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A. HIDDEN.4 Afar on the pathless prairies The rarest o Sowers abound ; And la the dark caves of the valleys There is wealth that will nover be found ; -So there are sweet songs in the silence That never will molt into sound. : The twilight illumines her bannera "With colore no artist can teach ; And aloft in the sky there are sermons Too mighty for mortals to preach ; So life has its lovelv ideals Too lofty for language to reach Afar on the sea there's a music That the 6hore never knows in its fast t And in the gr.;en depths of the forest There are choirs that carol unblest Bo, deep in the heart there's a music Aal a cadence that s never expressed. W. L. Chittenden. The Wolves of Chicago. BY HAX3 LEIGH. UN the year 1850 I jfj spent the Christmas 5! n holidays -with my &X uncle. Joel Parker. &$r v,ho ojked a lone r' i". : 'J i IV llttlo furrr. W. r' I-"rAi - SWW twenty miles out of ?Z&'-L Chicago, not far Chicago wasn't much more than a market town. Tim farmers used to run in to Imy a parcel of sugar or her rings, and they didn't think enough of the placo to put on their best clothes when they went. Well, there came a frost and a thaw hnd another frost that left the roads too rough an 1 icy for wheels, and not icy enough for runners ; and as luck would have it Uncle Joel broke his axe on a hardwood knot and he .couldn't get to town to buy another. Nov. ,; here's where my story comes in. I; was a good skater in those times, and for all the fine records I see nowadays in the papers, nad for all the newfangled patent skates they weari, I'd take my old wooden ones, with the duerhido thongs, and the long blades curling up over the toes, .and if I were' thirty years younger I'd back myself again.st the best of them that draws breath ; but that's neither here nor there. I was a great skater, and so I offered to skate into Chicago and buy a new axe for Uncle Joel. It was a clear, bright morning, and the ice was smooth and white, as thaw ice most generally is. Well, I struck a creek about ten roiLs froni my uncle's door, tied on my skates and wont booming down the river. The stream "winds somewhat, as you . know, and I calculate it was about twenty-five miles into the city, but that wasn't a circumstance to me. I made tho dis tance easily in three hours, and was in Chicago in time to dine at noon. Well, I met eomo pleasant young fellows, and "the time passed away un til, before I knew it, the sun "was away down in the west. I was a little startled at first; -but the sky was clear, the moon was up, and a moonlight ekato wasn't at all to my dislike. Solue of the young fellows mado a. few re marks abot wolves along the river, but I rather thought they were guying me for a tenderfoot. "Never mind," said I, "for with rav skates and the ax I'm going to buy I don't fear any wolf or pack of wolves in the State of Illinois." So nothing mure was said. I went out and bought an ax. Then 1 came back to the tavern, and, after taking Borne supper, picked ip my skates and lit out for tho river. The sun was just going down as I sat on the edge of the stream and tied on my skates ; and I tied them tight. I knew that there really were wolves along that stream, but for" the .matter of that the State was full of wolves, big black fellows, iuid fierce, too. They knew a man from a woman, and used to come prowling round tho farmhouses when the fanners were at work, barking under the women's'very noses and car rying off poultry and young pigs right under their eyes ; and do you know a strange thing might b caused by throwing powdered asafoetida so as to fill the air with its odor? Wolves within reach of that smell would be come fascinated with it, and rushing to where the odor was strongest they would stand howling until shot down or clubbed to death. But, however cowardly they might be by day, when alone and near houses, the were less so when trav eling in packs by night, and atiio time ere they to be despised by a boy like "ie, alone, poorly armed and far from lotne ; so I tied my and firmly, threw my skates carefully new ax over my arm and struck out. The snow lay on the ground in patches, relieved by dark grays, greens and blacks, where little knolls rod hillocks had been washed clean by the rains. The brushwood aldng the banks was leafless and brown. 1 The sky was cloudless, but over all there was the thin, pink reflection from the etting sun, and the great, red path in fhe ice, along which I was skating to wards home. And I skated fast, not breathlessly, but with a long, swinging roll that I could have-kept up for hours. The banks seemed to fly past poplar and birch, brush and brambles, cabins and rail fences. Here and there I passed little creeks and could hear the water from them trickling into the river un derneath the ice, but save forwthat sound and the creaking of my spates ail was silent. Lights were burning in the farm i . . . uouso windows, out no noise came irom them ; the men were sitting around the fires with their wives and children, and work was over for the day. After a little I passed beyond these signs of civilization, between lands I which were wild or farifrom the own- ers's houses, and I saw no more liffhts. The last of the day was gone, and the moon was high cold, round and white. It lighted up tho ice like an ' arc light at first. Then some clouds came up and dimmed it, and presently - I shot in between the walls of a for est, where the shores wereswampy, and the trees, black and tall, made the river almost like a dark room, liut the ice gleamed whitely and howed the way, and the blood was "ing through my veins with the v swift motion, so I didn't care -.4 rttle gloom, but I made the pace s. rT lift A ow the Chicago TZtMP&Ji&'j Illinois was a wil I'Wr&S'WJr -derness then, and faster and whistled a tune for com pany's sake. Now, I was always an absent-minded boy, and so by and by, thinking of things, I forgot where I was, and skated on like a machine, scarcely hearing my own movements or the trees cracking with the frost in the forest; and so when another sound broke on my ear I didn't stop to figure on it, but it fell in and became Lpart of the tune I was whistling and part of the creaking of my skates against the thaw ice. " Wolves? Why, of course it was wolves crash ing along through the swamp beside river, with a low growling and some times a bark above the undertone of growls. And there I was skating along and whistling like the moonstruck school boy that I was. Suddenly, like a flash of gunpowder, I woke to the reality of my position. Fifteen miles of river before me. Fifty starvingwolves behind me. Good ax in hand, good skates on feet. Youth and strength and 2000 vards in mv favor. That wasn't so bad after all. I was opposite an opening in the forest just then, and, looking at my watch I saw that it was 6.30. I had come eight iniles in little over an hour, and I reckoned that tho wolves had been behind me for two miles. I increased my pace to about twelve miles an hour, and listened to hear if they still gained. Yes, th--re was no doubt of it ; they were coming closer. .' I increased the pace to about four teen miles an hour and listened again. The sound of the galloping did not in crease in volume for a few minutes, but after that they slowly began to draw up again. , It was evident that I was their game, and it was a race for life and -death. I had covered about two miles since first realizing my danger. The wolves must have gained 500 yards and now they were coming forward at top speed, overhauling me at every bound. There was no more time for calculations. I threw the throttle 1 down among the oil cans, as the engineers say, and started off at my best racing speed. The moon wa3 out highly again, and I was clear of the forest. I had de veloped almost the speed of an express train ; my skates scarcely seemed to touch the ice. I was flying in the air rather than skating. Trees, brush and 6tumps went by like birds, and tho low fields and woods took on the revolving aspect which every child has seen while looking from the window of a moving car. I was almost dizzy with the motion, and I bent my body low to avoid the rush of air against my eyes, as "well as to gain the utmost speed possible. And as I looked back now I could see the wolves chasing along the margin, straining every nerve to over come me, and they were succeeding, and every bound brought them closer. I had gone four miles more, and less than 4:00 yards separated . us. At the same rate of progress I could go five miles further, and then the wolves would pull mo down, still seven miles from home. ' I began to gasp out some prayers,. and theli something ininy heart told me to skate faster. I put out another effort, and when my body responded to tho impulse of the mind I felt astonished. My pace had increased o an extent which I would never have relieved possible. To-day it seems ike a miracle to me, and, strange to say, I never tired. My wind, thatl was weakening, came back ; pains that were growing in my side and stomach had disappeared, and my lesrs grew ike bars and springs of steel. Still the wolves gamed, but their . gam was not so , rapid, l nad made the eight miles, I had come to the spot where I had thought to die, and I was still 200 yards ahead of my pursuers. In the next mile they gained about 150 yards, and then fifty yards sep arated us. Then the pack took to the ice, which was smootuer than glass, and within two minutes they had lost fifty yards. 1 thought I saw a chance for salva tion there,. but in a. moment they were on shore again, barking with fury, and racing with even increased speed. could see their red tongues in the moonlight and the white foam flying from. their jaws. Soon they recovered their ground, and the foremost wolf was almost abreast of me. He dashed out upon the ice, slipped, and then, with almost a scream of anger, he lost his momentum and fell behind. I was skating in the middle of the stream. A moment later another wolf darted out upon tho ice, bending his course so as to intercept- me. I held my way until withm five feet of the spot where we should have met, and then, swerving suddenly away from him, I described a curve and went on,' leaving the ani mal howling and gnashing his teeth. Again and again these tactics were repeated. Once the leading wolf fairly intercepted me, but my uncle-'s ax was ready. I knew its use, and I left the brute dead and bleeding with one blow from it. But such a running fight could not continue. I was still three mile's from home. The wolves had seen the hope lessness of their mode of attack, and were beginning to string themselves out along the bank ahead of and be hind me. At that rate . my death was certain within a mile. There would be wolves to intercept me jVLj advanced, and wolves to cut me onT retreated, and to take to the opposrlbank waa also 6ure death. J At this point I saw, on the left Bank, a little deserted cabin, about a quarter of a mile ahead. If I could reach that before my pursuers began to close in I might be safer , I bent every atom of my remaining strength to do this, and I had almost reached the goal when the wolves ahead began to shoot out over the ice, completely cutting off my escape up the river. Then the ones far ahead came dashing back toward me, and the others in the pack began to close in from behind and at the sides. I was the objective point in a semicircle of fifty ravenous, man-killing beasts, and the door, of the cottage was my only hope. I picked out the wolf that would reach it first. My race was with him. It all occurred in a, space of less than twenty seconds. I shot up to the bank like a stone from a catapult. The wolf was ahead of me, but, levy ing the ice with a bound, and with th tremendous momentum which I had acquired, I flew into the air like a bird, and, passing over the brute's head, landed squarely on my feet, and in a flash had reached the door of the cottage, forty feet awav. To rush inside and slam the door was the work of a second, bat the whole pack was behind me. They paused for a moment, and in that time I saw that there was no fastening t door. The cabin had been stripped even of its bolts. The upper floor was gone, but the rafters were there three feet above my head, and hastily thrusting the ax in my belt I gave a leap, grasped one of them, and drew myself np. Then a dozen bodies were dashed against the door and the room below me was filled with the pack. They howled, snarled and screamed with fury and disappointment. They dashed themselves against the walls, and bounded up towards the rafters. Sometimes such was their hunger and desperation, that they actual se cured a.hold near me ; but then my ax came into play, and they fell back, cut and bleeding, upon their fellows. Then another idea struck me. Work ing my way toward the door, I climbed partially down, and, with a long strip of wood which I found lying across the rafters, I slammed the door shut. I then thrust the strip into a crevice in the door casing, and with a nail which was sticking loosely in the upper end, 1 nailed it to the wall. The wolves were my jirisoners. Toknock a hole in the roof with my ax was easy work, and in a few mo ments I was sitting on the roof, enjoy ing the cold air and the discomfort of my enemies. By this time those inside were thor oughly cowed and frightened, while the one or two still left in the open air had begun to feel very nervous. A few chunks of wood, smartly thrown, caused' them to slink off into the woods, and then I felt almost free. And now it was nearly eight o'clock, and the people in my uncle's house had grown alarmed. I could hear shouts in the distance, and presently lights appeared coming down the ice, and my uncle and cousins, carrying pine torches, and well armed, came in sight. A shout from me guided to them the cabin, and in a moment the whole party was "on the roof. A torch thrown into the cabin light ed up the interior, and then we took turns in shooting the wolves. There were twenty-five of them, and within half an hour they were all dead. Next day we returned and skinned them, and the heads and hides brought us in a pretty penny. Time ? Well, now look here. I made some close calculations on that and I make out that I did that last ten miles in thirty minutes. And there is no case on record where that time has been equalled. St. Louis Republic. Paradox ol the Pole. At the North Pole there is only one direction south. One could go south in as many ways as there are points on the compass card, but every one of these ways is south ;'east and west have vanished. The hour of the day at the pole is a paradoxical conception, says McClure s Magazine, for that point is the meeting place of every meridian, and the time of all holds good, so that it is always any hour one cares to men tion. -Unpunctuality is hence impos sible but the question grows complex, and its practical solution concerns few. No one needs to go to the pole to discover all that makes that point dif ferent from any other point of the surface. But the whole polar regions are f ull of unknown things, which every Arctic explorer of the 'right stamp looks forward to finding. And the re ward he looks forward to most is the approval of the few who understand and love knowledge for its own sake rather than the noisy applause of the crowd who would cheer him, after all, much as they cheer a winning prize fighter, or race horse, or political can didate. The difficulties that make the quest of the pole so arduous have been dis covered by slow degrees. It is mar vellous how soon nearly the full limits of northward attainment are reached. In 159G Barents discovered Spitzber gen in about seventy-eight degrees north; in 1770 Hudson reached eighty degrees ; in 1827 Parry, by sledging on the ice when his ship became fast, succeeded in touching eighty-two de grees forty-five minutes. Since then all the enormous re sources of modern science steam, elec tricity, preserved foods and the expe rience of centuries have only enabled forty miles additional poleward ad vance to be made. The Arctic Basin, occupied by the Arctic Sea, is ringed in by land ; the northern coasts of America, Europe and Asia forming a roughly circular boundary broken by three well-marked channels communicating with the ocean. Bering Strait, between America and Asia, is the narrowest ; Baffin Bay, be tween America and Greenland, is wider, branching into a number of ice-blocked sounds to the westward, and tapering off into Smith Sound in the northeast. The widest channel of the three lies between Greenland and Europe, and this is bisected just 6onth of eighty de grees north by the island groap of Spitzbergen. Didi5t Know It Was Loaded." Tte "didn't tno"') brigade is a very industrious one and has branches in almost every community. There are few follies that are more foolish than carelessness, especially that form of carelessness that is akin to reckless ness. . It has become an almost stereo typed item among news despatches that somebody pointed a fire-arm at somebody else and it went off, and the guilty party excused himself by the statement that he didn't know it was loaded. The man with a gan and the woman who lights the fire with the help of the kerosene oil-can should be farm,ed out together on some desert island where they could mutually indulge their idiosyncrasies. That the island would become uninhabited in a very short time goes without saying. That the remainder of the world would grieve very little is a self-evident fact. New York Ledger. The Nations richest in horses are the Argentine Kejjablio and Uruguay. POPULAR SCIEXCE. About ten thousand gross of pens ire produced from a ton of steeL A doctor savs that sleeplessness is almost always caused or accompanied by indigestion. Canada supplies nearly all the plum bago used bv American manufacturers of lead pencils. Over twenty-six per cent, of the reading men in everv country are short-sighted or, otherwise of defective vision. , A German savant declares that all diamonds found on this earth cani3 from the moon on aerolites or mete orites. , The eggs of the Algerian locust have been found to yield a thick oil re sembling honey in appearance. It burns well and makes trood soap witn alkali - Doctor Lomproso finds that the skulls of Italian criminals have ten per cent, less than the usual capacity. Uoctor Uordier reports the reverse condition in France. If all the telegraph lines of the world were combined and stretched in one straight line, they would reach 881,000 miles, or enoucrh to encircle the earth thirtv-thrse times. An ordinary transparent glass globe absorbs about ten per cent, of the light passing through it. Ground glass absorbs about thirty to forty-five per cent, and opal glass from fifty to sixty per cent. Most of the steamboats on the Great Lakes carry their machinery well aft, but experience shows that such saeri- capacity is unwise. The latest lake steamboat launched is consequently constructed on lines placing her ma chinery amidships. Peter Long, of Groensburg, is the patentee of a railway signal time clock which accurately indicates the time intervening between the passage oi trains, it . is mounted similarly to a danger signal and the engineer can readily tell, by simply glancing at the dials, the length of time which has elapsed since the preceding train passed that point. A smokeless powder, named plasto- menit, has been tested with great suc cess at Bucharest, Bulgaria. It proved the best of smokeless powders for the small caliber Mannlichter rifle, and especially satisfactory with the smooth Dore sporting guns, ihe smoke is hardly perceptible, the noise of ex plosion slight and there is absolutely no recoil. It seems hard to realize that tht lightest whisper must continue its rounds of existence throughout all eternity, yet on the belief that such is the fact is based all modern physics and very many of the useful adjuncts oi moaern civilization. it is now realized that force, like matter, is in destructible, and that where matter is we must look for force or energy in close relation to it. It is now reported that electricity has been successfully applied to the burning, of brick, and promises to revolutionize the! industry by greatly reducing the labor and cost. The kiln and the drying are entirely dispensed with. Ihe wet clay is put into a sort of covered iron mold which holds 1000 bricks, a strong current of electricity is turntd on, and in a very short time the bricks are dried and burnt, and ready to be tumbled out for sale. An Indian Owns the ToTvn. Bonner's Ferry is' puzzled. The citizens don't know whether they are at home or on Indian land. Until a worried few days ago they were not about Indian claims, but at these form a very lively topic present for dis- cussion. me trouoie was started Dy tne an nouncement that the Government had allotted ten tracts of lacd to the ten heirs of old Dick Frv, the pioneer set tler at the ferry, who married a squaw. The ten allotments aggregate 680 acres, and one tract of forty acres, claimed by Arthur Fry, includes the original town site. This has been indifferently known as Fry's postofSee and Bonner's Ferry. It includes the hotel, the post- omce, a number of stores and many residences. Altogether it is claimed to be the most valuable part of the town site. The people of Bonner's Perry do not know what to do. Some of them think the title can be overthrown. Others are inclined to think the Indian's title indefeasible and attempt a compromise. The fact that if this title is sound he will not be able to dispose of the land for a quarter of a century adds per plexity to the case, although attorneys say there may be ways to remove that difficulty. Ai tne lime mis application was made there were no improvements on tne iana wmcn was, covered with an unbroken forest. Since that time set tlers have located upon the land, have clearedMt and erected good substantial buildings. They expected to secure a title from the .Northern Pacific Rail way when the land was surveyed, it having been ascertained that the land would be embraced in section No. 27, which is a railroad section. These people were repeatedly warned Dy JJick r ry that this tract was taken under the Indian Allotment act, and that no title cbnld be given by the rail way company, but they continued to build. Spokane (Washington) Chroni cle. . The Chinese Bible. The Chinese Scriptures or sacred looks were complied and partly com posed by Confucius himself. They are divided into five books, viz. : 1. The Yi-King, which treated wholly of cosmogony. z. onu-jwing, we acts and wise naxims of Yaoa, Shua and other uicient Chinese Kings and philoso phers, who are now held in great ven eration. 3. Shi-King, which contains 311 icred poems. 4. Ee-King, or "The Book of Bites," hich is a repository of maxims and lirections of everyday life of all sorts id conditions of people. 5. Chun-Tsien, which is a history of n3 time of Confucius. These books. iken collectively, are usually referred j in lists of -"Bibles of the World, h -The Five Kings." The word ,TKing," in this connection, simply le&ns "book. St, Louis Republic BUDGET OF FUN. HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Foot NoteRelatively Tivo of Kind Umbrageous An Ia-eenoous- Query A Change of Trade, Etc., Etc. I rose with 'Treat alacrity To offer her my seat. Twas a question whether she or I Would stand upon my feet. Puck. KEL. ATTVELT . "Is Barton rich?" "Well, only relatively so. He has a rich aunt." Puck. riEBSAOEors. "Lord Fitzbroke's reputation is rather shady." '"Shaded by bis family tree, I sup pose. .Fuck. TWO OF A KIND. First Disputant "You're a liar ! that's flat V Second Disputant (knocking him down) "So are you." Truth. KOT MUCH DA2TGKK. Mr. Snooper (boastingly) "I carry my life in my hand. " Miss Giddey (with a glance at the size of his hand) "1 shonld say your life was safe." Detroit Free Press, A CHANGE OP TRADE. Jinks "Is Counter making much money npw.- Filkihs "2so; only shoes. The stuff he turned out was so bad that they got onto him inside of a week." Puck. "SATUBAL MISTAKE. "What a break that, was for the minister to say 'dust so dust when they were married?" k "He probably had in mind that two great fortunes were united by the al liance, "Truth. AN TNGEXTOUS QUERY. He (something of a bore) "Adeucid queer thing happened to me at the Musee the other day. A lady mistook me for a wax figure." She "Was it in the Chamber of Horrors?" Once a Week. KOTHTXa I.EFT. Wife "Wake up! There are thieves in the house!" Husband "Go down and show them your new Donnet, and they won t waste any time looking for money here." New York Weekly. AN AGMCTJLTUBAL TURN OP MIND. ' 'I think Benny will make a farmer," Baid Mrs. Bloobnmper to her husband. "What. makes you think that?" "I found him picking the seeds out of some seed-cake I had given him, and he said he was going to plant them and raise all the cake he could eat. " TTTTTNQ. "I want to get a professional nurse, said the man whose wile rather enjoys being ill. "What for?" asked his friend, the doctor. "For a professional invalid," said the map, with a wan, far-away smile. Vogue. , THOSE DEAR GIRLS. Her Friend "Tell me just what sort of a man your fiance is. bhe Uh, he is every thinsr that is nice. Her Friend "I'm so crlad! You know, I have always said that people should marry their opposites." Judge. WE MUST HUMOR THE Mr. Foreigner (on a suburban train) -Who is that distinguished looking gentlman, showing so much attention to that ordinary looking woman beside him?" Binther "Oh, that is De Fitz-Smith returning from town with a new cook." Life. A BITTER PAST. "Ted told me last night that I was the only girl he had ever loved." "Bahl he proposed to me months aq." "NowT know what he meant when he said there were some unpleasant in cidents in his past." Chicago Inter- Ocean. I KOfAIiTT SCARED OFF. Ijittle Uot "1 wonder why any truly kings and queens don t come to the World's Fair. " Tattle Dick "I guess mebbe they is afraid by the time they see all the pic tures of them they won't know them selves when they look in the glaaa." Good News. fame s nfxrsncE. South American Patriot "Why do the people of the United States so re vere the memory of Washington?" North American "Because he- es tablished the Republic " South American Patriot "Why, I know men who establish a republic about once a month, and nobody pays any attention to them." Puck. THE BAIT WAS SILVER. Roger, aged six, had been fishing with his father the day before, and a friend of the family asked him what lock they had had. "WelL"he replied, "we didn't have very good luck. The first place we went to the man wasn't - home and the other two places the man said he hadn't more'n enough for his own fam ily." Life. t MATCHHAXIXa. Gussie "These summah hotels ah meah tindah boxes, t don't you think. Miss Jessie?" Jessie-"Ye-e-s. The girls say that they are just full of matches, bat, of course, I don't know about " , Gussie "Oh, Miss Jessie Jessie will you be mine ?" - Jessie "This is so sudden ! Well, yes, dearest." New York Recorder. A PLACE TO PISH. -1waut to go fishing," remarked ft Detroit man who has brought many fish home from his piscatorial "expedi tions, -but I can't decide exactly where T& better go." His wife. toJ whom this remark had been made looked up from her work very sweetly. What's "the; matter with the fish market, Henry?" she said so signifi cantly that Henry blushed a cee- crimson. Detroit Free Prees. BO AD TlE-SmCT AJBIXITY. Hungry Hank 4Sav Vi n . Wili re did you git thim dimes an' quarters?' Mouldy Mike "Out of a feller's pocket. "Pard, I'm ashamed fer ye. Gimme i half. The idee of trentleman travelers like you and me turnin footpads. It's enough to make me blush." "I wasn't no footpad. The feller fainted, and these sort o' dropped out of his pockets." "Well, that's different Found 'em. That's respectable. How come he to faint?" "I told him we wanted work, and was willin to take pay in soap. " Xow York Weekly. THEIR VAtUE. The visitor in the town was asking his host about the people they saw passing the window. "Who's that ordinary-looking man with the handsome woman?" askel the visitor as a couple went by. "That's Mr. Dime." "And the lady?" "That's Mrs. Dollar." "Ah! You must have a . moneyed aristocracy here," laughed the visitor. "rso, not exactly. You see, that isn't her name. She's his wife, and I call her that as a joke." "Why?" "Because she's worth ten of him." Detroit Free Press. DUE TO SUBSEQUENT ACTION. Mamma "Now, Johnny, tell me the truth. You have been eating too much of something on the sly. What was it?" Johnny (suffering horribly from in digestion) "Haven't been eating any thing, mamma." "Don't try to deceive me, dear. What have you been eating?" "Nothing, mamma, honest. I I drank a bowl of milk that wa3 in the pantry. That was all." "That bowl of milk? Why, Johnny, there was nearly a quart of it. Are you sure it wasn't sour ?" "les'm, It was boo-hoo! it was all rieht when when I swallered it!" Chicago Tribune. Honey From Fruits, Nectar in flowers is not honey, says a writer in Meehan's Monthly. This nectar is gathered by the tongue of the bee and enters what is called the honey bag, from which it is regurgi tated by the bee on its return to the hive, and deposited in the honey celL Even then it is thin and watery and does not become really honey until the watery parts have evaporated. In collecting the swe'ets the bees do not confine themselves wholly to TflOwers. The writer of this paragraph has for a next neighbor a proiessional bee keeper, whose bees depend almost wholly on the flowers from the writer's garden that is to say, there are few other flowers, except wild ones, on which the bees can collect their ma terial. Unfortunately for him, they are not .satisfied with the flower, but also carry away the fruit. It is almost impossible in raspberry time to get enough from his garden to make a respectable dish for the tea table nearly every berry is sucked to pieces before it is absolutely ripe. It is the same with the grapes ; in order to se cure them from the ravages of the bees they have to be protected by paper bags. Last season, and for the first time, they have been f orwid to carry away peaches also. How they first penetrate the skin is not clear, but it may possibly have been from the puncture of the curcu lio. The curculio frequently cuts the skin without depositing the egg, and this single injury may be borne along without injury to the peach, permit ting it to ripen. It is possible that they get a first entrance here. At any rate, certain it is that before the peach is fairly ripe little is left of the peach but the stone. Other fruit growers likewise complain of the ravages of bees. Bee keepers contend that this cannot; be so that the bee is incapable of perforating fruit. This may or may not be certainly what perforations might exist before the bees discovered them would not injure the fruit the following up of this by the bees is just as bad as if they made the original perforations for themselves. $25,000 lor a Trial. It cost the people of the United States about $23,000 in a couple of hours the other day to settle in the minds of the officers of the Ordnance Bureau whether some armor plates made by the Carnegie and Bethlehem 6teel works respectively were as good as they ought to be. It was found that they were ; and what that means can be imagined when one of the plates waa 17 inches thick, weighed 31 tone, and was attacked by shells weighing 850 pounds each, the last ones fired from a 12-inch gun at a dis tance of only 319 feet, striking it vith the force needed to move a mass of 21.C00 tons, or 43,000,000 pounds, through a foot of space. The projec tile went through. We take it that that did not surprise even the experts who are used to thinking about those inconceivable masses and velocities. But what did surprise them was that the hole it made was nearly as clean as if it had been drilled, and that not a crack appeared about its edges. Though this particular projectile was lost, having been deflected and fallen into the Potomac, the other projectiles which penetrate! the same plate were found in perfect condition and fit to be used again. That seems almost more marvelous than the perfection of the plate. Meanwhile the people of New York may take some satisfac tion in knowing that down at Sandy Hook the War Department has just mounted a gun that will throw a 1000 pound projectile, and make a hole in ' the heaviest armor-clad ship now afloat at a distance of six miles. If we mtut spend money on what we hope are purely peaceful experiments, it is a comfort to know what we get for it, Harper's Weekljv. HOUSEHOLD HATTERS. PRESERVED rEACHES. ' Tare the peaches or remove the skins by plunging the peaches into boiling lye (two gallons of water and one pint of wood ashes); When the skins will slip easily, take the peaches out with a skimmer, and plunge them into cold water; rinse in several waters and there will bo no taste of the lye. "Weigh, and add three-fourths of a poua i of sugar to each pound of fruit. Halve them and use some of the pits, or It Ave them whole, as yon please. Th stones improve the flavor. Make a st run bv addinsr as little water as poaable to the sugar about one cup- m a v fnl to each ronnd of trocar. When it j boils skim till clear, then add the I peaches and cook until transparent. J New York World. BREAKFAST POTATO CAK35. Let me ask you to try the frying-pan for the following recipe, writes Mar garet Compton. I have found that it gives better results than a soajwtono griddle. As the secrt of success lies more in the cooking than in the mak ing, I give direction for both : Take one-half pound of mashfd potato, three ounces of flour, milk slightly warm, a little bntt&r and one half teaspoonfnl of baking powder. Have the potato finely mashed, beinaf sure there are no ' iumps in it. ' Some nse an egg. I never do. When thn mixture is a smooth dou-rh roll it out two inches thick. Have your frying-pan hot as for a ft?:ik. When it is well buttered and drained drop your cake gently into it, f-ct it where it will cook steadily, but not tot fast. Have a larjre plate xeaily, uj that will fit into thep.-.a. See that it is heated "piping-hot." When jcr.tr cake has been on about four or five minutes place the hot plate ovr it, turn it out and slide it back intN pan. This is to prevent any possi bility of breaking it in turning. Cook five minutes more and test it by prey ing the sides lightly with the finger. If it remains dented it is not done. When cooked, turn out on the hot "plate, butter lavishly -and serve. fit.. j Louis Eepublic. HOW TO CHECKMATE MOTTM. Just at this time of the year the careful housewife is particularly busy packing away the winter garments and furs in a place of safety from the mxich dreaded and most pernicious of all in sects, the moth. She is perhaps at her wits' emi to know just what to do with the many articles belonging to the different members of the household.. The pow ders and moth balls she has used are surely effective, hut it takes nearly a whole season of thorough airing to eradicate the disagreeable odor which has permeated every thread of the gar ment during the months it had been stored away. Happily, however, some thoughtful and ingenious person has come to the rescue, and the perplexed housewife can now do away with old newspapers, cloth bags and pasteboard boxes. The invention is simply a paper bag, but so arranged that it takes the place of all previous devices, and at the snmo time does away with disagreeable odors, which fact is not the least to be considered. The bags can be bought in three sizes, ranging in price from ttvciity- nve cents 10 iony-nve cents tacu. mo largest are roomy enough for coats and gowns. They are mado of very strong, heavy paper, thoroughly satu rated with moth preventives, princi pally cedar oil. Within are hooks on one side andpockets on the opposite, which are just the place for fur cups, muffs, mitts, and numerous small arti cles. There is a sort of lid at the tow which can be brought over and tiea securejy, thus keeping out dust and every inter loping insect The bagsare not only very inexpensive to begin 'with, but they will last for ten years in fact, if well cared for, a lifetime. They may be used in summer for the winter gar ments, and will be a great convenience in winter for packing away summer gowns. One great advantage which every woman will thoroughly appreciate is that at the end of the season the gar ments CUUIO UUV BliieiliUX M nwee - though" they had been stored in a 8500 cedar press. St. Louis Star-Sayings. COLD. PUPDISCI. Chaparone Pudding Soak a pint of A a in a nnirf cf mi!1r Add a cup of sugar, the yolks of four egg beaten light, the grated rind of a lemon and a piece of butter the size of an egg. Bake until it is brown, but not watery. Whip the whites of four eggs until they are stiff; beat in a tea cup -of sugar; add the jnico of a lemon. Pour over the pudding when cold. Serve cold. Lemon Padding Heat to boiling a pint of milk. Stir into this two table spoons of corn starch wet with cold water. Boil for five minutes, stirring constantly. Stir in a tablespoon of butter and set away to cooL Beat the yoiitl ui luur t?)g iJgui, JVi; i b cup u sugar and mix thoroughly. Add to this the juice of two lemons and the grated rind of one. Beat to a stiff cream. Add to the corn starch milk when that is cold. Stir, pour - into a buttered dish and bake. Serve cold. Italian Pudding Mix a half pound of fine flour and four ounces of sifted sugar. Put a half pint of new milk and a ouarter of a pound of butter in a saucepan and bring to the boiling point. Stir the flour and sugar gradu ally in. Beat well four eggs an ' add the greated rind of a lemon. Stir this into the milk. Stir until the mixture is thick like dough. Put it on a paste board and when cold roll to 'the thick ness of about a quarter of an inch. Spread the paste with jam. Boll into a bolster-like form and bake. Serve cold. Lemon Meringue Soak two cups of bread crumbs in a quart of milk. Add 1L . 1 a It-- - . . M butter and half a cup of sugar, rubbed to a cream, and the juice of a lemon with half its grated rind. Bake until lightly brown. Make a meringue of the white of the eggs beaten stiff, three tablespoons of sugar and a little lemon juice. Cover the pudding when eold with this, and brown slightly, in the oven. Serve cold. Orange -pudding is made in the sam? -way, substi tuting orange juice kd rind for lemon.