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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/33010-8.txt b/33010-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a8bb256 --- /dev/null +++ b/33010-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3551 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Harper's Round Table, June 11, 1895, by Various + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Harper's Round Table, June 11, 1895 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: June 28, 2010 [EBook #33010] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S ROUND TABLE, JUNE 11, 1895 *** + + + + +Produced by Annie McGuire + + + + + + + + +[Illustration: HARPER'S ROUND TABLE] + +Copyright, 1895, by HARPER & BROTHERS. All Rights Reserved. + + * * * * * + +PUBLISHED WEEKLY. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1895. FIVE CENTS A COPY. + +VOL. XVI.--NO. 815. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. + + * * * * * + + + + +[Illustration] + +SAVED BY A CARCASS. + +A WHALEMAN'S YARN. + +BY W. J. HENDERSON. + + +"Han'some," said Farmer Joe, having stretched himself on the shady side +of the forecastle-deck and set his pipe going, "it 'pear's to me that +it's about time we heard what happened to you after you got back to your +own ship." + +"You mean on my whaling voyages, I suppose," said Handsome. + +"That's a right peert guess," responded Farmer Joe. + +Handsome blew a whirling cloud of smoke that went swiftly out to leeward +under the swelling foot of the fore-staysail. He watched it in a +meditative manner until it disappeared, and then said: + +"I was pretty glad to get back to my own ship, the _Ellen Burgee_, +because, in spite of the fact that they treated us very well aboard the +_Two Cousins_, you see I had a pretty good lay on the _Ellen_, and I +didn't want to lose it. Of course nobody ever gets rich by going to +sea, but a fellow likes to stick fast to all he gets. Well, we didn't +stay very long in the bay in company with the _Two Cousins_. We got to +sea again, and laid our course for a bit of cruising-ground away to the +southward, where our Captain said he believed the whaling was good. The +voyage down there was as stupid as a Sunday-afternoon sermon in hot +weather, and for the matter of that so was the cruising for two days, +because we didn't raise a single spout. On the third day, however, we +were gladdened by the welcome cry of 'There she blows!' There were half +a dozen whales in sight, and the old man had great hopes of getting at +least two of them. But that was not to be our luck that day. The first +mate got fast to one big fellow, and killed him, but the rest of us +returned to the ship empty-handed. + +"Now I haven't told you anything about what's done with a whale after +you get him; but as this story depends on that, I'll have to explain. +The first job is to get the whale alongside the ship." + +"Why not sail the ship alongside the whale?" asked one of the listeners. + +"That ain't wholly practicable," answered Handsome, "because you might +run into him and sink him. The ship does sail as close as she dares, but +the boats must do their share. Two boats take the ends of a light line, +with a weight slung on the bight so as to sink it, and they pass this +under the whale's tail and around his 'small,' as the slimmest part of +him is called. By means of this line, the ends being passed aboard the +ship, a chain is run in a slip-noose around the 'small,' and Mr. Whale +is hauled alongside and kept there. Next comes the business of +cutting-in, which means cutting off the blubber and bone that are +wanted. Stages, such as ships' painters use, are slung over the side of +the vessel, and the first-class cutters, generally the ship's officers, +stand on these stages with long-handled spades. The cutting-in begins at +the place where the backbone joins the head, and the first strip taken +off there is called the blanket piece. The pieces of blubber are hauled +up with tackles, and these rip them off while the spades cut. It's a +long and tough job, and it makes a new hand pretty sick. But it's +child's play to what comes next, which is the trying-out. Say, I'd +rather be a green hand again than have another job at trying-out." + +"Well, tell us about it, anyhow," said Farmer Joe. + +"It ain't any use to make a long yarn of that," continued Handsome. "The +try-works, as they call them, are a sort of Dutch oven, built of bricks, +and situated amidships. A couple of big iron pots stand on top of the +oven, and the blubber, minced up, is put into them. You start a fire in +the oven, and that boils out the oil, which is ladled out into casks, +and then all hands turn to and pick out the pieces of fat and scraps so +as to have nothing put pure oil. Well, to heave ahead with the yarn, we +had our whale alongside overnight, and the next morning we started at +cutting-in. About the time we'd got ready for trying-out, and started +the fires, the breeze began to freshen up, and it looked rather dirty up +to windward. The Captain said we must shake a leg with the trying-out. + +"'Boys,' says he, 'we got to boil this oil with stu'ns'ls set, because +before we get it done we'll be under a close-reefed maintops'l.' + +"Well, bless you, he hadn't much more than got the words out of his +mouth than the mast-head fellow lets out a yell: + +"'There she blows! And there she breaches!' + +"Now it wouldn't make any difference to a whaler if he thought the world +was a-going to come to an end in ten minutes, he'd lower away if he saw +a spout. So the Captain gave orders for two boats to get under way in +chase of the new whales. One of the boats was the one I belonged to, and +the next thing I knew I was sitting on my thwart. The sail was hoisted, +and we went scudding down to leeward at a rattling gait. Say, it wasn't +altogether agreeable to sit in that boat and notice the width and height +of the sea that was getting up. But we soon forgot all about it in the +excitement of going on. + +"'It's a-going to be a tough job getting this whale alongside,' says one +of the crew. + +"'Wait till we get him first,' says Bacon. + +"Well, it was our chance, and Bacon slung the iron into him with a vim. +Up went flukes and down went whale. He soon came up and began to swim to +windward at a fearful speed. The seas thundered against the bow of our +boat, and great sheets of water came tumbling inboard. + +"'Bale there, bale!' yelled Bacon, 'or the boat'll fill and sink!' + +"You can bet we didn't need to be told twice. We hadn't fairly got +started when the whale sounded, and we could tell by the trend of the +line that he was coming back toward the boat. + +"'Look out!' shouted Bacon. + +"The next second the brute shot clear out of the water not fifty feet +off the starboard beam of our boat, and raised such a wave when he fell +back into the sea that he nearly swamped us. + +"'For goodness' sake," says one of the men, 'cut the line and let him +go.' + +"'We'll never get back to the ship alive,' says another; 'look at the +sea. It's blowing a gale.' + +"Well, it was blowing in a bit of a squall just then, but Bacon's blood +was up, and he was bound to have that whale. + +"'Pull me up to him!' he shouted. + +"We obeyed orders, and Bacon drove the lance right into his life. + +"'Starn all!' he yelled, and we didn't get out of the way a second too +quick, for the monster went into his flurry, and beat the sea into an +acre of foam with his immense flukes. However, there he was dead enough, +and in the mean time the ship had worked down to leeward of us, and was +close at hand. It was a pretty troublesome piece of work to pass the +line around his small in such a nasty sea; we managed to do it after +four or five trials, and he was hauled alongside the ship just as it +began to grow dark. Now I tell you what, lads, it was a very uncommon +sight. There was the ship beginning to roll uneasily in the rising sea, +with a blazing, smoking furnace amidships, looking for all the world as +if she was on fire, and a whale on each side of her. The boats were +hauled up, and then the Captain looked about him. + +"'Cut the old whale adrift,' says he; 'we can't tow the two of them in +this weather, and we've got about the best of his oil.' + +"So we cut the carcass adrift, and it went rolling off down to leeward. +It hadn't got fifty yards from the ship before all the water around it +was black with sharks' fins, and the next instant a dozen of these +wolves of the sea appeared, leaping and thrashing the water in their mad +struggles to get at the remains of the whale. They seemed like regular +demons, so fiercely did they attack the carcass, ripping away the +remaining shreds of flesh, and smashing the bones in their powerful +jaws. In five minutes the body was torn to pieces and the sharks +disappeared, leaving us to imagine what would have happened to some of +us if a boat had happened to capsize in the chase. Well, the gale +increased in strength, and the sea rose more and more. The Captain +didn't want to lose the whale, so he hove the ship to with the dead +monster under our lee, where he rode pretty well, except that once in a +while when we rolled heavily he would come up against the side of the +ship with a thump that threatened to shake the timbers apart. However, +the Captain said he was going to hang on till he found it was a case of +life or death. All of a sudden we were startled by a terrible cry, + +"'Fire!' + +"Every man looked in the direction from which the cry came, and we saw a +small but lively flame stealing up near the foot of the mainmast. + +"'It's from the try-works!' shouted Bacon. + +"Sure enough the gale had taken up every one's attention so that we all +forgot about the fire in the try-works. It hadn't been put out, and now +a coal or a spark or something had fallen on the deck, and the damage +was done." + +"'Why didn't you put it out?' asked one of the listeners. + +"Put it out!" exclaimed Handsome: "why, man alive, don't you know the +condition a whale ship is in when trying-out is going on? She was +simply afloat with whale oil. The deck was running with it; every plank +and bit of loose rigging was soaked with it. Put it out! Why, we did all +that mortal man could think of. The Captain ordered us to get up all the +tarpaulins and spare canvas, and try to smother it, but, bless you, as +soon as we threw them over the fire they soaked up the oil and began to +burn. We fought the fire with the energy of desperate men, for we knew +that if we had to take to the boats the chances of our ever seeing land +again in such a sea would be pretty slim. Finally the Captain said he +would try a desperate scheme. As yet the flames were around the decks +and lower masts. What he proposed to do was to let the ship fall off +into the trough of the sea in hopes that a big wave would sweep her deck +and drown out the fire. Everything was made ready, and then with a face +full of sorrow he gave the order to cut loose the carcass of the whale. +He was afraid to let it hang there with the ship broadside on. We cut it +loose, and then he ordered the helm to be put up, and all hands to take +to the rigging. We went up with a good deal of misgiving. The ship fell +off into the trough and wallowed there. The seas broke over her here and +there, but not in sufficient volume to drown the fire, which was gaining +headway all the time, and was now beginning to send tongues of flame up +the rigging, as if in a mad attempt to drive us poor fellows out of our +refuge. + +"'It won't do,' says the Captain; 'we must lay down, lads, and take to +the boats.' + +"We all started for the deck, when suddenly Bacon uttered a fearful cry: + +"'Look! Look!' + +"He was pointing to windward, and looking in that direction, we all saw +a tremendous wave rolling down upon the ship with the speed of an +express train. We stopped where we were, and clung with an intense grip +to the rigging. The wave came. It pitched the vessel up as if she were a +chip of wood, and flung her over on her beam ends. There was a crashing +and rending of wood, and several wild shrieks from the men as the +foremast went by the board. There were half a dozen fellows on it, and +they were plunged into that raging sea. I never saw them again. The rest +of us were hanging on as best we could, when the very next wave that +came put out the fire sure enough, for it turned the _Ellen Burgee_ +bottom up." + +Handsome paused for a moment, as if overcome by the dreadful +recollection. + +"Well," he continued, "when she went over, I let go of the rigging and +threw myself into the sea. I made up my mind it was all over with me, +yet it turned out that this was not to be the case. I was buried under a +ton or two of foaming water, but I came to the surface again, and found +myself a long distance off from the overturned ship, which was fast +settling in the water. I struck out, as a man will even when he doesn't +know what use it is, and kept myself afloat for several minutes, the +waves all the time driving me to leeward. Suddenly I saw a dark mass +tumbling on the seas a short distance away. I thought it must be one of +our boats that had got loose when the ship went over, and so I struck +out for it. I was growing weak, blind, and dazed in the heavy seas, when +I was caught up by a wave and flung squarely on top of the floating +object. I grabbed wildly, and caught hold of something hard and slimy. I +clung to it, though, and to my great amazement I found I was hanging to +the flipper of the dead whale. You know they float on their sides when +dead, with one flipper up in the air and the other under water. Well, it +wasn't much of a life-raft, as you may well suppose, but a man in such a +fix as I was will take anything he can get. I hung on there all right, +the dead whale jumping and tumbling under me like a live fish. Toward +morning the wind shifted, and at sunrise the gale broke. The sea began +to go down right away, but a great swell was running. When the sun got +fairly up I realized what a terrible position I was in. The heat was +intense, and the gases from the carcass nearly overwhelmed me. But that +was nothing. The air was filled with the discordant cries of hungry +sea-birds. They swooped down from every direction, and pecked at the +carcass. They beat at me with their wings, and acted as if they knew I +was a doomed man, and the sooner they could drive me into the sea the +better for me. But I fought them off, and sitting with one leg on each +side of the flipper and clasping it with one arm, I clung to my dreadful +life-buoy. + +"And now came a new horror. Sharks appeared and began to fight around +the whale, snapping and biting and tearing off pieces of the flesh. I +realized that if this continued my life-buoy would be destroyed; but I +was helpless. Then thirst began to torture me. All day long I tossed on +that dead whale, with the birds and the sharks around me. At nightfall a +gentle shower came, and by holding my mouth open I managed to relieve my +thirst a little. As soon as it became dark the birds and the sharks left +me, and presently, utterly exhausted, I fell asleep, leaning against the +flipper. I remember that I was quite conscious of the danger of falling +off my perch into the sea and drowning; but I didn't care. How long I +slept I do not know. It must have been five or six hours. I was awakened +by a heavy shock, and I found myself plunged into the sea. Involuntarily +I uttered a scream for help. + +"'Great Scott! there's a man,' I heard a voice say. 'Hang on there, lad. +Catch this.' + +"Plump came a circular white life-buoy into the sea, luckily falling +within my reach. A few minutes later a boat had been lowered away, and I +learned that my dead whale had been run down in the darkness by the ship +_Full Moon_, bound for Liverpool from Hong-Kong. And so I was taken to +England, with a pretty clear determination in my head never to go +whaling again." + + + + +JUNE FLOWERS. + + + Here and there a daisy? + And now and then a clover? + And once a week a buttercup, + And so the whole land over? + + A rose within the garden? + A lily in the sun? + Does dear old Mother Nature + Count flowers one by one? + + No; daisies by the acre, + And clovers millionfold, + The meadows pink with blushing, + The pastures white and gold. + + And roses, like the children, + Abloom at every door, + And buttercups as countless + As the sand upon the shore. + + Dear Mother Nature scatters + Her flowers on road-side edge; + She carpets every forest, + And curtains every ledge. + + And then she sets us dancing + To such a merry tune, + For all the world is laughing, + And, darlings, this is June! + + * * * * * + +"Harry, here are three apples; now suppose I wanted you to divide them +equally between James, John, and yourself, how would you do it.'" + +"I'd give them one and keep the others." + +"Why, how do you make that out?" + +"Well, you see, it would be one for those two, and one for me, _too_." + + + + +STORIES OF OUR GOVERNMENT. + +WHAT OUR REPRESENTATIVES DO. + +BY THE HONORABLE HENRY CABOT LODGE, + +UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM MASSACHUSETTS. + + +[Illustration: HON. C. F. CRISP, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE.] + +It is not easy to describe in a short article an average day in the +House of Representatives. The great days are exceptional, and a single +historic scene gives no idea of the every-day work of the House. +Moreover, if history is made on the days when excitement runs high, the +business of carrying on the government is done every day, and it is +about the latter that you wish to learn. By way of beginning, let me say +a word about the place where this work is done. The House of +Representatives holds its sessions in the southern wing of the Capitol +at Washington. The House is very large, right angled, and rigid, with +little ornament, and without beauty of proportion. The walls go up for +about fifteen feet, and from that point the galleries slant back until +they reach the next floor of the building. The roof is a vast expanse of +glass, with the arms of each State painted on the square panels. The +general effect is grayness of color and a size which can be measured in +acres better than in feet. Against the southern wall is placed a high +white marble dais or tribune, where the Speaker or presiding officer +sits. Below the Speaker's desk and in descending tiers, also of white +marble, sit the clerks of the House and the official reporters. Facing +the Speaker, and ranged in a semicircle, are 360 desks, with a +corresponding number of chairs, which are, or ought to be, occupied by +the 350 Representatives and the four Territorial delegates. + +Such is the place, but it would require a volume, and a very +uninteresting one, too, to explain the machinery used in transacting the +business for which this great hall is provided. Nevertheless, it is +possible, perhaps, to give you in a general way some idea of an ordinary +day's work in the lower branch of Congress. In theory, the House ought +to take up its calendars on each day and dispose of each article in its +order. But the great beauty of the calendars is that in practice they +are never taken up at all. + +How then, you will ask, is business done if the House never takes up the +list of measures prepared for its consideration? It is done by a system +of special rules. The Committee on Rules brings in a rule that the House +shall take up, let us say the tariff, on a certain day, shall debate it +a certain length of time, and shall then vote. This rule is adopted, the +bill selected is taken from the calendar, and everything else gives way +until the tariff is disposed of. Appropriation bills are privileged, +because they provide the money necessary to carry on the government, and +require no rule to be brought up. But all the other business of the +House is done practically under special rules; in other words, the +Committee on Rules selects out of the mass of business presented a small +portion which the House shall consider, and to that small selection all +the time of the House is devoted. + +Imagine, then, that the House as you watch it from the gallery has come +to the end of the morning hour, and has taken up the special order of +the day made for it by its Committee on Rules. If it is the first time +the subject has come up, the chairman of the committee making the report +opens the debate. In any event, when the business of the day is thus +laid before the House the debate begins. To any one who comes into the +House gallery for the first time, the scene on the floor is one of +apparently hopeless confusion. Members are reading, writing, talking, +and moving about the chamber. There is an incessant murmur and buzz of +conversation along the aisles and in the galleries. You who are looking +on see a member rise and begin to talk, sometimes quietly, more often +with great violence and excitement, not because he is really excited, +but because he wishes to be heard above the din. Your ears are not +accustomed to the noise, and you do not hear what is said. Still less +can you guess what it is all about, and yet business is not proceeding +by chance, and there are men on that confused floor who know exactly +what is happening, and how the business is going on. You may have been +unlucky in your day, and no measure of great interest being up, it may +seem as if it were useless to stay, but if you will be patient, and bear +with the confusion for the time, or perhaps come back another day, you +will have your reward. You will see the House reach an exciting point in +a debate, or some subject of great popular interest will come up, and +then a sharp contest will follow between different members, which will +be full of interest. + +[Illustration: AN EXCITING MOMENT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.] + +Instead of reading and writing and talking and moving about, you will +see the members gather about the man who is speaking and those who are +debating with him. Silence will come on the floor and in the galleries, +broken by bursts of applause, as one member makes a sharp point or +retorts quickly on his opponent. Nothing is more interesting than good +debate of this kind, when men who are fencing or sparring with their +wits instead of their hands. You will be surprised to see how easy it +now is to know what is going on. You will be glad that you came to the +gallery, for every wholesome-minded being likes to see a fair contest, +whether of brains or muscles, and incidentally you will see how we +English-speaking people have hammered out by discussion the laws under +which we live, and have gained the liberty we enjoy. On the other hand, +let us suppose that you are fortunate enough to get into the gallery on +a day of great debate, when set speeches are to be made by the leaders +on either side. A man arises near the middle of the House, a man whose +face is familiar to you, because you have seen it so often in the +illustrated papers, and all in a moment the House is hushed, and every +word that the speaker says falls distinctly upon your ear. Then, again, +you feel rewarded, for you are hearing a party leader speak and are +seeing a man about whom you have read. If it is the day upon which a +great debate closes, the last speeches are made by the two leaders of +the opposite sides, the galleries are crowded, but as every one is eager +to hear, there is no difficulty in catching every word. The leader of +the minority delivers his last assault upon the bill, the leader of the +majority replies to him, and then the Speaker of the House says: "The +hour having arrived at which the House has ordered that the debate be +closed, the vote will now be taken upon the bill and amendments." Then +comes the voting, a dreary process for everybody, for each roll-call +occupies half an hour, and when it is done the Speaker announces the +vote, and declares the bill passed or defeated as the case may be. If it +is then more than five o'clock one of the leaders of the majority moves +that the House adjourn, the Speaker declares the motion carried, and +then the House stands adjourned until the next morning at twelve +o'clock. + +Such in very rough outline is a day in the House of Representatives when +some subject which awakens differences spring up, or when a great debate +closes or some important bill is passed. But there are many other days +when no conclusion is reached, and still others which are consumed in +roll-calls and motions designed to waste time, and to stop all action. +If you chance to come on a day of that kind, the sooner you go away the +better for your own comfort. The members must stay, but you need not. + +It would, however, take a great deal more space than I have here to give +you a description of the various scenes which occur in the House of +Representatives, but the rough sketch which I have drawn may help you to +some idea of what happens in the great popular body which with the +Senate makes laws for the people of the United States. It is a good deal +better, however, that every American boy and girl should come to +Washington if they can possibly manage it, and try to learn from +observation what their government is, and how it is carried on. They +will have some dull hours if they pass many in the galleries of the +House of Representatives, but they may have some minutes of great +interest, which they will always be glad to remember, and they are +certain to go away with a greater ability to judge intelligently their +public men, and in this way be of better service themselves as American +citizens responsible for the government of their country. If you cannot +get to Washington, try to see your own Legislature in session, or your +own city and town government. You will learn a great deal that will be +useful to you when you come of age, and therefore responsible for your +vote or influence for the government of the United States, which is +always in the long-run what the people themselves make it. + + + + +THE LITTLE COLLECTOR. + + + I don't care much for the postage-stamps + Themselves--'tween me and you; + The fun I get collecting comes + From sticking 'em in with glue. + + + + +AN ENTERPRISING PHOTOGRAPHER. + + +The recent war between China and Japan, which now seems to be +practically over, fortunately, was watched by all the military and naval +men in the world with a great deal of interest, for it was the first +real war in which many of the modern inventions in war-ships and army +accoutrements were given a fair trial. To be sure, China had little that +was modern in her army and navy, though some of the ships of her navy +were of recent European build, and were manned by capable seamen and +good fighting-men. But the Japanese certainly did have many of the +modern inventions in their cruisers, and they made most effective use of +them. + +The correspondents of the great papers of the world, however, seem to +have suffered, and whether this is a development of modern warfare, or +because the Japanese and Chinese did not understand and appreciate their +position, does not appear to have been settled. At all events, the +correspondents from Japan and China, as well as those from European and +American countries, went about their always dangerous business at their +peril, and were in constant danger of being captured and hung or +murdered by either party. Some of these bright and daring men did lose +their lives there, and no one takes the trouble to sing a requiem over +them in verse or prose, but others, in spite of all the opposition, got +to and remained at the front, and succeeded in sending out accurate news +to their papers. + +[Illustration: PHOTOGRAPHER AT WORK.] + +It was one of these successful newspaper men, and a Japanese at that, +who originated the idea of using a balloon to help him get to the front, +as well as to keep him safely out of the reach of both contestants. He +procured a balloon, several, in fact--and had a peculiar metal +frame-work constructed, which held him firmly in place under the +balloon, and left his arms free, so that he could use them to write, or +to work a huge camera that was also attached and supported by the same +iron frame. By means of straps over his shoulders and about his body he +could keep himself moderately firm in his position, and his camera +reasonably stationary, except, of course, for the movements of the +balloon itself, which he could not regulate. + +Several times this correspondent was sent up in his balloon, and held by +an assistant with the help of a long rope far above houses, and even +hills, so that he could take photographs on his huge lens of the general +view of a battle, while he himself was either too far away or too +unimportant at the moment to the combatants to tempt them to fire upon +him. In this way he succeeded in securing some astonishing views. They +were, of course, very far removed from the scene of action, too far to +give much of the small details, but they presented a bird's-eye view of +the whole battle, which proved of great interest. Occasionally, because +of a sudden movement of the balloon, he "took" the sky or a distant +landscape instead of the raging battle beneath him, but these little +mistakes were insignificant when on being hauled down, he discovered two +or three views that showed charges of cavalry here, repulses of infantry +there, and smoke and strife, bursting shells and burning houses, +everywhere. + +Sometimes the photographer would go up in his camera-balloon without +being held to the earth by a rope, and then he might drift with the wind +over the battle-field, or quietly drift away without getting a chance to +"shoot." As a rule, however, calculations were pretty well made before +the rope was dropped, and then the balloon was allowed to float where it +would, with the comparative certainty that it would pass over, or nearly +over, the scene of action. + +Here is a chance for photographers who want to take new scenes and +original things with their cameras. The earth at a few hundred feet +distance would look like a big bowl covered with many little roofs, +laced with white roads, along which funny little animals would be seen +crawling along at a snail's pace. + + + + +OUR FLAG. + + + Fling it from mast and steeple, + Symbol o'er land and sea, + Of the life of a happy people, + Gallant and strong and free. + Proudly we view its colors, + Flag of the brave and true, + With the clustered stars and the steadfast bars, + The red, the white, and the blue. + + Flag of the fearless-hearted, + Flag of the broken chain, + Flag in a day-dawn started, + Never to pale or wane. + Dearly we prize its colors, + With the heaven light breaking through, + The clustered stars and the steadfast bars, + The red, the white, and the blue. + + Flag of the sturdy fathers, + Flag of the loyal sons, + Beneath its folds it gathers + Earth's best and noblest ones. + Boldly we wave its colors, + Our veins are thrilled anew; + By the steadfast bars, the clustered stars, + The red, the white, and the blue. + + MARGARET E. SANGSTER. + + * * * * * + +A wise old doctor, for the benefit of his health, travelled around the +country in a caravan, in which he lived, stopping for short periods at +the larger towns. He had a young lad for an assistant, who was more or +less quick and intelligent, but rather inclined to jump at conclusions. +The doctor taught him a little medicine whenever he could spare the +time, and he learned considerable, but diagnosis were to him still a +mystery, especially in some cases, when the wise old doctor had used his +eyes to detect the source of the illness. + +They were staying for a few days in the town of B----, and the doctor +had been in some demand, having at a previous visit secured a reputation +by some apparently marvellous cures. His young assistant accompanied him +on one occasion, when the doctor had pronounced the patient sick from +eating too many oysters. This puzzled the lad, and when they left the +house he asked his master how he knew the patient had been eating +oysters. "Very simple," his master replied, "I saw a lot of oyster +shells in the fireplace, and the answers to a few questions were all I +needed to make a diagnosis." + +One day, his master being away when a call came, he determined to answer +it, and see if he could diagnose the case. He returned shortly after, +and triumphantly told the doctor that the man was sick from eating too +much horse. + +"A horse, you stupid fool!" cried the irate doctor. "What do you mean?" + +"Why, master, it couldn't be anything else, because I saw a saddle and +stirrups under the bed." + + + + +A PLEASANT DISAPPOINTMENT. + +BY J. SANFORD BARNES, JUN. + + +I don't believe that Mr. Henry ever thought what a queer combination of +nicknames his son would have when he named him Thomas Richard. Some +called him "Tom," some "Dick," and others, instead of calling him by his +last name, Henry, changed that, too, to "Harry," so he became Tom, Dick, +and Harry rolled into one. + +Mr. Henry was a great sportsman, and many a time had Tom listened to his +father and one of his friends plan out a day's shooting. Tom had often +made his little plans, only to be carried out in his dreams. But at +last, one September evening, in his twelfth year, dreams could no longer +satisfy him. As he sat in his father's "den" after supper, looking for +the hundredth time through the book of colored sporting incidents and +game-birds, taking occasional long glances at the little sixteen-bore +which hung over his father's head, as he sat at his desk reading the +_Forest and Stream_, Tom was really developing a plan. He must go +shooting, and with a real gun of some kind. "Sling-shots" he was done +with; then he knew if he asked permission, what the answer would be, and +therefore he decided that his hunting-trip must be made "on the sly," +and this alone was one cause for the rather restless night which +followed. As he turned the pages of the big book he began to imagine +himself in the place of the tall man in the picture just taking a +partridge from his dog's mouth, and on the next page he was the short +thick-set man in brown hunting-coat walking up to his dogs, who were +"stiff" and "stanch" on a covey of quail, which in pictures you can +always see hiding in the clump of bushes. + +Now, Tom, Dick, and Harry had a friend, and that friend had a Flobert +rifle, and on that friend's willingness to lend he was counting +strongly. The game did not seem to worry him; he kept thinking of a +certain patch of blackberry bushes just outside a small piece of woods, +where he had often started up an old cock partridge, in fact, he knew so +much about that partridge that once he crept up on him, and almost got a +shot at him with the now-to-be-despised "sling-shot"; and with a +Flobert--even if his father had said that no true sportsman would shoot +a bird on the "sit"--he felt sure he could get him, and if he did he'd +come home, own up, and trust to luck for the rest, but he was somewhat +doubtful as to the reception he would meet. + +The morning was bright and clear as Tom left the house to go down and +"see what Jim Vail was going to do that day," and once outside the gate +excitement again got hold of him, and he broke into a run; it was well +he did, for about ten minutes later, as he turned into Mr. Vail's place, +Jim was on the point of mounting his bicycle to start for a ride. + +"Say, Jim," he shouted, "wait a second; I want to ask you something." + +"Well, Tommy," he answered, "what can I do for you to-day? I'm going to +get some exercise and get in shape for football at school; I got a +letter from Ted yesterday, and he asked me to. I guess he's written to +the rest of last year's team to do the same thing. I suppose you're +going to ride your pony. But, really, what do you want?" + +"Jim," said Tom, "I'm going to ask a favor of you. But first I want you +to say you won't tell anybody anything about it. You won't, will you?" + +"Of course not; but what it is?" replied Jim. + +"Well," said Tom, slowly, "I'm going shooting, and I want you to lend me +your Flobert rifle; you don't use it very much since your father gave +you that beauty gun. I'll be careful, and I'll clean it all up for you +when I'm done. Say, will you do it?" + +Jim saw a chance for a little lecture, and came near giving it, but he +thought of his popularity with the small boys and resisted. + +"But, Tom," he answered, "how are you going to work it? I'll lend it to +you, of course, but I don't want to get into any scrape with your +father, and you'd better be careful, too. Now, what's your plan?" + +Tom had this all arranged the moment he had seen Jim and the bicycle. + +"I've got that all fixed," said Tom. "Say, you don't mind where you +ride, do you? Now, I tell you what you do; just give me some cartridges, +and then you start off with the rifle on your 'bike' and ride down the +hill by 'Daddy Wilson's'--that's where I'm going to go shooting. When +you get to the bridge, get off just a minute, and go down under the +bridge and leave it on top the highest log under the boards on this side +the brook, and then ride on and forget all about it. Catch?" + +Jim "caught," and after another word of warning to be very careful, both +in regard to the rifle and getting caught, he started, having left a box +of Flobert cartridges with Tom. + +[Illustration: HE CAUGHT A GLIMPSE OF A CERTAIN FAMILIAR WHITE HORSE.] + +"Daddy Wilson's" was quite a mile and a half from Jim's house; but it +did not take Tom long to cover the distance, and in a very short time he +was under the bridge and out again on the other side with the rifle +under his arm. His experience had been very limited with firearms, but +he had a natural gift of being "handy" with almost anything, and he +acted as though hunting were an old pastime, and the gun a companion of +years. However, he thought it best to try and see how it went, and was +just taking aim at a little yellow chipmunk, when the sound of an +approaching carriage made him change his mind, and dart under the bridge +and wait; he had caught a glimpse of a certain familiar white horse, and +as it trotted over the bridge, shaking a little stream of dust through +the cracks and down his neck, he realized he had had a narrow escape. +After it had gone by, he tried his aim on an old green frog, and laid +him out "flatter'n a pan-cake," as he said to himself. Two or three more +trials were made, and he started through the woods for his blackberry +patch, first walking very carefully, and finally creeping on all fours; +but whatever the reason, that wily cock partridge had had his breakfast +and declined to be found, and Tom was disappointed and cast down; he had +counted on that bird to ease the reception he would meet at home, and +now he would have to return empty handed. However, he made up his mind +"he'd shoot something," and for an hour or more be popped ineffectually +at chipmunks and small birds, and was really enjoying the sport, when it +struck him that late to dinner would require an explanation, and thus +greatly increase the chances of the very thing which he now wanted to +avoid. So he hurried towards home, and went in through the place by a +back way, intending to leave the rifle at the stable. The coachman was a +good friend of his, and would clean and return it, and everything would +be all right again. Now it happened that Mr. Henry was having built a +small shed and tool-house behind his house, and, as luck would have it, +he was watching its progress at the very moment when Tom emerged from +behind some bushes, and unconsciously was walking down this back road +towards the stable with the Flobert held close along his leg on the side +farthest away from the house, so that "no one could guess he had +anything." All looked smooth sailing. Suddenly he was startled by a +familiar voice, + +"Hey, Tom!" it called; "what you got there?" + +There was no escape. + +"A rifle, sir," replied Tom, in a rather muffled voice. + +"A what!" cried the voice. + +"A rifle, sir," replied Tom, again. + +"Bring it here," was the short reply, and over across the field went Tom +to his doom. + +"Go back there and get one of those carpenters to give you a good sized +shingle," said Mr. Henry, "and give me the gun." + +"Well," said Tom to himself, "I knew I was taking risks," and he +returned in a moment with the shingle, and looking his father straight +in the eye waited the next command. + +"Now," said Mr. Henry, in his severest tones, "take that shingle and put +it up against that big tree, and give me a cartridge." + +Surprise and wonder are no names for the feelings that ran through Tom's +mind; it made him tingle up and down his backbone--he couldn't say a +single word; but there were more surprises to follow. + +"What you been shooting, Tommy? Elephants, hey?" said Mr. Henry, after +firing all the cartridges Tom had left; "or was it only small game--a +panther or lynx--you were after this morning?" + +Tom's courage began to return, and as he found his father in such a +splendid mood he was not going to allow himself to be bluffed. + +"I went out after partridges, sir," he said, "and I thought I'd have one +for supper to-night for mamma; but he wasn't there. I was sure I'd get +one." + +In a short time Mr. Henry had the whole story, and not a word of fault +was found, and Tom thought he had the finest father in the world; he +thought so before, but after this incident there was no doubt about it. + + * * * * * + +On the evening of the same day Tom was again devouring the "bird book," +as he had always called it. Mr. Henry, who had been writing at his desk, +pushed himself back, and looking at Tom, a smile crept over his face. +His son was exactly as he had been at that age, and the reason of his +lenient treatment of what many fathers would have given a severe +punishment for was because he knew a good deal of the world, and +especially how to treat a boy who had inherited a sportsman's love of +woods and guns, and was not to blame for it. Tom was bending close over +the book to see whether it was a woodcock or a quail the dog was +pointing, when Mr. Henry startled him as he said with a laugh, + +"My boy, did you really think you'd get a partridge? Why, Dr. Carver +himself couldn't shoot a partridge with a rifle; why didn't you come and +ask me for my gun?" + +"'Cause I didn't think you'd lend it to me," said Tom, "and I was afraid +you'd suspect something. I'll come to you to-morrow," he added, as a +quiet joke on his father. + +But the way his father took his little joke nearly made him "have a +fit," as he told Jim Vail afterwards. + +"All right, Tommy," said Mr. Henry, "come to me after breakfast and I'll +fix you out." + +Another restless night followed by another beautiful morning, and down +across the field trudged Tom, Dick, and Harry, but it looked like a +brown shooting-coat walking by itself with two setters following after +it through curiosity. There went Tom with a real gun--the little +sixteen-bore--a real hunting-coat, sleeves rolled up and pinned to hold +them, and down below his knees, to be sure; real cartridges in his +pocket, and to make it complete two real bird-dogs. He was going to be +the man in the "bird book," and best of all there was no "on the sly" +about it. + +Down back of the place beyond the "muck pond," where Tom had often +caught live bait for his father, and had slaughtered many a fine fat +frog, to say nothing of the turtles and lizards which had been the +starting of a small museum of which he was sole proprietor, down beyond +this pond he struck into the woods and let "Jet" the Gordon and "Bang" +the Irish setter run. He followed them closely. Soon they came to a +point, and he walked towards them. But here's where there was a +difference between the picture and his position at that moment; he +looked in vain for the bird; in the picture he could see it, but, try +his best, he could not see it in life. The dogs worried a little, he +stepped on a twig which cracked; whir! and up got Mr. Partridge from the +bushes--not exactly where Tom had expected--and whirled off, Tom +crouching down to see where he lit, to try him again. Time and again the +same thing happened, but Tom never could seem to see the bird till he +got up, and he never thought to try him flying. The dogs got tired of +this kind of shooting and came in "to heel," and finally, rather +discouraged and decidedly tired, Tom sat down to decide whether he would +go home or not. He was sitting under a large pine-tree and thinking what +his father would say, when out of the branches above his head sailed, +with a quiet, subdued whir, the very bird he had been chasing so long. +It settled not more than thirty yards off on the roots of an upturned +birch-tree and began a gentle cluck, spreading its fanlike tail and +shaking its feathers, but only for a moment. Tom's chance had come. A +hurried and excited aim, a loud bang, and the partridge was fluttering +on the ground, and Tom was stooping over it; the gun was back where he +had shot from; he had gotten to the bird before the dogs. What he wanted +was a partridge in his coat pocket; he did not seem so anxious to have +the dogs hand it to him, as his dreams had made him. + +Tell the truth, Tom ran most of the way home. He met his father on the +driveway, and a sudden composure took hold of him. + +"Say, Pop," he said, "it ain't so easy as one thinks, is it?" + +"I'll bet you didn't get anything, not even a chipper bird," said Mr. +Henry; "now did you?" + +Tom braced himself, his heart was beating fast, and the shivers were +again making him jump and wriggle. + +"I only got one decent shot," replied Tom, beginning very coolly, "but I +got him, and mamma'll have that bird I didn't get yesterday to-night for +supper. Look at that!" he shouted the last part of his sentence, and +swinging the bird in front of his father's face, darted past to show and +tell all in the house, leaving Mr. Henry in blank astonishment. What he +was saying to himself was: + +"I'll get that boy the prettiest gun in the city for Christmas, that's +what I'll do; he'll be giving me points before long." + + + + +SNOW-SHOES AND SLEDGES. + +BY KIRK MUNROE. + + +CHAPTER XXIX. + +A WILDERNESS-ORPHAN. + +The position in which Phil now found himself was certainly a perplexing +one. By the very simple process of getting lost he had discovered Cree +Jim's cabin, but was appalled to consider what else he had found at the +same time. He now knew that the remainder of their journey, its most +difficult and dangerous portion, must be undertaken without a guide. Not +only this, but they must be burdened with a child so young as to be +practically helpless. In the mean time, what was to be done with those +silent and motionless forms whose dread presence so pervaded that lonely +cabin? And how was he to communicate with his friends? There was no back +trail to follow, for the snow had wiped it out. He did not even know in +which direction camp lay, for in the ardor of his chase the evening +before he had taken no note of course nor distance. + +There was the stream, though, on whose bank the cabin was perched. It +must flow into the river. Yes, that was his only hope. But the river +might be miles away, and the camp as much farther, if, indeed, it could +still be found where he had left it. But of course it would be! So long +as Serge Belcofsky and Jalap Coombs had life and strength to search for +him that camp would remain a permanent fixture until he returned to it. +Phil was absolutely sure of that, and he now realized, as never before, +the priceless value of a friendship whose loyalty is beyond doubt. + +So the plan was formed. He would go down the stream and up the river +until he found camp. Then he would bring Serge and a sledge back with +him. In the mean time the child must be left where he was, for Phil +doubted if he could carry him over the weary miles that he knew must lie +between the cabin and camp, while for the little fellow to walk that +distance was out of the question. + +Phil sat on a stool before the fire while doing all this thinking. As he +rose to carry out his plan, Nel-te, who was becoming terrified at his +mother's silence in spite of his efforts to attract her attention, +slipped from the bed, ran to his new friend, and thrusting a cold little +hand into one of his, looked up with a smile of such perfect trust that +Phil snatched him in his arms and kissed him, at the same time giving +him a great hug. + +Then he said: "Now, Nel-te, brother Phil is going away for a little +while to get some doggies for you to play with, and you must stay here +like a good boy, and not open the door until he comes back. Do you +understand?" + +"Yes; me go get doggies. Nel-te like doggies. Good doggies." And almost +before Phil knew what the child was about he had slipped from his arms, +run to the door, and was putting on the tiny snow-shoes that had been +left outside. Then with an engaging smile, he called, cheerily: "Come. +Nel-te say come. Get doggies." + +"All right, little chap. I expect your plan is as good as mine, after +all," replied Phil, into whose mind had just flashed the promise made to +that dead mother, never to desert her baby. "And here I was, about to +begin by doing that very thing," he reflected as he glanced at the +marble face overspread by an expression of perfect content that his +promise had brought. + +Moved by a sudden impulse he picked up the boy, and, bringing him back, +held him so that he might kiss the peaceful face. This the child did +with a soft cooing that served to convey both love and pity. Then he ran +to the stalwart figure that still lay on the floor, and, patting its +swarthy cheek, said something in the Cree tongue that Phil did not +understand. + +After that Phil carefully closed the door to prevent the intrusion of +wild beasts, and the two, whose fortunes had become so strangely +interwoven, set forth together down the white surface of the +forest-bordered stream, on whose bank Nel-te had been born and passed +his few years of life. He was happily but unconsciously venturing on his +first "little journey into the world," while his companion was filled +with a sense of manliness and responsibility from the experiences +through which he had just passed that the mere adding of years could +never have brought. + +Phil wondered at the ease with which the little fellow managed his +snow-shoes, until he reflected that the child had probably been taught +to use them from the day of taking his first step. So the two fur-clad +figures, ridiculously contrasted in size, trudged along side by side +down the winding stream, the one thoughtfully silent and the other +chattering of "doggies," until he began to lag behind and give signs +that the pace was telling on his slender strength. + +"Poor little chap," said Phil. "But I had been expecting it, and now we +will try another scheme." So, slinging the tiny snow-shoes across the +child's back, he picked him up and set him astride his own broad +shoulders; when Nel-te clutched his head, and shouted with glee at this +delightful mode of travel. + +After they had gone a mile or so in this fashion they rounded a sharp +bend, and came so suddenly upon poor Serge, who was making his way up +the stream in search of some trace of his friend, that for a moment he +stood motionless and speechless with amazement. He could make nothing of +the approaching apparition until Phil shouted, cheerily: + +"Hurrah, old man! Here we are, safe and sound, and awfully glad to see +you." + +"Oh, Phil!" cried Serge, while tears actually stood in his honest blue +eyes, "I can hardly believe it! It seems almost too good to be true. Are +you sure you are not wounded nor frozen nor hurt in any way? Haven't you +suffered terribly? If you haven't, we have. I don't believe Mr. Coombs +slept a wink last night, and I know I didn't. But I am happy enough at +this minute to make up for it all, a hundred times over. Oh, Phil!" + +"I have suffered a little from anxiety, and been a trifle hungry, and +had some sad experiences, but I haven't suffered half so much as I +deserved for my carelessness in getting lost. I found Cree Jim, though; +but--" + +"And brought him with you?" interrupted Serge, smiling for the first +time in many hours, as he glanced at the quaint little figure perched on +Phil's shoulders. + +"Not exactly," replied the other, soberly. "You see this little chap is +his son, and I've adopted him for a sort of a brother, and he is going +with us." + +"You've done what?" cried Serge. + +"Adopted him. That is, you see I promised my aunt Ruth to bring her +something from Alaska that was unique in the way of a curio, and it +seems to me that Nel-te here will please her about as well as anything. +Don't you think so?" + +"Perhaps so," assented Serge, doubtfully. "But was his father willing +that you should have him?" + +"Oh yes, perfectly. That is, you know he is dead, and so is the mother; +but I promised her to take care of the little chap, and as there wasn't +anything else to be done, why, here we are." + +"Of course it's all right if you say so," agreed Serge, "and I don't +care, so long as you are safe, if you carry a whole tribe back to your +aunt Ruth; but now don't you think we'd better be getting along to camp? +It was all I could do to persuade Mr. Coombs to stay behind and look out +for things; he is so anxious. The only way I could induce him to was by +suggesting that you might come in tired and hungry, and would feel +awfully if no one was there to welcome you. But he is liable to set out +on a hunt for you at any moment." + +"Certainly, we must get there as quickly as possible," replied Phil. +"How far is it?" + +"Not more than one mile up the river from the mouth of this creek, which +is only a few rods below here. But oh, Phil, to think that I have found +you! When I had almost given up all hope of ever again seeing you alive +too. I have been down as far as our first camp on the river this +morning, and this creek was my last hope. I wouldn't have left the +country without you, though, or at any rate without knowing what had +become of you. Neither would Mr. Coombs. We settled that last night +while we talked over what had best be done." + +"I was sure you wouldn't, old fellow," replied Phil, with something like +a choke in his voice. + +At the camp they were hailed by Jalap Coombs, who almost hugged Phil in +his revulsion of feeling and unaffected joy at the lad's return. + +"But you don't do it again, Philip, my son!" he cried. "That is, the +next time you feels inclined to wander from home and stay out nights, ye +may go, of course, but you'll have to take me along. So ef you gits +lost, I gets lost likewise; for, as my old friend Kite Roberson useter +say consarning prodergal sons, 'It's allers toughest on them as is left +behind.' But Phil, what be ye doing with that furry little beggar? Is he +the pilot ye went sarching for?" + +"Yes," laughed Phil, lifting Nel-te down from his shoulders. "He is the +pilot who is to lead us from this wilderness, and if you have got +anything to eat, you'd better give it to him before he devours one of +the dogs, which he seems inclined to do. I can answer for it, that he +has been on short rations for several days, and is properly hungry." + +"Have I got anything to eat?" cried the other. "Waal, rather! How does +fresh steaks, and roasts, and chops, and stews strike your fancy?" With +this he pointed to one side of the camp, where, to their astonishment, +the boys saw a quantity of fresh meat, much of which was already cut +into thin strips for freezing and packing. + +"Where did it come from?" queried Phil, looking at Serge; but the latter +only shook his head. + +"It's jest a bit of salvage that I raked in as it went drifting by," +explained Jalap Coombs, his face beaming with gratified pride. "It's +some kind of deer-meat, and _for_ a deer he was pretty nigh as big as +one of those elephants back yonder in the moss cave. You see, he came +cruising along this way shortly after Serge left, and the dogs give +chase and made him heave to. When I j'ined 'em he surrendered. Then I +had my hands full in a hurry, driving off the dogs and lashing 'em fast +so as they couldn't eat him, horns and all, and cutting of him up. I +hain't more'n made a beginning with him, either, for there's pretty nigh +a full cargo left. + +"But how did you kill him? There wasn't any gun in camp?" asked Phil, +utterly bewildered. + +"Of course there warn't no gun," answered Jalap Coombs, "and likewise I +didn't need one. Sich things I leave for boys. How did I kill him, say +you? Why, I jest naturally harpooned him like I would any other whale." + + +CHAPTER XXX. + +JALAP AND THE DOGS SING A LULLABY. + +"Harpooned a moose!" cried Phil and Serge together; for they had by this +time discovered the nature of the sailor's "big deer." "And where did +you get the harpoon?" asked the former. + +"Found it, leaning agin a tree while I were out after firewood," replied +Jalap Coombs, at the same time producing and proudly exhibiting a heavy +A-yan spear, such as were formerly used by the natives of the Pelly +River valley. "It were a trifle rusty, and a trifle light in the butt," +he added, "but it come in mighty handy when it were most needed, and for +an old whaler it are not a bad sort of a weepon. I'm free to say, +though, that I might have had hard luck in tackling the beast with it ef +he hadn't been already wounded. I didn't know it till after he were +dead, but when I come to cut him up, I saw where he'd been bleeding +pretty free, and then I found this bullet in his innards. Still, I don't +reckin you'd have called him a mouse, nor yet a rat, if ye'd seed him +like I did under full sail, with horns set wing and wing, showing the +speed of a fifty-ton schooner. If I hadn't had the harpoon I'd left him +severely alone; but I allowed that a weepon as were good enough for a +whale would do for a deer, even ef he were bigger than the sun." + +"It's a rifle-bullet, calibre forty-four," said Phil, who was examining +the bit of lead that Jalap Coombs had taken from his "big deer." "I +wonder if it can be possible that he is the same moose I wounded, and +without whose lead I should never have found Cree Jim's cabin. It seems +incredible that he should have come right back to camp to be killed, +though I suppose it is possible. Certainly good fortune, or good luck, +does seem to be pretty steadily on our side, and without the aid of the +fur-seal's tooth either," he added, with a sly glance at Serge. + +As soon as breakfast was finished, Phil and Serge slipped away, taking a +sledge, to which was lashed a couple of axes, with them. They were going +back to bury the parents of the child, who was so happily oblivious of +their errand that he did not even take note of their departure. + +The lads had no idea of how they should accomplish their sorrowful task. +Even with proper tools they knew it would be impossible to dig a grave +in the frozen ground, and as they had only axes with which to work, this +plan was dismissed without discussion. + +They had not settled on any plan when they rounded the last bend of the +little stream and gained a point from which the cabin should have been +visible. Then they saw at a glance that the task they had been dreading +had been accomplished without their aid. There was no cabin, but a cloud +of smoke rising from its site, as from an altar, gave ample evidence of +its fate. A blazing log from the fire Phil left in its hearth must have +rolled out on to the floor directly after his departure. Now only a heap +of ashes and glowing embers remained to mark Nel-te's home. + +"It is best so," said Phil, as the two lads stood beside the smouldering +ruins of what had been a home and was now become a sepulchre. "And oh, +Serge! think what might have been the child's fate if I had left him +behind, as I at first intended. Poor little chap! I realize now, as +never before, how completely his past is wiped out and how entirely his +future lies in our hands. It is a trust that came without our seeking, +but I accepted it; and now beside his mother's ashes I swear to be true +to the promise I gave her." + +"Amen!" said Serge, softly. + +They planted a rude wooden cross, the face of which was chipped to a +gleaming whiteness, close in front of the smouldering heap, and near it +Serge fastened a streamer of white cloth to the tip of a tall young +spruce. Cutting off the limbs as he descended, he left it a slender +pole, and thus provided the native symbol of a place of burial. + +[Illustration: "A FLYING-FISH-CATCHER FROM OLD HONG-KONG--YO HO! ROLL A +MAN DOWN!"] + +As they approached the camp they were astonished to hear Jalap Coombs +singing in bellowing tones the rollicking old sea chant of "Roll a Man +Down!" + + "A flying-fish-catcher from old Hong-Kong-- + Yo ho! roll a man down-- + A flying-fish-catcher comes bowling along; + Give us some time to roll a man down, + Roll a man up and roll a man down, + Give us some time to roll a man down. + From labbord to stabbord away we go-- + Yo ho! roll a man down." + +Jalap's voice was not musical, but it possessed a mighty volume, and as +the quaint sea chorus roared and echoed through the stately forest, the +very trees appeared to be listening in silent wonder to the unaccustomed +sounds. Even Musky, Luvtuk, big Amook, and the other dogs seemed by +their dismal howlings to be expressing either appreciation or +disapprobation of the sailor-man's efforts. + +The performers in this open-air concert were too deeply intent on their +own affairs to pay any heed to the approach of the returning sledge +party, who were thus enabled to come within full view of a most +extraordinary scene unnoticed. Just beyond the camp, in a semicircle, +facing the fire, a dozen dogs, resting on their haunches, lifted both +their voices and sharp-pointed noses to the sky. On the opposite side of +the fire sat Jalap Coombs holding Nel-te in his arms, rocking him to and +fro in time to the chorus that he was pouring forth with the full power +of his lungs, and utterly oblivious to everything save his own unusual +occupation of putting a baby to sleep. + +"Ha, ha, ha! Ho, ho, ho!" roared Phil and Serge, unable to restrain +their mirth a moment longer. "Oh my! Oh my! Oh, Mr. Coombs, you'll be +the death of me yet! What ever are you doing? Didn't know you could +sing! What a capital nurse you make! What a soft voice for lullabies! +The dogs, too! Oh dear! I shall laugh at the thought of this if I live +to be a hundred! Don't mind us, though. Keep right on. Please do!" + +But the concert was ended. Jalap Coombs sprang to his feet with a +startled yell, and dropped the child, who screamed with the fright of +his sudden awakening. The dogs, whose harmonious howlings were so +abruptly interrupted, slunk away with tails between their legs, and hid +themselves in deepest shadows. + +"There, there, little chap. Don't be frightened," cried Phil, darting +forward and picking up the child, though still shaking with laughter. +"It's all right now. Brother Phil will protect you, and not let the big +man frighten you any more." + +"I frighten him indeed!" retorted Jalap Coombs, indignantly. "He was +sleeping quiet and peaceful as a seal pup; and I were just humming a bit +of a ditty that useter be sung to me when I were a kid, so's he'd have +something pleasant to dream about. Then you young swabs had to come +creeping up and yell like a couple of wild hoodoos, and set the dogs to +howling and scare the kid, to say nothing of me, which ef I had ye +aboard ship I'd masthead ye both till ye larnt manners. Oh, ye may +snicker! But I have my opinion all the same of any man as'll wake a +sleeping child, specially when he's wore out with crying, all on account +of being desarted. And I'm not the only one nuther. There was old Kite +Roberson who useter clap a muzzle onto his wife's canary whenever she'd +get the kids to sleep, for fear the critter'd bust inter singing. But +it's all right. You will know how it is yourselves some day." + +Phil, seeing that, for the first time since he had known him, the mate +was thoroughly indignant, set out to smooth his ruffled feelings. + +"Why, Mr. Coombs," he said, "we didn't mean to startle you, but those +wretched dogs kept up such a howling that we couldn't make ourselves +heard as we neared camp. I'm sure I don't see how you could think we +were laughing at you. It was those absurd dogs, and you'd have laughed +yourself if you'd looked up and seen them. I'm sure it was awfully good +of you to take so much trouble over this little fellow, and put him so +nicely to sleep with your sing-- I mean with your humming, though I +assure you we didn't hear a hum." + +"Waal," replied Jalap Coombs, greatly mollified by Phil's attitude. "I +warn't humming very loud, not nigh _so_ loud as I had been at fust. Ye +see, I were kinder tapering off so as to lay the kid down, and begin to +get supper 'gainst you kim back." + +"Yes, I see," said Phil, almost choking with suppressed laughter. "But +how did it happen that you were compelled to act as nurse? The little +chap seemed happy enough when we went away." + +"So he were, till he found you was gone. Then he begun to pipe his eye +and set storm signals, and directly it come on to blow a hurricane with +heavy squalls. So I had to stand by. Fust off I thought the masts would +surely go; but I took a reef here and there, and kinder got things +snugged down, till after a whilt the sky broke, the sun kim out, and +fair weather sot in once more." + +"Well," said Phil, admiringly, "you certainly acted with the judgment of +an A No. 1 seaman, and I don't believe even your esteemed friend Captain +Robinson could have done better. We shall call on you whenever our +little pilot gets into troubled waters again, and feel that we are +placing him in the best possible hands." + +At which praise Jalap Coombs was greatly pleased, and said as how he'd +be proud at all times to stand by the kid. Thus on the same day that +little Nel-te McLeod lost his parents he found a brother and two stanch +friends. + +[TO BE CONTINUED.] + + + + +UNCLE SAM AS A STAMP-MAKER. + +BY FRANCES BENJAMIN JOHNSTON. + + +"Here, boys, is a piece of legislation which will add a new series of +stamps to your collections," said Mr. Copeland, as he glanced up from +his morning paper. "The bill transferring the printing of stamps to the +Bureau of Engraving and Printing has just become a law, and hereafter +Uncle Sam will manufacture his own stamps, as well as his own paper +money." + +"Why, father, if they make them here, we can see just how it's done!" +exclaimed Donald, the eldest of the Copeland boys, who, with his +brothers Jack and Ezra, was now experiencing the severest stage of the +"stamp fever." + +"Huh!" grunted the latter--nicknamed "The Parson," from his +old-fashioned ways and a solemn assumption of wisdom. "Perhaps they'll +not let you know anything at all about it. Bobby Simonds told me that +the big company in New York that has always made 'em is awful particular +about letting people see their machinery and things; and Bobby ought to +know 'cause his uncle's an engraver there." + +"Are they going to make all the stamps here in Washington?" broke in +May, the baby of the family. "That'll be nice for you boys,'cause you +can get 'em cheaper at the factory, can't you?" + +"That's just like a girl," laughed Jack. "Anybody would think they were +going to sell stamps by the yard." + +"Well, my boy," said Mr. Copeland, "your sister is right, in a sense, as +under this act the Post-office Department will buy its stamps wholesale +from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, at a nominal price per +thousand, without reference to their face value. I think you also are +mistaken, Parson, as the public will doubtless be as free to inspect the +manufacture of stamps as they now are to see the process of +bank-note-making. When the stamp-printing plant is established, there +should be a great deal in it to interest you youngsters. What do you say +to a tour of investigation some Saturday?" + +Their father's suggestion delighted the children, who waited eagerly for +the fulfilment of the promise. + +This came on a bright October morning, when the little party climbed the +hill beyond the towering Washington Monument, and reached the grim brick +building which is known as the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. + +Here they were shown into a small reception-room, and kept waiting, with +a throng of other sight-seers, until a card from the chief procured for +them a special guide through the building. As she led them through a +long corridor, this lady explained something of the complete and +ingenious system which is in force here to prevent fraud or loss to the +government. No visitor is permitted inside the building without one of +the guides especially detailed for this service, while the work of each +of the hundreds of employé's is so carefully checked and recorded that +even the most insignificant error is readily traceable. Ink, paper, the +engravers' dies, the printers' plates, are all given out on properly +signed receipts, and until all are accounted for, even to the tiniest +scrap of paper, the employés who have handled them are not permitted to +leave the building; so that only by a widespread plot could all these +safeguards be successfully eluded. + +[Illustration: THE ENGRAVING-ROOM.] + +The little party was now shown into a very long room, at one end of +which was ranged a row of compartments like sentry-boxes. In each of +these sat a silent engraver, bent over the small square of steel upon +which he was cutting some part of the design for paper money or stamps. +The plates from which the stamps were formerly printed are the property +of the government, so that the old designs, with a slight modification, +are still in use. This modification consists of a trefoil mark placed in +the upper corner of the new stamps, which will serve to distinguish them +from the old issues printed by the American Bank-note Company. The work +of the engravers is necessarily so painstaking and slow that the +original dies are considered too expensive to use in the +printing-presses. Thus, after the engraver has completed a die, it is +subjected to a hardening process, and the design multiplied indefinitely +upon soft steel plates by what is known as the transfer-press. The +children were shown a long row of these presses, as well as the great +vaults where all the designs, dies, and plates are locked up after the +day's work. From the silence of the engravers' department they were led +into the din and clatter of the press-room below. Here they found the +new steam-presses as well as old-fashioned hand-presses in operation, +and were able to see every detail of the actual printing of stamps. + +[Illustration: TAKING SHEETS OFF THE PRESSES.] + +The hand-presses are worked by a plate-printer and one assistant, the +printer first inking and polishing the engraved plate over a series of +small gas-jets, after which it is placed on the press. His assistant +now lays a dampened sheet of paper upon the plate, the printer gives the +press a turn, and a sheet of bright new stamps is drawn out at the other +side. This work is done quickly and accurately, but it is a very slow +process compared with that of the steam-presses, which turn out sheets +of four hundred stamps each at the rate of one hundred thousand stamps +an hour. The steam-presses carry four plates on an endless chain around +the sides of a large square, in the circuit of which the plates are +automatically heated to the proper temperature, inked, wiped off, and +printed. The blank paper is laid on the plates by one assistant, while a +second helper takes out the printed sheet. The printer in charge of the +press has the most difficult part of the work, which consists in +polishing the plate with his bare palms after it has been mechanically +inked. This must be done so delicately as to leave neither too much nor +too little ink upon the plate, but only _just enough_ to give a clean, +fine impression. + +The presses clattered and clanked, and the children watched with +breathless interest while a great stack of the dampened paper +disappeared rapidly, sheet by sheet, through the press, reappearing +again to be stacked in a second neat pile in the form of thousands upon +thousands of new red two-cent stamps. + +Besides the ordinary issues, the young investigators were much +interested in seeing the printing of revenue stamps, of the long-strip +stamps for cigar-boxes, and other tobacco stamps, and particularly the +new two-cent stamps for playing-cards. + +Having watched to their entire satisfaction the various movements of the +great presses, the children began to feel that the object of their visit +had been realized, and that there was nothing more to see. They were +therefore somewhat surprised to learn that the _printing_ of the stamps +is merely the beginning of the work upon them, and that a number of very +important things must happen to these small squares of red, blue, brown, +and purple before they are ready to be sold through the little window in +the post-office. After they are printed the sheets must be dried and +pressed out, gummed, dried and pressed again, the sheets perforated and +cut apart, trimmed, and, in addition, carefully counted before and after +each of these operations. + +In the early days of postage-stamps, and for several years after they +first came into use, two serious difficulties presented +themselves--_i.e._, the gumming and separating of the stamps. For a time +a thick muddy mucilage was used, which curled up the sheets in a very +inconvenient way. Then, again, before the ingenious device of +perforation was hit upon, it was necessary to cut the stamps apart with +a pair of scissors. Imagine a post-master in these busy days supplying +his customers by the scissors method! + +[Illustration: IN THE DRYING-ROOM.] + +Fortunately a clever Frenchman conceived the plan of punching a series +of small holes between the stamps, and his invention was promptly +introduced into this country. The children were now eager to see the +finishing processes of stamp-making, and so followed their guide into a +large room, where they were greeted by a rush of warm air. Here their +guide showed them the method of gumming the stamps and the curious +apparatus used for the purpose. Along the entire length of the room, +with a narrow passage between, are ranged a series of wooden boxes, +quite sixty feet in length. These are heated by steam, and through each +box passes a sort of double endless chain. The sheets are fed, face +down, into this queer machine, and passed under a roller, which allows +the escape of just enough gum to coat the sheet thinly and evenly. The +sheet is now caught on the endless chain by two automatic clamps, and +carried into the long hot-box. It takes only a few moments for the +journey through, but the sheets appear at the other end perfectly dried, +and ready to be trimmed and perforated. + +As the method of gumming stamps used by the various bank-note companies +has been a carefully guarded and secret process, the Bureau of Engraving +and Printing has been forced to invent its own machine for this purpose. +The sheets are gummed at the rate of about eighteen a minute, which is +certainly a vast improvement over the old method of putting on the gum +by hand with a brush. + +[Illustration: MIXING THE GLUE.] + +When the children were weary of watching the funny little brass fingers +move along and hurry the sheets off into the hot-box, they turned to a +corner where a workman was busy over a series of vats and buckets mixing +the gum, which looked very clean and nice, and is made of dextrine, a +vegetable product. The guide now showed them how the gummed sheets are +pressed smooth for perforation, and then led them into a room where a +score or more of odd little machines were in swift operation. Each +machine is tended by two workwomen, most of whom wear fantastic caps of +paper to shade their eyes, as the sheets must be fed into the machines +with absolute accuracy in order that the perforations shall come in the +right place. Each sheet has register lines printed in the margin, which +must be adjusted exactly under a black thread fastened across the +feeding-table. A quick whir of the wheels puts a neat line of pin-holes +lengthwise between the stamps, cutting the sheet in half at the same +time. The next machine perforates the sheet crosswise, and again cuts it +in two, so that the sheets are now divided up into the regulation size +of one hundred stamps each. + +The children thought the minute disks of paper punched out by the +perforators too insignificant to be considered, and were accordingly +much surprised to learn that the sheets again have to be smoothed out, +under great pressure, to reduce their bulk and remove the "burr" caused +by the perforation. + +After inspecting the final process of making up the stamps into +packages, to be mailed to the postmasters all over the country, the +children were taken by their father to the office of the chief of the +bureau. Here they received a cordial welcome, and learned many +interesting and curious details about stamps and stamp-making. About +3,000,000,000 stamps are annually furnished the Post-office Department +by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, at the rate of five cents a +thousand. Ninety per cent. of these are the two-cent stamps, and +according to the last Post-office report the revenue from the sale of +stamps is a little over $6,000,000 a month. + +"By-the-way," observed the chief, "you young people should be very much +interested in the Report of the Third Assistant Postmaster-General for +1893, which contains a carefully prepared and elaborately descriptive +list of every stamp and postal card issued by the United States +government. It must seem hard to you stamp collectors that the most +beautiful stamps issued--the newspaper and periodical stamps--are not +permitted to be sold to the public. One of the chief reasons for this is +that the values of these small squares of paper run up to such high +figures, viz., $24, $36, $48, and $60, that they would offer a great +field in counterfeiters if generally circulated. There are some queer +denominations among these stamps, notably the $1.92 stamp, which is +about to be discontinued, and some very pretty colors. That reminds +me--did they show you our ink-mills in your tour of inspection?" + +Mr. Copeland explained that they had not seen the mills, so the children +had the pleasure of being escorted by the chief himself into the grimy +region which is seldom penetrated by the public. Here they saw the +colors ground and mixed in small mills, from which the workmen--smeared +from top to toe in a rainbow of colors--gathered the thick greasy ink by +the bucketful. About one hundred thousand pounds of dry color is used +annually for the two-cent stamps alone, the color being mixed with an +equal quantity of burnt linseed oil, making two hundred thousand pounds +of ink. Of course a large percentage of this color is lost in inking and +polishing the plate. + +The tour was now ended, and leaving the oily little wheels to their +ceaseless grinding, the children, with a grateful good-by to their new +friend, went home with their young heads full of the interesting things +they had seen in Uncle Sam's stamp factory. + + + + +[Illustration: THE PUDDING STICK] + + This Department is conducted in the interest of Girls and Young + Women, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question on + the subject so far as possible. Correspondents should address + Editor. + + +Girls who are terrified by thunder and lightning lose a great deal of +enjoyment during the summer, when we have storms as well as sunshine. It +may not be quite possible for every one to help being afraid when the +sky is black with clouds and the lightning's flash, but it _is_ within +the power of most people to control the expression of fright. Once or +twice having resolutely refrained from showing your terror, you will be +surprised and pleased to find the terror itself lessening. + +I know persons who go through life in a sort of bondage to fear of +various kinds. They tremble and turn pale, or grow hysterical and cry, +when the dark clouds gather and the thunders roll. There is a pretty +German hymn which begins, + + "It thunders, but I tremble not, + My trust is firm in God, + His arm of strength I've ever sought + Through all the way I've trod." + +I advise all of you who need the advice to remember that God rules in +the heavens, and His hand sends the storms. Trust in God when you are +afraid--really _trust_, and you will grow calm and be happy. Another +grain of comfort may be found in the fact that when you see the bright +zig-zagging flash and hear the rumbling thunder, the danger for you is +over. You will never see or hear the electric current which hurts or +kills. It is far too swift to wait and warn you in that way. + +Many of us have some pet aversion, which goes far to make us cowards in +one direction, even if in other conditions and situations we are brave. +I have seen women almost faint at the sight of a poor little scurrying +mouse, and have heard others scream at a bat or a beetle. I confess to a +very great dislike on my own part to things with wings and with stings, +especially those which fly in at the window when the lamp is lighted, +and buzz and fizz and snap and pounce and bounce. But I would be ashamed +of myself if I could not keep from shrieking in the presence of these +innocent little marauders. Depend upon it, girls, we _can_ display a +cool front and wear a brave face if we choose to do so, let what happen. +It is all a question of will. + +Numbers of travellers never get the full meed of pleasure when on a +journey because they carry too great a load of care. They fancy that +this or that will happen. They are distressed because of accidents which +may possibly occur. They make the friends with them uncomfortable +because they suggest dreadfully unpleasant catastrophes as just around +the corner. When you think of it, this behavior is both stupid and +silly. Trains and boats are in the hands, as a rule, of competent and +responsible persons, who wish to take their passengers and freight safe +to the journey's end. You, being neither captain, nor engineer, nor +conductor, are called upon to feel no concern in the matter. + +I wish I could impress on every young girl the beauty and dignity of +simple, quiet courage. Not recklessness, nor indifference to danger, but +a gentle acceptance of every situation, and a rising above fear. Fear is +the feeling of a slave. It fetters one's mind, and makes one's body +clumsy and awkward. The Bible says, "Fear hath torment." It is usually +ignoble, not the appropriate sentiment for bright, capable, +kind-hearted, and winning girls like you. Resolve to put fear under your +feet, and walk through the world with hearts superior to it in its every +form and phase. + +[Illustration: Signature] + + + + +[Illustration: STAMPS] + + This Department is conducted in the interest of Stamp and Coin + Collectors, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question + on these subjects so far as possible. Correspondents should + address Editor Stamp Department. + + +One of the first requisites of any science is to know its terms. +Stamp-collecting is now not only a hobby, but an exact science as well. + +[Illustration: Regular perforations: holes punched out.] + +[Illustration: Rouletted: lines cut in.] + +[Illustration: Pin perforated: pin-holes.] + +[Illustration: Rouletted _en arc_: curved lines cut in.] + +[Illustration: Rouletted _en scie_: saw-tooth lines cut in.] + +[Illustration: Rouletted _en serpentine_: fancy lines cut in.] + +[Illustration: Rouletted _en points_: diagonal lines cut in.] + +[Illustration: Rouletted _en losange_: diagonal cuts not joined.] + +[Illustration: Rouletted in half squares: lines cut in.] + +Formerly little note was taken of the condition of stamps, but to-day +the smallest details are important. You have doubtless noticed that +almost all stamps issued during the past thirty years have "scalloped" +edges. These are perforations made to enable persons using stamps to +detach one or more without using scissors. Previous to 1856 all stamps +were printed on sheets of paper, and had to be cut off one by one with a +knife or scissors. These are known as "unperforated." Many experiments +were made to do away with the necessity of using scissors, and we +illustrate the different methods used. Gradually all nations have +adopted the "regular" perforations, which consist of a series of holes +punched out along all four edges of each stamp. Now this difference +between perforated and unperforated stamps makes not a little difference +in the prices asked. For instance, the 24c. U.S. of 1851 unperforated +would be cheap at $100, whereas the same stamp perforated is worth $2.50 +only. The Victoria twopenny of 1867 is worth $1.50 perforated, while $25 +is asked for the unperforated. So none of the ROUND TABLE collectors +should trim the edges of any stamps they may have. Next week we will +illustrate the scale of regular perforations. + +The so-called _error_ of the 5c. red-brown U.S. 1890 issue in the color +of the 4c. dark brown has been demonstrated to be a _changeling_, by a +very simple chemical test. The dealer who offered these stamps for sale +at $30 each has notified the thirty-seven people who bought copies at +that price that their money will be returned on demand. + +I would advise all collectors to keep all the different shades of the +U.S. stamps which they get at little or no expense, but to avoid paying +any extra for shades of current or late stamps. + + A PENROSE SCULL.--The common stamps of the U.S. are worth about + $50 to $100 per million if in good condition. The 10c. brown is + quoted at 10c. + + BUCKSKIN.--This is not the place to quote arguments in favor of + stamp-collecting. Most boys, and many men, find great pleasure in + this pursuit. Ask one of them to tell you of its pleasures. + + H. W.--There are two varieties of Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph + stamps. One is worth $2 each, the regular perforated are worth + 65c. per set. + + ARTHUR L. EVANS.--The 10c. green is worth 6c. The 6c. and 8c. + Columbians can still be bought at face in many post-offices. + +PHILATUS. + + + + +SCHOOL-BOY'S SONG OF THE SCHOOL WEEK. + + + On Monday black, at four o'clock, + The key is turned in the school-room lock, + And I've given old Time a terrible knock, + For the head of the Week is broken. + + At four of a Tuesday afternoon, + The hour that cometh none too soon, + I strap my books to a merry tune, + For the neck of the Week is broken. + + As the four glad strokes on Wednesday ring, + My cap in the air I gayly fling, + And homeward run as I loudly sing, + "The grip of the Week is broken." + + Ah, welcome the sound of the Thursday's four, + And the joyous thought of "but one day more + That opens and shuts the school-room door," + For the back of the Week is broken. + + But sweeter than story in prose or rhyme + The musical notes of the Friday chime, + For the Week lies dead in the arms of Time, + And the school-boy's chains are broken. + + L. H. BRUCE. + + + + +KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS. + + +II.--THE SWORD. + +"Now while the lords and their followers were gathered in the great +church," the Story-teller said, as Jack and Mollie began to show some +curiosity as to what this miracle for which Merlin hoped might be, +"there was discovered in the church-yard near the altar a great black +stone, about four feet square, on the middle of which stood a steel +anvil a foot in height. Thrust into this, with its shining point +visible, was a beautiful sword, and about it, written in letters of +gold, were these words: + +"'WHOSO PULLETH OUT THIS SWORD OF THIS STONE AND ANVIL IS RIGHTWISE KING +BORN OF ENGLAND.'" + +"Who put it there?" asked Jack. + +"I don't know," said the Story-teller. "It was there, and that is all I +know about it, and the people when they saw it were full of wonder, and +marvelled greatly to read the words written about it. I imagine, +however, that Merlin and the Archbishop had something to do with it, for +when the people went into the church, and told the Archbishop what they +had seen, he did not appear to be at all surprised, but commanded all +to remain within the church and not to touch the sword until the service +was over. The people and the gathered knights and all their followers +obeyed the Archbishop's command, for they did not dare do otherwise; +but, when the service was over, they all rushed out into the church-yard +to see the stone and the anvil, with the wonderful sword stuck into it. +And then, when the lords had read the golden inscription upon the stone, +each made an effort to pull the sword out of its anvil-sheath, but not +one of them could do it. They pulled and tugged and pulled and tugged, +but it was all in vain. They neither broke nor budged it, and the +Archbishop of Canterbury said it was evident that none of those present +could claim to be the rightful King. He added that he believed that the +right one would yet be discovered, and suggested that ten of the best +knights of the land should be made a guard of honor to watch over the +sword until New-Year's day, when any one who wished might come and in +the presence of all make the effort to pull it from the anvil. This was +agreed to, and it was decided to have a great tournament upon the coming +New-Year's day, after which the trial should be made. This kept the +knights and their followers in London, for it was important that all +should be present at the trial, success in which meant so much, not only +to the successful man, but to the whole kingdom as well." + +"Didn't Merlin try to pull it out?" asked Mollie. "If he put it in, I +should think he could have pulled it out, and then he could have been +King himself." + +"Possibly; but I imagine he didn't want to be King, for one thing, and, +for another, he had been too good a friend to Arthur, and to Uther, his +father, to wish to betray them. The Chronicles do not say whether he +tried it or not, but if he did, he failed; and so the week between +Christmas and New-Year's went by without any one's having moved the +sword; and the lords made their preparations for the tournament, and +many of them, I have no doubt, spent a great deal of their time getting +their muscle up in the hope of winning the crown. + +"On the New-Year's day all again assembled in the church, and, after the +service, proceeded to the field where the tournament was to take place. +Sir Ector, followed by his son, Sir Kaye, who had himself been made a +knight, and Arthur, rode with them, when it was discovered that Sir Kaye +had left his sword behind him at his father's lodging. Summoning Arthur, +he requested him to return to the house and get it for him. This Arthur +readily consented to do, for he was fond of Kaye, whom, as we have +already seen, he supposed to be his own brother. Turning his horse +about, he rode full speed back to the lodgings; but when he arrived +there he found every one had gone to the tournament, and he could not +find his foster-brother's sword. For a moment he was perplexed. He knew +it would never do for Sir Kaye to be found at a tournament without his +sword, for the sword was the sign of his knighthood, and a knight who +had lost it would have been considered unworthy of the honor which had +been bestowed upon him. Suddenly Arthur bethought him of the sword in +the anvil, and without much hope that he should succeed where so many +others had failed, he resolved to make the effort to loosen it anyhow, +and in case of success to carry it to Sir Kaye. + +"So he rode to the church-yard, and found it as deserted as Sir Ector's +lodgings had been. The ten knights who had been left to guard the sword, +like every one else in London, had gone to the tournament. Dismounting +from his horse, Arthur strode into the yard, and grasping the handle of +the sword as firmly as he could, pulled at it fiercely, when, to his +surprise and delight, it came out of the anvil. Without stopping to +think of all that this meant for him, he remounted his steed, and rode +hastily back to Sir Kaye, to whom he handed the weapon. + +"The instant Sir Kaye looked at it he knew it to be the sword of the +stone, and putting his spurs to his horse, he dashed to where his father +stood, and, showing him the glittering blade, told him that it was the +sword of the stone, and said, + +"'I must be King of this land!' + +"But Sir Ector was cautious, so he questioned Kaye closely as to how he +had come by the weapon, and he made him go with him and Arthur back to +the church and swear to what he said; and Sir Kaye told him the whole +story--how he had left his own sword at home and had sent Arthur back +for it; how Arthur had gone there, and not finding any one, had +bethought him of the sword in the anvil, and had taken it, though no one +had witnessed the act." + +[Illustration: THE RIGHTFUL KING OF ENGLAND.] + +"Whereupon Sir Ector made Arthur return the sword to the anvil, and +himself tried to pull it out, but it would not come; and then he made +Sir Kaye try it, and still it would not come; and then bidding Arthur +make an effort, the boy did so, and it came out easily, at which both +Sir Kaye and his father knelt before Arthur, and hailed him as the man +who should be rightful King of England." + + + + +[Illustration: INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT] + + +With the New England Interscholastic games next Saturday the season of +track and field athletics--as far as school leagues are concerned--will +practically come to a close. The season has been a most successful one. +Records have been broken on every hand, even in events where it was +supposed that many a year must go by before that performance could be +bettered. This excellent showing is the natural result of the hard +training and constant energy of the hundreds of runners and jumpers in +the schools; and the ever-increasing number of contestants all over the +country proves that track and field sports have secured a firm foothold, +and now deserve to be recognized as equal in importance to both football +and baseball. In the vicinity of New York, at least, there are fully +twice as many who indulge in track athletics as there are baseball and +football players. In other regions I think the proportions are more +nearly equal. The growth of these sports has been very rapid. In almost +every centre there is an Interscholastic Association or League, and the +daily newspapers, not only of the East but of the West, have been +printing reports of scholastic meets for the past two months. The work +of the school athletes has decidedly become a factor in amateur sport. +In some of the school leagues there are better men than the colleges can +boast of. + +The annual meeting of the Inter-collegiate Athletic Association at the +Berkeley Oval, usually characterized as the "Mott Haven games," because +they were first held at Mott Haven, brings together the best college +athletic talent from all parts of this broad country. This year a team +from the University of California travelled three thousand miles +overland to contest for the championship on that day. Besides them, an +unknown runner with a rapid gait and a queer cap came out of the West, +and left the crack sprinters of the East straining and striving behind +him, while he, with a broad smile, pocketed two gold medals, and carried +them back to Iowa. I don't believe there was ever any better sport at +Olympia, and if the colleges can be so successful in these things, and +can draw men to compete at these games from every point of the compass, +why should not the schools follow their example, and form one great +Interscholastic Association, and have a big meeting once a year? There +is no reason why they should not. I can think of hardly a single +obstacle in the way of the formation of such a league. All that is +needed is that some energetic individual or individuals, or some +enthusiastic and sporting spirited Athletic Association take the matter +in hand and put it through. Once started, the routine of organization +would roll along as if on wheels. + +It is not necessary that every school in the country should be asked to +join at the outset. On the contrary, I would suggest that the greater +Association under discussion be made up of the various I.S.A.A.'s now +existing, and that the big annual games be a contest among the winners +of the annual games of the individual associations. This scheme commends +itself, because only the best men from every locality could compete at +the meeting, and the number of entries could in that manner be limited. +We have all had experience with a superfluity of contestants, and we +know what interminable trial heats mean. If the movement to form a +general Interscholastic Association should be started in New York, there +would be no lack of leagues already in good standing to call upon for +membership. There are the New York and the Long Island I.S.A.A.'s right +here. Near by we have the New England I.S.A.A., the Western +Massachusetts I.S.A.A., the Maine I.S.A.A., the Connecticut I.S.A.A., +the Pennsylvania Inter-academic A.A., the Dartmouth I.S.A.A., and the +New York State I.S.A.A. of Syracuse. In addition to these there are many +others that I need not mention here. A large and influential league in +the West is the Academic Athletic League of the Pacific Coast, of whose +prowess on track and field I have had occasion to speak of many times in +this Department. + +Of course, one of the first questions that would arise upon the +organization of such an Interscholastic Association would be, Where +shall the annual meeting be held? The answer to that is simply, hold it +where it will be most convenient for the greatest number of schools +interested. It would not be advisable to hold the meeting in a different +city each year, for the Portland and Bangor athletes would not care to +journey to Philadelphia, neither would the Pennsylvanians care to travel +up into Maine. New York is a central location, but in many respects it +would be a poor place for a meeting of the kind under consideration. The +ideal spot, to my mind, would be New Haven. This for two reasons +principally. It is half-way between Boston and Philadelphia, which are +the centres of the New England and Pennsylvania districts; and it is +also about equally distant from New York and Hartford, which are the +homes of the N.Y. & L.I.I.S.A.A's, and the Connecticut I.S.A.A. The +second good reason is that Yale University is situated at New Haven, and +I have no doubt that the authorities of college athletics there would +only be too happy to offer the use of the Yale field, and to do +considerable work toward the management of the games. + +Even if the college men felt that they could not devote their time to +the management of an Interscholastic meeting--which I greatly doubt, for +it would be to their interest to do so--there are three large schools in +New Haven, members of the Connecticut I.S.A.A., which would certainly +see that business committees were appointed, and competent men set to +work for the successful carrying out of the enterprise. But I believe +the athletic authorities of Yale would be so glad of the opportunity to +help and assist the school athletes that they would even go so far as to +offer a cup to be contested for. + +But I have run a little ahead of my subject. What we are all most +interested in now is the first step; the rest can easily be arranged +afterward. It is too late to think of holding a general Interscholastic +meeting this spring, but it is none too early to begin to think of +holding one next year. Preparations for such an important event require +much time. If there is anything that HARPER'S ROUND TABLE can do to +further the success of the plan, or if there is any work that I can +perform in my small way toward the carrying out of any idea that may be +formulated, it shall be done. I hope these few words on the subject will +appeal to the athletes of the schools, and I shall be only too glad to +hear from them, and, if possible, to give space to their suggestions. + +PENNSYLVANIA I.A.L. GAMES, FRANKLIN FIELD, PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 1, 1895. + + Event. Winner--5 points. Performance. + + 100-yard dash Jones, P.C. 10-4/5 sec. + 120-yard hurdle Branson, P.C. 18-3/5 " + Half-mile run Gage, H. 2 m. 17-1/2 " + Mile bicycle Whetstone, De L. 3 " 7 " + 440-yard run Jones, P.C. 58-2/5 " + 220-yard hurdle Branson, P.C. 29-4/5 " + 220-yard dash Jones, P.C. 24-3/5 " + Mile run Thackara, G. 5 " 23 " + Half-mile walk Lippincott, De L. 4 " 5 " + Running high jump Rorer, P.C. 5 ft. 2-1/2 in. + Running broad jump Branson.P.C. 19 " 7 " + Putting shot Watts, C. 33 " 4-1/2 " + Standing broad jump Flavell, G. 9 " 7 " + Pole-vault Hanson, P.C. 9 " 2-1/2 " + + + Event. 2d--3 points. 3rd--1 point. + + 100-yard dash Hunsberger, P.C. Bailey, P.C. + 120-yard hurdle Coit, C. Remington, De L. + Half-mile run Thackara, G. Farr, De L. + Mile bicycle Lagen, De L. Beverlin, De L. + 440-yard run Lambertson, C. McCarty, G. + 220-yard hurdle Rorer, P.C. Coit, G. + 220-yard dash Hunsberger, P.C. Beasley, G. + Mile run Guernsey, P.C. Gage, H. + Half-mile run Shearer, P.C. Sutton, H. + Running high jump Newhold, De L. Remington, De L. + Running broad jump Rorer, P.C. Johnson, G. + Putting shot Farr, De L. Sayen, H. + Standing broad jump Branson, P.C. Rorer, P.C. + Pole-vault Rorer, P.C. { Flavell, G. + { Branson, P.C. + + + Points Made. + + Penn Charter 67-1/2 + De Lancey 23 + Germantown 17-1/2 + Cheltenham 9 + Haverford 10 + Adelphi 0 + Episcopal 0 + --- + Total 126 + + NOTE.--P.C., Penn Charter School; G., Germantown Academy; De L., + De Lancey School; C., Cheltenham Military Academy; H., Haverford + Grammar School; E., Episcopal Academy. + +The unusual heat of ten days ago interfered mightily with the success of +the Pennsylvania schools' field-day on Franklin Field a week ago +Saturday. With the thermometer at 95°, and the officials so overcome +with heat that half of them did not turn up, it is not to be wondered at +that but two records were broken. The only men who seem to have remained +unaffected by the temperature, were Jones and Branson of the Penn +Charter School, the former taking first in the 100, 220, and 440, and +the latter winning three firsts, one second, and two thirds--a total of +twenty points. Rorer, also of Penn Charter, came pretty close to his +schoolmates by taking one first, three seconds, and one third. All three +leave school this year. The meeting was, therefore, a perfect walk-over +for P.C., as the score by points clearly shows, and at no time of the +afternoon was there much enthusiasm displayed. It began to rain just +before the field events were contested, and when the heavy shower ceased +the field was in no condition for jumping or pole-vaulting. This +accounts for the poor performances in those events. + +Jones ran the final heat of the 100 in 10-4/5 sec., winning easily, and +came home twenty yards ahead of his second man in the quarter. He was +not pressed in the 220 either, and made the poor time of 24-3/5 sec. The +half-mile was one of the most interesting races of the day. The first +three men kept well bunched all the way around, and Gage made a good +spurt at the finish. Branson won both the high hurdles and the low +hurdles with comparative ease, most of his opponents appearing fagged +out. In the bicycle race, which occurred after the shower, a bad +collision, in which one man was seriously hurt, knocked out three +contestants and spoiled the event. In the mile, Guernsey, P.C., started +a spurt within 220 yards of the tape, and earned a lead of thirty yards, +but Thackara of Germantown showed better judgment by waiting until he +reached the 100-yard mark, when he forged ahead and won. The half-mile +walk was very close, the judges being unable to decide the first three +places for some time. They finally made the award in the order given in +the table. The records broken were in the shot event by Watts, who put +the ball 3-1/2 inches beyond the I.A.L. record of 33 ft. 1 in., and in +the pole-vault. The latter was broken by four men. Hanson and Rorer tied +for first, and as neither could better his jump, they tossed for first +place, with the luck in favor of Hanson. Branson, P.C., got third place. + +In strong contrast to the ease of Penn Charter's victory on Franklin +Field was the sharp and exciting contest between the Bangor and Portland +High-Schools at the Maine I.S.A.A. meeting in Maplewood Park, Bangor, +the same afternoon. The result was a tie, each school scoring 37-1/2 +points, and out of fifteen records on the programme eleven were broken. +Some of the best performances were Somers's jump of 21 ft. 5 in. in the +broad; Perry's pole-vault of 9 ft. 3 in.; and the winning of the low +hurdles by Edwards in 28 seconds. The most exciting period of the day +was toward the close of the meeting, when Portland High was 10 points +ahead of Bangor High, and only the hammer and standing high jump to be +decided. Portland felt almost sure of victory, but Godfrey and Connors +of Bangor went in and took the first two places in the hammer, with +Wakefield of Thornton third, thus shutting Portland out from winning any +points in that event. Not only this, but Godfrey broke the record by +more than eight feet. Then he answered to the call for the standing high +jump, clearing 4 ft. 7 in. at his first trial, and there tieing Jordan +of Portland. Both men tried to do better, but were unable to, and third +place again went to Thornton with Hidgdon. The tie will make the record +of victories count one year for each school in the holding of the cup +now in the custody of Bangor. + +[Illustration: F. Munson. Albert Mooler. S. E. Gunnison. H. Simpson. J. +Beasley. + +E. H. Jewell. H. Romer (Capt.). M. Forney. + +J. Forney. A. Opp. A. Topping. + + +ADELPHI ACADEMY TRACK-ATHLETIC TEAM. + +Champions of the L.I.I.S.A.A., 1895.] + +Of the eleven point-winners from the Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, at the +Long Island Interscholastic Games on May 11th, six will return to school +next year. These are Gunnison, who took three firsts in the championship +games, Mooler, Beasley, Topping, and both Forneys. Of the others, +Simpson expects to enter West Point, Opp will go to the Columbia Law +School, while Munson, Romer, and Jewell will go into business. The +last-named will be the greatest loss to the team, as he made almost as +good a showing at Eastern Park as Gunnison. Nevertheless, there is +plenty of good material left in the school, and with the nucleus that +remains Adelphi ought to be able to build up another champion team. + +The Interscholastic Games of the New England Association, which are to +be held on Holmes Field, Cambridge, next Saturday, will bring together a +larger number of contestants than have appeared at any interscholastic +event this season. The New England I.S.A.A. includes about thirty +schools, and more than twenty will send representatives to strive for +the cup. While it is not so very difficult to guess the probable winners +of first place in the principal events on the card, the general result +of the day is by no means a certainty, for the smaller schools always +manage to send one or two "dark horses" who upset the closest +calculations of the best judges. Nevertheless, the championship probably +rests with the Worcester High-School, or the Boston English High-School, +or the Phillips Academy, Andover. The W.H.-S. team won the in-door +meeting last March by scoring 19 points, and most of the winners of that +day will compete on Holmes Field this week. Andover did not send a full +team to the in-door games, and the E.H.-S. was crippled by the absence +of some of its best athletes on that occasion, but both schools have +been training their strongest men for the past few weeks, and will +surely be well represented. + +The 100-yards dash will be won by Roche of W.H.-S., Clarke of Worcester +Academy, or Dunbar of E.H.-S. These three sprinters breasted the tape +almost together in the 40-yard dash at the winter meeting, Roche winning +by a few inches only. I consider Ferguson the surest man for the high +hurdles, although Chase of Andover will be close upon him. The low +hurdles will make a pretty race for Fuller, Cambridge L.S., Heine, P.A., +and Seaver, Brookline H.-S. Fuller's success will largely depend on +whether he has to run the 220 flat before he takes the hurdles. In that +case Heine and Seaver will have a slight advantage. But if Fuller does +run the 220 before this, he ought to win it, with Roche and Dunbar +behind him. There will be no fast time made in the quarter, and the race +will furnish a good opportunity for a surprise by some unknown quantity. +Fish, W.A., Carleton, Milton Academy, Purtell, E.H.-S., and Howe, +W.H.-S., are about equal in ability for that distance. Albertson, +W.H.-S., and Batchelder, R.L.S., will have a close race in the +half-mile, and I have no doubt that the record will be lowered. +Cunningham of Hopkinson ought to be third. + +If Laing of Andover were not kept out of the contest by the age limit +ruling he would, beyond any doubt, take the mile for P.A. He ran it at +the Interscholastics last year in 4 min. 32-2/5 sec. And so, unless +Andover sends down another good man, Dow of E.H.-S. will probably win +the event. Moore of Newton H.-S. ought to take the walk, with Delaney of +W.H.-S. second, and Barstow of Hopkinson third. For the field events +Holt and Dole of Roxbury Latin, and Henderson of E.H.-S., will divide +the honors in the high jump, while the broad will be contested by +Purtell, E.H.-S. and Holt, R.L.S. The shot event will be won by O'Brien, +E.H.-S., with Jordan, W.H.-S. and Holt, P.A., in the places. Johnson, +W.A., should win the pole-vault, although Thenoin, R.L.S., may push him. +The hammer rests with Seargent of Hopkinson, Coan, E.H.-S., or Barney, +R.L.S. With so many men competing from such a large number of different +schools, it is not probable that the winning score will be much greater +than 25, and the winner of second place ought to come close to the same +figure. + +The New York Interscholastic Tennis Tournament, under the auspices of +Columbia College, had a large entry list that required three days to be +played off. The games were all characterized by steady work rather than +by any particularly brilliant play, and the championship was won by +Waltz of the Leal School, Plainfield. He met Wigham of Harvard School in +the finals, and had a comparatively easy time of it, defeating the +New-Yorker in three straight sets--6-1, 6-2, 6-4. He will go to Newport +for the big Interscholastic tournament this summer, and will meet the +other school league champions, Ware of the N.E.I.S.A.A., Sheldon of the +Connecticut I.S.A.A., and Beaman, who won in the Pennsylvania I.A.L. +Tournament at Princeton. I consider Ware the strongest player of this +quartet, and expect to see him win at Newport. He will be heard from at +the Longwood Tournament next Saturday too. + +The prospects of Lawrenceville being victorious over Andover in the +baseball game to-morrow have been daily increasing, and I believe now +that the Jerseymen will win. Andover does not seem to be able to reduce +the average of errors made in her games so far, and her players on the +left-field side must play a sharp game if they wish to offset +Lawrenceville's good batters. St. Mark's School, with little over a +hundred boys to pick a nine from, defeated the Phillips Academy team, +two weeks ago, by the score of 6-3, and the latter suffered another bad +defeat from the Yale Freshmen a few days later. St. Mark's victory was +in a considerable measure due to the effective pitching of White, who +held the Andover men down to six hits. The features of the game, besides +White's work in the box, were the catching of Drew, Andover's Captain, +and the fielding of Folger. Mills, too, made a beautiful running catch +of a long fly. I am surprised that the St. Mark's batters were able to +get seven hits off Greenway, as it has been Andover's boast that their +battery is as good as any in the schools. It is; and I surmise that +Greenway had an off-day at Southboro. He must do better to-morrow or +Lawrenceville will have an easy time with their Massachusetts rivals. +The Jersey players have greatly improved the past week, especially in +team-work. They have won within the past fifteen days two games from the +Pennington Seminary's strong team, they have defeated the Princeton +Freshmen, and they got excellent practice out of their match with the +Princeton 'Varsity. Andover will have the advantage of home grounds and +the crowd, but they will need more than that to pile up the runs. + +A new invention by Professor E. W. Scripture, of Yale, will be +interesting to all track athletes. The apparatus is one that will +measure a runner's "reaction time." This time is that which elapses +between the moment the pistol is discharged and the moment the sprinter +starts. The brief period between these two moments is taken up by nature +in transmitting the sound from the ear to the brain, and the impulse to +run from the brain to the muscles of the legs. Professor Scripture +believes that the length of reaction time is frequently an important +factor, and he argues that with a runner it must be reduced to the +shortest possible limit, as one-fifth of a second counts in a race. By +experiments the inventor has proved to his own satisfaction that the +time which elapses between the firing of the starter's pistol and the +actual start of the runner is long enough to influence the winning of a +race. The reaction time of a runner may vary from one-sixth to one-third +of a second. The new invention is an arrangement by which a runner's +reaction time may be measured to within the one-thousandth part of a +second. The starter's pistol is arranged so that an electric contact is +broken when the pistol goes off. A thread is attached to the right foot +of the runner, and this thread breaks an electric contact the moment he +starts. The distance marked on a cylinder by these two contacts measures +the individual's reaction time. Sport may soon reach such a scientific +stage of advancement that sprinters will be handicapped with reference +to their "reaction time." + + THE GRADUATE. + + * * * * * + +Charlotte Cushman, a celebrated actress, was filling an engagement at +the opera-house in B----. A man in the gallery created such a +disturbance that it seriously impeded the progress of the play, and +finally brought it to a standstill. Immediately the audience, furious +with anger, cried: "Throw him over! Throw him over!" + +Miss Temple stepped to the edge of the footlights, and in a sweet and +gentle voice exclaimed: "No, I pray you, don't throw him over. 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W. the + Editor will be pleased to furnish subscribers with membership + blanks and information so far as possible. + + +[Illustration: Copyright, 1895, by Harper & Brothers.] + +The run from Brooklyn to Babylon along the south shore of Long Island is +perhaps the best bicycle run on the Island, and is the first thirty-five +miles of the famous century run which is made every year by the Kings +County Wheelmen; and there is no doubt that this 100-mile course along +the shore of Long Island is as easy a run as there is in the east United +States. The road is macadamized most of the way to Babylon, and is at +present finished about as far as Seaford. From Seaford on to Babylon the +road is a good one, though not all macadamized. The wheelman intending +to make this run should examine the map of Brooklyn published in last +week's ROUND TABLE. He will there find the way to get from his +residence, whether in Brooklyn or New York, to Prospect Park. Starting +from Prospect Park, run up the Boulevard to Liberty Avenue at East New +York, and, turning right into this, continue thence to Woodhaven. At +Woodhaven take the left-hand fork and run out to Jamaica. The road +through Jamaica is clearly enough marked, as it is the beginning of the +Plank Road that continues on to Jericho. The rider should keep on this +road, which is in good condition, out of Jamaica a mile or more, passing +through Hollis and Holliswood Park. At the latter place, and just before +reaching Queens, a turn should be made to the right, and after crossing +the track the rider will run out over a good road about seven miles to +Hempstead. On entering Hempstead he may turn to the left and run up to +Garden City, where there is a hotel that is well kept, and a good place +for a short stop if one is desired. + +Returning to Hempstead, the rider keeps to the main road, running down +towards Ridgewood, and comes into the Shore Road, and thence the run +continues straight on through South Jerusalem, Seaford, Amityville, +Lindenhurst, into Babylon. The whole run from Brooklyn is practically a +forty-mile journey, and if the wheelman intends to return on his wheel +to Brooklyn he can keep straight on the Shore Road, passing through +Freeport, Rockville Centre, and Valley Stream, instead of turning to the +right near Ridgewood, and going back through Hempstead. The great +advantage of this run is that there are almost no hills along the line +of the road, and the wheelman has as "clean" a ride as can be found in +the vicinity of New York. When all the roadway along the South Side of +Long Island is finally macadamized there will be hardly a single run in +the country to equal it. + + K. L. T.--The cost of a bicycle trip from New York to Liverpool, + thence to France, and perhaps into Germany, depends entirely on how + much luxury the traveller expects to indulge in, and whether he or + she will ride entirely or will frequently use railway trains. It is + safe to say, however, that it is possible after reaching Europe to + make a bicycle tour through France and Germany on an average of two + dollars per day, though that requires the greatest care in + expenses. (2) It would be hardly advisable for two ladies to travel + through France and Germany alone on bicycles, though it could be + done. The difficulty would be that bicyclists still attract + attention, and two foreign women would be much more likely to meet + with difficulties than if they travelled by rail, to say nothing of + the possible accidents to their machines. (3) The necessary luggage + would be comparatively easily carried in the triangular water-proof + bicycle bag, which is carried on a diamond frame machine inside the + diamond, and on a woman's bicycle in a different shape bag attached + to the handle-bar in the front. Any woman going on such a trip + should learn how to take a bicycle to pieces and put it together + again, and in the process of learning she will discover what tools + are necessary. Material for mending tires is absolutely + necessary--a good monkey-wrench, oil cans, a tire inflator, + pincers, and a reasonably good supply of small wire and twine for + making repairs where such material is necessary. In France you will + probably find no difficulty in having all necessary bicycle repairs + made, especially in the cities and larger towns. It would be much + cheaper to stop at houses, and in England, and perhaps to a certain + extent in France and Germany, such travellers are very well + received in the cottages of the peasants in the middle classes. (4) + The best bicycle roads in the world are in England, and England has + for many years been called the "bicyclist's paradise." The French + government roads come next, both being comparatively free from + hills. German roads are by no means as good, and the country is + more hilly. Swiss roads are moderately good, and in some places + very fine, but they are apt to be extremely hilly. Northern Italy + would probably come next; but it is safe to say that for two women + taking their first bicycle tour, England is by far the best place + to travel in. (5) If two ladies travel second-class on a steamer to + Liverpool they might meet with some unpleasant incidents, but it is + now possible to get a first-class return ticket on some of the + smaller steamers of the important lines quite as cheaply as a + second-class return ticket on the larger steamers. For instance, a + first-class ticket and return to Havre, France, or Southampton, + England, can be bought for from ninety to one hundred dollars on + the smaller steamers of the Hamburg and North German Lloyd lines. + It would, of course, be cheaper to buy a return ticket. + + NOTE.--Map of New York city asphalted streets in No. 809. Map of + route from New York to Tarrytown in No. 810. New York to Stamford, + Connecticut, in No. 811. New York to Staten Island in No. 812. New + Jersey, from Hoboken to Pine Brook in No. 813. Brooklyn in No. + 814. + + + + +[Illustration: THE CAMERA CLUB] + + Any questions in regard to photograph matters will be willingly + answered by the editor of this column, and we should be glad to + hear from any of our club who can make helpful suggestions. + + +BROKEN NEGATIVES. + +Sometimes one is so unfortunate as to break a negative which cannot well +be replaced. The amateur who understands little about photographic work +is, in such a case, quite likely to think that the negative is ruined, +and throw it away; but unless it has been broken in many pieces it can +be repaired so that one can get as good a print from it as before it was +broken. + +If there is one clear break across the glass, but not through the film, +place the negative in the printing frame, pushing the broken edges +closely together, holding them while adjusting the sensitive paper. +Fasten in the printing frame, and print in a diffused light--that is, +not in the direct rays of the sun. Place the negative at such an angle +with the light that the crack across the glass shall not make a shadow. + +If there are several cracks in the glass, but not in the film, put the +negative in the printing frame, supporting it by a piece of plain glass; +tie cords to the printing frame so that it may be suspended by them; +hang the frame from some projection where it will not hit anything, and +keep it revolving during the printing process. The plate moving all the +time, the cracks in the glass do not cast a shadow long enough in one +place to make any impression on the sensitive paper. If one cannot +arrange the frame in this way, it may be placed at the bottom of a large +deep box without a cover, and left to print. + +If the film is broken as well as the glass, take a piece of plain glass +the size of the negative--a spoiled plate is just the thing--lay the +broken pieces on this plain glass, taking care that the picture lines of +the negative are true, and bind the edges of the glass and negative +together with strips of gummed paper. When the strips are dry, varnish +the film with negative varnish. It is better to purchase the varnish +ready prepared than to attempt to fix it one's self. + +If the negative is badly broken, but not splintered, apply Canada balsam +with a toothpick to the edges of the broken parts, and press them firmly +together, keeping the negative on a flat surface during the process, a +glass plate a little larger than the negative being the best thing to +use. When the balsam is thoroughly dry, flow the negative with varnish, +and as soon as it begins to set cover it with a piece of glass the size +of the negative. When dry, bind the edges together with strips as before +directed. If the negative is very badly broken, it should be enclosed +between two pieces of plain glass, putting on the second in the same +manner, after the first is dry. Bind the three together. + +An excellent paste for binding negatives and lantern slides is made of +rice flour. Mix rice flour with water till it is smooth and free from +lumps. Set the dish containing it into another of hot water, and boil +till it becomes thick and semi-transparent, stirring it all the time. +When done it should be about the consistency of laundry starch made for +collars and cuffs. This paste is very strong--in fact, almost as durable +as cement. If a few drops of carbolic acid are added to it, it will keep +for some time. The bottle should be tightly corked when not in use. + +If the film has not been broken it can be removed from the glass in the +same way that films are stripped, and transferred to another clean +plate. + +For very valuable negatives it is a good plan to make a paper negative, +in case of accident to the glass one. A paper negative is made by taking +a good print of the negative and waxing it according to directions given +in No. 782 "answers to queries." Make a print from this waxed positive, +supporting the paper while in the printing frame by a sheet of plain +glass. Tone and fix this print, which will be a negative. Wax it, and if +you are so unfortunate as to break the original, you will still have the +paper copy, which can be used in its place. + +For negatives that can be replaced it is not wise to spend the time in +repairing them if broken, but it sometimes happens that a valuable one +is broken which cannot be duplicated, and with careful handling it can +be made "as good as new." + + SIR KNIGHT HARRY T. LUTHER, New York, asks what causes his + negatives to turn yellow, and if there is any remedy for it. The + reason why negatives turn yellow is usually because they have not + been washed long enough. They should be washed in running water an + hour. If running water is not convenient soak the plate for two + hours, changing the water several times. The yellow stains may + sometimes be removed by soaking the negative for a short time in a + solution of one ounce sulphite of soda and nine ounces water, to + which a few drops of sulphuric acid have been added. Sir Harry + also asks what toning solution to use with the plain paper + described in Nos. 796 and 803. The combined toning solution used + for aristo paper is the best solution for the plain paper. It + works quickly, and gives soft clear tones. + + SIR KNIGHT WILLIAM KELSEY asks if a combined toning and fixing + solution can be prepared for aristo-type paper--how long negatives + and prints should be washed in running water--and what use is made + of hyposulphite of soda and alum in developing negatives. A + combined toning solution for aristo may be bought ready prepared, + or one can prepare it at home. A formula comes with each package + of paper, and half the quantity given is enough to prepare at one + time, unless one has a large number of prints to tone. + Hyposulphite of soda and alum are used for fixing the negative + after developing. The hypo can be used for fixing without the + addition of the alum. The alum hardens and clears the film, and is + good to use in warm weather to prevent the frilling of the film. + + SIR KNIGHT GEORGE H. BENZON, JUN., Philadelphia, Pa., asks for the + best solution for fixing plates. A solution of 4 ounces water and + 1 ounce of hyposulphite of soda is the formula used by the editor + of this column both in warm and cold weather. In warm weather the + tray containing the fixing solution is set in a pan containing + pieces of ice, which prevents the frilling or softening of the + film. A formula for a fixing solution with soda and alum is given + in No. 808, answer to Sir Knight Frederick Kopper. + + SIR KNIGHTS D. G. STANBROUGH, A. SMITH, HARLOW BROWN, and LADY + FLORENCE CRANE all ask for a good formula for a toning solution, + but neither one says for what kind of paper. The formulas for + toning baths are very numerous, and different chemicals are used + for different sensitive papers. As aristo paper is at present a + very popular paper, we give the following standard, combining + toning and fixing bath for prints made on this paper: Water, 10 + ounces; hyposulphite of soda, 2 ounces; sulphocyanide of ammonium, + 1/8 ounce; acetate of lead, 30 grains; nitrate of lead, 30 grains; + chloride of gold (neutral), 1 grain. + + This bath must be made up twenty-four hours before using, that it + may clear and settle. In preparing, add the ingredients in the + order named, dissolving each before adding another. Put the + prints, without washing, in this bath, one at a time, taking care + that no air bubbles form on the print, as they will leave spots on + the finished prints. The prints will turn at first a + yellowish-brown, then to a warm red, and finally to a rich brown. + Remove from the bath as soon as the desired tone is obtained. Wash + for one hour in running water. 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It is +organized for the encouragement of goodly fellowship and improvement. It +desires to communicate with Knights and Ladies of the Round Table living +in Minneapolis. Its officers are Fred H. Stevens, Lottie Kluge, Myrtle +Jones; Florence Kimball, 3600 Bloomington Avenue. + + + + +Lovers of Play Journalism. + + +Odd, isn't it, how everybody loves to see what he writes in print? The +oldest editor in America is not free from this vanity, or whatever one +may call it. So young persons who play at making small papers are in +good company. Besides, they are engaged in what affords them experience +they can get in no other way. Three excellent amateur papers reach the +Table: the _Amateur Collector_, R. T. Hale and F. W. Beale, editors and +publishers, 23 Federal Street, Newburyport, Mass.; _Our Young People_, +Robinson Bros. & Co., Box 255, Brunswick, Me.; and the _Little Magnet_, +Louis O. Brosie, editor, 3405 Butler Street, Pittsburg, Pa. All three +are splendid examples of the editor's and printer's "arts." Here are +some members who are interested in journalism, want sample copies, and +can contribute morsels: Waldemar Young, 174 C Street, Salt Lake City, +Utah; J. T. Delano, Jun., 12 White Street, Newport R. I.; James F. +Bowen, 36 St. James Avenue, Boston, Mass.; and Samuel T. Bush, 1104 East +15th Street, East Oakland, Cal. + +R. C. Megrue asks what it costs to start and run a small paper. That +depends on how large it is, and whether you have a press of your own. +The cost is considerable per copy if you go to a regular +printing-office, because the edition is rarely above two or three +hundred copies. The charge in one case we know of was $7 per hundred. +Will not R. T. Hale kindly give us a morsel on the subject? Louis O. +Brosie and Clement F. or Arthur L. Robinson may give us morsels too. +Please tell the Table about the cost, size, and mention some of the +other difficulties. Never mind the fun of the thing. Pleasures take care +of themselves. + + + + +What a Copyright Is. + + +A copyright, dear sir Harry, is a legal right to a copy. Suppose you and +your friend Delano, four doors away, should publish a book that proved +as popular as--well, let us say _Trilby_, or _Ben-Hur_, or _Uncle Tom's +Cabin_ did. If you send out a few copies and put upon them no legal +proprietary mark, other persons seeing the demand could and would take +your work, make copies of it, sell them, pocket the money, and give you +nothing for what perhaps cost you a great deal of effort. If, however, +you observe the legal forms, and your book proves saleable, other +persons are prevented from making additional copies. Those who want +copies must buy them from you. The legal form is very simple. Before you +publish the book, paper, print, or whatever it is, you mail two copies +to the Librarian of Congress, Washington, with $1. He returns to you a +paper, duly signed, setting forth the fact that for a certain number of +years that article belongs to you. You state this fact on each copy +published, and then the profit is yours, and the law protects you in it. + + + + +Some South African Birds. + + + Following the example of other members of the Round Table, I + thought I would write and tell you about some of our birds. + + My brothers and I have just been talking about the blue hawk. It + is not a particularly large bird, and is grayish-blue in color. It + is comparatively harmless, its chief prey being rats and mice. Its + nest looks like a pile of sticks roughly laid together, but at the + bottom of the nest it is very soft. This is the description my + little cousin gives of its eggs: "If you were to take a pure white + egg and rub it all over with blood, leaving a few white specks, it + would be just like a blue-hawk's egg." In shape it is round, and + the color is really a dirty red. The bird's call sounds very much + like that of a cross fretful baby. + + Another peculiar bird here is the hammerhop. It is a large brown + bird, and has a crest upon its head which looks like a hammer, + hence the name. It preys upon the frogs. It makes a tremendous + nest in the shape of a hut on the top of a high rock. I am told + that it plasters the nest on the inside. + + One of our prettiest birds is the gilded cuckoo or diedrich. The + color of its back is green, and looks as if a lot of bronze dust + had been sprinkled on it. Its breast is white spotted with brown. + Like other cuckoos, it lays its eggs in other birds' nests. The + color of the eggs is pure white. It has a very musical + call--"dee-dee-dee-diedrich." + + The aasvogel is a species of vulture. It is of a dirty white + color, and has no feathers at all on its neck. Almost as soon as + an animal dies the sky is darkened by aasvogels flying to prey + upon the body. The leader or king perches upon it first, while his + followers sit round waiting until he is finished. He claims the + eyes as his portion, as a rule. As soon as he has satisfied his + hunger he flies away, leaving his followers to have their share. + The aasvogel builds his nest of sticks on the top of some + inaccessible krautz (precipice). The eggs are white, I believe, + spotted with brown. I would like to correspond with Ladies of the + Round Table in different parts of the world. + + ISMA FINCHAM. + ROYDON, QUEENSTOWN, CAPE COLONY, SOUTH AFRICA. + + + + +Do Your Rabbits Ever Drink? + + + Mr. Chase says rabbits drink. I think there are two sides to that + question. I know a boy who has a dozen rabbits and not one ever + drinks. I have two and neither ever drink. Another friend had two + that he kept seven years. They drank milk, and, at rare times, + water. I believe that rabbits can be trained either way. What is + the experience of others? + + VICTOR R. GAGE. + VINELAND. + + + + +A Florida Gopher. + + + A Florida gopher is very different from those we read about as + living out West. In shape and size he is nearly like a common + fresh-water turtle, with this difference; he lives on land. The + gopher has a very hard shell covering his entire body except the + head and feet. His front feet are nearly like a turtle's, with + four or five claws, but very hard. They must of necessity be hard, + for this animal burrows very deep in this hard, clay ground. His + hind feet are round, with a flat bottom, four to five claws on + each, evidently made for pushing when walking or burrowing. They + look like a miniature elephant's foot. + + His head is also very much like a turtle's. When alarmed he draws + his head and feet into his shell and remains quiet. He is a very + peaceful animal. I have never known one to bite anybody nor + anything else. The gopher lives in the ground, burrowing a + molelike passage several hundred feet long. There is no use trying + to dig for one. It would take a week of the hardest kind of work + to reach the bottom of his tunnel. + + He comes out every day about noon for his meals. He eats grass, + weeds, clover, etc., for his regular meals; but when he finds a + farm with pease, beans, and other vegetables, unless he is + discovered in time he will do a great deal of damage, for he eats + such things voraciously. In raising their young the female lays + from five to six eggs in the dirt she has thrown out when digging + her tunnel. She buries them, and in a few weeks hatches out a + great number of the cutest little things you ever saw. They do not + stay with their mother, but go immediately to forming a little + burrow for themselves, which is from five to six feet deep. They + can live a long time without any food whatever. Their flesh is + also eatable, tasting somewhat like chicken. May I write again? + + HARRY R. WHITCOMB. + UMATILLA, FLA. + +Certainly you may write again. + + + + +Blackberries Nearly the Year Round. + + Down here we have a great variety of fruit. We have blackberries + nearly all the year round. They commence in March and last until + about the end of November. All are what we call wild in the + States. Indians peddle them in big baskets on their backs. They + are a great deal smaller than yours, and can only be eaten when + cooked. I would like to exchange Mexican postage and revenue + stamps with some Knights of the Round Table. + + ROBERT L. MILLER, JUN. + P. O. Box 319, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO. + + + + +Mounting Paper Money. + + +A California member asks how to fix paper money so that it may be +examined without having to take it out of envelopes each time. There are +two ways of mounting your specimens. The first and most difficult is to +take very stiff paper and make a leaf with an opening of the exact size, +like the opening in a photograph album leaf. Mucilage the tiniest edge +all around, and press till thoroughly dry. + +The other way is to cover the four corners, but this prevents the back +from being seen. An ideal way would be to have two specimens--one to +mount one side front, the other the other side. Rare manuscripts are +mounted according to the first method, and then the heavy albumlike +leaves are bound into a book. + + + + +Want Corner. + + +Do you live in Chateaugay, N. Y.? Please favor Blanche French, West +Dedham, Mass., with some account of the place, its size, location, and +any interesting information. She will be most grateful. Hubert B. +Stephens is the new secretary of the Bollman Chapter, and his address is +Box 274, Sharpsburg, Pa. It is a corresponding, stamp, and botany club +with ten-cent fee and five-cent dues. Of course it wants to hear from +anybody interested. S. J. Tucker, 2818 Mary Street, Pittsburg, Pa., +wants to find old copies of _Notes and Queries_. Have you any? He will +reward you if you write him. + +The Benjamin Harrison Chapter, of Lee, Mass., wants suggestions how to +make its meetings interesting. It also wants correspondents. Won't you +write? Ernest A. Chaplin, Somerset East, Cape Colony, South Africa, +writes to the Table: "There is a beautiful mountain just outside our +town, and on it a place called 'Rabbit Rock.'" Sir Ernest says he +collects stamps, and has many rare ones to trade. + +The fee for admission to the Thaddeus Stevens Chapter, 910 North Broad +Street, Philadelphia, is ten cents, and it wants members, both resident +and non-resident. By mistake we announced the fee as $1. The Sylvia +Chapter was prompt to give us the asked-for facts about it. Its +president is Mary B. Yohn, 5813 Jackson Street, Wissinoming, +Philadelphia; secretary, A. Grace Owen. One of its members, Harriett O. +Bender, wants to trade flowers. Address care the president. Will the +Sylvia's president tell us how its meetings are made interesting? We +wish to publish the information. + + + + +[Illustration: Ivory Soap] + +You have noticed the disagreeable odor of clothes just from the wash. +That's the soap. Cheap soaps do not rinse out. Ivory Soap rinses +readily, leaving the clothes sweet, clean and white. + +THE PROCTER & GAMBLE CO., CIN'TI. + + + + +[Illustration] + +CHILDREN GROW + +healthy--grow happy--grow rosy cheeked and bright eyed, on Hires' +Rootbeer. This great health-giving temperance drink should be kept in +every home. It will benefit and delight every member of the family from +the baby up, and prove a most delicious thirst satisfying beverage for +callers. It's good all the time--morning, noon and night. Get the +genuine + +HIRES' Rootbeer + +A 25 cent package makes 5 gallons. Sold everywhere. + +The Chas. E. Hires Co., Philadelphia. + + + + +MONARCH + +King of all Bicycles. + +[Illustration] + +TRADE-MARK. + +Five Styles. 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KEMPER, + +Branches: London, Berlin. 132-134 Lake Street, Chicago + + + + +=DEAFNESS & HEAD NOISES CURED= by my =INVISIBLE= Tubular Cushions. Have +helped more to good =HEAR=ing than all other devices combined. Whispers +=HEAR=d. Help ears as glasses do eyes. =F. Hiscox=, 853 B'dway, N.Y. +Book of proofs =FREE= + + + + +[Illustration] + +The Eight Numbers of the Franklin Square Song Collection contain + +1600 + +of the Choicest Old and New Songs and Hymns in the Wide World. + +Fifty Cents per Number in paper; Sixty Cents in substantial Board +binding; One Dollar in Cloth. The Eight Numbers also bound in two +volumes at $3.00 each. Address Harper & Brothers, New York. + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE TRICK BICYCLE-RIDER AND THE OBSTINATE BULL-DOG. + + +[Illustration] + + Though well he rides and does the trick, + The bull-dog's pace he finds too quick; + +[Illustration] + + On yonder limb he'll get a hold, + And leave the bull-dog in the cold. + +[Illustration] + + He swings himself high in the air, + And takes his bicycle up there; + +[Illustration] + + Then with his pump he'll downward slip, + And let the bull-dog get a grip. + +[Illustration] + + The bull-dog never will let go. + Though he's pumped full of air, and so + +[Illustration] + + When he's as full as he can be, + The next thing happens as you see. + + + + +HELPFUL HINTS FOR BICYCLISTS. + + +1. A good bicyclist is careful of his roads, therefore when taking a +header be careful not to hit the road too hard with your forehead. You +might make a dent in the pavement. + +2. In falling off your wheel do not fall on both sides at once. Failure +to observe this rule will result in dividing you against yourself. + +3. Always be courteous. If a trolley-car has the right of way over the +track do not dispute with it. A boy in Massachusetts who broke this rule +broke his right arm and his cyclometer at the same time. + +4. Be cautious. In riding from New York to Brooklyn keep to the +driveway. Don't try to wheel over the suspension-cable. Yon might slip +and fall into the smoke-stack of a passing ferry-boat. + +5. Keep your lamp lit when riding at night. The boy who thought he was +safe because he had a parlor-match in his pocket came home with a spoke +in his wheel that didn't belong there. + +6. Do not be rough with ice-carts and furniture trucks. If you must run +into one of them do it as gently and tenderly as if it were a +baby-carriage. + +7. A merciful rider is merciful to his wheel, so do not force a bicycle +beyond the point of its endurance, unless you want to walk back with +your wheel on your shoulders. + +8. Keep cool. If in the course of a ride you find yourself in a tight +place, with a skittish horse to the left and a steep ravine to the +right, and a bull-dog directly to the fore, take ravine. You'll go into +it, anyhow, and if you take it alone without dragging the dog or the +horse after you your chances will be improved. + +9. Never use spurs on the pneumatic tires of your wheel. The use of +spurs in this manner is likely to leave your bicycle in a winded +condition. Spurs are not comfortable, either, in case of a throw. + +10. Do not be stubborn with a balky wheel. If the front wheel gets in a +rut going east, and the hind wheel in another going west, dismount and +argue the matter standing, unless you are tired, and want to lie down by +the road-side without making the effort to do so unassisted. + + + + +CHANGED HIS MIND. + + + I didn't like to take my bath, + Until one summer morning bright + I made believe I was a whale, + And now I think it's out o' sight. + + + + +A FACETIOUS VISITOR. + + +"See yat 'ittle boy over zare?" said Mabel. "Yat's my 'ittle buzzer, an' +his name is Nat." + +"Indeed?" said the visitor. "Well, I think gnat is a very good name for +a buzzer." + + + + +A SINGULAR DRESS. + + +"My big brother belongs to the Seventh Regiment," said little Nell, +proudly, "an', my, how noble he looks when he's all dressed up in his +unicorn!" + + + + +A LOST TUNE. + + + I've heard a German band play tunes, + I've heard 'most every other thing; + But one tune I have never heard, + Is that which boiling kettles sing. + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Round Table, June 11, 1895, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S ROUND TABLE, JUNE 11, 1895 *** + +***** This file should be named 33010-8.txt or 33010-8.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/3/0/1/33010/ + +Produced by Annie McGuire + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Harper's Round Table, June 11, 1895 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: June 28, 2010 [EBook #33010] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S ROUND TABLE, JUNE 11, 1895 *** + + + + +Produced by Annie McGuire + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#SAVED_BY_A_CARCASS"><b>SAVED BY A CARCASS.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#JUNE_FLOWERS"><b>JUNE FLOWERS.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#STORIES_OF_OUR_GOVERNMENT"><b>STORIES OF OUR GOVERNMENT.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#THE_LITTLE_COLLECTOR"><b>THE LITTLE COLLECTOR.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#AN_ENTERPRISING_PHOTOGRAPHER"><b>AN ENTERPRISING PHOTOGRAPHER.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#OUR_FLAG"><b>OUR FLAG.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#A_PLEASANT_DISAPPOINTMENT"><b>A PLEASANT DISAPPOINTMENT.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#SNOW-SHOES_AND_SLEDGES"><b>SNOW-SHOES AND SLEDGES.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#UNCLE_SAM_AS_A_STAMP-MAKER"><b>UNCLE SAM AS A STAMP-MAKER.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#THE_PUDDING_STICK"><b>THE PUDDING STICK</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#STAMPS"><b>STAMPS</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#SCHOOL-BOYS_SONG_OF_THE_SCHOOL_WEEK"><b>SCHOOL-BOY'S SONG OF THE SCHOOL WEEK.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#KING_ARTHUR_AND_HIS_KNIGHTS"><b>KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#INTERSCHOLASTIC_SPORT"><b>INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#BICYCLING"><b>BICYCLING</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#THE_CAMERA_CLUB"><b>THE CAMERA CLUB</b></a></td></tr> +</table></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_593" id="Page_593">[Pg 593]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 1000px;"> +<img src="images/ill_001.jpg" width="1000" height="331" alt="HARPER'S ROUND TABLE" title="" /> +</div> + +<p class="center">Copyright, 1895, by <span class="smcap">Harper & Brothers</span>. All Rights Reserved.</p> + +<hr style='width: 100%;' /> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'>PUBLISHED WEEKLY.</td><td align='center'>NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1895.</td><td align='right'>FIVE CENTS A COPY.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>VOL. XVI.—NO. 815.</td><td align='center'></td><td align='right'>TWO DOLLARS A YEAR.</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<hr style='width: 100%;' /> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 700px;"><a name="SAVED_BY_A_CARCASS" id="SAVED_BY_A_CARCASS"></a> +<img src="images/ill_002.jpg" width="700" height="620" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<h2>SAVED BY A CARCASS.</h2> + +<h3>A WHALEMAN'S YARN.</h3> + +<h3>BY W. J. HENDERSON.</h3> + +<p>"Han'some," said Farmer Joe, having stretched himself on the shady side +of the forecastle-deck and set his pipe going, "it 'pear's to me that +it's about time we heard what happened to you after you got back to your +own ship."</p> + +<p>"You mean on my whaling voyages, I suppose," said Handsome.</p> + +<p>"That's a right peert guess," responded Farmer Joe.</p> + +<p>Handsome blew a whirling cloud of smoke that went swiftly out to leeward +under the swelling foot of the fore-staysail. He watched it in a +meditative manner until it disappeared, and then said:</p> + +<p>"I was pretty glad to get back to my own ship, the <i>Ellen Burgee</i>, +because, in spite of the fact that they treated us very well aboard the +<i>Two Cousins</i>, you see I had a pretty good lay on the <i>Ellen</i>, and I +didn't want to lose it. Of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_594" id="Page_594">[Pg 594]</a></span> course nobody ever gets rich by going to +sea, but a fellow likes to stick fast to all he gets. Well, we didn't +stay very long in the bay in company with the <i>Two Cousins</i>. We got to +sea again, and laid our course for a bit of cruising-ground away to the +southward, where our Captain said he believed the whaling was good. The +voyage down there was as stupid as a Sunday-afternoon sermon in hot +weather, and for the matter of that so was the cruising for two days, +because we didn't raise a single spout. On the third day, however, we +were gladdened by the welcome cry of 'There she blows!' There were half +a dozen whales in sight, and the old man had great hopes of getting at +least two of them. But that was not to be our luck that day. The first +mate got fast to one big fellow, and killed him, but the rest of us +returned to the ship empty-handed.</p> + +<p>"Now I haven't told you anything about what's done with a whale after +you get him; but as this story depends on that, I'll have to explain. +The first job is to get the whale alongside the ship."</p> + +<p>"Why not sail the ship alongside the whale?" asked one of the listeners.</p> + +<p>"That ain't wholly practicable," answered Handsome, "because you might +run into him and sink him. The ship does sail as close as she dares, but +the boats must do their share. Two boats take the ends of a light line, +with a weight slung on the bight so as to sink it, and they pass this +under the whale's tail and around his 'small,' as the slimmest part of +him is called. By means of this line, the ends being passed aboard the +ship, a chain is run in a slip-noose around the 'small,' and Mr. Whale +is hauled alongside and kept there. Next comes the business of +cutting-in, which means cutting off the blubber and bone that are +wanted. Stages, such as ships' painters use, are slung over the side of +the vessel, and the first-class cutters, generally the ship's officers, +stand on these stages with long-handled spades. The cutting-in begins at +the place where the backbone joins the head, and the first strip taken +off there is called the blanket piece. The pieces of blubber are hauled +up with tackles, and these rip them off while the spades cut. It's a +long and tough job, and it makes a new hand pretty sick. But it's +child's play to what comes next, which is the trying-out. Say, I'd +rather be a green hand again than have another job at trying-out."</p> + +<p>"Well, tell us about it, anyhow," said Farmer Joe.</p> + +<p>"It ain't any use to make a long yarn of that," continued Handsome. "The +try-works, as they call them, are a sort of Dutch oven, built of bricks, +and situated amidships. A couple of big iron pots stand on top of the +oven, and the blubber, minced up, is put into them. You start a fire in +the oven, and that boils out the oil, which is ladled out into casks, +and then all hands turn to and pick out the pieces of fat and scraps so +as to have nothing put pure oil. Well, to heave ahead with the yarn, we +had our whale alongside overnight, and the next morning we started at +cutting-in. About the time we'd got ready for trying-out, and started +the fires, the breeze began to freshen up, and it looked rather dirty up +to windward. The Captain said we must shake a leg with the trying-out.</p> + +<p>"'Boys,' says he, 'we got to boil this oil with stu'ns'ls set, because +before we get it done we'll be under a close-reefed maintops'l.'</p> + +<p>"Well, bless you, he hadn't much more than got the words out of his +mouth than the mast-head fellow lets out a yell:</p> + +<p>"'There she blows! And there she breaches!'</p> + +<p>"Now it wouldn't make any difference to a whaler if he thought the world +was a-going to come to an end in ten minutes, he'd lower away if he saw +a spout. So the Captain gave orders for two boats to get under way in +chase of the new whales. One of the boats was the one I belonged to, and +the next thing I knew I was sitting on my thwart. The sail was hoisted, +and we went scudding down to leeward at a rattling gait. Say, it wasn't +altogether agreeable to sit in that boat and notice the width and height +of the sea that was getting up. But we soon forgot all about it in the +excitement of going on.</p> + +<p>"'It's a-going to be a tough job getting this whale alongside,' says one +of the crew.</p> + +<p>"'Wait till we get him first,' says Bacon.</p> + +<p>"Well, it was our chance, and Bacon slung the iron into him with a vim. +Up went flukes and down went whale. He soon came up and began to swim to +windward at a fearful speed. The seas thundered against the bow of our +boat, and great sheets of water came tumbling inboard.</p> + +<p>"'Bale there, bale!' yelled Bacon, 'or the boat'll fill and sink!'</p> + +<p>"You can bet we didn't need to be told twice. We hadn't fairly got +started when the whale sounded, and we could tell by the trend of the +line that he was coming back toward the boat.</p> + +<p>"'Look out!' shouted Bacon.</p> + +<p>"The next second the brute shot clear out of the water not fifty feet +off the starboard beam of our boat, and raised such a wave when he fell +back into the sea that he nearly swamped us.</p> + +<p>"'For goodness' sake," says one of the men, 'cut the line and let him +go.'</p> + +<p>"'We'll never get back to the ship alive,' says another; 'look at the +sea. It's blowing a gale.'</p> + +<p>"Well, it was blowing in a bit of a squall just then, but Bacon's blood +was up, and he was bound to have that whale.</p> + +<p>"'Pull me up to him!' he shouted.</p> + +<p>"We obeyed orders, and Bacon drove the lance right into his life.</p> + +<p>"'Starn all!' he yelled, and we didn't get out of the way a second too +quick, for the monster went into his flurry, and beat the sea into an +acre of foam with his immense flukes. However, there he was dead enough, +and in the mean time the ship had worked down to leeward of us, and was +close at hand. It was a pretty troublesome piece of work to pass the +line around his small in such a nasty sea; we managed to do it after +four or five trials, and he was hauled alongside the ship just as it +began to grow dark. Now I tell you what, lads, it was a very uncommon +sight. There was the ship beginning to roll uneasily in the rising sea, +with a blazing, smoking furnace amidships, looking for all the world as +if she was on fire, and a whale on each side of her. The boats were +hauled up, and then the Captain looked about him.</p> + +<p>"'Cut the old whale adrift,' says he; 'we can't tow the two of them in +this weather, and we've got about the best of his oil.'</p> + +<p>"So we cut the carcass adrift, and it went rolling off down to leeward. +It hadn't got fifty yards from the ship before all the water around it +was black with sharks' fins, and the next instant a dozen of these +wolves of the sea appeared, leaping and thrashing the water in their mad +struggles to get at the remains of the whale. They seemed like regular +demons, so fiercely did they attack the carcass, ripping away the +remaining shreds of flesh, and smashing the bones in their powerful +jaws. In five minutes the body was torn to pieces and the sharks +disappeared, leaving us to imagine what would have happened to some of +us if a boat had happened to capsize in the chase. Well, the gale +increased in strength, and the sea rose more and more. The Captain +didn't want to lose the whale, so he hove the ship to with the dead +monster under our lee, where he rode pretty well, except that once in a +while when we rolled heavily he would come up against the side of the +ship with a thump that threatened to shake the timbers apart. However, +the Captain said he was going to hang on till he found it was a case of +life or death. All of a sudden we were startled by a terrible cry,</p> + +<p>"'Fire!'</p> + +<p>"Every man looked in the direction from which the cry came, and we saw a +small but lively flame stealing up near the foot of the mainmast.</p> + +<p>"'It's from the try-works!' shouted Bacon.</p> + +<p>"Sure enough the gale had taken up every one's attention so that we all +forgot about the fire in the try-works. It hadn't been put out, and now +a coal or a spark or something had fallen on the deck, and the damage +was done."</p> + +<p>"'Why didn't you put it out?' asked one of the listeners.</p> + +<p>"Put it out!" exclaimed Handsome: "why, man alive, don't you know the +condition a whale ship is in when trying-out<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_595" id="Page_595">[Pg 595]</a></span> is going on? She was +simply afloat with whale oil. The deck was running with it; every plank +and bit of loose rigging was soaked with it. Put it out! Why, we did all +that mortal man could think of. The Captain ordered us to get up all the +tarpaulins and spare canvas, and try to smother it, but, bless you, as +soon as we threw them over the fire they soaked up the oil and began to +burn. We fought the fire with the energy of desperate men, for we knew +that if we had to take to the boats the chances of our ever seeing land +again in such a sea would be pretty slim. Finally the Captain said he +would try a desperate scheme. As yet the flames were around the decks +and lower masts. What he proposed to do was to let the ship fall off +into the trough of the sea in hopes that a big wave would sweep her deck +and drown out the fire. Everything was made ready, and then with a face +full of sorrow he gave the order to cut loose the carcass of the whale. +He was afraid to let it hang there with the ship broadside on. We cut it +loose, and then he ordered the helm to be put up, and all hands to take +to the rigging. We went up with a good deal of misgiving. The ship fell +off into the trough and wallowed there. The seas broke over her here and +there, but not in sufficient volume to drown the fire, which was gaining +headway all the time, and was now beginning to send tongues of flame up +the rigging, as if in a mad attempt to drive us poor fellows out of our +refuge.</p> + +<p>"'It won't do,' says the Captain; 'we must lay down, lads, and take to +the boats.'</p> + +<p>"We all started for the deck, when suddenly Bacon uttered a fearful cry:</p> + +<p>"'Look! Look!'</p> + +<p>"He was pointing to windward, and looking in that direction, we all saw +a tremendous wave rolling down upon the ship with the speed of an +express train. We stopped where we were, and clung with an intense grip +to the rigging. The wave came. It pitched the vessel up as if she were a +chip of wood, and flung her over on her beam ends. There was a crashing +and rending of wood, and several wild shrieks from the men as the +foremast went by the board. There were half a dozen fellows on it, and +they were plunged into that raging sea. I never saw them again. The rest +of us were hanging on as best we could, when the very next wave that +came put out the fire sure enough, for it turned the <i>Ellen Burgee</i> +bottom up."</p> + +<p>Handsome paused for a moment, as if overcome by the dreadful +recollection.</p> + +<p>"Well," he continued, "when she went over, I let go of the rigging and +threw myself into the sea. I made up my mind it was all over with me, +yet it turned out that this was not to be the case. I was buried under a +ton or two of foaming water, but I came to the surface again, and found +myself a long distance off from the overturned ship, which was fast +settling in the water. I struck out, as a man will even when he doesn't +know what use it is, and kept myself afloat for several minutes, the +waves all the time driving me to leeward. Suddenly I saw a dark mass +tumbling on the seas a short distance away. I thought it must be one of +our boats that had got loose when the ship went over, and so I struck +out for it. I was growing weak, blind, and dazed in the heavy seas, when +I was caught up by a wave and flung squarely on top of the floating +object. I grabbed wildly, and caught hold of something hard and slimy. I +clung to it, though, and to my great amazement I found I was hanging to +the flipper of the dead whale. You know they float on their sides when +dead, with one flipper up in the air and the other under water. Well, it +wasn't much of a life-raft, as you may well suppose, but a man in such a +fix as I was will take anything he can get. I hung on there all right, +the dead whale jumping and tumbling under me like a live fish. Toward +morning the wind shifted, and at sunrise the gale broke. The sea began +to go down right away, but a great swell was running. When the sun got +fairly up I realized what a terrible position I was in. The heat was +intense, and the gases from the carcass nearly overwhelmed me. But that +was nothing. The air was filled with the discordant cries of hungry +sea-birds. They swooped down from every direction, and pecked at the +carcass. They beat at me with their wings, and acted as if they knew I +was a doomed man, and the sooner they could drive me into the sea the +better for me. But I fought them off, and sitting with one leg on each +side of the flipper and clasping it with one arm, I clung to my dreadful +life-buoy.</p> + +<p>"And now came a new horror. Sharks appeared and began to fight around +the whale, snapping and biting and tearing off pieces of the flesh. I +realized that if this continued my life-buoy would be destroyed; but I +was helpless. Then thirst began to torture me. All day long I tossed on +that dead whale, with the birds and the sharks around me. At nightfall a +gentle shower came, and by holding my mouth open I managed to relieve my +thirst a little. As soon as it became dark the birds and the sharks left +me, and presently, utterly exhausted, I fell asleep, leaning against the +flipper. I remember that I was quite conscious of the danger of falling +off my perch into the sea and drowning; but I didn't care. How long I +slept I do not know. It must have been five or six hours. I was awakened +by a heavy shock, and I found myself plunged into the sea. Involuntarily +I uttered a scream for help.</p> + +<p>"'Great Scott! there's a man,' I heard a voice say. 'Hang on there, lad. +Catch this.'</p> + +<p>"Plump came a circular white life-buoy into the sea, luckily falling +within my reach. A few minutes later a boat had been lowered away, and I +learned that my dead whale had been run down in the darkness by the ship +<i>Full Moon</i>, bound for Liverpool from Hong-Kong. And so I was taken to +England, with a pretty clear determination in my head never to go +whaling again."</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="JUNE_FLOWERS" id="JUNE_FLOWERS"></a>JUNE FLOWERS.</h2> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">Here and there a daisy?</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">And now and then a clover?</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">And once a week a buttercup,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">And so the whole land over?</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">A rose within the garden?</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">A lily in the sun?</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">Does dear old Mother Nature</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">Count flowers one by one?</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">No; daisies by the acre,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">And clovers millionfold,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">The meadows pink with blushing,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">The pastures white and gold.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">And roses, like the children,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">Abloom at every door,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">And buttercups as countless</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">As the sand upon the shore.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">Dear Mother Nature scatters</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">Her flowers on road-side edge;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">She carpets every forest,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">And curtains every ledge.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">And then she sets us dancing</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">To such a merry tune,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">For all the world is laughing,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">And, darlings, this is June!</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>"Harry, here are three apples; now suppose I wanted you to divide them +equally between James, John, and yourself, how would you do it.'"</p> + +<p>"I'd give them one and keep the others."</p> + +<p>"Why, how do you make that out?"</p> + +<p>"Well, you see, it would be one for those two, and one for me, <i>too</i>."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_596" id="Page_596">[Pg 596]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="STORIES_OF_OUR_GOVERNMENT" id="STORIES_OF_OUR_GOVERNMENT"></a>STORIES OF OUR GOVERNMENT.</h2> + +<h3>WHAT OUR REPRESENTATIVES DO.</h3> + +<h3>BY THE HONORABLE HENRY CABOT LODGE,</h3> + +<h4><span class="smcap">United States Senator from Massachusetts</span>.</h4> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 371px;"> +<img src="images/ill_003.jpg" width="371" height="500" alt="HON. C. F. CRISP, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE." title="" /> +<span class="caption">HON. C. F. CRISP, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE.</span> +</div> + +<p>It is not easy to describe in a short article an average day in the +House of Representatives. The great days are exceptional, and a single +historic scene gives no idea of the every-day work of the House. +Moreover, if history is made on the days when excitement runs high, the +business of carrying on the government is done every day, and it is +about the latter that you wish to learn. By way of beginning, let me say +a word about the place where this work is done. The House of +Representatives holds its sessions in the southern wing of the Capitol +at Washington. The House is very large, right angled, and rigid, with +little ornament, and without beauty of proportion. The walls go up for +about fifteen feet, and from that point the galleries slant back until +they reach the next floor of the building. The roof is a vast expanse of +glass, with the arms of each State painted on the square panels. The +general effect is grayness of color and a size which can be measured in +acres better than in feet. Against the southern wall is placed a high +white marble dais or tribune, where the Speaker or presiding officer +sits. Below the Speaker's desk and in descending tiers, also of white +marble, sit the clerks of the House and the official reporters. Facing +the Speaker, and ranged in a semicircle, are 360 desks, with a +corresponding number of chairs, which are, or ought to be, occupied by +the 350 Representatives and the four Territorial delegates.</p> + +<p>Such is the place, but it would require a volume, and a very +uninteresting one, too, to explain the machinery used in transacting the +business for which this great hall is provided. Nevertheless, it is +possible, perhaps, to give you in a general way some idea of an ordinary +day's work in the lower branch of Congress. In theory, the House ought +to take up its calendars on each day and dispose of each article in its +order. But the great beauty of the calendars is that in practice they +are never taken up at all.</p> + +<p>How then, you will ask, is business done if the House never takes up the +list of measures prepared for its consideration? It is done by a system +of special rules. The Committee on Rules brings in a rule that the House +shall take up, let us say the tariff, on a certain day, shall debate it +a certain length of time, and shall then vote. This rule is adopted, the +bill selected is taken from the calendar, and everything else gives way +until the tariff is disposed of. Appropriation bills are privileged, +because they provide the money necessary to carry on the government, and +require no rule to be brought up. But all the other business of the +House is done practically under special rules; in other words, the +Committee on Rules selects out of the mass of business presented a small +portion which the House shall consider, and to that small selection all +the time of the House is devoted.</p> + +<p>Imagine, then, that the House as you watch it from the gallery has come +to the end of the morning hour, and has taken up the special order of +the day made for it by its Committee on Rules. If it is the first time +the subject has come up, the chairman of the committee making the report +opens the debate. In any event, when the business of the day is thus +laid before the House the debate begins. To any one who comes into the +House gallery for the first time, the scene on the floor is one of +apparently hopeless confusion. Members are reading, writing, talking, +and moving about the chamber. There is an incessant murmur and buzz of +conversation along the aisles and in the galleries. You who are looking +on see a member rise and begin to talk, sometimes quietly, more often +with great violence and excitement, not because he is really excited, +but because he wishes to be heard above the din. Your ears are not +accustomed to the noise, and you do not hear what is said. Still less +can you guess what it is all about, and yet business is not proceeding +by chance, and there are men on that confused floor who know exactly +what is happening, and how the business is going on. You may have been +unlucky in your day, and no measure of great interest being up, it may +seem as if it were useless to stay, but if you will be patient, and bear +with the confusion for the time, or perhaps come back another day, you +will have your reward. You will see the House reach an exciting point in +a debate, or some subject of great popular interest will come up, and +then a sharp contest will follow between different members, which will +be full of interest.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 306px;"> +<img src="images/ill_004.jpg" width="306" height="500" alt="AN EXCITING MOMENT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES." title="" /> +<span class="caption">AN EXCITING MOMENT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.</span> +</div> + +<p>Instead of reading and writing and talking and moving about, you will +see the members gather about the man who is speaking and those who are +debating with him. Silence will come on the floor and in the galleries, +broken by bursts of applause, as one member makes a sharp point or +retorts quickly on his opponent. Nothing is more interesting than good +debate of this kind, when men who are fencing or sparring with their +wits instead of their hands. You will be surprised to see how easy it +now is to know what is going on. You will be glad that you came to the +gallery, for every wholesome-minded being likes to see a fair contest, +whether of brains or muscles, and incidentally you will see how we +English-speaking people have hammered out by discussion the laws under +which we live, and have gained the liberty we enjoy. On the other hand, +let us suppose that you are fortunate enough to get into the gallery on +a day of great debate, when set speeches are to be made by the leaders +on either side. A man arises near the middle of the House, a man whose +face is familiar to you, because you have seen it so often in the +illustrated papers, and all in a moment the House is hushed, and every +word that the speaker says<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_597" id="Page_597">[Pg 597]</a></span> falls distinctly upon your ear. Then, again, +you feel rewarded, for you are hearing a party leader speak and are +seeing a man about whom you have read. If it is the day upon which a +great debate closes, the last speeches are made by the two leaders of +the opposite sides, the galleries are crowded, but as every one is eager +to hear, there is no difficulty in catching every word. The leader of +the minority delivers his last assault upon the bill, the leader of the +majority replies to him, and then the Speaker of the House says: "The +hour having arrived at which the House has ordered that the debate be +closed, the vote will now be taken upon the bill and amendments." Then +comes the voting, a dreary process for everybody, for each roll-call +occupies half an hour, and when it is done the Speaker announces the +vote, and declares the bill passed or defeated as the case may be. If it +is then more than five o'clock one of the leaders of the majority moves +that the House adjourn, the Speaker declares the motion carried, and +then the House stands adjourned until the next morning at twelve +o'clock.</p> + +<p>Such in very rough outline is a day in the House of Representatives when +some subject which awakens differences spring up, or when a great debate +closes or some important bill is passed. But there are many other days +when no conclusion is reached, and still others which are consumed in +roll-calls and motions designed to waste time, and to stop all action. +If you chance to come on a day of that kind, the sooner you go away the +better for your own comfort. The members must stay, but you need not.</p> + +<p>It would, however, take a great deal more space than I have here to give +you a description of the various scenes which occur in the House of +Representatives, but the rough sketch which I have drawn may help you to +some idea of what happens in the great popular body which with the +Senate makes laws for the people of the United States. It is a good deal +better, however, that every American boy and girl should come to +Washington if they can possibly manage it, and try to learn from +observation what their government is, and how it is carried on. They +will have some dull hours if they pass many in the galleries of the +House of Representatives, but they may have some minutes of great +interest, which they will always be glad to remember, and they are +certain to go away with a greater ability to judge intelligently their +public men, and in this way be of better service themselves as American +citizens responsible for the government of their country. If you cannot +get to Washington, try to see your own Legislature in session, or your +own city and town government. You will learn a great deal that will be +useful to you when you come of age, and therefore responsible for your +vote or influence for the government of the United States, which is +always in the long-run what the people themselves make it.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="THE_LITTLE_COLLECTOR" id="THE_LITTLE_COLLECTOR"></a>THE LITTLE COLLECTOR.</h2> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">I don't care much for the postage-stamps</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Themselves—'tween me and you;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">The fun I get collecting comes</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">From sticking 'em in with glue.</span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_598" id="Page_598">[Pg 598]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="AN_ENTERPRISING_PHOTOGRAPHER" id="AN_ENTERPRISING_PHOTOGRAPHER"></a>AN ENTERPRISING PHOTOGRAPHER.</h2> + +<p>The recent war between China and Japan, which now seems to be +practically over, fortunately, was watched by all the military and naval +men in the world with a great deal of interest, for it was the first +real war in which many of the modern inventions in war-ships and army +accoutrements were given a fair trial. To be sure, China had little that +was modern in her army and navy, though some of the ships of her navy +were of recent European build, and were manned by capable seamen and +good fighting-men. But the Japanese certainly did have many of the +modern inventions in their cruisers, and they made most effective use of +them.</p> + +<p>The correspondents of the great papers of the world, however, seem to +have suffered, and whether this is a development of modern warfare, or +because the Japanese and Chinese did not understand and appreciate their +position, does not appear to have been settled. At all events, the +correspondents from Japan and China, as well as those from European and +American countries, went about their always dangerous business at their +peril, and were in constant danger of being captured and hung or +murdered by either party. Some of these bright and daring men did lose +their lives there, and no one takes the trouble to sing a requiem over +them in verse or prose, but others, in spite of all the opposition, got +to and remained at the front, and succeeded in sending out accurate news +to their papers.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 244px;"> +<img src="images/ill_005.jpg" width="244" height="500" alt="PHOTOGRAPHER AT WORK." title="" /> +<span class="caption">PHOTOGRAPHER AT WORK.</span> +</div> + +<p>It was one of these successful newspaper men, and a Japanese at that, +who originated the idea of using a balloon to help him get to the front, +as well as to keep him safely out of the reach of both contestants. He +procured a balloon, several, in fact—and had a peculiar metal +frame-work constructed, which held him firmly in place under the +balloon, and left his arms free, so that he could use them to write, or +to work a huge camera that was also attached and supported by the same +iron frame. By means of straps over his shoulders and about his body he +could keep himself moderately firm in his position, and his camera +reasonably stationary, except, of course, for the movements of the +balloon itself, which he could not regulate.</p> + +<p>Several times this correspondent was sent up in his balloon, and held by +an assistant with the help of a long rope far above houses, and even +hills, so that he could take photographs on his huge lens of the general +view of a battle, while he himself was either too far away or too +unimportant at the moment to the combatants to tempt them to fire upon +him. In this way he succeeded in securing some astonishing views. They +were, of course, very far removed from the scene of action, too far to +give much of the small details, but they presented a bird's-eye view of +the whole battle, which proved of great interest. Occasionally, because +of a sudden movement of the balloon, he "took" the sky or a distant +landscape instead of the raging battle beneath him, but these little +mistakes were insignificant when on being hauled down, he discovered two +or three views that showed charges of cavalry here, repulses of infantry +there, and smoke and strife, bursting shells and burning houses, +everywhere.</p> + +<p>Sometimes the photographer would go up in his camera-balloon without +being held to the earth by a rope, and then he might drift with the wind +over the battle-field, or quietly drift away without getting a chance to +"shoot." As a rule, however, calculations were pretty well made before +the rope was dropped, and then the balloon was allowed to float where it +would, with the comparative certainty that it would pass over, or nearly +over, the scene of action.</p> + +<p>Here is a chance for photographers who want to take new scenes and +original things with their cameras. The earth at a few hundred feet +distance would look like a big bowl covered with many little roofs, +laced with white roads, along which funny little animals would be seen +crawling along at a snail's pace.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="OUR_FLAG" id="OUR_FLAG"></a>OUR FLAG.</h2> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Fling it from mast and steeple,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Symbol o'er land and sea,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Of the life of a happy people,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Gallant and strong and free.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Proudly we view its colors,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Flag of the brave and true,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">With the clustered stars and the steadfast bars,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">The red, the white, and the blue.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Flag of the fearless-hearted,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Flag of the broken chain,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Flag in a day-dawn started,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Never to pale or wane.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Dearly we prize its colors,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">With the heaven light breaking through,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">The clustered stars and the steadfast bars,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">The red, the white, and the blue.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Flag of the sturdy fathers,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Flag of the loyal sons,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Beneath its folds it gathers</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Earth's best and noblest ones.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Boldly we wave its colors,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Our veins are thrilled anew;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">By the steadfast bars, the clustered stars,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">The red, the white, and the blue.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 32em;"><span class="smcap">Margaret E. Sangster</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>A wise old doctor, for the benefit of his health, travelled around the +country in a caravan, in which he lived, stopping for short periods at +the larger towns. He had a young lad for an assistant, who was more or +less quick and intelligent, but rather inclined to jump at conclusions. +The doctor taught him a little medicine whenever he could spare the +time, and he learned considerable, but diagnosis were to him still a +mystery, especially in some cases, when the wise old doctor had used his +eyes to detect the source of the illness.</p> + +<p>They were staying for a few days in the town of B——, and the doctor +had been in some demand, having at a previous visit secured a reputation +by some apparently marvellous cures. His young assistant accompanied him +on one occasion, when the doctor had pronounced the patient sick from +eating too many oysters. This puzzled the lad, and when they left the +house he asked his master how he knew the patient had been eating +oysters. "Very simple," his master replied, "I saw a lot of oyster +shells in the fireplace, and the answers to a few questions were all I +needed to make a diagnosis."</p> + +<p>One day, his master being away when a call came, he determined to answer +it, and see if he could diagnose the case. He returned shortly after, +and triumphantly told the doctor that the man was sick from eating too +much horse.</p> + +<p>"A horse, you stupid fool!" cried the irate doctor. "What do you mean?"</p> + +<p>"Why, master, it couldn't be anything else, because I saw a saddle and +stirrups under the bed."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_599" id="Page_599">[Pg 599]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="A_PLEASANT_DISAPPOINTMENT" id="A_PLEASANT_DISAPPOINTMENT"></a>A PLEASANT DISAPPOINTMENT.</h2> + +<h3>BY J. SANFORD BARNES, JUN.</h3> + +<p>I don't believe that Mr. Henry ever thought what a queer combination of +nicknames his son would have when he named him Thomas Richard. Some +called him "Tom," some "Dick," and others, instead of calling him by his +last name, Henry, changed that, too, to "Harry," so he became Tom, Dick, +and Harry rolled into one.</p> + +<p>Mr. Henry was a great sportsman, and many a time had Tom listened to his +father and one of his friends plan out a day's shooting. Tom had often +made his little plans, only to be carried out in his dreams. But at +last, one September evening, in his twelfth year, dreams could no longer +satisfy him. As he sat in his father's "den" after supper, looking for +the hundredth time through the book of colored sporting incidents and +game-birds, taking occasional long glances at the little sixteen-bore +which hung over his father's head, as he sat at his desk reading the +<i>Forest and Stream</i>, Tom was really developing a plan. He must go +shooting, and with a real gun of some kind. "Sling-shots" he was done +with; then he knew if he asked permission, what the answer would be, and +therefore he decided that his hunting-trip must be made "on the sly," +and this alone was one cause for the rather restless night which +followed. As he turned the pages of the big book he began to imagine +himself in the place of the tall man in the picture just taking a +partridge from his dog's mouth, and on the next page he was the short +thick-set man in brown hunting-coat walking up to his dogs, who were +"stiff" and "stanch" on a covey of quail, which in pictures you can +always see hiding in the clump of bushes.</p> + +<p>Now, Tom, Dick, and Harry had a friend, and that friend had a Flobert +rifle, and on that friend's willingness to lend he was counting +strongly. The game did not seem to worry him; he kept thinking of a +certain patch of blackberry bushes just outside a small piece of woods, +where he had often started up an old cock partridge, in fact, he knew so +much about that partridge that once he crept up on him, and almost got a +shot at him with the now-to-be-despised "sling-shot"; and with a +Flobert—even if his father had said that no true sportsman would shoot +a bird on the "sit"—he felt sure he could get him, and if he did he'd +come home, own up, and trust to luck for the rest, but he was somewhat +doubtful as to the reception he would meet.</p> + +<p>The morning was bright and clear as Tom left the house to go down and +"see what Jim Vail was going to do that day," and once outside the gate +excitement again got hold of him, and he broke into a run; it was well +he did, for about ten minutes later, as he turned into Mr. Vail's place, +Jim was on the point of mounting his bicycle to start for a ride.</p> + +<p>"Say, Jim," he shouted, "wait a second; I want to ask you something."</p> + +<p>"Well, Tommy," he answered, "what can I do for you to-day? I'm going to +get some exercise and get in shape for football at school; I got a +letter from Ted yesterday, and he asked me to. I guess he's written to +the rest of last year's team to do the same thing. I suppose you're +going to ride your pony. But, really, what do you want?"</p> + +<p>"Jim," said Tom, "I'm going to ask a favor of you. But first I want you +to say you won't tell anybody anything about it. You won't, will you?"</p> + +<p>"Of course not; but what it is?" replied Jim.</p> + +<p>"Well," said Tom, slowly, "I'm going shooting, and I want you to lend me +your Flobert rifle; you don't use it very much since your father gave +you that beauty gun. I'll be careful, and I'll clean it all up for you +when I'm done. Say, will you do it?"</p> + +<p>Jim saw a chance for a little lecture, and came near giving it, but he +thought of his popularity with the small boys and resisted.</p> + +<p>"But, Tom," he answered, "how are you going to work it? I'll lend it to +you, of course, but I don't want to get into any scrape with your +father, and you'd better be careful, too. Now, what's your plan?"</p> + +<p>Tom had this all arranged the moment he had seen Jim and the bicycle.</p> + +<p>"I've got that all fixed," said Tom. "Say, you don't mind where you +ride, do you? Now, I tell you what you do; just give me some cartridges, +and then you start off with the rifle on your 'bike' and ride down the +hill by 'Daddy Wilson's'—that's where I'm going to go shooting. When +you get to the bridge, get off just a minute, and go down under the +bridge and leave it on top the highest log under the boards on this side +the brook, and then ride on and forget all about it. Catch?"</p> + +<p>Jim "caught," and after another word of warning to be very careful, both +in regard to the rifle and getting caught, he started, having left a box +of Flobert cartridges with Tom.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/ill_006.jpg" width="500" height="413" alt="HE CAUGHT A GLIMPSE OF A CERTAIN FAMILIAR WHITE HORSE." title="" /> +<span class="caption">HE CAUGHT A GLIMPSE OF A CERTAIN FAMILIAR WHITE HORSE.</span> +</div> + +<p>"Daddy Wilson's" was quite a mile and a half from Jim's house; but it +did not take Tom long to cover the distance, and in a very short time he +was under the bridge and out again on the other side with the rifle +under his arm. His experience had been very limited with firearms, but +he had a natural gift of being "handy" with almost anything, and he +acted as though hunting were an old pastime, and the gun a companion of +years. However, he thought it best to try and see how it went, and was +just taking aim at a little yellow chipmunk, when the sound of an +approaching carriage made him change his mind, and dart under the bridge +and wait; he had caught a glimpse of a certain familiar white horse, and +as it trotted over the bridge, shaking a little stream of dust through +the cracks and down his neck, he realized he had had a narrow escape. +After it had gone by, he tried his aim on an old green frog, and laid +him out "flatter'n a pan-cake," as he said to himself. Two or three more +trials were made, and he started through the woods for his blackberry +patch, first walking very carefully, and finally creeping on all fours; +but whatever the reason, that wily cock partridge had had his breakfast +and declined to be found, and Tom was disappointed and cast down; he had +counted on that bird to ease the reception he would meet at home, and +now he would have to return empty handed. However, he made up his mind +"he'd shoot something," and for an hour or more be popped ineffectually +at chipmunks and small birds, and was really enjoying the sport, when it +struck him that late to dinner would require an explanation, and thus +greatly increase the chances of the very thing which he now wanted to +avoid. So he hurried towards home, and went in through the place by a +back way, intending to leave the rifle at the stable. The coachman was a +good friend of his, and would clean and return it, and everything would +be all right again. Now it happened that Mr. Henry was having built a +small shed and tool-house behind his house, and, as luck would have it, +he was watching its progress at the very moment when Tom emerged from +behind some bushes, and unconsciously was walking down this back road +towards the stable with the Flobert held close along his leg on the side +farthest away from the house, so that "no one could guess he had +anything." All looked smooth sailing. Suddenly he was startled by a +familiar voice,</p> + +<p>"Hey, Tom!" it called; "what you got there?"</p> + +<p>There was no escape.</p> + +<p>"A rifle, sir," replied Tom, in a rather muffled voice.</p> + +<p>"A what!" cried the voice.</p> + +<p>"A rifle, sir," replied Tom, again.</p> + +<p>"Bring it here," was the short reply, and over across the field went Tom +to his doom.</p> + +<p>"Go back there and get one of those carpenters to give you a good sized +shingle," said Mr. Henry, "and give me the gun."</p> + +<p>"Well," said Tom to himself, "I knew I was taking risks," and he +returned in a moment with the shingle, and looking his father straight +in the eye waited the next command.</p> + +<p>"Now," said Mr. Henry, in his severest tones, "take that shingle and put +it up against that big tree, and give me a cartridge."</p> + +<p>Surprise and wonder are no names for the feelings that ran through Tom's +mind; it made him tingle up and down his backbone—he couldn't say a +single word; but there were more surprises to follow.</p> + +<p>"What you been shooting, Tommy? Elephants, hey?"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_600" id="Page_600">[Pg 600]</a></span> said Mr. Henry, after +firing all the cartridges Tom had left; "or was it only small game—a +panther or lynx—you were after this morning?"</p> + +<p>Tom's courage began to return, and as he found his father in such a +splendid mood he was not going to allow himself to be bluffed.</p> + +<p>"I went out after partridges, sir," he said, "and I thought I'd have one +for supper to-night for mamma; but he wasn't there. I was sure I'd get +one."</p> + +<p>In a short time Mr. Henry had the whole story, and not a word of fault +was found, and Tom thought he had the finest father in the world; he +thought so before, but after this incident there was no doubt about it.</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>On the evening of the same day Tom was again devouring the "bird book," +as he had always called it. Mr. Henry, who had been writing at his desk, +pushed himself back, and looking at Tom, a smile crept over his face. +His son was exactly as he had been at that age, and the reason of his +lenient treatment of what many fathers would have given a severe +punishment for was because he knew a good deal of the world, and +especially how to treat a boy who had inherited a sportsman's love of +woods and guns, and was not to blame for it. Tom was bending close over +the book to see whether it was a woodcock or a quail the dog was +pointing, when Mr. Henry startled him as he said with a laugh,</p> + +<p>"My boy, did you really think you'd get a partridge? Why, Dr. Carver +himself couldn't shoot a partridge with a rifle; why didn't you come and +ask me for my gun?"</p> + +<p>"'Cause I didn't think you'd lend it to me," said Tom, "and I was afraid +you'd suspect something. I'll come to you to-morrow," he added, as a +quiet joke on his father.</p> + +<p>But the way his father took his little joke nearly made him "have a +fit," as he told Jim Vail afterwards.</p> + +<p>"All right, Tommy," said Mr. Henry, "come to me after breakfast and I'll +fix you out."</p> + +<p>Another restless night followed by another beautiful morning, and down +across the field trudged Tom, Dick, and Harry, but it looked like a +brown shooting-coat walking by itself with two setters following after +it through curiosity. There went Tom with a real gun—the little +sixteen-bore—a real hunting-coat, sleeves rolled up and pinned to hold +them, and down below his knees, to be sure; real cartridges in his +pocket, and to make it complete two real bird-dogs. He was going to be +the man in the "bird book," and best of all there was no "on the sly" +about it.</p> + +<p>Down back of the place beyond the "muck pond," where Tom had often +caught live bait for his father, and had slaughtered many a fine fat +frog, to say nothing of the turtles and lizards which had been the +starting of a small museum of which he was sole proprietor, down beyond +this pond he struck into the woods and let "Jet" the Gordon and "Bang" +the Irish setter run. He followed them closely. Soon they came to a +point, and he walked towards them. But here's where there was a +difference between the picture and his position at that moment; he +looked in vain for the bird; in the picture he could see it, but, try +his best, he could not see it in life. The dogs worried a little, he +stepped on a twig which cracked; whir! and up got Mr. Partridge from the +bushes—not exactly where Tom had expected—and whirled off, Tom +crouching down to see where he lit, to try him again. Time and again the +same thing happened, but Tom never could seem to see the bird till he +got up, and he never thought to try him flying. The dogs got tired of +this kind of shooting and came in "to heel," and finally, rather +discouraged and decidedly tired, Tom sat down to decide whether he would +go home or not. He was sitting under a large pine-tree and thinking what +his father would say, when out of the branches above his head sailed, +with a quiet, subdued whir, the very bird he had been chasing so long. +It settled not more than thirty yards off on the roots of an upturned +birch-tree and began a gentle cluck, spreading its fanlike tail and +shaking its feathers, but only for a moment. Tom's chance had come. A +hurried and excited aim, a loud bang, and the partridge was fluttering +on the ground, and Tom was stooping over it; the gun was back where he +had shot from; he had gotten to the bird before the dogs. What he wanted +was a partridge in his coat pocket; he did not seem so anxious to have +the dogs hand it to him, as his dreams had made him.</p> + +<p>Tell the truth, Tom ran most of the way home. He met his father on the +driveway, and a sudden composure took hold of him.</p> + +<p>"Say, Pop," he said, "it ain't so easy as one thinks, is it?"</p> + +<p>"I'll bet you didn't get anything, not even a chipper bird," said Mr. +Henry; "now did you?"</p> + +<p>Tom braced himself, his heart was beating fast, and the shivers were +again making him jump and wriggle.</p> + +<p>"I only got one decent shot," replied Tom, beginning very coolly, "but I +got him, and mamma'll have that bird I didn't get yesterday to-night for +supper. Look at that!" he shouted the last part of his sentence, and +swinging the bird in front of his father's face, darted past to show and +tell all in the house, leaving Mr. Henry in blank astonishment. What he +was saying to himself was:</p> + +<p>"I'll get that boy the prettiest gun in the city for Christmas, that's +what I'll do; he'll be giving me points before long."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_601" id="Page_601">[Pg 601]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="SNOW-SHOES_AND_SLEDGES" id="SNOW-SHOES_AND_SLEDGES"></a>SNOW-SHOES AND SLEDGES.</h2> + +<h3>BY KIRK MUNROE.</h3> + +<h3>CHAPTER XXIX.</h3> + +<h3>A WILDERNESS-ORPHAN.</h3> + +<p>The position in which Phil now found himself was certainly a perplexing +one. By the very simple process of getting lost he had discovered Cree +Jim's cabin, but was appalled to consider what else he had found at the +same time. He now knew that the remainder of their journey, its most +difficult and dangerous portion, must be undertaken without a guide. Not +only this, but they must be burdened with a child so young as to be +practically helpless. In the mean time, what was to be done with those +silent and motionless forms whose dread presence so pervaded that lonely +cabin? And how was he to communicate with his friends? There was no back +trail to follow, for the snow had wiped it out. He did not even know in +which direction camp lay, for in the ardor of his chase the evening +before he had taken no note of course nor distance.</p> + +<p>There was the stream, though, on whose bank the cabin was perched. It +must flow into the river. Yes, that was his only hope. But the river +might be miles away, and the camp as much farther, if, indeed, it could +still be found where he had left it. But of course it would be! So long +as Serge Belcofsky and Jalap Coombs had life and strength to search for +him that camp would remain a permanent fixture until he returned to it. +Phil was absolutely sure of that, and he now realized, as never before, +the priceless value of a friendship whose loyalty is beyond doubt.</p> + +<p>So the plan was formed. He would go down the stream and up the river +until he found camp. Then he would bring Serge and a sledge back with +him. In the mean time the child must be left where he was, for Phil +doubted if he could carry him over the weary miles that he knew must lie +between the cabin and camp, while for the little fellow to walk that +distance was out of the question.</p> + +<p>Phil sat on a stool before the fire while doing all this thinking. As he +rose to carry out his plan, Nel-te, who was becoming terrified at his +mother's silence in spite of his efforts to attract her attention, +slipped from the bed, ran to his new friend, and thrusting a cold little +hand into one of his, looked up with a smile of such perfect trust that +Phil snatched him in his arms and kissed him, at the same time giving +him a great hug.</p> + +<p>Then he said: "Now, Nel-te, brother Phil is going away for a little +while to get some doggies for you to play with, and you must stay here +like a good boy, and not open the door until he comes back. Do you +understand?"</p> + +<p>"Yes; me go get doggies. Nel-te like doggies. Good doggies." And almost +before Phil knew what the child was about he had slipped from his arms, +run to the door, and was putting on the tiny snow-shoes that had been +left outside. Then with an engaging smile, he called, cheerily: "Come. +Nel-te say come. Get doggies."</p> + +<p>"All right, little chap. I expect your plan is as good as mine, after +all," replied Phil, into whose mind had just flashed the promise made to +that dead mother, never to desert her baby. "And here I was, about to +begin by doing that very thing," he reflected as he glanced at the +marble face overspread by an expression of perfect content that his +promise had brought.</p> + +<p>Moved by a sudden impulse he picked up the boy, and, bringing him back, +held him so that he might kiss the peaceful face. This the child did +with a soft cooing that served to convey both love and pity. Then he ran +to the stalwart figure that still lay on the floor, and, patting its +swarthy cheek, said something in the Cree tongue that Phil did not +understand.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_602" id="Page_602">[Pg 602]</a></span></p> + +<p>After that Phil carefully closed the door to prevent the intrusion of +wild beasts, and the two, whose fortunes had become so strangely +interwoven, set forth together down the white surface of the +forest-bordered stream, on whose bank Nel-te had been born and passed +his few years of life. He was happily but unconsciously venturing on his +first "little journey into the world," while his companion was filled +with a sense of manliness and responsibility from the experiences +through which he had just passed that the mere adding of years could +never have brought.</p> + +<p>Phil wondered at the ease with which the little fellow managed his +snow-shoes, until he reflected that the child had probably been taught +to use them from the day of taking his first step. So the two fur-clad +figures, ridiculously contrasted in size, trudged along side by side +down the winding stream, the one thoughtfully silent and the other +chattering of "doggies," until he began to lag behind and give signs +that the pace was telling on his slender strength.</p> + +<p>"Poor little chap," said Phil. "But I had been expecting it, and now we +will try another scheme." So, slinging the tiny snow-shoes across the +child's back, he picked him up and set him astride his own broad +shoulders; when Nel-te clutched his head, and shouted with glee at this +delightful mode of travel.</p> + +<p>After they had gone a mile or so in this fashion they rounded a sharp +bend, and came so suddenly upon poor Serge, who was making his way up +the stream in search of some trace of his friend, that for a moment he +stood motionless and speechless with amazement. He could make nothing of +the approaching apparition until Phil shouted, cheerily:</p> + +<p>"Hurrah, old man! Here we are, safe and sound, and awfully glad to see +you."</p> + +<p>"Oh, Phil!" cried Serge, while tears actually stood in his honest blue +eyes, "I can hardly believe it! It seems almost too good to be true. Are +you sure you are not wounded nor frozen nor hurt in any way? Haven't you +suffered terribly? If you haven't, we have. I don't believe Mr. Coombs +slept a wink last night, and I know I didn't. But I am happy enough at +this minute to make up for it all, a hundred times over. Oh, Phil!"</p> + +<p>"I have suffered a little from anxiety, and been a trifle hungry, and +had some sad experiences, but I haven't suffered half so much as I +deserved for my carelessness in getting lost. I found Cree Jim, though; +but—"</p> + +<p>"And brought him with you?" interrupted Serge, smiling for the first +time in many hours, as he glanced at the quaint little figure perched on +Phil's shoulders.</p> + +<p>"Not exactly," replied the other, soberly. "You see this little chap is +his son, and I've adopted him for a sort of a brother, and he is going +with us."</p> + +<p>"You've done what?" cried Serge.</p> + +<p>"Adopted him. That is, you see I promised my aunt Ruth to bring her +something from Alaska that was unique in the way of a curio, and it +seems to me that Nel-te here will please her about as well as anything. +Don't you think so?"</p> + +<p>"Perhaps so," assented Serge, doubtfully. "But was his father willing +that you should have him?"</p> + +<p>"Oh yes, perfectly. That is, you know he is dead, and so is the mother; +but I promised her to take care of the little chap, and as there wasn't +anything else to be done, why, here we are."</p> + +<p>"Of course it's all right if you say so," agreed Serge, "and I don't +care, so long as you are safe, if you carry a whole tribe back to your +aunt Ruth; but now don't you think we'd better be getting along to camp? +It was all I could do to persuade Mr. Coombs to stay behind and look out +for things; he is so anxious. The only way I could induce him to was by +suggesting that you might come in tired and hungry, and would feel +awfully if no one was there to welcome you. But he is liable to set out +on a hunt for you at any moment."</p> + +<p>"Certainly, we must get there as quickly as possible," replied Phil. +"How far is it?"</p> + +<p>"Not more than one mile up the river from the mouth of this creek, which +is only a few rods below here. But oh, Phil, to think that I have found +you! When I had almost given up all hope of ever again seeing you alive +too. I have been down as far as our first camp on the river this +morning, and this creek was my last hope. I wouldn't have left the +country without you, though, or at any rate without knowing what had +become of you. Neither would Mr. Coombs. We settled that last night +while we talked over what had best be done."</p> + +<p>"I was sure you wouldn't, old fellow," replied Phil, with something like +a choke in his voice.</p> + +<p>At the camp they were hailed by Jalap Coombs, who almost hugged Phil in +his revulsion of feeling and unaffected joy at the lad's return.</p> + +<p>"But you don't do it again, Philip, my son!" he cried. "That is, the +next time you feels inclined to wander from home and stay out nights, ye +may go, of course, but you'll have to take me along. So ef you gits +lost, I gets lost likewise; for, as my old friend Kite Roberson useter +say consarning prodergal sons, 'It's allers toughest on them as is left +behind.' But Phil, what be ye doing with that furry little beggar? Is he +the pilot ye went sarching for?"</p> + +<p>"Yes," laughed Phil, lifting Nel-te down from his shoulders. "He is the +pilot who is to lead us from this wilderness, and if you have got +anything to eat, you'd better give it to him before he devours one of +the dogs, which he seems inclined to do. I can answer for it, that he +has been on short rations for several days, and is properly hungry."</p> + +<p>"Have I got anything to eat?" cried the other. "Waal, rather! How does +fresh steaks, and roasts, and chops, and stews strike your fancy?" With +this he pointed to one side of the camp, where, to their astonishment, +the boys saw a quantity of fresh meat, much of which was already cut +into thin strips for freezing and packing.</p> + +<p>"Where did it come from?" queried Phil, looking at Serge; but the latter +only shook his head.</p> + +<p>"It's jest a bit of salvage that I raked in as it went drifting by," +explained Jalap Coombs, his face beaming with gratified pride. "It's +some kind of deer-meat, and <i>for</i> a deer he was pretty nigh as big as +one of those elephants back yonder in the moss cave. You see, he came +cruising along this way shortly after Serge left, and the dogs give +chase and made him heave to. When I j'ined 'em he surrendered. Then I +had my hands full in a hurry, driving off the dogs and lashing 'em fast +so as they couldn't eat him, horns and all, and cutting of him up. I +hain't more'n made a beginning with him, either, for there's pretty nigh +a full cargo left.</p> + +<p>"But how did you kill him? There wasn't any gun in camp?" asked Phil, +utterly bewildered.</p> + +<p>"Of course there warn't no gun," answered Jalap Coombs, "and likewise I +didn't need one. Sich things I leave for boys. How did I kill him, say +you? Why, I jest naturally harpooned him like I would any other whale."</p> + +<h3>CHAPTER XXX.</h3> + +<h3>JALAP AND THE DOGS SING A LULLABY.</h3> + +<p>"Harpooned a moose!" cried Phil and Serge together; for they had by this +time discovered the nature of the sailor's "big deer." "And where did +you get the harpoon?" asked the former.</p> + +<p>"Found it, leaning agin a tree while I were out after firewood," replied +Jalap Coombs, at the same time producing and proudly exhibiting a heavy +A-yan spear, such as were formerly used by the natives of the Pelly +River valley. "It were a trifle rusty, and a trifle light in the butt," +he added, "but it come in mighty handy when it were most needed, and for +an old whaler it are not a bad sort of a weepon. I'm free to say, +though, that I might have had hard luck in tackling the beast with it ef +he hadn't been already wounded. I didn't know it till after he were +dead, but when I come to cut him up, I saw where he'd been bleeding +pretty free, and then I found this bullet in his innards. Still, I don't +reckin you'd have called him a mouse, nor yet a rat, if ye'd seed him +like I did under full sail, with horns set wing and wing, showing the +speed of a fifty-ton schooner. If I hadn't had the harpoon I'd left him +severely alone; but I allowed that a weepon as were good<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_603" id="Page_603">[Pg 603]</a></span> enough for a +whale would do for a deer, even ef he were bigger than the sun."</p> + +<p>"It's a rifle-bullet, calibre forty-four," said Phil, who was examining +the bit of lead that Jalap Coombs had taken from his "big deer." "I +wonder if it can be possible that he is the same moose I wounded, and +without whose lead I should never have found Cree Jim's cabin. It seems +incredible that he should have come right back to camp to be killed, +though I suppose it is possible. Certainly good fortune, or good luck, +does seem to be pretty steadily on our side, and without the aid of the +fur-seal's tooth either," he added, with a sly glance at Serge.</p> + +<p>As soon as breakfast was finished, Phil and Serge slipped away, taking a +sledge, to which was lashed a couple of axes, with them. They were going +back to bury the parents of the child, who was so happily oblivious of +their errand that he did not even take note of their departure.</p> + +<p>The lads had no idea of how they should accomplish their sorrowful task. +Even with proper tools they knew it would be impossible to dig a grave +in the frozen ground, and as they had only axes with which to work, this +plan was dismissed without discussion.</p> + +<p>They had not settled on any plan when they rounded the last bend of the +little stream and gained a point from which the cabin should have been +visible. Then they saw at a glance that the task they had been dreading +had been accomplished without their aid. There was no cabin, but a cloud +of smoke rising from its site, as from an altar, gave ample evidence of +its fate. A blazing log from the fire Phil left in its hearth must have +rolled out on to the floor directly after his departure. Now only a heap +of ashes and glowing embers remained to mark Nel-te's home.</p> + +<p>"It is best so," said Phil, as the two lads stood beside the smouldering +ruins of what had been a home and was now become a sepulchre. "And oh, +Serge! think what might have been the child's fate if I had left him +behind, as I at first intended. Poor little chap! I realize now, as +never before, how completely his past is wiped out and how entirely his +future lies in our hands. It is a trust that came without our seeking, +but I accepted it; and now beside his mother's ashes I swear to be true +to the promise I gave her."</p> + +<p>"Amen!" said Serge, softly.</p> + +<p>They planted a rude wooden cross, the face of which was chipped to a +gleaming whiteness, close in front of the smouldering heap, and near it +Serge fastened a streamer of white cloth to the tip of a tall young +spruce. Cutting off the limbs as he descended, he left it a slender +pole, and thus provided the native symbol of a place of burial.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/ill_007.jpg" width="500" height="362" alt=""A FLYING-FISH-CATCHER FROM OLD HONG-KONG—YO HO! ROLL A +MAN DOWN!"" title="" /> +<span class="caption">"A FLYING-FISH-CATCHER FROM OLD HONG-KONG—YO HO! ROLL A +MAN DOWN!"</span> +</div> + +<p>As they approached the camp they were astonished to hear Jalap Coombs +singing in bellowing tones the rollicking old sea chant of "Roll a Man +Down!"</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"A flying-fish-catcher from old Hong-Kong—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Yo ho! roll a man down—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">A flying-fish-catcher comes bowling along;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Give us some time to roll a man down,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Roll a man up and roll a man down,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Give us some time to roll a man down.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">From labbord to stabbord away we go—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Yo ho! roll a man down."</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>Jalap's voice was not musical, but it possessed a mighty volume, and as +the quaint sea chorus roared and echoed through the stately forest, the +very trees appeared to be listening in silent wonder to the unaccustomed +sounds. Even Musky, Luvtuk, big Amook, and the other dogs seemed by +their dismal howlings to be expressing either appreciation or +disapprobation of the sailor-man's efforts.</p> + +<p>The performers in this open-air concert were too deeply intent on their +own affairs to pay any heed to the approach of the returning sledge +party, who were thus enabled to come within full view of a most +extraordinary scene unnoticed. Just beyond the camp, in a semicircle, +facing the fire, a dozen dogs, resting on their haunches, lifted both +their voices and sharp-pointed noses to the sky. On the opposite side of +the fire sat Jalap Coombs holding Nel-te in his arms, rocking him to and +fro in time to the chorus that he was pouring forth with the full power +of his lungs, and utterly oblivious to everything save his own unusual +occupation of putting a baby to sleep.</p> + +<p>"Ha, ha, ha! Ho, ho, ho!" roared Phil and Serge, unable to restrain +their mirth a moment longer. "Oh my! Oh my! Oh, Mr. Coombs, you'll be +the death of me yet! What ever are you doing? Didn't know you could +sing! What a capital nurse you make! What a soft voice for lullabies! +The dogs, too! Oh dear! I shall laugh at the thought of this if I live +to be a hundred! Don't mind us, though. Keep right on. Please do!"</p> + +<p>But the concert was ended. Jalap Coombs sprang to his feet with a +startled yell, and dropped the child, who screamed with the fright of +his sudden awakening. The dogs, whose harmonious howlings were so +abruptly interrupted, slunk away with tails between their legs, and hid +themselves in deepest shadows.</p> + +<p>"There, there, little chap. Don't be frightened," cried Phil, darting +forward and picking up the child, though still shaking with laughter. +"It's all right now. Brother Phil will protect you, and not let the big +man frighten you any more."</p> + +<p>"I frighten him indeed!" retorted Jalap Coombs, indignantly. "He was +sleeping quiet and peaceful as a seal pup; and I were just humming a bit +of a ditty that useter be sung to me when I were a kid, so's he'd have +something pleasant to dream about. Then you young swabs had to come +creeping up and yell like a couple of wild hoodoos, and set the dogs to +howling and scare the kid, to say nothing of me, which ef I had ye +aboard ship I'd masthead ye both till ye larnt manners. Oh, ye may +snicker! But I have my opinion all the same of any man as'll wake a +sleeping child, specially when he's wore out with crying, all on account +of being desarted. And I'm not the only one nuther. There was old Kite +Roberson who useter clap a muzzle onto his wife's canary whenever she'd +get the kids to sleep, for fear the critter'd bust inter singing. But +it's all right. You will know how it is yourselves some day."</p> + +<p>Phil, seeing that, for the first time since he had known him, the mate +was thoroughly indignant, set out to smooth his ruffled feelings.</p> + +<p>"Why, Mr. Coombs," he said, "we didn't mean to startle you, but those +wretched dogs kept up such a howling that we couldn't make ourselves +heard as we neared camp. I'm sure I don't see how you could think we +were laughing at you. It was those absurd dogs, and you'd have laughed +yourself if you'd looked up and seen them. I'm sure it was awfully good +of you to take so much trouble over this little fellow, and put him so +nicely to sleep with your sing— I mean with your humming, though I +assure you we didn't hear a hum."</p> + +<p>"Waal," replied Jalap Coombs, greatly mollified by Phil's attitude. "I +warn't humming very loud, not nigh <i>so</i> loud as I had been at fust. Ye +see, I were kinder tapering off so as to lay the kid down, and begin to +get supper 'gainst you kim back."</p> + +<p>"Yes, I see," said Phil, almost choking with suppressed laughter. "But +how did it happen that you were compelled to act as nurse? The little +chap seemed happy enough when we went away."</p> + +<p>"So he were, till he found you was gone. Then he begun to pipe his eye +and set storm signals, and directly it come on to blow a hurricane with +heavy squalls. So I had to stand by. Fust off I thought the masts would +surely go; but I took a reef here and there, and kinder got things +snugged down, till after a whilt the sky broke, the sun kim out, and +fair weather sot in once more."</p> + +<p>"Well," said Phil, admiringly, "you certainly acted with the judgment of +an A No. 1 seaman, and I don't believe even your esteemed friend Captain +Robinson could have done better. We shall call on you whenever our +little pilot gets into troubled waters again, and feel that we are +placing him in the best possible hands."</p> + +<p>At which praise Jalap Coombs was greatly pleased, and said as how he'd +be proud at all times to stand by the kid. Thus on the same day that +little Nel-te McLeod lost his parents he found a brother and two stanch +friends.</p> + +<h4>[<span class="smcap">to be continued</span>.]</h4> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_604" id="Page_604">[Pg 604]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="UNCLE_SAM_AS_A_STAMP-MAKER" id="UNCLE_SAM_AS_A_STAMP-MAKER"></a>UNCLE SAM AS A STAMP-MAKER.</h2> + +<h3>BY FRANCES BENJAMIN JOHNSTON.</h3> + +<p>"Here, boys, is a piece of legislation which will add a new series of +stamps to your collections," said Mr. Copeland, as he glanced up from +his morning paper. "The bill transferring the printing of stamps to the +Bureau of Engraving and Printing has just become a law, and hereafter +Uncle Sam will manufacture his own stamps, as well as his own paper +money."</p> + +<p>"Why, father, if they make them here, we can see just how it's done!" +exclaimed Donald, the eldest of the Copeland boys, who, with his +brothers Jack and Ezra, was now experiencing the severest stage of the +"stamp fever."</p> + +<p>"Huh!" grunted the latter—nicknamed "The Parson," from his +old-fashioned ways and a solemn assumption of wisdom. "Perhaps they'll +not let you know anything at all about it. Bobby Simonds told me that +the big company in New York that has always made 'em is awful particular +about letting people see their machinery and things; and Bobby ought to +know 'cause his uncle's an engraver there."</p> + +<p>"Are they going to make all the stamps here in Washington?" broke in +May, the baby of the family. "That'll be nice for you boys,'cause you +can get 'em cheaper at the factory, can't you?"</p> + +<p>"That's just like a girl," laughed Jack. "Anybody would think they were +going to sell stamps by the yard."</p> + +<p>"Well, my boy," said Mr. Copeland, "your sister is right, in a sense, as +under this act the Post-office Department will buy its stamps wholesale +from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, at a nominal price per +thousand, without reference to their face value. I think you also are +mistaken, Parson, as the public will doubtless be as free to inspect the +manufacture of stamps as they now are to see the process of +bank-note-making. When the stamp-printing plant is established, there +should be a great deal in it to interest you youngsters. What do you say +to a tour of investigation some Saturday?"</p> + +<p>Their father's suggestion delighted the children, who waited eagerly for +the fulfilment of the promise.</p> + +<p>This came on a bright October morning, when the little party climbed the +hill beyond the towering Washington Monument, and reached the grim brick +building which is known as the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.</p> + +<p>Here they were shown into a small reception-room, and kept waiting, with +a throng of other sight-seers, until a card from the chief procured for +them a special guide through the building. As she led them through a +long corridor, this lady explained something of the complete and +ingenious system which is in force here to prevent fraud or loss to the +government. No visitor is permitted inside the building without one of +the guides especially detailed for this service, while the work of each +of the hundreds of employé's is so carefully checked and recorded that +even the most insignificant error is readily traceable. Ink, paper, the +engravers' dies, the printers' plates, are all given out on properly +signed receipts, and until all are accounted for, even to the tiniest +scrap of paper, the employés who have handled them are not permitted to +leave the building; so that only by a widespread plot could all these +safeguards be successfully eluded.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/ill_008.jpg" width="600" height="327" alt="THE ENGRAVING-ROOM." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE ENGRAVING-ROOM.</span> +</div> + +<p>The little party was now shown into a very long room, at one end of +which was ranged a row of compartments like sentry-boxes. In each of +these sat a silent engraver, bent over the small square of steel upon +which he was cutting some part of the design for paper money or stamps. +The plates from which the stamps were formerly printed are the property +of the government, so that the old designs, with a slight modification, +are still in use. This modification consists of a trefoil mark placed in +the upper corner of the new stamps, which will serve to distinguish them +from the old issues printed by the American Bank-note Company. The work +of the engravers is necessarily so painstaking and slow that the +original dies are considered too expensive to use in the +printing-presses. Thus, after the engraver has completed a die, it is +subjected to a hardening process, and the design multiplied indefinitely +upon soft steel plates by what is known as the transfer-press. The +children were shown a long row of these presses, as well as the great +vaults where all the designs, dies, and plates are locked up after the +day's work. From the silence of the engravers' department they were led +into the din and clatter of the press-room below. Here they found the +new steam-presses as well as old-fashioned hand-presses in operation, +and were able to see every detail of the actual printing of stamps.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 460px;"> +<img src="images/ill_009.jpg" width="460" height="500" alt="TAKING SHEETS OFF THE PRESSES." title="" /> +<span class="caption">TAKING SHEETS OFF THE PRESSES.</span> +</div> + +<p>The hand-presses are worked by a plate-printer and one assistant, the +printer first inking and polishing the engraved plate over a series of +small gas-jets, after<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_605" id="Page_605">[Pg 605]</a></span> which it is placed on the press. His assistant +now lays a dampened sheet of paper upon the plate, the printer gives the +press a turn, and a sheet of bright new stamps is drawn out at the other +side. This work is done quickly and accurately, but it is a very slow +process compared with that of the steam-presses, which turn out sheets +of four hundred stamps each at the rate of one hundred thousand stamps +an hour. The steam-presses carry four plates on an endless chain around +the sides of a large square, in the circuit of which the plates are +automatically heated to the proper temperature, inked, wiped off, and +printed. The blank paper is laid on the plates by one assistant, while a +second helper takes out the printed sheet. The printer in charge of the +press has the most difficult part of the work, which consists in +polishing the plate with his bare palms after it has been mechanically +inked. This must be done so delicately as to leave neither too much nor +too little ink upon the plate, but only <i>just enough</i> to give a clean, +fine impression.</p> + +<p>The presses clattered and clanked, and the children watched with +breathless interest while a great stack of the dampened paper +disappeared rapidly, sheet by sheet, through the press, reappearing +again to be stacked in a second neat pile in the form of thousands upon +thousands of new red two-cent stamps.</p> + +<p>Besides the ordinary issues, the young investigators were much +interested in seeing the printing of revenue stamps, of the long-strip +stamps for cigar-boxes, and other tobacco stamps, and particularly the +new two-cent stamps for playing-cards.</p> + +<p>Having watched to their entire satisfaction the various movements of the +great presses, the children began to feel that the object of their visit +had been realized, and that there was nothing more to see. They were +therefore somewhat surprised to learn that the <i>printing</i> of the stamps +is merely the beginning of the work upon them, and that a number of very +important things must happen to these small squares of red, blue, brown, +and purple before they are ready to be sold through the little window in +the post-office. After they are printed the sheets must be dried and +pressed out, gummed, dried and pressed again, the sheets perforated and +cut apart, trimmed, and, in addition, carefully counted before and after +each of these operations.</p> + +<p>In the early days of postage-stamps, and for several years after they +first came into use, two serious difficulties presented +themselves—<i>i.e.</i>, the gumming and separating of the stamps. For a time +a thick muddy mucilage was used, which curled up the sheets in a very +inconvenient way. Then, again, before the ingenious device of +perforation was hit upon, it was necessary to cut the stamps apart with +a pair of scissors. Imagine a post-master in these busy days supplying +his customers by the scissors method!</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/ill_010.jpg" width="600" height="417" alt="IN THE DRYING-ROOM." title="" /> +<span class="caption">IN THE DRYING-ROOM.</span> +</div> + +<p>Fortunately a clever Frenchman conceived the plan of punching a series +of small holes between the stamps, and his invention was promptly +introduced into this country. The children were now eager to see the +finishing processes of stamp-making, and so followed their guide into a +large room, where they were greeted by a rush of warm air. Here their +guide showed them the method of gumming the stamps and the curious +apparatus used for the purpose. Along the entire length of the room, +with a narrow passage between, are ranged a series of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_606" id="Page_606">[Pg 606]</a></span> wooden boxes, +quite sixty feet in length. These are heated by steam, and through each +box passes a sort of double endless chain. The sheets are fed, face +down, into this queer machine, and passed under a roller, which allows +the escape of just enough gum to coat the sheet thinly and evenly. The +sheet is now caught on the endless chain by two automatic clamps, and +carried into the long hot-box. It takes only a few moments for the +journey through, but the sheets appear at the other end perfectly dried, +and ready to be trimmed and perforated.</p> + +<p>As the method of gumming stamps used by the various bank-note companies +has been a carefully guarded and secret process, the Bureau of Engraving +and Printing has been forced to invent its own machine for this purpose. +The sheets are gummed at the rate of about eighteen a minute, which is +certainly a vast improvement over the old method of putting on the gum +by hand with a brush.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 402px;"> +<img src="images/ill_011.jpg" width="402" height="500" alt="MIXING THE GLUE." title="" /> +<span class="caption">MIXING THE GLUE.</span> +</div> + +<p>When the children were weary of watching the funny little brass fingers +move along and hurry the sheets off into the hot-box, they turned to a +corner where a workman was busy over a series of vats and buckets mixing +the gum, which looked very clean and nice, and is made of dextrine, a +vegetable product. The guide now showed them how the gummed sheets are +pressed smooth for perforation, and then led them into a room where a +score or more of odd little machines were in swift operation. Each +machine is tended by two workwomen, most of whom wear fantastic caps of +paper to shade their eyes, as the sheets must be fed into the machines +with absolute accuracy in order that the perforations shall come in the +right place. Each sheet has register lines printed in the margin, which +must be adjusted exactly under a black thread fastened across the +feeding-table. A quick whir of the wheels puts a neat line of pin-holes +lengthwise between the stamps, cutting the sheet in half at the same +time. The next machine perforates the sheet crosswise, and again cuts it +in two, so that the sheets are now divided up into the regulation size +of one hundred stamps each.</p> + +<p>The children thought the minute disks of paper punched out by the +perforators too insignificant to be considered, and were accordingly +much surprised to learn that the sheets again have to be smoothed out, +under great pressure, to reduce their bulk and remove the "burr" caused +by the perforation.</p> + +<p>After inspecting the final process of making up the stamps into +packages, to be mailed to the postmasters all over the country, the +children were taken by their father to the office of the chief of the +bureau. Here they received a cordial welcome, and learned many +interesting and curious details about stamps and stamp-making. About +3,000,000,000 stamps are annually furnished the Post-office Department +by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, at the rate of five cents a +thousand. Ninety per cent. of these are the two-cent stamps, and +according to the last Post-office report the revenue from the sale of +stamps is a little over $6,000,000 a month.</p> + +<p>"By-the-way," observed the chief, "you young people should be very much +interested in the Report of the Third Assistant Postmaster-General for +1893, which contains a carefully prepared and elaborately descriptive +list of every stamp and postal card issued by the United States +government. It must seem hard to you stamp collectors that the most +beautiful stamps issued—the newspaper and periodical stamps—are not +permitted to be sold to the public. One of the chief reasons for this is +that the values of these small squares of paper run up to such high +figures, viz., $24, $36, $48, and $60, that they would offer a great +field in counterfeiters if generally circulated. There are some queer +denominations among these stamps, notably the $1.92 stamp, which is +about to be discontinued, and some very pretty colors. That reminds +me—did they show you our ink-mills in your tour of inspection?"</p> + +<p>Mr. Copeland explained that they had not seen the mills, so the children +had the pleasure of being escorted by the chief himself into the grimy +region which is seldom penetrated by the public. Here they saw the +colors ground and mixed in small mills, from which the workmen—smeared +from top to toe in a rainbow of colors—gathered the thick greasy ink by +the bucketful. About one hundred thousand pounds of dry color is used +annually for the two-cent stamps alone, the color being mixed with an +equal quantity of burnt linseed oil, making two hundred thousand pounds +of ink. Of course a large percentage of this color is lost in inking and +polishing the plate.</p> + +<p>The tour was now ended, and leaving the oily little wheels to their +ceaseless grinding, the children, with a grateful good-by to their new +friend, went home with their young heads full of the interesting things +they had seen in Uncle Sam's stamp factory.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"><a name="THE_PUDDING_STICK" id="THE_PUDDING_STICK"></a> +<img src="images/ill_012.jpg" width="600" height="164" alt="THE PUDDING STICK" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>This Department is conducted in the interest of Girls and Young +Women, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question on +the subject so far as possible. Correspondents should address +Editor.</p></div> + +<p>Girls who are terrified by thunder and lightning lose a great deal of +enjoyment during the summer, when we have storms as well as sunshine. It +may not be quite possible for every one to help being afraid when the +sky is black with clouds and the lightning's flash, but it <i>is</i> within +the power of most people to control the expression of fright. Once or +twice having resolutely refrained from showing your terror, you will be +surprised and pleased to find the terror itself lessening.</p> + +<p>I know persons who go through life in a sort of bondage to fear of +various kinds. They tremble and turn pale, or grow hysterical and cry, +when the dark clouds gather and the thunders roll. There is a pretty +German hymn which begins,</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"It thunders, but I tremble not,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">My trust is firm in God,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">His arm of strength I've ever sought</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Through all the way I've trod."</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>I advise all of you who need the advice to remember that God rules in +the heavens, and His hand sends the storms. Trust in God when you are +afraid—really <i>trust</i>, and you will grow calm and be happy. Another +grain of comfort may be found in the fact that when you see the bright +zig-zagging flash and hear the rumbling thunder, the danger for you is +over. You will never see or hear the electric current which hurts or +kills. It is far too swift to wait and warn you in that way.</p> + +<p>Many of us have some pet aversion, which goes far to make us cowards in +one direction, even if in other conditions and situations we are brave. +I have seen women almost faint at the sight of a poor little scurrying +mouse, and have heard others scream at a bat or a beetle. I confess to a +very great dislike on my own part to things with wings and with stings, +especially those which fly in at the window when the lamp is lighted, +and buzz and fizz and snap and pounce and bounce. But I would be ashamed +of myself if I could not keep from shrieking in the presence of these +innocent little marauders. Depend upon it, girls, we <i>can</i> display a +cool front and wear a brave face if we choose to do so, let what happen. +It is all a question of will.</p> + +<p>Numbers of travellers never get the full meed of pleasure when on a +journey because they carry too great a load of care. They fancy that +this or that will happen. They are distressed because of accidents which +may possibly occur. They make the friends with them uncomfortable +because they suggest dreadfully unpleasant catastrophes as just around +the corner. When you think of it, this behavior is both stupid and +silly. Trains and boats are in the hands, as a rule, of competent and +responsible persons, who wish to take their passengers and freight safe +to the journey's end. You, being neither captain, nor engineer, nor +conductor, are called upon to feel no concern in the matter.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_607" id="Page_607">[Pg 607]</a></span></p> + +<p>I wish I could impress on every young girl the beauty and dignity of +simple, quiet courage. Not recklessness, nor indifference to danger, but +a gentle acceptance of every situation, and a rising above fear. Fear is +the feeling of a slave. It fetters one's mind, and makes one's body +clumsy and awkward. The Bible says, "Fear hath torment." It is usually +ignoble, not the appropriate sentiment for bright, capable, +kind-hearted, and winning girls like you. Resolve to put fear under your +feet, and walk through the world with hearts superior to it in its every +form and phase.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/ill_013.jpg" width="300" height="72" alt="Signature" title="" /> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"><a name="STAMPS" id="STAMPS"></a> +<img src="images/ill_014.jpg" width="600" height="200" alt="STAMPS" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>This Department is conducted in the interest of Stamp and Coin +Collectors, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question +on these subjects so far as possible. Correspondents should +address Editor Stamp Department.</p></div> + +<p>One of the first requisites of any science is to know its terms. +Stamp-collecting is now not only a hobby, but an exact science as well.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/ill_015.jpg" width="200" height="52" alt="Regular perforations: holes punched out." title="" /> +<span class="caption">Regular perforations: holes punched out.</span> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/ill_016.jpg" width="200" height="47" alt="Rouletted: lines cut in." title="" /> +<span class="caption">Rouletted: lines cut in.</span> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 250px;"> +<img src="images/ill_017.jpg" width="250" height="150" alt="Pin perforated: pin-holes." title="" /> +<span class="caption">Pin perforated: pin-holes.</span> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/ill_018.jpg" width="200" height="50" alt="Rouletted en arc: curved lines cut in." title="" /> +<span class="caption">Rouletted en arc: curved lines cut in.</span> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/ill_019.jpg" width="200" height="54" alt="Rouletted en scie: saw-tooth lines cut in." title="" /> +<span class="caption">Rouletted en scie: saw-tooth lines cut in.</span> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 246px;"> +<img src="images/ill_020.jpg" width="246" height="151" alt="Rouletted en serpentine: fancy lines cut in." title="" /> +<span class="caption">Rouletted en serpentine: fancy lines cut in.</span> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/ill_021.jpg" width="200" height="53" alt="Rouletted en points: diagonal lines cut in." title="" /> +<span class="caption">Rouletted en points: diagonal lines cut in.</span> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/ill_022.jpg" width="200" height="54" alt="Rouletted en losange: diagonal cuts not joined." title="" /> +<span class="caption">Rouletted en losange: diagonal cuts not joined.</span> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/ill_023.jpg" width="200" height="46" alt="Rouletted in half squares: lines cut in." title="" /> +<span class="caption">Rouletted in half squares: lines cut in.</span> +</div> + +<p>Formerly little note was taken of the condition of stamps, but to-day +the smallest details are important. You have doubtless noticed that +almost all stamps issued during the past thirty years have "scalloped" +edges. These are perforations made to enable persons using stamps to +detach one or more without using scissors. Previous to 1856 all stamps +were printed on sheets of paper, and had to be cut off one by one with a +knife or scissors. These are known as "unperforated." Many experiments +were made to do away with the necessity of using scissors, and we +illustrate the different methods used. Gradually all nations have +adopted the "regular" perforations, which consist of a series of holes +punched out along all four edges of each stamp. Now this difference +between perforated and unperforated stamps makes not a little difference +in the prices asked. For instance, the 24c. U.S. of 1851 unperforated +would be cheap at $100, whereas the same stamp perforated is worth $2.50 +only. The Victoria twopenny of 1867 is worth $1.50 perforated, while $25 +is asked for the unperforated. So none of the <span class="smcap">Round Table</span> collectors +should trim the edges of any stamps they may have. Next week we will +illustrate the scale of regular perforations.</p> + +<p>The so-called <i>error</i> of the 5c. red-brown U.S. 1890 issue in the color +of the 4c. dark brown has been demonstrated to be a <i>changeling</i>, by a +very simple chemical test. The dealer who offered these stamps for sale +at $30 each has notified the thirty-seven people who bought copies at +that price that their money will be returned on demand.</p> + +<p>I would advise all collectors to keep all the different shades of the +U.S. stamps which they get at little or no expense, but to avoid paying +any extra for shades of current or late stamps.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">A Penrose Scull</span>.—The common stamps of the U.S. are worth about +$50 to $100 per million if in good condition. The 10c. brown is +quoted at 10c.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Buckskin</span>.—This is not the place to quote arguments in favor of +stamp-collecting. Most boys, and many men, find great pleasure in +this pursuit. Ask one of them to tell you of its pleasures.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">H. W.</span>—There are two varieties of Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph +stamps. One is worth $2 each, the regular perforated are worth +65c. per set.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Arthur L. Evans</span>.—The 10c. green is worth 6c. The 6c. and 8c. +Columbians can still be bought at face in many post-offices.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 32em;"><span class="smcap">Philatus</span>.</span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="SCHOOL-BOYS_SONG_OF_THE_SCHOOL_WEEK" id="SCHOOL-BOYS_SONG_OF_THE_SCHOOL_WEEK"></a>SCHOOL-BOY'S SONG OF THE SCHOOL WEEK.</h2> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">On Monday black, at four o'clock,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">The key is turned in the school-room lock,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And I've given old Time a terrible knock,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">For the head of the Week is broken.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">At four of a Tuesday afternoon,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">The hour that cometh none too soon,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">I strap my books to a merry tune,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">For the neck of the Week is broken.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">As the four glad strokes on Wednesday ring,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My cap in the air I gayly fling,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And homeward run as I loudly sing,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">"The grip of the Week is broken."</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Ah, welcome the sound of the Thursday's four,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And the joyous thought of "but one day more</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">That opens and shuts the school-room door,"</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">For the back of the Week is broken.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">But sweeter than story in prose or rhyme</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">The musical notes of the Friday chime,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">For the Week lies dead in the arms of Time,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">And the school-boy's chains are broken.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">L. H. Bruce</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="KING_ARTHUR_AND_HIS_KNIGHTS" id="KING_ARTHUR_AND_HIS_KNIGHTS"></a>KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS.</h2> + +<h3>II.—THE SWORD.</h3> + +<p>"Now while the lords and their followers were gathered in the great +church," the Story-teller said, as Jack and Mollie began to show some +curiosity as to what this miracle for which Merlin hoped might be, +"there was discovered in the church-yard near the altar a great black +stone, about four feet square, on the middle of which stood a steel +anvil a foot in height. Thrust into this, with its shining point +visible, was a beautiful sword, and about it, written in letters of +gold, were these words:</p> + +<h4>"'WHOSO PULLETH OUT THIS SWORD OF THIS STONE AND ANVIL IS RIGHTWISE KING +BORN OF ENGLAND.'"</h4> + +<p>"Who put it there?" asked Jack.</p> + +<p>"I don't know," said the Story-teller. "It was there, and that is all I +know about it, and the people when they saw it were full of wonder, and +marvelled greatly to read the words written about it. I imagine, +however, that Merlin and the Archbishop had something to do with it, for +when the people went into the church, and told the Archbishop what they +had seen, he did not appear to be at all<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_608" id="Page_608">[Pg 608]</a></span> surprised, but commanded all +to remain within the church and not to touch the sword until the service +was over. The people and the gathered knights and all their followers +obeyed the Archbishop's command, for they did not dare do otherwise; +but, when the service was over, they all rushed out into the church-yard +to see the stone and the anvil, with the wonderful sword stuck into it. +And then, when the lords had read the golden inscription upon the stone, +each made an effort to pull the sword out of its anvil-sheath, but not +one of them could do it. They pulled and tugged and pulled and tugged, +but it was all in vain. They neither broke nor budged it, and the +Archbishop of Canterbury said it was evident that none of those present +could claim to be the rightful King. He added that he believed that the +right one would yet be discovered, and suggested that ten of the best +knights of the land should be made a guard of honor to watch over the +sword until New-Year's day, when any one who wished might come and in +the presence of all make the effort to pull it from the anvil. This was +agreed to, and it was decided to have a great tournament upon the coming +New-Year's day, after which the trial should be made. This kept the +knights and their followers in London, for it was important that all +should be present at the trial, success in which meant so much, not only +to the successful man, but to the whole kingdom as well."</p> + +<p>"Didn't Merlin try to pull it out?" asked Mollie. "If he put it in, I +should think he could have pulled it out, and then he could have been +King himself."</p> + +<p>"Possibly; but I imagine he didn't want to be King, for one thing, and, +for another, he had been too good a friend to Arthur, and to Uther, his +father, to wish to betray them. The Chronicles do not say whether he +tried it or not, but if he did, he failed; and so the week between +Christmas and New-Year's went by without any one's having moved the +sword; and the lords made their preparations for the tournament, and +many of them, I have no doubt, spent a great deal of their time getting +their muscle up in the hope of winning the crown.</p> + +<p>"On the New-Year's day all again assembled in the church, and, after the +service, proceeded to the field where the tournament was to take place. +Sir Ector, followed by his son, Sir Kaye, who had himself been made a +knight, and Arthur, rode with them, when it was discovered that Sir Kaye +had left his sword behind him at his father's lodging. Summoning Arthur, +he requested him to return to the house and get it for him. This Arthur +readily consented to do, for he was fond of Kaye, whom, as we have +already seen, he supposed to be his own brother. Turning his horse +about, he rode full speed back to the lodgings; but when he arrived +there he found every one had gone to the tournament, and he could not +find his foster-brother's sword. For a moment he was perplexed. He knew +it would never do for Sir Kaye to be found at a tournament without his +sword, for the sword was the sign of his knighthood, and a knight who +had lost it would have been considered unworthy of the honor which had +been bestowed upon him. Suddenly Arthur bethought him of the sword in +the anvil, and without much hope that he should succeed where so many +others had failed, he resolved to make the effort to loosen it anyhow, +and in case of success to carry it to Sir Kaye.</p> + +<p>"So he rode to the church-yard, and found it as deserted as Sir Ector's +lodgings had been. The ten knights who had been left to guard the sword, +like every one else in London, had gone to the tournament. Dismounting +from his horse, Arthur strode into the yard, and grasping the handle of +the sword as firmly as he could, pulled at it fiercely, when, to his +surprise and delight, it came out of the anvil. Without stopping to +think of all that this meant for him, he remounted his steed, and rode +hastily back to Sir Kaye, to whom he handed the weapon.</p> + +<p>"The instant Sir Kaye looked at it he knew it to be the sword of the +stone, and putting his spurs to his horse, he dashed to where his father +stood, and, showing him the glittering blade, told him that it was the +sword of the stone, and said,</p> + +<p>"'I must be King of this land!'</p> + +<p>"But Sir Ector was cautious, so he questioned Kaye closely as to how he +had come by the weapon, and he made him go with him and Arthur back to +the church and swear to what he said; and Sir Kaye told him the whole +story—how he had left his own sword at home and had sent Arthur back +for it; how Arthur had gone there, and not finding any one, had +bethought him of the sword in the anvil, and had taken it, though no one +had witnessed the act."</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;"> +<img src="images/ill_024.jpg" width="350" height="500" alt="THE RIGHTFUL KING OF ENGLAND." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE RIGHTFUL KING OF ENGLAND.</span> +</div> + +<p>"Whereupon Sir Ector made Arthur return the sword to the anvil, and +himself tried to pull it out, but it would not come; and then he made +Sir Kaye try it, and still it would not come; and then bidding Arthur +make an effort, the boy did so, and it came out easily, at which both +Sir Kaye and his father knelt before Arthur, and hailed him as the man +who should be rightful King of England."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_609" id="Page_609">[Pg 609]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"><a name="INTERSCHOLASTIC_SPORT" id="INTERSCHOLASTIC_SPORT"></a> +<img src="images/ill_025.jpg" width="600" height="119" alt="INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>With the New England Interscholastic games next Saturday the season of +track and field athletics—as far as school leagues are concerned—will +practically come to a close. The season has been a most successful one. +Records have been broken on every hand, even in events where it was +supposed that many a year must go by before that performance could be +bettered. This excellent showing is the natural result of the hard +training and constant energy of the hundreds of runners and jumpers in +the schools; and the ever-increasing number of contestants all over the +country proves that track and field sports have secured a firm foothold, +and now deserve to be recognized as equal in importance to both football +and baseball. In the vicinity of New York, at least, there are fully +twice as many who indulge in track athletics as there are baseball and +football players. In other regions I think the proportions are more +nearly equal. The growth of these sports has been very rapid. In almost +every centre there is an Interscholastic Association or League, and the +daily newspapers, not only of the East but of the West, have been +printing reports of scholastic meets for the past two months. The work +of the school athletes has decidedly become a factor in amateur sport. +In some of the school leagues there are better men than the colleges can +boast of.</p> + +<p>The annual meeting of the Inter-collegiate Athletic Association at the +Berkeley Oval, usually characterized as the "Mott Haven games," because +they were first held at Mott Haven, brings together the best college +athletic talent from all parts of this broad country. This year a team +from the University of California travelled three thousand miles +overland to contest for the championship on that day. Besides them, an +unknown runner with a rapid gait and a queer cap came out of the West, +and left the crack sprinters of the East straining and striving behind +him, while he, with a broad smile, pocketed two gold medals, and carried +them back to Iowa. I don't believe there was ever any better sport at +Olympia, and if the colleges can be so successful in these things, and +can draw men to compete at these games from every point of the compass, +why should not the schools follow their example, and form one great +Interscholastic Association, and have a big meeting once a year? There +is no reason why they should not. I can think of hardly a single +obstacle in the way of the formation of such a league. All that is +needed is that some energetic individual or individuals, or some +enthusiastic and sporting spirited Athletic Association take the matter +in hand and put it through. Once started, the routine of organization +would roll along as if on wheels.</p> + +<p>It is not necessary that every school in the country should be asked to +join at the outset. On the contrary, I would suggest that the greater +Association under discussion be made up of the various I.S.A.A.'s now +existing, and that the big annual games be a contest among the winners +of the annual games of the individual associations. This scheme commends +itself, because only the best men from every locality could compete at +the meeting, and the number of entries could in that manner be limited. +We have all had experience with a superfluity of contestants, and we +know what interminable trial heats mean. If the movement to form a +general Interscholastic Association should be started in New York, there +would be no lack of leagues already in good standing to call upon for +membership. There are the New York and the Long Island I.S.A.A.'s right +here. Near by we have the New England I.S.A.A., the Western +Massachusetts I.S.A.A., the Maine I.S.A.A., the Connecticut I.S.A.A., +the Pennsylvania Inter-academic A.A., the Dartmouth I.S.A.A., and the +New York State I.S.A.A. of Syracuse. In addition to these there are many +others that I need not mention here. A large and influential league in +the West is the Academic Athletic League of the Pacific Coast, of whose +prowess on track and field I have had occasion to speak of many times in +this Department.</p> + +<p>Of course, one of the first questions that would arise upon the +organization of such an Interscholastic Association would be, Where +shall the annual meeting be held? The answer to that is simply, hold it +where it will be most convenient for the greatest number of schools +interested. It would not be advisable to hold the meeting in a different +city each year, for the Portland and Bangor athletes would not care to +journey to Philadelphia, neither would the Pennsylvanians care to travel +up into Maine. New York is a central location, but in many respects it +would be a poor place for a meeting of the kind under consideration. The +ideal spot, to my mind, would be New Haven. This for two reasons +principally. It is half-way between Boston and Philadelphia, which are +the centres of the New England and Pennsylvania districts; and it is +also about equally distant from New York and Hartford, which are the +homes of the N.Y. & L.I.I.S.A.A's, and the Connecticut I.S.A.A. The +second good reason is that Yale University is situated at New Haven, and +I have no doubt that the authorities of college athletics there would +only be too happy to offer the use of the Yale field, and to do +considerable work toward the management of the games.</p> + +<p>Even if the college men felt that they could not devote their time to +the management of an Interscholastic meeting—which I greatly doubt, for +it would be to their interest to do so—there are three large schools in +New Haven, members of the Connecticut I.S.A.A., which would certainly +see that business committees were appointed, and competent men set to +work for the successful carrying out of the enterprise. But I believe +the athletic authorities of Yale would be so glad of the opportunity to +help and assist the school athletes that they would even go so far as to +offer a cup to be contested for.</p> + +<p>But I have run a little ahead of my subject. What we are all most +interested in now is the first step; the rest can easily be arranged +afterward. It is too late to think of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_610" id="Page_610">[Pg 610]</a></span> holding a general Interscholastic +meeting this spring, but it is none too early to begin to think of +holding one next year. Preparations for such an important event require +much time. If there is anything that <span class="smcap">Harper's Round Table</span> can do to +further the success of the plan, or if there is any work that I can +perform in my small way toward the carrying out of any idea that may be +formulated, it shall be done. I hope these few words on the subject will +appeal to the athletes of the schools, and I shall be only too glad to +hear from them, and, if possible, to give space to their suggestions.</p> + +<h3>PENNSYLVANIA I.A.L. GAMES, FRANKLIN FIELD, PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 1, 1895.</h3> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'>Event.</td><td align='left'>Winner—5 points.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>100-yard dash</td><td align='left'>Jones, P.C.</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='right'>10-4/5</td><td align='left'>sec.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>120-yard hurdle</td><td align='left'>Branson, P.C.</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='right'>18-3/5</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Half-mile run</td><td align='left'>Gage, H.</td><td align='right'>2</td><td align='left'>m.</td><td align='right'>17-1/2</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Mile bicycle</td><td align='left'>Whetstone, De L.</td><td align='right'>3</td><td align='left'>"</td><td align='right'>7</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>440-yard run</td><td align='left'>Jones, P.C.</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='right'>58-2/5</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>220-yard hurdle</td><td align='left'>Branson, P.C.</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='right'>29-4/5</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>220-yard dash</td><td align='left'>Jones, P.C.</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='right'>24-3/5</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Mile run</td><td align='left'>Thackara, G.</td><td align='right'>5</td><td align='left'>"</td><td align='right'>23</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Half-mile walk</td><td align='left'>Lippincott, De L.</td><td align='right'>4</td><td align='left'>"</td><td align='right'>5</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Running high jump</td><td align='left'>Rorer, P.C.</td><td align='right'>5</td><td align='left'>ft.</td><td align='right'>2-1/2</td><td align='left'>in.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Running broad jump</td><td align='left'>Branson.P.C.</td><td align='right'>19</td><td align='left'>"</td><td align='right'>7</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Putting shot</td><td align='left'>Watts, C.</td><td align='right'>33</td><td align='left'>"</td><td align='right'>4-1/2</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Standing broad jump</td><td align='left'>Flavell, G.</td><td align='right'>9</td><td align='left'>"</td><td align='right'>7</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Pole-vault</td><td align='left'>Hanson, P.C.</td><td align='right'>9</td><td align='left'>"</td><td align='right'>2-1/2</td><td align='left'>"</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<hr style="width: 25%;" /> +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'>Event.</td><td align='left'>2d—3 points.</td><td align='left'>3rd—1 point.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>100-yard dash</td><td align='left'>Hunsberger, P.C.</td><td align='left'>Bailey, P.C.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>120-yard hurdle</td><td align='left'>Coit, C.</td><td align='left'>Remington, De L.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Half-mile run</td><td align='left'>Thackara, G.</td><td align='left'>Farr, De L.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Mile bicycle</td><td align='left'>Lagen, De L.</td><td align='left'>Beverlin, De L.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>440-yard run</td><td align='left'>Lambertson, C.</td><td align='left'>McCarty, G.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>220-yard hurdle</td><td align='left'>Rorer, P.C.</td><td align='left'>Coit, G.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>220-yard dash</td><td align='left'>Hunsberger, P.C.</td><td align='left'>Beasley, G.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Mile run</td><td align='left'>Guernsey, P.C.</td><td align='left'>Gage, H.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Half-mile run</td><td align='left'>Shearer, P.C.</td><td align='left'>Sutton, H.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Running high jump</td><td align='left'>Newhold, De L.</td><td align='left'>Remington, De L.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Running broad jump</td><td align='left'>Rorer, P.C.</td><td align='left'>Johnson, G.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Putting shot</td><td align='left'>Farr, De L.</td><td align='left'>Sayen, H.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Standing broad jump</td><td align='left'>Branson, P.C.</td><td align='left'>Rorer, P.C.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Pole-vault</td><td align='left'>Rorer, P.C.</td><td align='left'>{ Flavell, G.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>{ Branson, P.C.</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<hr style="width: 25%;" /> +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='center'>Points Made.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Penn Charter</td><td align='right'>67-1/2</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>De Lancey</td><td align='right'>23</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Germantown</td><td align='right'>17-1/2</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cheltenham</td><td align='right'>9</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Haverford</td><td align='right'>10</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Adelphi</td><td align='right'>0</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Episcopal</td><td align='right'>0</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='right'>—-</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Total</td><td align='right'>126</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Note</span>.—P.C., Penn Charter School; G., Germantown Academy; De L., +De Lancey School; C., Cheltenham Military Academy; H., Haverford +Grammar School; E., Episcopal Academy.</p></div> + +<p>The unusual heat of ten days ago interfered mightily with the success of +the Pennsylvania schools' field-day on Franklin Field a week ago +Saturday. With the thermometer at 95°, and the officials so overcome +with heat that half of them did not turn up, it is not to be wondered at +that but two records were broken. The only men who seem to have remained +unaffected by the temperature, were Jones and Branson of the Penn +Charter School, the former taking first in the 100, 220, and 440, and +the latter winning three firsts, one second, and two thirds—a total of +twenty points. Rorer, also of Penn Charter, came pretty close to his +schoolmates by taking one first, three seconds, and one third. All three +leave school this year. The meeting was, therefore, a perfect walk-over +for P.C., as the score by points clearly shows, and at no time of the +afternoon was there much enthusiasm displayed. It began to rain just +before the field events were contested, and when the heavy shower ceased +the field was in no condition for jumping or pole-vaulting. This +accounts for the poor performances in those events.</p> + +<p>Jones ran the final heat of the 100 in 10-4/5 sec., winning easily, and +came home twenty yards ahead of his second man in the quarter. He was +not pressed in the 220 either, and made the poor time of 24-3/5 sec. The +half-mile was one of the most interesting races of the day. The first +three men kept well bunched all the way around, and Gage made a good +spurt at the finish. Branson won both the high hurdles and the low +hurdles with comparative ease, most of his opponents appearing fagged +out. In the bicycle race, which occurred after the shower, a bad +collision, in which one man was seriously hurt, knocked out three +contestants and spoiled the event. In the mile, Guernsey, P.C., started +a spurt within 220 yards of the tape, and earned a lead of thirty yards, +but Thackara of Germantown showed better judgment by waiting until he +reached the 100-yard mark, when he forged ahead and won. The half-mile +walk was very close, the judges being unable to decide the first three +places for some time. They finally made the award in the order given in +the table. The records broken were in the shot event by Watts, who put +the ball 3-1/2 inches beyond the I.A.L. record of 33 ft. 1 in., and in +the pole-vault. The latter was broken by four men. Hanson and Rorer tied +for first, and as neither could better his jump, they tossed for first +place, with the luck in favor of Hanson. Branson, P.C., got third place.</p> + +<p>In strong contrast to the ease of Penn Charter's victory on Franklin +Field was the sharp and exciting contest between the Bangor and Portland +High-Schools at the Maine I.S.A.A. meeting in Maplewood Park, Bangor, +the same afternoon. The result was a tie, each school scoring 37-1/2 +points, and out of fifteen records on the programme eleven were broken. +Some of the best performances were Somers's jump of 21 ft. 5 in. in the +broad; Perry's pole-vault of 9 ft. 3 in.; and the winning of the low +hurdles by Edwards in 28 seconds. The most exciting period of the day +was toward the close of the meeting, when Portland High was 10 points +ahead of Bangor High, and only the hammer and standing high jump to be +decided. Portland felt almost sure of victory, but Godfrey and Connors +of Bangor went in and took the first two places in the hammer, with +Wakefield of Thornton third, thus shutting Portland out from winning any +points in that event. Not only this, but Godfrey broke the record by +more than eight feet. Then he answered to the call for the standing high +jump, clearing 4 ft. 7 in. at his first trial, and there tieing Jordan +of Portland. Both men tried to do better, but were unable to, and third +place again went to Thornton with Hidgdon. The tie will make the record +of victories count one year for each school in the holding of the cup +now in the custody of Bangor.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/ill_026.jpg" width="500" height="349" alt="ADELPHI ACADEMY TRACK-ATHLETIC TEAM." title="" /> +<span class="caption">F. Munson. Albert Mooler. S. E. Gunnison. H. Simpson. J. Beasley.<br /> +E. H. Jewell. H. Romer (Capt.). M. Forney.<br /> +J. Forney. A. Opp. A. Topping.<br /><br /> +ADELPHI ACADEMY TRACK-ATHLETIC TEAM.<br /> +Champions of the L.I.I.S.A.A., 1895.</span> +</div> + +<p>Of the eleven point-winners from the Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, at the +Long Island Interscholastic Games on May 11th, six will return to school +next year. These are Gunnison, who took three firsts in the championship +games, Mooler, Beasley, Topping, and both Forneys. Of the others, +Simpson expects to enter West Point, Opp will go to the Columbia Law +School, while Munson, Romer, and Jewell will go into business. The +last-named will be the greatest loss to the team, as he made almost as +good a showing at Eastern Park as Gunnison. Nevertheless, there is +plenty of good material left in the school, and with the nucleus that +remains Adelphi ought to be able to build up another champion team.</p> + +<p>The Interscholastic Games of the New England Association, which are to +be held on Holmes Field, Cambridge, next Saturday, will bring together a +larger number of contestants than have appeared at any interscholastic +event this season. The New England I.S.A.A. includes about thirty +schools, and more than twenty will send representatives to strive for +the cup. While it is not so very difficult to guess the probable winners +of first place in the principal events on the card, the general result +of the day is by no means a certainty, for the smaller schools always +manage to send one or two "dark horses" who upset the closest +calculations of the best judges. Nevertheless, the championship probably +rests with the Worcester High-School, or the Boston English High-School, +or the Phillips Academy, Andover. The W.H.-S. team won the in-door +meeting last March by scoring 19 points, and most of the winners of that +day will compete on Holmes Field this week. Andover did not send a full +team to the in-door games, and the E.H.-S. was crippled by the absence +of some of its best athletes on that occasion, but both schools have +been training their strongest men for the past few weeks, and will +surely be well represented.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_611" id="Page_611">[Pg 611]</a></span></p> + +<p>The 100-yards dash will be won by Roche of W.H.-S., Clarke of Worcester +Academy, or Dunbar of E.H.-S. These three sprinters breasted the tape +almost together in the 40-yard dash at the winter meeting, Roche winning +by a few inches only. I consider Ferguson the surest man for the high +hurdles, although Chase of Andover will be close upon him. The low +hurdles will make a pretty race for Fuller, Cambridge L.S., Heine, P.A., +and Seaver, Brookline H.-S. Fuller's success will largely depend on +whether he has to run the 220 flat before he takes the hurdles. In that +case Heine and Seaver will have a slight advantage. But if Fuller does +run the 220 before this, he ought to win it, with Roche and Dunbar +behind him. There will be no fast time made in the quarter, and the race +will furnish a good opportunity for a surprise by some unknown quantity. +Fish, W.A., Carleton, Milton Academy, Purtell, E.H.-S., and Howe, +W.H.-S., are about equal in ability for that distance. Albertson, +W.H.-S., and Batchelder, R.L.S., will have a close race in the +half-mile, and I have no doubt that the record will be lowered. +Cunningham of Hopkinson ought to be third.</p> + +<p>If Laing of Andover were not kept out of the contest by the age limit +ruling he would, beyond any doubt, take the mile for P.A. He ran it at +the Interscholastics last year in 4 min. 32-2/5 sec. And so, unless +Andover sends down another good man, Dow of E.H.-S. will probably win +the event. Moore of Newton H.-S. ought to take the walk, with Delaney of +W.H.-S. second, and Barstow of Hopkinson third. For the field events +Holt and Dole of Roxbury Latin, and Henderson of E.H.-S., will divide +the honors in the high jump, while the broad will be contested by +Purtell, E.H.-S. and Holt, R.L.S. The shot event will be won by O'Brien, +E.H.-S., with Jordan, W.H.-S. and Holt, P.A., in the places. Johnson, +W.A., should win the pole-vault, although Thenoin, R.L.S., may push him. +The hammer rests with Seargent of Hopkinson, Coan, E.H.-S., or Barney, +R.L.S. With so many men competing from such a large number of different +schools, it is not probable that the winning score will be much greater +than 25, and the winner of second place ought to come close to the same +figure.</p> + +<p>The New York Interscholastic Tennis Tournament, under the auspices of +Columbia College, had a large entry list that required three days to be +played off. The games were all characterized by steady work rather than +by any particularly brilliant play, and the championship was won by +Waltz of the Leal School, Plainfield. He met Wigham of Harvard School in +the finals, and had a comparatively easy time of it, defeating the +New-Yorker in three straight sets—6-1, 6-2, 6-4. He will go to Newport +for the big Interscholastic tournament this summer, and will meet the +other school league champions, Ware of the N.E.I.S.A.A., Sheldon of the +Connecticut I.S.A.A., and Beaman, who won in the Pennsylvania I.A.L. +Tournament at Princeton. I consider Ware the strongest player of this +quartet, and expect to see him win at Newport. He will be heard from at +the Longwood Tournament next Saturday too.</p> + +<p>The prospects of Lawrenceville being victorious over Andover in the +baseball game to-morrow have been daily increasing, and I believe now +that the Jerseymen will win. Andover does not seem to be able to reduce +the average of errors made in her games so far, and her players on the +left-field side must play a sharp game if they wish to offset +Lawrenceville's good batters. St. Mark's School, with little over a +hundred boys to pick a nine from, defeated the Phillips Academy team, +two weeks ago, by the score of 6-3, and the latter suffered another bad +defeat from the Yale Freshmen a few days later. St. Mark's victory was +in a considerable measure due to the effective pitching of White, who +held the Andover men down to six hits. The features of the game, besides +White's work in the box, were the catching of Drew, Andover's Captain, +and the fielding of Folger. Mills, too, made a beautiful running catch +of a long fly. I am surprised that the St. Mark's batters were able to +get seven hits off Greenway, as it has been Andover's boast that their +battery is as good as any in the schools. It is; and I surmise that +Greenway had an off-day at Southboro. He must do better to-morrow or +Lawrenceville will have an easy time with their Massachusetts rivals. +The Jersey players have greatly improved the past week, especially in +team-work. They have won within the past fifteen days two games from the +Pennington Seminary's strong team, they have defeated the Princeton +Freshmen, and they got excellent practice out of their match with the +Princeton 'Varsity. Andover will have the advantage of home grounds and +the crowd, but they will need more than that to pile up the runs.</p> + +<p>A new invention by Professor E. W. Scripture, of Yale, will be +interesting to all track athletes. The apparatus is one that will +measure a runner's "reaction time." This time is that which elapses +between the moment the pistol is discharged and the moment the sprinter +starts. The brief period between these two moments is taken up by nature +in transmitting the sound from the ear to the brain, and the impulse to +run from the brain to the muscles of the legs. Professor Scripture +believes that the length of reaction time is frequently an important +factor, and he argues that with a runner it must be reduced to the +shortest possible limit, as one-fifth of a second counts in a race. By +experiments the inventor has proved to his own satisfaction that the +time which elapses between the firing of the starter's pistol and the +actual start of the runner is long enough to influence the winning of a +race. The reaction time of a runner may vary from one-sixth to one-third +of a second. The new invention is an arrangement by which a runner's +reaction time may be measured to within the one-thousandth part of a +second. The starter's pistol is arranged so that an electric contact is +broken when the pistol goes off. A thread is attached to the right foot +of the runner, and this thread breaks an electric contact the moment he +starts. The distance marked on a cylinder by these two contacts measures +the individual's reaction time. Sport may soon reach such a scientific +stage of advancement that sprinters will be handicapped with reference +to their "reaction time."</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 32em;"><span class="smcap">The Graduate</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>Charlotte Cushman, a celebrated actress, was filling an engagement at +the opera-house in B——. A man in the gallery created such a +disturbance that it seriously impeded the progress of the play, and +finally brought it to a standstill. Immediately the audience, furious +with anger, cried: "Throw him over! Throw him over!"</p> + +<p>Miss Temple stepped to the edge of the footlights, and in a sweet and +gentle voice exclaimed: "No, I pray you, don't throw him over. I beg of +you, dear friends, don't throw him over, but <i>kill him where he is</i>!"</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>An Irishman was on trial for committing a burglary, and had conducted +his own case. The evidence against him was strong, and the judge, after +summing up, remarked, while looking at the prisoner, that he could +detect the rascal and villain in his face. "Hold there!" shouted the +prisoner. "I object; that is a personal reflection."</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>ADVERTISEMENTS.</h2> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report.</h2> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/ill_027.jpg" width="300" height="94" alt="Royal Baking Powder" title="" /> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>BASE BALL. 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Our +maps and tours contain much valuable data kindly supplied from the +official maps and road-books of the League of American Wheelmen. +Recognizing the value of the work being done by the L. A. W. the +Editor will be pleased to furnish subscribers with membership +blanks and information so far as possible.</p></div> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 398px;"> +<img src="images/ill_031.jpg" width="398" height="1200" alt="Copyright, 1895, by Harper & Brothers." title="" /> +<span class="caption">Copyright, 1895, by Harper & Brothers.</span> +</div> + +<p>The run from Brooklyn to Babylon along the south shore of Long Island is +perhaps the best bicycle run on the Island, and is the first thirty-five +miles of the famous century run which is made every year by the Kings +County Wheelmen; and there is no doubt that this 100-mile course along +the shore of Long Island is as easy a run as there is in the east United +States. The road is macadamized most of the way to Babylon, and is at +present finished about as far as Seaford. From Seaford on to Babylon the +road is a good one, though not all macadamized. The wheelman intending +to make this run should examine the map of Brooklyn published in last +week's <span class="smcap">Round Table</span>. He will there find the way to get from his +residence, whether in Brooklyn or New York, to Prospect Park. Starting +from Prospect Park, run up the Boulevard to Liberty Avenue at East New +York, and, turning right into this, continue thence to Woodhaven. At +Woodhaven take the left-hand fork and run out to Jamaica. The road +through Jamaica is clearly enough marked, as it is the beginning of the +Plank Road that continues on to Jericho. The rider should keep on this +road, which is in good condition, out of Jamaica a mile or more, passing +through Hollis and Holliswood Park. At the latter place, and just before +reaching Queens, a turn should be made to the right, and after crossing +the track the rider will run out over a good road about seven miles to +Hempstead. On entering Hempstead he may turn to the left and run up to +Garden City, where there is a hotel that is well kept, and a good place +for a short stop if one is desired.</p> + +<p>Returning to Hempstead, the rider keeps to the main road, running down +towards Ridgewood, and comes into the Shore Road, and thence the run +continues straight on through South Jerusalem, Seaford, Amityville, +Lindenhurst, into Babylon. The whole run from Brooklyn is practically a +forty-mile journey, and if the wheelman intends to return on his wheel +to Brooklyn he can keep straight on the Shore Road, passing through +Freeport, Rockville Centre, and Valley Stream, instead of turning to the +right near Ridgewood, and going back through Hempstead. The great +advantage of this run is that there are almost no hills along the line +of the road, and the wheelman has as "clean" a ride as can be found in +the vicinity of New York. When all the roadway along the South Side of +Long Island is finally macadamized there will be hardly a single run in +the country to equal it.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>K. L. T.—The cost of a bicycle trip from New York to Liverpool, +thence to France, and perhaps into Germany, depends entirely on how +much luxury the traveller expects to indulge in, and whether he or +she will ride entirely or will frequently use railway trains. It is +safe to say, however, that it is possible after reaching Europe to +make a bicycle tour through France and Germany on an average of two +dollars per day, though that requires the greatest care in +expenses. (2) It would be hardly advisable for two ladies to +travel through France and Germany alone on bicycles, though it +could be done. The difficulty would be that bicyclists still +attract attention, and two foreign women would be much more likely +to meet with difficulties than if they travelled by rail, to say +nothing of the possible accidents to their machines. (3) The +necessary luggage would be comparatively easily carried in the +triangular water-proof bicycle bag, which is carried on a diamond +frame machine inside the diamond, and on a woman's bicycle in a +different shape bag attached to the handle-bar in the front. Any +woman going on such a trip should learn how to take a bicycle to +pieces and put it together again, and in the process of learning +she will discover what tools are necessary. Material for mending +tires is absolutely necessary—a good monkey-wrench, oil cans, a +tire inflator, pincers, and a reasonably good supply of small wire +and twine for making repairs where such material is necessary. In +France you will probably find no difficulty in having all necessary +bicycle repairs made, especially in the cities and larger towns. It +would be much cheaper to stop at houses, and in England, and +perhaps to a certain extent in France and Germany, such travellers +are very well received in the cottages of the peasants in the +middle classes. (4) The best bicycle roads in the world are in +England, and England has for many years been called the +"bicyclist's paradise." The French government roads come next, both +being comparatively free from hills. German roads are by no means +as good, and the country is more hilly. Swiss roads are moderately +good, and in some places very fine, but they are apt to be +extremely hilly. Northern Italy would probably come next; but it is +safe to say that for two women taking their first bicycle tour, +England is by far the best place to travel in. (5) If two +ladies travel second-class on a steamer to Liverpool they might +meet with some unpleasant incidents, but it is now possible to get +a first-class return ticket on some of the smaller steamers of the +important lines quite as cheaply as a second-class return ticket on +the larger steamers. For instance, a first-class ticket and return +to Havre, France, or Southampton, England, can be bought for from +ninety to one hundred dollars on the smaller steamers of the +Hamburg and North German Lloyd lines. It would, of course, be +cheaper to buy a return ticket.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Note</span>.—Map of New York city asphalted streets in No. 809. Map of +route from New York to Tarrytown in No. 810. New York to Stamford, +Connecticut, in No. 811. New York to Staten Island in No. 812. New +Jersey, from Hoboken to Pine Brook in No. 813. Brooklyn in No. +814.</p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_613" id="Page_613">[Pg 613]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"><a name="THE_CAMERA_CLUB" id="THE_CAMERA_CLUB"></a> +<img src="images/ill_032.jpg" width="600" height="193" alt="THE CAMERA CLUB" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Any questions in regard to photograph matters will be willingly +answered by the editor of this column, and we should be glad to +hear from any of our club who can make helpful suggestions.</p></div> + +<h3>BROKEN NEGATIVES.</h3> + +<p>Sometimes one is so unfortunate as to break a negative which cannot well +be replaced. The amateur who understands little about photographic work +is, in such a case, quite likely to think that the negative is ruined, +and throw it away; but unless it has been broken in many pieces it can +be repaired so that one can get as good a print from it as before it was +broken.</p> + +<p>If there is one clear break across the glass, but not through the film, +place the negative in the printing frame, pushing the broken edges +closely together, holding them while adjusting the sensitive paper. +Fasten in the printing frame, and print in a diffused light—that is, +not in the direct rays of the sun. Place the negative at such an angle +with the light that the crack across the glass shall not make a shadow.</p> + +<p>If there are several cracks in the glass, but not in the film, put the +negative in the printing frame, supporting it by a piece of plain glass; +tie cords to the printing frame so that it may be suspended by them; +hang the frame from some projection where it will not hit anything, and +keep it revolving during the printing process. The plate moving all the +time, the cracks in the glass do not cast a shadow long enough in one +place to make any impression on the sensitive paper. If one cannot +arrange the frame in this way, it may be placed at the bottom of a large +deep box without a cover, and left to print.</p> + +<p>If the film is broken as well as the glass, take a piece of plain glass +the size of the negative—a spoiled plate is just the thing—lay the +broken pieces on this plain glass, taking care that the picture lines of +the negative are true, and bind the edges of the glass and negative +together with strips of gummed paper. When the strips are dry, varnish +the film with negative varnish. It is better to purchase the varnish +ready prepared than to attempt to fix it one's self.</p> + +<p>If the negative is badly broken, but not splintered, apply Canada balsam +with a toothpick to the edges of the broken parts, and press them firmly +together, keeping the negative on a flat surface during the process, a +glass plate a little larger than the negative being the best thing to +use. When the balsam is thoroughly dry, flow the negative with varnish, +and as soon as it begins to set cover it with a piece of glass the size +of the negative. When dry, bind the edges together with strips as before +directed. If the negative is very badly broken, it should be enclosed +between two pieces of plain glass, putting on the second in the same +manner, after the first is dry. Bind the three together.</p> + +<p>An excellent paste for binding negatives and lantern slides is made of +rice flour. Mix rice flour with water till it is smooth and free from +lumps. Set the dish containing it into another of hot water, and boil +till it becomes thick and semi-transparent, stirring it all the time. +When done it should be about the consistency of laundry starch made for +collars and cuffs. This paste is very strong—in fact, almost as durable +as cement. If a few drops of carbolic acid are added to it, it will keep +for some time. The bottle should be tightly corked when not in use.</p> + +<p>If the film has not been broken it can be removed from the glass in the +same way that films are stripped, and transferred to another clean +plate.</p> + +<p>For very valuable negatives it is a good plan to make a paper negative, +in case of accident to the glass one. A paper negative is made by taking +a good print of the negative and waxing it according to directions given +in No. 782 "answers to queries." Make a print from this waxed positive, +supporting the paper while in the printing frame by a sheet of plain +glass. Tone and fix this print, which will be a negative. Wax it, and if +you are so unfortunate as to break the original, you will still have the +paper copy, which can be used in its place.</p> + +<p>For negatives that can be replaced it is not wise to spend the time in +repairing them if broken, but it sometimes happens that a valuable one +is broken which cannot be duplicated, and with careful handling it can +be made "as good as new."</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Sir Knight Harry T. Luther</span>, New York, asks what causes his +negatives to turn yellow, and if there is any remedy for it. The +reason why negatives turn yellow is usually because they have not +been washed long enough. They should be washed in running water an +hour. If running water is not convenient soak the plate for two +hours, changing the water several times. The yellow stains may +sometimes be removed by soaking the negative for a short time in a +solution of one ounce sulphite of soda and nine ounces water, to +which a few drops of sulphuric acid have been added. Sir Harry +also asks what toning solution to use with the plain paper +described in Nos. 796 and 803. The combined toning solution used +for aristo paper is the best solution for the plain paper. It +works quickly, and gives soft clear tones.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Sir Knight William Kelsey</span> asks if a combined toning and fixing +solution can be prepared for aristo-type paper—how long negatives +and prints should be washed in running water—and what use is made +of hyposulphite of soda and alum in developing negatives. A +combined toning solution for aristo may be bought ready prepared, +or one can prepare it at home. A formula comes with each package +of paper, and half the quantity given is enough to prepare at one +time, unless one has a large number of prints to tone. +Hyposulphite of soda and alum are used for fixing the negative +after developing. The hypo can be used for fixing without the +addition of the alum. The alum hardens and clears the film, and is +good to use in warm weather to prevent the frilling of the film.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Sir Knight George H. Benzon, Jun</span>., Philadelphia, Pa., asks for the +best solution for fixing plates. A solution of 4 ounces water and +1 ounce of hyposulphite of soda is the formula used by the editor +of this column both in warm and cold weather. In warm weather the +tray containing the fixing solution is set in a pan containing +pieces of ice, which prevents the frilling or softening of the +film. A formula for a fixing solution with soda and alum is given +in No. 808, answer to Sir Knight Frederick Kopper.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Sir Knights D. G. Stanbrough</span>, <span class="smcap">A. Smith</span>, <span class="smcap">Harlow Brown</span>, and <span class="smcap">Lady +Florence Crane</span> all ask for a good formula for a toning solution, +but neither one says for what kind of paper. The formulas for +toning baths are very numerous, and different chemicals are used +for different sensitive papers. As aristo paper is at present a +very popular paper, we give the following standard, combining +toning and fixing bath for prints made on this paper: Water, 10 +ounces; hyposulphite of soda, 2 ounces; sulphocyanide of ammonium, +1/8 ounce; acetate of lead, 30 grains; nitrate of lead, 30 grains; +chloride of gold (neutral), 1 grain.</p> + +<p>This bath must be made up twenty-four hours before using, that it +may clear and settle. In preparing, add the ingredients in the +order named, dissolving each before adding another. Put the +prints, without washing, in this bath, one at a time, taking care +that no air bubbles form on the print, as they will leave spots on +the finished prints. The prints will turn at first a +yellowish-brown, then to a warm red, and finally to a rich brown. +Remove from the bath as soon as the desired tone is obtained. Wash +for one hour in running water. This bath keeps well, and by +multiplying each ingredient by four one can make four times the +quantity.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>FEED THEM PROPERLY</h3> + +<p>and carefully; reduce the painfully large percentage of infant +mortality. Take no chances and make no experiments in this very +important matter. 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Venezuela, Costa Rica, etc., only 10c.; 200 all dif. Hayti, +Hawaii, etc., only 50c. Ag'ts wanted at 50 per ct. com. List FREE!</p> + +<h4><b>C. A. Stegmann</b>, 2722 Eads Av., St. Louis, Mo.</h4> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p class="center"><b>50</b> var., all dif., 5c.; 12 var. Heligoland, 15c.; 6 var. Italy, 1858 to +1862, 5c.; 3 var. Hanover, 5c.; 35 var. C. American, 50c. Agents wanted.</p> + +<h4>F. W. MILLER, 904 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo.</h4> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p class="center"><b>100</b> all different, China, etc., 10c.; 5 Saxony, 10c.; 40 Spain, 40c.; 6 +Tunis, 14c.; 10 U. S. Revenues, 10c. Agts. wtd., 50% com.; '95 list +free.</p> + +<h4>CRITTENDEN & BORGMAN CO., Detroit. Mich.</h4> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p class="center"><b>100</b> varieties Chili, Japan, etc., 10 cts.; list free.</p> + +<h4>CARL YOUNG, 72 First Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.</h4> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p class="center"><b>5</b> VAR. FREE to all sending for my approval sheets at 50% dis. <b>C. B. +ANTISDALE</b>, Palmyra, N. J.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 192px;"> +<img src="images/ill_035.jpg" width="192" height="82" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>WONDER CABINET <b>FREE</b>. Missing Link Puzzle, Devil's Bottle, Pocket Camera, +Latest Wire Puzzle, Spook Photos, Book of Sleight of Hand, Total Value +60c. Sent free with Immense catalogue of 1000 Bargains for 10c. for +postage.</p> + +<h4>INGERSOLL & BRO., 65 Cortlandt Street N. Y.</h4> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/ill_036.jpg" width="500" height="72" alt="If afflicted with SORE EYES USE Dr. ISAAC THOMPSON'S EYE WATER" title="" /> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/ill_037.jpg" width="500" height="62" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<h2>HARPER'S PERIODICALS.</h2> + +<h4>Per Year:</h4> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'>HARPER'S MAGAZINE</td><td align='center'><i>Postage Free</i>,</td><td align='right'>$4.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>HARPER'S WEEKLY</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>4.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>HARPER'S BAZAR</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>4.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>HARPER'S ROUND TABLE</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>2.00</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p class="center"><i>Booksellers and Postmasters usually receive subscriptions. +Subscriptions sent direct to the publishers should be accompanied by +Post-office Money Order or Draft.</i></p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<h4>HARPER & BROTHERS, Franklin Square, N. Y</h4> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_614" id="Page_614">[Pg 614]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>Round Table Chapters.</h2> + +<p>No. 720.—The Nathan Hale Chapter, of Philadelphia. Pa. Blair Baker, +Thomas Bleint, Howard B. Rote. Section E, No. 5, Girard College, +Philadelphia.</p> + +<p>No. 721.—The Rugby Chapter, of New York city. Officers are N. J. Spiro, +W. W. Gleason, H. F. Small. Other members are R. Mantell, N. Marluff, F. B. +Engler, H. C. Moore, R. Heather, L. Peabody. Chapter address, H. F. +Small, 54 West 85th Street.</p> + +<p>No. 722.—The King Arthur Chapter, of Urbana, Ill. Its color is white, +and its emblem white rose and clover. Marjorie Forbes and Ethel Ricker, +Urbana.</p> + +<p>No. 723.—The Thespis Dramatic Chapter, of Chicago, Ill. Lola Lewis, +Laura Welch. Other members are Marie Rosenfield, Eleanor Lydon. Chapter +address, 4454 Oakenwald Avenue.</p> + +<p>No. 724.—The John Burroughs Chapter, of Winsted, Conn. Elizabeth +Kennard, Ruth E. Whiting. Other members are Mabel Churchill, Grace A. +Smith, Grace and Mary Kennard. It is a natural history Chapter, and +devotes spare moments to the study of birds, trees, and flowers. Ruth E. +Whiting, Winsted.</p> + +<p>No. 725.—The Lincoln Chapter, of Glasgow, Mont. Roy E. Hall, Wallace +Kelleson. John Sherry; Walter Fryburg, Glasgow.</p> + +<p>No. 726.—The Margaret Sangster Chapter, of Germania, N. J. Augusta +Guenther, Christine and Julia Gaupp; Christine Gaupp, Germania.</p> + +<p>No. 727.—The Frances H. Burnett Chapter, of Minneapolis, Minn. It is +organized for the encouragement of goodly fellowship and improvement. It +desires to communicate with Knights and Ladies of the Round Table living +in Minneapolis. Its officers are Fred H. Stevens, Lottie Kluge, Myrtle +Jones; Florence Kimball, 3600 Bloomington Avenue.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>Lovers of Play Journalism.</h2> + +<p>Odd, isn't it, how everybody loves to see what he writes in print? The +oldest editor in America is not free from this vanity, or whatever one +may call it. So young persons who play at making small papers are in +good company. Besides, they are engaged in what affords them experience +they can get in no other way. Three excellent amateur papers reach the +Table: the <i>Amateur Collector</i>, R. T. Hale and F. W. Beale, editors and +publishers, 23 Federal Street, Newburyport, Mass.; <i>Our Young People</i>, +Robinson Bros. & Co., Box 255, Brunswick, Me.; and the <i>Little Magnet</i>, +Louis O. Brosie, editor, 3405 Butler Street, Pittsburg, Pa. All three +are splendid examples of the editor's and printer's "arts." Here are +some members who are interested in journalism, want sample copies, and +can contribute morsels: Waldemar Young, 174 C Street, Salt Lake City, +Utah; J. T. Delano, Jun., 12 White Street, Newport R. I.; James F. +Bowen, 36 St. James Avenue, Boston, Mass.; and Samuel T. Bush, 1104 East +15th Street, East Oakland, Cal.</p> + +<p>R. C. Megrue asks what it costs to start and run a small paper. That +depends on how large it is, and whether you have a press of your own. +The cost is considerable per copy if you go to a regular +printing-office, because the edition is rarely above two or three +hundred copies. The charge in one case we know of was $7 per hundred. +Will not R. T. Hale kindly give us a morsel on the subject? Louis O. +Brosie and Clement F. or Arthur L. Robinson may give us morsels too. +Please tell the Table about the cost, size, and mention some of the +other difficulties. Never mind the fun of the thing. Pleasures take care +of themselves.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>What a Copyright Is.</h2> + +<p>A copyright, dear sir Harry, is a legal right to a copy. Suppose you and +your friend Delano, four doors away, should publish a book that proved +as popular as—well, let us say <i>Trilby</i>, or <i>Ben-Hur</i>, or <i>Uncle Tom's +Cabin</i> did. If you send out a few copies and put upon them no legal +proprietary mark, other persons seeing the demand could and would take +your work, make copies of it, sell them, pocket the money, and give you +nothing for what perhaps cost you a great deal of effort. If, however, +you observe the legal forms, and your book proves saleable, other +persons are prevented from making additional copies. Those who want +copies must buy them from you. The legal form is very simple. Before you +publish the book, paper, print, or whatever it is, you mail two copies +to the Librarian of Congress, Washington, with $1. He returns to you a +paper, duly signed, setting forth the fact that for a certain number of +years that article belongs to you. You state this fact on each copy +published, and then the profit is yours, and the law protects you in it.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>Some South African Birds.</h2> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Following the example of other members of the Round Table, I +thought I would write and tell you about some of our birds.</p> + +<p>My brothers and I have just been talking about the blue hawk. It +is not a particularly large bird, and is grayish-blue in color. It +is comparatively harmless, its chief prey being rats and mice. Its +nest looks like a pile of sticks roughly laid together, but at the +bottom of the nest it is very soft. This is the description my +little cousin gives of its eggs: "If you were to take a pure white +egg and rub it all over with blood, leaving a few white specks, it +would be just like a blue-hawk's egg." In shape it is round, and +the color is really a dirty red. The bird's call sounds very much +like that of a cross fretful baby.</p> + +<p>Another peculiar bird here is the hammerhop. It is a large brown +bird, and has a crest upon its head which looks like a hammer, +hence the name. It preys upon the frogs. It makes a tremendous +nest in the shape of a hut on the top of a high rock. I am told +that it plasters the nest on the inside.</p> + +<p>One of our prettiest birds is the gilded cuckoo or diedrich. The +color of its back is green, and looks as if a lot of bronze dust +had been sprinkled on it. Its breast is white spotted with brown. +Like other cuckoos, it lays its eggs in other birds' nests. The +color of the eggs is pure white. It has a very musical +call—"dee-dee-dee-diedrich."</p> + +<p>The aasvogel is a species of vulture. It is of a dirty white +color, and has no feathers at all on its neck. Almost as soon as +an animal dies the sky is darkened by aasvogels flying to prey +upon the body. The leader or king perches upon it first, while his +followers sit round waiting until he is finished. He claims the +eyes as his portion, as a rule. As soon as he has satisfied his +hunger he flies away, leaving his followers to have their share. +The aasvogel builds his nest of sticks on the top of some +inaccessible krautz (precipice). The eggs are white, I believe, +spotted with brown. I would like to correspond with Ladies of the +Round Table in different parts of the world.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 32em;"><span class="smcap">Isma Fincham</span>.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 32em;"><span class="smcap">Roydon, Queenstown, Cape Colony, South Africa</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>Do Your Rabbits Ever Drink?</h2> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Mr. Chase says rabbits drink. I think there are two sides to that +question. I know a boy who has a dozen rabbits and not one ever +drinks. I have two and neither ever drink. Another friend had two +that he kept seven years. They drank milk, and, at rare times, +water. I believe that rabbits can be trained either way. What is +the experience of others?</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 32em;"><span class="smcap">Victor R. Gage</span>.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 32em;"><span class="smcap">Vineland</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>A Florida Gopher.</h2> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>A Florida gopher is very different from those we read about as +living out West. In shape and size he is nearly like a common +fresh-water turtle, with this difference; he lives on land. The +gopher has a very hard shell covering his entire body except the +head and feet. His front feet are nearly like a turtle's, with +four or five claws, but very hard. They must of necessity be hard, +for this animal burrows very deep in this hard, clay ground. His +hind feet are round, with a flat bottom, four to five claws on +each, evidently made for pushing when walking or burrowing. They +look like a miniature elephant's foot.</p> + +<p>His head is also very much like a turtle's. When alarmed he draws +his head and feet into his shell and remains quiet. He is a very +peaceful animal. I have never known one to bite anybody nor +anything else. The gopher lives in the ground, burrowing a +molelike passage several hundred feet long. There is no use trying +to dig for one. It would take a week of the hardest kind of work +to reach the bottom of his tunnel.</p> + +<p>He comes out every day about noon for his meals. He eats grass, +weeds, clover, etc., for his regular meals; but when he finds a +farm with pease, beans, and other vegetables, unless he is +discovered in time he will do a great deal of damage, for he eats +such things voraciously. In raising their young the female lays +from five to six eggs in the dirt she has thrown out when digging +her tunnel. She buries them, and in a few weeks hatches out a +great number of the cutest little things you ever saw. They do not +stay with their mother, but go immediately to forming a little +burrow for themselves, which is from five to six feet deep. They +can live a long time without any food whatever. Their flesh is +also eatable, tasting somewhat like chicken. May I write again?</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 32em;"><span class="smcap">Harry R. Whitcomb</span>.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 32em;"><span class="smcap">Umatilla, Fla</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>Certainly you may write again.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>Blackberries Nearly the Year Round.</h2> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Down here we have a great variety of fruit. We have blackberries +nearly all the year round. They commence in March and last until +about the end of November. All are what we call wild in the +States. Indians peddle them in big baskets on their backs. They +are a great deal smaller than yours, and can only be eaten when +cooked. I would like to exchange Mexican postage and revenue +stamps with some Knights of the Round Table.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 32em;"><span class="smcap">Robert L. Miller, Jun</span>.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 32em;">P. O. Box 319, <span class="smcap">Mexico City, Mexico</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>Mounting Paper Money.</h2> + +<p>A California member asks how to fix paper money so that it may be +examined without having to take it out of envelopes each time. There are +two ways of mounting your specimens. The first and most difficult is to +take very stiff paper and make a leaf with an opening of the exact size, +like the opening in a photograph album leaf. Mucilage the tiniest edge +all around, and press till thoroughly dry.</p> + +<p>The other way is to cover the four corners, but this prevents the back +from being seen. An ideal way would be to have two specimens—one to +mount one side front, the other the other side. Rare manuscripts are +mounted according to the first method, and then the heavy albumlike +leaves are bound into a book.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>Want Corner.</h2> + +<p>Do you live in Chateaugay, N. Y.? Please favor Blanche French, West +Dedham, Mass., with some account of the place, its size, location, and +any interesting information. She will be most grateful. Hubert B. +Stephens is the new secretary of the Bollman Chapter, and his address is +Box 274, Sharpsburg, Pa. It is a corresponding, stamp, and botany club +with ten-cent fee and five-cent dues. Of course it wants to hear from +anybody interested. S. J. Tucker, 2818 Mary Street, Pittsburg, Pa., +wants to find old copies of <i>Notes and Queries</i>. Have you any? He will +reward you if you write him.</p> + +<p>The Benjamin Harrison Chapter, of Lee, Mass., wants suggestions how to +make its meetings interesting. It also wants correspondents. Won't you +write? Ernest A. Chaplin, Somerset East, Cape Colony, South Africa, +writes to the Table: "There is a beautiful mountain just outside our +town, and on it a place called 'Rabbit Rock.'" Sir Ernest says he +collects stamps, and has many rare ones to trade.</p> + +<p>The fee for admission to the Thaddeus Stevens Chapter, 910 North Broad +Street, Philadelphia, is ten cents, and it wants members, both resident +and non-resident. By mistake we announced the fee as $1. The Sylvia +Chapter was prompt to give us the asked-for facts about it. Its +president is Mary B. Yohn, 5813 Jackson Street, Wissinoming, +Philadelphia; secretary, A. Grace Owen. One of its members, Harriett O. +Bender, wants to trade flowers. Address care the president. Will the +Sylvia's president tell us how its meetings are made interesting? We +wish to publish the information.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_615" id="Page_615">[Pg 615]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/ill_038.jpg" width="300" height="82" alt="Ivory Soap" title="" /> +</div> + +<p class="center">You have noticed the disagreeable odor of clothes just from the wash. +That's the soap. Cheap soaps do not rinse out. Ivory Soap rinses +readily, leaving the clothes sweet, clean and white.</p> + +<h4><span class="smcap">The Procter & Gamble Co., Cin'ti</span>.</h4> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/ill_039.jpg" width="400" height="114" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<h2>CHILDREN GROW</h2> + +<p>healthy—grow happy—grow rosy cheeked and bright eyed, on Hires' +Rootbeer. This great health-giving temperance drink should be kept in +every home. It will benefit and delight every member of the family from +the baby up, and prove a most delicious thirst satisfying beverage for +callers. It's good all the time—morning, noon and night. Get the +genuine</p> + +<h2>HIRES' Rootbeer</h2> + +<p class="center">A 25 cent package makes 5 gallons. Sold everywhere.</p> + +<h4>The Chas. E. Hires Co., Philadelphia.</h4> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>MONARCH</h2> + +<h3>King of all Bicycles.</h3> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/ill_040.jpg" width="200" height="194" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p class="center">TRADE-MARK.</p> + +<p class="center">Five Styles. Weights, 18 to 25 Pounds.</p> + +<h4>Prices, $85 and $100.</h4> + +<h3>MONARCH CYCLE CO.</h3> + +<h4>Factory and Main Office, Lake and Halsted Sts., Chicago.</h4> + +<h4>Eastern Branch: 79 Reade St. & 97 Chambers St., N.Y.</h4> + +<h4>The <span class="smcap">C. F. Guyon Co</span>., Ltd., Managers.</h4> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/ill_041.jpg" width="200" height="179" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<h2><span class="u">CARD PRINTER</span> <b>FREE</b></h2> + +<p class="center">Sets any name in one minute; prints 500 cards an hour. YOU can make +money with it. A font of pretty type, also Indelible Ink, Type Holder, +Pads and Tweezers. Best Linen Marker; worth $1.00. Sample mailed FREE +for 10c. stamps for postage on outfit and large catalogue of 1000 +Bargains.</p> + +<h4>R. H. Ingersoll & Bro. 65 Cortlandt St. N.Y. City</h4> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/ill_042.jpg" width="500" height="72" alt="If afflicted with SORE EYES USE Dr. ISAAC THOMPSON'S EYE WATER" title="" /> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 250px;"> +<img src="images/ill_043.jpg" width="250" height="88" alt="The KOMBI Camera—$3.50" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/ill_044.jpg" width="200" height="136" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p class="center">Carry in pocket. Takes 25 perfect pictures in one loading—re-loading +costs 20c. Ask your dealer for it, or send for free booklet "All About +the Kombi."</p> + +<h4><span class="smcap">Alfred C. Kemper</span>,</h4> + +<h4>Branches: London, Berlin. 132-134 Lake Street, Chicago</h4> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p class="center"><b>DEAFNESS & HEAD NOISES CURED</b> by my <b>INVISIBLE</b> Tubular Cushions. Have +helped more to good <b>HEAR</b>ing than all other devices combined. Whispers +<b>HEAR</b>d. Help ears as glasses do eyes. <b>F. Hiscox</b>, 853 B'dway, N.Y. Book of +proofs <b>FREE</b></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/ill_045.jpg" width="400" height="65" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<h4>The Eight Numbers of the Franklin Square Song Collection contain</h4> + +<h1>1600</h1> + +<h4>of the Choicest Old and New Songs and Hymns in the Wide World.</h4> + +<p class="center">Fifty Cents per Number in paper; Sixty Cents in substantial Board +binding; One Dollar in Cloth. The Eight Numbers also bound in two +volumes at $3.00 each. Address Harper & Brothers, New York.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/ill_046.jpg" width="400" height="65" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_616" id="Page_616">[Pg 616]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>THE TRICK BICYCLE-RIDER AND THE OBSTINATE BULL-DOG.</h2> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 377px;"> +<img src="images/ill_047.jpg" width="377" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'>Though well he rides and does the trick,</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The bull-dog's pace he finds too quick;</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 372px;"> +<img src="images/ill_048.jpg" width="372" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'>On yonder limb he'll get a hold,</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>And leave the bull-dog in the cold.</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 369px;"> +<img src="images/ill_049.jpg" width="369" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'>He swings himself high in the air,</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>And takes his bicycle up there;</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 369px;"> +<img src="images/ill_050.jpg" width="369" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'>Then with his pump he'll downward slip,</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>And let the bull-dog get a grip.</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 369px;"> +<img src="images/ill_051.jpg" width="369" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'>The bull-dog never will let go.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Though he's pumped full of air, and so</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 365px;"> +<img src="images/ill_052.jpg" width="365" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'>When he's as full as he can be,</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The next thing happens as you see.</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>HELPFUL HINTS FOR BICYCLISTS.</h2> + +<p>1. A good bicyclist is careful of his roads, therefore when taking a +header be careful not to hit the road too hard with your forehead. You +might make a dent in the pavement.</p> + +<p>2. In falling off your wheel do not fall on both sides at once. Failure +to observe this rule will result in dividing you against yourself.</p> + +<p>3. Always be courteous. If a trolley-car has the right of way over the +track do not dispute with it. A boy in Massachusetts who broke this rule +broke his right arm and his cyclometer at the same time.</p> + +<p>4. Be cautious. In riding from New York to Brooklyn keep to the +driveway. Don't try to wheel over the suspension-cable. Yon might slip +and fall into the smoke-stack of a passing ferry-boat.</p> + +<p>5. Keep your lamp lit when riding at night. The boy who thought he was +safe because he had a parlor-match in his pocket came home with a spoke +in his wheel that didn't belong there.</p> + +<p>6. Do not be rough with ice-carts and furniture trucks. If you must run +into one of them do it as gently and tenderly as if it were a +baby-carriage.</p> + +<p>7. A merciful rider is merciful to his wheel, so do not force a bicycle +beyond the point of its endurance, unless you want to walk back with +your wheel on your shoulders.</p> + +<p>8. Keep cool. If in the course of a ride you find yourself in a tight +place, with a skittish horse to the left and a steep ravine to the +right, and a bull-dog directly to the fore, take ravine. You'll go into +it, anyhow, and if you take it alone without dragging the dog or the +horse after you your chances will be improved.</p> + +<p>9. Never use spurs on the pneumatic tires of your wheel. The use of +spurs in this manner is likely to leave your bicycle in a winded +condition. Spurs are not comfortable, either, in case of a throw.</p> + +<p>10. Do not be stubborn with a balky wheel. If the front wheel gets in a +rut going east, and the hind wheel in another going west, dismount and +argue the matter standing, unless you are tired, and want to lie down by +the road-side without making the effort to do so unassisted.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>CHANGED HIS MIND.</h2> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">I didn't like to take my bath,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Until one summer morning bright</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">I made believe I was a whale,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">And now I think it's out o' sight.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>A FACETIOUS VISITOR.</h2> + +<p>"See yat 'ittle boy over zare?" said Mabel. "Yat's my 'ittle buzzer, an' +his name is Nat."</p> + +<p>"Indeed?" said the visitor. "Well, I think gnat is a very good name for +a buzzer."</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>A SINGULAR DRESS.</h2> + +<p>"My big brother belongs to the Seventh Regiment," said little Nell, +proudly, "an', my, how noble he looks when he's all dressed up in his +unicorn!"</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>A LOST TUNE.</h2> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">I've heard a German band play tunes,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">I've heard 'most every other thing;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">But one tune I have never heard,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Is that which boiling kettles sing.</span><br /> +</p> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Round Table, June 11, 1895, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S ROUND TABLE, JUNE 11, 1895 *** + +***** This file should be named 33010-h.htm or 33010-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/3/0/1/33010/ + +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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June 11, 1895, by Various + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Harper's Round Table, June 11, 1895 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: June 28, 2010 [EBook #33010] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S ROUND TABLE, JUNE 11, 1895 *** + + + + +Produced by Annie McGuire + + + + + + + + +[Illustration: HARPER'S ROUND TABLE] + +Copyright, 1895, by HARPER & BROTHERS. All Rights Reserved. + + * * * * * + +PUBLISHED WEEKLY. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1895. FIVE CENTS A COPY. + +VOL. XVI.--NO. 815. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. + + * * * * * + + + + +[Illustration] + +SAVED BY A CARCASS. + +A WHALEMAN'S YARN. + +BY W. J. HENDERSON. + + +"Han'some," said Farmer Joe, having stretched himself on the shady side +of the forecastle-deck and set his pipe going, "it 'pear's to me that +it's about time we heard what happened to you after you got back to your +own ship." + +"You mean on my whaling voyages, I suppose," said Handsome. + +"That's a right peert guess," responded Farmer Joe. + +Handsome blew a whirling cloud of smoke that went swiftly out to leeward +under the swelling foot of the fore-staysail. He watched it in a +meditative manner until it disappeared, and then said: + +"I was pretty glad to get back to my own ship, the _Ellen Burgee_, +because, in spite of the fact that they treated us very well aboard the +_Two Cousins_, you see I had a pretty good lay on the _Ellen_, and I +didn't want to lose it. Of course nobody ever gets rich by going to +sea, but a fellow likes to stick fast to all he gets. Well, we didn't +stay very long in the bay in company with the _Two Cousins_. We got to +sea again, and laid our course for a bit of cruising-ground away to the +southward, where our Captain said he believed the whaling was good. The +voyage down there was as stupid as a Sunday-afternoon sermon in hot +weather, and for the matter of that so was the cruising for two days, +because we didn't raise a single spout. On the third day, however, we +were gladdened by the welcome cry of 'There she blows!' There were half +a dozen whales in sight, and the old man had great hopes of getting at +least two of them. But that was not to be our luck that day. The first +mate got fast to one big fellow, and killed him, but the rest of us +returned to the ship empty-handed. + +"Now I haven't told you anything about what's done with a whale after +you get him; but as this story depends on that, I'll have to explain. +The first job is to get the whale alongside the ship." + +"Why not sail the ship alongside the whale?" asked one of the listeners. + +"That ain't wholly practicable," answered Handsome, "because you might +run into him and sink him. The ship does sail as close as she dares, but +the boats must do their share. Two boats take the ends of a light line, +with a weight slung on the bight so as to sink it, and they pass this +under the whale's tail and around his 'small,' as the slimmest part of +him is called. By means of this line, the ends being passed aboard the +ship, a chain is run in a slip-noose around the 'small,' and Mr. Whale +is hauled alongside and kept there. Next comes the business of +cutting-in, which means cutting off the blubber and bone that are +wanted. Stages, such as ships' painters use, are slung over the side of +the vessel, and the first-class cutters, generally the ship's officers, +stand on these stages with long-handled spades. The cutting-in begins at +the place where the backbone joins the head, and the first strip taken +off there is called the blanket piece. The pieces of blubber are hauled +up with tackles, and these rip them off while the spades cut. It's a +long and tough job, and it makes a new hand pretty sick. But it's +child's play to what comes next, which is the trying-out. Say, I'd +rather be a green hand again than have another job at trying-out." + +"Well, tell us about it, anyhow," said Farmer Joe. + +"It ain't any use to make a long yarn of that," continued Handsome. "The +try-works, as they call them, are a sort of Dutch oven, built of bricks, +and situated amidships. A couple of big iron pots stand on top of the +oven, and the blubber, minced up, is put into them. You start a fire in +the oven, and that boils out the oil, which is ladled out into casks, +and then all hands turn to and pick out the pieces of fat and scraps so +as to have nothing put pure oil. Well, to heave ahead with the yarn, we +had our whale alongside overnight, and the next morning we started at +cutting-in. About the time we'd got ready for trying-out, and started +the fires, the breeze began to freshen up, and it looked rather dirty up +to windward. The Captain said we must shake a leg with the trying-out. + +"'Boys,' says he, 'we got to boil this oil with stu'ns'ls set, because +before we get it done we'll be under a close-reefed maintops'l.' + +"Well, bless you, he hadn't much more than got the words out of his +mouth than the mast-head fellow lets out a yell: + +"'There she blows! And there she breaches!' + +"Now it wouldn't make any difference to a whaler if he thought the world +was a-going to come to an end in ten minutes, he'd lower away if he saw +a spout. So the Captain gave orders for two boats to get under way in +chase of the new whales. One of the boats was the one I belonged to, and +the next thing I knew I was sitting on my thwart. The sail was hoisted, +and we went scudding down to leeward at a rattling gait. Say, it wasn't +altogether agreeable to sit in that boat and notice the width and height +of the sea that was getting up. But we soon forgot all about it in the +excitement of going on. + +"'It's a-going to be a tough job getting this whale alongside,' says one +of the crew. + +"'Wait till we get him first,' says Bacon. + +"Well, it was our chance, and Bacon slung the iron into him with a vim. +Up went flukes and down went whale. He soon came up and began to swim to +windward at a fearful speed. The seas thundered against the bow of our +boat, and great sheets of water came tumbling inboard. + +"'Bale there, bale!' yelled Bacon, 'or the boat'll fill and sink!' + +"You can bet we didn't need to be told twice. We hadn't fairly got +started when the whale sounded, and we could tell by the trend of the +line that he was coming back toward the boat. + +"'Look out!' shouted Bacon. + +"The next second the brute shot clear out of the water not fifty feet +off the starboard beam of our boat, and raised such a wave when he fell +back into the sea that he nearly swamped us. + +"'For goodness' sake," says one of the men, 'cut the line and let him +go.' + +"'We'll never get back to the ship alive,' says another; 'look at the +sea. It's blowing a gale.' + +"Well, it was blowing in a bit of a squall just then, but Bacon's blood +was up, and he was bound to have that whale. + +"'Pull me up to him!' he shouted. + +"We obeyed orders, and Bacon drove the lance right into his life. + +"'Starn all!' he yelled, and we didn't get out of the way a second too +quick, for the monster went into his flurry, and beat the sea into an +acre of foam with his immense flukes. However, there he was dead enough, +and in the mean time the ship had worked down to leeward of us, and was +close at hand. It was a pretty troublesome piece of work to pass the +line around his small in such a nasty sea; we managed to do it after +four or five trials, and he was hauled alongside the ship just as it +began to grow dark. Now I tell you what, lads, it was a very uncommon +sight. There was the ship beginning to roll uneasily in the rising sea, +with a blazing, smoking furnace amidships, looking for all the world as +if she was on fire, and a whale on each side of her. The boats were +hauled up, and then the Captain looked about him. + +"'Cut the old whale adrift,' says he; 'we can't tow the two of them in +this weather, and we've got about the best of his oil.' + +"So we cut the carcass adrift, and it went rolling off down to leeward. +It hadn't got fifty yards from the ship before all the water around it +was black with sharks' fins, and the next instant a dozen of these +wolves of the sea appeared, leaping and thrashing the water in their mad +struggles to get at the remains of the whale. They seemed like regular +demons, so fiercely did they attack the carcass, ripping away the +remaining shreds of flesh, and smashing the bones in their powerful +jaws. In five minutes the body was torn to pieces and the sharks +disappeared, leaving us to imagine what would have happened to some of +us if a boat had happened to capsize in the chase. Well, the gale +increased in strength, and the sea rose more and more. The Captain +didn't want to lose the whale, so he hove the ship to with the dead +monster under our lee, where he rode pretty well, except that once in a +while when we rolled heavily he would come up against the side of the +ship with a thump that threatened to shake the timbers apart. However, +the Captain said he was going to hang on till he found it was a case of +life or death. All of a sudden we were startled by a terrible cry, + +"'Fire!' + +"Every man looked in the direction from which the cry came, and we saw a +small but lively flame stealing up near the foot of the mainmast. + +"'It's from the try-works!' shouted Bacon. + +"Sure enough the gale had taken up every one's attention so that we all +forgot about the fire in the try-works. It hadn't been put out, and now +a coal or a spark or something had fallen on the deck, and the damage +was done." + +"'Why didn't you put it out?' asked one of the listeners. + +"Put it out!" exclaimed Handsome: "why, man alive, don't you know the +condition a whale ship is in when trying-out is going on? She was +simply afloat with whale oil. The deck was running with it; every plank +and bit of loose rigging was soaked with it. Put it out! Why, we did all +that mortal man could think of. The Captain ordered us to get up all the +tarpaulins and spare canvas, and try to smother it, but, bless you, as +soon as we threw them over the fire they soaked up the oil and began to +burn. We fought the fire with the energy of desperate men, for we knew +that if we had to take to the boats the chances of our ever seeing land +again in such a sea would be pretty slim. Finally the Captain said he +would try a desperate scheme. As yet the flames were around the decks +and lower masts. What he proposed to do was to let the ship fall off +into the trough of the sea in hopes that a big wave would sweep her deck +and drown out the fire. Everything was made ready, and then with a face +full of sorrow he gave the order to cut loose the carcass of the whale. +He was afraid to let it hang there with the ship broadside on. We cut it +loose, and then he ordered the helm to be put up, and all hands to take +to the rigging. We went up with a good deal of misgiving. The ship fell +off into the trough and wallowed there. The seas broke over her here and +there, but not in sufficient volume to drown the fire, which was gaining +headway all the time, and was now beginning to send tongues of flame up +the rigging, as if in a mad attempt to drive us poor fellows out of our +refuge. + +"'It won't do,' says the Captain; 'we must lay down, lads, and take to +the boats.' + +"We all started for the deck, when suddenly Bacon uttered a fearful cry: + +"'Look! Look!' + +"He was pointing to windward, and looking in that direction, we all saw +a tremendous wave rolling down upon the ship with the speed of an +express train. We stopped where we were, and clung with an intense grip +to the rigging. The wave came. It pitched the vessel up as if she were a +chip of wood, and flung her over on her beam ends. There was a crashing +and rending of wood, and several wild shrieks from the men as the +foremast went by the board. There were half a dozen fellows on it, and +they were plunged into that raging sea. I never saw them again. The rest +of us were hanging on as best we could, when the very next wave that +came put out the fire sure enough, for it turned the _Ellen Burgee_ +bottom up." + +Handsome paused for a moment, as if overcome by the dreadful +recollection. + +"Well," he continued, "when she went over, I let go of the rigging and +threw myself into the sea. I made up my mind it was all over with me, +yet it turned out that this was not to be the case. I was buried under a +ton or two of foaming water, but I came to the surface again, and found +myself a long distance off from the overturned ship, which was fast +settling in the water. I struck out, as a man will even when he doesn't +know what use it is, and kept myself afloat for several minutes, the +waves all the time driving me to leeward. Suddenly I saw a dark mass +tumbling on the seas a short distance away. I thought it must be one of +our boats that had got loose when the ship went over, and so I struck +out for it. I was growing weak, blind, and dazed in the heavy seas, when +I was caught up by a wave and flung squarely on top of the floating +object. I grabbed wildly, and caught hold of something hard and slimy. I +clung to it, though, and to my great amazement I found I was hanging to +the flipper of the dead whale. You know they float on their sides when +dead, with one flipper up in the air and the other under water. Well, it +wasn't much of a life-raft, as you may well suppose, but a man in such a +fix as I was will take anything he can get. I hung on there all right, +the dead whale jumping and tumbling under me like a live fish. Toward +morning the wind shifted, and at sunrise the gale broke. The sea began +to go down right away, but a great swell was running. When the sun got +fairly up I realized what a terrible position I was in. The heat was +intense, and the gases from the carcass nearly overwhelmed me. But that +was nothing. The air was filled with the discordant cries of hungry +sea-birds. They swooped down from every direction, and pecked at the +carcass. They beat at me with their wings, and acted as if they knew I +was a doomed man, and the sooner they could drive me into the sea the +better for me. But I fought them off, and sitting with one leg on each +side of the flipper and clasping it with one arm, I clung to my dreadful +life-buoy. + +"And now came a new horror. Sharks appeared and began to fight around +the whale, snapping and biting and tearing off pieces of the flesh. I +realized that if this continued my life-buoy would be destroyed; but I +was helpless. Then thirst began to torture me. All day long I tossed on +that dead whale, with the birds and the sharks around me. At nightfall a +gentle shower came, and by holding my mouth open I managed to relieve my +thirst a little. As soon as it became dark the birds and the sharks left +me, and presently, utterly exhausted, I fell asleep, leaning against the +flipper. I remember that I was quite conscious of the danger of falling +off my perch into the sea and drowning; but I didn't care. How long I +slept I do not know. It must have been five or six hours. I was awakened +by a heavy shock, and I found myself plunged into the sea. Involuntarily +I uttered a scream for help. + +"'Great Scott! there's a man,' I heard a voice say. 'Hang on there, lad. +Catch this.' + +"Plump came a circular white life-buoy into the sea, luckily falling +within my reach. A few minutes later a boat had been lowered away, and I +learned that my dead whale had been run down in the darkness by the ship +_Full Moon_, bound for Liverpool from Hong-Kong. And so I was taken to +England, with a pretty clear determination in my head never to go +whaling again." + + + + +JUNE FLOWERS. + + + Here and there a daisy? + And now and then a clover? + And once a week a buttercup, + And so the whole land over? + + A rose within the garden? + A lily in the sun? + Does dear old Mother Nature + Count flowers one by one? + + No; daisies by the acre, + And clovers millionfold, + The meadows pink with blushing, + The pastures white and gold. + + And roses, like the children, + Abloom at every door, + And buttercups as countless + As the sand upon the shore. + + Dear Mother Nature scatters + Her flowers on road-side edge; + She carpets every forest, + And curtains every ledge. + + And then she sets us dancing + To such a merry tune, + For all the world is laughing, + And, darlings, this is June! + + * * * * * + +"Harry, here are three apples; now suppose I wanted you to divide them +equally between James, John, and yourself, how would you do it.'" + +"I'd give them one and keep the others." + +"Why, how do you make that out?" + +"Well, you see, it would be one for those two, and one for me, _too_." + + + + +STORIES OF OUR GOVERNMENT. + +WHAT OUR REPRESENTATIVES DO. + +BY THE HONORABLE HENRY CABOT LODGE, + +UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM MASSACHUSETTS. + + +[Illustration: HON. C. F. CRISP, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE.] + +It is not easy to describe in a short article an average day in the +House of Representatives. The great days are exceptional, and a single +historic scene gives no idea of the every-day work of the House. +Moreover, if history is made on the days when excitement runs high, the +business of carrying on the government is done every day, and it is +about the latter that you wish to learn. By way of beginning, let me say +a word about the place where this work is done. The House of +Representatives holds its sessions in the southern wing of the Capitol +at Washington. The House is very large, right angled, and rigid, with +little ornament, and without beauty of proportion. The walls go up for +about fifteen feet, and from that point the galleries slant back until +they reach the next floor of the building. The roof is a vast expanse of +glass, with the arms of each State painted on the square panels. The +general effect is grayness of color and a size which can be measured in +acres better than in feet. Against the southern wall is placed a high +white marble dais or tribune, where the Speaker or presiding officer +sits. Below the Speaker's desk and in descending tiers, also of white +marble, sit the clerks of the House and the official reporters. Facing +the Speaker, and ranged in a semicircle, are 360 desks, with a +corresponding number of chairs, which are, or ought to be, occupied by +the 350 Representatives and the four Territorial delegates. + +Such is the place, but it would require a volume, and a very +uninteresting one, too, to explain the machinery used in transacting the +business for which this great hall is provided. Nevertheless, it is +possible, perhaps, to give you in a general way some idea of an ordinary +day's work in the lower branch of Congress. In theory, the House ought +to take up its calendars on each day and dispose of each article in its +order. But the great beauty of the calendars is that in practice they +are never taken up at all. + +How then, you will ask, is business done if the House never takes up the +list of measures prepared for its consideration? It is done by a system +of special rules. The Committee on Rules brings in a rule that the House +shall take up, let us say the tariff, on a certain day, shall debate it +a certain length of time, and shall then vote. This rule is adopted, the +bill selected is taken from the calendar, and everything else gives way +until the tariff is disposed of. Appropriation bills are privileged, +because they provide the money necessary to carry on the government, and +require no rule to be brought up. But all the other business of the +House is done practically under special rules; in other words, the +Committee on Rules selects out of the mass of business presented a small +portion which the House shall consider, and to that small selection all +the time of the House is devoted. + +Imagine, then, that the House as you watch it from the gallery has come +to the end of the morning hour, and has taken up the special order of +the day made for it by its Committee on Rules. If it is the first time +the subject has come up, the chairman of the committee making the report +opens the debate. In any event, when the business of the day is thus +laid before the House the debate begins. To any one who comes into the +House gallery for the first time, the scene on the floor is one of +apparently hopeless confusion. Members are reading, writing, talking, +and moving about the chamber. There is an incessant murmur and buzz of +conversation along the aisles and in the galleries. You who are looking +on see a member rise and begin to talk, sometimes quietly, more often +with great violence and excitement, not because he is really excited, +but because he wishes to be heard above the din. Your ears are not +accustomed to the noise, and you do not hear what is said. Still less +can you guess what it is all about, and yet business is not proceeding +by chance, and there are men on that confused floor who know exactly +what is happening, and how the business is going on. You may have been +unlucky in your day, and no measure of great interest being up, it may +seem as if it were useless to stay, but if you will be patient, and bear +with the confusion for the time, or perhaps come back another day, you +will have your reward. You will see the House reach an exciting point in +a debate, or some subject of great popular interest will come up, and +then a sharp contest will follow between different members, which will +be full of interest. + +[Illustration: AN EXCITING MOMENT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.] + +Instead of reading and writing and talking and moving about, you will +see the members gather about the man who is speaking and those who are +debating with him. Silence will come on the floor and in the galleries, +broken by bursts of applause, as one member makes a sharp point or +retorts quickly on his opponent. Nothing is more interesting than good +debate of this kind, when men who are fencing or sparring with their +wits instead of their hands. You will be surprised to see how easy it +now is to know what is going on. You will be glad that you came to the +gallery, for every wholesome-minded being likes to see a fair contest, +whether of brains or muscles, and incidentally you will see how we +English-speaking people have hammered out by discussion the laws under +which we live, and have gained the liberty we enjoy. On the other hand, +let us suppose that you are fortunate enough to get into the gallery on +a day of great debate, when set speeches are to be made by the leaders +on either side. A man arises near the middle of the House, a man whose +face is familiar to you, because you have seen it so often in the +illustrated papers, and all in a moment the House is hushed, and every +word that the speaker says falls distinctly upon your ear. Then, again, +you feel rewarded, for you are hearing a party leader speak and are +seeing a man about whom you have read. If it is the day upon which a +great debate closes, the last speeches are made by the two leaders of +the opposite sides, the galleries are crowded, but as every one is eager +to hear, there is no difficulty in catching every word. The leader of +the minority delivers his last assault upon the bill, the leader of the +majority replies to him, and then the Speaker of the House says: "The +hour having arrived at which the House has ordered that the debate be +closed, the vote will now be taken upon the bill and amendments." Then +comes the voting, a dreary process for everybody, for each roll-call +occupies half an hour, and when it is done the Speaker announces the +vote, and declares the bill passed or defeated as the case may be. If it +is then more than five o'clock one of the leaders of the majority moves +that the House adjourn, the Speaker declares the motion carried, and +then the House stands adjourned until the next morning at twelve +o'clock. + +Such in very rough outline is a day in the House of Representatives when +some subject which awakens differences spring up, or when a great debate +closes or some important bill is passed. But there are many other days +when no conclusion is reached, and still others which are consumed in +roll-calls and motions designed to waste time, and to stop all action. +If you chance to come on a day of that kind, the sooner you go away the +better for your own comfort. The members must stay, but you need not. + +It would, however, take a great deal more space than I have here to give +you a description of the various scenes which occur in the House of +Representatives, but the rough sketch which I have drawn may help you to +some idea of what happens in the great popular body which with the +Senate makes laws for the people of the United States. It is a good deal +better, however, that every American boy and girl should come to +Washington if they can possibly manage it, and try to learn from +observation what their government is, and how it is carried on. They +will have some dull hours if they pass many in the galleries of the +House of Representatives, but they may have some minutes of great +interest, which they will always be glad to remember, and they are +certain to go away with a greater ability to judge intelligently their +public men, and in this way be of better service themselves as American +citizens responsible for the government of their country. If you cannot +get to Washington, try to see your own Legislature in session, or your +own city and town government. You will learn a great deal that will be +useful to you when you come of age, and therefore responsible for your +vote or influence for the government of the United States, which is +always in the long-run what the people themselves make it. + + + + +THE LITTLE COLLECTOR. + + + I don't care much for the postage-stamps + Themselves--'tween me and you; + The fun I get collecting comes + From sticking 'em in with glue. + + + + +AN ENTERPRISING PHOTOGRAPHER. + + +The recent war between China and Japan, which now seems to be +practically over, fortunately, was watched by all the military and naval +men in the world with a great deal of interest, for it was the first +real war in which many of the modern inventions in war-ships and army +accoutrements were given a fair trial. To be sure, China had little that +was modern in her army and navy, though some of the ships of her navy +were of recent European build, and were manned by capable seamen and +good fighting-men. But the Japanese certainly did have many of the +modern inventions in their cruisers, and they made most effective use of +them. + +The correspondents of the great papers of the world, however, seem to +have suffered, and whether this is a development of modern warfare, or +because the Japanese and Chinese did not understand and appreciate their +position, does not appear to have been settled. At all events, the +correspondents from Japan and China, as well as those from European and +American countries, went about their always dangerous business at their +peril, and were in constant danger of being captured and hung or +murdered by either party. Some of these bright and daring men did lose +their lives there, and no one takes the trouble to sing a requiem over +them in verse or prose, but others, in spite of all the opposition, got +to and remained at the front, and succeeded in sending out accurate news +to their papers. + +[Illustration: PHOTOGRAPHER AT WORK.] + +It was one of these successful newspaper men, and a Japanese at that, +who originated the idea of using a balloon to help him get to the front, +as well as to keep him safely out of the reach of both contestants. He +procured a balloon, several, in fact--and had a peculiar metal +frame-work constructed, which held him firmly in place under the +balloon, and left his arms free, so that he could use them to write, or +to work a huge camera that was also attached and supported by the same +iron frame. By means of straps over his shoulders and about his body he +could keep himself moderately firm in his position, and his camera +reasonably stationary, except, of course, for the movements of the +balloon itself, which he could not regulate. + +Several times this correspondent was sent up in his balloon, and held by +an assistant with the help of a long rope far above houses, and even +hills, so that he could take photographs on his huge lens of the general +view of a battle, while he himself was either too far away or too +unimportant at the moment to the combatants to tempt them to fire upon +him. In this way he succeeded in securing some astonishing views. They +were, of course, very far removed from the scene of action, too far to +give much of the small details, but they presented a bird's-eye view of +the whole battle, which proved of great interest. Occasionally, because +of a sudden movement of the balloon, he "took" the sky or a distant +landscape instead of the raging battle beneath him, but these little +mistakes were insignificant when on being hauled down, he discovered two +or three views that showed charges of cavalry here, repulses of infantry +there, and smoke and strife, bursting shells and burning houses, +everywhere. + +Sometimes the photographer would go up in his camera-balloon without +being held to the earth by a rope, and then he might drift with the wind +over the battle-field, or quietly drift away without getting a chance to +"shoot." As a rule, however, calculations were pretty well made before +the rope was dropped, and then the balloon was allowed to float where it +would, with the comparative certainty that it would pass over, or nearly +over, the scene of action. + +Here is a chance for photographers who want to take new scenes and +original things with their cameras. The earth at a few hundred feet +distance would look like a big bowl covered with many little roofs, +laced with white roads, along which funny little animals would be seen +crawling along at a snail's pace. + + + + +OUR FLAG. + + + Fling it from mast and steeple, + Symbol o'er land and sea, + Of the life of a happy people, + Gallant and strong and free. + Proudly we view its colors, + Flag of the brave and true, + With the clustered stars and the steadfast bars, + The red, the white, and the blue. + + Flag of the fearless-hearted, + Flag of the broken chain, + Flag in a day-dawn started, + Never to pale or wane. + Dearly we prize its colors, + With the heaven light breaking through, + The clustered stars and the steadfast bars, + The red, the white, and the blue. + + Flag of the sturdy fathers, + Flag of the loyal sons, + Beneath its folds it gathers + Earth's best and noblest ones. + Boldly we wave its colors, + Our veins are thrilled anew; + By the steadfast bars, the clustered stars, + The red, the white, and the blue. + + MARGARET E. SANGSTER. + + * * * * * + +A wise old doctor, for the benefit of his health, travelled around the +country in a caravan, in which he lived, stopping for short periods at +the larger towns. He had a young lad for an assistant, who was more or +less quick and intelligent, but rather inclined to jump at conclusions. +The doctor taught him a little medicine whenever he could spare the +time, and he learned considerable, but diagnosis were to him still a +mystery, especially in some cases, when the wise old doctor had used his +eyes to detect the source of the illness. + +They were staying for a few days in the town of B----, and the doctor +had been in some demand, having at a previous visit secured a reputation +by some apparently marvellous cures. His young assistant accompanied him +on one occasion, when the doctor had pronounced the patient sick from +eating too many oysters. This puzzled the lad, and when they left the +house he asked his master how he knew the patient had been eating +oysters. "Very simple," his master replied, "I saw a lot of oyster +shells in the fireplace, and the answers to a few questions were all I +needed to make a diagnosis." + +One day, his master being away when a call came, he determined to answer +it, and see if he could diagnose the case. He returned shortly after, +and triumphantly told the doctor that the man was sick from eating too +much horse. + +"A horse, you stupid fool!" cried the irate doctor. "What do you mean?" + +"Why, master, it couldn't be anything else, because I saw a saddle and +stirrups under the bed." + + + + +A PLEASANT DISAPPOINTMENT. + +BY J. SANFORD BARNES, JUN. + + +I don't believe that Mr. Henry ever thought what a queer combination of +nicknames his son would have when he named him Thomas Richard. Some +called him "Tom," some "Dick," and others, instead of calling him by his +last name, Henry, changed that, too, to "Harry," so he became Tom, Dick, +and Harry rolled into one. + +Mr. Henry was a great sportsman, and many a time had Tom listened to his +father and one of his friends plan out a day's shooting. Tom had often +made his little plans, only to be carried out in his dreams. But at +last, one September evening, in his twelfth year, dreams could no longer +satisfy him. As he sat in his father's "den" after supper, looking for +the hundredth time through the book of colored sporting incidents and +game-birds, taking occasional long glances at the little sixteen-bore +which hung over his father's head, as he sat at his desk reading the +_Forest and Stream_, Tom was really developing a plan. He must go +shooting, and with a real gun of some kind. "Sling-shots" he was done +with; then he knew if he asked permission, what the answer would be, and +therefore he decided that his hunting-trip must be made "on the sly," +and this alone was one cause for the rather restless night which +followed. As he turned the pages of the big book he began to imagine +himself in the place of the tall man in the picture just taking a +partridge from his dog's mouth, and on the next page he was the short +thick-set man in brown hunting-coat walking up to his dogs, who were +"stiff" and "stanch" on a covey of quail, which in pictures you can +always see hiding in the clump of bushes. + +Now, Tom, Dick, and Harry had a friend, and that friend had a Flobert +rifle, and on that friend's willingness to lend he was counting +strongly. The game did not seem to worry him; he kept thinking of a +certain patch of blackberry bushes just outside a small piece of woods, +where he had often started up an old cock partridge, in fact, he knew so +much about that partridge that once he crept up on him, and almost got a +shot at him with the now-to-be-despised "sling-shot"; and with a +Flobert--even if his father had said that no true sportsman would shoot +a bird on the "sit"--he felt sure he could get him, and if he did he'd +come home, own up, and trust to luck for the rest, but he was somewhat +doubtful as to the reception he would meet. + +The morning was bright and clear as Tom left the house to go down and +"see what Jim Vail was going to do that day," and once outside the gate +excitement again got hold of him, and he broke into a run; it was well +he did, for about ten minutes later, as he turned into Mr. Vail's place, +Jim was on the point of mounting his bicycle to start for a ride. + +"Say, Jim," he shouted, "wait a second; I want to ask you something." + +"Well, Tommy," he answered, "what can I do for you to-day? I'm going to +get some exercise and get in shape for football at school; I got a +letter from Ted yesterday, and he asked me to. I guess he's written to +the rest of last year's team to do the same thing. I suppose you're +going to ride your pony. But, really, what do you want?" + +"Jim," said Tom, "I'm going to ask a favor of you. But first I want you +to say you won't tell anybody anything about it. You won't, will you?" + +"Of course not; but what it is?" replied Jim. + +"Well," said Tom, slowly, "I'm going shooting, and I want you to lend me +your Flobert rifle; you don't use it very much since your father gave +you that beauty gun. I'll be careful, and I'll clean it all up for you +when I'm done. Say, will you do it?" + +Jim saw a chance for a little lecture, and came near giving it, but he +thought of his popularity with the small boys and resisted. + +"But, Tom," he answered, "how are you going to work it? I'll lend it to +you, of course, but I don't want to get into any scrape with your +father, and you'd better be careful, too. Now, what's your plan?" + +Tom had this all arranged the moment he had seen Jim and the bicycle. + +"I've got that all fixed," said Tom. "Say, you don't mind where you +ride, do you? Now, I tell you what you do; just give me some cartridges, +and then you start off with the rifle on your 'bike' and ride down the +hill by 'Daddy Wilson's'--that's where I'm going to go shooting. When +you get to the bridge, get off just a minute, and go down under the +bridge and leave it on top the highest log under the boards on this side +the brook, and then ride on and forget all about it. Catch?" + +Jim "caught," and after another word of warning to be very careful, both +in regard to the rifle and getting caught, he started, having left a box +of Flobert cartridges with Tom. + +[Illustration: HE CAUGHT A GLIMPSE OF A CERTAIN FAMILIAR WHITE HORSE.] + +"Daddy Wilson's" was quite a mile and a half from Jim's house; but it +did not take Tom long to cover the distance, and in a very short time he +was under the bridge and out again on the other side with the rifle +under his arm. His experience had been very limited with firearms, but +he had a natural gift of being "handy" with almost anything, and he +acted as though hunting were an old pastime, and the gun a companion of +years. However, he thought it best to try and see how it went, and was +just taking aim at a little yellow chipmunk, when the sound of an +approaching carriage made him change his mind, and dart under the bridge +and wait; he had caught a glimpse of a certain familiar white horse, and +as it trotted over the bridge, shaking a little stream of dust through +the cracks and down his neck, he realized he had had a narrow escape. +After it had gone by, he tried his aim on an old green frog, and laid +him out "flatter'n a pan-cake," as he said to himself. Two or three more +trials were made, and he started through the woods for his blackberry +patch, first walking very carefully, and finally creeping on all fours; +but whatever the reason, that wily cock partridge had had his breakfast +and declined to be found, and Tom was disappointed and cast down; he had +counted on that bird to ease the reception he would meet at home, and +now he would have to return empty handed. However, he made up his mind +"he'd shoot something," and for an hour or more be popped ineffectually +at chipmunks and small birds, and was really enjoying the sport, when it +struck him that late to dinner would require an explanation, and thus +greatly increase the chances of the very thing which he now wanted to +avoid. So he hurried towards home, and went in through the place by a +back way, intending to leave the rifle at the stable. The coachman was a +good friend of his, and would clean and return it, and everything would +be all right again. Now it happened that Mr. Henry was having built a +small shed and tool-house behind his house, and, as luck would have it, +he was watching its progress at the very moment when Tom emerged from +behind some bushes, and unconsciously was walking down this back road +towards the stable with the Flobert held close along his leg on the side +farthest away from the house, so that "no one could guess he had +anything." All looked smooth sailing. Suddenly he was startled by a +familiar voice, + +"Hey, Tom!" it called; "what you got there?" + +There was no escape. + +"A rifle, sir," replied Tom, in a rather muffled voice. + +"A what!" cried the voice. + +"A rifle, sir," replied Tom, again. + +"Bring it here," was the short reply, and over across the field went Tom +to his doom. + +"Go back there and get one of those carpenters to give you a good sized +shingle," said Mr. Henry, "and give me the gun." + +"Well," said Tom to himself, "I knew I was taking risks," and he +returned in a moment with the shingle, and looking his father straight +in the eye waited the next command. + +"Now," said Mr. Henry, in his severest tones, "take that shingle and put +it up against that big tree, and give me a cartridge." + +Surprise and wonder are no names for the feelings that ran through Tom's +mind; it made him tingle up and down his backbone--he couldn't say a +single word; but there were more surprises to follow. + +"What you been shooting, Tommy? Elephants, hey?" said Mr. Henry, after +firing all the cartridges Tom had left; "or was it only small game--a +panther or lynx--you were after this morning?" + +Tom's courage began to return, and as he found his father in such a +splendid mood he was not going to allow himself to be bluffed. + +"I went out after partridges, sir," he said, "and I thought I'd have one +for supper to-night for mamma; but he wasn't there. I was sure I'd get +one." + +In a short time Mr. Henry had the whole story, and not a word of fault +was found, and Tom thought he had the finest father in the world; he +thought so before, but after this incident there was no doubt about it. + + * * * * * + +On the evening of the same day Tom was again devouring the "bird book," +as he had always called it. Mr. Henry, who had been writing at his desk, +pushed himself back, and looking at Tom, a smile crept over his face. +His son was exactly as he had been at that age, and the reason of his +lenient treatment of what many fathers would have given a severe +punishment for was because he knew a good deal of the world, and +especially how to treat a boy who had inherited a sportsman's love of +woods and guns, and was not to blame for it. Tom was bending close over +the book to see whether it was a woodcock or a quail the dog was +pointing, when Mr. Henry startled him as he said with a laugh, + +"My boy, did you really think you'd get a partridge? Why, Dr. Carver +himself couldn't shoot a partridge with a rifle; why didn't you come and +ask me for my gun?" + +"'Cause I didn't think you'd lend it to me," said Tom, "and I was afraid +you'd suspect something. I'll come to you to-morrow," he added, as a +quiet joke on his father. + +But the way his father took his little joke nearly made him "have a +fit," as he told Jim Vail afterwards. + +"All right, Tommy," said Mr. Henry, "come to me after breakfast and I'll +fix you out." + +Another restless night followed by another beautiful morning, and down +across the field trudged Tom, Dick, and Harry, but it looked like a +brown shooting-coat walking by itself with two setters following after +it through curiosity. There went Tom with a real gun--the little +sixteen-bore--a real hunting-coat, sleeves rolled up and pinned to hold +them, and down below his knees, to be sure; real cartridges in his +pocket, and to make it complete two real bird-dogs. He was going to be +the man in the "bird book," and best of all there was no "on the sly" +about it. + +Down back of the place beyond the "muck pond," where Tom had often +caught live bait for his father, and had slaughtered many a fine fat +frog, to say nothing of the turtles and lizards which had been the +starting of a small museum of which he was sole proprietor, down beyond +this pond he struck into the woods and let "Jet" the Gordon and "Bang" +the Irish setter run. He followed them closely. Soon they came to a +point, and he walked towards them. But here's where there was a +difference between the picture and his position at that moment; he +looked in vain for the bird; in the picture he could see it, but, try +his best, he could not see it in life. The dogs worried a little, he +stepped on a twig which cracked; whir! and up got Mr. Partridge from the +bushes--not exactly where Tom had expected--and whirled off, Tom +crouching down to see where he lit, to try him again. Time and again the +same thing happened, but Tom never could seem to see the bird till he +got up, and he never thought to try him flying. The dogs got tired of +this kind of shooting and came in "to heel," and finally, rather +discouraged and decidedly tired, Tom sat down to decide whether he would +go home or not. He was sitting under a large pine-tree and thinking what +his father would say, when out of the branches above his head sailed, +with a quiet, subdued whir, the very bird he had been chasing so long. +It settled not more than thirty yards off on the roots of an upturned +birch-tree and began a gentle cluck, spreading its fanlike tail and +shaking its feathers, but only for a moment. Tom's chance had come. A +hurried and excited aim, a loud bang, and the partridge was fluttering +on the ground, and Tom was stooping over it; the gun was back where he +had shot from; he had gotten to the bird before the dogs. What he wanted +was a partridge in his coat pocket; he did not seem so anxious to have +the dogs hand it to him, as his dreams had made him. + +Tell the truth, Tom ran most of the way home. He met his father on the +driveway, and a sudden composure took hold of him. + +"Say, Pop," he said, "it ain't so easy as one thinks, is it?" + +"I'll bet you didn't get anything, not even a chipper bird," said Mr. +Henry; "now did you?" + +Tom braced himself, his heart was beating fast, and the shivers were +again making him jump and wriggle. + +"I only got one decent shot," replied Tom, beginning very coolly, "but I +got him, and mamma'll have that bird I didn't get yesterday to-night for +supper. Look at that!" he shouted the last part of his sentence, and +swinging the bird in front of his father's face, darted past to show and +tell all in the house, leaving Mr. Henry in blank astonishment. What he +was saying to himself was: + +"I'll get that boy the prettiest gun in the city for Christmas, that's +what I'll do; he'll be giving me points before long." + + + + +SNOW-SHOES AND SLEDGES. + +BY KIRK MUNROE. + + +CHAPTER XXIX. + +A WILDERNESS-ORPHAN. + +The position in which Phil now found himself was certainly a perplexing +one. By the very simple process of getting lost he had discovered Cree +Jim's cabin, but was appalled to consider what else he had found at the +same time. He now knew that the remainder of their journey, its most +difficult and dangerous portion, must be undertaken without a guide. Not +only this, but they must be burdened with a child so young as to be +practically helpless. In the mean time, what was to be done with those +silent and motionless forms whose dread presence so pervaded that lonely +cabin? And how was he to communicate with his friends? There was no back +trail to follow, for the snow had wiped it out. He did not even know in +which direction camp lay, for in the ardor of his chase the evening +before he had taken no note of course nor distance. + +There was the stream, though, on whose bank the cabin was perched. It +must flow into the river. Yes, that was his only hope. But the river +might be miles away, and the camp as much farther, if, indeed, it could +still be found where he had left it. But of course it would be! So long +as Serge Belcofsky and Jalap Coombs had life and strength to search for +him that camp would remain a permanent fixture until he returned to it. +Phil was absolutely sure of that, and he now realized, as never before, +the priceless value of a friendship whose loyalty is beyond doubt. + +So the plan was formed. He would go down the stream and up the river +until he found camp. Then he would bring Serge and a sledge back with +him. In the mean time the child must be left where he was, for Phil +doubted if he could carry him over the weary miles that he knew must lie +between the cabin and camp, while for the little fellow to walk that +distance was out of the question. + +Phil sat on a stool before the fire while doing all this thinking. As he +rose to carry out his plan, Nel-te, who was becoming terrified at his +mother's silence in spite of his efforts to attract her attention, +slipped from the bed, ran to his new friend, and thrusting a cold little +hand into one of his, looked up with a smile of such perfect trust that +Phil snatched him in his arms and kissed him, at the same time giving +him a great hug. + +Then he said: "Now, Nel-te, brother Phil is going away for a little +while to get some doggies for you to play with, and you must stay here +like a good boy, and not open the door until he comes back. Do you +understand?" + +"Yes; me go get doggies. Nel-te like doggies. Good doggies." And almost +before Phil knew what the child was about he had slipped from his arms, +run to the door, and was putting on the tiny snow-shoes that had been +left outside. Then with an engaging smile, he called, cheerily: "Come. +Nel-te say come. Get doggies." + +"All right, little chap. I expect your plan is as good as mine, after +all," replied Phil, into whose mind had just flashed the promise made to +that dead mother, never to desert her baby. "And here I was, about to +begin by doing that very thing," he reflected as he glanced at the +marble face overspread by an expression of perfect content that his +promise had brought. + +Moved by a sudden impulse he picked up the boy, and, bringing him back, +held him so that he might kiss the peaceful face. This the child did +with a soft cooing that served to convey both love and pity. Then he ran +to the stalwart figure that still lay on the floor, and, patting its +swarthy cheek, said something in the Cree tongue that Phil did not +understand. + +After that Phil carefully closed the door to prevent the intrusion of +wild beasts, and the two, whose fortunes had become so strangely +interwoven, set forth together down the white surface of the +forest-bordered stream, on whose bank Nel-te had been born and passed +his few years of life. He was happily but unconsciously venturing on his +first "little journey into the world," while his companion was filled +with a sense of manliness and responsibility from the experiences +through which he had just passed that the mere adding of years could +never have brought. + +Phil wondered at the ease with which the little fellow managed his +snow-shoes, until he reflected that the child had probably been taught +to use them from the day of taking his first step. So the two fur-clad +figures, ridiculously contrasted in size, trudged along side by side +down the winding stream, the one thoughtfully silent and the other +chattering of "doggies," until he began to lag behind and give signs +that the pace was telling on his slender strength. + +"Poor little chap," said Phil. "But I had been expecting it, and now we +will try another scheme." So, slinging the tiny snow-shoes across the +child's back, he picked him up and set him astride his own broad +shoulders; when Nel-te clutched his head, and shouted with glee at this +delightful mode of travel. + +After they had gone a mile or so in this fashion they rounded a sharp +bend, and came so suddenly upon poor Serge, who was making his way up +the stream in search of some trace of his friend, that for a moment he +stood motionless and speechless with amazement. He could make nothing of +the approaching apparition until Phil shouted, cheerily: + +"Hurrah, old man! Here we are, safe and sound, and awfully glad to see +you." + +"Oh, Phil!" cried Serge, while tears actually stood in his honest blue +eyes, "I can hardly believe it! It seems almost too good to be true. Are +you sure you are not wounded nor frozen nor hurt in any way? Haven't you +suffered terribly? If you haven't, we have. I don't believe Mr. Coombs +slept a wink last night, and I know I didn't. But I am happy enough at +this minute to make up for it all, a hundred times over. Oh, Phil!" + +"I have suffered a little from anxiety, and been a trifle hungry, and +had some sad experiences, but I haven't suffered half so much as I +deserved for my carelessness in getting lost. I found Cree Jim, though; +but--" + +"And brought him with you?" interrupted Serge, smiling for the first +time in many hours, as he glanced at the quaint little figure perched on +Phil's shoulders. + +"Not exactly," replied the other, soberly. "You see this little chap is +his son, and I've adopted him for a sort of a brother, and he is going +with us." + +"You've done what?" cried Serge. + +"Adopted him. That is, you see I promised my aunt Ruth to bring her +something from Alaska that was unique in the way of a curio, and it +seems to me that Nel-te here will please her about as well as anything. +Don't you think so?" + +"Perhaps so," assented Serge, doubtfully. "But was his father willing +that you should have him?" + +"Oh yes, perfectly. That is, you know he is dead, and so is the mother; +but I promised her to take care of the little chap, and as there wasn't +anything else to be done, why, here we are." + +"Of course it's all right if you say so," agreed Serge, "and I don't +care, so long as you are safe, if you carry a whole tribe back to your +aunt Ruth; but now don't you think we'd better be getting along to camp? +It was all I could do to persuade Mr. Coombs to stay behind and look out +for things; he is so anxious. The only way I could induce him to was by +suggesting that you might come in tired and hungry, and would feel +awfully if no one was there to welcome you. But he is liable to set out +on a hunt for you at any moment." + +"Certainly, we must get there as quickly as possible," replied Phil. +"How far is it?" + +"Not more than one mile up the river from the mouth of this creek, which +is only a few rods below here. But oh, Phil, to think that I have found +you! When I had almost given up all hope of ever again seeing you alive +too. I have been down as far as our first camp on the river this +morning, and this creek was my last hope. I wouldn't have left the +country without you, though, or at any rate without knowing what had +become of you. Neither would Mr. Coombs. We settled that last night +while we talked over what had best be done." + +"I was sure you wouldn't, old fellow," replied Phil, with something like +a choke in his voice. + +At the camp they were hailed by Jalap Coombs, who almost hugged Phil in +his revulsion of feeling and unaffected joy at the lad's return. + +"But you don't do it again, Philip, my son!" he cried. "That is, the +next time you feels inclined to wander from home and stay out nights, ye +may go, of course, but you'll have to take me along. So ef you gits +lost, I gets lost likewise; for, as my old friend Kite Roberson useter +say consarning prodergal sons, 'It's allers toughest on them as is left +behind.' But Phil, what be ye doing with that furry little beggar? Is he +the pilot ye went sarching for?" + +"Yes," laughed Phil, lifting Nel-te down from his shoulders. "He is the +pilot who is to lead us from this wilderness, and if you have got +anything to eat, you'd better give it to him before he devours one of +the dogs, which he seems inclined to do. I can answer for it, that he +has been on short rations for several days, and is properly hungry." + +"Have I got anything to eat?" cried the other. "Waal, rather! How does +fresh steaks, and roasts, and chops, and stews strike your fancy?" With +this he pointed to one side of the camp, where, to their astonishment, +the boys saw a quantity of fresh meat, much of which was already cut +into thin strips for freezing and packing. + +"Where did it come from?" queried Phil, looking at Serge; but the latter +only shook his head. + +"It's jest a bit of salvage that I raked in as it went drifting by," +explained Jalap Coombs, his face beaming with gratified pride. "It's +some kind of deer-meat, and _for_ a deer he was pretty nigh as big as +one of those elephants back yonder in the moss cave. You see, he came +cruising along this way shortly after Serge left, and the dogs give +chase and made him heave to. When I j'ined 'em he surrendered. Then I +had my hands full in a hurry, driving off the dogs and lashing 'em fast +so as they couldn't eat him, horns and all, and cutting of him up. I +hain't more'n made a beginning with him, either, for there's pretty nigh +a full cargo left. + +"But how did you kill him? There wasn't any gun in camp?" asked Phil, +utterly bewildered. + +"Of course there warn't no gun," answered Jalap Coombs, "and likewise I +didn't need one. Sich things I leave for boys. How did I kill him, say +you? Why, I jest naturally harpooned him like I would any other whale." + + +CHAPTER XXX. + +JALAP AND THE DOGS SING A LULLABY. + +"Harpooned a moose!" cried Phil and Serge together; for they had by this +time discovered the nature of the sailor's "big deer." "And where did +you get the harpoon?" asked the former. + +"Found it, leaning agin a tree while I were out after firewood," replied +Jalap Coombs, at the same time producing and proudly exhibiting a heavy +A-yan spear, such as were formerly used by the natives of the Pelly +River valley. "It were a trifle rusty, and a trifle light in the butt," +he added, "but it come in mighty handy when it were most needed, and for +an old whaler it are not a bad sort of a weepon. I'm free to say, +though, that I might have had hard luck in tackling the beast with it ef +he hadn't been already wounded. I didn't know it till after he were +dead, but when I come to cut him up, I saw where he'd been bleeding +pretty free, and then I found this bullet in his innards. Still, I don't +reckin you'd have called him a mouse, nor yet a rat, if ye'd seed him +like I did under full sail, with horns set wing and wing, showing the +speed of a fifty-ton schooner. If I hadn't had the harpoon I'd left him +severely alone; but I allowed that a weepon as were good enough for a +whale would do for a deer, even ef he were bigger than the sun." + +"It's a rifle-bullet, calibre forty-four," said Phil, who was examining +the bit of lead that Jalap Coombs had taken from his "big deer." "I +wonder if it can be possible that he is the same moose I wounded, and +without whose lead I should never have found Cree Jim's cabin. It seems +incredible that he should have come right back to camp to be killed, +though I suppose it is possible. Certainly good fortune, or good luck, +does seem to be pretty steadily on our side, and without the aid of the +fur-seal's tooth either," he added, with a sly glance at Serge. + +As soon as breakfast was finished, Phil and Serge slipped away, taking a +sledge, to which was lashed a couple of axes, with them. They were going +back to bury the parents of the child, who was so happily oblivious of +their errand that he did not even take note of their departure. + +The lads had no idea of how they should accomplish their sorrowful task. +Even with proper tools they knew it would be impossible to dig a grave +in the frozen ground, and as they had only axes with which to work, this +plan was dismissed without discussion. + +They had not settled on any plan when they rounded the last bend of the +little stream and gained a point from which the cabin should have been +visible. Then they saw at a glance that the task they had been dreading +had been accomplished without their aid. There was no cabin, but a cloud +of smoke rising from its site, as from an altar, gave ample evidence of +its fate. A blazing log from the fire Phil left in its hearth must have +rolled out on to the floor directly after his departure. Now only a heap +of ashes and glowing embers remained to mark Nel-te's home. + +"It is best so," said Phil, as the two lads stood beside the smouldering +ruins of what had been a home and was now become a sepulchre. "And oh, +Serge! think what might have been the child's fate if I had left him +behind, as I at first intended. Poor little chap! I realize now, as +never before, how completely his past is wiped out and how entirely his +future lies in our hands. It is a trust that came without our seeking, +but I accepted it; and now beside his mother's ashes I swear to be true +to the promise I gave her." + +"Amen!" said Serge, softly. + +They planted a rude wooden cross, the face of which was chipped to a +gleaming whiteness, close in front of the smouldering heap, and near it +Serge fastened a streamer of white cloth to the tip of a tall young +spruce. Cutting off the limbs as he descended, he left it a slender +pole, and thus provided the native symbol of a place of burial. + +[Illustration: "A FLYING-FISH-CATCHER FROM OLD HONG-KONG--YO HO! ROLL A +MAN DOWN!"] + +As they approached the camp they were astonished to hear Jalap Coombs +singing in bellowing tones the rollicking old sea chant of "Roll a Man +Down!" + + "A flying-fish-catcher from old Hong-Kong-- + Yo ho! roll a man down-- + A flying-fish-catcher comes bowling along; + Give us some time to roll a man down, + Roll a man up and roll a man down, + Give us some time to roll a man down. + From labbord to stabbord away we go-- + Yo ho! roll a man down." + +Jalap's voice was not musical, but it possessed a mighty volume, and as +the quaint sea chorus roared and echoed through the stately forest, the +very trees appeared to be listening in silent wonder to the unaccustomed +sounds. Even Musky, Luvtuk, big Amook, and the other dogs seemed by +their dismal howlings to be expressing either appreciation or +disapprobation of the sailor-man's efforts. + +The performers in this open-air concert were too deeply intent on their +own affairs to pay any heed to the approach of the returning sledge +party, who were thus enabled to come within full view of a most +extraordinary scene unnoticed. Just beyond the camp, in a semicircle, +facing the fire, a dozen dogs, resting on their haunches, lifted both +their voices and sharp-pointed noses to the sky. On the opposite side of +the fire sat Jalap Coombs holding Nel-te in his arms, rocking him to and +fro in time to the chorus that he was pouring forth with the full power +of his lungs, and utterly oblivious to everything save his own unusual +occupation of putting a baby to sleep. + +"Ha, ha, ha! Ho, ho, ho!" roared Phil and Serge, unable to restrain +their mirth a moment longer. "Oh my! Oh my! Oh, Mr. Coombs, you'll be +the death of me yet! What ever are you doing? Didn't know you could +sing! What a capital nurse you make! What a soft voice for lullabies! +The dogs, too! Oh dear! I shall laugh at the thought of this if I live +to be a hundred! Don't mind us, though. Keep right on. Please do!" + +But the concert was ended. Jalap Coombs sprang to his feet with a +startled yell, and dropped the child, who screamed with the fright of +his sudden awakening. The dogs, whose harmonious howlings were so +abruptly interrupted, slunk away with tails between their legs, and hid +themselves in deepest shadows. + +"There, there, little chap. Don't be frightened," cried Phil, darting +forward and picking up the child, though still shaking with laughter. +"It's all right now. Brother Phil will protect you, and not let the big +man frighten you any more." + +"I frighten him indeed!" retorted Jalap Coombs, indignantly. "He was +sleeping quiet and peaceful as a seal pup; and I were just humming a bit +of a ditty that useter be sung to me when I were a kid, so's he'd have +something pleasant to dream about. Then you young swabs had to come +creeping up and yell like a couple of wild hoodoos, and set the dogs to +howling and scare the kid, to say nothing of me, which ef I had ye +aboard ship I'd masthead ye both till ye larnt manners. Oh, ye may +snicker! But I have my opinion all the same of any man as'll wake a +sleeping child, specially when he's wore out with crying, all on account +of being desarted. And I'm not the only one nuther. There was old Kite +Roberson who useter clap a muzzle onto his wife's canary whenever she'd +get the kids to sleep, for fear the critter'd bust inter singing. But +it's all right. You will know how it is yourselves some day." + +Phil, seeing that, for the first time since he had known him, the mate +was thoroughly indignant, set out to smooth his ruffled feelings. + +"Why, Mr. Coombs," he said, "we didn't mean to startle you, but those +wretched dogs kept up such a howling that we couldn't make ourselves +heard as we neared camp. I'm sure I don't see how you could think we +were laughing at you. It was those absurd dogs, and you'd have laughed +yourself if you'd looked up and seen them. I'm sure it was awfully good +of you to take so much trouble over this little fellow, and put him so +nicely to sleep with your sing-- I mean with your humming, though I +assure you we didn't hear a hum." + +"Waal," replied Jalap Coombs, greatly mollified by Phil's attitude. "I +warn't humming very loud, not nigh _so_ loud as I had been at fust. Ye +see, I were kinder tapering off so as to lay the kid down, and begin to +get supper 'gainst you kim back." + +"Yes, I see," said Phil, almost choking with suppressed laughter. "But +how did it happen that you were compelled to act as nurse? The little +chap seemed happy enough when we went away." + +"So he were, till he found you was gone. Then he begun to pipe his eye +and set storm signals, and directly it come on to blow a hurricane with +heavy squalls. So I had to stand by. Fust off I thought the masts would +surely go; but I took a reef here and there, and kinder got things +snugged down, till after a whilt the sky broke, the sun kim out, and +fair weather sot in once more." + +"Well," said Phil, admiringly, "you certainly acted with the judgment of +an A No. 1 seaman, and I don't believe even your esteemed friend Captain +Robinson could have done better. We shall call on you whenever our +little pilot gets into troubled waters again, and feel that we are +placing him in the best possible hands." + +At which praise Jalap Coombs was greatly pleased, and said as how he'd +be proud at all times to stand by the kid. Thus on the same day that +little Nel-te McLeod lost his parents he found a brother and two stanch +friends. + +[TO BE CONTINUED.] + + + + +UNCLE SAM AS A STAMP-MAKER. + +BY FRANCES BENJAMIN JOHNSTON. + + +"Here, boys, is a piece of legislation which will add a new series of +stamps to your collections," said Mr. Copeland, as he glanced up from +his morning paper. "The bill transferring the printing of stamps to the +Bureau of Engraving and Printing has just become a law, and hereafter +Uncle Sam will manufacture his own stamps, as well as his own paper +money." + +"Why, father, if they make them here, we can see just how it's done!" +exclaimed Donald, the eldest of the Copeland boys, who, with his +brothers Jack and Ezra, was now experiencing the severest stage of the +"stamp fever." + +"Huh!" grunted the latter--nicknamed "The Parson," from his +old-fashioned ways and a solemn assumption of wisdom. "Perhaps they'll +not let you know anything at all about it. Bobby Simonds told me that +the big company in New York that has always made 'em is awful particular +about letting people see their machinery and things; and Bobby ought to +know 'cause his uncle's an engraver there." + +"Are they going to make all the stamps here in Washington?" broke in +May, the baby of the family. "That'll be nice for you boys,'cause you +can get 'em cheaper at the factory, can't you?" + +"That's just like a girl," laughed Jack. "Anybody would think they were +going to sell stamps by the yard." + +"Well, my boy," said Mr. Copeland, "your sister is right, in a sense, as +under this act the Post-office Department will buy its stamps wholesale +from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, at a nominal price per +thousand, without reference to their face value. I think you also are +mistaken, Parson, as the public will doubtless be as free to inspect the +manufacture of stamps as they now are to see the process of +bank-note-making. When the stamp-printing plant is established, there +should be a great deal in it to interest you youngsters. What do you say +to a tour of investigation some Saturday?" + +Their father's suggestion delighted the children, who waited eagerly for +the fulfilment of the promise. + +This came on a bright October morning, when the little party climbed the +hill beyond the towering Washington Monument, and reached the grim brick +building which is known as the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. + +Here they were shown into a small reception-room, and kept waiting, with +a throng of other sight-seers, until a card from the chief procured for +them a special guide through the building. As she led them through a +long corridor, this lady explained something of the complete and +ingenious system which is in force here to prevent fraud or loss to the +government. No visitor is permitted inside the building without one of +the guides especially detailed for this service, while the work of each +of the hundreds of employe's is so carefully checked and recorded that +even the most insignificant error is readily traceable. Ink, paper, the +engravers' dies, the printers' plates, are all given out on properly +signed receipts, and until all are accounted for, even to the tiniest +scrap of paper, the employes who have handled them are not permitted to +leave the building; so that only by a widespread plot could all these +safeguards be successfully eluded. + +[Illustration: THE ENGRAVING-ROOM.] + +The little party was now shown into a very long room, at one end of +which was ranged a row of compartments like sentry-boxes. In each of +these sat a silent engraver, bent over the small square of steel upon +which he was cutting some part of the design for paper money or stamps. +The plates from which the stamps were formerly printed are the property +of the government, so that the old designs, with a slight modification, +are still in use. This modification consists of a trefoil mark placed in +the upper corner of the new stamps, which will serve to distinguish them +from the old issues printed by the American Bank-note Company. The work +of the engravers is necessarily so painstaking and slow that the +original dies are considered too expensive to use in the +printing-presses. Thus, after the engraver has completed a die, it is +subjected to a hardening process, and the design multiplied indefinitely +upon soft steel plates by what is known as the transfer-press. The +children were shown a long row of these presses, as well as the great +vaults where all the designs, dies, and plates are locked up after the +day's work. From the silence of the engravers' department they were led +into the din and clatter of the press-room below. Here they found the +new steam-presses as well as old-fashioned hand-presses in operation, +and were able to see every detail of the actual printing of stamps. + +[Illustration: TAKING SHEETS OFF THE PRESSES.] + +The hand-presses are worked by a plate-printer and one assistant, the +printer first inking and polishing the engraved plate over a series of +small gas-jets, after which it is placed on the press. His assistant +now lays a dampened sheet of paper upon the plate, the printer gives the +press a turn, and a sheet of bright new stamps is drawn out at the other +side. This work is done quickly and accurately, but it is a very slow +process compared with that of the steam-presses, which turn out sheets +of four hundred stamps each at the rate of one hundred thousand stamps +an hour. The steam-presses carry four plates on an endless chain around +the sides of a large square, in the circuit of which the plates are +automatically heated to the proper temperature, inked, wiped off, and +printed. The blank paper is laid on the plates by one assistant, while a +second helper takes out the printed sheet. The printer in charge of the +press has the most difficult part of the work, which consists in +polishing the plate with his bare palms after it has been mechanically +inked. This must be done so delicately as to leave neither too much nor +too little ink upon the plate, but only _just enough_ to give a clean, +fine impression. + +The presses clattered and clanked, and the children watched with +breathless interest while a great stack of the dampened paper +disappeared rapidly, sheet by sheet, through the press, reappearing +again to be stacked in a second neat pile in the form of thousands upon +thousands of new red two-cent stamps. + +Besides the ordinary issues, the young investigators were much +interested in seeing the printing of revenue stamps, of the long-strip +stamps for cigar-boxes, and other tobacco stamps, and particularly the +new two-cent stamps for playing-cards. + +Having watched to their entire satisfaction the various movements of the +great presses, the children began to feel that the object of their visit +had been realized, and that there was nothing more to see. They were +therefore somewhat surprised to learn that the _printing_ of the stamps +is merely the beginning of the work upon them, and that a number of very +important things must happen to these small squares of red, blue, brown, +and purple before they are ready to be sold through the little window in +the post-office. After they are printed the sheets must be dried and +pressed out, gummed, dried and pressed again, the sheets perforated and +cut apart, trimmed, and, in addition, carefully counted before and after +each of these operations. + +In the early days of postage-stamps, and for several years after they +first came into use, two serious difficulties presented +themselves--_i.e._, the gumming and separating of the stamps. For a time +a thick muddy mucilage was used, which curled up the sheets in a very +inconvenient way. Then, again, before the ingenious device of +perforation was hit upon, it was necessary to cut the stamps apart with +a pair of scissors. Imagine a post-master in these busy days supplying +his customers by the scissors method! + +[Illustration: IN THE DRYING-ROOM.] + +Fortunately a clever Frenchman conceived the plan of punching a series +of small holes between the stamps, and his invention was promptly +introduced into this country. The children were now eager to see the +finishing processes of stamp-making, and so followed their guide into a +large room, where they were greeted by a rush of warm air. Here their +guide showed them the method of gumming the stamps and the curious +apparatus used for the purpose. Along the entire length of the room, +with a narrow passage between, are ranged a series of wooden boxes, +quite sixty feet in length. These are heated by steam, and through each +box passes a sort of double endless chain. The sheets are fed, face +down, into this queer machine, and passed under a roller, which allows +the escape of just enough gum to coat the sheet thinly and evenly. The +sheet is now caught on the endless chain by two automatic clamps, and +carried into the long hot-box. It takes only a few moments for the +journey through, but the sheets appear at the other end perfectly dried, +and ready to be trimmed and perforated. + +As the method of gumming stamps used by the various bank-note companies +has been a carefully guarded and secret process, the Bureau of Engraving +and Printing has been forced to invent its own machine for this purpose. +The sheets are gummed at the rate of about eighteen a minute, which is +certainly a vast improvement over the old method of putting on the gum +by hand with a brush. + +[Illustration: MIXING THE GLUE.] + +When the children were weary of watching the funny little brass fingers +move along and hurry the sheets off into the hot-box, they turned to a +corner where a workman was busy over a series of vats and buckets mixing +the gum, which looked very clean and nice, and is made of dextrine, a +vegetable product. The guide now showed them how the gummed sheets are +pressed smooth for perforation, and then led them into a room where a +score or more of odd little machines were in swift operation. Each +machine is tended by two workwomen, most of whom wear fantastic caps of +paper to shade their eyes, as the sheets must be fed into the machines +with absolute accuracy in order that the perforations shall come in the +right place. Each sheet has register lines printed in the margin, which +must be adjusted exactly under a black thread fastened across the +feeding-table. A quick whir of the wheels puts a neat line of pin-holes +lengthwise between the stamps, cutting the sheet in half at the same +time. The next machine perforates the sheet crosswise, and again cuts it +in two, so that the sheets are now divided up into the regulation size +of one hundred stamps each. + +The children thought the minute disks of paper punched out by the +perforators too insignificant to be considered, and were accordingly +much surprised to learn that the sheets again have to be smoothed out, +under great pressure, to reduce their bulk and remove the "burr" caused +by the perforation. + +After inspecting the final process of making up the stamps into +packages, to be mailed to the postmasters all over the country, the +children were taken by their father to the office of the chief of the +bureau. Here they received a cordial welcome, and learned many +interesting and curious details about stamps and stamp-making. About +3,000,000,000 stamps are annually furnished the Post-office Department +by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, at the rate of five cents a +thousand. Ninety per cent. of these are the two-cent stamps, and +according to the last Post-office report the revenue from the sale of +stamps is a little over $6,000,000 a month. + +"By-the-way," observed the chief, "you young people should be very much +interested in the Report of the Third Assistant Postmaster-General for +1893, which contains a carefully prepared and elaborately descriptive +list of every stamp and postal card issued by the United States +government. It must seem hard to you stamp collectors that the most +beautiful stamps issued--the newspaper and periodical stamps--are not +permitted to be sold to the public. One of the chief reasons for this is +that the values of these small squares of paper run up to such high +figures, viz., $24, $36, $48, and $60, that they would offer a great +field in counterfeiters if generally circulated. There are some queer +denominations among these stamps, notably the $1.92 stamp, which is +about to be discontinued, and some very pretty colors. That reminds +me--did they show you our ink-mills in your tour of inspection?" + +Mr. Copeland explained that they had not seen the mills, so the children +had the pleasure of being escorted by the chief himself into the grimy +region which is seldom penetrated by the public. Here they saw the +colors ground and mixed in small mills, from which the workmen--smeared +from top to toe in a rainbow of colors--gathered the thick greasy ink by +the bucketful. About one hundred thousand pounds of dry color is used +annually for the two-cent stamps alone, the color being mixed with an +equal quantity of burnt linseed oil, making two hundred thousand pounds +of ink. Of course a large percentage of this color is lost in inking and +polishing the plate. + +The tour was now ended, and leaving the oily little wheels to their +ceaseless grinding, the children, with a grateful good-by to their new +friend, went home with their young heads full of the interesting things +they had seen in Uncle Sam's stamp factory. + + + + +[Illustration: THE PUDDING STICK] + + This Department is conducted in the interest of Girls and Young + Women, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question on + the subject so far as possible. Correspondents should address + Editor. + + +Girls who are terrified by thunder and lightning lose a great deal of +enjoyment during the summer, when we have storms as well as sunshine. It +may not be quite possible for every one to help being afraid when the +sky is black with clouds and the lightning's flash, but it _is_ within +the power of most people to control the expression of fright. Once or +twice having resolutely refrained from showing your terror, you will be +surprised and pleased to find the terror itself lessening. + +I know persons who go through life in a sort of bondage to fear of +various kinds. They tremble and turn pale, or grow hysterical and cry, +when the dark clouds gather and the thunders roll. There is a pretty +German hymn which begins, + + "It thunders, but I tremble not, + My trust is firm in God, + His arm of strength I've ever sought + Through all the way I've trod." + +I advise all of you who need the advice to remember that God rules in +the heavens, and His hand sends the storms. Trust in God when you are +afraid--really _trust_, and you will grow calm and be happy. Another +grain of comfort may be found in the fact that when you see the bright +zig-zagging flash and hear the rumbling thunder, the danger for you is +over. You will never see or hear the electric current which hurts or +kills. It is far too swift to wait and warn you in that way. + +Many of us have some pet aversion, which goes far to make us cowards in +one direction, even if in other conditions and situations we are brave. +I have seen women almost faint at the sight of a poor little scurrying +mouse, and have heard others scream at a bat or a beetle. I confess to a +very great dislike on my own part to things with wings and with stings, +especially those which fly in at the window when the lamp is lighted, +and buzz and fizz and snap and pounce and bounce. But I would be ashamed +of myself if I could not keep from shrieking in the presence of these +innocent little marauders. Depend upon it, girls, we _can_ display a +cool front and wear a brave face if we choose to do so, let what happen. +It is all a question of will. + +Numbers of travellers never get the full meed of pleasure when on a +journey because they carry too great a load of care. They fancy that +this or that will happen. They are distressed because of accidents which +may possibly occur. They make the friends with them uncomfortable +because they suggest dreadfully unpleasant catastrophes as just around +the corner. When you think of it, this behavior is both stupid and +silly. Trains and boats are in the hands, as a rule, of competent and +responsible persons, who wish to take their passengers and freight safe +to the journey's end. You, being neither captain, nor engineer, nor +conductor, are called upon to feel no concern in the matter. + +I wish I could impress on every young girl the beauty and dignity of +simple, quiet courage. Not recklessness, nor indifference to danger, but +a gentle acceptance of every situation, and a rising above fear. Fear is +the feeling of a slave. It fetters one's mind, and makes one's body +clumsy and awkward. The Bible says, "Fear hath torment." It is usually +ignoble, not the appropriate sentiment for bright, capable, +kind-hearted, and winning girls like you. Resolve to put fear under your +feet, and walk through the world with hearts superior to it in its every +form and phase. + +[Illustration: Signature] + + + + +[Illustration: STAMPS] + + This Department is conducted in the interest of Stamp and Coin + Collectors, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question + on these subjects so far as possible. Correspondents should + address Editor Stamp Department. + + +One of the first requisites of any science is to know its terms. +Stamp-collecting is now not only a hobby, but an exact science as well. + +[Illustration: Regular perforations: holes punched out.] + +[Illustration: Rouletted: lines cut in.] + +[Illustration: Pin perforated: pin-holes.] + +[Illustration: Rouletted _en arc_: curved lines cut in.] + +[Illustration: Rouletted _en scie_: saw-tooth lines cut in.] + +[Illustration: Rouletted _en serpentine_: fancy lines cut in.] + +[Illustration: Rouletted _en points_: diagonal lines cut in.] + +[Illustration: Rouletted _en losange_: diagonal cuts not joined.] + +[Illustration: Rouletted in half squares: lines cut in.] + +Formerly little note was taken of the condition of stamps, but to-day +the smallest details are important. You have doubtless noticed that +almost all stamps issued during the past thirty years have "scalloped" +edges. These are perforations made to enable persons using stamps to +detach one or more without using scissors. Previous to 1856 all stamps +were printed on sheets of paper, and had to be cut off one by one with a +knife or scissors. These are known as "unperforated." Many experiments +were made to do away with the necessity of using scissors, and we +illustrate the different methods used. Gradually all nations have +adopted the "regular" perforations, which consist of a series of holes +punched out along all four edges of each stamp. Now this difference +between perforated and unperforated stamps makes not a little difference +in the prices asked. For instance, the 24c. U.S. of 1851 unperforated +would be cheap at $100, whereas the same stamp perforated is worth $2.50 +only. The Victoria twopenny of 1867 is worth $1.50 perforated, while $25 +is asked for the unperforated. So none of the ROUND TABLE collectors +should trim the edges of any stamps they may have. Next week we will +illustrate the scale of regular perforations. + +The so-called _error_ of the 5c. red-brown U.S. 1890 issue in the color +of the 4c. dark brown has been demonstrated to be a _changeling_, by a +very simple chemical test. The dealer who offered these stamps for sale +at $30 each has notified the thirty-seven people who bought copies at +that price that their money will be returned on demand. + +I would advise all collectors to keep all the different shades of the +U.S. stamps which they get at little or no expense, but to avoid paying +any extra for shades of current or late stamps. + + A PENROSE SCULL.--The common stamps of the U.S. are worth about + $50 to $100 per million if in good condition. The 10c. brown is + quoted at 10c. + + BUCKSKIN.--This is not the place to quote arguments in favor of + stamp-collecting. Most boys, and many men, find great pleasure in + this pursuit. Ask one of them to tell you of its pleasures. + + H. W.--There are two varieties of Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph + stamps. One is worth $2 each, the regular perforated are worth + 65c. per set. + + ARTHUR L. EVANS.--The 10c. green is worth 6c. The 6c. and 8c. + Columbians can still be bought at face in many post-offices. + +PHILATUS. + + + + +SCHOOL-BOY'S SONG OF THE SCHOOL WEEK. + + + On Monday black, at four o'clock, + The key is turned in the school-room lock, + And I've given old Time a terrible knock, + For the head of the Week is broken. + + At four of a Tuesday afternoon, + The hour that cometh none too soon, + I strap my books to a merry tune, + For the neck of the Week is broken. + + As the four glad strokes on Wednesday ring, + My cap in the air I gayly fling, + And homeward run as I loudly sing, + "The grip of the Week is broken." + + Ah, welcome the sound of the Thursday's four, + And the joyous thought of "but one day more + That opens and shuts the school-room door," + For the back of the Week is broken. + + But sweeter than story in prose or rhyme + The musical notes of the Friday chime, + For the Week lies dead in the arms of Time, + And the school-boy's chains are broken. + + L. H. BRUCE. + + + + +KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS. + + +II.--THE SWORD. + +"Now while the lords and their followers were gathered in the great +church," the Story-teller said, as Jack and Mollie began to show some +curiosity as to what this miracle for which Merlin hoped might be, +"there was discovered in the church-yard near the altar a great black +stone, about four feet square, on the middle of which stood a steel +anvil a foot in height. Thrust into this, with its shining point +visible, was a beautiful sword, and about it, written in letters of +gold, were these words: + +"'WHOSO PULLETH OUT THIS SWORD OF THIS STONE AND ANVIL IS RIGHTWISE KING +BORN OF ENGLAND.'" + +"Who put it there?" asked Jack. + +"I don't know," said the Story-teller. "It was there, and that is all I +know about it, and the people when they saw it were full of wonder, and +marvelled greatly to read the words written about it. I imagine, +however, that Merlin and the Archbishop had something to do with it, for +when the people went into the church, and told the Archbishop what they +had seen, he did not appear to be at all surprised, but commanded all +to remain within the church and not to touch the sword until the service +was over. The people and the gathered knights and all their followers +obeyed the Archbishop's command, for they did not dare do otherwise; +but, when the service was over, they all rushed out into the church-yard +to see the stone and the anvil, with the wonderful sword stuck into it. +And then, when the lords had read the golden inscription upon the stone, +each made an effort to pull the sword out of its anvil-sheath, but not +one of them could do it. They pulled and tugged and pulled and tugged, +but it was all in vain. They neither broke nor budged it, and the +Archbishop of Canterbury said it was evident that none of those present +could claim to be the rightful King. He added that he believed that the +right one would yet be discovered, and suggested that ten of the best +knights of the land should be made a guard of honor to watch over the +sword until New-Year's day, when any one who wished might come and in +the presence of all make the effort to pull it from the anvil. This was +agreed to, and it was decided to have a great tournament upon the coming +New-Year's day, after which the trial should be made. This kept the +knights and their followers in London, for it was important that all +should be present at the trial, success in which meant so much, not only +to the successful man, but to the whole kingdom as well." + +"Didn't Merlin try to pull it out?" asked Mollie. "If he put it in, I +should think he could have pulled it out, and then he could have been +King himself." + +"Possibly; but I imagine he didn't want to be King, for one thing, and, +for another, he had been too good a friend to Arthur, and to Uther, his +father, to wish to betray them. The Chronicles do not say whether he +tried it or not, but if he did, he failed; and so the week between +Christmas and New-Year's went by without any one's having moved the +sword; and the lords made their preparations for the tournament, and +many of them, I have no doubt, spent a great deal of their time getting +their muscle up in the hope of winning the crown. + +"On the New-Year's day all again assembled in the church, and, after the +service, proceeded to the field where the tournament was to take place. +Sir Ector, followed by his son, Sir Kaye, who had himself been made a +knight, and Arthur, rode with them, when it was discovered that Sir Kaye +had left his sword behind him at his father's lodging. Summoning Arthur, +he requested him to return to the house and get it for him. This Arthur +readily consented to do, for he was fond of Kaye, whom, as we have +already seen, he supposed to be his own brother. Turning his horse +about, he rode full speed back to the lodgings; but when he arrived +there he found every one had gone to the tournament, and he could not +find his foster-brother's sword. For a moment he was perplexed. He knew +it would never do for Sir Kaye to be found at a tournament without his +sword, for the sword was the sign of his knighthood, and a knight who +had lost it would have been considered unworthy of the honor which had +been bestowed upon him. Suddenly Arthur bethought him of the sword in +the anvil, and without much hope that he should succeed where so many +others had failed, he resolved to make the effort to loosen it anyhow, +and in case of success to carry it to Sir Kaye. + +"So he rode to the church-yard, and found it as deserted as Sir Ector's +lodgings had been. The ten knights who had been left to guard the sword, +like every one else in London, had gone to the tournament. Dismounting +from his horse, Arthur strode into the yard, and grasping the handle of +the sword as firmly as he could, pulled at it fiercely, when, to his +surprise and delight, it came out of the anvil. Without stopping to +think of all that this meant for him, he remounted his steed, and rode +hastily back to Sir Kaye, to whom he handed the weapon. + +"The instant Sir Kaye looked at it he knew it to be the sword of the +stone, and putting his spurs to his horse, he dashed to where his father +stood, and, showing him the glittering blade, told him that it was the +sword of the stone, and said, + +"'I must be King of this land!' + +"But Sir Ector was cautious, so he questioned Kaye closely as to how he +had come by the weapon, and he made him go with him and Arthur back to +the church and swear to what he said; and Sir Kaye told him the whole +story--how he had left his own sword at home and had sent Arthur back +for it; how Arthur had gone there, and not finding any one, had +bethought him of the sword in the anvil, and had taken it, though no one +had witnessed the act." + +[Illustration: THE RIGHTFUL KING OF ENGLAND.] + +"Whereupon Sir Ector made Arthur return the sword to the anvil, and +himself tried to pull it out, but it would not come; and then he made +Sir Kaye try it, and still it would not come; and then bidding Arthur +make an effort, the boy did so, and it came out easily, at which both +Sir Kaye and his father knelt before Arthur, and hailed him as the man +who should be rightful King of England." + + + + +[Illustration: INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT] + + +With the New England Interscholastic games next Saturday the season of +track and field athletics--as far as school leagues are concerned--will +practically come to a close. The season has been a most successful one. +Records have been broken on every hand, even in events where it was +supposed that many a year must go by before that performance could be +bettered. This excellent showing is the natural result of the hard +training and constant energy of the hundreds of runners and jumpers in +the schools; and the ever-increasing number of contestants all over the +country proves that track and field sports have secured a firm foothold, +and now deserve to be recognized as equal in importance to both football +and baseball. In the vicinity of New York, at least, there are fully +twice as many who indulge in track athletics as there are baseball and +football players. In other regions I think the proportions are more +nearly equal. The growth of these sports has been very rapid. In almost +every centre there is an Interscholastic Association or League, and the +daily newspapers, not only of the East but of the West, have been +printing reports of scholastic meets for the past two months. The work +of the school athletes has decidedly become a factor in amateur sport. +In some of the school leagues there are better men than the colleges can +boast of. + +The annual meeting of the Inter-collegiate Athletic Association at the +Berkeley Oval, usually characterized as the "Mott Haven games," because +they were first held at Mott Haven, brings together the best college +athletic talent from all parts of this broad country. This year a team +from the University of California travelled three thousand miles +overland to contest for the championship on that day. Besides them, an +unknown runner with a rapid gait and a queer cap came out of the West, +and left the crack sprinters of the East straining and striving behind +him, while he, with a broad smile, pocketed two gold medals, and carried +them back to Iowa. I don't believe there was ever any better sport at +Olympia, and if the colleges can be so successful in these things, and +can draw men to compete at these games from every point of the compass, +why should not the schools follow their example, and form one great +Interscholastic Association, and have a big meeting once a year? There +is no reason why they should not. I can think of hardly a single +obstacle in the way of the formation of such a league. All that is +needed is that some energetic individual or individuals, or some +enthusiastic and sporting spirited Athletic Association take the matter +in hand and put it through. Once started, the routine of organization +would roll along as if on wheels. + +It is not necessary that every school in the country should be asked to +join at the outset. On the contrary, I would suggest that the greater +Association under discussion be made up of the various I.S.A.A.'s now +existing, and that the big annual games be a contest among the winners +of the annual games of the individual associations. This scheme commends +itself, because only the best men from every locality could compete at +the meeting, and the number of entries could in that manner be limited. +We have all had experience with a superfluity of contestants, and we +know what interminable trial heats mean. If the movement to form a +general Interscholastic Association should be started in New York, there +would be no lack of leagues already in good standing to call upon for +membership. There are the New York and the Long Island I.S.A.A.'s right +here. Near by we have the New England I.S.A.A., the Western +Massachusetts I.S.A.A., the Maine I.S.A.A., the Connecticut I.S.A.A., +the Pennsylvania Inter-academic A.A., the Dartmouth I.S.A.A., and the +New York State I.S.A.A. of Syracuse. In addition to these there are many +others that I need not mention here. A large and influential league in +the West is the Academic Athletic League of the Pacific Coast, of whose +prowess on track and field I have had occasion to speak of many times in +this Department. + +Of course, one of the first questions that would arise upon the +organization of such an Interscholastic Association would be, Where +shall the annual meeting be held? The answer to that is simply, hold it +where it will be most convenient for the greatest number of schools +interested. It would not be advisable to hold the meeting in a different +city each year, for the Portland and Bangor athletes would not care to +journey to Philadelphia, neither would the Pennsylvanians care to travel +up into Maine. New York is a central location, but in many respects it +would be a poor place for a meeting of the kind under consideration. The +ideal spot, to my mind, would be New Haven. This for two reasons +principally. It is half-way between Boston and Philadelphia, which are +the centres of the New England and Pennsylvania districts; and it is +also about equally distant from New York and Hartford, which are the +homes of the N.Y. & L.I.I.S.A.A's, and the Connecticut I.S.A.A. The +second good reason is that Yale University is situated at New Haven, and +I have no doubt that the authorities of college athletics there would +only be too happy to offer the use of the Yale field, and to do +considerable work toward the management of the games. + +Even if the college men felt that they could not devote their time to +the management of an Interscholastic meeting--which I greatly doubt, for +it would be to their interest to do so--there are three large schools in +New Haven, members of the Connecticut I.S.A.A., which would certainly +see that business committees were appointed, and competent men set to +work for the successful carrying out of the enterprise. But I believe +the athletic authorities of Yale would be so glad of the opportunity to +help and assist the school athletes that they would even go so far as to +offer a cup to be contested for. + +But I have run a little ahead of my subject. What we are all most +interested in now is the first step; the rest can easily be arranged +afterward. It is too late to think of holding a general Interscholastic +meeting this spring, but it is none too early to begin to think of +holding one next year. Preparations for such an important event require +much time. If there is anything that HARPER'S ROUND TABLE can do to +further the success of the plan, or if there is any work that I can +perform in my small way toward the carrying out of any idea that may be +formulated, it shall be done. I hope these few words on the subject will +appeal to the athletes of the schools, and I shall be only too glad to +hear from them, and, if possible, to give space to their suggestions. + +PENNSYLVANIA I.A.L. GAMES, FRANKLIN FIELD, PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 1, 1895. + + Event. Winner--5 points. Performance. + + 100-yard dash Jones, P.C. 10-4/5 sec. + 120-yard hurdle Branson, P.C. 18-3/5 " + Half-mile run Gage, H. 2 m. 17-1/2 " + Mile bicycle Whetstone, De L. 3 " 7 " + 440-yard run Jones, P.C. 58-2/5 " + 220-yard hurdle Branson, P.C. 29-4/5 " + 220-yard dash Jones, P.C. 24-3/5 " + Mile run Thackara, G. 5 " 23 " + Half-mile walk Lippincott, De L. 4 " 5 " + Running high jump Rorer, P.C. 5 ft. 2-1/2 in. + Running broad jump Branson.P.C. 19 " 7 " + Putting shot Watts, C. 33 " 4-1/2 " + Standing broad jump Flavell, G. 9 " 7 " + Pole-vault Hanson, P.C. 9 " 2-1/2 " + + + Event. 2d--3 points. 3rd--1 point. + + 100-yard dash Hunsberger, P.C. Bailey, P.C. + 120-yard hurdle Coit, C. Remington, De L. + Half-mile run Thackara, G. Farr, De L. + Mile bicycle Lagen, De L. Beverlin, De L. + 440-yard run Lambertson, C. McCarty, G. + 220-yard hurdle Rorer, P.C. Coit, G. + 220-yard dash Hunsberger, P.C. Beasley, G. + Mile run Guernsey, P.C. Gage, H. + Half-mile run Shearer, P.C. Sutton, H. + Running high jump Newhold, De L. Remington, De L. + Running broad jump Rorer, P.C. Johnson, G. + Putting shot Farr, De L. Sayen, H. + Standing broad jump Branson, P.C. Rorer, P.C. + Pole-vault Rorer, P.C. { Flavell, G. + { Branson, P.C. + + + Points Made. + + Penn Charter 67-1/2 + De Lancey 23 + Germantown 17-1/2 + Cheltenham 9 + Haverford 10 + Adelphi 0 + Episcopal 0 + --- + Total 126 + + NOTE.--P.C., Penn Charter School; G., Germantown Academy; De L., + De Lancey School; C., Cheltenham Military Academy; H., Haverford + Grammar School; E., Episcopal Academy. + +The unusual heat of ten days ago interfered mightily with the success of +the Pennsylvania schools' field-day on Franklin Field a week ago +Saturday. With the thermometer at 95 deg., and the officials so overcome +with heat that half of them did not turn up, it is not to be wondered at +that but two records were broken. The only men who seem to have remained +unaffected by the temperature, were Jones and Branson of the Penn +Charter School, the former taking first in the 100, 220, and 440, and +the latter winning three firsts, one second, and two thirds--a total of +twenty points. Rorer, also of Penn Charter, came pretty close to his +schoolmates by taking one first, three seconds, and one third. All three +leave school this year. The meeting was, therefore, a perfect walk-over +for P.C., as the score by points clearly shows, and at no time of the +afternoon was there much enthusiasm displayed. It began to rain just +before the field events were contested, and when the heavy shower ceased +the field was in no condition for jumping or pole-vaulting. This +accounts for the poor performances in those events. + +Jones ran the final heat of the 100 in 10-4/5 sec., winning easily, and +came home twenty yards ahead of his second man in the quarter. He was +not pressed in the 220 either, and made the poor time of 24-3/5 sec. The +half-mile was one of the most interesting races of the day. The first +three men kept well bunched all the way around, and Gage made a good +spurt at the finish. Branson won both the high hurdles and the low +hurdles with comparative ease, most of his opponents appearing fagged +out. In the bicycle race, which occurred after the shower, a bad +collision, in which one man was seriously hurt, knocked out three +contestants and spoiled the event. In the mile, Guernsey, P.C., started +a spurt within 220 yards of the tape, and earned a lead of thirty yards, +but Thackara of Germantown showed better judgment by waiting until he +reached the 100-yard mark, when he forged ahead and won. The half-mile +walk was very close, the judges being unable to decide the first three +places for some time. They finally made the award in the order given in +the table. The records broken were in the shot event by Watts, who put +the ball 3-1/2 inches beyond the I.A.L. record of 33 ft. 1 in., and in +the pole-vault. The latter was broken by four men. Hanson and Rorer tied +for first, and as neither could better his jump, they tossed for first +place, with the luck in favor of Hanson. Branson, P.C., got third place. + +In strong contrast to the ease of Penn Charter's victory on Franklin +Field was the sharp and exciting contest between the Bangor and Portland +High-Schools at the Maine I.S.A.A. meeting in Maplewood Park, Bangor, +the same afternoon. The result was a tie, each school scoring 37-1/2 +points, and out of fifteen records on the programme eleven were broken. +Some of the best performances were Somers's jump of 21 ft. 5 in. in the +broad; Perry's pole-vault of 9 ft. 3 in.; and the winning of the low +hurdles by Edwards in 28 seconds. The most exciting period of the day +was toward the close of the meeting, when Portland High was 10 points +ahead of Bangor High, and only the hammer and standing high jump to be +decided. Portland felt almost sure of victory, but Godfrey and Connors +of Bangor went in and took the first two places in the hammer, with +Wakefield of Thornton third, thus shutting Portland out from winning any +points in that event. Not only this, but Godfrey broke the record by +more than eight feet. Then he answered to the call for the standing high +jump, clearing 4 ft. 7 in. at his first trial, and there tieing Jordan +of Portland. Both men tried to do better, but were unable to, and third +place again went to Thornton with Hidgdon. The tie will make the record +of victories count one year for each school in the holding of the cup +now in the custody of Bangor. + +[Illustration: F. Munson. Albert Mooler. S. E. Gunnison. H. Simpson. J. +Beasley. + +E. H. Jewell. H. Romer (Capt.). M. Forney. + +J. Forney. A. Opp. A. Topping. + + +ADELPHI ACADEMY TRACK-ATHLETIC TEAM. + +Champions of the L.I.I.S.A.A., 1895.] + +Of the eleven point-winners from the Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, at the +Long Island Interscholastic Games on May 11th, six will return to school +next year. These are Gunnison, who took three firsts in the championship +games, Mooler, Beasley, Topping, and both Forneys. Of the others, +Simpson expects to enter West Point, Opp will go to the Columbia Law +School, while Munson, Romer, and Jewell will go into business. The +last-named will be the greatest loss to the team, as he made almost as +good a showing at Eastern Park as Gunnison. Nevertheless, there is +plenty of good material left in the school, and with the nucleus that +remains Adelphi ought to be able to build up another champion team. + +The Interscholastic Games of the New England Association, which are to +be held on Holmes Field, Cambridge, next Saturday, will bring together a +larger number of contestants than have appeared at any interscholastic +event this season. The New England I.S.A.A. includes about thirty +schools, and more than twenty will send representatives to strive for +the cup. While it is not so very difficult to guess the probable winners +of first place in the principal events on the card, the general result +of the day is by no means a certainty, for the smaller schools always +manage to send one or two "dark horses" who upset the closest +calculations of the best judges. Nevertheless, the championship probably +rests with the Worcester High-School, or the Boston English High-School, +or the Phillips Academy, Andover. The W.H.-S. team won the in-door +meeting last March by scoring 19 points, and most of the winners of that +day will compete on Holmes Field this week. Andover did not send a full +team to the in-door games, and the E.H.-S. was crippled by the absence +of some of its best athletes on that occasion, but both schools have +been training their strongest men for the past few weeks, and will +surely be well represented. + +The 100-yards dash will be won by Roche of W.H.-S., Clarke of Worcester +Academy, or Dunbar of E.H.-S. These three sprinters breasted the tape +almost together in the 40-yard dash at the winter meeting, Roche winning +by a few inches only. I consider Ferguson the surest man for the high +hurdles, although Chase of Andover will be close upon him. The low +hurdles will make a pretty race for Fuller, Cambridge L.S., Heine, P.A., +and Seaver, Brookline H.-S. Fuller's success will largely depend on +whether he has to run the 220 flat before he takes the hurdles. In that +case Heine and Seaver will have a slight advantage. But if Fuller does +run the 220 before this, he ought to win it, with Roche and Dunbar +behind him. There will be no fast time made in the quarter, and the race +will furnish a good opportunity for a surprise by some unknown quantity. +Fish, W.A., Carleton, Milton Academy, Purtell, E.H.-S., and Howe, +W.H.-S., are about equal in ability for that distance. Albertson, +W.H.-S., and Batchelder, R.L.S., will have a close race in the +half-mile, and I have no doubt that the record will be lowered. +Cunningham of Hopkinson ought to be third. + +If Laing of Andover were not kept out of the contest by the age limit +ruling he would, beyond any doubt, take the mile for P.A. He ran it at +the Interscholastics last year in 4 min. 32-2/5 sec. And so, unless +Andover sends down another good man, Dow of E.H.-S. will probably win +the event. Moore of Newton H.-S. ought to take the walk, with Delaney of +W.H.-S. second, and Barstow of Hopkinson third. For the field events +Holt and Dole of Roxbury Latin, and Henderson of E.H.-S., will divide +the honors in the high jump, while the broad will be contested by +Purtell, E.H.-S. and Holt, R.L.S. The shot event will be won by O'Brien, +E.H.-S., with Jordan, W.H.-S. and Holt, P.A., in the places. Johnson, +W.A., should win the pole-vault, although Thenoin, R.L.S., may push him. +The hammer rests with Seargent of Hopkinson, Coan, E.H.-S., or Barney, +R.L.S. With so many men competing from such a large number of different +schools, it is not probable that the winning score will be much greater +than 25, and the winner of second place ought to come close to the same +figure. + +The New York Interscholastic Tennis Tournament, under the auspices of +Columbia College, had a large entry list that required three days to be +played off. The games were all characterized by steady work rather than +by any particularly brilliant play, and the championship was won by +Waltz of the Leal School, Plainfield. He met Wigham of Harvard School in +the finals, and had a comparatively easy time of it, defeating the +New-Yorker in three straight sets--6-1, 6-2, 6-4. He will go to Newport +for the big Interscholastic tournament this summer, and will meet the +other school league champions, Ware of the N.E.I.S.A.A., Sheldon of the +Connecticut I.S.A.A., and Beaman, who won in the Pennsylvania I.A.L. +Tournament at Princeton. I consider Ware the strongest player of this +quartet, and expect to see him win at Newport. He will be heard from at +the Longwood Tournament next Saturday too. + +The prospects of Lawrenceville being victorious over Andover in the +baseball game to-morrow have been daily increasing, and I believe now +that the Jerseymen will win. Andover does not seem to be able to reduce +the average of errors made in her games so far, and her players on the +left-field side must play a sharp game if they wish to offset +Lawrenceville's good batters. St. Mark's School, with little over a +hundred boys to pick a nine from, defeated the Phillips Academy team, +two weeks ago, by the score of 6-3, and the latter suffered another bad +defeat from the Yale Freshmen a few days later. St. Mark's victory was +in a considerable measure due to the effective pitching of White, who +held the Andover men down to six hits. The features of the game, besides +White's work in the box, were the catching of Drew, Andover's Captain, +and the fielding of Folger. Mills, too, made a beautiful running catch +of a long fly. I am surprised that the St. Mark's batters were able to +get seven hits off Greenway, as it has been Andover's boast that their +battery is as good as any in the schools. It is; and I surmise that +Greenway had an off-day at Southboro. He must do better to-morrow or +Lawrenceville will have an easy time with their Massachusetts rivals. +The Jersey players have greatly improved the past week, especially in +team-work. They have won within the past fifteen days two games from the +Pennington Seminary's strong team, they have defeated the Princeton +Freshmen, and they got excellent practice out of their match with the +Princeton 'Varsity. Andover will have the advantage of home grounds and +the crowd, but they will need more than that to pile up the runs. + +A new invention by Professor E. W. Scripture, of Yale, will be +interesting to all track athletes. The apparatus is one that will +measure a runner's "reaction time." This time is that which elapses +between the moment the pistol is discharged and the moment the sprinter +starts. The brief period between these two moments is taken up by nature +in transmitting the sound from the ear to the brain, and the impulse to +run from the brain to the muscles of the legs. Professor Scripture +believes that the length of reaction time is frequently an important +factor, and he argues that with a runner it must be reduced to the +shortest possible limit, as one-fifth of a second counts in a race. By +experiments the inventor has proved to his own satisfaction that the +time which elapses between the firing of the starter's pistol and the +actual start of the runner is long enough to influence the winning of a +race. The reaction time of a runner may vary from one-sixth to one-third +of a second. The new invention is an arrangement by which a runner's +reaction time may be measured to within the one-thousandth part of a +second. The starter's pistol is arranged so that an electric contact is +broken when the pistol goes off. A thread is attached to the right foot +of the runner, and this thread breaks an electric contact the moment he +starts. The distance marked on a cylinder by these two contacts measures +the individual's reaction time. Sport may soon reach such a scientific +stage of advancement that sprinters will be handicapped with reference +to their "reaction time." + + THE GRADUATE. + + * * * * * + +Charlotte Cushman, a celebrated actress, was filling an engagement at +the opera-house in B----. A man in the gallery created such a +disturbance that it seriously impeded the progress of the play, and +finally brought it to a standstill. Immediately the audience, furious +with anger, cried: "Throw him over! Throw him over!" + +Miss Temple stepped to the edge of the footlights, and in a sweet and +gentle voice exclaimed: "No, I pray you, don't throw him over. I beg of +you, dear friends, don't throw him over, but _kill him where he is_!" + + * * * * * + +An Irishman was on trial for committing a burglary, and had conducted +his own case. The evidence against him was strong, and the judge, after +summing up, remarked, while looking at the prisoner, that he could +detect the rascal and villain in his face. "Hold there!" shouted the +prisoner. "I object; that is a personal reflection." + + + + +ADVERTISEMENTS. + + + + +Highest of all in Leavening Power.--Latest U. S. Gov't Report. + +[Illustration: Royal Baking Powder] + + + + +BASE BALL. HOW TO PLAY IT. + +[Illustration] + +A Great Book, contains =all= the rules; also the =secret= of pitching +curved balls, and to bat successfully. Rules for Football and Tennis. +Every player should have it. Entirely new and handsomely illustrated. +This =Great Book Free= to any one sending us =10= cents to pay postage. +=Also= Catalogue Guns, Revolvers, Musical Instruments, Magic Tricks. +=All for 10c. Order quick.= For =$1.25= we will send Our =Basic Ball +Outfit=, consisting of 9 Caps, 9 Belts, 1 Ball, 1 Bat. + +BATES SPORTING CO., 100 High St., Boston, Mass. + + + + +=HARPER'S CATALOGUE= thoroughly revised, classified, and indexed, will +be sent by mail to any address on receipt of 10 cents. + + + + +[Illustration: If afflicted with SORE EYES USE Dr. ISAAC THOMPSON'S EYE +WATER] + + + + +[Illustration: BICYCLING] + + This Department is conducted in the interest of Bicyclers, and the + Editor will be pleased to answer any question on the subject. Our + maps and tours contain much valuable data kindly supplied from the + official maps and road-books of the League of American Wheelmen. + Recognizing the value of the work being done by the L. A. W. the + Editor will be pleased to furnish subscribers with membership + blanks and information so far as possible. + + +[Illustration: Copyright, 1895, by Harper & Brothers.] + +The run from Brooklyn to Babylon along the south shore of Long Island is +perhaps the best bicycle run on the Island, and is the first thirty-five +miles of the famous century run which is made every year by the Kings +County Wheelmen; and there is no doubt that this 100-mile course along +the shore of Long Island is as easy a run as there is in the east United +States. The road is macadamized most of the way to Babylon, and is at +present finished about as far as Seaford. From Seaford on to Babylon the +road is a good one, though not all macadamized. The wheelman intending +to make this run should examine the map of Brooklyn published in last +week's ROUND TABLE. He will there find the way to get from his +residence, whether in Brooklyn or New York, to Prospect Park. Starting +from Prospect Park, run up the Boulevard to Liberty Avenue at East New +York, and, turning right into this, continue thence to Woodhaven. At +Woodhaven take the left-hand fork and run out to Jamaica. The road +through Jamaica is clearly enough marked, as it is the beginning of the +Plank Road that continues on to Jericho. The rider should keep on this +road, which is in good condition, out of Jamaica a mile or more, passing +through Hollis and Holliswood Park. At the latter place, and just before +reaching Queens, a turn should be made to the right, and after crossing +the track the rider will run out over a good road about seven miles to +Hempstead. On entering Hempstead he may turn to the left and run up to +Garden City, where there is a hotel that is well kept, and a good place +for a short stop if one is desired. + +Returning to Hempstead, the rider keeps to the main road, running down +towards Ridgewood, and comes into the Shore Road, and thence the run +continues straight on through South Jerusalem, Seaford, Amityville, +Lindenhurst, into Babylon. The whole run from Brooklyn is practically a +forty-mile journey, and if the wheelman intends to return on his wheel +to Brooklyn he can keep straight on the Shore Road, passing through +Freeport, Rockville Centre, and Valley Stream, instead of turning to the +right near Ridgewood, and going back through Hempstead. The great +advantage of this run is that there are almost no hills along the line +of the road, and the wheelman has as "clean" a ride as can be found in +the vicinity of New York. When all the roadway along the South Side of +Long Island is finally macadamized there will be hardly a single run in +the country to equal it. + + K. L. T.--The cost of a bicycle trip from New York to Liverpool, + thence to France, and perhaps into Germany, depends entirely on how + much luxury the traveller expects to indulge in, and whether he or + she will ride entirely or will frequently use railway trains. It is + safe to say, however, that it is possible after reaching Europe to + make a bicycle tour through France and Germany on an average of two + dollars per day, though that requires the greatest care in + expenses. (2) It would be hardly advisable for two ladies to travel + through France and Germany alone on bicycles, though it could be + done. The difficulty would be that bicyclists still attract + attention, and two foreign women would be much more likely to meet + with difficulties than if they travelled by rail, to say nothing of + the possible accidents to their machines. (3) The necessary luggage + would be comparatively easily carried in the triangular water-proof + bicycle bag, which is carried on a diamond frame machine inside the + diamond, and on a woman's bicycle in a different shape bag attached + to the handle-bar in the front. Any woman going on such a trip + should learn how to take a bicycle to pieces and put it together + again, and in the process of learning she will discover what tools + are necessary. Material for mending tires is absolutely + necessary--a good monkey-wrench, oil cans, a tire inflator, + pincers, and a reasonably good supply of small wire and twine for + making repairs where such material is necessary. In France you will + probably find no difficulty in having all necessary bicycle repairs + made, especially in the cities and larger towns. It would be much + cheaper to stop at houses, and in England, and perhaps to a certain + extent in France and Germany, such travellers are very well + received in the cottages of the peasants in the middle classes. (4) + The best bicycle roads in the world are in England, and England has + for many years been called the "bicyclist's paradise." The French + government roads come next, both being comparatively free from + hills. German roads are by no means as good, and the country is + more hilly. Swiss roads are moderately good, and in some places + very fine, but they are apt to be extremely hilly. Northern Italy + would probably come next; but it is safe to say that for two women + taking their first bicycle tour, England is by far the best place + to travel in. (5) If two ladies travel second-class on a steamer to + Liverpool they might meet with some unpleasant incidents, but it is + now possible to get a first-class return ticket on some of the + smaller steamers of the important lines quite as cheaply as a + second-class return ticket on the larger steamers. For instance, a + first-class ticket and return to Havre, France, or Southampton, + England, can be bought for from ninety to one hundred dollars on + the smaller steamers of the Hamburg and North German Lloyd lines. + It would, of course, be cheaper to buy a return ticket. + + NOTE.--Map of New York city asphalted streets in No. 809. Map of + route from New York to Tarrytown in No. 810. New York to Stamford, + Connecticut, in No. 811. New York to Staten Island in No. 812. New + Jersey, from Hoboken to Pine Brook in No. 813. Brooklyn in No. + 814. + + + + +[Illustration: THE CAMERA CLUB] + + Any questions in regard to photograph matters will be willingly + answered by the editor of this column, and we should be glad to + hear from any of our club who can make helpful suggestions. + + +BROKEN NEGATIVES. + +Sometimes one is so unfortunate as to break a negative which cannot well +be replaced. The amateur who understands little about photographic work +is, in such a case, quite likely to think that the negative is ruined, +and throw it away; but unless it has been broken in many pieces it can +be repaired so that one can get as good a print from it as before it was +broken. + +If there is one clear break across the glass, but not through the film, +place the negative in the printing frame, pushing the broken edges +closely together, holding them while adjusting the sensitive paper. +Fasten in the printing frame, and print in a diffused light--that is, +not in the direct rays of the sun. Place the negative at such an angle +with the light that the crack across the glass shall not make a shadow. + +If there are several cracks in the glass, but not in the film, put the +negative in the printing frame, supporting it by a piece of plain glass; +tie cords to the printing frame so that it may be suspended by them; +hang the frame from some projection where it will not hit anything, and +keep it revolving during the printing process. The plate moving all the +time, the cracks in the glass do not cast a shadow long enough in one +place to make any impression on the sensitive paper. If one cannot +arrange the frame in this way, it may be placed at the bottom of a large +deep box without a cover, and left to print. + +If the film is broken as well as the glass, take a piece of plain glass +the size of the negative--a spoiled plate is just the thing--lay the +broken pieces on this plain glass, taking care that the picture lines of +the negative are true, and bind the edges of the glass and negative +together with strips of gummed paper. When the strips are dry, varnish +the film with negative varnish. It is better to purchase the varnish +ready prepared than to attempt to fix it one's self. + +If the negative is badly broken, but not splintered, apply Canada balsam +with a toothpick to the edges of the broken parts, and press them firmly +together, keeping the negative on a flat surface during the process, a +glass plate a little larger than the negative being the best thing to +use. When the balsam is thoroughly dry, flow the negative with varnish, +and as soon as it begins to set cover it with a piece of glass the size +of the negative. When dry, bind the edges together with strips as before +directed. If the negative is very badly broken, it should be enclosed +between two pieces of plain glass, putting on the second in the same +manner, after the first is dry. Bind the three together. + +An excellent paste for binding negatives and lantern slides is made of +rice flour. Mix rice flour with water till it is smooth and free from +lumps. Set the dish containing it into another of hot water, and boil +till it becomes thick and semi-transparent, stirring it all the time. +When done it should be about the consistency of laundry starch made for +collars and cuffs. This paste is very strong--in fact, almost as durable +as cement. If a few drops of carbolic acid are added to it, it will keep +for some time. The bottle should be tightly corked when not in use. + +If the film has not been broken it can be removed from the glass in the +same way that films are stripped, and transferred to another clean +plate. + +For very valuable negatives it is a good plan to make a paper negative, +in case of accident to the glass one. A paper negative is made by taking +a good print of the negative and waxing it according to directions given +in No. 782 "answers to queries." Make a print from this waxed positive, +supporting the paper while in the printing frame by a sheet of plain +glass. Tone and fix this print, which will be a negative. Wax it, and if +you are so unfortunate as to break the original, you will still have the +paper copy, which can be used in its place. + +For negatives that can be replaced it is not wise to spend the time in +repairing them if broken, but it sometimes happens that a valuable one +is broken which cannot be duplicated, and with careful handling it can +be made "as good as new." + + SIR KNIGHT HARRY T. LUTHER, New York, asks what causes his + negatives to turn yellow, and if there is any remedy for it. The + reason why negatives turn yellow is usually because they have not + been washed long enough. They should be washed in running water an + hour. If running water is not convenient soak the plate for two + hours, changing the water several times. The yellow stains may + sometimes be removed by soaking the negative for a short time in a + solution of one ounce sulphite of soda and nine ounces water, to + which a few drops of sulphuric acid have been added. Sir Harry + also asks what toning solution to use with the plain paper + described in Nos. 796 and 803. The combined toning solution used + for aristo paper is the best solution for the plain paper. It + works quickly, and gives soft clear tones. + + SIR KNIGHT WILLIAM KELSEY asks if a combined toning and fixing + solution can be prepared for aristo-type paper--how long negatives + and prints should be washed in running water--and what use is made + of hyposulphite of soda and alum in developing negatives. A + combined toning solution for aristo may be bought ready prepared, + or one can prepare it at home. A formula comes with each package + of paper, and half the quantity given is enough to prepare at one + time, unless one has a large number of prints to tone. + Hyposulphite of soda and alum are used for fixing the negative + after developing. The hypo can be used for fixing without the + addition of the alum. The alum hardens and clears the film, and is + good to use in warm weather to prevent the frilling of the film. + + SIR KNIGHT GEORGE H. BENZON, JUN., Philadelphia, Pa., asks for the + best solution for fixing plates. A solution of 4 ounces water and + 1 ounce of hyposulphite of soda is the formula used by the editor + of this column both in warm and cold weather. In warm weather the + tray containing the fixing solution is set in a pan containing + pieces of ice, which prevents the frilling or softening of the + film. A formula for a fixing solution with soda and alum is given + in No. 808, answer to Sir Knight Frederick Kopper. + + SIR KNIGHTS D. G. STANBROUGH, A. SMITH, HARLOW BROWN, and LADY + FLORENCE CRANE all ask for a good formula for a toning solution, + but neither one says for what kind of paper. The formulas for + toning baths are very numerous, and different chemicals are used + for different sensitive papers. As aristo paper is at present a + very popular paper, we give the following standard, combining + toning and fixing bath for prints made on this paper: Water, 10 + ounces; hyposulphite of soda, 2 ounces; sulphocyanide of ammonium, + 1/8 ounce; acetate of lead, 30 grains; nitrate of lead, 30 grains; + chloride of gold (neutral), 1 grain. + + This bath must be made up twenty-four hours before using, that it + may clear and settle. In preparing, add the ingredients in the + order named, dissolving each before adding another. Put the + prints, without washing, in this bath, one at a time, taking care + that no air bubbles form on the print, as they will leave spots on + the finished prints. The prints will turn at first a + yellowish-brown, then to a warm red, and finally to a rich brown. + Remove from the bath as soon as the desired tone is obtained. Wash + for one hour in running water. 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It is +organized for the encouragement of goodly fellowship and improvement. It +desires to communicate with Knights and Ladies of the Round Table living +in Minneapolis. Its officers are Fred H. Stevens, Lottie Kluge, Myrtle +Jones; Florence Kimball, 3600 Bloomington Avenue. + + + + +Lovers of Play Journalism. + + +Odd, isn't it, how everybody loves to see what he writes in print? The +oldest editor in America is not free from this vanity, or whatever one +may call it. So young persons who play at making small papers are in +good company. Besides, they are engaged in what affords them experience +they can get in no other way. Three excellent amateur papers reach the +Table: the _Amateur Collector_, R. T. Hale and F. W. Beale, editors and +publishers, 23 Federal Street, Newburyport, Mass.; _Our Young People_, +Robinson Bros. & Co., Box 255, Brunswick, Me.; and the _Little Magnet_, +Louis O. Brosie, editor, 3405 Butler Street, Pittsburg, Pa. All three +are splendid examples of the editor's and printer's "arts." Here are +some members who are interested in journalism, want sample copies, and +can contribute morsels: Waldemar Young, 174 C Street, Salt Lake City, +Utah; J. T. Delano, Jun., 12 White Street, Newport R. I.; James F. +Bowen, 36 St. James Avenue, Boston, Mass.; and Samuel T. Bush, 1104 East +15th Street, East Oakland, Cal. + +R. C. Megrue asks what it costs to start and run a small paper. That +depends on how large it is, and whether you have a press of your own. +The cost is considerable per copy if you go to a regular +printing-office, because the edition is rarely above two or three +hundred copies. The charge in one case we know of was $7 per hundred. +Will not R. T. Hale kindly give us a morsel on the subject? Louis O. +Brosie and Clement F. or Arthur L. Robinson may give us morsels too. +Please tell the Table about the cost, size, and mention some of the +other difficulties. Never mind the fun of the thing. Pleasures take care +of themselves. + + + + +What a Copyright Is. + + +A copyright, dear sir Harry, is a legal right to a copy. Suppose you and +your friend Delano, four doors away, should publish a book that proved +as popular as--well, let us say _Trilby_, or _Ben-Hur_, or _Uncle Tom's +Cabin_ did. If you send out a few copies and put upon them no legal +proprietary mark, other persons seeing the demand could and would take +your work, make copies of it, sell them, pocket the money, and give you +nothing for what perhaps cost you a great deal of effort. If, however, +you observe the legal forms, and your book proves saleable, other +persons are prevented from making additional copies. Those who want +copies must buy them from you. The legal form is very simple. Before you +publish the book, paper, print, or whatever it is, you mail two copies +to the Librarian of Congress, Washington, with $1. He returns to you a +paper, duly signed, setting forth the fact that for a certain number of +years that article belongs to you. You state this fact on each copy +published, and then the profit is yours, and the law protects you in it. + + + + +Some South African Birds. + + + Following the example of other members of the Round Table, I + thought I would write and tell you about some of our birds. + + My brothers and I have just been talking about the blue hawk. It + is not a particularly large bird, and is grayish-blue in color. It + is comparatively harmless, its chief prey being rats and mice. Its + nest looks like a pile of sticks roughly laid together, but at the + bottom of the nest it is very soft. This is the description my + little cousin gives of its eggs: "If you were to take a pure white + egg and rub it all over with blood, leaving a few white specks, it + would be just like a blue-hawk's egg." In shape it is round, and + the color is really a dirty red. The bird's call sounds very much + like that of a cross fretful baby. + + Another peculiar bird here is the hammerhop. It is a large brown + bird, and has a crest upon its head which looks like a hammer, + hence the name. It preys upon the frogs. It makes a tremendous + nest in the shape of a hut on the top of a high rock. I am told + that it plasters the nest on the inside. + + One of our prettiest birds is the gilded cuckoo or diedrich. The + color of its back is green, and looks as if a lot of bronze dust + had been sprinkled on it. Its breast is white spotted with brown. + Like other cuckoos, it lays its eggs in other birds' nests. The + color of the eggs is pure white. It has a very musical + call--"dee-dee-dee-diedrich." + + The aasvogel is a species of vulture. It is of a dirty white + color, and has no feathers at all on its neck. Almost as soon as + an animal dies the sky is darkened by aasvogels flying to prey + upon the body. The leader or king perches upon it first, while his + followers sit round waiting until he is finished. He claims the + eyes as his portion, as a rule. As soon as he has satisfied his + hunger he flies away, leaving his followers to have their share. + The aasvogel builds his nest of sticks on the top of some + inaccessible krautz (precipice). The eggs are white, I believe, + spotted with brown. I would like to correspond with Ladies of the + Round Table in different parts of the world. + + ISMA FINCHAM. + ROYDON, QUEENSTOWN, CAPE COLONY, SOUTH AFRICA. + + + + +Do Your Rabbits Ever Drink? + + + Mr. Chase says rabbits drink. I think there are two sides to that + question. I know a boy who has a dozen rabbits and not one ever + drinks. I have two and neither ever drink. Another friend had two + that he kept seven years. They drank milk, and, at rare times, + water. I believe that rabbits can be trained either way. What is + the experience of others? + + VICTOR R. GAGE. + VINELAND. + + + + +A Florida Gopher. + + + A Florida gopher is very different from those we read about as + living out West. In shape and size he is nearly like a common + fresh-water turtle, with this difference; he lives on land. The + gopher has a very hard shell covering his entire body except the + head and feet. His front feet are nearly like a turtle's, with + four or five claws, but very hard. They must of necessity be hard, + for this animal burrows very deep in this hard, clay ground. His + hind feet are round, with a flat bottom, four to five claws on + each, evidently made for pushing when walking or burrowing. They + look like a miniature elephant's foot. + + His head is also very much like a turtle's. When alarmed he draws + his head and feet into his shell and remains quiet. He is a very + peaceful animal. I have never known one to bite anybody nor + anything else. The gopher lives in the ground, burrowing a + molelike passage several hundred feet long. There is no use trying + to dig for one. It would take a week of the hardest kind of work + to reach the bottom of his tunnel. + + He comes out every day about noon for his meals. He eats grass, + weeds, clover, etc., for his regular meals; but when he finds a + farm with pease, beans, and other vegetables, unless he is + discovered in time he will do a great deal of damage, for he eats + such things voraciously. In raising their young the female lays + from five to six eggs in the dirt she has thrown out when digging + her tunnel. She buries them, and in a few weeks hatches out a + great number of the cutest little things you ever saw. They do not + stay with their mother, but go immediately to forming a little + burrow for themselves, which is from five to six feet deep. They + can live a long time without any food whatever. Their flesh is + also eatable, tasting somewhat like chicken. May I write again? + + HARRY R. WHITCOMB. + UMATILLA, FLA. + +Certainly you may write again. + + + + +Blackberries Nearly the Year Round. + + Down here we have a great variety of fruit. We have blackberries + nearly all the year round. They commence in March and last until + about the end of November. All are what we call wild in the + States. Indians peddle them in big baskets on their backs. They + are a great deal smaller than yours, and can only be eaten when + cooked. I would like to exchange Mexican postage and revenue + stamps with some Knights of the Round Table. + + ROBERT L. MILLER, JUN. + P. O. Box 319, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO. + + + + +Mounting Paper Money. + + +A California member asks how to fix paper money so that it may be +examined without having to take it out of envelopes each time. There are +two ways of mounting your specimens. The first and most difficult is to +take very stiff paper and make a leaf with an opening of the exact size, +like the opening in a photograph album leaf. Mucilage the tiniest edge +all around, and press till thoroughly dry. + +The other way is to cover the four corners, but this prevents the back +from being seen. An ideal way would be to have two specimens--one to +mount one side front, the other the other side. Rare manuscripts are +mounted according to the first method, and then the heavy albumlike +leaves are bound into a book. + + + + +Want Corner. + + +Do you live in Chateaugay, N. Y.? Please favor Blanche French, West +Dedham, Mass., with some account of the place, its size, location, and +any interesting information. She will be most grateful. Hubert B. +Stephens is the new secretary of the Bollman Chapter, and his address is +Box 274, Sharpsburg, Pa. It is a corresponding, stamp, and botany club +with ten-cent fee and five-cent dues. Of course it wants to hear from +anybody interested. S. J. Tucker, 2818 Mary Street, Pittsburg, Pa., +wants to find old copies of _Notes and Queries_. Have you any? He will +reward you if you write him. + +The Benjamin Harrison Chapter, of Lee, Mass., wants suggestions how to +make its meetings interesting. It also wants correspondents. Won't you +write? Ernest A. Chaplin, Somerset East, Cape Colony, South Africa, +writes to the Table: "There is a beautiful mountain just outside our +town, and on it a place called 'Rabbit Rock.'" Sir Ernest says he +collects stamps, and has many rare ones to trade. + +The fee for admission to the Thaddeus Stevens Chapter, 910 North Broad +Street, Philadelphia, is ten cents, and it wants members, both resident +and non-resident. By mistake we announced the fee as $1. The Sylvia +Chapter was prompt to give us the asked-for facts about it. Its +president is Mary B. Yohn, 5813 Jackson Street, Wissinoming, +Philadelphia; secretary, A. Grace Owen. One of its members, Harriett O. +Bender, wants to trade flowers. Address care the president. Will the +Sylvia's president tell us how its meetings are made interesting? We +wish to publish the information. + + + + +[Illustration: Ivory Soap] + +You have noticed the disagreeable odor of clothes just from the wash. +That's the soap. Cheap soaps do not rinse out. Ivory Soap rinses +readily, leaving the clothes sweet, clean and white. + +THE PROCTER & GAMBLE CO., CIN'TI. + + + + +[Illustration] + +CHILDREN GROW + +healthy--grow happy--grow rosy cheeked and bright eyed, on Hires' +Rootbeer. This great health-giving temperance drink should be kept in +every home. It will benefit and delight every member of the family from +the baby up, and prove a most delicious thirst satisfying beverage for +callers. It's good all the time--morning, noon and night. Get the +genuine + +HIRES' Rootbeer + +A 25 cent package makes 5 gallons. Sold everywhere. + +The Chas. E. Hires Co., Philadelphia. + + + + +MONARCH + +King of all Bicycles. + +[Illustration] + +TRADE-MARK. + +Five Styles. Weights, 18 to 25 Pounds. + +Prices, $85 and $100. + +MONARCH CYCLE CO. + +Factory and Main Office, Lake and Halsted Sts., Chicago. + +Eastern Branch: 79 Reade St. & 97 Chambers St., N.Y. + +The C. F. GUYON CO., Ltd., Managers. + + + + +[Illustration] + +CARD PRINTER =FREE= + +Sets any name in one minute; prints 500 cards an hour. YOU can make +money with it. A font of pretty type, also Indelible Ink, Type Holder, +Pads and Tweezers. Best Linen Marker; worth $1.00. Sample mailed FREE +for 10c. stamps for postage on outfit and large catalogue of 1000 +Bargains. + +R. H. Ingersoll & Bro. 65 Cortlandt St. N.Y. City + + + + +[Illustration: If afflicted with SORE EYES USE Dr. ISAAC THOMPSON'S EYE +WATER] + + + + +[Illustration: The =KOMBI= Camera--$3.50] + +[Illustration] + +Carry in pocket. Takes 25 perfect pictures in one loading--re-loading +costs 20c. Ask your dealer for it, or send for free booklet "All About +the Kombi." + +ALFRED C. KEMPER, + +Branches: London, Berlin. 132-134 Lake Street, Chicago + + + + +=DEAFNESS & HEAD NOISES CURED= by my =INVISIBLE= Tubular Cushions. Have +helped more to good =HEAR=ing than all other devices combined. Whispers +=HEAR=d. Help ears as glasses do eyes. =F. Hiscox=, 853 B'dway, N.Y. +Book of proofs =FREE= + + + + +[Illustration] + +The Eight Numbers of the Franklin Square Song Collection contain + +1600 + +of the Choicest Old and New Songs and Hymns in the Wide World. + +Fifty Cents per Number in paper; Sixty Cents in substantial Board +binding; One Dollar in Cloth. The Eight Numbers also bound in two +volumes at $3.00 each. Address Harper & Brothers, New York. + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE TRICK BICYCLE-RIDER AND THE OBSTINATE BULL-DOG. + + +[Illustration] + + Though well he rides and does the trick, + The bull-dog's pace he finds too quick; + +[Illustration] + + On yonder limb he'll get a hold, + And leave the bull-dog in the cold. + +[Illustration] + + He swings himself high in the air, + And takes his bicycle up there; + +[Illustration] + + Then with his pump he'll downward slip, + And let the bull-dog get a grip. + +[Illustration] + + The bull-dog never will let go. + Though he's pumped full of air, and so + +[Illustration] + + When he's as full as he can be, + The next thing happens as you see. + + + + +HELPFUL HINTS FOR BICYCLISTS. + + +1. A good bicyclist is careful of his roads, therefore when taking a +header be careful not to hit the road too hard with your forehead. You +might make a dent in the pavement. + +2. In falling off your wheel do not fall on both sides at once. Failure +to observe this rule will result in dividing you against yourself. + +3. Always be courteous. If a trolley-car has the right of way over the +track do not dispute with it. A boy in Massachusetts who broke this rule +broke his right arm and his cyclometer at the same time. + +4. Be cautious. In riding from New York to Brooklyn keep to the +driveway. Don't try to wheel over the suspension-cable. Yon might slip +and fall into the smoke-stack of a passing ferry-boat. + +5. Keep your lamp lit when riding at night. The boy who thought he was +safe because he had a parlor-match in his pocket came home with a spoke +in his wheel that didn't belong there. + +6. Do not be rough with ice-carts and furniture trucks. If you must run +into one of them do it as gently and tenderly as if it were a +baby-carriage. + +7. A merciful rider is merciful to his wheel, so do not force a bicycle +beyond the point of its endurance, unless you want to walk back with +your wheel on your shoulders. + +8. Keep cool. If in the course of a ride you find yourself in a tight +place, with a skittish horse to the left and a steep ravine to the +right, and a bull-dog directly to the fore, take ravine. You'll go into +it, anyhow, and if you take it alone without dragging the dog or the +horse after you your chances will be improved. + +9. Never use spurs on the pneumatic tires of your wheel. The use of +spurs in this manner is likely to leave your bicycle in a winded +condition. Spurs are not comfortable, either, in case of a throw. + +10. Do not be stubborn with a balky wheel. If the front wheel gets in a +rut going east, and the hind wheel in another going west, dismount and +argue the matter standing, unless you are tired, and want to lie down by +the road-side without making the effort to do so unassisted. + + + + +CHANGED HIS MIND. + + + I didn't like to take my bath, + Until one summer morning bright + I made believe I was a whale, + And now I think it's out o' sight. + + + + +A FACETIOUS VISITOR. + + +"See yat 'ittle boy over zare?" said Mabel. "Yat's my 'ittle buzzer, an' +his name is Nat." + +"Indeed?" said the visitor. "Well, I think gnat is a very good name for +a buzzer." + + + + +A SINGULAR DRESS. + + +"My big brother belongs to the Seventh Regiment," said little Nell, +proudly, "an', my, how noble he looks when he's all dressed up in his +unicorn!" + + + + +A LOST TUNE. + + + I've heard a German band play tunes, + I've heard 'most every other thing; + But one tune I have never heard, + Is that which boiling kettles sing. + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Round Table, June 11, 1895, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S ROUND TABLE, JUNE 11, 1895 *** + +***** This file should be named 33010.txt or 33010.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/3/0/1/33010/ + +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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