Wan Growing Shorter. With the exception of the Franco. Prussian war, the greatest war which Europe lias seen skico the days of Na. polean was the Crlmeam war, which took place more than forty years ugo and lasted about two years. The cam palgus of Napoleon,of course,while thej wer considered short as compared with some previous wars in Europe, were certainly long as comiiared with the wars of the past few decades. A distinct movement in the direction ol the shorter duration of wars Is to b noticed in the past few centuries. The campaign In the Spanish Neither lauds lasted forty-two years. Then followed the thirty-years' Mar in Eu rope. ending la the jieace of West phalia. Civil war In England lasted from 1642 to 1660, although hostili ties were not in progress all that time The wars of the Spanish Succession, of thu Austrian Succession, the Swed ish-Russian war. and the Seven Years' war followed, averaging aboul ten years apiece. The Napoleonic cam paigns covered nearly lifteem yeara The Crimean war lasted from 1854 to 1856. In the war of the rebellion, la tills country, the world saw the luteal Mar which extended over four years oi time. Since 1865, with the general introduc tion of the telegraph, the electric cable, and the modern system of railways war lias become a matter of a fen months at most. In 1866 Prussia de featcd Austria in seven weeks. Prus sia defeated France in about twc months. The MOT betu-eem Russia and Turkey began in April, 1877, and was practically finished by the close of that year. The war between China and Jn pan began about midsummer, 1804, and ended in March, 1805. The present wai between Turkey nnd Greece seems to be practically ended in about foul M'eeks from the outbreak of formal hos tilities. It seems to be shown by expe rience that two important civilized na tions In these days of telegraph and railway cannot conduct wars for any length of time unless the contending countries are separated by the ocean or aome other natural barrier. Why Smokestacks Escape Lightning Statistics show that of 10,000 smoke stacks only three are struck by light ntng each year, while of 10,000 church spires sixty-seven, and of 10,000 wind mills eighty-nine are struck by light niug annually. An endeavor has been made to explain this condition by the fact that the smoke discharged from the smokestacks takes the electricity assembled around the building along and distributes it in the air, whereby the source of attraction for the electrlo spark of lightning is not only dimin ished, but almost disappears. Tills fuct also explains, It is said, why peo ple iu the country kindle a large lire lu the fireplace when a thunderstorm is approaching. 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He saw an airy dragon fly Float o'er the meadow rail. "JTay, stop, Sir Dragonfly!" lie cried. "So upside down you sail; The sight will make \ My poor head ache; Fly straight, or rest within the hraks." Then a wise owl upon the treo Blinked his great, staring eye; "To folk In crooked spectacles The whole world looksjuwry, So what! To wheel To whoo!" said he. "Many such folk I've lived to see." —Susan H. Sweet, in Worn an's Edition Ban gor (Me.) Commercial. Q3333333Q30300GG30Q003GC00 | A SAGACIOUS MULE. | O by A. V. O. X ocooooooooaoo3oooooGoooooß BOUT twenty years \ \ ago when there were <\j\ but few railways in the V Western States anil Territnri e s, tli e United States mail Hy JT was carried in soddle bags on what were called pack-mules. The riders were j young men, carefully selected for ] their bravery, fearlessness, and activ ity. The animals were changed at stations about twenty-five miles apart, so that they were always in good con dition to run if necessity required it, which was often the case, as the coun try wus swarming with t Mexicans and Indians. Benteen, a brave young Irishman with Indiun blood in his veins, was chosen jfor the road between Camp V , Arizona, and a town on the border of New Mexico, and for more than a year escaped the snares and treacherous traps that were laid for liim. One cold day in February,',lß7s, when a heavy mist not only made things cheerless and gloomy, but threw such a veil over the earth that it was impossible to see any object more than a few feet away, Benteen started on his customary long ride. When or how the Indians surprised him was never know. His body was "found at the entrance of Sunset Pass by a squad of cavalry sent from Camp V——, rid dled with bullets and arrows, and near it lay three dead Indians, showihg he had sold his life dearly. The mule galloped into Camp V- two days later, and fell exhausted in front of the barracks, with the mail-bags un touched save by the blood that had flowed from a hullet-liole in his side. He was put in a comfortable stall in the cavalry stables, and owing to the skill of the veterinary surgeon, in ad dition to the best of food and care, he soon grew strong and tit for light work. During his sickness the soldiers be came so attached to him that the Post Quartermaster made an effort, and suc ceeded in buying him. One year later I had the good for tune to be ordered East on temporary duty in Washington. Though I had been in Arizona but six mouths I was heartily tired of that desolate country, and fully determined to let no obstacle delay me in the trip that was taking me to my native city. We left Camp V in an ambulance drawn by four mules. Soon after starting I found that one of the leaders was the pack mule I have mentioned. He had fully recovered, and had been named Frisky by the soldiers 011 account of his exu berant spirits. In the ambulance with me was the driver and an old soldier whose name was Flaherty. Behind us was an army j wagon packed with our luggage, J rations, and forage for the mules. It was guarded by au escort of eight pri vates, with Sergeant nnd Corporal. Frisky was as lively as a young kitten and seemed none the worse for the hole iu his side. On our fourth day's travel, soon after starting, Frisky began to sniff, prick up his ears, anil tremble. Flaherty turned toward me, saluted, and said, in a half-apologetic voice: "Beg pardon for throublin' ye, Lootinint, but I think it will be wise to halt a bit and take a look at tlie counthry; Frisky scints the red men, and you niver can decaive him ou thim." The driver slackened the speed of his team and looked at me for an order to stop. T had been but one year and a half from West Point; I had quite an opinion of myself and my judgment, and T thought f knew far more of In dians than old Flatherty, who had been in the service nearly thirty years. The mule continued to act like a frightened child, and about noon refused to go by throwing himself on the ground re gardless of harness, and braying in the loudest tones. The men tried coaxing, then the whip, hut all to 110 avail. "He spakes the tkruth in his way, Lootin int," said Flaherty, in what seemed to me a patronizing tone, "We'd better prepare for an attack; I'm an old soldier, sir, and I know phwat an In- ' dian surprise is. It manes trouble. Pardon me, Lootinint, for tryin' to give me commandin' off'cer orders." I felt very foolish and angry when I found myself obeying Flaherty and stopping my command for the pranks of a mule. 1 ordered the men to make a barricade of sand and sage-brush branches, and corralled our mules be hind it; in front of them we put the ambulance and wagon for us to hide 1 behind, so as to keep from the enemy , the fact that we numbered only fifteen J all told. We remained in this warlike attitude for nearly an hour; then dis- i gusted with what I thought my folly, j I gave orders for the mules to be bar* \ nessed and our command to move on. j The words were scarcely out of my mouth when, glancing towards the i road leading to our left, T saw a cloud i of sand. I turned to Flaherty, who | stood by my side eying me reproach- , fully and sullenly. "What's that?" I asked. "It's the red men that Frisky and I said were coming, sir. 'Tis the beginnin' av the circus." In a lew moments we wre surrounded by about fifty hideously painted Indians on their ponies, galloping around us and giving us the full benefit of their war like yells. Fortunately, they were not as well armed as we were; if they had been, our time in this world would have been short. As it was, our men had to fight like tigers. The struggle lasted a little less than an hour. During that time I lived through days, it was all so new, strange, and horrible to me. I was but twenty two, and very much of a boy at that. My youth and inexperience seemed strangely out of keeping with my at tempts to give orders to men who had spent more than half their lives fighting Indians. Ho, after giving u few, I turned the plan of battle ovei to the Sergeant and Flaherty. The latter was in his element, and showed the greatest courage, coolness and clear-headedness I have ever seen. After every shot he fired he would call out in slow tones: "Faith, an' is it me red scalp ye want to illewminate yer wigwams? Well, take a pace of cowld lead insthead," "Coom a litthle closer, ye red snakes, Frisky an' me want to pay a debt we owe ye;" and he would fire away deliberately, with sure and deadly aim. Owing to his bravery and that of the other men we came out conquerors, and felt very light-hearted when we saw what was - left of the red men disappearing over the hill, leaving their dead and wounded behind them. The men lost no time in harnessing the mules, packiug the wagon and moving on. After the last Indian had disappeared, Frisky reguined his cus tomary spirits and activity, and was the hero of the hour, for we all appre ciated the fact that had it not been for his warning we would have been mas sacred in the wagon. That night we put twenty-live miles between us and ; the battlefield, and snve for a slight flesh-wound on my arm, and a grazed spot underneath Flaherty's red hair, we were none the worse. Soon after I reached Washington I sent Frisky a gold medal; on it was engraved: "For Frisky, the wisest mule that ever lived." He wore it fastened to the collar of his harness uutil he died.— Our Animal Friends. Tlie VolceM of Bullets. Pi 'om 11.80 onward for two hour!! the Turks did their very best. Their fire was ineeasant, like the "independ eut firing" whieli ia ao comforting a business just before the enjoyable charge on a big Aldershot field day. We kept a constant watch, and fired when possible, hut as we were against the skyline, the enemy had a much better sight of ns than we had of them. However, front behind our little wall we could laugh and say "Kalo oral" ("Good morning to you") us the bul lets hoM'led past. By the way, the voice of a bullet varies. There is the thin high whistle, to which no one pays uny attention after the first half-hour. Therejis the prolonged moan, "the cry of u lost spirit," nsa novelist might say. There is the wolfish howl, whieli for some reason always seems to be taking one on the Hank instead of fairly iu front; and last of all there is the low, ill-tem pered buzz, as though the nasty thing find got out of lied the wrong side, as children my. It is far the most terri fying, especially if it suddenly stops as the bullet strikes something close at hand. It wus to those linllets only that we politely wished "Good morn- i ing."—War correspondence Loudon Chronicle. An Olil-Tlme Watcll. Charles H. Mueller, a watohmaker, has ail interesting watch in his posses sion. It is an heirloom and belongs to Paul H. Krauss, to whom it conies from a great great-grandunole. "This watch," says Mr. Mueller, opening the quaint, old-fashioned case, "is the oldest repeater I have come across in thirty-seven years' experience. It was made by Ruse & Son, Loudon, 17911, and was the virge esoapement. It is a good watcll yet. The first watch made at that great old town, Nnremburg, and called the 'Nuremberg egg,' be cause of its shape, had this same kind of escapement." The bells iu the watch chimed the hours and quarter-hours clearly and musically.—lndianapolis News. World's Youngest Tcaclier. At a teachers' examination at De catur, Ind., the other day, before the County Superintendent, Kovillo Shearer, the twelve-year-old son of William Shearer, successfully passed the examination, and was awarded a license. He is conceded By instruc tors to Be the youngest teacher in the State of Indiana, if not in the United States. He has always shown excep tional educational abilities, and will no doubt become a successful teacher, even at the early age. Women HI Painter*. The proportion of female painters exhibiting at the Royal Academy in London is far greater than at either of the Paris salons. At the Champs de Mars only 2J per cent, of the exhibi tors this year are women; at the Champs Elysees, ten per cent.; but at the Academy there are no less than 320 among the 1380 contributors, or prac tically twenty-five per cent. Victoria Weeps for Ireland. According to nu "absolutely unim peachable authority," a writer iu the Westminster Gazette relates how the Irish song, "The Wearing of the Green," was very recently sung in Windsor Castle. Queen Victoria, it appears, requested a young Irish lady who was visiting the castle to sing an Irish song. She went to the piauo and sang "The Wearing of the Green," and, according to the story told, Her Majesty was touched by the pathos of the song and burst into tears. The writer continues: " 'Alt!' said my em inent informant, 'yon little know the depth of the Queen's sympathy for the Irish and the tenderness of her heart.'" An I<l>al House Kobe* Mrs. McKinley wrote to her modiste for an ideal house robe, and in reply received a design that had been made for a young woman upon her convales cence from a fever. The material was ladies' cloth of a woolen texture. It was in one piece and belted below the waist, with u loose girdle of passementerie. Over the gown was a long robe of ladies' cloth edged with passementerie and provided with sleeves long enough to slip down over the hands on a cold morning, ft was lined with thinnest pink flannel for warmth. Such u dress could be worn in one's room nicely over the thinnest cambric slips. Or it is pretty enough for call ers.—St. Louis Star. Mr*. McKinley'■ Health Improved. "Living at the White House and continually meeting different people has acted like a tonic upon Mrs. Mc- Kinley," suid a member of the Presi dent's official household, "and the change has beeu of the most gratifying character to her husband and to the members of her family. It is a pleas ure for the President to have his wife with him whenever he goes off on a recreation trip, and the effect of the change from Canton to Washington has been frequently commented upon by all who have met Mrs McKinley since inauguration day. She is not so easily fatigued as was formerly the case, and whether it is the knowledge that she is indeed the first lady in the laud or a change of climate that has brought about such beneficial results, one thing is certain, all her friends and well-wishers are sincere in the hope that this benefit to her health may continue. It was remarked at Philadelphia how cheery and bright Mrs. McKinley appeared, and she did not seem to mind the fatigue ineident to her travel of the last two days in the least. When the President and Mrs. McKinley arrived at the White House this afternoon the mistress of the Executive Mansion declared she had never felt iu better health or spirits, and her sole regret was that her stay in Philadelphia had been so short."—Washington correspondence to the Chicago Tribune. A Woman WUh u Kecord. ' The case of Mrs. Addia W. Buzzell, a young woman of Clinton, lias Het all Eastern Maine astir. Although but thirty-four years of age she lias been married and divorced live times. In each case she has been the libelant. Her five ex-hitsbands are still living, and are most of them neighbors of Mrs. Buzzell. She is now in sole pos session of a large farm that she tills with the aid of a hired man. Mrs. Buzzell is a very advanced type of an independent woman, and frankly states that when she has found that a hus band has not come up to her ideas of industry, thrift and congeniality, she has promptly set him aside. She also says that she is still looking for the right man to handle her farm and make her happy. A statement to this effect appeared in a local paper recently, and since then the woman farmer has been sub ject to a singular siege. From a radius of fifty miles suitors have Hocked to Clinton. One man who rode up to her door was a prominent Canaan man, worth about SOOOO, and he urged Mrs. Buzzell to go home with him and take care of his property. He is also a di vorced man, and explained to the Clin ton woman that, a married experience of seventeen years he had found that his wife "too slack" around the house. Mrs. Buzzell's neatness attracted him. Other applicants have come in tenms, on foot and by trains. Many are cranks, who wanted to work oil the farm two or three months on trial with out pay. Home brought their ward robe ill extra valises and parcels; others came in light marching order. This week the woman has been so pestered by attention from suitors that she has hitched her yellow watch dog just outside the door. If a man braves the dog Mrs. Buzzell lifts a shotgun across her arm and, with the self reliance of Maine fanner women, threatens to "let daylight" through the persistent suitor unless he leaves the premises. 80 far the woman has driven away all suitors, mid lias an swered no letters. She secured a di- vorce from her last husband only three mouths ago.—Bangor (Me.) dispatch to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. flOMllp. The model of the Boston Bacchante was a Brooklyn society woman. Mrs. Annie Irving Keeler is New Jersey's second woman lawyer. England has several women letter carriers, and they are good ones. San Francisco has a local ordinance prohibiting the wearing of high hats in theatres. Two girls own the largest salt works iu Oklahoma, and are going to college on the profits of it. The ladies of a Syracuse (N. Y.) church have agreed to remove their hats during service. Mercedes, now seventeen, was for six months Queen of Spain. The birth 0/ Alphonso XIII supplanted her. Julia Ward Howe is just three days younger than Victoria. She cele brated her seventy-eighth birthday May 27. Alderman Edward Klotz, of Alle gheny, Penn., has a daughter, Miss Florence, aged eighteen years, who is a constable. Miss-Winifred Warren, daughter of President Warren, of Boston Univer sity, has been elected to the chair of Latin at Vassal* College. She is now in Europe pursuing her studies. Mrs. Rizal, widow of Dr. Rizal, an insurgent leader who was shot for treason, is commanding a company of Philippine islanders armed with rifles. By last accounts she was at Naio, Cavite province, waiting for the Span iards, Miss Jane Stone, a Philadelphia girl, has gone into the oil business in the newly discovered petroleum fieldß in Tennessee. She makes her own leases. It is her purpose to drill ten wells before fall, and she has contract ed for 100,000 feet of lumber for der ricks. The woman's exposition of the Caro lines, now being held at Charlotte, N. C., and which is managed entirely by women, has gathered a very creditable collection of paintings, tapestries and statuary, mostly the work of Southern artists. The art gallery contains over 300 pictnres. Mme. Emma Nevada Ims had the misfortune to lose u diamond and pearl shell of great value at a soiree given iu Paris by Mme. Lalwrde. Tho shell was presented to Mme. Nevada at her debut at the Opera Coinique and bore the touching inscription, "Une Perle a Une Perle." Mrs. Storer, wife of the new United States Minister to Belgium, estab lished the ltookwood Pottery iu Cin cinnati, and has for years beeu experi menting on her own acuount with cer amics, especially in glazes, of which she has discovered more than one hitherto unknown to chemists. Mrs. Thomas A. Edison is a very beautiful woman. She looks like an Italian, with soft brunette coloring and a superb complexion. She knows very little of her husband's scientific work, hut devotes much time to reading de tective novels with him, a form of lit erature of which he is very fond. Miss Cora B. Hertzel, an attorney of seven years'standing in Chicago, has been appointed Assistant Corporation Counsel. Her duties will he to look up authorities and prepare briefs. She was a member of the Wisconsin bar before going to Chicago, where she was graduated from the Chicago College of Law. Tho last remaining granddaughter of Alexander von Humboldt, Mathilde vou Humboldt, died a few weeks ago in Koine. She was horn in 1830 in Ottmachnu, in Silesia, the ancient family seat. Sho lived in Coblentz and Ottmachau till her mother's death, when she removed to Rome, where she was the leading spirit of the Ger man colony and well known as a friend of young artistH of talent. Faihlon Notes. Yellow appears ou light gray ani mauve on dark blue. Navy blue is brightened by cerise, light green, scarlet or white. Golden and chestnut brown shades are worn with mauve aud bright green. Pink aud white is trimmed with black velvet and white (uot cream) lace. Gray and cerise, peacock green and mauve are striking combinations when rightly managed. Pale violet is worn in a silk gown with vest of pink chiffon, large collar of white satin and lace and belt ol black velvet. Every one is sure of red for the fall —cerise, scarlet, purplish, red, deep pink—the whole scale of shades com ing under this head. A changeable pink and green taffeta is lovely with yellowish embroidered batiste and a deep mauve velvet belt, each being just the correct shade. The new waists and jacket bodices grow more and more Frenchy and elaborate us the season advances, und each novel Parisian conceit in the way of ill ration seems u little prettier than the last, and the art of making the tucked, pleated, slashed Vandyked, shirred, velvet or ribbon-trimmed chiffon-frilled combination a notable garment is now the study of the fash ionable dressmaker. Business Vicissitudes. The fumale of commerce are not en tirely "without a spice of romance. There la a little retributive Justice that savors of the novelist's art in the way the spoiler Is sometimes spoiled in business relations. In an article en I titled "Made In Japan," the Pull Midi j Gazette shows how nations have en- j crouched upon one another's business, and reaped for a time a rich harvest, only to see the same tactics employed by a rival people, and be forced to stand aside while the trade slipped from their hands into the keeping of another nation. In old times the Dutch, by importing English clay, made a good protit out of imitations of Chinese porcelain, and presently the Dutch product became world as Delft ware. But the Dutchman was no more se cure In his profitable trade than had been his predecessor, tho Chinaman. The English potters took to copying the Dutch patterns, and sold their pot tery much cheaper, uud the north of England became headquarters for the ' Delft china. Again, however, the spoiler has been I spoiled. Of late the Japanese have made themselves masters of the art of reproducing the patterns best liked in j England, and have begun to encroach on the domain long monopolized by the English potter. The Japanese prod uct Is finer and stronger, and above all cheaper than the best English ware, and Japan is providing the mar kets with goods which were originally a Chinese monopoly. Dr. Webb's Locomotive Searchlight, Persons who happened to be lu the Union Station yard last night about 10:30 were struck with tho unusual brilliancy of the place The reason for this was that the private engine of Dr. Seward Webb, the Nehasene, was in the yard with a new searchlight on Its pilot, which threw u very powerful light on the track and the objects with in its range. The searchlight is about the size of the ordinary light carried on the pilots of locomotives, only it is many tiiues more brilliant. The power for the light Is generated in a small dy nauio operated Independent of the mechanism of the engine. The engine was in charge of Engineer MoFadden, who was kept busy explaining the light to a curious and Interested crowd of railroad men. The engine was ordered to Utica, and left on Its run at 10:30. 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