A GOOD NIGHT CARESS. A llttio sbinlng ring 11ci in m 7 hand. Not gold, nor starrc.l with ge:ua, but jus instead, A precious of sunny yellow hair Cut from my darling's he id. IWhct art thou like, without thy frnmo of light The aureole that made thy little faco (Like to the cherub faces which in Heaven Are found in fairest place? How many times I've stooped to kiss and bless The fairest little head in all iny world! To-night I bow my own with silent tears, And kiss one little curL Robbed of thy crown, thou'rt still my llttli king. To whom I tend In worship, praying yet That the most Kingly (liver I may not In love for thee forget What thou hast been to mo, my little lad. Of sunshine and of bloom in darkest days. Only the Father knows, who plants some flower Along life's roughest ways. Out of my arms, far out beyond my reach, dhe swift years bear thee, but my yearning heart Can never make of lifo a blosscd thing From thee, dear boy, apart. Till life's last day. thy tender, winsome face, Set with the blue and :,hine of heavenly skies, And sweet with childish graces, will romiln Pictured before my eyes. God keep thee, bless thee, love thco. little lad! I cannot fold theo always, safo from harm: Give him. dear Shepherd, through life's v.eary The shelter of Thine arm. Sharp griefs will come, and tears, unlike to these That make thy sweet eyes lovelier as ibey fall. Will dim thy sight and furrow thy fair check; Such tears must come to all. But thou, my lad, bo victor over all Life's sharp temptations and its blttcre t pain. And bravely learn that earthly loss may mean To thco Heaven's highest gain Again, God bless thee, oh, my llttio lad: I bend once more to kiss this shining tress, And give my love, unmeasured and untold, With this gooU-nlglit caress. Youth's Companion IvULPARKEIt'S BALLOON. DV LUKE 81IARP. Some time in Ids life every man in vents a flying machine, end it, is well if he gets safely through this mania w hiln lie is yet a boy. If the fever takes hint later in life lie is certain to lose money und reasonably sure of breaking his neck. It is said that there is no law to prevent a man making a fool of hiin teelf, but in this case there is, and it is the law of gravity, which was passed previous to the time this country tool; to making statutes, and it has never been interfered with bv legislative amendments,nor lias it been overturned by the action of a higher court, except, perhaps, 111 the ease of l.iijah. Most men who go in for ballooning take a tumble before they get through with it, but Kulparker came todisa. tcr through remaining on the ground, which was a unique experience in the aerial business. I met Kulparker at a health resort. ll** was there, he said, for liis nerves, llis nerves had gone back on him. lie read to me an article from Smiiev's Microscopical Journal, which article said that if you killed a bundle of nerves and then got them to die, you could see them through any well-regulated microscope. It was evident that Kulparker was now a much interested in the subject of nerves as lie had formerly been in bal loons. "My nerves went wrong a few weeks, ago," he told me, "and by the irony of fate the doctor informed me that J should go to Malaga in Spain and that place would put me all right." "Why the irony of fate?" 1 asked; "and why didn't you go to Malaga in stead of coming to tins place?" He sighed and said it was nil on ac count of the Kulparker automatic bal loon. When he said this I was in the unenviable position of the questioner who wanted to know how the other man lost his leg, and was informed that it had been bitten oiT. I naturally wanted to hear about the balloon, and Kulparker was good enough to oblige lue, the account lie gave being at once an explanation of how he lost his nerve and why lie dared not go to Malaga. Some ine-i. Invent flying machines merely because they want to fly; oth ers, however, have humanitarian ob jects in view, desiring to confer great benefits upon their fellow beings. Kul parker belonged to the lattercla lb not only w anted to bestow lasting b efits, but also dynamite, upon his fel low creatures. It would be a little rough 011 humanity at the beginning— even Kulparker admitted this—but, as it would ultimately abolish war, lie thought the experiment worth trying as long us 1 lie dynamite did not fall on his own head. Inventors arc some what prone, while benefiting the spe cies, to take good (tare that they do not themselves come in for any of the dis advantages. Sucli was Kulparker's in tention, but it missed fire The Kulparker automatic was \< r . much like other balloons except that it had a propeller attached which vas worked by compressed air. The com pressed air scheme was very ingenious, if I understand it aright. If v. hat Kul parker says is true you can, with proper machinery, compress something like a continent of air into the size of a drop of water. This drop you can put into a strong but light aluminum boll -r, rf 1 may cull it so, and the drop expands into a workable compressed air that will run a motor. If, therefore, you have a bottle full of drops of com pressed air, and nn automatic arrange ment that will allow a drop to escape into the boiler as needed, you have at your disposal a tremendous amount of energy stored in small compass and of comparatively no w eight at all, which is very desirable when you an dealing with a balloon. The motor worked the fan which s nt the balloon in any given direction. So much ' • the motive power. The armament sted of n tube through which wits . ped ;t satisfactory in tervals rog .1 by a clock-work mech- aii?* m, u dynamite cartridge which ex plod id when it hit the earth. The bal loon, when fully loaded, contained iifty dynamite cartridges, and Kulparlcerk idea was that the balloon eouhi be sent in any direction high above an army, dropping dynamite down upon Ihe troops from its elevation above rifle .shot, thus bringing discomfort, confu sion, and perhaps annihilation,upon the enemy. Kulparker believed that the moment his balloon got a fair innings upon any warlike body of men, 110 coun try would, after the trial, open hostili ties against any other nation. Tims war, and also the first army on which the balloon opened out, would be blotted from the face of the earth, j After much experimenting, Kulpar ker at last had a successful trial of his ; automatic balloon in the open country sonie distance west of New York, lie u.sed wooden pities instead of dynamite cartridges, and they came down all right at. the proper intervals, although they nearly sacrificed several industrious farmers who did not know what strimk them, and who vainly searched for the mischievous boys whom the indignant agriculturist thought were throwing the blocks of wood. I'nfortunately, at the time the auto matic balloon was completed there war no really first-class war going on, and Killparker knew of no people, tired of life, who wished to luive the balloon tried upon them. The China-Japan struggle had been brought to a close without the aid of the automatic, and Europe was in a stateof profound peace. However, it is hard to discourage a real inventor, so Kulparker took a glance over the universe, and realised that although it was but a one-horse affair at the best, the Cuban rebellion offered liim the only chance of a satisfactory test for the balloon. His sympathies were with the rebels, as all our sym pathies are, and so he opened commu nications witli the Cuban revolt com mittee in New York. He saw there a most polished gentleman, May Kotan zes, who listened with interest to what Kulparker had to say. The inventor wanted twenty thousand dollars for his patent and the sample ballooon. Maj. Kotanzes said he would gladly pay double, provided the balloon did all that was claimed for it. If, therefore, Mr. Kulpnrker would go to Cuba with his balloon and wipe out a Spanish corps or two the money would be promptly paid to him, and th v would finish u}) the rebellion in brilliant style with the patent automatic. Kulparker demurred at this. lie had no desire to visit Cuba at that moment. There was danger of being captured by a Spanish cruiser before they reached the land, and in that ease, with the bal loon and dynamite in his possession, Kulparker did not rightly see what ex cuse lie could make to the Spanish gov ernment. The major blandly pointed out that the Spanish cruisers occupied them selves with capturing innocent mer chant vessels of numerous neutral na tions, thus keeping the government at Madrid busy apologizing, but that they had never hit upon a real lilibuster ii g schooner, and that the rebels up to date had had 110 trouble in landing all the munitions of war they wanted. If the revolt committee sent over the bal loon without anyone to work it who understood its habits and customs, the trial would doubtless be a failure, and so no good would accrue to anybody, while tlie Spanish troops, who sadly needed amusements on the desolate plains, would he deprived of the fire works displayed which would brings ? much excite merit into their camp, and, by blowing them up with dynamite, prevent their dying of ennui or fever. The committee were willing to pay Kulparker's expenses to Cuba und back, and, in the event of success, to give him, in cash, double what he asked, which offer, the major politely insisted, was ail that any reasonable man could ask. If wars had been plentiful, it is doubt ful that Kulparker would have gone to Cuba, but, as every one knows, they were deplorably scarce, so it was that, or nothing. Kulparker was put aboard a lugger from a deserted sand dune In Florida, to retlier with his balloon and about one thousand rounds of dynamite car tridges. It was an anxious voyage, he knowing that there was sucli a quantity of sensitive explosive stuff in the hold, but the major proved to have been right about what he said of the vigilance of the Spanish cruisers. The lugger landed without molestation in a little cove on the island, and scouts were sent out to find the whereabouts of the rebel army, or some part of it. At last the deadly apparatus was loaded on mules, and thus they made for the hills, where information had been re ceived that Hen. Cararubo and his men v.iiv stationed. Carambo was not in good humor when the outfit arrived, lie had just had a brush with'the Span iards, w ho were encamped in the valley, und, although both sides had tele graphed to the world at large that each had achhieved a great victory, Hen. Carambo did not appear satisfied with the result ai d had taken to the hills, while the Spaniards were busy coii tiacting yellow fever in the valley. Wlu.li (ion. Carambo found that the commit tee had sent him a new-fangled balloon and a tenderfoot to work it, when what he wanted win something to di'ink, he made no at tempt to conceal his anger.* Tie wanted gunpowder, not dynamite;, in fact, he had never heard of dynamite before. It dll not need (a ram bo's anger to frighten Kulparker. He was already nearly scared to death at the company he found himself in. They seemed to him a ragged, unkempt assortment of colored brigands; even the general him self had 110 boots on, and the villainous looking guns with which they were nrined added to their terrifying ap pea ranee. (Jen. Carambo curtly ordered him to get his hag of tricks in working order j 'ii.d h t him S' c what there was in it, | var.iii.g him at the same time if there v 'ah any skullduggery about it Kul- pat her would be instantly shot, and the general would do himself the happiness of apologizing to the Hinted States for the action later on. With trembling hands Kulparker got his gas maenine lu operation and inflated the balloon, ahile the rebels looked on with scarce ty-di gu: • d contempt. At last the bal loon arose with the fan whirling and moved against a light zephyr toward the Spanish camp, its uufortunate in ventor watched it with intense interest, for lie felt that his life depended upon its actions. "How soon will it begin to shoot?" asked (Jen. Carambo. "It ought to begin in about ten min utes." said Kulparker, looking at liis watch. "Very well. If it doesn't commence then, we will," replied the general, om inously. "We are not here to be trifled with." To inspire confidence in the invent or's mind the rebel general ordered a file of Ids to cover Kulparker with their guns and to fire when he gave the order. Much as the unlucky scientist wished for an adequate test for his balloon, be did not yearn for it under these conditions, and it is prob ably the only case on record where a man on the solid earth was in more danger than if he had been up in the Hying machine. Kulparker watched his invention with much anxiety, and it soon became evident that it was at tracting attention from the Spaniards unnerm nth. full's of smoke were seen in Ihe valley below. They were firing at it. Ail at once Kulparker saw something drop from the balloon. It could not be a cartridge, for tiie balloon was not due to begin firing; besides, he could not have seen a cartridge drop at that distance. It came fluttering down very slowly and once as it overturned in tin air he 1 calizcd that it was the fan which propelled the automatic. A rifle bullet had doubtless deranged the machinery and the fan had whirred itself oil. The balloon hung motionless in midair for a moment, then slowly the light wind began to drive it back over the rebel camp. Kulparker's hair began to bristle with the horror of the situation, lie was between two fires, for if the bal loon began to drop dynamite he would 11111 an excellent chance of being blown to pieces, while the moment Carambo noticed that it was returning, the suspicious wretch would see a plot in the whole scheme, and would order hi:; prisoner shot. Hen. Carambo had taken Kulparker's watch on the pica that he had none and wished to time the firing. The inventor did not expect to have his watch re turned, and subsequent events justi fied this suspicion, but he now looked anxiously at the general, who wa. busy si inlying the face of the watch, wonder ing what would happen w hen he turned his gaze upwards and saw the balloon returning. The automatic opened the ball by going into business on itsown account. A shell dropped from it struck about half a mile down the hill. The-explos ion was terrific and startled the wlioh c amp.. Carambo slipped the watch ii. his pocket with an oath and it was onh a few minutes before he took in tin s nation. The second shell dropped perceptibly nearer and rent the rock some distance below them. "It is a plot," yelled the general. "IK is a minion of the Spaniards, as i thought from the first. Shoot the low scoundrel. Attention! l-'ire!!" The balloon answered his command, hut not the soldier*. They, frozen with terror, were watching the approach of Ihe aerial monster, which was steadily dropping bombs and raising consecu tive earthquakes, with the accurate 1 nit he ci idea! eeision of a minute gun "Shoot, do you l.tar!" shouted Ca rambo. The la 11 tremulously raised their curbim s, I nt the balloon got it work in fir t. The dynamite struck wit..in a few hundred yards of win;, they stood, and tin* concussion knocked (lor. 11 more of Ivqund and sent panii and f'vitig rock anion •st the rest, ('a rnrnho v: stunned by a stone. Kul parker lui l flung himself dice down oi. Me md and spent an eternity of wild ■cm-* wv. dming whether Iv would ].• struck first by the bullets oi tin brigands or the dynamite hiitinr h:in in the r null of the back, for the •on seemed directly overhead. As he t urncd over a 'her the crash he rolled down the lull for some di. tnnce, and there he flatters himself he lost hit s: n-. s with Fa tumble, although 1 don't thhik he had any too much sens w hen Iw undertook to invent such a* idioFc contii'. nc as tic automata balloon. The '• -dloon floated gent); r t :.<• n. ran, and i. i to be hoped ii the interest of the mercantile com inerce of the world that the dyr.amib bonis are nil sj.v nt. There are dan s en*"" g!< ; t i ca as it is, without a irresponslk-o gas bag dropping shell mu ::,u ci dl• on a \<-ssel's deck fror. an ait it tide of half a mile. Fuij aria r manage:! to work his war l ack to the coast, win*re 110 got int his lugger ; rain, and the crew, no ho wing what had haoymcd, l:.nd:< him according to instructions on tie Fiurida sands once more. The Spanish government has math n rcqaisi; ion for the body of Kulparker whether the body is dead or alive. Th Fi.ited States began smirching for him and so he thought it he I to take a trip to Kll rope and wait lill his balloon rolh by. This i( com w about that Kulpoi korh nerves have nil ' me wror°\ and tha. he dare not go to Malaga, in Si ain.tr have th in put right again.—Detroit Free Press. —They have a good joke just at pres ent on a well-known lawyer who i noted for bis absent-mindedness. 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