by this process, and as it is possible to produce in this way large crystals of carbon, diamonds, rubbies, and sapphires may bo made by the ■ process in any quantity desired.- Chicago Times. A copy of the first dictionary, made by Chinese scholars in the year 1109 B. C., is still preserved among the archives of the Celestials SCIENTIFIC MARVELS. BIQHTB IN THE HUGE TRANS PORTATION BUILDING. Bewildering In Ita Variety- Exhibit. Rep resenting: Marine and Railway Locomo tion In All Stages of Evolution —Ship Models from England# Railway Exhibit. The display inside the Transporta tion Building at the Columbian Expo sition is bewildering in its range and variety. The whole history of trans portation, from birch-bark canoes to steamships, and from pack horses to palace cars, is unfolded in a manner never to be forgotten. Looking down from the galleries upon the acres and acres of exhibits, one sees a monster black steam hammer for forging armor plates which towers above the second story, a row of famous locomotives fac ing out from tho annex like a herd of elephants, a full section of a colossal ocean steamship, and scattered about here and there, thousands of objects that toll the story of how man has gradually annihilated space. The invention and development of the locomotive and railway system is the nineteenth century wonder. Less than sixty-eigfht years since the first passenger railway ran its first crude train. Now the great civilizor has penetrated evory country. About ten acres of ground floor space are devoted exclusively to exhibits pertaining to railway construction, equipment, ope ration, management and development. Blxty-four modern locomotives of all types and sizes from the two one-hun dred ton Decapod engines which stand on the pedestals between the Adminis tration Building and the railway sta tion to the five ton logging locomotives for use in the forests of Michigan. All the leading makers exhibit one or w. A SUITB, cnisr or TRANSPORTATION. moro modern locomotives, some being raised from the rails und showing the machinery In oporation by compressed air. Besides those there are a seore or more of magnificently equipped coach es and thirty-five freight cars, em bracing every varioty, by the leading builders In the country. Among the other attractions are two Leslie rotary snow plows, a contrifu gal snow excavator and a liussell snow plow, fourteen steam shovels and a locomotive traveling crane, a light and heat tender of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, and the dynamometer of the Chicago, Bur lington and Quincy road. All tliis rep resents steam transportation as it is now, but tho most fascinating part of the railway show—more so even than the mighty engines and the solid mahogany train from Canada—is the dlspluy (if relics, models, old engines and cars and specimons of tho quaint roadways of earlier days. It is the first time that such a work has been undertaken, and Mr. T. Hackworth, of the railway de partment, has gathered a oomplote historical collection. For instance, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has for more than a year past been making ex tensive preparations for its historical exhibit, which includes about thirty full size wooden models of the earliest locomotives built in this country and In England, with samples of original tracks. Three of tho Grasshopper tyi>e of engine, the old locomotives "Sam son" and "Albion," built in England and shippod to Nova Scotia in 1838, and other specimens of the very early lo comotivos are among the attractions. The models are all to be shown with machinery in operation. That is one of the delightful things about the sec tion. Now comes tho Chicago and North western Railway with the "Pioneer," built in 1835 by the Baldwin Locomo tive Works, the fourth engine built by that firm. The Pioneer came to Chi oago in 1848 and was the first locomo tive to penetrate so far West. This engine ran on the old Galena Road, now n portion of the Chicago and Northwestern system, and it actually steamed into tho Exposition grounds a few weolts ago. A little further on the Old Colony Railroad exhibit their first engine, the "Daniel Nason," and the first coach that ran between Boston and Providence, nnd there, byway of MODEL OP SANTA HAKIA IN TRANSPORTA u i BUiuniNa oontrast, stand alongside of the lateßt Old Colony engine and coach. One of the most famous objocts in the neigh borhood is the seven-foot gauge loco motive "Lord of the Isles, "belonging to tho Great Western Railway J if England originally shown at the" first great exposition in 1851 in London. It ran until 1882, when tho chango to the standard gauge laid her up. She was one of a class of engines designed by Brunell for high speed betwoon Lon don and Bristol, and has made seventy five miles an hour. Engineers will look at this giant with affection. The London and Northwestern show Trevi thick's engine of 1802 and the "Rocket" I of 1829 in full-sized wooden models. An 1 opportunity is here offered for com parison, as the Baltimore and Ohio exhibit models of the same engine. SECTION or STEAMSni'*, IN TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT. Here the New York Central Company shows the original "De Witt Clinton on the strap rails of 1833, and there the Illinois Central Company shows the "Mississippi," built in England in 1836 for the Natchez and Mississippi, now a portion of the Illinois Central Railroad. The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis exhibit the historic engino, "General," captured by the Andrews raiders on the Western and Atlantio Railroad in 1862. The Marine Kxhlblt. In no previous merino exhibit hes the question of transportation on water ever been treated as a subject, but in this department is shown not only the triumphs of naval architecture, as il lustrated by the modern ocean grey hound and battle ship, but also strange and curious craft from semi-civilized and barbarous tribes, showing how they solved problems of transportation by taking advantage of the materials on hand, whether of bark or logs of wood or skins of animals. Thero is a complete exhibit from Alaska und the Aleutian Islands, consisting of two hatch bydarka, with complete hunting outfits, and from tho sea coast of Nor ton Sound a hatch bydarka, with the full outfit used in both hunting and fishing: birch bark canoes from tho Upper Yukon River; sleds, dogs' har ness and all that goes with them. The Hudson Hay country shows all tho methods of water transportation known in that country. Prom Southwest Alaska or Queen Charlotte's Island are a tingit canoe and a large dugout and haida cunoo. From Aus tralia comos an interesting canoe made from a single shoot of what is commonly known as the gum-topped iron bark or mountain ash (Eucalyptus Sioboriana), tho ends being tied up. China is represented by models of every boat used on Chinese waters, both sea coast and inland. These boats, although the architecture seems to be grotesque, have many peculiar points, such as the movable rudder and the fashion of at taching tho sheet to the sail, making it possible to draw the surface very flat. A catamaran is shown that has carried the mail between Ceylon for a number of years, as well as one of tho cele brated outrigger canoes. Mediterra nean craft are represented by the Turk ish caique: daigsn, of Malta; gondolas, of Venice, and peculiar lateen boats, as well as the chizzoto and the bragozzlo CUINSBF. TIXANSrOHTATIOIf IXnilllT. of tho Adriatic. And there are pecu liar canoes from tho west coast cf Africa as well as tho himha, a curious development of the cutamaran, which is used in the interior waters. From South America comos the Jangada, a balsa shaped boat used in the vicinity of Pornambuco; a war canoe from tho Amazon; the cascarra, made from a single piece of bark and entire ly unlike all birch bark canoes, from the Orinoco. Thore are also slender and swift dugouts from the same lo cality; balsas from I.ako Titcaca, made of straw and bound togother by wisps —tho only method of water conveyance known to the people of that region. Hero you find Dungos, curious shaped canoes from the Isthmus of Pnnama, and many others quite as interesting. Of course the North American In dian and his birch bark canoe are fea tures not only in this building, but also in tho south pond, with the Indian himself paddling. Groat Britain's principal shipbuild ing firms have sent a magnificent col lection of models of all kinds. The period of iron ship building is well rep resented, both in the models of passen ger and froight steamers as well as In the collection of British men-of-war. Unfortunately tho period after the restoration of Charles 11. and through tho Napoleonic wars is not included, for with mod.els of the great three docked sailing battleships which were for so many yoars England's bulwark of strength, the history of the navy would bo reasonably complete. At tho same time Spain sends the treasures of the Royal Museum and the models of the Invincible Armada, so that the Bhips of tho time of the famous battle will bo shown. The Thames Iron Works A Ship Building Company trace the development of the ironclad in the British navy by means of models. The Warrior was.tlie first war vessel built of iron. She was 380 feet long and was protected with 41 Inches of armor, whicn was sufficient in 1860 to resist a 68-pound solid shot, tho maximum of that day. Her ends were unprotected and consequently her steering gear was muob exposed. The Minotaur rep resented the next ship of the warrlojt size, fully rigged and armored. The Benbow, 10,600 tons displacement, 1,600 horse power, draught of water, 28; speed, 14 knots; 18 inohes of armor; armed with 10-ton guns, 10 6-lnoh, 6- ton, 15* quick-firing guns. Then oome the Grafton, a first-class steel cruiser, 1,350 tons, 12 horse power, 360 feet long, armament nine 2-inch 22-ton breech-loading rifles, ton 6-inch qulok flring guns, twelve 6-pounder quiok flring guns, four 3-pounder quick-firing guns, speed 19 knots; Bans Pareil, ar mored ship, 10,470 tons displacement, Indicated horse power 14,(XX), draught of water 21 feet, speed 17 knots, arma ment largest guns, two 11-ton breech loading rifles. And so on through the list. In tho morchant marine section tho Cunard Steamship Company shows models of the Umbria, Etrurla (8,006 tons), and tho new ships built and en gined In 1892, while the royal mall service botwoon England and South Africa is shown by Donald, Currie A Co. The Laird Brothers, of Birken head, exhibit a collection of models and pictures illustrating tho progress of iron shipbuilding from 1834 to the present time—paddle steamers, screw steamers, and a full line of modols. A striking feature has been furnished by the International Navigation Com pany, which built on the main oourt a section of one of their new steamers. Imagine the longitudinal and transverse section of a ship abaft the smokestack 69 feet long and 38.6 in beam. The in terior fittings, furnishings, and decor ation will be tho same as used on the magnificent steamers on that line. This is the most interesting exhibit, showing fully the facilities of these vessels for the comfort of ocean travel. Wheeled Vehicles of Every Kind. But if railways and ships are inter esting. what is to bo said of the wheeled vehicles? The floor space occupied by this division embraces 130,000 square foot, and it is all fitted up with wood carpet in white oak Btrips, laid out in handsome patterns and finished in oil. Each space is surrounded with hand some ornamental brass railing and posts. This exhibit occupies tho entire north ond of the main building and the annex nnd about one-half of the north gallery in tho main building. On the first floor are oxhiblted carriages, wagons, and vehicles of every dosorlp tion. In tho gallery are displayed bi cycles, carriage ana wagon hardware and saddlery goods. Thore is a histor ical array of vohicles, saddlery goods, and bicyclos. An effort has been made to show the evolution of these indus tries from their primitive originß down to the present time. For this purpose a largo collection has been made by Chief Smith in foreign lands, from the ancient chariot that antedates Christ to the latest thing out. In modern carriages there is every thing, from a baby carriage up to the finest carriage that has been built, Some of these vohicles cost $10,006 oach, and are really works of art. For eign countries contribute to this divis ion, France having sent fifty carriagol from her bost builders. Austria sent eighteen carriages from six of her besf manufacturers. England and Germany also make largo exhibits, so that ths industry of both continents is well rep resented. In the foreign collection ol historical exhibits from London is I Lord Mayor's state coach, a drag thai belonged to the Prince of Wales, and an old chariot. A sedan chair from Colombia stands beside one from Tur key, and near by are a jinrikisha from Japun, a carriage once owned by Presi dent Polk, and tho coach of Daniel Webster, bought in 1808. In the sad dlery department a display of Baddies, bits, stirrups, and trappings of the six teenth and seventeenth centuries, col lected throughout Europe, lnoludlng s pair of silver spurs taken from the feel of Sir Thomas Picton when he wai killed in tho buttle of Waterloo. In ths bicycle division there is presented as extraordinary display. The fittlngi alone cost more than SIOO,OOO. and some of the pavilions cost exhibitors from SIO,OOO to $12,000 each. There is dis played in this exhibit not only ths finest bicycle that has ever been pro ducod up to the present time but bi cyclos representing wheels that date back to the first machine built, show ing tho complete evolution of the in dustry. BEFORE COLUMBUS LANDED. A City Built Before America Was Die covered. There Is now In Texas a people who e: n traee their ancestry back hundre It of years, who are descended lrom ths Aztecs and whose principal city wai built when Columbus landed on Ameri ca's shores. This people is the Tihual and their city Is called Ysleta. They claim to have come to their piesenl home from the Colorado Blver of the Vest. This people becamo mighty In ths land berore the lan ling of the Span lards. They had conquered the Co manchis and the Apaches were theli slaves. The explanation as to why they gave up so easily to Spanish rule Is In ilself Interesting, and Is based on an ancient legend of the Aztecs, whlob decendcd to the llhuus. Cuetzalcoatl was the Azteo god of air. His functions wire those of a priest. Many of his teaoblngs, as de scribed by the Azteos, closely lesemb'.e the doctrines of the Christian religion. Cuet'.nlcoatl taught tho art of working silver. He educated ths Aztecs In agr culture, trained them in the weaving of cloth, gave them a form ol worship end Inculcated the idea ol mnk ng eaorith es only of flowers. And when the god had thus I nlshed his work ho eaTed eastward on a laft of snakes, promising to le urn some time. Vhen the Span a-ds lamie I their cross-eiu. blaioned banners, their religious rus lons and the r manners brought back the memory of the go lof air. The na tives were sure that ( uetzalcoatl ha) co i e again. They made haste to wel come. Tl ey submitted to Spanish domination until It grew tyrannical. ( o; lez got In his cruel work before ths m stu e was discovered. Ths derivation of the name "Texas* has long been a mystery. Why could It not have come from the name of this people? -In the ancient spelling and pronunciation "x* Is Interchangeable with "hu." With this borne in mind II Is not difficult to see a close relation ship between Tihuas, pronounced Te waus, and Texas. "Young Hustlb didn't succeed very well as editor of that religious weeckly, did ho?" "Not very; tho first thing he did was to start a vot ing contest to see who was the most popular sexton."—Buffalo Express.
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