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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/32970-8.txt b/32970-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9efda3c --- /dev/null +++ b/32970-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3833 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Harper's Round Table, May 21, 1895, by Various + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Harper's Round Table, May 21, 1895 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: June 25, 2010 [EBook #32970] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S ROUND TABLE, MAY 21, 1895 *** + + + + +Produced by Annie McGuire + + + + + + + + +[Illustration: HARPER'S ROUND TABLE] + +Copyright, 1895, by HARPER & BROTHERS. All Rights Reserved. + + * * * * * + +PUBLISHED WEEKLY. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1895. FIVE CENTS A COPY. + +VOL. XVI.--NO. 812. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. + + * * * * * + + + + +[Illustration] + +HEROES OF AMERICA. + +THE DEATH OF STONEWALL JACKSON. + +BY THE HONORABLE THEODORE ROOSEVELT. + + +[Illustration: Decorative H] + +orrible though the civil war was, heartrending though it was that +brother should fight against brother, there remains as an offset the +glory that has accrued to the nation by the countless deeds of heroism +performed by both sides in the struggle. The captains and the armies who +after long years of dreary campaigning and bloody, stubborn lighting +brought the war to a close have left us more than a reunited realm. + +North and South, all Americans now have a common fund of glorious +memories. We are the richer for each grim campaign, for each hard-fought +battle. We are the richer for valor displayed alike by those who fought +so valiantly for the right, and by those who no less valiantly fought +for what they deemed the right. We have in us nobler capacities for what +is great and good because of the infinite woe and suffering, and because +of the splendid ultimate triumph. We hold that it was vital to the +welfare not only of our people on this continent but of the whole human +race that the Union should be preserved and slavery abolished; that one +flag should fly from the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande, that we should +all be free in fact as well as in name, and that the United States +should stand as one nation, the greatest nation on the earth; but we +recognize gladly that South as well as North, when the fight was once +on, the leaders of the armies, and the soldiers whom they led, displayed +the same qualities of daring and steadfast courage, of disinterested +loyalty and enthusiasm, and of high devotion to an ideal. + +The greatest general of the South was Lee, and his greatest lieutenant +was Jackson. Both were Virginians, and both were strongly opposed to +disunion. Lee went so far as to deny the right of secession; while +Jackson insisted that the South ought to try to get its rights inside +the Union, and not outside; but when Virginia joined the Southern +Confederacy, and the war had actually begun, both men cast their lot +with the South. + +It is often said that the civil war was in one sense a repetition of the +old struggle between the Puritan and the Cavalier; but Puritan and +Cavalier types were common to the two armies. In dash and light-hearted +daring Custer and Kearny stood as conspicuous as Stuart and Morgan; and, +on the other hand, no Northern general approached the Roundhead type, +the type of the stern religious warriors who fought under Cromwell, so +closely as Stonewall Jackson. + +He was a man of intense religious conviction, who carried into every +thought and deed of his daily life the precepts and the convictions of +the faith he cherished. He was a tender and loving husband and father, +kind-hearted and gentle to all with whom he was brought in contact. Yet +in the times that tried men's souls he showed himself to be not only a +commander of genius, but a fighter of iron will and temper, who joyed in +the battle, and always showed at his best when the danger was greatest. +The vein of fanaticism that ran through his character helped to render +him a terrible opponent. He knew no such word as falter, and when he had +once put his hand to a piece of work he did it thoroughly and with all +his heart. It was quite in keeping with his character that this gentle, +high-minded, and religious man should early in the contest have proposed +to hoist the black-flag, neither take nor give quarter, and make the war +one of extermination. No such policy was practical in the nineteenth +century and in the American Republic; but it would have seemed quite +natural and proper to Jackson's ancestors, the grim Scotch-Irish who +defended Londonderry against the forces of the Stuart King, or to their +forefathers, the Covenanters of Scotland, and the Puritans who in +England rejoiced at the beheading of King Charles the First. + +In the first battle, in which Jackson took part, the confused struggle +at Bull Run, he gained his name of Stonewall from the firmness with +which he kept his men to their work and repulsed the attack of the Union +troops. From that time until his death, less than two years afterwards, +his career was one of brilliant and almost uninterrupted success, +whether serving with an independent command in the Valley, or acting +under Lee as his right arm in the pitched battles with McClellan, Pope, +and Burnside. Few generals as great as Lee have ever had as great a +lieutenant as Jackson. He was a master of strategy and tactics, fearless +of responsibility, able to instil into his men his own intense ardor of +battle; and so quick in his movements, so ready to march as well as +fight, that his troops were known to the rest of the army as the "fool +cavalry." + +In the spring of 1863 Hooker had command of the Army of the Potomac. +Like McClellan, he was able to perfect the discipline of his forces and +to organize them, and as a division commander he was better than +McClellan; but he failed even more signally when given a great +independent command. He had under him 120,000 men when, toward the end +of April, he prepared to attack Lee's army, which was but half as +strong. + +The Union army lay opposite Fredericksburg, looking at the fortified +heights where they had received so bloody a repulse at the beginning of +the winter. Hooker decided to distract the attention of the Confederates +by letting a small portion of his force, under General Sedgwick, attack +Fredericksburg, while he himself took the bulk of the army across the +river to the right hand so as to crush Lee by an attack on his flank. +All went well at the beginning, and on the 1st of May Hooker found +himself at Chancellorsville face to face with the bulk of Lee's forces; +and Sedgwick, crossing the river and charging with the utmost +determination, had driven out of Fredericksburg the Confederate division +of Early; but when Hooker found himself face to face with Lee he +hesitated, faltered instead of pushing on, and allowed the consummate +general to whom he was opposed to himself take the initiative. + +Lee fully realized his danger, and saw that his only chance was to +attempt, first to beat back Hooker, and then to turn and overwhelm +Sedgwick, who was in his rear. He consulted with Jackson, and Jackson +begged to be allowed to make one of his favorite flank attacks upon the +Union army; attacks which could have been successfully delivered only by +a skilled and resolute general, and by troops equally able to march and +to fight. Lee consented, and Jackson at once made off. The country was +thickly covered with a forest of rather small growth, for it was a wild +region, in which there was still plenty of game. Shielded by the forest, +Jackson marched his gray columns rapidly to the left along the narrow +country roads until he got square on the flank of the Union right wing, +which was held by the Eleventh Corps, under Howard. The Union scouts got +track of the movement and reported it at headquarters; but the Union +generals thought the Confederates were retreating; and when finally the +scouts brought word to Howard that he was menaced by a flank attack he +paid no heed to the information, and actually let his whole corps be +surprised in broad daylight. Yet all the while the battle was going on +elsewhere, and Berdan's sharpshooters had surrounded and captured a +Georgia regiment, from which information was received which showed +definitely that Jackson was not retreating, and must be preparing to +strike a heavy blow. + +The Eleventh Corps had not the slightest idea that it was about to be +attacked. The men were not even in line. Many of them had stacked their +muskets and were lounging about, some playing cards, others cooking +supper, intermingled with the pack-mules and beef cattle. While they +were thus utterly unprepared Jackson's gray-clad veterans pushed +straight through the forest, and rushed fiercely to the attack. The +first notice the troops of the Eleventh Corps received did not come from +the pickets, but from the deer, rabbits, and foxes which, fleeing from +their coverts at the approach of the Confederates, suddenly came running +over and into the Union lines. In another minute the frightened pickets +came tumbling back, and right behind them came the long lines of +charging, yelling Confederates. With one fierce rush Jackson's men swept +over the Union lines, and at a blow the Eleventh Corps became a horde of +panic-stricken fugitives. Some of the regiments resisted for a few +moments, and then they too were carried away in the flight. + +For a time it seemed as if the whole army would be swept off; but Hooker +and his subordinates exerted every effort to restore order. It was +imperative to gain time, so that the untouched portions of the army +could form across the line of the Confederate advance. Keenan's regiment +of Pennsylvania cavalry, but four hundred sabres strong, was accordingly +sent full against the front of the ten thousand victorious Confederates. +Keenan himself fell riddled by bayonets, and the charge was repulsed at +once: but a few priceless moments had been saved, and Pleasonton had +been given time to post twenty-two guns, loaded with double canister, +where they would bear upon the enemy. The Confederates advanced in a +dense mass, yelling and cheering, and the discharge of the guns fairly +blew them back across the works they had just taken. Again they charged, +and again were driven back, and when the battle once more began the +Union re-enforcements had arrived. + +It was about this time that Jackson himself was mortally wounded. He had +been leading and urging on the advance of his men, cheering them with +voice and gesture, his pale face flushed with joy and excitement, while +from time to time as he sat on his horse he took off his hat and, +looking upward, thanked Heaven for the victory it had vouchsafed him. As +darkness drew near he was in the front, where friend and foe were +mingled in almost inextricable confusion. He and his staff were fired on +at close range by the Union troops, and, as they turned, were fired on +again, through a mistake, by the Confederates behind them. Jackson fell, +struck in several places. He was put in a litter and carried back; but +he never lost consciousness, and when one of his generals complained of +the terrific effect of the Union cannonade he answered, "You must hold +your ground." + +For several days he lingered, hearing how Lee beat Hooker, in detail, +and forced him back across the river. Then the old Puritan died. At the +end his mind wandered and he thought he was again commanding in battle; +and his last words were, "Let us cross over the river and rest in the +shade." Thus perished Stonewall Jackson, one of the ablest of soldiers +and one of the most upright of men, in the last of his many triumphs. + + + + +THE SHIP WITHOUT A LIGHT. + +BY EZRA HURLBURT STAFFORD. + + +"Well, my boy, what can I do for you?" + +It was in the Custom-house, and the Chief was sitting at his desk +opening a letter. A boy of perhaps sixteen was standing awkwardly at the +door. He was dressed rather roughly, and the Customs Inspector thought +it would be a good idea to despatch the boy's business before he read +the letter, which he had by this time drawn from the envelope. + +"Well?" he repeated; but the boy still hesitated, and glanced uneasily +across the room towards a tall lady, who was standing at the window with +her back towards him. + +"Anything very particular?" the officer went on, with a touch of +annoyance. + +"I guess I'd like to speak to you alone." + +The lady evidently heard him, for without speaking she hurriedly drew +her veil down over her face, and noiselessly left the room by a door +which he had not noticed before. The boy caught a glimpse of her face as +she turned, and gave a little start, he hardly knew why. It was a +strange face. + +"Now, then, we are quite alone, what have you to say? It's growing +late." + +"I wanted to speak to you, sir, about something I saw last night out in +Puget Sound. I thought you ought to be told about it." + +"Yes?" + +"A boat, sir, that I think is smuggling opium in from the British +Columbia coast." + +"What is your name?" + +"Thomas Walton. I'm a fisherman." + +"What makes you think the boat is smuggling opium?" + +"Because she passed down the channel about two o'clock last night and +carried no light." + +"What sort of a craft?" asked the customs officer, with a peculiar look. + +"I should think she was a sailing sloop, sir-- I couldn't see noways +plain." + +"When did you say?" + +"Last night." + +"Tell me all about it. Where do you live?" + +"At my father's ranch on Padilla Bay; he's dead, and I live with my +mother and sister there. I fish during the salmon season." + +"Were you alone last night?" + +"No; an Indian boy and myself have a boat between us; it was Jo saw her +first." + +"Well?" + +[Illustration: "A MINUTE AFTER IT WAS LIGHT FOR AN INSTANT AND WE GOT +SIGHT OF HER."] + +"We were tacking across the channel, and it was very dark. We had just +come about, and suddenly I heard a swish in the water and felt something +a yard or so off sweeping by. I couldn't see what it was at first. It +seemed to pass in the air. Jo heard it too, and we were both pretty +scared. A minute after it was light for an instant and we got sight of +her, a few yards to windward of us, bending under her sail. Jo pointed +her out to me, and the next moment she seemed to disappear. We got into +port this afternoon very late with our fish, and as soon as I could I +came to tell you." + +"How many times have you seen this--this ship without a light?" + +"Just the once. We don't carry a light ourselves, or we mightn't have +seen her this time." + +"Where was this?" + +"To the south of Fidalgo Island." + +"In the outer channel?" + +"No, right below the slough, to the inner side of the island and the +main shore." + +"Where did the boat seem to come from?" the Inspector asked, looking +straight in the boy's face. + +"Well, we couldn't exactly be sure; but Jo seemed to think that she had +come from the slough--that was what set us to thinking she must be a +smuggler." + +"Have you told anybody about this?" + +"No." + +"Don't. How about this Indian boy, this Siwash?" + +"He hasn't said a word about it to any one. I made him keep it quiet +till I had told you." + +"Sure no one else knows?" + +"No one; at least no one but the man in the outer office here." + +"What did you tell him for?" the Chief asked, with sudden vexation. + +"He wouldn't let me in till I told him what I wanted; he said you were +busy." + +At this moment the door opened and a man in uniform entered. + +"Ah," he said, glancing at the boy, "he's told you, then. Had we better +put any confidence in the tale? I've been speaking to the Captain of the +_Madrona_ about it. He is in the outer office now. He seems to think +there is something in it." + +"You may go now," said the Chief, with a preoccupied look, to the boy; +"you had better go right home, and next time carry a light yourself. +Good-evening." + +"I am sorry you let the boy go," the deputy began, as the door closed; +"we may need him for evidence. But here's the Captain." + +A tall gentleman, in the uniform of the United States navy, entered the +room at this moment. "I've been having a word with your salmon-fisher," +he said, "and I think he's telling the truth. I'll catch them to-night +when they're getting back north, and give them more light in Puget Sound +than they will find altogether convenient. Where was it he saw them +now?" + +"I don't think the boy said," the deputy answered. "Did he tell you?" +and he turned to his superior. + +"Yes, he did, now I recollect." + +"Was it in the main channel, or below the slough to the inside of the +island?" + +"In the outer channel; it was too large a boat to get through the +slough." + +"Why, I thought he said it was a sailing sloop," mused the Captain, +turning to the deputy. + +"So did I." + +"No; the boy told me distinctly," the Chief replied, "that it was a much +larger vessel, and that she passed him in the outer channel; though +candidly, as to her carrying no light, we must remember that boys +sometimes have wonderful imaginations." + +"Then we'll keep the main channel;" and the Captain left the room. + +Down among the ships in the harbor a small boat was moored. It had all +the unmistakable signs of being a fishing-boat, and a youth with a large +round face of a heavy brown mahogany color was sitting lazily at the +edge of the wharf, when Thomas Walton made his appearance. They both got +into the boat and pushed from the dock. It was growing quite dusk. The +harbor lights were already lit. + +"You told them, Tom?" + +"Yes." + +"What did they think?" + +"I hardly know. I wish now I hadn't gone near them at all." + +"Didn't they treat you white?" + +"I don't know." + +"You don't?" + +"Well, they didn't seem to believe what I said, anyway. And there's +something else I don't like the looks of." + +"What else?" + +"Oh, nothing much. I think I was followed down to the wharf. Look over +there. Can you see? Is that a man or a woman in that boat there--the one +that just came around the stern of the _Umatilla_?" + +"A man." + +"No, the other. You can't see now. She got down low the moment she saw +me looking at her. Give her another haul. There; that'll do." The last +remark referred to the sail which the Indian had hoisted as Tom was +speaking. + +"Why, Jo, where did that boat go?" he continued a moment afterward, +looking back among the shipping. + +The skiff was gone. + +A couple of hours later they were cutting across Puget Sound before a +fresh wind, with the slap and drench of the rising waves against their +bows. The timbered uplands were darkly visible a mile or so ahead, and +Tom called out to his companion in the bow: + +"I say, Jo, I'm going to tack for the inner channel, and wait in the +slough. I have been thinking this thing out, and I've got an idea in my +head. I didn't tell the man at the Custom-house about the landing at the +rocks." + +"You didn't?" came a sleepy voice from the darkness. + +"No; I was too confused at first, and afterwards I thought I wouldn't, +anyway." + +A mile up this narrow channel, or slough, as shallow places of the kind +are called on the Pacific coast, there was a small bay, almost hidden by +the vast overhanging fir-trees. On one side the shore was steep and +rocky, but on the other there was a small strip of very convenient +beach, where the boys had landed three or four times to mend their +seine. The last time they had been there, Jo, in the spirit of +exploration, had pushed his way into the thick woods, and a little way +back had come upon a faint trail, which, after making a detour, they +found led up to the steep rocks on the other side of the little bay. +They never took the trouble to follow it inland. + +"Place where the lumbermen land," Jo had remarked upon this occasion, +pointing to the trunk of a cedar near the edge. There was a slightly +worn place in the bark where a ship's rope had been fastened. + +Afterwards they had remembered that the island was part of an Indian +reservation, where no lumberman had any right to touch the timber. + +Until the incident of the night before they had, however, given this no +thought. But it had occurred to Tom then that the mysterious trail in +the uninhabited island might possibly have some connection with the +strange vessel. + +"What are the customs officers going to do?" Jo asked. + +"From the little I could hear I expect that the _Madrona_ will keep +watch for the smugglers in the open waters of the Sound. The slough +won't be guarded at all, in that case, and I'm going to wait here till +towards morning; then, if nothing passes, we can put into the bay, and +see if there are any signs of anybody having been on the trail the last +few hours." + +"Not likely." + +"Well, I'm not so sure of that--at all events we'll wait here through +the night, and see if anything does happen." + +"But if it isn't an opium smuggler at all; if it's a--a--" + +"A what?" Tom asked shortly, familiar with the other's superstitious +nature. + +"Have we the gun?" said Jo, changing the subject. + +"I don't know." + +"Yes, it's here," answered the Indian, rummaging for it among a lot of +odds and ends at the bow. "I wonder if it's--" + +"Don't bang it off into me to find out if it is." + +Some hours after midnight the boat of the boys was standing in for the +little bay spoken of. They had waited further up the slough, but Tom, +who of the two was the one who had kept awake, had heard nothing pass. +It was still quite dark. + +Jo suddenly started. + +"Say, did you see that? There--there it is again!" + +The boys looked upwards, and a great white bar of light, like a comet, +swung across the sky above them. Then it swung slowly back again, +faltering here and there, and appearing to rise and fall in certain +places. + +"It must be the _Madrona_'s search-light," said Tom, "and they are right +south of here." + +They still had a full view of the open waters of Puget Sound. + +"They seem to be coming this way," muttered the Indian; "there it goes +again!" + +As he spoke, an intensely bright cone of light leaped forth suddenly +into the darkness, and moved from place to place along the high rocky +shores. + +"I'm glad it isn't as dark as it was last night," Jo said, as they +rounded the point, and glided onward noiselessly upon the calm black +water. "Do you see anything in the bay?" + +"No; drop the sail," Tom whispered, and he steered the boat slowly +through the suspicious inlet. It was quite dark in the shadow of the +gigantic trees. As the bow grated gently on the sand, Jo stepped out, +followed at once by his companion. + +The next moment they were both appalled by an unexpected sound. It was +the soft flap of a sail. As their eyes grew more accustomed to the gloom +of the thick forest trees, they could see dimly a vessel of considerable +size, moored to the very rocks they had been thinking of. It was the +mysterious ship of the night before. It awed them too, to see it lying +so near to them with its white sails all spread, and yet not a sign of +life upon it. There was something weird about it all, and Tom could +hardly prevent the Siwash boy from making an immediate retreat. + +They continued to listen for some moments, but all remained still upon +the vessel and upon the shore. + +"I wonder is there any one aboard of her?" Jo said in an undertone. + +"Keep still!" + +In spite of this warning, Tom was himself the first to break the +silence. + +"Perhaps they've abandoned her." + +"Then where can they be?" + +"Do you want to know real bad?" asked Tom. + +"Yes!" + +"Well, you're good at following a night trail; just you follow that one +back into the island, and you'll stand a fair show of seeing where they +are." + +This was humor, and Jo grinned appreciatively. + +"Where is the gun?" Tom asked, presently. + +"I have it; what are we going to do?" + +"We're going to get that sloop out into the Sound, and sail her up to +the city dock at daybreak. I'll show those customs inspectors--" + +"They'll say you're the smuggler." + +"Well, I'm going to risk it." + +"Perhaps they're aboard now--asleep." + +"Keep the gun ready, then!" + +The boys were making their way towards the sloop along the narrow strip +of sand yet uncovered by the flood tide, but as they spoke, they stopped +with one accord, for they heard a sound from the trees near by. + +"Cougar?" + +"No," whispered the Indian, "a man!" + +"Stand very still, then, and watch what happens." + +They could hear the branches being pushed aside softly, and dull +footfalls upon the forest moss. + +Presently two dark shapes emerged upon the neighboring rocks. They were +talking rapidly, but the boys could not catch what they were saying. + +The _Madrona_ was moving to the south of the island, and standing in +towards the mouth of the slough. One of the new-comers saw the +search-light. + +"They'll be upon us in half an hour," Tom could hear him say; "we must +steer around the point, and get up the slough, where a vessel of such +deep draught as theirs cannot follow us. We'll he done for if we stay +here." + +The voice seemed familiar, but the boy was too excited to give the fancy +a second thought. What he saw, only too plainly, was the easy way in +which the supposed smugglers could make their escape, and, laying +prudence aside, he instantly called out in what he intended to be a very +commanding voice, + +"Ahoy there! you can't go aboard till you say who you are, and what you +are doing here." + +Hardly were the words spoken when Tom saw a bright red flash, and was +almost stunned by a loud report. He heard the crash of a rifle bullet +through the branches behind him, and heard the echoes running along the +opposite shores, growing fainter and fainter in the distance. + +The shot was instantly returned, and there was a quick sharp cry from +the rocks. He turned and saw Jo at his side, lowering the gun from his +shoulder. + +The next moment he heard a rustle in the trees near him, and hardly +thinking of the peril in which he was throwing himself, he turned in +swift pursuit. He struck the trail almost at once, and still heard the +same odd rustle a short distance ahead of him. + +He guided himself as well as he could in the darkness, often stumbling +over the bared roots, or grazing his head against the low cedar +branches. At times he stopped to listen. It soon became evident that he +was catching up. + +The pale light of the early morning was beginning to show dimly through +the trees. The person ahead tripped once or twice, and Tom knew that he +was now almost at hand. The unseen fugitive appeared to be moving with +great difficulty. A moment later the boy heard a heavy fall a few yards +in front of him, and running hastily forward was suddenly met by--a +woman! + +At this mishap, speaking for the first time, she uttered a harsh sound +in a deep voice which there was no mistaking. + +It was a man then, and not a woman, after all, Tom thought, and in his +heart he blessed the smuggler's awkward disguise, which had allowed him +to catch up. + +But the smuggler, in the mean time, had drawn his revolver, and was on +the point of aiming it mercilessly at the unarmed lad, when the latter, +watching his motions with difficulty in the uncertain light, snatched +quickly at his hand. The weapon was thus turned at random as the trigger +was pressed, and Tom, deafened by a sudden report, drew back as the +revolver flashed in his face. + +The disguised man fell to the ground. The boy watched him for a moment, +but he lay there quite still in the shadow. + +A feeling of fear swept through the boy's heart, and he hurried back to +the shore to call for help. The man might not be dead. He was surprised +to find what a long distance it was back. He had not, in his first +excitement, thought he had gone more than a couple of hundred yards. + +As he drew near to the water's edge he heard the sound of a number of +voices. The day was beginning to break. Coming out on the shore, he saw +the _Madrona_ lying at the mouth of the slough with the thick smoke +wreathing from her funnel. + +On the rocks near by several men in uniform were standing in a group +about some object upon the ground. With a strange presentiment the boy +made his way around the shore and joined them. What he saw there was a +man lying upon his face. He did not need to see the features to +recognize who it was. + +It was the Chief of the Customs Department. + +"Where have you been, Tom?" + +The boy turned around at these words, and saw the Captain of the +_Madrona_. The sight of his bluff honest face made the boy feel himself +again; and reminded him, too, of his errand, which he had forgotten for +the moment. + +"I followed the man dressed up like a woman who was with him," Tom +answered, excitedly; "he's a mile back in the woods now-- I want to take +a surgeon along, for I think he's killed. I caught at his hand with it +in, and it went off somehow--the revolver, I mean--and I think it killed +him--but I didn't mean to; I couldn't see." + +"I'll go back with you at once--who did you say it was?" + +The boy told what had happened as they hurried back through the trees. + +"That must be Tee Ling." + +"Who?" + +"Tee Ling; you've heard of him--the most notorious opium smuggler on the +coast-- I see it's a trail." + +"Yes, all the way. So it's a China man, then?" + +"Of course. There's not a more detestable scoundrel among all the +Chinese in America. He has a den some place on the British Columbia +coast, and probably we'll unearth his southern headquarters within a +mile or so of where we stand. He dresses as a woman simply as a +disguise. He has a hundred of them. You've had a terribly narrow escape +from him, my dear boy." + +"I saw him at the Custom-house last night, when I was reporting what I +had seen." + +"Where--in the office?" + +"Yes." + +"Who would have thought it! We knew that the Chinese gang were working +into the hands of one of our men, but we never thought it could be into +his. There it is, a man's sin will always find him out in the end! +What's the matter?" + +"I--I feel kind of sick like. I guess I'm sort of a coward, but the +thought of him lying there dead that way! I suppose a man like you gets +used to it, but I--it makes me--" + +"You needn't be ashamed to own to a feeling of humanity, my boy; no good +man ever gets _used_ to death or crime, though good men sometimes have +to see a deal of both." + +"Here is the place; but--oh!--" + +"Yes, Tee Ling has wisely departed, I see. I expected as much, for Tee +Ling is very sagacious. It's just as well we didn't bother about the +ship's surgeon. Besides, he is too good a Chinaman to take our medicine, +much less the dose of medicine the United States has ready for him. He's +wanted in 'Frisco, you know." + +"Well, I'm mighty glad he's alive, all the same," Tom remarked, in a +tone of great relief. "I was dreadfully afraid he was dead, and I--I +never killed anybody!" + +"We will be sure to catch him during the day, nevertheless, for he can't +get off the island, unless he disguises himself as a brown bear, and +I'll tell the boys to shoot all the brown bears." + +Tom laughed at this mild drollery, and they returned to the shore +without seeing any trace of the Chinaman. + +A lieutenant was standing on the deck of the smuggler's sloop. "There's +ten thousand dollars' worth of gum opium aboard of her, Captain." + +"Yes, and very likely double that amount more hidden some place in the +island. Tom, what do you set your fortune at?" + +"I guess about a hundred dollars would be more than I would ever know +what to do with." + +"What extravagant ideas you have! I think we will be able to suit you, +though. Something like a hundred times over at the very least." + +"Why, how do you mean?" + +"Mean? Simply that this is to a great extent your 'find.' We heard your +gun, and our suspicions were aroused at once. If it hadn't been for your +nerve in the first place they would have got away. Are you willing to be +fired at twice for nothing?" + +One of the _Madrona_'s men came up before the boy could answer, if, +indeed, he had any answer to make, and whispered a few words to the +Captain. + +"Alive, is he?" the Captain exclaimed. "Get a stretcher and take him +aboard at once or he may die yet of his wounds. Perhaps that would be +the best thing he could do; but that's not for us to say." + +To a boy of Tom's generous and manly nature it was a great relief to see +the unconscious Customs Inspector carried aboard the _Madrona_. But he +said nothing. + +The Captain was silent also for a long time. Presently his attention was +attracted by something unusual on the beach, and, dismissing an +unpleasant train of thought, he broke out, "What have you there, men?" + +Four of the _Madrona_'s men were seen at this moment coming around the +point on the shore with a very unwilling prisoner. + +"There!" said the Captain. "I told you we would have him before the day +was out. The lost are found, and the dead are alive, sure enough. Where +did you get him?" he hailed, in a louder voice. + +"Hiding on the shore." + +"I'm afraid Tee Ling is getting childish," the Captain commented, in a +voice aside to Tom, "if he is going to venture down to the water when +things are as hot as they are now." + +The men, who seemed to be having a great deal of difficulty, came +nearer, and Tom called out in surprise, + +"Why, it's Jo." + +"Jo?" echoed the Captain. + +"Yes; that's not Tee Ling; it's Jo." + +"Who's Jo?" + +"Why, the Siwash Indian who fishes with me. Hello there, Jo! Where in +the world have you been?" + +Jo's face was a pale fawn color with fear, but he did not answer. + +"Let him go, boys," the Captain said, smiling. "It's all right. He's not +the one we are after." + +"It's all right, Jo," Tom repeated; but the latter, though now at +liberty, was still silent and very serious. There were many cloudy +thoughts shaping in his bewildered mind. He had expected to be sent to +prison for being a smuggler, and hanged for shooting a man. It was +difficult for him to get rid of these ideas on short notice. + +Indeed, it is hardly probable that he ever clearly understood the +strange turn which events took in the next few hours. + +At any rate he was not heard to utter a single word for two whole days. + + + + +TURNING A TRIPLE SOMERSAULT. + + +"Whatever you do, don't join a circus," said John, the new stableman. He +was sitting on top of a feed barrel in the barn with a pipe in his +mouth, and his deliberate manner bore conviction that he knew what he +was talking about. The boys had always wondered where John had learned +so much about this big world and its ways, and it was only a few days +previous to the present occasion that Joe had admitted having at one +time in his career travelled for a year with a circus. Then nothing +would do but that he should tell the boys all sorts of circus stories. +To-day the conversation had turned on triple somersaults. + +"That feat has been accomplished mighty few times," said John, +dogmatically, "and I know all about it. I saw John Worland do it in New +Haven in 1884, and he told me the whole history of the act, and of the +many men who have tried to do it. The first man to attempt to turn a +triple somersault was a performer in Van Amburgh's circus, in Mobile in +1842. He broke his neck. W. J. Hobbes made the attempt in London in +1845, and was instantly killed. The next one was John Amoor. He had been +successfully turning a double, and was the original in accomplishing it +over four horses. He tried to do a triple at the Isle of Wight in 1859, +turned twice, landed on his forehead, and broke his neck. Sam Reinhart, +while travelling with Cooper and Bailey's circus, became dissatisfied +with the double somersault feat, and was anxious to do a triple. He did +it at Toledo in 1870, making a high leap, turned twice and a half, +alighted on the broad of his back, and was disabled for some time. Billy +Dutton accomplished the feat at Elkhorn in 1860, but he never made +another attempt. Bob Stickney did it while practising in a gymnasium in +New York, but he alighted on a blanket, and never succeeded in landing +on his feet. Frank Starks tried to turn three times in Indianapolis, but +he fell on his head and died soon afterwards. The only man, living or +dead, that ever accomplished the feat successfully, was John Worland, +the man I saw. He threw a triple somersault six times from a +spring-board. The first time he attempted it was at St. Louis in 1874, +with Wilson's circus. He made three trials, twice over five horses, +landing on his back. At the third attempt he landed on his feet. + +"The next time he tried it was also at St. Louis in 1876. He landed on +a mattress in a sitting posture. He did it again at Eau Claire, in 1881, +and at La Crosse a few days later. On this occasion all the members of +the company made affidavits to the fact. The last time he accomplished +the feat was when I saw him at New Haven in 1884. It was at the +Forepaugh show, and the Mayor of the city and many newspaper men were +present. First a performer ran down the board and turned a single +somersault; then another man followed and turned a double; after which +Worland ran down the board and threw a triple somersault, landing on a +bed on his feet as straight as an arrow It has seldom occurred that any +man has done a triple somersault before a circus audience after due +announcement, but there is no doubt about Worland's act. It was duly +announced by the ring-master, and hundreds of people saw him do it. For +years he practised the double, and never would turn a single, so that +when he attempted a triple he did not run as great a risk as others who +attempted the feat. But, nevertheless, boys, don't join a circus, and +never try the triple." + + + + +BOYS AND GIRLS OF NEW YORK STREETS.[1] + +A DAUGHTER OF THE TENEMENTS. + +BY EDWARD W. TOWNSEND. + + +In one of the Roosevelt Street buildings called "back tenements," +because they are built in the spaces which were once the back yards of +the buildings in front of them, when those buildings, years ago, were +occupied by single, well-to-do, and sometimes fashionable, families, +Gabriella Moreno was born. Her parents were not the poorest, by any +means, of those who lived in that neighborhood, for her father, Antonio +Moreno (he was called "Tony" by all his English-speaking acquaintances) +was the proprietor of a fruit-stand, and did quite a prosperous +business. In fact, among the Italians of that neighborhood it was +somewhat a mark of rank to own a fruit-stand instead of a fruit +"push-cart." Tony Moreno had been a push-cart fruit peddler for years, +but some time after his only child was born he became the proprietor of +a little stand near the entrance of the Tivoli Theatre on the Bowery. +Part of the space his stand occupied was a broad entranceway which had +formerly been used as one of the entrances to the theatre, but which was +now closed for that purpose. Tony was one of the first Italians to +settle in the neighborhood of Cherry Hill, which is near Roosevelt +Street, and his knowledge of and influence over those of his countrymen +who followed him there made him useful to Mr. Kean, the proprietor of +the Tivoli, who was also in the business of politics. + +That was the way Tony came to have the privilege of running a +fruit-stand in front of the Tivoli. His profits were so great that he +and his wife and Gabriella were able to keep their one tenement room, +and it was a large one, all to themselves, without taking in two or +three boarders, as most of their neighbors did, to help pay the rent. +This made Tony one of the aristocrats of the neighborhood, and when it +became known that Gabriella had a cot to sleep on, instead of sleeping +on the floor, as the children of other families did, the neighbors +looked up to Tony more than ever before as a man of high standing and +solid position. + +Gabriella's little friends, however, were in the habit of calling her +"proud" and "stuck-up" on this account. When she was six years old +Gabriella was sent to Miss Barstow's Mission School, where many other +little Italian children also went, to learn to speak and read and write +in English. Most of the children left the school when they were eight, +and very few remained there after they were nine years old; for at that +age their parents thought them old enough to help at home, to care for +the younger children when both parents were away at work, and even to +learn to do sewing for the big clothing factories. Gabriella would have +been taken away, too, had it not been for Miss Barstow, who went to talk +with Tony and his wife. She told them that Gabriella was one of her best +scholars, and it would be to their interests, as well as their +daughter's, to let her remain at school until she was well enough +educated to do something better than sew on coarse clothing for wages +which would never support her decently. This pleased Mrs. Moreno, who +was ambitious for her pretty child, but Tony grumbled a good deal. + +Gabriella was old enough, he said, to help earn bread, as the other +children of her age did. Had not her father and mother worked since they +were six years old? he asked. Then why should their child be kept in +idleness only to learn things out of books which were well enough for +the rich, but did the poor no good? + +Miss Barstow was more interested in Gabriella than in any other child of +the tenements she had ever known, for the girl was really unusually +bright and pretty, and she was determined to keep her longer in the +school. She knew that Tony had his stand at the Tivoli by Mr. Kean's +permission, and to Mr. Kean she went for aid. + +Miss Barstow's fashionable friends would have been surprised to learn +how often she went to Mr. Kean for aid and advice, and to know how often +he gave his aid, and how valuable his advice always was. + +Mr. Kean smiled when Miss Barstow asked him if he could not help her +keep Tony's daughter in school, and said, with rough politeness, + +"Yes, I guess so, miss." + +What he did was simply to shortly order Tony to do just what Miss +Barstow wanted, if he knew what was good for him; and Tony obeyed +without question, as did every one else in that part of the city who +received orders from Mr. Kean. + +That was the way Gabriella remained in the school until she was past +twelve years old, and until the time her mother, who helped Tony at the +fruit-stand, was taken sick. Then Gabriella took her mother's place, but +she too became ill, and Tony had to close his fruit-stand part of each +twenty-four hours, which caused that very penurious Italian great misery +of mind, for his was what is known as an "all-night" stand, and he +bitterly lamented his loss of trade during the hours of closing. +Gabriella, under the careful nursing of Miss Barstow, soon became well +and strong again; but the mother did not, and that was the reason it +became necessary for the girl to take her place at the stand part of the +time, dividing with her mother the hours when Tony went home to eat and +sleep. + +Miss Barstow knew that if she interfered further to keep Gabriella off +the street and at school she might, with Mr. Kean's aid, succeed in +doing so; but her knowledge of tenement-house life made her realize that +such action would make the girl's home life unhappy. So she let her +favorite scholar go without protest, intending, however, to keep as +close a watch over her as she could, and to regain her for her school +later, if she found that the girl's mother became strong enough not to +need Gabriella's help. + +Gabriella's "watches"--that is, the time she was on duty at the +fruit-stand--were always in the day-time, and Miss Barstow would stop +there frequently to speak to her on her way to the Mission House. She +did this to keep track of the girl, and to leave her a book now and +then. These were the only happy moments in the poor girl's life. She had +learned to love Miss Barstow, and to care very much for books and other +things Miss Barstow had interested her in, which now seemed far removed +from her life, except when they were recalled by these visits from her +teacher. + +Every day now she went to the fruit-stand on the Bowery in the morning +to relieve her father. There it was her duty to keep the stacks and +pyramids of fruit in order, to dust them, to replace with fresh fruit +from the boxes underneath the stand the pieces which she sold, and to +keep a sharp look-out against the nimble hands of thievish youngsters. +Every piece of fruit was carefully counted by Tony before he went off +the watch, and when he returned Gabriella had to account for every sale +and every missing piece. + +One day Gabriella stood by the side of the stand, thinking how much +happier her life had been when she went each day to the Mission School. +She was wondering, at the same time, where she could have ever before +seen the smartly dressed boy who stood in the doorway of the theatre +office smiling at her. Somehow he was associated in her mind with Miss +Barstow, yet where and when, if ever, she had seen him before was as +indistinct in her mind as the memory of a dream. For several days she +had seen him standing there, and from the first she had the impression +that she had seen him somewhere else. She could not place him; he was +much better and more stylishly dressed than any of the boys she had ever +seen about her home or the school. He always had a friendly nod and +smile for her, and she nodded and smiled in return; and although they +had never spoken, she had never given up trying to think where, if +anywhere, she had seen him besides there in front of the theatre. + +As he stood there this day, looking somehow as if he owned the Bowery, a +rough young fellow loafed up to the stand and asked, in an impudent +manner, + +"Say, sis, how much are dese bananas?" + +"A cent each," answered Gabriella. + +[Illustration: "WELL, JUST CHARGE DIS ONE," HE SAID, SEIZING A BANANA +AND STARTING TO RUN.] + +"Well, just charge dis one," he said, seizing a banana and starting to +run. + +As Gabriella began to cry out for the thief to stop, the smartly dressed +lad in the doorway flew out like a Skye terrier after a rat. He had +headed off the loafer with such surprising quickness that the latter was +more amazed than frightened when the boy demanded of him to give up the +stolen fruit. This demand only made the fellow laugh. The laugh soon +came to an end, though, because Danny Cahill--for that was the name of +the smaller boy--had not forgotten any of the quick and fierce methods +he had learned to use in fighting larger boys when he had been a street +arab. It was a very short struggle, and almost before the frightened +Gabriella knew what was happening Danny was standing before her smiling, +and her tormentor was skulking away, well thrashed for his meanness. + +Danny's victory had been complete; he had not only vanquished the enemy +but recovered the stolen property; and as he put the banana carefully +back on the stand he said, good-naturedly, + +"It's all right, little girl; what are you crying for?" + +Gabriella stopped crying, and answered, "Because if that boy had got +away with the banana, and I did not have a penny for it, my father would +have whipped me." + +Then to the great astonishment of Danny, Gabriella took a banana from +the stand and offered it to him. Danny laughed outright at this, and +exclaimed: + +"Den if you haven't a penny t' show for de banana, your father will whip +you just de same wedder de banana is stolen or you give it away to me. +Won't he?" + +Gabriella laughed too, now, and said, "Yes, but I'm willing to take a +whipping for you, because you whipped that boy for me." + +But Danny said he guessed he would rather pay for the fruit, and they +were laughing and chatting over the adventure in the most friendly way +when Miss Barstow came up. They told her the story, and she seemed +greatly pleased. She told Gabriella that Danny was the boy who had +helped take care of her and her mother the first night they were both +sick with the fever. + +"Then it was there I saw you before," Gabriella said to Danny, with +delight. "I was not sure whether I had really seen you or just dreamed +that I had." + +"Well, you were doing a heap of dreaming dat night, sure," Danny +answered. + +"But you were a messenger-boy then," Miss Barstow said to Danny. "How is +it you happen to be here and not in your uniform?" + +"Oh, I'm Mr. Kean's office-boy now," answered Danny. "I'm to be his +clerk when I'm big enough." + +This information seemed to give as much satisfaction to Miss Barstow as +it did to Danny. + +"I like that," Miss Barstow said, "for now Gabriella will have some one +to look out for her when she is on watch." + +"Dat's right; as long as I remember how t' fight she will. Sure," Danny +replied, earnestly. + +FOOTNOTES: + +[1] The previous articles published in this series are "A Street-Waif's +Luck," No. 792, "Danny Cahill, Newsboy," No. 803, "A Messenger-Boy's +Adventure," No. 809. + + + + +SNOW-SHOES AND SLEDGES. + +BY KIRK MUNROE. + + +CHAPTER XXIII. + +LAW IN THE GOLD DIGGINGS. + +The latest comer to Camp Forty Mile was not particularly anxious to +attend the public meeting to which he was invited by Mr. Platt Riley. +Still he thought it better to do so rather than run the risk of +offending his host, who was evidently a man of influence in the +diggings. His overnight reflections having convinced him that this camp +was not such a place as he had expected, and also that he might find +greater safety elsewhere, his first act in the morning was to order his +Indian drivers to harness the dogs, and be prepared for a start within +an hour. + +Kurilla, who was with them under instructions not to lose sight of them, +grinned when he heard this, for he had picked up an inkling of what was +going on, and felt pretty certain that the order need not be obeyed. + +When Mr. Riley's reluctant guest entered the store of the Yukon Trading +Company, in which, on account of its size, the meeting was to be held, +he fully intended to take a back seat, and slip out as soon as he could +do so unnoticed. The place was so filled with miners, however, that +there were no back seats, and, to his surprise, the crowd pressed aside +as he and Mr. Riley entered, so as to leave a passage to the farther end +of the room. A moment later, without knowing just how it had been done, +he found himself seated beside Jalap Coombs's friend, Skiff Bettens, who +obligingly made a place for him. He noticed with some curiosity that +twelve men were seated on benches directly opposite to him, while all +the rest of the crowd were standing. Between him and these men was an +open space, at the upper end of which were a table and a chair raised on +a rude platform. + +To this platform Mr. Platt Riley made his way, and seating himself in +the chair, rapped on the table for silence. Then, rising, he said: + +"Gentlemen of the jury and fellow-citizens, this court is now open for +business, and I as its Judge, elected by your votes, am prepared to +administer justice in accordance with your laws, and such verdicts as +may be rendered by your jury." + +"It is a court," thought Strengel, with a shiver. + +"The case to be tried this morning," continued the Judge, "is one that +touches the pocket, the life, and the honor of every miner in the Yukon +Valley; for the prisoner at the bar is indicted on three separate counts +as a thief, a murderer, and an unmitigated scoundrel. He has come into +our camp under a false name and with a false story, after having +attempted the destruction of a steamer that is bringing goods and +machinery, of which we are greatly in need. + +"He is charged with robbing and leaving helpless in the wilderness a man +whom we all know and respect, and also with robbing and deserting while +seriously ill his own companion who was on his way to visit us in behalf +of our old-established trading company." + +Strengel listened to these terrible words with an ever-increasing +paleness and visible agitation. Finally, clapping a hand to his face as +though seized with a sudden illness, he started to rise and leave the +room. + +"Sit down," ordered Skiff Bettens, in a low tone, at the same time +jerking him back to his seat. Then the man knew that he was indeed a +prisoner. + +"To prove these serious charges," continued the Judge, "I am about to +call several witnesses. At the same time the prisoner will be given the +privilege of cross-questioning them and of pleading in his own behalf. +Mr. Philip Ryder." + +At this summons Phil advanced from the farther end of the room, and the +prisoner regarded him with undisguised amazement. + +After answering the usual questions regarding his personality and +business, Phil was asked if he knew the prisoner. + +"I do," he answered. + +"What is his name?" + +"I understand that he now calls himself Bradwick; but a few months ago +he went by the name of Strengel." + +[Illustration: "THAT'S A LIE!" SHOUTED THE PRISONER, HOARSELY.] + +"That's a lie," shouted the prisoner, hoarsely. + +"Silence!" commanded the Judge. "Now, Mr. Ryder, tell the jury what you +know concerning the accused from the time of your first meeting with him +up to the present." + +This Phil did as briefly as possible, and when he had finished the +prisoner sprang to his feet, his face black with rage, and exclaimed: +"Why should this fellow's story be believed rather than mine? Who knows +anything about him, or even who he is? He was picked up in Bering Sea, +drifting about in a stolen canoe. At St. Michaels he was known as a +thief and brawler. I happen to know that he has been locked up in a +Victoria police station, and I demand that his evidence be thrown out." + +"That will do, sir," said the Judge. "I happen to know this young man +and his family so well that I am willing to vouch for him if necessary. +Do you wish to question him? No. Then we will proceed. Mr. Serge +Belcofsky." + +Serge, of course, identified the prisoner as Strengel, and corroborated +Phil's story in every detail. + +"This ends the testimony on the first charge," announced the Judge, when +Serge had finished and the prisoner sullenly declined to question him. +"In proof of the second charge, that of robbery and desertion, I call as +a witness Mr. Jalap Coombs." + +As the ex-mate of the _Seamew_ advanced to the stand the prisoner stared +at him as though he were a ghost, nor could he imagine by what miracle +this witness had reached Forty Mile in time to appear against him. + +Jalap Coombs told his story in his own picturesque language, but in a +perfectly straightforward manner, and without the slightest hesitation. + +When he finished, the Judge questioned him very closely as to the amount +of money given him by Mr. John Ryder, and the prices paid for various +articles of his outfit at St. Michaels. + +As a defense against this charge the prisoner claimed that Jalap Coombs +had not been deserted by Simon Goldollar and himself, but had +voluntarily turned back, and that the dogs they had left with him had +run away to follow them much against their wishes. He also stated that +they had taken the dogs and sledge back to the place where they last saw +Jalap Coombs, but that they could not find him. + +"They were not his dogs, anyway, Judge," he continued, "nor did he +furnish any of our outfit, except a few provisions, most of which he +traded to the Indians on his own account. This man Coombs was a sailor, +supposed to be a deserter from some ship, and was loafing around St. +Michaels half starved when we picked him up. He claimed to have some +friends on the river who would help him, so we brought him along out of +charity." + +"May I toot a horn, Judge?" asked Mr. Skiff Bettens, rising as the +prisoner concluded his remarks. + +"Certainly you may, Marshal." + +"Waal, I only wanted to say that I've knowed Mr. Jalap Coombs off and on +for a good many years, and in all that time I've never knowed him to +tell a lie nor yet do a mean thing. Moreover I'm willing to stake my +life on his honesty agin that of any living man, for a better sailor, a +squarer man, and a truer friend never trod a deck." + +This sincere tribute so affected the simple-hearted sailor-man that he +could only stare open-mouthed at the speaker as though he were talking +in some mysterious language, though in after-years he often referred to +this as the proudest moment of his life. The remainder of the audience +greeted the Marshal's little speech with an outburst of applause which +the Judge was finally obliged to check. + +"Letting charge number two rest with the testimony taken," said the +Judge, when quiet was restored, "we will take up charge number three, +which is the most serious of all. We have already learned that the +accused, under the name of Strengel, passed old Fort Adams about a month +ago, bound for this place in company with a man named Goldollar, who +appears to be a pretty tough character himself, though that of course +has nothing to do with this case. The accused at that time had little, +or nothing of his own, either in the way of money or outfit, while +Goldollar appears to have been well fixed with both. Now this man turns +up in this place alone under the name of Bradwick, telling a story about +having come up the Porcupine, that he has since admitted to be false, +and in possession of the outfit formerly owned by Mr. Coombs and Simon +Goldollar. Of course, under the circumstances, the question naturally to +be asked is what has become of Goldollar?" + +"He got sick of the trip and turned back from Yukon," explained the +prisoner, sulkily. + +"Yes, we've heard he took sick," replied the Judge; "but whether he +turned back, or was left to die in an Indian rancheria is another +question. Mr. Coombs, will you please take the stand again?" + +This time Jalap Coombs testified that he had carefully examined the +outfit brought into camp the night before by the prisoner, and found it +to contain the same number of sledges, the same number of dogs, and the +identical articles, with the exception of a certain quantity of +provisions that had composed it at old Fort Adams. + +"We will now call on one other witness," announced the Judge, and the +prisoner started as though he expected to see Simon Goldollar himself +appear on the stand. What he did see was one of his native drivers from +Fort Yukon, with Kurilla to act as interpreter. + +"Do you admit Injun testimony in this court?" he asked. + +"Certainly we do," replied the Judge. + +"If I'd known that," he muttered, "I'd have bought a dozen or so to +testify on my side." + +The Indian's testimony was to the effect that this white man had left +another white man in a native hut at Fort Yukon so sick that all the +Indians thought he would die. + +"Of course I can't buck agin Injun testimony," growled the prisoner; +"but I say it's a lie, all the same, and don't prove nothing." + +"There is one thing that we must not neglect," said the Judge. "Marshal, +you may search the prisoner." + +The latter struggled furiously, but was overpowered and held by strong +hands while the Marshal searched his pockets. From these were produced a +number of articles, including a wallet, which the Judge opened, +spreading its contents on the table before him. + +"Do you recognize anything here?" he asked of Jalap Coombs. + +"I can identify this as having been in Goldollar's possession," answered +the mate, picking up one of the articles that had dropped from the +wallet, and holding it so that all might see. + +Both Phil and Serge uttered exclamations of amazement, for the object +thus exhibited was nothing more nor less than the mysteriously carved +and almost forgotten fur-seal's tooth that had exerted so great an +influence upon their fortunes. + + +CHAPTER XXIV. + +REAPPEARANCE OF THE FUR-SEAL'S TOOTH. + +"What do you know about this thing?" asked the Judge of Jalap Coombs, +taking the fur-seal's tooth from him and examining it curiously. + +"I know that there were an old Eskimo at St. Michaels what were shipped +by Goldollar to go with us to Nulato as dog-driver. He wore this bit of +ivory hung about his neck, and seemed to set a heap by it. One time when +he were looking at it I heerd Goldollar say that by rights it belonged +to him, seeing as he got it from some natyve, and it were afterwards +stole from him. He didn't say nothing to the Husky about it, but when we +got to Nulato he give him so much liquor that in the morning the old +chap couldn't be woke up. Goldollar fooled round him a while, and then +saying he'd have to give up the job of waking him, left him, and ordered +the teams to pull out. I afterwards seen Goldollar take that very +identical tooth outen his pocket several times and look at it like it +were a diamond or some sich, and heerd him tell Strengel that any man as +owned it would surely have luck. It didn't seem to bring him none, +though. Leastways no good luck, for he hain't had nothing but bad luck +sence." + +"Was it your impression that you could win good luck by stealing this +tooth?" inquired the Judge of Strengel. + +"I didn't steal it," answered the prisoner, sullenly. + +"How did you get it, then?" + +"Goldollar give it to me." + +"Where did you leave Goldollar?" + +"At Fort Yukon." + +"Was he in good health when you last saw him?" + +"I refuse to answer any more questions," replied the prisoner, realizing +how deeply he was committing himself. + +"Very well," said the Judge. "I think you have already told enough to +give us a pretty fair idea of the particular kind of a scoundrel you +are. So, if you have nothing more to say, I declare this case closed and +in the hands of the jury. Gentlemen, the court awaits your verdict." + +As there was no room to which the jury could retire they put their heads +together and consulted in whispers, during which time Phil told the +Judge what he knew about the fur-seal's tooth, together with the legend +of good and bad luck supposed to accompany its possession. The +spectators of the trial buzzed like a swarm of angry hornets. + +In a few minutes the jury ended their conference and resumed their +places. Then, as order was restored, the foreman, standing up, announced +that they were unanimous in finding the prisoner guilty on all three of +the charges preferred against him, and recommended that he be so +punished as to afford a warning to others of his kind who might be +contemplating a visit to the Yukon diggings. + +"Hang him!" cried some one in the crowd. + +"Shoot him!" shouted another. + +"Drive him out of camp, and set him adrift like he done to Jalap +Coombs," suggested a third. + +"Silence!" roared Judge Platt Riley, standing in his place and gazing +sternly about him. "You forget, gentlemen, that this is a court of law, +and though, maybe, it isn't run with all the frills of some, it's bound +to be respected. Likewise, it proposes to pronounce its own decisions. +In regard to the prisoner now awaiting sentence, he has been proved by +the testimony of reputable witnesses, and by his own admissions, to be a +liar, a traitor, a dog-stealer, which in this country is the same as a +boss-thief in the States, and a robber of his travelling companion under +circumstances that make him at the same time come pretty near to being a +murderer. For such as he hanging would be none too severe. But we have +never yet hanged a man in Forty Mile, and we don't want to begin, if we +can help it. The prisoner has expressed a desire to learn something of +our methods of working these diggings, and we promised to teach him. He +has also remarked that moss-stripping was a job well suited to convicts. +So be it. Prisoner at the bar, stand up and receive your sentence." + +When the wretched man, who had fancied himself in a country where he +could commit any crime without fear of punishment, had been assisted to +his feet by Marshal Bettens and a volunteer deputy, the Judge said: + +"By a fair trial, according to Yukon law, you are convicted of crimes +such as this community does not allow to go unpunished. On account of +them you are hereby sentenced to strip moss from the several claims of +this camp during every working hour of every working day from now until +such time as the first steamer reaches here from the lower river and is +ready to return. Then you will be allowed to work your way on her to St. +Michaels, where may the Agent have mercy upon you. + +"In the mean time, when not at work, you will be closely confined in the +camp lock-up, under guard of the Marshal, who shall be entitled to your +services for two days in every week for his trouble. On other days he +will hire you out to any miner who has moss to be stripped, and who will +pay for your keep during such time as you may work for him." + +This unique but just sentence was greeted with a murmur of approval from +the spectators; but this was quickly silenced by a frown from the Judge, +who continued: + +"All the property that you brought into this camp, including money and +outfit, excepting your personal clothing, is hereby confiscated, to be +disposed of as follows: One team of dogs, one sledge, and half the cash +found in your possession shall be restored to Mr. Jalap Coombs, from +whom you helped to steal them. The remainder of the money, after the +Indian drivers who came with you have been paid, and one dog team shall +be devoted to the relief of Simon Goldollar, who, though he seems to be +a pretty bad lot, is still a white man, and so must not be allowed to +perish if it can be helped. The third dog team shall become the property +of Marshal Bettens in place of a fee for his services. The remainder of +the property, provisions, and so forth shall be devoted to the support +of the prisoner during such times as he is working for the Marshal. Mr. +Bettens will now remove his prisoner, and I hereby declare this court +adjourned." This ended Mr. Strengel's prospects in Forty Mile, and when, +some months later, a boat arrived from the lower river, he thankfully +departed from Camp Forty Mile mentally vowing never to return. + +After consulting with Phil, Serge, and Jalap Coombs, Mr. Platt Riley, +who objected to being called "Judge" outside of court, decided to +entrust Simon Goldollar's rescue from the Indian village in which he had +been left to Kurilla and Chitsah, who were persuaded by a liberal +payment to return home that way. Another Indian was hired to accompany +them as far as Fort Yukon, and bring back word to Forty Mile of their +success. + +Phil wrote and sent him a letter, in which he apologized for having +accused him of stealing his money or the fur-seal's tooth, Jalap Coombs +having told him the facts concerning these things, and hoped he would +return to St. Michaels in safety. Long afterwards he learned that Simon +Goldollar did make his way down the river, aided by Kurilla and Chitsah, +and was sent on by Gerald Hamer from Anvik to St. Michaels. There he was +discharged from the company's employ on account of the failure of his +expedition, and finally left Alaska in the same ship that bore +ex-convict Strengel from its shores. An amusing feature of it all was +that both these rascals attributed the ill success of their undertakings +to the unlucky influence of the fur-seal's tooth. + +This industrious bit of ivory which exhibited such a fondness for +interfering with the affairs of men and boys, as well as such activity +in rapid travel and change of ownership reposed for several days in Mr. +Platt Riley's vest pocket, where it had been unconsciously thrust and +forgotten. Finally, tired of being thus neglected it worked a hole +through the pocket and fell to the floor. From there it was snapped up +by Mr. Riley's favorite dog, who lay at his feet, and doubtless imagined +it to be a choice morsel provided for him by his indulgent master. A +moment later the Judge was aroused from a reverie by the frantic +struggles of his dog, who seemed on the point of strangulation. When he +succeeded, by prompt effort, in removing the obstruction from the +animal's throat, and, with a feeling of superstitious amazement, +discovered its nature, he started at once for the store of the Yukon +Trading Company, determined to be rid of the uncanny object as quickly +as possible. + +It so happened that none of the three occupants of the premises was at +home, nor were they to be seen in any direction. They had been preparing +for departure, and many articles ready for packing on the sledges lay +scattered about the room. Among these was a fur sleeping-bag, on which +Mr. Riley's eye no sooner rested than he thrust the magic tooth into it, +and shook it to the very bottom. + +"There!" he exclaimed, "they are sure to take it with them; one of them +will find it sooner or later, and maybe it will bring him good luck. At +any rate I hope it will." + +So on the morning of the 5th of February, although the thermometer +registered 48° below zero, the little party set forth from Forty Mile +with three sledges and seventeen dogs. Above the first sledge fluttered +a small flag on which appeared the magic letters "U.S.M.," signifying +that Phil had undertaken to deliver a large packet of letters, the first +mail ever sent out from Forty Mile in winter. + +The entire population of the camp was assembled to see them off; and +amid a round of hearty cheers the sledges dashed away up the Yukon. + +[TO BE CONTINUED.] + + + + +[Illustration] + +STORIES OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. + +WASHINGTON IRVING. + +BY HENRIETTA CHRISTIAN WRIGHT. + + + "Left his lodging some time ago, and has not been heard of + since--a small elderly gentleman, dressed in an old black + coat and cocked hat, by the name of Knickerbocker.... Any information + concerning him will be thankfully received." + +Such was the curious advertisement that appeared in the _Evening Post_ +under the date of October 26, 1809, attracting the attention of all New +York. People read it as they sat at supper, talked of it afterward +around their wood fires, and thought of it again and again before they +fell asleep at night. And yet not a soul knew the missing old gentleman, +or had ever heard of him before. Still, he was no stranger to them, for +he was a Knickerbocker, and every one was interested in the +Knickerbockers, and every one felt almost as if a grandfather or +great-grandfather had suddenly come back to life, and disappeared again +still more suddenly, without a word of explanation. + +For some time nothing more was heard of Diedrich Knickerbocker, and then +another advertisement appeared in the _Post_, saying he had been seen +twice on the road to Albany. Some time again elapsed, and finally the +landlord of the inn at which he had been reported to have stopped gave +up hope of ever seeing his guest again, and declared that he should sell +the manuscript of a book that Mr. Knickerbocker had left behind, and +take the proceeds in payment of his bill. People were really excited +about the fate of the old gentleman, and one of the city officials was +upon the point of offering a reward for his discovery, when a curious +thing happened. It was found that there was no old gentleman by the name +of Knickerbocker who had wandered away from his lodging; that there was +no inn at which he had lived, and no manuscript he had left behind, and +that, in fact, Mr. Knickerbocker was simply the hero of a book of which +the author took this clever means of advertising. The book claimed to be +the true history of the discovery and settlement of New York, and began +with an account of the creation of the world, passing on to the manners, +customs, and historical achievements of the old Hollanders who settled +Manhattan Island. Here we read of the golden reign of the first Dutch +Governor, Wouter Van Twiller, who was exactly five feet six inches in +height and six feet five inches in circumference, and who ate four hours +a day, smoked eight, and slept twelve, and so administered the affairs +of the colony that it was a marvel of prosperity. Next we hear of +Governor Keift, of lofty descent, since his father was an inspector of +windmills, how his nose turned up and his mouth turned down, how his +legs were the size of spindles, and how he grew tougher and tougher with +age, so that before his death he looked a veritable mummy. And then we +see the redoubtable Peter Stuyvesant stumping around on his wooden leg, +which was adorned with silver reliefs, furious with rage, menacing the +British fleet which has come to take possession of the town, threatening +vengeance dire upon the English King, and still cherishing his wrath +with fiery bravery when the enemy finally occupy the old Dutch town and +proceed to transform it into an English city. + +The book was read with amazement, admiration, or interest, as the case +might be. Some said it appeared too light and amusing for real history; +others claimed that it held stories of wisdom that only the wise could +understand; others still complained that the author was no doubt making +fun of their respectable ancestors, and had written the book merely to +hold them up to ridicule. Only a few saw that it was the brightest, +cleverest piece of humor that had yet appeared in America, and that its +writer had probably a career of fame before him. The author was +Washington Irving, then a young man in his twenty-seventh year, and +already known as the writer of some clever newspaper letters, and of a +series of humorous essays published in a semimonthly periodical called +_Salmagundi_. + +Irving was born in New York on the 3d of April, 1783, and was named +after George Washington. New York was then a small town, beyond the +limits of which were orchards, farms, country-houses, and the high-road +leading to Albany, along which the stage-coach passed at regular times. +There were no railroads, and Irving was fourteen years old before the +first steamboat puffed its way up the Hudson River frightening the +country people into the belief that it was an evil monster come to +devour them. All travelling was done by means of sailing vessels, +stage-coaches, or private conveyances; all letters were carried by the +stage-coach, and every one cost the sender or receiver twenty-five cents +for postage. The telegraph was undreamed of, and if any one had hinted +the possibility of talking to some one else a thousand miles away over a +telephone-wire, he would have been considered a lunatic or, possibly, a +witch. In fact, New York was a quiet, unpretentious little town whose +inhabitants were still divided into English or Dutch families, according +to their descent, and in whose households were found the customs of +England and Holland in full force. Irving's father was a Scotch +Presbyterian, who considered life a discipline, who thought all +amusement a waste of precious time, and who made the children devote one +out of the two half-weekly holidays to the study of the Catechism. + +[Illustration: IRVING AS A STAR.] + +Forbidden to attend the theatre, Irving would risk his neck nightly by +climbing out of his window to visit the play for an hour or so, and then +rush home in terror lest his absence had been noted and his future fun +imperilled, and many a night when sent early to bed he would steal away +across the adjacent roofs to send a handful of stones clattering down +the wide old-fashioned chimney of some innocent neighbor, who would +start from his dreams to imagine robbers, spooks, or other unpleasant +visitors in his bed-chamber. He was not particularly brilliant in his +studies, but he distinguished himself as an actor in the tragedies which +the boys gave in the school-room; at ten years of age he was the star of +the company, who did not even lose respect for him when once, being +called suddenly upon the stage through a mistake, he appeared with his +month full of honey-cake, which he was obliged to swallow painfully, +while the audience roared at the situation. Afterward when he rushed +around the stage flourishing a wooden sabre he was not a tragedian to be +trifled with. His favorite books were _Robinson Crusoe_, the _Arabian +Nights_, _Gulliver's Travels_, and all stories of adventure and travel. +The world beyond the sea always seemed a fairy-land to him; a little +print of London Bridge and another of Kensington Gardens that hung in +his bedroom stirred his heart wistfully; and he fairly envied the +odd-looking old gentlemen and ladies who appeared to be loitering around +the arches of St. John's Gate, as shown in a cut on the cover of an old +magazine. Later on his imagination was also kindled by short excursions +to the then wild regions of the Hudson and Mohawk valleys. Years +afterward we find the remembrance of these days gracing with loving +touch the pages of some of his choicest work. + +[Illustration: IN THE SCOTCH HILLS WITH SCOTT.] + +At seventeen Irving left school and began to study for the bar. But his +health, which had always been delicate, made it necessary for him to +take a long rest from study, and he accordingly left America for two +years of travel abroad. It was after his return home that he brought out +his Knickerbocker history, a work which made him so famous that when he +returned to England some time afterwards he found himself very well +known in the best literary circles. The results of this second visit are +found in the volumes comprising the _Tales of a Traveller_; _Bracebridge +Hall_; _Geoffrey Crayon's Sketch-Book_, and other miscellany, in which +occur charming descriptions of English country life, delightful ghost +stories, the famous description of an English Christmas, and the +immortal legend of _Rip Van Winkle_. One of Irving's most interesting +chapters in this collection is that of his visit to the haunts of Robin +Hood, whose exploits had so fascinated him as a boy that he spent his +entire holiday money in obtaining a copy of his adventures. _Abbotsford_ +is an account of a visit that Irving paid to Sir Walter Scott. It is a +charming revelation of the social side of Scott's character, who +welcomed Irving as a younger brother in art, became his guide in his +visits to Yarrow and Melrose Abbey, and took long rambling walks with +him all around the country made so famous by the great novelist. Irving +recalled as among the most delightful hours of his life those walks over +the Scottish hills with Scott, who was described by the peasantry as +having "an awfu' knowledge of history," and whose talk was full of the +folklore, poetry, and superstitions that made up the interest of the +place. + +In the evening they sat in the drawing-room, while Scott, with his great +hound, Maida, at his feet, read to him a scrap of old poetry, or a +chapter from King Arthur, or told some delightful bit of peasant +fairy-lore like that of the black cat which, on hearing one shepherd +tell another of having seen a number of cats dressed in mourning +following a coffin, sprang up the chimney in haste exclaiming, "Then I +am king of the cats!" and vanished to take possession of his vacant +kingdom. From this time on Irving's life was one of constant literary +labor for many years, all of which were spent abroad. His works on the +history of Spain, the companions of _Columbus_ and the _Alhambra_, were +compiled during his residence in Spain, where he had access to the +national archives, and where he became as familiar with the life of the +people as it was possible for a stranger to become. After seventeen +years' absence Irving returned to America, where he was welcomed as one +who won for his country great honors. He was the first writer to make +American literature respected abroad, and his return was made the +occasion of numerous fêtes given in his honor in New York and other +cities. + +[Illustration: SUNNYSIDE.] + +He now built Sunnyside on the Hudson, the home that he loved so dearly, +and which will ever be famous as the abode of America's first great +writer. + +His principal works following the Spanish histories were _Astoria_, the +history of the fur-trading company in Oregon, founded by the head of the +Astor family; _Captain Bonneville_, the adventures of a hunter in the +far West; the _Life of Goldsmith_; and the lives of _Mohammed and his +Successors_. He returned to Spain as ambassador in 1842, and remained +four years. + +In the _Legends of the Conquest of Spain_ Irving tells the story of the +conquest of Spain by the Moors, as related in the old Spanish and +Moorish chronicles. The whole story is a brilliant, living picture of +that romantic age. The Spanish king goes to battle wearing robes of gold +brocade, sandals embroidered with gold and diamonds, and a crown studded +with the costliest jewels of Spain. He rides in a chariot of ivory, and +a thousand cavaliers knighted by his own hand surround him, while tens +of thousands of his brave soldiers follow him, guarding the sacred +banners emblazoned with the cross. The Moorish vanguard, riding the +famous horses of Arabia, advance to the sound of trumpet and cymbal, +their gay robes and snowy turbans, and their arms of burnished gold and +steel glittering in the sunshine which reflects in every direction the +sacred crescent, the symbol of their faith. The surroundings are equally +picturesque and romantic. The famous plain of Granada, adorned with +groves and gardens and winding streams, and guarded by the famous +Mountains of the Sun and Air, forms the foreground to the picture, while +in the distance we see the gloomy mountain passes, the fortified rocks +and castles, and the great walled cities, through which the Moors +passed, always victorious, and never pausing until their banners floated +from every cliff and tower. + +Irving remained some months in the Alhambra, living over again the +scenes of Moorish story, and so catching the spirit of the lost grandeur +of the old palace that his descriptions read like a bit of genuine +Arabian chronicle, which had been kept safe until then in the grim +guardianship of the past. + +[Illustration: IRVING LISTENING TO THE OLD TALES OF THE MOORS.] + +The chapters of the _Alhambra_ are also full of delightful legends, the +fairy tales which time had woven around the beautiful ruin, and which +the custodians of the place related gravely to Irving as genuine +history. It calls up a pleasant picture to think of Irving sitting in +the stately hall or on his balcony, listening to one of these old tales +from the lips of his tattered but devoted domestic while the twilight +was gathering, and the nightingale singing in the groves and gardens +beneath. He himself said that it was the realization of a daydream which +he had cherished since the time when, in earliest boyhood on the banks +of the Hudson, he had pored over the story of the Granada. + +In his work, _The Conquest of Granada_, Irving relates the story of the +retaking of Granada by Ferdinand and Isabella. So sympathetically and +graphically does Irving describe the fortunes of this war that he must +ever remain the historian of the Moors of Spain, whose spirit seemed to +inspire the beautiful words in which he celebrated their conquests, +their achievements and their defeats. + +In the _Chronicle of Wolfert's Roost_ Irving follows in imagination old +Diedrich Knickerbocker into the famous region of Sleepy Hollow, where +much of the material for the celebrated Knickerbocker History was said +to have been collected. This chronicle, it was claimed, was written upon +the identical old Dutch writing-desk that Diedrich used, the elbow chair +was the same that he sat in, the clock was the very one he consulted so +often during his long hours of composition. In these pages old Diedrich +walks as a real person, and Irving follows him with faithful step +through the region that he loved so fondly all his life. + +Everything here is dwelt upon with lingering touch. The brooks and +streams, the meadows and cornfields, the orchards and the gardens, and +the groves of beech and chestnut have their tribute from the pen of one +who found their charms ever fresh, who sought in them rest and +happiness, and who came back to them lovingly to spend the last days of +his life in their familiar companionship. + +Irving died in 1859, and was buried at Sunnyside; in sight of the Hudson +whose legends he had immortalized, and whose beauty never ceased to +charm him from the moment it first captivated his heart in his boyhood +days. + + + + +[Illustration: THE CAMERA CLUB] + + This Department is conducted in the interest of Amateur + Photographers, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any + question on the subject so far as possible. Correspondents should + address Editor Camera Club Department. + + +PAPERS FOR BEGINNERS, NO. 1. + +THE ACTION OF LIGHT ON THE SENSITIVE PLATE. + +The process of making photographs has been made so simple by modern +science that the most of us make our picture by intuition--that sort of +sixth sense by which we know just how long to expose a plate, when to +take it from the developer, when it is fixed sufficiently, etc., +etc.--though we can give no scientific explanation of our methods, and +know little or nothing how the chemical changes are produced which +result in the finished photograph. + +It is not at all necessary to know the process of making a sensitive +plate, but it is quite necessary to know something of the action of +light on the plate in order to make a good picture. A photographic +negative is formed by the chemical action of light admitted through a +lens or even a tiny hole, into an otherwise light tight box, and +striking a glass plate, film, paper, or celluloid, coated with sensitive +silver salts. The part of the light that affects this coating is the +blue rays. + +The rays of light may be separated by the prism into a band of five +different colors--red, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Three of these +colors--the red, yellow, and blue--are called the primary colors, for +any color or shade desired may be obtained by blending and mixing them +in different proportions. These three primary colors have each a +separate power. The red rays possess heating power, the yellow rays +possess illuminating power, and the blue rays chemical power. The blue +rays are called actinic, and when we speak of actinic light we mean the +blue rays which produce the chemical change in the sensitive plate. The +effect of these actinic rays may be seen in other things besides the +sensitive plates. The fading of carpets, draperies, and clothing, the +tanning or browning of the skin, etc., are due to their action. + +After the sensitive plate has been exposed in the camera to the chemical +action of the blue rays, the change which has taken place is invisible +to the eye, and in this state is called the latent image, because it is +dormant or hidden. In order to preserve this chemical change in the +silver salts the sensitive plate must be washed or soaked in a solution +which will form an opaque compound with the part of the salt which has +been acted upon by the light. As it is necessary to have a light to +watch the process and stop it when it has been carried far enough, we +must have a light free from actinic or blue rays. We therefore darken +the room and use a red light, for the red rays have little or no actinic +power. + +As we watch the chemical change which takes place in the sensitive plate +when covered with what we call the developer, we notice black patches +appear here and there on the plate. These are the places which have been +exposed to the strongest actinic rays. All bodies radiate or reflect +light, some more than others. A piece of yellow silk may appear to the +eye lighter in color than a piece of blue silk, but when the two pieces +are photographed it will be found that the yellow photographs much +darker than the blue silk. This is because the yellow silk does not +reflect actinic rays, while the blue does, and therefore the sensitive +plate is more strongly affected by the light reflected from the blue +than from the yellow silk. The yellow-colored silk possesses the +illuminating power which causes it to make a room look bright and sunny, +while the blue silk possesses the chemical power which affects the +sensitive salts. + +If the sensitive plate has been exposed to a landscape, the strongest +actinic rays come from the blue sky, and as the chemical used to develop +or bring out the image affects the part which has been exposed to the +strongest light most quickly, the result in the negative is the opaque +deposit which covers all that part of the plate exposed to the light +from the sky. After the image has appeared on the plate it must undergo +another process to make it permanent. It must be placed in a chemical +solution which shall dissolve the silver salts from the parts unaffected +by the actinic rays. Where the actinic light has been the strongest the +glass will be covered with a black deposit, and where the light has not +reached the plate with sufficient force the salts will be dissolved and +the glass will be clear, while the high lights, the shadows, and the +half-tones will show just how much each object reflected actinic rays. + +We manage our cameras, but the sun is the real work-man. What he does is +well worth learning, for it enables us to tell beforehand just what kind +of a negative we shall have after we have exposed a sensitive plate to +his influence. + + +ROUND TABLE PHOTOGRAPHIC EXCHANGE CLUB. + +Our suggestion of forming a photographic exchange club, or travelling +photographic exhibit, meets with the warm approval of many of our +members. Next week we shall give directions for beginning and carrying +on our club. We give the names and addresses of members who will act as +representatives. Ernest P. Fredericks, Arlington, New Jersey; Samuel J. +Castner, 3729 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Walter G. +Sill, 511 Central Avenue, East Orange, New Jersey; Andrew Phillips, +Nunda, New York; C. Roy Baker, 315 W. Dry Street, Salem, Ohio; William +J. Tobey, Washington, Kansas; William C. Davids, Rutherford, New Jersey. + + CONSTANT READER asks: "1. Is it possible to photograph from a + moving vessel, and how? 2. Can I take photographs of microscopic + specimens with an ordinary camera, and will you please describe + the method? 3. How can I photograph monuments so that they will + not show black in the picture? 4. What make of plates is the + quickest? 5. How can I photograph a mantel-piece in a hall without + using a flash-light? The hall is rather dark." 1. One can easily + photograph objects from a moving vessel by using quick plates and + making the exposure instantaneous. Successful snap-shots, but not + artistic pictures, have been and can be made from moving trains. + 2. An article will soon be published on microphotography for + amateurs. The process requires too long a description for the + space devoted to queries. 3. A cloudy day--not heavy clouds--is + the better time for photographing monuments. A rather slow plate + and a short time exposure will give better detail, and render the + monument or figure with correct color value. Use orthochromatic or + nonhalation plates. 4. The rapidity of the plate is marked on the + box. Some brands of plates are marked with the sensitometer + number, like the Stanley, Carbutt, Seed, etc., and others are + marked with a letter like the Cramer. The sensitiveness of the + Stanley, which is marked "Sens. 50," and the Cramer "C" plate is + about equal as to rapidity. 5. If you cannot use a flash-light for + the mantel, try a long exposure by lamp-light. Place the lamp, + which should give a clear, brilliant light, so as to illuminate + the wood-work without giving strong shadows. If one lamp is not + sufficient to light the whole surface, take two, but place them so + that the light from each comes from the same direction. A + reflector back of the lamp helps the lighting. A shallow tin pan, + if bright, makes a good reflector if the genuine article cannot be + obtained. + + LADY GRACE S., Vails Gate, N. Y., asks for the name of a book + giving full instructions in photography for beginners. "Every + camera maker furnishes with each camera sent out a book giving + simple instruction for using the camera, and directions for + developing plates. This would be a sufficient guide for the + beginner, and if rules are followed one can obtain very good + negatives. There are many books published on photography which + would be helpful after a while, but the beginner will find the + directions which come with the camera all that are needful at + first. With this number we begin publishing what will be a series + of papers for beginners in photography. Technical terms will be + explained, formulas for work will be given with explanations of + what each chemical is expected to do. Prices of chemicals for each + formula will also be added. It is intended to make these + instructions as simple as possible, and if Lady Grace will watch + this column she will find in it we hope just the help she needs." + + + + +OFF WITH THE MERBOY. + +BY JOHN KENDRICK BANGS. + + +CHAPTER V. + +THE WIZARD. + +[Illustration: Decorative J] + +immieboy grasped the old man's hand, and for a few moments was silent. He +was so astonished that he could do nothing but gaze upon his new +acquaintance in wonder. The little old man seemed very much pleased at +Jimmieboy's apparent wonderment, for he smiled broadly and said, + +"Thank you, sir." + +"You are very welcome," murmured Jimmieboy, "but I don't know what for. +I didn't know that I had done anything for you to thank me for." + +"Yes, indeed, you have," returned the little old man, letting go of +Jimmieboy's hand, and dancing a lively jig upon the broad marble top of +the bureau. "You have done two things. You have released me from a long +imprisonment, for one thing, and for another you have looked at me in a +manner which proves that you think me a most interesting person. I like +freedom better than anything in the world, and next to that I like being +an interesting person." + +"And were you really shut up in that little drawer so that you couldn't +get out?" asked Jimmieboy, beginning to feel very glad that fortune had +led him that way, and so enabled him to help the little old man out of +his trouble. + +"Yes," answered the other. "I've been locked up in that drawer there for +nearly fifty years." + +"Fifty years!" ejaculated Jimmieboy. "Why, that's longer than I have +lived." + +"No, not quite," said the little old man. "They were dream years, and a +dream year isn't much longer than a day of your time; but they have +seemed real years to me, and I am just as grateful to you for unlocking +the drawer and letting me out as I should have been had the years been +three hundred and sixty-five days long each." + +"Why should any one want to lock you up in a drawer?" asked Jimmieboy. +"Were you naughty?" + +"No," said the old man. "I never did a naughty thing in all my life, but +they locked me up just the same--just as if I had been a poor little +canary-bird." + +"Who did it?" queried Jimmieboy. "They must have been very wicked people +to treat you that way." + +"They were. Awfully wicked," said the little old man. "They were +wickeder than they seem, because really, you know, they intended that I +should stay locked up there forever and ever." + +"But how did they come to do it?" asked Jimmieboy. + +"It's a long story," answered the little old man. "But if you want me +to, I'll tell it." + +"Do," said Jimmieboy. + +"Very well, then, I will," said the little old man. "But not here. It is +too wet here. We'll go inside the drawer ourselves, where we can be dry +and comfortable, and we'll take the key in with us and lock ourselves in +so that nobody can interfere with us. Will you come?" + +"I don't see how I can," said Jimmieboy, looking down at his own body +and then pointing to the drawer. "Don't you see I am two or three dozen +times too big to get in there?" + +"That doesn't make any difference," said the little old man with a +laugh. "For I am a wizard, and I can make you large or small, just as I +please. If you will say the word I'll make you so small you couldn't see +yourself with a magnifying-glass." + +Jimmieboy thought a moment, and concluded very wisely, I think, that he +would rather not be so small as that. + +"I don't like to lose sight of myself," he said. + +"Very well, then," said the other. "Suppose I make you just about my +size? How would that do?" + +"I'd like that very much," replied Jimmieboy, kindly. "I think you are +an awfully nice size." + +Again the little old man smiled with pleasure. "You are the pleasantest +boy I know," he said; "and you will find out before long that it is +worth while to make friends with old Thumbhi, Lord High Wizard of the +Sea, and Court Jester to the King of the Waves." + +"Are you all that?" said Jimmieboy, pleased to discover that his +new-found friend was a person of so great importance. + +"Yes indeed," answered Thumbhi. "I am all that, and half a dozen things +more. In fact, I am so much that if we had a million dream years +together I couldn't even begin to tell you all that I am. But come. Are +you ready to be made smaller?" + +"Yes," said Jimmieboy, a little nervously. "What do I do first?" + +"You must put on a coat I give you," replied the wizard. "It will be a +little small for you, perhaps, but you can get it on." + +The wizard opened one of the bureau drawers, and took therefrom a coat, +in which Jimmieboy hastened to array himself. It was, as the old man had +said, a little small for him, but he managed to get into it, and after +wearing it a minute or two he found it quite comfortable. + +"Now take it off," said the wizard, taking a second coat out of the +drawer, "and put this one on." + +Jimmieboy took off the coat. "Is this larger than the other?" he asked, +as he began to put the second coat on. + +"No; it is a trifle smaller," replied the wizard. "That's my scheme. You +keep putting on coats that are smaller than the one you have just taken +off. You stay in them until they fit you comfortably, and finally when +you get the last one on you will be small enough to get into the +drawer." + +"That's a fine plan," said Jimmieboy. + +Then he went through the process of changing coats, each new coat being +a little smaller than the other, until he had tried on at least fifty of +them, when for the first time since he began he caught sight of himself +in the glass. + +"My!" he cried, in pleased astonishment. "I'm hardly any bigger than you +are." + +"That's so," replied the little old man. "One more coat, and we can get +you into the drawer." + +[Illustration: JIMMIEBOY PUTS ON THE LAST COAT.] + +Jimmieboy put on the last coat. A little bit of a thing it was, hardly +larger than a doll's overcoat, and, if the truth be told, awfully tight; +but, as with all the others, it soon became as comfortable as any coat +he had ever worn, and then, looking at himself in the glass once more, +Jimmieboy observed that he was actually no larger than Thumbhi. + +"It didn't hurt much, did it?" asked Thumbhi. + +"Not a bit," said Jimmieboy. "It was as easy and pleasant as could be." + +"That's the great thing about my tricks," said the wizard. "They never +hurt anybody. It would be a good thing if all tricks were that way. +Tricks that hurt people are mean, and I don't have anything to do with +them, and if you will take my advice you won't either." + +"I'll take anything you'll give me," said Jimmieboy. + +The old wizard laughed heartily at this. "Most boys would," said he, +"but you are the first one I ever met who was willing to take advice. +The boys I've known have all been like little Sammy. Ever hear about +little Sammy?" + +"No," answered Jimmieboy. "What did he do?" + +"Why," said the wizard, "Sammy is the boy the poet wrote about, saying: + + "Sammy was a pretty boy, + Sammy was his mother's joy. + Sammy'd take + A piece of cake, + Sammy'd always take a toy. + + "Sammy'd take a top to spin. + Pie with fruit and raisins in. + Sammy'd take + A piece of steak, + Sammy'd take his medicine. + + "Sammy'd take a bowl of rice, + Sammy'd take a bit of spice. + Sammy'd take + A garden rake, + But he would not take advice." + +Here the wizard stopped. + +"Is that all?" asked Jimmieboy. + +"Certainly," answered Thumbhi. "What more do you want?" + +"Didn't anything happen to Sammy?" queried Jimmieboy. + +The wizard was about to say no, but then he suddenly remembered that +something always does happen to boys that refuse to take advice, so he +said: "The poet never told us about that, but I think it probable that +something did happen to Sammy. Very likely he went out skating on a +mill-pond one summer day in spite of his father's warning, and got his +feet so wet that he caught cold, and had to stay in bed while all the +other boys went off on a picnic." + +This seemed to satisfy Jimmieboy, and Sammy was dropped as a subject of +conversation. + +"Now let us go into the drawer," said the wizard. + +[TO BE CONTINUED.] + + + + +[Illustration: INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT] + + +If the success of a track-athletic meeting is to be judged from the +number of records broken, the two interscholastic meets of May 11th at +Berkeley Oval and at Eastern Park will go down in the annals of school +sport as the most notable occasions of the kind ever held. The +contestants in the N.Y.I.S.A.A. games left the records of only four +events on the card standing at the same figure they showed when the +programme was printed, and came so close to these that the entire +schedule was in danger of being entirely overthrown. The management of +the Oval games was as near perfection as can be hoped for where so many +events and so many contestants have to be attended to; and although in +Brooklyn there was considerable delay at one time on account of the +non-arrival of the hurdles, yet things were kept moving as fast as +possible, and the enthusiasm of the spectators helped to fill what might +otherwise have been several tedious gaps. The Cutler athletes deserve +the highest praise for the work they performed. They came on the field +with Barnard and Berkeley strong favorites, and they went into every +event with an earnestness and energy that were finally rewarded by +victory. Cutler's score was 34-1/2 points, with Barnard second, having +30, and Berkeley third, with 27. Next year there will be a hot struggle +between Barnard and Cutler for the final ownership of the cup, which +will then be decided, unless some other strong team is developed, to +come in and secure the trophy for a year's custodianship. + +[Illustration: FINISH IN THE 100-YARD DASH.] + +Although Hall won the second heat in the 100 in 10-2/5 seconds, with +Moore behind him, he was unable to distance Moore when the final test +came, and the Barnard man plunged ahead and took the event. All the +heats in the 100 were close and interesting, and no winner had an easy +time of it in any case. In fact, all the sprints were contested in sound +earnest. The quarter-mile furnished as pretty a race as any. +Irwin-Martin kept along in the middle of the bunch until they were well +opposite the grand stand on the far side of the field, when he pulled +ahead strongly and steadily, and finished in good style. His effort was +a strain on him, however, for he collapsed as soon as he had breasted +the tape. For this reason he was probably not in his best form when he +toed the scratch for the half-mile, but it is doubtful if he could have +distanced Meehan even if he had been. Meehan proved himself to be in the +pink of condition. Robinson, the old Yale runner who has been training +him, told me at the start that Meehan had been trained to do the first +quarter in 60 seconds, and as he passed the mark the watch showed just +that time. He was leading then, and kept right on, with strong graceful +strides until he finished, and broke the record by one second. +Irwin-Martin did his best to pull up; but Meehan kept ahead easily, with +a broad smile on his face, and appeared to be just as fresh at the +finish as he had been at the start. + +[Illustration: THE MILE RUN.] + +The mile run was another pretty race. There must have been more than +twenty starters, and they trotted off in a tight bunch, sticking well +together for three entire laps. Then Tappin gradually pulled out from +the centre, with Mosenthal and McCord seesawing behind him. He kept +increasing his lead, and although Mosenthal pushed him pretty hard, he +finished strong, with the place men a couple of yards behind, and the +field straggling as far back as the bend. Blair failed to come up to his +promised form, and was at no time a factor in the race. The walk was +practically a duel between Hackett and Walker. Hackett took the lead, +and Walker stuck close to his heels, making several attempts to pass +him. On the stretch Walker made one last desperate effort, and walked +abreast of his opponent for several yards, while the judge of walking +almost went frantic in his endeavors to keep the racers down to form. +Neither broke, however, and Hackett won by a yard. Walker is still young +for such strong work, but I am sure that he will be heard from within +the next few years. The bicycle racers broke the interscholastic record +of 2 min. 49-3/5 sec. in every heat, and Powell's final race, which +brought the time down to 2 min. 34-1/5 sec., was a beautiful contest. +Ehrich pushed him hard all the way, and finished a strong second. A +pleasing feature of the event was that only one collision occurred, and +this was not serious. + +[Illustration: THE I.S. HIGH-JUMP RECORD. + +Baltazzi, Harvard, clearing the bar at 5 ft. 11 in.] + +The best performance of the day, from an athletic point of view, was +Baltazzi's high jumping. He was in good form, and won the event by +clearing 5 ft. 7 in. Then he had the bar put up a quarter of an inch +above the interscholastic record mark of 5 ft. 9 in., and cleared it, +thus insuring for himself a record medal. The "take-off" was in bad +condition, and had to be constantly rolled. There were also several bad +holes along the runway. In addition to this, Baltazzi's right shoe +split, and afforded him almost no support. Nevertheless, he felt that he +could do even better than 5 ft. 9-1/4 in., and he had the bar raised to +5 ft. 11 in. He failed the first five times allowed him for a record +try, but on the sixth he got a good start, cleared the holes, and found +a solid spot to "take off" on, and cleared the stick as neatly and +gracefully as he ever did at 5 ft. 5 in. He had never before, even in +practice, done better than 5 ft. 10-1/2 in. Baltazzi goes to Columbia +next year, and will be a factor in the intercollegiates if he keeps in +his present form, which I have no doubt he will. I expect to see him go +beyond 6 feet inside of two years. He will doubtless be one of the +N.Y.A.C.'s representatives when the English athletes come over here this +year. + +The records for the other field events, with the exception of throwing +the baseball and the broad jump, were broken. Ayres bettered the shot +record almost by a foot, and Irwin-Martin, in spite of his hard work in +the runs, threw 117 feet 4-1/2 inches with the hammer. A notable feature +of this event was that every place man in it surpassed the +interscholastic record, the third man bettering it as much as 3 feet. +This kind of work is most encouraging, and cannot fail to raise the +standard of the contestants, and create a most beneficial competition. +If a man knows he has got to break the record even to get third place, +there will be good work done. Cowperthwaite, as I had anticipated, won +the broad jump easily, but he should have gotten closer to the record +than he did. He covered 20 feet 8 inches. One of the other exciting and +unexpected features of the day was the semi-final in the Junior 100, +when Leech left the field about ten yards behind. He will make a good +man as his two easy victories over Wilson will attest. + +A better exhibition of tennis than that offered by Ware, when he +defeated Whitman in the final match on Holmes Field, Cambridge, last +week Monday, could hardly be wished for. The Roxbury player was +decidedly in championship form, and although he won in three straight +sets--6-4, 6-3, 7-5--he had to play his level best, for Whitman was no +easy victim. In the third set Ware showed what he was made of. The games +were 5-2 against him, but he gathered himself together, played a cool, +careful game, displaying excellent judgment at every point, and thus +pulled out the next five games, and the set. It was exciting throughout. +Whitman took the first game. His opponent got the second, and both were +then playing as good tennis as they knew how, with the advantage +temporarily in favor of Whitman. By keeping close up to the net he +managed to fool Ware a good many times, at the same time saving himself +from committing his great fault of banging the ball into the net. This +Whitman invariably does when he stands back. Ware evidently knew his +antagonist's style of play, for he gradually coaxed Whitman nearer and +nearer to the back line, and then pounded the balls at him, with the 7-5 +result. Ware will be seen at a number of tournaments this summer, and +will no doubt bring a triumphal record back to Roxbury with him in the +fall. He will play in the Western Championship Doubles at Chicago, in +the Longwood open tournament, as well as in the Massachusetts +championships held on the same courts; and he will enter the lists at +Newcastle, Bar Harbor, Narragansett Pier, and Newport. + +[Illustration: FINAL HEAT IN THE 120-YARD HURDLES.] + +At Eastern Park the Adelphi Academy athletes swept everything before +them. Gunnison and Jewell proved to be surprises, the former winning +three firsts and the latter two firsts and one second. The other members +of the team seconded them so well, that Adelphi took the cup with 10 +points more to their credit than their nearest rival, which was Poly. +Prep, with 29. It is to be regretted that there was any hitch over the +delivery of the hurdles, and at one time it seemed as if those two +events would have to be omitted; but the sticks did come, and the races +furnished some of the best sport of the day. The Junior 100 gave a close +finish, and the 220 furnished an exciting contest. Stevens took it from +Jewell, who had been counted a winner, but Jewell retrieved himself when +he won the quarter handily, it being his first attempt at running that +distance. Bedford was somewhat of a disappointment to his schoolmates, +who expected him to take the mile for B.H.-S. instead of allowing it to +go to Adelphi, but he ran the half-mile in good time, and took second in +the longer distance. The walk was most interesting too. Clark and Stars +were fairly in lock-step behind Hall, and it was nip and tuck with the +three until the tape was broken. + +The bicycle race, in which the Long Island record was lowered 1-2/5 +seconds, was run under the rules of the L.A.W., and with the sanction of +the L.A.W. Racing Board. This is the first school race to be so run. The +final heat looked like a dead heat between Roehr and Hazeltine, and I +have no doubt that if the two had set the pace earlier in the race the +record would have been greatly bettered. In the pole vault Phillips beat +his own record of 9 feet by 7 inches, and the hammer record was +increased by over 24 feet. Mason threw 100 ft. 11 in. Some of the other +records that were smashed were the mile run, which was lowered 2-1/5 +seconds; Bedford brought down the half-mile record from 2 min. 17-4/5 +sec. to 2 min. 12-3/5 sec.; Gunnison made the record in the high hurdles +read 16-3/5 sec. instead of 18-3/5 sec. The record for the 100 was +broken three times. In the final heat the time was 10-3/5 sec., and in +the second and third heats it was 10-2/5 sec. and 10-1/2 sec. +respectively. Stevens made the best time. + + N.Y.I.S.A.A. Records + Event. previous to May 11, 1895. + + 100-yard dash 10-3/8 sec. + 100-yard dash, for Juniors 11-2/5 " + 220-yard dash 22-4/5 " + 220-yard dash, for Juniors 23-4/5 " + 440-yard run 53 + Half-mile run 2 m. 5-1/5 " + Mile run 4 " 52 " + Mile walk 7 " 30-2/5 " + 120-yard hurdles 16-1/5 " + 220-yard hurdles 27-1/5 " + One-mile bicycle 2 " 49-3/5 " + Two-mile bicycle + Running high jump 5 ft. 9 in. + Running broad jump 21 " 5 " + Pole vault 10 " + Putting 12-pound shot 39 " 1 " + Throwing 12-pound hammer 110 " 3-1/2 " + Throwing baseball 325 " 9 " + + + N.Y.I.S.A.A. Games, Berkeley Oval, New York, + May 11, 1895. + + Event. Winner. Performance. + + 100-yard dash Moore, Barnard 10-3/5 sec. + 100-yard dash, for Juniors Leech, Cutler 11 " + 220-yard dash Moore, Barnard 23-1/5 " + 220-yard dash, for Juniors Leech, Cutler 24-3/5 " + 440-yard run Irwin-Martin, Berkeley 52-3/5 " + Half-mile run Meehan, Condon 2 m. 4-1/5 " + Mile run Tappin, Cutler 5 " 4-3/5 " + Mile walk Hackett, Trinity 7 " 4-2/5 " + 120 yard hurdles Beers, De La Salle 15-3/5 " + 220-yard hurdles Syme, Barnard 26-3/5 " + One-mile bicycle Powell, Cutler 2 " 34-1/5 " + Two-mile bicycle + Running high jump Baltazzi, Harvard 5 ft. 11 in. + Running broad jump Cowperthwaite, Col. Gram. 20 " 8 " + Pole vault Simpson, Barnard 10 " 3/8 " + Putting 12-pound shot Ayers, Condin 40 " 3/4 " + Throwing 12-pound hammer Irwin-Martin, Berkeley 117 " 4-1/2 " + Throwing baseball Zizinia, Harvard 325 " 4 " + + + Long Island I.S.A.A. Games, Eastern Park, Brooklyn, + May 11, 1895. + + Event. Winner. Performance. + + 100-yard dash Stevens, B.L.S. 10-3/5 sec. + 100-yard dash, for Juniors Robinson, St. Paul's 11 " + 220-yard dash Stevens, B.L.S. 25-3/5 " + 220-yard dash, for Juniors + 440-yard run Jewell, Adelphi 55-3/5 " + Half-mile run Bedford, B.H.-S. 2 m. 13-3/5 " + Mile run Romer, B'klyn Acad. 5 " 12 " + Mile walk Hall, St. Paul's 8 " 37 " + 120 yard hurdles Gunnison, Adelphi 16-3/5 " + 220-yard hurdles Gunnison, Adelphi 29-4/5 " + One-mile bicycle + Two-mile bicycle Roehr, Poly. Prep. 6 " 20-3/5 " + Running high jump Gunnison, Adelphi 5 ft. 4-1/2 in. + Running broad jump Jewell, Adelphi 20 " 3-1/2 " + Pole vault Phillips, B. & S. 9 " 7 " + Putting 12-pound shot Mason, Poly. Prep. 36 " 8 " + Throwing 12-pound hammer Mason, Poly. Prep. 100 " 11 " + Throwing baseball + +SUMMARY OF POINTS MADE. + + New York I.S.A.A. + + School. Firsts. Seconds. Thirds. Points. + + Barnard 4 2 4 30 + Berkeley 2 4 5 27 + Columbia Grammar 1 0 1/2 5-1/2 + Columbia Institute 0 0 0 0 + Condon 2 0 2 12 + Cutler 4 4 2-1/2 34-1/2 + De La Salle 1 0 0 5 + Drisler 0 2 0 6 + Dwight 0 0 2 2 + Halsey 0 0 0 0 + Hamilton Institute 0 0 0 0 + Harvard 2 2 0 16 + Trinity 1 0 0 5 + Wilson & Kellogg 0 1 0 3 + Woodbridge 0 0 0 0 + Yale 0 1 0 3 + Sachs 0 1 0 3 + + + Long Island I.S.A.A. + + School. Firsts. Seconds. Thirds. Points. + + Adelphi 6 2 3 39 + Polytechnic Institute 3 3 5 29 + Brooklyn High-School 2 3 1 20 + St. Paul's 2 3 1 20 + Brooklyn Latin School 2 2 2 18 + Bryant & Stratton 0 2 1 7 + Pratt Institute 0 0 2 2 + +The accompanying table offers a comparison of the work done on the two +tracks, and will serve as a record of the day's doings. Space prevents +my inserting a comparative table of the interscholastic and +intercollegiate records, but I shall do that at an early date, and the +showing will by no means discredit the school athletes. The only +difference between the New York and Long Island programmes is that the +New-Yorkers run a one-mile bicycle race, while the athletes on the other +side of the Bridge cover two miles in that event. And they do not throw +the baseball. They are right. The event is not athletic. + +The Yale Interscholastic Tennis Tournament was held in New Haven on the +same date as Harvard's in Cambridge, and although the entries were not +so many from the Connecticut schools, the work of the players was +excellent. The winner was J. P. Sheldon, of Hotchkiss Academy, who held +the championship of Ohio before he came East to attend school at +Lakeville. Sheldon's hottest matches were against Sage and Trowbridge, +who was last year's champion. He defeated Sage in two sets, 7-5, 6-2, +and overcame Trowbridge only after three stubbornly contested sets, 8-6, +6-2, 6-4. Last year Trowbridge did not compete at Newport, and it is +Sheldon's intention now to follow his schoolmate's example. I hope he +will change his mind, for it is to the interest of sport that the ablest +players should meet, aside from the mere question of determining which +one is actually the strongest. + +The Interscholastic Relay Races, held on Franklin Field, Philadelphia, +April 20th, at the same time as the Intercollegiate relay races, +developed the fact that the schools, in point of time, made almost as +good a showing as the colleges. The best collegiate performance of the +day was Harvard's defeat of the University of Pennsylvania in 3 m. +34-2/5 sec. The poorest winning time was made by C.C.N.Y.--3 m. 55-1/5 +sec. The fastest time by a school team was made by the Central +High-School, which defeated the Manual Training School in 3 m. 57-1/5 +sec. The most interesting scholastic contest was between De Lancey and +Episcopal Academy. Episcopal gained the lead in the first lap, only to +lose it in the second, but regained it in the final quarter when only 75 +yards from home. Here Ogelsby, spent with his hard run, could not go +another step, and fell to the ground, leaving Knors to finish in a +canter. + + THE GRADUATE. + + + + +ADVERTISEMENTS. + + + + +Highest of all in Leavening Power.--Latest U. S. Gov't Report. + +[Illustration: Royal Baking Powder] + + + + +[Illustration] + +_BROWNIE STAMPS._ + +More fun than a barrel of monkeys. A complete set of these grotesque +little people with everlasting Ink pads. With them a boy can make a +circus in a minute. To introduce our big Catalogue of 1000 new articles, +we send the Brownies postpaid for 10c. + +R. H. Ingersoll & Bro. 65 Cortlandt St. N.Y. City. + + + + +[Illustration: If afflicted with SORE EYES USE Dr. ISAAC THOMPSON'S EYE +WATER] + + + + +Harper's Catalogue, + +Thoroughly revised, classified, and indexed, will be sent by mail to any +address on receipt of ten cents. + + + + +[Illustration: BICYCLING] + + This Department is conducted in the interest of Bicyclers, and the + Editor will be pleased to answer any question on the subject. Our + maps and tours contain much valuable data kindly supplied from the + official maps and road-books of the League of American Wheelmen. + Recognizing the value of the work being done by the L. A. W. the + Editor will be pleased to furnish subscribers with membership + blanks and information so far as possible. + + +[Illustration: Copyright, 1895, by Harper & Brothers.] + +The bicycle route this week is one of the pleasantest in the vicinity of +New York city. It is the run across Staten Island. The reader should +study the map of New York city published in No. 809, and find the best +way in which to reach South Ferry. If he is a skilful rider, he may take +the middle track of the cable-car (Broadway route), and follow that down +Broadway; if not, he must come down towards South Ferry through the east +side of New York. Arrived at South Ferry, take the Staten Island +ferry-boat to St. George. On leaving the ferry at St. George he should +turn to the left, go up a rather steep hill, and take the third street +to the left--that is, Stuyvesant Place and Avenue, and running along +this southward take the third street to the right, and after going one +block upon this turn to the left into Central Avenue. He should keep on +Central Avenue until he reaches Tompkins Avenue, which is the first turn +to the right; then, going southward on Tompkins Avenue, he should turn +into Bay Street, and continue on Bay Street until he approaches Clifton, +having passed through Tompkinsville and Stapleton. Just before reaching +Clifton station he should turn right into Richmond road, and continue +through Concord, Grassmere, Linden Park, Garretson, and Grant City, +until just after leaving a large cemetery on the right, he runs into New +Dorp. + +At the Black Horse Tavern in New Dorp, which, by-the-way, is the only +place to stop at, turn to the left into Amboy Road, pass the Court-house +on the left; then about a mile farther on cross the railroad and run +into Giffords. Another mile, and the rider passes through Ettingville. +This part of the road, from New Dorp through Ettingville, is more or +less hilly, but the road here, as elsewhere for the entire route, is in +excellent condition, and is macadamized. From Ettingville the rider +passes through Annandale, Huguenot, crosses the railway again, continues +on through Prince's Bay, thence to Pleasant Plains, crossing track +again, and a mile further on enters Richmond Valley. He then keeps to +the main road, which is the left-hand turn in Richmond Valley, and +proceeds until he reaches the outskirts of Tottenville, where, turning +sharp to the right, he enters Main Street, and may make a stop at the +West End Hotel; but if he is going further (for this is the most direct +route through New Jersey to the South), he may ride down to the Amboy +Valley. + +It is well worth the wheelman's while to continue on towards Clifton +after leaving Stapleton, instead of turning to the right into Richmond +road, and, continuing through Clifton, to run down to Fort Wadsworth, +which is one of the important inner forts of the harbor, and commands a +view of the Lower Bay. By keeping to this road after leaving Fort +Wadsworth, and following it as it turns sharply to the right, he can run +down towards South Beach, and join the Richmond road again just as he +enters Linden Park. Furthermore, after leaving the Court-house, a mile +or more beyond New Dorp, a road turns sharply to the right running up +into the hills; and from Richmond, which is perhaps a mile and a half +away, he may leave his wheel and climb up to the old Lookout, where once +stood a fort of the Revolutionary War. The view from here commands most +of the island and the Lower Bay, and is one of the best in the vicinity +of New York city. There is a short ride over a good road from St. George +along the northern boundary of Staten Island, running through New +Brighton, Snug Harbor, Livingston, West New Brighton, Port Richmond, +Tower Hill, etc., down to Bowman's Point; and it is possible for the +rider to take this road, turning off at Tower Hill to the left, on the +Port Richmond road, running across the island through New Springville +and Green Ridge on to the Richmond road at Ettingville. This Port +Richmond road, however, is hilly, and though in moderately good +condition, is not to be compared with the Richmond road. + + NOTE.--Map of New York city asphalted streets in No. 809. Map of + route from New York to Tarrytown in No. 810. New York to Stamford, + Connecticut, in No. 811. + + + + +[Illustration: THE PUDDING STICK] + + This Department is conducted in the interest of Girls and Young + Woman, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question on + the subject so far as possible. Correspondents should address + Editor. + + +These are very busy days for some of you, because, as we all know, +school examinations are just in advance. I was talking with a girl +friend this morning, and she said she did not at all mind examinations, +because she was very thorough with her work all through the term. She +said, "By never slighting anything from the beginning of the term to the +end, I find I do not have any harder work at the end than at the +beginning." I wish that all young people--and, for that matter, older +ones, too--would imitate her example. It is a good plan to be thorough +with what we do, and to establish a reputation for being so among our +friends, so that people may know that they can always depend on us. A +lack of this quality of thoroughness often leads to very grave +accidents. A ship has gone down before now in mid-ocean because of the +unfaithfulness of somebody who had to do with its building, and from +time to time tall houses fall and people are killed because architects +or carpenters were unfaithful when constructing the rickety things, and +allowed flaws to pass, and were contented with makeshifts. Our rule +should be not to slight our work, but always to do it in the best +possible manner. + +The habit of thoroughness in housekeeping leads one to keep rooms in +good order and the table beautifully appointed. I know a girl who says +that she takes great pains with her room whenever she thinks her aunt +Mary is coming to see her, because Aunt Mary's sharp eyes discover every +speck of dust, and observe any trifle that is in the least out of order. +Aunt Mary is a bit of a critic, and her niece a little afraid of her +comments. + +In other words, the aunt has made a coward of the girl. I do not like +the idea of being in bondage to anybody, whether an aunt or a stranger. +It would seem to me a far better way to feel that one must answer to +one's self, and that one would not feel satisfied unless she could look +herself in the glass and say: "There, everything is done in the best +possible manner, and you cannot find any fault with me to-day. Try to, +if you dare!" + +I wonder whether you are particular to write notes of thanks very soon +after receiving gifts or acts of courtesy? The value of a note of thanks +is greatly increased by its being prompt. If some friend leaves a bunch +of violets at your door, and you fail to acknowledge it until the +flowers have failed, your thanks, when they do come, are tardy. When +flowers are sent to those who are ill, they, of course, cannot repay the +courtesy by a little note themselves, but some one in the family should +do it for them. Your note of thanks should be very genial, showing that +you are really pleased by the kind attention and the happier because of +it. Do not be afraid to write warmly and cordially on such occasions. If +stiff and formal you are unjust both to your friend and yourself. + +Speaking of illness, it happens that some of you have to take care of +those who are ill, and it is worth while to cultivate a way of moving +lightly and quietly about a sick room. One should never wear creaking +shoes nor a rustling dress in a room where any one is ill. The nerves of +people in illness are very acute and sensitive to every sound. A friend +recovering from a long attack of typhoid fever told me that, while she +was convalescent, she was nearly driven frantic by the fact that her +nurse, writing notes in her room, used a pen which scratched on the +paper. Even this little noise was most distressing to her in her weak +state, and she said that when the same nurse began to sew by her bed she +could hear the sound of the thread going through the muslin, and it +seemed to her so loud and jarring that she could not bear it. I have +known a person suffering from a severe headache in the third story of a +house to be greatly distressed by noises in the kitchen, a long way +below. You see, we cannot be too careful to be very gentle in our +movements and quiet in our manner when we are with those who are not +well. + + C. S. 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CITY. + + + + +[Illustration: If afflicted with SORE EYES USE Dr. ISAAC THOMPSON'S EYE +WATER] + + + + +Two Exciting Puzzle Contests Ended. + + +Endeavoring to favor the TABLE with an easy puzzle, since many said the +questions were too hard, a flood of correct answers resulted in the +Authors' Outing Contest, and, in accordance with the role, a second +contest had to be held. Here are correct answers to the original +contest: + +1. Moore--Moor. 2. Gay. 3. Yonge. 4. Lot's wife. 5. The mulberry is said +to have turned red because Pyramus killed himself at the root of the +tree, in the belief that Thisbe had been devoured by a lion. 6. Bacon. +7. Hogg. 8. Ruskin. 9. Lemon. 10. Robinson Crusoe's man Friday. 11. +Dickens. 12. Watts. 13. Bangs. 14. Theodore Child. 15. Butler. 16. +Canning. 17. Hawthorne. 18. February. 19. Reade. 20. Swift. 21. +Howitt--How it. 22. Motherwell. 23. Scott--Scot. 24. Hood. 25. Lamb. 26. +Lover. 27. Harte. 28. Twain. 29. Spenser. 30. Akenside. 31. Holland. 32. +Sterne. 33. Cooper. 34. Smiles. 35. Wordsworth. 36. Goldsmith. 37. +Shelley. 38. Borrow. 39. Steele. 40. Santa Claus. + +A set of 35 new questions was prepared and sent by mail, to those who +gave the foregoing correct answers. Thus the ties were played off, so to +speak, unsuccessful contestants and outsiders being barred. Following +are answers to the new questions. In some cases the questions themselves +are given, since they have not before been published. It was asked who +wrote these: + +1. "The Widowed Heart," Albert Pike; 2. "The Revellers," William Davis +Gallagher, Mrs. Hemans; 3. "The Remarkable Wreck of the _Thomas Hyke_," +Frank R. Stockton; 4. "Sicily Burns's Wedding," Geo. W. Harris; 5. "The +Tar Baby," Joel Chandler Harris; 6. "The Only Daughter," Harriett +Campbell, O. W. Holmes, Mrs. Henry Wood; 7. "The Semi-attached Couple," +Hon. Emily Eden; 8. "Marco Bozzaris," Fitz-Greene Halleck; 9. "The +Buckwheat Cake," Henry Pickering; 10. "Adams and Liberty," Robert Treat +Paine, Jr. + +Four riddles were propounded: + +11. The Ghost in Hamlet. 28. La Grippe. + +18. + + Four of a kind, four of a name, + Loving one who was called the same. + Her star of good-luck went steadily down, + She lost her life when she lost her crown; + But they served her fondly till all was o'er, + These four of a name, these faithful four. + + --The Four Marys of Mary Queen of Scots. + +35. We are boon companions and nearly inseparable. We take interminable +journeys together, travelling over almost incalculable distances; always +work together, and take our vacations at the same time. We may be found +in every civilized portion of the globe--useful alike in the king's +palace, the peasant's hut, the Indian's wigwam, the hospital ward, and +the ship at sea. Yet in some respects we are entirely different, for +while I can adapt myself to every situation with perfect ease, my +companion is very set in his ways, but together we bring order, comfort, +and beauty wherever we go. After the labor of years and he is laid +aside, my work remains to cheer and gladden many hearts, sometimes +preserving family history which would otherwise be forgotten. And yet, +marvellous to relate, we have neither hands, feet, head, nor +body.--Needle and Thread. + +Nos. 12 to 17 were quotations from the poets, and their answers are: 12. +Sir Walter Raleigh, on the snuff of a candle; 13. Pope; 14. The +Serenade. J. G. Percival; 15. War Song of Revolution, John Neal; 16. +Youth and Age, Richard Dabney; 17. The New Roof, Francis Hopkinson. + +Contestants were asked to name the works in which the following +characters appear. Answers are here given: 19. Froth, Measure for +Measure; 20. Shallow, Merry Wives of Windsor; 21. Godfrey Ablewhite, +Moonstone, by Collins; 22. Edmund Gray, Ivory Gate, by Besant; 23. +Gwendolen Harleth, Daniel Deronda, by Eliot; 24. Blind Muriel, John +Halifax, Gent., by Miss Mulock; 25. Grant Munro, Sherlock Holmes, by +Doyle; 26. Christine Ludolph, Barriers Burned Away, by Roe; 27. Princess +Irenè, Prince of India, by Wallace. + +These questions were asked. Answers are here after each: + +29. A book wherein the heroine's name is not once +mentioned.--"Rutledge," "She." 30. What famous character is it who, +whether in doors or out, summer or winter, always keeps a glove on one +hand?--M. Hamel in Mrs. Edwards's "Hand and Glove." 31. What one was it +who always offered his left hand to his friends because of the guilty +deed done by the right?--Eugene Aram. 32. Name the fellow who, in a +famous book, stands chewing the rust from his fingers. When he reaches +home he will probably find his wife "prayin' agin'" him.--Jerry +Cruncher. 33. A character in another book who was the first to ride on +horseback from New York to San Francisco.--Willard Glazier, John C. +Fremont, John Brent. 34. The book wherein one person calls upon another, +and receives an answer, though they are miles apart.--Jane Eyre, Peter +Ibbetson. + +In No. 33 it was found that authorities, equally credible, differed. +Hence the question was dropped, and no matter what was the answer it was +counted correct. + +The prizes were $25 divided, but $10 to first. The amount awarded is +slightly increased. The highest honor goes to George Peirce, who is a +Pennsylvanian, aged 12. He answered correctly all but two of the +questions. Second prizes of $2 each go to Lois A. Dowling, of New York +(Rochester), and John H. Campbell, Jr., of Pennsylvania (Germantown); +and third prizes of $1 each to the following: Harry Nelson Morey, New +York; Henry S. Parsons, Massachusetts; John J. Clarkson, Helen J. +Curley, and Martin Henneberry, Illinois; Charles A. Urner and Frank A. +Urner, New Jersey; Pierre Freret, Louisiana; Edmund T. M. Franklin, +Virginia; Kathrine S. Frost, Massachusetts; Edith L. Warner and Edith C. +Sanders, Maryland, and Mae Sterner, Pennsylvania. + + + + +Some Questions for the Founders. + + +Now that our Order has been so conspicuously honored as to have a great +journal named for it, there arise a few questions for the Founders to +vote upon. First, the Founders and all other members are asked to note +that although the whole paper is named for their Order, that Order has +not a less but a greater place in it, and, instead of a few pages being +devoted to them, now the whole paper will seek to give them everything +necessary to their growth in that "goodlye felloeship, worthie +knowledge, and chivalrie up to date" which form the grand basis of our +union. + +The questions to be voted on are these: + +1. Shall we abolish or retain the eighteen-years-of-age limit? + +2. Shall we have a new membership certificate? + +3. Shall we have a new and different badge? + +The reasons for bringing up these questions are: A great many lament the +arrival of their eighteenth birthday, when they can no longer be +members. They ask to remain in the Order, and suggest that all +competitions be limited, as heretofore, to the eighteen-year-age limit. +To the latter we agree, promising to always limit the age to eighteen +years, as heretofore, and offering, if the Founders agree thereto, to +have a competition for those above eighteen years. If it succeeds, to +have competitions for both ages, as opportunity offers. What say you? +Again, it is necessary to drop the name "Young People" from our +certificate. In doing so why not have a handsomer one, and call it a +"patent," which is a better name than "certificate." It may be printed +in the Order's colors, yellow and blue. + +New patents would be issued to all old members who cared to ask for +them. Once more, what say you? Still again, our badge, adopted in the +early history of the Order, has met some objections. It is five pansy +leaves, bearing the letters "K. L. O. R. T." A Founder living in +Winchester, England, described for us once, you remember, what is +claimed to be the original Table used by King Arthur and his Knights of +the Holy Grail, still preserved in Winchester Cathedral. This Founder +suggests a badge that is a fac-simile of the top of this Table. He sends +a print of it, with the ancient names, etc. The letters "K. L. O. R. T." +can be retained. It is necessary to have badges low in price, since many +ought not to afford expensive ones, and therefore we shall need to +retain silver for their material. It will be possible, though, to +procure gold ones for those who specially order them. For the third +question, we repeat, what is the Founders' pleasure? + +Founders of the Order are the 5000 original members. Those who have not +passed their eighteenth birthday are asked to write us frankly. A postal +card will do. We shall be governed by your votes. We may add, for the +benefit of all, that our Order is to have a great many attractive offers +during the next twelve months. The "feast" is to be a rich one, and we +hope every one of you will remain around the Table and enjoy it. + + + + +Round Table Chapters. + + +No. 693.--The Thaddeus Stevens Chapter, of Philadelphia, Pa. Its +meetings are held on Thursday of each week. The initiation fee is one +dollar. Horace S. Reis, 910 North Broad Street. + +No. 694.--The Quannapowitt Chapter, of Wakefield, Mass. Charles Wait, +George Tompson; Ralph Carlisle, president, 9 Summit Avenue. + +No. 695.--The Columbus Chapter, of Columbus, Ohio. Carl B. Harrop, +Edward E. Stoughton; George Crable, 1289 Highland Street. + +No 696.--The Kirk Munroe Chapter, of Nuttallburg, W. Va. E. Jackson +Taylor, John Nuttall, Jun., Nuttallburg. + +No. 697.--The Kes-Kes Kick Chapter, of Yonkers, N. Y. J. Fowler Trow, +Jun., Mary Van Rensselaer Ferris. Its meetings are held on Tuesdays. +Chapter address, 488 Warburton Ave. + +No. 698.--The Admiral Benham Chapter, of Fort Adams, Newport, R. I. Its +officers are Stephen C. Rowan, Elizabeth Schenck, Lee Simpson, Anna +Greble; Carol H. Simpson, care of Lieutenant Simpson, Fort Adams. + +No. 699.--The Thomas Edison Chapter, of Bangor, Me. Fred H. Pond, Arthur +A. Thompson, Myrtle D. Fox, Nellie M. Fox, Bangor. + +No. 700.--The Oliver Wendell Holmes Chapter, of Eau Claire, Wis. George +D. Galloway, Eau Claire. + +No. 701.--The Sheridan Chapter, of Philadelphia, Pa. Martin S. Poulson, +John M. Smith, Oland King, George Frey, Lydie Holmes; Reese Baker, +Section C., Girard College. + +No. 702.--The Kirk Munroe Chapter, of Auburn, Wash. J. French Dorrance, +corresponding secretary, Box 17, Auburn. + +No. 703.--The Keystone Music and Literary Chapter, of Harrisburg, Pa. R. +Donald Jenkins, Stanley G. Smith, H. Stanley Jenkins; Louise N. Miller, +Harrisburg. + + + + +Want Corner. + + +A corresponding Chapter is one whose members are widely separated and +whose affairs are conducted by mail. There are several such, dear Lady +Alice Cowly, but it is found very difficult in practice to maintain the +interest. Keeping members together in spirit who are hundreds of miles +apart in body is no easy thing to do. + +Ralph Leach, Stoughton, Mass., is interested in athletic sports. He will +enjoy the TABLE more than ever, then, for it is to have more news about +sports than ever before. Anne Bliss wants to know why the Table cannot +have a "Students' Corner" to help members in their school-work; "a +geometrical diagram, scientific experiments, meaning of new +words--anything. I am sure such a Corner would be very helpful." We +heartily agree with Lady Anne. Shall we have a new corner, or will the +Want one do? Let's have your questions. The TABLE desires to help you in +all ways that it can. Consider this a Students' Corner, and use it as +such. We can find somebody to answer your questions. Or perhaps you can +answer each other's questions. How would that do for some questions, at +least? + +Here is one now. Maude Wigfield asks: "If a heavy vessel, such as the +cruiser _New York_, were to go down in mid-ocean, could it overcome the +enormous pressure of the water, and sink to the very bottom, or would it +reach an equal density before it did reach the bottom. Remember that +some of the compartments would still contain air." Let us have opinions. +Give us the pressure per square foot at certain ocean depths, and the +pressure the war vessels are built to withstand. The _Elbe_, which went +down in the North Sea a few weeks ago--that is on the very bottom of the +sea, is it not? + +Herbert Benton lives at 1208 East Seventh Street, Kansas City, Mo. He +asks how best to put plants into a herbarium. Will some one give us a +morsel upon it? We can find the information from books, but much prefer +the personal experience of some member. Tell us all about flowers and +plants for herbariums. He also asks for the solution or mixture in which +writing may be placed upon tissue-paper, the initial letter lighted and +the writing burned out, without injury to the rest of the paper. We had +the formula of the solution some time ago, but cannot now find it. Can +somebody help us to it again, for Sir Herbert's benefit? + +Carolyn A. Nash lives in California and asks for more time for sending +puzzle solutions on account of the distance to be travelled by the +mails. The present series of puzzles is exceptional, dear Lady Carolyn, +and the dates of closing could not be made different, nor can they now +be changed. In future contests the Pacific coast members shall be given +more time. Augusta C. Grenther and Charles Stuckel are two of the more +than twenty members of the Sangster Chapter who attend one school at +Germania, N. J. The Chapter meetings are held at the school on Fridays. +It wants correspondents, and to exchange flowers and minerals. + + + + +[Illustration: STAMPS] + + This Department is conducted in the interest of stamp collectors, + and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question on the + subject so far as possible. Correspondents should address Editor + Stamp Department. + + +At present all collectors appear to be hunting for varieties of the +United States stamps of the 1872 issue, some of the new varieties of +which were illustrated in these columns a short time ago. The fact that +the Continental Bank-Note Company were the successors of the National +Bank-Note Company in the printing of that issue has led to the belief +that each of the stamps printed by the Continental Company from the +plates made by the National Company bears some mark to distinguish the +company printing the stamps. Several of the values of the 1872 issue +having been found with such a mark, it would seem that all the values +were treated in the same manner, the only difficulty being to discover +the mark. No help can be obtained from the bank-note companies, as they +preserve absolute secrecy in regard to the stamps, it thus being left to +the collectors to study out the marks. While these exceedingly small +varieties will greatly puzzle the collector, they lead to one great +object, by showing that a close study of stamps is necessary in order to +be a successful collector, and only those who are willing to study out +these minute variations can get the full pleasure of the pursuit. + +The auction season in stamps will close with the month of May, and the +great sales held this year show that collectors are using that method +for buying to a larger extent than ever. + +An English paper states that the current adhesives of France have been +surcharged "Poste Française," for use of French offices in Madagascar. +There are nine values. + + + + +ADVERTISEMENTS. + + + + +WALTER BAKER & CO. + +[Illustration] + +The Largest Manufacturers of + +PURE, HIGH GRADE + +COCOAS AND CHOCOLATES + +On this Continent, have received + +HIGHEST AWARDS + +from the great + +Industrial and Food + +EXPOSITIONS + +In Europe and America. + + * * * * * + +Unlike the Dutch Process, no Alkalies or other Chemicals or Dyes are +used in any of their preparations. + +Their delicious BREAKFAST COCOA is absolutely pure and soluble, and +_costs less than one cent a cup_. + + * * * * * + +SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE. + + * * * * * + +WALTER BAKER & CO. DORCHESTER, MASS. + + + + +[Illustration] + +WONDER CABINET =FREE=. Missing Link Puzzle, Devil's Bottle, Pocket Camera, +Latest Wire Puzzle, Spook Photos, Book of Sleight of Hand, Total Value +60c. Sent free with immense catalogue of 1000 Bargains for 10c. for +postage. + +INGERSOLL & BRO., 65 Cortlandt Street, N. Y. + + + + +[Illustration: Ivory Soap] + +To cleanse matting, use four tablespoonfuls of Ivory Soap shavings and a +handful of salt to a pailful of warm water. Rub the matting with a cloth +or sponge well squeezed out. + +THE PROCTER & GAMBLE CO., CIN'TI. + + + + +[Illustration] + +3 Million, 134 Thousand, 9 Hundred and Thirty-four Packages sold in +1894, which made 15 Million, 674 Thousand, 7 Hundred and Thirty-five +Gallons of + +[Illustration: HIRES' Rootbeer] + +or 313 Million, 494 Thousand, 7 Hundred glasses, sufficient to give +every man, woman and child in the United States, five glasses each-- Did +you get yours? Be sure and get some this year. The whole family will +enjoy it. A 25 cent package makes 5 gallons. Sold everywhere. Made only +by + +The Chas. E. Hires Co., Philada. + + + + +MONARCH + +King of all Bicycles. + +[Illustration] + +TRADE-MARK. + +Five Styles. Weights, 18 to 25 Pounds. + +Prices, $85 and $100. + +MONARCH CYCLE CO. + +Factory and Main Office, Lake and Halsted Sts., Chicago. + +Eastern Branch: 79 Reade St., & 97 Chambers St., N.Y. + +The C. F. GUYON CO., Ltd., Managers. + + + + +OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT of the award on + +=GILLOTT'S PENS= at the CHICAGO EXPOSITION. + +=AWARD:= "For excellence of steel used in their manufacture, it being fine +grained and elastic; superior workmanship, especially shown by the +careful grinding; which leaves the pens free from defects. The tempering +is excellent and the action of the finished pens perfect." + + (Signed) FRANZ VOGT, _Individual Judge_. + + Approved: { H. I. KIMBALL, _Pres't Departmental Committee_. + { JOHN BOYD THACHER, _Chairman Exec. Com. on Awards_. + + + + +=BIRDS' EGGS= and Naturalists' Supplies. Egg Drill, Blowpipe, and Hook, +nickel-plated, in pocket case, only =35 cts.= + +Illustrated catalogue for 2-cent stamp. + +CHAS. K. REED, 262 Main Street, Worcester, Mass. + + + + +[Illustration] + +CARD PRINTER =FREE= + +Sets any name in one minute; prints 500 cards an hour. YOU can make +money with it. A font of pretty type, also Indelible Ink, Type Holder, +Pads and Tweezers. Best Linen Marker; worth $1.00. Sample mailed FREE +for 10c. stamps for postage on outfit and large catalogue of 1000 +Bargains. + +R. H. Ingersoll & Bro. 65 Cortlandt St. N.Y. City + + + + +WANTED. 100,000 BOYS, to sell the =EUREKA MARKING TAG= for marking hats, +etc., now and in Summer vacation. Sells at sight. Send 10 cents in coin +for samples. Address =Eureka Marking Tag Co.=, Cedar Falls, Iowa. + + + + +[Illustration] + +=SEND for Catalogue= of the =Musical Instrument= you think of buying. +=Violins repaired= by the Cremona System. C. STORY, 26 Central St., +Boston. Mass. + + + + +[Illustration: If afflicted with SORE EYES USE Dr. ISAAC THOMPSON'S EYE +WATER] + + + + +HARPER'S PERIODICALS. + +Per Year: + + HARPER'S MAGAZINE _Postage Free_, $4.00 + HARPER'S WEEKLY " 4.00 + HARPER'S BAZAR " 4.00 + HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE " 2.00 + +_Booksellers and Postmasters usually receive subscriptions. +Subscriptions sent direct to the publishers should be accompanied by +Post-office Money Order or Draft._ + +HARPER & BROTHERS, Franklin Square, N. Y. + + + + +A KITE TALE. + + +[Illustration: BOY (_jerking string_), "COME, GET UP THERE; WHAT'S THE +MATTER WITH YOU?"] + +[Illustration: KITE. "SAY, YOU CAN'T YANK ME THAT WAY WITH IMPUNITY."] + + + + +READINESS OF WIT. + + +One of the best qualities for a boy or a girl to cultivate is readiness +of wit. To the lad who is thinking of going into some business pursuit, +quickness to see and meet the requirements of an opportunity is of +invaluable importance. We find in the _Gazette Anecdotique_ a case very +much to the point, and most amusing withal. It seems that in the year +1707, when Philip V. was on his way to Madrid to take possession of his +kingdom of Spain, the inhabitants of Mont de Marsan came out to meet him +at his approach. The two processions having met about a league from the +town, the Mayor advanced towards the litter in which the King sat, and +addressed him as follows: "Sire, long speeches are obnoxious and +wearisome; I should prefer to sing you something." Leave was given, and +he sang forthwith a short ode to the King, which so greatly pleased his +Majesty that he called out, "Da capo!" (encore). The Mayor gave his song +a second time. The King thanked the singer, and presented him with ten +louis d'or. This amount seemed hardly sufficient to the chief magistrate +of Mont de Marsan, and he therefore promptly held out his empty hand to +the King, and in admirable imitation of the King's voice, himself called +out, "Da capo!" The King laughed heartily and complied, and the Mayor +departed twice as well off as he would have been had he been less +quick-witted. + + + + +FRENCH AND ENGLISH. + + +Those of us who have grown weary and perplexed over the peculiarities of +the French language, and who have wished that our parents and +school-teachers did not consider that language necessary to our +education, will rejoice at this item from an English newspaper, which +shows that the Frenchman has as hard a time mastering our tongue as we +have in mastering his. + +According to the story three French boys were studying a volume of +Shakespeare in their own tongue, their task being to render portions of +it into English. When they came to Hamlet's famous soliloquy, "To be or +not to be," their respective translations were as follows: + +1. "To was or not to am." + +2. "To were or is to not." + +3. "To should or not to will." + + + + +An absent-minded young preacher in New England, wishing to address the +young ladies of his congregation after the morning services, remarked +from the pulpit that he would be very glad if the female brethren of the +congregation would remain after they had gone home. He was almost as +badly mixed, the narrator of this story says, as another speaker, who, +after describing a pathetic scene he had witnessed, added, huskily, "I +tell you, brothers there was hardly a dry tear in the house." + + + + +SERENADING HIMSELF. + + +We sometimes think that the funny situations in the pictures in the +comic papers are too absurd to be real, and yet every day there happen +things quite as absurd as any there depicted. One of the German +newspapers gives an account of how a steady old burgomaster recently +serenaded himself, which certainly brings before our minds a picture +quite as laughable as any we have seen in print. The story is to this +effect: Herr Nötel, merchant and burgomaster, who is passionately fond +of singing, is the first tenor and president of the Schnitzelburg +glee-club. The club consists of only a single quartet, but small as is +their number, the greater is their enthusiasm for the songs of Germany. +Nötel would shortly celebrate his silver wedding. They must give him a +serenade; there was no help for it. But what was a quartet without the +first tenor? There was no getting a substitute, but for all that they +would give Nötel a surprise. On the eve of the festal day the three +members of the club, armed with lanterns, met at the appointed time +before the house of their respected president, and after some clearing +of throats and twanging of tuning-forks the music began. A small crowd +collected in the street, and the windows in the vicinity were lined with +appreciative listeners. The Herr Burgomaster and his family also +appeared at the windows of their brightly illuminated sitting-room. The +first bars of the well-known song, "Silent Night," left much to be +desired, but the three voices bravely held on their way amid the +surrounding stillness, and in a few moments Herr Nötel went down into +the street and joined in the quartet. No sooner was the song finished +than he ran up stairs again, appeared at the open window, and in loud +clear tones thanked the club for their ovation. Seen on a public stage, +an old gentleman madly rushing up stairs to a window to thank himself +for serenading himself would cause a good deal of laughter. + + + + +ODD ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE. + + +It was a very homely old lady in Scotland who remarked, as she gazed +into a looking-glass, that they didn't make as good mirrors to-day as +they did when she was a girl, because she thought modern looking-glasses +made her look so old. + + * * * * * + +It was said to be a Maine man who told an agent for a cyclopædia that he +didn't want one, because he hadn't time to learn to ride one, and he +didn't wish to risk his neck trying it, anyhow. + + * * * * * + +A story is told of a grocer engaged in business in a London suburb, to +the effect that he once declined to attend a very popular concert even +though a free ticket was offered him. "Ye see," he said to the person +who gave him the ticket, "if I went I'd see so many people who owe me +money for groceries it would spoil my fun, and the sight o' me would +spoil theirs. I'll stay at home." + + * * * * * + +Here is a dog story, which you can believe or not as you please. A +gentleman remarked of a friend's dog that the two eyes of the animal +were remarkably different in size. "Yes," was the reply, "and he takes a +mean advantage of the fact whenever I have a stranger to dine with me. +He first gets fed at one side of my guest, and then goes round the table +to his other side, and pretends to be another dog." + + +[Illustration: HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE Portrait Gallery. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Harper's Round Table, May 21, 1895 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: June 25, 2010 [EBook #32970] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S ROUND TABLE, MAY 21, 1895 *** + + + + +Produced by Annie McGuire + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#HEROES_OF_AMERICA"><b>HEROES OF AMERICA.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#THE_SHIP_WITHOUT_A_LIGHT"><b>THE SHIP WITHOUT A LIGHT.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#TURNING_A_TRIPLE_SOMERSAULT"><b>TURNING A TRIPLE SOMERSAULT.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#BOYS_AND_GIRLS_OF_NEW_YORK_STREETS1"><b>BOYS AND GIRLS OF NEW YORK STREETS.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#SNOW-SHOES_AND_SLEDGES"><b>SNOW-SHOES AND SLEDGES.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#STORIES_OF_AMERICAN_LITERATURE"><b>STORIES OF AMERICAN LITERATURE.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#THE_CAMERA_CLUB"><b>THE CAMERA CLUB</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#OFF_WITH_THE_MERBOY"><b>OFF WITH THE MERBOY.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#INTERSCHOLASTIC_SPORT"><b>INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#BICYCLING"><b>BICYCLING</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#THE_PUDDING_STICK"><b>THE PUDDING STICK</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#STAMPS"><b>STAMPS</b></a></td></tr> +</table></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_521" id="Page_521">[Pg 521]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 1000px;"> +<img src="images/ill_001.jpg" width="1000" height="331" alt="HARPER'S ROUND TABLE" title="" /> +</div> + +<p class="center">Copyright, 1895, by <span class="smcap">Harper & Brothers</span>. All Rights Reserved.</p> + +<hr style='width: 100%;' /> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'>PUBLISHED WEEKLY.</td><td align='center'>NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1895.</td><td align='right'>FIVE CENTS A COPY.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>VOL. XVI.—NO. 812.</td><td align='center'></td><td align='right'>TWO DOLLARS A YEAR.</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<hr style='width: 100%;' /> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 700px;"><a name="HEROES_OF_AMERICA" id="HEROES_OF_AMERICA"></a> +<img src="images/ill_002.jpg" width="700" height="420" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<h2>HEROES OF AMERICA.</h2> + +<h3>THE DEATH OF STONEWALL JACKSON.</h3> + +<h3>BY THE HONORABLE THEODORE ROOSEVELT.</h3> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/ill_003.jpg" width="200" height="200" alt="Decorative H" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>orrible though the civil war was, heartrending though it was that +brother should fight against brother, there remains as an offset the +glory that has accrued to the nation by the countless deeds of heroism +performed by both sides in the struggle. The captains and the armies who +after long years of dreary campaigning and bloody, stubborn lighting +brought the war to a close have left us more than a reunited realm.</p> + +<p>North and South, all Americans now have a common fund of glorious +memories. We are the richer for each grim campaign, for each hard-fought +battle. We are the richer for valor displayed alike by those who fought +so valiantly for the right, and by those who no less valiantly fought +for what they deemed the right. We have in us nobler capacities for what +is great and good because of the infinite woe and suffering, and because +of the splendid ultimate triumph. We hold that it was vital to the +welfare not only of our people on this continent but of the whole human +race that the Union should be preserved and slavery abolished; that one +flag should fly from the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande, that we should +all be free in fact as well as in name, and that the United States +should stand as one nation, the greatest nation on the earth; but we +recognize gladly that South as well as North, when the fight was once +on, the leaders of the armies, and the soldiers whom they led, displayed +the same qualities of daring and steadfast courage, of disinterested +loyalty and enthusiasm, and of high devotion to an ideal.</p> + +<p>The greatest general of the South was Lee, and his greatest lieutenant +was Jackson. Both were Virginians, and both were strongly opposed to +disunion. Lee went so far as to deny the right of secession; while +Jackson insisted that the South ought to try to get its rights inside +the Union, and not outside; but when Virginia joined the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_522" id="Page_522">[Pg 522]</a></span> Southern +Confederacy, and the war had actually begun, both men cast their lot +with the South.</p> + +<p>It is often said that the civil war was in one sense a repetition of the +old struggle between the Puritan and the Cavalier; but Puritan and +Cavalier types were common to the two armies. In dash and light-hearted +daring Custer and Kearny stood as conspicuous as Stuart and Morgan; and, +on the other hand, no Northern general approached the Roundhead type, +the type of the stern religious warriors who fought under Cromwell, so +closely as Stonewall Jackson.</p> + +<p>He was a man of intense religious conviction, who carried into every +thought and deed of his daily life the precepts and the convictions of +the faith he cherished. He was a tender and loving husband and father, +kind-hearted and gentle to all with whom he was brought in contact. Yet +in the times that tried men's souls he showed himself to be not only a +commander of genius, but a fighter of iron will and temper, who joyed in +the battle, and always showed at his best when the danger was greatest. +The vein of fanaticism that ran through his character helped to render +him a terrible opponent. He knew no such word as falter, and when he had +once put his hand to a piece of work he did it thoroughly and with all +his heart. It was quite in keeping with his character that this gentle, +high-minded, and religious man should early in the contest have proposed +to hoist the black-flag, neither take nor give quarter, and make the war +one of extermination. No such policy was practical in the nineteenth +century and in the American Republic; but it would have seemed quite +natural and proper to Jackson's ancestors, the grim Scotch-Irish who +defended Londonderry against the forces of the Stuart King, or to their +forefathers, the Covenanters of Scotland, and the Puritans who in +England rejoiced at the beheading of King Charles the First.</p> + +<p>In the first battle, in which Jackson took part, the confused struggle +at Bull Run, he gained his name of Stonewall from the firmness with +which he kept his men to their work and repulsed the attack of the Union +troops. From that time until his death, less than two years afterwards, +his career was one of brilliant and almost uninterrupted success, +whether serving with an independent command in the Valley, or acting +under Lee as his right arm in the pitched battles with McClellan, Pope, +and Burnside. Few generals as great as Lee have ever had as great a +lieutenant as Jackson. He was a master of strategy and tactics, fearless +of responsibility, able to instil into his men his own intense ardor of +battle; and so quick in his movements, so ready to march as well as +fight, that his troops were known to the rest of the army as the "fool +cavalry."</p> + +<p>In the spring of 1863 Hooker had command of the Army of the Potomac. +Like McClellan, he was able to perfect the discipline of his forces and +to organize them, and as a division commander he was better than +McClellan; but he failed even more signally when given a great +independent command. He had under him 120,000 men when, toward the end +of April, he prepared to attack Lee's army, which was but half as +strong.</p> + +<p>The Union army lay opposite Fredericksburg, looking at the fortified +heights where they had received so bloody a repulse at the beginning of +the winter. Hooker decided to distract the attention of the Confederates +by letting a small portion of his force, under General Sedgwick, attack +Fredericksburg, while he himself took the bulk of the army across the +river to the right hand so as to crush Lee by an attack on his flank. +All went well at the beginning, and on the 1st of May Hooker found +himself at Chancellorsville face to face with the bulk of Lee's forces; +and Sedgwick, crossing the river and charging with the utmost +determination, had driven out of Fredericksburg the Confederate division +of Early; but when Hooker found himself face to face with Lee he +hesitated, faltered instead of pushing on, and allowed the consummate +general to whom he was opposed to himself take the initiative.</p> + +<p>Lee fully realized his danger, and saw that his only chance was to +attempt, first to beat back Hooker, and then to turn and overwhelm +Sedgwick, who was in his rear. He consulted with Jackson, and Jackson +begged to be allowed to make one of his favorite flank attacks upon the +Union army; attacks which could have been successfully delivered only by +a skilled and resolute general, and by troops equally able to march and +to fight. Lee consented, and Jackson at once made off. The country was +thickly covered with a forest of rather small growth, for it was a wild +region, in which there was still plenty of game. Shielded by the forest, +Jackson marched his gray columns rapidly to the left along the narrow +country roads until he got square on the flank of the Union right wing, +which was held by the Eleventh Corps, under Howard. The Union scouts got +track of the movement and reported it at headquarters; but the Union +generals thought the Confederates were retreating; and when finally the +scouts brought word to Howard that he was menaced by a flank attack he +paid no heed to the information, and actually let his whole corps be +surprised in broad daylight. Yet all the while the battle was going on +elsewhere, and Berdan's sharpshooters had surrounded and captured a +Georgia regiment, from which information was received which showed +definitely that Jackson was not retreating, and must be preparing to +strike a heavy blow.</p> + +<p>The Eleventh Corps had not the slightest idea that it was about to be +attacked. The men were not even in line. Many of them had stacked their +muskets and were lounging about, some playing cards, others cooking +supper, intermingled with the pack-mules and beef cattle. While they +were thus utterly unprepared Jackson's gray-clad veterans pushed +straight through the forest, and rushed fiercely to the attack. The +first notice the troops of the Eleventh Corps received did not come from +the pickets, but from the deer, rabbits, and foxes which, fleeing from +their coverts at the approach of the Confederates, suddenly came running +over and into the Union lines. In another minute the frightened pickets +came tumbling back, and right behind them came the long lines of +charging, yelling Confederates. With one fierce rush Jackson's men swept +over the Union lines, and at a blow the Eleventh Corps became a horde of +panic-stricken fugitives. Some of the regiments resisted for a few +moments, and then they too were carried away in the flight.</p> + +<p>For a time it seemed as if the whole army would be swept off; but Hooker +and his subordinates exerted every effort to restore order. It was +imperative to gain time, so that the untouched portions of the army +could form across the line of the Confederate advance. Keenan's regiment +of Pennsylvania cavalry, but four hundred sabres strong, was accordingly +sent full against the front of the ten thousand victorious Confederates. +Keenan himself fell riddled by bayonets, and the charge was repulsed at +once: but a few priceless moments had been saved, and Pleasonton had +been given time to post twenty-two guns, loaded with double canister, +where they would bear upon the enemy. The Confederates advanced in a +dense mass, yelling and cheering, and the discharge of the guns fairly +blew them back across the works they had just taken. Again they charged, +and again were driven back, and when the battle once more began the +Union re-enforcements had arrived.</p> + +<p>It was about this time that Jackson himself was mortally wounded. He had +been leading and urging on the advance of his men, cheering them with +voice and gesture, his pale face flushed with joy and excitement, while +from time to time as he sat on his horse he took off his hat and, +looking upward, thanked Heaven for the victory it had vouchsafed him. As +darkness drew near he was in the front, where friend and foe were +mingled in almost inextricable confusion. He and his staff were fired on +at close range by the Union troops, and, as they turned, were fired on +again, through a mistake, by the Confederates behind them. Jackson fell, +struck in several places. He was put in a litter and carried back; but +he never lost consciousness, and when one of his generals complained of +the terrific effect of the Union cannonade he answered, "You must hold +your ground."</p> + +<p>For several days he lingered, hearing how Lee beat Hooker, in detail, +and forced him back across the river. Then the old Puritan died. At the +end his mind wandered<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_523" id="Page_523">[Pg 523]</a></span> and he thought he was again commanding in battle; +and his last words were, "Let us cross over the river and rest in the +shade." Thus perished Stonewall Jackson, one of the ablest of soldiers +and one of the most upright of men, in the last of his many triumphs.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="THE_SHIP_WITHOUT_A_LIGHT" id="THE_SHIP_WITHOUT_A_LIGHT"></a>THE SHIP WITHOUT A LIGHT.</h2> + +<h3>BY EZRA HURLBURT STAFFORD.</h3> + +<p>"Well, my boy, what can I do for you?"</p> + +<p>It was in the Custom-house, and the Chief was sitting at his desk +opening a letter. A boy of perhaps sixteen was standing awkwardly at the +door. He was dressed rather roughly, and the Customs Inspector thought +it would be a good idea to despatch the boy's business before he read +the letter, which he had by this time drawn from the envelope.</p> + +<p>"Well?" he repeated; but the boy still hesitated, and glanced uneasily +across the room towards a tall lady, who was standing at the window with +her back towards him.</p> + +<p>"Anything very particular?" the officer went on, with a touch of +annoyance.</p> + +<p>"I guess I'd like to speak to you alone."</p> + +<p>The lady evidently heard him, for without speaking she hurriedly drew +her veil down over her face, and noiselessly left the room by a door +which he had not noticed before. The boy caught a glimpse of her face as +she turned, and gave a little start, he hardly knew why. It was a +strange face.</p> + +<p>"Now, then, we are quite alone, what have you to say? It's growing +late."</p> + +<p>"I wanted to speak to you, sir, about something I saw last night out in +Puget Sound. I thought you ought to be told about it."</p> + +<p>"Yes?"</p> + +<p>"A boat, sir, that I think is smuggling opium in from the British +Columbia coast."</p> + +<p>"What is your name?"</p> + +<p>"Thomas Walton. I'm a fisherman."</p> + +<p>"What makes you think the boat is smuggling opium?"</p> + +<p>"Because she passed down the channel about two o'clock last night and +carried no light."</p> + +<p>"What sort of a craft?" asked the customs officer, with a peculiar look.</p> + +<p>"I should think she was a sailing sloop, sir— I couldn't see noways +plain."</p> + +<p>"When did you say?"</p> + +<p>"Last night."</p> + +<p>"Tell me all about it. Where do you live?"</p> + +<p>"At my father's ranch on Padilla Bay; he's dead, and I live with my +mother and sister there. I fish during the salmon season."</p> + +<p>"Were you alone last night?"</p> + +<p>"No; an Indian boy and myself have a boat between us; it was Jo saw her +first."</p> + +<p>"Well?"</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/ill_004.jpg" width="500" height="358" alt=""A MINUTE AFTER IT WAS LIGHT FOR AN INSTANT AND WE GOT SIGHT OF HER."" title="" /> +<span class="caption">"A MINUTE AFTER IT WAS LIGHT FOR AN INSTANT AND WE GOT SIGHT OF HER."</span> +</div> + +<p>"We were tacking across the channel, and it was very dark. We had just +come about, and suddenly I heard a swish in the water and felt something +a yard or so off sweeping by. I couldn't see what it was at first. It +seemed to pass in the air. Jo heard it too, and we were both pretty +scared. A minute after it was light for an instant and we got sight of +her, a few yards to windward of us, bending under her sail. Jo pointed +her out to me, and the next moment she seemed to disappear. We got into +port this afternoon very late with our fish, and as soon as I could I +came to tell you."</p> + +<p>"How many times have you seen this—this ship without a light?"</p> + +<p>"Just the once. We don't carry a light ourselves, or we mightn't have +seen her this time."</p> + +<p>"Where was this?"</p> + +<p>"To the south of Fidalgo Island."</p> + +<p>"In the outer channel?"</p> + +<p>"No, right below the slough, to the inner side of the island and the +main shore."</p> + +<p>"Where did the boat seem to come from?" the Inspector asked, looking +straight in the boy's face.</p> + +<p>"Well, we couldn't exactly be sure; but Jo seemed to think that she had +come from the slough—that was what set us to thinking she must be a +smuggler."</p> + +<p>"Have you told anybody about this?"</p> + +<p>"No."</p> + +<p>"Don't. How about this Indian boy, this Siwash?"</p> + +<p>"He hasn't said a word about it to any one. I made him keep it quiet +till I had told you."</p> + +<p>"Sure no one else knows?"</p> + +<p>"No one; at least no one but the man in the outer office here."</p> + +<p>"What did you tell him for?" the Chief asked, with sudden vexation.</p> + +<p>"He wouldn't let me in till I told him what I wanted; he said you were +busy."</p> + +<p>At this moment the door opened and a man in uniform entered.</p> + +<p>"Ah," he said, glancing at the boy, "he's told you, then. Had we better +put any confidence in the tale? I've been speaking to the Captain of the +<i>Madrona</i> about it. He is in the outer office now. He seems to think +there is something in it."</p> + +<p>"You may go now," said the Chief, with a preoccupied look, to the boy; +"you had better go right home, and next time carry a light yourself. +Good-evening."</p> + +<p>"I am sorry you let the boy go," the deputy began, as the door closed; +"we may need him for evidence. But here's the Captain."</p> + +<p>A tall gentleman, in the uniform of the United States navy, entered the +room at this moment. "I've been having a word with your salmon-fisher," +he said, "and I think he's telling the truth. I'll catch them to-night +when they're getting back north, and give them more light in Puget Sound +than they will find altogether convenient. Where was it he saw them +now?"</p> + +<p>"I don't think the boy said," the deputy answered. "Did he tell you?" +and he turned to his superior.</p> + +<p>"Yes, he did, now I recollect."</p> + +<p>"Was it in the main channel, or below the slough to the inside of the +island?"</p> + +<p>"In the outer channel; it was too large a boat to get through the +slough."</p> + +<p>"Why, I thought he said it was a sailing sloop," mused the Captain, +turning to the deputy.</p> + +<p>"So did I."</p> + +<p>"No; the boy told me distinctly," the Chief replied, "that it was a much +larger vessel, and that she passed him in the outer channel; though +candidly, as to her carrying no light, we must remember that boys +sometimes have wonderful imaginations."</p> + +<p>"Then we'll keep the main channel;" and the Captain left the room.</p> + +<p>Down among the ships in the harbor a small boat was moored. It had all +the unmistakable signs of being a fishing-boat, and a youth with a large +round face of a heavy brown mahogany color was sitting lazily at the +edge of the wharf, when Thomas Walton made his appearance. They both got +into the boat and pushed from the dock. It was growing quite dusk. The +harbor lights were already lit.</p> + +<p>"You told them, Tom?"</p> + +<p>"Yes."</p> + +<p>"What did they think?"</p> + +<p>"I hardly know. I wish now I hadn't gone near them at all."</p> + +<p>"Didn't they treat you white?"</p> + +<p>"I don't know."</p> + +<p>"You don't?"</p> + +<p>"Well, they didn't seem to believe what I said, anyway. And there's +something else I don't like the looks of."</p> + +<p>"What else?"</p> + +<p>"Oh, nothing much. I think I was followed down to the wharf. Look over +there. Can you see? Is that a man or a woman in that boat there—the one +that just came around the stern of the <i>Umatilla</i>?"</p> + +<p>"A man."</p> + +<p>"No, the other. You can't see now. She got down low<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_524" id="Page_524">[Pg 524]</a></span> the moment she saw +me looking at her. Give her another haul. There; that'll do." The last +remark referred to the sail which the Indian had hoisted as Tom was +speaking.</p> + +<p>"Why, Jo, where did that boat go?" he continued a moment afterward, +looking back among the shipping.</p> + +<p>The skiff was gone.</p> + +<p>A couple of hours later they were cutting across Puget Sound before a +fresh wind, with the slap and drench of the rising waves against their +bows. The timbered uplands were darkly visible a mile or so ahead, and +Tom called out to his companion in the bow:</p> + +<p>"I say, Jo, I'm going to tack for the inner channel, and wait in the +slough. I have been thinking this thing out, and I've got an idea in my +head. I didn't tell the man at the Custom-house about the landing at the +rocks."</p> + +<p>"You didn't?" came a sleepy voice from the darkness.</p> + +<p>"No; I was too confused at first, and afterwards I thought I wouldn't, +anyway."</p> + +<p>A mile up this narrow channel, or slough, as shallow places of the kind +are called on the Pacific coast, there was a small bay, almost hidden by +the vast overhanging fir-trees. On one side the shore was steep and +rocky, but on the other there was a small strip of very convenient +beach, where the boys had landed three or four times to mend their +seine. The last time they had been there, Jo, in the spirit of +exploration, had pushed his way into the thick woods, and a little way +back had come upon a faint trail, which, after making a detour, they +found led up to the steep rocks on the other side of the little bay. +They never took the trouble to follow it inland.</p> + +<p>"Place where the lumbermen land," Jo had remarked upon this occasion, +pointing to the trunk of a cedar near the edge. There was a slightly +worn place in the bark where a ship's rope had been fastened.</p> + +<p>Afterwards they had remembered that the island was part of an Indian +reservation, where no lumberman had any right to touch the timber.</p> + +<p>Until the incident of the night before they had, however, given this no +thought. But it had occurred to Tom then that the mysterious trail in +the uninhabited island might possibly have some connection with the +strange vessel.</p> + +<p>"What are the customs officers going to do?" Jo asked.</p> + +<p>"From the little I could hear I expect that the <i>Madrona</i> will keep +watch for the smugglers in the open waters of the Sound. The slough +won't be guarded at all, in that case, and I'm going to wait here till +towards morning; then, if nothing passes, we can put into the bay, and +see if there are any signs of anybody having been on the trail the last +few hours."</p> + +<p>"Not likely."</p> + +<p>"Well, I'm not so sure of that—at all events we'll wait here through +the night, and see if anything does happen."</p> + +<p>"But if it isn't an opium smuggler at all; if it's a—a—"</p> + +<p>"A what?" Tom asked shortly, familiar with the other's superstitious +nature.</p> + +<p>"Have we the gun?" said Jo, changing the subject.</p> + +<p>"I don't know."</p> + +<p>"Yes, it's here," answered the Indian, rummaging for it among a lot of +odds and ends at the bow. "I wonder if it's—"</p> + +<p>"Don't bang it off into me to find out if it is."</p> + +<p>Some hours after midnight the boat of the boys was standing in for the +little bay spoken of. They had waited further up the slough, but Tom, +who of the two was the one who had kept awake, had heard nothing pass. +It was still quite dark.</p> + +<p>Jo suddenly started.</p> + +<p>"Say, did you see that? There—there it is again!"</p> + +<p>The boys looked upwards, and a great white bar of light, like a comet, +swung across the sky above them. Then it swung slowly back again, +faltering here and there, and appearing to rise and fall in certain +places.</p> + +<p>"It must be the <i>Madrona</i>'s search-light," said Tom, "and they are right +south of here."</p> + +<p>They still had a full view of the open waters of Puget Sound.</p> + +<p>"They seem to be coming this way," muttered the Indian; "there it goes +again!"</p> + +<p>As he spoke, an intensely bright cone of light leaped forth suddenly +into the darkness, and moved from place to place along the high rocky +shores.</p> + +<p>"I'm glad it isn't as dark as it was last night," Jo said, as they +rounded the point, and glided onward noiselessly upon the calm black +water. "Do you see anything in the bay?"</p> + +<p>"No; drop the sail," Tom whispered, and he steered the boat slowly +through the suspicious inlet. It was quite dark in the shadow of the +gigantic trees. As the bow grated gently on the sand, Jo stepped out, +followed at once by his companion.</p> + +<p>The next moment they were both appalled by an unexpected sound. It was +the soft flap of a sail. As their eyes grew more accustomed to the gloom +of the thick forest trees, they could see dimly a vessel of considerable +size, moored to the very rocks they had been thinking of. It was the +mysterious ship of the night before. It awed them too, to see it lying +so near to them with its white sails all spread, and yet not a sign of +life upon it. There was something weird about it all, and Tom could +hardly prevent the Siwash boy from making an immediate retreat.</p> + +<p>They continued to listen for some moments, but all remained still upon +the vessel and upon the shore.</p> + +<p>"I wonder is there any one aboard of her?" Jo said in an undertone.</p> + +<p>"Keep still!"</p> + +<p>In spite of this warning, Tom was himself the first to break the +silence.</p> + +<p>"Perhaps they've abandoned her."</p> + +<p>"Then where can they be?"</p> + +<p>"Do you want to know real bad?" asked Tom.</p> + +<p>"Yes!"</p> + +<p>"Well, you're good at following a night trail; just you follow that one +back into the island, and you'll stand a fair show of seeing where they +are."</p> + +<p>This was humor, and Jo grinned appreciatively.</p> + +<p>"Where is the gun?" Tom asked, presently.</p> + +<p>"I have it; what are we going to do?"</p> + +<p>"We're going to get that sloop out into the Sound, and sail her up to +the city dock at daybreak. I'll show those customs inspectors—"</p> + +<p>"They'll say you're the smuggler."</p> + +<p>"Well, I'm going to risk it."</p> + +<p>"Perhaps they're aboard now—asleep."</p> + +<p>"Keep the gun ready, then!"</p> + +<p>The boys were making their way towards the sloop along the narrow strip +of sand yet uncovered by the flood tide, but as they spoke, they stopped +with one accord, for they heard a sound from the trees near by.</p> + +<p>"Cougar?"</p> + +<p>"No," whispered the Indian, "a man!"</p> + +<p>"Stand very still, then, and watch what happens."</p> + +<p>They could hear the branches being pushed aside softly, and dull +footfalls upon the forest moss.</p> + +<p>Presently two dark shapes emerged upon the neighboring rocks. They were +talking rapidly, but the boys could not catch what they were saying.</p> + +<p>The <i>Madrona</i> was moving to the south of the island, and standing in +towards the mouth of the slough. One of the new-comers saw the +search-light.</p> + +<p>"They'll be upon us in half an hour," Tom could hear him say; "we must +steer around the point, and get up the slough, where a vessel of such +deep draught as theirs cannot follow us. We'll he done for if we stay +here."</p> + +<p>The voice seemed familiar, but the boy was too excited to give the fancy +a second thought. What he saw, only too plainly, was the easy way in +which the supposed smugglers could make their escape, and, laying +prudence aside, he instantly called out in what he intended to be a very +commanding voice,</p> + +<p>"Ahoy there! you can't go aboard till you say who you are, and what you +are doing here."</p> + +<p>Hardly were the words spoken when Tom saw a bright red flash, and was +almost stunned by a loud report. He heard the crash of a rifle bullet +through the branches behind him, and heard the echoes running along the +opposite shores, growing fainter and fainter in the distance.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_525" id="Page_525">[Pg 525]</a></span></p> + +<p>The shot was instantly returned, and there was a quick sharp cry from +the rocks. He turned and saw Jo at his side, lowering the gun from his +shoulder.</p> + +<p>The next moment he heard a rustle in the trees near him, and hardly +thinking of the peril in which he was throwing himself, he turned in +swift pursuit. He struck the trail almost at once, and still heard the +same odd rustle a short distance ahead of him.</p> + +<p>He guided himself as well as he could in the darkness, often stumbling +over the bared roots, or grazing his head against the low cedar +branches. At times he stopped to listen. It soon became evident that he +was catching up.</p> + +<p>The pale light of the early morning was beginning to show dimly through +the trees. The person ahead tripped once or twice, and Tom knew that he +was now almost at hand. The unseen fugitive appeared to be moving with +great difficulty. A moment later the boy heard a heavy fall a few yards +in front of him, and running hastily forward was suddenly met by—a +woman!</p> + +<p>At this mishap, speaking for the first time, she uttered a harsh sound +in a deep voice which there was no mistaking.</p> + +<p>It was a man then, and not a woman, after all, Tom thought, and in his +heart he blessed the smuggler's awkward disguise, which had allowed him +to catch up.</p> + +<p>But the smuggler, in the mean time, had drawn his revolver, and was on +the point of aiming it mercilessly at the unarmed lad, when the latter, +watching his motions with difficulty in the uncertain light, snatched +quickly at his hand. The weapon was thus turned at random as the trigger +was pressed, and Tom, deafened by a sudden report, drew back as the +revolver flashed in his face.</p> + +<p>The disguised man fell to the ground. The boy watched him for a moment, +but he lay there quite still in the shadow.</p> + +<p>A feeling of fear swept through the boy's heart, and he hurried back to +the shore to call for help. The man might not be dead. He was surprised +to find what a long distance it was back. He had not, in his first +excitement, thought he had gone more than a couple of hundred yards.</p> + +<p>As he drew near to the water's edge he heard the sound of a number of +voices. The day was beginning to break. Coming out on the shore, he saw +the <i>Madrona</i> lying at the mouth of the slough with the thick smoke +wreathing from her funnel.</p> + +<p>On the rocks near by several men in uniform were standing in a group +about some object upon the ground. With a strange presentiment the boy +made his way around the shore and joined them. What he saw there was a +man lying upon his face. He did not need to see the features to +recognize who it was.</p> + +<p>It was the Chief of the Customs Department.</p> + +<p>"Where have you been, Tom?"</p> + +<p>The boy turned around at these words, and saw the Captain of the +<i>Madrona</i>. The sight of his bluff honest face made the boy feel himself +again; and reminded him, too, of his errand, which he had forgotten for +the moment.</p> + +<p>"I followed the man dressed up like a woman who was with him," Tom +answered, excitedly; "he's a mile back in the woods now— I want to take +a surgeon along, for I think he's killed. I caught at his hand with it +in, and it went off somehow—the revolver, I mean—and I think it killed +him—but I didn't mean to; I couldn't see."</p> + +<p>"I'll go back with you at once—who did you say it was?"</p> + +<p>The boy told what had happened as they hurried back through the trees.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_526" id="Page_526">[Pg 526]</a></span></p> + +<p>"That must be Tee Ling."</p> + +<p>"Who?"</p> + +<p>"Tee Ling; you've heard of him—the most notorious opium smuggler on the +coast— I see it's a trail."</p> + +<p>"Yes, all the way. So it's a China man, then?"</p> + +<p>"Of course. There's not a more detestable scoundrel among all the +Chinese in America. He has a den some place on the British Columbia +coast, and probably we'll unearth his southern headquarters within a +mile or so of where we stand. He dresses as a woman simply as a +disguise. He has a hundred of them. You've had a terribly narrow escape +from him, my dear boy."</p> + +<p>"I saw him at the Custom-house last night, when I was reporting what I +had seen."</p> + +<p>"Where—in the office?"</p> + +<p>"Yes."</p> + +<p>"Who would have thought it! We knew that the Chinese gang were working +into the hands of one of our men, but we never thought it could be into +his. There it is, a man's sin will always find him out in the end! +What's the matter?"</p> + +<p>"I—I feel kind of sick like. I guess I'm sort of a coward, but the +thought of him lying there dead that way! I suppose a man like you gets +used to it, but I—it makes me—"</p> + +<p>"You needn't be ashamed to own to a feeling of humanity, my boy; no good +man ever gets <i>used</i> to death or crime, though good men sometimes have +to see a deal of both."</p> + +<p>"Here is the place; but—oh!—"</p> + +<p>"Yes, Tee Ling has wisely departed, I see. I expected as much, for Tee +Ling is very sagacious. It's just as well we didn't bother about the +ship's surgeon. Besides, he is too good a Chinaman to take our medicine, +much less the dose of medicine the United States has ready for him. He's +wanted in 'Frisco, you know."</p> + +<p>"Well, I'm mighty glad he's alive, all the same," Tom remarked, in a +tone of great relief. "I was dreadfully afraid he was dead, and I—I +never killed anybody!"</p> + +<p>"We will be sure to catch him during the day, nevertheless, for he can't +get off the island, unless he disguises himself as a brown bear, and +I'll tell the boys to shoot all the brown bears."</p> + +<p>Tom laughed at this mild drollery, and they returned to the shore +without seeing any trace of the Chinaman.</p> + +<p>A lieutenant was standing on the deck of the smuggler's sloop. "There's +ten thousand dollars' worth of gum opium aboard of her, Captain."</p> + +<p>"Yes, and very likely double that amount more hidden some place in the +island. Tom, what do you set your fortune at?"</p> + +<p>"I guess about a hundred dollars would be more than I would ever know +what to do with."</p> + +<p>"What extravagant ideas you have! I think we will be able to suit you, +though. Something like a hundred times over at the very least."</p> + +<p>"Why, how do you mean?"</p> + +<p>"Mean? Simply that this is to a great extent your 'find.' We heard your +gun, and our suspicions were aroused at once. If it hadn't been for your +nerve in the first place they would have got away. Are you willing to be +fired at twice for nothing?"</p> + +<p>One of the <i>Madrona</i>'s men came up before the boy could answer, if, +indeed, he had any answer to make, and whispered a few words to the +Captain.</p> + +<p>"Alive, is he?" the Captain exclaimed. "Get a stretcher and take him +aboard at once or he may die yet of his wounds. Perhaps that would be +the best thing he could do; but that's not for us to say."</p> + +<p>To a boy of Tom's generous and manly nature it was a great relief to see +the unconscious Customs Inspector carried aboard the <i>Madrona</i>. But he +said nothing.</p> + +<p>The Captain was silent also for a long time. Presently his attention was +attracted by something unusual on the beach, and, dismissing an +unpleasant train of thought, he broke out, "What have you there, men?"</p> + +<p>Four of the <i>Madrona</i>'s men were seen at this moment coming around the +point on the shore with a very unwilling prisoner.</p> + +<p>"There!" said the Captain. "I told you we would have him before the day +was out. The lost are found, and the dead are alive, sure enough. Where +did you get him?" he hailed, in a louder voice.</p> + +<p>"Hiding on the shore."</p> + +<p>"I'm afraid Tee Ling is getting childish," the Captain commented, in a +voice aside to Tom, "if he is going to venture down to the water when +things are as hot as they are now."</p> + +<p>The men, who seemed to be having a great deal of difficulty, came +nearer, and Tom called out in surprise,</p> + +<p>"Why, it's Jo."</p> + +<p>"Jo?" echoed the Captain.</p> + +<p>"Yes; that's not Tee Ling; it's Jo."</p> + +<p>"Who's Jo?"</p> + +<p>"Why, the Siwash Indian who fishes with me. Hello there, Jo! Where in +the world have you been?"</p> + +<p>Jo's face was a pale fawn color with fear, but he did not answer.</p> + +<p>"Let him go, boys," the Captain said, smiling. "It's all right. He's not +the one we are after."</p> + +<p>"It's all right, Jo," Tom repeated; but the latter, though now at +liberty, was still silent and very serious. There were many cloudy +thoughts shaping in his bewildered mind. He had expected to be sent to +prison for being a smuggler, and hanged for shooting a man. It was +difficult for him to get rid of these ideas on short notice.</p> + +<p>Indeed, it is hardly probable that he ever clearly understood the +strange turn which events took in the next few hours.</p> + +<p>At any rate he was not heard to utter a single word for two whole days.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="TURNING_A_TRIPLE_SOMERSAULT" id="TURNING_A_TRIPLE_SOMERSAULT"></a>TURNING A TRIPLE SOMERSAULT.</h2> + +<p>"Whatever you do, don't join a circus," said John, the new stableman. He +was sitting on top of a feed barrel in the barn with a pipe in his +mouth, and his deliberate manner bore conviction that he knew what he +was talking about. The boys had always wondered where John had learned +so much about this big world and its ways, and it was only a few days +previous to the present occasion that Joe had admitted having at one +time in his career travelled for a year with a circus. Then nothing +would do but that he should tell the boys all sorts of circus stories. +To-day the conversation had turned on triple somersaults.</p> + +<p>"That feat has been accomplished mighty few times," said John, +dogmatically, "and I know all about it. I saw John Worland do it in New +Haven in 1884, and he told me the whole history of the act, and of the +many men who have tried to do it. The first man to attempt to turn a +triple somersault was a performer in Van Amburgh's circus, in Mobile in +1842. He broke his neck. W. J. Hobbes made the attempt in London in +1845, and was instantly killed. The next one was John Amoor. He had been +successfully turning a double, and was the original in accomplishing it +over four horses. He tried to do a triple at the Isle of Wight in 1859, +turned twice, landed on his forehead, and broke his neck. Sam Reinhart, +while travelling with Cooper and Bailey's circus, became dissatisfied +with the double somersault feat, and was anxious to do a triple. He did +it at Toledo in 1870, making a high leap, turned twice and a half, +alighted on the broad of his back, and was disabled for some time. Billy +Dutton accomplished the feat at Elkhorn in 1860, but he never made +another attempt. Bob Stickney did it while practising in a gymnasium in +New York, but he alighted on a blanket, and never succeeded in landing +on his feet. Frank Starks tried to turn three times in Indianapolis, but +he fell on his head and died soon afterwards. The only man, living or +dead, that ever accomplished the feat successfully, was John Worland, +the man I saw. He threw a triple somersault six times from a +spring-board. The first time he attempted it was at St. Louis in 1874, +with Wilson's circus. He made three trials, twice over five horses, +landing on his back. At the third attempt he landed on his feet.</p> + +<p>"The next time he tried it was also at St. Louis in 1876.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_527" id="Page_527">[Pg 527]</a></span> He landed on +a mattress in a sitting posture. He did it again at Eau Claire, in 1881, +and at La Crosse a few days later. On this occasion all the members of +the company made affidavits to the fact. The last time he accomplished +the feat was when I saw him at New Haven in 1884. It was at the +Forepaugh show, and the Mayor of the city and many newspaper men were +present. First a performer ran down the board and turned a single +somersault; then another man followed and turned a double; after which +Worland ran down the board and threw a triple somersault, landing on a +bed on his feet as straight as an arrow It has seldom occurred that any +man has done a triple somersault before a circus audience after due +announcement, but there is no doubt about Worland's act. It was duly +announced by the ring-master, and hundreds of people saw him do it. For +years he practised the double, and never would turn a single, so that +when he attempted a triple he did not run as great a risk as others who +attempted the feat. But, nevertheless, boys, don't join a circus, and +never try the triple."</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="BOYS_AND_GIRLS_OF_NEW_YORK_STREETS1" id="BOYS_AND_GIRLS_OF_NEW_YORK_STREETS1"></a>BOYS AND GIRLS OF NEW YORK STREETS.<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a></h2> + +<h3>A DAUGHTER OF THE TENEMENTS.</h3> + +<h3>BY EDWARD W. TOWNSEND.</h3> + +<p>In one of the Roosevelt Street buildings called "back tenements," +because they are built in the spaces which were once the back yards of +the buildings in front of them, when those buildings, years ago, were +occupied by single, well-to-do, and sometimes fashionable, families, +Gabriella Moreno was born. Her parents were not the poorest, by any +means, of those who lived in that neighborhood, for her father, Antonio +Moreno (he was called "Tony" by all his English-speaking acquaintances) +was the proprietor of a fruit-stand, and did quite a prosperous +business. In fact, among the Italians of that neighborhood it was +somewhat a mark of rank to own a fruit-stand instead of a fruit +"push-cart." Tony Moreno had been a push-cart fruit peddler for years, +but some time after his only child was born he became the proprietor of +a little stand near the entrance of the Tivoli Theatre on the Bowery. +Part of the space his stand occupied was a broad entranceway which had +formerly been used as one of the entrances to the theatre, but which was +now closed for that purpose. Tony was one of the first Italians to +settle in the neighborhood of Cherry Hill, which is near Roosevelt +Street, and his knowledge of and influence over those of his countrymen +who followed him there made him useful to Mr. Kean, the proprietor of +the Tivoli, who was also in the business of politics.</p> + +<p>That was the way Tony came to have the privilege of running a +fruit-stand in front of the Tivoli. His profits were so great that he +and his wife and Gabriella were able to keep their one tenement room, +and it was a large one, all to themselves, without taking in two or +three boarders, as most of their neighbors did, to help pay the rent. +This made Tony one of the aristocrats of the neighborhood, and when it +became known that Gabriella had a cot to sleep on, instead of sleeping +on the floor, as the children of other families did, the neighbors +looked up to Tony more than ever before as a man of high standing and +solid position.</p> + +<p>Gabriella's little friends, however, were in the habit of calling her +"proud" and "stuck-up" on this account. When she was six years old +Gabriella was sent to Miss Barstow's Mission School, where many other +little Italian children also went, to learn to speak and read and write +in English. Most of the children left the school when they were eight, +and very few remained there after they were nine years old; for at that +age their parents thought them old enough to help at home, to care for +the younger children when both parents were away at work, and even to +learn to do sewing for the big clothing factories. Gabriella would have +been taken away, too, had it not been for Miss Barstow, who went to talk +with Tony and his wife. She told them that Gabriella was one of her best +scholars, and it would be to their interests, as well as their +daughter's, to let her remain at school until she was well enough +educated to do something better than sew on coarse clothing for wages +which would never support her decently. This pleased Mrs. Moreno, who +was ambitious for her pretty child, but Tony grumbled a good deal.</p> + +<p>Gabriella was old enough, he said, to help earn bread, as the other +children of her age did. Had not her father and mother worked since they +were six years old? he asked. Then why should their child be kept in +idleness only to learn things out of books which were well enough for +the rich, but did the poor no good?</p> + +<p>Miss Barstow was more interested in Gabriella than in any other child of +the tenements she had ever known, for the girl was really unusually +bright and pretty, and she was determined to keep her longer in the +school. She knew that Tony had his stand at the Tivoli by Mr. Kean's +permission, and to Mr. Kean she went for aid.</p> + +<p>Miss Barstow's fashionable friends would have been surprised to learn +how often she went to Mr. Kean for aid and advice, and to know how often +he gave his aid, and how valuable his advice always was.</p> + +<p>Mr. Kean smiled when Miss Barstow asked him if he could not help her +keep Tony's daughter in school, and said, with rough politeness,</p> + +<p>"Yes, I guess so, miss."</p> + +<p>What he did was simply to shortly order Tony to do just what Miss +Barstow wanted, if he knew what was good for him; and Tony obeyed +without question, as did every one else in that part of the city who +received orders from Mr. Kean.</p> + +<p>That was the way Gabriella remained in the school until she was past +twelve years old, and until the time her mother, who helped Tony at the +fruit-stand, was taken sick. Then Gabriella took her mother's place, but +she too became ill, and Tony had to close his fruit-stand part of each +twenty-four hours, which caused that very penurious Italian great misery +of mind, for his was what is known as an "all-night" stand, and he +bitterly lamented his loss of trade during the hours of closing. +Gabriella, under the careful nursing of Miss Barstow, soon became well +and strong again; but the mother did not, and that was the reason it +became necessary for the girl to take her place at the stand part of the +time, dividing with her mother the hours when Tony went home to eat and +sleep.</p> + +<p>Miss Barstow knew that if she interfered further to keep Gabriella off +the street and at school she might, with Mr. Kean's aid, succeed in +doing so; but her knowledge of tenement-house life made her realize that +such action would make the girl's home life unhappy. So she let her +favorite scholar go without protest, intending, however, to keep as +close a watch over her as she could, and to regain her for her school +later, if she found that the girl's mother became strong enough not to +need Gabriella's help.</p> + +<p>Gabriella's "watches"—that is, the time she was on duty at the +fruit-stand—were always in the day-time, and Miss Barstow would stop +there frequently to speak to her on her way to the Mission House. She +did this to keep track<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_528" id="Page_528">[Pg 528]</a></span> of the girl, and to leave her a book now and +then. These were the only happy moments in the poor girl's life. She had +learned to love Miss Barstow, and to care very much for books and other +things Miss Barstow had interested her in, which now seemed far removed +from her life, except when they were recalled by these visits from her +teacher.</p> + +<p>Every day now she went to the fruit-stand on the Bowery in the morning +to relieve her father. There it was her duty to keep the stacks and +pyramids of fruit in order, to dust them, to replace with fresh fruit +from the boxes underneath the stand the pieces which she sold, and to +keep a sharp look-out against the nimble hands of thievish youngsters. +Every piece of fruit was carefully counted by Tony before he went off +the watch, and when he returned Gabriella had to account for every sale +and every missing piece.</p> + +<p>One day Gabriella stood by the side of the stand, thinking how much +happier her life had been when she went each day to the Mission School. +She was wondering, at the same time, where she could have ever before +seen the smartly dressed boy who stood in the doorway of the theatre +office smiling at her. Somehow he was associated in her mind with Miss +Barstow, yet where and when, if ever, she had seen him before was as +indistinct in her mind as the memory of a dream. For several days she +had seen him standing there, and from the first she had the impression +that she had seen him somewhere else. She could not place him; he was +much better and more stylishly dressed than any of the boys she had ever +seen about her home or the school. He always had a friendly nod and +smile for her, and she nodded and smiled in return; and although they +had never spoken, she had never given up trying to think where, if +anywhere, she had seen him besides there in front of the theatre.</p> + +<p>As he stood there this day, looking somehow as if he owned the Bowery, a +rough young fellow loafed up to the stand and asked, in an impudent +manner,</p> + +<p>"Say, sis, how much are dese bananas?"</p> + +<p>"A cent each," answered Gabriella.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/ill_005.jpg" width="500" height="371" alt=""WELL, JUST CHARGE DIS ONE," HE SAID, SEIZING A BANANA AND STARTING TO RUN." title="" /> +<span class="caption">"WELL, JUST CHARGE DIS ONE," HE SAID, SEIZING A BANANA AND STARTING TO RUN.</span> +</div> + +<p>"Well, just charge dis one," he said, seizing a banana and starting to +run.</p> + +<p>As Gabriella began to cry out for the thief to stop, the smartly dressed +lad in the doorway flew out like a Skye terrier after a rat. He had +headed off the loafer with such surprising quickness that the latter was +more amazed than frightened when the boy demanded of him to give up the +stolen fruit. This demand only made the fellow laugh. The laugh soon +came to an end, though, because Danny Cahill—for that was the name of +the smaller boy—had not forgotten any of the quick and fierce methods +he had learned to use in fighting larger boys when he had been a street +arab. It was a very short struggle, and almost before the frightened +Gabriella knew what was happening Danny was standing before her smiling, +and her tormentor was skulking away, well thrashed for his meanness.</p> + +<p>Danny's victory had been complete; he had not only vanquished the enemy +but recovered the stolen property; and as he put the banana carefully +back on the stand he said, good-naturedly,</p> + +<p>"It's all right, little girl; what are you crying for?"</p> + +<p>Gabriella stopped crying, and answered, "Because if that boy had got +away with the banana, and I did not have a penny for it, my father would +have whipped me."</p> + +<p>Then to the great astonishment of Danny, Gabriella took a banana from +the stand and offered it to him. Danny laughed outright at this, and +exclaimed:</p> + +<p>"Den if you haven't a penny t' show for de banana, your father will whip +you just de same wedder de banana is stolen or you give it away to me. +Won't he?"</p> + +<p>Gabriella laughed too, now, and said, "Yes, but I'm willing to take a +whipping for you, because you whipped that boy for me."</p> + +<p>But Danny said he guessed he would rather pay for the fruit, and they +were laughing and chatting over the adventure in the most friendly way +when Miss Barstow came up. They told her the story, and she seemed +greatly pleased. She told Gabriella that Danny was the boy who had +helped take care of her and her mother the first night they were both +sick with the fever.</p> + +<p>"Then it was there I saw you before," Gabriella said to Danny, with +delight. "I was not sure whether I had really seen you or just dreamed +that I had."</p> + +<p>"Well, you were doing a heap of dreaming dat night, sure," Danny +answered.</p> + +<p>"But you were a messenger-boy then," Miss Barstow said to Danny. "How is +it you happen to be here and not in your uniform?"</p> + +<p>"Oh, I'm Mr. Kean's office-boy now," answered Danny. "I'm to be his +clerk when I'm big enough."</p> + +<p>This information seemed to give as much satisfaction to Miss Barstow as +it did to Danny.</p> + +<p>"I like that," Miss Barstow said, "for now Gabriella will have some one +to look out for her when she is on watch."</p> + +<p>"Dat's right; as long as I remember how t' fight she will. Sure," Danny +replied, earnestly.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_529" id="Page_529">[Pg 529]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="SNOW-SHOES_AND_SLEDGES" id="SNOW-SHOES_AND_SLEDGES"></a>SNOW-SHOES AND SLEDGES.</h2> + +<h3>BY KIRK MUNROE.</h3> + +<h3>CHAPTER XXIII.</h3> + +<h3>LAW IN THE GOLD DIGGINGS.</h3> + +<p>The latest comer to Camp Forty Mile was not particularly anxious to +attend the public meeting to which he was invited by Mr. Platt Riley. +Still he thought it better to do so rather than run the risk of +offending his host, who was evidently a man of influence in the +diggings. His overnight reflections having convinced him that this camp +was not such a place as he had expected, and also that he might find +greater safety elsewhere, his first act in the morning was to order his +Indian drivers to harness the dogs, and be prepared for a start within +an hour.</p> + +<p>Kurilla, who was with them under instructions not to lose sight of them, +grinned when he heard this, for he had picked up an inkling of what was +going on, and felt pretty certain that the order need not be obeyed.</p> + +<p>When Mr. Riley's reluctant guest entered the store of the Yukon Trading +Company, in which, on account of its size, the meeting was to be held, +he fully intended to take a back seat, and slip out as soon as he could +do so unnoticed. The place was so filled with miners, however, that +there were no back seats, and, to his surprise, the crowd pressed aside +as he and Mr. Riley entered, so as to leave a passage to the farther end +of the room. A moment later, without knowing just how it had been done, +he found himself seated beside Jalap Coombs's friend, Skiff Bettens, who +obligingly made a place for him. He noticed with some curiosity that +twelve men were seated on benches directly opposite to him, while all +the rest of the crowd were standing. Between him and these men was an +open space, at the upper end of which were a table and a chair raised on +a rude platform.</p> + +<p>To this platform Mr. Platt Riley made his way, and seating himself in +the chair, rapped on the table for silence. Then, rising, he said:</p> + +<p>"Gentlemen of the jury and fellow-citizens, this court is now open for +business, and I as its Judge, elected by your votes, am prepared to +administer justice in accordance with your laws, and such verdicts as +may be rendered by your jury."</p> + +<p>"It is a court," thought Strengel, with a shiver.</p> + +<p>"The case to be tried this morning," continued the Judge, "is one that +touches the pocket, the life, and the honor of every miner in the Yukon +Valley; for the prisoner at the bar is indicted on three separate counts +as a thief, a murderer, and an unmitigated scoundrel. He has come into +our camp under a false name and with a false story, after having +attempted the destruction of a steamer that is bringing goods and +machinery, of which we are greatly in need.</p> + +<p>"He is charged with robbing and leaving helpless in the wilderness a man +whom we all know and respect, and also with robbing and deserting while +seriously ill his own companion who was on his way to visit us in behalf +of our old-established trading company."</p> + +<p>Strengel listened to these terrible words with an ever-increasing +paleness and visible agitation. Finally, clapping a hand to his face as +though seized with a sudden illness, he started to rise and leave the +room.</p> + +<p>"Sit down," ordered Skiff Bettens, in a low tone, at the same time +jerking him back to his seat. Then the man knew that he was indeed a +prisoner.</p> + +<p>"To prove these serious charges," continued the Judge, "I am about to +call several witnesses. At the same time the prisoner will be given the +privilege of cross-questioning them and of pleading in his own behalf. +Mr. Philip Ryder."</p> + +<p>At this summons Phil advanced from the farther end of the room, and the +prisoner regarded him with undisguised amazement.</p> + +<p>After answering the usual questions regarding his personality<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_530" id="Page_530">[Pg 530]</a></span> and +business, Phil was asked if he knew the prisoner.</p> + +<p>"I do," he answered.</p> + +<p>"What is his name?"</p> + +<p>"I understand that he now calls himself Bradwick; but a few months ago +he went by the name of Strengel."</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/ill_006.jpg" width="500" height="343" alt=""THAT'S A LIE!" SHOUTED THE PRISONER, HOARSELY." title="" /> +<span class="caption">"THAT'S A LIE!" SHOUTED THE PRISONER, HOARSELY.</span> +</div> + +<p>"That's a lie," shouted the prisoner, hoarsely.</p> + +<p>"Silence!" commanded the Judge. "Now, Mr. Ryder, tell the jury what you +know concerning the accused from the time of your first meeting with him +up to the present."</p> + +<p>This Phil did as briefly as possible, and when he had finished the +prisoner sprang to his feet, his face black with rage, and exclaimed: +"Why should this fellow's story be believed rather than mine? Who knows +anything about him, or even who he is? He was picked up in Bering Sea, +drifting about in a stolen canoe. At St. Michaels he was known as a +thief and brawler. I happen to know that he has been locked up in a +Victoria police station, and I demand that his evidence be thrown out."</p> + +<p>"That will do, sir," said the Judge. "I happen to know this young man +and his family so well that I am willing to vouch for him if necessary. +Do you wish to question him? No. Then we will proceed. Mr. Serge +Belcofsky."</p> + +<p>Serge, of course, identified the prisoner as Strengel, and corroborated +Phil's story in every detail.</p> + +<p>"This ends the testimony on the first charge," announced the Judge, when +Serge had finished and the prisoner sullenly declined to question him. +"In proof of the second charge, that of robbery and desertion, I call as +a witness Mr. Jalap Coombs."</p> + +<p>As the ex-mate of the <i>Seamew</i> advanced to the stand the prisoner stared +at him as though he were a ghost, nor could he imagine by what miracle +this witness had reached Forty Mile in time to appear against him.</p> + +<p>Jalap Coombs told his story in his own picturesque language, but in a +perfectly straightforward manner, and without the slightest hesitation.</p> + +<p>When he finished, the Judge questioned him very closely as to the amount +of money given him by Mr. John Ryder, and the prices paid for various +articles of his outfit at St. Michaels.</p> + +<p>As a defense against this charge the prisoner claimed that Jalap Coombs +had not been deserted by Simon Goldollar and himself, but had +voluntarily turned back, and that the dogs they had left with him had +run away to follow them much against their wishes. He also stated that +they had taken the dogs and sledge back to the place where they last saw +Jalap Coombs, but that they could not find him.</p> + +<p>"They were not his dogs, anyway, Judge," he continued, "nor did he +furnish any of our outfit, except a few provisions, most of which he +traded to the Indians on his own account. This man Coombs was a sailor, +supposed to be a deserter from some ship, and was loafing around St. +Michaels half starved when we picked him up. He claimed to have some +friends on the river who would help him, so we brought him along out of +charity."</p> + +<p>"May I toot a horn, Judge?" asked Mr. Skiff Bettens, rising as the +prisoner concluded his remarks.</p> + +<p>"Certainly you may, Marshal."</p> + +<p>"Waal, I only wanted to say that I've knowed Mr. Jalap Coombs off and on +for a good many years, and in all that time I've never knowed him to +tell a lie nor yet do a mean thing. Moreover I'm willing to stake my +life on his honesty agin that of any living man, for a better sailor, a +squarer man, and a truer friend never trod a deck."</p> + +<p>This sincere tribute so affected the simple-hearted sailor-man that he +could only stare open-mouthed at the speaker as though he were talking +in some mysterious language, though in after-years he often referred to +this as the proudest moment of his life. The remainder of the audience +greeted the Marshal's little speech with an outburst of applause which +the Judge was finally obliged to check.</p> + +<p>"Letting charge number two rest with the testimony taken," said the +Judge, when quiet was restored, "we will take up charge number three, +which is the most serious of all. We have already learned that the +accused, under the name of Strengel, passed old Fort Adams about a month +ago, bound for this place in company with a man named Goldollar, who +appears to be a pretty tough character himself, though that of course +has nothing to do with this case. The accused at that time had little, +or nothing of his own, either in the way of money or outfit, while +Goldollar appears to have been well fixed with both. Now this man turns +up in this place alone under the name of Bradwick, telling a story about +having come up the Porcupine, that he has since admitted to be false, +and in possession of the outfit formerly owned by Mr. Coombs and Simon +Goldollar. Of course, under the circumstances, the question naturally to +be asked is what has become of Goldollar?"</p> + +<p>"He got sick of the trip and turned back from Yukon," explained the +prisoner, sulkily.</p> + +<p>"Yes, we've heard he took sick," replied the Judge; "but whether he +turned back, or was left to die in an Indian rancheria is another +question. Mr. Coombs, will you please take the stand again?"</p> + +<p>This time Jalap Coombs testified that he had carefully examined the +outfit brought into camp the night before by the prisoner, and found it +to contain the same number of sledges, the same number of dogs, and the +identical articles, with the exception of a certain quantity of +provisions that had composed it at old Fort Adams.</p> + +<p>"We will now call on one other witness," announced the Judge, and the +prisoner started as though he expected to see Simon Goldollar himself +appear on the stand. What he did see was one of his native drivers from +Fort Yukon, with Kurilla to act as interpreter.</p> + +<p>"Do you admit Injun testimony in this court?" he asked.</p> + +<p>"Certainly we do," replied the Judge.</p> + +<p>"If I'd known that," he muttered, "I'd have bought a dozen or so to +testify on my side."</p> + +<p>The Indian's testimony was to the effect that this white man had left +another white man in a native hut at Fort Yukon so sick that all the +Indians thought he would die.</p> + +<p>"Of course I can't buck agin Injun testimony," growled the prisoner; +"but I say it's a lie, all the same, and don't prove nothing."</p> + +<p>"There is one thing that we must not neglect," said the Judge. "Marshal, +you may search the prisoner."</p> + +<p>The latter struggled furiously, but was overpowered and held by strong +hands while the Marshal searched his pockets. From these were produced a +number of articles, including a wallet, which the Judge opened, +spreading its contents on the table before him.</p> + +<p>"Do you recognize anything here?" he asked of Jalap Coombs.</p> + +<p>"I can identify this as having been in Goldollar's possession," answered +the mate, picking up one of the articles that had dropped from the +wallet, and holding it so that all might see.</p> + +<p>Both Phil and Serge uttered exclamations of amazement, for the object +thus exhibited was nothing more nor less than the mysteriously carved +and almost forgotten fur-seal's tooth that had exerted so great an +influence upon their fortunes.</p> + +<h3>CHAPTER XXIV.</h3> + +<h3>REAPPEARANCE OF THE FUR-SEAL'S TOOTH.</h3> + +<p>"What do you know about this thing?" asked the Judge of Jalap Coombs, +taking the fur-seal's tooth from him and examining it curiously.</p> + +<p>"I know that there were an old Eskimo at St. Michaels what were shipped +by Goldollar to go with us to Nulato as dog-driver. He wore this bit of +ivory hung about his neck, and seemed to set a heap by it. One time when +he were looking at it I heerd Goldollar say that by rights it belonged +to him, seeing as he got it from some natyve, and it were afterwards +stole from him. He didn't say nothing to the Husky about it, but when we +got to Nulato he give him so much liquor that in the morning the old +chap couldn't be woke up. Goldollar fooled round him a while, and then +saying he'd have to give up the job of waking him, left him, and ordered +the teams to pull out. I afterwards seen Goldollar take that very +identical tooth outen his pocket several times and look at it like it +were a diamond or some sich, and heerd him tell Strengel that any man as +owned<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_531" id="Page_531">[Pg 531]</a></span> it would surely have luck. It didn't seem to bring him none, +though. Leastways no good luck, for he hain't had nothing but bad luck +sence."</p> + +<p>"Was it your impression that you could win good luck by stealing this +tooth?" inquired the Judge of Strengel.</p> + +<p>"I didn't steal it," answered the prisoner, sullenly.</p> + +<p>"How did you get it, then?"</p> + +<p>"Goldollar give it to me."</p> + +<p>"Where did you leave Goldollar?"</p> + +<p>"At Fort Yukon."</p> + +<p>"Was he in good health when you last saw him?"</p> + +<p>"I refuse to answer any more questions," replied the prisoner, realizing +how deeply he was committing himself.</p> + +<p>"Very well," said the Judge. "I think you have already told enough to +give us a pretty fair idea of the particular kind of a scoundrel you +are. So, if you have nothing more to say, I declare this case closed and +in the hands of the jury. Gentlemen, the court awaits your verdict."</p> + +<p>As there was no room to which the jury could retire they put their heads +together and consulted in whispers, during which time Phil told the +Judge what he knew about the fur-seal's tooth, together with the legend +of good and bad luck supposed to accompany its possession. The +spectators of the trial buzzed like a swarm of angry hornets.</p> + +<p>In a few minutes the jury ended their conference and resumed their +places. Then, as order was restored, the foreman, standing up, announced +that they were unanimous in finding the prisoner guilty on all three of +the charges preferred against him, and recommended that he be so +punished as to afford a warning to others of his kind who might be +contemplating a visit to the Yukon diggings.</p> + +<p>"Hang him!" cried some one in the crowd.</p> + +<p>"Shoot him!" shouted another.</p> + +<p>"Drive him out of camp, and set him adrift like he done to Jalap +Coombs," suggested a third.</p> + +<p>"Silence!" roared Judge Platt Riley, standing in his place and gazing +sternly about him. "You forget, gentlemen, that this is a court of law, +and though, maybe, it isn't run with all the frills of some, it's bound +to be respected. Likewise, it proposes to pronounce its own decisions. +In regard to the prisoner now awaiting sentence, he has been proved by +the testimony of reputable witnesses, and by his own admissions, to be a +liar, a traitor, a dog-stealer, which in this country is the same as a +boss-thief in the States, and a robber of his travelling companion under +circumstances that make him at the same time come pretty near to being a +murderer. For such as he hanging would be none too severe. But we have +never yet hanged a man in Forty Mile, and we don't want to begin, if we +can help it. The prisoner has expressed a desire to learn something of +our methods of working these diggings, and we promised to teach him. He +has also remarked that moss-stripping was a job well suited to convicts. +So be it. Prisoner at the bar, stand up and receive your sentence."</p> + +<p>When the wretched man, who had fancied himself in a country where he +could commit any crime without fear of punishment, had been assisted to +his feet by Marshal Bettens and a volunteer deputy, the Judge said:</p> + +<p>"By a fair trial, according to Yukon law, you are convicted of crimes +such as this community does not allow to go unpunished. On account of +them you are hereby sentenced to strip moss from the several claims of +this camp during every working hour of every working day from now until +such time as the first steamer reaches here from the lower river and is +ready to return. Then you will be allowed to work your way on her to St. +Michaels, where may the Agent have mercy upon you.</p> + +<p>"In the mean time, when not at work, you will be closely confined in the +camp lock-up, under guard of the Marshal, who shall be entitled to your +services for two days in every week for his trouble. On other days he +will hire you out to any miner who has moss to be stripped, and who will +pay for your keep during such time as you may work for him."</p> + +<p>This unique but just sentence was greeted with a murmur of approval from +the spectators; but this was quickly silenced by a frown from the Judge, +who continued:</p> + +<p>"All the property that you brought into this camp, including money and +outfit, excepting your personal clothing, is hereby confiscated, to be +disposed of as follows: One team of dogs, one sledge, and half the cash +found in your possession shall be restored to Mr. Jalap Coombs, from +whom you helped to steal them. The remainder of the money, after the +Indian drivers who came with you have been paid, and one dog team shall +be devoted to the relief of Simon Goldollar, who, though he seems to be +a pretty bad lot, is still a white man, and so must not be allowed to +perish if it can be helped. The third dog team shall become the property +of Marshal Bettens in place of a fee for his services. The remainder of +the property, provisions, and so forth shall be devoted to the support +of the prisoner during such times as he is working for the Marshal. Mr. +Bettens will now remove his prisoner, and I hereby declare this court +adjourned." This ended Mr. Strengel's prospects in Forty Mile, and when, +some months later, a boat arrived from the lower river, he thankfully +departed from Camp Forty Mile mentally vowing never to return.</p> + +<p>After consulting with Phil, Serge, and Jalap Coombs, Mr. Platt Riley, +who objected to being called "Judge" outside of court, decided to +entrust Simon Goldollar's rescue from the Indian village in which he had +been left to Kurilla and Chitsah, who were persuaded by a liberal +payment to return home that way. Another Indian was hired to accompany +them as far as Fort Yukon, and bring back word to Forty Mile of their +success.</p> + +<p>Phil wrote and sent him a letter, in which he apologized for having +accused him of stealing his money or the fur-seal's tooth, Jalap Coombs +having told him the facts concerning these things, and hoped he would +return to St. Michaels in safety. Long afterwards he learned that Simon +Goldollar did make his way down the river, aided by Kurilla and Chitsah, +and was sent on by Gerald Hamer from Anvik to St. Michaels. There he was +discharged from the company's employ on account of the failure of his +expedition, and finally left Alaska in the same ship that bore +ex-convict Strengel from its shores. An amusing feature of it all was +that both these rascals attributed the ill success of their undertakings +to the unlucky influence of the fur-seal's tooth.</p> + +<p>This industrious bit of ivory which exhibited such a fondness for +interfering with the affairs of men and boys, as well as such activity +in rapid travel and change of ownership reposed for several days in Mr. +Platt Riley's vest pocket, where it had been unconsciously thrust and +forgotten. Finally, tired of being thus neglected it worked a hole +through the pocket and fell to the floor. From there it was snapped up +by Mr. Riley's favorite dog, who lay at his feet, and doubtless imagined +it to be a choice morsel provided for him by his indulgent master. A +moment later the Judge was aroused from a reverie by the frantic +struggles of his dog, who seemed on the point of strangulation. When he +succeeded, by prompt effort, in removing the obstruction from the +animal's throat, and, with a feeling of superstitious amazement, +discovered its nature, he started at once for the store of the Yukon +Trading Company, determined to be rid of the uncanny object as quickly +as possible.</p> + +<p>It so happened that none of the three occupants of the premises was at +home, nor were they to be seen in any direction. They had been preparing +for departure, and many articles ready for packing on the sledges lay +scattered about the room. Among these was a fur sleeping-bag, on which +Mr. Riley's eye no sooner rested than he thrust the magic tooth into it, +and shook it to the very bottom.</p> + +<p>"There!" he exclaimed, "they are sure to take it with them; one of them +will find it sooner or later, and maybe it will bring him good luck. At +any rate I hope it will."</p> + +<p>So on the morning of the 5th of February, although the thermometer +registered 48° below zero, the little party set forth from Forty Mile +with three sledges and seventeen dogs. Above the first sledge fluttered +a small flag on which appeared the magic letters "U.S.M.," signifying +that Phil had undertaken to deliver a large packet of letters, the first +mail ever sent out from Forty Mile in winter.</p> + +<p>The entire population of the camp was assembled to see them off; and +amid a round of hearty cheers the sledges dashed away up the Yukon.</p> + +<p>[<span class="smcap">to be continued</span>.]<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_532" id="Page_532">[Pg 532]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"><a name="STORIES_OF_AMERICAN_LITERATURE" id="STORIES_OF_AMERICAN_LITERATURE"></a> +<img src="images/ill_007.jpg" width="400" height="195" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>STORIES OF AMERICAN LITERATURE.</h2> + +<h3>WASHINGTON IRVING.</h3> + +<h3>BY HENRIETTA CHRISTIAN WRIGHT.</h3> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Left his lodging some time ago, and has not been heard of +since—a small elderly gentleman, dressed in an old black +coat and cocked hat, by the name of Knickerbocker.... Any information +concerning him will be thankfully received." +</p></div> + +<p>Such was the curious advertisement that appeared in the <i>Evening Post</i> +under the date of October 26, 1809, attracting the attention of all New +York. People read it as they sat at supper, talked of it afterward +around their wood fires, and thought of it again and again before they +fell asleep at night. And yet not a soul knew the missing old gentleman, +or had ever heard of him before. Still, he was no stranger to them, for +he was a Knickerbocker, and every one was interested in the +Knickerbockers, and every one felt almost as if a grandfather or +great-grandfather had suddenly come back to life, and disappeared again +still more suddenly, without a word of explanation.</p> + +<p>For some time nothing more was heard of Diedrich Knickerbocker, and then +another advertisement appeared in the <i>Post</i>, saying he had been seen +twice on the road to Albany. Some time again elapsed, and finally the +landlord of the inn at which he had been reported to have stopped gave +up hope of ever seeing his guest again, and declared that he should sell +the manuscript of a book that Mr. Knickerbocker had left behind, and +take the proceeds in payment of his bill. People were really excited +about the fate of the old gentleman, and one of the city officials was +upon the point of offering a reward for his discovery, when a curious +thing happened. It was found that there was no old gentleman by the name +of Knickerbocker who had wandered away from his lodging; that there was +no inn at which he had lived, and no manuscript he had left behind, and +that, in fact, Mr. Knickerbocker was simply the hero of a book of which +the author took this clever means of advertising. The book claimed to be +the true history of the discovery and settlement of New York, and began +with an account of the creation of the world, passing on to the manners, +customs, and historical achievements of the old Hollanders who settled +Manhattan Island. Here we read of the golden reign of the first Dutch +Governor, Wouter Van Twiller, who was exactly five feet six inches in +height and six feet five inches in circumference, and who ate four hours +a day, smoked eight, and slept twelve, and so administered the affairs +of the colony that it was a marvel of prosperity. Next we hear of +Governor Keift, of lofty descent, since his father was an inspector of +windmills, how his nose turned up and his mouth turned down, how his +legs were the size of spindles, and how he grew tougher and tougher with +age, so that before his death he looked a veritable mummy. And then we +see the redoubtable Peter Stuyvesant stumping around on his wooden leg, +which was adorned with silver reliefs, furious with rage, menacing the +British fleet which has come to take possession of the town, threatening +vengeance dire upon the English King, and still cherishing his wrath +with fiery bravery when the enemy finally occupy the old Dutch town and +proceed to transform it into an English city.</p> + +<p>The book was read with amazement, admiration, or interest, as the case +might be. Some said it appeared too light and amusing for real history; +others claimed that it held stories of wisdom that only the wise could +understand; others still complained that the author was no doubt making +fun of their respectable ancestors, and had written the book merely to +hold them up to ridicule. Only a few saw that it was the brightest, +cleverest piece of humor that had yet appeared in America, and that its +writer had probably a career of fame before him. The author was +Washington Irving, then a young man in his twenty-seventh year, and +already known as the writer of some clever newspaper letters, and of a +series of humorous essays published in a semimonthly periodical called +<i>Salmagundi</i>.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 204px;"> +<img src="images/ill_008.jpg" width="204" height="400" alt="IRVING AS A STAR." title="" /> +<span class="caption">IRVING AS A STAR.</span> +</div> + +<p>Irving was born in New York on the 3d of April, 1783, and was named +after George Washington. New York was then a small town, beyond the +limits of which were orchards, farms, country-houses, and the high-road +leading to Albany, along which the stage-coach passed at regular times. +There were no railroads, and Irving was fourteen years old before the +first steamboat puffed its way up the Hudson River frightening the +country people into the belief that it was an evil monster come to +devour them. All travelling was done by means of sailing vessels, +stage-coaches, or private conveyances; all letters were carried by the +stage-coach, and every one cost the sender or receiver twenty-five cents +for postage. The telegraph was undreamed of, and if any one had hinted +the possibility of talking to some one else a thousand miles away over a +telephone-wire, he would have been considered a lunatic or, possibly, a +witch. In fact, New York was a quiet, unpretentious little town whose +inhabitants were still divided into English or Dutch families, according +to their descent, and in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_533" id="Page_533">[Pg 533]</a></span> whose households were found the customs of +England and Holland in full force. Irving's father was a Scotch +Presbyterian, who considered life a discipline, who thought all +amusement a waste of precious time, and who made the children devote one +out of the two half-weekly holidays to the study of the Catechism.</p> + +<p>Forbidden to attend the theatre, Irving would risk his neck nightly by +climbing out of his window to visit the play for an hour or so, and then +rush home in terror lest his absence had been noted and his future fun +imperilled, and many a night when sent early to bed he would steal away +across the adjacent roofs to send a handful of stones clattering down +the wide old-fashioned chimney of some innocent neighbor, who would +start from his dreams to imagine robbers, spooks, or other unpleasant +visitors in his bed-chamber. He was not particularly brilliant in his +studies, but he distinguished himself as an actor in the tragedies which +the boys gave in the school-room; at ten years of age he was the star of +the company, who did not even lose respect for him when once, being +called suddenly upon the stage through a mistake, he appeared with his +month full of honey-cake, which he was obliged to swallow painfully, +while the audience roared at the situation. Afterward when he rushed +around the stage flourishing a wooden sabre he was not a tragedian to be +trifled with. His favorite books were <i>Robinson Crusoe</i>, the <i>Arabian +Nights</i>, <i>Gulliver's Travels</i>, and all stories of adventure and travel. +The world beyond the sea always seemed a fairy-land to him; a little +print of London Bridge and another of Kensington Gardens that hung in +his bedroom stirred his heart wistfully; and he fairly envied the +odd-looking old gentlemen and ladies who appeared to be loitering around +the arches of St. John's Gate, as shown in a cut on the cover of an old +magazine. Later on his imagination was also kindled by short excursions +to the then wild regions of the Hudson and Mohawk valleys. Years +afterward we find the remembrance of these days gracing with loving +touch the pages of some of his choicest work.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/ill_009.jpg" width="500" height="396" alt="IN THE SCOTCH HILLS WITH SCOTT." title="" /> +<span class="caption">IN THE SCOTCH HILLS WITH SCOTT.</span> +</div> + +<p>At seventeen Irving left school and began to study for the bar. But his +health, which had always been delicate, made it necessary for him to +take a long rest from study, and he accordingly left America for two +years of travel abroad. It was after his return home that he brought out +his Knickerbocker history, a work which made him so famous that when he +returned to England some time afterwards he found himself very well +known in the best literary circles. The results of this second visit are +found in the volumes comprising the <i>Tales of a Traveller</i>; <i>Bracebridge +Hall</i>; <i>Geoffrey Crayon's Sketch-Book</i>, and other miscellany, in which +occur charming descriptions of English country life, delightful ghost +stories, the famous description of an English Christmas, and the +immortal legend of <i>Rip Van Winkle</i>. One of Irving's most interesting +chapters in this collection is that of his visit to the haunts of Robin +Hood, whose exploits had so fascinated him as a boy that he spent his +entire holiday money in obtaining a copy of his adventures. <i>Abbotsford</i> +is an account of a visit that Irving paid to Sir Walter Scott. It is a +charming revelation of the social side of Scott's character, who +welcomed Irving as a younger brother in art, became his guide in his +visits to Yarrow and Melrose Abbey, and took long rambling walks with +him all around the country made so famous by the great novelist. Irving +recalled as among the most delightful hours of his life those walks over +the Scottish hills with Scott, who was described by the peasantry as +having "an awfu' knowledge of history," and whose talk was full of the +folklore, poetry, and superstitions that made up the interest of the +place.</p> + +<p>In the evening they sat in the drawing-room, while Scott, with his great +hound, Maida, at his feet, read to him a scrap of old poetry, or a +chapter from King Arthur, or told some delightful bit of peasant +fairy-lore like that of the black cat which, on hearing one shepherd +tell another of having seen a number of cats dressed in mourning +following a coffin, sprang up the chimney in haste exclaiming, "Then I +am king of the cats!" and vanished to take possession of his vacant +kingdom. From this time on Irving's life was one of constant literary +labor for many years, all of which were spent abroad. His works on the +history of Spain, the companions of <i>Columbus</i> and the <i>Alhambra</i>, were +compiled during his residence in Spain, where he had access to the +national archives, and where he became as familiar with the life of the +people as it was possible for a stranger to become. After seventeen +years' absence Irving returned to America, where he was welcomed as<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_534" id="Page_534">[Pg 534]</a></span> one +who won for his country great honors. He was the first writer to make +American literature respected abroad, and his return was made the +occasion of numerous fêtes given in his honor in New York and other +cities.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/ill_010.jpg" width="500" height="356" alt="SUNNYSIDE." title="" /> +<span class="caption">SUNNYSIDE.</span> +</div> + +<p>He now built Sunnyside on the Hudson, the home that he loved so dearly, +and which will ever be famous as the abode of America's first great +writer.</p> + +<p>His principal works following the Spanish histories were <i>Astoria</i>, the +history of the fur-trading company in Oregon, founded by the head of the +Astor family; <i>Captain Bonneville</i>, the adventures of a hunter in the +far West; the <i>Life of Goldsmith</i>; and the lives of <i>Mohammed and his +Successors</i>. He returned to Spain as ambassador in 1842, and remained +four years.</p> + +<p>In the <i>Legends of the Conquest of Spain</i> Irving tells the story of the +conquest of Spain by the Moors, as related in the old Spanish and +Moorish chronicles. The whole story is a brilliant, living picture of +that romantic age. The Spanish king goes to battle wearing robes of gold +brocade, sandals embroidered with gold and diamonds, and a crown studded +with the costliest jewels of Spain. He rides in a chariot of ivory, and +a thousand cavaliers knighted by his own hand surround him, while tens +of thousands of his brave soldiers follow him, guarding the sacred +banners emblazoned with the cross. The Moorish vanguard, riding the +famous horses of Arabia, advance to the sound of trumpet and cymbal, +their gay robes and snowy turbans, and their arms of burnished gold and +steel glittering in the sunshine which reflects in every direction the +sacred crescent, the symbol of their faith. The surroundings are equally +picturesque and romantic. The famous plain of Granada, adorned with +groves and gardens and winding streams, and guarded by the famous +Mountains of the Sun and Air, forms the foreground to the picture, while +in the distance we see the gloomy mountain passes, the fortified rocks +and castles, and the great walled cities, through which the Moors +passed, always victorious, and never pausing until their banners floated +from every cliff and tower.</p> + +<p>Irving remained some months in the Alhambra, living over again the +scenes of Moorish story, and so catching the spirit of the lost grandeur +of the old palace that his descriptions read like a bit of genuine +Arabian chronicle, which had been kept safe until then in the grim +guardianship of the past.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/ill_011.jpg" width="500" height="354" alt="IRVING LISTENING TO THE OLD TALES OF THE MOORS." title="" /> +<span class="caption">IRVING LISTENING TO THE OLD TALES OF THE MOORS.</span> +</div> + +<p>The chapters of the <i>Alhambra</i> are also full of delightful legends, the +fairy tales which time had woven around the beautiful ruin, and which +the custodians of the place related gravely to Irving as genuine +history. It calls up a pleasant picture to think of Irving sitting in +the stately hall or on his balcony, listening to one of these old tales +from the lips of his tattered but devoted domestic while the twilight +was gathering, and the nightingale singing in the groves and gardens +beneath. He himself said that it was the realization of a daydream which +he had cherished since the time when, in earliest boyhood on the banks +of the Hudson, he had pored over the story of the Granada.</p> + +<p>In his work, <i>The Conquest of Granada</i>, Irving relates the story of the +retaking of Granada by Ferdinand and Isabella. So sympathetically and +graphically does Irving describe the fortunes of this war that he must +ever remain the historian of the Moors of Spain, whose spirit seemed to +inspire the beautiful words in which he celebrated their conquests, +their achievements and their defeats.</p> + +<p>In the <i>Chronicle of Wolfert's Roost</i> Irving follows in imagination old +Diedrich Knickerbocker into the famous region of Sleepy Hollow, where +much of the material for the celebrated Knickerbocker History was said +to have been collected. This chronicle, it was claimed, was written upon +the identical old Dutch writing-desk that Diedrich used, the elbow chair +was the same that he sat in, the clock was the very one he consulted so +often during his long hours of composition. In these pages old Diedrich +walks as a real person, and Irving follows him with faithful step +through the region that he loved so fondly all his life.</p> + +<p>Everything here is dwelt upon with lingering touch. The brooks and +streams, the meadows and cornfields, the orchards and the gardens, and +the groves of beech and chestnut have their tribute from the pen of one +who found their charms ever fresh, who sought in them rest and +happiness, and who came back to them lovingly to spend the last days of +his life in their familiar companionship.</p> + +<p>Irving died in 1859, and was buried at Sunnyside; in sight of the Hudson +whose legends he had immortalized, and whose beauty never ceased to +charm him from the moment it first captivated his heart in his boyhood +days.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"><a name="THE_CAMERA_CLUB" id="THE_CAMERA_CLUB"></a> +<img src="images/ill_012.jpg" width="600" height="193" alt="THE CAMERA CLUB" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>This Department is conducted in the interest of Amateur +Photographers, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any +question on the subject so far as possible. Correspondents should +address Editor Camera Club Department.</p></div> + +<h3>PAPERS FOR BEGINNERS, NO. 1.</h3> + +<h3>THE ACTION OF LIGHT ON THE SENSITIVE PLATE.</h3> + +<p>The process of making photographs has been made so simple by modern +science that the most of us make our picture by intuition—that sort of +sixth sense by which we know just how long to expose a plate, when to +take it from the developer, when it is fixed sufficiently, etc., +etc.—though we can give no scientific explanation of our methods, and +know little or nothing how the chemical changes are produced which +result in the finished photograph.</p> + +<p>It is not at all necessary to know the process of making a sensitive +plate, but it is quite necessary to know something of the action of +light on the plate in order to make a good picture. A photographic +negative is formed by the chemical action of light admitted through a +lens or even a tiny hole, into an otherwise light tight box, and +striking a glass plate, film, paper, or celluloid, coated with sensitive +silver salts. The part of the light that affects this coating is the +blue rays.</p> + +<p>The rays of light may be separated by the prism into a band of five +different colors—red, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Three of these +colors—the red, yellow, and blue—are called the primary colors, for +any color or shade desired may be obtained by blending and mixing them +in different proportions. These three primary colors have each a +separate power. The red rays possess heating power, the yellow rays +possess illuminating power, and the blue rays chemical power. The blue +rays are called actinic, and when we speak of actinic light we mean the +blue rays which produce the chemical change in the sensitive plate. The +effect of these actinic rays may be seen in other things besides the +sensitive plates. The fading of carpets, draperies, and clothing, the +tanning or browning of the skin, etc., are due to their action.</p> + +<p>After the sensitive plate has been exposed in the camera to the chemical +action of the blue rays, the change which has taken place is invisible +to the eye, and in this state is called the latent image, because it is +dormant or hidden. In order to preserve this chemical change in the +silver salts the sensitive plate must be washed or soaked in a solution +which will form an opaque compound with the part of the salt which has +been acted upon by the light. As it is necessary to have a light to +watch the process and stop it when it has been carried far enough, we +must have a light free from actinic or blue rays. We therefore darken +the room and use a red light, for the red rays have little or no actinic +power.</p> + +<p>As we watch the chemical change which takes place in the sensitive plate +when covered with what we call the developer, we notice black patches +appear here and there on the plate. These are the places which have been +exposed to the strongest actinic rays. All bodies radiate or reflect +light, some more than others. A piece of yellow silk may appear to the +eye lighter in color than a piece of blue silk, but when the two pieces +are photographed it will be found that the yellow photographs much +darker than the blue<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_535" id="Page_535">[Pg 535]</a></span> silk. This is because the yellow silk does not +reflect actinic rays, while the blue does, and therefore the sensitive +plate is more strongly affected by the light reflected from the blue +than from the yellow silk. The yellow-colored silk possesses the +illuminating power which causes it to make a room look bright and sunny, +while the blue silk possesses the chemical power which affects the +sensitive salts.</p> + +<p>If the sensitive plate has been exposed to a landscape, the strongest +actinic rays come from the blue sky, and as the chemical used to develop +or bring out the image affects the part which has been exposed to the +strongest light most quickly, the result in the negative is the opaque +deposit which covers all that part of the plate exposed to the light +from the sky. After the image has appeared on the plate it must undergo +another process to make it permanent. It must be placed in a chemical +solution which shall dissolve the silver salts from the parts unaffected +by the actinic rays. Where the actinic light has been the strongest the +glass will be covered with a black deposit, and where the light has not +reached the plate with sufficient force the salts will be dissolved and +the glass will be clear, while the high lights, the shadows, and the +half-tones will show just how much each object reflected actinic rays.</p> + +<p>We manage our cameras, but the sun is the real work-man. What he does is +well worth learning, for it enables us to tell beforehand just what kind +of a negative we shall have after we have exposed a sensitive plate to +his influence.</p> + +<h3>ROUND TABLE PHOTOGRAPHIC EXCHANGE CLUB.</h3> + +<p>Our suggestion of forming a photographic exchange club, or travelling +photographic exhibit, meets with the warm approval of many of our +members. Next week we shall give directions for beginning and carrying +on our club. We give the names and addresses of members who will act as +representatives. Ernest P. Fredericks, Arlington, New Jersey; Samuel J. +Castner, 3729 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Walter G. +Sill, 511 Central Avenue, East Orange, New Jersey; Andrew Phillips, +Nunda, New York; C. Roy Baker, 315 W. Dry Street, Salem, Ohio; William +J. Tobey, Washington, Kansas; William C. Davids, Rutherford, New Jersey.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Constant Reader</span> asks: "1. Is it possible to photograph from a +moving vessel, and how? 2. Can I take photographs of microscopic +specimens with an ordinary camera, and will you please describe +the method? 3. How can I photograph monuments so that they will +not show black in the picture? 4. What make of plates is the +quickest? 5. How can I photograph a mantel-piece in a hall without +using a flash-light? The hall is rather dark." 1. One can easily +photograph objects from a moving vessel by using quick plates and +making the exposure instantaneous. Successful snap-shots, but not +artistic pictures, have been and can be made from moving trains. +2. An article will soon be published on microphotography for +amateurs. The process requires too long a description for the +space devoted to queries. 3. A cloudy day—not heavy clouds—is +the better time for photographing monuments. A rather slow plate +and a short time exposure will give better detail, and render the +monument or figure with correct color value. Use orthochromatic or +nonhalation plates. 4. The rapidity of the plate is marked on the +box. Some brands of plates are marked with the sensitometer +number, like the Stanley, Carbutt, Seed, etc., and others are +marked with a letter like the Cramer. The sensitiveness of the +Stanley, which is marked "Sens. 50," and the Cramer "C" plate is +about equal as to rapidity. 5. If you cannot use a flash-light for +the mantel, try a long exposure by lamp-light. Place the lamp, +which should give a clear, brilliant light, so as to illuminate +the wood-work without giving strong shadows. If one lamp is not +sufficient to light the whole surface, take two, but place them so +that the light from each comes from the same direction. A +reflector back of the lamp helps the lighting. A shallow tin pan, +if bright, makes a good reflector if the genuine article cannot be +obtained.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Lady Grace S</span>., Vails Gate, N. Y., asks for the name of a book +giving full instructions in photography for beginners. "Every +camera maker furnishes with each camera sent out a book giving +simple instruction for using the camera, and directions for +developing plates. This would be a sufficient guide for the +beginner, and if rules are followed one can obtain very good +negatives. There are many books published on photography which +would be helpful after a while, but the beginner will find the +directions which come with the camera all that are needful at +first. With this number we begin publishing what will be a series +of papers for beginners in photography. Technical terms will be +explained, formulas for work will be given with explanations of +what each chemical is expected to do. Prices of chemicals for each +formula will also be added. It is intended to make these +instructions as simple as possible, and if Lady Grace will watch +this column she will find in it we hope just the help she needs."</p></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="OFF_WITH_THE_MERBOY" id="OFF_WITH_THE_MERBOY"></a>OFF WITH THE MERBOY.</h2> + +<h3>BY JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.</h3> + +<h3>CHAPTER V.</h3> + +<h3>THE WIZARD.</h3> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/ill_013.jpg" width="200" height="200" alt="Decorative J" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>immieboy grasped the old man's hand, and for a few moments was silent. He +was so astonished that he could do nothing but gaze upon his new +acquaintance in wonder. The little old man seemed very much pleased at +Jimmieboy's apparent wonderment, for he smiled broadly and said,</p> + +<p>"Thank you, sir."</p> + +<p>"You are very welcome," murmured Jimmieboy, "but I don't know what for. +I didn't know that I had done anything for you to thank me for."</p> + +<p>"Yes, indeed, you have," returned the little old man, letting go of +Jimmieboy's hand, and dancing a lively jig upon the broad marble top of +the bureau. "You have done two things. You have released me from a long +imprisonment, for one thing, and for another you have looked at me in a +manner which proves that you think me a most interesting person. I like +freedom better than anything in the world, and next to that I like being +an interesting person."</p> + +<p>"And were you really shut up in that little drawer so that you couldn't +get out?" asked Jimmieboy, beginning to feel very glad that fortune had +led him that way, and so enabled him to help the little old man out of +his trouble.</p> + +<p>"Yes," answered the other. "I've been locked up in that drawer there for +nearly fifty years."</p> + +<p>"Fifty years!" ejaculated Jimmieboy. "Why, that's longer than I have +lived."</p> + +<p>"No, not quite," said the little old man. "They were dream years, and a +dream year isn't much longer than a day of your time; but they have +seemed real years to me, and I am just as grateful to you for unlocking +the drawer and letting me out as I should have been had the years been +three hundred and sixty-five days long each."</p> + +<p>"Why should any one want to lock you up in a drawer?" asked Jimmieboy. +"Were you naughty?"</p> + +<p>"No," said the old man. "I never did a naughty thing in all my life, but +they locked me up just the same—just as if I had been a poor little +canary-bird."</p> + +<p>"Who did it?" queried Jimmieboy. "They must have been very wicked people +to treat you that way."</p> + +<p>"They were. Awfully wicked," said the little old man. "They were +wickeder than they seem, because really, you know, they intended that I +should stay locked up there forever and ever."</p> + +<p>"But how did they come to do it?" asked Jimmieboy.</p> + +<p>"It's a long story," answered the little old man. "But if you want me +to, I'll tell it."</p> + +<p>"Do," said Jimmieboy.</p> + +<p>"Very well, then, I will," said the little old man. "But not here. It is +too wet here. We'll go inside the drawer ourselves, where we can be dry +and comfortable, and we'll take the key in with us and lock ourselves in +so that nobody can interfere with us. Will you come?"</p> + +<p>"I don't see how I can," said Jimmieboy, looking down at his own body +and then pointing to the drawer. "Don't you see I am two or three dozen +times too big to get in there?"</p> + +<p>"That doesn't make any difference," said the little old man with a +laugh. "For I am a wizard, and I can make you large or small, just as I +please. If you will say the word I'll make you so small you couldn't see +yourself with a magnifying-glass."</p> + +<p>Jimmieboy thought a moment, and concluded very wisely, I think, that he +would rather not be so small as that.</p> + +<p>"I don't like to lose sight of myself," he said.</p> + +<p>"Very well, then," said the other. "Suppose I make you just about my +size? How would that do?"</p> + +<p>"I'd like that very much," replied Jimmieboy, kindly. "I think you are +an awfully nice size."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_536" id="Page_536">[Pg 536]</a></span></p> + +<p>Again the little old man smiled with pleasure. "You are the pleasantest +boy I know," he said; "and you will find out before long that it is +worth while to make friends with old Thumbhi, Lord High Wizard of the +Sea, and Court Jester to the King of the Waves."</p> + +<p>"Are you all that?" said Jimmieboy, pleased to discover that his +new-found friend was a person of so great importance.</p> + +<p>"Yes indeed," answered Thumbhi. "I am all that, and half a dozen things +more. In fact, I am so much that if we had a million dream years +together I couldn't even begin to tell you all that I am. But come. Are +you ready to be made smaller?"</p> + +<p>"Yes," said Jimmieboy, a little nervously. "What do I do first?"</p> + +<p>"You must put on a coat I give you," replied the wizard. "It will be a +little small for you, perhaps, but you can get it on."</p> + +<p>The wizard opened one of the bureau drawers, and took therefrom a coat, +in which Jimmieboy hastened to array himself. It was, as the old man had +said, a little small for him, but he managed to get into it, and after +wearing it a minute or two he found it quite comfortable.</p> + +<p>"Now take it off," said the wizard, taking a second coat out of the +drawer, "and put this one on."</p> + +<p>Jimmieboy took off the coat. "Is this larger than the other?" he asked, +as he began to put the second coat on.</p> + +<p>"No; it is a trifle smaller," replied the wizard. "That's my scheme. You +keep putting on coats that are smaller than the one you have just taken +off. You stay in them until they fit you comfortably, and finally when +you get the last one on you will be small enough to get into the +drawer."</p> + +<p>"That's a fine plan," said Jimmieboy.</p> + +<p>Then he went through the process of changing coats, each new coat being +a little smaller than the other, until he had tried on at least fifty of +them, when for the first time since he began he caught sight of himself +in the glass.</p> + +<p>"My!" he cried, in pleased astonishment. "I'm hardly any bigger than you +are."</p> + +<p>"That's so," replied the little old man. "One more coat, and we can get +you into the drawer."</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/ill_014.jpg" width="500" height="523" alt="JIMMIEBOY PUTS ON THE LAST COAT." title="" /> +<span class="caption">JIMMIEBOY PUTS ON THE LAST COAT.</span> +</div> + +<p>Jimmieboy put on the last coat. A little bit of a thing it was, hardly +larger than a doll's overcoat, and, if the truth be told, awfully tight; +but, as with all the others, it soon became as comfortable as any coat +he had ever worn, and then, looking at himself in the glass once more, +Jimmieboy observed that he was actually no larger than Thumbhi.</p> + +<p>"It didn't hurt much, did it?" asked Thumbhi.</p> + +<p>"Not a bit," said Jimmieboy. "It was as easy and pleasant as could be."</p> + +<p>"That's the great thing about my tricks," said the wizard. "They never +hurt anybody. It would be a good thing if all tricks were that way. +Tricks that hurt people are mean, and I don't have anything to do with +them, and if you will take my advice you won't either."</p> + +<p>"I'll take anything you'll give me," said Jimmieboy.</p> + +<p>The old wizard laughed heartily at this. "Most boys would," said he, +"but you are the first one I ever met who was willing to take advice. +The boys I've known have all been like little Sammy. Ever hear about +little Sammy?"</p> + +<p>"No," answered Jimmieboy. "What did he do?"</p> + +<p>"Why," said the wizard, "Sammy is the boy the poet wrote about, saying:</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"Sammy was a pretty boy,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Sammy was his mother's joy.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Sammy'd take</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">A piece of cake,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Sammy'd always take a toy.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"Sammy'd take a top to spin.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Pie with fruit and raisins in.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Sammy'd take</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">A piece of steak,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Sammy'd take his medicine.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"Sammy'd take a bowl of rice,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Sammy'd take a bit of spice.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Sammy'd take</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">A garden rake,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">But he would not take advice."</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>Here the wizard stopped.</p> + +<p>"Is that all?" asked Jimmieboy.</p> + +<p>"Certainly," answered Thumbhi. "What more do you want?"</p> + +<p>"Didn't anything happen to Sammy?" queried Jimmieboy.</p> + +<p>The wizard was about to say no, but then he suddenly remembered that +something always does happen to boys that refuse to take advice, so he +said: "The poet never told us about that, but I think it probable that +something did happen to Sammy. Very likely he went out skating on a +mill-pond one summer day in spite of his father's warning, and got his +feet so wet that he caught cold, and had to stay in bed while all the +other boys went off on a picnic."</p> + +<p>This seemed to satisfy Jimmieboy, and Sammy was dropped as a subject of +conversation.</p> + +<p>"Now let us go into the drawer," said the wizard.</p> + +<h4>[<span class="smcap">to be continued</span>.]</h4> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_537" id="Page_537">[Pg 537]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"><a name="INTERSCHOLASTIC_SPORT" id="INTERSCHOLASTIC_SPORT"></a> +<img src="images/ill_015.jpg" width="600" height="119" alt="INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>If the success of a track-athletic meeting is to be judged from the +number of records broken, the two interscholastic meets of May 11th at +Berkeley Oval and at Eastern Park will go down in the annals of school +sport as the most notable occasions of the kind ever held. The +contestants in the N.Y.I.S.A.A. games left the records of only four +events on the card standing at the same figure they showed when the +programme was printed, and came so close to these that the entire +schedule was in danger of being entirely overthrown. The management of +the Oval games was as near perfection as can be hoped for where so many +events and so many contestants have to be attended to; and although in +Brooklyn there was considerable delay at one time on account of the +non-arrival of the hurdles, yet things were kept moving as fast as +possible, and the enthusiasm of the spectators helped to fill what might +otherwise have been several tedious gaps. The Cutler athletes deserve +the highest praise for the work they performed. They came on the field +with Barnard and Berkeley strong favorites, and they went into every +event with an earnestness and energy that were finally rewarded by +victory. Cutler's score was 34-1/2 points, with Barnard second, having +30, and Berkeley third, with 27. Next year there will be a hot struggle +between Barnard and Cutler for the final ownership of the cup, which +will then be decided, unless some other strong team is developed, to +come in and secure the trophy for a year's custodianship.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/ill_016.jpg" width="500" height="256" alt="FINISH IN THE 100-YARD DASH." title="" /> +<span class="caption">FINISH IN THE 100-YARD DASH.</span> +</div> + +<p>Although Hall won the second heat in the 100 in 10-2/5 seconds, with +Moore behind him, he was unable to distance Moore when the final test +came, and the Barnard man plunged ahead and took the event. All the +heats in the 100 were close and interesting, and no winner had an easy +time of it in any case. In fact, all the sprints were contested in sound +earnest. The quarter-mile furnished as pretty a race as any. +Irwin-Martin kept along in the middle of the bunch until they were well +opposite the grand stand on the far side of the field, when he pulled +ahead strongly and steadily, and finished in good style. His effort was +a strain on him, however, for he collapsed as soon as he had breasted +the tape. For this reason he was probably not in his best form when he +toed the scratch for the half-mile, but it is doubtful if he could have +distanced Meehan even if he had been. Meehan proved himself to be in the +pink of condition. Robinson, the old Yale runner who has been training +him, told me at the start that Meehan had been trained to do the first +quarter in 60 seconds, and as he passed the mark the watch showed just +that time. He was leading then, and kept right on, with strong graceful +strides until he finished, and broke the record by one second. +Irwin-Martin did his best to pull up; but Meehan kept ahead easily, with +a broad smile on his face, and appeared to be just as fresh at the +finish as he had been at the start.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/ill_017.jpg" width="500" height="271" alt="THE MILE RUN." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE MILE RUN.</span> +</div> + +<p>The mile run was another pretty race. There must have been more than +twenty starters, and they trotted off in a tight bunch, sticking well +together for three entire laps. Then Tappin gradually pulled out from +the centre, with Mosenthal and McCord seesawing behind him. He kept +increasing his lead, and although Mosenthal pushed him pretty hard, he +finished strong, with the place men a couple of yards behind, and the +field straggling as far back as the bend. Blair failed to come up to his +promised form, and was at no time a factor in the race. The walk was +practically a duel between Hackett and Walker. Hackett took the lead, +and Walker stuck close to his heels, making several attempts to pass +him. On the stretch Walker made one last desperate effort, and walked +abreast of his opponent for several yards, while the judge of walking +almost went frantic in his endeavors to keep the racers down to form. +Neither broke, however, and Hackett won by a yard. Walker is still young +for such strong work, but I am sure that he will be heard from within +the next few years. The bicycle racers broke the interscholastic record +of 2 min. 49-3/5 sec. in every heat, and Powell's final race, which +brought the time down to 2 min. 34-1/5 sec., was a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_538" id="Page_538">[Pg 538]</a></span> beautiful contest. +Ehrich pushed him hard all the way, and finished a strong second. A +pleasing feature of the event was that only one collision occurred, and +this was not serious.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/ill_018.jpg" width="500" height="489" alt="THE I.S. HIGH-JUMP RECORD. Baltazzi, Harvard, clearing the bar at 5 ft. 11 in." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE I.S. HIGH-JUMP RECORD.<br /><br />Baltazzi, Harvard, clearing the bar at 5 ft. 11 in.</span> +</div> + +<p>The best performance of the day, from an athletic point of view, was +Baltazzi's high jumping. He was in good form, and won the event by +clearing 5 ft. 7 in. Then he had the bar put up a quarter of an inch +above the interscholastic record mark of 5 ft. 9 in., and cleared it, +thus insuring for himself a record medal. The "take-off" was in bad +condition, and had to be constantly rolled. There were also several bad +holes along the runway. In addition to this, Baltazzi's right shoe +split, and afforded him almost no support. Nevertheless, he felt that he +could do even better than 5 ft. 9-1/4 in., and he had the bar raised to +5 ft. 11 in. He failed the first five times allowed him for a record +try, but on the sixth he got a good start, cleared the holes, and found +a solid spot to "take off" on, and cleared the stick as neatly and +gracefully as he ever did at 5 ft. 5 in. He had never before, even in +practice, done better than 5 ft. 10-1/2 in. Baltazzi goes to Columbia +next year, and will be a factor in the intercollegiates if he keeps in +his present form, which I have no doubt he will. I expect to see him go +beyond 6 feet inside of two years. He will doubtless be one of the +N.Y.A.C.'s representatives when the English athletes come over here this +year.</p> + +<p>The records for the other field events, with the exception of throwing +the baseball and the broad jump, were broken. Ayres bettered the shot +record almost by a foot, and Irwin-Martin, in spite of his hard work in +the runs, threw 117 feet 4-1/2 inches with the hammer. A notable feature +of this event was that every place man in it surpassed the +interscholastic record, the third man bettering it as much as 3 feet. +This kind of work is most encouraging, and cannot fail to raise the +standard of the contestants, and create a most beneficial competition. +If a man knows he has got to break the record even to get third place, +there will be good work done. Cowperthwaite, as I had anticipated, won +the broad jump easily, but he should have gotten closer to the record +than he did. He covered 20 feet 8 inches. One of the other exciting and +unexpected features of the day was the semi-final in the Junior 100, +when Leech left the field about ten yards behind. He will make a good +man as his two easy victories over Wilson will attest.</p> + +<p>A better exhibition of tennis than that offered by Ware, when he +defeated Whitman in the final match on Holmes Field, Cambridge, last +week Monday, could hardly be wished for. The Roxbury player was +decidedly in championship form, and although he won in three straight +sets—6-4, 6-3, 7-5—he had to play his level best, for Whitman was no +easy victim. In the third set Ware showed what he was made of. The games +were 5-2 against him, but he gathered himself together, played a cool, +careful game, displaying excellent judgment at every point, and thus +pulled out the next five games, and the set. It was exciting throughout. +Whitman took the first game. His opponent got the second, and both were +then playing as good tennis as they knew how, with the advantage +temporarily in favor of Whitman. By keeping close up to the net he +managed to fool Ware a good many times, at the same time saving himself +from committing his great fault of banging the ball into the net. This +Whitman invariably does when he stands back. Ware evidently knew his +antagonist's style of play, for he gradually coaxed Whitman nearer and +nearer to the back line, and then pounded the balls at him, with the 7-5 +result. Ware will be seen at a number of tournaments this summer, and +will no doubt bring a triumphal record back to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_539" id="Page_539">[Pg 539]</a></span> Roxbury with him in the +fall. He will play in the Western Championship Doubles at Chicago, in +the Longwood open tournament, as well as in the Massachusetts +championships held on the same courts; and he will enter the lists at +Newcastle, Bar Harbor, Narragansett Pier, and Newport.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/ill_019.jpg" width="500" height="282" alt="FINAL HEAT IN THE 120-YARD HURDLES." title="" /> +<span class="caption">FINAL HEAT IN THE 120-YARD HURDLES.</span> +</div> + +<p>At Eastern Park the Adelphi Academy athletes swept everything before +them. Gunnison and Jewell proved to be surprises, the former winning +three firsts and the latter two firsts and one second. The other members +of the team seconded them so well, that Adelphi took the cup with 10 +points more to their credit than their nearest rival, which was Poly. +Prep, with 29. It is to be regretted that there was any hitch over the +delivery of the hurdles, and at one time it seemed as if those two +events would have to be omitted; but the sticks did come, and the races +furnished some of the best sport of the day. The Junior 100 gave a close +finish, and the 220 furnished an exciting contest. Stevens took it from +Jewell, who had been counted a winner, but Jewell retrieved himself when +he won the quarter handily, it being his first attempt at running that +distance. Bedford was somewhat of a disappointment to his schoolmates, +who expected him to take the mile for B.H.-S. instead of allowing it to +go to Adelphi, but he ran the half-mile in good time, and took second in +the longer distance. The walk was most interesting too. Clark and Stars +were fairly in lock-step behind Hall, and it was nip and tuck with the +three until the tape was broken.</p> + +<p>The bicycle race, in which the Long Island record was lowered 1-2/5 +seconds, was run under the rules of the L.A.W., and with the sanction of +the L.A.W. Racing Board. This is the first school race to be so run. The +final heat looked like a dead heat between Roehr and Hazeltine, and I +have no doubt that if the two had set the pace earlier in the race the +record would have been greatly bettered. In the pole vault Phillips beat +his own record of 9 feet by 7 inches, and the hammer record was +increased by over 24 feet. Mason threw 100 ft. 11 in. Some of the other +records that were smashed were the mile run, which was lowered 2-1/5 +seconds; Bedford brought down the half-mile record from 2 min. 17-4/5 +sec. to 2 min. 12-3/5 sec.; Gunnison made the record in the high hurdles +read 16-3/5 sec. instead of 18-3/5 sec. The record for the 100 was +broken three times. In the final heat the time was 10-3/5 sec., and in +the second and third heats it was 10-2/5 sec. and 10-1/2 sec. +respectively. Stevens made the best time.</p> + +<h3>N.Y.I.S.A.A. Records</h3> +<h3>previous to May 11, 1895.</h3> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'>100-yard dash</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>10-3/8</td><td align='left'>sec.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>100-yard dash, for Juniors</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>11-2/5</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>220-yard dash</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>22-4/5</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>220-yard dash, for Juniors</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>23-4/5</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>440-yard run</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>53</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Half-mile run</td><td align='left'>2</td><td align='left'>m.</td><td align='left'>5-1/5</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Mile run</td><td align='left'>4</td><td align='left'>"</td><td align='left'>52</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Mile walk</td><td align='left'>7</td><td align='left'>"</td><td align='left'>30-2/5</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>120-yard hurdles</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>16-1/5</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>220-yard hurdles</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>27-1/5</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>One-mile bicycle</td><td align='left'>2</td><td align='left'>"</td><td align='left'>49-3/5</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Two-mile bicycle</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Running high jump</td><td align='left'>5</td><td align='left'>ft.</td><td align='left'>9</td><td align='left'>in.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Running broad jump</td><td align='left'>21</td><td align='left'>"</td><td align='left'>5</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Pole vault</td><td align='left'>10</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Putting 12-pound shot</td><td align='left'>39</td><td align='left'>"</td><td align='left'>1</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Throwing 12-pound hammer</td><td align='left'>110</td><td align='left'>"</td><td align='left'>3-1/2</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Throwing baseball</td><td align='left'>325</td><td align='left'>"</td><td align='left'>9</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<h3>N.Y.I.S.A.A. Games, Berkeley Oval, New York,</h3> +<h3>May 11, 1895.</h3> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'>100-yard dash</td><td align='left'>Moore, Barnard</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>10-3/5</td><td align='left'>sec.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>100-yard dash, for Juniors</td><td align='left'>Leech, Cutler</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>11</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>220-yard dash</td><td align='left'>Moore, Barnard</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>23-1/5</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>220-yard dash, for Juniors</td><td align='left'>Leech, Cutler</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>24-3/5</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>440-yard run</td><td align='left'>Irwin-Martin, Berkeley</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>52-3/5</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Half-mile run</td><td align='left'>Meehan, Condon</td><td align='left'>2</td><td align='left'>m.</td><td align='left'>4-1/5</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Mile run</td><td align='left'>Tappin, Cutler</td><td align='left'>5</td><td align='left'>"</td><td align='left'>4-3/5</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Mile walk</td><td align='left'>Hackett, Trinity</td><td align='left'>7</td><td align='left'>"</td><td align='left'>4-2/5</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>120 yard hurdles</td><td align='left'>Beers, De La Salle</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>15-3/5</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>220-yard hurdles</td><td align='left'>Syme, Barnard</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>26-3/5</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>One-mile bicycle</td><td align='left'>Powell, Cutler</td><td align='left'>2</td><td align='left'>"</td><td align='left'>34-1/5</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Two-mile bicycle</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Running high jump</td><td align='left'>Baltazzi, Harvard</td><td align='left'>5</td><td align='left'>ft.</td><td align='left'>11</td><td align='left'>in.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Running broad jump</td><td align='left'>Cowperthwaite, Col. Gram.</td><td align='left'>20</td><td align='left'>"</td><td align='left'>8</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Pole vault</td><td align='left'>Simpson, Barnard</td><td align='left'>10</td><td align='left'>"</td><td align='left'>3/8</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Putting 12-pound shot</td><td align='left'>Ayers, Condin</td><td align='left'>40</td><td align='left'>"</td><td align='left'>3/4</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Throwing 12-pound hammer</td><td align='left'>Irwin-Martin, Berkeley</td><td align='left'>117</td><td align='left'>"</td><td align='left'>4-1/2</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Throwing baseball</td><td align='left'>Zizinia, Harvard</td><td align='left'>325</td><td align='left'>"</td><td align='left'>4</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<h3>Long Island I.S.A.A. Games, Eastern Park, Brooklyn,</h3> +<h3>May 11, 1895.</h3> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'>100-yard dash</td><td align='left'>Stevens, B.L.S.</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>10-3/5</td><td align='left'>sec.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>100-yard dash, for Juniors</td><td align='left'>Robinson, St. Paul's</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>11</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>220-yard dash</td><td align='left'>Stevens, B.L.S.</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>25-3/5</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>220-yard dash, for Juniors</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>440-yard run</td><td align='left'>Jewell, Adelphi</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>55-3/5</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Half-mile run</td><td align='left'>Bedford, B.H.-S.</td><td align='left'>2</td><td align='left'>m.</td><td align='left'>13-3/5</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Mile run</td><td align='left'>Romer, B'klyn Acad.</td><td align='left'>5</td><td align='left'>"</td><td align='left'>12</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Mile walk</td><td align='left'>Hall, St. Paul's</td><td align='left'>8</td><td align='left'>"</td><td align='left'>37</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>120 yard hurdles</td><td align='left'>Gunnison, Adelphi</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>16-3/5</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>220-yard hurdles</td><td align='left'>Gunnison, Adelphi</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>29-4/5</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>One-mile bicycle</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Two-mile bicycle</td><td align='left'>Roehr, Poly. Prep.</td><td align='left'>6</td><td align='left'>"</td><td align='left'>20-3/5</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Running high jump</td><td align='left'>Gunnison, Adelphi</td><td align='left'>5</td><td align='left'>ft.</td><td align='left'>4-1/2</td><td align='left'>in.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Running broad jump</td><td align='left'>Jewell, Adelphi</td><td align='left'>20</td><td align='left'>"</td><td align='left'>3-1/2</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Pole vault</td><td align='left'>Phillips, B. & S.</td><td align='left'>9</td><td align='left'>"</td><td align='left'>7</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Putting 12-pound shot</td><td align='left'>Mason, Poly. Prep.</td><td align='left'>36</td><td align='left'>"</td><td align='left'>8</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Throwing 12-pound hammer</td><td align='left'>Mason, Poly. Prep.</td><td align='left'>100</td><td align='left'>"</td><td align='left'>11</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Throwing baseball</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<h3>SUMMARY OF POINTS MADE.</h3> + +<h4>New York I.S.A.A.</h4> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'>School.</td><td align='right'>Firsts.</td><td align='right'>Seconds.</td><td align='right'>Thirds.</td><td align='right'>Points.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Barnard</td><td align='right'>4</td><td align='right'>2</td><td align='right'>4</td><td align='right'>30</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Berkeley</td><td align='right'>2</td><td align='right'>4</td><td align='right'>5</td><td align='right'>27</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Columbia Grammar</td><td align='right'>1</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>1/2</td><td align='right'>5-1/2</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Columbia Institute</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>0</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Condon</td><td align='right'>2</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>2</td><td align='right'>12</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cutler</td><td align='right'>4</td><td align='right'>4</td><td align='right'>2-1/2</td><td align='right'>34-1/2</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>De La Salle</td><td align='right'>1</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>5</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Drisler</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>2</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>6</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Dwight</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>2</td><td align='right'>2</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Halsey</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>0</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hamilton Institute</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>0</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Harvard</td><td align='right'>2</td><td align='right'>2</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>16</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Trinity</td><td align='right'>1</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>5</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wilson & Kellogg</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>1</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>3</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Woodbridge</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>0</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Yale</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>1</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>3</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Sachs</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>1</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>3</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<h4>Long Island I.S.A.A.</h4> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'>School.</td><td align='right'>Firsts.</td><td align='right'>Seconds.</td><td align='right'>Thirds.</td><td align='right'>Points.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Adelphi</td><td align='right'>6</td><td align='right'>2</td><td align='right'>3</td><td align='right'>39</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Polytechnic Institute</td><td align='right'>3</td><td align='right'>3</td><td align='right'>5</td><td align='right'>29</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Brooklyn High-School</td><td align='right'>2</td><td align='right'>3</td><td align='right'>1</td><td align='right'>20</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>St. Paul's</td><td align='right'>2</td><td align='right'>3</td><td align='right'>1</td><td align='right'>20</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Brooklyn Latin School</td><td align='right'>2</td><td align='right'>2</td><td align='right'>2</td><td align='right'>18</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bryant & Stratton</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>2</td><td align='right'>1</td><td align='right'>7</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Pratt Institute</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>0</td><td align='right'>2</td><td align='right'>2</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<p>The accompanying table offers a comparison of the work done on the two +tracks, and will serve as a record of the day's doings. Space prevents +my inserting a comparative table of the interscholastic and +intercollegiate records, but I shall do that at an early date, and the +showing will by no means discredit the school athletes. The only +difference between the New York and Long Island programmes is that the +New-Yorkers run a one-mile bicycle race, while the athletes on the other +side of the Bridge cover two miles in that event. And they do not throw +the baseball. They are right. The event is not athletic.</p> + +<p>The Yale Interscholastic Tennis Tournament was held in New Haven on the +same date as Harvard's in Cambridge, and although the entries were not +so many from the Connecticut schools, the work of the players was +excellent. The winner was J. P. Sheldon, of Hotchkiss Academy, who held +the championship of Ohio before he came East to attend school at +Lakeville. Sheldon's hottest matches were against Sage and Trowbridge, +who was last year's champion. He defeated Sage in two sets, 7-5, 6-2, +and overcame Trowbridge only after three stubbornly contested sets, 8-6, +6-2, 6-4. Last year Trowbridge did not compete at Newport, and it is +Sheldon's intention now to follow his schoolmate's example. I hope he +will change his mind, for it is to the interest of sport that the ablest +players should meet, aside from the mere question of determining which +one is actually the strongest.</p> + +<p>The Interscholastic Relay Races, held on Franklin Field, Philadelphia, +April 20th, at the same time as the Intercollegiate relay races, +developed the fact that the schools, in point of time, made almost as +good a showing as the colleges. The best collegiate performance of the +day was Harvard's defeat of the University of Pennsylvania in 3 m. +34-2/5 sec. The poorest winning time was made by C.C.N.Y.—3 m. 55-1/5 +sec. The fastest time by a school team was made by the Central +High-School, which defeated the Manual Training School in 3 m. 57-1/5 +sec. The most interesting scholastic contest was between De Lancey and +Episcopal Academy. Episcopal gained the lead in the first lap, only to +lose it in the second, but regained it in the final quarter when only 75 +yards from home. Here Ogelsby, spent with his hard run, could not go +another step, and fell to the ground, leaving Knors to finish in a +canter.</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 32em;"><span class="smcap">The Graduate</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>ADVERTISEMENTS.</h2> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report.</h2> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/ill_020.jpg" width="300" height="94" alt="Royal Baking Powder" title="" /> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 100px;"> +<img src="images/ill_021.jpg" width="100" height="98" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<h2><i>BROWNIE STAMPS.</i></h2> + +<p>More fun than a barrel of monkeys. A complete set of these grotesque +little people with everlasting Ink pads. With them a boy can make a +circus in a minute. To introduce our big Catalogue of 1000 new articles, +we send the Brownies postpaid for 10c.</p> + +<h4>R. H. Ingersoll & Bro. 65 Cortlandt St. N.Y. City.</h4> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/ill_022.jpg" width="500" height="72" alt="If afflicted with SORE EYES USE Dr. ISAAC THOMPSON'S EYE WATER" title="" /> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>Harper's Catalogue,</h2> + +<p class="center">Thoroughly revised, classified, and indexed, will be sent by mail to any +address on receipt of ten cents.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_540" id="Page_540">[Pg 540]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"><a name="BICYCLING" id="BICYCLING"></a> +<img src="images/ill_023.jpg" width="600" height="139" alt="BICYCLING" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>This Department is conducted in the interest of Bicyclers, and the +Editor will be pleased to answer any question on the subject. Our +maps and tours contain much valuable data kindly supplied from the +official maps and road-books of the League of American Wheelmen. +Recognizing the value of the work being done by the L. A. W. the +Editor will be pleased to furnish subscribers with membership +blanks and information so far as possible.</p></div> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 382px;"> +<img src="images/ill_024.jpg" width="382" height="700" alt="Copyright, 1895, by Harper & Brothers." title="" /> +<span class="caption">Copyright, 1895, by Harper & Brothers.</span> +</div> + +<p>The bicycle route this week is one of the pleasantest in the vicinity of +New York city. It is the run across Staten Island. The reader should +study the map of New York city published in No. 809, and find the best +way in which to reach South Ferry. If he is a skilful rider, he may take +the middle track of the cable-car (Broadway route), and follow that down +Broadway; if not, he must come down towards South Ferry through the east +side of New York. Arrived at South Ferry, take the Staten Island +ferry-boat to St. George. On leaving the ferry at St. George he should +turn to the left, go up a rather steep hill, and take the third street +to the left—that is, Stuyvesant Place and Avenue, and running along +this southward take the third street to the right, and after going one +block upon this turn to the left into Central Avenue. He should keep on +Central Avenue until he reaches Tompkins Avenue, which is the first turn +to the right; then, going southward on Tompkins Avenue, he should turn +into Bay Street, and continue on Bay Street until he approaches Clifton, +having passed through Tompkinsville and Stapleton. Just before reaching +Clifton station he should turn right into Richmond road, and continue +through Concord, Grassmere, Linden Park, Garretson, and Grant City, +until just after leaving a large cemetery on the right, he runs into New +Dorp.</p> + +<p>At the Black Horse Tavern in New Dorp, which, by-the-way, is the only +place to stop at, turn to the left into Amboy Road, pass the Court-house +on the left; then about a mile farther on cross the railroad and run +into Giffords. Another mile, and the rider passes through Ettingville. +This part of the road, from New Dorp through Ettingville, is more or +less hilly, but the road here, as elsewhere for the entire route, is in +excellent condition, and is macadamized. From Ettingville the rider +passes through Annandale, Huguenot, crosses the railway again, continues +on through Prince's Bay, thence to Pleasant Plains, crossing track +again, and a mile further on enters Richmond Valley. He then keeps to +the main road, which is the left-hand turn in Richmond Valley, and +proceeds until he reaches the outskirts of Tottenville, where, turning +sharp to the right, he enters Main Street, and may make a stop at the +West End Hotel; but if he is going further (for this is the most direct +route through New Jersey to the South), he may ride down to the Amboy +Valley.</p> + +<p>It is well worth the wheelman's while to continue on towards Clifton +after leaving Stapleton, instead of turning to the right into Richmond +road, and, continuing through Clifton, to run down to Fort Wadsworth, +which is one of the important inner forts of the harbor, and commands a +view of the Lower Bay. By keeping to this road after leaving Fort +Wadsworth, and following it as it turns sharply to the right, he can run +down towards South Beach, and join the Richmond road again just as he +enters Linden Park. Furthermore, after leaving the Court-house, a mile +or more beyond New Dorp, a road turns sharply to the right running up +into the hills; and from Richmond, which is perhaps a mile and a half +away, he may leave his wheel and climb up to the old Lookout, where once +stood a fort of the Revolutionary War. The view from here commands most +of the island and the Lower Bay, and is one of the best in the vicinity +of New York city. There is a short ride over a good road from St. George +along the northern boundary of Staten Island, running through New +Brighton, Snug Harbor, Livingston, West New Brighton, Port Richmond, +Tower Hill, etc., down to Bowman's Point; and it is possible for the +rider to take this road, turning off at Tower Hill to the left, on the +Port Richmond road, running across the island through New Springville +and Green Ridge on to the Richmond road at Ettingville. This Port +Richmond road, however, is hilly, and though in moderately good +condition, is not to be compared with the Richmond road.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Note</span>.—Map of New York city asphalted streets in No. 809. Map of +route from New York to Tarrytown in No. 810. New York to Stamford, +Connecticut, in No. 811.</p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_541" id="Page_541">[Pg 541]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"><a name="THE_PUDDING_STICK" id="THE_PUDDING_STICK"></a> +<img src="images/ill_025.jpg" width="600" height="164" alt="THE PUDDING STICK" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>This Department is conducted in the interest of Girls and Young +Woman, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question on +the subject so far as possible. Correspondents should address +Editor.</p></div> + +<p>These are very busy days for some of you, because, as we all know, +school examinations are just in advance. I was talking with a girl +friend this morning, and she said she did not at all mind examinations, +because she was very thorough with her work all through the term. She +said, "By never slighting anything from the beginning of the term to the +end, I find I do not have any harder work at the end than at the +beginning." I wish that all young people—and, for that matter, older +ones, too—would imitate her example. It is a good plan to be thorough +with what we do, and to establish a reputation for being so among our +friends, so that people may know that they can always depend on us. A +lack of this quality of thoroughness often leads to very grave +accidents. A ship has gone down before now in mid-ocean because of the +unfaithfulness of somebody who had to do with its building, and from +time to time tall houses fall and people are killed because architects +or carpenters were unfaithful when constructing the rickety things, and +allowed flaws to pass, and were contented with makeshifts. Our rule +should be not to slight our work, but always to do it in the best +possible manner.</p> + +<p>The habit of thoroughness in housekeeping leads one to keep rooms in +good order and the table beautifully appointed. I know a girl who says +that she takes great pains with her room whenever she thinks her aunt +Mary is coming to see her, because Aunt Mary's sharp eyes discover every +speck of dust, and observe any trifle that is in the least out of order. +Aunt Mary is a bit of a critic, and her niece a little afraid of her +comments.</p> + +<p>In other words, the aunt has made a coward of the girl. I do not like +the idea of being in bondage to anybody, whether an aunt or a stranger. +It would seem to me a far better way to feel that one must answer to +one's self, and that one would not feel satisfied unless she could look +herself in the glass and say: "There, everything is done in the best +possible manner, and you cannot find any fault with me to-day. Try to, +if you dare!"</p> + +<p>I wonder whether you are particular to write notes of thanks very soon +after receiving gifts or acts of courtesy? The value of a note of thanks +is greatly increased by its being prompt. If some friend leaves a bunch +of violets at your door, and you fail to acknowledge it until the +flowers have failed, your thanks, when they do come, are tardy. When +flowers are sent to those who are ill, they, of course, cannot repay the +courtesy by a little note themselves, but some one in the family should +do it for them. Your note of thanks should be very genial, showing that +you are really pleased by the kind attention and the happier because of +it. Do not be afraid to write warmly and cordially on such occasions. If +stiff and formal you are unjust both to your friend and yourself.</p> + +<p>Speaking of illness, it happens that some of you have to take care of +those who are ill, and it is worth while to cultivate a way of moving +lightly and quietly about a sick room. One should never wear creaking +shoes nor a rustling dress in a room where any one is ill. The nerves of +people in illness are very acute and sensitive to every sound. A friend +recovering from a long attack of typhoid fever told me that, while she +was convalescent, she was nearly driven frantic by the fact that her +nurse, writing notes in her room, used a pen which scratched on the +paper. Even this little noise was most distressing to her in her weak +state, and she said that when the same nurse began to sew by her bed she +could hear the sound of the thread going through the muslin, and it +seemed to her so loud and jarring that she could not bear it. I have +known a person suffering from a severe headache in the third story of a +house to be greatly distressed by noises in the kitchen, a long way +below. You see, we cannot be too careful to be very gentle in our +movements and quiet in our manner when we are with those who are not +well.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>C. S. M.—In reply to your inquiry concerning the best schools for +studying designing in New York city, we should advise the School +of Applied Design for Women, Twenty-third Street and Seventh +Avenue, tuition $50 a year, and Cooper Institute, Ninth Street and +Third Avenue, tuition almost free. In Philadelphia, the Drexel +Institute and the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial +Art, Thirteenth and Spring Garden streets. In Boston, the Museum +of Fine Arts. Any of these schools is suitable for your purpose.</p></div> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/ill_026.jpg" width="300" height="72" alt="Signature" title="" /> +</div> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>STARVED TO DEATH</h3> + +<p>in midst of plenty. Unfortunate, yet we hear of it. The Gail Borden +Eagle Brand Condensed Milk is undoubtedly the safest and best infant +food. <i>Infant Health</i> is a valuable pamphlet for mothers. Send your +address to N. Y. Condensed Milk Co., N. 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All Druggists. 50c. and $1.</h4> + +<hr style="width: 15%;" /> +<h2>Arnold</h2> + +<h2>Constable & Co.</h2> + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> + +<h2>Summer Underwear</h2> + +<h4>Ladies' and Children's</h4> + +<h3>Silk-and-Wool Underwear,</h3> + +<h3>Merino Underwear,</h3> + +<h3>Union Suits.</h3> + +<h4>SWISS RIBBED SILK, LISLE-THREAD,</h4> + +<h4>AND WOOL UNDERWEAR.</h4> + +<h3>Cartwright & Warner's</h3> + +<h3>CELEBRATED UNDERWEAR.</h3> + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> + +<h2>HOSIERY</h2> + +<h2>GLOVES</h2> + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> + +<h4>Broadway & 19th st.</h4> + +<h4>NEW YORK CITY.</h4> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p class="center">The price has nothing to do with the</p> + +<h2>FIT</h2> + +<p class="center">For ALL of Dr. Warner's Corsets are fitted to living models.</p> + +<p class="center">Prices from one to six dollars each.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>Postage Stamps, &c.</h2> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 100px;"> +<img src="images/ill_027.jpg" width="100" height="113" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p><b>STAMPS!</b> <b>300</b> fine mixed Victoria, Cape of G. H., India, Japan, etc. with +fine Stamp Album, only <b>10c.</b> New 80-p. Price-list <b>free</b>. <i>Agents wanted</i> +at <b>50%</b> commission. STANDARD STAMP CO., 4 Nicholson Place, St. Louis, Mo. +Old U.S. and Confederate Stamps bought.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 100px;"> +<img src="images/ill_028.jpg" width="100" height="69" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>100 all dif. Venezuela, Costa Rica, etc., only 10c.; 200 all dif. Hayti, +Hawaii, etc., only 50c. Ag'ts wanted at 50 per ct. com. List FREE!</p> + +<h4><b>C. A. Stegmann</b>, 2722 Eads Av., St. Louis, Mo.</h4> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p class="center"><b>50</b> var., all dif., 5c.; 12 var. Heligoland, 15c.; 6 var. Italy, 1858 to +1862, 5c.; 8 var. Hanover, 5c.; 35 var. C. American, 50c. Agents wanted.</p> + +<h4>F. W. MILLER, 904 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo.</h4> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p class="center"><b>POSTAGE DUES.</b>—50c. and 30c., at 70c. each; the pair for $1.25. <b>Diamond +Stamp Co., Germantown, Pa.</b></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><i><b>FALSE MUSTACHES</b> and GOATEES.</i></h2> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/ill_029.jpg" width="200" height="43" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p class="center">Fun for the boys, a complete disguise. Fine hair goods. As Sample of our +1000 Novelties, we send one of each with large Catalogue for 10c.</p> + +<h4>R. H. INGERSOLL & BRO., 65 CORTLANDT ST., N. Y. CITY.</h4> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_542" id="Page_542">[Pg 542]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/ill_030.jpg" width="500" height="72" alt="If afflicted with SORE EYES USE Dr. ISAAC THOMPSON'S EYE WATER" title="" /> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>Two Exciting Puzzle Contests Ended.</h2> + +<p>Endeavoring to favor the <span class="smcap">Table</span> with an easy puzzle, since many said the +questions were too hard, a flood of correct answers resulted in the +Authors' Outing Contest, and, in accordance with the role, a second +contest had to be held. Here are correct answers to the original +contest:</p> + +<p>1. Moore—Moor. 2. Gay. 3. Yonge. 4. Lot's wife. 5. The mulberry is said +to have turned red because Pyramus killed himself at the root of the +tree, in the belief that Thisbe had been devoured by a lion. 6. Bacon. +7. Hogg. 8. Ruskin. 9. Lemon. 10. Robinson Crusoe's man Friday. 11. +Dickens. 12. Watts. 13. Bangs. 14. Theodore Child. 15. Butler. 16. +Canning. 17. Hawthorne. 18. February. 19. Reade. 20. Swift. 21. +Howitt—How it. 22. Motherwell. 23. Scott—Scot. 24. Hood. 25. Lamb. 26. +Lover. 27. Harte. 28. Twain. 29. Spenser. 30. Akenside. 31. Holland. 32. +Sterne. 33. Cooper. 34. Smiles. 35. Wordsworth. 36. Goldsmith. 37. +Shelley. 38. Borrow. 39. Steele. 40. Santa Claus.</p> + +<p>A set of 35 new questions was prepared and sent by mail, to those who +gave the foregoing correct answers. Thus the ties were played off, so to +speak, unsuccessful contestants and outsiders being barred. Following +are answers to the new questions. In some cases the questions themselves +are given, since they have not before been published. It was asked who +wrote these:</p> + +<p>1. "The Widowed Heart," Albert Pike; 2. "The Revellers," William Davis +Gallagher, Mrs. Hemans; 3. "The Remarkable Wreck of the <i>Thomas Hyke</i>," +Frank R. Stockton; 4. "Sicily Burns's Wedding," Geo. W. Harris; 5. "The +Tar Baby," Joel Chandler Harris; 6. "The Only Daughter," Harriett +Campbell, O. W. Holmes, Mrs. Henry Wood; 7. "The Semi-attached Couple," +Hon. Emily Eden; 8. "Marco Bozzaris," Fitz-Greene Halleck; 9. "The +Buckwheat Cake," Henry Pickering; 10. "Adams and Liberty," Robert Treat +Paine, Jr.</p> + +<p>Four riddles were propounded:</p> + +<p>11. The Ghost in Hamlet. 28. La Grippe.</p> + +<p>18.</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Four of a kind, four of a name,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Loving one who was called the same.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Her star of good-luck went steadily down,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">She lost her life when she lost her crown;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">But they served her fondly till all was o'er,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">These four of a name, these faithful four.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 32em;">—The Four Marys of Mary Queen of Scots.</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>35. We are boon companions and nearly inseparable. We take interminable +journeys together, travelling over almost incalculable distances; always +work together, and take our vacations at the same time. We may be found +in every civilized portion of the globe—useful alike in the king's +palace, the peasant's hut, the Indian's wigwam, the hospital ward, and +the ship at sea. Yet in some respects we are entirely different, for +while I can adapt myself to every situation with perfect ease, my +companion is very set in his ways, but together we bring order, comfort, +and beauty wherever we go. After the labor of years and he is laid +aside, my work remains to cheer and gladden many hearts, sometimes +preserving family history which would otherwise be forgotten. And yet, +marvellous to relate, we have neither hands, feet, head, nor +body.—Needle and Thread.</p> + +<p>Nos. 12 to 17 were quotations from the poets, and their answers are: 12. +Sir Walter Raleigh, on the snuff of a candle; 13. Pope; 14. The +Serenade. J. G. Percival; 15. War Song of Revolution, John Neal; 16. +Youth and Age, Richard Dabney; 17. The New Roof, Francis Hopkinson.</p> + +<p>Contestants were asked to name the works in which the following +characters appear. Answers are here given: 19. Froth, Measure for +Measure; 20. Shallow, Merry Wives of Windsor; 21. Godfrey Ablewhite, +Moonstone, by Collins; 22. Edmund Gray, Ivory Gate, by Besant; 23. +Gwendolen Harleth, Daniel Deronda, by Eliot; 24. Blind Muriel, John +Halifax, Gent., by Miss Mulock; 25. Grant Munro, Sherlock Holmes, by +Doyle; 26. Christine Ludolph, Barriers Burned Away, by Roe; 27. Princess +Irenè, Prince of India, by Wallace.</p> + +<p>These questions were asked. Answers are here after each:</p> + +<p>29. A book wherein the heroine's name is not once +mentioned.—"Rutledge," "She." 30. What famous character is it who, +whether in doors or out, summer or winter, always keeps a glove on one +hand?—M. Hamel in Mrs. Edwards's "Hand and Glove." 31. What one was it +who always offered his left hand to his friends because of the guilty +deed done by the right?—Eugene Aram. 32. Name the fellow who, in a +famous book, stands chewing the rust from his fingers. When he reaches +home he will probably find his wife "prayin' agin'" him.—Jerry +Cruncher. 33. A character in another book who was the first to ride on +horseback from New York to San Francisco.—Willard Glazier, John C. +Fremont, John Brent. 34. The book wherein one person calls upon another, +and receives an answer, though they are miles apart.—Jane Eyre, Peter +Ibbetson.</p> + +<p>In No. 33 it was found that authorities, equally credible, differed. +Hence the question was dropped, and no matter what was the answer it was +counted correct.</p> + +<p>The prizes were $25 divided, but $10 to first. The amount awarded is +slightly increased. The highest honor goes to George Peirce, who is a +Pennsylvanian, aged 12. He answered correctly all but two of the +questions. Second prizes of $2 each go to Lois A. Dowling, of New York +(Rochester), and John H. Campbell, Jr., of Pennsylvania (Germantown); +and third prizes of $1 each to the following: Harry Nelson Morey, New +York; Henry S. Parsons, Massachusetts; John J. Clarkson, Helen J. +Curley, and Martin Henneberry, Illinois; Charles A. Urner and Frank A. +Urner, New Jersey; Pierre Freret, Louisiana; Edmund T. M. Franklin, +Virginia; Kathrine S. Frost, Massachusetts; Edith L. Warner and Edith C. +Sanders, Maryland, and Mae Sterner, Pennsylvania.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>Some Questions for the Founders.</h2> + +<p>Now that our Order has been so conspicuously honored as to have a great +journal named for it, there arise a few questions for the Founders to +vote upon. First, the Founders and all other members are asked to note +that although the whole paper is named for their Order, that Order has +not a less but a greater place in it, and, instead of a few pages being +devoted to them, now the whole paper will seek to give them everything +necessary to their growth in that "goodlye felloeship, worthie +knowledge, and chivalrie up to date" which form the grand basis of our +union.</p> + +<p>The questions to be voted on are these:</p> + +<p>1. Shall we abolish or retain the eighteen-years-of-age limit?</p> + +<p>2. Shall we have a new membership certificate?</p> + +<p>3. Shall we have a new and different badge?</p> + +<p>The reasons for bringing up these questions are: A great many lament the +arrival of their eighteenth birthday, when they can no longer be +members. They ask to remain in the Order, and suggest that all +competitions be limited, as heretofore, to the eighteen-year-age limit. +To the latter we agree, promising to always limit the age to eighteen +years, as heretofore, and offering, if the Founders agree thereto, to +have a competition for those above eighteen years. If it succeeds, to +have competitions for both ages, as opportunity offers. What say you? +Again, it is necessary to drop the name "Young People" from our +certificate. In doing so why not have a handsomer one, and call it a +"patent," which is a better name than "certificate." It may be printed +in the Order's colors, yellow and blue.</p> + +<p>New patents would be issued to all old members who cared to ask for +them. Once more, what say you? Still again, our badge, adopted in the +early history of the Order, has met some objections. It is five pansy +leaves, bearing the letters "K. L. O. R. T." A Founder living in +Winchester, England, described for us once, you remember, what is +claimed to be the original Table used by King Arthur and his Knights of +the Holy Grail, still preserved in Winchester Cathedral. This Founder +suggests a badge that is a fac-simile of the top of this Table. He sends +a print of it, with the ancient names, etc. The letters "K. L. O. R. T." +can be retained. It is necessary to have badges low in price, since many +ought not to afford expensive ones, and therefore we shall need to +retain silver for their material. It will be possible, though, to +procure gold ones for those who specially order them. For the third +question, we repeat, what is the Founders' pleasure?</p> + +<p>Founders of the Order are the 5000 original members. Those who have not +passed their eighteenth birthday are asked to write us frankly. A postal +card will do. We shall be governed by your votes. We may add, for the +benefit of all, that our Order is to have a great many attractive offers +during the next twelve months. The "feast" is to be a rich one, and we +hope every one of you will remain around the Table and enjoy it.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>Round Table Chapters.</h2> + +<p>No. 693.—The Thaddeus Stevens Chapter, of Philadelphia, Pa. Its +meetings are held on Thursday of each week. The initiation fee is one +dollar. Horace S. Reis, 910 North Broad Street.</p> + +<p>No. 694.—The Quannapowitt Chapter, of Wakefield, Mass. Charles Wait, +George Tompson; Ralph Carlisle, president, 9 Summit Avenue.</p> + +<p>No. 695.—The Columbus Chapter, of Columbus, Ohio. Carl B. Harrop, +Edward E. Stoughton; George Crable, 1289 Highland Street.</p> + +<p>No 696.—The Kirk Munroe Chapter, of Nuttallburg, W. Va. E. Jackson +Taylor, John Nuttall, Jun., Nuttallburg.</p> + +<p>No. 697.—The Kes-Kes Kick Chapter, of Yonkers, N. Y. J. Fowler Trow, +Jun., Mary Van Rensselaer Ferris. Its meetings are held on Tuesdays. +Chapter address, 488 Warburton Ave.</p> + +<p>No. 698.—The Admiral Benham Chapter, of Fort Adams, Newport, R. I. Its +officers are Stephen C. Rowan, Elizabeth Schenck, Lee Simpson, Anna +Greble; Carol H. Simpson, care of Lieutenant Simpson, Fort Adams.</p> + +<p>No. 699.—The Thomas Edison Chapter, of Bangor, Me. Fred H. Pond, Arthur +A. Thompson, Myrtle D. Fox, Nellie M. Fox, Bangor.</p> + +<p>No. 700.—The Oliver Wendell Holmes Chapter, of Eau Claire, Wis. George +D. Galloway, Eau Claire.</p> + +<p>No. 701.—The Sheridan Chapter, of Philadelphia, Pa. Martin S. Poulson, +John M. Smith, Oland King, George Frey, Lydie Holmes; Reese Baker, +Section C., Girard College.</p> + +<p>No. 702.—The Kirk Munroe Chapter, of Auburn, Wash. J. French Dorrance, +corresponding secretary, Box 17, Auburn.</p> + +<p>No. 703.—The Keystone Music and Literary Chapter, of Harrisburg, Pa. R. +Donald Jenkins, Stanley G. Smith, H. Stanley Jenkins; Louise N. Miller, +Harrisburg.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>Want Corner.</h2> + +<p>A corresponding Chapter is one whose members are widely separated and +whose affairs are conducted by mail. There are several such, dear Lady +Alice Cowly, but it is found very difficult in practice to maintain the +interest. Keeping members together in spirit who are hundreds of miles +apart in body is no easy thing to do.</p> + +<p>Ralph Leach, Stoughton, Mass., is interested in athletic sports. He will +enjoy the <span class="smcap">Table</span> more than ever, then, for it is to have more news about +sports than ever before. Anne Bliss wants to know why the Table cannot +have a "Students' Corner" to help members in their school-work; "a +geometrical diagram, scientific experiments, meaning of new +words—anything. I am sure such a Corner would be very helpful." We +heartily agree with Lady Anne. Shall we have a new corner, or will the +Want one do? Let's have your questions. The <span class="smcap">Table</span> desires to help you in +all ways that it can. Consider this a Students' Corner, and use it as +such. We can find somebody to answer your questions. Or perhaps you can +answer each other's questions. How would that do for some questions, at +least?</p> + +<p>Here is one now. Maude Wigfield asks: "If a heavy vessel, such as the +cruiser <i>New York</i>, were to go down in mid-ocean, could it overcome the +enormous pressure of the water, and sink to the very bottom, or would it +reach an equal density before it did reach the bottom. Remember that +some of the compartments would still contain air." Let us have opinions. +Give us the pressure per square foot at certain ocean depths, and the +pressure the war vessels are built to withstand. The <i>Elbe</i>, which went +down in the North Sea a few weeks ago—that is on the very bottom of the +sea, is it not?</p> + +<p>Herbert Benton lives at 1208 East Seventh Street, Kansas City, Mo. He +asks how best to put plants into a herbarium. Will some one give us a +morsel upon it? We can find the information from books, but much prefer +the personal experience of some member. Tell us all about flowers and +plants for herbariums. He also asks for the solution or mixture in which +writing may be placed upon tissue-paper, the initial letter lighted and +the writing burned out, without injury to the rest of the paper. We had +the formula of the solution some time ago, but cannot now find it. Can +somebody help us to it again, for Sir Herbert's benefit?</p> + +<p>Carolyn A. Nash lives in California and asks for more time for sending +puzzle solutions on account of the distance to be travelled by the +mails. The present series of puzzles is exceptional, dear Lady Carolyn, +and the dates of closing could not be made different, nor can they now +be changed. In future contests the Pacific coast members shall be given +more time. Augusta C. Grenther and Charles Stuckel are two of the more +than twenty members of the Sangster Chapter who attend one school at +Germania, N. J. The Chapter meetings are held at the school on Fridays. +It wants correspondents, and to exchange flowers and minerals.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_543" id="Page_543">[Pg 543]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"><a name="STAMPS" id="STAMPS"></a> +<img src="images/ill_031.jpg" width="600" height="200" alt="STAMPS" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>This Department is conducted in the interest of stamp collectors, +and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question on the +subject so far as possible. Correspondents should address Editor +Stamp Department.</p></div> + +<p>At present all collectors appear to be hunting for varieties of the +United States stamps of the 1872 issue, some of the new varieties of +which were illustrated in these columns a short time ago. The fact that +the Continental Bank-Note Company were the successors of the National +Bank-Note Company in the printing of that issue has led to the belief +that each of the stamps printed by the Continental Company from the +plates made by the National Company bears some mark to distinguish the +company printing the stamps. Several of the values of the 1872 issue +having been found with such a mark, it would seem that all the values +were treated in the same manner, the only difficulty being to discover +the mark. No help can be obtained from the bank-note companies, as they +preserve absolute secrecy in regard to the stamps, it thus being left to +the collectors to study out the marks. While these exceedingly small +varieties will greatly puzzle the collector, they lead to one great +object, by showing that a close study of stamps is necessary in order to +be a successful collector, and only those who are willing to study out +these minute variations can get the full pleasure of the pursuit.</p> + +<p>The auction season in stamps will close with the month of May, and the +great sales held this year show that collectors are using that method +for buying to a larger extent than ever.</p> + +<p>An English paper states that the current adhesives of France have been +surcharged "Poste Française," for use of French offices in Madagascar. +There are nine values.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>ADVERTISEMENTS.</h2> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>WALTER BAKER & CO.</h2> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 99px;"> +<img src="images/ill_032.jpg" width="99" height="200" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p class="center">The Largest Manufacturers of</p> + +<h4>PURE, HIGH GRADE</h4> + +<h3>COCOAS AND CHOCOLATES</h3> + +<p class="center">On this Continent, have received</p> + +<h4>HIGHEST AWARDS</h4> + +<p class="center">from the great</p> + +<h3>Industrial and Food</h3> + +<h4>EXPOSITIONS</h4> + +<h3>In Europe and America.</h3> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p class="center">Unlike the Dutch Process, no Alkalies or other Chemicals or Dyes are +used in any of their preparations.</p> + +<p class="center">Their delicious BREAKFAST COCOA is absolutely pure and soluble, and +<i>costs less than one cent a cup</i>.</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<h4>SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE.</h4> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<h4>WALTER BAKER & CO. DORCHESTER, MASS.</h4> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/ill_033.jpg" width="200" height="91" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p class="center">WONDER CABINET <b>FREE</b>. Missing Link Puzzle, Devil's Bottle, Pocket Camera, +Latest Wire Puzzle, Spook Photos, Book of Sleight of Hand, Total Value +60c. Sent free with immense catalogue of 1000 Bargains for 10c. for +postage.</p> + +<h4>INGERSOLL & BRO., 65 Cortlandt Street, N. Y.</h4> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/ill_034.jpg" width="300" height="78" alt="Ivory Soap" title="" /> +</div> + +<p class="center">To cleanse matting, use four tablespoonfuls of Ivory Soap shavings and a +handful of salt to a pailful of warm water. Rub the matting with a cloth +or sponge well squeezed out.</p> + +<h4><span class="smcap">The Procter & Gamble Co., Cin'ti.</span></h4> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 221px;"> +<img src="images/ill_035.jpg" width="221" height="300" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p class="center">3 Million, 134 Thousand, 9 Hundred and Thirty-four Packages sold in +1894, which made 15 Million, 674 Thousand, 7 Hundred and Thirty-five +Gallons of</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/ill_036.jpg" width="300" height="105" alt="HIRES' Rootbeer" title="" /> +</div> + +<p class="center">or 313 Million, 494 Thousand, 7 Hundred glasses, sufficient to give +every man, woman and child in the United States, five glasses each— Did +you get yours? Be sure and get some this year. The whole family will +enjoy it. A 25 cent package makes 5 gallons. Sold everywhere. Made only +by</p> + +<h4>The Chas. E. Hires Co., Philada.</h4> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>MONARCH</h2> + +<h3>King of all Bicycles.</h3> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/ill_037.jpg" width="200" height="194" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p class="center">TRADE-MARK.</p> + +<p class="center">Five Styles. Weights, 18 to 25 Pounds.</p> + +<h4>Prices, $85 and $100.</h4> + +<h3>MONARCH CYCLE CO.</h3> + +<h4>Factory and Main Office, Lake and Halsted Sts., Chicago.</h4> + +<h4>Eastern Branch: 79 Reade St., & 97 Chambers St., N.Y.</h4> + +<h4>The <span class="smcap">C. F. Guyon Co.</span>, Ltd., Managers.</h4> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><span class="u">OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT</span> of the award on</h2> + +<h2><b>GILLOTT'S PENS</b> at the <span class="smcap">Chicago Exposition</span>.</h2> + +<p><b>AWARD:</b> "For excellence of steel used in their manufacture, it being fine +grained and elastic; superior workmanship, especially shown by the +careful grinding; which leaves the pens free from defects. The tempering +is excellent and the action of the finished pens perfect."</p> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='right'>(Signed)</td><td align='left'>FRANZ VOGT, <i>Individual Judge</i>.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>Approved:</td><td align='left'>{ H. I. KIMBALL, <i>Pres't Departmental Committee</i>.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'></td><td align='left'>{ JOHN BOYD THACHER, <i>Chairman Exec. Com. on Awards</i>.</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p class="center"><b>BIRDS' EGGS</b> and Naturalists' Supplies. Egg Drill, Blowpipe, and Hook, +nickel-plated, in pocket case, only <b>35 cts.</b></p> + +<p class="center">Illustrated catalogue for 2-cent stamp.</p> + +<h4>CHAS. K. REED, 262 Main Street, Worcester, Mass.</h4> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/ill_038.jpg" width="200" height="179" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<h2><span class="u">CARD PRINTER</span> <b>FREE</b></h2> + +<p>Sets any name in one minute; prints 500 cards an hour. YOU can make +money with it. A font of pretty type, also Indelible Ink, Type Holder, +Pads and Tweezers. Best Linen Marker; worth $1.00. Sample mailed FREE +for 10c. stamps for postage on outfit and large catalogue of 1000 +Bargains.</p> + +<h4>R. H. Ingersoll & Bro. 65 Cortlandt St. N.Y. City</h4> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p class="center">WANTED. 100,000 BOYS, to sell the <b>EUREKA MARKING TAG</b> for marking hats, +etc., now and in Summer vacation. Sells at sight. Send 10 cents in coin +for samples. Address <b>Eureka Marking Tag Co.</b>, Cedar Falls, Iowa.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/ill_039.jpg" width="200" height="70" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p class="center"><b>SEND for Catalogue</b> of the <b>Musical Instrument</b> you think of buying. +<b>Violins repaired</b> by the Cremona System. <span class="smcap">C. Story</span>, 26 Central St., +Boston. Mass.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/ill_040.jpg" width="500" height="72" alt="If afflicted with SORE EYES USE Dr. ISAAC THOMPSON'S EYE WATER" title="" /> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>HARPER'S PERIODICALS.</h2> + +<h4>Per Year:</h4> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'>HARPER'S MAGAZINE</td><td align='right'><i>Postage Free</i>,</td><td align='right'>$4.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>HARPER'S WEEKLY</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>4.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>HARPER'S BAZAR</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>4.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>2.00</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Booksellers and Postmasters usually receive subscriptions. +Subscriptions sent direct to the publishers should be accompanied by +Post-office Money Order or Draft.</i></p> + +<h4>HARPER & BROTHERS, Franklin Square, N. Y.</h4> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_544" id="Page_544">[Pg 544]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>A KITE TALE.</h2> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/ill_041.jpg" width="400" height="392" alt="BOY (jerking string), "Come, get up there; what's the matter with you?"" title="" /> +<span class="caption">BOY (jerking string), "Come, get up there; what's the matter with you?"</span> +</div> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/ill_042.jpg" width="400" height="360" alt="KITE. "Say, you can't yank me that way with impunity."" title="" /> +<span class="caption">KITE. "Say, you can't yank me that way with impunity."</span> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>READINESS OF WIT.</h2> + +<p>One of the best qualities for a boy or a girl to cultivate is readiness +of wit. To the lad who is thinking of going into some business pursuit, +quickness to see and meet the requirements of an opportunity is of +invaluable importance. We find in the <i>Gazette Anecdotique</i> a case very +much to the point, and most amusing withal. It seems that in the year +1707, when Philip V. was on his way to Madrid to take possession of his +kingdom of Spain, the inhabitants of Mont de Marsan came out to meet him +at his approach. The two processions having met about a league from the +town, the Mayor advanced towards the litter in which the King sat, and +addressed him as follows: "Sire, long speeches are obnoxious and +wearisome; I should prefer to sing you something." Leave was given, and +he sang forthwith a short ode to the King, which so greatly pleased his +Majesty that he called out, "Da capo!" (encore). The Mayor gave his song +a second time. The King thanked the singer, and presented him with ten +louis d'or. This amount seemed hardly sufficient to the chief magistrate +of Mont de Marsan, and he therefore promptly held out his empty hand to +the King, and in admirable imitation of the King's voice, himself called +out, "Da capo!" The King laughed heartily and complied, and the Mayor +departed twice as well off as he would have been had he been less +quick-witted.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>FRENCH AND ENGLISH.</h2> + +<p>Those of us who have grown weary and perplexed over the peculiarities of +the French language, and who have wished that our parents and +school-teachers did not consider that language necessary to our +education, will rejoice at this item from an English newspaper, which +shows that the Frenchman has as hard a time mastering our tongue as we +have in mastering his.</p> + +<p>According to the story three French boys were studying a volume of +Shakespeare in their own tongue, their task being to render portions of +it into English. When they came to Hamlet's famous soliloquy, "To be or +not to be," their respective translations were as follows:</p> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'>1. "To was or not to am."</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>2. "To were or is to not."</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>3. "To should or not to will."</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p>An absent-minded young preacher in New England, wishing to address the +young ladies of his congregation after the morning services, remarked +from the pulpit that he would be very glad if the female brethren of the +congregation would remain after they had gone home. He was almost as +badly mixed, the narrator of this story says, as another speaker, who, +after describing a pathetic scene he had witnessed, added, huskily, "I +tell you, brothers there was hardly a dry tear in the house."</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>SERENADING HIMSELF.</h2> + +<p>We sometimes think that the funny situations in the pictures in the +comic papers are too absurd to be real, and yet every day there happen +things quite as absurd as any there depicted. One of the German +newspapers gives an account of how a steady old burgomaster recently +serenaded himself, which certainly brings before our minds a picture +quite as laughable as any we have seen in print. The story is to this +effect: Herr Nötel, merchant and burgomaster, who is passionately fond +of singing, is the first tenor and president of the Schnitzelburg +glee-club. The club consists of only a single quartet, but small as is +their number, the greater is their enthusiasm for the songs of Germany. +Nötel would shortly celebrate his silver wedding. They must give him a +serenade; there was no help for it. But what was a quartet without the +first tenor? There was no getting a substitute, but for all that they +would give Nötel a surprise. On the eve of the festal day the three +members of the club, armed with lanterns, met at the appointed time +before the house of their respected president, and after some clearing +of throats and twanging of tuning-forks the music began. A small crowd +collected in the street, and the windows in the vicinity were lined with +appreciative listeners. The Herr Burgomaster and his family also +appeared at the windows of their brightly illuminated sitting-room. The +first bars of the well-known song, "Silent Night," left much to be +desired, but the three voices bravely held on their way amid the +surrounding stillness, and in a few moments Herr Nötel went down into +the street and joined in the quartet. No sooner was the song finished +than he ran up stairs again, appeared at the open window, and in loud +clear tones thanked the club for their ovation. Seen on a public stage, +an old gentleman madly rushing up stairs to a window to thank himself +for serenading himself would cause a good deal of laughter.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>ODD ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE.</h2> + +<p>It was a very homely old lady in Scotland who remarked, as she gazed +into a looking-glass, that they didn't make as good mirrors to-day as +they did when she was a girl, because she thought modern looking-glasses +made her look so old.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>It was said to be a Maine man who told an agent for a cyclopædia that he +didn't want one, because he hadn't time to learn to ride one, and he +didn't wish to risk his neck trying it, anyhow.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>A story is told of a grocer engaged in business in a London suburb, to +the effect that he once declined to attend a very popular concert even +though a free ticket was offered him. "Ye see," he said to the person +who gave him the ticket, "if I went I'd see so many people who owe me +money for groceries it would spoil my fun, and the sight o' me would +spoil theirs. I'll stay at home."</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>Here is a dog story, which you can believe or not as you please. A +gentleman remarked of a friend's dog that the two eyes of the animal +were remarkably different in size. "Yes," was the reply, "and he takes a +mean advantage of the fact whenever I have a stranger to dine with me. +He first gets fed at one side of my guest, and then goes round the table +to his other side, and pretends to be another dog."</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 434px;"> +<img src="images/ill_043.jpg" width="434" height="600" alt="HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE Portrait Gallery. Copyright, 1895, Harper & Brothers." title="" /> +<span class="caption">HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE Portrait Gallery. Copyright, 1895, Harper & Brothers.</span> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/ill_044.jpg" width="300" height="78" alt="Signature" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> The previous articles published in this series are "A +Street-Waif's Luck," No. 792, "Danny Cahill, Newsboy," No. 803, "A +Messenger-Boy's Adventure," No. 809.</p></div> + +</div> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Round Table, May 21, 1895, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S ROUND TABLE, MAY 21, 1895 *** + +***** This file should be named 32970-h.htm or 32970-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/2/9/7/32970/ + +Produced by Annie McGuire + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Harper's Round Table, May 21, 1895 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: June 25, 2010 [EBook #32970] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S ROUND TABLE, MAY 21, 1895 *** + + + + +Produced by Annie McGuire + + + + + + + + +[Illustration: HARPER'S ROUND TABLE] + +Copyright, 1895, by HARPER & BROTHERS. All Rights Reserved. + + * * * * * + +PUBLISHED WEEKLY. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1895. FIVE CENTS A COPY. + +VOL. XVI.--NO. 812. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. + + * * * * * + + + + +[Illustration] + +HEROES OF AMERICA. + +THE DEATH OF STONEWALL JACKSON. + +BY THE HONORABLE THEODORE ROOSEVELT. + + +[Illustration: Decorative H] + +orrible though the civil war was, heartrending though it was that +brother should fight against brother, there remains as an offset the +glory that has accrued to the nation by the countless deeds of heroism +performed by both sides in the struggle. The captains and the armies who +after long years of dreary campaigning and bloody, stubborn lighting +brought the war to a close have left us more than a reunited realm. + +North and South, all Americans now have a common fund of glorious +memories. We are the richer for each grim campaign, for each hard-fought +battle. We are the richer for valor displayed alike by those who fought +so valiantly for the right, and by those who no less valiantly fought +for what they deemed the right. We have in us nobler capacities for what +is great and good because of the infinite woe and suffering, and because +of the splendid ultimate triumph. We hold that it was vital to the +welfare not only of our people on this continent but of the whole human +race that the Union should be preserved and slavery abolished; that one +flag should fly from the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande, that we should +all be free in fact as well as in name, and that the United States +should stand as one nation, the greatest nation on the earth; but we +recognize gladly that South as well as North, when the fight was once +on, the leaders of the armies, and the soldiers whom they led, displayed +the same qualities of daring and steadfast courage, of disinterested +loyalty and enthusiasm, and of high devotion to an ideal. + +The greatest general of the South was Lee, and his greatest lieutenant +was Jackson. Both were Virginians, and both were strongly opposed to +disunion. Lee went so far as to deny the right of secession; while +Jackson insisted that the South ought to try to get its rights inside +the Union, and not outside; but when Virginia joined the Southern +Confederacy, and the war had actually begun, both men cast their lot +with the South. + +It is often said that the civil war was in one sense a repetition of the +old struggle between the Puritan and the Cavalier; but Puritan and +Cavalier types were common to the two armies. In dash and light-hearted +daring Custer and Kearny stood as conspicuous as Stuart and Morgan; and, +on the other hand, no Northern general approached the Roundhead type, +the type of the stern religious warriors who fought under Cromwell, so +closely as Stonewall Jackson. + +He was a man of intense religious conviction, who carried into every +thought and deed of his daily life the precepts and the convictions of +the faith he cherished. He was a tender and loving husband and father, +kind-hearted and gentle to all with whom he was brought in contact. Yet +in the times that tried men's souls he showed himself to be not only a +commander of genius, but a fighter of iron will and temper, who joyed in +the battle, and always showed at his best when the danger was greatest. +The vein of fanaticism that ran through his character helped to render +him a terrible opponent. He knew no such word as falter, and when he had +once put his hand to a piece of work he did it thoroughly and with all +his heart. It was quite in keeping with his character that this gentle, +high-minded, and religious man should early in the contest have proposed +to hoist the black-flag, neither take nor give quarter, and make the war +one of extermination. No such policy was practical in the nineteenth +century and in the American Republic; but it would have seemed quite +natural and proper to Jackson's ancestors, the grim Scotch-Irish who +defended Londonderry against the forces of the Stuart King, or to their +forefathers, the Covenanters of Scotland, and the Puritans who in +England rejoiced at the beheading of King Charles the First. + +In the first battle, in which Jackson took part, the confused struggle +at Bull Run, he gained his name of Stonewall from the firmness with +which he kept his men to their work and repulsed the attack of the Union +troops. From that time until his death, less than two years afterwards, +his career was one of brilliant and almost uninterrupted success, +whether serving with an independent command in the Valley, or acting +under Lee as his right arm in the pitched battles with McClellan, Pope, +and Burnside. Few generals as great as Lee have ever had as great a +lieutenant as Jackson. He was a master of strategy and tactics, fearless +of responsibility, able to instil into his men his own intense ardor of +battle; and so quick in his movements, so ready to march as well as +fight, that his troops were known to the rest of the army as the "fool +cavalry." + +In the spring of 1863 Hooker had command of the Army of the Potomac. +Like McClellan, he was able to perfect the discipline of his forces and +to organize them, and as a division commander he was better than +McClellan; but he failed even more signally when given a great +independent command. He had under him 120,000 men when, toward the end +of April, he prepared to attack Lee's army, which was but half as +strong. + +The Union army lay opposite Fredericksburg, looking at the fortified +heights where they had received so bloody a repulse at the beginning of +the winter. Hooker decided to distract the attention of the Confederates +by letting a small portion of his force, under General Sedgwick, attack +Fredericksburg, while he himself took the bulk of the army across the +river to the right hand so as to crush Lee by an attack on his flank. +All went well at the beginning, and on the 1st of May Hooker found +himself at Chancellorsville face to face with the bulk of Lee's forces; +and Sedgwick, crossing the river and charging with the utmost +determination, had driven out of Fredericksburg the Confederate division +of Early; but when Hooker found himself face to face with Lee he +hesitated, faltered instead of pushing on, and allowed the consummate +general to whom he was opposed to himself take the initiative. + +Lee fully realized his danger, and saw that his only chance was to +attempt, first to beat back Hooker, and then to turn and overwhelm +Sedgwick, who was in his rear. He consulted with Jackson, and Jackson +begged to be allowed to make one of his favorite flank attacks upon the +Union army; attacks which could have been successfully delivered only by +a skilled and resolute general, and by troops equally able to march and +to fight. Lee consented, and Jackson at once made off. The country was +thickly covered with a forest of rather small growth, for it was a wild +region, in which there was still plenty of game. Shielded by the forest, +Jackson marched his gray columns rapidly to the left along the narrow +country roads until he got square on the flank of the Union right wing, +which was held by the Eleventh Corps, under Howard. The Union scouts got +track of the movement and reported it at headquarters; but the Union +generals thought the Confederates were retreating; and when finally the +scouts brought word to Howard that he was menaced by a flank attack he +paid no heed to the information, and actually let his whole corps be +surprised in broad daylight. Yet all the while the battle was going on +elsewhere, and Berdan's sharpshooters had surrounded and captured a +Georgia regiment, from which information was received which showed +definitely that Jackson was not retreating, and must be preparing to +strike a heavy blow. + +The Eleventh Corps had not the slightest idea that it was about to be +attacked. The men were not even in line. Many of them had stacked their +muskets and were lounging about, some playing cards, others cooking +supper, intermingled with the pack-mules and beef cattle. While they +were thus utterly unprepared Jackson's gray-clad veterans pushed +straight through the forest, and rushed fiercely to the attack. The +first notice the troops of the Eleventh Corps received did not come from +the pickets, but from the deer, rabbits, and foxes which, fleeing from +their coverts at the approach of the Confederates, suddenly came running +over and into the Union lines. In another minute the frightened pickets +came tumbling back, and right behind them came the long lines of +charging, yelling Confederates. With one fierce rush Jackson's men swept +over the Union lines, and at a blow the Eleventh Corps became a horde of +panic-stricken fugitives. Some of the regiments resisted for a few +moments, and then they too were carried away in the flight. + +For a time it seemed as if the whole army would be swept off; but Hooker +and his subordinates exerted every effort to restore order. It was +imperative to gain time, so that the untouched portions of the army +could form across the line of the Confederate advance. Keenan's regiment +of Pennsylvania cavalry, but four hundred sabres strong, was accordingly +sent full against the front of the ten thousand victorious Confederates. +Keenan himself fell riddled by bayonets, and the charge was repulsed at +once: but a few priceless moments had been saved, and Pleasonton had +been given time to post twenty-two guns, loaded with double canister, +where they would bear upon the enemy. The Confederates advanced in a +dense mass, yelling and cheering, and the discharge of the guns fairly +blew them back across the works they had just taken. Again they charged, +and again were driven back, and when the battle once more began the +Union re-enforcements had arrived. + +It was about this time that Jackson himself was mortally wounded. He had +been leading and urging on the advance of his men, cheering them with +voice and gesture, his pale face flushed with joy and excitement, while +from time to time as he sat on his horse he took off his hat and, +looking upward, thanked Heaven for the victory it had vouchsafed him. As +darkness drew near he was in the front, where friend and foe were +mingled in almost inextricable confusion. He and his staff were fired on +at close range by the Union troops, and, as they turned, were fired on +again, through a mistake, by the Confederates behind them. Jackson fell, +struck in several places. He was put in a litter and carried back; but +he never lost consciousness, and when one of his generals complained of +the terrific effect of the Union cannonade he answered, "You must hold +your ground." + +For several days he lingered, hearing how Lee beat Hooker, in detail, +and forced him back across the river. Then the old Puritan died. At the +end his mind wandered and he thought he was again commanding in battle; +and his last words were, "Let us cross over the river and rest in the +shade." Thus perished Stonewall Jackson, one of the ablest of soldiers +and one of the most upright of men, in the last of his many triumphs. + + + + +THE SHIP WITHOUT A LIGHT. + +BY EZRA HURLBURT STAFFORD. + + +"Well, my boy, what can I do for you?" + +It was in the Custom-house, and the Chief was sitting at his desk +opening a letter. A boy of perhaps sixteen was standing awkwardly at the +door. He was dressed rather roughly, and the Customs Inspector thought +it would be a good idea to despatch the boy's business before he read +the letter, which he had by this time drawn from the envelope. + +"Well?" he repeated; but the boy still hesitated, and glanced uneasily +across the room towards a tall lady, who was standing at the window with +her back towards him. + +"Anything very particular?" the officer went on, with a touch of +annoyance. + +"I guess I'd like to speak to you alone." + +The lady evidently heard him, for without speaking she hurriedly drew +her veil down over her face, and noiselessly left the room by a door +which he had not noticed before. The boy caught a glimpse of her face as +she turned, and gave a little start, he hardly knew why. It was a +strange face. + +"Now, then, we are quite alone, what have you to say? It's growing +late." + +"I wanted to speak to you, sir, about something I saw last night out in +Puget Sound. I thought you ought to be told about it." + +"Yes?" + +"A boat, sir, that I think is smuggling opium in from the British +Columbia coast." + +"What is your name?" + +"Thomas Walton. I'm a fisherman." + +"What makes you think the boat is smuggling opium?" + +"Because she passed down the channel about two o'clock last night and +carried no light." + +"What sort of a craft?" asked the customs officer, with a peculiar look. + +"I should think she was a sailing sloop, sir-- I couldn't see noways +plain." + +"When did you say?" + +"Last night." + +"Tell me all about it. Where do you live?" + +"At my father's ranch on Padilla Bay; he's dead, and I live with my +mother and sister there. I fish during the salmon season." + +"Were you alone last night?" + +"No; an Indian boy and myself have a boat between us; it was Jo saw her +first." + +"Well?" + +[Illustration: "A MINUTE AFTER IT WAS LIGHT FOR AN INSTANT AND WE GOT +SIGHT OF HER."] + +"We were tacking across the channel, and it was very dark. We had just +come about, and suddenly I heard a swish in the water and felt something +a yard or so off sweeping by. I couldn't see what it was at first. It +seemed to pass in the air. Jo heard it too, and we were both pretty +scared. A minute after it was light for an instant and we got sight of +her, a few yards to windward of us, bending under her sail. Jo pointed +her out to me, and the next moment she seemed to disappear. We got into +port this afternoon very late with our fish, and as soon as I could I +came to tell you." + +"How many times have you seen this--this ship without a light?" + +"Just the once. We don't carry a light ourselves, or we mightn't have +seen her this time." + +"Where was this?" + +"To the south of Fidalgo Island." + +"In the outer channel?" + +"No, right below the slough, to the inner side of the island and the +main shore." + +"Where did the boat seem to come from?" the Inspector asked, looking +straight in the boy's face. + +"Well, we couldn't exactly be sure; but Jo seemed to think that she had +come from the slough--that was what set us to thinking she must be a +smuggler." + +"Have you told anybody about this?" + +"No." + +"Don't. How about this Indian boy, this Siwash?" + +"He hasn't said a word about it to any one. I made him keep it quiet +till I had told you." + +"Sure no one else knows?" + +"No one; at least no one but the man in the outer office here." + +"What did you tell him for?" the Chief asked, with sudden vexation. + +"He wouldn't let me in till I told him what I wanted; he said you were +busy." + +At this moment the door opened and a man in uniform entered. + +"Ah," he said, glancing at the boy, "he's told you, then. Had we better +put any confidence in the tale? I've been speaking to the Captain of the +_Madrona_ about it. He is in the outer office now. He seems to think +there is something in it." + +"You may go now," said the Chief, with a preoccupied look, to the boy; +"you had better go right home, and next time carry a light yourself. +Good-evening." + +"I am sorry you let the boy go," the deputy began, as the door closed; +"we may need him for evidence. But here's the Captain." + +A tall gentleman, in the uniform of the United States navy, entered the +room at this moment. "I've been having a word with your salmon-fisher," +he said, "and I think he's telling the truth. I'll catch them to-night +when they're getting back north, and give them more light in Puget Sound +than they will find altogether convenient. Where was it he saw them +now?" + +"I don't think the boy said," the deputy answered. "Did he tell you?" +and he turned to his superior. + +"Yes, he did, now I recollect." + +"Was it in the main channel, or below the slough to the inside of the +island?" + +"In the outer channel; it was too large a boat to get through the +slough." + +"Why, I thought he said it was a sailing sloop," mused the Captain, +turning to the deputy. + +"So did I." + +"No; the boy told me distinctly," the Chief replied, "that it was a much +larger vessel, and that she passed him in the outer channel; though +candidly, as to her carrying no light, we must remember that boys +sometimes have wonderful imaginations." + +"Then we'll keep the main channel;" and the Captain left the room. + +Down among the ships in the harbor a small boat was moored. It had all +the unmistakable signs of being a fishing-boat, and a youth with a large +round face of a heavy brown mahogany color was sitting lazily at the +edge of the wharf, when Thomas Walton made his appearance. They both got +into the boat and pushed from the dock. It was growing quite dusk. The +harbor lights were already lit. + +"You told them, Tom?" + +"Yes." + +"What did they think?" + +"I hardly know. I wish now I hadn't gone near them at all." + +"Didn't they treat you white?" + +"I don't know." + +"You don't?" + +"Well, they didn't seem to believe what I said, anyway. And there's +something else I don't like the looks of." + +"What else?" + +"Oh, nothing much. I think I was followed down to the wharf. Look over +there. Can you see? Is that a man or a woman in that boat there--the one +that just came around the stern of the _Umatilla_?" + +"A man." + +"No, the other. You can't see now. She got down low the moment she saw +me looking at her. Give her another haul. There; that'll do." The last +remark referred to the sail which the Indian had hoisted as Tom was +speaking. + +"Why, Jo, where did that boat go?" he continued a moment afterward, +looking back among the shipping. + +The skiff was gone. + +A couple of hours later they were cutting across Puget Sound before a +fresh wind, with the slap and drench of the rising waves against their +bows. The timbered uplands were darkly visible a mile or so ahead, and +Tom called out to his companion in the bow: + +"I say, Jo, I'm going to tack for the inner channel, and wait in the +slough. I have been thinking this thing out, and I've got an idea in my +head. I didn't tell the man at the Custom-house about the landing at the +rocks." + +"You didn't?" came a sleepy voice from the darkness. + +"No; I was too confused at first, and afterwards I thought I wouldn't, +anyway." + +A mile up this narrow channel, or slough, as shallow places of the kind +are called on the Pacific coast, there was a small bay, almost hidden by +the vast overhanging fir-trees. On one side the shore was steep and +rocky, but on the other there was a small strip of very convenient +beach, where the boys had landed three or four times to mend their +seine. The last time they had been there, Jo, in the spirit of +exploration, had pushed his way into the thick woods, and a little way +back had come upon a faint trail, which, after making a detour, they +found led up to the steep rocks on the other side of the little bay. +They never took the trouble to follow it inland. + +"Place where the lumbermen land," Jo had remarked upon this occasion, +pointing to the trunk of a cedar near the edge. There was a slightly +worn place in the bark where a ship's rope had been fastened. + +Afterwards they had remembered that the island was part of an Indian +reservation, where no lumberman had any right to touch the timber. + +Until the incident of the night before they had, however, given this no +thought. But it had occurred to Tom then that the mysterious trail in +the uninhabited island might possibly have some connection with the +strange vessel. + +"What are the customs officers going to do?" Jo asked. + +"From the little I could hear I expect that the _Madrona_ will keep +watch for the smugglers in the open waters of the Sound. The slough +won't be guarded at all, in that case, and I'm going to wait here till +towards morning; then, if nothing passes, we can put into the bay, and +see if there are any signs of anybody having been on the trail the last +few hours." + +"Not likely." + +"Well, I'm not so sure of that--at all events we'll wait here through +the night, and see if anything does happen." + +"But if it isn't an opium smuggler at all; if it's a--a--" + +"A what?" Tom asked shortly, familiar with the other's superstitious +nature. + +"Have we the gun?" said Jo, changing the subject. + +"I don't know." + +"Yes, it's here," answered the Indian, rummaging for it among a lot of +odds and ends at the bow. "I wonder if it's--" + +"Don't bang it off into me to find out if it is." + +Some hours after midnight the boat of the boys was standing in for the +little bay spoken of. They had waited further up the slough, but Tom, +who of the two was the one who had kept awake, had heard nothing pass. +It was still quite dark. + +Jo suddenly started. + +"Say, did you see that? There--there it is again!" + +The boys looked upwards, and a great white bar of light, like a comet, +swung across the sky above them. Then it swung slowly back again, +faltering here and there, and appearing to rise and fall in certain +places. + +"It must be the _Madrona_'s search-light," said Tom, "and they are right +south of here." + +They still had a full view of the open waters of Puget Sound. + +"They seem to be coming this way," muttered the Indian; "there it goes +again!" + +As he spoke, an intensely bright cone of light leaped forth suddenly +into the darkness, and moved from place to place along the high rocky +shores. + +"I'm glad it isn't as dark as it was last night," Jo said, as they +rounded the point, and glided onward noiselessly upon the calm black +water. "Do you see anything in the bay?" + +"No; drop the sail," Tom whispered, and he steered the boat slowly +through the suspicious inlet. It was quite dark in the shadow of the +gigantic trees. As the bow grated gently on the sand, Jo stepped out, +followed at once by his companion. + +The next moment they were both appalled by an unexpected sound. It was +the soft flap of a sail. As their eyes grew more accustomed to the gloom +of the thick forest trees, they could see dimly a vessel of considerable +size, moored to the very rocks they had been thinking of. It was the +mysterious ship of the night before. It awed them too, to see it lying +so near to them with its white sails all spread, and yet not a sign of +life upon it. There was something weird about it all, and Tom could +hardly prevent the Siwash boy from making an immediate retreat. + +They continued to listen for some moments, but all remained still upon +the vessel and upon the shore. + +"I wonder is there any one aboard of her?" Jo said in an undertone. + +"Keep still!" + +In spite of this warning, Tom was himself the first to break the +silence. + +"Perhaps they've abandoned her." + +"Then where can they be?" + +"Do you want to know real bad?" asked Tom. + +"Yes!" + +"Well, you're good at following a night trail; just you follow that one +back into the island, and you'll stand a fair show of seeing where they +are." + +This was humor, and Jo grinned appreciatively. + +"Where is the gun?" Tom asked, presently. + +"I have it; what are we going to do?" + +"We're going to get that sloop out into the Sound, and sail her up to +the city dock at daybreak. I'll show those customs inspectors--" + +"They'll say you're the smuggler." + +"Well, I'm going to risk it." + +"Perhaps they're aboard now--asleep." + +"Keep the gun ready, then!" + +The boys were making their way towards the sloop along the narrow strip +of sand yet uncovered by the flood tide, but as they spoke, they stopped +with one accord, for they heard a sound from the trees near by. + +"Cougar?" + +"No," whispered the Indian, "a man!" + +"Stand very still, then, and watch what happens." + +They could hear the branches being pushed aside softly, and dull +footfalls upon the forest moss. + +Presently two dark shapes emerged upon the neighboring rocks. They were +talking rapidly, but the boys could not catch what they were saying. + +The _Madrona_ was moving to the south of the island, and standing in +towards the mouth of the slough. One of the new-comers saw the +search-light. + +"They'll be upon us in half an hour," Tom could hear him say; "we must +steer around the point, and get up the slough, where a vessel of such +deep draught as theirs cannot follow us. We'll he done for if we stay +here." + +The voice seemed familiar, but the boy was too excited to give the fancy +a second thought. What he saw, only too plainly, was the easy way in +which the supposed smugglers could make their escape, and, laying +prudence aside, he instantly called out in what he intended to be a very +commanding voice, + +"Ahoy there! you can't go aboard till you say who you are, and what you +are doing here." + +Hardly were the words spoken when Tom saw a bright red flash, and was +almost stunned by a loud report. He heard the crash of a rifle bullet +through the branches behind him, and heard the echoes running along the +opposite shores, growing fainter and fainter in the distance. + +The shot was instantly returned, and there was a quick sharp cry from +the rocks. He turned and saw Jo at his side, lowering the gun from his +shoulder. + +The next moment he heard a rustle in the trees near him, and hardly +thinking of the peril in which he was throwing himself, he turned in +swift pursuit. He struck the trail almost at once, and still heard the +same odd rustle a short distance ahead of him. + +He guided himself as well as he could in the darkness, often stumbling +over the bared roots, or grazing his head against the low cedar +branches. At times he stopped to listen. It soon became evident that he +was catching up. + +The pale light of the early morning was beginning to show dimly through +the trees. The person ahead tripped once or twice, and Tom knew that he +was now almost at hand. The unseen fugitive appeared to be moving with +great difficulty. A moment later the boy heard a heavy fall a few yards +in front of him, and running hastily forward was suddenly met by--a +woman! + +At this mishap, speaking for the first time, she uttered a harsh sound +in a deep voice which there was no mistaking. + +It was a man then, and not a woman, after all, Tom thought, and in his +heart he blessed the smuggler's awkward disguise, which had allowed him +to catch up. + +But the smuggler, in the mean time, had drawn his revolver, and was on +the point of aiming it mercilessly at the unarmed lad, when the latter, +watching his motions with difficulty in the uncertain light, snatched +quickly at his hand. The weapon was thus turned at random as the trigger +was pressed, and Tom, deafened by a sudden report, drew back as the +revolver flashed in his face. + +The disguised man fell to the ground. The boy watched him for a moment, +but he lay there quite still in the shadow. + +A feeling of fear swept through the boy's heart, and he hurried back to +the shore to call for help. The man might not be dead. He was surprised +to find what a long distance it was back. He had not, in his first +excitement, thought he had gone more than a couple of hundred yards. + +As he drew near to the water's edge he heard the sound of a number of +voices. The day was beginning to break. Coming out on the shore, he saw +the _Madrona_ lying at the mouth of the slough with the thick smoke +wreathing from her funnel. + +On the rocks near by several men in uniform were standing in a group +about some object upon the ground. With a strange presentiment the boy +made his way around the shore and joined them. What he saw there was a +man lying upon his face. He did not need to see the features to +recognize who it was. + +It was the Chief of the Customs Department. + +"Where have you been, Tom?" + +The boy turned around at these words, and saw the Captain of the +_Madrona_. The sight of his bluff honest face made the boy feel himself +again; and reminded him, too, of his errand, which he had forgotten for +the moment. + +"I followed the man dressed up like a woman who was with him," Tom +answered, excitedly; "he's a mile back in the woods now-- I want to take +a surgeon along, for I think he's killed. I caught at his hand with it +in, and it went off somehow--the revolver, I mean--and I think it killed +him--but I didn't mean to; I couldn't see." + +"I'll go back with you at once--who did you say it was?" + +The boy told what had happened as they hurried back through the trees. + +"That must be Tee Ling." + +"Who?" + +"Tee Ling; you've heard of him--the most notorious opium smuggler on the +coast-- I see it's a trail." + +"Yes, all the way. So it's a China man, then?" + +"Of course. There's not a more detestable scoundrel among all the +Chinese in America. He has a den some place on the British Columbia +coast, and probably we'll unearth his southern headquarters within a +mile or so of where we stand. He dresses as a woman simply as a +disguise. He has a hundred of them. You've had a terribly narrow escape +from him, my dear boy." + +"I saw him at the Custom-house last night, when I was reporting what I +had seen." + +"Where--in the office?" + +"Yes." + +"Who would have thought it! We knew that the Chinese gang were working +into the hands of one of our men, but we never thought it could be into +his. There it is, a man's sin will always find him out in the end! +What's the matter?" + +"I--I feel kind of sick like. I guess I'm sort of a coward, but the +thought of him lying there dead that way! I suppose a man like you gets +used to it, but I--it makes me--" + +"You needn't be ashamed to own to a feeling of humanity, my boy; no good +man ever gets _used_ to death or crime, though good men sometimes have +to see a deal of both." + +"Here is the place; but--oh!--" + +"Yes, Tee Ling has wisely departed, I see. I expected as much, for Tee +Ling is very sagacious. It's just as well we didn't bother about the +ship's surgeon. Besides, he is too good a Chinaman to take our medicine, +much less the dose of medicine the United States has ready for him. He's +wanted in 'Frisco, you know." + +"Well, I'm mighty glad he's alive, all the same," Tom remarked, in a +tone of great relief. "I was dreadfully afraid he was dead, and I--I +never killed anybody!" + +"We will be sure to catch him during the day, nevertheless, for he can't +get off the island, unless he disguises himself as a brown bear, and +I'll tell the boys to shoot all the brown bears." + +Tom laughed at this mild drollery, and they returned to the shore +without seeing any trace of the Chinaman. + +A lieutenant was standing on the deck of the smuggler's sloop. "There's +ten thousand dollars' worth of gum opium aboard of her, Captain." + +"Yes, and very likely double that amount more hidden some place in the +island. Tom, what do you set your fortune at?" + +"I guess about a hundred dollars would be more than I would ever know +what to do with." + +"What extravagant ideas you have! I think we will be able to suit you, +though. Something like a hundred times over at the very least." + +"Why, how do you mean?" + +"Mean? Simply that this is to a great extent your 'find.' We heard your +gun, and our suspicions were aroused at once. If it hadn't been for your +nerve in the first place they would have got away. Are you willing to be +fired at twice for nothing?" + +One of the _Madrona_'s men came up before the boy could answer, if, +indeed, he had any answer to make, and whispered a few words to the +Captain. + +"Alive, is he?" the Captain exclaimed. "Get a stretcher and take him +aboard at once or he may die yet of his wounds. Perhaps that would be +the best thing he could do; but that's not for us to say." + +To a boy of Tom's generous and manly nature it was a great relief to see +the unconscious Customs Inspector carried aboard the _Madrona_. But he +said nothing. + +The Captain was silent also for a long time. Presently his attention was +attracted by something unusual on the beach, and, dismissing an +unpleasant train of thought, he broke out, "What have you there, men?" + +Four of the _Madrona_'s men were seen at this moment coming around the +point on the shore with a very unwilling prisoner. + +"There!" said the Captain. "I told you we would have him before the day +was out. The lost are found, and the dead are alive, sure enough. Where +did you get him?" he hailed, in a louder voice. + +"Hiding on the shore." + +"I'm afraid Tee Ling is getting childish," the Captain commented, in a +voice aside to Tom, "if he is going to venture down to the water when +things are as hot as they are now." + +The men, who seemed to be having a great deal of difficulty, came +nearer, and Tom called out in surprise, + +"Why, it's Jo." + +"Jo?" echoed the Captain. + +"Yes; that's not Tee Ling; it's Jo." + +"Who's Jo?" + +"Why, the Siwash Indian who fishes with me. Hello there, Jo! Where in +the world have you been?" + +Jo's face was a pale fawn color with fear, but he did not answer. + +"Let him go, boys," the Captain said, smiling. "It's all right. He's not +the one we are after." + +"It's all right, Jo," Tom repeated; but the latter, though now at +liberty, was still silent and very serious. There were many cloudy +thoughts shaping in his bewildered mind. He had expected to be sent to +prison for being a smuggler, and hanged for shooting a man. It was +difficult for him to get rid of these ideas on short notice. + +Indeed, it is hardly probable that he ever clearly understood the +strange turn which events took in the next few hours. + +At any rate he was not heard to utter a single word for two whole days. + + + + +TURNING A TRIPLE SOMERSAULT. + + +"Whatever you do, don't join a circus," said John, the new stableman. He +was sitting on top of a feed barrel in the barn with a pipe in his +mouth, and his deliberate manner bore conviction that he knew what he +was talking about. The boys had always wondered where John had learned +so much about this big world and its ways, and it was only a few days +previous to the present occasion that Joe had admitted having at one +time in his career travelled for a year with a circus. Then nothing +would do but that he should tell the boys all sorts of circus stories. +To-day the conversation had turned on triple somersaults. + +"That feat has been accomplished mighty few times," said John, +dogmatically, "and I know all about it. I saw John Worland do it in New +Haven in 1884, and he told me the whole history of the act, and of the +many men who have tried to do it. The first man to attempt to turn a +triple somersault was a performer in Van Amburgh's circus, in Mobile in +1842. He broke his neck. W. J. Hobbes made the attempt in London in +1845, and was instantly killed. The next one was John Amoor. He had been +successfully turning a double, and was the original in accomplishing it +over four horses. He tried to do a triple at the Isle of Wight in 1859, +turned twice, landed on his forehead, and broke his neck. Sam Reinhart, +while travelling with Cooper and Bailey's circus, became dissatisfied +with the double somersault feat, and was anxious to do a triple. He did +it at Toledo in 1870, making a high leap, turned twice and a half, +alighted on the broad of his back, and was disabled for some time. Billy +Dutton accomplished the feat at Elkhorn in 1860, but he never made +another attempt. Bob Stickney did it while practising in a gymnasium in +New York, but he alighted on a blanket, and never succeeded in landing +on his feet. Frank Starks tried to turn three times in Indianapolis, but +he fell on his head and died soon afterwards. The only man, living or +dead, that ever accomplished the feat successfully, was John Worland, +the man I saw. He threw a triple somersault six times from a +spring-board. The first time he attempted it was at St. Louis in 1874, +with Wilson's circus. He made three trials, twice over five horses, +landing on his back. At the third attempt he landed on his feet. + +"The next time he tried it was also at St. Louis in 1876. He landed on +a mattress in a sitting posture. He did it again at Eau Claire, in 1881, +and at La Crosse a few days later. On this occasion all the members of +the company made affidavits to the fact. The last time he accomplished +the feat was when I saw him at New Haven in 1884. It was at the +Forepaugh show, and the Mayor of the city and many newspaper men were +present. First a performer ran down the board and turned a single +somersault; then another man followed and turned a double; after which +Worland ran down the board and threw a triple somersault, landing on a +bed on his feet as straight as an arrow It has seldom occurred that any +man has done a triple somersault before a circus audience after due +announcement, but there is no doubt about Worland's act. It was duly +announced by the ring-master, and hundreds of people saw him do it. For +years he practised the double, and never would turn a single, so that +when he attempted a triple he did not run as great a risk as others who +attempted the feat. But, nevertheless, boys, don't join a circus, and +never try the triple." + + + + +BOYS AND GIRLS OF NEW YORK STREETS.[1] + +A DAUGHTER OF THE TENEMENTS. + +BY EDWARD W. TOWNSEND. + + +In one of the Roosevelt Street buildings called "back tenements," +because they are built in the spaces which were once the back yards of +the buildings in front of them, when those buildings, years ago, were +occupied by single, well-to-do, and sometimes fashionable, families, +Gabriella Moreno was born. Her parents were not the poorest, by any +means, of those who lived in that neighborhood, for her father, Antonio +Moreno (he was called "Tony" by all his English-speaking acquaintances) +was the proprietor of a fruit-stand, and did quite a prosperous +business. In fact, among the Italians of that neighborhood it was +somewhat a mark of rank to own a fruit-stand instead of a fruit +"push-cart." Tony Moreno had been a push-cart fruit peddler for years, +but some time after his only child was born he became the proprietor of +a little stand near the entrance of the Tivoli Theatre on the Bowery. +Part of the space his stand occupied was a broad entranceway which had +formerly been used as one of the entrances to the theatre, but which was +now closed for that purpose. Tony was one of the first Italians to +settle in the neighborhood of Cherry Hill, which is near Roosevelt +Street, and his knowledge of and influence over those of his countrymen +who followed him there made him useful to Mr. Kean, the proprietor of +the Tivoli, who was also in the business of politics. + +That was the way Tony came to have the privilege of running a +fruit-stand in front of the Tivoli. His profits were so great that he +and his wife and Gabriella were able to keep their one tenement room, +and it was a large one, all to themselves, without taking in two or +three boarders, as most of their neighbors did, to help pay the rent. +This made Tony one of the aristocrats of the neighborhood, and when it +became known that Gabriella had a cot to sleep on, instead of sleeping +on the floor, as the children of other families did, the neighbors +looked up to Tony more than ever before as a man of high standing and +solid position. + +Gabriella's little friends, however, were in the habit of calling her +"proud" and "stuck-up" on this account. When she was six years old +Gabriella was sent to Miss Barstow's Mission School, where many other +little Italian children also went, to learn to speak and read and write +in English. Most of the children left the school when they were eight, +and very few remained there after they were nine years old; for at that +age their parents thought them old enough to help at home, to care for +the younger children when both parents were away at work, and even to +learn to do sewing for the big clothing factories. Gabriella would have +been taken away, too, had it not been for Miss Barstow, who went to talk +with Tony and his wife. She told them that Gabriella was one of her best +scholars, and it would be to their interests, as well as their +daughter's, to let her remain at school until she was well enough +educated to do something better than sew on coarse clothing for wages +which would never support her decently. This pleased Mrs. Moreno, who +was ambitious for her pretty child, but Tony grumbled a good deal. + +Gabriella was old enough, he said, to help earn bread, as the other +children of her age did. Had not her father and mother worked since they +were six years old? he asked. Then why should their child be kept in +idleness only to learn things out of books which were well enough for +the rich, but did the poor no good? + +Miss Barstow was more interested in Gabriella than in any other child of +the tenements she had ever known, for the girl was really unusually +bright and pretty, and she was determined to keep her longer in the +school. She knew that Tony had his stand at the Tivoli by Mr. Kean's +permission, and to Mr. Kean she went for aid. + +Miss Barstow's fashionable friends would have been surprised to learn +how often she went to Mr. Kean for aid and advice, and to know how often +he gave his aid, and how valuable his advice always was. + +Mr. Kean smiled when Miss Barstow asked him if he could not help her +keep Tony's daughter in school, and said, with rough politeness, + +"Yes, I guess so, miss." + +What he did was simply to shortly order Tony to do just what Miss +Barstow wanted, if he knew what was good for him; and Tony obeyed +without question, as did every one else in that part of the city who +received orders from Mr. Kean. + +That was the way Gabriella remained in the school until she was past +twelve years old, and until the time her mother, who helped Tony at the +fruit-stand, was taken sick. Then Gabriella took her mother's place, but +she too became ill, and Tony had to close his fruit-stand part of each +twenty-four hours, which caused that very penurious Italian great misery +of mind, for his was what is known as an "all-night" stand, and he +bitterly lamented his loss of trade during the hours of closing. +Gabriella, under the careful nursing of Miss Barstow, soon became well +and strong again; but the mother did not, and that was the reason it +became necessary for the girl to take her place at the stand part of the +time, dividing with her mother the hours when Tony went home to eat and +sleep. + +Miss Barstow knew that if she interfered further to keep Gabriella off +the street and at school she might, with Mr. Kean's aid, succeed in +doing so; but her knowledge of tenement-house life made her realize that +such action would make the girl's home life unhappy. So she let her +favorite scholar go without protest, intending, however, to keep as +close a watch over her as she could, and to regain her for her school +later, if she found that the girl's mother became strong enough not to +need Gabriella's help. + +Gabriella's "watches"--that is, the time she was on duty at the +fruit-stand--were always in the day-time, and Miss Barstow would stop +there frequently to speak to her on her way to the Mission House. She +did this to keep track of the girl, and to leave her a book now and +then. These were the only happy moments in the poor girl's life. She had +learned to love Miss Barstow, and to care very much for books and other +things Miss Barstow had interested her in, which now seemed far removed +from her life, except when they were recalled by these visits from her +teacher. + +Every day now she went to the fruit-stand on the Bowery in the morning +to relieve her father. There it was her duty to keep the stacks and +pyramids of fruit in order, to dust them, to replace with fresh fruit +from the boxes underneath the stand the pieces which she sold, and to +keep a sharp look-out against the nimble hands of thievish youngsters. +Every piece of fruit was carefully counted by Tony before he went off +the watch, and when he returned Gabriella had to account for every sale +and every missing piece. + +One day Gabriella stood by the side of the stand, thinking how much +happier her life had been when she went each day to the Mission School. +She was wondering, at the same time, where she could have ever before +seen the smartly dressed boy who stood in the doorway of the theatre +office smiling at her. Somehow he was associated in her mind with Miss +Barstow, yet where and when, if ever, she had seen him before was as +indistinct in her mind as the memory of a dream. For several days she +had seen him standing there, and from the first she had the impression +that she had seen him somewhere else. She could not place him; he was +much better and more stylishly dressed than any of the boys she had ever +seen about her home or the school. He always had a friendly nod and +smile for her, and she nodded and smiled in return; and although they +had never spoken, she had never given up trying to think where, if +anywhere, she had seen him besides there in front of the theatre. + +As he stood there this day, looking somehow as if he owned the Bowery, a +rough young fellow loafed up to the stand and asked, in an impudent +manner, + +"Say, sis, how much are dese bananas?" + +"A cent each," answered Gabriella. + +[Illustration: "WELL, JUST CHARGE DIS ONE," HE SAID, SEIZING A BANANA +AND STARTING TO RUN.] + +"Well, just charge dis one," he said, seizing a banana and starting to +run. + +As Gabriella began to cry out for the thief to stop, the smartly dressed +lad in the doorway flew out like a Skye terrier after a rat. He had +headed off the loafer with such surprising quickness that the latter was +more amazed than frightened when the boy demanded of him to give up the +stolen fruit. This demand only made the fellow laugh. The laugh soon +came to an end, though, because Danny Cahill--for that was the name of +the smaller boy--had not forgotten any of the quick and fierce methods +he had learned to use in fighting larger boys when he had been a street +arab. It was a very short struggle, and almost before the frightened +Gabriella knew what was happening Danny was standing before her smiling, +and her tormentor was skulking away, well thrashed for his meanness. + +Danny's victory had been complete; he had not only vanquished the enemy +but recovered the stolen property; and as he put the banana carefully +back on the stand he said, good-naturedly, + +"It's all right, little girl; what are you crying for?" + +Gabriella stopped crying, and answered, "Because if that boy had got +away with the banana, and I did not have a penny for it, my father would +have whipped me." + +Then to the great astonishment of Danny, Gabriella took a banana from +the stand and offered it to him. Danny laughed outright at this, and +exclaimed: + +"Den if you haven't a penny t' show for de banana, your father will whip +you just de same wedder de banana is stolen or you give it away to me. +Won't he?" + +Gabriella laughed too, now, and said, "Yes, but I'm willing to take a +whipping for you, because you whipped that boy for me." + +But Danny said he guessed he would rather pay for the fruit, and they +were laughing and chatting over the adventure in the most friendly way +when Miss Barstow came up. They told her the story, and she seemed +greatly pleased. She told Gabriella that Danny was the boy who had +helped take care of her and her mother the first night they were both +sick with the fever. + +"Then it was there I saw you before," Gabriella said to Danny, with +delight. "I was not sure whether I had really seen you or just dreamed +that I had." + +"Well, you were doing a heap of dreaming dat night, sure," Danny +answered. + +"But you were a messenger-boy then," Miss Barstow said to Danny. "How is +it you happen to be here and not in your uniform?" + +"Oh, I'm Mr. Kean's office-boy now," answered Danny. "I'm to be his +clerk when I'm big enough." + +This information seemed to give as much satisfaction to Miss Barstow as +it did to Danny. + +"I like that," Miss Barstow said, "for now Gabriella will have some one +to look out for her when she is on watch." + +"Dat's right; as long as I remember how t' fight she will. Sure," Danny +replied, earnestly. + +FOOTNOTES: + +[1] The previous articles published in this series are "A Street-Waif's +Luck," No. 792, "Danny Cahill, Newsboy," No. 803, "A Messenger-Boy's +Adventure," No. 809. + + + + +SNOW-SHOES AND SLEDGES. + +BY KIRK MUNROE. + + +CHAPTER XXIII. + +LAW IN THE GOLD DIGGINGS. + +The latest comer to Camp Forty Mile was not particularly anxious to +attend the public meeting to which he was invited by Mr. Platt Riley. +Still he thought it better to do so rather than run the risk of +offending his host, who was evidently a man of influence in the +diggings. His overnight reflections having convinced him that this camp +was not such a place as he had expected, and also that he might find +greater safety elsewhere, his first act in the morning was to order his +Indian drivers to harness the dogs, and be prepared for a start within +an hour. + +Kurilla, who was with them under instructions not to lose sight of them, +grinned when he heard this, for he had picked up an inkling of what was +going on, and felt pretty certain that the order need not be obeyed. + +When Mr. Riley's reluctant guest entered the store of the Yukon Trading +Company, in which, on account of its size, the meeting was to be held, +he fully intended to take a back seat, and slip out as soon as he could +do so unnoticed. The place was so filled with miners, however, that +there were no back seats, and, to his surprise, the crowd pressed aside +as he and Mr. Riley entered, so as to leave a passage to the farther end +of the room. A moment later, without knowing just how it had been done, +he found himself seated beside Jalap Coombs's friend, Skiff Bettens, who +obligingly made a place for him. He noticed with some curiosity that +twelve men were seated on benches directly opposite to him, while all +the rest of the crowd were standing. Between him and these men was an +open space, at the upper end of which were a table and a chair raised on +a rude platform. + +To this platform Mr. Platt Riley made his way, and seating himself in +the chair, rapped on the table for silence. Then, rising, he said: + +"Gentlemen of the jury and fellow-citizens, this court is now open for +business, and I as its Judge, elected by your votes, am prepared to +administer justice in accordance with your laws, and such verdicts as +may be rendered by your jury." + +"It is a court," thought Strengel, with a shiver. + +"The case to be tried this morning," continued the Judge, "is one that +touches the pocket, the life, and the honor of every miner in the Yukon +Valley; for the prisoner at the bar is indicted on three separate counts +as a thief, a murderer, and an unmitigated scoundrel. He has come into +our camp under a false name and with a false story, after having +attempted the destruction of a steamer that is bringing goods and +machinery, of which we are greatly in need. + +"He is charged with robbing and leaving helpless in the wilderness a man +whom we all know and respect, and also with robbing and deserting while +seriously ill his own companion who was on his way to visit us in behalf +of our old-established trading company." + +Strengel listened to these terrible words with an ever-increasing +paleness and visible agitation. Finally, clapping a hand to his face as +though seized with a sudden illness, he started to rise and leave the +room. + +"Sit down," ordered Skiff Bettens, in a low tone, at the same time +jerking him back to his seat. Then the man knew that he was indeed a +prisoner. + +"To prove these serious charges," continued the Judge, "I am about to +call several witnesses. At the same time the prisoner will be given the +privilege of cross-questioning them and of pleading in his own behalf. +Mr. Philip Ryder." + +At this summons Phil advanced from the farther end of the room, and the +prisoner regarded him with undisguised amazement. + +After answering the usual questions regarding his personality and +business, Phil was asked if he knew the prisoner. + +"I do," he answered. + +"What is his name?" + +"I understand that he now calls himself Bradwick; but a few months ago +he went by the name of Strengel." + +[Illustration: "THAT'S A LIE!" SHOUTED THE PRISONER, HOARSELY.] + +"That's a lie," shouted the prisoner, hoarsely. + +"Silence!" commanded the Judge. "Now, Mr. Ryder, tell the jury what you +know concerning the accused from the time of your first meeting with him +up to the present." + +This Phil did as briefly as possible, and when he had finished the +prisoner sprang to his feet, his face black with rage, and exclaimed: +"Why should this fellow's story be believed rather than mine? Who knows +anything about him, or even who he is? He was picked up in Bering Sea, +drifting about in a stolen canoe. At St. Michaels he was known as a +thief and brawler. I happen to know that he has been locked up in a +Victoria police station, and I demand that his evidence be thrown out." + +"That will do, sir," said the Judge. "I happen to know this young man +and his family so well that I am willing to vouch for him if necessary. +Do you wish to question him? No. Then we will proceed. Mr. Serge +Belcofsky." + +Serge, of course, identified the prisoner as Strengel, and corroborated +Phil's story in every detail. + +"This ends the testimony on the first charge," announced the Judge, when +Serge had finished and the prisoner sullenly declined to question him. +"In proof of the second charge, that of robbery and desertion, I call as +a witness Mr. Jalap Coombs." + +As the ex-mate of the _Seamew_ advanced to the stand the prisoner stared +at him as though he were a ghost, nor could he imagine by what miracle +this witness had reached Forty Mile in time to appear against him. + +Jalap Coombs told his story in his own picturesque language, but in a +perfectly straightforward manner, and without the slightest hesitation. + +When he finished, the Judge questioned him very closely as to the amount +of money given him by Mr. John Ryder, and the prices paid for various +articles of his outfit at St. Michaels. + +As a defense against this charge the prisoner claimed that Jalap Coombs +had not been deserted by Simon Goldollar and himself, but had +voluntarily turned back, and that the dogs they had left with him had +run away to follow them much against their wishes. He also stated that +they had taken the dogs and sledge back to the place where they last saw +Jalap Coombs, but that they could not find him. + +"They were not his dogs, anyway, Judge," he continued, "nor did he +furnish any of our outfit, except a few provisions, most of which he +traded to the Indians on his own account. This man Coombs was a sailor, +supposed to be a deserter from some ship, and was loafing around St. +Michaels half starved when we picked him up. He claimed to have some +friends on the river who would help him, so we brought him along out of +charity." + +"May I toot a horn, Judge?" asked Mr. Skiff Bettens, rising as the +prisoner concluded his remarks. + +"Certainly you may, Marshal." + +"Waal, I only wanted to say that I've knowed Mr. Jalap Coombs off and on +for a good many years, and in all that time I've never knowed him to +tell a lie nor yet do a mean thing. Moreover I'm willing to stake my +life on his honesty agin that of any living man, for a better sailor, a +squarer man, and a truer friend never trod a deck." + +This sincere tribute so affected the simple-hearted sailor-man that he +could only stare open-mouthed at the speaker as though he were talking +in some mysterious language, though in after-years he often referred to +this as the proudest moment of his life. The remainder of the audience +greeted the Marshal's little speech with an outburst of applause which +the Judge was finally obliged to check. + +"Letting charge number two rest with the testimony taken," said the +Judge, when quiet was restored, "we will take up charge number three, +which is the most serious of all. We have already learned that the +accused, under the name of Strengel, passed old Fort Adams about a month +ago, bound for this place in company with a man named Goldollar, who +appears to be a pretty tough character himself, though that of course +has nothing to do with this case. The accused at that time had little, +or nothing of his own, either in the way of money or outfit, while +Goldollar appears to have been well fixed with both. Now this man turns +up in this place alone under the name of Bradwick, telling a story about +having come up the Porcupine, that he has since admitted to be false, +and in possession of the outfit formerly owned by Mr. Coombs and Simon +Goldollar. Of course, under the circumstances, the question naturally to +be asked is what has become of Goldollar?" + +"He got sick of the trip and turned back from Yukon," explained the +prisoner, sulkily. + +"Yes, we've heard he took sick," replied the Judge; "but whether he +turned back, or was left to die in an Indian rancheria is another +question. Mr. Coombs, will you please take the stand again?" + +This time Jalap Coombs testified that he had carefully examined the +outfit brought into camp the night before by the prisoner, and found it +to contain the same number of sledges, the same number of dogs, and the +identical articles, with the exception of a certain quantity of +provisions that had composed it at old Fort Adams. + +"We will now call on one other witness," announced the Judge, and the +prisoner started as though he expected to see Simon Goldollar himself +appear on the stand. What he did see was one of his native drivers from +Fort Yukon, with Kurilla to act as interpreter. + +"Do you admit Injun testimony in this court?" he asked. + +"Certainly we do," replied the Judge. + +"If I'd known that," he muttered, "I'd have bought a dozen or so to +testify on my side." + +The Indian's testimony was to the effect that this white man had left +another white man in a native hut at Fort Yukon so sick that all the +Indians thought he would die. + +"Of course I can't buck agin Injun testimony," growled the prisoner; +"but I say it's a lie, all the same, and don't prove nothing." + +"There is one thing that we must not neglect," said the Judge. "Marshal, +you may search the prisoner." + +The latter struggled furiously, but was overpowered and held by strong +hands while the Marshal searched his pockets. From these were produced a +number of articles, including a wallet, which the Judge opened, +spreading its contents on the table before him. + +"Do you recognize anything here?" he asked of Jalap Coombs. + +"I can identify this as having been in Goldollar's possession," answered +the mate, picking up one of the articles that had dropped from the +wallet, and holding it so that all might see. + +Both Phil and Serge uttered exclamations of amazement, for the object +thus exhibited was nothing more nor less than the mysteriously carved +and almost forgotten fur-seal's tooth that had exerted so great an +influence upon their fortunes. + + +CHAPTER XXIV. + +REAPPEARANCE OF THE FUR-SEAL'S TOOTH. + +"What do you know about this thing?" asked the Judge of Jalap Coombs, +taking the fur-seal's tooth from him and examining it curiously. + +"I know that there were an old Eskimo at St. Michaels what were shipped +by Goldollar to go with us to Nulato as dog-driver. He wore this bit of +ivory hung about his neck, and seemed to set a heap by it. One time when +he were looking at it I heerd Goldollar say that by rights it belonged +to him, seeing as he got it from some natyve, and it were afterwards +stole from him. He didn't say nothing to the Husky about it, but when we +got to Nulato he give him so much liquor that in the morning the old +chap couldn't be woke up. Goldollar fooled round him a while, and then +saying he'd have to give up the job of waking him, left him, and ordered +the teams to pull out. I afterwards seen Goldollar take that very +identical tooth outen his pocket several times and look at it like it +were a diamond or some sich, and heerd him tell Strengel that any man as +owned it would surely have luck. It didn't seem to bring him none, +though. Leastways no good luck, for he hain't had nothing but bad luck +sence." + +"Was it your impression that you could win good luck by stealing this +tooth?" inquired the Judge of Strengel. + +"I didn't steal it," answered the prisoner, sullenly. + +"How did you get it, then?" + +"Goldollar give it to me." + +"Where did you leave Goldollar?" + +"At Fort Yukon." + +"Was he in good health when you last saw him?" + +"I refuse to answer any more questions," replied the prisoner, realizing +how deeply he was committing himself. + +"Very well," said the Judge. "I think you have already told enough to +give us a pretty fair idea of the particular kind of a scoundrel you +are. So, if you have nothing more to say, I declare this case closed and +in the hands of the jury. Gentlemen, the court awaits your verdict." + +As there was no room to which the jury could retire they put their heads +together and consulted in whispers, during which time Phil told the +Judge what he knew about the fur-seal's tooth, together with the legend +of good and bad luck supposed to accompany its possession. The +spectators of the trial buzzed like a swarm of angry hornets. + +In a few minutes the jury ended their conference and resumed their +places. Then, as order was restored, the foreman, standing up, announced +that they were unanimous in finding the prisoner guilty on all three of +the charges preferred against him, and recommended that he be so +punished as to afford a warning to others of his kind who might be +contemplating a visit to the Yukon diggings. + +"Hang him!" cried some one in the crowd. + +"Shoot him!" shouted another. + +"Drive him out of camp, and set him adrift like he done to Jalap +Coombs," suggested a third. + +"Silence!" roared Judge Platt Riley, standing in his place and gazing +sternly about him. "You forget, gentlemen, that this is a court of law, +and though, maybe, it isn't run with all the frills of some, it's bound +to be respected. Likewise, it proposes to pronounce its own decisions. +In regard to the prisoner now awaiting sentence, he has been proved by +the testimony of reputable witnesses, and by his own admissions, to be a +liar, a traitor, a dog-stealer, which in this country is the same as a +boss-thief in the States, and a robber of his travelling companion under +circumstances that make him at the same time come pretty near to being a +murderer. For such as he hanging would be none too severe. But we have +never yet hanged a man in Forty Mile, and we don't want to begin, if we +can help it. The prisoner has expressed a desire to learn something of +our methods of working these diggings, and we promised to teach him. He +has also remarked that moss-stripping was a job well suited to convicts. +So be it. Prisoner at the bar, stand up and receive your sentence." + +When the wretched man, who had fancied himself in a country where he +could commit any crime without fear of punishment, had been assisted to +his feet by Marshal Bettens and a volunteer deputy, the Judge said: + +"By a fair trial, according to Yukon law, you are convicted of crimes +such as this community does not allow to go unpunished. On account of +them you are hereby sentenced to strip moss from the several claims of +this camp during every working hour of every working day from now until +such time as the first steamer reaches here from the lower river and is +ready to return. Then you will be allowed to work your way on her to St. +Michaels, where may the Agent have mercy upon you. + +"In the mean time, when not at work, you will be closely confined in the +camp lock-up, under guard of the Marshal, who shall be entitled to your +services for two days in every week for his trouble. On other days he +will hire you out to any miner who has moss to be stripped, and who will +pay for your keep during such time as you may work for him." + +This unique but just sentence was greeted with a murmur of approval from +the spectators; but this was quickly silenced by a frown from the Judge, +who continued: + +"All the property that you brought into this camp, including money and +outfit, excepting your personal clothing, is hereby confiscated, to be +disposed of as follows: One team of dogs, one sledge, and half the cash +found in your possession shall be restored to Mr. Jalap Coombs, from +whom you helped to steal them. The remainder of the money, after the +Indian drivers who came with you have been paid, and one dog team shall +be devoted to the relief of Simon Goldollar, who, though he seems to be +a pretty bad lot, is still a white man, and so must not be allowed to +perish if it can be helped. The third dog team shall become the property +of Marshal Bettens in place of a fee for his services. The remainder of +the property, provisions, and so forth shall be devoted to the support +of the prisoner during such times as he is working for the Marshal. Mr. +Bettens will now remove his prisoner, and I hereby declare this court +adjourned." This ended Mr. Strengel's prospects in Forty Mile, and when, +some months later, a boat arrived from the lower river, he thankfully +departed from Camp Forty Mile mentally vowing never to return. + +After consulting with Phil, Serge, and Jalap Coombs, Mr. Platt Riley, +who objected to being called "Judge" outside of court, decided to +entrust Simon Goldollar's rescue from the Indian village in which he had +been left to Kurilla and Chitsah, who were persuaded by a liberal +payment to return home that way. Another Indian was hired to accompany +them as far as Fort Yukon, and bring back word to Forty Mile of their +success. + +Phil wrote and sent him a letter, in which he apologized for having +accused him of stealing his money or the fur-seal's tooth, Jalap Coombs +having told him the facts concerning these things, and hoped he would +return to St. Michaels in safety. Long afterwards he learned that Simon +Goldollar did make his way down the river, aided by Kurilla and Chitsah, +and was sent on by Gerald Hamer from Anvik to St. Michaels. There he was +discharged from the company's employ on account of the failure of his +expedition, and finally left Alaska in the same ship that bore +ex-convict Strengel from its shores. An amusing feature of it all was +that both these rascals attributed the ill success of their undertakings +to the unlucky influence of the fur-seal's tooth. + +This industrious bit of ivory which exhibited such a fondness for +interfering with the affairs of men and boys, as well as such activity +in rapid travel and change of ownership reposed for several days in Mr. +Platt Riley's vest pocket, where it had been unconsciously thrust and +forgotten. Finally, tired of being thus neglected it worked a hole +through the pocket and fell to the floor. From there it was snapped up +by Mr. Riley's favorite dog, who lay at his feet, and doubtless imagined +it to be a choice morsel provided for him by his indulgent master. A +moment later the Judge was aroused from a reverie by the frantic +struggles of his dog, who seemed on the point of strangulation. When he +succeeded, by prompt effort, in removing the obstruction from the +animal's throat, and, with a feeling of superstitious amazement, +discovered its nature, he started at once for the store of the Yukon +Trading Company, determined to be rid of the uncanny object as quickly +as possible. + +It so happened that none of the three occupants of the premises was at +home, nor were they to be seen in any direction. They had been preparing +for departure, and many articles ready for packing on the sledges lay +scattered about the room. Among these was a fur sleeping-bag, on which +Mr. Riley's eye no sooner rested than he thrust the magic tooth into it, +and shook it to the very bottom. + +"There!" he exclaimed, "they are sure to take it with them; one of them +will find it sooner or later, and maybe it will bring him good luck. At +any rate I hope it will." + +So on the morning of the 5th of February, although the thermometer +registered 48 deg. below zero, the little party set forth from Forty Mile +with three sledges and seventeen dogs. Above the first sledge fluttered +a small flag on which appeared the magic letters "U.S.M.," signifying +that Phil had undertaken to deliver a large packet of letters, the first +mail ever sent out from Forty Mile in winter. + +The entire population of the camp was assembled to see them off; and +amid a round of hearty cheers the sledges dashed away up the Yukon. + +[TO BE CONTINUED.] + + + + +[Illustration] + +STORIES OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. + +WASHINGTON IRVING. + +BY HENRIETTA CHRISTIAN WRIGHT. + + + "Left his lodging some time ago, and has not been heard of + since--a small elderly gentleman, dressed in an old black + coat and cocked hat, by the name of Knickerbocker.... Any information + concerning him will be thankfully received." + +Such was the curious advertisement that appeared in the _Evening Post_ +under the date of October 26, 1809, attracting the attention of all New +York. People read it as they sat at supper, talked of it afterward +around their wood fires, and thought of it again and again before they +fell asleep at night. And yet not a soul knew the missing old gentleman, +or had ever heard of him before. Still, he was no stranger to them, for +he was a Knickerbocker, and every one was interested in the +Knickerbockers, and every one felt almost as if a grandfather or +great-grandfather had suddenly come back to life, and disappeared again +still more suddenly, without a word of explanation. + +For some time nothing more was heard of Diedrich Knickerbocker, and then +another advertisement appeared in the _Post_, saying he had been seen +twice on the road to Albany. Some time again elapsed, and finally the +landlord of the inn at which he had been reported to have stopped gave +up hope of ever seeing his guest again, and declared that he should sell +the manuscript of a book that Mr. Knickerbocker had left behind, and +take the proceeds in payment of his bill. People were really excited +about the fate of the old gentleman, and one of the city officials was +upon the point of offering a reward for his discovery, when a curious +thing happened. It was found that there was no old gentleman by the name +of Knickerbocker who had wandered away from his lodging; that there was +no inn at which he had lived, and no manuscript he had left behind, and +that, in fact, Mr. Knickerbocker was simply the hero of a book of which +the author took this clever means of advertising. The book claimed to be +the true history of the discovery and settlement of New York, and began +with an account of the creation of the world, passing on to the manners, +customs, and historical achievements of the old Hollanders who settled +Manhattan Island. Here we read of the golden reign of the first Dutch +Governor, Wouter Van Twiller, who was exactly five feet six inches in +height and six feet five inches in circumference, and who ate four hours +a day, smoked eight, and slept twelve, and so administered the affairs +of the colony that it was a marvel of prosperity. Next we hear of +Governor Keift, of lofty descent, since his father was an inspector of +windmills, how his nose turned up and his mouth turned down, how his +legs were the size of spindles, and how he grew tougher and tougher with +age, so that before his death he looked a veritable mummy. And then we +see the redoubtable Peter Stuyvesant stumping around on his wooden leg, +which was adorned with silver reliefs, furious with rage, menacing the +British fleet which has come to take possession of the town, threatening +vengeance dire upon the English King, and still cherishing his wrath +with fiery bravery when the enemy finally occupy the old Dutch town and +proceed to transform it into an English city. + +The book was read with amazement, admiration, or interest, as the case +might be. Some said it appeared too light and amusing for real history; +others claimed that it held stories of wisdom that only the wise could +understand; others still complained that the author was no doubt making +fun of their respectable ancestors, and had written the book merely to +hold them up to ridicule. Only a few saw that it was the brightest, +cleverest piece of humor that had yet appeared in America, and that its +writer had probably a career of fame before him. The author was +Washington Irving, then a young man in his twenty-seventh year, and +already known as the writer of some clever newspaper letters, and of a +series of humorous essays published in a semimonthly periodical called +_Salmagundi_. + +Irving was born in New York on the 3d of April, 1783, and was named +after George Washington. New York was then a small town, beyond the +limits of which were orchards, farms, country-houses, and the high-road +leading to Albany, along which the stage-coach passed at regular times. +There were no railroads, and Irving was fourteen years old before the +first steamboat puffed its way up the Hudson River frightening the +country people into the belief that it was an evil monster come to +devour them. All travelling was done by means of sailing vessels, +stage-coaches, or private conveyances; all letters were carried by the +stage-coach, and every one cost the sender or receiver twenty-five cents +for postage. The telegraph was undreamed of, and if any one had hinted +the possibility of talking to some one else a thousand miles away over a +telephone-wire, he would have been considered a lunatic or, possibly, a +witch. In fact, New York was a quiet, unpretentious little town whose +inhabitants were still divided into English or Dutch families, according +to their descent, and in whose households were found the customs of +England and Holland in full force. Irving's father was a Scotch +Presbyterian, who considered life a discipline, who thought all +amusement a waste of precious time, and who made the children devote one +out of the two half-weekly holidays to the study of the Catechism. + +[Illustration: IRVING AS A STAR.] + +Forbidden to attend the theatre, Irving would risk his neck nightly by +climbing out of his window to visit the play for an hour or so, and then +rush home in terror lest his absence had been noted and his future fun +imperilled, and many a night when sent early to bed he would steal away +across the adjacent roofs to send a handful of stones clattering down +the wide old-fashioned chimney of some innocent neighbor, who would +start from his dreams to imagine robbers, spooks, or other unpleasant +visitors in his bed-chamber. He was not particularly brilliant in his +studies, but he distinguished himself as an actor in the tragedies which +the boys gave in the school-room; at ten years of age he was the star of +the company, who did not even lose respect for him when once, being +called suddenly upon the stage through a mistake, he appeared with his +month full of honey-cake, which he was obliged to swallow painfully, +while the audience roared at the situation. Afterward when he rushed +around the stage flourishing a wooden sabre he was not a tragedian to be +trifled with. His favorite books were _Robinson Crusoe_, the _Arabian +Nights_, _Gulliver's Travels_, and all stories of adventure and travel. +The world beyond the sea always seemed a fairy-land to him; a little +print of London Bridge and another of Kensington Gardens that hung in +his bedroom stirred his heart wistfully; and he fairly envied the +odd-looking old gentlemen and ladies who appeared to be loitering around +the arches of St. John's Gate, as shown in a cut on the cover of an old +magazine. Later on his imagination was also kindled by short excursions +to the then wild regions of the Hudson and Mohawk valleys. Years +afterward we find the remembrance of these days gracing with loving +touch the pages of some of his choicest work. + +[Illustration: IN THE SCOTCH HILLS WITH SCOTT.] + +At seventeen Irving left school and began to study for the bar. But his +health, which had always been delicate, made it necessary for him to +take a long rest from study, and he accordingly left America for two +years of travel abroad. It was after his return home that he brought out +his Knickerbocker history, a work which made him so famous that when he +returned to England some time afterwards he found himself very well +known in the best literary circles. The results of this second visit are +found in the volumes comprising the _Tales of a Traveller_; _Bracebridge +Hall_; _Geoffrey Crayon's Sketch-Book_, and other miscellany, in which +occur charming descriptions of English country life, delightful ghost +stories, the famous description of an English Christmas, and the +immortal legend of _Rip Van Winkle_. One of Irving's most interesting +chapters in this collection is that of his visit to the haunts of Robin +Hood, whose exploits had so fascinated him as a boy that he spent his +entire holiday money in obtaining a copy of his adventures. _Abbotsford_ +is an account of a visit that Irving paid to Sir Walter Scott. It is a +charming revelation of the social side of Scott's character, who +welcomed Irving as a younger brother in art, became his guide in his +visits to Yarrow and Melrose Abbey, and took long rambling walks with +him all around the country made so famous by the great novelist. Irving +recalled as among the most delightful hours of his life those walks over +the Scottish hills with Scott, who was described by the peasantry as +having "an awfu' knowledge of history," and whose talk was full of the +folklore, poetry, and superstitions that made up the interest of the +place. + +In the evening they sat in the drawing-room, while Scott, with his great +hound, Maida, at his feet, read to him a scrap of old poetry, or a +chapter from King Arthur, or told some delightful bit of peasant +fairy-lore like that of the black cat which, on hearing one shepherd +tell another of having seen a number of cats dressed in mourning +following a coffin, sprang up the chimney in haste exclaiming, "Then I +am king of the cats!" and vanished to take possession of his vacant +kingdom. From this time on Irving's life was one of constant literary +labor for many years, all of which were spent abroad. His works on the +history of Spain, the companions of _Columbus_ and the _Alhambra_, were +compiled during his residence in Spain, where he had access to the +national archives, and where he became as familiar with the life of the +people as it was possible for a stranger to become. After seventeen +years' absence Irving returned to America, where he was welcomed as one +who won for his country great honors. He was the first writer to make +American literature respected abroad, and his return was made the +occasion of numerous fetes given in his honor in New York and other +cities. + +[Illustration: SUNNYSIDE.] + +He now built Sunnyside on the Hudson, the home that he loved so dearly, +and which will ever be famous as the abode of America's first great +writer. + +His principal works following the Spanish histories were _Astoria_, the +history of the fur-trading company in Oregon, founded by the head of the +Astor family; _Captain Bonneville_, the adventures of a hunter in the +far West; the _Life of Goldsmith_; and the lives of _Mohammed and his +Successors_. He returned to Spain as ambassador in 1842, and remained +four years. + +In the _Legends of the Conquest of Spain_ Irving tells the story of the +conquest of Spain by the Moors, as related in the old Spanish and +Moorish chronicles. The whole story is a brilliant, living picture of +that romantic age. The Spanish king goes to battle wearing robes of gold +brocade, sandals embroidered with gold and diamonds, and a crown studded +with the costliest jewels of Spain. He rides in a chariot of ivory, and +a thousand cavaliers knighted by his own hand surround him, while tens +of thousands of his brave soldiers follow him, guarding the sacred +banners emblazoned with the cross. The Moorish vanguard, riding the +famous horses of Arabia, advance to the sound of trumpet and cymbal, +their gay robes and snowy turbans, and their arms of burnished gold and +steel glittering in the sunshine which reflects in every direction the +sacred crescent, the symbol of their faith. The surroundings are equally +picturesque and romantic. The famous plain of Granada, adorned with +groves and gardens and winding streams, and guarded by the famous +Mountains of the Sun and Air, forms the foreground to the picture, while +in the distance we see the gloomy mountain passes, the fortified rocks +and castles, and the great walled cities, through which the Moors +passed, always victorious, and never pausing until their banners floated +from every cliff and tower. + +Irving remained some months in the Alhambra, living over again the +scenes of Moorish story, and so catching the spirit of the lost grandeur +of the old palace that his descriptions read like a bit of genuine +Arabian chronicle, which had been kept safe until then in the grim +guardianship of the past. + +[Illustration: IRVING LISTENING TO THE OLD TALES OF THE MOORS.] + +The chapters of the _Alhambra_ are also full of delightful legends, the +fairy tales which time had woven around the beautiful ruin, and which +the custodians of the place related gravely to Irving as genuine +history. It calls up a pleasant picture to think of Irving sitting in +the stately hall or on his balcony, listening to one of these old tales +from the lips of his tattered but devoted domestic while the twilight +was gathering, and the nightingale singing in the groves and gardens +beneath. He himself said that it was the realization of a daydream which +he had cherished since the time when, in earliest boyhood on the banks +of the Hudson, he had pored over the story of the Granada. + +In his work, _The Conquest of Granada_, Irving relates the story of the +retaking of Granada by Ferdinand and Isabella. So sympathetically and +graphically does Irving describe the fortunes of this war that he must +ever remain the historian of the Moors of Spain, whose spirit seemed to +inspire the beautiful words in which he celebrated their conquests, +their achievements and their defeats. + +In the _Chronicle of Wolfert's Roost_ Irving follows in imagination old +Diedrich Knickerbocker into the famous region of Sleepy Hollow, where +much of the material for the celebrated Knickerbocker History was said +to have been collected. This chronicle, it was claimed, was written upon +the identical old Dutch writing-desk that Diedrich used, the elbow chair +was the same that he sat in, the clock was the very one he consulted so +often during his long hours of composition. In these pages old Diedrich +walks as a real person, and Irving follows him with faithful step +through the region that he loved so fondly all his life. + +Everything here is dwelt upon with lingering touch. The brooks and +streams, the meadows and cornfields, the orchards and the gardens, and +the groves of beech and chestnut have their tribute from the pen of one +who found their charms ever fresh, who sought in them rest and +happiness, and who came back to them lovingly to spend the last days of +his life in their familiar companionship. + +Irving died in 1859, and was buried at Sunnyside; in sight of the Hudson +whose legends he had immortalized, and whose beauty never ceased to +charm him from the moment it first captivated his heart in his boyhood +days. + + + + +[Illustration: THE CAMERA CLUB] + + This Department is conducted in the interest of Amateur + Photographers, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any + question on the subject so far as possible. Correspondents should + address Editor Camera Club Department. + + +PAPERS FOR BEGINNERS, NO. 1. + +THE ACTION OF LIGHT ON THE SENSITIVE PLATE. + +The process of making photographs has been made so simple by modern +science that the most of us make our picture by intuition--that sort of +sixth sense by which we know just how long to expose a plate, when to +take it from the developer, when it is fixed sufficiently, etc., +etc.--though we can give no scientific explanation of our methods, and +know little or nothing how the chemical changes are produced which +result in the finished photograph. + +It is not at all necessary to know the process of making a sensitive +plate, but it is quite necessary to know something of the action of +light on the plate in order to make a good picture. A photographic +negative is formed by the chemical action of light admitted through a +lens or even a tiny hole, into an otherwise light tight box, and +striking a glass plate, film, paper, or celluloid, coated with sensitive +silver salts. The part of the light that affects this coating is the +blue rays. + +The rays of light may be separated by the prism into a band of five +different colors--red, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Three of these +colors--the red, yellow, and blue--are called the primary colors, for +any color or shade desired may be obtained by blending and mixing them +in different proportions. These three primary colors have each a +separate power. The red rays possess heating power, the yellow rays +possess illuminating power, and the blue rays chemical power. The blue +rays are called actinic, and when we speak of actinic light we mean the +blue rays which produce the chemical change in the sensitive plate. The +effect of these actinic rays may be seen in other things besides the +sensitive plates. The fading of carpets, draperies, and clothing, the +tanning or browning of the skin, etc., are due to their action. + +After the sensitive plate has been exposed in the camera to the chemical +action of the blue rays, the change which has taken place is invisible +to the eye, and in this state is called the latent image, because it is +dormant or hidden. In order to preserve this chemical change in the +silver salts the sensitive plate must be washed or soaked in a solution +which will form an opaque compound with the part of the salt which has +been acted upon by the light. As it is necessary to have a light to +watch the process and stop it when it has been carried far enough, we +must have a light free from actinic or blue rays. We therefore darken +the room and use a red light, for the red rays have little or no actinic +power. + +As we watch the chemical change which takes place in the sensitive plate +when covered with what we call the developer, we notice black patches +appear here and there on the plate. These are the places which have been +exposed to the strongest actinic rays. All bodies radiate or reflect +light, some more than others. A piece of yellow silk may appear to the +eye lighter in color than a piece of blue silk, but when the two pieces +are photographed it will be found that the yellow photographs much +darker than the blue silk. This is because the yellow silk does not +reflect actinic rays, while the blue does, and therefore the sensitive +plate is more strongly affected by the light reflected from the blue +than from the yellow silk. The yellow-colored silk possesses the +illuminating power which causes it to make a room look bright and sunny, +while the blue silk possesses the chemical power which affects the +sensitive salts. + +If the sensitive plate has been exposed to a landscape, the strongest +actinic rays come from the blue sky, and as the chemical used to develop +or bring out the image affects the part which has been exposed to the +strongest light most quickly, the result in the negative is the opaque +deposit which covers all that part of the plate exposed to the light +from the sky. After the image has appeared on the plate it must undergo +another process to make it permanent. It must be placed in a chemical +solution which shall dissolve the silver salts from the parts unaffected +by the actinic rays. Where the actinic light has been the strongest the +glass will be covered with a black deposit, and where the light has not +reached the plate with sufficient force the salts will be dissolved and +the glass will be clear, while the high lights, the shadows, and the +half-tones will show just how much each object reflected actinic rays. + +We manage our cameras, but the sun is the real work-man. What he does is +well worth learning, for it enables us to tell beforehand just what kind +of a negative we shall have after we have exposed a sensitive plate to +his influence. + + +ROUND TABLE PHOTOGRAPHIC EXCHANGE CLUB. + +Our suggestion of forming a photographic exchange club, or travelling +photographic exhibit, meets with the warm approval of many of our +members. Next week we shall give directions for beginning and carrying +on our club. We give the names and addresses of members who will act as +representatives. Ernest P. Fredericks, Arlington, New Jersey; Samuel J. +Castner, 3729 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Walter G. +Sill, 511 Central Avenue, East Orange, New Jersey; Andrew Phillips, +Nunda, New York; C. Roy Baker, 315 W. Dry Street, Salem, Ohio; William +J. Tobey, Washington, Kansas; William C. Davids, Rutherford, New Jersey. + + CONSTANT READER asks: "1. Is it possible to photograph from a + moving vessel, and how? 2. Can I take photographs of microscopic + specimens with an ordinary camera, and will you please describe + the method? 3. How can I photograph monuments so that they will + not show black in the picture? 4. What make of plates is the + quickest? 5. How can I photograph a mantel-piece in a hall without + using a flash-light? The hall is rather dark." 1. One can easily + photograph objects from a moving vessel by using quick plates and + making the exposure instantaneous. Successful snap-shots, but not + artistic pictures, have been and can be made from moving trains. + 2. An article will soon be published on microphotography for + amateurs. The process requires too long a description for the + space devoted to queries. 3. A cloudy day--not heavy clouds--is + the better time for photographing monuments. A rather slow plate + and a short time exposure will give better detail, and render the + monument or figure with correct color value. Use orthochromatic or + nonhalation plates. 4. The rapidity of the plate is marked on the + box. Some brands of plates are marked with the sensitometer + number, like the Stanley, Carbutt, Seed, etc., and others are + marked with a letter like the Cramer. The sensitiveness of the + Stanley, which is marked "Sens. 50," and the Cramer "C" plate is + about equal as to rapidity. 5. If you cannot use a flash-light for + the mantel, try a long exposure by lamp-light. Place the lamp, + which should give a clear, brilliant light, so as to illuminate + the wood-work without giving strong shadows. If one lamp is not + sufficient to light the whole surface, take two, but place them so + that the light from each comes from the same direction. A + reflector back of the lamp helps the lighting. A shallow tin pan, + if bright, makes a good reflector if the genuine article cannot be + obtained. + + LADY GRACE S., Vails Gate, N. Y., asks for the name of a book + giving full instructions in photography for beginners. "Every + camera maker furnishes with each camera sent out a book giving + simple instruction for using the camera, and directions for + developing plates. This would be a sufficient guide for the + beginner, and if rules are followed one can obtain very good + negatives. There are many books published on photography which + would be helpful after a while, but the beginner will find the + directions which come with the camera all that are needful at + first. With this number we begin publishing what will be a series + of papers for beginners in photography. Technical terms will be + explained, formulas for work will be given with explanations of + what each chemical is expected to do. Prices of chemicals for each + formula will also be added. It is intended to make these + instructions as simple as possible, and if Lady Grace will watch + this column she will find in it we hope just the help she needs." + + + + +OFF WITH THE MERBOY. + +BY JOHN KENDRICK BANGS. + + +CHAPTER V. + +THE WIZARD. + +[Illustration: Decorative J] + +immieboy grasped the old man's hand, and for a few moments was silent. He +was so astonished that he could do nothing but gaze upon his new +acquaintance in wonder. The little old man seemed very much pleased at +Jimmieboy's apparent wonderment, for he smiled broadly and said, + +"Thank you, sir." + +"You are very welcome," murmured Jimmieboy, "but I don't know what for. +I didn't know that I had done anything for you to thank me for." + +"Yes, indeed, you have," returned the little old man, letting go of +Jimmieboy's hand, and dancing a lively jig upon the broad marble top of +the bureau. "You have done two things. You have released me from a long +imprisonment, for one thing, and for another you have looked at me in a +manner which proves that you think me a most interesting person. I like +freedom better than anything in the world, and next to that I like being +an interesting person." + +"And were you really shut up in that little drawer so that you couldn't +get out?" asked Jimmieboy, beginning to feel very glad that fortune had +led him that way, and so enabled him to help the little old man out of +his trouble. + +"Yes," answered the other. "I've been locked up in that drawer there for +nearly fifty years." + +"Fifty years!" ejaculated Jimmieboy. "Why, that's longer than I have +lived." + +"No, not quite," said the little old man. "They were dream years, and a +dream year isn't much longer than a day of your time; but they have +seemed real years to me, and I am just as grateful to you for unlocking +the drawer and letting me out as I should have been had the years been +three hundred and sixty-five days long each." + +"Why should any one want to lock you up in a drawer?" asked Jimmieboy. +"Were you naughty?" + +"No," said the old man. "I never did a naughty thing in all my life, but +they locked me up just the same--just as if I had been a poor little +canary-bird." + +"Who did it?" queried Jimmieboy. "They must have been very wicked people +to treat you that way." + +"They were. Awfully wicked," said the little old man. "They were +wickeder than they seem, because really, you know, they intended that I +should stay locked up there forever and ever." + +"But how did they come to do it?" asked Jimmieboy. + +"It's a long story," answered the little old man. "But if you want me +to, I'll tell it." + +"Do," said Jimmieboy. + +"Very well, then, I will," said the little old man. "But not here. It is +too wet here. We'll go inside the drawer ourselves, where we can be dry +and comfortable, and we'll take the key in with us and lock ourselves in +so that nobody can interfere with us. Will you come?" + +"I don't see how I can," said Jimmieboy, looking down at his own body +and then pointing to the drawer. "Don't you see I am two or three dozen +times too big to get in there?" + +"That doesn't make any difference," said the little old man with a +laugh. "For I am a wizard, and I can make you large or small, just as I +please. If you will say the word I'll make you so small you couldn't see +yourself with a magnifying-glass." + +Jimmieboy thought a moment, and concluded very wisely, I think, that he +would rather not be so small as that. + +"I don't like to lose sight of myself," he said. + +"Very well, then," said the other. "Suppose I make you just about my +size? How would that do?" + +"I'd like that very much," replied Jimmieboy, kindly. "I think you are +an awfully nice size." + +Again the little old man smiled with pleasure. "You are the pleasantest +boy I know," he said; "and you will find out before long that it is +worth while to make friends with old Thumbhi, Lord High Wizard of the +Sea, and Court Jester to the King of the Waves." + +"Are you all that?" said Jimmieboy, pleased to discover that his +new-found friend was a person of so great importance. + +"Yes indeed," answered Thumbhi. "I am all that, and half a dozen things +more. In fact, I am so much that if we had a million dream years +together I couldn't even begin to tell you all that I am. But come. Are +you ready to be made smaller?" + +"Yes," said Jimmieboy, a little nervously. "What do I do first?" + +"You must put on a coat I give you," replied the wizard. "It will be a +little small for you, perhaps, but you can get it on." + +The wizard opened one of the bureau drawers, and took therefrom a coat, +in which Jimmieboy hastened to array himself. It was, as the old man had +said, a little small for him, but he managed to get into it, and after +wearing it a minute or two he found it quite comfortable. + +"Now take it off," said the wizard, taking a second coat out of the +drawer, "and put this one on." + +Jimmieboy took off the coat. "Is this larger than the other?" he asked, +as he began to put the second coat on. + +"No; it is a trifle smaller," replied the wizard. "That's my scheme. You +keep putting on coats that are smaller than the one you have just taken +off. You stay in them until they fit you comfortably, and finally when +you get the last one on you will be small enough to get into the +drawer." + +"That's a fine plan," said Jimmieboy. + +Then he went through the process of changing coats, each new coat being +a little smaller than the other, until he had tried on at least fifty of +them, when for the first time since he began he caught sight of himself +in the glass. + +"My!" he cried, in pleased astonishment. "I'm hardly any bigger than you +are." + +"That's so," replied the little old man. "One more coat, and we can get +you into the drawer." + +[Illustration: JIMMIEBOY PUTS ON THE LAST COAT.] + +Jimmieboy put on the last coat. A little bit of a thing it was, hardly +larger than a doll's overcoat, and, if the truth be told, awfully tight; +but, as with all the others, it soon became as comfortable as any coat +he had ever worn, and then, looking at himself in the glass once more, +Jimmieboy observed that he was actually no larger than Thumbhi. + +"It didn't hurt much, did it?" asked Thumbhi. + +"Not a bit," said Jimmieboy. "It was as easy and pleasant as could be." + +"That's the great thing about my tricks," said the wizard. "They never +hurt anybody. It would be a good thing if all tricks were that way. +Tricks that hurt people are mean, and I don't have anything to do with +them, and if you will take my advice you won't either." + +"I'll take anything you'll give me," said Jimmieboy. + +The old wizard laughed heartily at this. "Most boys would," said he, +"but you are the first one I ever met who was willing to take advice. +The boys I've known have all been like little Sammy. Ever hear about +little Sammy?" + +"No," answered Jimmieboy. "What did he do?" + +"Why," said the wizard, "Sammy is the boy the poet wrote about, saying: + + "Sammy was a pretty boy, + Sammy was his mother's joy. + Sammy'd take + A piece of cake, + Sammy'd always take a toy. + + "Sammy'd take a top to spin. + Pie with fruit and raisins in. + Sammy'd take + A piece of steak, + Sammy'd take his medicine. + + "Sammy'd take a bowl of rice, + Sammy'd take a bit of spice. + Sammy'd take + A garden rake, + But he would not take advice." + +Here the wizard stopped. + +"Is that all?" asked Jimmieboy. + +"Certainly," answered Thumbhi. "What more do you want?" + +"Didn't anything happen to Sammy?" queried Jimmieboy. + +The wizard was about to say no, but then he suddenly remembered that +something always does happen to boys that refuse to take advice, so he +said: "The poet never told us about that, but I think it probable that +something did happen to Sammy. Very likely he went out skating on a +mill-pond one summer day in spite of his father's warning, and got his +feet so wet that he caught cold, and had to stay in bed while all the +other boys went off on a picnic." + +This seemed to satisfy Jimmieboy, and Sammy was dropped as a subject of +conversation. + +"Now let us go into the drawer," said the wizard. + +[TO BE CONTINUED.] + + + + +[Illustration: INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT] + + +If the success of a track-athletic meeting is to be judged from the +number of records broken, the two interscholastic meets of May 11th at +Berkeley Oval and at Eastern Park will go down in the annals of school +sport as the most notable occasions of the kind ever held. The +contestants in the N.Y.I.S.A.A. games left the records of only four +events on the card standing at the same figure they showed when the +programme was printed, and came so close to these that the entire +schedule was in danger of being entirely overthrown. The management of +the Oval games was as near perfection as can be hoped for where so many +events and so many contestants have to be attended to; and although in +Brooklyn there was considerable delay at one time on account of the +non-arrival of the hurdles, yet things were kept moving as fast as +possible, and the enthusiasm of the spectators helped to fill what might +otherwise have been several tedious gaps. The Cutler athletes deserve +the highest praise for the work they performed. They came on the field +with Barnard and Berkeley strong favorites, and they went into every +event with an earnestness and energy that were finally rewarded by +victory. Cutler's score was 34-1/2 points, with Barnard second, having +30, and Berkeley third, with 27. Next year there will be a hot struggle +between Barnard and Cutler for the final ownership of the cup, which +will then be decided, unless some other strong team is developed, to +come in and secure the trophy for a year's custodianship. + +[Illustration: FINISH IN THE 100-YARD DASH.] + +Although Hall won the second heat in the 100 in 10-2/5 seconds, with +Moore behind him, he was unable to distance Moore when the final test +came, and the Barnard man plunged ahead and took the event. All the +heats in the 100 were close and interesting, and no winner had an easy +time of it in any case. In fact, all the sprints were contested in sound +earnest. The quarter-mile furnished as pretty a race as any. +Irwin-Martin kept along in the middle of the bunch until they were well +opposite the grand stand on the far side of the field, when he pulled +ahead strongly and steadily, and finished in good style. His effort was +a strain on him, however, for he collapsed as soon as he had breasted +the tape. For this reason he was probably not in his best form when he +toed the scratch for the half-mile, but it is doubtful if he could have +distanced Meehan even if he had been. Meehan proved himself to be in the +pink of condition. Robinson, the old Yale runner who has been training +him, told me at the start that Meehan had been trained to do the first +quarter in 60 seconds, and as he passed the mark the watch showed just +that time. He was leading then, and kept right on, with strong graceful +strides until he finished, and broke the record by one second. +Irwin-Martin did his best to pull up; but Meehan kept ahead easily, with +a broad smile on his face, and appeared to be just as fresh at the +finish as he had been at the start. + +[Illustration: THE MILE RUN.] + +The mile run was another pretty race. There must have been more than +twenty starters, and they trotted off in a tight bunch, sticking well +together for three entire laps. Then Tappin gradually pulled out from +the centre, with Mosenthal and McCord seesawing behind him. He kept +increasing his lead, and although Mosenthal pushed him pretty hard, he +finished strong, with the place men a couple of yards behind, and the +field straggling as far back as the bend. Blair failed to come up to his +promised form, and was at no time a factor in the race. The walk was +practically a duel between Hackett and Walker. Hackett took the lead, +and Walker stuck close to his heels, making several attempts to pass +him. On the stretch Walker made one last desperate effort, and walked +abreast of his opponent for several yards, while the judge of walking +almost went frantic in his endeavors to keep the racers down to form. +Neither broke, however, and Hackett won by a yard. Walker is still young +for such strong work, but I am sure that he will be heard from within +the next few years. The bicycle racers broke the interscholastic record +of 2 min. 49-3/5 sec. in every heat, and Powell's final race, which +brought the time down to 2 min. 34-1/5 sec., was a beautiful contest. +Ehrich pushed him hard all the way, and finished a strong second. A +pleasing feature of the event was that only one collision occurred, and +this was not serious. + +[Illustration: THE I.S. HIGH-JUMP RECORD. + +Baltazzi, Harvard, clearing the bar at 5 ft. 11 in.] + +The best performance of the day, from an athletic point of view, was +Baltazzi's high jumping. He was in good form, and won the event by +clearing 5 ft. 7 in. Then he had the bar put up a quarter of an inch +above the interscholastic record mark of 5 ft. 9 in., and cleared it, +thus insuring for himself a record medal. The "take-off" was in bad +condition, and had to be constantly rolled. There were also several bad +holes along the runway. In addition to this, Baltazzi's right shoe +split, and afforded him almost no support. Nevertheless, he felt that he +could do even better than 5 ft. 9-1/4 in., and he had the bar raised to +5 ft. 11 in. He failed the first five times allowed him for a record +try, but on the sixth he got a good start, cleared the holes, and found +a solid spot to "take off" on, and cleared the stick as neatly and +gracefully as he ever did at 5 ft. 5 in. He had never before, even in +practice, done better than 5 ft. 10-1/2 in. Baltazzi goes to Columbia +next year, and will be a factor in the intercollegiates if he keeps in +his present form, which I have no doubt he will. I expect to see him go +beyond 6 feet inside of two years. He will doubtless be one of the +N.Y.A.C.'s representatives when the English athletes come over here this +year. + +The records for the other field events, with the exception of throwing +the baseball and the broad jump, were broken. Ayres bettered the shot +record almost by a foot, and Irwin-Martin, in spite of his hard work in +the runs, threw 117 feet 4-1/2 inches with the hammer. A notable feature +of this event was that every place man in it surpassed the +interscholastic record, the third man bettering it as much as 3 feet. +This kind of work is most encouraging, and cannot fail to raise the +standard of the contestants, and create a most beneficial competition. +If a man knows he has got to break the record even to get third place, +there will be good work done. Cowperthwaite, as I had anticipated, won +the broad jump easily, but he should have gotten closer to the record +than he did. He covered 20 feet 8 inches. One of the other exciting and +unexpected features of the day was the semi-final in the Junior 100, +when Leech left the field about ten yards behind. He will make a good +man as his two easy victories over Wilson will attest. + +A better exhibition of tennis than that offered by Ware, when he +defeated Whitman in the final match on Holmes Field, Cambridge, last +week Monday, could hardly be wished for. The Roxbury player was +decidedly in championship form, and although he won in three straight +sets--6-4, 6-3, 7-5--he had to play his level best, for Whitman was no +easy victim. In the third set Ware showed what he was made of. The games +were 5-2 against him, but he gathered himself together, played a cool, +careful game, displaying excellent judgment at every point, and thus +pulled out the next five games, and the set. It was exciting throughout. +Whitman took the first game. His opponent got the second, and both were +then playing as good tennis as they knew how, with the advantage +temporarily in favor of Whitman. By keeping close up to the net he +managed to fool Ware a good many times, at the same time saving himself +from committing his great fault of banging the ball into the net. This +Whitman invariably does when he stands back. Ware evidently knew his +antagonist's style of play, for he gradually coaxed Whitman nearer and +nearer to the back line, and then pounded the balls at him, with the 7-5 +result. Ware will be seen at a number of tournaments this summer, and +will no doubt bring a triumphal record back to Roxbury with him in the +fall. He will play in the Western Championship Doubles at Chicago, in +the Longwood open tournament, as well as in the Massachusetts +championships held on the same courts; and he will enter the lists at +Newcastle, Bar Harbor, Narragansett Pier, and Newport. + +[Illustration: FINAL HEAT IN THE 120-YARD HURDLES.] + +At Eastern Park the Adelphi Academy athletes swept everything before +them. Gunnison and Jewell proved to be surprises, the former winning +three firsts and the latter two firsts and one second. The other members +of the team seconded them so well, that Adelphi took the cup with 10 +points more to their credit than their nearest rival, which was Poly. +Prep, with 29. It is to be regretted that there was any hitch over the +delivery of the hurdles, and at one time it seemed as if those two +events would have to be omitted; but the sticks did come, and the races +furnished some of the best sport of the day. The Junior 100 gave a close +finish, and the 220 furnished an exciting contest. Stevens took it from +Jewell, who had been counted a winner, but Jewell retrieved himself when +he won the quarter handily, it being his first attempt at running that +distance. Bedford was somewhat of a disappointment to his schoolmates, +who expected him to take the mile for B.H.-S. instead of allowing it to +go to Adelphi, but he ran the half-mile in good time, and took second in +the longer distance. The walk was most interesting too. Clark and Stars +were fairly in lock-step behind Hall, and it was nip and tuck with the +three until the tape was broken. + +The bicycle race, in which the Long Island record was lowered 1-2/5 +seconds, was run under the rules of the L.A.W., and with the sanction of +the L.A.W. Racing Board. This is the first school race to be so run. The +final heat looked like a dead heat between Roehr and Hazeltine, and I +have no doubt that if the two had set the pace earlier in the race the +record would have been greatly bettered. In the pole vault Phillips beat +his own record of 9 feet by 7 inches, and the hammer record was +increased by over 24 feet. Mason threw 100 ft. 11 in. Some of the other +records that were smashed were the mile run, which was lowered 2-1/5 +seconds; Bedford brought down the half-mile record from 2 min. 17-4/5 +sec. to 2 min. 12-3/5 sec.; Gunnison made the record in the high hurdles +read 16-3/5 sec. instead of 18-3/5 sec. The record for the 100 was +broken three times. In the final heat the time was 10-3/5 sec., and in +the second and third heats it was 10-2/5 sec. and 10-1/2 sec. +respectively. Stevens made the best time. + + N.Y.I.S.A.A. Records + Event. previous to May 11, 1895. + + 100-yard dash 10-3/8 sec. + 100-yard dash, for Juniors 11-2/5 " + 220-yard dash 22-4/5 " + 220-yard dash, for Juniors 23-4/5 " + 440-yard run 53 + Half-mile run 2 m. 5-1/5 " + Mile run 4 " 52 " + Mile walk 7 " 30-2/5 " + 120-yard hurdles 16-1/5 " + 220-yard hurdles 27-1/5 " + One-mile bicycle 2 " 49-3/5 " + Two-mile bicycle + Running high jump 5 ft. 9 in. + Running broad jump 21 " 5 " + Pole vault 10 " + Putting 12-pound shot 39 " 1 " + Throwing 12-pound hammer 110 " 3-1/2 " + Throwing baseball 325 " 9 " + + + N.Y.I.S.A.A. Games, Berkeley Oval, New York, + May 11, 1895. + + Event. Winner. Performance. + + 100-yard dash Moore, Barnard 10-3/5 sec. + 100-yard dash, for Juniors Leech, Cutler 11 " + 220-yard dash Moore, Barnard 23-1/5 " + 220-yard dash, for Juniors Leech, Cutler 24-3/5 " + 440-yard run Irwin-Martin, Berkeley 52-3/5 " + Half-mile run Meehan, Condon 2 m. 4-1/5 " + Mile run Tappin, Cutler 5 " 4-3/5 " + Mile walk Hackett, Trinity 7 " 4-2/5 " + 120 yard hurdles Beers, De La Salle 15-3/5 " + 220-yard hurdles Syme, Barnard 26-3/5 " + One-mile bicycle Powell, Cutler 2 " 34-1/5 " + Two-mile bicycle + Running high jump Baltazzi, Harvard 5 ft. 11 in. + Running broad jump Cowperthwaite, Col. Gram. 20 " 8 " + Pole vault Simpson, Barnard 10 " 3/8 " + Putting 12-pound shot Ayers, Condin 40 " 3/4 " + Throwing 12-pound hammer Irwin-Martin, Berkeley 117 " 4-1/2 " + Throwing baseball Zizinia, Harvard 325 " 4 " + + + Long Island I.S.A.A. Games, Eastern Park, Brooklyn, + May 11, 1895. + + Event. Winner. Performance. + + 100-yard dash Stevens, B.L.S. 10-3/5 sec. + 100-yard dash, for Juniors Robinson, St. Paul's 11 " + 220-yard dash Stevens, B.L.S. 25-3/5 " + 220-yard dash, for Juniors + 440-yard run Jewell, Adelphi 55-3/5 " + Half-mile run Bedford, B.H.-S. 2 m. 13-3/5 " + Mile run Romer, B'klyn Acad. 5 " 12 " + Mile walk Hall, St. Paul's 8 " 37 " + 120 yard hurdles Gunnison, Adelphi 16-3/5 " + 220-yard hurdles Gunnison, Adelphi 29-4/5 " + One-mile bicycle + Two-mile bicycle Roehr, Poly. Prep. 6 " 20-3/5 " + Running high jump Gunnison, Adelphi 5 ft. 4-1/2 in. + Running broad jump Jewell, Adelphi 20 " 3-1/2 " + Pole vault Phillips, B. & S. 9 " 7 " + Putting 12-pound shot Mason, Poly. Prep. 36 " 8 " + Throwing 12-pound hammer Mason, Poly. Prep. 100 " 11 " + Throwing baseball + +SUMMARY OF POINTS MADE. + + New York I.S.A.A. + + School. Firsts. Seconds. Thirds. Points. + + Barnard 4 2 4 30 + Berkeley 2 4 5 27 + Columbia Grammar 1 0 1/2 5-1/2 + Columbia Institute 0 0 0 0 + Condon 2 0 2 12 + Cutler 4 4 2-1/2 34-1/2 + De La Salle 1 0 0 5 + Drisler 0 2 0 6 + Dwight 0 0 2 2 + Halsey 0 0 0 0 + Hamilton Institute 0 0 0 0 + Harvard 2 2 0 16 + Trinity 1 0 0 5 + Wilson & Kellogg 0 1 0 3 + Woodbridge 0 0 0 0 + Yale 0 1 0 3 + Sachs 0 1 0 3 + + + Long Island I.S.A.A. + + School. Firsts. Seconds. Thirds. Points. + + Adelphi 6 2 3 39 + Polytechnic Institute 3 3 5 29 + Brooklyn High-School 2 3 1 20 + St. Paul's 2 3 1 20 + Brooklyn Latin School 2 2 2 18 + Bryant & Stratton 0 2 1 7 + Pratt Institute 0 0 2 2 + +The accompanying table offers a comparison of the work done on the two +tracks, and will serve as a record of the day's doings. Space prevents +my inserting a comparative table of the interscholastic and +intercollegiate records, but I shall do that at an early date, and the +showing will by no means discredit the school athletes. The only +difference between the New York and Long Island programmes is that the +New-Yorkers run a one-mile bicycle race, while the athletes on the other +side of the Bridge cover two miles in that event. And they do not throw +the baseball. They are right. The event is not athletic. + +The Yale Interscholastic Tennis Tournament was held in New Haven on the +same date as Harvard's in Cambridge, and although the entries were not +so many from the Connecticut schools, the work of the players was +excellent. The winner was J. P. Sheldon, of Hotchkiss Academy, who held +the championship of Ohio before he came East to attend school at +Lakeville. Sheldon's hottest matches were against Sage and Trowbridge, +who was last year's champion. He defeated Sage in two sets, 7-5, 6-2, +and overcame Trowbridge only after three stubbornly contested sets, 8-6, +6-2, 6-4. Last year Trowbridge did not compete at Newport, and it is +Sheldon's intention now to follow his schoolmate's example. I hope he +will change his mind, for it is to the interest of sport that the ablest +players should meet, aside from the mere question of determining which +one is actually the strongest. + +The Interscholastic Relay Races, held on Franklin Field, Philadelphia, +April 20th, at the same time as the Intercollegiate relay races, +developed the fact that the schools, in point of time, made almost as +good a showing as the colleges. The best collegiate performance of the +day was Harvard's defeat of the University of Pennsylvania in 3 m. +34-2/5 sec. The poorest winning time was made by C.C.N.Y.--3 m. 55-1/5 +sec. The fastest time by a school team was made by the Central +High-School, which defeated the Manual Training School in 3 m. 57-1/5 +sec. The most interesting scholastic contest was between De Lancey and +Episcopal Academy. Episcopal gained the lead in the first lap, only to +lose it in the second, but regained it in the final quarter when only 75 +yards from home. Here Ogelsby, spent with his hard run, could not go +another step, and fell to the ground, leaving Knors to finish in a +canter. + + THE GRADUATE. + + + + +ADVERTISEMENTS. + + + + +Highest of all in Leavening Power.--Latest U. S. Gov't Report. + +[Illustration: Royal Baking Powder] + + + + +[Illustration] + +_BROWNIE STAMPS._ + +More fun than a barrel of monkeys. A complete set of these grotesque +little people with everlasting Ink pads. With them a boy can make a +circus in a minute. To introduce our big Catalogue of 1000 new articles, +we send the Brownies postpaid for 10c. + +R. H. Ingersoll & Bro. 65 Cortlandt St. N.Y. City. + + + + +[Illustration: If afflicted with SORE EYES USE Dr. ISAAC THOMPSON'S EYE +WATER] + + + + +Harper's Catalogue, + +Thoroughly revised, classified, and indexed, will be sent by mail to any +address on receipt of ten cents. + + + + +[Illustration: BICYCLING] + + This Department is conducted in the interest of Bicyclers, and the + Editor will be pleased to answer any question on the subject. Our + maps and tours contain much valuable data kindly supplied from the + official maps and road-books of the League of American Wheelmen. + Recognizing the value of the work being done by the L. A. W. the + Editor will be pleased to furnish subscribers with membership + blanks and information so far as possible. + + +[Illustration: Copyright, 1895, by Harper & Brothers.] + +The bicycle route this week is one of the pleasantest in the vicinity of +New York city. It is the run across Staten Island. The reader should +study the map of New York city published in No. 809, and find the best +way in which to reach South Ferry. If he is a skilful rider, he may take +the middle track of the cable-car (Broadway route), and follow that down +Broadway; if not, he must come down towards South Ferry through the east +side of New York. Arrived at South Ferry, take the Staten Island +ferry-boat to St. George. On leaving the ferry at St. George he should +turn to the left, go up a rather steep hill, and take the third street +to the left--that is, Stuyvesant Place and Avenue, and running along +this southward take the third street to the right, and after going one +block upon this turn to the left into Central Avenue. He should keep on +Central Avenue until he reaches Tompkins Avenue, which is the first turn +to the right; then, going southward on Tompkins Avenue, he should turn +into Bay Street, and continue on Bay Street until he approaches Clifton, +having passed through Tompkinsville and Stapleton. Just before reaching +Clifton station he should turn right into Richmond road, and continue +through Concord, Grassmere, Linden Park, Garretson, and Grant City, +until just after leaving a large cemetery on the right, he runs into New +Dorp. + +At the Black Horse Tavern in New Dorp, which, by-the-way, is the only +place to stop at, turn to the left into Amboy Road, pass the Court-house +on the left; then about a mile farther on cross the railroad and run +into Giffords. Another mile, and the rider passes through Ettingville. +This part of the road, from New Dorp through Ettingville, is more or +less hilly, but the road here, as elsewhere for the entire route, is in +excellent condition, and is macadamized. From Ettingville the rider +passes through Annandale, Huguenot, crosses the railway again, continues +on through Prince's Bay, thence to Pleasant Plains, crossing track +again, and a mile further on enters Richmond Valley. He then keeps to +the main road, which is the left-hand turn in Richmond Valley, and +proceeds until he reaches the outskirts of Tottenville, where, turning +sharp to the right, he enters Main Street, and may make a stop at the +West End Hotel; but if he is going further (for this is the most direct +route through New Jersey to the South), he may ride down to the Amboy +Valley. + +It is well worth the wheelman's while to continue on towards Clifton +after leaving Stapleton, instead of turning to the right into Richmond +road, and, continuing through Clifton, to run down to Fort Wadsworth, +which is one of the important inner forts of the harbor, and commands a +view of the Lower Bay. By keeping to this road after leaving Fort +Wadsworth, and following it as it turns sharply to the right, he can run +down towards South Beach, and join the Richmond road again just as he +enters Linden Park. Furthermore, after leaving the Court-house, a mile +or more beyond New Dorp, a road turns sharply to the right running up +into the hills; and from Richmond, which is perhaps a mile and a half +away, he may leave his wheel and climb up to the old Lookout, where once +stood a fort of the Revolutionary War. The view from here commands most +of the island and the Lower Bay, and is one of the best in the vicinity +of New York city. There is a short ride over a good road from St. George +along the northern boundary of Staten Island, running through New +Brighton, Snug Harbor, Livingston, West New Brighton, Port Richmond, +Tower Hill, etc., down to Bowman's Point; and it is possible for the +rider to take this road, turning off at Tower Hill to the left, on the +Port Richmond road, running across the island through New Springville +and Green Ridge on to the Richmond road at Ettingville. This Port +Richmond road, however, is hilly, and though in moderately good +condition, is not to be compared with the Richmond road. + + NOTE.--Map of New York city asphalted streets in No. 809. Map of + route from New York to Tarrytown in No. 810. New York to Stamford, + Connecticut, in No. 811. + + + + +[Illustration: THE PUDDING STICK] + + This Department is conducted in the interest of Girls and Young + Woman, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question on + the subject so far as possible. Correspondents should address + Editor. + + +These are very busy days for some of you, because, as we all know, +school examinations are just in advance. I was talking with a girl +friend this morning, and she said she did not at all mind examinations, +because she was very thorough with her work all through the term. She +said, "By never slighting anything from the beginning of the term to the +end, I find I do not have any harder work at the end than at the +beginning." I wish that all young people--and, for that matter, older +ones, too--would imitate her example. It is a good plan to be thorough +with what we do, and to establish a reputation for being so among our +friends, so that people may know that they can always depend on us. A +lack of this quality of thoroughness often leads to very grave +accidents. A ship has gone down before now in mid-ocean because of the +unfaithfulness of somebody who had to do with its building, and from +time to time tall houses fall and people are killed because architects +or carpenters were unfaithful when constructing the rickety things, and +allowed flaws to pass, and were contented with makeshifts. Our rule +should be not to slight our work, but always to do it in the best +possible manner. + +The habit of thoroughness in housekeeping leads one to keep rooms in +good order and the table beautifully appointed. I know a girl who says +that she takes great pains with her room whenever she thinks her aunt +Mary is coming to see her, because Aunt Mary's sharp eyes discover every +speck of dust, and observe any trifle that is in the least out of order. +Aunt Mary is a bit of a critic, and her niece a little afraid of her +comments. + +In other words, the aunt has made a coward of the girl. I do not like +the idea of being in bondage to anybody, whether an aunt or a stranger. +It would seem to me a far better way to feel that one must answer to +one's self, and that one would not feel satisfied unless she could look +herself in the glass and say: "There, everything is done in the best +possible manner, and you cannot find any fault with me to-day. Try to, +if you dare!" + +I wonder whether you are particular to write notes of thanks very soon +after receiving gifts or acts of courtesy? The value of a note of thanks +is greatly increased by its being prompt. If some friend leaves a bunch +of violets at your door, and you fail to acknowledge it until the +flowers have failed, your thanks, when they do come, are tardy. When +flowers are sent to those who are ill, they, of course, cannot repay the +courtesy by a little note themselves, but some one in the family should +do it for them. Your note of thanks should be very genial, showing that +you are really pleased by the kind attention and the happier because of +it. Do not be afraid to write warmly and cordially on such occasions. If +stiff and formal you are unjust both to your friend and yourself. + +Speaking of illness, it happens that some of you have to take care of +those who are ill, and it is worth while to cultivate a way of moving +lightly and quietly about a sick room. One should never wear creaking +shoes nor a rustling dress in a room where any one is ill. The nerves of +people in illness are very acute and sensitive to every sound. A friend +recovering from a long attack of typhoid fever told me that, while she +was convalescent, she was nearly driven frantic by the fact that her +nurse, writing notes in her room, used a pen which scratched on the +paper. Even this little noise was most distressing to her in her weak +state, and she said that when the same nurse began to sew by her bed she +could hear the sound of the thread going through the muslin, and it +seemed to her so loud and jarring that she could not bear it. I have +known a person suffering from a severe headache in the third story of a +house to be greatly distressed by noises in the kitchen, a long way +below. You see, we cannot be too careful to be very gentle in our +movements and quiet in our manner when we are with those who are not +well. + + C. S. 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Holland. 32. +Sterne. 33. Cooper. 34. Smiles. 35. Wordsworth. 36. Goldsmith. 37. +Shelley. 38. Borrow. 39. Steele. 40. Santa Claus. + +A set of 35 new questions was prepared and sent by mail, to those who +gave the foregoing correct answers. Thus the ties were played off, so to +speak, unsuccessful contestants and outsiders being barred. Following +are answers to the new questions. In some cases the questions themselves +are given, since they have not before been published. It was asked who +wrote these: + +1. "The Widowed Heart," Albert Pike; 2. "The Revellers," William Davis +Gallagher, Mrs. Hemans; 3. "The Remarkable Wreck of the _Thomas Hyke_," +Frank R. Stockton; 4. "Sicily Burns's Wedding," Geo. W. Harris; 5. "The +Tar Baby," Joel Chandler Harris; 6. "The Only Daughter," Harriett +Campbell, O. W. Holmes, Mrs. Henry Wood; 7. "The Semi-attached Couple," +Hon. Emily Eden; 8. "Marco Bozzaris," Fitz-Greene Halleck; 9. "The +Buckwheat Cake," Henry Pickering; 10. "Adams and Liberty," Robert Treat +Paine, Jr. + +Four riddles were propounded: + +11. The Ghost in Hamlet. 28. La Grippe. + +18. + + Four of a kind, four of a name, + Loving one who was called the same. + Her star of good-luck went steadily down, + She lost her life when she lost her crown; + But they served her fondly till all was o'er, + These four of a name, these faithful four. + + --The Four Marys of Mary Queen of Scots. + +35. We are boon companions and nearly inseparable. We take interminable +journeys together, travelling over almost incalculable distances; always +work together, and take our vacations at the same time. We may be found +in every civilized portion of the globe--useful alike in the king's +palace, the peasant's hut, the Indian's wigwam, the hospital ward, and +the ship at sea. Yet in some respects we are entirely different, for +while I can adapt myself to every situation with perfect ease, my +companion is very set in his ways, but together we bring order, comfort, +and beauty wherever we go. After the labor of years and he is laid +aside, my work remains to cheer and gladden many hearts, sometimes +preserving family history which would otherwise be forgotten. And yet, +marvellous to relate, we have neither hands, feet, head, nor +body.--Needle and Thread. + +Nos. 12 to 17 were quotations from the poets, and their answers are: 12. +Sir Walter Raleigh, on the snuff of a candle; 13. Pope; 14. The +Serenade. J. G. Percival; 15. War Song of Revolution, John Neal; 16. +Youth and Age, Richard Dabney; 17. The New Roof, Francis Hopkinson. + +Contestants were asked to name the works in which the following +characters appear. Answers are here given: 19. Froth, Measure for +Measure; 20. Shallow, Merry Wives of Windsor; 21. Godfrey Ablewhite, +Moonstone, by Collins; 22. Edmund Gray, Ivory Gate, by Besant; 23. +Gwendolen Harleth, Daniel Deronda, by Eliot; 24. Blind Muriel, John +Halifax, Gent., by Miss Mulock; 25. Grant Munro, Sherlock Holmes, by +Doyle; 26. Christine Ludolph, Barriers Burned Away, by Roe; 27. Princess +Irene, Prince of India, by Wallace. + +These questions were asked. Answers are here after each: + +29. A book wherein the heroine's name is not once +mentioned.--"Rutledge," "She." 30. What famous character is it who, +whether in doors or out, summer or winter, always keeps a glove on one +hand?--M. Hamel in Mrs. Edwards's "Hand and Glove." 31. What one was it +who always offered his left hand to his friends because of the guilty +deed done by the right?--Eugene Aram. 32. Name the fellow who, in a +famous book, stands chewing the rust from his fingers. When he reaches +home he will probably find his wife "prayin' agin'" him.--Jerry +Cruncher. 33. A character in another book who was the first to ride on +horseback from New York to San Francisco.--Willard Glazier, John C. +Fremont, John Brent. 34. The book wherein one person calls upon another, +and receives an answer, though they are miles apart.--Jane Eyre, Peter +Ibbetson. + +In No. 33 it was found that authorities, equally credible, differed. +Hence the question was dropped, and no matter what was the answer it was +counted correct. + +The prizes were $25 divided, but $10 to first. The amount awarded is +slightly increased. The highest honor goes to George Peirce, who is a +Pennsylvanian, aged 12. He answered correctly all but two of the +questions. Second prizes of $2 each go to Lois A. Dowling, of New York +(Rochester), and John H. Campbell, Jr., of Pennsylvania (Germantown); +and third prizes of $1 each to the following: Harry Nelson Morey, New +York; Henry S. Parsons, Massachusetts; John J. Clarkson, Helen J. +Curley, and Martin Henneberry, Illinois; Charles A. Urner and Frank A. +Urner, New Jersey; Pierre Freret, Louisiana; Edmund T. M. Franklin, +Virginia; Kathrine S. Frost, Massachusetts; Edith L. Warner and Edith C. +Sanders, Maryland, and Mae Sterner, Pennsylvania. + + + + +Some Questions for the Founders. + + +Now that our Order has been so conspicuously honored as to have a great +journal named for it, there arise a few questions for the Founders to +vote upon. First, the Founders and all other members are asked to note +that although the whole paper is named for their Order, that Order has +not a less but a greater place in it, and, instead of a few pages being +devoted to them, now the whole paper will seek to give them everything +necessary to their growth in that "goodlye felloeship, worthie +knowledge, and chivalrie up to date" which form the grand basis of our +union. + +The questions to be voted on are these: + +1. Shall we abolish or retain the eighteen-years-of-age limit? + +2. Shall we have a new membership certificate? + +3. Shall we have a new and different badge? + +The reasons for bringing up these questions are: A great many lament the +arrival of their eighteenth birthday, when they can no longer be +members. They ask to remain in the Order, and suggest that all +competitions be limited, as heretofore, to the eighteen-year-age limit. +To the latter we agree, promising to always limit the age to eighteen +years, as heretofore, and offering, if the Founders agree thereto, to +have a competition for those above eighteen years. If it succeeds, to +have competitions for both ages, as opportunity offers. What say you? +Again, it is necessary to drop the name "Young People" from our +certificate. In doing so why not have a handsomer one, and call it a +"patent," which is a better name than "certificate." It may be printed +in the Order's colors, yellow and blue. + +New patents would be issued to all old members who cared to ask for +them. Once more, what say you? Still again, our badge, adopted in the +early history of the Order, has met some objections. It is five pansy +leaves, bearing the letters "K. L. O. R. T." A Founder living in +Winchester, England, described for us once, you remember, what is +claimed to be the original Table used by King Arthur and his Knights of +the Holy Grail, still preserved in Winchester Cathedral. This Founder +suggests a badge that is a fac-simile of the top of this Table. He sends +a print of it, with the ancient names, etc. The letters "K. L. O. R. T." +can be retained. It is necessary to have badges low in price, since many +ought not to afford expensive ones, and therefore we shall need to +retain silver for their material. It will be possible, though, to +procure gold ones for those who specially order them. For the third +question, we repeat, what is the Founders' pleasure? + +Founders of the Order are the 5000 original members. Those who have not +passed their eighteenth birthday are asked to write us frankly. A postal +card will do. We shall be governed by your votes. We may add, for the +benefit of all, that our Order is to have a great many attractive offers +during the next twelve months. The "feast" is to be a rich one, and we +hope every one of you will remain around the Table and enjoy it. + + + + +Round Table Chapters. + + +No. 693.--The Thaddeus Stevens Chapter, of Philadelphia, Pa. Its +meetings are held on Thursday of each week. The initiation fee is one +dollar. Horace S. Reis, 910 North Broad Street. + +No. 694.--The Quannapowitt Chapter, of Wakefield, Mass. Charles Wait, +George Tompson; Ralph Carlisle, president, 9 Summit Avenue. + +No. 695.--The Columbus Chapter, of Columbus, Ohio. Carl B. Harrop, +Edward E. Stoughton; George Crable, 1289 Highland Street. + +No 696.--The Kirk Munroe Chapter, of Nuttallburg, W. Va. E. Jackson +Taylor, John Nuttall, Jun., Nuttallburg. + +No. 697.--The Kes-Kes Kick Chapter, of Yonkers, N. Y. J. Fowler Trow, +Jun., Mary Van Rensselaer Ferris. Its meetings are held on Tuesdays. +Chapter address, 488 Warburton Ave. + +No. 698.--The Admiral Benham Chapter, of Fort Adams, Newport, R. I. Its +officers are Stephen C. Rowan, Elizabeth Schenck, Lee Simpson, Anna +Greble; Carol H. Simpson, care of Lieutenant Simpson, Fort Adams. + +No. 699.--The Thomas Edison Chapter, of Bangor, Me. Fred H. Pond, Arthur +A. Thompson, Myrtle D. Fox, Nellie M. Fox, Bangor. + +No. 700.--The Oliver Wendell Holmes Chapter, of Eau Claire, Wis. George +D. Galloway, Eau Claire. + +No. 701.--The Sheridan Chapter, of Philadelphia, Pa. Martin S. Poulson, +John M. Smith, Oland King, George Frey, Lydie Holmes; Reese Baker, +Section C., Girard College. + +No. 702.--The Kirk Munroe Chapter, of Auburn, Wash. J. French Dorrance, +corresponding secretary, Box 17, Auburn. + +No. 703.--The Keystone Music and Literary Chapter, of Harrisburg, Pa. R. +Donald Jenkins, Stanley G. Smith, H. Stanley Jenkins; Louise N. Miller, +Harrisburg. + + + + +Want Corner. + + +A corresponding Chapter is one whose members are widely separated and +whose affairs are conducted by mail. There are several such, dear Lady +Alice Cowly, but it is found very difficult in practice to maintain the +interest. Keeping members together in spirit who are hundreds of miles +apart in body is no easy thing to do. + +Ralph Leach, Stoughton, Mass., is interested in athletic sports. He will +enjoy the TABLE more than ever, then, for it is to have more news about +sports than ever before. Anne Bliss wants to know why the Table cannot +have a "Students' Corner" to help members in their school-work; "a +geometrical diagram, scientific experiments, meaning of new +words--anything. I am sure such a Corner would be very helpful." We +heartily agree with Lady Anne. Shall we have a new corner, or will the +Want one do? Let's have your questions. The TABLE desires to help you in +all ways that it can. Consider this a Students' Corner, and use it as +such. We can find somebody to answer your questions. Or perhaps you can +answer each other's questions. How would that do for some questions, at +least? + +Here is one now. Maude Wigfield asks: "If a heavy vessel, such as the +cruiser _New York_, were to go down in mid-ocean, could it overcome the +enormous pressure of the water, and sink to the very bottom, or would it +reach an equal density before it did reach the bottom. Remember that +some of the compartments would still contain air." Let us have opinions. +Give us the pressure per square foot at certain ocean depths, and the +pressure the war vessels are built to withstand. The _Elbe_, which went +down in the North Sea a few weeks ago--that is on the very bottom of the +sea, is it not? + +Herbert Benton lives at 1208 East Seventh Street, Kansas City, Mo. He +asks how best to put plants into a herbarium. Will some one give us a +morsel upon it? We can find the information from books, but much prefer +the personal experience of some member. Tell us all about flowers and +plants for herbariums. He also asks for the solution or mixture in which +writing may be placed upon tissue-paper, the initial letter lighted and +the writing burned out, without injury to the rest of the paper. We had +the formula of the solution some time ago, but cannot now find it. Can +somebody help us to it again, for Sir Herbert's benefit? + +Carolyn A. Nash lives in California and asks for more time for sending +puzzle solutions on account of the distance to be travelled by the +mails. The present series of puzzles is exceptional, dear Lady Carolyn, +and the dates of closing could not be made different, nor can they now +be changed. In future contests the Pacific coast members shall be given +more time. Augusta C. Grenther and Charles Stuckel are two of the more +than twenty members of the Sangster Chapter who attend one school at +Germania, N. J. The Chapter meetings are held at the school on Fridays. +It wants correspondents, and to exchange flowers and minerals. + + + + +[Illustration: STAMPS] + + This Department is conducted in the interest of stamp collectors, + and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question on the + subject so far as possible. Correspondents should address Editor + Stamp Department. + + +At present all collectors appear to be hunting for varieties of the +United States stamps of the 1872 issue, some of the new varieties of +which were illustrated in these columns a short time ago. The fact that +the Continental Bank-Note Company were the successors of the National +Bank-Note Company in the printing of that issue has led to the belief +that each of the stamps printed by the Continental Company from the +plates made by the National Company bears some mark to distinguish the +company printing the stamps. Several of the values of the 1872 issue +having been found with such a mark, it would seem that all the values +were treated in the same manner, the only difficulty being to discover +the mark. No help can be obtained from the bank-note companies, as they +preserve absolute secrecy in regard to the stamps, it thus being left to +the collectors to study out the marks. While these exceedingly small +varieties will greatly puzzle the collector, they lead to one great +object, by showing that a close study of stamps is necessary in order to +be a successful collector, and only those who are willing to study out +these minute variations can get the full pleasure of the pursuit. + +The auction season in stamps will close with the month of May, and the +great sales held this year show that collectors are using that method +for buying to a larger extent than ever. + +An English paper states that the current adhesives of France have been +surcharged "Poste Francaise," for use of French offices in Madagascar. +There are nine values. + + + + +ADVERTISEMENTS. + + + + +WALTER BAKER & CO. + +[Illustration] + +The Largest Manufacturers of + +PURE, HIGH GRADE + +COCOAS AND CHOCOLATES + +On this Continent, have received + +HIGHEST AWARDS + +from the great + +Industrial and Food + +EXPOSITIONS + +In Europe and America. + + * * * * * + +Unlike the Dutch Process, no Alkalies or other Chemicals or Dyes are +used in any of their preparations. + +Their delicious BREAKFAST COCOA is absolutely pure and soluble, and +_costs less than one cent a cup_. + + * * * * * + +SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE. + + * * * * * + +WALTER BAKER & CO. DORCHESTER, MASS. + + + + +[Illustration] + +WONDER CABINET =FREE=. Missing Link Puzzle, Devil's Bottle, Pocket Camera, +Latest Wire Puzzle, Spook Photos, Book of Sleight of Hand, Total Value +60c. Sent free with immense catalogue of 1000 Bargains for 10c. for +postage. + +INGERSOLL & BRO., 65 Cortlandt Street, N. Y. + + + + +[Illustration: Ivory Soap] + +To cleanse matting, use four tablespoonfuls of Ivory Soap shavings and a +handful of salt to a pailful of warm water. Rub the matting with a cloth +or sponge well squeezed out. + +THE PROCTER & GAMBLE CO., CIN'TI. + + + + +[Illustration] + +3 Million, 134 Thousand, 9 Hundred and Thirty-four Packages sold in +1894, which made 15 Million, 674 Thousand, 7 Hundred and Thirty-five +Gallons of + +[Illustration: HIRES' Rootbeer] + +or 313 Million, 494 Thousand, 7 Hundred glasses, sufficient to give +every man, woman and child in the United States, five glasses each-- Did +you get yours? Be sure and get some this year. The whole family will +enjoy it. A 25 cent package makes 5 gallons. Sold everywhere. Made only +by + +The Chas. E. Hires Co., Philada. + + + + +MONARCH + +King of all Bicycles. + +[Illustration] + +TRADE-MARK. + +Five Styles. Weights, 18 to 25 Pounds. + +Prices, $85 and $100. + +MONARCH CYCLE CO. + +Factory and Main Office, Lake and Halsted Sts., Chicago. + +Eastern Branch: 79 Reade St., & 97 Chambers St., N.Y. + +The C. F. GUYON CO., Ltd., Managers. + + + + +OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT of the award on + +=GILLOTT'S PENS= at the CHICAGO EXPOSITION. + +=AWARD:= "For excellence of steel used in their manufacture, it being fine +grained and elastic; superior workmanship, especially shown by the +careful grinding; which leaves the pens free from defects. The tempering +is excellent and the action of the finished pens perfect." + + (Signed) FRANZ VOGT, _Individual Judge_. + + Approved: { H. I. KIMBALL, _Pres't Departmental Committee_. + { JOHN BOYD THACHER, _Chairman Exec. Com. on Awards_. + + + + +=BIRDS' EGGS= and Naturalists' Supplies. Egg Drill, Blowpipe, and Hook, +nickel-plated, in pocket case, only =35 cts.= + +Illustrated catalogue for 2-cent stamp. + +CHAS. K. REED, 262 Main Street, Worcester, Mass. + + + + +[Illustration] + +CARD PRINTER =FREE= + +Sets any name in one minute; prints 500 cards an hour. YOU can make +money with it. A font of pretty type, also Indelible Ink, Type Holder, +Pads and Tweezers. Best Linen Marker; worth $1.00. Sample mailed FREE +for 10c. stamps for postage on outfit and large catalogue of 1000 +Bargains. + +R. H. Ingersoll & Bro. 65 Cortlandt St. N.Y. City + + + + +WANTED. 100,000 BOYS, to sell the =EUREKA MARKING TAG= for marking hats, +etc., now and in Summer vacation. Sells at sight. Send 10 cents in coin +for samples. Address =Eureka Marking Tag Co.=, Cedar Falls, Iowa. + + + + +[Illustration] + +=SEND for Catalogue= of the =Musical Instrument= you think of buying. +=Violins repaired= by the Cremona System. C. STORY, 26 Central St., +Boston. Mass. + + + + +[Illustration: If afflicted with SORE EYES USE Dr. ISAAC THOMPSON'S EYE +WATER] + + + + +HARPER'S PERIODICALS. + +Per Year: + + HARPER'S MAGAZINE _Postage Free_, $4.00 + HARPER'S WEEKLY " 4.00 + HARPER'S BAZAR " 4.00 + HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE " 2.00 + +_Booksellers and Postmasters usually receive subscriptions. +Subscriptions sent direct to the publishers should be accompanied by +Post-office Money Order or Draft._ + +HARPER & BROTHERS, Franklin Square, N. Y. + + + + +A KITE TALE. + + +[Illustration: BOY (_jerking string_), "COME, GET UP THERE; WHAT'S THE +MATTER WITH YOU?"] + +[Illustration: KITE. "SAY, YOU CAN'T YANK ME THAT WAY WITH IMPUNITY."] + + + + +READINESS OF WIT. + + +One of the best qualities for a boy or a girl to cultivate is readiness +of wit. To the lad who is thinking of going into some business pursuit, +quickness to see and meet the requirements of an opportunity is of +invaluable importance. We find in the _Gazette Anecdotique_ a case very +much to the point, and most amusing withal. It seems that in the year +1707, when Philip V. was on his way to Madrid to take possession of his +kingdom of Spain, the inhabitants of Mont de Marsan came out to meet him +at his approach. The two processions having met about a league from the +town, the Mayor advanced towards the litter in which the King sat, and +addressed him as follows: "Sire, long speeches are obnoxious and +wearisome; I should prefer to sing you something." Leave was given, and +he sang forthwith a short ode to the King, which so greatly pleased his +Majesty that he called out, "Da capo!" (encore). The Mayor gave his song +a second time. The King thanked the singer, and presented him with ten +louis d'or. This amount seemed hardly sufficient to the chief magistrate +of Mont de Marsan, and he therefore promptly held out his empty hand to +the King, and in admirable imitation of the King's voice, himself called +out, "Da capo!" The King laughed heartily and complied, and the Mayor +departed twice as well off as he would have been had he been less +quick-witted. + + + + +FRENCH AND ENGLISH. + + +Those of us who have grown weary and perplexed over the peculiarities of +the French language, and who have wished that our parents and +school-teachers did not consider that language necessary to our +education, will rejoice at this item from an English newspaper, which +shows that the Frenchman has as hard a time mastering our tongue as we +have in mastering his. + +According to the story three French boys were studying a volume of +Shakespeare in their own tongue, their task being to render portions of +it into English. When they came to Hamlet's famous soliloquy, "To be or +not to be," their respective translations were as follows: + +1. "To was or not to am." + +2. "To were or is to not." + +3. "To should or not to will." + + + + +An absent-minded young preacher in New England, wishing to address the +young ladies of his congregation after the morning services, remarked +from the pulpit that he would be very glad if the female brethren of the +congregation would remain after they had gone home. He was almost as +badly mixed, the narrator of this story says, as another speaker, who, +after describing a pathetic scene he had witnessed, added, huskily, "I +tell you, brothers there was hardly a dry tear in the house." + + + + +SERENADING HIMSELF. + + +We sometimes think that the funny situations in the pictures in the +comic papers are too absurd to be real, and yet every day there happen +things quite as absurd as any there depicted. One of the German +newspapers gives an account of how a steady old burgomaster recently +serenaded himself, which certainly brings before our minds a picture +quite as laughable as any we have seen in print. The story is to this +effect: Herr Noetel, merchant and burgomaster, who is passionately fond +of singing, is the first tenor and president of the Schnitzelburg +glee-club. The club consists of only a single quartet, but small as is +their number, the greater is their enthusiasm for the songs of Germany. +Noetel would shortly celebrate his silver wedding. They must give him a +serenade; there was no help for it. But what was a quartet without the +first tenor? There was no getting a substitute, but for all that they +would give Noetel a surprise. On the eve of the festal day the three +members of the club, armed with lanterns, met at the appointed time +before the house of their respected president, and after some clearing +of throats and twanging of tuning-forks the music began. A small crowd +collected in the street, and the windows in the vicinity were lined with +appreciative listeners. The Herr Burgomaster and his family also +appeared at the windows of their brightly illuminated sitting-room. The +first bars of the well-known song, "Silent Night," left much to be +desired, but the three voices bravely held on their way amid the +surrounding stillness, and in a few moments Herr Noetel went down into +the street and joined in the quartet. No sooner was the song finished +than he ran up stairs again, appeared at the open window, and in loud +clear tones thanked the club for their ovation. Seen on a public stage, +an old gentleman madly rushing up stairs to a window to thank himself +for serenading himself would cause a good deal of laughter. + + + + +ODD ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE. + + +It was a very homely old lady in Scotland who remarked, as she gazed +into a looking-glass, that they didn't make as good mirrors to-day as +they did when she was a girl, because she thought modern looking-glasses +made her look so old. + + * * * * * + +It was said to be a Maine man who told an agent for a cyclopaedia that he +didn't want one, because he hadn't time to learn to ride one, and he +didn't wish to risk his neck trying it, anyhow. + + * * * * * + +A story is told of a grocer engaged in business in a London suburb, to +the effect that he once declined to attend a very popular concert even +though a free ticket was offered him. "Ye see," he said to the person +who gave him the ticket, "if I went I'd see so many people who owe me +money for groceries it would spoil my fun, and the sight o' me would +spoil theirs. I'll stay at home." + + * * * * * + +Here is a dog story, which you can believe or not as you please. A +gentleman remarked of a friend's dog that the two eyes of the animal +were remarkably different in size. "Yes," was the reply, "and he takes a +mean advantage of the fact whenever I have a stranger to dine with me. +He first gets fed at one side of my guest, and then goes round the table +to his other side, and pretends to be another dog." + + +[Illustration: HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE Portrait Gallery. 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