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Show R. MtlSICK, By jOHiN Mr. Howard, . Mytrtou i Je .St, A few moments later a large object could be seen in the distance slowly advancing toward them. Owing to the dim, uncertain light, all at first were of the opinion it was a bear, and one or two cocked their guns and stepped out a short distance from the light to get a better shot at the animal. Tbo guide suddenly called: Hold! Its a man!" "Course it is, giowled a voice in the distanco. What did ye think It was a walrus?" A man clothed in furs, holding a rifle in his hand, came forward and advanced toward the fire, Ethel rose trembling with fright at the appearance of this strange apparition, and clung to the arm of her husband, Who is he?" she whispered. Where did that terrible man come from? Though the question was not Intended for the cars of this strnge man, he hoard them, and in a voice like the deep tones of far-of- f thunder ho answered: "I am from the Klondyke, where you seem to be going; a place where gold can be raked up by the handful." Who are you? What is your name? Berry asked, advancing toward the Klondyker and extending his hand toward him. I am called Glum Ralston, he answered. What are you doing here? Hunting for a friend. By this time Clarence Berry had clasped his hand and brought him near the camp Are, where he bade him be seated and tell his troubles. halnt much at spinning yarns, the answered. My friend was robbed on the Klondyke a few months ago, an at the same time laid up for repairs Ethel grasped her husband's hand and mentally It was ejaculated, "Th Charlie AllendaleS Oouule," Etc. near," WOT. ckteed J B0Br flOKSSES Alt riabW BOSS. rwemo. III. (Continued.) Uls eyes and In a few lacts was unconscious. When ,e he found tlie strange hermit he at bondirg over him and gazing He turned into his face, went to the back and away ( Slia w J rf:y moBtoat jse foa ftl8 later ho brought him eat and said: had better eat; you are weak. was Quite a long sentence for and he paused after speak-- 1 Paul took the broiled steak It was very Juicy ,te sparingly. nutritious, and he began o feel Dinar in a few moments after he The hermit mea l While finished- seat on a large stone his resumed I njnt of the fire. flere was now another expression It was an expression of ms face. The more Paul studied the ness. tares of this strange man the more lie lay for jteiious they seemed. at him and ask- time looking ,g himself a thousand questions, of gazing and ea be grew weary aklng and closed his eyes. had almost slipped away In the cavern ea a movement sed him to again open his eyes, e hermit was preparing to leave. Jetook up the lude lamp, in which ted some kind of oil, and went to He opposite side of the cavern. the lamp cn a flat, stone, and put-ibis hand into a sort of crevice in rocky wall pulled forth something, He unrolled it and vas in a roll. ted at it Intently. saw that From where he lay t object when unrolled was part of tanned hide of some sort of an anl-j,e hermit, a rest. , Con-aasoe- ,I e g Paul." She listened with tlip keenest terest to the story of Glum Ralston, and tears gathered in her eyes. She knew the missing companion wa3 none other than Paul Miller, whose fate would perhaps never bo known. Oh, heaven, poor Laura! now shall we break this terrible news to her, Clarence? she sobbed. In- Iul L he will leave it, thought he doe3 I will examine it. writing on It, and It may con-- I. hope J. If ere Is The young husband made no answer, and Glum Ralston, lighting his pipe, proceeded to smoke in silence. a some clew to tbi3 Klondyke mys-- 7 k 111 that so nearly drives me mad. the movements of the hermit CHAPTER i!r; ett SO' b LUS. r. said Paul. rose to a sitting position red about the cavern. After a few moments he rose to his it. With a wildly beating heart he The gan his tour of exploration. .1 lamp had been left burning on a uare stone, and ho picked it up and die has gone! rab He tio: Iha: k ace ode aorg the great natural corridor nf V. THE WALRUS HIDE. Paul Miller ran two or three hundred paces into the cavern until it grew so dark lie had to grope his way and he came to a halt. From around a projecting stone he turned his gaze back to the chamber which was lighted by the lamp. He saw the hermit come at a run toward the inner chamber, three men pursuing him. They were so close on him that he halted by tho side of the couch and turned at bay. A third man at this moment appeared on the scene and seized his arms from behind and hurled him to the cavern per some distance until he came upon rreat chamber with .lofty ceilings. stick raked tho living coals together. Laying on two or three smaller sticks he blew them jnto a blaze and lighted the lamp. After a short rest be was prepared to travel, but he remembered the walrus hide, with its mysterious hieroglyphics, and determined to take it with him. He was unable to make out anything from tho hide, and rolling it up thrust it in one of his capacious pockets, and taking some of the provisions lett in the cavern, went out and buckled on bis snow shoes to leave the place forever. He tramped until right and then spreading a blanket on the snow slept soundly. A snow fell during the night, and when he awoke lie shook off the white gown of nature and ate some of the roasted moose meat he had brought with him. For over a week he wandered about in the wilderness, subsisting on fish lie caught in the river and a deer whidh he shot, but not seeing a human being. Raul bad no compass to steer his course, and waa often lost among tho mountains. One day he came upon a fresh trail In the snow as if a party with Indian porters, dogs and sledges had made their way over the snow toward Forty Mile Camp. He sat dow n at the side of the path to rest and think. A slight crunching of snow but a short distance from him caused him to look up, and he saw a man coming on snow shoes, a rifle on his shoulder. A single glance at those familiar features, and he cried: "Glum Glum Ralston!" The solitary traveler paused, Btarted backfc surprise, clutching his gun for an instant as if he would use it; then dropping it on the snow, gave vent to a whoop that would have done credit to a wild Indian, and bounding forward bad Paul about the neck, crying: Crack-lasalive, by th trident o Neptune. Where bave you been? asked Paul. Cruisin about lookin' for you, he answered. .Where you been? Paul told the story of his adventures, concluding with his escape from the cave. I have found the mystery about me thickening all the time, and this walrus hide covered with strange pictures and hieroglyphics is the chief of all mysteries. Glum Ralston took the walrus hide, unrolled It, and gazing at it with wildly dilating eyCs which indicated his strange interest, demanded: Where did you get it?" From the hermit. Th hermit the hermit the man that owns this bide the inan who saved you, is my old captain ! cried the excited prospector with a shout. Where is he? where is he! Its my old captain I'll go home to Kate yet. Where is he? where is he? where is he? he shouted almost fiercely, while Paul was too much dumbfounded to utter a word. Be calm. Glum, and explain what you mean! cried Paul. Holding up the piece of walrus hide, Gium said: Tvo seen this before. Where?" On board the Eleanor. Who had It there? h Oht I am Immiy in the nun tong when th sun begins to peeji, And the gulden culms shoot up In the that thankful lm their sleep, thete breakout And aie tell.ug how they'll by and am happy at the noontime when I Oh! the suit is gutting hot. And the poplar hutes arc rustling In the The old dog is getting lazy and the dinner's in the put, , And the lunging and the stretching the red-ski- n com-fabl- sixty-thre- e o 1 the little And tiltds are L- xlnKluR , awful sweet. Uh! I am happy in the evening when the sun bungs I'nl tout low, And pimnise for the morning's blight Hud vl ur; And the supper hell Is ringing in a way that's mighty Vlow, And I'm it w iul gl.nl di awing I . Snow-Proo- f that .exile's Our Bath Sponges. Your bath sponges do not look much like the fingers and the vase we have been learning about Beth sponges, you know, are soft au-- i silky, yet they are skeletons, too. The sponge anin.als that lived in Jhera were soft, jellylike and slimy, like those that lived in the fingers and the vases. Thee are many kinds of sponges, you see. Your hath sponges are full of holes; there are large holes and small holes. All these openings run down deep Into the sponge, and are connected with each other. The flue holes are like little mouths that take in the sea water. They are so line that they may serve for little sieves and keep harmful substances from entering. Floating in tho sea water are very tiny animals upon which the sponge bedtime's Weekly. Ponies. Ewart, in discussing tho problem of the origin of horses, describes as one of the mopt distinct kinds now living the Celtic ponies, which are found in the most northern parts of Ireland. ' They reach a height of only four feet, and are so abundantly furnibhed with hair that la winter . storms they are practically conDr. Ewart observed the duct of one of these ponies during a snowstorm. As soon as the storm began she turned her hind quarters to it, and in a short time the snow had formed a kind of shield or disk upon the long hair growing about the root of the tail. Thus protected, the pony did not shift her position while the storm lasted, except to turn with a Dr. J. C. snow-proof- change of tho wind. r.ms so color, almost, as the wall paper, that she was not at all noticeable, and thrust her arms from behind through the sleeves of the first girls gown, the sleeves being made open behind for that purpose. The first girl then recited The Jab berwoek, from Alice In Wonder1 ' , Boston Globe. Draft Detector. times in the week do you hear your parents say, I believe 1 Doubtless a great feel a draft? many, and then there Is always an argument as to where the draft comes from, is there not? And sometimes tt is not a draft at all, but just imagination. Still, It is a very simple mat ter to make a little Instrument which will find the draft If there Is one and besides show you pretty nearly where It comes from. Get a knitting needle, three large corks and four small ones, eight hairpins, four bits of cardboard, and an ordinary button. The diagram shows you so plainly how to put them together that there is no use describing how it is done Tho fop cork is the only thing which is not perfectly sim began to search for the crevice floor. Paul Miller had all along watched rock where he had seen the the exciting contest. He started .a place the skin on which was the were ting. Taul found the roll and drew toward the chamber, where they DUt tying the hermitss hands with strips of walrus skin, and was almost near t proved to be a piece of walrus as had the stran o "The e covered all over with strange pioenough to call out when he suddenly gold nuggets about his neck. halted and gave them a stare. us and hieroglyphics such as the Pauls interest In the walrus hide They are the robbers themselves! !lan picture writers use. It was The old man continued in aost round, and lie could find no he gasped In a whisper. "What in Increased. tone: a gleeful mean! He this does heaven quickly tinning nor end to It. "Oh, he lives, he lives! I will find slunk away behind some, masses of The report of a gun near the mouth tell him I've been true to him him, the of side the from broken rock, the cavern caused him to thrust the all these years and take 'lm home.' cavern. drug hide Into the crack and hasten Suddenly be became, more coma the deeper recesses of the cavCompletely concealed from the act' ors In this' singular drama, Paul was posed, and. turning his eyes on Paul, il enabled to observe all that went on. asked: Where Is he? There seemed to be only violence ' I dont know. CHAPTER IV. What! you have seen him and let enough on the part of the captors to fleeting a Friend With Bad News. him escape?" hermit. of the effect the It is our capture In this at point necessary I could not her? myself; they cam wy to return to Clarence Berrys When this was effected they began and dragged him away. pleading with him to do something, or uty, which are left on the top of the few (To be continued.) a After some revelation. All make Ulkoot Pass in a raging storm. bough that terrible night Clarence words, the captive became silent and sullen. His captors plied him with Biggest Cigar in the World. rry lay thinking of his young wife, e too he had packed away at many questions and he refused to anPaymaster General Bates of th as possible in that terrible swer any of them. At last, leaving army possesses th largest cigar In inches him In charge of one man, the other the world. It Is ght In the frigid cone. Day dawned two began to search the cavern. long, and a large around as a mans f&t and clear and he arose early When they came near Paul he arm at the thickest section. dulled to hts wife: Bs composition Includes twenty-twcrouched In the smallest possible "Ethel, Ethel, are you alive? claves of Philippine tobacco. Th there came no answer until he had space and scarce dared to breathe. One of the two searchers was the huge cigar is the gift of Major W. IL M away some of the package! man whom he had chased up the Corns gy, of the pay department, who formed he very then 4 her apartment; sent It to the paymaster general with mountain side. '4 her voice answering: As they passed one of them men- this note: m ail right, Clarence." 1 send you the largest cigar yon caused him to Thank Cod! ejaculated the hua-h- t tioned a name which 1 I feared you had perished dur start so violently as to almost dis- bave ever seen at least, the largest numLack-lana of seem. made Is was ever It It to have them. cover himself 1 that terrible storm." ber of the finest brand of tobacco tck and "Hemstitch," the EsquI-werbanker was the Lackland grown on the Island. This was manuwealthy cooks, and do Union, a breakfast of a pot of boiled and speculator of his own town, who factured at San Fernando case is I. The P. Province. and Tor heart Union in the rival a been fa and a Utile coffee, which froae had did these also a curiosity. It may be called a What Bush. of th Laura hand slightest provocation. It, and the When breakfast was over two sleds mysterious men of tho Klondyke family cigar, as all smoke ,r loaded with supplies, and with know about him, or what had he to grandmother Is supposed to finish It or the cigar to finish tho grandmoth3t dfT8 or any one to draw them, do with them? Washington Correspondence St Almost maddened by despair Paul er. Jftcd duwn the mountain. Two Ism! and Republic. knees furiously bis fell upon ,fpks wore consumed In reaching while Ms hands with Ms bnast bent wero'Uv I.lndmmnn. Hero they Beautiful Mummy Blue. 3t,,d another week, completing a the caplois led tho prisoner away. Hamlet reflected curiously upon th 4 with whirh they could mako their They lmd taken up tho oil lamp and carried It with them, and Paul fact that the body of a great ruler V down the river. a was soon In total darkness. In hi a might yet come to he used to stop night, after a day of arduous mod-erbut nd wind rose away, the ho to ludo of desperation keep 5 they campi-- at the foot of a tit of tho Ingenuity has discovered more satain protected from the north lowed them. At tho entrance if not more honorable, uses for ho halted and gazed off after a4bjr a steep precipice, l'Uo dogs cavern A thousand of departed emperors. bodies and tho prisoner. the captors been unharnessed, fed and lay Ms Manufacturer of art 1st s colors now swayed emotion tumultuous "king about the sleds. The tired and again In despair ho beat often use mummies In making their having bad aupper, were heart, colors, and it Is almost certain that 'ttfhel before the fire. Ethel, at his breast with hi hands. I a small percentage of some ancient did 4 la "Oh, cruel, cruel fate! Why furs, aat on a tied which had rulers went to compose dfawn up before the biasing logs. not know ho was my friend and do Egyptian colors used by varlou of the some Proud husband declared she look-- 1 fend him!" in IL A.a painting tlielr portrait for fa an angelic IIo gazed helplessly at tho llttlo Esquimaus quocn. Academy. Mummloa wer this year Btck reclined on the akin of a musk party until they had disappeared from usually preserved In bitumen or th "Hlng a atory In which there waa his view and then threw himBclf upon best pitch, and this blended with th ffad Bowery slang and western tho floor of tho cavern In despair. bone of th mummy gives a peculiarly k Suddenly one of the dog But his better Judgment camo to his beautiful tint, especially In brown or low relief and starting up ho adzed tho dark blue. The export of tnummle w4 00 Kv tent to fir Irf1 The lamp and started bark toward the eBl"g the story short Is now forbidden but on will last a beforo an seemed ago 1:38 It ',a a aharp whistle and aelsml to light It. manufacturer for years. Th color olber at once laid tho faint glow from tho dying embert so mid are principally used by por' f band on their tho flro was. Ho at where him told TaUer. stood and guns trait painters. dufenslva. last reached the spot, and with a pine He I How many pie. Make a hole all the way through the top cork from top to bottom. A hairpin will answer to drill this hole with. Now make two or three more holes beside this first one and verr near It Run your hairpin briskly through these holes until their sides are worn away and they form one hole. Now run a small tube of macaroni or a quill toothpick through the hole. This Is so that the knitting needle which pierces the top cork and feeds. The water that flows through every channel of the sponge carries these little animals with it. It also uses fine particles of lime, which the sponge animal uses in making its skeleton. After tho water has gone through all tle little channels in the sponge tt passes out through the larger boles And back Into the sea. Your bath sponge Is made out of the skeleton of several sponge animals that grew closetogether. land," while the girl behind did the gesturing, which, of course, looked as If It were all done by the arms of the funny little woman. Hands, feet and head were kept constantly in motion, the hand of the second girl going to the car of the girl In front as though listening, and performing other appropriate and graceful gestures all the time. As an encore the funny little woman danced a skirt dance to the music of the piano. This, of course, was more difficult and took a lot of You may know how many sponge practice beforehand, but the surprise animals live In the piece you have by and delight occasioned by this unique counting the largest holes that are In entertainment were well worth the It. as each large hole with the small time spent In bringing it to perfecones clustering about it makes one tion. sponge animal. Left and Right Hands. Sponges come from tiny eggs. You boys and girls have already Baby sponges at first swim about learned that your eye secs objects up In the water. They live their free life only a little Bide down, the head being downward, while. Then all that escape the hun- as it werb, and tho impression being gry mouths of their enemies fasten reversed in the brain. This appears themselves to something and are soon strange to you, doesnt it? But It is not more so than that about which I sporges themselves. Another way In which sponge gar- am going to tell you. Take a soft pencil in your right dens are started Is to cut the living sponge to pieces and plant the pieces hand and write a word upon your for In other places on the sea bottom. head; then look in a mirror to see what your have produced. You know, When Bponges are gathered for ma ket they are treated much as our that when writing is reflected in a bunch of fingers are treated. The mirror the characters read backward animftl matter Is allowed to decay; In the reflection. If you wonder why your playmates then they are beaten and put In pens to be washed by the waves until they laugh when they soe what you hav are clean. From Sea Stories for written, look at yourself in the mirror. Wtnder Eyes, by Mrs. A. S. Hardy. You will find tho word reflected so that the letters are produced toward the right, when they nliold wad Vw Reciting the Jabberwock. Two clever sisters at a recent party the left, so It will be backwards upaU gave an entertainment that was well your forehead. Now write upon a piece of papor am worth the labor and pain It took to this time prepare for IL One of tho girls dressed place this on your forehead;will appear in a full blue cheese doth gown that the writing, when reflected, came down just to her wrists. On to be produced from right to lefL Another amusing experiment conher hands were shoes and stockings in taking a pencil in cacn hand sists flarwide was a very and on her head in and a behind stood trying to write or draw a dethen She hat. ing both at the same time. Th with ex over a which it sign had cloth table, must h tending to the floor, and so concealed movements of the two hands simultaneous. lower of tho her body. Standing part The left band will make exactly th thus she waa a funny little woman, with big head and little feet, which same movements as the right, but In rested on tho table, but with no arms. the opposite directions. You will The sister, however, supplied the then have two words or designs, but arms. This sister stood Just behind one will be Just the reverae of th entirely covered with a dark cloak the other. - THE OF B ARN DOOR GOLF. CAME cat falls within the circle or lard in the hole. If the "cat falls in the hole you core ten; if only in the circle you score five, but you subtract from these sums the number of drives you bad to make before you succeeded. For instance, if your cat should land in the circle the first drive you make you core five, hut if you should make acts as a pivot for it to turn upon will drives befor the one which three will and socket permit have a loose lands the cat in the circle, thon you the cork to move easily. subtract three from the five and score When any one says draft get ont only two points. this little draft finder and put near When two are playing, each on has the place the draft Is supposed to more fun. come from. The slightest breath of All yon need for the game yonr an inning. Just as in baseball. A air will set the sails In motion and cat and your bat and a barn door or player may have five tries at driving While few of our boys are golfers, a great many of them are very expert at the game of cat," or as it is sometimes called. It takes at least two boy to play cat with any sort of fun, but a player can have a lot of sport going around the golf links by himself, for he can always try to beat hi own oore. There Is a splendid combination of these two games which one follow can play all alone, and enjoy It a lot, although two players make it even two-old-ca- 1 the direction In which they move will Indicate preRy clearly where the current of air comes from. e 1 uai-rul- 7 , . Racing Drops of Water. This game can be readily made lu a few minutes by any buy or girl. As Is well known. If a drop of water be will placed on a phcu of paper it at onco absorbed by the paper, but If the paper I oiled the drop of waier will remain Intact and slide grartfuly over th paper. The fit bt thing neemary Is to yt four or five book, one smaller than tho other, and rest them on their edge , r- - t' on - let. 't - W the table. Then get ft sheet of strong paper hold it over ft lamp till It Is thoroughly blackened by the soot from th flame and then oil it. This done, yon lay It over th tops of tbo book covtra, a side of a building against which you holding it down with a plate or other may knock It without any danger of mall vessel at th end. Tak a spoon breaking a window. and let a few drops of wtler drip n Measure off ten feet from tbs bm th paper, and they will slide along door and dfe a little bole a wld and Ilk so many living thing until they I M the length of your "cat" Now fall Into th plate. Th game is to draw a clrce two feet in diameter sc which drop of water gets ther around the byte and you are ready to first It can b played by any number play. of boys and girls, but a careful watch Place the oat within In the circle, most bo kept on the various drop of bounce op in the air as usual, and water, as they slid very quickly. By then hat it against th door, your oh- I coloring th water and having each joft being to hav it bounce back and colored a own differently drop fait In th little hole, or at least la player they can b readily kept track of. the Circle. It It doe not do either on who get th greater number you hat It again against th door, of drop in th piste first win the using a littt more Judgment If you It gam. miss this time, keep at It until th .UrlM!!VAV'l f llt- -' J I. his cat against the door; then, If h has not landed In tho hole or the circle, he is "out, and the other player takes his turn. A player scores as many "runs as the five or ten counted by the circle or hole exceed th number of drives he has made in that inning. When he has scored by landing his cat in the circle he is out," and th other player Is "In;" hut if b score by landing In the hole b ha another "Inning" In addition to th point he scores. On of the very best things about th gam Is that a hoy esa play tt alone, and, as In real golf, get a lot of fun out of trying to beat his own best previous r. |