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diff --git a/28362.txt b/28362.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3c4544e --- /dev/null +++ b/28362.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2283 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, February 24, 1880, 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 Young People, February 24, 1880 + An Illustrated Weekly + +Author: Various + +Release Date: March 19, 2009 [EBook #28362] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, FEB 24, 1880 *** + + + + +Produced by Annie McGuire + + + + + + + + +[Illustration: HARPER'S + +YOUNG PEOPLE + +AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.] + + + * * * * * + +VOL. I.--NO. 17. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR +CENTS. + +Tuesday, February 24, 1880. Copyright, 1880, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50 +per Year, in Advance. + + * * * * * + + + + +[Illustration: COLD MORNING IN A COUNTRY SCHOOL.] + + + + +TRACKING A BURIED RIVER. + +THE ADVENTURE OF TWO SAILOR BOYS. + + + "The sum of 3000 francs [$600] will be paid by the Scientific + Association of Morlaix to any one who shall succeed in tracing the + course of the Larve, and ascertaining whether it has any + under-ground communication with the sea. + + "FELIX DELAROCHE, President." + +Such was the announcement which, posted in the quaint three-cornered +market-place of the old French town of Longchamp, attracted a good many +readers, and among the rest two lads in sailor costume, one of whom +remarked to the other: + +"What a holiday we'd have if _we_ could earn it! eh, Pierre, my boy?" + +"I should think so! But nobody will earn _that_ reward very soon. Don't +you remember how, a year ago, they widened the cleft into which the +stream falls, and let down a man with a lantern, and how, before he'd +gone thirty feet, he got bumped against a rock, and broke his lantern, +and hurt himself so badly that he had to be hauled up again?" + +"True; it's not a very likely job. Well, come along, and let's get the +boat out." + +Pierre Lebon, the younger of the two, was a lithe, olive-cheeked, merry +little fellow, whose slim figure and jaunty black curls contrasted +markedly with the burly frame and thick sandy hair of his chum, Jacques +Vaudry. The latter ought rightly to have been called Jack Fordrey, for +he was an English boy, born in Guernsey; but having been adopted by a +Breton fisherman after his father's death, both he and his name had got +considerably "Frenchified." + +The two boys had to manage by themselves the boat of which they were +joint owners, for old Simon Lebon, Pierre's real and Jack's adopted +father, was now too aged and rheumatic to help them in their work, +except by advising them when to start and where to go. But his advice +was always good, for in his time he had been one of the best fishermen +on the coast, and the lads were usually very successful. + +On this particular day, however, their good luck seemed to have forsaken +them, for, try as they might, they could catch nothing worth mentioning. +Possibly they were thinking too little of their work, and too much of +the reward offered by the Scientific Association; for three thousand +francs would have been quite a fortune to them both. Moreover, the idea +of tracking an under-ground river had a spice of romance and adventure +about it which was the very thing to tempt them. + +The little stream of the Larve had long been the acknowledged puzzle of +the whole neighborhood. After skirting the town for some distance, it +vanished into the earth through a narrow cleft, and was seen no more. +Where it went to after that, no one could tell; and, as we have seen, +the first attempt to find out had succeeded so badly that nobody felt +much inclined for a second. + +Tired out at length, the unsuccessful fishers went home, inwardly +resolving to try whether they might not have better fortune by night +than by day. Pierre, indeed, when the night came, began to have some +doubts about the wisdom of the idea, having heard his father say once +and again that it was a very dangerous thing to attempt at that season. +But the hardest thing in the world for a boy to do is to draw back from +anything simply because it is dangerous. Rather than let Jack think him +afraid, Pierre would have gone to sea on a hen-coop; so they stole out +of the cottage as noiselessly as possible, and away they went over the +dim gray waste of sea, half lighted by the rising moon. + +The "take" of fish was a very good one this time, and the boys began to +think their night voyage a lucky idea; but they were rejoicing too soon. +A little after midnight the sky began to cloud over and the sea to rise +in a way which showed that there was a storm brewing. They put about at +once, and made for the shore, but long before they reached it the storm +burst upon them in all its fury. + +In an instant the boat was half full of water, and it was all they could +do to keep her from foundering outright, as they flew through the great +white roaring waves, thumped and banged about from side to side, and +drenched to the skin at every plunge by the flying gusts of spray. +Pierre grasped the tiller in his half-numbed hands, while Jack held on +with all his might to the "sheet" that steadied their little +three-cornered sail, at which the wind tugged as if meaning to tear it +away altogether. + +The little craft held her own gallantly, and the young sailors began to +hope that, after all, they might make the entrance of the bay without +accident. But just then an unlucky shift of the wind tore the sail clean +away, and the boat, falling off at once, was swept helplessly toward the +formidable cliffs beyond. + +"Not much chance for us now," said Jack, shaking his head. "Pierre, my +boy, I'm sorry I've brought you into this mess; it's all my fault." + +"Not a bit, old fellow. I ought to have warned you of what I'd heard my +father say. However, if the worst comes to the worst, we can swim for +it." + +However, there seemed to be little hope, for not a foot of standing-room +was to be seen on the rocky sides of the vast black precipice upon which +they were driving headlong. All at once Jack shouted: + +"Port your helm, Pierre--port! We'll do it yet." + +His keen eye had detected a cleft in the rock, just wide enough for the +boat to enter. + +Pierre had barely time to obey, when there came a tremendous crash, and +the boys found themselves floundering amid a welter of foam, nets, sand, +dead fish, and broken timbers, in a deep dark hollow that looked like +the mouth of a cave. + +"There goes father's boat," sputtered Pierre, as soon as he could clear +his mouth of the salt-water. + +"And there go our fish," added Jack. "Here's that loaf that we put in +the locker, though; and even wet bread's better than none, in a place +like this. Now, then, let's be getting higher up, for the tide will be +upon us here in no time." + +But to get higher up was no easy matter. They were in utter darkness, +and (as they had already found by groping about) on the brink of a chasm +of unknown depth. The ledge upon which they had been cast was evidently +very narrow, and almost as slippery as ice; and Jack, being encumbered +with the loaf, and Pierre badly bruised against the rocks, they were not +in the best condition for climbing. + +But the roar of the next wave as it came bursting in, splashing them +from head to foot where they sat, was a wonderful quickener to their +movements, and away they scrambled through the pitchy blackness, +clinging like limpets to the rough side of the cavern as they felt their +feet slide upon the treacherous rocks, and thought of the unseen gulf +below. + +Onward, onward still, deeper and deeper into the heart of the cold, +silent rock, fearing at every moment to feel their way barred by a solid +wall, and find themselves cut off from escape, and doomed to be drowned +by inches. But, no; the strange tunnel went on and on as if it would +never end, their only consolation being that they were unmistakably +tending _upward_, and already (as they calculated) beyond the reach of +the flood-tide. + +Suddenly Jack uttered a shout of joy: + +"Hurrah, Pierre! here's one of the lantern candles in my inner pocket, +and I know I've got my matches somewhere. We'll be able to see where we +are at last, my boy!" + +The matches (luckily still dry) were produced, the candle was lighted, +and our heroes took a survey of their surroundings. + +They were in a long narrow passage, rising to a considerable height +overhead, and with another ledge on its opposite side, steeper and more +broken than the one on which they were. In the centre lay the chasm +already mentioned; but instead of the frightful depth which they had +imagined, it was only six or seven feet deep at the most, and more than +half full of water. + +"There's our terrible precipice," laughed Jack, stooping over it. "I +don't think _that_ would hurt us much. But--holloa! I say, Pierre, this +isn't sea-brine; it's _fresh-water_, running water! It's a stream that's +tunnelled its way through the rock; and if we follow it far enough, +we'll get out. Hurrah!" + +"Hurrah!" echoed Pierre, brightening up. "We sha'n't run short of water, +anyhow; and as for food, we may as well have a bite of that loaf before +starting again." + +The under-ground breakfast was soon finished, and the adventurous lads +started once more. + +But the pain of Pierre's bruises, which he had manfully concealed +hitherto, began to master him at last. His tired limbs began to drag +more and more heavily; his feet slipped again and again, and only the +strong hand of his comrade saved him from more than one serious fall. + +"Better sit down and rest a bit, old fellow," said Jack, kindly; +"there's no hurry, for this candle will burn a long while yet. I know +you won't own it, but you _did_ get a nasty bump against that rock +yonder." + +"I fancy you're right there," answered Pierre, sinking wearily upon the +ledge. "But we don't need the candle while we're sitting still, you +know. Blow it out, and light it again when we start." + +Jack did so, and they sat silent in the darkness. All at once Pierre +heard his comrade call out, + +"I say, don't you hear water falling somewhere?" + +"To be sure I do," replied Pierre, after listening a moment. "We must be +close to the place where this stream falls down into the tunnel, and now +we'll have a chance of getting out at last. Bravo!" + +Jack slapped his hands together, with a shout that made the cavern echo. + +"I've got an idea, Pierre, my boy! What a fool I was not to think of it +before! This stream that we've been following is the Larve, and we've +got to the very place where it falls through the cleft. Now if we can +only get out with whole bones, it's fifteen hundred francs apiece to us. +Come along, quick!" + +All Pierre's weariness was gone in a minute. Already, in his mind's eye, +he saw his ailing father comfortably provided for, and Jack and himself +standing out to sea in a brand-new boat. The instant the candle was +lighted they were off again at a pace which would have seemed impossible +a few minutes before. + +Guided by the increasing din of the water-fall, they were not long in +reaching a huge perpendicular funnel or chimney in the rock, down one +side of which poured a stream of water, while through a cleft above, +dazzlingly radiant after the darkness of the buried passage, came a +bright gleam of _sunshine_. Just then a big stone, flung from above, +came thundering down into the chasm, falling close to the feet of the +two explorers. + +"That's the boys at their fun," said Jack, laughing. "I've done it many +a time myself. Above there--hoy!" + +The only answer was a howl of terror and the sound of flying feet. +Pierre, alarmed at the thought of being deserted, shouted in his turn, + +"Help, comrades! help!" + +"Who's that calling?" asked a gruff voice from above, while the light +was obscured by a broad visage peering down into the hole. + +"Holloa, Gaspard! is that you?" cried Pierre, recognizing the voice of +one of his father's fisher cronies. + +"What, Pierre Lebon! _you_ down there? Well, who ever saw the like? Just +wait a minute, while I run for a rope." + +But before he could return there were already more than a hundred people +gathered around the hole, for the news of a human voice having been +heard out of the "Larve Chimney," as the chasm was called, had spread +far and wide. + +The water-fall on one side and the sharp rocks on the other made it no +easy matter to draw the boys up safely. But at length they were dragged +forth into the daylight, to be embraced and shouted over by the whole +town, and to receive, a few days later, the praises of the entire +Scientific Association, together with the three thousand francs which +they had so bravely earned. + + + + +BIDDY O'DOLAN. + +BY MRS. ZADEL B. GUSTAFSON. + + +CHAPTER I. + +Do you remember Biddy O'Dolan, the little rag-picker and ash girl who +found Lily De Koven's broken doll in the ash-can that cold winter's +morning? I have not forgotten my promise to tell you the rest about her. + +Biddy had a boy-friend, a little Irish boy, who called himself +"Chairlier-Shauzy." I suspect his name was Charley O'Shaughnessy. He was +just as poor and alone in the world as Biddy, and almost always staid in +the same cellar at night. + +When Biddy ran off with her doll that cold morning, she not only thought +of the hospital and the little girl who had there brought her the +flowers, but she thought how she would tell Charley that night about her +doll. + +The first thing to be done was to get Dolly a dress, and this was the +way Biddy managed it. She took an old knife and hacked out a piece of +her skirt, then she pulled out of her dingy pocket a little wad. A wad +of what? Pins. Pins that she had picked up on the street in the summer, +when she swept the street crossings, and had stuck thick and +"criss-cross" in a bit of woollen rag. With some of these pins Biddy +fastened together the two sides of the cut in her skirt. Next she took +the piece of cloth she had cut out, and punched her tough little +forefinger through it in two places, and through one of these holes +pushed the whole arm and through the other the broken arm of her doll, +and pinned the cloth together in the back. + +Thus Dolly was dressed, and nearly as well as Biddy, too. Biddy had been +very quick about this, and had often looked over her shoulders to see +who came in and out of the cellar. + +You who do not live in a cellar, and do not get shoved about and slapped +as Biddy did, can hardly imagine how glad she was that no one happened +to take notice of her. + +She hid Dolly under the straw where she was to sleep at night, and then +hurried out to pick over as many more ash cans and barrels as she could, +in hopes of finding something this time which would please Mrs. Brown, +so that she could dare to show her doll, and perhaps be allowed to sit +up and play with it a little. + +Mrs. Brown was the cross old woman who kept the cellar, and the children +on the street called her "Grumpy." + +Biddy did not find anything in particular, and got fewer pennies than +usual for errands and for showing people the way to places, so that old +Mrs. Brown was very cross indeed, and Biddy went to bed without daring +to pull Dolly out where she could see her. She lay awake, with her hand +on it, waiting for Charley. + +Charley was a newsboy, but he was not a lucky little boy. He had the +large and beautiful deep blue eyes you may often see in the children of +Irish immigrants. But he was weak in body, and very shy. He lived as +Biddy did, among rough people, who were all the more rough because they +were so poor and miserable. So he got knocked about a great deal, and +stood no chance at all among other newsboys, who shoved him aside, and +called their papers so loud that Charley's thin voice could not be +heard. Some newsboys make money selling papers--make so much that they +can start in other kinds of business for themselves, and get on very +well in the world among other successful men. I have seen this kind of +newsboy. They have bright, sharp, old-looking faces. They have wiry, +strong bodies, good health, and seem to be afraid of nothing. + +Charley wasn't this sort of boy at all. He got poked, and pushed, and +cuffed, and tripped up, and laughed at. The girls called him +"fraid-cat," because they thought he was a coward. The boys said he was +just like a girl, and shouted, "Hallo, Polly!" when they saw him. +Charley did not say much to all this. He went with his papers every day, +and managed to sell a few; and, besides, he did errands quickly and +well. In these ways he earned enough to pay for his straw in Mrs. +Brown's cellar, and to buy enough to eat to keep life in him. + +Charley's straw was next to Biddy's straw, and when he came in that +night Biddy whispered to him all about her doll, telling him especially +how one of its arms was broken off at the elbow. Charley put out his +hand in the dark, and asked her to let him take the doll a moment. He +felt it over carefully, and gave it back without saying anything. Biddy +whispered a little more, and then they went to sleep. + +One day Biddy happened to come in a little after noon. She was going +right out again; but first she stooped, and felt under her straw--the +doll was gone! Biddy sat down, quite faint for a moment; then she sprang +to her feet, darted up the cellar steps, and around the corner where old +Mrs. Brown sat behind her apple and candy stand. Biddy reached over and +put both hands in the knot of gray hair in the old woman's neck, pulling +as if she would carry her off, stand and all. + +Biddy's face was pale, and her eyes were like white-hot coals, as she +gasped out: + +"Give it me! Give it me! I'll never leave go till ye give it me!" + +"Howld an, an' lave go av me!" cried the old woman. She grasped Biddy's +wrists, and drew them toward her to ease the strain on her hair; but +Biddy's little fingers were strong. She tugged hard, and kept on +gasping, + +"I'll never, never leave go till ye give it me. Oh!" + +Never had such an "Oh!" come from Biddy's lips before, and with the very +sound of it she had torn herself away from Mrs. Brown, and had seized +and almost knocked over little Charley, who had vainly been making signs +at her as he came up behind Mrs. Brown. + +[Illustration: MENDING THE DOLL.] + +Mrs. Brown rubbed her neck, smoothed down her apron, and jabbering +fiercely, came panting up to the children. Biddy had let go of Charley, +and was sitting right down on the cold pavement holding her doll, and +looking with wild delight and wonder at its wooden arm, new from the +elbow. Charley knew an old man who used to whittle out all sorts of +things with his jackknife, and who seemed as ready to give away as to +sell his work. Charley had taken Biddy's doll to this man, who had +willingly and quite skillfully mended it. He was on his way back to get +it hid under Biddy's straw for a surprise for her, when he found Biddy +struggling with Mrs. Brown. Charley's plan was perfect. The trouble was +that he couldn't plan for Biddy too, and she had spoiled everything +without knowing it. + +"How ever _could_ ye git a new arm?" said Biddy. "It's a miracle." + +"Be whisht wid yer mary-cles!" exclaimed old Mrs. Brown, snatching the +doll, holding it high out of reach, and spreading out her other hand to +keep Biddy off. + +But Biddy did not spring at her this time. She stood up, and put her +hands together, and twisted them till the knuckles were white, and she +spoke as if there were cotton in her throat when she begged the old +woman to give her the doll. She promised never to be a bad girl any +more; to give every cent she could get to Mrs. Brown--every one; to do +everything Mrs. Brown asked her to do; and she called her over and over +again "_good_ lady," and "_dear_ lady." + +Mrs. Brown kept on talking too fast to be understood. She was very +angry, and slapped Biddy's cheeks, and pushed her toward the cellar. +Biddy stumbled along as she was pushed, and kept on praying for her +doll, and making every promise she could think of to the old woman. When +they reached the cellar steps, Charley pulled Mrs. Brown's dress, showed +her a bright new quarter dollar, and said she might have it if she would +give up the doll to Biddy. + +Mrs. Brown took the quarter, looked at it, rang it on the step, and then +handed the doll to Biddy, telling her that she might have it that night, +but that she must pay extra every day for what she called the +"craythur's boord an' lodgin'." + +This idea seemed to please Mrs. Brown very much, for she called it a +great joke, and put her hands on her hips and laughed. Then she looked +savage again, and said, she would keep the doll herself on nights when +Biddy could not pay extra. She went off to her fruit stand, with her +hands on her hips, laughing and muttering by turns. Biddy sat down with +her doll. Now and then she looked at Charley and smiled, and seemed to +be thinking very hard about something. + +[TO BE CONTINUED.] + + + + +NEW YORK PRISONS IN 1776-77. + + +Those who tread the floor of what was recently the Post-office, once the +great Middle Dutch Church, and now a Brokers' Exchange, at the corner of +Nassau Street and Cedar, can scarcely believe that it was once a +military prison, that its walls re-echoed the groans and cries of sick +and dying patriots, that a large part of Washington's army was once +confined on the very spot where now the broker is calling his stocks and +the photographer fitting his lenses. The fine church in 1776 was +converted at once into a royal prison. Its pews were torn out, its +interior defaced, but the walls are the same that shut in the +unfortunate Americans, and their only shelter was the lofty roof that +still rises among the haunts of trade. The ancient building is one of +the most touching of the historical remains of the early city. The +number of persons shut up at once within its precincts is variously +estimated; one account gives 800, another 3000, as the probable limit. +It is certain that they were crowded in with no care for comfort, no +regard for health or ease; that one aim of the royal captors was to +"break their spirit" by ill usage, and win them back to their loyalty by +no gentle means. + +As the motley train of prisoners came down to the city after the capture +of Fort Washington, they were met by the royal officers with every mark +of contempt and hate. They were stripped of their arms and uniforms, +robbed of their money, insulted with rude taunts and even blows. War had +not yet been robbed of some of its brutality by the slow rise of +knowledge, and the British officers had not yet learned the politeness +of freemen. A savage Hessian made his way up to Graydon, the young +American officer, and threatened to kill him. "Young man," said to him a +Scotch officer of more humanity, "you should never rebel against your +king." The prisoners were taken before the British provost-marshal to be +examined. "What is your rank?" said the officer to a sturdy little +fellow from Connecticut, ragged and dirty, who seemed scarcely twenty. +"I am a _keppen_," said he, in a resolute tone; and the British +officers, clad in scarlet and gold, broke into shouts of laughter. It +was not long before they were flying before the "keppens" of New Jersey +and New York, glad to escape from the rabble they despised. + +[Illustration: JAIL IN CITY HALL PARK.--[FROM MISS MARY L. BOOTH'S +"HISTORY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK."]] + +When they had been examined, plundered, ridiculed, the unlucky prisoners +were divided into companies, and marched away to the different prisons +of New York, that were for so many weary months to be their homes or +their graves. Those who were confined in the Middle Dutch Church were +probably the most fortunate of all; they had air and light; but two of +the prisons are covered with some of the saddest memories of the war for +freedom. One of them was a common jail in the Park, now the Hall of +Records, and the other was the old Sugar-House in Liberty Street, next +to the Middle Dutch Church. The jail was so crowded with the captured +Americans that they had scarcely room to lie on the bare floor. The air +was stifling, the rooms pestilential, full of filth and fever. + +[Illustration: OLD SUGAR-HOUSE IN LIBERTY STREET.--[FROM MISS MARY L. +BOOTH'S "HISTORY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK."]] + +But the most painful circumstance of their lot was the character of the +keeper. His name was Cunningham; he seems to have been a monster. Many +years afterward he was executed in England for some hideous crime, and +boasted that he had put arsenic in the flour he served to the prisoners. +It was under this man--one of those horrible natures war often brings +into use--that the young men of New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey +were to pass their miserable captivity. Soon even the English officials +were forced to take notice of the horrors of the jail in the Park. The +neighbors complained that they could get no sleep for the outcries and +groans of the prisoners. Cunningham ruled over them with lash and sword. +They were starved, reviled, beaten, "to win them," he said, "to their +duty." The chill winter and the hot summer found them crowded in their +pestilential prisons. The old Sugar-House in Liberty Street was also +under Cunningham's care. It was a tall building, several stories high, +with small windows, low ceilings, and bare walls. Every story was filled +thickly with the captured Americans. They starved, pined away, died by +hundreds. Cunningham withheld their food, and cheated even the miserable +sick and dying. They froze to death in the chill winter of 1776-77. +Sometimes the famished prisoners would come to the narrow windows of the +old Sugar-House, crying for charity to those who passed, but the +sentries drove them back. They pined away in the dark corners of the +crowded rooms, dreaming of the old homestead in Connecticut, +Thanksgiving cheer, and smiling friends. When they were brought out for +exchange, Washington wrote indignantly to Sir Henry Clinton, "You give +us only the sick and dying for our healthy, well-fed prisoners." Such +were the sorrows our ancestors bore for us. They were the authors of our +freedom. And he who treads the floors of the old Dutch Church, or seeks +out the spot where stood the Sugar-House in Liberty Street, may well +pause to think how much we owe to those who once pined within their +walls. Such, too, is war. Modern intelligence has shorn it of some of +its horrors. It may be hoped that education will at last banish it +altogether, and the people of Europe and America join to force upon +their governments a policy of peace. + + + + +ZACHUR WITH THE SACK. + + +A stately-looking man, wearing suspended on his left side by a strong +strap a simple gray sack, while a well-filled leather purse hung on his +right, was one day slowly wandering through the crowded bazar of Bagdad. +He remained standing before one of the stalls, and then, after a little +reflection, proceeded to purchase the largest and softest carpet +there--one of those in which the foot seems gently to sink down, and the +sound of each step is completely hushed. + +The merchant was greatly surprised to see the richly dressed stranger +without retinue, and said, politely, "Sir, as your slaves are not at +hand, I will send one of my young men with you to carry the carpet." + +"It is not necessary," said the purchaser, as he paid the price in +shining gold pieces; "I can manage it myself." + +He quickly took up the immense roll of carpet, and pushed it slowly but +surely into his sack. Then, without heeding the amazement and shaking of +the head of the dealer, he passed on. + +His desire of purchasing seemed now to be thoroughly roused. Twelve +flasks of otto of roses, from Schiraz, found their way into his sack; +ten pounds of the finest Turkish tobacco followed them; then came, quite +appropriately, a magnificent nargileh, with a long tube and a yellow +amber mouth-piece, on the top of which he carelessly threw a heavy ebony +box, inlaid with copper. + +Notwithstanding the crowd, he attracted continual notice, and a +dignified-looking man had long been following him attentively, without, +however, addressing him. But when he had reached the middle of the +bazar, where the best and most costly wares are exposed for sale, and +when, as though intoxicated by the sight, he seized the most incongruous +things, and untiringly pushed them into his sack--pearls from Ormuz and +blades from Damascus, tons of Mocha coffee, and bales of silk, fishes +and rings, bracelets and dates, watches, saddles, and diamonds--then the +Caliph, for it was no less a personage who was following him, could +contain himself no longer, and said: + +"I have seen many wonders, O stranger, and by the beard of the Prophet, +thou art not the least. Have, then, thy purse and thy sack no end? Why +does thy sack not burst? How canst thou carry it? How canst thou find +but one of the thousand things which thou art unceasingly cramming into +it? And tell me, how will those poor tender pearls, which were too dear +for me to buy for Zuleika, fare among tons and crates?" + +Zachur--such was the name of the stranger--crossed his arms on his +breast, and bowed low. + +"Ruler of the Faithful," he said--"for it is in vain that thou hidest +thy noble figure under a homely dress; thy portrait, painted by a +Giaour, and offered to me in Frankestan, is also in my sack, and I +recognize thee at once--Allah is great, and His gifts are wonderful. +Thou carest for the lovely daughters of the shell? Look here!" + +He quickly put his right hand into the sack, and brought forth unhurt, +from the very midst of sabres and boxes, the double row of large +milk-white pearls, which he respectfully presented to the Caliph. + +The Caliph was astonished at Zachur's riches and dexterity, rejoiced at +his present, and was curious to learn more concerning him. + +"Then we will sit down there, on the broad stone steps at the foot of +the murmuring fountain," said Zachur; and in a minute he had spread out +his soft carpet, and lighted two nargilehs filled with the costly +aromatic herb. + +They sat down, with their legs crossed under them, peacefully sent +little blue clouds into the air, and the stranger began his tale: + +"I am the son of a poor man, O sire, and seemed doomed to poverty. But +there stood a good fairy by my cradle, and laid on it this bag and this +purse, saying: + +"'Grow up, Zachur, and look around thee, in the world. Buy what pleases +thee. Pay for it out of this purse, which will not become empty, and +preserve it in this sack, which will not become full; but especially +pack in all that is valuable--the weight of it will not weary thee.' + +"It has held more than she promised. All that I have ever possessed or +loved is contained, imperishable, safe forever, and always at hand, in +this sack." + +"Wonderful, highly singular, and wonderful!" said the Caliph. "But tell +me more, friend." + +"Details would take too long to relate, but the whole is soon said," +answered Zachur. "Thou wast surprised to-day at my rapidity in +purchasing--thou shouldst have seen me in my young days! When the world +still looked sunny and bright to my childish gaze, when thousands of +objects attracted me, my hand was rarely out of my purse and my sack. I +took long journeys over sea and desert, through lonely villages and +large cities, and whatever pleased me I bought, and joyfully put into my +capacious sack. Indeed, it filled itself, without aid from me; shining +green birds and brilliant snow-white blossoms flew into it. + +"The first impetuous joy was, however, soon stilled. Sometimes a feeling +of indifference came over me, and I passed unmoved by the most beautiful +things, because I already possessed so much that was lovely. 'Another +opportunity will occur,' I thought, 'if I should ever wish for it.' But +it never came, just as no moment of time ever returns; and now I mourn +over many a neglected chance. + +"Then, again, I comfort myself with the thought of how many things I +possess, and take old and new out of my sack, according to my +inclination--a quilted silk counterpane from Japan in which to envelop +myself, or the Egyptian phoenix to lull me to sleep. + +"Besides, the world is still large, and Zachur is not old yet. I have +still time to buy; and sometimes the old longing is very strong within +me. Thus to-day, O sire, when I entered thy city, I gave praise to Allah +that He had enabled man to form, out of the dirty wool of the sheep, the +brilliant carpet on which we are sitting, and caused the fragile amber +now between our lips to rise up from the sand of the sea--that He +brought the gold from the bowels of the earth, and the pearls from the +depths of the sea! And eagerly I seized the things, O sire, until the +eye of thy favor rested on me, and the blessed breath of thy mouth +reached me, and gave me what can not be purchased with gold and +silver--the honor and delight of thy presence!" + +"Well spoken!" said the Caliph, delighted, as he blew a thick cloud +before him; "it is easy to see that thou hast travelled, and been in +courts too, friend Zachur. But one thing, before I again forget it in my +amazement. The Prophet, praised be his name! has forbidden to make a +likeness or picture of man, the image of Allah. But as thou possessest +mine, done by some unbelieving dog--I can not conceive how he found time +and opportunity to do it--" + +"They paint rapidly," interrupted Zachur; "and are quick in all evil +arts." + +"True, very true. I should like to look at the thing. The people need +know nothing about it. Couldst thou not take it out for me to have just +one glimpse of it?" + +"Thy wish is a command to me," answered Zachur, who was already fumbling +in the sack, but for some time in vain. + +"Well," called the Caliph, getting angry, "art thou sorry that thou hast +promised? Or--" + +"Here it is, O sire," said Zachur, breathing freely; and the anger of +the ruler disappeared as he gazed with curiosity on a small silver +medal. + +"It _is_ I, and yet it is not," he said, shaking his head. "It is my +fez, with the ruby clasp, and the embroidery on my state dress; but I do +not really look so stiff. Where are the brown cheeks, the brightness of +the eyes, the coloring, friend? And--what do I see?--the thing is +broken; look here! there is a crack across it that separates the feet of +my horse from his body. Therefore thou canst not keep all thy things +unhurt in that sack--thou canst not find them all in a minute: confess +thou hast also lost some entirely." + +"I am the son of a poor man," answered Zachur, blushing, "but I learned +two things when only a boy: to use a sword, and to speak the truth. Yes, +I have lost many a thing; and when I was boasting just now that I had +everything in my sack, I was guilty of exaggeration, as men of limited +capacity are, in the use of the two words _everything_ and _nothing_. I +should have said _most things_." + +At this moment appeared two outriders on swift Arab steeds, and behind +them came a gilt carriage, drawn by four Barbary horses. At sight of +them Zachur sprang to his feet. + +Without for a moment losing sight of the approaching procession seeing +the Caliph rise too, he quickly pushed his carpet and nargileh into his +sack, and exclaimed, with sparkling eyes, "To whom does this +magnificence belong? Though how can I ask? for who but thou, O sire, +could call such splendor his own? + +"How beautifully the Nubian in his purple contrasts with the gray horse, +and the pale Christian slave in the blue silk with the shining black +steed! If only thou wert a merchant with this equipage for sale!" + +"Princes do not barter," said the Caliph, as he put a little silver +whistle to his mouth, and blew a shrill blast, when horses and carriage +suddenly stood still by the side of the fountain. + +"But thou hast made me a handsome present, friend Zachur, and what is +more, given me a pleasant hour. Take what thou praisest so +enthusiastically; be my guest to-day, and to-morrow, or when it pleases +thee, drive away into the wide world in this carriage--it must be weary +work dragging such a sack." + +Zachur crossed his arms on his breast, bowed low, and answered: "Thy +favor is like dew on a barren land, even for the richest, and if I had +not promised a sick friend to be with him this evening, I would +willingly enter within the shadow of thy halls. Therefore let me go in +peace; but these beautifully kept horses and carriage shall not go +through the dust of the suburbs." + +Saying this, he quietly pushed the Nubian with his gray steed, the black +horse and his rider, the carriage and horses, into the sack, bowed down +to the ground again, and then stepped lightly and erect toward the city +gate. + +The Caliph shook his head as he looked after him, went home full of +thought, and hung the double row of pearls round Zuleika's neck. + +Then he sent for his private secretary and said: + +"Take a swan quill and a sheet of the finest parchment, and write down +carefully what I shall dictate: the story of Zachur with the Sack." + + * * * * * + +Many of our young readers have doubtless long since seen the meaning of +this tale shine forth through its thin veil. We should all be surprised +at a Zachur, and yet, like him, we have each a faithful capacious +sack--_memory_--into which, from our youth upward, we have crammed what +is noble and common, pearls and pebbles, and yet it does not become +full, nor our purse--our power of comprehension--empty. + + + + +THE DIFFERENCE. + + + Who warms his slippers for papa + When he comes home at night? + Who meets him with a joyous laugh, + And blue eyes beaming bright? + Who climbs upon his ready knee, + With kisses sweet as kiss can be?-- + Our Kitty. + + Who teases poor old grandmamma, + And pulls her work away, + And with her gold-rimmed spectacles + Too often tries to play? + Who's full of mischief, sport, and fun, + From early morn till day is done?-- + Our Kitty. + + Whose little arms "hug mamma tight"? + Whose lips give kisses sweet? + Who follows nurse about the house + With little restless feet? + Who sings to Dolly, _scolds_ her, too, + And tries to act as "big folks" do?-- + Our Kitty. + + Who, bent on mischief, truth to say, + Like any little elf, + Within the pantry hides to taste + The "goodies" on the shelf? + Who _bothers_ cook, where'er she goes, + And makes her scold, you may suppose?-- + Our Kitty. + + But lest our Kitty chance to get + More than her share of blame + For mischief, I'll explain there is + Some difference in the name: + _One_ Kitty is our _child_, you see; + The other, Kitty's c-a-t! + + + + +A PEEP INTO ROYAL TREASURIES. + + +The Hasne, or imperial treasury, of Constantinople, contains a costly +collection of ancient armor and coats of mail worn by the Sultans. The +most remarkable is that of Sultan Murad II., the conqueror of Bagdad. +The head-piece of this suit is of gold and silver, almost covered with +precious stones; the diadem surrounding the turban is composed of three +emeralds of the purest water and large size, while the collar is formed +of twenty-two large and magnificent diamonds. + +In the same collection is a curious ornament, in the shape of an +elephant, of massive gold, standing on a pedestal formed of enormous +pearls placed side by side. There is also a table, thickly inlaid with +Oriental topazes, presented by the Empress Catherine of Russia to the +Vizier Baltadji Mustapha, together with a very remarkable collection of +ancient costumes, trimmed with rare furs, and literally covered with +precious stones. The divans and cushions, formerly in the throne-room of +the Sultans, are gorgeous; the stuff of which the cushions are made is +pure tissue of gold, without any mixture of silk whatever, and is +embroidered with pearls, weighing about thirty-six hundred drachmas. +Children's cradles of solid gold, inlaid with precious stones; vases of +immense value in rock-crystal, gold, and silver, incrusted with rubies, +emeralds, and diamonds; daggers, swords, and shields, beautifully +wrought and richly jewelled--all tell a story of ancient grandeur and +wealth, when the Ottoman power was a reality, and Western Europe +trembled before the descendant of the son of Amurath. + +Notwithstanding these jewelled riches of Turkey, however, they are +surpassed by the splendor of the Shah of Persia's treasury, the contents +of which have accumulated in successive periods. + +Nadir Shah of Persia, in the first half of the eighteenth century, +amassed enormous riches by the spoils of war. He is said to have had a +tent made so magnificent and costly as to appear almost fabulous. The +outside was covered with fine scarlet broadcloth, the lining was of +violet-colored satin, on which were representations of all the birds and +beasts in the creation, with trees and flowers; the whole made of +pearls, diamonds, rubies, emeralds, amethysts, and other precious +stones; and the tent poles were decorated in like manner. On both sides +of the peacock throne was a screen, on which were the figures of two +angels in precious stones. + +This splendid tent was displayed on all festivals in the public hall at +Herat during the remainder of Nadir Shah's reign. + +It would be impossible to describe in a short article the splendor of +the Persian treasury. One extraordinary object may be mentioned: a +two-foot globe covered with jewels from the north pole to the +extremities of the tripod on which the gemmed sphere is placed. His +Majesty had coats embroidered with diamonds and emeralds, rubies, +pearls, and garnets; he had jewelled swords and daggers without number; +so because he did not know what else to do with the rest of his jewels, +he ordered the globe to be constructed, and covered with gems; the +overspreading sea to be of emeralds, and the kingdoms of the world to be +distinguished by jewels of different color. + + + + +WINGED FREEBOOTERS. + + +The great goshawk, a bird in a coat of blackish-brown covered with +blotches of black and reddish-white, is a terrible enemy to wild +rabbits, hares, and squirrels, and to all the small feathered +inhabitants of field and forest. It is about two feet long, and although +it is not a bird of very rapid flight, its cunning and strength are such +that its prey rarely escapes. Should the terrified hare hide itself in +some thicket, the goshawk patiently perches on an elevated branch near +at hand, where it will wait hours, motionless, until the poor hare, +thinking its enemy departed, ventures from its retreat, when in an +instant it is swooped down upon, and struck dying to the ground. + +Goshawks are found in the Middle and Western States during the autumn +and winter. In the summer they go far to the northward to rear their +young. They build a large nest of twigs and coarse grasses on some lofty +branch of a tree, and lay three or four eggs of dull bluish-white +slightly spotted with reddish-brown. + +These savage birds are very common in Maine, where they make great havoc +among the flocks of wild-ducks and Canada grouse, and will even, when +driven by hunger, venture an attack on the fowls of the farm-yard. Its +sharp eye always gleaming and on the alert, the goshawk sweeps over +fields and woods, changing its course in an instant by a slight movement +of its rudder-like tail whenever any desired prey is sighted. It is the +most restless of birds, and is almost constantly on the wing, seldom +alighting except for breakfast and dinner. + +Audubon relates a curious instance of sagacity in a goshawk, which he +himself witnessed. A large flock of blackbirds flying over a pond were +pursued by one of these birds, which, dashing into the flock, seized one +after the other of the poor little victims, apparently squeezing each +one with its powerful talons, and then allowing it to drop on the +surface of the water. Five or six had been captured before the fleeing +blackbirds gained the shelter of a thick forest. The goshawk then swept +leisurely back, and with graceful curves descended to the pond and +collected its victims, taking the dead birds one by one and carrying +them away as if laying up a store for its evening meal. + +[Illustration: A DASH FOR LIFE.] + +Instances have been known where this bird has itself fallen a victim to +its own designs. Dead goshawks have been found with their talons +hopelessly entangled in thorn and furze bushes, upon which they had +pounced with the object of seizing some little rabbit or squirrel which +had sought shelter beneath the undergrowth. A hunter once witnessed such +an occurrence, the rabbit scampering away in safety across the field, +while the great bird remained entangled in the bush. The hunter forbore +to shoot at the little rabbit which had made so fortunate an escape, and +killed the wicked bird of prey instead. + +Goshawks are found in nearly every portion of Europe, and have sometimes +been trained to assist in hunting; but as they are more ferocious than +the falcon, they are less easily controlled, and are always on the watch +to regain their liberty. + +A smaller variety of the great hawk family, but one spreading equal +terror among small birds, is the sparrow-hawk--a bold, provoking bird, +with dark brown back and wings, and breast of rusty brown or +grayish-white crossed by narrow bars of a darker tint. The sparrow-hawk +feeds mostly upon small birds, but it will also catch moles, field-mice, +and even grasshoppers. It flies low, skimming along but a few feet from +the ground, its sharp little eyes always on the watch for prey. + +When tamed, the sparrow-hawk becomes affectionate toward its owner, but +will rarely accept civilities from any other person. One of these birds, +which had been tamed by a lady, was accustomed to perch on the shoulder +of its mistress, and eat from her hand. It was intensely jealous, and +would fly savagely at any one to whom its mistress showed the least +favor. This particular pet proved as troublesome as a thieving cat, for +was any fine fat chicken or partridge left lying on the kitchen table, +if the cook's back was turned for a moment, the prize was either mangled +or borne away to a hiding-place by the mischievous bird. + +The sparrow-hawk is not a nest-builder, but will usurp the nest of the +crow or some other large bird. If a deserted nest can be found, the +sparrow-hawk will immediately take possession; but if no such presents +itself, this bad-hearted, quarrelsome bird does not hesitate to depose +the rightful owner, and proceed to occupy a home to which it has neither +right nor title. + +The sparrow-hawk, the malicious hen-hawk, and cruel pigeon-hawk, are +very common throughout the United States and Europe. + + + + +[Illustration: THE WRECK OF A COASTER.] + + + + +UNCLE PHIL'S THIMBLE. + +BY ELINOR ELLIOTT. + + +"A rag-picker!" + +"That's just what I am," sighed a poor girl who stood at one of the long +tables in the rag-room of a large paper-mill. Down each side the table +stood a row of girls, some older, some younger, than herself, all +miserably clothed, and all with worn, pinched faces. + +These girls came each day to their work with an eager look in their +eyes, which burned brightly in the morning, flickered fitfully through +the day, and faded out at night, leaving the patient, tired look which +want and hunger and disappointment bring, and which is always ready to +take courage and look forward once more; for in a pile of rags there +sometimes lay a treasure--an odd penny, an old knife, a pair of +scissors--something that might be taken to the little pawn shop round +the corner and sold. + +A little while ago a girl--a _lucky_ girl--had a "find," a bright silver +quarter. Her good luck had been whispered up and down the row, but no +one betrayed her fortune. When the overseer came through the room, no +exultant look nor envious glance suggested anything unusual, for this +band of "rag-pickers" had its honor, which it held to as closely as the +most compact trades-union in the land. + +To some of the girls the thought sometimes came, "Is what we find really +ours?" but long generations of workers in the mill had appropriated +these "finds," and it had become a custom if not a right. + +To-day Nance, at the head of the table, felt a keener longing than usual +to secure something. She had never felt the utter dreariness of her +loneliness and poverty so strongly as she had in the last bright +Christmas season, which had been to her only a vision; not the sweet +reality that it becomes to us, who bring it close to us in happy +anticipation weeks before it really comes, who live in its light and +peace and cheer, in its sweet givings and receivings, and keep its +memory with us throughout the year. + +For a whole year Nance had been at work in the mill, and had had +nothing but her regular five-cent salary. Now her long nervous fingers +ran rapidly through the pieces, making four divisions, as she called; +"Linen, cotton, woollen, silk--linen, cotton, woollen, silk," and the +different bits dropped into their proper piles like falling leaves; +while the girl on her right took the cottons, and assorted them, and the +girl on her left went through the woollens in the same way, and a girl +further on took the silks. + +A stranger was always amused to watch the long rows of quiet bodies, +nimble fingers, and moving lips, and to hear the half-whispered counting +and calling of colors as they divided the pieces. + +To-day Nance had a bag to pick from. Here lay her chance. The girls who +took the rags from the bags were the most apt to find treasures, and +their turn came only once a month. + +She was fast nearing the bottom of the last bag. Every time she thrust +her hand in, her heart beat fast, and she thought, "Shall I keep it, if +I find anything?" + +Once more, and her hand touches something cold; her fingers close round +it, and she draws it out. Her head swims, she clutches the table with +her other hand to keep from falling--perhaps, after all, it is only a +button. She collects herself, and peeps slyly into her hand. + +A gold thimble! + +No one has seen it, no one knows, and Nance slips it into her pocket, +and goes on with her work; but somehow it doesn't run smoothly. It is +"Silk, cotton, woollen, linen," and then "Cotton, woollen, linen, silk," +and the girls find fault because the piles are "mixed," and then the +bell rings, and they are free for to-day. + +Cautiously Nance makes inquiries about the "finds." How much did they +sell things for, if they found any? + +"My aunt," said one girl, "onst foun' a gol' ring, an' the jew'ler give +her a dollar for 't." + +"He melted it down," explained another. "They allus does that. He told +me one day that if ever I found a gold breas'pin or a bracelet, 'which +'tain't noways likely you will,' sez he, 'fetch it to me, an' I'll give +you what's right for it.'" + +So Nance's "find" was really worth money. More money, too, than she +could earn in many days' steady toil. What would it not buy! Food, +clothing, warmth, everything, seemed within her reach now that she held +that source of wealth in her hand. + +"'Tain't stealin', I hope," thought Nance. "Course not. I don' know who +it belongs to." + +When alone, Nance took out the thimble. What a dainty little thing it +was! She tried it on each of her hard, bony fingers, and laughed to see +the poor grimy things wearing a golden crown. + +Why, there were letters on it! + +"Reel writin'!" cried Nance, as she paused under a street lamp to spell +the word by its light. + +"Onst I could read writin'. That first mus' be a capertin--that's what +they call them big fellers that stands first--a kin' of a Gennyrel with +his soljers. Oh! I don' know the capertins--never got acquainted when I +went to school; common letters was good enough for me. + +"That tall one, that's _l_, an' there's round _o_, then _r_, an' then +_i_ with a dot. L-o lo, r-i ri, lori; _m_, _e_, an' then another tall +_l_ on the end--that's m-e-l mel, lorimel. Now what's the capertin's +name?--lorimel, lorimel; I've heerd that name some'eres. Why, it's her +that came that day mother lay a-dyin' an' spoke so soft like; an' the +gennelman with her he called her 'lorimel'--no that warn't it--Florimel, +Florimel, that's the name! + +"Tain't yourn now, Nance. You know where it belongs. You ain't got no +right to it now." + +And then came other thoughts. + +"What's a gold thimble to her? She can buy all she wants--gold thimbles, +and gold scissors, and gold needles; and sit in a gold chair, and sew on +a gold gown. She hadn't no business leavin' a gold thimble in a rag bag. +Them that's careless has to pay for it." + + * * * * * + +The curtains were drawn in an elegant house on the Avenue. A bright fire +burned in the grate, throwing a warm glow on the delicate walls, the +beautiful pictures, and the snowy marble statues, and reflecting itself +in the long mirrors, seemed, as it sparkled and glowed, the only thing +of life in the room; for the young girl who lay back in the luxurious +depths of the large chair by the hearth, with her fair hands lying +listlessly in her lap, was as white and motionless as the statues around +her. + +Now and then her lip quivered, and an occasional tear stole from under +her long lashes, but she did not look up till a gentleman entered the +room. Then she sprang into his arms, and sobbed out, in reply to his +question of how she had spent the day, + +"I've been perfectly miserable, papa. I've lost my thimble--the thimble +Uncle Phil gave me. I'd give everything in the world to see it again." + +"Why, my dear little girl, that would hardly be worth while, when you +can get another for a few dollars. We'll go to-morrow and buy the +prettiest--" + +"Ah! papa, you don't understand. All the money in the world can't buy a +thimble to take the place of the one Uncle Phil gave me. It was the last +thing he ever bought." + +"Was it, darling?" + +"Yes; and he said that morning, 'Florimel, can you sew pretty well?' and +I laughed, and said, 'Of course not, Uncle Phil; what's the need of my +sewing?' 'Great need, great need, little niece,' he said. 'Sewing is +woman's most womanly work, and though you may never need to sew for +yourself, if you knew how, you might teach hundreds of poor girls to sew +and clothe themselves and their families.'" + +"My little daughter teaching a sewing-school! How funny it would be!" + +"So that afternoon we went into Shreve's and selected one, and had my +name engraved on it; and that night Uncle Phil was taken ill. So of +course I feel badly, papa; don't you see why?" + +"Yes, Florimel; but perhaps we shall find this thimble. Have you had +Janet search for it?" + +"Indeed I have, all day long. I had it yesterday at work on my +Kensington, and think Janet must have taken it up among the bits of +worsted when she put them into the scrap bag; and Ann sold all the +scraps last night to the ragman. Oh dear! I shall never see it again." + +"Hif you please, sir," said Jacobs, appearing in the doorway, "there's a +vagrant at the basement door. Three times hi've sent 'er away, han' +three times she 'as returned, hevery time hasking for Miss Florimel, +han' sayin' she _must_ see 'er." + +"To see me? At the basement door? How strange!" and Florimel forgot her +tears in her eagerness to see what the poor child at the door could +want. + +Her papa hurried down stairs after her, and saw her face radiant with +joy as she held in her hand a gold thimble, while a scantily clothed +girl stood beside her awkwardly twisting the corner of her shabby shawl. + +"Oh, papa! this girl Nancy found my thimble among some rags, and brought +it back to me. Oh, what can I do for her, papa?" + +"How did you know whose the thimble was, my child?" + +"I warn't sure, sir," faltered Nance, whose honor had outweighed her +longing for money and the comfort it would bring, and had brought her +through the long city to seek the rightful owner of the thimble--"I +warn't _sure_; but I knew her name, for herself an' a gennelman came +onst to see mother long ago." + +"That was Uncle Phil," said Florimel. "He used often to take me when he +went to visit the poor. But how did you know where I lived?"' + +"I knew the house, 'cause he told me to come here onst for some soup for +mother, an' I came an' got it." + +"How is your mother now?" + +"She's dead, miss," sobbed Nance. + +"And so is Uncle Phil;" and the two girls--the one so fair and beautiful +and carefully guarded, the other so pale and pinched and +friendless--forgot for a moment all but their sorrow, their longing for +the dear dead faces they could never see again. + +But Florimel's papa called Janet to see that Nancy was warmed and fed +after her long cold walk, and took Florimel into the library to see what +they really could do for this poor but honest girl. + +Florimel at first insisted upon having her for her own little maid, but +her papa convinced her that Nancy was too ignorant for such a position; +and they finally decided that the best thing to do for her would be to +give her a good home, where she could learn to do all kinds of nice +work, and could also go to school. + +"Why, papa, I know the very place for Nancy. Nurse Susan lives all +alone, now her niece has gone out to service, and Nancy could live with +her." + +"That is a very bright thought, little daughter. It would be a comfort +to Susan to have a young girl with her, and the money we should pay for +Nancy's board would lighten her expenses. Let us send now for Nancy, and +see if she likes the idea." + +Did Nance like the idea? + +Did she like to think she need never go back to the bustling, dusty +mill; that she need not go again to that miserable tenement-house which +she called home, where she shared one tiny room with seven other girls; +that she need not know again what it was to battle with hunger and cold? +Did she like to feel that she should have a home in the sweet fresh +country; that her work should be in a garden, in a dairy, in a neat +little cottage; that clothing, food, and the learning to be a good woman +would lie within her reach? + + + + +LIFE ON BOARD A TRAINING-SHIP. + + +Training-ships, on board which boys are taught to become first-rate +seamen, form an important portion of every navy; and in the accompanying +sketches our artist has endeavored to convey correct ideas of the daily +life of these boys to those of our readers who live far inland, are not +familiar with ships and sailors, and who perhaps have never seen the +sea. + +[Illustration: FURLING SAIL.] + +The first sketch is one showing the boys undergoing a part of their sail +drill, and engaged in furling the mizzen top-gallant-sail and royal. The +sails of a man-of-war are furled and stowed with the utmost care and +precision, so that the ends of the yard look exactly alike, and +sometimes the boys have to do their work over and over again before the +critical eye of the officer watching them is satisfied. In storms, when +the great ship rolls so that the yard-arms sometimes touch the water, +lying out on them and furling sails is very difficult and dangerous +work, and it is only on account of the constant drill they have +received during fair weather that the boys are able to accomplish the +task under these circumstances. + +[Illustration: BATH-ROOM.] + +Above all things, on these training-ships the boys are obliged to keep +themselves neat and clean. They are expected to bathe frequently, and +are always compelled to do so on Sunday. The bath-room, provided with +tubs, basins, and a plentiful supply of water, is located in the bows, +in the extreme forward part of the ship. + +[Illustration: SCHOOL-ROOM.] + +Generally amidships, but sometimes in the stern of the ship, is the +school-room; for sailor boys have other things to learn besides the +practical sailing of a ship. In this school-room the young sailors spend +four or five hours of each day, and are taught reading, writing, +arithmetic, history, geography, and grammar. + +[Illustration: DINNER-TIME: EIGHT BELLS.] + +At noon, or eight bells, as they say on shipboard, the bugles sound the +dinner call, and from all parts of the ship the boys tumble down the +hatchways to the berth-deck, where is a long row of short tables swung +from the ceiling, and where the young sailors eat the bountiful dinner +provided for them as only healthy, hearty boys can eat. + +[Illustration: ORLOP DECK, OR COCKPIT.] + +The fourth or lowest deck of the ship is called the "orlop deck," and it +is here that the boys stow away their muskets and cutlasses after drill. +On this deck also the boys receive at four bells, or six o'clock in the +evening, the allowance of bread and molasses, or treacle, that composes +their regular supper. + +[Illustration: SERVING OUT BREAD AND TREACLE.] + +[Illustration: GUN PRACTICE.] + +[Illustration: GUN-DECK--FIRING A SALUTE.] + +Next to the sail drill, perhaps the most important is the gun drill, or +practice with the heavy guns. This gun drill is not important merely +because the guns are to be used in case of a fight, but because they are +also used in the firing of salutes. These salutes must be fired whenever +another man-of-war comes into port or a distinguished officer comes on +board, on national holidays, and at many other times; therefore it is +very important that the boys should be familiar with the great guns. +Each gun has its crew, each one of whom has an especial duty to perform. +The long cord that the boy in the last picture holds in his hand is +called a lanyard; and as he pulls it with a smart jerk, a hammer falls +on the breech of the gun, and with a roar that shakes the ship, the +great gun is fired. + + + + +[Illustration: OUR POST-OFFICE BOX.] + + + SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. + + I am twelve years old, and go to the Lincoln School. It is so + called because it has a statue of Abraham Lincoln in front of it. + It was built in 1864, has over twelve hundred pupils enrolled, and + I think it is the best school in the city. I have been making vases + out of Farallon eggs to send East to my cousins. The eggs come from + the Farallon Islands, twenty-one miles outside of the Golden Gate. + They are of a blue color, and have marks on them that look like + hieroglyphics. The birds that lay them are a species of gull. I was + born in San Francisco, and have lived here most of my life. Four + years I spent up in the mountains on a farm, or ranch, as they call + it here. + + CHARLES W. S. + +Farallon, the name of these islands near the entrance to San Francisco +Bay, is a Spanish word signifying a small pointed islet in the ocean. +The islands, of which there are six, are so called because they consist +of rugged towering peaks of granite! A more desolate place could not +well be imagined. There is nearly always a fierce wind blowing, and the +waves dash wildly into the numerous spouting caves along the rocky +coast. There is a light-house here three hundred and sixty feet above +the sea, and its keepers are the only human inhabitants of the desolate +sea-bound rock; but thousands of sea-lions congregate upon the cliffs, +and vast numbers of gulls and wild rabbits make their home there. During +the egging season men visit the islands, and gather thousands of eggs +for the San Francisco market. A very interesting account of these +islands, is given in Mr. Nordhoff's book on _Northern California, +Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands_. + + * * * * * + + FORT ASSINIBOINE, MONTANA TERRITORY. + + I am always glad to see YOUNG PEOPLE come with papa's mail. Out + here in the wilderness we do not often see nice papers; but then we + see what city people never see--plenty of Indians. Many of them are + very poor, and so hungry that they pick bread and scraps of meat + out of the swill barrels to eat--old stuff that the soldiers have + thrown away. I think people should send the poor Indians something + to eat. I send you a picture of some Indians as they look hunting + for food this cold day. I am only nine years old, and can not draw + very good pictures. + + BERTIE BROWN. + +[Illustration: INDIANS HUNTING FOR FOOD.--DRAWN BY BERTIE BROWN.] + + * * * * * + + WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS. + + I have a canary, which is the only live pet I ever had. It was + eight months old the 17th of February. I plant canary-seed, and let + it grow until it is about two inches high, and then I give it to my + canary. It likes to eat it very much. + + LOUIE E. WARE. + + * * * * * + + I live way off in Washington Territory, and thought I would tell + you something about this distant country. We live near the Simcoe + Mountains. They are covered with evergreen pines. We can see the + snow-capped mountains every day in the year--Mounts Jefferson, + Hood, St. Helen's, and Adams. It snows here sometimes in winter, + but the wind comes up from the sea, and takes it away in a few + days. I do not live near any school, but I study and recite my + lessons at home. Six miles away, at the new town of Goldendale, + there is an academy, and they are teaching in it now. I am ten + years old, and was born in this country. Sometimes troops of + Indians come riding past on their spotted ponies. They bring salmon + from the Columbia River, huckleberries from the mountains, and now + and then ponies to sell. I am very fond of reading, and am + delighted with YOUNG PEOPLE. I read every word in it. + + GERTRUDE BALCH. + + * * * * * + + HECKATOO, ARKANSAS. + + I am a little girl eight years old. I take YOUNG PEOPLE, and like + it very much. I have a doll named Laura Martin. I live on a cotton + plantation on the Arkansas River, and I can stand on the front + gallery of our house and see all the boats that pass. We have never + been to school, and we have no governess now, so mamma has to teach + us. We have a great many pecan-nut trees here, and there is a pond + near our house with a boat on it, and my sister and I row + sometimes. + + CYNTHIA R. SMITH. + + * * * * * + + UTICA, NEW YORK. + + I am six years old. My birthday was the 18th of January, and mamma + gave me a little party. We had a nice time, and sat down to tea all + by ourselves, without any grown people. I have two birdies; they + will put their little heads clear out of the cage, and take seeds + from my mouth. Sometimes they nip my tongue, and one birdie will + fly out right into the cup I keep seed in. I taught them to eat in + that way by not letting them have anything until they would take + it. + + BESSIE L. CARTER. + + * * * * * + + Papa brought me the numbers of YOUNG PEOPLE a few days ago. I had + been waiting anxiously for them, and I was so delighted when he + gave them to me. I have known all about Harpers' publications for a + long time. Mamma says that papa took HARPER'S MAGAZINE long ago, + before the war. I like the stories, letter-box, and puzzles in + YOUNG PEOPLE very much, and I have succeeded in getting answers to + some of the puzzles. My pets are cats and dogs, and I would like to + get a parrot. Alabama was my native place, but now I live in + Maryland. + + LIDIE B. DUKE. + + * * * * * + + RUSSELVILLE, ARKANSAS. + + I thought you might like to know about "Dr. Pruitt's boys," so I + concluded to write you a letter. I am Will, aged twelve; then there + are Fred, Edward, and Charley. Papa takes HARPER'S MONTHLY, and + mamma takes the BAZAR, and when YOUNG PEOPLE was advertised papa + proposed that each of us give something and take that too. We four + boys earned just one hundred dollars picking cotton last fall, so + we all contributed. We like the paper very much, and watch for its + coming; and we read everything in it. + + WILL E. PRUITT. + + * * * * * + + GRAND ISLAND, NEBRASKA. + + I am ten years old. My uncle takes YOUNG PEOPLE for me, and I can + hardly wait until it comes. I have got the elephant on his four + legs, and he looks well. I have a little prairie-dog named Jenny. + It lives in a hole in the yard, where I think it must have a good + nest, for I gave it lots of rags last fall to put in the hole. It + comes to the house almost every day to get something to eat, and + seems glad to see us. I have also a little dog named Frisk, only I + sold one-half interest in him yesterday for twenty-five cents to a + doctor who lives next door. He wanted him for his baby to play + with. Can you tell me what kind of a place a junk-shop is? + + HARRY K. HEFFLEMAN. + +A junk-shop is where old ropes, old anchors, old iron, and cast-off odds +and ends of all kinds are kept for sale. There are many such shops to be +found in every large city, and if it is a seaport, they are generally +located near the waterfront, as a vast quantity of such rubbish is +picked up along the wharves. In New York city junk dealers drive wagons +round the streets, and buy old stoves or any worn-out household goods. + + * * * * * + + LONOKE, ARKANSAS. + + I found in mamma's front yard, near a brick wall, a little pansy, + which I send you. It bloomed out the 29th of January. + + SARAH F. S. + +It was fortunate for the little pansy that it was picked and pressed, +for Katie Black writes, also from Arkansas: "There was a very pretty +snow-storm here on the 2d of February. It began in the morning, and +snowed all day." + + * * * * * + +WARD A. P.--Your puzzle is neatly done, but as we have already published +one having the same solution, we can not use it. + + * * * * * + + WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA. + + Can you tell me what five words in the English language end in + "cion"? + + S. R. W. + +Can any correspondent answer this question? + + * * * * * + +J. R. B.--Jupiter will be evening star until March 15, morning star +until October 6. Mars will be evening star until October 25. Saturn will +be evening star until April 7, morning star until October 18. Venus will +be morning star until July 13, evening star the rest of the year. + + * * * * * + +KATE.--You may write us any interesting things you know about +prairie-dogs in Kansas. + + * * * * * + +"JONATHAN."--You will find brief accounts of the ancient Roman +road-builders in any history of Rome, also in _Appleton's Encyclopedia_ +under "Roads." _Lempriere's Classical Dictionary_ also contains much +information, especially of the Appia Via. + + * * * * * + +MAE W. T.--"The Youthful Philomathesians" would be a pretty name for +your literary society. Philomathesian is a Greek word signifying loving +to learn, or lover of knowledge. + + * * * * * + +WALTER S. DODGE.--The picture on the first page of YOUNG PEOPLE No. 14 +is a fac-simile of a pencil drawing reproduced by a photographic +process. + + * * * * * + +Very neat "Wiggles" are received from R. V. R., Hattie Strong, and F. B. +Myers, which we regret being unable to publish. + + * * * * * + +LOUISE S.--You write so prettily that we are sorry your enigma is not +good enough to print. Do not be discouraged. Try again, and the next +time see if you can not make rhymes. + + * * * * * + +JOHN F. S.--Persevere with your locomotive-engine drawing, and some day +you may be able to put it to good use. Engines and machinery of all +kinds are good things for a boy to become familiar with, and if you are +really fond of them cultivate your inclination all you can. + + * * * * * + +Netta Franklin, Freddie C., Emma S., Pussy K., and Robbie V. R. are very +youthful correspondents who favor us with letters printed with +remarkable neatness. May R. also writes a very legible "Wiggle." When +you learn to print, little girl, write again. + + * * * * * + +Acknowledgments for favors are due to C. Fannie Anderson, William F. B., +John T. I., Perceval Hill, Frank Yarington, Angie T. Tenny, Florence G., +Istalina Beach, George P. R., Orie Maude, Albert A., Mary Buchanan, +Jennie E. Anderson, Myrtle Gilman, Alice M. S., Minta Holman, Mary +F. W., Walter Jennings, Locke S., Sue Dawson, Ida S., Annie Black, +Freddie L., Minnie Parker, Della L. Grimshaw, Bert Wellman, Eliza E. +Crowell, Clarence C. Culver, Ada R., Ida M. C., Mary Landon S., Arthur +D. Miller, Eddie Carnes, Bertha B. H., Daisy J. M., Katie Bouck, +W. C. B. + + * * * * * + +Correct answers to puzzles received from Effie K. T., P. S. Heffleman, +C. F. Langdon, Louise Swift, Maude K. Smith, E. and M. D., Florence +Schaffenburg, H. M. H., J. H. Merrick, Harry E. Sears, Lewis K. Davis, +M. Barton, P. Karberg, "the Boys, Bessie, Mamma, and I," Katie W., Harry +S., Pussy Kellogg. + + * * * * * + +ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN NO. 14. + +The following solution to "A Latin Word Square," on page 155, is from a +correspondent in Pennsylvania: + + R O M A + O L I M + M I L O + A M O R + + The square is made of magic spells + That speak of Horace and of Homer; + The third the glory that was Greece, + The first the grandeur that was _Roma_. + + Tales of eating and of drinking, + And of falling roofs upholden, + Call up _Milo_; + _Milo_ backward murmurs _Olim_, + These, all these, were in the olden + Time long ago. + + Lo! in yon brilliant window niche + My fourth--how statue-like he stands! + His bow and arrow in his hands, + Ah, _Amor_, from the regions which + Are Holy Lands. + + * * * * * + +Answer to "Throwing Light," on page 168--"Draught, draft." + + * * * * * + +We have received numerous answers to the Puzzle Picture on page 168, +which are correct with the exception that more beasts are there than any +one has yet discovered. A great many little folks have found seven. Only +one has found eight. There are nine concealed in the picture, and we +give one more week in which to hunt for them before publishing the +answer. + + + + +ADVERTISEMENTS. + + + + +HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE. + +HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE will be issued every Tuesday, and may be had at +the following rates--_payable in advance, postage free_: + + SINGLE COPIES $0.04 + ONE SUBSCRIPTION, _one year_ 1.50 + FIVE SUBSCRIPTIONS, _one year_ 7.00 + +Subscriptions may begin with any Number. When no time is specified, it +will be understood that the subscriber desires to commence with the +Number issued after the receipt of order. + +Remittances should be made by POST-OFFICE MONEY ORDER or DRAFT, to avoid +risk of loss. + +ADVERTISING. + +The extent and character of the circulation of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE +will render it a first-class medium for advertising. A limited number of +approved advertisements will be inserted on two inside pages at 75 cents +per line. + + Address + HARPER & BROTHERS, + Franklin Square, N. Y. + + + + +CANDY + +Send one, two, three, or five dollars for a sample box, by express, of +the best Candies in America, put up elegantly and strictly pure. Refers +to all Chicago. Address + + C. F. GUNTHER, + Confectioner, + 78 MADISON STREET, CHICAGO. + + + + +CHILDREN'S + +PICTURE-BOOKS. + +Square 4to, about 300 pages each, beautifully printed on Tinted Paper, +embellished with many Illustrations, bound in Cloth, $1.50 per volume. + +The Children's Picture-Book of Sagacity of Animals. + + With Sixty Illustrations by HARRISON WEIR. + +The Children's Bible Picture-Book. + + With Eighty Illustrations, from Designs by STEINLE, OVERBECK, VEIT, + SCHNORR, &c. + +The Children's Picture Fable-Book. + + Containing One Hundred and Sixty Fables. With Sixty Illustrations + by HARRISON WEIR. + +The Children's Picture-Book of Birds. + + With Sixty-one Illustrations by W. HARVEY. + +The Children's Picture-Book of Quadrupeds and other Mammalia. + + With Sixty-one Illustrations by W. HARVEY. + + * * * * * + +Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. + +_Sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, on +receipt of the price._ + + + + +Old Books for Young Readers. + + * * * * * + +Arabian Nights' Entertainments. + + The Thousand and One Nights; or, The Arabian Nights' + Entertainments. Translated and Arranged for Family Reading, with + Explanatory Notes, by E. W. LANE. 600 Illustrations by Harvey. 2 + vols., 12mo, Cloth, $3.50. + +Robinson Crusoe. + + The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, + Mariner. By DANIEL DEFOE. With a Biographical Account of Defoe. + Illustrated by Adams. Complete Edition. 12mo, Cloth, $1.50. + +The Swiss Family Robinson. + + The Swiss Family Robinson; or, Adventures of a Father and Mother + and Four Sons on a Desert Island. Illustrated. 2 vols., 18mo, + Cloth, $1.50. + + The Swiss Family Robinson--Continued: being a Sequel to the + Foregoing. 2 vols., 18mo, Cloth, $1.50. + +Sandford and Merton. + + The History of Sandford and Merton. By THOMAS DAY. 18mo, Half + Bound, 75 cents. + + * * * * * + +Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. + +_Sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, on +receipt of the price._ + + + + +BOOKS FOR YOUNG MEN. + + * * * * * + +Character. + + Character. By SAMUEL SMILES. 12mo, Cloth, $1.00. + +It is, in design and execution, more like his "Self-Help" than any of +his other works. Mr. Smiles always writes pleasantly, but he writes +best when he is telling anecdotes, and using them to enforce a moral +that he is too wise to preach about, although he is not afraid to +state it plainly. By means of it "Self-Help" at once became a standard +book, and "Character" is, in its way, quite as good as "Self-Help." +It is a wonderful storehouse of anecdotes and biographical +illustrations.--_Examiner_, London. + + * * * * * + +Self-Help. + + Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and + Perseverance. By SAMUEL SMILES. New Edition, Revised and Enlarged. + 12mo, Cloth, $1.00. + +The writings of Samuel Smiles are a valuable aid in the education of +boys. His style seems to have been constructed entirely for their +tastes; his topics are admirably selected, and his mode of communicating +excellent lessons of enterprise, truth, and self-reliance might be +called insidious and ensnaring if these words did not convey an idea +which is only applicable to lessons of an opposite character and +tendency taught in the same attractive style. The popularity of this +book, "Self-Help," abroad has made it a powerful instrument of good, and +many an English boy has risen from its perusal determined that his life +will be moulded after that of some of those set before him in this +volume. It was written for the youth of another country, but its wealth +of instruction has been recognized by its translation into more than one +European language, and it is not too much to predict for it a popularity +among American boys.--_N. Y. World._ + + * * * * * + +Thrift. + + Thrift. By SAMUEL SMILES. 12mo, Cloth, $1.00. + +The mechanic, farmer, apprentice, clerk, merchant, and a large circle of +readers outside of these classes will find in the volume a wide range of +counsel and advice, presented in perspicuous language, and marked +throughout by vigorous good sense; and who, while deriving from it +useful lessons for the guidance of their personal affairs, will also he +imbibing valuable instruction in an important branch of political +economy. We wish it could be placed in the hands of all our +youth--especially those who expect to be merchants, artisans, or +farmers.--_Christian Intelligencer_, N. Y. + +In this useful and sensible work, which should be in the hands of all +classes of readers, especially of those whose means are slender, the +author does for private economy what Smith and Ricardo and Bastiat have +done for national economy. * * * The one step which separates +civilization from savagery--which renders civilization possible--is +labor done in excess of immediate necessity. * * * To inculcate this +most necessary and most homely of all virtues, we have met with no +better teacher than this book.--_N. Y. World._ + + * * * * * + +Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. + +_Sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, on +receipt of the price._ + + + + +THE FIRE-FLY GAME. + + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +The game of fire-fly is very graceful and amusing for dull days or +winter evenings in the house. Out of a piece of Bristol-board (an old +playing-card will do) cut a figure in the shape of the annexed diagram. +If you have water-colors, and can paint it brightly in red and green or +red and yellow stripes, all the better. Lay it flat on the cover of a +book so that part of one of the wings projects over the edge; hold the +book at a slight angle, pointing toward the ceiling, and then with a +pencil or pen-holder give the projecting wing a smart blow, so as to +send it flying upward; it will go twirling through the air toward the +ceiling, and then return twirling back to the neighborhood of your feet. +The game consists in trying to catch it on the cover of the book when it +comes back. If you succeed, it counts you ten points; if you fail, you +allow the fly to lie where it has fallen. Your adversary now takes his +turn, and if he fails to catch his fly, then you see which fly has +fallen nearest to a certain line on the floor on which you have +previously agreed, and the owner of the nearest fly scores five. Whoever +first scores one hundred wins the game. + + * * * * * + +=A School in Morocco.=--If one, happening to be in the south of Spain +some day, should run across the Straits of Gibraltar in a southwesterly +direction, he would come to the ancient city of Tangier, in Morocco. +Here he would see many curious sights, but none more picturesque than +the schools for children, of which there are several. A row of tiny +slippers at the door and a hum of childish voices inside prompt the +passer-by to look in. He sees a room, empty of furniture, and lit only +by the open door. The school-master, a veritable Moses in appearance, is +squatted on his haunches in the centre, and around him squat his pupils. +Each has his slate before him, and repeats his lesson with monotonous +chant, keeping his body moving backward and forward as if he were rowing +hard the whole time against stream. The school-master's whip is of +sufficient length to reach every boy around him, and now and then, +without rising from his seat, he touches one or other up in the same +manner as the driver of a mail-coach takes a fly off his leader's ear. +The imperturbable gravity of the master, and the comical looks and +quaint attire of the boys, form a picture which could not be transferred +to canvas. + + + + +[Illustration] + +THE CHICKEN PUZZLE. + + +Here is an orange. With four cuts of the scissors and the prick of a pin +transform it into a chicken. + + + + +CHARADE. + + + My first belongs to an ancient race; + They say his pedigree he can trace + To the time of the ark, and before; + But this I know, though his family tree + Be spread as wide as the sounding sea, + He was _not_ a companion of Noah. + + My next in death plays a cruel part, + And yet 'tis dear to a woman's heart, + And sets her pulse beating high. + Of all sizes and shapes, it can fly or bound; + When most 'tis inflated it trails on the ground; + When base, then it soars in the sky. + + My whole is extracted from earth and from sea; + Compounded with care, from obstacles free, + 'Tis dear to the Yankee, I own. + 'Tis famous in song, and famous in story, + And yet 'tis indebted for most of its glory + To the time when 'twas taken alone. + + + + +[Illustration: PUSSY AT A DISADVANTAGE.--"WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO COME +IN?"] + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Harper's Young People, February 24, +1880, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, FEB 24, 1880 *** + +***** This file should be named 28362.txt or 28362.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/8/3/6/28362/ + +Produced by Annie McGuire + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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