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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/29066-8.txt b/29066-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..58b206e --- /dev/null +++ b/29066-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2625 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, August 3, 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, August 3, 1880 + An Illustrated Weekly + +Author: Various + +Release Date: June 8, 2009 [EBook #29066] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, AUG 3, 1880 *** + + + + +Produced by Annie McGuire + + + + + + + + +[Illustration: HARPER'S + +YOUNG PEOPLE + +AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.] + + * * * * * + +VOL. I.--NO. 40. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR +CENTS. + +Tuesday, August 3, 1880. Copyright, 1880, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50 +per Year, in Advance. + + * * * * * + + + + +[Illustration: GOING THROUGH THE LOCK.--DRAWN BY A. B. FROST.] + +[Begun in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 31, June 1.] + +THE MORAL PIRATES. + +BY W. L. ALDEN. + + +CHAPTER X. + +The policeman did not return, and the boys slept until an hour after +sunrise. They then rowed down the river to the steamboat landing, where +they left their boat in charge of a boatman, and went to a hotel for +breakfast. The waiters were rather astonished at the tremendous +appetites displayed by the four sunburned boys, and there is no doubt +that the landlord lost money that morning. After breakfast, Harry went +to the express office, where he found a large water-proof India rubber +bag, which the Department had sent in answer to his letter. At the +post-office were letters from home for all the boys, and a postal order +for ten dollars from Uncle John for the use of the expedition. Harry had +no idea that this money would be needed, but it subsequently proved to +be very useful. + +Quite a quantity of stores were bought at Albany, for the voyage up the +Hudson had lasted longer than any one had supposed it would, and the +provisions were getting low. No unnecessary time was spent in buying +these stores, for a fair wind was blowing, and all the boys were anxious +to take advantage of it. By ten o'clock they were again afloat, and soon +after noon they reached Troy, and entered the canal. + +The canal basin was crowded with canal-boats, and to avoid accidents the +_Whitewing's_ mast was taken down, and the oars were got out. Harry knew +that, in order to pass through the locks, it would be necessary to pay +toll, and to procure an order from the canal authorities directing the +lock-men to permit the _Whitewing_ to pass. The canal boatmen, of whom +he made inquiries, told him where to find the office, which was some +little distance up the canal. When the office was reached, an officer +came and inspected the boat, asked a great many questions about the +cruise up the Hudson, and seemed to be very much interested in the +expedition. He told the boys that the water was low in the Champlain +Canal, and that the lock-men might not be willing to open the locks for +so small a boat; but that they could avoid all dispute by entering the +locks at the same time with some one of the many canal-boats that were +on their way north. He charged the _Whitewing_ the enormous sum of +twenty-five cents for tolls, and gave Harry an important-looking order, +by which the lock-men were directed to allow the skiff _Whitewing_, +Captain Harry Wilson, to pass through all the locks on the canal. + +Thanking the pleasant officer, the boys pushed off. After they had +passed the place where the Champlain Canal branches off from the Erie +Canal, they were no longer troubled by a crowd of canal-boats, and were +able to set the sail again. Unluckily, the mast was just a little too +high to pass under the bridges, and at the first bridge which they met +they narrowly escaped a capsize--Jim succeeding in getting the mast down +only just in time to save it from striking the bridge. They had hardly +set sail again when another bridge came in sight, and they could see +just beyond it a third bridge. It would never do to stop at every bridge +and unship the mast, so Harry went on shore, borrowed a saw from a +cooper's shop, and sawed six inches off from the top of the mast, after +which the bridges gave them no more trouble. + +The boys were very much interested in passing the first lock. They +slipped into the lock behind a big canal-boat, which left just room +enough between its rudder and the gate for the _Whitewing_. When the +lock-men shut the gate behind the boat, and opened the sluices in the +upper gate, the water rose slowly and steadily. The sides of the lock +were so steep and black that the boys felt very much as if they were at +the bottom of a well; but it was not many minutes before the water had +risen so high that the upper gates were opened, and the big canal-boat +and its little follower were released. + +Passing through a lock in a small boat, and in company with a +canal-boat, is not a perfectly safe thing to do, for if the ropes which +fasten the canal-boat should break--which they sometimes do--the water +rushing in through the sluices would force the canal-boat against the +lower gate, and crush the small boat like an egg-shell. It is therefore +best always to pass through a lock alone, or in company with other small +boats. The danger, however, is in reality very slight, and very few +accidents occur in canal locks. + +The wind died away before sunset; and the boys having had only a light +lunch, which they ate on the boat, were glad to go ashore for supper. +They bought some corn from a farmer, and roasted it before the fire, +while some nice slices of ham were frying, and the coffee-pot was +boiling, and so prepared a supper which they greatly enjoyed. The moon +came up before they had finished the meal, and they felt strongly +tempted to make another attempt at night-work. + +"I'll tell you what we can do," exclaimed Harry. "Instead of rowing, +let's tow the boat. One fellow can tow while another steers, and the +rest can sleep in the boat." + +"All right," said Joe. "I'm willing to be a mule. Only I'd like to know +where my harness is coming from." + +"We've got rope enough for that," replied Harry. "I'll take the first +turn, and tow for an hour, while Joe steers; then I'll steer for an +hour, while Joe tows. Then the other watch will take charge of the boat +for two hours, and Joe and I will sleep." + +"If I'm to sleep on the bottom of that boat," said Joe, "I want some +nice sharp stones to sleep on. I'm tired of sleeping on coffee-pots, and +want a change." + +A long tow-line was soon rigged on Harry's shoulders in such a way that +it did not chafe him; a space in the bottom of the boat was cleared of +coffee-pots and other uncomfortable articles, and a pair of blankets was +spread on the bottom board, so as to make a comfortable bed, which Tom +and Jim hastened to occupy. Joe took the yoke-lines in his hand, and +called to Harry to go ahead. When Harry first tugged at the tow-line, +the boat seemed very heavy; but as soon as she was in motion, Harry +found that he could tow her as fast as he could walk, and without any +difficulty. + +Had the locks been open and the canal-boats been out of the way, the +experiment of towing the _Whitewing_ at night would have been very +successful. As it happened, the locks were kept closed during the night, +because the water was low; and the canal-boats, not being able to pass +the locks, were moored to the tow-path. These boats gave Harry and Joe a +great deal of trouble. When one of them was met, Harry had to unharness +himself and toss the rope into the boat, and Joe had to get out an oar +and scull around the obstacle. This happened so often that Tom and Jim +got very little sleep; and long before it was time for them to resume +duty, a lock was reached, and Harry had to call all hands to drag the +boat around it. + +This was a hard piece of work. First, all the heavy things had to be +taken out of the boat and carried around the lock. Then the boat had to +be dragged out of the canal on to the tow-path, hauled up a steep +ascent, and launched above the upper gate. It took a good half-hour to +pass the first of these closed locks, and when the boat was again ready +to start, it was time to change the watch. + +Tom and Jim had managed to get only a few minutes' sleep, but Harry and +Joe could not sleep a single wink. They had not "turned in" for more +than ten minutes when another lock was reached. This involved a second +half-hour of hard work by all hands, and twenty minutes later three more +locks close together blocked the way. It was foolish to persevere in +dragging the boat around locks all night long; so, after getting her out +of the canal on the side opposite to the tow-path, the boys dragged her +behind some bushes, where the canal boatmen could not see her at +daylight. They then spread their rubber blankets on the ground, and +prepared to sleep through the remaining four or five hours of darkness. + +"Boys," said Joe, suddenly, "does it hurt a fat woman to jump on her?" + +"Don't know," answered Harry. "What do you ask for?" + +"Oh, nothing," said Joe. "Only when I was jumping from one canal-boat to +another while I was a mule, I landed awfully heavy on a fat woman who +was sleeping on deck." + +"What did she do?" asked Harry. + +"She didn't do anything. She just muttered something that I could not +understand, and I got away as quickly as possible." + +"Well, if she likes it, that's her business, not yours," suggested +Harry. "Go to sleep, do!" + +"I am going to sleep; but I don't think we ought to spend our nights in +getting run down by steamboats and jumping on strange fat women. I'm +sure it isn't right. There, you needn't throw any more shoes at me. I +won't say another word." + +[TO BE CONTINUED.] + + + + +SOME TRUE STORIES ABOUT STEEPLES. + +BY C. F. M. + + +A great many years ago a hurricane occurred in Utica, New York. Just as +it began it was noticed that a heavy swing sign in front of a store was +held out in a horizontal position for some time. + +Before long the force of the wind increased to such a degree that +several houses on Genesee Street Hill were unroofed, and the spire of +the Second Presbyterian Church was thrown to the ground. + +After the storm was over it was discovered that the rod holding the +weather-vane on the top of the tall steeple of the First Presbyterian +Church was bent so that it became nearly horizontal. It was unsightly; +but how to repair the injury was the question. It would be no easy task, +as there was a large ball, or globe, on the rod below the vane. After a +while a sailor offered his services. He ascended the steeple, and +climbed the rod until he came just beneath the globe. Then he threw a +rope out a good many times, until, after a while, the end looped around +over the rod, above the globe, long enough to reach to him. Twisting the +rope together, he let go of the iron rod, and trusting himself to the +rope, swung out free. By climbing it he now managed to get on the top of +the globe. Standing there, he succeeded in straightening the rod that +held the weather-vane. + +Now how was he to get down? Again trusting to the rope that was fastened +to the rod above the globe, he swung free at a great height from the +earth; then lowering himself, and swinging back and forth, he managed to +grasp the rod beneath the globe, and soon reaching the spire, descended. + +The steeple of Salisbury Cathedral is the highest in England, and next +to that of Strasbourg Cathedral, the highest in Europe. Every year a man +climbs to the top to grease the weather-vane. This is done by ascending +the inside as far as possible, and then going out of a manhole and +climbing the rest of the way by means of the brass staples fastened on +the outer wall. + +Once on a festal occasion, when the King was present, a reward was +offered, as usual, to any person who would ascend and attend to the +weather-vane. A sailor agreed to do it, and ascended in the way I have +told you, until he came to the copestone, when, to show what he could +do, he stood on his head. Then performing the task he was sent to do, +that of greasing the vane, he descended, and claimed his reward. But the +King was so exasperated at the sailor for needlessly frightening the +people by standing on his head at such a great height, that he would not +allow him to be paid. + +A long time ago, in the town of Northam, England, the steeple of the +church was found to be unsteady. It swayed back and forth whenever the +great bell struck, and continued to sway thus, until, as it leaned over +on one side, it opened large cracks on the opposite. + +It was not long before the boys of the town found this out, and the +bright idea entered the head of one of them, and was by him told to the +others, that it would be a capital place to crack nuts. So, boy-like, +they had to try it, and standing at the base of the spire, would fill +the cracks as far as they could reach with good English walnuts, and +then stand back for the steeple to return to an upright position, +cracking the nuts. As the great clock in the tower struck, the jar +caused the spire to lean in the opposite direction. The boys now got +their nuts, and then put in more, that the operation might be repeated, +for they considered it rare sport. + +But in the course of time the people of the town who had such matters in +charge decided that the steeple was unsafe, and strengthened it with +bands of iron; but this not proving satisfactory, after a while each +stone was numbered, and the steeple taken down and rebuilt in the old +style. And from that day to this, to the regret of the boys, it has +never been known to crack nuts. + +During a great fire in New York, a few years ago, one of the buildings +destroyed was a church having a very tall steeple. The flames ran up +inside this steeple, and, bursting out at the top, melted the zinc and +copper about the lightning rod, so that they fell in showers of green, +gold, and crimson fire, producing a spectacle of most wondrous beauty. + + + + +FLOWER QUEENS OF NIGHT. + +BY MARGARET EYTINGE. + + + "Pretty, fragrant four-o'clocks," + Said the rose one day, + "Pity 'tis your buds unfold + Into blossoms gay + When the west begins to burn + With the sunset light-- + Sweetness wondrous rare to waste + On the drowsy night. + + "Other blooms have birds to sing, + Bees to hum, their praise, + Butterflies to visit them + Through the summer days. + Bee but seldom hums for you, + Bird but seldom sings, + Butterfly is ne'er your guest, + Pretty, fragrant things." + + "Lovely, graceful, crimson rose," + Said the modest flowers, + "Though the sun we scarcely know, + Happiness is ours. + Moon we have, and sparkling stars + (Each a heavenly gem), + And their light so gentle is, + We can look at them. + + "And the flashing fire-flies + Round us gleam and glance, + Like a countless host of fays + In an airy dance. + And the moth king, velvet-winged, + Dainty kiss bestows, + As he whispers, 'You are sweet, + Sweet as any rose.' + + "Grieve no more for us, dear friend; + Thrice content we are, + Loved by moth and fire-fly, + Dew-drop, moon, and star. + And while you o'er garden reign + In the bright daylight, + We are hailed by wand'ring winds, + Flower queens of night." + + + + +OLD TIMES IN THE COLONIES. + +BY CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN. + + +No. III. + +ISAAC BRADLEY AND JOSEPH WHITTAKER. + +Twelve miles from the sea, on the bank of the Merrimac River, is the +busy town of Haverhill. It was a small settlement in 1690. There was a +cluster of houses and a meeting-house. The country beyond, all the way +to Canada, was a wilderness. The Indians came down the river in their +bark canoes, carrying them past the falls where the city of Lowell now +stands, past Amoskeag Falls, where the Manchester factories to-day are +humming. They caught beaver, bear, and foxes, and sold the furs to the +traders. + +The Indians were under the influence of the French, and when war broke +out between France and England for the restoration of James II. to the +throne from which he had fled, the settlers of Haverhill, in common with +the people all along the frontier, knew that the Indians, influenced by +the French in Canada, might be upon them at any moment. + +[Illustration: EARLY SETTLERS GOING TO MEETING.--DRAWN BY HOWARD PYLE.] + +The settlers had their guns ever at hand. If at work in the field, they +placed them where they could seize them quickly. When they went to bed +at night, they put a stout bar of wood across the door, and examined +the flints and the priming. On Sunday, when they went to meeting, each +man carried his gun, and the minister looked down from the pulpit upon +men who had powder-horns and bullet-pouches slung across their +shoulders, and whose muskets were standing in the corners of their pews. +Some of the settlers kept watch outside while the others were in +meeting. They went on scouts through the dark woods, peering among the +trees to see if the Indians were prowling in the vicinity. + +The settlers were obliged to work hard. While the men were at work in +the fields, the women were spinning and weaving. Boys and girls had +little time for play. There was always something for them to do. When a +boy was sixteen years old, he was expected to do the work of a man. They +all learned to shoot, and some of them, when they were only twelve, +could bring down a squirrel from the highest tree every time, or shoot a +deer upon the run. + +Two boys--Isaac Bradley, who was fifteen years old, and Joseph +Whittaker, who was eleven--were at work one day in Mr. Bradley's field, +when suddenly a party of Indians sprang out from the woods and seized +them. Isaac was small, but he was bright, cool-headed, and +brave-hearted. Joseph, though four years younger, was as large as Isaac, +but he was not so stout-hearted nor self-reliant as his companion. + +The Indians were from Canada. They did not stop to kill any of the +settlers, but hastened away, travelling through the dark woods northward +to the beautiful Lake Winnipiseogee, where they remained through the +winter. The lake swarmed with trout and pickerel, which they could catch +through the ice, and the woods were full of bears and deer. + +Isaac made himself at home in the wigwam, and picked up the language of +the Indians in a very short time. The squaws made him do their drudgery; +but the warriors liked him, and the Indian dogs wagged their tails when +he looked at them out of his kindly eyes. + +Winter passed and April came. + +"We go to Canada now," said one of the Indians. + +Isaac had no intention of going to Canada. Day after day he thought over +the matter. He knew that the English settlements were far away to the +south, but there was no path to them. He had no compass. How could he +ever reach them? He would be guided by the sun by day, and the stars by +night. He would make the attempt. He might perish, but death was better +than captivity. + +"I am going to try it to-morrow night, but I am afraid you won't wake," +he said to Joseph, who always slept soundly, and snored in his sleep. + +"Oh yes, I will," Joseph replied. + +The Indians had killed a moose, and Isaac had managed to hide a large +piece of meat in the bushes near the camp. He filled his pockets with +their corn-bread. Night came. All were asleep except Isaac, who was so +excited by the thought of escaping that his eyes would not close. Every +sense was quickened. He arose softly and touched Joseph, who was sound +asleep. He did not stir, and Isaac shook him harder. + +"What do you want?" Joseph asked. + +In an instant Isaac was stretched out, snoring; but the Indians did not +wake, and after a little while the boys arose softly, and crept out of +the wigwam, Isaac with an Indian's gun and powder and balls. They made +their way to the meat, took it under their arms, and started upon the +run, guided on their way by the stars. On through the wilderness, amid +the tall trees, over fallen trunks, over stones, through thickets and +tangled brushwood, they travelled till morning, and then crept into a +hollow log. + +Great the consternation in the camp of the Indians. Their captives gone! +a gun lost! At daybreak the Indians, with their dogs, were on the trail, +and in swift pursuit. + +The boys heard the barking of the dogs, which soon came sniffing around +the log. What shall they do now? Isaac is quick-witted. + +"Good fellow, Bose! good fellow! here is some breakfast for you;" and he +tosses the moose meat to them. The dogs know his voice, devour the meat, +and are as happy as dogs can be. The boys are their friends. They cease +barking, and trot around, with no further concern. + +The Indians come up on the run. The boys hear their voices, as they +hasten by, followed by their dogs. + +Through the day they lie hidden in the log, and when night comes, strike +out in a different direction from that taken by the Indians. All night +long they travel, nibbling at their hard corn-bread. Morning comes, and +again they conceal themselves. Once more at night they are on the march. +On the third day Isaac shoots a pigeon, but does not dare to kindle a +fire, and they eat it raw. They find a turtle, smash its shell, and eat +the meat. On, day after day, they travel, eating roots, and buds of the +trees just ready to burst into leaf. The sixth day comes, and they +suddenly find themselves close to an Indian camp. They peep through the +underbrush, and see the warriors sitting around their camp fire smoking +their pipes. They steal softly away, and then run as fast as their legs +can carry them. The morning of the eighth day comes. Joseph's strength +is failing; his courage is gone; he cries bitterly. They are in the +wilderness, they know not where, with nothing to eat, their clothes in +rags, their feet bleeding. + +"Cheer up, Joseph; here are some ground-nuts. Here, drink some water," +says Isaac. + +No brave words, no act of kindness, can quicken the courage of the +fainting boy. What shall Isaac do--stay and die with him, or try to find +his own way out? Sad the parting, the younger lying down to die upon a +mossy bank, the older turning away alone, lost in the wilderness. + +With faltering steps, Isaac pushes on, and discerns a house. No one is +there, but he knows there must be white men not far away. With quickened +pulse, he turns back to the dying boy, awakens him from sleep, rubs his +eyes, bathes his temples, cheers him with encouraging words. + +"Come, Joseph, we are saved. There is a house close by." + +Joseph's eyes brighten. He stands upon his feet, walks a few steps, and +falls. Isaac is stronger than ever. He lifts his fainting comrade, takes +him in his arms, staggers on, reaches the empty and desolate house, and +discovers a beaten path leading southward. He goes on, resting now and +then, but ever speaking words of cheer. + +At last they see before them a placid river, and beside it a cluster of +houses. They know that in a few moments they will be once more among +friends, and brave Isaac Bradley is almost overcome with the joy of this +knowledge. + +[Illustration: ISAAC BRADLEY CARRYING JOSEPH INTO THE SETTLEMENT.] + +What a sight is that which the soldier on the look-out at the +garrison-house on the bank of the Saco beholds, just as the sun is going +down--two boys, one carrying the other! + +Saved. They are kindly cared for by the soldiers, their wounds are +dressed, nourishing food is given them, once more they are clothed in +the garments of civilized beings, and there are moist eyes in the +garrison as they tell their thrilling story. And what rejoicing when at +last they reach their homes! + + + + +TOM CHESTER'S SILVER MINE. + +BY A. A. HAYES, JUN. + + +Tom Chester's father lives in a pleasant town in New England, and Tom +himself grew up like other boys in that part of the country. In winter +he went to the village school, in an old red building with a great stove +in one corner, and on his way home "coasted" down the long hill at the +foot of which he lived. In summer he helped the hay-makers, and rode on +the high-piled cart, and went on picnics to Blue Mountain, and bathed in +the clear brook under the willows. He grew to be stout, hardy, and +red-cheeked, very unlike his father, who pored over his books, and took +no exercise, and grew paler and thinner each year. + +One day, as Tom was sitting on the door-step making a whistle out of a +slip of willow, he saw old Dr. W---- drive up in his old-fashioned +"sulky," tie his horse to a post, and go to his father's library, +bidding him good-morning as he passed. He remained some time with Mr. +Chester, and as he came out Tom heard him say, + +"Very well, then, we will call that settled. And mind, the sooner you +start, the sooner you may expect to find yourself better and stronger." + +Mr. Chester, who had followed the doctor to the door, saw the inquiring +look on Tom's face, and asked him, with a smile, how he would like to go +to Colorado. + +"What! to dig for silver?" cried Tom. + +"No; to seek for what is more valuable than silver--health," said his +father. "Dr. W---- says that I must go to the Rocky Mountains, and we +shall start in a few days." + + * * * * * + +It was dark when the train rolled into Denver, and Tom, even if he had +not been tired and sleepy, could have seen nothing of the town as they +drove to the hotel. But in the morning, when he woke up and looked out +of the windows of his room, which was on the western side of the house, +he cried aloud with surprise and delight. All along the horizon rose a +great range of mountains, with two lofty peaks towering over the others, +one at the north and the other at the south. They seemed so near that +Tom thought he could walk to them; but when he had dressed himself and +gone down to the office, he asked the clerk how long it would take, and +the man looked at him, and said, "I wouldn't advise you to try, you +little _tender-foot_." + +"My feet are _not_ tender," replied Tom, sharply. + +The people in the room all laughed, and a miner in a blue flannel shirt +patted Tom on the back, and said, "That's right, my boy. You remind me +of a kid of my own up at Fairplay. The fellow's only chaffing you. When +any one's been just a little while in the country, they always call him +a 'tender-foot.' You mustn't mind that." + +Then he went on to explain to Tom that the foot-hills which looked so +near were at least fifteen or twenty miles away. Then he told him about +the mining towns, or "camps," as they are called, and how the men who +look for mines, called "prospectors," search through the mountains, +seeking signs of silver ore; and that when they find them, they put +stakes in the ground to mark the "claims" which the law allows, or the +right to dig in a space 1500 feet one way and 300 the other. Then he +described how they dig down in hopes of finding what they call "pay +gravel," or ore which contains enough silver to make it worth sending to +the works. He mentioned some men whom he knew who had sold "prospect +holes," as he called them (or shafts partly sunk, and not yet proved to +be good mines), for large sums. Tom was immensely interested in these +narrations, and was eagerly listening when his father came in to find +him. + +"Guess you'd better let me have that boy of yourn to make a miner of, +Colonel," said this new friend to Mr. Chester. "He's got plenty of +_sand_." + +Mr. Chester knew that people in the West give titles to almost every +one, but it was some time before either he or Tom found out that it was +a great compliment to say that any one had "sand," which means, in the +rough but very expressive language of the mountains, that one possesses +bravery and great strength and force of character. + +After seeing all the sights of Denver, Tom and his father took the train +one morning for a little town called Golden, near the foot-hills. Here +they were transferred to a railroad only three feet wide, and found an +open or "observation" car, from which they could see very well. The +train entered what is called a caņon, or gorge, down which poured the +waters of Clear Creek (which, by-the-way, were not clear at all, but +very muddy). It wound up this caņon, the walls of which seemed to come +together away over the heads of the passengers. No boy who is fortunate +enough to make a journey to Colorado should fail to see this remarkable +place. The little engine tugged at the train, and dragged it up the +steep caņon, and by the side of the winding stream, until it came to a +valley surrounded by high hills, where is the town of Idaho Springs. +Here Tom and his father left the train, and walked to a neat-looking +hotel, where they took up their quarters. Mr. Chester already felt the +benefit of the change of climate, and he wanted to spend much time in +excursions to different points. He and Tom went up by the railroad to +Georgetown, and drove to Central City, and at both places they saw a +great many mines. They went down in buckets, lowered by great ropes, six +and seven hundred feet into the shafts, and then sometimes came out by +tunnels cut from the sides of the hills. They saw mills in which gold +ore was crushed by stamps, or great iron bars falling heavily on it, and +works where silver ore was put into hot furnaces--in fact, they saw so +many things that Tom became rather bewildered. All the time, however, he +found himself thinking about what the miner had told him in Denver, and +longing to try his own hand at prospecting. When he told his father, one +day, that he would like to go up on the hill-sides or in some of the +caņons and look for a mine, the latter at first laughed, and then grew +rather serious, and began to talk about the danger of being led away by +this desire to be suddenly rich without labor. + +"You hear, my boy," he said, "about the one, two, or three men who +succeed, but not a word about the hundreds, and even thousands, who make +failure after failure, and pass their lives in the misery of 'hope +deferred.'" + +Tom listened respectfully to his father, but could not make up his mind +that it would not be a fine thing to find a silver mine. He began to +take walks by himself, and look out for the signs about which various +miners had told him. At times he would think that he had found +something, and he would bring little pieces of rock to show to a friend +whose acquaintance he had made in the little town. This was an old miner +named Sam, a rough but very kind-hearted man, who did not laugh at all, +but told him pleasantly that he had not yet found any mine. + +One day, while walking in a caņon near the hotel, and chipping with a +hammer at the broken rock, he saw two poorly dressed men carrying +bundles, as if on a journey, who stopped and asked what he was doing. +They told him that there was no use in searching in that place, but that +they had an excellent prospect hole, already showing "pay gravel," which +they had been compelled to abandon on account of pressing engagements +elsewhere, and which, although it was worth many thousands, they would +sell him for ten dollars. Poor little Tom had just that sum, which his +father had given him on his birthday, and to which he had proposed to +add his savings, for the purpose of buying some fishing-tackle. Perhaps +his slight "craze" about a mine made him less cautious than usual. At +all events, he accepted the men's offer, and promised to meet them that +afternoon near a tree which they pointed out. + +He was there on the minute, with his ten dollars in his pocket. The men +took him up the hill, and showed him a rather deep hole, into which a +rough ladder led. Down this they went, and Tom saw some ore of just the +kind that his friend Sam had told him he ought to find. Then the men set +two stakes in the ground, on which they rudely marked "T. C.," took his +money, and walked hastily away. Tom went down to the hotel full of his +purchase. His father had gone to Georgetown, but Sam was there, and to +him Tom eagerly narrated what he thought his good fortune. Sam heard him +without remark, and then put on his hat, and taking pick and shovel, +asked Tom to show him the mine. Arriving there, he shovelled up some of +the ore which Tom had seen, and disclosed quite a different rock below. +On this lay a piece of board, which he handed to Tom, who read thereon, + +"u ar sold bad u yung tender-fut this aint no mine." + +For a moment he did not understand; then came a shock of disappointment, +and then a sense of indignation, not so much against the men who had +deceived him as at himself for his delusion and stupidity. + +Sam looked kindly at him. "Pretty rough on you, Tom, wasn't it?" he +said. "Why, my boy, this is an old claim of mine, which I gave up long +ago as no good. They've just gone and salted it--I mean, put some good +ore in to deceive you. So they walked off with your ten dollars, the +miserable scamps! Tell me what they looked like." + +Tom described them. + +"Ho! ho!" said Sam. "I saw those same fellows taking the train for +Denver. I'm going down there to-morrow, and the Chief of Police is a +friend of mine. Perhaps we'll run across them some day." + +As they walked home, he tried to cheer Tom up by telling him stories of +clever men who had been served in similar ways; but Tom was sober, not +on account of his loss, but because it had come to his mind how foolish +he had been from the first. He felt easier when he had told his father +the whole story. + +The latter laughed heartily, and said, "Well, Tom, my boy, considering +how badly you had the mining fever, I do not think that ten dollars was +a large price to pay for a cure." + + * * * * * + +Some time after Tom had returned to his home he received a letter from +Colorado, which proved to be from his friend Sam, reading partly as +follows: + +"... I am glad to tell you that we catched them two claim-jumpers [men +who steal claims]. They'd spent all your stamps, sure enough, and you +won't never see them no more; but it's a comfort that they got two years +at Caņon City [where the penitentiary is]. Better luck next time. Come +out again next summer, and I'll help you find an A1 mine...." + +But Tom says that if he ever has any money at all, it will be earned in +some good old-fashioned way; that he is not a "tender-foot," and that he +does not want any more interest in prospect holes. + + + + +WOLF-CHILDREN. + +BY JAMES GREENWOOD. + + +Some years ago a soldier stationed at Bondee, in India, while passing +near a small stream, saw three wolf cubs and a boy drinking. He managed +to seize the boy, who seemed about ten years old, but who was so wild +and fierce that he tore the trooper's clothes, and bit him severely in +several places. The soldier at first tied him up in the military gun +shed, and fed him with raw meat; he was afterward allowed to wander +freely about the Bondee bazar. A lad named Tanoo, servant of a Cashmere +merchant then at Bondee, took compassion on the poor boy, and prepared a +bed for him under the mango-tree where he himself lodged; here he kept +him fastened to a tent-pin. + +Up to this time he would eat nothing but raw flesh, but Tanoo gradually +taught him to eat balls of rice and pulse. In about six weeks after he +had been tied up, and after much rubbing of his joints with oil, he was +made to stand and walk upright, whereas hitherto he had gone on all +fours. + +One night, while the boy was lying under the mango-tree, Tanoo saw two +wolves creep stealthily toward him, and after smelling him, they touched +him, when he got up. Instead, however, of being frightened, the boy put +his hand upon their heads, and they began to play with him, capering +about while he pelted them with grass and straw. Tanoo tried to drive +them off, but could not. At last, however, they left, but the following +night three wolves came, and a few nights after four, which returned +several times. + +The wolf-boy, however, could not be entirely reconciled to civilized +life. In being removed from place to place he never lost an opportunity +of endeavoring to escape into the jungle. At last Tanoo was sent away on +a short journey, and when he returned, his savage charge had +disappeared, and was never again heard of. + +The story of another wolf-child is even more wonderful than the above. + +In March, 1843, a cultivator who lived at Chupra, about twenty miles +from Sultanpoor, went to cut his crop of wheat and pulse, taking with +him his wife, and a son about three years old. As the father was +reaping, a wolf suddenly rushed upon the boy, caught him up, and made +off with him toward the ravines. People ran to the aid of the parents, +but soon lost sight of the wolf and his prey. + +About six years afterward, as two sipahees were watching for hogs on the +border of the jungle, they saw three wolf cubs and a boy come out from +the jungle and go down to the stream to drink; all four then ran to a +den in the ravine. The sipahees followed, but the cubs had already +entered, and the boy was half way in, when one of the men caught him by +the leg and drew him back. He was very savage, bit at the men, and +seizing the barrel of one of their guns in his teeth, shook it fiercely. +The sipahees, however, secured him, brought him home, and kept him for +twenty days, during which he would eat nothing but raw flesh, and was +fed accordingly on hares and birds. His captors soon found it difficult +to provide him with sufficient food, and took him to the bazar in the +village of Koeleepoor, to be supported by the charitable till he might +be recognized and claimed by his parents. + +He is unable to speak or to articulate any sound with distinctness. In +drinking, he dips his face in the water, but does not lap like a wolf. +He still prefers raw flesh; and when a bullock dies, and the skin is +removed, he attacks and eats the body in company of the village dogs. + + + + +[Begun in HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE No. 37, July 13.] + +THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN NAVY. + +BY BENSON J. LOSSING. + + +CHAPTER IV. + +Commodore Preble sailed from the United States for the Mediterranean in +the frigate _Constitution_ late in the spring of 1803. The ships of the +squadron did not sail together. Bainbridge, with the frigate +_Philadelphia_, first entered the Strait of Gibraltar, and found a +Moorish corsair cruising for American prizes. He captured her and took +her to Gibraltar. When Preble arrived he proceeded to Tangiers with the +squadron, when the Emperor of Morocco declared that he had never +authorized any depredations on American commerce. The affair was +amicably settled. Soon afterward the _Philadelphia_ chased a corsair +into the harbor of Tripoli, and in so doing struck upon a sunken rock. +She was fast bound. The Tripolitans captured her, made Bainbridge and +his officers prisoners of war, and consigned the crew to slavery. + +With Preble was Stephen Decatur, a gallant young Lieutenant, son of a +veteran naval commander. He was in charge of the brig _Enterprise_, with +which, late in December, he captured a Tripolitan ketch laden with girls +which the ruler of Tripoli was sending as a present to the Sultan. The +maidens were landed at Syracuse, and the ketch (which was renamed +_Intrepid_) was used by Decatur in an attempt to recapture or destroy +the _Philadelphia_. With seventy daring young men he sailed into the +harbor of Tripoli on a bright moon-lit night (February, 1804), the +_Intrepid_ assuming the character of a vessel in distress. Most of her +officers and men were concealed. + +The _Intrepid_ went alongside the _Philadelphia_, when Decatur, +followed by his men, who sprang from their hiding-places, boarded the +frigate, slew many of her defenders and drove the rest into the sea, set +her on fire, and escaped with only four men wounded. This daring act +produced great commotion in the harbor. The _Philadelphia_ was soon in +flames; the great guns of the castle and of the corsairs lying near +thundered incessantly; and to this roar of artillery was added that of +the cannons of the frigate as the flames reached them. The heroes of +this exploit were received at Syracuse with demonstrations of great joy, +and Decatur was promoted to Captain. The ruler of Tripoli was abashed by +this display of American energy and valor. + +[Illustration: DECATUR AND HIS MEN BOARDING THE GUN-BOAT.] + +The harbor of Tripoli was guarded by batteries mounting more than a +hundred heavy guns, by numerous gun-boats and other vessels, by +twenty-five thousand soldiers, and a sheltering reef. Undismayed by +these, Preble entered the harbor in the summer of 1804, with the +_Constitution_ and several gun-boats, and opened fire on the formidable +defenses. In that engagement Decatur again displayed his valor. He +captured one gun-boat, and boarded another, on which he had a fierce +hand-to-hand fight with its powerful commander, but triumphed. The +Americans withdrew, but renewed the struggle a few days afterward, when +a hot shot exploded the magazine of one of the American gun-boats, +killing two officers and eight of the crew. When the smoke cleared away, +Midshipman Spence and eleven others were seen on the sinking vessel +working her great gun. Giving three cheers, and firing it at the enemy, +they were picked from the water a few minutes later, for the vessel had +gone to the bottom. + +In a fourth attack on Tripoli by the gallant Preble a sad accident +occurred. It was determined to blow up the cruisers in the harbor by a +floating mine or huge torpedo. The _Intrepid_ was laden with a hundred +barrels of gunpowder, over which were laid shot, shell, and irregular +pieces of iron. In charge of Captain Somers, she was towed into the +harbor on a very dark night (September 4, 1804), when all eyes were +strained to observe the result. Suddenly a fierce and lurid light shot +up from the dark bosom of the waters, like a volcanic fire, and was +instantly followed by an explosion that shook earth and air for miles +around. Flaming fragments rose and fell, and then all was profound +darkness again. Somers and his companions were never heard of. They +probably perished by the premature explosion of the mine. + +Soon after this, Preble, who had done excellent service in the +Mediterranean, was relieved by the arrival of Commodore Barron, prepared +to carry on the war with Tripoli vigorously, but it was ended by treaty +early the next year. + +The ruler of Tunis was yet insolent, but the appearance of an American +squadron of thirteen vessels before his capital soon so humbled him that +he sued for peace and made a treaty. A small American naval force was +kept in the Mediterranean, and for several years the Barbary powers kept +their hands off American commerce. + +At the close of the war of 1812-15, the Dey of Algiers, believing the +British navy had utterly destroyed that of the United States, sent out +his corsairs to depredate on our commerce. Determined not to pay tribute +or longer endure his insolence, the United States accepted the Dey's +challenge to war, and sent Commodore Decatur with a small squadron to +humble him. Decatur sailed in May, 1815, and as soon as he entered the +Mediterranean he found the Algerine pirate fleet cruising in search of +American vessels. In June he captured the flag-ship of the Algerine +Admiral and another corsair, with six hundred men. With these he entered +the harbor of Algiers, and demanded the instant surrender of all +American captives in the hands of the Dey, payment in full for all +American property destroyed by his forces, and the relinquishment of all +claims to tribute from the United States thereafter. The terrified ruler +hastened to comply. Obeying the summons of the Commodore, he appeared on +the deck of the _Guerričre_ (the flag-ship), with his civil officers and +the captives. Having complied with all demands, the Dey left the vessel +in deep humiliation. + +Decatur now sailed for Tunis, and demanded and received of its +frightened ruler $46,000, in payment for American vessels which he had +allowed the British to capture in his harbor. Then the Commodore went to +Tripoli, and summoned the Bashaw, or Governor, before him. He demanded +$25,000 of him for similar injuries. The Tripolitan treasury was empty, +and Decatur accepted, in place of cash, eight Danish and two Neapolitan +captives held by the Bashaw. + +This cruise of a little American squadron in the Mediterranean Sea in +the summer of 1815, and its results, gave full security to American +commerce in these waters, and greatly exalted the character of the +government of the United States in the opinion of European nations. A +portion of its navy had accomplished, in the way of humbling the rulers +of the Barbary States, and weakening their power for mischief, what the +combined governments of Europe had not dared to attempt. Decatur was the +most conspicuous hero in the war with the Barbary States. + +[TO BE CONTINUED.] + + + + +[Illustration] + +WHAT THE BUTTERFLY SAYS. + + + Through all the sunny summer days + I wander here and there, + And hardly ever stop to rest + A moment anywhere. + There are so many things to see, + And time is rather short with me. + + I only have a month or two, + And time soon runs away + When one is seeing something new, + Or sporting every day. + And how the little people try + To catch me as I flutter by! + + But I know what they want me for-- + It's not to use me right; + It's not to give me sunny fields, + With daisies sprinkled white; + But just to pin me on the wall + To show their friends, and that is all. + + + + +THE SHIP OF THE DESERT. + +BY A. E. T. + + +Unlike other ships, this one begins by being a very feeble and helpless +little craft indeed. For the first week after its launch on the great +sea of life it requires much careful watching on the part of the owners. + +Strange as it may sound, in very truth a baby camel is every whit as +helpless as a human baby. It can not stand alone; without help it can +not so much as take its own food even; while its long neck is at first +so flexible and fragile, that unless some one were constantly at hand to +watch, the poor little creature would run every risk of dislocating it. + +Those who have closely observed camel nature tell us it is never known +to play or frolic like lambs or colts, or like most young creatures of +the earth, in fact; but that in its babyhood it is as grave and +melancholy as in its old age, born apparently with a deep sense of its +own ugliness, and a mournful resignation to a long and joyless career. + +When it has reached its third year the humpbacked animal is counted old +enough to begin its life of labor. The trainers then take it in hand. +They teach it to kneel and bear burdens, which gradually they make +heavier and heavier, until their charge is supposed to have come to the +full strength of camel maturity. This is not until it is about eight +years old. + +If the camel can rise with the load on its back, this is proof positive +that he can carry it throughout the journey, although it sometimes +happens, if the journey be only a very short one, the patient beast is +loaded so heavily that it must be helped on to its feet by means of bars +and levers. In some places camels cry out against this excessive loading +in a most piteous and distressing manner--the cry resembling that of a +very young child in pain, and being a most dismal sound to hear; but in +other parts of the world they will bear their burden, however heavy, +without complaining. + +[Illustration: THE CAMEL AND HIS RIDER.] + +An ordinary camel's load is from seven to eight hundred pounds. With +this weight on their backs, a train of camels will cross thirty miles of +desert during a day. Those used to carry dispatches, having only the +light weight of the dispatch-bearer, of course are expected to travel +much faster, however, and will easily accomplish two hundred and forty +miles in the same length of time. + +Ungainly, awkward, repulsive-looking as these creatures are, with their +great projecting harelips and their hairy humps, they have the +compensation of being most priceless treasures to all those who "dwell +in tents" in the vast sandy plains of Egypt, Arabia, and Tartary. + +Their stomachs are so formed by nature that they are capable of being +converted into a set of water tanks, a number of small cells filled with +the purest water being fastened to the sides of each, and when all food +fails, it makes little difference to a camel or dromedary--at least for +a time. + +Their humps are composed of a fatty substance. Day by day the hump +diminishes, and the fat is absorbed into the animal's system, furnishing +nourishment until food is forth-coming. + +Thus, with these stores of water and fuel on board, the "ship" can go on +for a fortnight, or even a month, absolutely without eating or drinking, +while things that other creatures--unless, perhaps, it be some bird of +the ostrich tribe--would never dream of touching, will furnish forth a +sumptuous meal for a camel. Off a handful of thorns and briers he can +make an excellent breakfast, and I believe he will not disdain anything +apparently so untempting as a bit of dry wood. + +Provided that at certain periods of the year a short holiday is allowed +the camel for pasturing, quite at its leisure, to recruit its strength +and fill that store-house on its back with fuel, it will serve its +master, on such meagre fare as I have mentioned, for full fifty years. +Still, all work and no play is as bad for camels as it is for boys. + +Even with plenty of fuel on board, the desert-ship owners are wise +enough not to impose too long journeys upon their heavily laden fleets. + +A camel's foot is of a peculiar formation. It is wide-spreading, and is +provided with fleshy pads or cushions; and if after a certain march rest +were not given, the skin would wear off these pads, the flesh become +bare, bringing consequences direful indeed. Probably the suffering +creature would kneel down, fold its long legs under its body, and +stretching out its long neck on the ground, calmly announce in camel +language that it would go no further. It is no use whatever to try to +make a camel go against his will. + +If it once refuses, you have but two ways open to you: you may quietly +lie down beside it until it is ready to move, or you may abandon it +forever. Other course there is none. + +It is a curious fact that, notwithstanding the softness of the camel's +foot, it can walk over the sharpest stones, or thorns, or roots of trees +without the least danger of wounding itself, and that what this strange +beast most dreads is wet and marshy ground. + +We read that "the instant it places its feet upon anything like mud, it +slips and slides, and generally, after staggering about like a drunken +man, falls heavily on its side." + +The use of the camel to the various peoples of the East is almost +incalculable. Many an Arab finds his chief sustenance in the cheese, +butter, and milk of the mother camel. The flesh of young camels is also +often eaten. + +The Roman Emperor Heliogabalus is said to have reckoned camel's feet one +of the daintiest dainties of his sumptuous banquets, and he considered a +portion of tender camel roast a thing to be by no means despised. To +this day, indeed, camel's hump cut into slices and dissolved in tea is +counted a relish by the Tartar tribes. + +Camel's skin is made into straps and sandals, while brushes and ropes, +cloth and tents, sacks and carpets, are made entirely from camel's hair. + +Every year toward the beginning of summer the camel sheds its hair, +every bristle of which vanishes before the new hair begins to grow. For +three weeks this bare condition lasts. His camelship looks as if he had +been shaved without mercy from the tip of his tail to the top of his +head, and during this shaven season he is extremely sensitive to the +cold or wet, shaking in every limb if a drop of rain falls, shivering +painfully in the chilliness of the night air. + +By-and-by the new hair begins to grow--fine, soft, curly wool that +gradually becomes long, thick, soft fur; and after this, the rain may +rain as much as it likes, the night air may be as chilly as it will, the +camel will not care a grain. In that armor of nature's providing he will +not shiver or shake any more. + +The hair of a camel, on an average, will weigh about ten pounds. It is +said to be sometimes finer than silk, and longer than the wool of a +sheep. In the course of my reading, a short time ago, I met with an +account of a camel market in a town of Tartary especially noted for its +trade in that species of live stock. + +In the centre of Blue Town, it seems, there is a large square, where the +animals are ranged in long rows together, their front feet raised upon +mud elevations constructed expressly for the purpose, the object of +which is to show off the size and height of the ungainly creatures. + +The confusion and noise of this market are described as something +frightful and "indescribable," with the continual chattering of the +buyers and sellers disputing noisily over their bargains, in addition to +the wild shrieking of the camels, whose noses are pulled roughly to make +them show off their agility in rising and kneeling. + +Nature has given the camel, you must remember, no means of defense +except its prolonged piercing cry, and a horrible sneeze of its own, +whereby the object of its hatred is sometimes covered with a mass of +filth from its mouth. + +It can not bite its tormentor, and--at least the Tartar camel--seldom +kicks, or if it does, as seldom does any harm with that fleshy foot of +which I have told you already. + +Can you wonder, then, that the air of Blue Town is made hideous with the +shrieking of the camels as, to test their strength, they are made to +kneel while one thing after another is piled on their backs, and made to +rise under each new burden, until they can rise no longer? + +"Sometimes while the camel is kneeling a man gets upon its hind-heels, +and holds on by the long hair of its hump; if the camel can rise then, +it is considered an animal of superior power"--according to the writer +above quoted. + +"The trade in camels is entirely conducted by proxy; the seller and the +buyer never settle the matter between themselves. They select different +persons to sell their goods, who propose, discuss, and fix the price, +the one looking to the interests of the seller, the other to those of +the purchaser. These 'sale-speakers' exercise no other trade. They go +from market to market, to promote business, as they say. They have +generally a great knowledge of cattle, have much fluency of tongue, and +are, above all, endowed with a knavery beyond all shame. They dispute by +turns furiously and argumentatively as to the merits and defects of the +animal, but as soon as it comes to be a question of price, the tongue is +laid aside as a medium, and the conversation proceeds altogether in +signs." + + + + +A LITTLE GIRL'S ASCENT OF VESUVIUS. + +BY KATIE C. YORKE. + + +One beautiful morning we took a carriage and started from Naples on a +trip to Mount Vesuvius. We drove along the bay for several miles, and +when we reached the foot of the mountain we began to ascend through vast +fields of lava, which had flowed there during previous eruptions. I +always imagined that lava was white and smooth, but this was of a +grayish-black color, and very ragged. + +The carriage-road ends at the Observatory, which is a building where a +scientific man resides, being appointed by the government to watch the +state of the volcano. He can tell when there is going to be an eruption, +and always notifies the people. + +There we found guides and men with saddled horses waiting to take us to +the foot of the cone. After a short ride we reached it, and dismounted, +and started up. The cone is so steep, and covered with cinders, that +people that are unaccustomed to such walking can't get up it without +assistance, because every step you take you slide back several inches. +We thought we would be pulled up by the guides, but the rest of the +party got tired, and had to be carried on their shoulders. I managed to +walk nearly all the way, and when I got tired my guide carried me too. + +About half way up we stopped at a cave where some men were waiting to +sell us some new Lacrima Christi wine. We drank some, and rested, and +went on to the top. When we reached it we were nearly four thousand feet +above the level of the sea, and had a beautiful view of Naples, the bay, +the islands, the villages, and the surrounding mountains. + +We enjoyed the view very much, but every little while the wind would +blow a cloud of sulphurous vapor from the crater, and nearly suffocate +us. We walked to the edge of the crater and looked down, but we couldn't +see much, because of the vapor. One of the guides went down into it a +little way, and brought us up some pieces of sulphur. The cinders were +so hot they burned our feet, and when we poked sticks into some cavities +they caught fire. + +The thick vapor annoyed us so that we soon decided to go down. Just as +we were starting, the mountain gave a low, deep growl, and trembled +under us, so we were very glad to leave. It was great fun going down, +because the cinders were so loose that at each step we would slide a +long way. Part way down we caught a pale yellow butterfly that was +almost stifled by the sulphurous fumes. + +When we reached the foot of the cone, we found we had been only twenty +minutes coming down, although it took us an hour and a half to go up. No +sooner had we arrived at the Observatory than we were surrounded by +crowds of ragged, beggarly looking men and boys, who insisted on +blacking our shoes, or pretended they had been guides, and tried to make +us pay them for things they had never done at all. We ordered them away, +but they kept on tormenting us, so we jumped into the carriage, and +drove off as fast as we could, leaving them all behind, shouting, +screaming, and wildly gesticulating. + +Since I was there they have built a railroad up the mountain, but I +should not think it would be half so much fun to go up in the cars. + + + + +A LETTER FROM INDIA. + + + LUCKNOW, INDIA, _June 20, 1880_. + +My Dear Friends,--My auntie has sent me several copies of HARPER'S YOUNG +PEOPLE, and I thought maybe you would like to know a little how we +children in India live. I don't know anything about your life except +what I read, and my mamma tells me, because I was born here. I am nine +years old, and in a little while we are going home. I say home because +mamma and papa do, but the only home I know is here, where it is so hot +sometimes it seems as if I should die. Last night mamma had to get up +and take a towel as wet as it could be, and rub my sheets with it, +before I could get to sleep at all, and if the punka stops a single +minute, it wakes me right up again. I read my letter to mamma so far, +and she says you won't know what a punka is. That is funny to me; but I +will tell you. They are very stiff cloth things fixed on frames, and +fastened to the ceiling so that they move, and by fanning the air keep a +breeze in the room all the time. There are holes in the wall, and ropes +put through the holes, and a man outside on the veranda pulls the ropes, +and keeps the punka moving. One night I was so hot I got up and went out +on the veranda, but the boards of the step burned my feet; so I slipped +on my slippers, and tried again. There sat the punka wala nodding, fast +asleep, but keeping his arms moving all the time. It looked funny, I can +tell you. + +We have good times in the winter, though. Christmas-day we always have a +picnic. The children of the native Sunday-schools and English schools +join together, and have a good time in some grove. And all through the +winter we play out under the trees, just as mamma says you do in the +summer. But here in summer we can only go out very late in the afternoon +or very early in the morning, because if the mid-day sun touches us, it +will make us very sick, and perhaps we will die. Theo Carter, a girl I +know, when she was real little got away from her nurse, and ran out in +the sun without her hat. It was in the morning, too; and now every time +she gets warm or tired she has the most dreadful headache, and mamma +says she don't believe she will ever be strong, even if she goes to +America. But I guess she would, because everybody that gets sick here +goes to America, else England, and when they come back they are ever so +much better; but sometimes they don't come back, and mamma says people +die even in America. + +There are lots of thieves in this country. One night last week they got +into our house. The servants would keep shutting the bath-room +window--the bath-room is between mamma's room and mine--and we wanted it +open for air, and mamma told them so; but they said the thieves would +climb in from a fig-tree near by. But mamma said if they did, they would +be welcome to all they could get. They did get in, and took the clothes +Bertie and I had worn through the day. Baby woke, and they were probably +frightened, and snatched the first thing they could, which was a box of +homoeopathic medicine mamma brought from home. We laughed in the +morning, because they thought, no doubt, it was something valuable, and +it will be worse than nothing to them; but papa says we will cry when we +are sick, and have to take bitter medicine instead of little sugar +pills. + +Last week there was a big procession--something about the +government--and one of papa's friends asked us to go to see it, and ride +on an elephant. I was real glad, for I never rode on one but once, and +then I was so little I don't remember much about it. We had a nice ride. +Papa had one elephant to himself, but mamma and I and Mrs. Carter and +Theo rode on another. We could see into the up-stairs rooms of people's +houses, and it was a delightful view we had of the procession. We had a +real good time until our elephant became frightened at a loud noise they +called music, and trumpeted dreadful loud. We wanted to get off, but our +elephant wouldn't kneel, and the man couldn't make him. Papa came, but +mamma said if we tried to get off 'twould only frighten him more. I was +real scared, and ready to cry; but mamma took hold of my hand, and spoke +just as pleasant as if we were at home, and I didn't think till +afterward how white she looked, nor about that man whose elephant ran +away with him last winter and killed him; but I guess mamma remembered +all the time, for pretty soon the noise passed by, and the men were able +to quiet the elephant, so he kneeled, and let papa help us down. And +when he took mamma, she fainted, and everybody said it was the fright; +but I didn't know she was frightened a bit. I must stop now, because the +Home Mail is going very soon; but if you like this, some time I will +write you again. + + JENNIE ANDERSON. + + + + +LITTLE COUSIN RANNA. + +BY MRS. LUCY MORSE. + + +"Will and Almida Handly were rather sorry when they learned that their +little cousin Marianne Joy was coming to make them a long visit. + +"She won't know a bumble-bee from a butternut," said Will. "City +children don't know anything, and she'll be awfully in the way. Won't +she tag after you and me, though, Almy?" + +"Oh dear!" said Almy, in a complaining tone; "we'll have to keep her +every speck of washing and baking days." + +"I wish they'd leave her where she belongs," said Will. + +The children were silent awhile, and then Almy heaved a sigh, and said: +"I s'pose that's just the trouble, Will. If her mother has--has _died_, +where _does_ she belong? Where would you and I--" + +"I know it," exclaimed Will, gruffly. "Come on, if you want me to help +fix up your old baby-house for her." + +The day after Marianne came the children's feelings were altered. +Walking down the lane all together, the little cousin was dazzled by +buttercups, and ran hither and thither gathering them in such wild +delight that she came upon Dowsabell, the cow, unexpectedly. Dowsy only +raised her sleepy nose from the grass to sniff at the buttercups, but +Marianne dropped the whole bunch, with a cry of terror, and ran like +the wind to Will for protection. She flung herself upon him with such a +pretty confidence that Will took her right into his big boyish heart, +and wished on the spot that Dowsy was a raging lion, or, to say the +least, Neighbor Stethaway's cross bull. + +"After all," he confided to Almida, "she's only a poor city child: what +can you expect? _I_ don't mind seeing to her." + +"Laws, no," said Almida, with a matronly air. "And if her father's gone +to Europe, and every day is baking, or washing, or mending, or +something, who is there besides you and me for her to look to, I'd like +to know? Only you needn't think you're going to have more than just your +own half of the care-taking, Will Handly." + +The mother looked on in silence, and understood perfectly the very +things which her children thought she had not noticed. + +"At first I was troubled lest Will and Almy wouldn't notice the child," +she said, one afternoon, to Mrs. Stethaway, as they watched the three +children crossing the opposite field. "Next I thought they would +tyrannize over her, and that Will would tease her to death." + +"And now," said Mrs. Stethaway, "it looks as if they would neglect +everything just to follow her bidding. What are you going to do about +that?" + +"Well," said Mrs. Handly, smiling after the children as they disappeared +among the daisies, "it isn't always that old folks know the best turn to +take. I'm going to see what the little one's course will be. It seems +very much as if my own two children were in the way of getting some +lessons in gentleness and self-forgetfulness from the poor little +motherless child, which I don't know so well as she does how to teach +them." + +The children went through the field, the orchard, and over the bars into +the lane, through which Ria Bell was just driving the cows. + +"Quick! quick! Oh! oh!" screamed Marianne, as soon as she saw the cows. + +"Not that way; you're running right into the face of the enemy, Ranna," +said Will, laughing, and taking hold of her as she was trying to climb +the bars. + +But Ranna struggled, crying, "Get me over! get me over! I ain't 'fraid +of tows; it's the birds;" and was so excited that Will on one side and +Almida on the other lifted her into the lane as quickly as possible. + +"Oh, goodness!" screamed Almy, as Ranna made a dive, right under +Dowsabell's very nose, toward a little mound of leaves. Crouching down +and spreading her arms over it, she looked up at Dowsy so savagely that +Will exclaimed, much amused: "Thunder and lightning! what has poor Dowsy +done? I thought you were afraid of her, Ranna, and now you look ready to +take her by the horns, and are frightened at two poor little robins +flying overhead." + +"No, I ain't. Nor I won't mind Teazle even if he is going to bite +my--my--my head off," cried Ranna, pale with fright, as the dog ran his +nose into her face. + +Will called Teazle away, while he and Almy tried very hard not to laugh. + +"What have you got under the leaves?" asked Will, while Almy stooped +over Ranna, and said, tenderly, + +"Show us your treasure, darling, and we won't tell Teazle, nor Dowsy, +nor anybody a word about it." + +[Illustration: THE FALLEN NEST.--DRAWN BY S. G. MCCUTCHEON.] + +Ranna sat up, brushed away the leaves, and took from under them a pretty +little nest full of young robins. "They're my own baby birds, and I +thought Dowsy would step on them," she said. "I found them just before I +ran to bring you, only the nest was in a great, ugly, dark bush, where +the poor little birdies couldn't feel any sun shinin', and I brung them +here, and tovered them with leaves, so the chittens wouldn't frighten +them while I was gone. What are those big birds flying round me for? +Tover my birdies up again; they are crying 'cause they are frightened." + +"Hi! ho! hum! Harry!" exclaimed Will. "Those two birds are the excited +and anxious parents of your baby birdies, Ranna, and they feel just +about as comfortable as your father and mother would feel if a great +giant--" But Will remembered suddenly that poor little Ranna had no +mother, and, blushing fiery red, said: "I'm a good-for-nothing old +blunderbuss. You tell her, Almy; it's girl's talk, anyway." + +Almy, with her arms around her little cousin, explained the situation. +Ranna eagerly pointed out the exact spot from which she had taken the +nest, and when Will had carefully restored it, watched with great +delight the old birds return to it. + +"I'll never touch another nest in my life," she said; and holding one +arm tight around Almy's neck, she beckoned to Will with the other. +Putting it around him, she drew his head close down to Almy's, and +whispered: "_I_ don't think you're a _bundlefuss_, Will. I think you and +Almy know just as well how to take care of little birds when their papas +and mammas can't find them, as you do of little girls when their mammas +is--is--is lost. And I'm going to tell all the children in the world +that when they lose their mammas, the best thing they can do is to find +my cousin Will and my cousin Almy." + + + + +[Illustration: "I'S LEARNING TO SWIM, MAMMA."] + + + + +[Illustration: OUR POST-OFFICE BOX.] + + +We wish to express to our young correspondents our sincere regret that +our limited space compels us to simply acknowledge so large a number of +the pretty letters which reach us daily from every part of the United +States. Do not think, because your letters are not printed, that we do +not consider them as well written or as interesting as those that are. +We are very sorry not to print all your little histories of your pet +dogs, and kittens, and birds, and other little domestic creatures, or +the excellent descriptions many of you write of the beautiful natural +scenery surrounding your homes; but if there is no more room in Our +Post-office Box, your letters can not be printed. We thank you heartily +for the pleasure you express in "Across the Ocean," "The Moral Pirates," +"Miss Van Winkle's Nap," and other stories and poems; and the eagerness +with which you "run to meet papa when he brings home YOUNG PEOPLE" is +very gratifying. We trust you will continue your pretty favors to us, +and we, in return, will print all of your letters that we can possibly +make room for, and will promise to give you more and more pleasure with +every new number of YOUNG PEOPLE. + + * * * * * + + CAMP CARLING, WYOMING TERRITORY. + + I have wanted to write to the Post-office Box for a long time, but + mamma said there were so many children writing that my letter + would not be printed. + + We live in a camp, and see many curious things. When we look out + of our windows, we see the _aparejos_, which are the saddles put + on the mules when they are loaded. The saddles are arranged in + long rows, with pieces of tent cloth thrown over them. Every day + we see a great many mules going out and coming in. Then there is + another queer thing. It is the "condemned heap." Almost every day + my two little brothers go down to the pile and find a great many + treasures. Every month lots of things from the warehouses are + condemned, and brought to the heap to be burned. There are sixteen + warehouses here, filled with government stores. + + A great many of the men who were in the first Ute fight under + Major Thornburgh went from this camp, and we know some of those + that were wounded. + + Every night and morning we hear the bugle-call that tells the + soldiers when to get up, when to go to work, when to stop work, + when to change guard, and when to go to bed. We always feel safe + here, because we are guarded by soldiers. + + EDNA S. B. + + * * * * * + + NEEDY, OREGON. + + I like to read the letters in the Post-office Box of YOUNG PEOPLE + so much that I thought I would write one from 'way out here in the + backwoods of Oregon. I live in the Willamette Valley, where we can + see Mount Hood any time when the weather is clear. It is a + glorious sight, especially in the evening just before sundown. In + the winter and spring the mountain is hid behind clouds more than + half the time. Sometimes the top of it will peep out above the + mist. Then it looks so strange. It is considered to be nearly + 12,000 feet high. + + ESTELLE M. + + * * * * * + + PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. + + It is so nice to have a new YOUNG PEOPLE every week. My papa is an + artist, and I am going to be one too. I draw a picture from YOUNG + PEOPLE almost every day, and I read about Rosa Bonheur, and Miss + Thompson, and all the great painters. + + I have been to the Zoological Gardens. I rode the donkeys and the + elephant, and I have made their pictures. I have a little Zoo in + our back yard. I have a nice cat, two rabbits named Jack and Jill, + and a turtle, and a fish in an aquarium that eats flies from my + hands. My bird died, and papa painted its portrait. I called the + picture "The Burial of the Dead Bird." + + M. ELECTA F. + + * * * * * + + OTTAWA, OHIO. + + I am nine years old, and for my birthday present mamma gave me one + year's subscription to YOUNG PEOPLE, beginning with the first + number. I like "The Moral Pirates" very much, and I was just + wishing for a serial with girls in it, and the very next paper had + the beginning of "Miss Van Winkle's Nap." I was delighted with it. + I think the stories about Mr. Martin and Miss Pamela Plumstone's + piano are so funny. + + As Fourth of July came on Sunday this year, we had no public + celebration, but some of the children in our neighborhood got up a + celebration of their own at our house. Mamma made the oration, and + played the national airs on the piano, after which we had a + parade. We all had paper caps, and we had a flag and a + drummer-boy. My little two-year-old cousin Gordon brought up the + rear of the procession, with a paper cap on, and as gay as any of + us. + + BERTHA K. + + * * * * * + + JERICHO, LONG ISLAND. + + I am a little girl ten years old, and I have a sister one year + younger. We have very nice times together. + + About a week ago my papa found a poor little bird with its wing + broken. We took it home and fed it, and we thought it was getting + better, but it died. + + I have seen some letters from the children about little turtles. + Once we had one, and we used to dig worms for it to eat. It was in + a globe, and once when we did not dig worms enough it ate the tail + of one of the gold-fish. + + We tried Sadie McB.'s recipe for candy, and it was a success. + + M. J. L. + + * * * * * + + LOCKPORT, NEW YORK. + + I saw some letters in Our Post-office Box asking for remedies for + songless canaries. We have used "Sheppard's Canary Powder, or Song + Restorer," for our canary, and found it very beneficial. + + ALICE. + + * * * * * + + BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT. + + My mamma raised four canaries this spring. The first one mamma had + to feed, and it is very tame. We are training it to do tricks. + When our birds are sick and do not sing, mamma gives them "Dr. + Gunning's Universal Bird Tonic," and it always restores their + song. + + I have two gold-fish. I did have three, but one died, and I buried + it in the yard, under the Madeira vines. + + BLANCHE T. S. + + * * * * * + + SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA. + + I tried Louisa W.'s recipe for Everton taffy, only I added half a + tea-cupful of water. I like it very much. + + Here is a recipe for white candy: Two cups of white crushed sugar; + three-quarters of a cup of water; one table-spoonful of cream of + tartar. Boil quickly, trying a little in water occasionally until + it crisps. Then add half a tea-spoonful of soda. Pour it in a + buttered pan until it is cool enough to pull. I am ten years old. + + MAY J. + + * * * * * + + I love YOUNG PEOPLE very much. Soon as papa brings it home I read + it to my two little sisters. We are very much interested in "The + Moral Pirates." I am ten years old, and I go to school every day. + Can any one tell me if the flamingo is of any use? + + Here is a recipe for the cooking club. Marble cake--light part: + One and a half cups of white sugar; half a cup of butter; half a + cup of sweet milk; the whites of four eggs; two and a half cups of + flour; half a tea-spoonful of soda; one tea-spoonful of cream of + tartar or one tea-spoonful of baking powder; beat the eggs and + sugar together, mix the cream of tartar with the flour, and + dissolve the soda in the milk. Dark part: One cup of brown sugar; + half a cup of molasses; half a cup of sour milk; the yolks of four + eggs; two and a half cups of flour; half a tea-spoonful of soda; + half a tea-spoonful of clove and of cinnamon. Put a layer of the + dark batter in the pan, then a layer of light, until the pan is + full. + + I should like to exchange pressed flowers with any little girl in + California. + + MYRTA GATES, + Clarion, Wright County, Iowa. + +Everything has its uses in the great economy of nature, and although we +can not always see why it is necessary for certain things to exist, we +may be sure that they were all created for some purpose. The flamingo, +however, is useful as an article of food. In certain parts of Egypt and +the East roast flamingo is considered very delicate eating, and in +ancient times a stew of flamingo tongues was a royal dish. It is also a +very beautiful bird. Travellers say there is no sight more magnificent +than a flock of scarlet flamingos wading in the green waving water +grasses, hunting for their breakfast in the morning sunlight. The +flamingo, if it could speak, might answer your question in the words of +Mr. Emerson, the poet: + + "Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, + Then beauty is its own excuse for being." + + * * * * * + + PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. + + I am nine years old, and I wish to send the cooking club a recipe + for "one-two-three-four cake": One cup of butter; two cups of + sugar; three cups of flour; four eggs; half a cup of milk; the + grated rind of one lemon; a pinch of salt; one tea-spoonful of + royal baking powder. + + CLARA S. A. + + * * * * * + + NEW YORK CITY. + + I have taken YOUNG PEOPLE from the first number, and I think it is + a very nice paper. I like to read about the pets of the other + children, and I will tell them about a pet cat I had when we lived + in Chicago. Her name was Daisy, and as she was black and white, we + thought it a pretty name for her. My little brother Jack had a + pair of bantam chickens. One day when Daisy was asleep in the yard + the rooster flew on her back and picked her left eye out. Grandma, + who was in the yard at the time, told the cook to bring Daisy in, + while she went for her feather and goose-grease, and put some on + the wounded eye. The next day it was healed, but the sight was + gone. Once when Daisy had some little kittens she put them in a + hen's nest. When the hen came into the nest she would keep the + little things quiet by pecking them on the head if they cried. The + kittens and chickens grew to be great friends. They would eat out + of the same dish, and when night came they would all go to the + chicken-coop together. The kittens slept in the nest, and the + chickens on the roost. Were they not a happy family? + + BESSIE G. + + * * * * * + + BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. + + I am very sorry I forgot the flour in my recipe for apple-cake in + Post-office Box, No. 37. There should be enough prepared flour + added to make a stiff batter. It is better to bake it in a shallow + pan. + + L. GRACE P. + + * * * * * + + KEENE, NEW HAMPSHIRE. + + I think "Across the Ocean" was a splendid story. I read it all. + But now I like "The Moral Pirates'" the best. + + I have forty-six pet rabbits. They all have black eyes and black + ears. And I have two kittens which are very pretty. Their names + are Tiger and Malt. + + WALTER H. P. + + * * * * * + + My sister and I have just tried Kitty G.'s recipe for + butter-scotch, and found it very nice indeed. + + We are making a collection of postage stamps, and would like to + exchange with any correspondents of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE. + + ALFRED HUSSEY, + 23 Hawthorn Street, New Bedford, Massachusetts. + + * * * * * + + I would like to exchange birds' eggs with any one living in the + South or West. + + F. NOBLE, + Milldale, Connecticut. + + * * * * * + + Lula Barlow can preserve eggs by piercing a small hole at each end + of the egg, and blowing out the inside. Eggs can be sent safely by + mail in a box filled with cotton. + + I would like to exchange postage stamps of different nations with + any of those correspondents asking exchange, or with any other + readers of YOUNG PEOPLE. + + HARRY DUBBS, + 229 West Chestnut Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. + + * * * * * + + I would like to exchange specimens of woods indigenous to this + climate for those of other climates, specimens to be about three + inches long by three-quarters of an inch thick, and to have a knot + in them if possible. I have cypress, magnolia, mimosa, Cottonwood, + althea, prickly ash, fig, crepe myrtle, sweet-gum, and black-gum. + Correspondents willing to exchange will please send me a list of + what woods they can obtain, and their full address. + + BERY C. BROWN, Jun., + P. O. Box 870, Little Rock, Arkansas. + + * * * * * + + I am collecting postage stamps, and would be glad to exchange with + any of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE. I also have a collection of + bugs. + + VERNON L. KELLOGG, Emporia, Kansas. + + * * * * * + + I have made the acquaintance of several boys who read YOUNG + PEOPLE, through the Post-office Box, as I am collecting postage + stamps. If others who have not yet written are doing the same, I + would like to exchange with them. I wrote to Sidney St. W., but he + has not yet answered me. I am eleven years old. My younger + brother, Charlie, is collecting postmarks, and has already eleven + hundred and seventy-five. He would like to exchange with any of + the boys. + + LEWIS S. MUDGE, + Princeton, New Jersey. + + * * * * * + + We have YOUNG PEOPLE, and like it very much. I would like to tell + some of the boys and girls who live far away something about my + home and pleasures. The name of my home is Baywood Lodge. It is + within a stone's-throw of a beautiful sheet of water known as + Hempstead Bay. We sail, row, swim, and fish, and we have horses, + and enjoy riding horseback too. + + There is a camp very near us, in the woods. There are about thirty + people, and they have five tents, and their horses. + + I would like to exchange foreign postage stamps with any boys who + read YOUNG PEOPLE. + + ARTHUR LAWRENCE VALK, + Baywood Lodge, Port Washington, Long Island. + + * * * * * + + I am making a collection of postage stamps, and I would like to + exchange with any of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE in Canada. I will + exchange United States stamps for Canadian stamps. + + J. M. WOLFE, P. O. Box 423, + Lewisburg, Union County, Pennsylvania. + + * * * * * + +H. P. C.--The quail builds its nest on the ground, among bushes or tall +grass. The nesting-time is early in June, and when you find ten or more +little white eggs, you may be sure the bird has commenced setting. The +eggs are about the size of a pigeon's egg, and pointed at one end like a +boy's wooden top. When the little birds are hatched they are as strong +as little chickens, and the mother bird takes them off to ramble about +the thicket in the same way as a hen leads her brood. The quail is a +plump grayish-brown bird, speckled with black and white. Its peculiar +whistle may be heard anywhere in the country all the long summer day. +Children often imitate the sound, and imagine that the quail is always +screaming "more wet"; and in truth the quail's note does resemble those +words, with a short, quick accent on the last sound, as if the bird was +constantly entreating nature for a refreshing summer shower. + + * * * * * + +A. S. DAGGETT.--You do not need cards to play the geographical game. If +you wish, you can get blank cards, and write them yourself; but the game +is made more lively and instructive by leaving the answers to the +geographical knowledge and quick memory of the players. + + * * * * * + +EDITH H. THOMAS.--Write directly to the correspondent you wish to +exchange with. + + * * * * * + +ANNA M. R.--Many thanks for your description of the curious things +exhibited at the Nashville Centennial. We are sorry it is too long to +print. + + * * * * * + +WAT H. T. M.--We acknowledge with thanks the account you send us of +Washington's birth-place, near which historical locality you live. + + * * * * * + +Favors are acknowledged from Charles S. R., Rena and Frank Stearns, +Bessie Clark, Romeo and Juliet, W. W. Eaton, Charles L. B., Thomas H. +Van T., Katrina, Charlie D., Leila Mackay, Gracie D. Ely, Charley J. +Kennedy, Louis L. G., Mary W. W., V. Fannie L., Susie Mulholland, John +B. Maxwell, Asa M. Steele, Arthur McKeen, Lulu E., Charles C. M., Belle +Matteson, Annie H. R., John Leeper, Carrie B. Thompson, Albert Smith, +Eddie M., Freddie Hyers, Mary E. P., Alice Green, Carrie E. Riley, +Hallie S. Morgan, Louie Van A., Thad. B. Tobey. + + * * * * * + +Correct answers to puzzles are received from Alice Grady, "North Star," +Benny W. L., Ermie Garden, Allie Mason, Eddie A. Leet, Ernest G. Young, +Fred Haswell, Marguerite Bucknall, Willard H. Francis, Willie and Henry +Western, Fred J. Purdy, Leon C. Bogart, Hugh Downing, Alson A. G., Clara +L. Kellogg, Sarah B., Willie T. B., Alice Williams, Willie C., +"Dominus," Bessie Guyton, T. L. Drew, Mary L. McVean, George L. Osgood, +W. V. Fowler, K. R., Albert and Laura Ellard, Alfy G. Dale, Rebecca +Hedges. + + * * * * * + +PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS. + +No. 1. + +ENIGMA. + + One-third of sun, one-fourth of none, + One-fifth of weary, one-sixth of dreary, + One-third of oak, one-fifth of broke, + One-fourth of kite, if read aright, + And placed in line correct and true, + Will give a city's name to you. + + A. B. + + * * * * * + +No. 2. + +DOUBLE ACROSTIC. + +A beast. A chain of mountains in Asia. An eatable. To observe. Something +used in ancient warfare. Answer--Two wild beasts. + + H. F. P. + + * * * * * + +No. 3. + +NUMERICAL CHARADE. + + I am a large island lying far away toward the south pole, and am + composed of 14 letters. + My 9, 6, 4, 13, 3 is not small. + My 10, 8, 12, 7 is food for beasts. + My 1, 14, 11, 5 is a journey. + My 10, 2, 13 is a fruit. + + KATIE. + + * * * * * + +No. 4. + +DIAMOND. + +In leopard. Something all creatures do. A flexible substance. A number. +In tiger. + + W. D. G. + + * * * * * + +No. 5. + +WORD SQUARE. + +First, congealed vapor. Second, a number. Third, formerly. Fourth, a +division of time. + + M. E. N. + + * * * * * + +No. 6. + +ENIGMA. + + My first is in laugh, but not in cry. + My second is in tall, but not in high. + My third is in fig, but not in plum. + My fourth is in speak, but not in dumb. + My fifth is in yours, but not in his. + My sixth is in been, but not in is. + My seventh is in tame, but not in wild. + My eighth is in infant, not in child. + My ninth is in village, not in town. + My whole was a general of renown. + + ADA. + + * * * * * + + +ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN NO. 37. + +No. 1. + +Shark, hark, ark. + +No. 2. + +Diamond. + +No. 3. + + D A S H + A R E A + S E A L + H A L O + +No. 4. + + T + R A T + T A R R Y + T R Y + Y + +No. 5. + + C hatha M + A ncon A + S antande R + P otsda M + I salc O + A y R + N icaragu A + +Caspian, Marmora. + +No. 6. + +Oliver Goldsmith. + + + + +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. 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The range of subjects is a +wide one, and the book is handsomely illustrated.--_Philadelphia +Ledger._ + +Songs for the nursery, songs for childhood, for girlhood, boyhood, +and sacred songs--the whole melody of childhood and youth bound in +one cover. Full of lovely pictures; sweet mother and baby faces; +charming bits of scenery, and the dear old Bible story-telling +pictures.--_Churchman_, N. Y. + + * * * * * + +Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. + +HARPER & BROTHERS _will send the above work by mail, postage prepaid, to +any part of the United States, on receipt of the price_. + + + + +Harper's New and Enlarged Catalogue. + +With a COMPLETE ANALYTICAL INDEX, and a VISITORS' GUIDE TO THEIR +ESTABLISHMENT, + +Sent by mail on receipt of Nine Cents. + +HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE, N. Y. + + + + +ELEMENTARY EDUCATION. + +Books for the School and Family. + + * * * * * + +ENGLISH LANGUAGE. + +SWINTON'S LANGUAGE PRIMER. 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A Simple and Progressive +Course of Lessons in Spelling, with Reading and Dictation Exercises, and +the Elements of Oral and Written Composition. By MARCIUS WILLSON. +Illustrated. 18mo, Half Bound, 15 cents. + +WILLSON'S SPELLER AND ANALYZER. The New Speller and Analyzer. Adapted to +Thorough Elementary Instruction in the Orthography, Orthoepy, Formation, +Derivation, and Uses of Words. By MARCIUS WILLSON. 12mo, Half Bound, 34 +cents. + +WILLSON'S PRIMER. The School and Family Primer. Introductory to the +Series of School and Family Readers. By MARCIUS WILLSON. Illustrated. +12mo, Half Bound, 15 cents. + +WILLSON'S FIRST READER. The First Reader of the School and Family +Series. By MARCIUS WILLSON. Illustrated. 12mo, Half Bound, 26 cents. + +WILLSON'S SECOND READER. The Second Reader of the School and Family +Series. By MARCIUS WILLSON. Illustrated. 12mo, Half Bound, 37 cents. + +WILLSON'S THIRD READER. The Third Reader of the School and Family +Series. By MARCIUS WILLSON. 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A New Edition, Revised and Enlarged, and +brought down to the Close of the Rebellion and the Inauguration of +President Johnson. Illustrated. 3 vols., 16mo, Cloth, $3.75. + +BONNER'S CHILD'S HISTORY OF ROME. A Child's History of Rome. By JOHN +BONNER. Illustrated. 2 vols., 16mo, Cloth, $2.50. + +BONNER'S CHILD'S HISTORY OF GREECE. A Child's History of Greece. By JOHN +BONNER. Illustrated. 2 vols., 16mo, Cloth, $2.50. + + * * * * * + +Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. + +_Sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, on +receipt of the price._ + + + + +[Illustration: PLEASANT FOR JIM. + +SMALL BOY. "Oh-ow-ow! Look out, Jim--here is a great b-b-b-big Bull-dog +coming at us!"] + + + + +MORE MIRTHFUL MAGIC. + +BY W. B. BARTLETT. + + +THE BOOK PUZZLE. + +The player agrees to let any person in the room turn over as many books, +one at a time, as desired, while he is out of the room, and promises to +tell you, upon his return, which book was turned over last. He goes out, +and comes back when the person who turned the books says, "Come in." +When he opens the door, he says, "You must stay outside while I find +out, so no one will suspect us of being in league with each other." The +one who turned the books is then shut out, and the other selects any +thin book, and leans it against the door, and says, "Come in." As the +door is opened, of course the book is turned over on the floor, and the +victim is told, "That is the last book you turned over." + + +THE NEWSPAPER TRICK. + +Take a common newspaper or handkerchief, and request any one of the +company to place it on the floor so that two persons can stand upon it +at the same time, and neither be able to see or touch the other. + +_Answer._--Place it across the door-sill, and let one stand upon it in +the entry. Then close the door, and ask the other to step upon the other +end in the room, and neither can see nor touch the other, for the door +prevents. + + +THE COW PUZZLE. + +Tell the company that seven cows were walking in a straight line into a +narrow door, and say to them, "If you should ask the last cow, 'How many +pairs of horns are before you?' what would she reply?" + +Some will answer, "One pair," and some, "Seven pairs," but after +puzzling them for a while, you can reply, "In the opinion of most +scientists, she would not say anything, for she could not speak, poor +thing!" + + +ANOTHER COW PUZZLE. + +[Illustration] + +Draw a square with a lead-pencil, and say, "Suppose this field was +inclosed with walls fifty feet high, without opening or possibility of +digging under, and a cow was in there, how could you get it out?" + +_Answer._--Rub it out. + + + + +CHARADE. + + + As by the fire the lovers sit, + On rosy wings the moments flit; + One little word confirms their bliss, + And seals it with a loving kiss. + + That bliss they never could sustain + Without my second's golden grain; + Yet if it does attend their feet, + Their daily walk is incomplete. + + My whole leaps forth from out the flame, + Airy and light, but still the same; + Showing a hard and common thing + Made pure and white through suffering. + + + + +THE USEFUL SUNFLOWER. + + +In Southwestern Russia, between the Baltic and the Black seas, the +sunflower is universally cultivated in fields, gardens, and borders, and +every part of the plant is turned to practical account. A hundred pounds +of the seeds yield forty pounds of oil, and the pressed residue forms a +wholesome food for cattle, as also do the leaves and the green stalks, +cut up small, all being eagerly eaten. The fresh flowers, when a little +short of full bloom, furnish a dish for the table which bears favorable +comparison with the artichoke. They contain a large quantity of honey, +and so prove an attraction to bees. The seeds are a valuable food for +poultry; ground into flour, pastry and cakes can be made from them; and +boiled in alum and water, they yield a blue coloring matter. The +carefully dried leaf is used as tobacco. The seed receptacles are made +into blotting-paper, and the inner part of the stalk into a fine +writing-paper; the woody portions are consumed as fuel, and from the +resulting ash valuable potash is obtained. Large plantations of them in +swampy places are a protection against intermittent fever. + + + + +[Illustration: A NAUGHTY LITTLE DOG. + +"You bad dog, you's done gone tore my bes' bunnit mos' to pieces. I's a +big min' to gib you a whippin' that you'll 'member. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Harper's Young People, August 3, 1880 + An Illustrated Weekly + +Author: Various + +Release Date: June 8, 2009 [EBook #29066] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, AUG 3, 1880 *** + + + + +Produced by Annie McGuire + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#THE_MORAL_PIRATES"><b>THE MORAL PIRATES.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#SOME_TRUE_STORIES_ABOUT_STEEPLES"><b>SOME TRUE STORIES ABOUT STEEPLES.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#FLOWER_QUEENS_OF_NIGHT"><b>FLOWER QUEENS OF NIGHT.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#OLD_TIMES_IN_THE_COLONIES"><b>OLD TIMES IN THE COLONIES.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#TOM_CHESTERS_SILVER_MINE"><b>TOM CHESTER'S SILVER MINE.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#WOLF-CHILDREN"><b>WOLF-CHILDREN.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#THE_STORY_OF_THE_AMERICAN_NAVY"><b>THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN NAVY.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#WHAT_THE_BUTTERFLY_SAYS"><b>WHAT THE BUTTERFLY SAYS.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#THE_SHIP_OF_THE_DESERT"><b>THE SHIP OF THE DESERT.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#A_LITTLE_GIRLS_ASCENT_OF_VESUVIUS"><b>A LITTLE GIRL'S ASCENT OF VESUVIUS.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#A_LETTER_FROM_INDIA"><b>A LETTER FROM INDIA.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#LITTLE_COUSIN_RANNA"><b>LITTLE COUSIN RANNA.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#OUR_POST_OFFICE_BOX"><b>OUR POST-OFFICE BOX.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#MORE_MIRTHFUL_MAGIC"><b>MORE MIRTHFUL MAGIC.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#CHARADE"><b>CHARADE.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#THE_USEFUL_SUNFLOWER"><b>THE USEFUL SUNFLOWER.</b></a></td></tr> +</table></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_569" id="Page_569">[Pg 569]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 1000px;"> +<img src="images/ill_001.jpg" width="1000" height="388" alt="Banner: Harper's Young People" title="" /> +</div> + +<hr style='width: 100%;' /> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Vol</span>. I.—<span class="smcap">No</span>. 40.</td><td align='center'><span class="smcap">Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York</span>.</td><td align='right'><span class="smcap">Price Four Cents</span>.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Tuesday, August 3, 1880.</td><td align='center'>Copyright, 1880, by <span class="smcap">Harper & Brothers</span>.</td><td align='right'>$1.50 per Year, in Advance.</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<hr style='width: 100%;' /> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 467px;"><a name="THE_MORAL_PIRATES" id="THE_MORAL_PIRATES"></a> +<img src="images/ill_002.jpg" width="467" height="600" alt="GOING THROUGH THE LOCK.—Drawn by A. B. Frost." title="" /> +<span class="caption">GOING THROUGH THE LOCK.—<span class="smcap">Drawn by A. B. Frost</span>.</span> +</div> + +<h4>[Begun in <span class="smcap">Young People</span> No. 31, June 1.]</h4> + +<h2>THE MORAL PIRATES.</h2> + +<h3>BY W. L. ALDEN.</h3> + +<h3><span class="smcap">Chapter X</span>.</h3> + +<p>The policeman did not return, and the boys slept until an hour after +sunrise. They then rowed down the river to the steamboat landing, where +they left their boat in charge of a boatman, and went to a hotel for +breakfast. The waiters were rather astonished at the tremendous +appetites displayed by the four sunburned boys, and there is no doubt +that the landlord lost money that morning. After breakfast, Harry went +to the express office, where he found a large water-proof India rubber +bag, which the Department had sent in answer to his letter. At the +post-office were letters from home for all the boys, and a postal order +for ten dollars from Uncle John for the use of the expedition. Harry had +no idea that this money would be needed, but it subsequently proved to +be very useful.</p> + +<p>Quite a quantity of stores were bought at Albany, for the voyage up the +Hudson had lasted longer than any one had supposed it would, and the +provisions were getting low. No unnecessary time was spent in buying +these stores, for a fair wind was blowing, and all the boys were anxious +to take advantage of it. By ten o'clock they were again afloat, and soon +after noon they reached Troy, and entered the canal.</p> + +<p>The canal basin was crowded with canal-boats, and to avoid accidents the +<i>Whitewing's</i> mast was taken down, and the oars were got out. Harry knew +that, in order to pass through the locks, it would be necessary to pay +toll, and to procure an order from the canal authorities directing the +lock-men to permit the <i>Whitewing</i> to pass. The canal boatmen, of whom +he made inquiries, told him where to find the office, which was some +little distance up the canal. When the office<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_570" id="Page_570">[Pg 570]</a></span> was reached, an officer +came and inspected the boat, asked a great many questions about the +cruise up the Hudson, and seemed to be very much interested in the +expedition. He told the boys that the water was low in the Champlain +Canal, and that the lock-men might not be willing to open the locks for +so small a boat; but that they could avoid all dispute by entering the +locks at the same time with some one of the many canal-boats that were +on their way north. He charged the <i>Whitewing</i> the enormous sum of +twenty-five cents for tolls, and gave Harry an important-looking order, +by which the lock-men were directed to allow the skiff <i>Whitewing</i>, +Captain Harry Wilson, to pass through all the locks on the canal.</p> + +<p>Thanking the pleasant officer, the boys pushed off. After they had +passed the place where the Champlain Canal branches off from the Erie +Canal, they were no longer troubled by a crowd of canal-boats, and were +able to set the sail again. Unluckily, the mast was just a little too +high to pass under the bridges, and at the first bridge which they met +they narrowly escaped a capsize—Jim succeeding in getting the mast down +only just in time to save it from striking the bridge. They had hardly +set sail again when another bridge came in sight, and they could see +just beyond it a third bridge. It would never do to stop at every bridge +and unship the mast, so Harry went on shore, borrowed a saw from a +cooper's shop, and sawed six inches off from the top of the mast, after +which the bridges gave them no more trouble.</p> + +<p>The boys were very much interested in passing the first lock. They +slipped into the lock behind a big canal-boat, which left just room +enough between its rudder and the gate for the <i>Whitewing</i>. When the +lock-men shut the gate behind the boat, and opened the sluices in the +upper gate, the water rose slowly and steadily. The sides of the lock +were so steep and black that the boys felt very much as if they were at +the bottom of a well; but it was not many minutes before the water had +risen so high that the upper gates were opened, and the big canal-boat +and its little follower were released.</p> + +<p>Passing through a lock in a small boat, and in company with a +canal-boat, is not a perfectly safe thing to do, for if the ropes which +fasten the canal-boat should break—which they sometimes do—the water +rushing in through the sluices would force the canal-boat against the +lower gate, and crush the small boat like an egg-shell. It is therefore +best always to pass through a lock alone, or in company with other small +boats. The danger, however, is in reality very slight, and very few +accidents occur in canal locks.</p> + +<p>The wind died away before sunset; and the boys having had only a light +lunch, which they ate on the boat, were glad to go ashore for supper. +They bought some corn from a farmer, and roasted it before the fire, +while some nice slices of ham were frying, and the coffee-pot was +boiling, and so prepared a supper which they greatly enjoyed. The moon +came up before they had finished the meal, and they felt strongly +tempted to make another attempt at night-work.</p> + +<p>"I'll tell you what we can do," exclaimed Harry. "Instead of rowing, +let's tow the boat. One fellow can tow while another steers, and the +rest can sleep in the boat."</p> + +<p>"All right," said Joe. "I'm willing to be a mule. Only I'd like to know +where my harness is coming from."</p> + +<p>"We've got rope enough for that," replied Harry. "I'll take the first +turn, and tow for an hour, while Joe steers; then I'll steer for an +hour, while Joe tows. Then the other watch will take charge of the boat +for two hours, and Joe and I will sleep."</p> + +<p>"If I'm to sleep on the bottom of that boat," said Joe, "I want some +nice sharp stones to sleep on. I'm tired of sleeping on coffee-pots, and +want a change."</p> + +<p>A long tow-line was soon rigged on Harry's shoulders in such a way that +it did not chafe him; a space in the bottom of the boat was cleared of +coffee-pots and other uncomfortable articles, and a pair of blankets was +spread on the bottom board, so as to make a comfortable bed, which Tom +and Jim hastened to occupy. Joe took the yoke-lines in his hand, and +called to Harry to go ahead. When Harry first tugged at the tow-line, +the boat seemed very heavy; but as soon as she was in motion, Harry +found that he could tow her as fast as he could walk, and without any +difficulty.</p> + +<p>Had the locks been open and the canal-boats been out of the way, the +experiment of towing the <i>Whitewing</i> at night would have been very +successful. As it happened, the locks were kept closed during the night, +because the water was low; and the canal-boats, not being able to pass +the locks, were moored to the tow-path. These boats gave Harry and Joe a +great deal of trouble. When one of them was met, Harry had to unharness +himself and toss the rope into the boat, and Joe had to get out an oar +and scull around the obstacle. This happened so often that Tom and Jim +got very little sleep; and long before it was time for them to resume +duty, a lock was reached, and Harry had to call all hands to drag the +boat around it.</p> + +<p>This was a hard piece of work. First, all the heavy things had to be +taken out of the boat and carried around the lock. Then the boat had to +be dragged out of the canal on to the tow-path, hauled up a steep +ascent, and launched above the upper gate. It took a good half-hour to +pass the first of these closed locks, and when the boat was again ready +to start, it was time to change the watch.</p> + +<p>Tom and Jim had managed to get only a few minutes' sleep, but Harry and +Joe could not sleep a single wink. They had not "turned in" for more +than ten minutes when another lock was reached. This involved a second +half-hour of hard work by all hands, and twenty minutes later three more +locks close together blocked the way. It was foolish to persevere in +dragging the boat around locks all night long; so, after getting her out +of the canal on the side opposite to the tow-path, the boys dragged her +behind some bushes, where the canal boatmen could not see her at +daylight. They then spread their rubber blankets on the ground, and +prepared to sleep through the remaining four or five hours of darkness.</p> + +<p>"Boys," said Joe, suddenly, "does it hurt a fat woman to jump on her?"</p> + +<p>"Don't know," answered Harry. "What do you ask for?"</p> + +<p>"Oh, nothing," said Joe. "Only when I was jumping from one canal-boat to +another while I was a mule, I landed awfully heavy on a fat woman who +was sleeping on deck."</p> + +<p>"What did she do?" asked Harry.</p> + +<p>"She didn't do anything. She just muttered something that I could not +understand, and I got away as quickly as possible."</p> + +<p>"Well, if she likes it, that's her business, not yours," suggested +Harry. "Go to sleep, do!"</p> + +<p>"I am going to sleep; but I don't think we ought to spend our nights in +getting run down by steamboats and jumping on strange fat women. I'm +sure it isn't right. There, you needn't throw any more shoes at me. I +won't say another word."</p> + +<h4>[<span class="smcap">to be continued</span>.]</h4> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="SOME_TRUE_STORIES_ABOUT_STEEPLES" id="SOME_TRUE_STORIES_ABOUT_STEEPLES"></a>SOME TRUE STORIES ABOUT STEEPLES.</h2> + +<h4>BY C. F. M.</h4> + +<p>A great many years ago a hurricane occurred in Utica, New York. Just as +it began it was noticed that a heavy swing sign in front of a store was +held out in a horizontal position for some time.</p> + +<p>Before long the force of the wind increased to such a degree that +several houses on Genesee Street Hill were<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_571" id="Page_571">[Pg 571]</a></span> unroofed, and the spire of +the Second Presbyterian Church was thrown to the ground.</p> + +<p>After the storm was over it was discovered that the rod holding the +weather-vane on the top of the tall steeple of the First Presbyterian +Church was bent so that it became nearly horizontal. It was unsightly; +but how to repair the injury was the question. It would be no easy task, +as there was a large ball, or globe, on the rod below the vane. After a +while a sailor offered his services. He ascended the steeple, and +climbed the rod until he came just beneath the globe. Then he threw a +rope out a good many times, until, after a while, the end looped around +over the rod, above the globe, long enough to reach to him. Twisting the +rope together, he let go of the iron rod, and trusting himself to the +rope, swung out free. By climbing it he now managed to get on the top of +the globe. Standing there, he succeeded in straightening the rod that +held the weather-vane.</p> + +<p>Now how was he to get down? Again trusting to the rope that was fastened +to the rod above the globe, he swung free at a great height from the +earth; then lowering himself, and swinging back and forth, he managed to +grasp the rod beneath the globe, and soon reaching the spire, descended.</p> + +<p>The steeple of Salisbury Cathedral is the highest in England, and next +to that of Strasbourg Cathedral, the highest in Europe. Every year a man +climbs to the top to grease the weather-vane. This is done by ascending +the inside as far as possible, and then going out of a manhole and +climbing the rest of the way by means of the brass staples fastened on +the outer wall.</p> + +<p>Once on a festal occasion, when the King was present, a reward was +offered, as usual, to any person who would ascend and attend to the +weather-vane. A sailor agreed to do it, and ascended in the way I have +told you, until he came to the copestone, when, to show what he could +do, he stood on his head. Then performing the task he was sent to do, +that of greasing the vane, he descended, and claimed his reward. But the +King was so exasperated at the sailor for needlessly frightening the +people by standing on his head at such a great height, that he would not +allow him to be paid.</p> + +<p>A long time ago, in the town of Northam, England, the steeple of the +church was found to be unsteady. It swayed back and forth whenever the +great bell struck, and continued to sway thus, until, as it leaned over +on one side, it opened large cracks on the opposite.</p> + +<p>It was not long before the boys of the town found this out, and the +bright idea entered the head of one of them, and was by him told to the +others, that it would be a capital place to crack nuts. So, boy-like, +they had to try it, and standing at the base of the spire, would fill +the cracks as far as they could reach with good English walnuts, and +then stand back for the steeple to return to an upright position, +cracking the nuts. As the great clock in the tower struck, the jar +caused the spire to lean in the opposite direction. The boys now got +their nuts, and then put in more, that the operation might be repeated, +for they considered it rare sport.</p> + +<p>But in the course of time the people of the town who had such matters in +charge decided that the steeple was unsafe, and strengthened it with +bands of iron; but this not proving satisfactory, after a while each +stone was numbered, and the steeple taken down and rebuilt in the old +style. And from that day to this, to the regret of the boys, it has +never been known to crack nuts.</p> + +<p>During a great fire in New York, a few years ago, one of the buildings +destroyed was a church having a very tall steeple. The flames ran up +inside this steeple, and, bursting out at the top, melted the zinc and +copper about the lightning rod, so that they fell in showers of green, +gold, and crimson fire, producing a spectacle of most wondrous beauty.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="FLOWER_QUEENS_OF_NIGHT" id="FLOWER_QUEENS_OF_NIGHT"></a>FLOWER QUEENS OF NIGHT.</h2> + +<h3>BY MARGARET EYTINGE.</h3> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">"Pretty, fragrant four-o'clocks,"</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 27em;">Said the rose one day,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">"Pity 'tis your buds unfold</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 27em;">Into blossoms gay</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">When the west begins to burn</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 27em;">With the sunset light—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Sweetness wondrous rare to waste</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 27em;">On the drowsy night.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">"Other blooms have birds to sing,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 27em;">Bees to hum, their praise,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Butterflies to visit them</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 27em;">Through the summer days.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Bee but seldom hums for you,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 27em;">Bird but seldom sings,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Butterfly is ne'er your guest,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 27em;">Pretty, fragrant things."</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">"Lovely, graceful, crimson rose,"</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 27em;">Said the modest flowers,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">"Though the sun we scarcely know,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 27em;">Happiness is ours.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Moon we have, and sparkling stars</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 27em;">(Each a heavenly gem),</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">And their light so gentle is,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 27em;">We can look at them.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">"And the flashing fire-flies</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 27em;">Round us gleam and glance,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Like a countless host of fays</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 27em;">In an airy dance.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">And the moth king, velvet-winged,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 27em;">Dainty kiss bestows,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">As he whispers, 'You are sweet,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 27em;">Sweet as any rose.'</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">"Grieve no more for us, dear friend;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 27em;">Thrice content we are,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Loved by moth and fire-fly,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 27em;">Dew-drop, moon, and star.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">And while you o'er garden reign</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 27em;">In the bright daylight,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">We are hailed by wand'ring winds,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 27em;">Flower queens of night."</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="OLD_TIMES_IN_THE_COLONIES" id="OLD_TIMES_IN_THE_COLONIES"></a>OLD TIMES IN THE COLONIES.</h2> + +<h3>BY CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN.</h3> + +<h3>No. III.</h3> + +<h3>ISAAC BRADLEY AND JOSEPH WHITTAKER.</h3> + +<p>Twelve miles from the sea, on the bank of the Merrimac River, is the +busy town of Haverhill. It was a small settlement in 1690. There was a +cluster of houses and a meeting-house. The country beyond, all the way +to Canada, was a wilderness. The Indians came down the river in their +bark canoes, carrying them past the falls where the city of Lowell now +stands, past Amoskeag Falls, where the Manchester factories to-day are +humming. They caught beaver, bear, and foxes, and sold the furs to the +traders.</p> + +<p>The Indians were under the influence of the French, and when war broke +out between France and England for the restoration of James II. to the +throne from which he had fled, the settlers of Haverhill, in common with +the people all along the frontier, knew that the Indians, influenced by +the French in Canada, might be upon them at any moment.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 286px;"> +<img src="images/ill_003.jpg" width="286" height="400" alt="EARLY SETTLERS GOING TO MEETING.—Drawn by Howard Pyle." title="" /> +<span class="caption">EARLY SETTLERS GOING TO MEETING.—<span class="smcap">Drawn by Howard Pyle</span>.</span> +</div> + +<p>The settlers had their guns ever at hand. If at work in the field, they +placed them where they could seize them quickly. When they went to bed +at night, they put a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_572" id="Page_572">[Pg 572]</a></span> stout bar of wood across the door, and examined +the flints and the priming. On Sunday, when they went to meeting, each +man carried his gun, and the minister looked down from the pulpit upon +men who had powder-horns and bullet-pouches slung across their +shoulders, and whose muskets were standing in the corners of their pews. +Some of the settlers kept watch outside while the others were in +meeting. They went on scouts through the dark woods, peering among the +trees to see if the Indians were prowling in the vicinity.</p> + +<p>The settlers were obliged to work hard. While the men were at work in +the fields, the women were spinning and weaving. Boys and girls had +little time for play. There was always something for them to do. When a +boy was sixteen years old, he was expected to do the work of a man. They +all learned to shoot, and some of them, when they were only twelve, +could bring down a squirrel from the highest tree every time, or shoot a +deer upon the run.</p> + +<p>Two boys—Isaac Bradley, who was fifteen years old, and Joseph +Whittaker, who was eleven—were at work one day in Mr. Bradley's field, +when suddenly a party of Indians sprang out from the woods and seized +them. Isaac was small, but he was bright, cool-headed, and +brave-hearted. Joseph, though four years younger, was as large as Isaac, +but he was not so stout-hearted nor self-reliant as his companion.</p> + +<p>The Indians were from Canada. They did not stop to kill any of the +settlers, but hastened away, travelling through the dark woods northward +to the beautiful Lake Winnipiseogee, where they remained through the +winter. The lake swarmed with trout and pickerel, which they could catch +through the ice, and the woods were full of bears and deer.</p> + +<p>Isaac made himself at home in the wigwam, and picked up the language of +the Indians in a very short time. The squaws made him do their drudgery; +but the warriors liked him, and the Indian dogs wagged their tails when +he looked at them out of his kindly eyes.</p> + +<p>Winter passed and April came.</p> + +<p>"We go to Canada now," said one of the Indians.</p> + +<p>Isaac had no intention of going to Canada. Day after day he thought over +the matter. He knew that the English settlements were far away to the +south, but there was no path to them. He had no compass. How could he +ever reach them? He would be guided by the sun by day, and the stars by +night. He would make the attempt. He might perish, but death was better +than captivity.</p> + +<p>"I am going to try it to-morrow night, but I am afraid you won't wake," +he said to Joseph, who always slept soundly, and snored in his sleep.</p> + +<p>"Oh yes, I will," Joseph replied.</p> + +<p>The Indians had killed a moose, and Isaac had managed to hide a large +piece of meat in the bushes near the camp. He filled his pockets with +their corn-bread. Night came. All were asleep except Isaac, who was so +excited by the thought of escaping that his eyes would not close. Every +sense was quickened. He arose softly and touched Joseph, who was sound +asleep. He did not stir, and Isaac shook him harder.</p> + +<p>"What do you want?" Joseph asked.</p> + +<p>In an instant Isaac was stretched out, snoring; but the Indians did not +wake, and after a little while the boys arose softly, and crept out of +the wigwam, Isaac with an Indian's gun and powder and balls. They made +their way to the meat, took it under their arms, and started upon the +run, guided on their way by the stars. On through the wilderness, amid +the tall trees, over fallen trunks, over stones, through thickets and +tangled brushwood, they travelled till morning, and then crept into a +hollow log.</p> + +<p>Great the consternation in the camp of the Indians. Their captives gone! +a gun lost! At daybreak the Indians, with their dogs, were on the trail, +and in swift pursuit.</p> + +<p>The boys heard the barking of the dogs, which soon came sniffing around +the log. What shall they do now? Isaac is quick-witted.</p> + +<p>"Good fellow, Bose! good fellow! here is some breakfast for you;" and he +tosses the moose meat to them. The dogs know his voice, devour the meat, +and are as happy as dogs can be. The boys are their friends. They cease +barking, and trot around, with no further concern.</p> + +<p>The Indians come up on the run.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_573" id="Page_573">[Pg 573]</a></span> The boys hear their voices, as they +hasten by, followed by their dogs.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 276px;"> +<img src="images/ill_004.jpg" width="276" height="400" alt="ISAAC BRADLEY CARRYING JOSEPH INTO THE SETTLEMENT." title="" /> +<span class="caption">ISAAC BRADLEY CARRYING JOSEPH INTO THE SETTLEMENT.</span> +</div> + +<p>Through the day they lie hidden in the log, and when night comes, strike +out in a different direction from that taken by the Indians. All night +long they travel, nibbling at their hard corn-bread. Morning comes, and +again they conceal themselves. Once more at night they are on the march. +On the third day Isaac shoots a pigeon, but does not dare to kindle a +fire, and they eat it raw. They find a turtle, smash its shell, and eat +the meat. On, day after day, they travel, eating roots, and buds of the +trees just ready to burst into leaf. The sixth day comes, and they +suddenly find themselves close to an Indian camp. They peep through the +underbrush, and see the warriors sitting around their camp fire smoking +their pipes. They steal softly away, and then run as fast as their legs +can carry them. The morning of the eighth day comes. Joseph's strength +is failing; his courage is gone; he cries bitterly. They are in the +wilderness, they know not where, with nothing to eat, their clothes in +rags, their feet bleeding.</p> + +<p>"Cheer up, Joseph; here are some ground-nuts. Here, drink some water," +says Isaac.</p> + +<p>No brave words, no act of kindness, can quicken the courage of the +fainting boy. What shall Isaac do—stay and die with him, or try to find +his own way out? Sad the parting, the younger lying down to die upon a +mossy bank, the older turning away alone, lost in the wilderness.</p> + +<p>With faltering steps, Isaac pushes on, and discerns a house. No one is +there, but he knows there must be white men not far away. With quickened +pulse, he turns back to the dying boy, awakens him from sleep, rubs his +eyes, bathes his temples, cheers him with encouraging words.</p> + +<p>"Come, Joseph, we are saved. There is a house close by."</p> + +<p>Joseph's eyes brighten. He stands upon his feet, walks a few steps, and +falls. Isaac is stronger than ever. He lifts his fainting comrade, takes +him in his arms, staggers on, reaches the empty and desolate house, and +discovers a beaten path leading southward. He goes on, resting now and +then, but ever speaking words of cheer.</p> + +<p>At last they see before them a placid river, and beside it a cluster of +houses. They know that in a few moments they will be once more among +friends, and brave Isaac Bradley is almost overcome with the joy of this +knowledge.</p> + +<p>What a sight is that which the soldier on the look-out at the +garrison-house on the bank of the Saco beholds, just as the sun is going +down—two boys, one carrying the other!</p> + +<p>Saved. They are kindly cared for by the soldiers, their wounds are +dressed, nourishing food is given them, once more they are clothed in +the garments of civilized beings, and there are moist eyes in the +garrison as they tell their thrilling story. And what rejoicing when at +last they reach their homes!</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="TOM_CHESTERS_SILVER_MINE" id="TOM_CHESTERS_SILVER_MINE"></a>TOM CHESTER'S SILVER MINE.</h2> + +<h3>BY A. A. HAYES, JUN.</h3> + +<p>Tom Chester's father lives in a pleasant town in New England, and Tom +himself grew up like other boys in that part of the country. In winter +he went to the village school, in an old red building with a great stove +in one corner, and on his way home "coasted" down the long hill at the +foot of which he lived. In summer he helped the hay-makers, and rode on +the high-piled cart, and went on picnics to Blue Mountain, and bathed in +the clear brook under the willows. He grew to be stout, hardy, and +red-cheeked, very unlike his father, who pored over his books, and took +no exercise, and grew paler and thinner each year.</p> + +<p>One day, as Tom was sitting on the door-step making a whistle out of a +slip of willow, he saw old Dr. W—— drive up in his old-fashioned +"sulky," tie his horse to a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_574" id="Page_574">[Pg 574]</a></span> post, and go to his father's library, +bidding him good-morning as he passed. He remained some time with Mr. +Chester, and as he came out Tom heard him say,</p> + +<p>"Very well, then, we will call that settled. And mind, the sooner you +start, the sooner you may expect to find yourself better and stronger."</p> + +<p>Mr. Chester, who had followed the doctor to the door, saw the inquiring +look on Tom's face, and asked him, with a smile, how he would like to go +to Colorado.</p> + +<p>"What! to dig for silver?" cried Tom.</p> + +<p>"No; to seek for what is more valuable than silver—health," said his +father. "Dr. W—— says that I must go to the Rocky Mountains, and we +shall start in a few days."</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>It was dark when the train rolled into Denver, and Tom, even if he had +not been tired and sleepy, could have seen nothing of the town as they +drove to the hotel. But in the morning, when he woke up and looked out +of the windows of his room, which was on the western side of the house, +he cried aloud with surprise and delight. All along the horizon rose a +great range of mountains, with two lofty peaks towering over the others, +one at the north and the other at the south. They seemed so near that +Tom thought he could walk to them; but when he had dressed himself and +gone down to the office, he asked the clerk how long it would take, and +the man looked at him, and said, "I wouldn't advise you to try, you +little <i>tender-foot</i>."</p> + +<p>"My feet are <i>not</i> tender," replied Tom, sharply.</p> + +<p>The people in the room all laughed, and a miner in a blue flannel shirt +patted Tom on the back, and said, "That's right, my boy. You remind me +of a kid of my own up at Fairplay. The fellow's only chaffing you. When +any one's been just a little while in the country, they always call him +a 'tender-foot.' You mustn't mind that."</p> + +<p>Then he went on to explain to Tom that the foot-hills which looked so +near were at least fifteen or twenty miles away. Then he told him about +the mining towns, or "camps," as they are called, and how the men who +look for mines, called "prospectors," search through the mountains, +seeking signs of silver ore; and that when they find them, they put +stakes in the ground to mark the "claims" which the law allows, or the +right to dig in a space 1500 feet one way and 300 the other. Then he +described how they dig down in hopes of finding what they call "pay +gravel," or ore which contains enough silver to make it worth sending to +the works. He mentioned some men whom he knew who had sold "prospect +holes," as he called them (or shafts partly sunk, and not yet proved to +be good mines), for large sums. Tom was immensely interested in these +narrations, and was eagerly listening when his father came in to find +him.</p> + +<p>"Guess you'd better let me have that boy of yourn to make a miner of, +Colonel," said this new friend to Mr. Chester. "He's got plenty of +<i>sand</i>."</p> + +<p>Mr. Chester knew that people in the West give titles to almost every +one, but it was some time before either he or Tom found out that it was +a great compliment to say that any one had "sand," which means, in the +rough but very expressive language of the mountains, that one possesses +bravery and great strength and force of character.</p> + +<p>After seeing all the sights of Denver, Tom and his father took the train +one morning for a little town called Golden, near the foot-hills. Here +they were transferred to a railroad only three feet wide, and found an +open or "observation" car, from which they could see very well. The +train entered what is called a cañon, or gorge, down which poured the +waters of Clear Creek (which, by-the-way, were not clear at all, but +very muddy). It wound up this cañon, the walls of which seemed to come +together away over the heads of the passengers. No boy who is fortunate +enough to make a journey to Colorado should fail to see this remarkable +place. The little engine tugged at the train, and dragged it up the +steep cañon, and by the side of the winding stream, until it came to a +valley surrounded by high hills, where is the town of Idaho Springs. +Here Tom and his father left the train, and walked to a neat-looking +hotel, where they took up their quarters. Mr. Chester already felt the +benefit of the change of climate, and he wanted to spend much time in +excursions to different points. He and Tom went up by the railroad to +Georgetown, and drove to Central City, and at both places they saw a +great many mines. They went down in buckets, lowered by great ropes, six +and seven hundred feet into the shafts, and then sometimes came out by +tunnels cut from the sides of the hills. They saw mills in which gold +ore was crushed by stamps, or great iron bars falling heavily on it, and +works where silver ore was put into hot furnaces—in fact, they saw so +many things that Tom became rather bewildered. All the time, however, he +found himself thinking about what the miner had told him in Denver, and +longing to try his own hand at prospecting. When he told his father, one +day, that he would like to go up on the hill-sides or in some of the +cañons and look for a mine, the latter at first laughed, and then grew +rather serious, and began to talk about the danger of being led away by +this desire to be suddenly rich without labor.</p> + +<p>"You hear, my boy," he said, "about the one, two, or three men who +succeed, but not a word about the hundreds, and even thousands, who make +failure after failure, and pass their lives in the misery of 'hope +deferred.'"</p> + +<p>Tom listened respectfully to his father, but could not make up his mind +that it would not be a fine thing to find a silver mine. He began to +take walks by himself, and look out for the signs about which various +miners had told him. At times he would think that he had found +something, and he would bring little pieces of rock to show to a friend +whose acquaintance he had made in the little town. This was an old miner +named Sam, a rough but very kind-hearted man, who did not laugh at all, +but told him pleasantly that he had not yet found any mine.</p> + +<p>One day, while walking in a cañon near the hotel, and chipping with a +hammer at the broken rock, he saw two poorly dressed men carrying +bundles, as if on a journey, who stopped and asked what he was doing. +They told him that there was no use in searching in that place, but that +they had an excellent prospect hole, already showing "pay gravel," which +they had been compelled to abandon on account of pressing engagements +elsewhere, and which, although it was worth many thousands, they would +sell him for ten dollars. Poor little Tom had just that sum, which his +father had given him on his birthday, and to which he had proposed to +add his savings, for the purpose of buying some fishing-tackle. Perhaps +his slight "craze" about a mine made him less cautious than usual. At +all events, he accepted the men's offer, and promised to meet them that +afternoon near a tree which they pointed out.</p> + +<p>He was there on the minute, with his ten dollars in his pocket. The men +took him up the hill, and showed him a rather deep hole, into which a +rough ladder led. Down this they went, and Tom saw some ore of just the +kind that his friend Sam had told him he ought to find. Then the men set +two stakes in the ground, on which they rudely marked "T. C.," took his +money, and walked hastily away. Tom went down to the hotel full of his +purchase. His father had gone to Georgetown, but Sam was there, and to +him Tom eagerly narrated what he thought his good fortune. Sam heard him +without remark, and then put on his hat, and taking pick and shovel, +asked Tom to show him the mine. Arriving there, he shovelled up some of +the ore which Tom had seen, and disclosed quite a different rock below. +On this lay a piece of board, which he handed to Tom, who read thereon<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_575" id="Page_575">[Pg 575]</a></span>,</p> + +<p class="center">"u ar sold bad u yung tender-fut this aint no mine."</p> + +<p>For a moment he did not understand; then came a shock of disappointment, +and then a sense of indignation, not so much against the men who had +deceived him as at himself for his delusion and stupidity.</p> + +<p>Sam looked kindly at him. "Pretty rough on you, Tom, wasn't it?" he +said. "Why, my boy, this is an old claim of mine, which I gave up long +ago as no good. They've just gone and salted it—I mean, put some good +ore in to deceive you. So they walked off with your ten dollars, the +miserable scamps! Tell me what they looked like."</p> + +<p>Tom described them.</p> + +<p>"Ho! ho!" said Sam. "I saw those same fellows taking the train for +Denver. I'm going down there to-morrow, and the Chief of Police is a +friend of mine. Perhaps we'll run across them some day."</p> + +<p>As they walked home, he tried to cheer Tom up by telling him stories of +clever men who had been served in similar ways; but Tom was sober, not +on account of his loss, but because it had come to his mind how foolish +he had been from the first. He felt easier when he had told his father +the whole story.</p> + +<p>The latter laughed heartily, and said, "Well, Tom, my boy, considering +how badly you had the mining fever, I do not think that ten dollars was +a large price to pay for a cure."</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>Some time after Tom had returned to his home he received a letter from +Colorado, which proved to be from his friend Sam, reading partly as +follows:</p> + +<p>"... I am glad to tell you that we catched them two claim-jumpers [men +who steal claims]. They'd spent all your stamps, sure enough, and you +won't never see them no more; but it's a comfort that they got two years +at Cañon City [where the penitentiary is]. Better luck next time. Come +out again next summer, and I'll help you find an A1 mine...."</p> + +<p>But Tom says that if he ever has any money at all, it will be earned in +some good old-fashioned way; that he is not a "tender-foot," and that he +does not want any more interest in prospect holes.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="WOLF-CHILDREN" id="WOLF-CHILDREN"></a>WOLF-CHILDREN.</h2> + +<h3>BY JAMES GREENWOOD.</h3> + +<p>Some years ago a soldier stationed at Bondee, in India, while passing +near a small stream, saw three wolf cubs and a boy drinking. He managed +to seize the boy, who seemed about ten years old, but who was so wild +and fierce that he tore the trooper's clothes, and bit him severely in +several places. The soldier at first tied him up in the military gun +shed, and fed him with raw meat; he was afterward allowed to wander +freely about the Bondee bazar. A lad named Tanoo, servant of a Cashmere +merchant then at Bondee, took compassion on the poor boy, and prepared a +bed for him under the mango-tree where he himself lodged; here he kept +him fastened to a tent-pin.</p> + +<p>Up to this time he would eat nothing but raw flesh, but Tanoo gradually +taught him to eat balls of rice and pulse. In about six weeks after he +had been tied up, and after much rubbing of his joints with oil, he was +made to stand and walk upright, whereas hitherto he had gone on all +fours.</p> + +<p>One night, while the boy was lying under the mango-tree, Tanoo saw two +wolves creep stealthily toward him, and after smelling him, they touched +him, when he got up. Instead, however, of being frightened, the boy put +his hand upon their heads, and they began to play with him, capering +about while he pelted them with grass and straw. Tanoo tried to drive +them off, but could not. At last, however, they left, but the following +night three wolves came, and a few nights after four, which returned +several times.</p> + +<p>The wolf-boy, however, could not be entirely reconciled to civilized +life. In being removed from place to place he never lost an opportunity +of endeavoring to escape into the jungle. At last Tanoo was sent away on +a short journey, and when he returned, his savage charge had +disappeared, and was never again heard of.</p> + +<p>The story of another wolf-child is even more wonderful than the above.</p> + +<p>In March, 1843, a cultivator who lived at Chupra, about twenty miles +from Sultanpoor, went to cut his crop of wheat and pulse, taking with +him his wife, and a son about three years old. As the father was +reaping, a wolf suddenly rushed upon the boy, caught him up, and made +off with him toward the ravines. People ran to the aid of the parents, +but soon lost sight of the wolf and his prey.</p> + +<p>About six years afterward, as two sipahees were watching for hogs on the +border of the jungle, they saw three wolf cubs and a boy come out from +the jungle and go down to the stream to drink; all four then ran to a +den in the ravine. The sipahees followed, but the cubs had already +entered, and the boy was half way in, when one of the men caught him by +the leg and drew him back. He was very savage, bit at the men, and +seizing the barrel of one of their guns in his teeth, shook it fiercely. +The sipahees, however, secured him, brought him home, and kept him for +twenty days, during which he would eat nothing but raw flesh, and was +fed accordingly on hares and birds. His captors soon found it difficult +to provide him with sufficient food, and took him to the bazar in the +village of Koeleepoor, to be supported by the charitable till he might +be recognized and claimed by his parents.</p> + +<p>He is unable to speak or to articulate any sound with distinctness. In +drinking, he dips his face in the water, but does not lap like a wolf. +He still prefers raw flesh; and when a bullock dies, and the skin is +removed, he attacks and eats the body in company of the village dogs.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h4><a name="THE_STORY_OF_THE_AMERICAN_NAVY" id="THE_STORY_OF_THE_AMERICAN_NAVY"></a>[Begun in <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span> No. 37, July 13.]</h4> + +<h2>THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN NAVY.</h2> + +<h3>BY BENSON J. LOSSING.</h3> + +<h3><span class="smcap">Chapter IV</span>.</h3> + +<p>Commodore Preble sailed from the United States for the Mediterranean in +the frigate <i>Constitution</i> late in the spring of 1803. The ships of the +squadron did not sail together. Bainbridge, with the frigate +<i>Philadelphia</i>, first entered the Strait of Gibraltar, and found a +Moorish corsair cruising for American prizes. He captured her and took +her to Gibraltar. When Preble arrived he proceeded to Tangiers with the +squadron, when the Emperor of Morocco declared that he had never +authorized any depredations on American commerce. The affair was +amicably settled. Soon afterward the <i>Philadelphia</i> chased a corsair +into the harbor of Tripoli, and in so doing struck upon a sunken rock. +She was fast bound. The Tripolitans captured her, made Bainbridge and +his officers prisoners of war, and consigned the crew to slavery.</p> + +<p>With Preble was Stephen Decatur, a gallant young Lieutenant, son of a +veteran naval commander. He was in charge of the brig <i>Enterprise</i>, with +which, late in December, he captured a Tripolitan ketch laden with girls +which the ruler of Tripoli was sending as a present to the Sultan. The +maidens were landed at Syracuse, and the ketch (which was renamed +<i>Intrepid</i>) was used by Decatur in an attempt to recapture or destroy +the <i>Philadelphia</i>. With seventy daring young men he sailed into the +harbor of Tripoli on a bright moon-lit night (February, 1804), the +<i>Intrepid</i> assuming the character of a vessel in distress. Most of her +officers and men were concealed.</p> + +<p>The <i>Intrepid</i> went alongside the <i>Philadelphia</i>, when<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_576" id="Page_576">[Pg 576]</a></span> Decatur, +followed by his men, who sprang from their hiding-places, boarded the +frigate, slew many of her defenders and drove the rest into the sea, set +her on fire, and escaped with only four men wounded. This daring act +produced great commotion in the harbor. The <i>Philadelphia</i> was soon in +flames; the great guns of the castle and of the corsairs lying near +thundered incessantly; and to this roar of artillery was added that of +the cannons of the frigate as the flames reached them. The heroes of +this exploit were received at Syracuse with demonstrations of great joy, +and Decatur was promoted to Captain. The ruler of Tripoli was abashed by +this display of American energy and valor.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/ill_005.jpg" width="600" height="363" alt="DECATUR AND HIS MEN BOARDING THE GUN-BOAT." title="" /> +<span class="caption">DECATUR AND HIS MEN BOARDING THE GUN-BOAT.</span> +</div> + +<p>The harbor of Tripoli was guarded by batteries mounting more than a +hundred heavy guns, by numerous gun-boats and other vessels, by +twenty-five thousand soldiers, and a sheltering reef. Undismayed by +these, Preble entered the harbor in the summer of 1804, with the +<i>Constitution</i> and several gun-boats, and opened fire on the formidable +defenses. In that engagement Decatur again displayed his valor. He +captured one gun-boat, and boarded another, on which he had a fierce +hand-to-hand fight with its powerful commander, but triumphed. The +Americans withdrew, but renewed the struggle a few days afterward, when +a hot shot exploded the magazine of one of the American gun-boats, +killing two officers and eight of the crew. When the smoke cleared away, +Midshipman Spence and eleven others were seen on the sinking vessel +working her great gun. Giving three cheers, and firing it at the enemy, +they were picked from the water a few minutes later, for the vessel had +gone to the bottom.</p> + +<p>In a fourth attack on Tripoli by the gallant Preble a sad accident +occurred. It was determined to blow up the cruisers in the harbor by a +floating mine or huge torpedo. The <i>Intrepid</i> was laden with a hundred +barrels of gunpowder, over which were laid shot, shell, and irregular +pieces of iron. In charge of Captain Somers, she was towed into the +harbor on a very dark night (September 4, 1804), when all eyes were +strained to observe the result. Suddenly a fierce and lurid light shot +up from the dark bosom of the waters, like a volcanic fire, and was +instantly followed by an explosion that shook earth and air for miles +around. Flaming fragments rose and fell, and then all was profound +darkness again. Somers and his companions were never heard of. They +probably perished by the premature explosion of the mine.</p> + +<p>Soon after this, Preble, who had done excellent service in the +Mediterranean, was relieved by the arrival of Commodore Barron, prepared +to carry on the war with Tripoli vigorously, but it was ended by treaty +early the next year.</p> + +<p>The ruler of Tunis was yet insolent, but the appearance of an American +squadron of thirteen vessels before his capital soon so humbled him that +he sued for peace and made a treaty. A small American naval force was +kept in the Mediterranean, and for several years the Barbary powers kept +their hands off American commerce.</p> + +<p>At the close of the war of 1812-15, the Dey of Algiers, believing the +British navy had utterly destroyed that of the United States, sent out +his corsairs to depredate on our commerce. Determined not to pay tribute +or longer endure his insolence, the United States accepted the Dey's +challenge to war, and sent Commodore Decatur with a small squadron to +humble him. Decatur sailed in May, 1815, and as soon as he entered the +Mediterranean he found the Algerine pirate fleet cruising in search of +American vessels. In June he captured the flag-ship of the Algerine +Admiral and another corsair, with six hundred men. With these he entered +the harbor of Algiers, and demanded the instant surrender of all +American captives in the hands of the Dey, payment in full for all +American property destroyed by his forces, and the relinquishment of all +claims to tribute from the United States thereafter. The terrified ruler +hastened to comply. Obeying the summons of the Commodore, he appeared on +the deck of the <i>Guerrière</i> (the flag-ship), with his civil officers and +the captives. Having complied with all demands, the Dey left the vessel +in deep humiliation.</p> + +<p>Decatur now sailed for Tunis, and demanded and received of its +frightened ruler $46,000, in payment for American vessels which he had +allowed the British to capture in his harbor. Then the Commodore went to +Tripoli, and summoned the Bashaw, or Governor, before him. He demanded +$25,000 of him for similar injuries. The Tripolitan treasury was empty, +and Decatur accepted, in place of cash, eight Danish and two Neapolitan +captives held by the Bashaw.</p> + +<p>This cruise of a little American squadron in the Mediterranean Sea in +the summer of 1815, and its results, gave full security to American +commerce in these waters, and greatly exalted the character of the +government of the United States in the opinion of European nations. A +portion of its navy had accomplished, in the way of humbling the rulers +of the Barbary States, and weakening their power for mischief, what the +combined governments of Europe had not dared to attempt. Decatur was the +most conspicuous hero in the war with the Barbary States.</p> + +<h4>[<span class="smcap">to be continued</span>.]</h4> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_577" id="Page_577">[Pg 577]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 358px;"><a name="WHAT_THE_BUTTERFLY_SAYS" id="WHAT_THE_BUTTERFLY_SAYS"></a> +<img src="images/ill_006.jpg" width="358" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<h2>WHAT THE BUTTERFLY SAYS.</h2> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">Through all the sunny summer days</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">I wander here and there,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">And hardly ever stop to rest</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">A moment anywhere.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">There are so many things to see,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">And time is rather short with me.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">I only have a month or two,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">And time soon runs away</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">When one is seeing something new,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">Or sporting every day.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">And how the little people try</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">To catch me as I flutter by!</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">But I know what they want me for—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">It's not to use me right;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">It's not to give me sunny fields,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">With daisies sprinkled white;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">But just to pin me on the wall</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">To show their friends, and that is all.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="THE_SHIP_OF_THE_DESERT" id="THE_SHIP_OF_THE_DESERT"></a>THE SHIP OF THE DESERT.</h2> + +<h3>BY A. E. T.</h3> + +<p>Unlike other ships, this one begins by being a very feeble and helpless +little craft indeed. For the first week after its launch on the great +sea of life it requires much careful watching on the part of the owners.</p> + +<p>Strange as it may sound, in very truth a baby camel is every whit as +helpless as a human baby. It can not stand alone; without help it can +not so much as take its own food even; while its long neck is at first +so flexible and fragile, that unless some one were constantly at hand to +watch, the poor little creature would run every risk of dislocating it.</p> + +<p>Those who have closely observed camel nature tell us it is never known +to play or frolic like lambs or colts, or like most young creatures of +the earth, in fact; but that in its babyhood it is as grave and +melancholy as in its old age, born apparently with a deep sense of its +own ugliness, and a mournful resignation to a long and joyless career.</p> + +<p>When it has reached its third year the humpbacked animal is counted old +enough to begin its life of labor. The trainers then take it in hand. +They teach it to kneel and bear burdens, which gradually they make +heavier and heavier, until their charge is supposed to have come to the +full strength of camel maturity. This is not until it is about eight +years old.</p> + +<p>If the camel can rise with the load on its back, this is proof positive +that he can carry it throughout the journey, although it sometimes +happens, if the journey be only a very short one, the patient beast is +loaded so heavily that it must be helped on to its feet by means of bars +and levers. In some places camels cry out against this excessive loading +in a most piteous and distressing manner—the cry resembling that of a +very young child in pain, and being a most dismal sound to hear; but in +other parts of the world they will bear their burden, however heavy, +without complaining.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 366px;"> +<img src="images/ill_007.jpg" width="366" height="400" alt="THE CAMEL AND HIS RIDER." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE CAMEL AND HIS RIDER.</span> +</div> + +<p>An ordinary camel's load is from seven to eight hundred pounds. With +this weight on their backs, a train of camels will cross thirty miles of +desert during a day. Those used to carry dispatches, having only the +light weight of the dispatch-bearer, of course are expected to travel +much faster, however, and will easily accomplish two hundred and forty +miles in the same length of time.</p> + +<p>Ungainly, awkward, repulsive-looking as these creatures are, with their +great projecting harelips and their hairy humps, they have the +compensation of being most priceless treasures to all those who "dwell +in tents" in the vast sandy plains of Egypt, Arabia, and Tartary.</p> + +<p>Their stomachs are so formed by nature that they are capable of being +converted into a set of water tanks, a number of small cells filled with +the purest water being fastened to the sides of each, and when all food +fails, it makes little difference to a camel or dromedary—at least for +a time.</p> + +<p>Their humps are composed of a fatty substance. Day by day the hump +diminishes, and the fat is absorbed into the animal's system, furnishing +nourishment until food is forth-coming.</p> + +<p>Thus, with these stores of water and fuel on board, the "ship" can go on +for a fortnight, or even a month, absolutely without eating or drinking, +while things that other creatures—unless, perhaps, it be some bird of +the ostrich tribe—would never dream of touching, will furnish forth a +sumptuous meal for a camel. Off a handful of thorns and briers he can +make an excellent breakfast, and I believe he will not disdain anything +apparently so untempting as a bit of dry wood.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_578" id="Page_578">[Pg 578]</a></span></p> + +<p>Provided that at certain periods of the year a short holiday is allowed +the camel for pasturing, quite at its leisure, to recruit its strength +and fill that store-house on its back with fuel, it will serve its +master, on such meagre fare as I have mentioned, for full fifty years. +Still, all work and no play is as bad for camels as it is for boys.</p> + +<p>Even with plenty of fuel on board, the desert-ship owners are wise +enough not to impose too long journeys upon their heavily laden fleets.</p> + +<p>A camel's foot is of a peculiar formation. It is wide-spreading, and is +provided with fleshy pads or cushions; and if after a certain march rest +were not given, the skin would wear off these pads, the flesh become +bare, bringing consequences direful indeed. Probably the suffering +creature would kneel down, fold its long legs under its body, and +stretching out its long neck on the ground, calmly announce in camel +language that it would go no further. It is no use whatever to try to +make a camel go against his will.</p> + +<p>If it once refuses, you have but two ways open to you: you may quietly +lie down beside it until it is ready to move, or you may abandon it +forever. Other course there is none.</p> + +<p>It is a curious fact that, notwithstanding the softness of the camel's +foot, it can walk over the sharpest stones, or thorns, or roots of trees +without the least danger of wounding itself, and that what this strange +beast most dreads is wet and marshy ground.</p> + +<p>We read that "the instant it places its feet upon anything like mud, it +slips and slides, and generally, after staggering about like a drunken +man, falls heavily on its side."</p> + +<p>The use of the camel to the various peoples of the East is almost +incalculable. Many an Arab finds his chief sustenance in the cheese, +butter, and milk of the mother camel. The flesh of young camels is also +often eaten.</p> + +<p>The Roman Emperor Heliogabalus is said to have reckoned camel's feet one +of the daintiest dainties of his sumptuous banquets, and he considered a +portion of tender camel roast a thing to be by no means despised. To +this day, indeed, camel's hump cut into slices and dissolved in tea is +counted a relish by the Tartar tribes.</p> + +<p>Camel's skin is made into straps and sandals, while brushes and ropes, +cloth and tents, sacks and carpets, are made entirely from camel's hair.</p> + +<p>Every year toward the beginning of summer the camel sheds its hair, +every bristle of which vanishes before the new hair begins to grow. For +three weeks this bare condition lasts. His camelship looks as if he had +been shaved without mercy from the tip of his tail to the top of his +head, and during this shaven season he is extremely sensitive to the +cold or wet, shaking in every limb if a drop of rain falls, shivering +painfully in the chilliness of the night air.</p> + +<p>By-and-by the new hair begins to grow—fine, soft, curly wool that +gradually becomes long, thick, soft fur; and after this, the rain may +rain as much as it likes, the night air may be as chilly as it will, the +camel will not care a grain. In that armor of nature's providing he will +not shiver or shake any more.</p> + +<p>The hair of a camel, on an average, will weigh about ten pounds. It is +said to be sometimes finer than silk, and longer than the wool of a +sheep. In the course of my reading, a short time ago, I met with an +account of a camel market in a town of Tartary especially noted for its +trade in that species of live stock.</p> + +<p>In the centre of Blue Town, it seems, there is a large square, where the +animals are ranged in long rows together, their front feet raised upon +mud elevations constructed expressly for the purpose, the object of +which is to show off the size and height of the ungainly creatures.</p> + +<p>The confusion and noise of this market are described as something +frightful and "indescribable," with the continual chattering of the +buyers and sellers disputing noisily over their bargains, in addition to +the wild shrieking of the camels, whose noses are pulled roughly to make +them show off their agility in rising and kneeling.</p> + +<p>Nature has given the camel, you must remember, no means of defense +except its prolonged piercing cry, and a horrible sneeze of its own, +whereby the object of its hatred is sometimes covered with a mass of +filth from its mouth.</p> + +<p>It can not bite its tormentor, and—at least the Tartar camel—seldom +kicks, or if it does, as seldom does any harm with that fleshy foot of +which I have told you already.</p> + +<p>Can you wonder, then, that the air of Blue Town is made hideous with the +shrieking of the camels as, to test their strength, they are made to +kneel while one thing after another is piled on their backs, and made to +rise under each new burden, until they can rise no longer?</p> + +<p>"Sometimes while the camel is kneeling a man gets upon its hind-heels, +and holds on by the long hair of its hump; if the camel can rise then, +it is considered an animal of superior power"—according to the writer +above quoted.</p> + +<p>"The trade in camels is entirely conducted by proxy; the seller and the +buyer never settle the matter between themselves. They select different +persons to sell their goods, who propose, discuss, and fix the price, +the one looking to the interests of the seller, the other to those of +the purchaser. These 'sale-speakers' exercise no other trade. They go +from market to market, to promote business, as they say. They have +generally a great knowledge of cattle, have much fluency of tongue, and +are, above all, endowed with a knavery beyond all shame. They dispute by +turns furiously and argumentatively as to the merits and defects of the +animal, but as soon as it comes to be a question of price, the tongue is +laid aside as a medium, and the conversation proceeds altogether in +signs."</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="A_LITTLE_GIRLS_ASCENT_OF_VESUVIUS" id="A_LITTLE_GIRLS_ASCENT_OF_VESUVIUS"></a>A LITTLE GIRL'S ASCENT OF VESUVIUS.</h2> + +<h3>BY KATIE C. YORKE.</h3> + +<p>One beautiful morning we took a carriage and started from Naples on a +trip to Mount Vesuvius. We drove along the bay for several miles, and +when we reached the foot of the mountain we began to ascend through vast +fields of lava, which had flowed there during previous eruptions. I +always imagined that lava was white and smooth, but this was of a +grayish-black color, and very ragged.</p> + +<p>The carriage-road ends at the Observatory, which is a building where a +scientific man resides, being appointed by the government to watch the +state of the volcano. He can tell when there is going to be an eruption, +and always notifies the people.</p> + +<p>There we found guides and men with saddled horses waiting to take us to +the foot of the cone. After a short ride we reached it, and dismounted, +and started up. The cone is so steep, and covered with cinders, that +people that are unaccustomed to such walking can't get up it without +assistance, because every step you take you slide back several inches. +We thought we would be pulled up by the guides, but the rest of the +party got tired, and had to be carried on their shoulders. I managed to +walk nearly all the way, and when I got tired my guide carried me too.</p> + +<p>About half way up we stopped at a cave where some men were waiting to +sell us some new Lacrima Christi wine. We drank some, and rested, and +went on to the top. When we reached it we were nearly four thousand feet +above the level of the sea, and had a beautiful view of Naples, the bay, +the islands, the villages, and the surrounding mountains.</p> + +<p>We enjoyed the view very much, but every little while the wind would +blow a cloud of sulphurous vapor<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_579" id="Page_579">[Pg 579]</a></span> from the crater, and nearly suffocate +us. We walked to the edge of the crater and looked down, but we couldn't +see much, because of the vapor. One of the guides went down into it a +little way, and brought us up some pieces of sulphur. The cinders were +so hot they burned our feet, and when we poked sticks into some cavities +they caught fire.</p> + +<p>The thick vapor annoyed us so that we soon decided to go down. Just as +we were starting, the mountain gave a low, deep growl, and trembled +under us, so we were very glad to leave. It was great fun going down, +because the cinders were so loose that at each step we would slide a +long way. Part way down we caught a pale yellow butterfly that was +almost stifled by the sulphurous fumes.</p> + +<p>When we reached the foot of the cone, we found we had been only twenty +minutes coming down, although it took us an hour and a half to go up. No +sooner had we arrived at the Observatory than we were surrounded by +crowds of ragged, beggarly looking men and boys, who insisted on +blacking our shoes, or pretended they had been guides, and tried to make +us pay them for things they had never done at all. We ordered them away, +but they kept on tormenting us, so we jumped into the carriage, and +drove off as fast as we could, leaving them all behind, shouting, +screaming, and wildly gesticulating.</p> + +<p>Since I was there they have built a railroad up the mountain, but I +should not think it would be half so much fun to go up in the cars.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="A_LETTER_FROM_INDIA" id="A_LETTER_FROM_INDIA"></a>A LETTER FROM INDIA.</h2> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Lucknow, India</span>, <i>June 20, 1880</i>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>My Dear Friends,—My auntie has sent me several copies of <span class="smcap">Harper's Young +People</span>, and I thought maybe you would like to know a little how we +children in India live. I don't know anything about your life except +what I read, and my mamma tells me, because I was born here. I am nine +years old, and in a little while we are going home. I say home because +mamma and papa do, but the only home I know is here, where it is so hot +sometimes it seems as if I should die. Last night mamma had to get up +and take a towel as wet as it could be, and rub my sheets with it, +before I could get to sleep at all, and if the punka stops a single +minute, it wakes me right up again. I read my letter to mamma so far, +and she says you won't know what a punka is. That is funny to me; but I +will tell you. They are very stiff cloth things fixed on frames, and +fastened to the ceiling so that they move, and by fanning the air keep a +breeze in the room all the time. There are holes in the wall, and ropes +put through the holes, and a man outside on the veranda pulls the ropes, +and keeps the punka moving. One night I was so hot I got up and went out +on the veranda, but the boards of the step burned my feet; so I slipped +on my slippers, and tried again. There sat the punka wala nodding, fast +asleep, but keeping his arms moving all the time. It looked funny, I can +tell you.</p> + +<p>We have good times in the winter, though. Christmas-day we always have a +picnic. The children of the native Sunday-schools and English schools +join together, and have a good time in some grove. And all through the +winter we play out under the trees, just as mamma says you do in the +summer. But here in summer we can only go out very late in the afternoon +or very early in the morning, because if the mid-day sun touches us, it +will make us very sick, and perhaps we will die. Theo Carter, a girl I +know, when she was real little got away from her nurse, and ran out in +the sun without her hat. It was in the morning, too; and now every time +she gets warm or tired she has the most dreadful headache, and mamma +says she don't believe she will ever be strong, even if she goes to +America. But I guess she would, because everybody that gets sick here +goes to America, else England, and when they come back they are ever so +much better; but sometimes they don't come back, and mamma says people +die even in America.</p> + +<p>There are lots of thieves in this country. One night last week they got +into our house. The servants would keep shutting the bath-room +window—the bath-room is between mamma's room and mine—and we wanted it +open for air, and mamma told them so; but they said the thieves would +climb in from a fig-tree near by. But mamma said if they did, they would +be welcome to all they could get. They did get in, and took the clothes +Bertie and I had worn through the day. Baby woke, and they were probably +frightened, and snatched the first thing they could, which was a box of +homœopathic medicine mamma brought from home. We laughed in the +morning, because they thought, no doubt, it was something valuable, and +it will be worse than nothing to them; but papa says we will cry when we +are sick, and have to take bitter medicine instead of little sugar +pills.</p> + +<p>Last week there was a big procession—something about the +government—and one of papa's friends asked us to go to see it, and ride +on an elephant. I was real glad, for I never rode on one but once, and +then I was so little I don't remember much about it. We had a nice ride. +Papa had one elephant to himself, but mamma and I and Mrs. Carter and +Theo rode on another. We could see into the up-stairs rooms of people's +houses, and it was a delightful view we had of the procession. We had a +real good time until our elephant became frightened at a loud noise they +called music, and trumpeted dreadful loud. We wanted to get off, but our +elephant wouldn't kneel, and the man couldn't make him. Papa came, but +mamma said if we tried to get off 'twould only frighten him more. I was +real scared, and ready to cry; but mamma took hold of my hand, and spoke +just as pleasant as if we were at home, and I didn't think till +afterward how white she looked, nor about that man whose elephant ran +away with him last winter and killed him; but I guess mamma remembered +all the time, for pretty soon the noise passed by, and the men were able +to quiet the elephant, so he kneeled, and let papa help us down. And +when he took mamma, she fainted, and everybody said it was the fright; +but I didn't know she was frightened a bit. I must stop now, because the +Home Mail is going very soon; but if you like this, some time I will +write you again.</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Jennie Anderson</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="LITTLE_COUSIN_RANNA" id="LITTLE_COUSIN_RANNA"></a>LITTLE COUSIN RANNA.</h2> + +<h3>BY MRS. LUCY MORSE.</h3> + +<p>"Will and Almida Handly were rather sorry when they learned that their +little cousin Marianne Joy was coming to make them a long visit.</p> + +<p>"She won't know a bumble-bee from a butternut," said Will. "City +children don't know anything, and she'll be awfully in the way. Won't +she tag after you and me, though, Almy?"</p> + +<p>"Oh dear!" said Almy, in a complaining tone; "we'll have to keep her +every speck of washing and baking days."</p> + +<p>"I wish they'd leave her where she belongs," said Will.</p> + +<p>The children were silent awhile, and then Almy heaved a sigh, and said: +"I s'pose that's just the trouble, Will. If her mother has—has <i>died</i>, +where <i>does</i> she belong? Where would you and I—"</p> + +<p>"I know it," exclaimed Will, gruffly. "Come on, if you want me to help +fix up your old baby-house for her."</p> + +<p>The day after Marianne came the children's feelings were altered. +Walking down the lane all together, the little cousin was dazzled by +buttercups, and ran hither and thither gathering them in such wild +delight that she came upon Dowsabell, the cow, unexpectedly. Dowsy only +raised her sleepy nose from the grass to sniff at the buttercups, but +Marianne dropped the whole bunch, with a cry of terror,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_580" id="Page_580">[Pg 580]</a></span> and ran like +the wind to Will for protection. She flung herself upon him with such a +pretty confidence that Will took her right into his big boyish heart, +and wished on the spot that Dowsy was a raging lion, or, to say the +least, Neighbor Stethaway's cross bull.</p> + +<p>"After all," he confided to Almida, "she's only a poor city child: what +can you expect? <i>I</i> don't mind seeing to her."</p> + +<p>"Laws, no," said Almida, with a matronly air. "And if her father's gone +to Europe, and every day is baking, or washing, or mending, or +something, who is there besides you and me for her to look to, I'd like +to know? Only you needn't think you're going to have more than just your +own half of the care-taking, Will Handly."</p> + +<p>The mother looked on in silence, and understood perfectly the very +things which her children thought she had not noticed.</p> + +<p>"At first I was troubled lest Will and Almy wouldn't notice the child," +she said, one afternoon, to Mrs. Stethaway, as they watched the three +children crossing the opposite field. "Next I thought they would +tyrannize over her, and that Will would tease her to death."</p> + +<p>"And now," said Mrs. Stethaway, "it looks as if they would neglect +everything just to follow her bidding. What are you going to do about +that?"</p> + +<p>"Well," said Mrs. Handly, smiling after the children as they disappeared +among the daisies, "it isn't always that old folks know the best turn to +take. I'm going to see what the little one's course will be. It seems +very much as if my own two children were in the way of getting some +lessons in gentleness and self-forgetfulness from the poor little +motherless child, which I don't know so well as she does how to teach +them."</p> + +<p>The children went through the field, the orchard, and over the bars into +the lane, through which Ria Bell was just driving the cows.</p> + +<p>"Quick! quick! Oh! oh!" screamed Marianne, as soon as she saw the cows.</p> + +<p>"Not that way; you're running right into the face of the enemy, Ranna," +said Will, laughing, and taking hold of her as she was trying to climb +the bars.</p> + +<p>But Ranna struggled, crying, "Get me over! get me over! I ain't 'fraid +of tows; it's the birds;" and was so excited that Will on one side and +Almida on the other lifted her into the lane as quickly as possible.</p> + +<p>"Oh, goodness!" screamed Almy, as Ranna made a dive, right under +Dowsabell's very nose, toward a little mound of leaves. Crouching down +and spreading her arms over it, she looked up at Dowsy so savagely that +Will exclaimed, much amused: "Thunder and lightning! what has poor Dowsy +done? I thought you were afraid of her, Ranna, and now you look ready to +take her by the horns, and are frightened at two poor little robins +flying overhead."</p> + +<p>"No, I ain't. Nor I won't mind Teazle even if he is going to bite +my—my—my head off," cried Ranna, pale with fright, as the dog ran his +nose into her face.</p> + +<p>Will called Teazle away, while he and Almy tried very hard not to laugh.</p> + +<p>"What have you got under the leaves?" asked Will, while Almy stooped +over Ranna, and said, tenderly,</p> + +<p>"Show us your treasure, darling, and we won't tell Teazle, nor Dowsy, +nor anybody a word about it."</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/ill_008.jpg" width="600" height="422" alt="THE FALLEN NEST.—Drawn by S. G. McCutcheon." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE FALLEN NEST.—<span class="smcap">Drawn by S. G. McCutcheon</span>.</span> +</div> + +<p>Ranna sat up, brushed away the leaves, and took from under them a pretty +little nest full of young robins. "They're my own baby birds, and I +thought Dowsy would step on them," she said. "I found them just before I +ran to bring you, only the nest was in a great, ugly, dark bush, where +the poor little birdies couldn't feel any sun shinin', and I brung them +here, and tovered them with leaves, so the chittens wouldn't frighten +them while I was gone. What are those big birds flying round me for? +Tover my<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_581" id="Page_581">[Pg 581]</a></span> birdies up again; they are crying 'cause they are frightened."</p> + +<p>"Hi! ho! hum! Harry!" exclaimed Will. "Those two birds are the excited +and anxious parents of your baby birdies, Ranna, and they feel just +about as comfortable as your father and mother would feel if a great +giant—" But Will remembered suddenly that poor little Ranna had no +mother, and, blushing fiery red, said: "I'm a good-for-nothing old +blunderbuss. You tell her, Almy; it's girl's talk, anyway."</p> + +<p>Almy, with her arms around her little cousin, explained the situation. +Ranna eagerly pointed out the exact spot from which she had taken the +nest, and when Will had carefully restored it, watched with great +delight the old birds return to it.</p> + +<p>"I'll never touch another nest in my life," she said; and holding one +arm tight around Almy's neck, she beckoned to Will with the other. +Putting it around him, she drew his head close down to Almy's, and +whispered: "<i>I</i> don't think you're a <i>bundlefuss</i>, Will. I think you and +Almy know just as well how to take care of little birds when their papas +and mammas can't find them, as you do of little girls when their mammas +is—is—is lost. And I'm going to tell all the children in the world +that when they lose their mammas, the best thing they can do is to find +my cousin Will and my cousin Almy."</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 449px;"> +<img src="images/ill_009.jpg" width="449" height="600" alt=""I'S LEARNING TO SWIM, MAMMA."" title="" /> +<span class="caption">"I'S LEARNING TO SWIM, MAMMA."</span> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_582" id="Page_582">[Pg 582]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"><a name="OUR_POST_OFFICE_BOX" id="OUR_POST_OFFICE_BOX"></a> +<img src="images/ill_010.jpg" width="600" height="257" alt="OUR POST-OFFICE BOX." title="" /> +</div> + +<p>We wish to express to our young correspondents our sincere regret that +our limited space compels us to simply acknowledge so large a number of +the pretty letters which reach us daily from every part of the United +States. Do not think, because your letters are not printed, that we do +not consider them as well written or as interesting as those that are. +We are very sorry not to print all your little histories of your pet +dogs, and kittens, and birds, and other little domestic creatures, or +the excellent descriptions many of you write of the beautiful natural +scenery surrounding your homes; but if there is no more room in Our +Post-office Box, your letters can not be printed. We thank you heartily +for the pleasure you express in "Across the Ocean," "The Moral Pirates," +"Miss Van Winkle's Nap," and other stories and poems; and the eagerness +with which you "run to meet papa when he brings home <span class="smcap">Young People</span>" is +very gratifying. We trust you will continue your pretty favors to us, +and we, in return, will print all of your letters that we can possibly +make room for, and will promise to give you more and more pleasure with +every new number of <span class="smcap">Young People</span>.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Camp Carling, Wyoming Territory</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I have wanted to write to the Post-office Box for a long time, but +mamma said there were so many children writing that my letter +would not be printed.</p> + +<p>We live in a camp, and see many curious things. When we look out +of our windows, we see the <i>aparejos</i>, which are the saddles put +on the mules when they are loaded. The saddles are arranged in +long rows, with pieces of tent cloth thrown over them. Every day +we see a great many mules going out and coming in. Then there is +another queer thing. It is the "condemned heap." Almost every day +my two little brothers go down to the pile and find a great many +treasures. Every month lots of things from the warehouses are +condemned, and brought to the heap to be burned. There are sixteen +warehouses here, filled with government stores.</p> + +<p>A great many of the men who were in the first Ute fight under +Major Thornburgh went from this camp, and we know some of those +that were wounded.</p> + +<p>Every night and morning we hear the bugle-call that tells the +soldiers when to get up, when to go to work, when to stop work, +when to change guard, and when to go to bed. We always feel safe +here, because we are guarded by soldiers.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Edna S. B.</span></span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Needy, Oregon</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I like to read the letters in the Post-office Box of <span class="smcap">Young People</span> +so much that I thought I would write one from 'way out here in the +backwoods of Oregon. I live in the Willamette Valley, where we can +see Mount Hood any time when the weather is clear. It is a +glorious sight, especially in the evening just before sundown. In +the winter and spring the mountain is hid behind clouds more than +half the time. Sometimes the top of it will peep out above the +mist. Then it looks so strange. It is considered to be nearly +12,000 feet high.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Estelle M.</span></span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>It is so nice to have a new <span class="smcap">Young People</span> every week. My papa is an +artist, and I am going to be one too. I draw a picture from <span class="smcap">Young +People</span> almost every day, and I read about Rosa Bonheur, and Miss +Thompson, and all the great painters.</p> + +<p>I have been to the Zoological Gardens. I rode the donkeys and the +elephant, and I have made their pictures. I have a little Zoo in +our back yard. I have a nice cat, two rabbits named Jack and Jill, +and a turtle, and a fish in an aquarium that eats flies from my +hands. My bird died, and papa painted its portrait. I called the +picture "The Burial of the Dead Bird."</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">M. Electa F.</span></span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Ottawa, Ohio</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I am nine years old, and for my birthday present mamma gave me one +year's subscription to <span class="smcap">Young People</span>, beginning with the first +number. I like "The Moral Pirates" very much, and I was just +wishing for a serial with girls in it, and the very next paper had +the beginning of "Miss Van Winkle's Nap." I was delighted with it. +I think the stories about Mr. Martin and Miss Pamela Plumstone's +piano are so funny.</p> + +<p>As Fourth of July came on Sunday this year, we had no public +celebration, but some of the children in our neighborhood got up a +celebration of their own at our house. Mamma made the oration, and +played the national airs on the piano, after which we had a +parade. We all had paper caps, and we had a flag and a +drummer-boy. My little two-year-old cousin Gordon brought up the +rear of the procession, with a paper cap on, and as gay as any of +us.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Bertha K.</span></span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Jericho, Long Island</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I am a little girl ten years old, and I have a sister one year +younger. We have very nice times together.</p> + +<p>About a week ago my papa found a poor little bird with its wing +broken. We took it home and fed it, and we thought it was getting +better, but it died.</p> + +<p>I have seen some letters from the children about little turtles. +Once we had one, and we used to dig worms for it to eat. It was in +a globe, and once when we did not dig worms enough it ate the tail +of one of the gold-fish.</p> + +<p>We tried Sadie McB.'s recipe for candy, and it was a success.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">M. J. L.</span></span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Lockport, New York</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I saw some letters in Our Post-office Box asking for remedies for +songless canaries. We have used "Sheppard's Canary Powder, or Song +Restorer," for our canary, and found it very beneficial.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Alice</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Bridgeport, Connecticut</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>My mamma raised four canaries this spring. The first one mamma had +to feed, and it is very tame. We are training it to do tricks. +When our birds are sick and do not sing, mamma gives them "Dr. +Gunning's Universal Bird Tonic," and it always restores their +song.</p> + +<p>I have two gold-fish. I did have three, but one died, and I buried +it in the yard, under the Madeira vines.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Blanche T. S.</span></span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">San Jose, California</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I tried Louisa W.'s recipe for Everton taffy, only I added half a +tea-cupful of water. I like it very much.</p> + +<p>Here is a recipe for white candy: Two cups of white crushed sugar; +three-quarters of a cup of water; one table-spoonful of cream of +tartar. Boil quickly, trying a little in water occasionally until +it crisps. Then add half a tea-spoonful of soda. Pour it in a +buttered pan until it is cool enough to pull. I am ten years old.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">May J.</span></span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I love <span class="smcap">Young People</span> very much. Soon as papa brings it home I read +it to my two little sisters. We are very much interested in "The +Moral Pirates." I am ten years old, and I go to school every day. +Can any one tell me if the flamingo is of any use?</p> + +<p>Here is a recipe for the cooking club. Marble cake—light part: +One and a half cups of white sugar; half a cup of butter; half a +cup of sweet milk; the whites of four eggs; two and a half cups of +flour; half a tea-spoonful of soda; one tea-spoonful of cream of +tartar or one tea-spoonful of baking powder; beat the eggs and +sugar together, mix the cream of tartar with the flour, and +dissolve the soda in the milk. Dark part: One cup of brown sugar; +half a cup of molasses; half a cup of sour milk; the yolks of four +eggs; two and a half cups of flour; half a tea-spoonful of soda; +half a tea-spoonful of clove and of cinnamon. Put a layer of the +dark batter in the pan, then a layer of light, until the pan is +full.</p> + +<p>I should like to exchange pressed flowers with any little girl in +California.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Myrta Gates</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;">Clarion, Wright County, Iowa.</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>Everything has its uses in the great economy of nature, and although we +can not always see why it is necessary for certain things to exist, we +may be sure that they were all created for some purpose. The flamingo, +however, is useful as an article of food. In certain parts of Egypt and +the East roast flamingo is considered very delicate eating, and in +ancient times a stew of flamingo tongues was a royal dish. It is also a +very beautiful bird. Travellers say there is no sight more magnificent +than a flock of scarlet flamingos wading in the green waving water +grasses, hunting for their breakfast in the morning sunlight. The +flamingo, if it could speak, might answer your question in the words of +Mr. Emerson, the poet:</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">"Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">Then beauty is its own excuse for being."</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I am nine years old, and I wish to send the cooking club a recipe +for "one-two-three-four cake": One cup of butter; two cups of +sugar; three cups of flour; four eggs; half a cup of milk; the +grated rind of one lemon; a pinch of salt; one tea-spoonful of +royal baking powder.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Clara S. A.</span></span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">New York City</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I have taken <span class="smcap">Young People</span> from the first number, and I think it is +a very nice paper. I like to read about the pets of the other +children, and I will tell them about a pet cat I had when we lived +in Chicago. Her name was Daisy, and as she was black and white, we +thought it a pretty name for her. My little brother Jack had a +pair of bantam chickens. One day when Daisy was asleep in the yard +the rooster flew on her back and picked her left eye out. Grandma, +who was in the yard at the time, told the cook to bring Daisy in, +while she went for her feather and goose-grease, and put some on +the wounded eye. The next day it was healed, but the sight was +gone. Once when Daisy had some little kittens she put them in a +hen's nest. When the hen came into the nest she would keep the +little things quiet by pecking them on the head if they cried. The +kittens and chickens grew to be great friends. They would eat out +of the same dish, and when night came they would all go to the +chicken-coop together. The kittens slept in the nest, and the +chickens on the roost. Were they not a happy family?</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><small>Bessie G.</small></span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Brooklyn, New York</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I am very sorry I forgot the flour in my recipe for apple-cake in +Post-office Box, No. 37. There should be enough prepared flour +added to make a stiff batter. It is better to bake it in a shallow +pan.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">L. Grace P.</span></span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Keene, New Hampshire</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I think "Across the Ocean" was a splendid story. I read it all. +But now I like "The Moral Pirates'" the best.</p> + +<p>I have forty-six pet rabbits. They all have black eyes and black +ears. And I have two kittens which are very pretty. Their names +are Tiger and Malt.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Walter H. P.</span></span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>My sister and I have just tried Kitty G.'s recipe for +butter-scotch, and found it very nice indeed.</p> + +<p>We are making a collection of postage stamps, and would like to +exchange with any correspondents of <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span>.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Alfred Hussey</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">23 Hawthorn Street, New Bedford, Massachusetts.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I would like to exchange birds' eggs with any one living in the +South or West.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">F. Noble</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Milldale, Connecticut.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Lula Barlow can preserve eggs by piercing a small hole at each end +of the egg, and blowing out the inside. Eggs can be sent safely by +mail in a box filled with cotton.</p> + +<p>I would like to exchange postage stamps of different nations with +any of those correspondents asking exchange, or with any other +readers of <span class="smcap">Young People</span>.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Harry Dubbs</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">229 West Chestnut Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I would like to exchange specimens of woods indigenous to this +climate for those of other climates, specimens to be about three +inches long by three-quarters of an inch thick, and to have a knot +in them if possible. I have cypress, magnolia, mimosa, Cottonwood, +althea, prickly ash, fig, crepe myrtle, sweet-gum, and black-gum. +Correspondents willing to exchange will please send me a list of +what woods they can obtain, and their full address.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Bery C. Brown</span>, Jun.,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">P. O. Box 870, Little Rock, Arkansas.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I am collecting postage stamps, and would be glad to exchange with +any of the readers of <span class="smcap">Young People</span>. I also have a collection of +bugs.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Vernon L. Kellogg</span>, Emporia, Kansas.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I have made the acquaintance of several boys who read <span class="smcap">Young +People</span>, through the Post-office Box, as I am collecting postage +stamps. If others who have not yet written are doing the same, I +would like to exchange with them. I wrote to Sidney St. W., but he +has not yet answered me. I am eleven years old. My younger +brother, Charlie, is collecting postmarks, and has already eleven +hundred and seventy-five. He would like to exchange with any of +the boys.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Lewis S. Mudge</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Princeton, New Jersey.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>We have <span class="smcap">Young People</span>, and like it very much. I would like to tell +some of the boys and girls who live far away something about my +home and pleasures. The name of my home is Baywood Lodge. It is +within a stone's-throw of a beautiful sheet of water known as +Hempstead Bay. We sail, row, swim, and fish, and we have horses, +and enjoy riding horseback too.</p> + +<p>There is a camp very near us, in the woods. There are about thirty +people, and they have five tents, and their horses.</p> + +<p>I would like to exchange foreign postage stamps with any boys who +read <span class="smcap">Young People</span>.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Arthur Lawrence Valk</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Baywood Lodge, Port Washington, Long Island.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I am making a collection of postage stamps, and I would like to +exchange with any of the readers of <span class="smcap">Young People</span> in Canada. I will +exchange United States stamps for Canadian stamps.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">J. M. Wolfe</span>, P. O. Box 423,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Lewisburg, Union County, Pennsylvania.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p><span class="smcap">H. P. C.</span>—The quail builds its nest on the ground, among bushes or tall +grass. The nesting-time is early in June, and when you find<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_583" id="Page_583">[Pg 583]</a></span> ten or more +little white eggs, you may be sure the bird has commenced setting. The +eggs are about the size of a pigeon's egg, and pointed at one end like a +boy's wooden top. When the little birds are hatched they are as strong +as little chickens, and the mother bird takes them off to ramble about +the thicket in the same way as a hen leads her brood. The quail is a +plump grayish-brown bird, speckled with black and white. Its peculiar +whistle may be heard anywhere in the country all the long summer day. +Children often imitate the sound, and imagine that the quail is always +screaming "more wet"; and in truth the quail's note does resemble those +words, with a short, quick accent on the last sound, as if the bird was +constantly entreating nature for a refreshing summer shower.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p><span class="smcap">A. S. Daggett</span>.—You do not need cards to play the geographical game. If +you wish, you can get blank cards, and write them yourself; but the game +is made more lively and instructive by leaving the answers to the +geographical knowledge and quick memory of the players.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Edith H. Thomas</span>.—Write directly to the correspondent you wish to +exchange with.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Anna M. R.</span>—Many thanks for your description of the curious things +exhibited at the Nashville Centennial. We are sorry it is too long to +print.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Wat H. T. M.</span>—We acknowledge with thanks the account you send us of +Washington's birth-place, near which historical locality you live.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>Favors are acknowledged from Charles S. R., Rena and Frank Stearns, +Bessie Clark, Romeo and Juliet, W. W. Eaton, Charles L. B., Thomas H. +Van T., Katrina, Charlie D., Leila Mackay, Gracie D. Ely, Charley J. +Kennedy, Louis L. G., Mary W. W., V. Fannie L., Susie Mulholland, John +B. Maxwell, Asa M. Steele, Arthur McKeen, Lulu E., Charles C. M., Belle +Matteson, Annie H. R., John Leeper, Carrie B. Thompson, Albert Smith, +Eddie M., Freddie Hyers, Mary E. P., Alice Green, Carrie E. Riley, +Hallie S. Morgan, Louie Van A., Thad. B. Tobey.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>Correct answers to puzzles are received from Alice Grady, "North Star," +Benny W. L., Ermie Garden, Allie Mason, Eddie A. Leet, Ernest G. Young, +Fred Haswell, Marguerite Bucknall, Willard H. Francis, Willie and Henry +Western, Fred J. Purdy, Leon C. Bogart, Hugh Downing, Alson A. G., Clara +L. Kellogg, Sarah B., Willie T. B., Alice Williams, Willie C., +"Dominus," Bessie Guyton, T. L. Drew, Mary L. McVean, George L. Osgood, +W. V. Fowler, K. R., Albert and Laura Ellard, Alfy G. Dale, Rebecca +Hedges.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.</h3> + +<h3>No. 1.</h3> + +<h3>ENIGMA.</h3> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">One-third of sun, one-fourth of none,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">One-fifth of weary, one-sixth of dreary,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">One-third of oak, one-fifth of broke,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">One-fourth of kite, if read aright,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">And placed in line correct and true,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">Will give a city's name to you.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">A. B.</span></span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>No. 2.</h3> + +<h3>DOUBLE ACROSTIC.</h3> + +<p class="center">A beast. A chain of mountains in Asia. An eatable. To observe. Something +used in ancient warfare. Answer—Two wild beasts.</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">H. F. P.</span></span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>No. 3.</h3> + +<h3>NUMERICAL CHARADE.</h3> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 14em;">I am a large island lying far away toward the south pole, and am composed of 14 letters.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">My 9, 6, 4, 13, 3 is not small.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">My 10, 8, 12, 7 is food for beasts.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">My 1, 14, 11, 5 is a journey.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">My 10, 2, 13 is a fruit.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Katie</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>No. 4.</h3> + +<h3>DIAMOND.</h3> + +<p class="center">In leopard. Something all creatures do. A flexible substance. A number. +In tiger.</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">W. D. G.</span></span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>No. 5.</h3> + +<h3>WORD SQUARE.</h3> + +<p class="center">First, congealed vapor. Second, a number. Third, formerly. Fourth, a +division of time.</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">M. E. N.</span></span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>No. 6.</h3> + +<h3>ENIGMA.</h3> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">My first is in laugh, but not in cry.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">My second is in tall, but not in high.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">My third is in fig, but not in plum.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">My fourth is in speak, but not in dumb.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">My fifth is in yours, but not in his.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">My sixth is in been, but not in is.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">My seventh is in tame, but not in wild.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">My eighth is in infant, not in child.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">My ninth is in village, not in town.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">My whole was a general of renown.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Ada</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN NO. 37.</h3> + +<h3>No. 1.</h3> + +<p class="center">Shark, hark, ark.</p> + +<h3>No. 2.</h3> + +<p class="center">Diamond.</p> + +<h3>No. 3.</h3> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="10%" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'>D</td><td align='left'>A</td><td align='left'>S</td><td align='left'>H</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>A</td><td align='left'>R</td><td align='left'>E</td><td align='left'>A</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>S</td><td align='left'>E</td><td align='left'>A</td><td align='left'>L</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>H</td><td align='left'>A</td><td align='left'>L</td><td align='left'>O</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<h3>No. 4.</h3> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="10%" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>T</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>R</td><td align='left'>A</td><td align='left'>T</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>T</td><td align='left'>A</td><td align='left'>R</td><td align='left'>R</td><td align='left'>Y</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>T</td><td align='left'>R</td><td align='left'>Y</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>Y</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<h3>No. 5.</h3> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="10%" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'>C</td><td align='center'>hatha</td><td align='right'>M</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>A</td><td align='center'>ncon</td><td align='right'>A</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>S</td><td align='center'>antande</td><td align='right'>R</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>P</td><td align='center'>otsda</td><td align='right'>M</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>I</td><td align='center'>salc</td><td align='right'>O</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>A</td><td align='center'>y</td><td align='right'>R</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>N</td><td align='center'>icaragu</td><td align='right'>A</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<p class="center">Caspian, Marmora.</p> + +<h3>No. 6.</h3> + +<p class="center">Oliver Goldsmith.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>ADVERTISEMENTS.</h2> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE.</h2> + +<p><span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span> will be issued every Tuesday, and may be had at +the following rates—<i>payable in advance, postage free</i>:</p> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Single Copies</span></td><td align='right'>$0.04</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">One Subscription</span>, <i>one year</i></td><td align='right'>1.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Five Subscriptions</span>, <i>one year</i></td><td align='right'>7.00</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<p>Subscriptions may begin with any Number. 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Illustrated. 2 vols., 16mo, Cloth, $2.50.</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<h3>Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York.</h3> + +<h4>☞ <i>Sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the +United States, on receipt of the price.</i></h4> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_584" id="Page_584">[Pg 584]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 541px;"> +<img src="images/ill_011.jpg" width="541" height="600" alt="PLEASANT FOR JIM. Small Boy. "Oh-ow-ow! Look out, Jim—here is a great b-b-b-big Bull-dog +coming at us!"" title="" /> +<span class="caption">PLEASANT FOR JIM.<br /><br /><span class="smcap">Small Boy</span>. "Oh-ow-ow! Look out, Jim—here is a great b-b-b-big Bull-dog coming at us!"</span> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="MORE_MIRTHFUL_MAGIC" id="MORE_MIRTHFUL_MAGIC"></a>MORE MIRTHFUL MAGIC.</h2> + +<h3>BY W. B. BARTLETT.</h3> + +<h3>THE BOOK PUZZLE.</h3> + +<p>The player agrees to let any person in the room turn over as many books, +one at a time, as desired, while he is out of the room, and promises to +tell you, upon his return, which book was turned over last. He goes out, +and comes back when the person who turned the books says, "Come in." +When he opens the door, he says, "You must stay outside while I find +out, so no one will suspect us of being in league with each other." The +one who turned the books is then shut out, and the other selects any +thin book, and leans it against the door, and says, "Come in." As the +door is opened, of course the book is turned over on the floor, and the +victim is told, "That is the last book you turned over."</p> + +<h3>THE NEWSPAPER TRICK.</h3> + +<p>Take a common newspaper or handkerchief, and request any one of the +company to place it on the floor so that two persons can stand upon it +at the same time, and neither be able to see or touch the other.</p> + +<p><i>Answer.</i>—Place it across the door-sill, and let one stand upon it in +the entry. Then close the door, and ask the other to step upon the other +end in the room, and neither can see nor touch the other, for the door +prevents.</p> + +<h3>THE COW PUZZLE.</h3> + +<p>Tell the company that seven cows were walking in a straight line into a +narrow door, and say to them, "If you should ask the last cow, 'How many +pairs of horns are before you?' what would she reply?"</p> + +<p>Some will answer, "One pair," and some, "Seven pairs," but after +puzzling them for a while, you can reply, "In the opinion of most +scientists, she would not say anything, for she could not speak, poor +thing!"</p> + +<h3>ANOTHER COW PUZZLE.</h3> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/ill_012.jpg" width="200" height="181" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Draw a square with a lead-pencil, and say, "Suppose this field was +inclosed with walls fifty feet high, without opening or possibility of +digging under, and a cow was in there, how could you get it out?"</p> + +<p><i>Answer.</i>—Rub it out.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="CHARADE" id="CHARADE"></a>CHARADE.</h2> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">As by the fire the lovers sit,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">On rosy wings the moments flit;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">One little word confirms their bliss,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">And seals it with a loving kiss.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">That bliss they never could sustain</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Without my second's golden grain;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Yet if it does attend their feet,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Their daily walk is incomplete.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">My whole leaps forth from out the flame,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Airy and light, but still the same;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Showing a hard and common thing</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Made pure and white through suffering.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="THE_USEFUL_SUNFLOWER" id="THE_USEFUL_SUNFLOWER"></a>THE USEFUL SUNFLOWER.</h2> + +<p>In Southwestern Russia, between the Baltic and the Black seas, the +sunflower is universally cultivated in fields, gardens, and borders, and +every part of the plant is turned to practical account. A hundred pounds +of the seeds yield forty pounds of oil, and the pressed residue forms a +wholesome food for cattle, as also do the leaves and the green stalks, +cut up small, all being eagerly eaten. The fresh flowers, when a little +short of full bloom, furnish a dish for the table which bears favorable +comparison with the artichoke. They contain a large quantity of honey, +and so prove an attraction to bees. The seeds are a valuable food for +poultry; ground into flour, pastry and cakes can be made from them; and +boiled in alum and water, they yield a blue coloring matter. The +carefully dried leaf is used as tobacco. The seed receptacles are made +into blotting-paper, and the inner part of the stalk into a fine +writing-paper; the woody portions are consumed as fuel, and from the +resulting ash valuable potash is obtained. Large plantations of them in +swampy places are a protection against intermittent fever.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/ill_013.jpg" width="600" height="497" alt="A NAUGHTY LITTLE DOG. "You bad dog, you's done gone tore my bes' bunnit mos' to pieces. I's a +big min' to gib you a whippin' that you'll 'member. Yes, I has."" title="" /> +<span class="caption">A NAUGHTY LITTLE DOG.<br /><br />"You bad dog, you's done gone tore my bes' bunnit mos' to pieces. I's a +big min' to gib you a whippin' that you'll 'member. Yes, I has."</span> +</div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, August 3, 1880, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, AUG 3, 1880 *** + +***** This file should be named 29066-h.htm or 29066-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/9/0/6/29066/ + +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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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, August 3, 1880 + An Illustrated Weekly + +Author: Various + +Release Date: June 8, 2009 [EBook #29066] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, AUG 3, 1880 *** + + + + +Produced by Annie McGuire + + + + + + + + +[Illustration: HARPER'S + +YOUNG PEOPLE + +AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.] + + * * * * * + +VOL. I.--NO. 40. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR +CENTS. + +Tuesday, August 3, 1880. Copyright, 1880, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50 +per Year, in Advance. + + * * * * * + + + + +[Illustration: GOING THROUGH THE LOCK.--DRAWN BY A. B. FROST.] + +[Begun in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 31, June 1.] + +THE MORAL PIRATES. + +BY W. L. ALDEN. + + +CHAPTER X. + +The policeman did not return, and the boys slept until an hour after +sunrise. They then rowed down the river to the steamboat landing, where +they left their boat in charge of a boatman, and went to a hotel for +breakfast. The waiters were rather astonished at the tremendous +appetites displayed by the four sunburned boys, and there is no doubt +that the landlord lost money that morning. After breakfast, Harry went +to the express office, where he found a large water-proof India rubber +bag, which the Department had sent in answer to his letter. At the +post-office were letters from home for all the boys, and a postal order +for ten dollars from Uncle John for the use of the expedition. Harry had +no idea that this money would be needed, but it subsequently proved to +be very useful. + +Quite a quantity of stores were bought at Albany, for the voyage up the +Hudson had lasted longer than any one had supposed it would, and the +provisions were getting low. No unnecessary time was spent in buying +these stores, for a fair wind was blowing, and all the boys were anxious +to take advantage of it. By ten o'clock they were again afloat, and soon +after noon they reached Troy, and entered the canal. + +The canal basin was crowded with canal-boats, and to avoid accidents the +_Whitewing's_ mast was taken down, and the oars were got out. Harry knew +that, in order to pass through the locks, it would be necessary to pay +toll, and to procure an order from the canal authorities directing the +lock-men to permit the _Whitewing_ to pass. The canal boatmen, of whom +he made inquiries, told him where to find the office, which was some +little distance up the canal. When the office was reached, an officer +came and inspected the boat, asked a great many questions about the +cruise up the Hudson, and seemed to be very much interested in the +expedition. He told the boys that the water was low in the Champlain +Canal, and that the lock-men might not be willing to open the locks for +so small a boat; but that they could avoid all dispute by entering the +locks at the same time with some one of the many canal-boats that were +on their way north. He charged the _Whitewing_ the enormous sum of +twenty-five cents for tolls, and gave Harry an important-looking order, +by which the lock-men were directed to allow the skiff _Whitewing_, +Captain Harry Wilson, to pass through all the locks on the canal. + +Thanking the pleasant officer, the boys pushed off. After they had +passed the place where the Champlain Canal branches off from the Erie +Canal, they were no longer troubled by a crowd of canal-boats, and were +able to set the sail again. Unluckily, the mast was just a little too +high to pass under the bridges, and at the first bridge which they met +they narrowly escaped a capsize--Jim succeeding in getting the mast down +only just in time to save it from striking the bridge. They had hardly +set sail again when another bridge came in sight, and they could see +just beyond it a third bridge. It would never do to stop at every bridge +and unship the mast, so Harry went on shore, borrowed a saw from a +cooper's shop, and sawed six inches off from the top of the mast, after +which the bridges gave them no more trouble. + +The boys were very much interested in passing the first lock. They +slipped into the lock behind a big canal-boat, which left just room +enough between its rudder and the gate for the _Whitewing_. When the +lock-men shut the gate behind the boat, and opened the sluices in the +upper gate, the water rose slowly and steadily. The sides of the lock +were so steep and black that the boys felt very much as if they were at +the bottom of a well; but it was not many minutes before the water had +risen so high that the upper gates were opened, and the big canal-boat +and its little follower were released. + +Passing through a lock in a small boat, and in company with a +canal-boat, is not a perfectly safe thing to do, for if the ropes which +fasten the canal-boat should break--which they sometimes do--the water +rushing in through the sluices would force the canal-boat against the +lower gate, and crush the small boat like an egg-shell. It is therefore +best always to pass through a lock alone, or in company with other small +boats. The danger, however, is in reality very slight, and very few +accidents occur in canal locks. + +The wind died away before sunset; and the boys having had only a light +lunch, which they ate on the boat, were glad to go ashore for supper. +They bought some corn from a farmer, and roasted it before the fire, +while some nice slices of ham were frying, and the coffee-pot was +boiling, and so prepared a supper which they greatly enjoyed. The moon +came up before they had finished the meal, and they felt strongly +tempted to make another attempt at night-work. + +"I'll tell you what we can do," exclaimed Harry. "Instead of rowing, +let's tow the boat. One fellow can tow while another steers, and the +rest can sleep in the boat." + +"All right," said Joe. "I'm willing to be a mule. Only I'd like to know +where my harness is coming from." + +"We've got rope enough for that," replied Harry. "I'll take the first +turn, and tow for an hour, while Joe steers; then I'll steer for an +hour, while Joe tows. Then the other watch will take charge of the boat +for two hours, and Joe and I will sleep." + +"If I'm to sleep on the bottom of that boat," said Joe, "I want some +nice sharp stones to sleep on. I'm tired of sleeping on coffee-pots, and +want a change." + +A long tow-line was soon rigged on Harry's shoulders in such a way that +it did not chafe him; a space in the bottom of the boat was cleared of +coffee-pots and other uncomfortable articles, and a pair of blankets was +spread on the bottom board, so as to make a comfortable bed, which Tom +and Jim hastened to occupy. Joe took the yoke-lines in his hand, and +called to Harry to go ahead. When Harry first tugged at the tow-line, +the boat seemed very heavy; but as soon as she was in motion, Harry +found that he could tow her as fast as he could walk, and without any +difficulty. + +Had the locks been open and the canal-boats been out of the way, the +experiment of towing the _Whitewing_ at night would have been very +successful. As it happened, the locks were kept closed during the night, +because the water was low; and the canal-boats, not being able to pass +the locks, were moored to the tow-path. These boats gave Harry and Joe a +great deal of trouble. When one of them was met, Harry had to unharness +himself and toss the rope into the boat, and Joe had to get out an oar +and scull around the obstacle. This happened so often that Tom and Jim +got very little sleep; and long before it was time for them to resume +duty, a lock was reached, and Harry had to call all hands to drag the +boat around it. + +This was a hard piece of work. First, all the heavy things had to be +taken out of the boat and carried around the lock. Then the boat had to +be dragged out of the canal on to the tow-path, hauled up a steep +ascent, and launched above the upper gate. It took a good half-hour to +pass the first of these closed locks, and when the boat was again ready +to start, it was time to change the watch. + +Tom and Jim had managed to get only a few minutes' sleep, but Harry and +Joe could not sleep a single wink. They had not "turned in" for more +than ten minutes when another lock was reached. This involved a second +half-hour of hard work by all hands, and twenty minutes later three more +locks close together blocked the way. It was foolish to persevere in +dragging the boat around locks all night long; so, after getting her out +of the canal on the side opposite to the tow-path, the boys dragged her +behind some bushes, where the canal boatmen could not see her at +daylight. They then spread their rubber blankets on the ground, and +prepared to sleep through the remaining four or five hours of darkness. + +"Boys," said Joe, suddenly, "does it hurt a fat woman to jump on her?" + +"Don't know," answered Harry. "What do you ask for?" + +"Oh, nothing," said Joe. "Only when I was jumping from one canal-boat to +another while I was a mule, I landed awfully heavy on a fat woman who +was sleeping on deck." + +"What did she do?" asked Harry. + +"She didn't do anything. She just muttered something that I could not +understand, and I got away as quickly as possible." + +"Well, if she likes it, that's her business, not yours," suggested +Harry. "Go to sleep, do!" + +"I am going to sleep; but I don't think we ought to spend our nights in +getting run down by steamboats and jumping on strange fat women. I'm +sure it isn't right. There, you needn't throw any more shoes at me. I +won't say another word." + +[TO BE CONTINUED.] + + + + +SOME TRUE STORIES ABOUT STEEPLES. + +BY C. F. M. + + +A great many years ago a hurricane occurred in Utica, New York. Just as +it began it was noticed that a heavy swing sign in front of a store was +held out in a horizontal position for some time. + +Before long the force of the wind increased to such a degree that +several houses on Genesee Street Hill were unroofed, and the spire of +the Second Presbyterian Church was thrown to the ground. + +After the storm was over it was discovered that the rod holding the +weather-vane on the top of the tall steeple of the First Presbyterian +Church was bent so that it became nearly horizontal. It was unsightly; +but how to repair the injury was the question. It would be no easy task, +as there was a large ball, or globe, on the rod below the vane. After a +while a sailor offered his services. He ascended the steeple, and +climbed the rod until he came just beneath the globe. Then he threw a +rope out a good many times, until, after a while, the end looped around +over the rod, above the globe, long enough to reach to him. Twisting the +rope together, he let go of the iron rod, and trusting himself to the +rope, swung out free. By climbing it he now managed to get on the top of +the globe. Standing there, he succeeded in straightening the rod that +held the weather-vane. + +Now how was he to get down? Again trusting to the rope that was fastened +to the rod above the globe, he swung free at a great height from the +earth; then lowering himself, and swinging back and forth, he managed to +grasp the rod beneath the globe, and soon reaching the spire, descended. + +The steeple of Salisbury Cathedral is the highest in England, and next +to that of Strasbourg Cathedral, the highest in Europe. Every year a man +climbs to the top to grease the weather-vane. This is done by ascending +the inside as far as possible, and then going out of a manhole and +climbing the rest of the way by means of the brass staples fastened on +the outer wall. + +Once on a festal occasion, when the King was present, a reward was +offered, as usual, to any person who would ascend and attend to the +weather-vane. A sailor agreed to do it, and ascended in the way I have +told you, until he came to the copestone, when, to show what he could +do, he stood on his head. Then performing the task he was sent to do, +that of greasing the vane, he descended, and claimed his reward. But the +King was so exasperated at the sailor for needlessly frightening the +people by standing on his head at such a great height, that he would not +allow him to be paid. + +A long time ago, in the town of Northam, England, the steeple of the +church was found to be unsteady. It swayed back and forth whenever the +great bell struck, and continued to sway thus, until, as it leaned over +on one side, it opened large cracks on the opposite. + +It was not long before the boys of the town found this out, and the +bright idea entered the head of one of them, and was by him told to the +others, that it would be a capital place to crack nuts. So, boy-like, +they had to try it, and standing at the base of the spire, would fill +the cracks as far as they could reach with good English walnuts, and +then stand back for the steeple to return to an upright position, +cracking the nuts. As the great clock in the tower struck, the jar +caused the spire to lean in the opposite direction. The boys now got +their nuts, and then put in more, that the operation might be repeated, +for they considered it rare sport. + +But in the course of time the people of the town who had such matters in +charge decided that the steeple was unsafe, and strengthened it with +bands of iron; but this not proving satisfactory, after a while each +stone was numbered, and the steeple taken down and rebuilt in the old +style. And from that day to this, to the regret of the boys, it has +never been known to crack nuts. + +During a great fire in New York, a few years ago, one of the buildings +destroyed was a church having a very tall steeple. The flames ran up +inside this steeple, and, bursting out at the top, melted the zinc and +copper about the lightning rod, so that they fell in showers of green, +gold, and crimson fire, producing a spectacle of most wondrous beauty. + + + + +FLOWER QUEENS OF NIGHT. + +BY MARGARET EYTINGE. + + + "Pretty, fragrant four-o'clocks," + Said the rose one day, + "Pity 'tis your buds unfold + Into blossoms gay + When the west begins to burn + With the sunset light-- + Sweetness wondrous rare to waste + On the drowsy night. + + "Other blooms have birds to sing, + Bees to hum, their praise, + Butterflies to visit them + Through the summer days. + Bee but seldom hums for you, + Bird but seldom sings, + Butterfly is ne'er your guest, + Pretty, fragrant things." + + "Lovely, graceful, crimson rose," + Said the modest flowers, + "Though the sun we scarcely know, + Happiness is ours. + Moon we have, and sparkling stars + (Each a heavenly gem), + And their light so gentle is, + We can look at them. + + "And the flashing fire-flies + Round us gleam and glance, + Like a countless host of fays + In an airy dance. + And the moth king, velvet-winged, + Dainty kiss bestows, + As he whispers, 'You are sweet, + Sweet as any rose.' + + "Grieve no more for us, dear friend; + Thrice content we are, + Loved by moth and fire-fly, + Dew-drop, moon, and star. + And while you o'er garden reign + In the bright daylight, + We are hailed by wand'ring winds, + Flower queens of night." + + + + +OLD TIMES IN THE COLONIES. + +BY CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN. + + +No. III. + +ISAAC BRADLEY AND JOSEPH WHITTAKER. + +Twelve miles from the sea, on the bank of the Merrimac River, is the +busy town of Haverhill. It was a small settlement in 1690. There was a +cluster of houses and a meeting-house. The country beyond, all the way +to Canada, was a wilderness. The Indians came down the river in their +bark canoes, carrying them past the falls where the city of Lowell now +stands, past Amoskeag Falls, where the Manchester factories to-day are +humming. They caught beaver, bear, and foxes, and sold the furs to the +traders. + +The Indians were under the influence of the French, and when war broke +out between France and England for the restoration of James II. to the +throne from which he had fled, the settlers of Haverhill, in common with +the people all along the frontier, knew that the Indians, influenced by +the French in Canada, might be upon them at any moment. + +[Illustration: EARLY SETTLERS GOING TO MEETING.--DRAWN BY HOWARD PYLE.] + +The settlers had their guns ever at hand. If at work in the field, they +placed them where they could seize them quickly. When they went to bed +at night, they put a stout bar of wood across the door, and examined +the flints and the priming. On Sunday, when they went to meeting, each +man carried his gun, and the minister looked down from the pulpit upon +men who had powder-horns and bullet-pouches slung across their +shoulders, and whose muskets were standing in the corners of their pews. +Some of the settlers kept watch outside while the others were in +meeting. They went on scouts through the dark woods, peering among the +trees to see if the Indians were prowling in the vicinity. + +The settlers were obliged to work hard. While the men were at work in +the fields, the women were spinning and weaving. Boys and girls had +little time for play. There was always something for them to do. When a +boy was sixteen years old, he was expected to do the work of a man. They +all learned to shoot, and some of them, when they were only twelve, +could bring down a squirrel from the highest tree every time, or shoot a +deer upon the run. + +Two boys--Isaac Bradley, who was fifteen years old, and Joseph +Whittaker, who was eleven--were at work one day in Mr. Bradley's field, +when suddenly a party of Indians sprang out from the woods and seized +them. Isaac was small, but he was bright, cool-headed, and +brave-hearted. Joseph, though four years younger, was as large as Isaac, +but he was not so stout-hearted nor self-reliant as his companion. + +The Indians were from Canada. They did not stop to kill any of the +settlers, but hastened away, travelling through the dark woods northward +to the beautiful Lake Winnipiseogee, where they remained through the +winter. The lake swarmed with trout and pickerel, which they could catch +through the ice, and the woods were full of bears and deer. + +Isaac made himself at home in the wigwam, and picked up the language of +the Indians in a very short time. The squaws made him do their drudgery; +but the warriors liked him, and the Indian dogs wagged their tails when +he looked at them out of his kindly eyes. + +Winter passed and April came. + +"We go to Canada now," said one of the Indians. + +Isaac had no intention of going to Canada. Day after day he thought over +the matter. He knew that the English settlements were far away to the +south, but there was no path to them. He had no compass. How could he +ever reach them? He would be guided by the sun by day, and the stars by +night. He would make the attempt. He might perish, but death was better +than captivity. + +"I am going to try it to-morrow night, but I am afraid you won't wake," +he said to Joseph, who always slept soundly, and snored in his sleep. + +"Oh yes, I will," Joseph replied. + +The Indians had killed a moose, and Isaac had managed to hide a large +piece of meat in the bushes near the camp. He filled his pockets with +their corn-bread. Night came. All were asleep except Isaac, who was so +excited by the thought of escaping that his eyes would not close. Every +sense was quickened. He arose softly and touched Joseph, who was sound +asleep. He did not stir, and Isaac shook him harder. + +"What do you want?" Joseph asked. + +In an instant Isaac was stretched out, snoring; but the Indians did not +wake, and after a little while the boys arose softly, and crept out of +the wigwam, Isaac with an Indian's gun and powder and balls. They made +their way to the meat, took it under their arms, and started upon the +run, guided on their way by the stars. On through the wilderness, amid +the tall trees, over fallen trunks, over stones, through thickets and +tangled brushwood, they travelled till morning, and then crept into a +hollow log. + +Great the consternation in the camp of the Indians. Their captives gone! +a gun lost! At daybreak the Indians, with their dogs, were on the trail, +and in swift pursuit. + +The boys heard the barking of the dogs, which soon came sniffing around +the log. What shall they do now? Isaac is quick-witted. + +"Good fellow, Bose! good fellow! here is some breakfast for you;" and he +tosses the moose meat to them. The dogs know his voice, devour the meat, +and are as happy as dogs can be. The boys are their friends. They cease +barking, and trot around, with no further concern. + +The Indians come up on the run. The boys hear their voices, as they +hasten by, followed by their dogs. + +Through the day they lie hidden in the log, and when night comes, strike +out in a different direction from that taken by the Indians. All night +long they travel, nibbling at their hard corn-bread. Morning comes, and +again they conceal themselves. Once more at night they are on the march. +On the third day Isaac shoots a pigeon, but does not dare to kindle a +fire, and they eat it raw. They find a turtle, smash its shell, and eat +the meat. On, day after day, they travel, eating roots, and buds of the +trees just ready to burst into leaf. The sixth day comes, and they +suddenly find themselves close to an Indian camp. They peep through the +underbrush, and see the warriors sitting around their camp fire smoking +their pipes. They steal softly away, and then run as fast as their legs +can carry them. The morning of the eighth day comes. Joseph's strength +is failing; his courage is gone; he cries bitterly. They are in the +wilderness, they know not where, with nothing to eat, their clothes in +rags, their feet bleeding. + +"Cheer up, Joseph; here are some ground-nuts. Here, drink some water," +says Isaac. + +No brave words, no act of kindness, can quicken the courage of the +fainting boy. What shall Isaac do--stay and die with him, or try to find +his own way out? Sad the parting, the younger lying down to die upon a +mossy bank, the older turning away alone, lost in the wilderness. + +With faltering steps, Isaac pushes on, and discerns a house. No one is +there, but he knows there must be white men not far away. With quickened +pulse, he turns back to the dying boy, awakens him from sleep, rubs his +eyes, bathes his temples, cheers him with encouraging words. + +"Come, Joseph, we are saved. There is a house close by." + +Joseph's eyes brighten. He stands upon his feet, walks a few steps, and +falls. Isaac is stronger than ever. He lifts his fainting comrade, takes +him in his arms, staggers on, reaches the empty and desolate house, and +discovers a beaten path leading southward. He goes on, resting now and +then, but ever speaking words of cheer. + +At last they see before them a placid river, and beside it a cluster of +houses. They know that in a few moments they will be once more among +friends, and brave Isaac Bradley is almost overcome with the joy of this +knowledge. + +[Illustration: ISAAC BRADLEY CARRYING JOSEPH INTO THE SETTLEMENT.] + +What a sight is that which the soldier on the look-out at the +garrison-house on the bank of the Saco beholds, just as the sun is going +down--two boys, one carrying the other! + +Saved. They are kindly cared for by the soldiers, their wounds are +dressed, nourishing food is given them, once more they are clothed in +the garments of civilized beings, and there are moist eyes in the +garrison as they tell their thrilling story. And what rejoicing when at +last they reach their homes! + + + + +TOM CHESTER'S SILVER MINE. + +BY A. A. HAYES, JUN. + + +Tom Chester's father lives in a pleasant town in New England, and Tom +himself grew up like other boys in that part of the country. In winter +he went to the village school, in an old red building with a great stove +in one corner, and on his way home "coasted" down the long hill at the +foot of which he lived. In summer he helped the hay-makers, and rode on +the high-piled cart, and went on picnics to Blue Mountain, and bathed in +the clear brook under the willows. He grew to be stout, hardy, and +red-cheeked, very unlike his father, who pored over his books, and took +no exercise, and grew paler and thinner each year. + +One day, as Tom was sitting on the door-step making a whistle out of a +slip of willow, he saw old Dr. W---- drive up in his old-fashioned +"sulky," tie his horse to a post, and go to his father's library, +bidding him good-morning as he passed. He remained some time with Mr. +Chester, and as he came out Tom heard him say, + +"Very well, then, we will call that settled. And mind, the sooner you +start, the sooner you may expect to find yourself better and stronger." + +Mr. Chester, who had followed the doctor to the door, saw the inquiring +look on Tom's face, and asked him, with a smile, how he would like to go +to Colorado. + +"What! to dig for silver?" cried Tom. + +"No; to seek for what is more valuable than silver--health," said his +father. "Dr. W---- says that I must go to the Rocky Mountains, and we +shall start in a few days." + + * * * * * + +It was dark when the train rolled into Denver, and Tom, even if he had +not been tired and sleepy, could have seen nothing of the town as they +drove to the hotel. But in the morning, when he woke up and looked out +of the windows of his room, which was on the western side of the house, +he cried aloud with surprise and delight. All along the horizon rose a +great range of mountains, with two lofty peaks towering over the others, +one at the north and the other at the south. They seemed so near that +Tom thought he could walk to them; but when he had dressed himself and +gone down to the office, he asked the clerk how long it would take, and +the man looked at him, and said, "I wouldn't advise you to try, you +little _tender-foot_." + +"My feet are _not_ tender," replied Tom, sharply. + +The people in the room all laughed, and a miner in a blue flannel shirt +patted Tom on the back, and said, "That's right, my boy. You remind me +of a kid of my own up at Fairplay. The fellow's only chaffing you. When +any one's been just a little while in the country, they always call him +a 'tender-foot.' You mustn't mind that." + +Then he went on to explain to Tom that the foot-hills which looked so +near were at least fifteen or twenty miles away. Then he told him about +the mining towns, or "camps," as they are called, and how the men who +look for mines, called "prospectors," search through the mountains, +seeking signs of silver ore; and that when they find them, they put +stakes in the ground to mark the "claims" which the law allows, or the +right to dig in a space 1500 feet one way and 300 the other. Then he +described how they dig down in hopes of finding what they call "pay +gravel," or ore which contains enough silver to make it worth sending to +the works. He mentioned some men whom he knew who had sold "prospect +holes," as he called them (or shafts partly sunk, and not yet proved to +be good mines), for large sums. Tom was immensely interested in these +narrations, and was eagerly listening when his father came in to find +him. + +"Guess you'd better let me have that boy of yourn to make a miner of, +Colonel," said this new friend to Mr. Chester. "He's got plenty of +_sand_." + +Mr. Chester knew that people in the West give titles to almost every +one, but it was some time before either he or Tom found out that it was +a great compliment to say that any one had "sand," which means, in the +rough but very expressive language of the mountains, that one possesses +bravery and great strength and force of character. + +After seeing all the sights of Denver, Tom and his father took the train +one morning for a little town called Golden, near the foot-hills. Here +they were transferred to a railroad only three feet wide, and found an +open or "observation" car, from which they could see very well. The +train entered what is called a canyon, or gorge, down which poured the +waters of Clear Creek (which, by-the-way, were not clear at all, but +very muddy). It wound up this canyon, the walls of which seemed to come +together away over the heads of the passengers. No boy who is fortunate +enough to make a journey to Colorado should fail to see this remarkable +place. The little engine tugged at the train, and dragged it up the +steep canyon, and by the side of the winding stream, until it came to a +valley surrounded by high hills, where is the town of Idaho Springs. +Here Tom and his father left the train, and walked to a neat-looking +hotel, where they took up their quarters. Mr. Chester already felt the +benefit of the change of climate, and he wanted to spend much time in +excursions to different points. He and Tom went up by the railroad to +Georgetown, and drove to Central City, and at both places they saw a +great many mines. They went down in buckets, lowered by great ropes, six +and seven hundred feet into the shafts, and then sometimes came out by +tunnels cut from the sides of the hills. They saw mills in which gold +ore was crushed by stamps, or great iron bars falling heavily on it, and +works where silver ore was put into hot furnaces--in fact, they saw so +many things that Tom became rather bewildered. All the time, however, he +found himself thinking about what the miner had told him in Denver, and +longing to try his own hand at prospecting. When he told his father, one +day, that he would like to go up on the hill-sides or in some of the +canyons and look for a mine, the latter at first laughed, and then grew +rather serious, and began to talk about the danger of being led away by +this desire to be suddenly rich without labor. + +"You hear, my boy," he said, "about the one, two, or three men who +succeed, but not a word about the hundreds, and even thousands, who make +failure after failure, and pass their lives in the misery of 'hope +deferred.'" + +Tom listened respectfully to his father, but could not make up his mind +that it would not be a fine thing to find a silver mine. He began to +take walks by himself, and look out for the signs about which various +miners had told him. At times he would think that he had found +something, and he would bring little pieces of rock to show to a friend +whose acquaintance he had made in the little town. This was an old miner +named Sam, a rough but very kind-hearted man, who did not laugh at all, +but told him pleasantly that he had not yet found any mine. + +One day, while walking in a canyon near the hotel, and chipping with a +hammer at the broken rock, he saw two poorly dressed men carrying +bundles, as if on a journey, who stopped and asked what he was doing. +They told him that there was no use in searching in that place, but that +they had an excellent prospect hole, already showing "pay gravel," which +they had been compelled to abandon on account of pressing engagements +elsewhere, and which, although it was worth many thousands, they would +sell him for ten dollars. Poor little Tom had just that sum, which his +father had given him on his birthday, and to which he had proposed to +add his savings, for the purpose of buying some fishing-tackle. Perhaps +his slight "craze" about a mine made him less cautious than usual. At +all events, he accepted the men's offer, and promised to meet them that +afternoon near a tree which they pointed out. + +He was there on the minute, with his ten dollars in his pocket. The men +took him up the hill, and showed him a rather deep hole, into which a +rough ladder led. Down this they went, and Tom saw some ore of just the +kind that his friend Sam had told him he ought to find. Then the men set +two stakes in the ground, on which they rudely marked "T. C.," took his +money, and walked hastily away. Tom went down to the hotel full of his +purchase. His father had gone to Georgetown, but Sam was there, and to +him Tom eagerly narrated what he thought his good fortune. Sam heard him +without remark, and then put on his hat, and taking pick and shovel, +asked Tom to show him the mine. Arriving there, he shovelled up some of +the ore which Tom had seen, and disclosed quite a different rock below. +On this lay a piece of board, which he handed to Tom, who read thereon, + +"u ar sold bad u yung tender-fut this aint no mine." + +For a moment he did not understand; then came a shock of disappointment, +and then a sense of indignation, not so much against the men who had +deceived him as at himself for his delusion and stupidity. + +Sam looked kindly at him. "Pretty rough on you, Tom, wasn't it?" he +said. "Why, my boy, this is an old claim of mine, which I gave up long +ago as no good. They've just gone and salted it--I mean, put some good +ore in to deceive you. So they walked off with your ten dollars, the +miserable scamps! Tell me what they looked like." + +Tom described them. + +"Ho! ho!" said Sam. "I saw those same fellows taking the train for +Denver. I'm going down there to-morrow, and the Chief of Police is a +friend of mine. Perhaps we'll run across them some day." + +As they walked home, he tried to cheer Tom up by telling him stories of +clever men who had been served in similar ways; but Tom was sober, not +on account of his loss, but because it had come to his mind how foolish +he had been from the first. He felt easier when he had told his father +the whole story. + +The latter laughed heartily, and said, "Well, Tom, my boy, considering +how badly you had the mining fever, I do not think that ten dollars was +a large price to pay for a cure." + + * * * * * + +Some time after Tom had returned to his home he received a letter from +Colorado, which proved to be from his friend Sam, reading partly as +follows: + +"... I am glad to tell you that we catched them two claim-jumpers [men +who steal claims]. They'd spent all your stamps, sure enough, and you +won't never see them no more; but it's a comfort that they got two years +at Canyon City [where the penitentiary is]. Better luck next time. Come +out again next summer, and I'll help you find an A1 mine...." + +But Tom says that if he ever has any money at all, it will be earned in +some good old-fashioned way; that he is not a "tender-foot," and that he +does not want any more interest in prospect holes. + + + + +WOLF-CHILDREN. + +BY JAMES GREENWOOD. + + +Some years ago a soldier stationed at Bondee, in India, while passing +near a small stream, saw three wolf cubs and a boy drinking. He managed +to seize the boy, who seemed about ten years old, but who was so wild +and fierce that he tore the trooper's clothes, and bit him severely in +several places. The soldier at first tied him up in the military gun +shed, and fed him with raw meat; he was afterward allowed to wander +freely about the Bondee bazar. A lad named Tanoo, servant of a Cashmere +merchant then at Bondee, took compassion on the poor boy, and prepared a +bed for him under the mango-tree where he himself lodged; here he kept +him fastened to a tent-pin. + +Up to this time he would eat nothing but raw flesh, but Tanoo gradually +taught him to eat balls of rice and pulse. In about six weeks after he +had been tied up, and after much rubbing of his joints with oil, he was +made to stand and walk upright, whereas hitherto he had gone on all +fours. + +One night, while the boy was lying under the mango-tree, Tanoo saw two +wolves creep stealthily toward him, and after smelling him, they touched +him, when he got up. Instead, however, of being frightened, the boy put +his hand upon their heads, and they began to play with him, capering +about while he pelted them with grass and straw. Tanoo tried to drive +them off, but could not. At last, however, they left, but the following +night three wolves came, and a few nights after four, which returned +several times. + +The wolf-boy, however, could not be entirely reconciled to civilized +life. In being removed from place to place he never lost an opportunity +of endeavoring to escape into the jungle. At last Tanoo was sent away on +a short journey, and when he returned, his savage charge had +disappeared, and was never again heard of. + +The story of another wolf-child is even more wonderful than the above. + +In March, 1843, a cultivator who lived at Chupra, about twenty miles +from Sultanpoor, went to cut his crop of wheat and pulse, taking with +him his wife, and a son about three years old. As the father was +reaping, a wolf suddenly rushed upon the boy, caught him up, and made +off with him toward the ravines. People ran to the aid of the parents, +but soon lost sight of the wolf and his prey. + +About six years afterward, as two sipahees were watching for hogs on the +border of the jungle, they saw three wolf cubs and a boy come out from +the jungle and go down to the stream to drink; all four then ran to a +den in the ravine. The sipahees followed, but the cubs had already +entered, and the boy was half way in, when one of the men caught him by +the leg and drew him back. He was very savage, bit at the men, and +seizing the barrel of one of their guns in his teeth, shook it fiercely. +The sipahees, however, secured him, brought him home, and kept him for +twenty days, during which he would eat nothing but raw flesh, and was +fed accordingly on hares and birds. His captors soon found it difficult +to provide him with sufficient food, and took him to the bazar in the +village of Koeleepoor, to be supported by the charitable till he might +be recognized and claimed by his parents. + +He is unable to speak or to articulate any sound with distinctness. In +drinking, he dips his face in the water, but does not lap like a wolf. +He still prefers raw flesh; and when a bullock dies, and the skin is +removed, he attacks and eats the body in company of the village dogs. + + + + +[Begun in HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE No. 37, July 13.] + +THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN NAVY. + +BY BENSON J. LOSSING. + + +CHAPTER IV. + +Commodore Preble sailed from the United States for the Mediterranean in +the frigate _Constitution_ late in the spring of 1803. The ships of the +squadron did not sail together. Bainbridge, with the frigate +_Philadelphia_, first entered the Strait of Gibraltar, and found a +Moorish corsair cruising for American prizes. He captured her and took +her to Gibraltar. When Preble arrived he proceeded to Tangiers with the +squadron, when the Emperor of Morocco declared that he had never +authorized any depredations on American commerce. The affair was +amicably settled. Soon afterward the _Philadelphia_ chased a corsair +into the harbor of Tripoli, and in so doing struck upon a sunken rock. +She was fast bound. The Tripolitans captured her, made Bainbridge and +his officers prisoners of war, and consigned the crew to slavery. + +With Preble was Stephen Decatur, a gallant young Lieutenant, son of a +veteran naval commander. He was in charge of the brig _Enterprise_, with +which, late in December, he captured a Tripolitan ketch laden with girls +which the ruler of Tripoli was sending as a present to the Sultan. The +maidens were landed at Syracuse, and the ketch (which was renamed +_Intrepid_) was used by Decatur in an attempt to recapture or destroy +the _Philadelphia_. With seventy daring young men he sailed into the +harbor of Tripoli on a bright moon-lit night (February, 1804), the +_Intrepid_ assuming the character of a vessel in distress. Most of her +officers and men were concealed. + +The _Intrepid_ went alongside the _Philadelphia_, when Decatur, +followed by his men, who sprang from their hiding-places, boarded the +frigate, slew many of her defenders and drove the rest into the sea, set +her on fire, and escaped with only four men wounded. This daring act +produced great commotion in the harbor. The _Philadelphia_ was soon in +flames; the great guns of the castle and of the corsairs lying near +thundered incessantly; and to this roar of artillery was added that of +the cannons of the frigate as the flames reached them. The heroes of +this exploit were received at Syracuse with demonstrations of great joy, +and Decatur was promoted to Captain. The ruler of Tripoli was abashed by +this display of American energy and valor. + +[Illustration: DECATUR AND HIS MEN BOARDING THE GUN-BOAT.] + +The harbor of Tripoli was guarded by batteries mounting more than a +hundred heavy guns, by numerous gun-boats and other vessels, by +twenty-five thousand soldiers, and a sheltering reef. Undismayed by +these, Preble entered the harbor in the summer of 1804, with the +_Constitution_ and several gun-boats, and opened fire on the formidable +defenses. In that engagement Decatur again displayed his valor. He +captured one gun-boat, and boarded another, on which he had a fierce +hand-to-hand fight with its powerful commander, but triumphed. The +Americans withdrew, but renewed the struggle a few days afterward, when +a hot shot exploded the magazine of one of the American gun-boats, +killing two officers and eight of the crew. When the smoke cleared away, +Midshipman Spence and eleven others were seen on the sinking vessel +working her great gun. Giving three cheers, and firing it at the enemy, +they were picked from the water a few minutes later, for the vessel had +gone to the bottom. + +In a fourth attack on Tripoli by the gallant Preble a sad accident +occurred. It was determined to blow up the cruisers in the harbor by a +floating mine or huge torpedo. The _Intrepid_ was laden with a hundred +barrels of gunpowder, over which were laid shot, shell, and irregular +pieces of iron. In charge of Captain Somers, she was towed into the +harbor on a very dark night (September 4, 1804), when all eyes were +strained to observe the result. Suddenly a fierce and lurid light shot +up from the dark bosom of the waters, like a volcanic fire, and was +instantly followed by an explosion that shook earth and air for miles +around. Flaming fragments rose and fell, and then all was profound +darkness again. Somers and his companions were never heard of. They +probably perished by the premature explosion of the mine. + +Soon after this, Preble, who had done excellent service in the +Mediterranean, was relieved by the arrival of Commodore Barron, prepared +to carry on the war with Tripoli vigorously, but it was ended by treaty +early the next year. + +The ruler of Tunis was yet insolent, but the appearance of an American +squadron of thirteen vessels before his capital soon so humbled him that +he sued for peace and made a treaty. A small American naval force was +kept in the Mediterranean, and for several years the Barbary powers kept +their hands off American commerce. + +At the close of the war of 1812-15, the Dey of Algiers, believing the +British navy had utterly destroyed that of the United States, sent out +his corsairs to depredate on our commerce. Determined not to pay tribute +or longer endure his insolence, the United States accepted the Dey's +challenge to war, and sent Commodore Decatur with a small squadron to +humble him. Decatur sailed in May, 1815, and as soon as he entered the +Mediterranean he found the Algerine pirate fleet cruising in search of +American vessels. In June he captured the flag-ship of the Algerine +Admiral and another corsair, with six hundred men. With these he entered +the harbor of Algiers, and demanded the instant surrender of all +American captives in the hands of the Dey, payment in full for all +American property destroyed by his forces, and the relinquishment of all +claims to tribute from the United States thereafter. The terrified ruler +hastened to comply. Obeying the summons of the Commodore, he appeared on +the deck of the _Guerriere_ (the flag-ship), with his civil officers and +the captives. Having complied with all demands, the Dey left the vessel +in deep humiliation. + +Decatur now sailed for Tunis, and demanded and received of its +frightened ruler $46,000, in payment for American vessels which he had +allowed the British to capture in his harbor. Then the Commodore went to +Tripoli, and summoned the Bashaw, or Governor, before him. He demanded +$25,000 of him for similar injuries. The Tripolitan treasury was empty, +and Decatur accepted, in place of cash, eight Danish and two Neapolitan +captives held by the Bashaw. + +This cruise of a little American squadron in the Mediterranean Sea in +the summer of 1815, and its results, gave full security to American +commerce in these waters, and greatly exalted the character of the +government of the United States in the opinion of European nations. A +portion of its navy had accomplished, in the way of humbling the rulers +of the Barbary States, and weakening their power for mischief, what the +combined governments of Europe had not dared to attempt. Decatur was the +most conspicuous hero in the war with the Barbary States. + +[TO BE CONTINUED.] + + + + +[Illustration] + +WHAT THE BUTTERFLY SAYS. + + + Through all the sunny summer days + I wander here and there, + And hardly ever stop to rest + A moment anywhere. + There are so many things to see, + And time is rather short with me. + + I only have a month or two, + And time soon runs away + When one is seeing something new, + Or sporting every day. + And how the little people try + To catch me as I flutter by! + + But I know what they want me for-- + It's not to use me right; + It's not to give me sunny fields, + With daisies sprinkled white; + But just to pin me on the wall + To show their friends, and that is all. + + + + +THE SHIP OF THE DESERT. + +BY A. E. T. + + +Unlike other ships, this one begins by being a very feeble and helpless +little craft indeed. For the first week after its launch on the great +sea of life it requires much careful watching on the part of the owners. + +Strange as it may sound, in very truth a baby camel is every whit as +helpless as a human baby. It can not stand alone; without help it can +not so much as take its own food even; while its long neck is at first +so flexible and fragile, that unless some one were constantly at hand to +watch, the poor little creature would run every risk of dislocating it. + +Those who have closely observed camel nature tell us it is never known +to play or frolic like lambs or colts, or like most young creatures of +the earth, in fact; but that in its babyhood it is as grave and +melancholy as in its old age, born apparently with a deep sense of its +own ugliness, and a mournful resignation to a long and joyless career. + +When it has reached its third year the humpbacked animal is counted old +enough to begin its life of labor. The trainers then take it in hand. +They teach it to kneel and bear burdens, which gradually they make +heavier and heavier, until their charge is supposed to have come to the +full strength of camel maturity. This is not until it is about eight +years old. + +If the camel can rise with the load on its back, this is proof positive +that he can carry it throughout the journey, although it sometimes +happens, if the journey be only a very short one, the patient beast is +loaded so heavily that it must be helped on to its feet by means of bars +and levers. In some places camels cry out against this excessive loading +in a most piteous and distressing manner--the cry resembling that of a +very young child in pain, and being a most dismal sound to hear; but in +other parts of the world they will bear their burden, however heavy, +without complaining. + +[Illustration: THE CAMEL AND HIS RIDER.] + +An ordinary camel's load is from seven to eight hundred pounds. With +this weight on their backs, a train of camels will cross thirty miles of +desert during a day. Those used to carry dispatches, having only the +light weight of the dispatch-bearer, of course are expected to travel +much faster, however, and will easily accomplish two hundred and forty +miles in the same length of time. + +Ungainly, awkward, repulsive-looking as these creatures are, with their +great projecting harelips and their hairy humps, they have the +compensation of being most priceless treasures to all those who "dwell +in tents" in the vast sandy plains of Egypt, Arabia, and Tartary. + +Their stomachs are so formed by nature that they are capable of being +converted into a set of water tanks, a number of small cells filled with +the purest water being fastened to the sides of each, and when all food +fails, it makes little difference to a camel or dromedary--at least for +a time. + +Their humps are composed of a fatty substance. Day by day the hump +diminishes, and the fat is absorbed into the animal's system, furnishing +nourishment until food is forth-coming. + +Thus, with these stores of water and fuel on board, the "ship" can go on +for a fortnight, or even a month, absolutely without eating or drinking, +while things that other creatures--unless, perhaps, it be some bird of +the ostrich tribe--would never dream of touching, will furnish forth a +sumptuous meal for a camel. Off a handful of thorns and briers he can +make an excellent breakfast, and I believe he will not disdain anything +apparently so untempting as a bit of dry wood. + +Provided that at certain periods of the year a short holiday is allowed +the camel for pasturing, quite at its leisure, to recruit its strength +and fill that store-house on its back with fuel, it will serve its +master, on such meagre fare as I have mentioned, for full fifty years. +Still, all work and no play is as bad for camels as it is for boys. + +Even with plenty of fuel on board, the desert-ship owners are wise +enough not to impose too long journeys upon their heavily laden fleets. + +A camel's foot is of a peculiar formation. It is wide-spreading, and is +provided with fleshy pads or cushions; and if after a certain march rest +were not given, the skin would wear off these pads, the flesh become +bare, bringing consequences direful indeed. Probably the suffering +creature would kneel down, fold its long legs under its body, and +stretching out its long neck on the ground, calmly announce in camel +language that it would go no further. It is no use whatever to try to +make a camel go against his will. + +If it once refuses, you have but two ways open to you: you may quietly +lie down beside it until it is ready to move, or you may abandon it +forever. Other course there is none. + +It is a curious fact that, notwithstanding the softness of the camel's +foot, it can walk over the sharpest stones, or thorns, or roots of trees +without the least danger of wounding itself, and that what this strange +beast most dreads is wet and marshy ground. + +We read that "the instant it places its feet upon anything like mud, it +slips and slides, and generally, after staggering about like a drunken +man, falls heavily on its side." + +The use of the camel to the various peoples of the East is almost +incalculable. Many an Arab finds his chief sustenance in the cheese, +butter, and milk of the mother camel. The flesh of young camels is also +often eaten. + +The Roman Emperor Heliogabalus is said to have reckoned camel's feet one +of the daintiest dainties of his sumptuous banquets, and he considered a +portion of tender camel roast a thing to be by no means despised. To +this day, indeed, camel's hump cut into slices and dissolved in tea is +counted a relish by the Tartar tribes. + +Camel's skin is made into straps and sandals, while brushes and ropes, +cloth and tents, sacks and carpets, are made entirely from camel's hair. + +Every year toward the beginning of summer the camel sheds its hair, +every bristle of which vanishes before the new hair begins to grow. For +three weeks this bare condition lasts. His camelship looks as if he had +been shaved without mercy from the tip of his tail to the top of his +head, and during this shaven season he is extremely sensitive to the +cold or wet, shaking in every limb if a drop of rain falls, shivering +painfully in the chilliness of the night air. + +By-and-by the new hair begins to grow--fine, soft, curly wool that +gradually becomes long, thick, soft fur; and after this, the rain may +rain as much as it likes, the night air may be as chilly as it will, the +camel will not care a grain. In that armor of nature's providing he will +not shiver or shake any more. + +The hair of a camel, on an average, will weigh about ten pounds. It is +said to be sometimes finer than silk, and longer than the wool of a +sheep. In the course of my reading, a short time ago, I met with an +account of a camel market in a town of Tartary especially noted for its +trade in that species of live stock. + +In the centre of Blue Town, it seems, there is a large square, where the +animals are ranged in long rows together, their front feet raised upon +mud elevations constructed expressly for the purpose, the object of +which is to show off the size and height of the ungainly creatures. + +The confusion and noise of this market are described as something +frightful and "indescribable," with the continual chattering of the +buyers and sellers disputing noisily over their bargains, in addition to +the wild shrieking of the camels, whose noses are pulled roughly to make +them show off their agility in rising and kneeling. + +Nature has given the camel, you must remember, no means of defense +except its prolonged piercing cry, and a horrible sneeze of its own, +whereby the object of its hatred is sometimes covered with a mass of +filth from its mouth. + +It can not bite its tormentor, and--at least the Tartar camel--seldom +kicks, or if it does, as seldom does any harm with that fleshy foot of +which I have told you already. + +Can you wonder, then, that the air of Blue Town is made hideous with the +shrieking of the camels as, to test their strength, they are made to +kneel while one thing after another is piled on their backs, and made to +rise under each new burden, until they can rise no longer? + +"Sometimes while the camel is kneeling a man gets upon its hind-heels, +and holds on by the long hair of its hump; if the camel can rise then, +it is considered an animal of superior power"--according to the writer +above quoted. + +"The trade in camels is entirely conducted by proxy; the seller and the +buyer never settle the matter between themselves. They select different +persons to sell their goods, who propose, discuss, and fix the price, +the one looking to the interests of the seller, the other to those of +the purchaser. These 'sale-speakers' exercise no other trade. They go +from market to market, to promote business, as they say. They have +generally a great knowledge of cattle, have much fluency of tongue, and +are, above all, endowed with a knavery beyond all shame. They dispute by +turns furiously and argumentatively as to the merits and defects of the +animal, but as soon as it comes to be a question of price, the tongue is +laid aside as a medium, and the conversation proceeds altogether in +signs." + + + + +A LITTLE GIRL'S ASCENT OF VESUVIUS. + +BY KATIE C. YORKE. + + +One beautiful morning we took a carriage and started from Naples on a +trip to Mount Vesuvius. We drove along the bay for several miles, and +when we reached the foot of the mountain we began to ascend through vast +fields of lava, which had flowed there during previous eruptions. I +always imagined that lava was white and smooth, but this was of a +grayish-black color, and very ragged. + +The carriage-road ends at the Observatory, which is a building where a +scientific man resides, being appointed by the government to watch the +state of the volcano. He can tell when there is going to be an eruption, +and always notifies the people. + +There we found guides and men with saddled horses waiting to take us to +the foot of the cone. After a short ride we reached it, and dismounted, +and started up. The cone is so steep, and covered with cinders, that +people that are unaccustomed to such walking can't get up it without +assistance, because every step you take you slide back several inches. +We thought we would be pulled up by the guides, but the rest of the +party got tired, and had to be carried on their shoulders. I managed to +walk nearly all the way, and when I got tired my guide carried me too. + +About half way up we stopped at a cave where some men were waiting to +sell us some new Lacrima Christi wine. We drank some, and rested, and +went on to the top. When we reached it we were nearly four thousand feet +above the level of the sea, and had a beautiful view of Naples, the bay, +the islands, the villages, and the surrounding mountains. + +We enjoyed the view very much, but every little while the wind would +blow a cloud of sulphurous vapor from the crater, and nearly suffocate +us. We walked to the edge of the crater and looked down, but we couldn't +see much, because of the vapor. One of the guides went down into it a +little way, and brought us up some pieces of sulphur. The cinders were +so hot they burned our feet, and when we poked sticks into some cavities +they caught fire. + +The thick vapor annoyed us so that we soon decided to go down. Just as +we were starting, the mountain gave a low, deep growl, and trembled +under us, so we were very glad to leave. It was great fun going down, +because the cinders were so loose that at each step we would slide a +long way. Part way down we caught a pale yellow butterfly that was +almost stifled by the sulphurous fumes. + +When we reached the foot of the cone, we found we had been only twenty +minutes coming down, although it took us an hour and a half to go up. No +sooner had we arrived at the Observatory than we were surrounded by +crowds of ragged, beggarly looking men and boys, who insisted on +blacking our shoes, or pretended they had been guides, and tried to make +us pay them for things they had never done at all. We ordered them away, +but they kept on tormenting us, so we jumped into the carriage, and +drove off as fast as we could, leaving them all behind, shouting, +screaming, and wildly gesticulating. + +Since I was there they have built a railroad up the mountain, but I +should not think it would be half so much fun to go up in the cars. + + + + +A LETTER FROM INDIA. + + + LUCKNOW, INDIA, _June 20, 1880_. + +My Dear Friends,--My auntie has sent me several copies of HARPER'S YOUNG +PEOPLE, and I thought maybe you would like to know a little how we +children in India live. I don't know anything about your life except +what I read, and my mamma tells me, because I was born here. I am nine +years old, and in a little while we are going home. I say home because +mamma and papa do, but the only home I know is here, where it is so hot +sometimes it seems as if I should die. Last night mamma had to get up +and take a towel as wet as it could be, and rub my sheets with it, +before I could get to sleep at all, and if the punka stops a single +minute, it wakes me right up again. I read my letter to mamma so far, +and she says you won't know what a punka is. That is funny to me; but I +will tell you. They are very stiff cloth things fixed on frames, and +fastened to the ceiling so that they move, and by fanning the air keep a +breeze in the room all the time. There are holes in the wall, and ropes +put through the holes, and a man outside on the veranda pulls the ropes, +and keeps the punka moving. One night I was so hot I got up and went out +on the veranda, but the boards of the step burned my feet; so I slipped +on my slippers, and tried again. There sat the punka wala nodding, fast +asleep, but keeping his arms moving all the time. It looked funny, I can +tell you. + +We have good times in the winter, though. Christmas-day we always have a +picnic. The children of the native Sunday-schools and English schools +join together, and have a good time in some grove. And all through the +winter we play out under the trees, just as mamma says you do in the +summer. But here in summer we can only go out very late in the afternoon +or very early in the morning, because if the mid-day sun touches us, it +will make us very sick, and perhaps we will die. Theo Carter, a girl I +know, when she was real little got away from her nurse, and ran out in +the sun without her hat. It was in the morning, too; and now every time +she gets warm or tired she has the most dreadful headache, and mamma +says she don't believe she will ever be strong, even if she goes to +America. But I guess she would, because everybody that gets sick here +goes to America, else England, and when they come back they are ever so +much better; but sometimes they don't come back, and mamma says people +die even in America. + +There are lots of thieves in this country. One night last week they got +into our house. The servants would keep shutting the bath-room +window--the bath-room is between mamma's room and mine--and we wanted it +open for air, and mamma told them so; but they said the thieves would +climb in from a fig-tree near by. But mamma said if they did, they would +be welcome to all they could get. They did get in, and took the clothes +Bertie and I had worn through the day. Baby woke, and they were probably +frightened, and snatched the first thing they could, which was a box of +homoeopathic medicine mamma brought from home. We laughed in the +morning, because they thought, no doubt, it was something valuable, and +it will be worse than nothing to them; but papa says we will cry when we +are sick, and have to take bitter medicine instead of little sugar +pills. + +Last week there was a big procession--something about the +government--and one of papa's friends asked us to go to see it, and ride +on an elephant. I was real glad, for I never rode on one but once, and +then I was so little I don't remember much about it. We had a nice ride. +Papa had one elephant to himself, but mamma and I and Mrs. Carter and +Theo rode on another. We could see into the up-stairs rooms of people's +houses, and it was a delightful view we had of the procession. We had a +real good time until our elephant became frightened at a loud noise they +called music, and trumpeted dreadful loud. We wanted to get off, but our +elephant wouldn't kneel, and the man couldn't make him. Papa came, but +mamma said if we tried to get off 'twould only frighten him more. I was +real scared, and ready to cry; but mamma took hold of my hand, and spoke +just as pleasant as if we were at home, and I didn't think till +afterward how white she looked, nor about that man whose elephant ran +away with him last winter and killed him; but I guess mamma remembered +all the time, for pretty soon the noise passed by, and the men were able +to quiet the elephant, so he kneeled, and let papa help us down. And +when he took mamma, she fainted, and everybody said it was the fright; +but I didn't know she was frightened a bit. I must stop now, because the +Home Mail is going very soon; but if you like this, some time I will +write you again. + + JENNIE ANDERSON. + + + + +LITTLE COUSIN RANNA. + +BY MRS. LUCY MORSE. + + +"Will and Almida Handly were rather sorry when they learned that their +little cousin Marianne Joy was coming to make them a long visit. + +"She won't know a bumble-bee from a butternut," said Will. "City +children don't know anything, and she'll be awfully in the way. Won't +she tag after you and me, though, Almy?" + +"Oh dear!" said Almy, in a complaining tone; "we'll have to keep her +every speck of washing and baking days." + +"I wish they'd leave her where she belongs," said Will. + +The children were silent awhile, and then Almy heaved a sigh, and said: +"I s'pose that's just the trouble, Will. If her mother has--has _died_, +where _does_ she belong? Where would you and I--" + +"I know it," exclaimed Will, gruffly. "Come on, if you want me to help +fix up your old baby-house for her." + +The day after Marianne came the children's feelings were altered. +Walking down the lane all together, the little cousin was dazzled by +buttercups, and ran hither and thither gathering them in such wild +delight that she came upon Dowsabell, the cow, unexpectedly. Dowsy only +raised her sleepy nose from the grass to sniff at the buttercups, but +Marianne dropped the whole bunch, with a cry of terror, and ran like +the wind to Will for protection. She flung herself upon him with such a +pretty confidence that Will took her right into his big boyish heart, +and wished on the spot that Dowsy was a raging lion, or, to say the +least, Neighbor Stethaway's cross bull. + +"After all," he confided to Almida, "she's only a poor city child: what +can you expect? _I_ don't mind seeing to her." + +"Laws, no," said Almida, with a matronly air. "And if her father's gone +to Europe, and every day is baking, or washing, or mending, or +something, who is there besides you and me for her to look to, I'd like +to know? Only you needn't think you're going to have more than just your +own half of the care-taking, Will Handly." + +The mother looked on in silence, and understood perfectly the very +things which her children thought she had not noticed. + +"At first I was troubled lest Will and Almy wouldn't notice the child," +she said, one afternoon, to Mrs. Stethaway, as they watched the three +children crossing the opposite field. "Next I thought they would +tyrannize over her, and that Will would tease her to death." + +"And now," said Mrs. Stethaway, "it looks as if they would neglect +everything just to follow her bidding. What are you going to do about +that?" + +"Well," said Mrs. Handly, smiling after the children as they disappeared +among the daisies, "it isn't always that old folks know the best turn to +take. I'm going to see what the little one's course will be. It seems +very much as if my own two children were in the way of getting some +lessons in gentleness and self-forgetfulness from the poor little +motherless child, which I don't know so well as she does how to teach +them." + +The children went through the field, the orchard, and over the bars into +the lane, through which Ria Bell was just driving the cows. + +"Quick! quick! Oh! oh!" screamed Marianne, as soon as she saw the cows. + +"Not that way; you're running right into the face of the enemy, Ranna," +said Will, laughing, and taking hold of her as she was trying to climb +the bars. + +But Ranna struggled, crying, "Get me over! get me over! I ain't 'fraid +of tows; it's the birds;" and was so excited that Will on one side and +Almida on the other lifted her into the lane as quickly as possible. + +"Oh, goodness!" screamed Almy, as Ranna made a dive, right under +Dowsabell's very nose, toward a little mound of leaves. Crouching down +and spreading her arms over it, she looked up at Dowsy so savagely that +Will exclaimed, much amused: "Thunder and lightning! what has poor Dowsy +done? I thought you were afraid of her, Ranna, and now you look ready to +take her by the horns, and are frightened at two poor little robins +flying overhead." + +"No, I ain't. Nor I won't mind Teazle even if he is going to bite +my--my--my head off," cried Ranna, pale with fright, as the dog ran his +nose into her face. + +Will called Teazle away, while he and Almy tried very hard not to laugh. + +"What have you got under the leaves?" asked Will, while Almy stooped +over Ranna, and said, tenderly, + +"Show us your treasure, darling, and we won't tell Teazle, nor Dowsy, +nor anybody a word about it." + +[Illustration: THE FALLEN NEST.--DRAWN BY S. G. MCCUTCHEON.] + +Ranna sat up, brushed away the leaves, and took from under them a pretty +little nest full of young robins. "They're my own baby birds, and I +thought Dowsy would step on them," she said. "I found them just before I +ran to bring you, only the nest was in a great, ugly, dark bush, where +the poor little birdies couldn't feel any sun shinin', and I brung them +here, and tovered them with leaves, so the chittens wouldn't frighten +them while I was gone. What are those big birds flying round me for? +Tover my birdies up again; they are crying 'cause they are frightened." + +"Hi! ho! hum! Harry!" exclaimed Will. "Those two birds are the excited +and anxious parents of your baby birdies, Ranna, and they feel just +about as comfortable as your father and mother would feel if a great +giant--" But Will remembered suddenly that poor little Ranna had no +mother, and, blushing fiery red, said: "I'm a good-for-nothing old +blunderbuss. You tell her, Almy; it's girl's talk, anyway." + +Almy, with her arms around her little cousin, explained the situation. +Ranna eagerly pointed out the exact spot from which she had taken the +nest, and when Will had carefully restored it, watched with great +delight the old birds return to it. + +"I'll never touch another nest in my life," she said; and holding one +arm tight around Almy's neck, she beckoned to Will with the other. +Putting it around him, she drew his head close down to Almy's, and +whispered: "_I_ don't think you're a _bundlefuss_, Will. I think you and +Almy know just as well how to take care of little birds when their papas +and mammas can't find them, as you do of little girls when their mammas +is--is--is lost. And I'm going to tell all the children in the world +that when they lose their mammas, the best thing they can do is to find +my cousin Will and my cousin Almy." + + + + +[Illustration: "I'S LEARNING TO SWIM, MAMMA."] + + + + +[Illustration: OUR POST-OFFICE BOX.] + + +We wish to express to our young correspondents our sincere regret that +our limited space compels us to simply acknowledge so large a number of +the pretty letters which reach us daily from every part of the United +States. Do not think, because your letters are not printed, that we do +not consider them as well written or as interesting as those that are. +We are very sorry not to print all your little histories of your pet +dogs, and kittens, and birds, and other little domestic creatures, or +the excellent descriptions many of you write of the beautiful natural +scenery surrounding your homes; but if there is no more room in Our +Post-office Box, your letters can not be printed. We thank you heartily +for the pleasure you express in "Across the Ocean," "The Moral Pirates," +"Miss Van Winkle's Nap," and other stories and poems; and the eagerness +with which you "run to meet papa when he brings home YOUNG PEOPLE" is +very gratifying. We trust you will continue your pretty favors to us, +and we, in return, will print all of your letters that we can possibly +make room for, and will promise to give you more and more pleasure with +every new number of YOUNG PEOPLE. + + * * * * * + + CAMP CARLING, WYOMING TERRITORY. + + I have wanted to write to the Post-office Box for a long time, but + mamma said there were so many children writing that my letter + would not be printed. + + We live in a camp, and see many curious things. When we look out + of our windows, we see the _aparejos_, which are the saddles put + on the mules when they are loaded. The saddles are arranged in + long rows, with pieces of tent cloth thrown over them. Every day + we see a great many mules going out and coming in. Then there is + another queer thing. It is the "condemned heap." Almost every day + my two little brothers go down to the pile and find a great many + treasures. Every month lots of things from the warehouses are + condemned, and brought to the heap to be burned. There are sixteen + warehouses here, filled with government stores. + + A great many of the men who were in the first Ute fight under + Major Thornburgh went from this camp, and we know some of those + that were wounded. + + Every night and morning we hear the bugle-call that tells the + soldiers when to get up, when to go to work, when to stop work, + when to change guard, and when to go to bed. We always feel safe + here, because we are guarded by soldiers. + + EDNA S. B. + + * * * * * + + NEEDY, OREGON. + + I like to read the letters in the Post-office Box of YOUNG PEOPLE + so much that I thought I would write one from 'way out here in the + backwoods of Oregon. I live in the Willamette Valley, where we can + see Mount Hood any time when the weather is clear. It is a + glorious sight, especially in the evening just before sundown. In + the winter and spring the mountain is hid behind clouds more than + half the time. Sometimes the top of it will peep out above the + mist. Then it looks so strange. It is considered to be nearly + 12,000 feet high. + + ESTELLE M. + + * * * * * + + PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. + + It is so nice to have a new YOUNG PEOPLE every week. My papa is an + artist, and I am going to be one too. I draw a picture from YOUNG + PEOPLE almost every day, and I read about Rosa Bonheur, and Miss + Thompson, and all the great painters. + + I have been to the Zoological Gardens. I rode the donkeys and the + elephant, and I have made their pictures. I have a little Zoo in + our back yard. I have a nice cat, two rabbits named Jack and Jill, + and a turtle, and a fish in an aquarium that eats flies from my + hands. My bird died, and papa painted its portrait. I called the + picture "The Burial of the Dead Bird." + + M. ELECTA F. + + * * * * * + + OTTAWA, OHIO. + + I am nine years old, and for my birthday present mamma gave me one + year's subscription to YOUNG PEOPLE, beginning with the first + number. I like "The Moral Pirates" very much, and I was just + wishing for a serial with girls in it, and the very next paper had + the beginning of "Miss Van Winkle's Nap." I was delighted with it. + I think the stories about Mr. Martin and Miss Pamela Plumstone's + piano are so funny. + + As Fourth of July came on Sunday this year, we had no public + celebration, but some of the children in our neighborhood got up a + celebration of their own at our house. Mamma made the oration, and + played the national airs on the piano, after which we had a + parade. We all had paper caps, and we had a flag and a + drummer-boy. My little two-year-old cousin Gordon brought up the + rear of the procession, with a paper cap on, and as gay as any of + us. + + BERTHA K. + + * * * * * + + JERICHO, LONG ISLAND. + + I am a little girl ten years old, and I have a sister one year + younger. We have very nice times together. + + About a week ago my papa found a poor little bird with its wing + broken. We took it home and fed it, and we thought it was getting + better, but it died. + + I have seen some letters from the children about little turtles. + Once we had one, and we used to dig worms for it to eat. It was in + a globe, and once when we did not dig worms enough it ate the tail + of one of the gold-fish. + + We tried Sadie McB.'s recipe for candy, and it was a success. + + M. J. L. + + * * * * * + + LOCKPORT, NEW YORK. + + I saw some letters in Our Post-office Box asking for remedies for + songless canaries. We have used "Sheppard's Canary Powder, or Song + Restorer," for our canary, and found it very beneficial. + + ALICE. + + * * * * * + + BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT. + + My mamma raised four canaries this spring. The first one mamma had + to feed, and it is very tame. We are training it to do tricks. + When our birds are sick and do not sing, mamma gives them "Dr. + Gunning's Universal Bird Tonic," and it always restores their + song. + + I have two gold-fish. I did have three, but one died, and I buried + it in the yard, under the Madeira vines. + + BLANCHE T. S. + + * * * * * + + SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA. + + I tried Louisa W.'s recipe for Everton taffy, only I added half a + tea-cupful of water. I like it very much. + + Here is a recipe for white candy: Two cups of white crushed sugar; + three-quarters of a cup of water; one table-spoonful of cream of + tartar. Boil quickly, trying a little in water occasionally until + it crisps. Then add half a tea-spoonful of soda. Pour it in a + buttered pan until it is cool enough to pull. I am ten years old. + + MAY J. + + * * * * * + + I love YOUNG PEOPLE very much. Soon as papa brings it home I read + it to my two little sisters. We are very much interested in "The + Moral Pirates." I am ten years old, and I go to school every day. + Can any one tell me if the flamingo is of any use? + + Here is a recipe for the cooking club. Marble cake--light part: + One and a half cups of white sugar; half a cup of butter; half a + cup of sweet milk; the whites of four eggs; two and a half cups of + flour; half a tea-spoonful of soda; one tea-spoonful of cream of + tartar or one tea-spoonful of baking powder; beat the eggs and + sugar together, mix the cream of tartar with the flour, and + dissolve the soda in the milk. Dark part: One cup of brown sugar; + half a cup of molasses; half a cup of sour milk; the yolks of four + eggs; two and a half cups of flour; half a tea-spoonful of soda; + half a tea-spoonful of clove and of cinnamon. Put a layer of the + dark batter in the pan, then a layer of light, until the pan is + full. + + I should like to exchange pressed flowers with any little girl in + California. + + MYRTA GATES, + Clarion, Wright County, Iowa. + +Everything has its uses in the great economy of nature, and although we +can not always see why it is necessary for certain things to exist, we +may be sure that they were all created for some purpose. The flamingo, +however, is useful as an article of food. In certain parts of Egypt and +the East roast flamingo is considered very delicate eating, and in +ancient times a stew of flamingo tongues was a royal dish. It is also a +very beautiful bird. Travellers say there is no sight more magnificent +than a flock of scarlet flamingos wading in the green waving water +grasses, hunting for their breakfast in the morning sunlight. The +flamingo, if it could speak, might answer your question in the words of +Mr. Emerson, the poet: + + "Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, + Then beauty is its own excuse for being." + + * * * * * + + PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. + + I am nine years old, and I wish to send the cooking club a recipe + for "one-two-three-four cake": One cup of butter; two cups of + sugar; three cups of flour; four eggs; half a cup of milk; the + grated rind of one lemon; a pinch of salt; one tea-spoonful of + royal baking powder. + + CLARA S. A. + + * * * * * + + NEW YORK CITY. + + I have taken YOUNG PEOPLE from the first number, and I think it is + a very nice paper. I like to read about the pets of the other + children, and I will tell them about a pet cat I had when we lived + in Chicago. Her name was Daisy, and as she was black and white, we + thought it a pretty name for her. My little brother Jack had a + pair of bantam chickens. One day when Daisy was asleep in the yard + the rooster flew on her back and picked her left eye out. Grandma, + who was in the yard at the time, told the cook to bring Daisy in, + while she went for her feather and goose-grease, and put some on + the wounded eye. The next day it was healed, but the sight was + gone. Once when Daisy had some little kittens she put them in a + hen's nest. When the hen came into the nest she would keep the + little things quiet by pecking them on the head if they cried. The + kittens and chickens grew to be great friends. They would eat out + of the same dish, and when night came they would all go to the + chicken-coop together. The kittens slept in the nest, and the + chickens on the roost. Were they not a happy family? + + BESSIE G. + + * * * * * + + BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. + + I am very sorry I forgot the flour in my recipe for apple-cake in + Post-office Box, No. 37. There should be enough prepared flour + added to make a stiff batter. It is better to bake it in a shallow + pan. + + L. GRACE P. + + * * * * * + + KEENE, NEW HAMPSHIRE. + + I think "Across the Ocean" was a splendid story. I read it all. + But now I like "The Moral Pirates'" the best. + + I have forty-six pet rabbits. They all have black eyes and black + ears. And I have two kittens which are very pretty. Their names + are Tiger and Malt. + + WALTER H. P. + + * * * * * + + My sister and I have just tried Kitty G.'s recipe for + butter-scotch, and found it very nice indeed. + + We are making a collection of postage stamps, and would like to + exchange with any correspondents of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE. + + ALFRED HUSSEY, + 23 Hawthorn Street, New Bedford, Massachusetts. + + * * * * * + + I would like to exchange birds' eggs with any one living in the + South or West. + + F. NOBLE, + Milldale, Connecticut. + + * * * * * + + Lula Barlow can preserve eggs by piercing a small hole at each end + of the egg, and blowing out the inside. Eggs can be sent safely by + mail in a box filled with cotton. + + I would like to exchange postage stamps of different nations with + any of those correspondents asking exchange, or with any other + readers of YOUNG PEOPLE. + + HARRY DUBBS, + 229 West Chestnut Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. + + * * * * * + + I would like to exchange specimens of woods indigenous to this + climate for those of other climates, specimens to be about three + inches long by three-quarters of an inch thick, and to have a knot + in them if possible. I have cypress, magnolia, mimosa, Cottonwood, + althea, prickly ash, fig, crepe myrtle, sweet-gum, and black-gum. + Correspondents willing to exchange will please send me a list of + what woods they can obtain, and their full address. + + BERY C. BROWN, Jun., + P. O. Box 870, Little Rock, Arkansas. + + * * * * * + + I am collecting postage stamps, and would be glad to exchange with + any of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE. I also have a collection of + bugs. + + VERNON L. KELLOGG, Emporia, Kansas. + + * * * * * + + I have made the acquaintance of several boys who read YOUNG + PEOPLE, through the Post-office Box, as I am collecting postage + stamps. If others who have not yet written are doing the same, I + would like to exchange with them. I wrote to Sidney St. W., but he + has not yet answered me. I am eleven years old. My younger + brother, Charlie, is collecting postmarks, and has already eleven + hundred and seventy-five. He would like to exchange with any of + the boys. + + LEWIS S. MUDGE, + Princeton, New Jersey. + + * * * * * + + We have YOUNG PEOPLE, and like it very much. I would like to tell + some of the boys and girls who live far away something about my + home and pleasures. The name of my home is Baywood Lodge. It is + within a stone's-throw of a beautiful sheet of water known as + Hempstead Bay. We sail, row, swim, and fish, and we have horses, + and enjoy riding horseback too. + + There is a camp very near us, in the woods. There are about thirty + people, and they have five tents, and their horses. + + I would like to exchange foreign postage stamps with any boys who + read YOUNG PEOPLE. + + ARTHUR LAWRENCE VALK, + Baywood Lodge, Port Washington, Long Island. + + * * * * * + + I am making a collection of postage stamps, and I would like to + exchange with any of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE in Canada. I will + exchange United States stamps for Canadian stamps. + + J. M. WOLFE, P. O. Box 423, + Lewisburg, Union County, Pennsylvania. + + * * * * * + +H. P. C.--The quail builds its nest on the ground, among bushes or tall +grass. The nesting-time is early in June, and when you find ten or more +little white eggs, you may be sure the bird has commenced setting. The +eggs are about the size of a pigeon's egg, and pointed at one end like a +boy's wooden top. When the little birds are hatched they are as strong +as little chickens, and the mother bird takes them off to ramble about +the thicket in the same way as a hen leads her brood. The quail is a +plump grayish-brown bird, speckled with black and white. Its peculiar +whistle may be heard anywhere in the country all the long summer day. +Children often imitate the sound, and imagine that the quail is always +screaming "more wet"; and in truth the quail's note does resemble those +words, with a short, quick accent on the last sound, as if the bird was +constantly entreating nature for a refreshing summer shower. + + * * * * * + +A. S. DAGGETT.--You do not need cards to play the geographical game. If +you wish, you can get blank cards, and write them yourself; but the game +is made more lively and instructive by leaving the answers to the +geographical knowledge and quick memory of the players. + + * * * * * + +EDITH H. THOMAS.--Write directly to the correspondent you wish to +exchange with. + + * * * * * + +ANNA M. R.--Many thanks for your description of the curious things +exhibited at the Nashville Centennial. We are sorry it is too long to +print. + + * * * * * + +WAT H. T. M.--We acknowledge with thanks the account you send us of +Washington's birth-place, near which historical locality you live. + + * * * * * + +Favors are acknowledged from Charles S. R., Rena and Frank Stearns, +Bessie Clark, Romeo and Juliet, W. W. Eaton, Charles L. B., Thomas H. +Van T., Katrina, Charlie D., Leila Mackay, Gracie D. Ely, Charley J. +Kennedy, Louis L. G., Mary W. W., V. Fannie L., Susie Mulholland, John +B. Maxwell, Asa M. Steele, Arthur McKeen, Lulu E., Charles C. M., Belle +Matteson, Annie H. R., John Leeper, Carrie B. Thompson, Albert Smith, +Eddie M., Freddie Hyers, Mary E. P., Alice Green, Carrie E. Riley, +Hallie S. Morgan, Louie Van A., Thad. B. Tobey. + + * * * * * + +Correct answers to puzzles are received from Alice Grady, "North Star," +Benny W. L., Ermie Garden, Allie Mason, Eddie A. Leet, Ernest G. Young, +Fred Haswell, Marguerite Bucknall, Willard H. Francis, Willie and Henry +Western, Fred J. Purdy, Leon C. Bogart, Hugh Downing, Alson A. G., Clara +L. Kellogg, Sarah B., Willie T. B., Alice Williams, Willie C., +"Dominus," Bessie Guyton, T. L. Drew, Mary L. McVean, George L. Osgood, +W. V. Fowler, K. R., Albert and Laura Ellard, Alfy G. Dale, Rebecca +Hedges. + + * * * * * + +PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS. + +No. 1. + +ENIGMA. + + One-third of sun, one-fourth of none, + One-fifth of weary, one-sixth of dreary, + One-third of oak, one-fifth of broke, + One-fourth of kite, if read aright, + And placed in line correct and true, + Will give a city's name to you. + + A. B. + + * * * * * + +No. 2. + +DOUBLE ACROSTIC. + +A beast. A chain of mountains in Asia. An eatable. To observe. Something +used in ancient warfare. Answer--Two wild beasts. + + H. F. P. + + * * * * * + +No. 3. + +NUMERICAL CHARADE. + + I am a large island lying far away toward the south pole, and am + composed of 14 letters. + My 9, 6, 4, 13, 3 is not small. + My 10, 8, 12, 7 is food for beasts. + My 1, 14, 11, 5 is a journey. + My 10, 2, 13 is a fruit. + + KATIE. + + * * * * * + +No. 4. + +DIAMOND. + +In leopard. Something all creatures do. A flexible substance. A number. +In tiger. + + W. D. G. + + * * * * * + +No. 5. + +WORD SQUARE. + +First, congealed vapor. Second, a number. Third, formerly. Fourth, a +division of time. + + M. E. N. + + * * * * * + +No. 6. + +ENIGMA. + + My first is in laugh, but not in cry. + My second is in tall, but not in high. + My third is in fig, but not in plum. + My fourth is in speak, but not in dumb. + My fifth is in yours, but not in his. + My sixth is in been, but not in is. + My seventh is in tame, but not in wild. + My eighth is in infant, not in child. + My ninth is in village, not in town. + My whole was a general of renown. + + ADA. + + * * * * * + + +ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN NO. 37. + +No. 1. + +Shark, hark, ark. + +No. 2. + +Diamond. + +No. 3. + + D A S H + A R E A + S E A L + H A L O + +No. 4. + + T + R A T + T A R R Y + T R Y + Y + +No. 5. + + C hatha M + A ncon A + S antande R + P otsda M + I salc O + A y R + N icaragu A + +Caspian, Marmora. + +No. 6. + +Oliver Goldsmith. + + + + +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. 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A New Edition, Revised and Enlarged, and +brought down to the Close of the Rebellion and the Inauguration of +President Johnson. Illustrated. 3 vols., 16mo, Cloth, $3.75. + +BONNER'S CHILD'S HISTORY OF ROME. A Child's History of Rome. By JOHN +BONNER. Illustrated. 2 vols., 16mo, Cloth, $2.50. + +BONNER'S CHILD'S HISTORY OF GREECE. A Child's History of Greece. By JOHN +BONNER. Illustrated. 2 vols., 16mo, Cloth, $2.50. + + * * * * * + +Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. + +_Sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, on +receipt of the price._ + + + + +[Illustration: PLEASANT FOR JIM. + +SMALL BOY. "Oh-ow-ow! Look out, Jim--here is a great b-b-b-big Bull-dog +coming at us!"] + + + + +MORE MIRTHFUL MAGIC. + +BY W. B. BARTLETT. + + +THE BOOK PUZZLE. + +The player agrees to let any person in the room turn over as many books, +one at a time, as desired, while he is out of the room, and promises to +tell you, upon his return, which book was turned over last. He goes out, +and comes back when the person who turned the books says, "Come in." +When he opens the door, he says, "You must stay outside while I find +out, so no one will suspect us of being in league with each other." The +one who turned the books is then shut out, and the other selects any +thin book, and leans it against the door, and says, "Come in." As the +door is opened, of course the book is turned over on the floor, and the +victim is told, "That is the last book you turned over." + + +THE NEWSPAPER TRICK. + +Take a common newspaper or handkerchief, and request any one of the +company to place it on the floor so that two persons can stand upon it +at the same time, and neither be able to see or touch the other. + +_Answer._--Place it across the door-sill, and let one stand upon it in +the entry. Then close the door, and ask the other to step upon the other +end in the room, and neither can see nor touch the other, for the door +prevents. + + +THE COW PUZZLE. + +Tell the company that seven cows were walking in a straight line into a +narrow door, and say to them, "If you should ask the last cow, 'How many +pairs of horns are before you?' what would she reply?" + +Some will answer, "One pair," and some, "Seven pairs," but after +puzzling them for a while, you can reply, "In the opinion of most +scientists, she would not say anything, for she could not speak, poor +thing!" + + +ANOTHER COW PUZZLE. + +[Illustration] + +Draw a square with a lead-pencil, and say, "Suppose this field was +inclosed with walls fifty feet high, without opening or possibility of +digging under, and a cow was in there, how could you get it out?" + +_Answer._--Rub it out. + + + + +CHARADE. + + + As by the fire the lovers sit, + On rosy wings the moments flit; + One little word confirms their bliss, + And seals it with a loving kiss. + + That bliss they never could sustain + Without my second's golden grain; + Yet if it does attend their feet, + Their daily walk is incomplete. + + My whole leaps forth from out the flame, + Airy and light, but still the same; + Showing a hard and common thing + Made pure and white through suffering. + + + + +THE USEFUL SUNFLOWER. + + +In Southwestern Russia, between the Baltic and the Black seas, the +sunflower is universally cultivated in fields, gardens, and borders, and +every part of the plant is turned to practical account. A hundred pounds +of the seeds yield forty pounds of oil, and the pressed residue forms a +wholesome food for cattle, as also do the leaves and the green stalks, +cut up small, all being eagerly eaten. The fresh flowers, when a little +short of full bloom, furnish a dish for the table which bears favorable +comparison with the artichoke. They contain a large quantity of honey, +and so prove an attraction to bees. The seeds are a valuable food for +poultry; ground into flour, pastry and cakes can be made from them; and +boiled in alum and water, they yield a blue coloring matter. The +carefully dried leaf is used as tobacco. The seed receptacles are made +into blotting-paper, and the inner part of the stalk into a fine +writing-paper; the woody portions are consumed as fuel, and from the +resulting ash valuable potash is obtained. Large plantations of them in +swampy places are a protection against intermittent fever. + + + + +[Illustration: A NAUGHTY LITTLE DOG. + +"You bad dog, you's done gone tore my bes' bunnit mos' to pieces. I's a +big min' to gib you a whippin' that you'll 'member. Yes, I has."] + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, August 3, 1880, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, AUG 3, 1880 *** + +***** This file should be named 29066.txt or 29066.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/9/0/6/29066/ + +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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