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diff --git a/32976.txt b/32976.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..28faa1f --- /dev/null +++ b/32976.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3758 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Harper's Round Table, May 28, 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 28, 1895 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: June 25, 2010 [EBook #32976] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S ROUND TABLE, MAY 28, 1895 *** + + + + +Produced by Annie McGuire + + + + + + + + +[Illustration: HARPER'S ROUND TABLE] + +Copyright, 1895, by HARPER & BROTHERS. All Rights Reserved. + + * * * * * + +PUBLISHED WEEKLY. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1895. FIVE CENTS A COPY. + +VOL. XVI.--NO. 813. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. + + * * * * * + + + + +[Illustration] + +HEROES OF AMERICA. + +THE CHARGE AT GETTYSBURG. + +BY THE HONORABLE THEODORE ROOSEVELT. + + +[Illustration: Decorative T] + +he battle of Chancellorsville marked the zenith of Confederate good +fortune. Immediately afterwards, in June, 1863, Lee led the victorious +Army of Northern Virginia north into Pennsylvania. The South was now the +invader, not the invaded, and its heart beat proudly with hopes of +success; but these hopes went down in bloody wreck on July 4th, when +word was sent to the world that the high valor of Virginia had failed at +last on the field of Gettysburg, and that in the far West Vicksburg had +been taken by the army of the "silent soldier." + +At Gettysburg Lee had under him some seventy thousand men, and his +opponent, Meade, about ninety thousand. Both armies were composed mainly +of seasoned veterans, trained to the highest point by campaign after +campaign and battle after battle; and there was nothing to choose +between them as to the fighting power of the rank and file. The Union +army was the larger, yet most of the time it stood on the defensive; for +the difference between the generals, Lee and Meade, was greater than +could be bridged by twenty thousand men. + +For three days the battle raged. No other battle of recent years has +been so obstinate and so bloody. The victorious Union army lost a +greater percentage in killed and wounded than the allied armies of +England, Germany, and the Netherlands lost at Waterloo. Four of its +seven corps suffered each a greater relative loss than befell the +world-renowned British infantry on the day that saw the doom of the +mighty French Emperor. The defeated Confederates at Gettysburg lost +relatively as many men as the defeated French at Waterloo; but whereas +the French army became a mere rabble, Lee withdrew his formidable +soldiery with their courage unbroken, and their fighting power only +diminished by their actual losses in the field. + +The decisive moment of the battle, and perhaps of the whole war, was in +the afternoon of the third day, when Lee sent forward his choicest +troops in a last effort to break the middle of the Union line. The +kernel of the attacking force was Pickett's division, the flower of the +Virginian infantry, but many other brigades took part in the assault, +and the attacking column, all told, numbered over fifteen thousand men. +At the same time Longstreet's Confederate forces attacked the Union left +to create a diversion. The attack was preceded by a terrific cannonade, +Lee gathering one hundred and fifteen guns, and opening a terrible fire +on the centre of the Union line. In response, the Union chief of +artillery gathered eighty guns along on the crest of the gently sloping +hill where attack was threatened. For two hours, from one to three, +there was a terrific cannonade, and the batteries on both sides suffered +severely. In both the Union and Confederate lines caissons were blown up +by the fire, riderless horses dashed hither and thither, the dead lay in +heaps, and throngs of wounded streamed to the rear. Every man lay down +and sought what cover he could. It was evident that the Confederate +cannonade was but a prelude to a great infantry attack, and at three +o'clock Hunt, the Union chief of artillery, ordered the fire to stop, +that the guns might cool to be ready for the coming assault. The +Confederates thought that they had silenced the Union artillery, and for +a few minutes their firing continued; then suddenly it ceased, and there +was a lull. + +The men on the Union side who were not at the point directly menaced +peered anxiously across the space between the lines to watch the next +move, while the men in the divisions which it was certain were about to +be assaulted lay hugging the ground and gripping their muskets, excited, +but confident and resolute. They saw the smoke clouds rise slowly above +the opposite crest, where the Confederate army lay, and the sunlight +glinted again on the long line of brass and iron guns which had been +hidden from view during the cannonade. In another moment, out of the +lifting smoke there appeared, beautiful and terrible, the picked +thousands of the Southern army advancing to the assault. They advanced +in three lines, each over a mile long, and in perfect order. Pickett's +Virginians held the centre, with on their left the North Carolinians of +Pender and Pettigrew, and on their right the Alabama regiments of +Wilcox; and there were also Georgian and Tennessee regiments in the +attacking force. Pickett's division, however, was the only one able to +press its charge home. + +The Confederate lines came on magnificently. As they crossed the +Emmetsburg Pike the eighty guns on the Union crest, now cool and in good +shape, opened upon them, first with shot and then with shell. Great gaps +were made every second in the ranks, but the gray-clad soldiers closed +up to the centre, and the color-bearers leaped to the front, shaking and +waving the flags. The Union infantry reserved their fire until the +Confederates were within easy range, when the musketry crashed out with +a roar; the big guns began to fire grape and canister. + +On came the Confederates, the men falling by hundreds, the colors +fluttering in front like a little forest; for as fast as a color-bearer +was shot, some one else seized the flag from his hand before it fell. +The North Carolinians were more exposed to the fire than any other +portion of the attacking force, and they were broken before they reached +the line. There was a gap between the Virginians and the Alabama troops, +and this was taken advantage of by Stannard's Vermont brigade and a +demi-brigade under Gates of the Twentieth New York, who were thrust +forward into it. Stannard changed front with his regiments and attacked +Pickett's forces in flank, and Gates continued the attack. When thus +struck in the flank the Virginians could not defend themselves, and they +crowded off toward the centre to avoid the pressure. Many of them were +killed or captured; many of them were driven back: but two of the +brigades, headed by General Armistead, forced their way forward to the +stone wall on the crest, where the Pennsylvania regiments were posted +under Gibbon and Webb. + +The Union guns fired to the last moment, until of the two batteries +immediately in front of the charging Virginians every officer but one +had been struck. One of the mortally wounded officers was young Cushing, +a brother of the hero of the _Albemarle_ fight. He was almost cut in +two, but holding his body together with one hand, with the other he +fired his last gun, and fell dead just as Armistead, pressing forward at +the head of his men, leaped the wall, waving his hat on his sword. +Immediately afterwards the battle-flags of the foremost Confederate +regiments crowned the crest; but their strength was spent. The Union +troops moved forward with the bayonet, and the remnant of Pickett's +division, attacked on all sides, either surrendered or retreated down +the hill again. Armistead fell dying by the body of the dead Cushing. +Both Gibbon and Webb were wounded. Of Pickett's command two-thirds were +killed, wounded, or captured, and every brigade commander and every +field officer save one fell. The Virginians tried to rally, but were +broken and driven again by Gates, while Stannard repeated at the expense +of the Alabamians the movement he had made against the Virginians, and, +reversing his front, attacked them in flank. Their lines were torn by +the batteries in front, and they fell back before the Vermonters' +attack, and Stannard reaped a rich harvest of prisoners and of +battle-flags. + +The charge was over. It was the greatest charge in any battle of modern +times, and it had failed. It would be impossible to surpass the gallantry +of those that made it, or the gallantry of those that withstood it. Had +there been in command of the Union army a general like Grant, it would +have been followed by a counter-charge, and in all probability the war +would have been shortened by nearly two years; but no counter-charge was +made. + +As the afternoon waned, a fierce cavalry fight took place on the Union +right. Stuart, the famous Confederate cavalry commander, had moved +forward to turn the Union right, but he was met by Gregg's cavalry, and +there followed a contest at close quarters with "the white arm." It +closed with a desperate melee, in which the Confederates, charging under +Wade Hampton and Fitz-Hugh Lee, were met in mid-career by the Union +Generals Custer and McIntosh. All four fought, sabre in hand, at the +head of their troopers, and every man on each side was put into the +struggle. Custer, his yellow hair flowing, his face aflame with the +eager joy of battle, was in the thick of the fight, rising in his +stirrups as he called to his famous Michigan swordsmen, "Come on, you +Wolverines, come on!" All that the Union infantry, watching eagerly from +their lines, could see was a vast dust cloud, where flakes of light +shimmered as the sun shone upon the swinging sabres. At last the +Confederate horsemen were beaten back, and they did not come forward +again or seek to renew the combat; for Pickett's charge had failed, and +there was no longer hope of Confederate victory. + +When night fell the Union flags waved in triumph over the field of +Gettysburg; but over thirty thousand men lay dead or wounded, strewn +through wood and meadow, on field and hill, where the three days' fight +had surged. + + + + +MEMORIAL DAY. + + + Flutter of flag and beat of drum + And the sound of marching feet, + And in long procession the soldiers come + To the call of the bugles sweet. + + And the marching soldiers stop at last + Where their sleeping comrades lie, + The men whose battles have long been fought, + Who dared for the land to die. + + Children, quick with your gathered flowers, + Scatter them far and near; + They who were fathers and brothers once + Are peacefully resting here. + + Flutter of banner and beat of drum + And the bugle's solemn call, + In grand procession the soldiers come-- + And God is over us all! + + + + +THE CAT SHOW. + +BY WALTER CLARK NICHOLS. + + +At last the cats have had a show of their own, and for the time being +their old enemies, the dogs, have been forced to take a back seat, and +sulk at the attention which the 250 and more pussies received from the +girls and boys and grown-up people at the Madison Square Garden in New +York. It has been a gala-time for the children, especially, and the +petting which the different tabbies received would have turned their +heads had they not been so well-bred and aristocratic. For the common +tramp cat, who knows no better than to give unwelcome concerts on the +back fence at night, or the scraggly kitten, whose one ambition is +rat-catching, had no place among the cats who made their first public +bow and mieuw a week ago. Only those whose great grandpapas or +grandmammas were distinguished people in the cat kingdom were allowed to +be exhibited. + +After all, the cat kingdom isn't nearly so large as the dog kingdom. All +of our domestic cats are grouped under two distinct heads--the +short-haired European or Western cat, and the long-haired Asiatic or +Eastern cat. The tortoise-shell, white, black, blue, or slate-color +(Maltese), and the tabbies are embraced in the European, and the Asiatic +includes the Persian, Angora, Russian, and Indian. So that it is ever so +much easier to learn what class your cat belongs in than to know the +different kinds of dogs. + +What an attractive sight the long rows of dainty cages, each fitted up +in royal fashion for its feline occupant, made! Here at the beginning of +the long row of wire houses, "Dick," a miniature tiger, slept with eyes +half closed (as every good cat always does), and his right paw +outstretched, as if in his dreams some poor little sparrow were within +clutching distance. Not far away "Charles Dickens," a very aristocratic +Maltese, was purring out his compliments to a little girl who was vainly +endeavoring to educate him to eat peanuts. + +Then there was "Columbia" and her two kittens, "Yale" and "Harvard." The +readers of the ROUND TABLE never saw their older brothers wear their +college colors more bravely than these wee little kittens. Their +fawn-colored mother would get them quieted down after some merry romp, +and then they would suddenly begin another friendly fight, and roll over +and over again, till it was impossible to tell whether the blue or the +red was victorious. Near by was a "happy family" of short-haired spotted +cats from Elizabeth, New Jersey, consisting of a great-grandmother, +grandmother, mother, and seven kittens. And how proud gentle +great-grandmamma was when her granddaughter captured the second prize in +her class. + +Perhaps our President would feel pleased were he to know how much +attention his namesake "Grover Cleveland" had at the show. He is a rich, +brown tabby, with wide black stripes, and was given a blue ribbon, the +mark of the first prize. He took it all very calmly, as much as to say, +"You couldn't do anything less for one with such a name as mine." + +But even "Grover Cleveland" was not so aristocratic-looking as "Grover +B.," from Philadelphia. His short-haired coat was as white as the stone +door-steps of the houses in his native town, and--think of it--his +mistress values him at $1000! So well brought up is he that he sits at +the table with his master and mistress in a high chair and feeds himself +with his paw. His master says that he eats more quietly and gracefully +than their little nephew of five years, who, when he spills his bread +and milk, is told he can profit by "Grover's" example. So fond of him is +his master that his head appears on all his business paper and +envelopes, so that "Grover B." is known all over the world, and, through +his pictures on his master's envelopes, has travelled more extensively +than almost any other cat. + +An even more wonderful short-haired cat was "Mittens," who has actually +been trained to love and live with birds. "Mittens" is a great deal of a +swell. His grandfather was a pure-blooded Maltese, and his +great-grandmamma was a very haughty Angora. All the traditions in his +family prompted him to consider birds as his natural prey and dogs as +his enemies. When he came to his present mistress, Mrs. M. L. Ponchez, +the latter had two Yorkshire terriers, a parrot, eight canaries, a +red-bird, and several chameleons, and of course she thought it would be +pretty difficult for "Mittens" to live in peace with all these other +pets. She thought she would try to teach him to be friendly to the birds +and dogs, and this is what she did. + +She first kept all of her pets a day without food, and then the next day +placed the cat between the dogs while she fed him his breakfast. After +that the cat and the dogs became such good friends that they all slept +together. At the next meal she took one of the canaries, put him on her +finger, and petted him while she held "Mittens" in her lap and fed him. +This she did several times, and then let all of the birds fly around the +cat. The latter never attempted to touch one, and frequently to-day you +may see "Mittens" slumbering peacefully before the fire, with a canary +nestled on the soft fur of his back. + +[Illustration: IN THE LONG-HAIRED CAT-ROOM.] + +While there were many more short-haired cats on exhibition for prizes, +the long-haired ones created more attention because they are much less +common. They had a separate room to themselves upstairs, and a band of +music played for them lest they should forget that many of them were +descended from cat emperors and princes in the far-off East. There was +"Ajax," a white Angora, with firm mouth and keen eyes, his fluffy white +mane looking like a lion's, every inch of him a king. There was +"Paderewski," blue-ribboned, with longer and thicker hair than the +famous musician whose name he bears. Near by an interested crowd watched +"Ellen Terry" and her seven kittens. "Ellen" is a large white and orange +Angora, and very cozy were she and her kittens in a basket lined with +yellow silk and trimmed with dotted muslin. Her manners were perfect, +for whenever her cunning little kittens were caressed she showed no +surprise, but looked on with calm maternal pride. + +Just to show by contrast how very aristocratic these long-haired cats +were, six or eight lost cats from the Shelter for Animals (where lost +and homeless cats are cared for) were exhibited near the haughty +Angoras. All but one looked sadly out of place. They were thin, their +fur was uneven, and the disdainful sniffs which their Persian and Angora +neighbors gave them made them feel very miserable indeed. But one of +them, though, a short-haired cat, looked as if his grandfather had been +a somebody in the cat kingdom, and he seemed to say, + +"Though appearances are against me, please don't think that I belong to +this vulgar herd of tramp cats." + +And he was vindicated, for the third day of the show a little girl came +rushing over to the cage with a glad cry of recognition, which the cat +immediately responded to by joyful purring. The cat had been lost for +over two weeks, and now as his young mistress took him away he looked +back at his proud long-haired neighbors with a smile, which meant, + +"Ah, you see I'm somebody, after all!" + +Perhaps the readers of the ROUND TABLE would like to know whether their +cats and kittens are "somebody" or not, whether they are pure-blooded +examples of the classes to which they belong. It is quite simple. A +prominent doctor, who knows more about cats than almost any other man in +the United States, says that in judging a cat the first thing to be +considered is its general symmetry. + +"The body ought to be long and slenderly shaped, like that of a tiger. +The eyes should be of a correct shade; for instance, a cat that is white +should have blue eyes, a black cat yellow eyes, and so on. The eyes, +too, should be round and full. The color of a cat is important, and is +the key to its character. A cat of one color should have no other hue in +its coat. The most rarely marked cat is the tortoise-shell, uneven +patches of red, black, and yellow, equally distributed over the body. In +the tabbies the dark markings should be in direct contrast with the +light, gray or brown being marked with black, while blue is marked with +some darker shade, and yellow with red." + +So successful was this first cat show that it is almost settled that +another one will be held next fall. A cat club is to be formed, as +exclusive as some of the kennel clubs to which the cats' canine enemies +belong. So that hereafter when a proud-looking Angora goes to call on a +Maltese friend, the question no longer will be: "How many birds have you +killed lately?" or, "How do you find your milk these days?" But as the +pussies purr in good-fellowship together, you will hear them ask each +other (if you can understand the cat language), "Are you going to the +club this evening?" and "Shall I see you at the 'show' next fall?" + + + + +JOYS OF THE STEAMSHIP HUNT. + +BY WILLIAM HEMMINGWAY. + + +The sport of steamship-hunting is the finest I ever enjoyed. It has more +excitement in it than any other I have ever heard of. If you catch your +ship properly you are happier than the slayer of many lions; if you +don't catch her--well, there are some possibilities too shiverish to +think about. + +Of course the kind of steamship-hunting I mean is the game instituted by +the big newspapers in such a case as that of _La Gascogne_, when +recently she was eleven days overdue from Havre because one of her +piston-heads broke down. This game is played with a tug-boat, a full +equipment of night-glasses, and a great amount of patience. Just think +of how important the results are! Within the circuit of New York, +Boston, Buffalo, and Washington--the territory wherein New York +newspapers are chiefly taken--there are at least ten millions of +readers, all anxious for every scrap of news of the missing ship. +Hundreds of these people have friends or relatives on board, but every +one of the vast number is equally eager to hear of the ship's safe +arrival, and all about the reason for her lateness. + +If the lion-hunter's rifle misses fire he loses his life, but if the +steamship-hunter misses his game he loses most of his good name and all +of his employment. Imagine, then, the studious skill he devotes to +sweeping the wide field of ocean with his glasses. He knows that half a +dozen other tug-loads of reporters are out on the same errand, and that +if any of them "beat" him he'd better sail right down into Davy Jones's +locker and lock it from the inside. + +The tug of a New York paper went down to the Quarantine Station at +Staten Island on that very cold Friday evening three days before _La +Gascogne_ was heard from. She was then eight days overdue. Three +reporters and an artist were aboard the tug. They called at the +telegraph office at Quarantine, and learned that nothing had been heard +of the French ship from Sandy Hook or Fire Island. The only thing to do +was to go down to the entrance of the Harbor and wait and +hope--especially hope. Just before the steamship-hunters left the snug +warm telegraph office the instruments began to sputter. The operator in +the Sandy Hook tower was saying, + +"Wind blowing fifty-six miles an hour from the N. W." + +Two wise men, who had been to sea a few times, insisted on staying +several miles inside of Sandy Hook, but the other man insisted a great +deal harder on going. Off we went after a very short debate. The wind +rattled the pilot-house windows, and if the door fell ajar a moment the +breeze nearly whipped it off and blew it away. The bay was covered with +floating ice. There were some cakes almost as big as a city block, and +some looked tiny enough to put in a glass of water; but most of them +were as long and wide as the deck of a big canal-boat. Every time one of +the big fellows crunched against our bow we couldn't help wondering +whether it was coming through. The moon flooded the vast field of white, +and made it look as if we were sailing over a great prairie. Now and +then we came to patches of clear blue water, and these danced in the +moon's rays like giant turquoises. The tug's condensed steam rolled and +bounded along, seeming like great masses of ivory. The intense cold +caused this curious effect. Everything was fairylike, except the harsh +grinding and cannonlike thumps of the ice. + +Off the point of Sandy Hook we were almost clear of ice. Nobody could +see anything that looked like a steamship coming from the eastward. The +ice had kept the water quiet, but here in the open it was heaving and +pitching under the lash of the gale. We ran into the Horseshoe inside of +Sandy Hook, trying to get up to the landing, so that if we had very late +news to send we could telegraph it from Sandy Hook, instead of +Quarantine, which was an hour to the north of us. Ice was packed and +jammed so thick and tight inside the Horseshoe that not even an icicle +could be pushed into it. After our tug narrowly escaped being caught and +held fast for the night we backed out. No use trying to land. + +"Mast-head light to the east'd!" sang out our skipper as we rounded the +point of the Hook. Has your heart ever begun to dance at the sight of a +school of bluefish when you were running down toward them with four +squids trailing from your cat-boat? Have you ever heard a deer come +crashing through the thicket toward your rifle? Imagine us, then, when +we heard those words. Every man whipped out a night-glass, or waited +eagerly for his neighbor's. A speck of yellow light on the horizon +crawled slowly up the blue sky. + +"She's a liner," said our captain. "The ice and the hurricane have sent +all the channel buoys adrift" (you know the ship channel is lighted with +electric lamps like Fifth Avenue), "so her pilot will anchor outside." + +Away went the tug at full speed. The yellow mast-head light kept growing +higher, like a meteor going backward. Soon we could distinguish the dim +white shape of a giant steamship. As she came nearer we saw that she was +ice-coated from the water-line to one hundred feet above the deck. The +lights glowed and twinkled out of the cabin ports like the candles +shining out of the white churches we used to have when we were little +boys. The big ship anchored not far from the Sandy Hook Lightship (six +miles out on the Atlantic). Our Captain knew her for the _Teutonic_ as +readily as you would know your father in the street. On account of the +high waves we dared not go within one hundred feet, for fear of being +dashed against the steamship's side. Our tug's bow swung up in the wind, +and we began a conversation with the officer on the _Teutonic_'s bridge, +our words shooting back and forth across fifty yards of icy wind that +sped between us at the rate of fifty-six miles an hour. The _Teutonic_ +had no news of _La Gascogne_. + +On that Monday afternoon when the telegraph-operator in Fire Island +tower reported the missing _Gascogne_ approaching his station, our tug +started out again. The many weary and fruitless nights of watching and +cruising were all forgotten. The searchers hurried through dinner in the +galley, and drank big mugs of coffee in gulps. Every one was too happy +to stay long at anything. I never knew the distance between the Battery +and the outer light-ship to be so long. From here, at last, we spied a +glimmer of red on the sky-line. If enthusiasm burned, there wouldn't +have been a lens left in one of those glasses. Men perched on the top of +the pilot-house to see better. + +"That's the _Gascogne_--three red lights at the mast-head--going under +repairs," cried the mate, from the loftiest perch. + +Every minute dragged outrageously until we got alongside of the +steamship. Nothing in her appearance except the three red lights +indicated that anything was wrong. She was moving slowly--only eight +miles an hour. We ran under her stern, and got alongside her lee bow. +Groups of passengers gathered along the rails, although it was now very +near midnight. They cheered the men who came so far to welcome them. An +officer on the bridge told of the accident in a dozen words. Through one +of the ports we could see a blue-jacketed steward polishing a plate. + +"Has Faure formed a cabinet yet?" shouted one passenger. + +The answer we gave him was lost in the chorus of cheers. Some one +weighted a copy of the ship's log, and threw it aboard our tug. + +But while all this was very pleasant, it was not enough. The ship's +officers promised to lower a companion-ladder for our men to go aboard. + +A long wait. No ladder. Our own skipper solved the problem by ordering +his men to throw up a twenty-foot wooden ladder--a fragile thing. Such +roars in English and counter-roars in French as there were while that +ladder was being arranged! + +"Take a couple of bights of that line, and make it fast on the third +rung, you three-fingered blacksmith!" yelled our mate. + +[Illustration: ONE OF THE NERVE-TICKLING DETAILS OF THE HUNT.] + +The Frenchmen guessed what he meant. At last the ladder was up, resting +on our deck, and its end scraping the _Gascogne_'s side. There was great +danger that at any moment the top end might catch on an iron plate as +our rolling tug pushed it upward. Then the great weight of the tug would +crush the ladder into matchwood. No matter; that was one of the +nerve-tickling details of the newspaper steamship hunt. Up ran two +reporters and an artist, one after the other, while men stood by to +throw them life-buoys if the ladder should be smashed. + +But they got aboard all right. Afterward came the interviewing, the +hurried writing of copy, the telegraphing from a secret place in Staten +Island out of the reach of news thieves; but all that is the mere +recital of how we carried home our game. + + + + +THE YOUNG BEACH-COMBERS OF MONMOUTH. + +BY AGNES CARR SAGE. + + +"I say he sha'n't come in!" + +"And I tell you he shall!" + +The boys' voices rose high and angry; their attitude was threatening; +and at the sound of contention a bevy of other barefooted urchins came +scampering over the damp sand, shouting, "Hi! a scrap, a scrap!" and +eager to see fair play. + +"What's it all about?" inquired Ned Eaton, a good-looking youth, rather +better dressed than his companions. + +"It's about little Jem Ferguson," spoke up the shorter and stockier of +the belligerents. "Kit Bandy here says he oughtn't to be let into the +beach-combing, and I hold it's mean as cramp-fish to bar him out just +because he's weak and pindlin' and no account in a boat." + +"So it is, so it is," chorused the listening youngsters. + +But Kit put in quickly, "All right, let him in then; but if you do he'll +hoodoo every mother's son of us. Who killed the luck bird last June?" + +"Not Jem," cried Herbert Woolley. + +"No; but his daddy did, and if he had been drinking too much hard cider +at the time, that makes no difference, and the whole family has had a +powerful sight of bad fortune ever since. Jest two weeks after their cow +choked to death with a green apple; Jem's hip trouble grew worse; and +Jake Smithers told me that the smack in which Dan Ferguson sails is sure +to come back with a light haul. The men all look on him as a Jonah, for +fish don't come to the nets of those who take the life of a hawk." + +"Well, but ill-luck can't be inherited, like consumption or the shape of +one's nose," protested Herbert, "and even if it could, Jem's having a +bit of sand to sift couldn't affect the rest of us." + +Still the boys glanced at each other doubtfully, and one muttered. +"We'll each have more ground, and so more chance, if he isn't there," +while Kit clinched his argument by declaring, "Oh, if Bert has his way +we all may as well give up all hope of winning that," pointing, as he +spoke, to a flaring yellow poster which adorned one of the +bathing-houses. + +ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS!!! + +was the heading, in conspicuous capitals two inches long, and below this +amount was offered, in smaller type, as a reward for the return of a +diamond earring lost by one of the summer visitors in Benton, the pretty +New Jersey village where these lads lived, and which was a +quasi-fashionable seaside resort for three months of the year. Now, +however, the broad white beach was given into the hands of those young +natives who in the early fall make a business of going carefully over +it, rubbing the iridescent sand between their fingers, and seeking for +any articles there lost and hidden during the gay warm season. + +In grim silence, then, the boys re-read the advertisement which all knew +by heart, and Ned Eaton suggested, "Let's take a vote. Those who want +Limpy Jem to have a show drop a white shell in my hat, and those who are +for freezing him out a purple one." + +"Yes, yes, that is a good way; that will be fair." And the members of +this hastily formed Beach-Comber's Union turned aside with relief to +select their ballots from the deep-sea treasures cast up by the bobbing +foam-capped waves. + +Five minutes later, then, the polls were open, and Kit looked triumphant +and Bert annoyed as both noted that the majority of the voters were +endeavoring to conceal dark mussel-shells in their brown little fists. +There was no doubt that Jem's fate was sealed, when suddenly a faint +shout attracted their attention, and all started at sight of a slender +auburn-haired lassie speeding toward them from the direction of the +village. "Gee whizz, but it's Eileen Ferguson!" shrieked small Teddy +Todd, "and her temper is as fiery as her curly mop." + +Certainly there was a dangerous flash in her big gray eyes and a sharp +ring in her young voice as, coming nearer, she cried: "So, Kit Bundy, +you are playin' the snake in the grass again, are you? You never did +like my brother, and now I hear you are tryin' to have him put out of +the beach-combin'. Poor Jemmy, who is too sickly to go to the +fishin'-banks, and has so looked forward to the fall in hopes of earnin' +a few dollars for the mither! I should think ye'd be ashamed of +yourself! Dickson, the bathin'-master tould me how you were talkin' to +the others; but you won't mind him, will you, boys?" And there was that +in the appealing, half tearful glance which the earnest little sister +turned upon them that made most of her hearers look sheepish, and become +deeply absorbed in stirring up the sand with their toes. + +But Kit, was furious. "What?" he roared; "be dictated to by a girl? Not +if I know our combers. Go on, fellows, and vote as you intended; while, +Miss Impudence, the sooner you take yourself off the better." + +Instinctively, however, Eileen turned to young Woolley. "Oh, Bert, +Bert!" she wailed, "don't let them throw my Jemmy out. He has had such a +dreadful summer, and this--this will break his heart. We need the money +so much, and niver did he dream his old friends could treat him so." +Then all at once her wrath dissolved in a girlish burst of tears. + +"Pepper me if I can stand that, bad luck or not," growled Ned, hurriedly +picking up a white shell and flinging it into the hat; and as boys, like +older people, are very much akin to a flock of sheep, the majority +followed suit, and Jem Ferguson was, as in former years, numbered with +the beach-combers, the three purple shells cast by Kit and two of his +chums not being sufficient to rule him out. + +"A thousand thanks, boys! You are blissid darlints, ivery one of +ye--barrin' that trio," exclaimed Eileen, who, though American born, in +moments of excitement sometimes betrayed her ancestry by her speech. + +When, then, on the morning of September 18th, the combers gathered to +commence operations, one of the happiest faces there was that of little +"Limpy," hopping briskly along on his crutches, and nodding gay +greetings to his old comrades. They found the beach evenly measured off +and divided by stakes. The plan of the lads of Benton was to draw lots +for their respective portions, a strict though unwritten law being that +no one should poach upon another's grounds. + +"See, Kit, you and I are neighbors," said Jem, cordially, to young +Bundy. "And such fine sections as we have! right in front of the great +Naiad Hotel. We have a good chance for the diamond. Oh, but don't I wish +I could find it!" + +But Kit only growled something about "luck-bird-killers" under his +breath, and strode away to his own preserve. Always rather a leader +among his companions, he was chagrined by his defeat, and felt injured +and annoyed by the cripple's presence. + +As the day wore on, however, he found it difficult to keep up his +antagonism to cheery Jem, who ignored all rebuffs, and chatted away in +the most friendly as well as quaint manner--now about the sea, wondering +why it changed its hue from blue to green and green to gray; and now +about the fish-hawks circling overhead, and longing to be one of them, +that he too might fly off to some warm Southern land before the cold, +biting winter came on. + +"What a queer un you are!" remarked Kit at length. "What makes you +think of such things? Why, I'd a heap rather be a boy than a bird." + +"Yes, 'cause you are so big and strong. You can make your way in the +world, and your back isn't crooked, and your legs all drawed up. Now I, +you see, am neither flesh nor fowl nor good red herring," and Jem +cackled a feeble little laugh, but without a tinge of bitterness. How, +too, he enjoyed the lunch eaten on the beach, and insisted that every +one must taste the pie Eileen had made for him out of "two pertaties and +a bit of a lemon." + +For three days the weather was perfect, and the combers "made hay while +the sun shone," gathering quite a profitable collection of old iron and +nails, children's toys, small coins, and inexpensive pins and pieces of +jewelry, while Bert Woolley had the good fortune to come upon a silver +watch little the worse for its sojourn in the damp sand. + +But on the fourth morning there came a change. Heavy clouds obscured old +Sol from view, the sea roared with a low ominous undertone, and the wind +blew raw and chill from the northeast, making the lads shake and shiver, +and seeming to freeze weakly Jem to the very marrow and set his limbs to +aching. Then in the night the storm broke, one of those fierce September +gales which often sweep the coast, and for forty-eight hours roared and +raged without, while the impatient urchins grumbled and raged within. + +It was an exceedingly wet world that at last emerged, bright and +glistening, after the deluge, but Kit Bundy was early astir and down on +the shore to see what havoc the tempest had made. Dead fish, drift-wood, +portions of wrecks, and other flotsam and jetsam strewed the beach, up +which he slowly sauntered, kicking before him a round stone that bounded +merrily across the sand. Presently, in front of the Naiad Hotel, a +particularly vigorous kick sent it high in air, and then landed it in a +deep hollow worn by the waves. Mechanically Kit paused to lift his +improvised plaything from the hole, when something beside it caused him +to fall on his knees with a low stifled gasp. Not another sound escaped +him, but there was a new and curious expression on his face when he +finally rose and almost ran to the boarding-house he and his father +called "home." Later in the day the long line of beach-combers were +electrified by the message that passed from mouth to mouth, "Kit is the +lucky one; he has found the diamond earring." + +From far and near the boys hastened to behold the jewel, about which +there could not have been more interest had it been the Koh-i-noor +itself, and the finder had to point out just where he discovered it in +his section, deeply buried a foot from the surface. + +"Not so dreadfully hoodooed after all, were you, Kit?" Bert could not +resist remarking; but most of the lads swallowed their own +disappointment, and congratulated him warmly, while Jem threw his hat in +the air, piping, + +"Hip, hip, hurrah for Bundy, the prize-winner!" + +But the hero of the hour did not appear particularly pleased with these +attentions. He grew very red, and turned away, muttering, "Oh, shut up, +fellows! It isn't worth makin' such a fuss over." + +"Just hear the Rothschild," squeaked Teddy Todd. "One would think he +picked up gems every day in the year. I shouldn't be so grumpy if I had +had his luck." + +"Which he don't deserve," said outspoken Eileen, who had come down to +gather drift-wood. "Oh dear! how unequal things are in this world! If +Jem had but drawn that side of the stake instead of the other, we would +be fairly spinnin' with the joy, and whiskin' him off to the best doctor +in the county. Poor lamb! he scarce slept a wink last night, with the +pain in his hip, and oughtn't to be out here to-day." + +And the next morning Jem was missing, his sister coming to fill his +place, and, with her ready Irish wit, parrying all the boys' jokes on +"the first girl comber of Monmouth." But from that time the interest in +the beach-combing flagged, and the work soon came to an end. + +One afternoon, not long after, a youth, conspicuously conscious of his +Sunday clothes and stiff collar, rang the bell of a handsome New York +residence, the shining door-plate of which bore the name, "J. C. Landon, +M.D." He was admitted by a supercilious colored boy in buttons, who, +ushering him into a luxuriantly furnished office, told him to "Wait, the +doctor was engaged at present." And he did wait a full half-hour before +the physician emerged from an inner apartment, accompanied by a lady who +gently supported a young girl, richly attired, and with long fair hair +floating on her shoulders, but who limped painfully, and in whose sweet +face was an expression of suffering that somehow reminded Kit--for Kit +it was--of Jem Ferguson. + +"Yes, yes, Mrs. Graham," Dr. Landon was saying. "I see no reason why +Miss Ethel should not walk without crutches in time. Science works +wonders nowadays. She would get on faster if you could consent to let +her go to my sanitarium, but since you are unwilling, I will visit her +often and do the best I am able; while I can at least promise that there +will soon be no more of the neuralgia that causes such excruciating +agony." With which he bowed his visitors out, and, returning, asked +briskly, "Well, my lad, what can I do for you? You don't look like an +invalid." + +"No, sir; I'm pretty hearty," responded Kit, with a grin. "I came +because--because I have found this," and without further words he +produced a small box and opened it. + +"My wife's lost earring! Why, she will be overjoyed!" exclaimed the +physician. "But I shall have to turn you over to her, as I am due at the +hospital, and haven't a moment to spare. Here, Nero, ask Mrs. Landon to +step down to the office." And without more ado the busy man hurried off, +leaving the confused and stammering Kit to the tender mercies of the +mistress of the mansion. + +But these proved very delightful, for not only did the lady shower him +with graceful thanks, but ordered up a dainty little collation for his +refreshment, which he ate to the sound of the surgeon's praises as sung +by Nero, who declared his master to be "De berry bestest doctah in all +de United States. Why, sah, he kin mos' raise de dead, and I 'low he +makes de lame to walk ebery day, and tinks nottin' ob it"; and, when he +finally left the house, it was with a fat roll of greenbacks snugly +tucked in his pocket. + +This was the hour to which Christopher Bundy had been looking forward, +and he proceeded to make the most of it. Of course he went to the +theatre, and from a high gallery seat glowed and shivered in sympathy +with the hero on the boards, and he followed this up with an oyster-stew +in a gayly decorated and illuminated restaurant. But, strange to say, he +was not as happy as he should have been, and--it was very queer--the +features of "Limpy Jem" would keep rising before him, curiously +intermingled with those of the lame girl he had seen that day, while he +seemed to hear again a weak voice piping, "That's because you are so big +and strong, and your back isn't crooked and your legs all drawn up. I +must have the vapors," he concluded, as he tumbled into bed. + +The following evening, when Kit stepped off the train at Benton, he was +met by a delegation of beach-combers, all shouting: "Hullo, old fellow! +Did you get the reward, sure enough? Goin' to stand treat now, ain't +yer? Ginger-pop and sodas for the crowd!" and insisted upon bearing him +off to drink his health at his expense. + +"Wish poor Limpy was here too," remarked Ned Eaton, as he drained his +glass of sarsaparilla. "Does any one know how he is to-night?" + +"Dreadful bad," answered Teddy Todd. "They think he's dyin'." + +"What! Is he so sick as that?" and Kit's voice sounded sharp and +unnatural. + +"Yes; he took cold that day before the storm; fever set in, and the +doctor says he won't get well." + + * * * * * + +It was nine o'clock, and the little seaside town was settling down to +sleepy repose, when a timid knock summoned Eileen to the Fergusons' +humble portal. Her eyes were red and swollen, as could be seen by the +blazing pine-knot she carried, and her lips quivered as she cried: "Kit +Bundy at this hour! What brings you here?" + +"To see Jem. Stop, Eileen! Don't say I can't, for I must, indeed I must. +I know I've been mean to him and rude to you, but there is something I +must tell him before he dies." + +There was so much wild anxiety in his manner and imploring in his tone +that the curt refusal on the girl's tongue was hushed, and instead she +said, "Come, then; only don't stay long," and led the way to the dreary +room where Jem lay. A wan smile flitted across his face at sight of his +guest, and he murmured: + +"Howdy, Kit; do you know, I guess I'll get my wish, after all, and fly +away like the luck-birds." + +With a low cry, however, the older lad threw himself down beside the +bed, and sobbed: "No, no, Limpy; don't say that. You must stop and be +comfortable and happy here, for see, this is yours, all yours"; and he +flung upon the patchwork quilt the roll of bills paid him by Mrs. +Landon. + +Jem gasped. "What a big, big lot of money! It's the reward, isn't +it--the reward for the diamond? But you mustn't give it to me." + +"It belongs to you. I never had any right to the diamond, for--for I +found it on your side of the stake, and buried it in my part of the +beach." + +[Illustration: THEN JEM WHISPERED: "POOR KIT! BUT I'M GLAD YOU'VE TOLD +ME."] + +After this confession there was dead silence for a moment. Then Jem +whispered: "Poor Kit! But I'm glad you've told me." + +"So am I; though the beach-combers will hiss me out of their company +when they know. Here's the hundred and fifty dollars, however, every +penny of it; and you, Eileen, must spend it all for your brother"; and +he thrust the greenbacks into that astonished maiden's hands. + +But Jemmy protested with all his feeble strength, "I cannot, I will not +take it all," he said. "You were the finder, even if it was in my +portion of sand. But we will divide, half for you and half for me, and +then the other fellows need never know. It shall be our secret." And as +he was growing dangerously excited, to this arrangement Kit had to +consent. + +Before leaving, though, he told the sick boy and his sister of the +marvellous cures Dr. Landon was said to have made, and of the fair +cripple he had seen in his office, concluding with, "Now, Jem, if you +could go to his hospital, mebbe science would work some of those wonders +on you." + +"Oh, if he could, if he only could!" sighed Eileen. + +Hope, however, is a great restorative, and the following day Jem was +stronger than he had been for some time, which encouraged Kit to take +another trip to New York, where he astonished Dr. Landon by suddenly +appearing before him and demanding, "Tell me, sir, is seventy-five +dollars enough to put a chap in your hospital and get him cured.'" + +"Well, that depends," laughed Dr. Landon, much amused. "Who is this +chap, and what is his trouble?" + +As concisely as possible the boy told the story of lame Jem, but so +interesting the kindly physician that he ran down to Benton expressly to +see the case, and the result was the new year found the young invalid +established in a great airy ward, where the sunshine sifted in through a +beautiful lattice-work of window plants, and cheery, bright-faced +attendants were ready to answer every call and supply every want. + +"It seems like Paradise," said Jem, nestling among the soft pillows, and +that proved a truly blissful winter, in spite of some pain and +discomfort he had to endure, while he made life-long friends of Mrs. +Landon and Mrs. Graham, who paid him frequent visits, and brought him +lovely flowers and delicious fruit from the fair-haired Ethel. + +And at length, when the spring-time came over the land, Bert Woolley and +Kit Bundy one evening helped off the cars a very pale but very radiant +lad, while the former said, + +"See, Limpy, there are all the beach-combers coming to welcome you +home." + +Cordially the rough youths crowded about their young comrade, healed and +restored as though by a miracle, and shook him warmly by the hand, +wondering to see in a slight limp the only trace of his former lameness. +But the throng parted as an auburn head suddenly flashed through their +midst, and Eileen, throwing her arms around her brother, cried: + +"Oh, Jem, Jem! this is the happy day for sure--to see you walking on +your own two feet, while the father has signed the pledge, and a pair of +luck-birds are building their nest in the big pine-tree right forninst +our door." + + + + +SNOW-SHOES AND SLEDGES. + +BY KIRK MUNROE. + + +CHAPTER XXV. + +SERGE DISCOVERS A CURIOUS CAVERN. + +At the point where our travellers had again struck the Yukon, nearly +1500 miles from its mouth, it was still a mighty stream two miles wide. +Above this they found it bounded on both sides by mountains that often +approached to its very waters, where, in sheer precipices hundreds of +feet high, they found gigantic palisades, similar to those of the +Hudson, which are known as the "Upper Ramparts." On the lower river the +sledge party had journeyed over a smooth surface, on which were few +obstructions. Their course from Anvik had at first been due north, then +northeast, then east, and was now due south, the source of the Yukon +towards which they were now travelling being some ten degrees south of +its great arctic bend. + +Owing to this, they now found themselves confronted by the hardest kind +of sledging over rough hummocky ice that was often piled in chaotic +ridges twenty and thirty feet high. As the river freezes first at its +most northerly point, and this belt of solid ice is gradually extended +south, or back toward its source, the floating cakes of its upper +reaches, borne by the swift current, are piled on the ever-advancing +barrier in confused masses that stretch across the river like windrows. + +In the spring, when the ice breaks up and is hurled irresistibly down +stream on the swollen current, the same effect is reproduced on a vastly +increased scale. Then the upper river breaks first, and a sudden rise of +water from some great tributary starts the ice over the still solid +barrier below. The huge cakes slide, jam, push, and crash over the still +unbroken ice sheet, until they are piled in a vast gleaming mass seventy +or eighty feet in height, from a quarter of a mile to one mile in +length, and extending from bank to bank. + +This mighty gorge must give way at length, and when it does it goes with +a roaring fury that is terrifying and grand beyond description. After +grinding and tearing onward for several miles, or perhaps less than one, +the furious impulse is again checked by another solid barrier, which +must in turn be broken down and swept away, its added weight giving +increased energy to the mighty force. + +So the ice crashes its resistless way down the whole Yukon Valley to +Bering Sea, two thousand miles distant, sweeping everything before it, +mowing down vast areas of forest, submerging islands, tearing out banks, +and leaving everywhere traces of its terrible progress in the shape of +huge ice cakes, weighing many tons, stranded high above ordinary water +level. + +Although Phil Ryder and his companions were not to witness this grand +exhibition of one of nature's mightiest forces, they were sadly +inconvenienced and delayed by the uncomfortable fashion in which their +frozen highway had been constructed some months earlier. If they could +have left the river and followed along its banks, they would have done +so; but this was out of the question, not only on account of their +rugged character, but because on their timbered portions the snow lay +many feet in depth, while from the river it had been so blown by strong +north winds that for long stretches the ice was barely covered. This +enabled the sledge men to walk without snow-shoes, which was a great +comfort to all three, but especially to Jalap Coombs, who had not yet +learned to use the netted frames with "ease and fluency," as Phil said. + +To this light-hearted youth the sight of his sailor friend wrestling +with the difficulties of inland navigation as practised in arctic +regions afforded a never-failing source of mirth. A single glance at +Jalap's lank figure enveloped in firs, with his weather-beaten face +peering from the recesses of a hair-fringed hood, was enough at any time +to make Phil laugh. Jalap on snow-shoes that, in spite of all his +efforts, would slide in every direction but the one desired, and Jalap +gazing at a frosty world through a pair of wooden snow-goggles, were +sights that even sober-sided Serge found humorous. + +But funniest of all was to see Jalap drive a dog-team. This he was now +obliged to do, for, while they still had three sledges, they had been +unable to procure any Indians at Forty Mile to take the places of +Kurilla and Chitsah. So while Phil, who was now an expert in the art of +dog-driving, and could handle a six-yard whip like a native, took turns +with Serge in breaking the road, Jalap was always allowed to bring up +the rear. His dogs had nothing to fear from the whip, except, indeed, +when it tripped him up so that he tell on top of them, but they cringed +and whined beneath the torrent of incomprehensible sea terms incessantly +poured forth by the strange master, who talked to them as though they +were so many lubberly sailors. + +"Port your hellum! Hard a-port!" he would roar to the accompaniment of +flying chunks of ice that he could throw with amazing certainty of aim. +Then, "Steady! So! Start a sheet and give her a rap full. Now keep her +so! Keep her so! D'ye hear! Let her fall off a fraction of a p'int and +I'll rake ye fore and aft. Now, then, bullies, pull all together. Yo-ho, +heave! No sojering! Ah, you will, will ye, ye furry sea-cook! Then take +that, and stow it in your bread-locker. Shake your hay-seed and +climb--_climb_, I tell ye. Avast heaving!" And so on, hour after hour, +while the dogs would jump and pull and tangle their "running rigging," +as Jalap named the trace-thongs, and the two boys would shout with +laughter. + +But while the journey thus furnished something of merriment, it was also +filled with tribulations. So bitter was the cold that their bloodless +lips were often too stiff for laughter or even for speech. So rough was +the way, that they rarely made more than eight or ten miles in a day of +exhausting labor. Several dogs broke their legs amid the chaotic ice +blocks of the ever-recurring ridges, and had to be shot. Along the +palisaded Ramparts it was difficult to find timbered places in which to +camp. Their dog feed was running low, and there was none to be had in +the wretched native villages that they passed at long intervals. + +At length the setting sun of one evening found them at a point where the +river, narrowed to a few hundred yards, was bounded on one side by a +lofty precipice of rock, and on the other by a steeply sloping bank +that, devoid of timber, seemed to descend from an open plateau. They +halted beside a single log of drift that, half embedded in ice, was the +only available bit of firewood in sight. It was a bleak and bitter place +in which to spend an arctic night, and they shivered in anticipation of +what they were to suffer during its long hours. + +"I am going to climb to the top of the bank," said Serge, "and see if I +can't find some more wood. If I do, I'll roll it down; so look out!" + +Suiting his action to his words the active lad started with a run that +carried him a few yards up the steep ascent. It was so abrupt that he +was on the point of sliding back, and dug his heel sharply into the snow +to secure a hold. At the same instant he uttered a cry, threw up his +arms, and dropped from the sight of his astonished companions as though +he had fallen down a well. + +Before they could make a move toward his rescue they were more astounded +than ever to hear his voice, somewhat muffled, but apparently close +beside them. + +"I'm all right!" he cried, cheerily. "That is, I think I am, and I +believe I can cut my way out. Don't try to climb the bank. Just wait a +minute." + +Then the bank began to tremble as though shaken by a gentle earthquake, +and suddenly a hand clutching a knife shot out from it so close to Jalap +Coombs that the startled sailor leaped back to avoid it, stumbled over a +sledge, and plunged headlong among his own team of dogs, who were lying +in the snow beyond, patiently waiting to be unharnessed. By the time the +yelling, howling mass of man and dogs was disentangled and separated, +Serge had emerged from the mysterious bank, and stood looking as though +he did not quite understand what had happened. Behind him was a black +opening into which Phil was peering with the liveliest curiosity. + +"Of all the miracles I ever heard of this is the strangest!" he cried. +"What does it mean, old man?" + +"I don't exactly know," answered Serge: "but I rather think it is a moss +blanket. Anyhow, that's an elegant place to crawl into out of the cold. +Seems to be plenty of wood too." + +Serge was right in his conjecture. What appeared to be the river-bank +was merely a curtain of tough, closely compacted Alaskan moss, closely +resembling peat in its structure, one foot thick, and reaching from the +crest of an overhanging bank to the edge of the river. It had thus held +together, and fallen to its present position when the river undermined +and swept away the earth from beneath it. That it presented a sloping +surface instead of hanging perpendicular was owing to a great number of +timbers, the ends of which projected from the excavated bank behind it. +Serge had broken through the moss curtain, fallen between these timbers +to the beach, and then cut his way out. Now, as he suggested, what +better camping-place could they ask than the warm, dry, moss-enclosed +space from which he had just emerged. + +"I never saw nor heard of anything so particularly and awfully jolly in +all my life," pronounced Phil, after the three travellers had entered +this unique cavern, and started a fire by which they were enabled to see +something of its strange interior. "And, I say, Serge, what a thoughtful +scheme it was on your part to provide a chimney for the fire before you +lighted it! See how the smoke draws up? If it wasn't for that hole in +the roof I am afraid we should be driven out of here in short order. +But, hello, old man! Whew--w! what are you throwing bones on the fire +for? It reminds me of your brimstone-and-feather experiment on Oonimak." + +"Bones!" repeated Serge in surprise. "Are those bones? I thought they +were dry sticks." + +"I should say they were bones!" cried Phil, snatching a couple of the +offending objects from the fire. "And, sure as I live, this log I am +sitting on is a bone too. Why, it's bigger than I am. It begins to look +as though this place were some sort of a tomb. But there's plenty of +wood. Let's throw on some more and light up." + +"Toughest wood to cut I ever see," growled Jalap Coombs, who was hacking +away at another half-buried log. "'Pears to be brittle, though, and +splits easy," he added, dodging a sliver that broke off and flew by his +head. + +"Hold on!" cried Phil, picking up the sliver. "You'll ruin the axe. +That's another bone you're chopping. This place is a regular giants' +cemetery." + + +CHAPTER XXVI. + +CAMPING 'MID PREHISTORIC BONES. + +So strange and uncanny was the place in which our sledge party thus +unexpectedly found themselves, that Phil was for exploring it, and +attempting to determine its true character at once; but practical Serge +persuaded him to wait until they had performed their regular evening +duties, and eaten supper. "After that," he said, "we can explore all +night if we choose." + +So Phil turned his attention to the dogs, which he unharnessed and fed, +while Serge prepared supper, and Jalap Coombs gathered a supply of +firewood from the bleached timber ends projecting from the bank behind +them. He tested each of these before cutting into it to make certain +that it was not a bone, quantities of which were mingled with the +timber. + +The firewood that he thus collected exhibited several puzzling +peculiarities. To begin with, it was so very tough and thoroughly +lifeless that, as Jalap Coombs remarked, he didn't know but what bones +would cut just as easy. When laid on the fire it was slow to ignite, and +finally only smouldered, giving out little light, but yielding a great +heat. As Serge said, it made one of the poorest fires to see by and one +of the best to cook over that he had ever known. + +Although in all their experience they had never enjoyed a more +comfortable and thoroughly protected camping-place than this one, the +lack of their usual cheerful blaze and their mysterious surroundings +created a feeling of depression that caused them to eat supper in +unusual silence. At its conclusion Serge picked up a freshly cut bit of +the wood, and, holding it in as good a light as he could get, examined +it closely. + +"I never saw nor heard of any wood like this in all Alaska," he said at +length. "Do you suppose this can be part of a buried forest that grew +thousands of years ago?" + +"I believe that's exactly what it is," replied Phil. "I expect it was +some awfully prehistoric forest that was blown down by a prehistoric +cyclone, and got covered with mud, somehow, and was just beginning to +turn into coal when the ice age set in. Thus it has been preserved in +cold storage ever since. It must have grown in one of the ages that one +always likes to hear of, but hates to study about, a paleozoic or +Silurian or post-tertiary, or one of those times. At any rate I expect +it was a tropical forest, for they all were in those days." + +"Then like as not these here is elephant's bones," remarked Jalap +Coombs. "I were jest thinking as how this one had a look of ivory about +it." + +"They may be," assented Phil, dubiously, "but they must have belonged to +pretty huge old elephants; for I don't believe Jumbo's bones would look +like more than toothpicks alongside some of these. It is more likely +that they belonged to hairy mammoths, or mastodons, or megatheriums, or +plesiosauruses, or fellows like that." + +"I don't know as I ever met up with any of them, nor yet heerd tell of +'em," replied Jalap Coombs, simply, "onless what you've just said is the +Latin names of rhinocerosses or hoponthomases or giraffees, of which my +old friend Kite Roberson useter speak quite frequent. He allus said +consarning 'em, though, that they'd best be let alone, for lions nor yet +taggers warn't a sarcumstance to 'em. Now if these here bones belonged +to any sich critters as them, he sartainly knowed what he were talking +about, and I for one are well pleased that they all went dead afore we +hove in sight." + +"I don't know but what I am too," assented Phil, "for at close range I +expect it would be safer to meet one of Mr. Robinson's taggers. Still, I +would like to have seen them from a safe place, like the top of Groton +Monument or behind the bars of a bank vault. Where are you going, +Serge?" + +"Going for some wood that isn't quite so prehistoric and will blaze," +answered the other lad, who had picked up an axe and was stepping toward +the entrance to the cavern. + +"That's a scheme! Come on, Mr. Coombs. Let's help him tackle that +up-to-date log outside, and see if we can't get a modern illumination +out of it," suggested Phil. + +So they chopped vigorously at the ice-bound drift-log that had induced +them to halt at that point, and half an hour later the gloom of their +cavern was dispelled by a roaring, snapping, up-to-date blaze. By its +cheerful light they examined with intense interest the great fossil +bones that lay scattered about them. + +"I should think a whole herd of mammoths must have perished at once," +said Phil. "Probably they were being hunted by some antediluvian Siwash +and got bogged in a quicksand. How I wish we could see a whole one! But, +great Scott! Now we have gone and done it!" + +Phil's final exclamation was caused by a crackling sound overhead. The +sloping moss roof had caught fire from the leaping blaze, and for a +moment the dismayed spectators of this catastrophe imagined that their +snug camping-place was about to be destroyed. They quickly saw, however, +that the body of the moss was not burning; it was too thoroughly +permeated with ice for that, and that the fire was only flashing over +its dry under surface. + +[Illustration: FOR A SINGLE MINUTE THEY GAZED IN BREATHLESS AWE.] + +As they watched these fitful flames running along the roof and +illuminating remote recesses of the cavern, all three suddenly uttered +cries of amazement, and each called the attention of the others to the +most wonderful sight he had ever seen. Brilliantly lighted and +distinctly outlined against the dark background of a clay bank, that +held it intact, was a gigantic skeleton complete in every detail, even +to a huge tusk that curved outward from a massive skull. For a single +minute they gazed in breathless awe. Then the illuminating flame died +out, and like a dissolving picture the vast outline slowly faded from +view and was lost in the blackness. + +"Was that one of 'em?" gasped Jalap Coombs. + +"I expect it was," answered Phil. + +"Waal, then, old Kite didn't make no mistake when he said a tagger +warn't a sarcumstance." + +"It must have been all of twenty feet high," remarked Serge, +reflectively. + +For more than an hour they talked of the wonderful sight, and Phil told +what he could remember of the gigantic hairy mammoth discovered frozen +in a Siberian glacier, and so perfectly preserved that sledge-dogs were +fed for weeks on its flesh. + +As they talked their fire burned low, and the outside cold creeping +stealthily into camp turned their thoughts to fur-lined sleeping-bags. +So they slept, and dreamed of prehistoric monsters; while Musky, Luvtuk, +Amook, and their comrades restlessly sniffed and gnawed at the ancient +bones of this strange encampment, and wondered at finding them so void +of flavor. + +Glad as our sledge travellers would have been to linger for days and +fully explore the mysteries of that great moss-hidden cavern, they dared +not take the necessary time. It was already two weeks since they had +left the mining-camp, winter was waning, and they must leave the river +ere spring destroyed its icy highway. So they were off again with the +first gray light of morning, and two days later found them at the mouth +of the Pelly River, the upper Yukon's largest tributary, and two hundred +and fifteen miles from Forty Mile. + +One evening they spent in the snug quarters of Harper, the Pelly River +trader, who was the last white man they could hope to meet before +reaching the coast. + +From the Pelly River trader our travellers gained much valuable +information concerning the routes they might pursue and the difficulties +they had yet to encounter. They had indeed heard vaguely of the great +canyon of the Yukon, through which the mad waters are poured with such +fury that they can never freeze, of the rocky Five Fingers that obstruct +its channel, the Rink and White Horse rapids, and the turbulent open +streams connecting its upper chain of lakes; but until this time they +had given these dangers little thought. Now they became real, while some +of them, according to the trailer, were impassable save by weary detours +through dense forests and deep snows that they feared would delay them +beyond the time of the river's breaking up. + +"What, then, can we do?" asked Phil. + +"I'll tell you," replied the trader. "Leave the Yukon at this point; go +about fifty miles up the Pelly, and turn to your right into the Fox. +Ascend this to its head, cross Fox Lake, Indian Trail Lake, Lost Lake, +and three other small lakes. Then go down a creek that empties into the +Little Salmon, and a few miles down that river to the Yukon. In this way +you will have avoided the Five Fingers and the Rink Rapids, and found +good ice all the way. After that keep on up the main river till you pass +Lake Le Barge. There again leave the Yukon, this time for good by the +first stream that flows in on your right. It is the Tahkeena, and will +lead you to the Chilkat Pass, which is some longer, but no worse than +the Chilkoot. Thus you will avoid most of the rough ice, the great +canyon, and all the rapids." + +"But we shall surely get lost," objected Phil. + +"Not if you can hire Cree Jim who lives somewhere up on the Fox River to +go with you, for he is the best guide in the country." + +So the next morning Phil and his companions again set forth, this time +up the Pelly River, with all their hopes for safety and a successful +termination to their journey centred upon the finding and hiring of Cree +Jim, the guide. + +[TO BE CONTINUED.] + + + + +FLORA, QUEEN OF SUMMER. + +A MEDLEY. + +BY CAROLINE A. CREEVEY AND MARGARET E. SANGSTER. + + +_Characters._ + + BLANCHE HOWE, _President of the Ninepin Club_. + FELICIA DEFOREST, _Secretary of the Ninepin Club_. + +_Members._ + + MORNA ROWLAND, LUCILLE TAYLOR, CHRISTABEL MASON, SOPHIA PRATT, + ANNETTE SIMPSON, HELEN FAIRCHILD, AGNES STOWE. + + ALICE TROWBRIDGE, _a classmate, not a member of the Club_; _an_ + OLD WOMAN; _a_ MAID; BIRDS. + + Eight Blue Birds { four little girls } + { four little boys } + } + Six Yellow Birds { three little girls } _The Kindergarten Class._ + { three little boys } + } + Six Red Birds { three little girls } + { three little boys. } + +SCENE.--_A drawing-room in_ Mrs. Ames's _private boarding-school. The +Ninepin Club is holding one of its regular meetings. The question for +discussion is_ A Summer Fete. _The President is in the chair._ + +TIME.--_The 30th of May._ + +_Blanch_ (_raps for order_). The Club will come to order, and hear the +minutes of the last meeting. The Secretary will please rise. + +_Felicia_ (_rises and reads_). The Ninepin Club met in the drawing-room +for its usual weekly meeting. After the minutes of the last meeting had +been read and approved, there being no business on hand, and no question +to discuss, one of the members produced a box of cake and fruit just +received from home, and the Club enjoyed a fine feast. The box was the +more appreciated, as the members had dined that day off corned beef and +cabbage, which bill of fare, it was voted, should never be allowed in +the members' future homes. It was voted that thanks should be sent to +the member's mother for the box. Lucille announced that she was +expecting a box soon, and would treat the Club at their next meeting. + +_Blanche_. You have heard the report. As many as approve will say aye. + +_All_. Aye! + +_Blanche_. The President would like to inquire if the member who was +expecting the box to-day has received said box. + +_Lucille_. I am sorry to say, Miss President, and members of the Club, +that the box has been unaccountably delayed. + +_Blanche_. It may come to-day? + +_Lucille_. It may. And if it does, the members will be notified to +attend a midnight meeting in my room. + +_Blanche_. That is satisfactory. The Club accepts with thanks Lucille's +invitation. Girls, you must put on your bedroom slippers, and come in +perfect silence. If any member is absent, on account of not being able +to pass the section teacher's open door, she shall be commiserated, and +her share of cake and fruit shall be sent to her next day. Is there any +other business? + +_Morna_. I think we ought to consider whether Alice shall be asked to +join the Club. Not that I want her, goodness knows, but yesterday Miss +Foster spoke to me about her. She said we didn't seem to associate with +her much. + +_Annette_. Miss Foster spoke to me too. She thought Alice was a good +girl, and only needed to be brought out. + + [_Several of the girls speak at once, excitedly._] + +_Helen_. Oh no, we don't want her. + +_Christabel_. She would just spoil the Club. + +_Sophia_. To me she is positively disagreeable. + +_Felicia_. She dresses so plainly. + +_Helen_. And does up her hair horridly. + +_Christabel_. She is scared out of her wits if we just speak to her. I +asked her the other day where her home was, and she looked awfully +funny, and didn't answer a word. + +_Morna_. I don't exactly like her face. I wouldn't trust her. + +_Sophia_. That's it. I don't believe she is sincere. + +_Annette_. And she hasn't had a box since she came. + +_Blanche_. Order! You know Alice wouldn't be a bit congenial to me. But +we will take a vote. Somebody make a motion. + +_Felicia_. I move that Alice Trowbridge be not admitted to this Club. + +_Helen_. I second the motion. + +_Blanche_. All in favor say aye. + +_All_. Aye! + +_Blanche_. There, that is settled. But, girls, I advise you to pay a +little attention to Alice outside of the Club, just so that the teachers +won't notice. Miss Foster is awfully sharp. She pries about a good deal +more than there's any call for her to. I shall ask Alice to walk with me +pretty soon. + +_Agnes_. Noble, self-sacrificing president! I will follow your example. + +_Lucille_. I too. + +_Sophia_. Suppose we all walk with her. Then Miss Foster can't say +anything. + +_Christabel_. I wish Miss Foster would mind her own business. + +_Blanche_. Well, do not let's talk about this disagreeable subject any +more. We were to have a paper on "Summer." Is the member prepared? + +_Morna_ (_rises and reads_). I must beg pardon for having no paper +prepared, but I have had so many headaches lately I have been warned by +Dr. Louise not to work so hard. Instead of a paper, I have a proposal. +The Doctor says we ought to live out-of-doors more than we do. Let us +have a summer _fete_--something that is quaint and original. + +_Blanche_. It occurs to me that we might have a picnic and dress in +peasant costume. + +_Lucille_. How would you like a mountain laurel party? + +_Agnes_. Oh, Lucille! just the thing. Girls, we could ask for a +hall-holiday, and have a Queen, and cover her with lovely pink and white +blossoms. + +_Blanche_. How many would like a laurel party? Raise your hands. + + [_All raise their hands._] + +_Sophia_. Let's appoint a committee to get it up. + +_Christabel_. Do you suppose we could let Alice in on that? + +_Annette_. Oh, bother that tiresome girl! No, we can't. + + [_A knock on the door. All hush, and sit up very straight._ Helen + _unlocks and opens the door. An_ Old Woman _enters. She + stoops, leans heavily on a cane, and limps. She has on a long + black cloak, and wears a large poke bonnet. Adjusting glasses on + her nose, she scans the club members, then hobbles up to the_ + President.] + +_Old Woman_. Good-afternoon. Might I sit down and visit you a few +minutes? (Helen _places a chair_.) Thank you, dearie. You see, it's +hard for me to stand. I'm pretty lame. But I can get about very well. Oh +yes; very well, considering. You don't know me, I suppose? + +_Blanche_. I think not. Perhaps you have got into the wrong place? + +_Old Woman_. Isn't this the Ninepin Club? + +_Blanche_. Yes. + +_Old Woman_ (_chuckling_). It's the right place. Oh yes, it's the right +place. The Ninepin Club is where I was bound for. + +_Christabel_. A most extraordinary person. + +_Old Woman_. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Oh, I +see, nine of you. That's why you are the Ninepin Club. Quite a +coincidence. (_Shakes her head gravely._) But I thought there were ten +in your class. How does it happen that you're one short? + +_Blanche_. If you please, we would like to know what right you have to +question our Club. Who are you, please? + +_Old Woman_. Certainly, certainly. What's my name and where's my home? +My name is Granny Playfair, and I am the general Club regulator. +Whenever a Club is established, I look after it, d'ye see? + + [_The girls appear much mystified._] + +_Blanche_. Well, Granny Playfair? + +_Granny_. And knowing about the Ninepin Club, I have come to regulate +it. + +_Blanche_. But how did you know about our Club? The members are pledged +to secrecy. + +_Granny_. How did I know? Well, there's where I am pledged to secrecy. +It's a mighty good thing for Clubs that I regulate them, though. Little +birds of the air sometimes tell me things. + +_Blanche_. But, are you sure that our Club needs regulating? + +_Granny_. Quite sure. Your Club is wrong all through. + +_Blanche_. I have made a special study of _Cushing's Manual_, and we are +quite parliamentary. + +_Granny_. Well, I'm glad of that. (_Shakes her head._) Oh, but you do +need regulating. And I shall do it. Never fear. Now let me see, you were +talking about summer. Would you like to see how the birds keep summer? +That would help you a little. + +_Several of the Girls_. Oh yes, indeed. + +_Granny_ (_knocks on the floor. Door opens, and enter two little +children dressed in blue_). Come in, my birds. Are all the other birds +assembled to do my bidding? + +_Blue Birds_: + + We heard you call, yes, one and all, + And we were sent, we two; + So now, dear Lady, tell us, please, + What you would have us do; + For every little blue bird is + Devoted quite to you. + +_Granny_. Then fly, and find us the wood where the laurel grows +thickest. + + [_Exeunt birds._] + +_Helen_ (_aside_). This is an interesting Old Woman, but I can't make +her out. + +_Agnes_. Nor I, one bit. + +_Granny_. Shall I tell you my dream, young ladies? + +_Girls_. Oh! do tell us your dream. + +[Illustration: I SAW A FIGURE HUDDLED IN A CORNER.] + +_Granny_. I was passing through a long, deserted hall, when I heard +sounds as of some one sobbing. In a side room, whose door was just ajar, +entering, I saw a small figure huddled in a corner. The room was dark, +and I drew a shutter, letting the light in upon a young girl. Yes, she +was crying. I went softly to her, and touched her on the shoulder. "What +ails you, dearie?" I said. "Oh, I am not in it," she wailed. I took a +seat, and drew the poor child to me, and stroked her forehead, and +chafed her little cold hands. "Not in what, sweetheart?" I said. "Not in +the Club," she answered. "They are all in it but me." "But why are you +not in it?" I said. And she answered. "Because my dresses are sober and +old-fashioned. I am not bright and witty. I am plain. I believe I am +dull in my studies, because the girls look at me so. I am frightened, +and can't recite even when I know the lesson. Oh, I have not one friend +in the class." My little dear fell to crying again, and I had to take +her in my arms, and kiss her, and comfort her a long time before she +could tell me all of her story. "My mamma is dead," she said. "Those +girls don't know how dreadful it is to lose their mammas. My uncle takes +care of me, and he won't send me boxes of sweets, because he thinks they +are hurtful. And he thinks girls ought to dress plainly and +inexpensively. He has money enough. I have some money of my own, which +my mother told my uncle to take care of for me till I was of age. If +only I could make my uncle understand that I can't bear to be different +from the rest of the girls. When the other girls go home in vacations, I +stay here with the housekeeper. My uncle says I ought to be thankful for +so good a home. But I'm not thankful. Oh, Granny, I want my mamma!" + +Well girls, you may believe me, this poor child's story touched me very +much, and I thought how I could help her. I asked her uncle's address +and kissed her, and told her that Granny would be her friend, and we +went out of that lonely dark room, her little heart comforted. Then I +wrote to that uncle, and the result was-- But here come the Birds. + +_Blanche_ (_to the other girls_). It begins to dawn on me what Granny's +dream means. + +_Morna_. It's Alice, of course. + +_Granny_. Hush! + + [_Enter_ Birds. _Eight blue birds, six red birds, six yellow + birds. Each carries a cluster or wreath or basket of pink + laurel._] + +_Granny_. Go back, little birds, and find Flora, your Queen. + + [_They rush off and return dragging a large chair draped with + green cloth. Then they scamper out again._ Granny _blows a toy + whistle. The door opens, and enter_ Alice, _beautifully dressed + in white, a wreath of roses on her head, a small wand tipped with + a rose in her hand. On each side of her a blue bird walks. + Behind, in pairs, all the others march. They go once around the + room, and escort_ Alice _to her throne_. Granny _rises and makes a + low bow_.] + +[Illustration: "HAIL, FLORA, QUEEN OF SUMMER!"] + +_Granny_. Hail, Flora, Queen of Summer! + + Hail, Flora, Queen off Summer! all Nature speaks your praises; + She spells them in her violets, and twines them with her daisies. + + For you the lances lift of countless gallant grasses! + To you all fragrant odors drift, where'er your footstep passes. + + Come make your subjects glad, these loyal hearts that love you! + Nor let a single-thought be sad, while bright the skies above you. + +_Granny_. And now, my birds, have you not an offering for your Queen? + + [_The birds march gayly around the room: as they pass_ Flora, + _each set pauses_.] + +_Blue Birds_: + + This time instead of laurel we bring you violets. + +_Yellow Birds_: + + And we have gathered roses, the flower for coronets. + +_Red Birds_: + + And we the little lily bells no loving heart forgets. + +_Granny_. You see, dear Flora, how we all love you. + +_Flora_. Thanks. + + For the violets and the roses, + The laurel bright and rare, + And for the valley-lilies sweet, + And the flowers all so fair, + As well as for your loving words, + I thank you, Granny; thank you, Birds. + +And now, as I am Queen, I may invite you all to a little feast. The +Birds will serve it. Strawberries and cream, cake and bonbons. As +mistress of the fete, I am happy to serve the lovely Ninepin Club. +Birds, help the girls. + +_Blanche_. Girls, do eat these lovely things if you can. As for me, they +would choke me. + +_Felicia_. I cannot eat them. + +_Granny_. You must not refuse, girls. Flora would be hurt. + +_Blanche_. Well, then. But, first, as President of the Club, let me +speak. I confess our fault. We have been harsh, cold, and cruel. We have +treated our classmate shamefully. But believe me, Granny, we did not +suppose we were inflicting pain. We were inexcusably thoughtless. For +one, I ask Alice-- + +_Granny_. Flora, your Queen. + +_Blanche_. I ask Flora's forgiveness. And I want some one in the Club to +make a motion that Alice--Flora--be asked to join the Club. + +_Annette_. I make that motion, and I want to say that I agree with our +President in thinking we have acted shamefully. Forgive me, if you can, +Alice--Flora. I mean. + +_Agnes_. I second the motion, and I want to say that I never was so +ashamed of anything in my life. + +_Blanche_. All in favor of this motion say aye. + +_All_. Aye! + +_Blanche_. Now let us go and ask the Queen if she will join us and +forgive us. + +_Flora_ (_whose voice trembles a little_): + + I have nothing to pardon, 'twas all a mistake. + And the sweetest amends you are willing to make; + Hereafter, dear girls, we'll be comrades and friends, + Till, unclouded, our life at this pleasant school ends. + +_Granny_. Kiss the Queen, dearies, and then eat your cake and cream. It +is Flora's box. You see now the result of the dream. Instead of sending +a box, the uncle, who is really at heart very kind, sent a liberal sum +of money, and Flora directed this feast to be purchased. + + [_All the girls kiss_ Flora, _who beams gratefully upon them_.] + +_Granny_ (_to the birds_). Sit right on the floor, you sweet birdies, +and you shall have a share in the good things. I must go now. My duty as +grand regulator is done. + +_Christabel_ (_laying down her plate_). Girls, I have my suspicions +about that funny old woman. Let's catch her, and see if she isn't +somebody in disguise. + + [_All the girls run to_ Granny _with shouts and laughter. They + pull off the bonnet, cape, spectacles, and cloak. Their teacher,_ + Miss Foster, _stands revealed_.] + +_Christabel_. I knew it. I knew it. You dear! You dear! What a lesson +you have taught us! I shall never forget it. + +_Morna_. So much better than reading us a long lecture. + +_Miss Foster_. But you deserved the lecture. + +_Lucille_. Yes, we did. + +_Miss Foster_. I hope, dear girls, you have learned the lesson once for +all your lifetime. Let the main business of this Club be to add comfort +and cheer to a sad heart. But you will have to change the name of your +Club; you cannot be ninepins any more. + + + + +[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. 2. + +FOR THE DARK ROOM. + +To those who have a room specially devoted to photographic work and +materials the only suggestion to them will be to adopt for their rules +and laws: + +I. A label and place for everything, and everything in its place _with_ +its label. + +II. Keep everything clean and free from dust. + +These two directions for arranging and caring for a dark room will save +hours of labor, and many spoiled plates. + +The lighting of the dark room is the first thing which should engage our +attention. If the developing is done at night, the stopping out of +actinic rays will be avoided; but if in the daytime, care must be taken +to shut out all direct rays of light. If the plate is kept in the direct +rays of the red light, diffused light will not harm the plate. By +diffused light is meant the stray gleams which come through a crack, or +a door that does not shut tight enough so but what light shows around +the edge. + +There are many makes of lantern of all grades and prices in the market, +and care should be taken in buying one that it is perfectly light-tight. +An actinic ray from the lantern striking the plate will fog it. Most of +the lanterns are made for using kerosene. A lantern in which the lamp +screws into the bottom is not as light-safe as one which sets wholly +inside the lantern, though there is less odor and grease from the +kerosene. The trouble with a kerosene lamp is that the confined air soon +becomes heated, causing the oil to lose its density, and it oozes out, +not only making an unpleasant smell, but greasing the lantern. It will +be found much more agreeable to remove the lantern and substitute in +its place a candlestick and candle. The one known as the camping or +soldier's candlestick is just the thing for a dark lantern. It is a +little over two inches high, and made of brass, and costs only fifteen +cents. + +Adamantine candles are the best, as they last twice as long, and do not +melt and run down the sides like the parraffine or tallow candles. + +One needs two trays for developing--one 4 x 5 and another 5 x 8. The +smaller tray can be used when one has only two or three plates to +develop, and both trays where one has quite a number. The two trays are +necessary also in transferring the plate from one solution to another, +if the developing does not work satisfactorily. The tray for the +hypo-sulphite of soda or fixing solution should be 5 x 8, so that two +4 x 5 plates can be fixed at one time. + +The developing-trays should be of hard rubber or celluloid, and the +hypo-tray of amber glass, so that there shall be no mistaking the +developing for the hypo tray. + +A four-ounce glass graduate is needed for measuring liquids, and if one +has no scales, the dry chemicals should be weighed in the right +proportions for use when they are purchased. The hypo can be put up in +half-pound packages, and this quantity of fixing solution prepared at +one time. + +A glass funnel is needed for pouring solutions from trays into bottles, +and also for holding the filtering-paper when filtering solutions. The +funnel should be fluted, for the ribs make passages for the liquid to +pass through the sides of the paper, letting the sediment settle at the +bottom of the paper. + +If one has not the advantage of running water for fixing and washing +plates it is better to have a washing box in which to place the +developed negatives. The regular washing box is made of zinc, which does +not rust. The inside rack, which holds a dozen plates, is adjustable by +thumb-screws for different-sized plates. The box has a small tube at one +of the lower corners, to which a rubber hose is attached from the +faucet, the water is turned on, and comes up from the bottom of the box, +circulates between the plates, and runs out through an overflow spout at +the top of the box. + +The box containing the plates can be transferred from one pail or tub to +another, or set on the floor, while the water is changed, without danger +of breaking or scratching. A boy who is handy with tools can make a +washing box that will answer every purpose. + +The cost of the articles mentioned in this article are as follows: +Candlestick for lantern, 15 cents; a 4 x 5 developing-tray, 50 cents; a +5 x 8 developing-tray, 72 cents (the price for these trays is for either +rubber or celluloid); amber glass tray for hypo, 35 cents; glass +graduate (4 oz.), 25 cents; fluted glass funnel (4 oz.), 15 cents; zinc +washing-box, $2.25. + + + + +OFF WITH THE MERBOY. + +BY JOHN KENDRICK BANGS. + + +CHAPTER VI. + +IN THE DRAWER. + +[Illustration: Decorative J] + +immieboy clambered up the side of the bureau with some difficulty too, +because he was now so small that the bureau was not so easy to climb. In +a few minutes, however, he was comfortably fixed inside the drawer, and +the Wizard, taking the key from the lock, followed him. Once inside he +touched a spring on the side of the drawer, and with a bang it shut +itself. + +"There we are," said the Wizard, locking the drawer from the inside. +"How do you like it, Jimmieboy?" + +"It's awfully dark," said the little fellow. "I can't see an inch in +front of my face." + +"Then take my hand," said the Wizard, "and I'll lead you to where it is +light." + +Jimmieboy did as he was told, and the two little creatures groped their +way along in the dark until the Wizard found a small door. Turning the +knob to this he threw it wide open, and Jimmieboy looking through it saw +a beautiful garden in which sweetly perfumed fountains were plashing +merrily, and through which there were scattered beds and beds of the +loveliest and withal the most singular-looking flowers he had ever seen. + +"My!" he cried in an ecstasy of delight. "Isn't this magnificent!" + +"Oh, yes--pretty good," said Thumbhi. "I suppose when one sees it for +the first time it must look like the most beautiful place in the world, +but to one whose prison it has been it isn't quite so beautiful. You +never heard my song, + + "'I would rather be free in a dungeon cell + Than a captive at large in a flowered dell.' + +"Did you?" + +"No," said Jimmieboy, "I never did. How does it go?" + +"This way," replied the Wizard, and then he repeated these lines: + + "'I would rather be free in a dungeon cell + Than a captive at large in a flowered dell; + I would rather be free 'neath a load of chains + Than a prisoner roaming the country lanes. + I would rather be free in an ice-bound cave + Than to sit on a throne as another's slave; + For all the great blessings with which man's blest + 'Tis freedom, sweet freedom that I love the best.'" + +"That's a pretty song," said Jimmieboy. "And I think maybe you are +right. I feel that way myself sometimes. Once in a while when I'm told I +can't do something, I feel that way. I always want to do that thing more +than ever." + +"You are just like me, then--though really I didn't think much about +freedom and how nice it was, and what a dreadful thing captivity was, +until I had a little chat one night with a song-bird. She was cooped up +in a cage, and sometimes she nearly broke her wings flattering up +against the bars of it trying to get out. As I watched her I wondered +how she could sing so happily when she was shut up that way, and I asked +her about it. She answered me softly, 'It isn't I that is happy. It is +my song that is happy because it is free.' And then she sang this little +verse to me: + + "Though they shut me close in these brazen bars, + Though they keep me a captive long, + Yet my notes will rise + Till they touch the skies. + No man can imprison my song." + +"I've always felt sorry for birds in cages," said Jimmieboy, when the +Wizard had spoken. "And I've wondered, too, how they could sing so +sweetly when all the day long they were locked up with nothing to do but +jump from one perch to another, or swing in that little swing at the top +of the cage." + +"Well, there's one thing that's nice about their lives," said the +Wizard. "They don't have anybody to quarrel with. I think that's very +fine." + +"That's true," said Jimmieboy. "And then, too, when one bird wants to +swing there isn't any other little bird that he has to give up to; but +I'd rather be free, and take my chances of getting the swing, wouldn't +you?" + +"Rather!" ejaculated the Wizard. "But, my dear fellow, we are wasting +time. The Merboy will be back in a few minutes, and if you want to see +all the wonders of this place we must hurry. Come. Let's go out into the +garden." + +The queer little fellow leading the way, the two new friends went out of +the drawer. As they sauntered along, Thumbhi reached out his hands and +plucked two pretty flowers from a bush at the side of the path, and +putting one of them in his mouth handed the other to Jimmieboy. + +"You must be hungry by this time," he said. "Eat that." + +"Flowers aren't good to eat, are they?" asked Jimmieboy. + +"Cauliflowers and the flowers of this garden are. That is nothing but a +biscuit-bush I plucked those from. Didn't you ever see a biscuit-bush?" + +"Never," said Jimmieboy; "though I should think they'd be very nice." + +"They are," said the Wizard. + +"How do you make them grow?" asked Jimmieboy in surprise. + +"Simple enough," said Thumbhi. "Take the Buckwheat-cake bush, for +instance. Buckwheat cakes are nothing more than cooked buckwheat, so +instead of planting the seeds raw we plant them cooked, and when they +grow up and sprout, instead of putting forth raw buckwheat out come the +cakes. Try one." + +Jimmieboy needed no second bidding, for as the Wizard spoke he had +reached over to the buckwheat-cake bed, and plucked a half-dozen hot, +steaming cakes. + +"My!" ejaculated Jimmieboy, as he swallowed the first one, somewhat +greedily, perhaps, for he was very hungry. "My! How sweet they are." + +"Aren't they!" said the Wizard. "And why shouldn't they be? We water the +Buckwheat-cake bushes with maple syrup." + +The idea was so overpoweringly lovely that Jimmieboy could not find +words to express his delight over it. He simply let his eyes open a +little wider, but the twinkle in them showed the Wizard how he felt. + +"Now here," said the Wizard, tapping a little door in a curious-looking +summer-house--"here is where we keep our tools. They are the funniest +tools you ever saw in your life. They do all their own work. I'll +introduce you to some of them. Mr. Rake!" + +"Well?" came a voice from within. "Well, what's wanted? If you are the +gravel path you might as well trot away. I can't smooth you off to-day, +and if you are the weed path, I've asked Mr. Hoe to attend to you. I'm +having trouble with my teeth." + +"It's I--Thumbhi," said the Wizard. + +"Oh," came the answer. "Why didn't you say so." + +Here the door was opened, and the Rake hopped out. + +"Good-morning," he said. "I didn't know it was you or I wouldn't have +kept you waiting. Who is your young friend?" + +"Jimmieboy," returned the Wizard. "This is his first visit, and I didn't +know but what you'd show him how you do your work." + +"I'd be very glad to," said the Rake, "but it's impossible this morning. +I spent all day yesterday raking the candy field, and it has made my +teeth ache like seventy-two--which is twelve more than like sixty; but +if he's fond of jokes I can give him a few. Why is a--" + +"Well, really," said the Wizard, who knew the Rake's jokes were very +bad, and who was therefore anxious to spare Jimmieboy the trouble of +hearing them, "we don't like to bother you. We'll run along--" + +"No bother, I assure you," said the Rake. "I know it by heart. Why is a +trolley-car like a grindstone without any handle?" + +"I couldn't possibly guess," said Jimmieboy, with a grin. + +"They don't either of them smoke cigarettes, of course," said the Rake. +"I should think anybody could have told that. Now, can you tell me why +a--" + +"Thumbhi!" came a voice in the distance. + +"Excuse me for a minute," said Thumbhi. "I think I hear somebody calling +me," and he was off. + +"You'd better follow him, Jimmieboy," said the Rake, kindly. "Don't lose +sight of him for an instant. This is his way of getting rid of you. He +brought you in here to tell you his history, didn't he?" + +"Yes," said Jimmieboy. + +"Well, he hasn't got one," whispered the Rake. "He hasn't got one, and +he never had one, and this having himself called away is only one of his +tricks. Keep your eye on him or you're lost." + +[Illustration: JIMMIEBOY STARTED IN PURSUIT.] + +With this the Rake slammed the door of the tool-house, and Jimmieboy +turning about peered down the path at the Wizard, who was running as +fast as his legs could carry him. Jimmieboy started in pursuit--and what +a pursuit it was! Like the wind they ran, mile after mile round and +round the garden, through forests that turned up on the road here and +there, and once in awhile with great bounds jumping over rivers and +mountains, until finally Thumbhi turned suddenly, ran backwards directly +past Jimmieboy, and before the little visitor had time to turn around +was lost to sight. + +Jimmieboy was now quite lost. He had no idea as to his whereabouts. The +garden had long since disappeared, and so fast had he run the boy had +failed to notice in what direction he had come. + +"Humph!" he said, seating himself by the road to catch his breath. +"Here's a muddle. I wonder where the Merboy is?" + +"Here I am," came a subdued little voice that sounded miles away. "Take +the first door to your right, open it, and you'll find me." + +Jimmieboy started up and walked, it seemed to him, for hours, but no +door appeared anywhere until, just as the sun was setting, he came to a +big oak-tree with a little bit of a door half-way up its trunk. + +"I wonder if that's it?" said the puzzled boy, scratching his head. + +"Yes," came the voice from the inside. "Climb up and come in." + +"I can't climb 'way up there," said Jimmieboy. + +"Then we'll let the door down," returned the voice behind the door. Sure +enough down came the door. Jimmieboy opened it and walked in, and there +was the Merboy only he had become a goldfish in the aquarium in the +nursery again, and was swimming around as unconcernedly as if nothing +had ever happened. + +"Wasn't it queer?" said Jimmieboy, as he told the story to his father. + +"Very," said his father, "but queer things often happen to boys who eat +as much fruit cake as you do." + +Which was the only explanation of his strange adventure that Jimmieboy +ever got. + +THE END. + + + + +[Illustration: INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT] + + +Although the inter-city games at the Berkeley Oval, a week ago Saturday, +were at no time exciting, because of the marked difference in strength +of the contesting teams, yet in many instances the contests were +exceedingly interesting, and, take it all in all, the occasion was +worthy of a greater display of public interest than it received. I was +surprised at the small size of the audience present. I had expected to +see twice as many spectators as there were at the Oval on the previous +Saturday, and no doubt there would have been if the games had been +properly advertised. As far as I know not a daily newspaper of this city +announced, on that morning, that there would be interscholastic games at +the Oval that afternoon. This is not the fault of the newspapers; it is +the fault of the managers of the Inter-City games, who should have made +it their duty to see that the occasion was duly advertised and heralded. +These same managers were so anxious to fill their coffers as to make all +contestants pay an entrance-fee into the grounds, like ordinary +spectators. If they had spent a few dollars in reading notices in the +daily papers, and a few cents in postage on polite notes to the various +City Editors, they would have doubled the number of spectators present, +and the contestants could have been admitted free--as they should have +been in any case. I hope my words on this subject will not be taken as a +complaint or as fault-finding, for they are not so intended. Contestants +in track games, as in other sports, can do better if encouraged by a +crowd, and so I think, in justice to them, no reasonable efforts should +be spared to attract a large audience. + +Otherwise the games were pretty well managed. The events might have been +run off a little faster, but as it was they did not drag, and by five +o'clock the programme was at an end. The advantage of having few entries +was clearly demonstrated, and a tiresome succession of trial heats was +avoided. How much better it would be if the Interscholastics could be +conducted on some such plan next year. The programme was a compromise, +and a very good compromise at that. The mile walk and the Junior 220 +were omitted, and the bicycle race was made two miles instead of one +mile. The latter change was commendable, because the inter-collegiate +event is two miles, and so it is in almost all of the other +interscholastic programmes of the country. The long distance makes a +better race, and the fact that New-Yorkers won every place in the event +proves pretty conclusively that the N.Y.I.S.A.A. riders can cover that +distance as well as they have been doing the mile. + +The Long-Islanders started out with a spurt, and earned 22 of their 33 +points in the first four numbers on the card. Stevens, the B.L.S. +sprinter, was responsible for 10 of these, and he showed himself a +strong runner. He is tall and slim, somewhat resembling Sherrill in his +build, and will no doubt equal Sherrill's and the other champions' time +before he retires from the track. He ran a dead heat with Hall in the +first 100, doing 10-3/5, and on the run off he was victorious by about a +foot in 10-4/5. Hall is not strong after his first dash, and seldom does +himself justice in the finals. I believe that if he would train hard, +however, he could get staying power that would enable him to do as well +in the third heat as he now does at his first trial. Whether under any +circumstances he could defeat Stevens is a question, for the +Long-Islander showed his mettle by following up his first hard victory, +and winning the 220 in the record time of 22-4/5 seconds. He could have +done even better if he had known he was so close to these figures. + +Fisher, of Harvard School, who holds the scholastic record of 52-1/5 +sec. in the 440, was counted on by the New-Yorkers to take that event. +Fisher has been training for it all spring, but since his injury last +year he has not been able to get into very fit condition. He started off +at a rapid gait and held the lead for about 300 yards, when his wind +gave out, and Jewell, who did so much for Adelphi, in Brooklyn, the +previous week, passed him easily, and came in an easy winner, with +Fisher a weary third. His time, 54-1/5, was 1-2/5 seconds better than +his winning time at the L.I.I.S.A.A. games. Meehan again had an easy +victory in the half-mile, running as strong and pretty a race as he did +the week before. In the mile, Tappen did not appear, having gone out of +training, but McCord, who ran third in the N.Y. Interscholastics, came +to the scratch and won in 4 m. 58-4/5 sec. He is a promising athlete, +and this performance is especially creditable, as it is only his second +race. Mosenthal, who beat him home the week before, ran second. + +[Illustration: Pell. + +Harris. Syme. + +FINISH IN FINAL HEAT LOW HURDLES OF THE I.-C. GAMES.] + +The high hurdles were run in three pretty heats. Beers came home ahead +in the first in 16-1/5 sec. with a couple of Brooklyn men upsetting the +hurdles behind him, and Vom Baur took the second heat in 16-2/5. Then +came a neck-and-neck race between these two. Beers, who won the +Interscholastics, ran well, and both men leaped together all the way. +But Vom Baur was a little stronger at the finish, and left his opponent +only a few inches behind him. It was an exciting race, and an +exceedingly close finish. Syme won the final of the low hurdles easily, +after coming in behind Harris in his heat, and Brooklyn was closed out +of any points in the event by Harris and Pell. Powell took the lead in +the bicycle, and made creditable time, 5 m. 32-2/5 sec. This was +doubtless due to the pacing of Ehrich, which was permitted by the mutual +consent of the Interscholastic Committees. + +[Illustration: POLE VAULT AT THE I.-C. GAMES. + +Simpson clearing the bar at 10 feet.] + +The field events were more interesting than the track events, especially +the hammer, in which the record was broken by two men. Batterman threw +first, and landed at 123 ft. 7/8 in. The record is 117 ft. 4-1/2 in., +made by Irwin-Martin at the Interscholastics on May 11th. Irwin-Martin +did not appear at the Inter-City games. Having made so good a throw, +Batterman felt confident of victory, but Ayres stepped up and threw 123 +ft. 11-1/4 in. Neither mark was bettered after these two performances. +Baltazzi kept up to his mark in the high jump, and cleared 5 ft. 10-1/2 +in. Then he had the bar put up to 6 ft., and tried for a record. He +nearly did it, touching only with his ankle-bone, and he did not try +again. My assumption that Baltazzi would represent the N.Y.A.C. in the +International games in September has proved correct. Captain Baxter has +asked him to become a member of the N.Y.A.C. team. Cowperthwaite jumped +half an inch further than he did at the Interscholastics, but came near +being defeated by Jewell, who cleared 20 ft. 10 in., then lost his +balance and fell back. Jewell is one of the best all-round men in the +schools. Simpson's work in the pole vault was of the first order, his +best jump, 10 ft. coming within 3/8 of an inch of the interscholastic +record established by him the year before. The accompanying table will +show the day's record. The names of the Long Island representatives and +schools are _italicized_ for convenience of reference. + +RECORD OF THE INTER-CITY GAMES, BERKELEY OVAL, MAY 18, 1895. + + Winner + Event. (Five Points). Performance. + +100-yard dash _Stevens, B. L. S._ 10 4-5 sec. +100-yard dash, for Juniors _Robinson, St. Paul's_ 11 2-5 " +220-yard run _Stevens, B. L. S._ 22 4-5 " +440-yard run _Jewell, Adelphi_ 54 1-5 " +Half-mile run Meehan, Condon 2 m. 9 " +Mile run McCord, Dwight 4 " 58 4-5 " +120-yard hurdle Von Baur, Barnard 15 4-5 " +220-yard hurdle Syme, Barnard 27 3-5 " +Two-mile bicycle Powell, Cutler 5 " 32 2-5 " +Running high jump Baltazzi, Harvard 5 ft. 10 1-4 in. +Running broad jump Cowperthwaite, Col. Gram. 20 " 8 1-2 " +Pole vault Simpson, Barnard 10 " +Throwing 12-pound hammer Ayers, Condon 123 " 11 1-4 " +Putting 12-pound shot Ayers, Condon 40 " + + + Second. + Event. (Three Points). + +100-yard dash Hall, Yale +100-yard dash, for Juniors Wilson, Barnard +220-yard run Washburne, Barnard +440-yard run Draper, Cutler +Half-mile run _Hollingworth, Poly. Prep._ +Mile run Mosenthal, Sachs +120-yard hurdle Beers, D. L. S. +220-yard hurdle Harris, Cutler +Two-mile bicycle Mortimier, Blake +Running high jump Wenman, Drisler +Running broad jump _Jewell, Adelphi_ +Pole vault Paulding, Drisler +Throwing 12-pound hammer Batterman, Harvard +Putting 12-pound shot Bigelow, W. & K. + + + Third + Event. (One Point). + +100-yard dash _Stevenson, Poly. Prep._ +100-yard dash, for Juniors Armstead, Berkeley +220-yard run _Underhill, Poly. Prep._ +440-yard run Fisher, Harvard +Half-mile run _Van Orden, Poly. Prep._ +Mile run _Romer, Adelphi_ +120-yard hurdle Moeran, Berkeley +220-yard hurdle Pell, Cutler +Two-mile bicycle Gillespie, Col. Gram. +Running high jump _Gunnison, Adelphi_ +Running broad jump Powell, Cutler +Pole vault Hurlburt, Berkeley +Throwing 12-pound hammer _Fairbank, St. Paul_ +Putting 12-pound shot + + + Points. Points made by + Event. N. Y. L. I. Schools. + +100-yard dash 3 6 Barnard 21 +100-yard dash, for Juniors 4 5 Condon 15 +220-yard run 3 6 Cutler 13 +440-yard run 4 5 _Adelphi_ 10 +Half-mile run 5 4 B. L. S 10 +Mile run 8 1 Harvard 9 +120-yard hurdle 9 0 _Poly. Prep._ 7 +220-yard hurdle 9 0 _St. Paul's_ 6 +Two-mile bicycle 9 0 Col. Gram. 6 +Running high jump 8 1 Drisler 6 +Running broad jump 6 3 Dwight 5 +Pole vault 9 0 Berkeley 3 +Throwing 12-pound hammer 8 1 Yale 3 +Putting 12-pound shot 8 1 Sachs 3 + __ __ D. L. S. 3 + 93 33 W. & K. 3 + Blake 3 + ___ + 126 + +Next Saturday the schools of the Pennsylvania Inter-academic League will +meet on Franklin Field, Philadelphia, to decide the championship of the +association in track athletics. I expect to see Jones of Penn Charter, +who did 10-3/4 in the 100, last year, take the event again this spring, +with Hunsberger, his schoolmate, second. Unless some new man develops, +Branson of Penn Charter and Remington of De Lancey will fight it out +between them for first in the high hurdles. Jones should be heard from +again in the 220, and McCarty of Germantown will probably take the +quarter. Thackara will push him. Thackara will also have a close contest +with Hedges in the half-mile, as both are good men, and Thorpe of Penn +Charter will see that they make their best time. Branson has a record of +5 feet in the high jump, and it is doubtful if any one else in the +I.A.A.L. can better it. The pole vault is uncertain, but Beasley of +Germantown has cleared nearly 8 feet. The running broad will probably go +to Remington, whose record is 18 feet 5-3/4 inches, but it will be +closely contested by Hunsberger and Shoenhut. As Boyd of Cheltenham M.A. +will not contest this year, the hammer and shot are uncertainties, and +will go to new men. + +An unusually large number of schools came into the I.A.B.B. League this +year, and some good games were the result. Germantown Academy and +Cheltenham M.A. defeated all their opponents, and met last Friday to +decide which school should fly the championship banner. The game was +played too late in the week for me to be able to notice it in this +Department, but I shall treat of it next time. The De Lancey School +stands third in the race, with two defeats. Cricket is not a regular +I.A.A.A. sport; but a cup, offered by the Haverford College Cricket +Club, was contested for last year, and has been played for again this +year by a number of the schools in the league. In 1894 De Lancey headed +the list, with Germantown, Penn Charter, Haverford Grammar, and +Episcopal Academy following in the order named. The struggle this spring +will be between Penn Charter and De Lancey, neither having yet suffered +defeat. Penn Charter has two strong bowlers in Jones and Brown but in my +opinion neither one is quite up to Graves, De Lancey's plucky little, +all-round cricketer. + +The next three weeks will see some hard training among the athletes of +the New England schools, for all the principal scholastic track meets in +that region come during the first days of June. The first important +meeting will be the dual games between Andover and Worcester Academy, +which will probably be held in Worcester, on June 1st. Then the +Interscholastic games of the New England League come, at Cambridge, on +June 15th, and they will be preceded on June 8th by the Western +Massachusetts I.S.A.A. games at Amherst, and by the Connecticut I.S.A.A. +games at Hartford. At the latter we shall see some records broken, for +Beck of Hillhouse High is throwing the hammer (16 lbs.) 111 feet in +practice, and is putting the shot (also 16 lbs.) 39 feet. He is sure to +add ten points to the New Haven school's score. + +At the meeting of the N.E.I.S.A.A., held in Boston, May 2d, the +legislators very wisely voted to keep men over twenty years of age out +of all interscholastic contests. Cushing Academy and Phillips Andover +wanted to change the constitution so that young men over twenty years of +age, if at school, could participate in games held under the rules of +the N.E.I.S.A.A. But, as I anticipated, they found few supporters, and +the motion to refer the question to a committee was promptly defeated, +and the subject dropped. Lynn High and Mechanics' High schools applied +for membership in the League, and were admitted. The New England +Association is now the largest interscholastic organization in the +country, having twenty-eight schools in its membership. + +The dual games between Phillips Andover and Worcester academies will be +close, and will furnish an exciting contest. It seems a difficult +problem at this early date to name the winner, for there are so many +unknown quantities to consider. Nevertheless, the 100 will probably rest +between Senn, P. A., and Bryant, W. A., with Barker, P. A., third; and +the winner should certainly cover the distance in 10-3/5. The order of +the 220 is likely to be Gaskell, P. A., Barker, W. A., and Woodward, +P. A.; but as none of them are crack men, the time will be slow. Laing, +P. A., and Fish, W. A., will have a tussle for supremacy in the quarter, +and will make good time. Laing is the better of the two, and will +probably take the half-mile, with Gaskell and Tyler, both P. A., behind +him. Richardson, of the same school, will finish first in the mile, with +Milner, W. A., a close second, and Lewis, P. A., behind him. Clare of +Worcester ought to get the high hurdles away from Hine, who is Andover's +best man over the sticks; but Hine will undoubtedly take first in the +low hurdles. Barker, W. A., will push him hard, and Fish should come in +third. Lockwood, W. A., will have an easy time of it in the walk, and it +is uncertain if Andover has any one good enough to secure better than +third place. The bicycle race will also go to Worcester, with Crouse, +P. A., possibly in one of the places. Holt of Andover should take the +shot event, and he will earn second in the hammer; while Edmunds, W. A., +will reverse matters by getting first in the hammer and second in the +shot. Andover ought to get third in this last event with Maltby. The +broad jump is the most doubtful of any event, as neither school has any +very good man for that number on the card. The high jump, however, will +stay at Worcester in all three places, the probable order being Johnson +first, Edmunds second, and Coelith third. Johnson will also win the pole +vault for Worcester, as he can clear 10 feet 8 inches. Lewis, P. A., +will come nearest to him. + + THE GRADUATE. + + * * * * * + +RECALLED STORMY TIMES. + +"Well, that looks natural," said the old soldier, looking at a can of +condensed milk on the breakfast table in place of ordinary milk that +failed on account of the storm. "It's the Gail Borden Eagle Brand we +used during the war."--[_Adv._] + + + + +ADVERTISEMENTS. + + + + +Why Not + +make the baby fat? 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City. + + + + +[Illustration: If afflicted with SORE EYES USE Dr. ISAAC THOMPSON'S EYE +WATER] + + + + +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. + + + + +HARPER'S PERIODICALS. + +Per Year: + + HARPER'S MAGAZINE _Postage Free_, $4.00 + HARPER'S WEEKLY " 4.00 + HARPER'S BAZAR " 4.00 + HARPER'S ROUND TABLE " 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. + + + + +[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 map this week is perhaps one of the best in New Jersey which can be +taken by a New-Yorker without too long a journey before reaching the +starting-point. It not only extends to Paterson, which is a good +eighteen-mile ride, and, with the return trip, makes a good half-day +run, but it extends to Pine Brook, twenty-nine miles altogether, which +is the first stage on the tour from New York to Wilkesbarre, +Pennsylvania, and thence on to Buffalo. + +The rider should take the Fourteenth Street ferry from New York to +Hoboken, and his first object then is to get to the Boulevard. The road +to the Boulevard is direct from the ferry, with a sharp turn to the +right a few minutes after leaving the ferry-house, where the railroad is +crossed, and the rider then comes into the Boulevard. After a long +gradual ascent, he should take the first prominent turn to the left, +leaving the Boulevard on the right, and going northeast to the cemetery, +still uphill. The road circles this, and keeping always to the left the +rider comes into the Paterson Plank Road, crosses several tracks at +Homestead Station, with the Scheutzen Park on the right, then runs +across the salt meadows, and finally rides over the Hackensack River. +There is but one fork before he reaches the outskirts of Rutherford, +which is at Washington Grove. He should keep to the Paterson Plank Road, +which is the turn to the left. The road from Homestead Station to the +road-house at Washington Grove is macadamized and in reasonably good +condition. From the Washington Grove road-house, between Rutherford and +Carlstadt, the road is perfectly straight and level, but is in poorer +condition, and somewhat sandy. As the rider passes out of Carlstadt he +crosses the railroad track, runs a few hundred yards until the road +takes a sharp curve to the right northward, almost to the Passaic River. +Here he should turn sharply to the left and cross the Passaic. This is a +somewhat difficult turn, and he should be careful not to keep on to the +north towards Garfield Post-office. Crossing the river, he soon arrives +at a fork, where he should turn to the right, the left-hand turn being +Main Street, which, though the more direct route to Passaic, is not so +good a road. This fork is reached just before entering Passaic. + +Passing through Passaic, the run is direct to the cemetery on the +Passaic River at the outskirts of Paterson. Keep to this road until you +run into Market Street. At the bridge turn sharp left and pass through +the city of Paterson on Market Street to its end. Then turn to the right +up a short grade to the bridge that crosses the Passaic again. The +rider should not cross the bridge, but should turn sharp to the left and +follow the car tracks through West Paterson Station to Little Falls. +This stretch of road is in fine condition, is macadamized and level. +From Little Falls it is a one-mile run to Singac. Immediately on leaving +Singac and crossing the track the rider comes to cross roads. He should +keep on the main road, skirting around with the river on the right, over +a hilly country, by a hotel, into Fairfield; or if he chooses, he may +turn to the left just before reaching Fairfield into Pier Lane. But if +he wishes to make a stop in Fairfield, he must keep on to the hotel in +the centre of the town. This stretch of country is a rolling macadamized +road in reasonably good condition. From Fairfield, or from the junction +of the main road and Pier Lane, the road southward to Franklin +Post-office is in poorer condition and clay, and is much more hilly. At +the junction of the roads in Franklin the rider should inquire for +Bloomfield Avenue, which is the direct road to Pine Brook. This is a +sandy road, somewhat hilly, and it is necessary to take the side path. +At Pine Brook he has made about thirty miles, and may stop either at the +hotel just off the Bloomfield road about a mile before reaching the town +or at the hotel in the centre of the town. + +By examining the map it will be seen that the same trip may be made by +riding up to 125th Street in New York, taking the Fort Lee ferry, and +riding over the direct route from Fort Lee through Taylorsville on to +Hackensack, and thence over a reasonably good straight road, crossing +the Passaic, and meeting Market Street above the cemetery at the point +where the Paterson Plank Road joins it. A good run would be to take this +latter road, to leave Market Street in Paterson, and strike for the fair +bicycle road indicated on the map, which runs nearly due south through +South Paterson, leaving on the west, or right hand, Montclair Heights, +Cedar Grove, Upper Montclair, and riding into Montclair through +Watchung, where the train may be taken for New York. This is, of course, +a somewhat hilly 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. New York to Staten Island in No. 812. + + + + +[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. + +A subscriber asks if the value of United States postage-stamps is likely +to increase in the future in a manner to make them a safe investment. We +can only judge of the future by the past, and taking that as a +criterion, the United States stamps, with, of course, the exception of +the common low values, will increase in value in the future to a far +greater extent than they ever have in the past. There are to-day many +millions of dollars invested in postage-stamps for collections, and +while the question of stamps as an investment was somewhat doubtful ten +or more years ago, at present the prominent collectors have less +hesitation in investing in rare stamps than in United States bonds. The +former they know will pay large interest. The recent great increase in +the price of all old United States stamps is due to the buying up by +collectors of all the rarities they can get, and the trend of the prices +is always upward, not down. + +It is reported that nearly all of the Columbian stamps on sale at +Washington have been disposed of, only a few values being left. It is a +last opportunity to get those much prized stamps at face value as the +prices will rapidly rise after they are sold out. + +The eight-cent stamp with ornaments in the corner has been issued, thus +completing the set. The color is darker than the previous stamp. + +The Grand-Duke Alexis Michaelivitch of Russia, who died in March, was an +ardent stamp collector, and although only nineteen years of age, had +already done much for the pursuit through his writings. He had planned +many greater things to do for philately, but these the stamp world will +lose through his early death. + +When the new issue of Mexico was placed on sale, a band of music was +engaged for the occasion, and after the Postmaster-General had opened +the post-office window, the stamps were sold to the strains of music. + + E. C. TATNALL.--Lithographed stamps are printed from stones, while + all the United States, and majority of other stamps are printed + from steel plates. In lithographic printing the lines are coarser + and the surface smooth, while steel-plate printing shows fine + lines and perfectly clean surface. The 1870-2 issue of France is + lithographed. + + + + +ADVERTISEMENTS. + + + + +[Illustration] + +_Could I have another Glass of that_ + +[Illustration: HIRES' Rootbeer] + +Give the children as much Hires' Rootbeer as they want. Take as much as +you want, yourself. There's no harm in it--nothing but good. + +A 25 cent package makes 5 gallons. + +The Chas. E. Hires Co., Philada. + + + + +[Illustration] + +a Living Picture + +of health--because she uses Pond's Extract at her toilet, and +appreciates the fact that no substitute can equal it. + +Avoid substitutes; accept genuine only, with buff wrapper and yellow +label. + +POND'S EXTRACT CO., 76 Fifth Ave., New York. + + + + +[Illustration] + +Sick Headache + +AND + +Constipation + +are quickly and pleasantly cured by + +Tarrant's Effervescent Seltzer Aperient. + +The most valuable family remedy for + +Disordered Stomach + +and Impaired Digestion. + +50 cents and $1.00. All Druggists. + +TARRANT & CO., Chemists, N. Y. + + + + +Postage Stamps, &c. + + + + +[Illustration] + +=STAMPS!= =300= fine mixed Victoria, Cape of G. H., India, Japan, etc., +with fine Stamp Album, only =10c.= New 80-p. Price-list =free=. _Agents +wanted_ at =50%= commission. STANDARD STAMP CO., 4 Nicholson Place, St. +Louis, Mo. Old U. S. and Confederate Stamps bought. + + + + +[Illustration: STAMPS] + +100 all dif. 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Sent free with immense catalogue of 1000 Bargains for 10c. for +postage. + +INGERSOLL & BRO., 65 Cortlandt Street N.Y. + + + + +[Illustration: If afflicted with SORE EYES USE Dr. ISAAC THOMPSON'S EYE +WATER] + + + + +Round Table Chapters. + + +No. 704.--The Will Carleton Chapter, of Fort Ann, N. Y. It is a school +Chapter, and the teachers have been elected as honorary members. Its +officers are Julia Wright, president; Fred Baker, vice-president; Jerry +Finch, secretary; Gertrude Holly, treasurer; Mamie Kearans, assistant +treasurer. Its object is to form the nucleus of a school library. Jerry +Finch, Fort Ann. + +No. 705.--The Arlington Round Table Chapter, of Arlington, Vermont. +James S. Graham, Box 116. + +No. 706.--The Summit City Athletic Association, of Aurora, Mo. Officers +are Neil G. Garlock, George Nichols, Guy Garlock, Charles Ruby. Other +members are Bert Clark, Arthur Spell, Earl Baker. + +No. 707.--The W. J. Henderson Chapter, of Leesburg, Fla. Dora Mitchell, +Annie Miller, Annie Halden, Tessie Hall; George H. McKee, Leesburg. + +No. 708.--The Outing Athletic Chapter, of Philadelphia, Pa. Samuel +Luffberry, William Hanlon; Herman F. Nauman, Jun., 8 Jefferson Street. +All Knights and Ladies are invited to join. + +No. 709.--The Music Literary League, of Tiffin, Ohio. E. B. Naylor, 166 +Monroe Street. + +No. 710.--The Uncle Sam Chapter, of Chicago, Ill. Earle Morton, Edward +Burrell, Melvin Harlan, Rufus Dickman, Fred Litten; Evarts Graham, 672 +West Monroe Street. + +No. 711.--The Sylvia Chapter, of Frankford, Philadelphia, Pa. Will the +Chapter please send names of officers? + + + + +Who Were Wise as the Wizard. + + +The Wizard gave us one of the best contests we ever had. Here are the +answers: 1. Gilles de Retz, Marquis de Laval; Henry the Eighth. 2. +Laughing Water (heroine in Longfellow's "Hiawatha") 3. Sir Henry Percie +or Percy. 4. "A Merry Interlude," by John Heywood. 5. Lilly the +astronomer. 6. Madagascar; Luna Island. 7. Bacon. 8. Slug; Devilfish. 9. +Swallow; Swallow-tailed kite. 10. Shoe-bird. 11. Aye-aye; Ai; Horse, +because it "neighs." 12. Book-spider or book-worm. 13. Dollar or +goldfish. 14. Richard Steele, Thackeray's "Henry Esmond." 15. An old +shepherd near Cleone, Greece, who was kind to Hercules, to repay which +the hero destroyed the Nemean lion. 16. Don Quixote. 17. Clark. 18. +Aaron Burr. 19. General Gates. 20. Poe (Po). 21. Holmes. 22. Marcus +Terentius Varro. 23. An Irish secret society, organized in 1843. 24. To +be burned as a heretic. 25. Pierre de Ronsard. 26. Snow ball. 27. +Scotland. 28. A great churchbell at Lincoln Cathedral. 29. Prince +Houssain, "Arabian Nights." 30. Gustavus Adolphus. 31. Earwig; Handcuff; +Ear-ring. 32. Smolensk on the Dneiper. 33. George the Fourth. 34. Rene +of Naples. 35. Ticks. 36. Jack Cade. 37. Lady Berkeley. 38. John the +Painter: Silas Deane. 39. John Walter, of the London _Times_, Nov. 28, +1814; invented by Koenig. 40. New Orleans. 41. Mrs. Howe, wife of Lord +Howe. 42. Edward Longshanks. 43. Richard Cromwell. 44. God of Peace and +Pleasure among the ancient Saxons. 45. The initial letters of the +twenty-two chapters of the Book of Revelation. + +Questions that proved most difficult were 15, 20, 21, 24, 34, and 45. +Only six found the 45. Many gave as its answer the title-page of a +dictionary, and enough A's down the first column to fill the number; but +this would not be a fair question, because, as put to the Wizard and to +you, it did not cover all of the thing required. Frisco could not mean +San Francisco, because in the puzzle there was no apostrophe showing +that part of the word had been cut off. One solver answered correctly +all save four of the questions. His name is Philip Castner; he is +thirteen, and he lives in Philadelphia. His prize is $10. Two others did +almost as well, and hence large second prizes are given them. One is Mae +Sterner, of Pittsburg, and the other Edward L. Lyon, of Oswego, N. Y. +Their prizes are $4 each. Third prizes of $1 each are given to Edward L. +Wharton, New Jersey; Sarah Hodgson, Tennessee; Albert Walton, Illinois; +Raymond Tilley and Francis C. Pequignot, Pennsylvania; and Mortimer J. +McChesney, West Virginia. Fourth prizes, half-dollars, are sent to J. +Benners King, Sydney W. Stern, Elsie Goddard, Ruth W. Balmer, J. +Lawrence Hyde, Marion Miller, Daniel Llewellyn, and Katie Bartholow. + + + + +The Helping Hand. + + +To the Whittier Library Chapter, of Milwaukee, Wis., belongs the high +honor of contributing a greater amount to the School Fund than any +other, namely, $124.25. Not only so, but its contribution swells the +amount sent by Milwaukee to such a figure that it enjoys the honor of +having given more than any other city in the Union. The Whittier Library +got its high honor by holding a two-day fair. Its receipts were $143.24, +and it kept its expenses down to below $20, as you can see. Fourteen +Ladies accomplished all this, and their names are: Mattie Tomanek, +president; Luella Eimer, vice-president; Margaret Mitchell, secretary; +Hildegarde E. A. Eimer, treasurer; Lenora Loew, Mary Kuenzli, Rose +Faber, Helen Lorenzen, Mabel Diedrichsen, Alma Kuhn. Delia Volktman, +Annie Voss, Erna Lasche, and Emily Burke. The Table thanks them warmly, +as it does all who have helped the Fund, as follows: + + Amount in money, last report $1165.32 + Amount in foundation materials 400.00 + ________ + $1565.32 + + We acknowledge from Walter S. Goff, Walter G. Sill, Richard J. + Drake, G. W. Hinckley, Leverett Belknap, Junior Christian Endeavor + of the First Congregational Church, Philadelphia, Ralph T. + Hopkins, Albert W. Atwater (on account of entertainment), N. D. + Morey, D. G. White, Mary T. Porter, Helen R. Ludington, Wade + Hampton Chapter, of Spartanburg, S. C., A. C. Banning, Hubbard + Marsh 2d, Martha H. Evans, Allen H. Wright, Kirk Munroe Chapter, + of Harlan, N. J., Alonzo S. Darragh (on account of entertainment), + Loving Kindness Circle, of Bangor, Me., Ferdinand Jelke, Whittier + Library Chapter, of Milwaukee, Wis., Ralph M. Stoughton, Phoebe + and Harriett Waterman, L. S. Howard, John R. Dewitt, George E. + Riegel, Rupert S. Holland, Miss E. G. Bowes, Robert Louis + Stevenson Chapter, of Cincinnati, Frank R. Semon, Robert W. + Palmer, M. B. Lawton, and Maud C. Wiggins + + 170.11 + ________ + $1735.43 + + On interest for us, which we are to have July 1, if we do well + meanwhile + + 300.00 + ________ + Grand Total $2035.43 + ________ + Amount the Table set out to raise $3000.00 + +The Robert Louis Stevenson Chapter's gift came from a parlor +entertainment, consisting of jokes from comic papers, illustrated by +shadow pantomimes. The members number five: Homer A. Wessel, Jun., Hugh +H. Bates, M. L. Bates, C. E. Hoffman, and J. H. Bates. Its contribution +was the neat sum of five dollars. + +The Table is earning, not begging, this Fund. Won't you help it to get +the balance? It is to build a school-house for some poor boys who have +none. Why not raise something in that garden of yours? Or pick some +strawberries? Or contribute what you earn one day? + + + + +A Fascinating Walk in Rome. + + +This has been a very rainy season. In February it even snowed a little, +which is a wonderful thing in Rome. How I should like to see a big +snow-storm! A few days ago I went to the Museo Nazionale, which is made +in a part of the Baths of Diocletian. In the entranceway are at least +ten headless women, which we call Bluebeard's wives, although they are +not hung up by their hair. + +Further in is a large "cortile," and in the middle of it there are some +cypresses which are said to have been planted by Michaelangelo. And one +may almost believe it, because they look old and are almost dead. Near +them is a fountain, and all around it are immense animals' heads on +pedestals--an elephant, a rhinoceros, a horse, and others--and there are +many vases and statues around the garden. + +In a room on the first floor is a half figure of a vestal virgin who has +a noble expression on her face. On the second floor is a large bronze +statue of a pugilist resting. It was found not long ago when they were +excavating to build the Theatre Nazionale. It is very powerfully done, +with its prominent muscles. Its head is hideous, and he has many scars +and a broken nose. In another room is a headless statue of a young man +on one knee. This statue is very pretty, and it is a great pity that it +has lost its head. + +In one room is a lovely head of a woman asleep, and lying on a velvet +cushion it looks very natural, although it has lost most of its nose. It +has a very peaceful expression. In one room are some old coins dug up +here not many years ago. Ages ago they were sent from England as +Peterpence by Alfred the Great, Athelstan, and other kings. The Baths of +Diocletian are now used in many ways very different from those they were +meant for; one large vaulted hall is used to store the wood of a +carpenter, another for coal, and a large part of the building is turned +into a blind-asylum. There is also a big church made from part of it +planned by Michaelangelo. It is called Santa Maria degli Angeli. It is a +very handsome church, and has several immense ancient granite columns. +Formerly they had been shamefully plastered over, but now the plaster +has been scraped off. On the floor of the church is a metal line on some +part of which the sun shines at meridian, and on each side of it are the +Signs of the Zodiac set in marble of many colors. + +Near the entrance is the tomb of Salvator Rosa with his bust over it. He +was a good painter, but he chose queer subjects. I have seen dark +landscapes, a picture of a witch, and a group of three horrible heads of +fierce-looking brigands of his. He was a poet, too, and we have a book +of his satires. We have also some pretty songs of his, which prove that +he was a good musician. In front of these many buildings, which were +once used for bathing, is a very attractive square with a lovely +fountain which has a splendid flow of water, and in the evening it is +very beautifully illuminated by electricity. Near there is the great +Central Station of Rome. + + ROME, ITALY. + MARIA OJETTI, R. T. L. + + + + +Want Corner. + + +A Newport member asks what numbers on the head-light of a locomotive +indicate. They are the number of the locomotive repeated on the +head-light, in order that it may be seen at night. A locomotive's number +is its identification on the books of the company from other +locomotives. We would like to print Samuel D. McCoy's exchange notice, +but cannot do so. The Table has no exchange column. Harry A. Light is +interested in flowers, and his address is 27 Pine Street, New York. He +asks how the United States ranks with foreign powers in point of +military strength. The German army, when on a peace footing, has 546,136 +men in it; the French, 567,464; the Italian, 220,685; the Austrian, +334,400; the Russian, 1,112,684; the British, 138,410; and the United +States, 27,957. Great Britain has in its navy 6790 guns; France, 6554; +Germany, 1361; Italy, 1562; and Russia, 1643. The United States has +about the same number of guns as Germany, though it has no fewer than +sixty naval vessels, as tugs, school-ships, small steamers, condemned +boats, etc., out of commission and unfit for service in war. + +Linnie Schloeman: Jane Porter was born in Durham, in 1776, and died in +Bristol, May 24, 1850. She was educated at Edinburgh, and afterward +removed to London with her mother and sister. Here she published +_Thaddeas of Warsaw_, which was translated into several languages. In +1809 she published _The Scottish Chiefs_, a story of the adventures of +Bruce and Wallace. Essex Hobarten asks how to make a simple dynamo. He +will find more detailed information than we can repeat here in the Young +People dated January 15, 1895. A copy may be had from the publishers. +The price is five cents. Any dealer can get it for you. + +Two Knights say they collect birds' eggs. Better not, friends. The eggs +belong to the birds. We are aware that naturalists say it does no harm +to extract one egg from a nest. Perhaps not, when the purpose is clearly +for study. But the Table cannot do this thing as a pleasure--a mere +fancy for that sort of a collection. Please do not collect birds' eggs. +Chester Lewis, writing from Cincinnati, sends no street address. Suppose +he writes again. James F. Rodgers will find an account of the Johnson +Impeachment case in any history, Moore's _American Congress_, for +example. The Senate refused to sustain the impeachment, hence one might +say that it thought it unjustifiable. Stanislaus Bloch, 5 Krueza Street, +Warsaw, in Russian Poland, has Russian and Finland stamps to trade, and +says he will answer all letters. Carl Deal: The Order has no gold +badges, but it has been suggested that it provide such. + + + + +[Illustration: THE PUDDING STICK] + + This Department is conducted in the interest of Girls and Young + Women, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question on + the subject so far as possible. Correspondents should address + Editor. + + +Is it right to care about one's clothes, and to like to have pretty and +becoming things? Why, of course it is not only right, but a positive +duty to have one's wardrobe in good order, and to wear colors and shapes +which suit one's style and complexion. The girls for whom I write are +old enough to take intelligent interest in their clothes; some of them +may even buy their own materials, and cut and make their every-day +frocks and waists for themselves. Every girl should understand the +principles of dress-making, so that she may know how much stuff needs to +be used in a gown, and regulate for herself the sort of trimming which +will finish her costume appropriately. + +Growing girls do not need many dresses at once. A pretty toilette for +best, which may at this season be of wool crepon or of summer silk, and +a serviceable frock of serge or some other strong woollen stuff for +every-day and roughing occasions, will meet the requirements of ordinary +life. A girl should have besides these, for summer, one or two dainty +ginghams simply made, a half-dozen shirt waists, four of linen or +percale, and two of silk, and a white gown either of Swiss muslin or +China silk. A sailor hat for common use, a wide-brimmed picture hat for +very best, and a jaunty little toque will be enough in the way of +covering for the head, and she will be wise to have, if she can, several +pairs of shoes. It is economy to have duplicates of one's shoes and +boots, as these last much longer when frequently changed and relieved. +For tramping about the roads and hills one needs, as also for the city +promenade, an absolutely comfortable walking boot, with broad soles, low +heels, and a shape that fits the foot to perfection. Too loose a shoe is +as disagreeable and as bad for the foot of its wearer as one which is +too tight. A dress boot may be of cloth and patent-leather or of soft +kid. Let me insist, girls, on your keeping your boots in order, so far +as the buttons are concerned. Nothing gives one so careless an +appearance as a boot from which buttons have fallen. + +Gloves should be kept in order just as shoes are. As they are a very +expensive part of one's outfit, one should care for them nicely. In +taking off your gloves, pull them from the top downwards, so that they +are wrong side out when they come off. Straighten them at your leisure, +and keep your very best when not in use folded up in tissue-paper, and +in a box. Chamois gloves are nice for every day, and have the advantage +of standing a good deal of rough wear. They are to be preferred for +gardening, driving, rowing, and sweeping. I take it that among you are +many girls who sweep their own rooms, and do not wish to have hands +blistered from the broom. + +[Illustration: Signature] + + + + +[Illustration: Ivory Soap] + +Reject any soap or washing compound that will cleanse without an +expenditure of time and labor. "What is well done is done soon enough," +and Ivory Soap will do the work as quickly as it can be done with +safety. + +THE PROCTOR & GAMBLE CO., CIN'TI. + + + + +They are EASILY EARNED, and it requires NO MONEY + +[Illustration] + +We want the services (in light, pleasant, honorable work) of + +BOYS, GIRLS, GENTLEMEN, LADIES. + +We pay generously for these services--in cash, if you like, or by giving +a much larger value than you would deem possible, in such articles as +=Safety Bicycles= (all the way from the 24-inch wheels for the younger +boys and girls up to the finest safeties for ladies and gentlemen--yes, +even including the 18 or 19 lb. bicycle for "scorchers"), =Fishing +Outfits=, =Watches=, =Cameras=, =Air Rifles= (lots of fun with these for +the whole family--no powder, no smoke, no danger--nothing but compressed +air), =Shot Guns=, etc. + +[Illustration] + +Any of these additions to your summer pleasures may be secured +practically =FREE= in return for a little of your time and energy. Full +particulars by return mail. + +ALPHA PUBLISHING CO., 212 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. + + + + +[Illustration: The Kombi Camera] + +[Illustration] + +Carry in pocket. Takes 25 perfect pictures in one loading--re-loading +costs 20c. Ask your dealer for it, or send for free booklet "All About +the Kombi." + +ALFRED C. KEMPER, + +Branches London, Berlin. 132-134 Luke Street, Chicago + + + + +BASE BALL. HOW TO PLAY IT. + +[Illustration] + +A Great Book, contains =all= the rules; also the =secret= of pitching +curved balls, and to bat successfully. Rules for Football and Tennis. +Every player should have it. Entirely new and handsomely illustrated. +This =Great Book Free= to any one sending us =10= cents to pay postage. +_Also_ Catalogue Guns, Revolvers, Musical Instruments, Magic Tricks. +=All for 10c. Order quick.= For =$1.25= we will send =Our Base Ball +Outfit=, consisting of 9 Caps, 9 Belts, 1 Ball, 1 bat. BATES SPORTING +CO., 100 High St., Boston, Mass. + + + + +_=FALSE MUSTACHES= and GOATEES._ + +[Illustration] + +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. + +R. H. INGERSOLL & BRO., 65 CORTLANDT ST., N. Y. CITY. + + + + +=DEAF=NESS & HEAD NOISES CURED by my =INVISIBLE= Tubular Cushions. Have +helped more to good =HEAR=ing than all other devices combined. Whispers +=HEAR=d. Help ears as glasses do eyes. =F. Hiscox=, 853 B'dway, N.Y. +Book of proofs =FREE= + + + + +[Illustration: If afflicted with SORE EYES USE Dr. ISAAC THOMPSON'S EYE +WATER] + + + + +HARPER'S NEW CATALOGUE, + +Thoroughly revised, classified, and indexed, will be sent by mail to any +address on receipt of ten cents. + + + + +CARD PRINTER _FREE_ + +[Illustration] + +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 + + + + +[Illustration] + +Songs. + +Franklin Square Collection. + +It would be difficult, if not impossible, to gather more features of +interest into a work of this kind. Not only are many of the best songs +and hymns in the English language here given--both old and new--but +there are also songs and hymns for children and the schools. There are +songs of home and of country, of love and fame, of heart and soul, of +devotion and praise, with their sad and sweet or lively melodies, and +with grand old chorals that stir the heart and lift it in worship. +Besides the words and music, explanatory and historic notes are given to +indicate their origin and significance. These books cannot fail to +become immensely popular.--_Lutheran Observer._ + +Sold Everywhere. Price, 50 cents; Cloth, $1.00. Full contents of the +Several Numbers, with Specimen Pages of favorite Songs and Hymns, sent +by Harper & Brothers, New York, to any address. + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration: THE SAD FATE OF A MISCHIEVOUS ELEPHANT.] + + + + +DOGS IN WARFARE. + + +During Bonaparte's campaign in Italy, says a writer on dogs, as an aid +to military operations, a dog whose name holds a place in military +history did service as scout and spy, and showed a reasoning power that +more than once came to the aid of Napoleon's army. At Marengo the +quaint-looking poodle Mustache on several occasions prevented the +regiment falling into the enemy's ambush, and such confidence had the +soldiers in his sagacity that they followed where he led, and met with +considerable success. When Mustache died he was buried with military +honors, and was sadly missed by his comrades in the regiment. + +Another dog, known to fame as Dellys, held for a long time the grade of +corporal in the Second Regiment of Zouaves of the French army in Africa. +The Arabs used to kill the French outposts by crawling up to them in the +dark and stabbing them, until Dellys made his appearance, when he soon +turned the tables on the enemy. The Zouaves shaved the dog, tied small +branches on his back, and taught him to advance slowly on the Arab +sentinel, stopping at the slightest indication that he was noticed, and, +when near enough, spring on the man, and seize him by the throat. + +In ten nights seven Arab sentries were thus killed by the brave dog. For +these and other services he was made sergeant, with stripes attached +round his fore legs. One day Dellys was induced to wander from the camp, +and was killed by the enemy. The Zouaves, furious at his loss, +immediately besieged the neighboring village, and notwithstanding its +almost inaccessible position on the rocks, took possession of the place +in about an hour. Dellys's death was avenged. + +In the Thirty-second Regiment of the French army, while manoeuvres +were taking place a few years ago, experiments were made with the dogs +trained by Lieutenant Jupin, which acted as sentinels and were stationed +at some distance from the camp, and gave notice by a peculiar bark when +any one approached within four or five hundred yards of the post. + + + + +TRAINING FOR A PIRATE. + + +An item concerning Washington Irving, for the truth of which we cannot +vouch, although it contains a deal of good advice for certain youngsters +of the present time, has lately come to our notice. It is to this +intent: + +Washington Irving, in his youth, had a longing to go to sea and be a +pirate. He determined to make the attempt, but wisely decided to prepare +himself for it by preliminary experience. He began by eating salt pork. +That made him sick. He then slept for a night or so on hard boards. That +made him sore. It was enough. He had no more desire to go away. Other +boys who want to capture men-of-war, or who desire to go scouting and +scalp Indians, would do well to imitate young Irving's example. + + + + +ANECDOTE OF LESSING. + + +Absent-mindedness has been frequently a characteristic of men of fame. +It is to be supposed, no doubt, that their minds have been so wholly +absorbed by great matters that the smaller, more trivial things of life +have been considered unworthy of their attention. Among men of this +stamp who have suffered in this way was Lessing, a famous German writer +of plays and books of criticism. Lessing discovered at one period of his +life that he was being robbed of his ready money by some person in his +home, and, unable to determine who the culprit was, he put the servants +of his household to a test by leaving a handful of gold upon his +breakfast table one morning. + +Meeting a friend he told him what he had done. + +"That was risky," said his friend. "How much did you leave there?" + +"Dear me!" cried Lessing. "I quite forgot to count." + + + + +A BUSINESSLIKE BEGGAR. + + +They tell a story of an enterprising beggar of Paris who went about with +a sign "I am blind" hung around his neck. + +"But you are not blind!" said a man of whom he asked alms. + +"I know that," said the beggar. "But the man whose business I bought +was. He used to make ten francs a day on this route with this sign. I +bought him out. Pray help a poor blind man a little, sir." + + + + +A CURIOUS DEFINITION. + + +A great many persons have discussed the question as to what is the true +definition of the word gentleman. The ideas advanced on the subject are +generally entertaining, novel, and of great variety, but there has +probably never been a more singular definition given than that of the +Irishman who was asked his opinion on the subject. + +"Sure, sorr," he replied, "a gintleman is a--well, oi should say he was +a mon what ates jam on his mutton, sorr." + + + + +A BARBER'S JOKE. + + +A well-known American clergyman went into a barber shop one morning, and +being somewhat of a joker, said to the barber, "My friend, you may cut +my hair as short as you would like my sermons to be." + +The barber immediately got out his razor and proceeded to shave the +doctor's head. + +"Hold on!" cried the doctor. "Are you going to take it all off?" + +"You told me to, doctor," said the barber. "I don't want any of your +sermons." + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Round Table, May 28, 1895, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S ROUND TABLE, MAY 28, 1895 *** + +***** This file should be named 32976.txt or 32976.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/2/9/7/32976/ + +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. Special rules, +set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to +copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to +protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. 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