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shin. Let us descend to an altitude of 200
feet. What's her speed now?" He turned
10 the tutor anxiously.
The youngest member of the expedition
consulted the air gauge, and answered.:
cone hundred and fiity-two."
Al these words, not in themselves pain
fUl, the Sergeant and the inventor exchanged
meaning look.
'What the dickens is the row. anyway"
blurted out ROYAL, like a child, unable to
bear the ignorance Of the appar ent mystery
any longer
Il viii tell you in few minutes, after
we have done what we can for the unfortun-
ate man below, replied the chief
by this time the alrship had described a
huge circle, and was making back for the
scene OF starvation and despair.
But Il you are not going to descend,
how or earth can you do anything?" in
qElred Royal, wonderinglv
Hand me your KEYS to the provision
closet, was all that the Sergeant deigned
10 answer
Tne quiet tutor caught the idea.
An! he exclaimed, pointing to the
commander nodded.
We will drop two months provisions
and some turs," said the Sergeant, laconi-
caIly.
Already he was throwing boxes of penn
mican, canned meats, vegetables and fruits
nadlv into the main room.
here he is cried Jack peering ahead
and below "I'll bet you dollar he hasn't
& firel''
ITS his own fault, then," answered Ser
geant Wliltwig. "He has plenty of fuel.
There is the whole ship"
But perhaps he hasn't match!"
,ol,1
are the provisions" suggested the tutor
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EXTINCT CATS AND DOGS.
Curious Feline and Canine Creatures That
Formerly Existed.

Curious Feline and Canine Creatures That
Formerly Existed.
'There used to be cats in North America
100, 900 years ago." said paleontologist to a
writer for the Washington Star. "Great
carniverous creatures of the feline tribe
roamed over this country then in enormous
numbers. They are all extinct, and have
left only their bones behind to tell the
story of how they lived and what they fed
upon. One often reads of the art by which
the naturalist is able to restore the skeleton
of an animal from single bone, and in fact
O good many mistakes have been made
through over-confdence on the part of
learned gentlemen in reconstructing fossils
by theory from insufficient material. But
there is no possibility of mistaking the
testimony afforded by the teeth. They tell
all about the manner of existence led by
their former owner, giving accurately the
habits, diet and approximate age of the
beast
"Thus it is very fortunate that teeth last
longer than any other objects in nature. At
this day ore found in a perfect state of pres
ervation the molars and incisors which
were used to chew with by the mighty
reptiles of millions of years ago. 1t is from
his dentition that science declares man to
be carnivorous only by habit and not bv
nature. Ispoke of that the other day to a
young man in search of information, who
replied impolitely: so is hem When 1
asked him what he meant by that he said
that the dentiton of a hen would certainly
not indicate that it was carnivorous bv na-
ture, and yet it evidently was So judging
from its addiction to worms and preference
for flesh in general However, as was go
ing to remark, the piercing and cutting
teeth of some of these cats of long ago are
the most perfectly adapted instruments for
cutting purposes that ever were seen, being
unequaled by any manufactured tools for
such uses.
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though he had been schoolboy and the
lion dog Had one of the brutes chosen
at that moment to vent the rage that he
really feels against his master in one quick
blow of his great paw-but he didn't
"I knew he wouldn't when laid down,
said the trainer afterward, "otherwise
should never have lain down. can tell, OF
course, whether it is safe to begin my per-
formance or not. There are ways of know
ing-I shall tell you later on. There was
once, though, when went through per-
formance without that knowledge. 1t was
shortly after the close of the war. 1 was
living in Lynchburg, Va, with my folks
and was irving to repair the family estate
bv dealing in tobacco. There came Co.'S
tello's circus to town one day. Among
the performers was Herr Engel, who was
killed by tiger the next year in Hayti-a
great tiger trainer in his day. He had a
cage of trained tigers. After the show, in
the village hotel, I met him and someone
asked me If was afraid of tigers. I said
that was not.
This talk led to a foolish wager that on
the next day, which was Sunday, should
60 into the tigers den.
The Deed of Dare Devil.
sThe next morning met my friends and
they asked me whether / was going to go
into the cage of course L said, but 1
really had forgotten all about it. We
picked up Herr Engel somewhere and went
down to the barn where the cages were
stored over night preparatory to moving to
the next town. -,
"'You're not going into that cage, said
one man. You had better look pleasant
and pay your bet
"I said that 1 would follow the trainer,
and follow him 1 did. He first put on big
linen duster, and taking his whip he sprang
through the door and put the brutes through
their PAGES. When he came out 1 put on
the duster, took the whip and leaped into
cage like a whirlwind. 1 yelled at the
frightened tigers beat them right and LETT
and sent them covering into their corners.
The trainer and my friends stood around
dumb with amazement.
"'Give me the hoop called out. TIL
90 through the whole show
You'll come out at once-that's what
you'll dor shouted Engel. You've risked
enough for one day.
81 was not angry. I went out like shot,
and for the first time in five minutes my
heart dropped down into its proper place.
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untold hardship BY ice. How often had it
taken an expedition nine hours to make an
advance of two or even three miles! Four
miles day in that untrod region is a sue
cessful trip. Six miles is unusual. Nine
miles a miracle.
Without eating, without smoking-al-
most without talking, the FIVE sat watching
the dying machinery. The buzz of wheels
took to themselves lower and lower tones.
Now and then tremor shook the vessel,
not of dislocation, but as if it were horse
overridden.
AT last the Aeropole only made 80 miles
an hour The Sergeant was biting his lips
to restrain his terrible impatience. He had
stationed himself in the bow window, and
was searching the horizon incessantly with
his glass Suddenly he gave start of
recognition.
''There!' he exclaimed, pointing down to
black vertical line in the distance. "There
is our cairn! The highest latitude ever
that, and We will yet conquer the un-
conquerablep'
The Sergeant was in an ecstasy of emo
tion. His breath came fast, and the yapor
of it enveloped his companions. The car
sped over this undiscovered country faster
than any previous device of human ingen-
uity had ever done. 1t was bitterly cold.
The men shivered in an atmosphere far be-
low zero, but they did not notice this
Suddenly, the commander of the expedi-
tion turned to his companions, with face
charged with excitement:
"Yell, boys, yellp' he shouted. "Where
is the flag of the Union?'
MAD as March hare" whispered Jack
to Royal. Il say it's horribly cold"
But the tutor caught the Sergeant's two
hands and held them. The same indescriba-
BILE elation clutched them both and bound
them together.
"Hurrah!" cried the tutor with choking
voice. 'The highest latitude! Hurrah!'
At that moment an ominious whizzine
arrested the enthusiasm of the explorers.
ITO Be Continued Nezt Su,day.l
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IT. She is troubled; she is frightened; she
has nervous prostration; she is refusing to
| work. Good God sirs! can't blame her,
for 1t is cold, cold and dangerous, and she is
my child" AS he spoke he patted huge
! coil of wire with unutterable tenderness.
You see, proceeded Prof. Wilder with
shaken voice, "the responsibility we have
put upon her has been too prolonged. When
you were boys didn't you let the old cat die
out as you called it, when the swing
stopped gradually of its own volition? Here
surely giving out" He again looked at the
tutor inquiringly.
"A hundred and twenty" answered the
tutor gravely. Gentlemen, if we had not
gone back to the shipwreck, even at this
rate OF decrease of speed, we should have
attained the Pole.''
And if she had stopped-paused for an
lnstant-she might not have been able to
start again for a week or perhaps a month.
we simply could not descend to the poor
fellows relief. The machine needs thor
ough rest" TIE inventor spoke as if he
were nurse attending an overworked and
worried patient, and. indeed, perhaps he
was right.
This is a 60. How near can we Gomez
exclaimed Jack Hardy. II vote we so back
as tar as we can. If we've got to be stuck
anywhere with dyspeptic engine, vote
to be as near home as possible"
NO" answered the Sergeant decisively.
"We 60 ahead Safety lies in advance.
Relief, if we must need it, would miss US
anywhere except at the Pole"
"One hundred and fifteen!' interjaculated
the tutor.
eff she can only hold out five hours"
thought the leader to himself. Every mile
gained by air was equivalent to five hours
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MARS APPROACHING THE EARTH
1t Will Be Near In August, When Astrono-
mers VIII Investigate.

mers VIII Investigate.
Washington Star.l
The month of August next is expected to
bring important if not wonderful and SEN
sational developments in the study of our
mysterious heavenly little kins-
woman. On the 9th of next August Mars
will arrive at point opposite this earth,
which it reaches but once in Is years, where
the distance between the two planets will be
reduced from 141, 900, 900 miles to $4,000, 900
miles. Upon that night thousand tele-
scopes will be leveled at the planet, which
will pose in refulgent beauty in theSouthern
skies, and thousand eyes will seek to
pierce the veil of distance that conceals the
knowledge for which science thirsts.
Wonderful results are expected by rea-
son of the marvellous Improvements that
have been made in astronomical instruments
within Is years and since the last most
favorable observation was made. With the
powerful lenses and the Photographic ap-
pliances of to-day it will be as if the far
away visitor tempted by curiosity, had
drawn nearer to the earth than ever. AL
though Mars will be $4,000, 900 miles away,
the powerful Lick telescope will magnify
her to size as if viewed at distance of
but II, 500 miles. Mars but II, 800 miles
away! What wonder, then, that astrono-
mers are feverish with anxiety for August
to come!
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large. fansies love the shade. Ii you
maAe your peo under some tree, tnev VIII wa,
iike ~ much. Ii you are sowing seeos, ioi-
low tne instructions for the phlox garoens.
~ II you are transplanting, you must set tne
Ii!tle plants about four inches apart. When
an are IN and the bed is full, water tnem
cGPlousiy; II the sun shines, cover Inem
WIZ WY" newspapers pegged down till evening
@ ano 'Ieh take on the coverlngs[don ior-
So go - next aay is brlgnt ana h9s, coue. tta
1hce more, Keep wet, and IN few DAYS tne
0ep WI, Wiil De sale.
| shLnS the poppy, gardens must hafe
TL 1uree peas four feet long and two woe Woe:
Cniif nTF we can plant each klno Dy ilseli, et
nninaS nia popPles IN one, In the seoTnu tho .ho
,onJa.s"I ynssion popples, ana IN tne Iass sn
sod ,ri.h Shirleys; snouia aou pe.a oh "
had Sao WIN r the hal1 pushel OF manure " eaIn
1" Iuu Sover tne SEEDS Win only snsn.
iassI oi SOL about twice their tnlekHessi
Eaaru,y Say layer at all In the case OF tne
Sa SSni[iey SEEDS Tor they are SO delicate as 10
iara u aaosS 81 invlsioie the carnations are hucn
than,' Ine oaliIornlas larger sun. ooSer
LII. r win newspapers ana "aser eveis
thsa 4unless the weatner is wei lof 'a1 ~ ;s
AZ 80 uats') Iney shoulo De up IN "eeA -
WIG "'a'ner Is favorable.
Nasturtiums Make Nice Showing.
Those who choose uasturtiums for a gar
den will have but little care, tor they -four
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HALF AMILLION HOOPS
Two Shops Turn Out All the BOYS
and Girls of America Use.
LARGELY A HAND PROCESS.
How the Strips Are Given a Bath before
BENDING Into Shape.
TNIOUE FOPNS tn PLEASE THE EYE
LARGELY A HAND PR0Ct
UNIQUE FORMS TO PLEASE THE EEE
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The youngest clerk in any big wholesale
toy store knows that "hooples" mean roll
ing hoops. How they came to be called
hooples in the toy trade is more than can
tell you. Even Father johnson, at one time
the largest manufacturer of hooples IN
America, could not give me reason.
''They have always been called hooples by
the trade" he said to me, 'but never by the
boys and girls who roll them. When 1 was
youngster we always called them rolling
hoops as the children do to-day"
Ten years ago there were about 8, 900 gross,
or 432, 900 rolling hoops, made in this coun-
try. Last year the same number were sent
to market, no more and no less. The hoop
making industry has not keep pace with the
increase in population, because of the popu-
larity of the tricycle., bicycle and other rival
toys Boys would rather ride wheel than
roll one. So, to-day, 65 men in two factor
les, one in New England and one in New
York State, make the half million hoops
that are sent out annually. The two fac
tories are in small towns where there is good
water power and plenty of hardwood timber.
Their labor is cheap and the materials are
found directly at their doors. Mr.. johnson
once had large hoople factory IN New
York City, but he was forced to abandon
that line of business because he could not
compete with the country manufacturers
The Hoops Are Made by Hand.
With the exception of the saving the
work in making hoops is done by hand. The
best wood is the American ash, which is
also the best wood for kite frames and other
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CHAPTER VII

THE HIGHEST ALTITUDE
The four men confronted each other il
alarm. The white face, the drawn expires
sion of the leader of the expedition, af
irighted the three men who were left in the
cabin; the excitement of those who had
seen the man in the abandoned ship below
them communicated itself 10 the chiefs
face and added thereon deeper lines of an1-
iety.
sWhat is it?" they simultaneously cried.
There's ship below and fellow wav-
ing something on it-that's all, said Jack
Hardy, almost beside himself at the first
evidence be had seen of Arctic horrors.
whats up with you?"
"Where?" demanded the Sergeant i'm
peratiyely, disregardinR the last interroga-
tive. The anxious burrows of his face
deepened still more. He knew too well
what Polar abandonment and Arctic de-
spair meant
'There!" pointed the tutor. 'Use this
glass-look!
Cant we stop and take him imp" asked
ROYAL. ''Of course we must"
"We can't!" This cold-blooded answer
came from the engine room. There stood
the inventor at the doorway, every nerve
ouivering. 'NIy God!" he calculated,
putting one hand to his brow, "We can'tl
We simply can'tl"
At this extraordinary speech, which
emanated from the sensitive lips of the
most tender-hearted man among them,
Jack and RoYal started forward with a
mutual impulse of horror. Youth is geuer-
GUS, and the boys of the party would have
rrsr- fbair LOST or haI
last mouthful to keep a fellow creature
from suffering. 1t was incredible to them
that the Sergeant, who had been himself
stepped in suffering, should not have the
came sentiments. simultaneously the
thought passed their minds that the air
sickness had clutched him again, and turned
his wits
'cWhat - do YOU mean?' demanded
Jack Hardy ''You wouldn't let fellow
die in your sight! say, stop the car and
let's go to him."
That's the ticket" added Royal Sterne
with quivering lips 81 say confound the
North Pole. Well save that poor fellow
down there"
The two young men approached the in
veutor threateningly, who, in his turn,
rrembled violently, but did not finch.
Sergeant Willtwig, who had been look
ing carefully with glass out of the open
stern WINDOW az luC hAASh vas
now far behind, turned at the sound OF
these hot words, and approached the two
men.
aHaltr' he cried eommandingiy. "Who
are you that dare to give orders on this
ship? You are liable to arrest. Do you
think we are careless of human life? I'M
peratiye circumstances demand that we do
not descend, and when We do, may God
help uSr'
The heroic tone of the Sergeant's voice
aweJ the young men. They turned back.
They perceived that some unforeseeu.danger
nenacel their expedition, perhaps vitality.
The tutor looked on dismayed
Prot Wilder" asked the Sergeant lift
ing a white face to the inventor, rs 1t safe
Tor you to slow the Aeropole down?''
The word "sate" was ominous as the tone
in which the question was uttered. The
tour riveted their gaze upon the haSgard engl-
ueer He shook his head hopeIessly and
turned away.
We'll. them" said the Sergeant, ''put her
about. We well return TO the abandoned
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08
DRIVER ANTS IN AFRICA.
They Have Enormous Appetites and Are
Dreaded by Everybody.

They Have Enormous Appstites and Are
Dreaded by Everybody.
"The most terrible Of insects are the
driver ants of West Africa" SAID an ento-
mologist to Washington Star writer
"They are 50 called because they
drive before them while on march
all other living creatures, no, animal
being able to Withstand them. No beast,
however formidable, dares to cross their
track, and they will destroy in a single
night all the pigs and fowls on farm. The
huge iguana lizards fall victims to them, as
do snakes and all other reptiles. 1t is said
that they begin their attack on the snake
by biting Its eyes and so binding the prey,
which. instead of running away, writhes
helplessly in one spot Natives of Africa
assert that when the, great python has
crushed its captive inits folds it does not
devour it at once, but makes circuit of at
least mile in diameter in order to see
whether an army of driver ants is on the
march in the neighborhood. If so, it
glides off and abandons its prey, which will
soon be eaten by the ants.
"If an army of these ants approaches a
village the entire population is compelled
to fly. Sometimes the people may be
obliged to take to the water in order to save
themselves. The insects travel in the night
and on cloudy days, because they are
quickly killed by the direct RAYS of the sun.
Should the sun come out while they are
making q journey they construct continu-
Gus arch over their path out of earth agglu-
tinated by a fluid excreted from their
mouths. In cloudy weather an arch for the
protection of the marching wotkers is con-
structed of the bodies of the larger soldier
ants, whose widely extended jaws, long legs
and projecting antene, INTERVENING, form
a sort OF network. In case of an alarm the
arch is instantly broken and the insects
which composed it join other soldiers on
the fianks of the line, who seem to be act
ing as scouts, running about furiously in
pursuit of the enemy. The alarm over, the
arch is renewed and the column proceeds as
before"
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short time to make my selection, but 1
didn't require all of that. 1t is easier to
pick out lion that can be tanned than q
man who can be taught trade. walk up
to the cage where Mr.. Lion sits 1 hit the
bars with my whip and make pretence OF
putting my hand between them.
Doesn't Like a Treacherous Lion.
eff the lion throws himself against the
irons with a great spring and roar, know
that he is all right. If he sulks in one cor
ner or comes up to the bars quietly like
cat coming upon a mouse. do not want
him. The noisy lion IS buffer. He makes
his bluff when he makes his spring. The
quiet lion is treacherous. All lions are
towards When I go into the cage where
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TRAINING THE LIONS.
The Fellow That Roars as Bluff Is
the One Easiest to Teach.
A GREEN EYE MEANS DANGER.
Eow the Professional Goes at 1t to Put Up
One of His Tricks.
COLONEL ROoNEs FIRST EXPERIENCE
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WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPArCR.I
''No, everyone cannot be lion-tamer,
neither can every lion be tanned"
Colonel Boone-big Colonel Daniel Boone,
once of the Confederate army, for many
years superintendent Of the national zoolog-
ical gardens of Peru, and at one time mill
tary instructor IN the Peruvian army-was
talking to me about lion tanning.
He had Just finished an exhibition with
his own trained beasts in the theater near
by. In one corner of the round performing
cage the five great cats had slept until the
Coloners step upon the floor wakened them
slept much as house cats sleep, rolled
together gracefully, their paws intertwin-
ing and their heads thrown backward for
comfort.
At the word of command the lions reused
themselves and after glance at their mas
ter sprang to their feet, crowding upon
each others heels in their frightened haste
to escape from their sleeping pen into the
performing ring
The Tricks That Are Popular.
Then they went through their tricks while
the band played, and the audience kept
very still Only once did the people ap-
plaud and that was when the trainers as
sistant drew her head from the mouth of
the ugly, snarling lioness. But all was
quickly stilled when the Colonel threw
himself full length upon the floor and rolled
and played with the biggest of the lions as
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RaiIroad Popularity in Japan.

Spare Moments.1
Japan bids fair to rival Great Britain in
railway popularity, for although railways
have been only very recently introduced
there the proportion of passengers to mile
age is very high. When the railway from
Yokohama to Toxic, IS miles long, was
opened in 1872, there were carried the fol-
lowing year on that line 1,223,O71 persons,
and 2,i72, 1O5 in 1881 There are already
LIPS miles of railway in Japan, and accord
ing to the last annual return, 2O, ,598, ,926
travelled on them in the course of II months.
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Patches for Kid Gloves.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat. ]

''Kid gloves will rip despite our best
efforts to keep them in good condition."
said an exquisite young man at the South
ern last night 'But we have at last learned
how to mend them. Instead of sewing up
the rent, as formerly, We now take small
piece of court plaster or surgeons plaster
(the latter is the better), turn the glove
wrong side out and neatly apply the plaster
over the rent or rip, first having drawn the
rent part of the glove nicely together"
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ADVERTISING IN THE SKY,
Tho vauIted Blue Can Now Be Used by
Enterprising Tradesmen.

Tho taulte0 blue Can NOW De USED by
Enterprising Tradesmen.
Phladel phia Telegraph
The newest horror is not Deeming nor the
Paris Anarchists. II is considerably worse
than either. An esteemed scientific CO.
temporary says that genuine sky-signs can
now be installed for the enterprising adver-
tiser By simple arrangement of mirrors,
rejecting glasses, and lights, sort of gi-
gantic magic lantern can be set up, by which
images can be thrown upon the clouds.
You will be able to advertise your wares, in
letters 100 feet long, on the skies, so that
they will be visible over a dozen counties
As if this truly awful prospect were not
enough, we are told that these sky signs can
be made luminous, SO that they will blaze
all night, Heine, in one of his rhapsodies,
said that he would like to snatch burning
pine from its Norway mountains and write
with it the name of "Agnes' in letters of
fire on the skies. But he would probably
not have cared to adorn the armament with
a blazing description of somebody's patent
trouser stretcher, or glowing picture of a
lady wearing the latest thing in hygienic
corsets.
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BY HERBERT D. WARD.
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS
OF ARCTIC EXPLORATION.
WRITTEN FOE THE DISPATCH


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