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Then comes the command Load" from
the officer in charge. There is renewed &C.
tivity on the part of the cadets. Some dash
to the magazine on the left of the battery.
The compton is removed from the muzzle of
each gun and the sponge and hammer are
passed to those on the platform. Two ca
diets seize it and swab the gun. They are
hardly through with the job before their
comrades begin to pour from the
magazine. The pointed projectiles are
brought out in long tin pals, while the
shells are carried in three-pronged nippers
like chunks al ice. In a breath the pulleys
are at work. They creak as the cadets
draw the missiles up to the muZZeS of the
guns. Here they are seized, turned into the
guns and rammed home. There is no con-
fusion. Everything moves like clockwork.
Each cadet knows his place and performs
his duty silently and alertly.
When the guns are loaded the command
SIN battery" is heard. The wheels revolve
as by magic. and the snout OF each piece
peers over the parapet. All are thrown out
recoil. At the order ARM" they are
raised and lowered by ratchet at the
breech, and thrown to the right or left on
the chassis. according to the command of
the gunner. The gunner himself sights the
piece.
The friction primer is inserted in the
vent and everything made ready. Then
comes the order, detachment to the rear
march," AS precautionary measure
against the bursting of a gun, the cadets
abandon the battery while the guns are
being fired. One cadet to each gun, how
ever, remains. He stands upon the earth
below his gun, lanyard in hand, facing to
the rear, right foot forward.
The battery is now ready for work. In
clear voice the commandant shouts, 'No.
/, fireW
Flame streams from the mouth of the
great smooth NOrA the right The
port Is deafening, and the gun is hidden in
cloud of smoke. 1t was aimed at target
painted upon rock on Crows Nest. 2100
yards away. AS the smoke rolls to the
right those in line with the gun see the
huge round shot weighing 450 pounds sal J.
ing over deep cut made by the West Shore
Railroad.
A second later it strikes some feet above
the huge white target chipping the rock
and throwing up cloud Of dust.
AT the same instant West Shore express
train rounds the point of the mountain and
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Then whenever you think II would be best for
any woman lie is visiting that she should know
how to escape harm from him, you let me KNOW
" Your name?h
4" Write to Ella Palmer that is not my name
Ella is but not the other-at % Elizabeth street.
That Is a lodging house. / don't live there but
j go there: I'd gel the letter. InclOse the name
Of the lady, and I'll write to her what | know"
a. That wont do" said l. "a am not sure that
IN have anything to do with the matter at all,
certainly not unless there's strong reason why
/ should"
" Well Just as you like" said the outcast girl,
You will be doing right IL you do, and you'll be
sorry II you don't but don't care. III worry
L want TO strike him when he'll know IL and
when IL will hurt him Oh, Pm honest-I dom {
care anything about doing good turn for any OF
bis lady friends, but do want TO hurt him, and
/ mean to-"
This street encounter led to nv gaining. I'm
several ways, to detail which this story need not
be incumbered, the knowledge that Rudolph
SweDsen was a professional swlndier lie had
operated mostly IN unsentimenta schemes for
the transfer OF other mems money into his own
pocket, but bad lately gone into The field OF SEN
timent and utilized his good looks and auda-
cious address TO recommend himself as
suiior 10 Miss HenniDg. he had led her to Infer
that he was titled gentleman from Sweden, but
anxious TO become plain republican In q re-
public. Moreover, and almost by accident, had
absent husband Of the DOCTORS daughter. Then
deemed II my duty to acquaint the doctor OF
the complicated situation.
" Well" he said, am glad you have told me
this. AS father / ought to know Ii, though
shall do nothing. None Of US has any further
that he never enters our home again. He Is of
excellent family He courted my daughter prop
erly, 10 the presence OF my brother and his fam
1y, While she was completing her schooling in
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dashes along the shore of the upper bay
She is lost in the cut this side of the target
when the order mo. 2, fire. is given. A
shot of the same size and weight as its prede-
cessor speeds over the bay and the cut and
lands upon the target hundreds OF feet
above them.
The dast caused by this shot has hardly
risen when the officer in command orders
No. 3 to fire. 1t is the eight-inch rifle gun.
The cadet at her lanyard shuts his eyes.
throws his weight forward and pulls the
string. The gun cracks like huge rlhe:
She sends over the water solid eonleal
shot weighing $50 pounds AS 1t turtles
over the railroad embankment the shrlll
whistle of locomotive is beard. The ex-
press train energies from the cut and shoots
along the shore as though racing for life.
A moment afterward IL takes refuge IN tn
tunnel beneath the Military Academy.
+" No. 4, fire!" is the next order. 1t is the
thirteen-lnch mortar. She spouts flame Ike
volcano, and v0mits she'll weighing ZIG
pounds. 1t flies into the air above the
smoking crater and is seen by every eye.
In mounting the heavens it describes par
abola and finally begins to fall into the de-
preston on the top which gives the noun
tain its name-Crow's Nest. Before it disap-
pears it explodes, filling the air with cap
OF smoke, which expands and hangs over
the nest for a minute or more.
Nos. 8 and are eight-inch rifles. The
pointed shot sped from their mouths strike
the target spitefully and damage its face.
The six pieces in this one round have
landed over 1000 pounds of iron upon the
mountain by the use of 164 pounds OF pow
der. The spectators strewn over the hill in
the rear are thrilled with admiration and
wet with perspiratiOn. The cadets con-
tinue at work, however, without regard to
the heat. The gunners sight their pieces
with the utmost care. using their caps to
shield their eyes from the SUI. Several
bulls eyes are made
After more rounds are fired singly an
order to fire by platoons is given. 1t is done
in trim way. Each lanyard is pulled to
the fraction of a second, and the reports are
simultaneous. A faint breeze waits the
smoke TO the right. and the three huge pro-
]ectiles are seen flying over the cut like a
small covey of quail. They pour upon the
target en- masse and wipe away much of its
face. With the second platoon the mortar
is fired. The huge black she'll arises with
such force and on so great curve that 1t
passes over the top of the mountain and is
lost to view. But the report of its explo-
sion far away is heard and tells that it has
done its work. Twice is the platoon firing
repeated.
The rays of the sun are hotter than ever
when the command, by hattery-fre?
is heard. The six monsters belch in unison,
and over sixteen hundred pounds of iron
are sent over the bay in one discharge. The
shell from the mortar mounts the heavens
above the solid shot and again explodes on
the rim of the Crows Nest. The rever-
berations of'fha reports from the platoon
guns were startling, but these are simply
terrific. They sound like claps of thunder
and come with vivid distinctiveness from
the depths of the mountains.
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CHAPTER I.

MOUNTING THE LADDER TOWARD MATRlMoNf
N<F2OU have seen those step-adders that shut
NJ up like one piece, and look like the
NS5T famous Roman symbols OF unity, made OF
% bed.sats instead of reeds; that look fra
Gle and decrepit. and voice ont their pretended
rains as volubly as a servants bedstead, and
vet being stood upon, prove stronger the more
thew find strength exacted OF them. You must
have seen them. and If you have you and are
reasonably well acquainted already. L am ~
wears of age, but my history begins with my in-
yention of the first such siep-ladder when was
five wears younger. l came 10 New YORK from
Vermont with fewer dollars than fingers and
roes. but not without the step-ladder. 1t was
then in my nead TO be sure, but accompanied
by conviction that 1t need only be gotten out
Of that confinement and be set up for me TO
mount to honor and comfort. Thus equipped L
rented a cellar in Varick street. and furnished
il with a saw, plane, hammer, screw-drlVer,
chsel, and You would hardly believe how few
other tools. With these l first made fold
ing bedsiead. Then l bought cheap
mattress ana a blanket, some coffee and
bread a tiny lot of planks, and had
oouts remaining Then l fell TO and made
tie first two stepladders. II was late in the Sec
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darling out OF the door as il beside himself with
fright; the young detective. who had not spoken.
pressing up close to the one who was shot at
and who returned The fire; the young women
budding in one corner--two with their faces
against the wall and one with her back 10 theirs.
hiding her eyes with her bands.
The shot Swensen fired buried Itself In the door
by which the foremost officer had been standing.
He paused, It seemed 10 me, as II to delermine
whether he had been wounded. He reached the
window just as Swensen leaped from the Intel.
He look ed out, then looked luther out, and then
he leaned half way over the sill and looked every
Where-eyen in tle air
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A NEW Workers. WOOkNG.
wsIr7Ey FOR THE SUNDAY CALL BY JULIA" RAlP&

tied me In my cellar. ! should have been glad to
know them II | had thousand other friends.
Having no others l was wrapped up in them.
The next time you are In the neighborhood OF
Chatham square turn TO the west down Duane
street block or two, and looking along street
that will quickly come TO yOu, you Will see tie
words "Big Barracks" in black letters on a
white ground on the side of a gigantic double
tenement. Step by step Dr. Whiiield's practice,
built up with vigorous youth and by aid Of an
eu;erprisng partner who appeared 10 take the
business with him when he died. had dwindied
until toward the close of life begun in afiiuence
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The Victoria CoIonist says: The sloop ANNIE
owned by the smuggler Hottie (whO was shot and
killed while resisting captuIe) has been taken to
Port Townsend where she underwent thorough
examination. Several secret compartments have
been discovered in the hull all filled with pure
alcohol -
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AT the close of the firing the cadets fall
in line, mount the hill and return to the
barracks in charge of their Sergeants. An
hour later they are rushing over the es-
planade at double quick, after dress
parade. An hour after that, however,
after the sun is down and the evening star
shines over the Crows Nest, they appear
upon Filtration walk carrying parasols
and wraps and paying loving attention to
their fair partners.
s,.fcb,
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Says the Homer Index: The great hot springs
on the principal island IN Mono Lake never
boiled so fereely as they do now. The rocks
around their craters are unbearabie hot Tor
radius of many yards while the great volumne
OF water flowing from them Is always at The boil
ing point.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-06-29

A strike Of very rich ore was make recently in
the old Harron mine at Auberry Valley Fresno
County. The vein is ten inches wide and pays
$500 a ton.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-06-29
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MRS. GRAHAN'S
CUCUMBER
AND.
ELDER FLOWER
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The lady is much mistaken who thinks she has
thoroughly cleansed her face because she has Just
washed il with water and soap To prove it-let her
then little CUCUMBER AND ELDER
FLOWER CREAM by rubbing 1t thoroughly III the
skin and then wiping the face well with towel. The
result-as seen on the toweI-proyes IL. Soap and
water scarcely remove the impurities from the sur
face of the skin; they never penetrate and cleanse
the pores; besides soap IS cauStic and dries and
withers and turns the skin DARK. Indeed many en-
inebt dermatologsts go so far as to declare that
woman should never apply soap aud water to her
face il she wishes TO preserve fresh complexion
and youthful APP earance
CUCUMBER AND ELDER FLOWER CREAM
possesses all the purifying and cleansing qualities
possible. Il is composed of milk Of ALMONDS, juice
OF eueumbers and extract OF elder flower, and CON
tains vaseline glycerine animal Fat or other sub
stance which would in any way dry, wither or
darken the skin or cause n growth of hair on the
face. 1t Is neither greasy, clammy nor sticky. 1t
renders the skin beautifully pure. soft and OF a
satIn-ike texture aud bloom, keeping it free from
wrinkles and youthful looking.
No lady's toilet is complete without 1t.
Price per Bottle. Loo
Mrs. Gery1ise Graham, at her establishment at 103
Post St. treats ladies for mOles blackheads, PIN
Pies freckles. moth patches, rough or stippled or
oily skim for undue redness of the skin, for
peruous hair for gray falling hair, FOR the eye
brows and lashes for uadeveoped forms, for too
much too little flesh, and all other blenshes OF
face or figure She occupies the whole building so
that ladies who call Will meet ono but Mrs. era
hams lady patrons SUIT
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shade OF second, the desperate man had
reached the window sill, burst out the huge pane
and was ready TO leap to the ground. Bang"
went the detectives pistol and Swensen made
the leap.
saw at the same time much more than have
described-Mr HennlDg Hitting his daughters
limp body and trying 10 carry it out OF the room;
the negro servant, though called to aid him,
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F all the drills at the Mill
tary Academy, that of the
coast battery is the most
picturesque and interest
ing. TIE last drill was on
June 9th. The battery
stands unOn a low shore
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restore health and renew vitality. Price
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ANOTHER WORD ABOUT THE ROADS.

We have over and over again urged
upon our readers the need and the value
OF good roads both in the town and in
the country. Travellers are quick to
find where the good roads are and to
travel on them, and where the people
travel there you generally find business
good. "What direction shall take for
a ride" we overheard stranger ask in
this city the other day. "Go out to -
was the answer, you will find an excel
lent road there" On the other hand
the writer passed over a country road
not six miles away, within week, so
quilted out by the rains of the early
spring as to be almost impossible; it was
only by walking the horse that this piece
of roadway was passed over without acci-
dent. No sensible man would think OF
buying place and settling where he
would be compelled TO pass over that
roadway. He could not afford to do it il
a farmer, and he would not think OF
doing il II a man of means who was buy
ing place merely to live in. That par
ticular piece of roadway is proving al
expensive luxury to the town in which
| it is located. The direct outlay Is moth
ing, TO be sure, but the indirect cost Il
the community in the reduction Of rea
estate values is great. The America,
| Cultipdtor states the situation admiringll
in the following paragraph:
The more successful the farmer is thu
more he has TO market, and in the SAM
proportion the more he is affected by thu
character of public roads. But the valu'
of farm and village property Is affected
injuriously by poor roads in still anothe
way. There is an increasing tendeno!
on the part Of rich men who have mad
their money in cities 10 own country
homes, II not to live in them. They ar
more restrained from doing this by tn
impossible character of many oOuntr,
roads during large portions Of the yea
than by anything else. City men hav'
become used 10 the easiest and mos
rapid means of transit, and are the NOR,
intolerant Of enforced slowness any
where. So they go by rail ten, twent,
and thirty miles, rather than trust thi
roads for five or six. IL Is important 3,
country and village prosperity that NOR
of the city wealth be brought thithe
and distributed, as il is sure to be I,
some extent whenever o wealthy maj
moves into country district. No bette
means of inviting such wealth can be de
vised than by making country places a
easy Of access as they can be by road i'm
prOvement
We all desire TO see the so-calle,
abandoned farms of Vermont occupie,
and improved. This viii never be don
until the roads are so improved as b
make the approaches TO them easy AM
agreeable. Good roads pay.-Free Press
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FITCHBURG r. r.
HoosAc TUNNEL ROUTE.

HOOSAC TUNNEL ROUTE.
On and after July 1st, 1890, trains will run a'
follows;
LEAVE BENNINGTON VIA. BENNINGTON q RUTLAND
RAILWAY.
Leave Bennington IS m, arrive Troy is,
IN New York 2 10 IN, Hoosick Falls Ol, NORTH
Adams So Greenfield 11,12 m,Fitchburg ] q
Boston S. p m, INTERCHANGEABLE q Saratoga,lo q
am.
Leave Bennington 12 35 p m, arrive Troy 2 II
New York 90, AoOsick Falls 80, North Adam
20, Greenfield AS. Fitchburg 70, Boston 94Op
m Mechanicville 2 34
Leave Bennington u ) p m, arrive Troy IS
pm, Hoosick Falls IA, No Adams 90 p m
Mechanicville 65, p. m, Saratoga Esp. m.
Leave Bennington Il S5 night, arrive Troy 2 o.
New York 90 I'm.
Leave Bennington for Rutland and Montrea
I2 IS, 0 10 a. m, 2 25, 6 10 p. m.
TRAINS ARRIVE At BENNINGTON.
VIA. BENNINGTON q RUTLAND ny:
/ 10 m, from New York, Albany and Troy.
942a m, from New York, Albany, Troy, Hoo
sick Falls, No. Adams, Saratoga and Mechanic
| vile.
800 IN, from New York Albany Troy, ,Hoosicl
Falls, No. Adams ard Boston.
64Op m, from New York. Albany, : Troy. Hoosicl
| Falls North Adams Boston. and Saratoga.
| Arrive ut Bennington from Rutland and Mont
| treal 10, s 10 q. m, l 10, 40 Up. m.
J.wHTTMoRE J.R. WATSON,
Gen11rafic Mgr, Boston. Gen1 Pass; Agt
| c. A. NIMMO, Boston
Geni Western Passenger Agent. Troy.
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THE MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOL.

1t must be very gratifying to the advo-
Gates of manual training, now that the
school year all over the country is clos
ing and its work is being reviewed, to
note the remarkable success which has
resulted in most of the experiments in
their favorite department Of education.
The manual training school which was
started as part of the public school sys-
tenn of Baltimore has amply vindcated
the judgment of its promoters. Every
one of its graduates this year goes from
school into a profitable position, and
there have been more demands for their
services than can possibly be supplied.
The same story is told of the Manual
Training School in Philadelphia, which
has gained such an instant popularity
among the youth Of that city that it has
been found necessary to reject more than
one-half of the applicants for admission.
All these are good and wholesome indi.
cations. When we have larger schools
Of this kind and more of them the labor
organizations in this country which try
to prevent American boys from learning
useful trades will be outwitted, and the
best paid positions in the mechanical
arts will no longer be monopolized by
foreigners. America has now and has
had for years surplus of clerks, book
keepers and statesmen, great many OF
whom struggle along from year TO yeal
on wages that would appall the average
mechanic. What the country wants II
fewer men in the ranks Of these soft
handed occupations and more and better
native craftsmen. The wonderful sue
cess which is attending the manua
training experiments demonstrates how
keenly this need is realized.
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AHoUsEKEEPER's DONT,s.

Don't allow the broom to stand on the
brush end when not in use; hang it on'a
nail by means of a ring in the top of the
handle.
Don't forget that broom will last
much longer if, after using, it is dipped
in boiling water for few minutes.
Don't fill the best windows in the
family living room with plants.
Don't neglect to air the house thor
oughly every morning. Open opposite
doors amp windows for five or ten min
utes, even if it is stormy
Don't forget, if you are tall woman
to have your workable and ironing
board few inches higher than they ar
usually made. This little precautiol
will prevent many backache.
Don't neglect to have yonr name plain
ly painted on all jugs or bottles that ar
sent to the store for vinegar, molasses
etc. Then you will be sure to get bacl
your own.
Why continue the use of irritating pow
ders, snuffs or liquids. Ely's Cream
Balm, pleasant of application and a sur
cure for catarrh and cold in head, ca
be had for SOC. 1t is easily applied int
the nostrils, is safe and pleasant, and i
curing the most obstinate cases. 1t give
relief at once.
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NUMBER 26.
SMALL oHuEoH IN ENGLAND.

The claim for the apparently enviable
distinction of being the smallest parish
church in the kingdom has been hOtly
disputed from time to time, but since it
was shown that the small Sussex Church
Of Lullington, alleged to be only sixteen
feet square, was after all but the chancel
of much older building Though there
were only sixteen parishiOners, or Just
one square foot per head), st. Lawrence
in the Isle of Wight has been acknowl-
edged to deserve the pre-eminence in
this strange category. OF all the small
churches, this must indeed be the
smallest, for its precise dimensions until
recently were twenty feet long, II feet
broad and six feet high to the caves
dimensions which would have much to
be desired even in the dining-room of a
private household. At Pilham, in Lin
colnshire, parish church was built for
a congregation of fifty-eight, and the
builders were so economical of space
that they dispensed with a chancel,
putting the communion table in an apse
six and half feet deep. Without this
recess the church would not be twenty
seven feet long. In Somersetshire and
Dorsetshire, placed where in olden times
they would serve the needs of the scanty
scattered populations upon the sheep
grazing downs, there may still be found
an occasional church of wondrously
small dimensions, whose fame even for
this type of lOwliness has never been
noised abroad. As these little houses of
prayer were in their prime in the three
decker days, so to speak, when the par
son and the clerk were inseparable, and
when high inclosed pews wasted what
little space there was for us, it is easy to
understand that the arrival of few
children home for the Christmas holi-
days would make all the difference be-
tween an ordinary and crowded con-
gregation. The Chilcombe parishioners,
for example, numbered, short time
since, twenty-one persons, and in the
absence of bell or any other tower, the
congregation were summoned by small
bell suspended from the arch at the west
end of the church. Culbone church is
thirty-four feet by twelve, and has the
further distinction of being so romanti-
cally situated deep down in a cove or
gully that the sun never reaches it during
three months of the year.-Abbeys and
Churches.
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"HuuEsr Is the Rest sauce.

As a rule, person who has good ap-
petite has good health. But how
many there are who enjoy nothing to eat
and sit down TO meals only as an un.
pleasant duty. Natures antidote for
this condition are so happily combined
in Hoods Sarsaparilla that 1t soon re.
stores good digestion, creates an appe-
blood so that the beneficial effect Of
good food is impaired TO the whole
body. Truly hunger is the best sauce
and Hoods Sarsaparilla induces hunger