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+Project Gutenberg's Harper's Round Table, July 23, 1895, by Various
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+Title: Harper's Round Table, July 23, 1895
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+Author: Various
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+Release Date: July 4, 2010 [EBook #33071]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S ROUND TABLE, JULY 23, 1895 ***
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+Produced by Annie McGuire
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+[Illustration: HARPER'S ROUND TABLE]
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+Copyright, 1895, by HARPER & BROTHERS. All Rights Reserved.
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+PUBLISHED WEEKLY. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1895. FIVE CENTS A COPY.
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+VOL. XVI.--NO. 821. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR.
+
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+[Illustration]
+
+CORPORAL FRED.
+
+A Story of the Riots.
+
+BY CAPTAIN CHARLES KING, U.S.A.
+
+
+CHAPTER I.
+
+It was a warm June evening, and the family was taking the air on the
+back porch--father and mother, two stalwart young men, the elder sons,
+two slender girls, and a romping boy of nine--the little Benjamin of the
+tribe. It was a placid homelike group; father deep in the daily paper
+and his easy-chair, mother absorbed in chat with the girls even while
+keeping watchful eye on "the baby," the family's pet, pride, and torment
+by turns, and the two elder sons sitting on the edge of the porch,
+talking in low tone of an event that had called for no little discussion
+all over the neighborhood--the strike of the switchmen in the great
+freight yards only a block away. Five railway companies rolled their
+trains in and out of the thronging, far-spreading metropolis to the
+eastward--the great city whose hum and murmur were borne to them on the
+soft breeze sweeping inland from the cool blue bosom of the lake. For
+two miles along a number of parallel tracks were idly resting now by
+hundreds the grimy freight cars of a dozen lines, while the gleaming
+steel rails on the "through" tracks, kept cleared from end to end, were
+as silent, as deserted, as the long tangents over the boundless prairies
+miles to west and south, for, except on the mail trains, over the whole
+system since the stroke of five that afternoon not a wheel was turning.
+Never before in all their seven years of residence in this homelike
+little frame cottage had the Wallace household known such utter silence
+at "the yards." They missed the rush and roar of the great express
+engines, the clatter of the puffing little "switchers," the rumble and
+jar of the heavy freight trains, the dancing will-o'-the-wisp signals of
+the trainmen's lights, the clang of bell, and hiss of steam. There was
+something unnatural in the stillness, something almost oppressive, and
+mother and the girls, glad ordinarily to have both Jim and Fred at home,
+seemed weighted with a sense of something strained and troublous in the
+situation. Jim had been a railway man for several years, rising by
+industry, intelligence, and steadiness, to his present grade as a
+freight conductor. Fred, the younger, held a clerkship in the great
+"plant" of the Amity Wagon-works. He had received a good High-School
+education, while Jim's wages, added to his father's, had supported the
+family and built the little suburban home. The elder brother's hands
+were browned by long contact with grimy brake and blistering, sun-baked
+car roofs. The younger's were white and slender--hands that knew no
+labor other than the pen. Both boys were athletic and powerful; Jim,
+through long years in the open air and active, energetic life, Fred,
+through systematic training in the gymnasium and the camp and armory of
+the National Guard, for Fred had been three years a soldier in a "crack"
+city regiment, and the corporal's chevrons on his uniform were his
+greatest pride. Even in boy days he had begun his training in the cadet
+corps of the public school, where military drill, especially the
+"setting-up" system of the regular army, had been wisely added to the
+daily course of instruction; and while Jim's burly form was a trifle
+bowed and heavy, Fred's slender frame was erect, sinewy, and, in every
+motion, quick and elastic. "Jim could hug the breath out of you, Fred,
+like a thundering big bear if he once got his arms around you, and Fred
+could dance all around and hammer you into pulp, Jim, while you were
+trying to grip him," was the way the father expressed it, and old
+Wallace knew young men in general and his own boys in particular as well
+as might be expected of the clear-eyed, shrewd-headed veteran that he
+was. He himself had served the Great Western railway faithfully from the
+days when it was only the struggling Lake Shore, and now as a
+first-class mechanic in the repair shops he was a foreman whom officials
+and operators alike respected. He had lived a sober, honest, industrious
+life, had reared his family on the principle of mind your own business
+and pay as you go, and was looking forward to retiring within a year or
+two, and giving his aching old bones the rest they deserved, and
+enjoying the fruits of his life of toil, when the long-predicted
+irruption began with the strike ordered by the Switchmen's Union.
+
+With anxious face Mr. Wallace was reading the newspaper accounts of the
+stormy meetings held the previous night and well along into the dawning
+day. Some of the men involved were his life-long friends, others of them
+he had known many years. Their names were not among those of the
+speakers whose fiery oratory had finally prevailed. They were of the
+silent, almost passive element, which, largely in the majority at first,
+found itself little by little swinging over under the lash of the more
+aggressive, and at last giving reluctant "aye" or sitting in moody
+silence rather than face the furious denunciation of the agitators that
+followed sharp on every "no." At two o'clock in the morning the members
+of the union, three-fourths of whom were originally bitterly opposed to
+the project, had passed a resolution that unless certain men discharged
+by the management of one of the five roads using the yards were
+reinstated by twelve o'clock that day they would quit work to a man, and
+tie up the business of that and all the others. At nine in the morning
+the committee had waited on the division superintendent with their
+ultimatum. The superintendent replied that the three men discharged were
+freight handlers who had refused to touch the contents of certain cars
+of the Air Line because of some unsettled disagreement between the
+officials of that line and their employees. "We know nothing of that
+matter," said the superintendent. "It is none of our business. We
+employed these men to handle any and all freight run into these yards,
+and we have no use for men who refuse to do so. They not only flatly
+refused to handle that Air Line stuff, but said they'd see to it that no
+one else did. That ended the matter so far as we're concerned. Now you
+come and demand that men be restored to work who not only will not work
+themselves, but will not let others work. You and I have grown up
+together, some of you, at least, in the employment of this road. You,
+Morton, and you, Toohey, were switchmen here under me when I was
+yard-master six years ago. You know and I know that what you ask is
+utterly absurd. No road can do business on any such principles as that.
+Even if these discharged men did not richly deserve their discharge,
+what affair is it of yours? You are switchmen. You've never had a
+grievance that I know of. You never would have come to me with such a
+demand in this world but that you had been bamboozled or bulldozed into
+it by fellows who have no earthly connection with you, and whose only
+business in life is to go round stirring up trouble among honest men,
+living on their contributions, and taking precious good care to keep out
+of the way when the clash comes. No, lads. I've been your friend, and
+you know it. Between you and injustice of any kind I'm as ready to stand
+to-day as ever before, but I'd be no friend of yours. I'd deserve your
+contempt as well as that of our employers and the whole people, if I
+allowed my freight handlers to dictate to me whose freight they should
+handle. Those men courted discharge and they got it. Out they went and
+out they stay if I have to handle every pound of freight myself."
+
+There was dead silence a moment in the office. The committeemen stood
+uneasily before their old friend and chief; three of them looked as
+though they wished they hadn't come and wanted to quit, two were more
+determined. It was one of these who spoke.
+
+"Then, Mr. Williams, you refuse to listen to our appeal for justice!"
+
+Mr. Williams whirled around in his chair, sharply confronting the
+speaker; his clear blue eyes seemed to look him through and through, a
+flush almost of anger swept over his face a moment, and he waited before
+he spoke. He had picked up a ruler, and was lightly tapping the edge of
+the desk as he tilted back in his chair.
+
+"Your name is Stoltz, I believe. I refuse nothing of the kind, and you
+know it. I have listened with more patience than it deserved. None of
+these, the old hands, would have hinted at such a thing, and if they and
+their fellows will take the advice of a man they've known ten years to
+your ten months they'll not again be led by a word-juggler. Now if
+there's any other matter any of the rest of you wish to bring up," and
+here the Superintendent looked frankly around upon the anxious, almost
+crest-fallen faces of the other men, "I'll listen to you gladly, but
+you, Stoltz, have been far too short a time an employe of the road to
+presume to speak for those who have served it almost as long as I have."
+
+"Yes, and what have they got for it? Do they sit in a swell office, ride
+in parlor cars, drive fast horses, sport handsome clothes--" began
+Stoltz, sneeringly.
+
+"That's enough, Stoltz. They know that with a railway as with an army
+the men can't all be generals and colonels. Say to your friends, boys,"
+he continued, in kindly tone, "that when they want anything of the road
+hereafter they'll be far more apt to get it by coming themselves than by
+sending Stoltz. That's all, then."
+
+"No, it isn't all!" declaimed Stoltz, angrily. "You haven't heard our
+side. If those three men ain't back in their places at twelve o'clock,
+we of the Switchmen's Union go out to a man," and the spokesman paused
+to let this announcement have its due effect. It had.
+
+"So far as one of the Union is concerned he goes out here and now, and
+that one," said Mr. Williams, "is yourself. The others will, I hope,
+think twice before they act."
+
+"You mean I'm discharged?"
+
+"On the spot," said Mr. Williams, "and there is the door."
+
+For hours that hot June day had the story of that interview sped from
+tongue to tongue. The managers of the Switchmen's Union had been shrewd
+and wise in naming as members of their committee three of the oldest,
+stanchest, and most faithful hands in the employ of the company. They
+were sure of a hearing. Then to do the aggressive, this comparatively
+new man, Stoltz, was named, together with a kindred spirit of less
+ability, and these two men were the backbone, so said the managers, of
+the first attack. Stoltz was a German-American of good education, though
+deeply imbued with socialistic theories, and a seductive, plausible
+speaker on the theme of the wrongs of the laboring man. It was he who,
+under the guidance of shrewd agitators and "walking delegates," had been
+most active and denunciatory at the switchmen's meetings. Honest
+laboring men are slow of speech, as a rule, and fluency often impresses
+them where logic would have no effect. The committee came away, two of
+them exultant and eager for the fray. They had been disdainfully
+treated, said they, sneered at, reviled, and one of them summarily
+"fired" as the result of this visit to the magnate. The others were
+gloomily silent. It was too late to recede. The javelin was already
+thrown. At the stroke of five every man on duty quietly quit his post.
+Many left the yard. Others, eager to see what the officials might do,
+remained. Stopped at the outskirts of the city, no trains came in. Only
+the evening mail crept out, its own crew manning the successive
+switches.
+
+It was now 8.45, and barely dark. The western sky was still faintly
+illumined. Old Wallace could no longer read, and bent down to take a
+hand in the talk between his boys. Silence still reigned in the deserted
+yards. Men hovered in muttering groups, and watched the few officials
+who flitted about with lanterns in their hands. A rumor was going around
+that the management had determined to send out all the night passenger
+trains as usual, and the first of these should be along by ten o'clock.
+As Mr. Wallace bent over Jim's broad shoulder his wife and daughters
+ceased their low chatter. Evidently something was on the old man's mind.
+
+"There's no danger of its spreading to your people, is there, Jim? Would
+you go out if they did?"
+
+"Father," said the young man, slowly, "you know the ties by which we are
+bound. Suppose now that Fred's regiment were ordered out, would you ask
+him would he go?"
+
+Old Wallace looked graver still. "I consider that a very different
+proposition," said he. "I was hoping--" he faltered, when a young fellow
+in soiled blue flannel garb slipped quietly in through the rear gate,
+and coming up to the freight conductor, said the two words,
+
+"Wanted, Jim."
+
+Jim's bronzed cheek turned a shade lighter.
+
+"What hour?"
+
+"At once."
+
+And before the others could ask explanation of this scene a bicycle came
+flashing up to the same gate, and the tall rider dismounted and strode
+quickly toward the party. Young Fred's eyes glistened at sight of him.
+
+"Orders, Sergeant?" he eagerly inquired.
+
+"Yes. Notify your squad to make arrangements with their employers, and
+be ready to report at the armory at a moment's notice."
+
+The two brothers stood facing each other a little later, then silently
+clasped hands. One at the beck of a secret protective organization, the
+other at the call of duty to State and nation, parted at their father's
+gate to go their separate ways.
+
+[TO BE CONTINUED.]
+
+
+
+
+A BOY'S AQUARIUM.
+
+
+Boys who live in the city do not, perhaps, get quite the freedom of
+action and fun generally that a country boy can, but they do manage to
+have a pretty good time, even if they have to work a little harder for
+it. It is hard to keep pets in the city. Dogs need a lot of exercising,
+birds are apt to be a nuisance to the neighbors, if not to the boy's
+family, and yet pets are a necessity to every well-brought-up boy's
+happiness.
+
+An aquarium is always dear to every boy's heart. And aquariums are not
+impossible in a city house. Fortunately they can be just as well taken
+care of in the city as in the country. A medium-sized aquarium which
+will hold quite a lot of stuff can be bought for $1.50 or $1.75. This
+must be filled with gravel or sand to the depth of four inches. In the
+sand must be, securely fastened, some water-grasses, which are for sale
+at any of the stores where fish are to be bought. The boys who succeed
+best with their aquariums are those who study the matter pretty
+thoroughly before they begin, and read up the scientific books of
+natural history. The simpler works of this sort contain any amount of
+practical information which any boy can apply to his own use.
+
+A porous stone seems to be necessary in the middle of the aquarium. As
+for the placing of the water plants, they must be left to the boy's own
+taste and judgment. Indeed, the arrangement of the whole aquarium must
+be left to the boy who owns it. In this place I must stop and say that
+it is foolish for any boy to consult many of his playmates as to how the
+thing should be arranged, for when he has asked and received much
+advice, he will find that most of it is directly opposed to what he
+already knew, and besides is so varied as to be nearly useless. A glass
+tube for removing the manure from the sand must be kept beside the
+aquarium, if the scavengers, such as pollywogs and snails, fail to do
+their duty in cleaning up.
+
+An extremely pretty aquarium has lately been fitted up by a boy about
+eleven years old. It is not a very large one, and stands on a small
+table near the window of his room--too near, it may be said, for the sun
+these summer days having unusual power has caused the untimely death of
+two many-tailed Japanese gold-fish and four extremely graceful little
+silver-fish. With the exception of this mortality, the death rate has
+been quite low. The original occupants of the aquarium before these
+recent deaths consisted of two pair of Japanese gold-fish, two pair of
+silver-fish, two pollywogs--one small one, who worked busily all day
+trying to do his share of the work in keeping the place clean, and one
+big fat pollywog, who sadly neglected his duty and spent his time trying
+to turn into a frog as quickly as he possibly could. Six snails, who
+were put in the aquarium to keep the glass clean, worked hard and
+satisfactorily in accomplishing their mission (in the beginning one
+snail was at first relegated to this work, but the task was beyond his
+power, and, after making a superhuman effort to go the whole round, he
+yielded up his life).
+
+The water in the aquarium is changed twice a month, and when that is
+done the fish are lifted out very tenderly and carefully with a little
+scoop net, and put in a basin near by overnight, until every impurity of
+the sand shall have settled and the water is absolutely transparent.
+This performance is always one of deep anxiety, and requires unremitting
+attention to be sure that everything is replaced exactly as it was
+before, so that the fishes will know their home when they get back to
+it. There was a lizard put in this aquarium, to begin with, but he
+proved of a very quarrelsome disposition, and tried to bite the tails of
+the fish, so that he had to be removed to a basin, where he lives a life
+of solitude. The pleasure given by this little aquarium has far exceeded
+the outlay of money, and many a useful lesson in neatness and care has
+been learned in looking out for the needs of the fish.
+
+  ANNE HELME.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MOTHER. "Jack, why is it you have so many holes in your pockets?"
+
+JACK. "I guess it's my money which burns through."
+
+
+
+
+PERILS OF THE NEWFOUNDLAND BANKS.
+
+BY W. J. HENDERSON.
+
+
+It was blowing half a gale from the southward and eastward, and the
+Captain said it would be worse before it was better. The _Mohawk_ was
+plunging head first over the ragged seas, with a great roaring of
+thunderous foam under her hawseholes as she fell into the wide hollows,
+and a sickening upward swirl of her lean stem as she rose again to meet
+the reeling cliffs of water that swept down upon her out of the windward
+gloom. The streamer of brown smoke that rushed from her tall black
+funnel went wreathing and shuddering away to leeward, where it seemed to
+add a blacker tinge to the gray wall of the hard clouds. The sea was not
+yet torn to spoon-drift by the wind; but there was a huge under-running
+sweep of swell that made one think that bad weather lay behind the
+windward horizon.
+
+Ever and anon the propeller would leap out of the water, and as it
+revolved in the air, set the ship full of rumbling quivers. Most of the
+passengers--and they were not many, for it was not one of the big
+"liners"--lay below decks in the unspeakable agony of early seasickness,
+for the ship was not long out, and had just reached the edge of the
+Newfoundland banks. A few of the ocean travellers, however, mostly men
+who had seen salt spray before, sat huddled in their rugs under the lee
+of the deck-house, conversing upon such cheering topics as collisions,
+and icebergs, and leaks. One who had not crossed the sea before, but who
+was free from sickness, said,
+
+"I am told that we are now on the banks of Newfoundland, where foolish
+men go in small sailing-vessels to fish."
+
+"Foolish you may well call them," said an old voyager, "for they lie
+there in thick weather and thin without making a sign of their presence.
+I remember once, steaming slowly through a dense fog on a great
+Cunarder, we heard the fog-horn of a single sailing craft, and presently
+that ceased. A minute later the fog lifted, and there were thirty sail
+of them within the circumference of a mile. I tell you, those fellows
+are--"
+
+"Sail ho!" cried the lookout forward, and several passengers sprang to
+their feet. They knew that it was out of the common order of things on a
+merchant steamer to make a noise about a passing sail, such fussiness
+being left to men-of-war that have nothing more to do. They crowded to
+the rail of the ship, and far ahead they saw what seemed to be a small
+sloop staggering over the big seas under very scant canvas. The lookout
+and the officer on the bridge exchanged some words, from which the
+passengers learned that the sailor made the vessel out to be in
+distress.
+
+"Call away the whale-boat!" cried the officer, and in a moment the
+boatswain's pipe was screeching, and three or four seamen trotted aft in
+their oilskins.
+
+"A rescue!" exclaimed the new voyager. "I had no hope that I should ever
+be so fortunate as to see such a thing."
+
+"I'm not so certain that you'll regard it as good fortune," said an old
+voyager. "Sometimes these things are tragic, especially in a rising
+gale, when your own boat's crew may be lost in the attempt."
+
+"Do you think it may come to that?"
+
+"Ay, man, it may in such a sea; but let us hope for the best. See, we
+are coming abreast of the cripple. But we must cross to the other side;
+our ship will go to windward of her." And marvelling at the old
+voyager's sea lore, the new one went with the others to the
+weather-rail, where the force of the gale came upon them and beat their
+breath back into their nostrils.
+
+"Heaven's mercy!" exclaimed the new voyager, "but it is a sad sight."
+
+She was a little schooner of some fifty tons. Her foremast had been
+carried away about ten feet above the deck, and had taken with it her
+jib-boom and her maintopmast. The forecastle deck was a litter of broken
+timbers and tangled cordage that washed pitiably from side to side as
+the waters rolled over the splintered rail, or sobbed through its gaping
+seams. The mainboom was lashed amidships, and a jib-headed storm trysail
+was sheeted aft. A spare jib had been set from the mainmast head to the
+stump of the foremast, and under these two cloths the poor maimed craft
+was desperately striving to keep her shattered head to the threatening
+seas. High up in the main rigging flew the United States flag, union
+down, poor Jack's red, white, and blue cry for help. There was an
+ominous heaviness about the fall of her bows into the restless hollows
+that told the Captain of the MOHAWK that she had not long to live.
+
+"We'll send a boat for you," he roared down the wind, as his steamer
+slipped slowly ahead.
+
+The hapless wretches on the schooner waved their hands and uttered a
+faint cheer. The whale-boat was lowered away when the _Mohawk_ was half
+a mile to windward of the wreck. The buoyant little craft leaped over
+the waves, disappearing between them, and then tossing high in air on
+their foamy crests.
+
+"It's all a wonder to me that she doesn't capsize," said the new
+voyager.
+
+"A good whale-boat will outlive a poor ship," said the veteran.
+
+[Illustration: THE PASSENGERS SAW THE WHALE-BOAT SWEEP DOWN UNDER THE
+STERN OF THE SCHOONER.]
+
+And now watching with their glasses the passengers saw the whale-boat
+sweep down under the stern of the schooner, and round up under her lee,
+while the bowman stood up and hurled a line to one of the schooner's
+people. By the aid of this the whale-boat was dropped under the lee
+quarter of the cripple, and at each upward swing of the smaller craft
+one of the shipwrecked marines contrived to tumble into her. Six men and
+a boy of some fifteen years they were. Meanwhile the steamer was dropped
+slowly down until she was within a fair pull of the schooner. The
+whale-boat came leaping and dancing over the seas, the men laying down
+their broad backs to the oars, and the white smoke of the spray flying
+on either bow. It was no small task to get the men out of the boat
+without crushing her like paper against the iron side of the steamer as
+it swung downward, yet by patience and seamen's skill it was
+accomplished. The whale-boat was hoisted to her davits, and the _Mohawk_
+resumed her voyage, while the shipwrecked men were taken below to be
+given warm drinks, food, and dry clothing.
+
+"Will not their schooner drift about in the path of passing ships?"
+asked the new voyager.
+
+"No, I fancy not," said the veteran; "she will--look!" At that instant
+the little schooner's stem rose high into the air, where it hung poised
+for a moment. Then she was swiftly absorbed by the pitiless sea, and her
+fluttering ensign made a bright spot above a patch of angry green for a
+moment and was gone.
+
+"I never saw a sadder sight," said the new voyager, gazing with humid
+eyes upon the blank sea.
+
+"There is none sadder," replied the veteran passenger.
+
+They all returned to their snug seats under the lee of the deck-house,
+and for a long time were lost in meditation. Then the new voyager looked
+up and said, "I should like to hear their story."
+
+"That is possible," answered the veteran; "come."
+
+The Captain of the _Mohawk_ was found and the request made. He sent for
+the skipper of the lost schooner, and said: "Do you feel able now to
+tell me your story? If so, these gentlemen also would like to hear it."
+
+"Well, Captain," began the wrecked skipper, "it's a common enough story,
+that's a fact, sir, and I reckon it hasn't anything in it that you never
+heard before, though perhaps some of your passengers here never got
+nearer to it than a newspaper at a breakfast table. That was the
+schooner _Mary Anthony_, from Gloucester, and I'm her master--that is, I
+was--Joshua Clark by name, and the boy's my son on his first v'yage.
+That schooner was about all I had in the world, gentlemen, for I owned
+her myself, and when she went down a little while ago the hard work of
+seventeen years went down with her. But I s'pose I mustn't complain,
+because we take our lives and fortunes in our hands whenever we come out
+to the Banks to fish, and that's a fact. We got under way from
+Gloucester on as sweet a morning as ever you saw, gentlemen, with a
+whole-sail breeze from the southwest. The _Mary Anthony_ was a smart
+sailer, though I do say it, and she wasn't long in getting the land
+below the horizon, and that's a fact. When we reached the Banks we found
+a fairly large fleet on the ground, and we were soon at work among the
+best of them. It isn't worth while trying to describe the mere matter of
+fishing to you, gentlemen, because, of course, that isn't what you want
+to hear about. It's enough for me to say that we'd been on the Banks
+three days and had very good luck before the accident befell us. I
+s'pose, Captain, you didn't see anything of a fog last night, did you?"
+
+"No; we must have been well outside of it."
+
+"Two steamers passed us before the fog set in, and of course they had no
+trouble keeping clear of the fleet. Yesterday afternoon I slipped away
+to the southward of the rest of them, some half a dozen miles, following
+a school of fish, and all of a sudden I saw the fog coming up. I made up
+my mind that there wasn't any use of going back, and so I lay to right
+where I was. The fog came down thicker than cheese, and not long
+afterward the heavy swell set in from the southward and eastward, and I
+knew there was weather brewing. So I had all the dories got aboard and
+stowed amidships. The swell kept on increasing, and the fog was so thick
+you couldn't see the length of the schooner. It was just after three
+bells in the midwatch when I heard a yell from my lookout. Before I
+could tumble out of my bunk there was a tremendous thump that threw me
+half-way across my cabin. I jumped on deck just in time to see the huge
+black hull of a steamer towering above us. She slipped away into the
+fog, and was gone. There were a few shouts from her deck, but we neither
+saw nor heard any more of her.
+
+"I sprang forward to see what damage had been done. I found my little
+schooner had been mortally hurt, gentlemen, and that's a fact. The
+foremast, as you must have noticed, had been snapped off about ten feet
+above the deck, and had carried a lot of our rig with it. But that was
+not all. The wreckage from aloft had fallen so that something--the
+foretopmast, I suppose--had smashed our dories into kindling wood. I
+sent my mate below, and he came back with the report that we were taking
+in water through half a dozen seams forward. I set two hands at work to
+try to stop the leaks, while the rest of us cleared away some of the
+wreckage. Meanwhile the swell had increased so that we were rolling
+dreadfully, and there was great danger that some one would be hurt by
+the loose timbers. I'm thankful, however, that we escaped that
+misfortune. Toward daylight the wind rose and blew the fog off. I saw
+that we were in for a blow, and I decided to run toward the land as long
+as I dared. I set the canvas that you saw, and started her off ahead of
+the gale. All hands were sent to the pumps, but in spite of our hardest
+work the water gained on us. The gale increased and the sea rose, and
+then I found that the schooner was so heavy with the water in her that
+she was in great danger of being pooped--that is, gentlemen, having a
+sea break over her stern and sweep her decks. That would have been the
+end of us, and not a soul would have known what had become of us, for,
+you see, we had no boats to take to, they being smashed. So there was
+nothing to do but to heave her to and wait, hoping that some ship might
+come along and take us off. Gentlemen, it's cruel hard to work at the
+pumps till your arms are numb and your back feels as if it were being
+cut with a saw, and still to know that your vessel is settling under
+you, and that in a short time she must go down. I tell you we cast
+mighty anxious looks around the horizon every time we rose on a sea; and
+we felt like cheering when we saw the smoke from your funnel down in the
+west. Then came another time of anxiety before we were sure you were
+coming our way, and even after that we weren't positive that you would
+take us off."
+
+"What!" exclaimed the new voyager; "is it possible that there are men so
+inhuman as to leave fellow-creatures on a sinking vessel?"
+
+"There are a few such fellows on the sea," said the Captain of the
+schooner; "but I don't think any of them sail under the flag that your
+Captain ran up to his peak when he saw our signal of distress."
+
+
+
+
+THE SWEETMEAT AGE.
+
+
+  Long ago when the moon was one big pie
+    For all little boys to eat,
+  Then some of the stars were sugar-plums,
+    And some of them raisins sweet;
+
+  Then the glorious sun was a custard pudding
+    Served up in a vast blue dish;
+  And the whole of the sea was soda-water
+    Half filled with ice-cream fish;
+
+  The great round earth was a luscious peach,
+    The grass was the puckery fuzz--
+  If it doesn't seem true to all and each,
+    Let him believe it who does--
+
+  Then the mountain-peaks were chocolate drops,
+    And the icebergs Roman punch;
+  And the dark storm-clouds rained lemonade--
+    People dug up the mud for lunch.
+
+  When it hailed, the hailstones were fine popcorn,
+    And pulverized sugar it snowed;
+  And the brooks as they ran by the candy-trees
+    With lovely root-beer o'erflowed.
+
+  Ah! that was the time, in the long ago,
+    When children worked hard, tooth and tongue;
+  But most of them suffered from overfed stomachs,
+    And, somehow, they all died young.
+
+  R. H.
+
+
+
+
+WINNING A WATERMELON.
+
+
+Scratchbones is certainly not a very elegant name, and yet the animal to
+whom it belonged, a very ragged-looking mule, was proudly claimed by its
+owner, Goliath Washington Jackson, an equally ragged-looking Southern
+darky, to be the philosopher of the mule tribe. Why he claimed this has
+never been definitely settled, and whenever any question was put to
+Goliath regarding the excellence of Scratchbones's intelligence, the
+reply would be something like this:
+
+"Yes, sah! How I know dat mule am intelligent? He! he! he! but dat's
+funny. You 'member de ole school-massa? Well, sah, he owned dat mule
+once, an' neber feeded 'im up to de handle. One day Scratch was hungrier
+dan usual, an' he chewed de ole man's books. He neber forgot dat
+eddication." And here Goliath would chuckle to himself.
+
+Our town recently received an innovation in the shape of a splendidly
+asphalted street, and one very hot day, shortly after its completion,
+Goliath drove up to the door of the hardware store with Scratchbones.
+Coming in, he began boasting, as usual, of his wonderful mule, and how
+well he stood the hot weather. None of us young fellows cared to
+question the heat, and as for the mule, we thought it was either stand
+it or lie down. He evidently preferred to stand, for there he stood in
+the blazing sun staring blankly down the street.
+
+Goliath had dropped in to make some purchases, which, of course,
+necessitated a great deal of talk and time. In the mean while
+Scratchbones was patiently waiting in the hot sun outside, scarcely
+budging, unless it was an occasional switch of his tail. A thunder-storm
+had been brewing, and when Goliath finally started for the door down
+came the rain, sending up steam from the hot street. Nothing suited him
+better than to have an excuse to further regale us with a list of his
+mule's remarkable talents. Among the many, he spoke of his ability to
+drive Scratchbones, and how well he obeyed him. Now, while this talk had
+been going on, I had occasionally glanced at Scratchbones, and he seemed
+uneasy, especially since the rain had started, and was nervously
+switching his tail back and forth. I thought it was on account of the
+storm, but casually glancing at him, I noted something that made me
+smile, and, slipping off my seat, I quietly told the other boys.
+
+"Goliath," I said, "I'll wager a large, juicy watermelon that your mule
+won't obey you if I tell him not to."
+
+"Ha! ha! ha! He! he! youse is foolin' dis yere ole man, Massa Harry."
+
+"No, no, I mean it. All I'll do is to say something to myself, and your
+mule won't budge when you say 'gee,' but simply wag his tail."
+
+"It's done, Massa Harry. I'se'll take dat wager, but de melon has to be
+de largest you can git."
+
+"All right," I said. And as it had stopped raining, Goliath proceeded to
+his wagon, and, climbing up on the seat, picked up the ropes he called
+reins and shouted, "Gee up dere, Scratch." But, as I predicted, Scratch
+never moved a leg, but only switched his tail.
+
+"Gee up dere; what's de mattah wif youse?" But not a move did that mule
+make. We stood in the doorway laughing so heartily that Goliath grew
+suspicious, and climbing down, walked slowly around the mule and wagon,
+doubtless to discover if we had played him a trick.
+
+Everything appeared all right, and getting on the wagon, he tried it
+again. "Get along dere, Scratch, you long-eared bone-yard. Gee up!"
+
+It was useless; Scratch wouldn't move, and Goliath, with a woe-begone,
+puzzled expression on his face, clambered down and surveyed old
+Scratchbones. His eyes wandered along every stitch of the harness, and
+finally down to Scratch's feet. A very curious look covered his face,
+and stooping, he discovered the reason why Scratch wouldn't gee.
+
+Scratchbones and the wagon had stood so long on that new asphalt, and
+unfortunately in a place made softer than the rest by the sun, that he
+actually had sunk _into_ it, and the tarry stuff had gathered around his
+hoofs. The rainfall cooled it off, hardening it, and consequently both
+mule and wagon were locked to the street.
+
+Goliath was mad, and claimed we had put up the joke on him. However, he
+lost the melon, and as it took an hour or so to dig Scratch out, we made
+him get it, and finally got him into good humor, but told him never to
+boast of his wonderful mule.
+
+"I's done boastin' of dat mule. Neber no more, massas, dat mule done
+need no one to boast of 'im. He done show how proud he am when he can't
+stan' in de street widout gettin' stuck on 'imself."
+
+  HUBERT EARL.
+
+
+
+
+A MEAN MAN.
+
+
+A French paper tells of a man who ought to be set down as the meanest
+man of his time. His name is Rapineau, and he is the happy father of
+three children. His chief claim to meanness lies in the fact that he has
+lately discovered a plan to reduce his weekly expenditure. Every
+morning, when sitting down at table, he makes the following proposal:
+"Those who will go without breakfast shall have twopence." "Me--me!"
+exclaim the youngsters in chorus. Rapineau gives them the money and
+suppresses the breakfast. In the afternoon, when the children were
+anxiously expecting their first meal, Rapineau calls out, "Those who
+want their dinner must give twopence;" and they all pay back what they
+received in the morning for going without their breakfast, and in that
+way Rapineau saves a meal a day.
+
+
+
+
+JOHN KILBURNE'S FORT.
+
+BY JAMES OTIS.
+
+
+Seven miles from that settlement in the province of New Hampshire which
+is now known as Keene, John Kilburne built, in the year 1754, a log
+house of such strength and so well adapted for defence that his
+neighbors spoke of it as a "garrison," and more than one ridiculed the
+idea of erecting a fort when only a dwelling-house was required.
+
+It troubled stout-hearted John Kilburne not one whit that his
+acquaintances found subject for mirth in the precautions he took against
+a savage foe. "In case the Indians do make an attack upon me and mine, I
+shall be in better condition to receive them in a building of this kind
+than in one erected flimsily, and if they do not, my wife and two boys
+will sleep all the more soundly for knowing I have protected them from
+possible intruders." This the owner of the "garrison" repeated again and
+again, until finding he would make no other reply to their bantering,
+his friends ceased to speak derisively of the structure.
+
+In one year from the time the fortlike house had been built John
+Kilburne had good cause for satisfaction with himself. England was again
+at war with the French regarding her possessions in the New World, and
+the Indians were making indiscriminate attacks upon the settlers in the
+easternmost provinces.
+
+Benjamin and Arthur Kilburne, sons of John and Martha his wife, although
+but fourteen and twelve years of age respectively, were well versed in
+the use of fire-arms, for in those days the assistance of even the
+children of a household might become necessary. Rumors of Indian
+depredations were rife, yet they felt little fear of an attack. Within
+the walls of the "garrison" their father and themselves would be able to
+hold in check a large body of savages, and be exposed to but little
+danger.
+
+The crops had been harvested; the cattle were inside the stockade, where
+was ample food for them in case of a siege, and where they would serve
+as food if the larder of the house needed replenishing.
+
+Early on the morning of the 9th of October John Pike, his wife, and two
+sisters arrived at the "garrison" with a pitiful tale. The Indians had
+killed Daniel Twitchel and Jacob Flynt the night previous, and the
+visitors had but just escaped from their home before it was set on fire
+by the cruel enemy.
+
+"I doubt not they will make an attack here before another day, friend
+Kilburne, yet I beg shelter of you, and my rifle may not come amiss."
+
+"You would be welcome to stay, even though unarmed," was the hearty
+reply. "The garrison is large enough for all, and I would that Daniel
+Twitchel had spent more time strengthening his own dwelling against an
+attack instead of trying to find flaws in the way I chose to provide for
+my family. Ben, you and your brother had better mould bullets. It will
+serve to keep you in-doors, and no one can say how much ammunition may
+be needed."
+
+As the boys set about the task, Mr. Kilburne listened again to the sad
+news brought by his neighbor. There was nothing to be done in the way of
+making ready for defence, because that had been attended to when no
+danger threatened.
+
+John Pike had not finished giving his story in detail, when Mrs.
+Kilburne, who had stepped out of the house to get water from the pump,
+which stood close at hand, sprang back suddenly, her face so pale that
+there was no necessity of asking the cause of her alarm.
+
+The two men were at the loop-holes in an instant, and that which he saw
+caused Mr. Kilburne to say sharply:
+
+"Ben, I leave the north side of the house to you and your brother. Our
+lives may depend upon your vigilance, and there is to be no waste of
+ammunition; every bullet must strike its target. Mary," he added, to his
+wife, "you and your friends will keep the spare guns loaded, and finish
+what the boys have left undone at the fire. I do not--"
+
+"It is a regular army that has come upon us," Mr. Pike interrupted. "I
+have counted not less than forty savages in the edge of the thicket, and
+there must be as many more on either side of the house!"
+
+It was learned later that the enemy numbered a hundred and seventy, all
+well armed.
+
+Ben and Arthur were peering eagerly out through loop-holes cut on each
+side of the shuttered window, and the former was the first to discharge
+his weapon.
+
+"I saw a head over the top of the stockade," he said, in reply to his
+father's question.
+
+"Their number is so large that they will likely put on a bolder front
+than usual," Mr. Kilburne muttered to himself, and despite the strength
+of the "garrison," he felt decidedly anxious regarding the result of the
+attack.
+
+During an hour the men and boys remained on watch, while the women
+attended to their portion of the work, and hardly a sound was heard,
+save when the brothers whispered together. After the first shot had been
+fired the enemy remained completely hidden in the thicket which
+surrounded the house.
+
+Then, and almost at the same instant, each of the watchers discharged
+his weapon. On either side of the stockade plumed heads had suddenly
+come into view, and a hundred bullets struck the building.
+
+There was a low moan from that portion of the room where Mr. Kilburne
+was stationed; but owing to the reports of the fire-arms, it was not
+heard by the inmates.
+
+The first intimation the defenders had that one of their number had
+fallen under the heavy fire was when Ben turned to take up the spare gun
+his mother had placed by his side, and saw his father lying on the floor
+with a thin stream of blood issuing from his lips.
+
+"Oh, father!" he cried, as he ran toward the wounded man; but when he
+would have raised the dear head he was motioned away:
+
+"Remember your mother, my boy! You can do me no good, and now there is
+additional reason why you should not neglect your duty."
+
+By this time Mrs. Kilburne was at her husband's side, and Ben took his
+station at the loop-hole once more; but the tears blinded him, until it
+became necessary to brush them away before he could see the
+feather-bedecked bodies which were here and there upon the stockade
+ready to leap into the enclosure.
+
+During the next half-hour neither of the boys had an opportunity to so
+much as glance toward their father. Should the enemy succeed in getting
+into the enclosure, the result might, and probably would, be fatal to
+the defenders of the house.
+
+John Pike made valiant battle, nor were the boys lacking in skill and
+courage. More than one of the foe had met death before he could leap
+down from the top of the stockade, and four who did succeed were met by
+bullets while creeping up close to the building, where the timbers would
+shelter them from the deadly aim of those within.
+
+After this desperate struggle there was a lull in the storm of battle,
+and Arthur said, in a low tone, as he stood with his eye to the
+loop-hole,
+
+"Is father badly wounded?"
+
+"I fear so. The blood was gushing from his mouth when I saw him, and
+he--"
+
+"I will take your place, my son, while you bid your father good-by for
+evermore in this world," Mrs. Kilburne said, in a voice half stifled
+with emotion, as she pushed Ben gently aside.
+
+His father was dying, and he could stop only for an instant to receive a
+last pressure of the enfeebled hands!
+
+When Ben returned he was heroically drying his eyes, that he might
+resume his duty as sentinel, and Mrs. Kilburne motioned Arthur to follow
+his brother's example.
+
+"It is hard father should be the one sacrificed," Ben said, huskily, to
+his mother, not able to glance toward her. "But one bullet has found its
+way into the building, so Master Pike says, and that entered his body,
+instead of mine."
+
+"It is not for us to repine, my son. Remember that He doeth all things
+well. I now look to you and Arthur for protection, and you can best show
+your grief by doing as your father would have you do this day."
+
+"I wish those painted fiends would show themselves again; there is some
+little satisfaction in shooting them down."
+
+"Vengeance should not be in your mind at this moment. It is necessary to
+fight that our lives may be saved, but only for such purpose. Revenge
+will not lessen the blow or soothe your father's pain."
+
+Then the wife was by her husband's side, and Arthur at his station as
+watcher.
+
+During the next ten minutes the sound of hatchets against the logs of
+the stockade could be heard, and then three of the heavy timbers fell
+inward.
+
+"Now stand steady!" Pike shouted. "They will make a rush, expecting to
+overpower us by press of numbers, and we must be prepared."
+
+The two boys ran to that side of the house which was most sorely
+threatened, and had hardly gained new positions when the assault was
+made.
+
+It was now a question of loading and discharging their muskets as
+rapidly as possible, only delaying sufficiently long to take careful
+aim, and when half an hour had passed Ben heard, as if in a dream, Mrs.
+Pike say to her husband, as she handed him a gun,
+
+"John Kilburne is at rest!"
+
+The boy bravely forced himself to forget, for the time being, the sorrow
+which had come upon him; and when the conflict was hottest, a shrill cry
+of pain burst from John Pike's lips as he swayed to and fro an instant,
+and then fell backward to the floor dead.
+
+"You and I must do the work of four now!" Arthur cried, as if thinking
+his brother needed encouragement. "Take care of that fellow near your
+corner; once he is on the other side of the house we shall be smoked
+out."
+
+A musket-shot was the answer, and as the stifling cloud in the dwelling
+was increased yet more, the danger pointed out by Arthur had been
+dispelled.
+
+Now Mrs. Kilburne was at one of the loop-holes, using her husband's
+weapon with wonderful skill, and when the enemy beat a hasty retreat,
+unable to face longer the deadly hail poured upon them, she said to her
+brave sons:
+
+"It may be possible we have driven them back."
+
+"Not yet," Ben replied, gravely. "There are so many that they will not
+abandon the attack now, but be the more eager for our blood. How is the
+powder holding out?"
+
+"Mrs. Pike was bringing another keg from the cellar when her husband was
+killed. I have heard your father say he had enough in the house to
+withstand a siege of a week."
+
+"Two of the oxen are dead," Arthur cried, as he looked hastily through
+one of the apertures at the rear of the house. "How did they get out of
+the barn? I am certain all the cattle were fastened in the stalls when
+neighbor Pike came."
+
+Ben rushed to his brother's side.
+
+"Some of the Indians have gained shelter there!" he cried, nervously.
+"Go back to mother, and I will watch here."
+
+He had hardly spoken when three savages were seen coming cautiously out
+of the building, and again the discharge of the muskets in the room
+prevented the besieged from hearing any movement or words from each
+other.
+
+It was an hour past noon when the defenders of the "garrison" had
+another opportunity for rest, and then, while the women watched, Ben and
+Arthur cooled the heated barrels of the muskets by pouring water through
+them.
+
+[Illustration: RUNNING OUT QUICKLY HE FILLED ONE BUCKET.]
+
+Before the work had been completed the supply of the precious liquid was
+exhausted, and without an intimation to his mother or brother of what he
+was about to do, Ben unbarred the door. Running out quickly, he filled
+one bucket, and was in the act of stepping upon the threshold, when the
+single report of a gun was heard, and he staggered forward, his face
+growing pale beneath the grime of powder.
+
+Arthur had fastened the door again before he paid any attention to his
+brother, and then with heavy heart he stepped to the side of his mother,
+who was cutting off the sleeve of the coat, which was red with blood.
+
+"It is only a flesh-wound; bind it up quickly, and I will get to work
+again," Ben said, with an effort to speak cheerily. "Thinking they have
+killed another of us, the savages will make one more attempt to carry
+the house by storm."
+
+It was as he had feared; before the wound was properly bandaged Arthur
+and Mrs. Pike were firing with the utmost rapidity, and Ben joined them
+while the blood was yet running in a tiny stream down his side.
+
+This time the enemy displayed more courage, and were less eager to
+shelter themselves against the shower of bullets. They ran directly up
+to the walls of the house, having made their way through the break in
+the stockade, and not until nearly sunset did the two boys and their
+mother have an opportunity to cease from the struggle.
+
+During this time Mrs. Pike and her sisters did their full share of the
+work by cooling the spare guns, reloading the weapons as rapidly as they
+were discharged, or darting from one unprotected loop-hole to another to
+make certain the savages were not adopting new tactics, and in a corner
+of the room lay the lifeless bodies of the two victims.
+
+The desperation with which the defenders of the house had fought was
+shown by the bodies of the enemy strewn between the stockade and the
+building.
+
+Of the hundred and seventy which made the attack, thirty-one had paid
+forfeit with their lives, or been so grievously wounded as to be unable
+to regain shelter, and that there were many more, beyond view of the
+defenders, who were wounded seemed probable.
+
+The boys fully expected the most desperate hour would come after the
+earth was wrapped in darkness, but in this they were mistaken.
+
+Vigilant watch was kept by all in the dwelling, but only now and again
+could an Indian be seen, and then as he was dragging away the bodies of
+his fellows.
+
+When the sun rose next morning no sign of the enemy could be seen. The
+dead had been removed, and the song of birds in the thicket told that no
+intruder was concealed by the foliage.
+
+The savages believed the "garrison" had more defenders than they at
+first supposed, and had beat a retreat when only two boys and four women
+were opposed against them.
+
+
+
+
+OAKLEIGH.
+
+BY ELLEN DOUGLAS DELAND.
+
+
+CHAPTER V.
+
+"Do you think they will really like me?" asked Mrs. Franklin for the
+hundredth time, and for the hundredth time her husband answered,
+smiling, "I think they really will."
+
+They were just arriving at Brenton. Many inquiring eyes had been turned
+towards them in the train, for every one knew John Franklin, and every
+one surmised at once that this was the much-discussed second wife.
+
+It was decided by those who saw her that she was a very
+attractive-looking woman. She was rather slight and of medium height,
+and she was quietly dressed in black, for she was in mourning. Though
+not actually pretty, she had a charming and very expressive face, and
+she was very young-looking. Somebody who sat in front of her said that
+her voice was low and very musical.
+
+Brenton decided at the first glance that Mr. John Franklin had done very
+well for himself.
+
+"There is the carriage," said he, as they crossed the station platform.
+
+"And this is Jack, I am sure," said his wife, holding out her hand with
+a smile which won her step-son on the spot. He was too shy, however, to
+do more than grasp it warmly as he stood beside her with uncovered head.
+
+"He is a dear," she said to herself, "and just like John. If only the
+others are as cordial. Somehow I dread Edith."
+
+She was quite as excited as were her step-daughters when she drove up
+the avenue, and her eyes fell for the first time upon the group on the
+piazza.
+
+Cynthia walked down the path to meet her, holding Janet and Willy by
+either hand. Edith remained standing on the step.
+
+"How do you do?" said Cynthia, with a cordial smile.
+
+Mrs. Franklin looked at her. Then she put her arms around her and kissed
+her.
+
+"This is Cynthia, I am sure," she whispered, tremulously, "and these are
+'the children.'"
+
+She kissed them and passed on to her husband's eldest daughter, while
+they greeted their father.
+
+Edith was very tall, and her position on the step gave her the advantage
+of several inches in addition. She fairly towered above the new-comer.
+
+"How do you do, Mrs. Franklin?" she said, holding out a very stiff hand
+and arm. She had made up her mind that she for one would not be kissed.
+
+"And are you Edith?"
+
+"Yes, Mrs. Franklin. I am Edith. I hope your journey has not tired you?"
+
+"Not at all. I am not easily tired."
+
+Edith kissed her father, then turned again to the stranger.
+
+"Let me show you the way upstairs."
+
+And thus Mrs. Franklin entered her new home.
+
+"I am afraid it is going to be war with Edith at first, but I won't be
+disheartened," she thought. "I'll make her like me. It is natural for
+her to feel so, I suppose. Ah me, I am in a difficult position."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Edith and Cynthia shared the same room. It was a large one with a
+bay-window, which commanded a fine view of the winding river and the
+meadows beyond.
+
+One could tell at a glance upon entering the room which part of it Edith
+occupied, and which Cynthia. Cynthia's dressing-table, with its ungainly
+pin-cushion, its tangle of ribbons and neckties tossed down anywhere
+that they might happen to fall, its medley of horseshoes, tennis balls,
+and other treasures, was a constant source of trial to Edith, whose
+possessions were always kept in perfect neatness. She scolded and
+lectured her sister in vain; Cynthia was incorrigible.
+
+"It's too much bother to keep things in order," she would say. "After
+you have been around with your duster and your fixings-up I never can
+find a thing, Edith."
+
+The night of Mrs. Franklin's arrival they talked over the new state of
+family affairs.
+
+"I think she is nice," said Cynthia, with decision. "I like her, and so
+does Jack."
+
+She was perched on the side of the bed, leaning against the tall post,
+her favorite position when she had anything of especial interest to
+discuss.
+
+[Illustration: "I DON'T LIKE HER, AND I WON'T!"]
+
+"I don't," said Edith, who was brushing out her long hair with great
+vigor. "I don't like her, and I _won't_."
+
+"That is just it, Edith. You have made up your mind you won't like her
+just because you didn't want her to come. Now she is here, why don't you
+make the best of it? What do you dislike about her?"
+
+"Her coming here. She had no right to."
+
+"Edith, how silly you are! She wouldn't have come if papa had not asked
+her, and she wouldn't have if she had not loved papa. I should think you
+would like her for that if nothing else. I do. And she is pretty and
+sweet and dear, and I am going to help her all I can. I think I shall
+even call her 'mamma.'"
+
+"Cynthia, I shall never do that. Never, to my dying day!"
+
+"Well, I shall; that is, if she doesn't mind."
+
+"She will. It will make her seem too old."
+
+"I don't believe she would mind that, and any one can see she isn't a
+bit old. I think we are very fortunate, as long as papa was going to
+marry again, to have him find such a nice, lovely woman."
+
+Edith did not reply. She finished her braid and tied it up. Then she
+said:
+
+"Of course, it is a great deal harder for me than for the rest of you. I
+thought I was always going to help father, and now I can't."
+
+"Of course it's hard, Edith, but--but don't you think you could still
+help him if--if you were nice to his wife?"
+
+"I don't want to help him that way," said Edith, honestly, as she blew
+out the light.
+
+The next day when Cynthia asked somewhat timidly if she might call her
+step-mother "mamma," she was surprised and touched by the expression
+that came into Mrs. Franklin's face.
+
+"Oh, thank you, Cynthia!" she said. "I thought I would not ask you, I
+would just leave it to you, but I should like it so much."
+
+And so they all called her by her new title except Edith.
+
+Preparations for the tennis tournament were in full swing, and Cynthia
+and Jack, who were to play together in mixed doubles, were practising
+hard.
+
+The court at Oakleigh was not a good one, so they were in the habit of
+going to the tennis club at the village when they could get there in the
+afternoon. It was not always easy, for they were short of horses, and it
+was too far to walk both ways.
+
+"Why do we not have some more horses?" said Mrs. Franklin one morning
+when the question was being discussed.
+
+"Why, we can't afford to," replied Cynthia, in some surprise. "Besides
+the farm horses we only have two, you know, and they get all used up
+going to and from the village so much."
+
+Mrs. Franklin glanced at her husband. Then she said, "It seems as if we
+ought to have more. You know, John, there is all that money of mine. Why
+not buy a horse and trap for the children to use?"
+
+"My dear Hester, I can never consent. You know I wish you to keep all
+your money for your own exclusive use. You may have all the horses you
+want for yourself, but--
+
+"John, don't be absurd. What can I do with all that money, and no one
+but Neal to provide for? Your children are mine now, and I wish them to
+have a horse of their own."
+
+The thing of all others for which Edith had been longing for years. But
+she determined that she would never use her step-mother's gift.
+
+"Is Neal your brother?" asked Cynthia.
+
+"Yes. Haven't I told you about him? He is my dear and only brother. He
+is off on a yacht now, but he is coming here soon. He is older than you
+and Jack, just about Edith's age."
+
+Jack looked up with interest.
+
+"I'm glad there's another fellow coming," he said. "There are almost too
+many girls around here."
+
+"Jack, how hateful of you, when you always have said I was as good as
+another fellow!" exclaimed Cynthia.
+
+"Well, so you are, almost; but I'm glad he's coming, anyway."
+
+The new horse was bought, and a pretty and comfortable cart for them to
+use, a "surrey" that would hold two or four, as occasion required. At
+first Edith would not use it. She jogged about with the old horse and
+buggy when she went to the village, thereby exciting much comment among
+her friends. Every one suspected that Edith could not reconcile herself
+to the coming of her step-mother.
+
+The day of the tournament arrived. Before Mr. Franklin went to Boston
+that morning he called Edith into the library and closed the door.
+
+"I have something to say to you, Edith. I have been perfectly observant
+of your conduct since I came home, though I have not spoken of it
+before. I preferred to wait, to give you a chance to think better of it.
+Your treatment of my wife is not only rude, it is unkind, as rudeness
+always is."
+
+"Father, I haven't been rude. Why do you speak to me so? It is all her
+fault. She has made you do it."
+
+"Hester has not mentioned the subject to me, Edith. You are most unjust.
+You are making yourself very conspicuous, and are placing me in a very
+false light by your behavior. Are you going to the tennis tournament
+to-day?"
+
+"Yes, papa."
+
+"How do you intend to get there?"
+
+"Drive myself in the buggy, of course."
+
+"There is no 'of course' about it," said her father, growing more and
+more angry. "If you go, you will go as the others do, in the surrey. I
+will not have them go down with an empty seat, while you rattle in to
+the grounds in the old buggy in the eyes of all Brenton."
+
+"Then I won't go at all. The buggy was good enough before; why isn't it
+now?"
+
+"Not another word! I am ashamed of you, Edith, and disappointed. I have
+no time for more, but remember what I have said. You go in the surrey to
+the tournament, or you stay at home."
+
+He left her and hurried off to the train. Edith went to her own room and
+shut herself in. For more than an hour a bitter fight raged within her.
+Her pride was up in arms.
+
+If she gave up and drove to the club in the surrey, every one would know
+that she was countenancing her step-mother, as she expressed it, and she
+had told Gertrude Morgan that she would never do it. If she staid at
+home, she would excite more comment still, for it was generally known
+that she was to act as one of the hostesses, and she had no reasonable
+excuse to offer for staying away.
+
+Altogether Edith thought herself a much-abused person, and she cried
+until her eyes were swollen, her cheeks pale, and her nose red.
+
+Cynthia burst in upon her.
+
+"What is the matter, Edith? You look like a perfect fright! Are you
+ill?"
+
+"Ill! No, of course not. I wish you would leave me in peace, Cynthia.
+What do you want?"
+
+"To come into my own room, of course. But what is the matter, Edith? Was
+papa scolding you?"
+
+Edith, longing for sympathy, poured out the story, but she did not
+receive much from that practical young person.
+
+"I wouldn't cry my eyes out about that. Of course you will have to do as
+papa says, or he won't like it at all. And it is a thousand times nicer
+to drive in the surrey than that old rattle-trap of a buggy. The surrey
+runs so smoothly, and Bess goes like a breeze. You had better give in
+gracefully, Edith. But see this lovely silver buckle and belt mamma has
+just given me to wear this afternoon. Isn't it perfect? She says she has
+more than she can wear. It was one of her own. _I_ think she's a dear.
+But there is Jack calling me to practise."
+
+And happy-hearted Cynthia was off again like a flash.
+
+Edith bathed her face and began to think better of the subject. After
+all, she would go. It was a lovely day, every one would be there, and
+it was not worth while to make people talk. Above all, she would be
+sorry to miss the affair to which she had been looking forward for
+weeks.
+
+She dressed herself that afternoon in a simple gingham that had seen the
+wash-tub many times, and took her place on the back seat of the surrey,
+with Mrs. Franklin, Jack and Cynthia sitting in front. Mrs. Franklin was
+in the daintiest of summer frocks, and Edith glanced at her somewhat
+enviously.
+
+"I wish we were the ones that had the money," she thought, "and that she
+were poor. I believe then I should not mind having her so much."
+
+Mrs. Franklin had a gay and cheery disposition, and she tried to pay no
+attention to Edith's coldness.
+
+"I wish I were going to play myself," she said.
+
+"Why, do you play?" asked Cynthia, in surprise.
+
+"To be sure I do. I used to play a great deal at one time. I mean to ask
+your father to have the tennis-court at Oakleigh made over, and then we
+can have some games there."
+
+"How jolly!" exclaimed Jack and Cynthia together.
+
+"We cannot afford to," put in Edith, coldly.
+
+Mrs. Franklin paid no attention to this. "It will be nice when Neal
+comes," she added.
+
+"Neal, always Neal," thought Edith. "Pleasant for us to have a strange
+boy here all the time. Oh, dear, how hateful I am! I don't feel nice
+towards anybody. If only papa had never seen or heard of the Gordons,
+how much happier we should all have been."
+
+But she was the only one of the household that thought so. The younger
+children had been completely won over, and it was a constant source of
+surprise and chagrin to Edith to see how easily their step-mother
+managed the hitherto refractory pair.
+
+Before long the party reached the grounds. The Brenton Tennis Club was a
+very attractive place. The smooth and well-kept courts stretched away to
+the river, which wound and curved towards the old town, for the club was
+on the outskirts of the village. The river was wider here than it was
+farther up at Oakleigh, and picturesque stone bridges crossed it at
+intervals.
+
+Benches had been placed all about the grounds, from which the spectators
+could watch the game, and under a marquee was a dainty table, with huge
+bowls of lemonade and plates of cake. Edith presided at the tea-kettle,
+looking very pretty, notwithstanding her old gown and the stormy morning
+she had passed.
+
+Mrs. Franklin, upon whom most of the Brenton people had already called,
+sat on one of the benches with some friends, and was soon absorbed in
+the game.
+
+Cynthia played well. She flew about the court, here, there, everywhere
+at once, never interfering with her partner's game, but, always ready
+with her own play. She and Jack, though younger than the other players,
+held their ground well.
+
+It was only a small tournament, and "mixed doubles" were finished up in
+one afternoon, Jack and Cynthia carrying off second prizes with great
+glee.
+
+"Just what I wanted, mamma," said Cynthia, as she displayed a fine
+racket of the latest style and shape; "I hope they will have another
+tournament before the summer is over, so that I'll have a chance to win
+first prize with this new racket."
+
+They were driving home in the dusk, for the game had lasted late, when
+they overtook and passed a boy who was walking on the road to Oakleigh,
+with a bag slung over his shoulder on a stick, while a black spaniel
+trotted along at his heels. Mrs. Franklin did not see him.
+
+"I say there, Hessie! Can't you give a fellow a lift?" he shouted.
+
+"Why, Neal!" exclaimed Mrs. Franklin; "where did you come from? Jack,
+stop, please. It is Neal! You dear boy, I am so glad to see you! This is
+my brother, children; and, Neal, here are Edith, Cynthia, and Jack
+Franklin."
+
+"Whew, what a lot! I say, Hessie, what were you thinking of when you
+married such a family as that? But I fancy you haven't got room for me
+in there. I can walk it easily enough. Don't mind a bit."
+
+"Nonsense! we can squeeze up," said his sister, which they did
+forthwith, and Neal Gordon climbed into the cart.
+
+"No room for you, Bob," he remarked to the spaniel, who danced about the
+road in a vain endeavor to follow his master; "you can go ahead on your
+own legs."
+
+He was a tall, well-developed fellow, with a hearty, cheery voice, and a
+frank, sometimes embarrassing, way of saying the first thing that came
+into his head.
+
+"What a crowd!" he continued. "Any more at home?"
+
+"Yes, two," said his sister, gayly--"Janet, and Willy. I am so glad you
+have come, Neal. But why didn't you let us know?"
+
+"Couldn't. The _Dolphin_ put in at Marblehead, and I had gotten rather
+tired of it aboard, so I thought I'd cut loose and drop down on you
+awhile. Got out of cash too."
+
+"Oh, Neal!"
+
+"Now you needn't say anything. You didn't give me half enough this time.
+Too much absorbed getting married, I suppose. I say," he added, turning
+to Jack, "what kind of a step-ma does Hessie make?"
+
+"Bully," replied Jack, laconically.
+
+"I thought she would, but, she's on her best behavior now. She'll order
+you all round soon, the way she does me."
+
+"They don't deserve it as you do, you silly boy," said his sister.
+
+They were a merry party that night at supper. It seemed as if Neal would
+be a great addition to the family, and even Edith thawed somewhat. This
+pleased Mr. Franklin, who had been thoroughly annoyed by her behavior,
+and who had been really afraid that she would stay at home from the
+tournament rather than use his wife's gift.
+
+"Everything will run smoothly now," he said to himself, and, manlike, he
+soon forgot all about the trouble.
+
+"By-the-way, what relation am I to this family?" asked Neal, presently.
+"If Hester is your mother, of course I must be your uncle. I hope you
+will all treat me with proper respect."
+
+"I hope we shall be able to," said Cynthia, looking up with a saucy
+smile. She liked the new-comer immensely.
+
+"Did you ever run an incubator?" asked Jack, after supper.
+
+"Not I. Have you got one?"
+
+"Yes. Come along down and see it."
+
+They descended to the cellar, and Jack turned the eggs while he
+explained his methods to his new friend.
+
+"Is there money in it?" asked Neal.
+
+"Lots, I hope. But the trouble is, you've got to spend a lot to start
+with, and if you're not successful it's a dead loss. My first hatch went
+to smash."
+
+"How would you like to take me into partnership? I want to make some
+money."
+
+"First-rate."
+
+They were deep in a discussion of business arrangements when they went
+back to the others.
+
+"We'll make a 'go' of it," said Neal. "It's just the thing I've been
+looking for."
+
+"I have an idea, Jack," said Mrs. Franklin, as they came in. "When are
+the chickens to come out?"
+
+"Next Thursday."
+
+"Then we will celebrate the event in proper style. We will ask our
+friends to come to a 'hatching bee.'"
+
+"But suppose they don't hatch? Suppose they act the way they did
+before?" said Jack, dubiously.
+
+"Oh, they'll hatch, I will answer for them. You have learned how to take
+better care of them, and no one has interfered, and--oh, I am sure they
+will be out in fine shape!"
+
+Only Edith objected to this proposition, and she dared not say so before
+her father.
+
+Apparently the Gordons were going to carry all before them, and she, who
+until so recently had been to all intents and purposes the mistress of
+the house, was not even asked if she approved of the idea. She went to
+bed feeling that her lot was a very hard one.
+
+[TO BE CONTINUED.]
+
+
+
+
+WHEN ROYALTY TRAVELS.
+
+BY WILLIAM HEMMINGWAY.
+
+
+To live like a king is all very well, but to travel like one--may we all
+be delivered from such a fate! The modern monarch flits from his palace
+like the pheasant from his covert. True, the hunter may not pot him this
+time, but the danger of being killed is very great, and the king, like
+the golden-hued bird, knows that many of his brothers have fallen before
+the destroyer, who is constantly on the alert. Pheasants may be shot
+only during certain weeks, but anarchists never cease devising and
+trying new ways of king-killing.
+
+Whenever a monarch starts on a journey he is haunted by the belief that
+the anarchists must have found out all about it beforehand in their
+usual way, and that they are busy with plots for his destruction. Even
+Queen Victoria, that best-beloved wearer of a crown, is bound to use
+almost as many precautions as the Czar of Russia. No common traveller
+has so much to be thankful for at the end of a journey as a safely
+arrived monarch. It is much pleasanter to be a President of the United
+States, pay your own fare, and feel afraid of nobody.
+
+[Illustration: "THERE GOES THE QUEEN."]
+
+When the Queen of Great Britain starts for Windsor or Balmoral, or on
+any other railway journey, a time is chosen that will cause the least
+inconvenience to traffic; for the invariable rule is that no other
+trains may run over the road the Queen is using. All the switches are
+locked. Preceded and followed by galloping troopers of the Household
+Guard, the Queen's carriage is driven to the railway station at a
+furious pace. No one--I mean no ordinary person--knows the hour at which
+she will start or the streets through which she will go. The special
+royal train is waiting at the platform, and the royal carriage goes
+whirling toward it through the most unexpected streets. Every loyal
+Briton loves to show his love for her Majesty by a hearty roar, but no
+one has a chance to cheer her on her travels. There is a distant clatter
+of hoofs; it comes nearer, and you hear the rattling of sabres and whir
+of wheels. A blur of redcoats and nodding plumes shoots past, and the
+hoof-beats are dying in the distance before you can say, "There goes the
+Queen."
+
+Of course the royal coach goes at a sedate pace during a royal progress
+or parade. Then there are more soldiers along the streets than you or I
+could count, and the Queen appears bowing in her open carriage of state,
+with all her outriders and officers and guards and the burly English
+footmen and Scotch gillies necessary for display.
+
+When the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India travels
+she occupies her own special car. A special locomotive is reserved for
+her, and it is run by a special engineer, always the most experienced
+man in the company's service. On the London and Southwestern Railway,
+for example, engine No. 575 draws the Queen's car. Thomas Higgs, a fine,
+keen-eyed old Briton, an engineer for nearly forty years, holds the
+lever and the throttle. It is his boast that during this long period of
+service not one of his millions of passengers has ever been killed. Not
+one even has been injured. He is more careful than ever when her Majesty
+is aboard. Between Windsor and Gosport alone there are fifteen
+junctions, and every one of these is a possible danger-spot. A pilot
+train runs a short distance in advance of the Queen's special to make
+sure that the way is clear, and that the track has not been put out of
+order.
+
+The interior of the Queen's car is furnished after the fashion of the
+white drawing-room at Windsor Castle. There are white silk cushions,
+embroidered with the initials V.R. (_Victoria Regina_), and the Garter
+and its motto, all in gold thread. The carpet is of velvet. The curtains
+at the windows are hung on silver poles, and the door-handles are plated
+with gold. The Queen's own comfortable arm-chair is at the rear of the
+saloon and faces the engine, and there are three other arm-chairs. The
+walls of the car (Englishmen call it a "carriage") are of polished
+satin-wood. The whole car cost about $35,000. The Queen and her suite
+are furnished with special time-tables printed in purple ink on white
+satin, adorned with the royal arms and an embossed border of gold. In
+winter the car is heated with hot-water pipes, and in summer it is
+cooled by an extra rooting of wet cloths, which are frequently soaked
+with very cold water, and by blocks of ice placed in the interior of the
+car.
+
+If by any chance the railroad journey includes a night of travel, her
+Majesty sleeps in her own bed in her car. The Prince of Wales has a
+private car too, but he often travels in an ordinary first-class coach.
+Whenever it becomes known--such things will leak out at times--that the
+Queen or the Prince is travelling over the line, great crowds gather at
+the stations and hurl cheer after cheer at the royal train. This is much
+nicer than the Russian style of hurling something explosive.
+
+The King and Queen of Portugal have a train of three special cars that
+were built for them in France upon American plans. This shows what
+wide-awake, intelligent persons the King and Queen of Portugal are. They
+are not particularly afraid of dynamiters or any other kind of
+assassins, and although poor--among kings--they manage to have a fairly
+good time on wheels.
+
+In planning the royal train King Charles of Portugal went so far in his
+Americanism as to demand vestibuled platforms. Of course, any one may
+ride in a vestibuled train in our country by simply paying a few
+dollars, but in Europe it takes a king of strong will power to obtain
+such luxury.
+
+The royal train of Portugal consists of a dining-car, a car for the
+royal ministers, etc., and the car especially reserved for the King and
+Queen. All three are of the size and general appearance of high-class
+American cars. Outside their color is a dark rich green, relieved with
+tracings of gold and red. The escutcheon of the royal arms of Portugal
+is painted in the middle of each side. The dining-car is fitted up in
+the style of Louis XV. The table can be folded and put away when not in
+use. The interior ornamentation of carved oak, amaranth, citron-wood,
+etc., is very rich indeed. Next to the dining-room is the smoking salon,
+where the King, or even Queen Amelia, may relieve the monotony of travel
+with a cigarette.
+
+There are four sleeping-rooms in the royal car besides rooms for the
+attendants. The most remarkable thing about this car is the dais and
+divan at one end of the salon. No one may sit on this raised divan but
+the King or the Queen. A drapery of silk velvet forms the background.
+Above the back of the divan the royal arms are carved. Probably it
+diverts his Majesty's mind to sit here on high now and then while
+journeying and call his ministers around him and ask them questions and
+make wise comments, as Kings always do--in certain books.
+
+Downright worry drove Czar Alexander III. of Russia to his death. Taller
+and stronger than any of his subjects, not one of whom could cope with
+him in wrestling, this imperial giant was actually tormented into his
+grave by fears of nihilistic plots to destroy him. Nowhere was this fear
+greater than when on railroad journeys. Again and again Alexander
+abandoned long trips at the last moment because the nihilists had
+learned his plans, and there was reason to believe that they had dug
+mines under the railroad track and were ready to blow him and his train
+to fragments. His son has not been on the throne long enough, the
+nihilists say, for them to decide whether or not they shall try to kill
+him.
+
+Alexander's train was a fort on wheels. It was built in 1889, two years
+after a terrible underground explosion of dynamite, which wrecked the
+Czar's train at Borki, when he was on his way from the Crimea to St.
+Petersburg with the Empress and their family. In that accident
+twenty-one persons were killed and thirty-six were wounded, but not one
+of the imperial family was injured. The Czar showed himself a brave man
+by going to the aid of the wounded as soon as he could climb out of the
+wreck. All the cars in the train were of wood.
+
+The new train of 1889 was made of wood too, but the cars were armored.
+The outside of each car was of heavy iron, inside of which was a layer
+of eight inches of cork. All of the four cars in the train were exactly
+alike outwardly, so that a nihilist would find it hard to pick out the
+Czar's car should he by any accident get within shooting distance. When
+the Czar travelled he often spent his time in a car that was so built
+and painted as to look like a baggage-car from the outside. When the
+Czar visited Emperor William III., at Berlin, in October, 1889, six
+Russian workmen put gratings of wrought-iron at the tops and bottoms of
+all the chimneys of the old Schloss and palace at Potsdam, which the
+Czar occupied. This was to keep out nihilists' bombs. Armed sentries
+patrolled the roofs. When the Czar started for home all the railroad
+bridges, as well as the streets of Berlin, Marienburg, and Dantzic, were
+guarded by soldiers, policemen, and detectives. Not until after the Czar
+left Dantzic was it known whether he had proceeded by train or on the
+imperial yacht _Derjava_. When the train started for the border 50,000
+Russian troops were placed on guard along the railroad tracks. Every
+journey the unhappy ruler made was attended by similar precautions.
+
+[Illustration: THE FRENCH PRESIDENT ON THE WAY FROM VERSAILLES.]
+
+When Francais Felix Faure, the newly-elected President of the French
+Republic, made his first railroad journey after election, he found that
+being a mere President is almost as unpleasant as playing king. For fear
+of anarchists a strong force of soldiers and four sappers and miners
+guarded each of the railway bridges and grade crossings between
+Versailles and Paris. Extra policemen and a little army of five hundred
+detectives watched the palace in which the National Assembly sat. A
+strong battalion of lancers and more foot soldiers than you could count
+escorted the new President to the special train in waiting at Versailles
+at 8 o'clock on Friday morning, January 18th. Fortunately no anarchist
+got a shot at the President as he was whirled along, but as he emerged
+from the St. Lazare railway station in Paris voices in the crowd yelled
+at him, "Down with the check-takers!"--a pointed hint that M. Faure was
+implicated in the Panama Canal scandal.
+
+
+
+
+A CORRECTION.
+
+
+  "I've dot two Movver Gooses,"
+    Said Mollie. "If you please,"
+  Said Johnny, "Don't say Gooses,
+    Because it's Mother Geese."
+
+
+
+
+DR. RAINSFORD'S ADVICE TO BOYS.
+
+
+When we were boys we did things without thinking much about them. Boys
+do not generally think much; yet I think even when I was a boy I found
+myself sometimes wondering why it was so hard to do the things I wanted
+to do well. It was ever so much harder, of course, to do well the things
+that one did not specially want to do. I want to talk to you a little
+about the reason that lies back of this difficulty of doing things well.
+
+When I was thirteen my father gave me a gun. That birthday long ago is
+one of the very reddest of red-letter days in my life. I have had many a
+good time since; but none of these good times, I think, have quite come
+up to that hour, so full of astonishment and delight, when I saw the
+very thing I had been longing for and dreaming about so long--saw the
+soft-looking brown barrels lying snugly against the green-baize lining
+of the case, and felt the ring of the lock under my fingers as I drew
+the hammers of my own gun back. (Those were the days of muzzle-loaders,
+boys.) But when I had got that gun--the desire of my eyes, the pride of
+my life--it was, oh, how long, before I could hit things flying with it.
+On Saturday half-holidays (we had only one half a holiday a week when I
+was at school), I used to practise steadily. All my savings went to
+shot, powder, and wads. I almost lost the desire for candy with its
+disuse. I even turned my back on the pond where we used to fish for
+roach. I had seen my father kill birds flying, one with each barrel, and
+there was neither rest nor satisfaction for me till I could do the same.
+I think I took to shooting naturally; yet how long it was, and how hard
+I had to work, before I learned to shoot steadily and well.
+
+It was the same story over again when I had grown older and gone to
+college. There I determined to row. If ever you are in old England in
+May, go, if you can, to Oxford or Cambridge, if it is only to see the
+college races. The river-banks then are green, so green, and the hedges
+and trees are one waving nosegay. The big buttercups grow in yellow
+bunches by the brink. Where the meadows slope down to the stream crowds
+of gayly dressed people are standing, for the sisters and friends of
+every college lad have come up to see the sight. This is on one side of
+the river; on the other stretches the towing-path, and along it surge a
+mighty throng of "men" clad in all the colors of the rainbow, wild with
+excitement, shouting themselves hoarse. They are out to see their
+college crew row. And what a sight those crews are! Round the bend, here
+they come at last, the eight-oar crews, the men's bodies swinging like
+pendulums, the eight pair of hands dropping at the end of each stroke as
+one, and then shooting out altogether. With a sweep and a swish they
+dash by, and the rushes of college color struggle to keep up with them.
+Ah, the very memory of it makes me thrill still! When first I saw their
+ease and splendid strength, how simple it looked. Surely, any fairly
+strong man could make those broad-bladed oars come swishing through,
+leaving behind them, well below the surface, a clear track of white
+water. So it seemed to me, and I determined there and then, that first
+May morning, I too would row. But I tell you it costs something to sit
+in a good eight-oar. Long months of hard work, obedience to orders, and
+patient drudgery have to be undergone before the broad-bladed oar comes
+swishing through as I have tried to describe it. Your back aches, your
+wrists feel limp as wet strings, and your chest is absolutely bursting,
+and yet you do not seem to be able to put one good stroke in; the boat
+slips away from you all the time. So for weeks and months runs your
+daily experience. But when the rudiments of rowing are mastered at last,
+when patient attention and hard exercise have made you strong, and
+taught you when and where to use your strength, then comes the reward.
+And whatever delightful experiences life may have in store for you, few
+indeed of them can surpass the exhilaration, the sense of triumphant
+power, that none know, perhaps, so well as those who have rowed on a
+first-class eight-oar crew.
+
+Do you see what I am driving at? I have been talking of our pleasures,
+the things we want to do and choose to do. These, I say, cost us
+trouble, and a great deal of care and painstaking. If any boy thinks he
+can command success, even in his sports, without putting into them all
+the will and all the brains, as well as all the brawn, he has as his
+own, he must soon find himself left out in the cold. At best he can only
+be a second-rate. Now this law of life, namely, that you must work hard
+to succeed in anything, does not apply to us, who are lords of creation,
+alone. One of the most wonderful things about our world is that the
+rules of the game of life are obeyed by the smallest atom that lives as
+well as by "king man" himself. If any living thing neglects or disobeys
+those rules, that disobedient being, whether it be common or low,
+suffers for its disobedience. If it obeys those rules, it grows stronger
+by obedience, and increases and develops its own power.
+
+Let me tell you one or two instances of obedience by the creatures round
+us to these hard rules of life.
+
+Have you ever seen a little salmon? A dainty, plucky little fellow he
+is. It takes him two years to grow from the egg to your finger's length.
+These two years of babyhood are spent in the quiet waters of his river
+home. By the time the second summer is passed he is about five inches
+long, golden-sided, with bright crimson spots, and weighs perhaps two
+ounces. Then he starts on his first great journey to waters unknown. No
+one knows where he goes, what lonely places he visits, where in the
+great sea the little adventurer makes his winter home. Certainly the
+Arctic Ocean is not too cold for him, for the waters of the far
+Mackenzie, emptying themselves into the polar sea, swarm with salmon;
+but wherever the little fellow does winter, the climate, food, and life
+must agree with him amazingly. He goes seaward in August. Next summer he
+is back in the same old river; and not only that, but in the very pool
+in it where he was hatched out. He is the same, but not the same; for
+now he weighs from three to five pounds. In the river it took him two
+years to grow five inches and weigh two ounces. In those six months of
+sea life he has gained at least twenty-four times his own weight. There
+is a reward for you! He felt he ought to go away and fight it out in the
+great sea. He went, he fought, he won, and now he revisits the old river
+a very different fish indeed. There is no longer any reason why he need
+lurk behind stones and dash aside to avoid the rush of the voracious
+trout. The very trout that once tried to gobble him must move out of the
+way, for he is almost a salmon. What has made him the strong beautiful
+fish he is? One thing, and one only--the struggle with the deep sea, and
+all the deep sea means. If he had been content to stay behind his
+fellows in the warm clear river he would be scarcely any bigger than he
+was last fall. His red spots would not be quite so bright, nor he
+himself so vigorous. Nature whispered to him to go forth and strive and
+grow, and since he obeyed her, and did his best, she kept her word with
+him.
+
+Have you ever tried to crawl up on a bunch of wild ducks, or sat behind
+a blind while your wooden decoys were spread on the water all around
+you? If you have done either, I know you will agree with me when I say
+the wild duck is a very smart fellow indeed. His eye is keen, he is full
+of sense, and very hard to fool. Now his cousin, the tame duck, is next
+door to an idiot. He cannot hide himself or protect himself in any way.
+Strangely enough, too, while the wild duck finds one wife and one family
+quite all he can attend to, the big, hulking tame duck is a regular
+Mormon, and prefers a dozen wives, and neglects his children sadly. It
+is not hard to guess why these two birds are so different. The tame duck
+is only a wild duck domesticated, that is, put in such a position that
+he could not continue to live the natural sort of life that was best for
+him, the life of continuous struggle. He is, in short, a degenerate wild
+duck; his wings are not so broad or so strong, the muscles of his breast
+have grown puny and shrunken; he does not even want to fly far north in
+spring or far south in winter. He is content with his farm-yard and
+puddle. He has stopped _trying_, and so has stopped _growing_ too.
+
+One more instance I will give you, boys, of the important place this law
+of struggle plays in the lives of the very beasts. I was visiting some
+time ago the museum in one of our universities. One of the professors
+was with me, and we came to a case full of plaster casts of brains, the
+brains of animals. While looking at these you could, of course, easily
+compare their size and character, and form some opinion of the
+intelligence of the animal itself. The professor pointed out to me one
+very interesting brain cast. It was taken from the head of a rhinoceros
+that had lived very long ago--lived at the same time as mammoths and
+other antiquated animals. It was quite a large and well-developed brain.
+We next went to another case and took out the cast of a common
+rhinoceros, such a one as lived in our own times, and it was very
+evident that the present-day rhino was not nearly so large or
+intelligent as his progenitor of long ago. This seemed at first very
+strange; for why should the rhino's brain have degenerated while they
+are still struggling forward in the march of life? The answer is to be
+found in the sort of battle they have to fight. When the antediluvian
+rhino lived, the world was peopled with terrible monsters, brutes of
+great strength and savagery. With these he had no easy time of it. He
+had to match himself against them. Great strength alone was not enough;
+he needed cunning as well. Struggle he must, and struggle hard or go
+under; and he survived because he did struggle hard and did not go
+under. When, however, most of the monstrous forms of life had gradually
+passed away, the rhinoceros had no enemy he stood much in dread of. The
+milder animals of a later day get out of his way. There is nothing to be
+gained by contending with him. He needs no longer to strive; life comes
+easily, and food is plenty. Thus it is that a perpetually "good time"
+resulted in weakening his head and lowering his intelligence. He is,
+indeed, the degenerate descendant of a noble parent.
+
+So, boys, wherever we look, the same result is taught us. The very
+beasts of the field can only hold their own by doing their best. We,
+their kings and lords, must put our right hand to the work, too. We can
+only live our best life, develop our true self, by striving. The tallest
+and strongest trees are what they are because they have overcome the
+mighty force of gravitation that seeks to drag down and hold down to the
+earth every particle of matter within them. Life, even in the tree,
+means something that _overcomes_, rises above a force that holds it
+down; and yet only holds it down that its most beautiful and best nature
+may be developed to the full. So it is with us men. The brave man is not
+he who never felt fear. If a man is intelligent he must, under fearful
+circumstances, feel fear; but he who, feeling fear, overcomes his
+feeling and stands unmoved, or does in spite of danger the right and
+brave thing--this man has true courage, this man is the real hero. You
+may have heard the story of the officer who, when the cannon balls began
+to cut down files of his men, stood all trembling in front of the
+regiment. It looked as though he was terribly afraid. His knees were
+shaking under him, and his face was set and white. Some one standing
+near heard him talking to himself, heard him say, as he looked down at
+his trembling legs, "If you only knew where I was going to take you, you
+would give way altogether." That, I take it, is true courage. On the
+walls of a great school-room in one of the largest public schools in
+England is written this motto--and you cannot find a better:
+
+  "So near is glory to our dust,
+    So near is God to man;
+  When Duty whispers, 'Lo, thou must!'
+    The youth replies, 'I can.'"
+
+  W. S. RAINSFORD.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+BOBBY'S GARDEN.
+
+
+BOBBY. "I have just finished digging and raking my garden, and now I
+want five cents."
+
+MAMMA. "What, five cents for making your garden?"
+
+BOBBY. "No, mamma, not for making the garden, but to buy a package of
+succotash seed."
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: THE CAMERA CLUB]
+
+     This Department is conducted in the interest of Amateur
+     Photographers, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any
+     question on the subject so far as possible. Correspondents should
+     address Editor Camera Club Department.
+
+
+PAPERS FOR BEGINNERS, No. 8.
+
+OVER-EXPOSED PLATES, AND HOW TO TREAT THEM.
+
+The process of developing a negative would be very easily and quickly
+mastered if the exposure of the sensitive plates were always timed
+exactly right. Correct exposure, however, is the exception rather than
+the rule of amateur photography. To get good negatives, therefore, the
+amateur must learn to distinguish between a correct and incorrect
+exposure of the plate, and how to treat it, if incorrectly exposed, in
+order to preserve the image which is impressed on it.
+
+Over-exposure is the most common fault of the beginner in photography. A
+properly exposed plate grows into a negative step by step, until the
+whole image, with all its delicate gradations of lights and shadows, is
+fully developed. An over-exposed plate acts in a very different manner.
+When placed in the developer, instead of the high lights first appearing
+and the objects coming out gradually, the whole image comes out almost
+at once--"flashes up" is the technical and really appropriate term. If
+the plate is left in the developer, the image will fade away almost as
+quickly as it came out, and the result will be a thin negative, from
+which satisfactory prints cannot be made.
+
+
+TREATMENT.
+
+As soon as the image flashes up, showing that the plate has been
+over-exposed, take it from the developer and place it in a dish of clean
+water to stop development. Turn the developer from the tray and rinse
+the tray. Mix up a weak solution of developer, or dilute this same
+developer one-third with water. Add to this weak developer a few drops
+of a solution of bromide of potassium, prepared with a quarter of an
+ounce of bromide of potassium and five ounces of water. This solution
+should be mixed and kept always ready for use. Label the bottle
+"Restrainer." The bromide is called a restrainer, as it makes the
+development of the image proceed more slowly.
+
+Put the plate back in the tray, and turn the developer, to which the
+bromide has been added, over it, rocking the plate gently. Watch the
+development closely, and if the image still comes up too fast add a few
+more drops of bromide. Unless the plate has been very much over-exposed,
+by taking it from the developer and using the restrainer carefully, a
+good negative can usually be obtained. If the plate has been too much
+over-exposed, there is no way of saving it.
+
+If one knows or thinks that a plate has been over-exposed, the plate
+should not be put in a normal developer--that is, a developer which
+would be used for a correctly exposed plate--but it should be put into
+the weak developer to which bromide has been added.
+
+Some amateurs, in developing, have three trays of developer. The first
+tray contains normal developer, the second tray contains developer
+prepared for over-exposed plates, and the third for under-exposed
+plates.
+
+If a plate is found to be under or over exposed, it is washed and
+removed to the tray containing the proper solution. This is a very good
+plan if one has a quantity of plates to develop which have been exposed
+at different times and under different circumstances, as it saves
+preparing fresh developer after development has been started.
+
+     SIR KNIGHT FRANK KANE asks what is meant by a flat negative. A
+     flat or thin negative is one which has been over-exposed, and not
+     sufficiently developed to give the necessary density, so that the
+     light passes through all parts quickly, and gives a flat picture,
+     wanting in contrast. The next number of the ROUND TABLE will give
+     methods for strengthening or redeveloping thin negatives.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: THE RAINBOW TABLE.]
+
+A RAINBOW TEA.
+
+BY MARY J. SAFFORD.
+
+
+Suggestions for pretty effects at church fairs are always in order, and
+one which I attended recently was so attractive in its arrangements, and
+so well carried out in every detail, that a description may be of
+service to those who are planning a sale.
+
+Even the tickets were in harmony with the remainder of the decoration.
+They bore diagonally across the centre, the upper left-hand and the
+lower right-hand corners, a rainbow, while the lettering ran:
+
+  RAINBOW TEA.
+
+  IN AID OF
+
+  _The_............................................
+
+  _At_.............................................
+
+  Admission, 25 cents.
+
+Entering the room one saw directly opposite to the door the seven
+tables, each representing one of the colors of the rainbow. All were the
+same length and width, covered with the pretty, inexpensive crepe cloth,
+and bordered with a frill of crepe-paper the same shade. From the end of
+each table ran a width of the crepe cloth, through whose centre was a
+strip of satin ribbon the same shade about four inches wide. These
+extended to a small square table and fastened on the top. This table was
+placed midway between the red and the violet one, which stood on the
+same line, perhaps six feet apart, the other five tables being set
+between in the order of the colors of the rainbow, the green at right
+angles with the red and the violet, and the remainder slanting. The
+effect of the semicircle was extremely pretty, and it also afforded room
+for attendants and buyers to gather around the lower ends of the
+respective tables.
+
+The central ornament of each was a banquet-lamp, corresponding in color
+with the table on which it stood; that on the red one had a red
+porcelain vase in an iron stand, with a red shade; the green lamp had a
+green pillar and green shade; the yellow table bore a brass lamp, etc.
+
+The red, orange, and violet tables contained a bewildering variety of
+articles for sale, and it was an interesting study to note the ingenuity
+with which the respective colors had been introduced into the
+fancy-work, painted china, etc., displayed to tempt purchasers.
+
+On the orange table, for instance, were small gilded straw baskets,
+filled with delicious home-made molasses candies, tiny emery-cases
+covered with brown velvet, and surrounded by petals cut from deep yellow
+cloth, perfectly representing the daisylike flower known as "black-eyed
+Susan," sunflower penwipers, handkerchief-cases, made by folding an
+embroidered handkerchief over a square of yellow perfumed silk, the four
+corners meeting in the centre, laundry-bags, embroidered with yellow
+silk, sachet-cases with yellow buttercups strewn over them, teacups
+decorated with gold, etc.
+
+The red table bore similar testimony to the cleverness of those who had
+supplied its wants, while the violet one was a marvel of daintiness and
+suggestion of spring-time loveliness. The banquet-lamp had a silver
+stand and shade of violet silk and white lace; near it was a sofa
+cushion of sheer white linen lawn embroidered with violets, and
+surrounded by a wide insertion of lace, finished with a ruffle edged
+with lace. Beside this was a little bag, of white silk, with a pattern
+of lilac sweet-pease, in the bottom of which a needle-book was inserted,
+and not far off lay a table-centre embroidered with violets.
+
+The yellow table was tempting, with a large glass bowl filled with
+lemonade, served with a variety of yellow cakes. The green one dispensed
+ice-cream. The blue, besides tea, sold pretty blue-and-white china cups
+and saucers, tied together with blue ribbon; and the indigo one was
+sought by lovers of chocolate.
+
+The attendants at each table wore its colors. And another pretty feature
+of the occasion was a large pine-tree, standing in one corner of the
+hall, from whose branches hung oranges made of yellow paper, each one
+containing some prize for the purchaser.
+
+
+
+
+QUEER MONEY.
+
+
+Here is an amusing account of a traveller who went many years ago to
+Mexico, and found the natives using a strange kind of currency. Says he:
+
+"In one of the small towns I bought some limes, and gave the girl one
+dollar in payment. By way of change, she returned me forty-nine pieces
+of soap the size of a small biscuit. I looked at her in astonishment,
+and she returned my look with equal surprise, when a police officer, who
+had witnessed the incident, hastened to inform me that for small sums
+soap was legal tender in many portions of the country.
+
+"I examined my change, and found that each cake was stamped with the
+name of a town and of a manufacture authorized by the government. The
+cakes of soap were worth three farthings each. Afterwards, in my travel,
+I frequently received similar change. Many of the cakes showed signs of
+having been in the wash-tub; but that I discovered was not at all
+uncommon. Provided the stamp was not obliterated, the soap did not lose
+any value as currency. Occasionally a man would borrow a cake of a
+friend, wash his hands, and return it with thanks. I made use of my
+pieces more than once in my bath, and subsequently spent them."
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT]
+
+
+In looking over the programmes of the different scholastic athletic
+associations, I find that the Connecticut High-School A.A. is about the
+only one which has the same list of events as that approved by the
+I.C.A.A.A. It also uses the same system of scoring--5, 2, and 1--whereas
+most of the other interscholastic associations award three points to the
+winner of second place. This, however, is a different question, and one
+that I hope to treat of later. One thing at a time; and if we can get
+the card straightened out by next spring I shall be satisfied. If I can
+persuade all the executive committees to adopt the list of events in use
+by the colleges I shall consider that this Department has done some
+good, and has accomplished at least one valuable thing in its own sphere
+of usefulness. I am optimistic enough to believe that a year from now
+every association will have adopted the uniform schedule.
+
+The Connecticut Association at one time had the standing high and broad
+jumps as well as the running high kick on their card; but when Yale
+offered a silver cup for competition among the schools in 1891, one of
+the conditions attached to the gift was that the programme must be made
+to correspond with the inter-collegiate schedule. To the New Haven
+college, therefore, is largely due the credit for the Connecticut
+H.-S.A.A.'s present emancipation from acrobatics. The events on their
+card, like those of the I.C.A.A.A., comprise the 100 and 220-yard
+dashes; the quarter, the half, and the mile runs; the mile walk; the
+120-yard hurdle race over 3 ft. 6 in. hurdles, and the 220-yard hurdle
+race over 2 ft. 6 in. hurdles; the 2-mile bicycle race; the pole vault;
+the running high and broad jumps; the shot and hammer, both of sixteen
+pounds.
+
+It is only natural that a university or college association which takes
+an active interest in the sports of its preparatory schools should wish
+to have the athletes who are making ready to enter its ranks familiar
+with the events on the inter-collegiate card. We all know very well
+that, no matter how great the college-man's interest may be in sport, as
+such, he is not going to waste his time and money and energy in training
+and encouraging young men who do not expect to go to college, or who
+practise high kicking and standing jumps, or other feats of which he
+takes no notice. He very justly argues that there are enough young
+athletes in the country, who want to do what he does, for him to give
+all his attention to them. Therefore if school associations want the
+colleges to take a lively interest in their efforts, to send them
+trainers, and to offer them cups, I would advise them to work along the
+lines that college athletes have found most suitable for their purposes,
+and to let other matters alone. No one to whom I have spoken of this
+matter so far has disagreed with me. If any readers of this Department
+have any arguments for the other side, I am sure we shall all be glad to
+hear them.
+
+IOWA STATE HIGH-SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION GAMES, MUSCATINE, MAY 25,
+1895.
+
+  Event.                        Winner--5 points.      Performance.
+
+  50-yard dash                    Horsburgh, T.             5-3/5 sec.
+  100-yard dash                   Holbrook, T.             11      "
+  120-yard hurdle                 Holbrook, T.             20-1/3  "
+  Mile run                        Morland, T.        5 m.  18      "
+  Half-mile bicycle               Cole, C.           1 "   16      "
+  Half-mile run                   Demorest, M.       2 "   19      "
+  Half-mile walk                  Brunn, M.          4 "   12      "
+  220-yard hurdle                 Holbrook, T.             28-4/5  "
+  440-yard dash                   Demorest, M.             55-2/5  "
+  220-yard dash                   Holbrook, T.             24-4/5  "
+  Standing high kick              Flournoy, C.       7 ft.  6     in.
+  Running high jump               Flournoy, C.       5 "    3      "
+  Running hop, step, and jump     Booth, I. C.      39 "    3      "
+  Baseball throw                  Halinan, C.      314 "
+  Putting 12-lb. shot             Keister, C.       38 "    3      "
+  Standing broad jump             Flournoy, C.       9 "    9-3/4  "
+  Pole-vault                      Flournoy, C.       9 "    3      "
+
+
+  Event.                          2d--3 points.        3d--1 point.
+
+  50-yard dash                    Bannister, C.        Holbrook, T.
+  100-yard dash                   Booth, I. C.         Dean, M.
+  120-yard hurdle                 Horsburgh, T.
+  Mile run                        C. Hanley, M.        J. Hanley, M.
+  Half-mile bicycle               Riggs, I. C.         Mahin, M.
+  Half-mile run                   Swisher, I. C.       Morland, T.
+  Half-mile walk                  Reed, T.
+  220-yard hurdle                 Conger, C.           Freeman, I. C.
+  440-yard dash                   Hertz, I. C.         Bannister, C.
+  220-yard dash                   Dean, M.             Bannister, C.
+  Standing high kick              Brunn, M.            Leefers, T.
+  Running high jump               Booth, I. C.         Horton, M.
+  Running hop, step, and jump     Freeman, I. C.       Horton, M.
+  Baseball throw                  Conger, C.           Dean, M.
+  Putting 12-lb. shot             Holmes, C.           Holbrook, T.
+  Standing broad jump             Holbrook, T.         Lackmond, C.
+  Pole-vault                      Booth, I. C.         Freeman, I. C.
+
+
+     Points Made.
+
+  Clinton        50
+  Tipton         43
+  Muscatine      30
+  Iowa City      28
+                ---
+  Total         151
+
+     Tipton, T. Clinton, C. Muscatine, M. Iowa City, I. C.
+
+A very good example of what might justly be called a "freak" programme
+is that of the Iowa State High-School Athletic Association. Their field
+day was held at Muscatine on May 25th last, and I insert a table showing
+the results of the games more as an interesting curiosity than as a
+valuable contribution toward athletic records. Of the seventeen events
+on the card, only nine appear on the I.C.A.A.A. schedule, and one of
+these--the 12-lb. shot--ought to be left out. If the hurdles are
+undersized, then the Iowans have really only six numbers on their list
+that would admit them to competition with the Interscholastic
+Association of the United States, which we hope to see in full-fledged
+running order next spring. Iowa has a claim to recognition in athletics,
+her university having sent to the Mott Haven games this year the fastest
+sprinter that has entered for many a year. Let me therefore urge the
+younger athletes to train themselves for events that they can achieve
+renown in rather than to waste their time in high kicking. Crum would
+have received scant attention at Mott Haven even if he could have
+hopped, stepped, and jumped from one end of the Oval to the other.
+
+[Illustration: CLINTON HIGH-SCHOOL TRACK-ATHLETIC TEAM.
+
+Champions of the Iowa State High-School Athletic Association.]
+
+Four schools were represented on the Fair Grounds at Muscatine, and
+Clinton H.-S. took the cup with 50 points. The Clinton team consisted of
+fourteen boys only, and as they have trained themselves without any
+assistance from older athletes, their performances are creditable. While
+it is true that none of them as yet threaten the Interscholastic
+records, it must be remembered that our Eastern schools have been in
+athletics many years longer than the Iowans, and enjoy far greater
+advantages from trainers and coaches than can be had in the West. In a
+very few years, however, matters will no longer be thus, and I
+confidently look to see several of these records held beyond the
+Mississippi. My young friends on the Pacific coast are going to raise a
+few of the marks too. Look out for them!
+
+If the plan now proposed in the middle West can be carried out, we shall
+see next year an Interscholastic Association composed of the principal
+schools of Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. This organization
+will be a powerful one, and its meetings, where the entries will be
+restricted to the firsts and seconds of the State contests, ought to be
+productive of good records. Such competition cannot fail to elevate
+sport in that section, and then the East will have to look to its
+laurels.
+
+At a meeting of the schools represented in the Senior and Junior
+football leagues, held in Boston early last May, some good changes were
+made in the manner of running things, and several excellent rules were
+adopted. The constitution now governs both leagues, which are united
+under the single title of "The Interscholastic Football Association"--of
+New England, I suppose. Henceforth the president of the association will
+practically be elected by goals and touch-downs, because the office goes
+to the Captain of the winning eleven of the Senior League. The
+vice-president is similarly chosen, the office going to the Captain of
+the champion team of the Junior League. There are to be graduates on
+the executive committee, which is perfectly proper, but that these
+should be chosen from one college alone is unwise and unfair. The new
+scheme is to have the executive committee consist of the Captain of the
+Harvard football team, three undergraduates of the schools in the
+league, with the president _ex officio_, and two graduates of Harvard.
+
+The objection I make to this arrangement is that it is hardly right to
+look upon the Interscholastic Football Association as a feeder for
+Harvard alone. It is probably true that Harvard has done more for
+football in the Boston schools than has any other college, and even more
+than any other college ever will do; but still men do go from Boston
+schools to other places than Cambridge, and these men might feel that
+there is a little too much crimson ink on those regulations. It would be
+better to have it set down in the constitution that certain members of
+the committee shall be graduates of the schools that are members of the
+leagues (college graduates, too, if you like, and even ex-members of
+'varsity teams, if practical football knowledge is wanted), but let the
+eligibility to committee membership depend upon the candidate's school
+relations rather than upon his college connection. It might happen some
+year, or for several years in succession, that the football men of the
+Boston schools would go to Tufts College or to the Massachusetts
+Institute of Technology. Then both those institutions would feel that
+their interest in the welfare of the Interscholastic League entitled
+them to an eye in its supervision. I remember that in 1888, the year the
+Interscholastic League was formed by Harvard to train players for the
+Cambridge eleven, several of the best players of one of the strongest
+teams went to Yale.
+
+The teams in the Senior League are now limited to six, and before the
+series of games begins in the fall each school must hand in its list of
+players for the year. It is also required that each player shall have at
+least twelve hours a week at his school, and be not over twenty-one
+years of age. The Seniors get considerable advantage over the Juniors in
+the matter of voting, they being allowed two votes to the latter's
+single ballot.
+
+It is almost impossible to avoid typographical errors, especially in
+matter consisting largely of numerals, like the tabulated records so
+frequently printed in this Department. I remember once of a publisher in
+London who made up his mind to publish a book that should have no
+typographical errors whatever. He had his proofs corrected by his own
+proof-readers, until they all assured him that there were no longer any
+errors in the text. Then he sent proofs to the universities and to other
+publishing houses offering a prize of several pounds sterling in cash
+for every typographical mistake that could be found. Hundreds of proofs
+were sent out in this way, and many skilled proof-readers examined the
+pages in the hope of earning a prize. A few errors were discovered. Then
+all the proof-sheets having been heard from, the publisher felt assured
+that his book would appear before the public an absolutely perfect piece
+of composition. He had the plates cast, the edition printed and bound
+between expensive covers--because as a perfect specimen of the printers'
+art it was of course unique in literature, and exceedingly valuable to
+bibliophiles. The edition sold well and was spread all over the country.
+The publisher was very much pleased with himself for having done
+something that had hitherto been considered an impossibility. Then his
+pride had a fall, for six or eight months later he received a letter
+calling his attention to an error in a certain line on a certain page.
+Then came another letter announcing the discovery of a second error in
+this perfect book. I believe before the year was up four or five
+mistakes were found.
+
+This only goes to show that, even with the greatest care, absolute
+perfection is impossible. The next best thing, therefore, is to correct
+unavoidable errors as soon as they are discovered. This Department
+depends hugely upon its readers to find its occasional slips, and I
+shall take great pleasure in calling attention to the misprints as soon
+as I know of them. There are many who preserve the ROUND TABLE and
+depend upon the accuracy of the figures given for reference in the
+future. They can make their tables absolutely true by noting in ink on
+the margin of the pages any corrections given here later. The errors I
+have discovered thus far follow:
+
+Hackett's time in the mile walk, shown in the table on page 538, should
+be 7 min. 46-2/5 sec., instead of 7 min. 4-2/5 sec. On page 537,
+Meehan's time at the end of the first lap in the half-mile run should
+have been given as 61 sec., not as 60. In the table of the Connecticut
+H.-S.A.A. games printed on page 634, Beck's shot-put is given as 36 ft.
+8-1/2 in. His actual performance was 37 ft. 8-1/2 inches. At the dual
+games between the Hillhouse High-School and the Boardman Manual
+Training-school of New Haven, Beck made a put of 39 ft. 5 in. This would
+therefore correct his interscholastic record in the table on page 706,
+where it shows 39 ft. 3 in. The order of the finish in the bicycle race
+at the Connecticut H.-S.A.A. games was Baker, Steele, Rutz. This is
+stated correctly in the table, but not in the text.
+
+A few years ago, long before photography had reached the stage of
+accuracy which we now enjoy, instantaneous photographs were made of a
+horse in action, and it was shown that the old conception of a galloping
+steed with four feet off the ground, the animal posed very much like a
+Roman arch, was absolutely erroneous. The actual position of a moving
+horse was shown to be entirely different and somewhat peculiar. Motion
+is so swift that our eyes cannot keep up with it--cannot even catch one
+of its elements. Thus we get a very imperfect idea of moving objects
+that we look at, and not until photographs come to our assistance do we
+really know just what we have seen.
+
+What the readers of this Department are presumably most interested in
+just now is sport, and more particularly that sport participated in by
+their schoolmates, and by young athletes of their own age in other
+schools. Each individual, no doubt, has his own favorite branch of
+athletics, and he naturally strives to reach as great a degree of
+perfection as he is capable of in that special kind of work. It is not
+always easy to succeed in becoming perfect. Books and descriptive
+articles are valuable, but they must lack a great deal. The next best
+thing to actual physical demonstration, therefore, will be a series of
+instantaneous photographs that show each element of an athletic
+performance from the beginning of the action until the end. This
+Department will endeavor from time to time to offer these series of
+elements to its readers, and will begin next week by showing just how
+the high jump is performed. The photographs that will accompany the text
+show how each motion of the jump is made, where the jumper is, and how
+he looks during the entire transit over the bar.
+
+  THE GRADUATE.
+
+
+
+
+[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.
+
+
+I have a number of inquiries every week regarding water-marks in stamps,
+especially since the U.S. has begun the practice. Many governments have
+used this method as a prevention to counterfeiting. The water-mark is
+made in the paper while in process of manufacture. When the paper pulp
+is somewhat solidified, a roller is run over it under pressure. This
+roller has on the outside a pattern made in brass or copper, and as it
+passes over the wet sheet it thins the paper wherever the pattern has
+pressed it. If well done, the water-mark can be seen by looking through
+the paper. If poorly done, the water-mark can be seen indistinctly.
+Philatelists look for indistinct water-marks by placing the stamp face
+downward on a piece of black paper, or japanned iron, and then apply
+pure benzine to the back of the stamp with a camel's-hair brush. This
+method reveals water-marks better than any other. Formerly most paper
+had a water-mark, but as a rule to-day it is used on fine qualities of
+writing-paper only.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+England and her colonies have used water-marks in stamps since 1854. In
+that year the Small Crown was used for 1d. red and 2d. blue. The V. R.
+was used on the 6d. violet issued in the same year. In 1855 the Garter
+was used for the 4d. in three sizes known as the "Large, Medium, and
+Small Garters." To give an idea of the difference in value according to
+water-marks I quote from a late catalogue:
+
+                                       Unused.    Used.
+
+  Small garter, 4d. on bluish paper,   $75.00    $1.25
+    "     "     4d. "  white    "      100.00     2.50
+  Medium  "     4d. "    "      "       60.00     1.00
+    "     "     4d. "  bluish   "       75.00     2.00
+  Large   "     4d. "  white    "        1.75      .08
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+In 1856 the "Large Crown" and the "Heraldic Emblems," or "Four Flowers,"
+were used on the 1d., 1-1/2d., 2d., 3d., 6d., 9d., and 1s. stamps.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Eleven years later the "Spray of Rose" was used on all stamps from 3d.
+to 2s. The "Anchor" was used on the 2-1/2d. in 1875, and the "Orb" on
+the same stamp five years later. The "Maltese Cross" was used on the
+10s. and L1 in 1878. This completes the water-marks on English Stamps,
+with the exception of 1/2d. stamp, which was printed on sheets marked
+"half-penny."
+
+     J. HALL.--All U. S. stamps since 1857 should have been perforated.
+     Any unperforated U.S. stamps since then are the results of
+     accident, and should not be catalogued. They are "freaks." Proofs
+     are not perforated, and can be distinguished from stamps by their
+     having been printed on card-board or India paper.
+
+     A. P.--I should like to follow your suggestion and give a list of
+     all the new issues if space permitted.
+
+     A. LORDELL.--There are three varieties of the current 2c. U. S.
+     with the triangle more or less different, Types I., II., and III.
+
+     B. K. H.--I strongly advise you not to buy the Chinese local
+     stamps. They are simply philatelic trash, and will probably be
+     worth less money ten years from now than they cost to-day. Buy
+     good stamps from a responsible dealer. As a rule the higher the
+     value the more likely to increase in the future. This applies to
+     all but the first-class rarities now worth from $50 apiece upward.
+
+     W. F. BROWN.--No addresses of dealers can be given in this column.
+     I believe the dealers have a full supply of all the Columbian
+     stamps, except the $1 and $2, which are sold for $7 and $4
+     respectively. There is no 7c. Columbian stamp.
+
+     M. S. C.--The coin dealers sell the 1803 cent for 10 cents. The
+     English coins mentioned are all common.
+
+     L. V. BLISS.--Thanks for your suggestion. I would adopt the same
+     at once, but the postal laws do not permit the printing of any
+     illustration of a U.S. stamp, or even part of such and the absence
+     of illustrations would make such articles uninteresting and very
+     difficult to understand.
+
+     H. CROSSMAN.--England 1840 1d. black, 2d. blue.
+
+     RAY B. BAKER.--The Cape of Good Hope, 1861, 1d. red is worth 60
+     cents, the wood-black, $15, the wood-black error, same issue,
+     $250. The 1/2d, 1871 is sold for 6 cents. $1, $2, and $5
+     Columbian, $7, $4, $5.50 respectively.
+
+     O. A. P.--It is not a coin, and is worth nothing.
+
+     HELEN O. KAUPER.--The 90c. orange, 1890, is sold by dealers for
+     $1.50 unused, 75 cents used. The coins are worth face value only.
+
+     B. W. LEAVITT.--A 2c. stamp should always be enclosed with a
+     letter of inquiry.
+
+     C. MCQUEEN.--The values of all the Columbians are about the same
+     as six months ago, except that the $1 has advanced to about $6 in
+     value, and the $2 is hard to get at less than $4.
+
+     H. H. BOWMAN.--The 3c. 1861 mentioned by you is the regular rose
+     issue, but oxidized by time. All red stamps with cochineal are
+     subject to oxidization from dampness, sulphur fumes, etc.
+
+     H. C. DURAR.--I congratulate you on your discovery of a rare
+     local.
+
+     J. B. DAGGETT.--There are three varieties of the 1803 cent. The
+     small circle is sold for 10c., the large circle for 40c., the
+     1-100 and 1-1000 for 35c. The Kossuth medal has no value.
+
+     W. S. FOWLER.--The first postage-stamp ever made was the 1 p.
+     black of 1840. It is sold for 8c. The 1 p. red was used from 1841
+     to 1880. There are many minor varieties, some of which are rare.
+
+     E. P. NOYES.--The silver dollar does not command a premium.
+
+     J. S. GREEN.--No premium on the eagle cent. The Dutch penny has no
+     value in the U. S.
+
+     W. H. KERR.--The two Siam provisionals, 1 att on 64 atts and 2
+     atts on 64 atts, are worth 10c. or 15c. each. The other stamp is a
+     "sick-fund" stamp from Germany.
+
+     C. C. PERPALL.--The difference in the stamps is caused by
+     imperfect printing.
+
+     ASH.--The $3 gold pieces do not command any premium. The dates
+     given are the common dates.
+
+     M. C. W.--The two stamps are revenue stamps from Bosnia. They
+     cannot be used in payment of postage. Embossing was described in
+     the last number of the Round Table. Stamps vary in value from year
+     to year, and even month to month. Generally there is an increase
+     year by year, but in a few instances they decrease in value. No
+     catalogue can fix prices, and the same issue may be cheap or dear,
+     according to the condition of the individual stamp.
+
+  PHILATUS.
+
+
+
+
+ADVERTISEMENTS.
+
+
+
+
+Highest of all in Leavening Power.--Latest U. S. Gov't Report.
+
+[Illustration: Royal Baking Powder]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: If afflicted with SORE EYES USE Dr. ISAAC THOMPSON'S EYE
+WATER]
+
+
+
+
+HARPER'S NEW CATALOGUE,
+
+Thoroughly revised, classified, and indexed, will be sent by mail to any
+address on receipt of ten cents.
+
+
+
+
+[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 last stage of the run from New York to Philadelphia is given in this
+week's map. The distance is thirty-one miles, and the road, good in the
+main, is greatly helped by being generally a little down grade. On
+leaving Trenton by Warren Street the rider will soon come to the
+Delaware River, which he should cross by the Warren Street Bridge. He
+then runs into Morrisville on the other side. Immediately after
+crossing, turn left to the Bristol turnpike, and on reaching this turn
+to the right into it. The run is direct then to Tullytown and thence to
+Bristol. Between Tullytown and Bristol the run is along the river, and
+at times the road is quite good, especially if rain has not made the
+reddish-yellow earth soggy and muddy. For a good deal of the distance
+from Trenton to Bristol--a distance of nine miles or more--you will do
+well to take the side path, which here, as elsewhere over such generally
+level country as New Jersey and this part of Pennsylvania, is likely to
+be good.
+
+From Bristol turn to the right at the hotel and run on to the cemetery,
+where you should take the left fork, which will carry you direct to
+Frankford-on-Pike, a distance of fifteen miles. From here the run to the
+outskirts of Philadelphia is but two miles. On this run from Bristol you
+pass by Bridgewater, Eddington, Holmesburg, near Tacony, and into
+Frankford, and there is but one hill of any note, which is just before
+entering Holmesburg. Indeed, this is not a bad hill compared with some
+of the Western Massachusetts hills, and some of those on the New
+York-Albany route. Entering Philadelphia you run along Lehigh Avenue,
+until reaching Broad Street, where you turn left into the latter, and
+run on to the public buildings in the centre of the city.
+
+Philadelphia is a magnificent city for bicyclists, and we propose next
+week to give a map of all the asphalted and macadamized streets within
+the city limits, which in the coming weeks will be followed by short
+routes in the vicinity. The New York-Philadelphia run is a capital one,
+and can be made if the trip is taken at easy stages, as we have
+described it, by any one who can ride a wheel. Many women could do it
+without difficulty, and it has the added advantage of being part of the
+way on the great New York-Washington run. So that if you arrive at
+Philadelphia, and want a little longer journey, especially if it is in
+the fall of the year, and Washington is in full feather, there is a fine
+opportunity for a good long trip of easy stages to Washington and return
+to New York. Inquiries are constantly being made to the Department
+regarding trips, and the best roads from one town or city to another.
+Partly because of the absolute inadequacy of space, and partly because
+maps of many of these routes could not be judiciously published, we have
+been unable to answer these questions. A general suggestion can be made,
+however, in regard to this matter. If you join the L.A.W. Division in
+the State where you reside, you pay $2, and receive a copy of the road
+book of that State, if one has been issued, besides maps showing the
+best bicycle roads. These are sent you free of charge. You can procure
+road books of other States by writing to the Secretary of the L.A.W.
+Division for the State of ----, naming the particular State in question.
+These will cost from $1 to $2 each. Using these there will be no
+difficulty in laying out the best roads between almost any two points
+you desire.
+
+     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.
+     Brooklyn to Babylon in No. 815. Brooklyn to Northport in No. 816.
+     Tarrytown to Poughkeepsie in No. 817. Poughkeepsie to Hudson in
+     No. 818. Hudson to Albany in No. 819. Tottenville to Trenton in
+     820.
+
+
+
+
+[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.
+
+
+Going to the country? City girls think as much of their summers among
+green fields as country girls do of coming to town, and one can say no
+more than that.
+
+School is over, and the lessons done with for the present, and now you
+may enjoy the sense of freedom from rules, which is one of the really
+charming things in a vacation. If I were you, though, I would not spend
+all the summer weeks without learning something, either about Nature and
+her wonders, or else about housekeeping and sewing.
+
+At Aunty's in the mountains help is hard to get, and Aunty and her
+daughters make their own beds, and do much of the housework outside of
+the kitchen. Do you know how to make a bed? It looks very easy, yet
+there is an art in doing it well.
+
+In the first place you must thoroughly air your bed every day. Pull the
+bed-clothes apart, set the mattress on end, if it is in two pieces so
+that you can manage it, and open the windows widely. Leave bed and
+bedding this way, exposed to air and sunlight, for at least an hour.
+Then spread your under sheet smoothly on the mattress, tucking it well
+in at the top. Similarly tuck the upper sheet in with great care at the
+bottom of the bed, so that it will not work loose and leave the feet of
+a restless sleeper exposed. Be sure in laying on your blankets that the
+open end of them is at the top of the bed. A person often requires a
+second thickness of blanket before morning, and can arrange it as she
+wishes if the closed end of the blanket is at the bottom of the bed.
+
+Now comes your dainty upper spread, to be folded up and laid aside at
+night, your bolster, and your pillows. I would enjoy sleeping in a bed
+made by one of my girls if she followed these directions.
+
+Of course you are going to begin making your Christmas presents this
+summer. The beautiful centre-pieces, doilies, and other bits of
+embroidery which you intend to send here and there to dear friends must
+be planned for and finished, from the first careful stitch to the last,
+during your summer leisure. A set of towels or handkerchiefs with a
+monogram in the corner of each will delight mamma, and Arthur will be
+very much pleased if his sister makes a cover for his mantel or his
+chiffonier. It will be well to select your materials and take them in
+your trunk, and then set apart a definite part of each day for your
+work.
+
+Some of you belong to the Needle-work Guild, and are pledged to send a
+certain number of finished garments to the headquarters of the society
+in the autumn. You must make these little garments, slips, petticoats,
+aprons, or whatever they may be, with the utmost nicety. Let only
+loving, careful stitches go into your work for the poor.
+
+Last summer a beautiful girl from town found part of her pleasure in
+teaching some little children in a sea-side village how to sew. Her
+little class came to her vine-shaded veranda every week, and there she
+showed them how to hem and over-hand and fell and back-stitch, and when
+work was over she gave them a little treat of candy and fruit. Do you
+suppose they forgot her when the long winter came, and don't you think
+they are hoping to see her again this summer?
+
+Will you all take notice that if you wish letters answered in this
+column you must send them a fortnight in advance of the occasion? It is
+impossible for me to answer in "next week's paper" an inquiry which
+comes to me on the Saturday or Monday just before an issue. Please give
+yourselves and me a little longer time.
+
+
+[Illustration: Signature]
+
+
+
+
+A READY ANSWER.
+
+
+The poorer classes among the Maltese have a ready wit, if the story told
+by a returned traveller is true. An English officer stationed at Malta,
+failing to make a Maltese understand what he meant, called the poor man
+"a fool." Understanding this much, the man, who had travelled about a
+good deal, though he did not understand English, replied by asking, "Do
+you speak Maltese?" "No." "Do you speak Arabic?" "No." "Do you speak
+Greek?" "No." "Do you speak Italian?" "No." "Then if I be one fool, you
+be four fools."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A POUND OF FACTS
+
+is worth oceans of theories. More infants are successfully raised on the
+Gail Borden Eagle Brand Condensed Milk than upon any other food. _Infant
+Health_ is a valuable pamphlet for mothers. Send your address to N. Y.
+Condensed Milk Co., N. Y.--[_Adv._]
+
+
+
+
+ADVERTISEMENTS.
+
+
+
+
+Arnold
+
+Constable & Co.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Chudda Shawls
+
+IN TAN SHADES,
+
+from 75c. to 3.50 each.
+
+Less than half price.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Broadway & 19th st.
+
+NEW YORK.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Columbia
+
+Bicycle
+
+advertising has for months been conspicuous by its absence. 1895
+Columbias at $100--finest, easiest-running bicycles ever produced at any
+price--have been doing their own advertising.
+
+For the first time this year we can assure reasonably prompt delivery of
+regularly equipped Columbias and Hartfords.
+
+You See Them Everywhere
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Pope Manufacturing Co.
+
+General Offices and Factories, Hartford, Conn.
+
+BRANCH STORES: Boston, New York, Chicago, Providence, Philadelphia,
+Buffalo, Brooklyn, Baltimore, Washington, San Francisco.
+
+
+
+
+Postage Stamps, &c.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+100 all dif. Venezuela, Costa Rica, etc., only 10c.: 200 all dif. Hayti,
+Hawaii, etc., only 50c. Ag'ts wanted at 50 per ct. com. List FREE!
+
+=C. A. Stegmann=, 2722 Eads Av., St. Louis, Mo.
+
+
+
+
+=100= 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.
+
+CRITTENDEN & BORGMAN CO., Detroit, Mich.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: If afflicted with SORE EYES USE Dr. ISAAC THOMPSON'S EYE
+WATER]
+
+
+
+
+Commit to Memory.
+
+In Germany the children in the schools Commit to Memory the words they
+are accustomed to sing; and they are seldom at a loss for Music
+anywhere; especially when great numbers are assembled do they sing
+together, in mighty chorus, the songs and hymns of the Fatherland
+without reference to a book "for the words." This is a grand result
+coming out of the Schools. In America too much time is occupied in
+teaching, not enough in learning, and, as a result, when we want to
+sing--perhaps only the National Hymn--"nobody knows the words." Let it
+be regarded an essential part of School work, daily or weekly, for
+Teacher and pupil to Commit to Memory some good thing in Prose or Verse.
+
+The Franklin Square Song Collection comprises Eight Numbers, which may
+be had bound separately or in different styles. These numbers may also
+be had in two volumes at $3.00 each. For full list of contents, sixteen
+hundred songs and hymns, alphabetically arranged, address
+
+Harper & Brothers, New York.
+
+
+
+
+Something New In Puzzles.
+
+
+Here is something quite new in puzzles. There is contained in the
+following story a four-line verse from one of Alice Cary's most familiar
+poems. The first two lines contain seven words, the third line six, and
+the last, eight. Every other line rhymes. The verse's subject is a moral
+one--about right living. It is not concealed in any way. It is not made
+up of parts of words, nor of letters omitted, or words misspelled. But
+it is there--openly and plainly there. Who can find it?
+
+The author of this puzzle is Miss Mamie Denton, who lives in Grand
+Rapids, Mich. No prizes are offered for finding this verse, but we hope
+you will try to find it. We will print it in a week or two. The
+following is the puzzle:
+
+
+This is the true story, dear aunt Ruth and Ulyses, of my trip to Europe.
+We started October twenty-fifth, from Rockport, Texas. How many days we
+were upon the water I cannot tell, as Sarah, my sister, was very ill on
+the way, and I devoted myself constantly to her. Nevertheless we at last
+arrived at our destination, which was Brussels, where Eva Irving was
+awaiting us. Near our hotel was a shop owned by Gustav Narheisen, whose
+sign bore this--'Oysters To Sell.'
+
+Every member of the family appeared in the window as our carriage
+stopped at the hotel, but auntie explained to us that their neighbors
+were particular friends of hers, and it was out of compliment to us that
+they were watching our advent so eagerly. Eleven heads we counted before
+we entered our hotel, the Meisterschaft, where we ate a hearty supper,
+and I retired at once.
+
+Next day Gustav called, bringing his wife, Irene, and his two daughters,
+Nerissa and Dorcas. Our first impression, I must say, was not favorable;
+but Nerissa was really a beautiful girl. Genuine worth, however, cannot
+long conceal itself, and we were not slow to discover the noble
+qualities of Eva's friends. Auntie took us out next day. Coming home, we
+found auntie's maid packing her trunk, and learned that we were to start
+for Havre that afternoon. Delighted at the thought of new scenes were
+we. After discussion we decided to go by an overland route as far as the
+river Yonne, down which we sailed until we reached the mouth. Then from
+there we sailed to Havre.
+
+As we were tired out we were glad to rest at the Thiers house. Going out
+next day, we met an old friend, Olive Easton, who had married and
+settled in a small village on the Seine, near Beauveau. Yet we were glad
+to leave this lively seaport town behind us and sail up the Seine again.
+Our destination this time was Marseilles. Entering it, we purchased a
+copy of the _Literary Idler_. This we hastened to peruse, reading very
+eagerly the news from Toulon and Tameraque. Lest inquiries should be
+made respecting this paper, let me say that it is one of the few English
+papers published in foreign cities.
+
+Gustav sent us a letter containing an invitation to the wedding of his
+daughter Olivia, which was to take place in October, and as this was
+December, he thought that we might be there in time. Nerissa also sent
+us a note, telling us in confidence that her marriage was to follow
+Olivia's, as soon as her Theodore was able to provide a cozy home for
+her. I was anxious to attend the wedding.
+
+Next morning while poring over a copy of _Dreams_, with Raphael, the
+hotel cat, curled up in my lap, Eva entered and announced that an old
+friend of ours from Austin was in Marseilles and would call upon us the
+next afternoon. I was in a flutter of joy, and forgetting my book, ran
+away to tell my sister of the good news. Nothing ever ruffled my
+sister's composure, but the light in her eyes told that she would be
+glad to see George Ogden. Five years ago we three played together as
+children, George always treating my sister with admiring deference, but
+finding fault with me whenever opportunity offered.
+
+Ruby Eliot had written to us that her cousin from Austin was wintering
+in Toulon, but we had not thought of meeting him here. The next
+afternoon our maid Harriette was nearly crazed by the demands made upon
+her time and taste. I gave up in despair, and confined myself to looking
+like a fright in a dark red silk. Not so with my sister, who was
+perfectly exquisite in a dove-colored silk and white lace. George called
+at half past four, and, of course, gave all his attention to Sarah.
+
+The sequel to this story cannot be written, but those two were only
+friends, after all, and some people admire elves in red dresses more
+than saints in gray. Our next move was cross country by rail, and after
+many days sailing through bays, channels, and straits we landed at
+Dover, where we remained until October, when we crossed the strait to
+Brussels, arriving in time for the double wedding.
+
+Yesterday something happened to convince me that there was no place like
+Austin in which to spend the rest of my days. Now as we are about to
+return to our native country a slight feeling of disappointment will
+arise that Dover was the only city in Britain visited by us. Yet how
+glad we shall all be to return to our native land.
+
+
+
+
+Seeing the "Defender's" Launching.
+
+
+     I really wish I had had every member of the Round Table that is
+     interested in boats with me on Saturday, June 29th. On that
+     memorable day I went with a party of friends on board of a
+     sloop-yacht to witness the launching of the _Defender_. We left
+     Warren about 9.30 A.M. We dropped anchor in Bristol Harbor just in
+     time, for about five minutes later the big boat glided down the
+     ways amid the banging of guns and the shrill whistles from the
+     numerous steamboats. The only thing to mar the occasion was that
+     the launching was not as successful as expected, for the boat
+     stuck on the ways and was not floated till two days later.
+
+     [Illustration: AT THE "DEFENDER'S" LAUNCHING.]
+
+     As soon as the launching was over, I looked around to see what
+     yachts were in the harbor. At our left was the _Colonia_, the
+     practice boat for the crew of the _Defender_, consisting of
+     thirty-three men. Among the other yachts were the Valiant, the
+     handsome _Conqueror_ of F. W. Vanderbilt, the _Shearwater_,
+     _Sakonnet_, and many, many others. The harbor, indeed, presented a
+     beautiful picture from the shore. After lunch, my chum and myself
+     went in one of the row-boats up near the cup-defender, thus
+     getting a finer view of it than ever.
+
+     Souvenirs have been floating around Bristol and vicinity for a
+     month in the shape of aluminum rings; but other souvenirs were
+     sold on the launching-day. Some were stick-pins made from the
+     bronze of the rudder-post. About 3.30 a stiff breeze set in, and
+     many of the yachts took advantage of it and started out on a spin.
+     When we got back to our yacht the waves were dancing merrily about
+     its bow, much to our delight.
+
+     When we got "under way" and fairly flew out of the harbor, the
+     crew of the _Colonia_ took off their caps and waved to us (Captain
+     "Hank Huff" also), and it is needless to say the salute was
+     returned, and kept up for at least three minutes. With our
+     spinnaker "set" we just skimmed homeward, reaching Warren in an
+     hour. The spray came over the boat as we sped along. For my part,
+     I got an extra coat of tan. I should like to know if any other
+     members of the Table were at the launching.
+
+  LUISE DE ALCAZAR, R. T. L.
+  WARREN, R. I.
+
+
+
+
+Questions and Answers.
+
+
+Ida Fitzpatrick: We believe there is no active Chapter in Hempstead now.
+J. C. Failing: There is no active mineral Chapter. Can't we have one in
+Oregon? All Chapters interested in minerals also collect stones,
+flowers, etc. Noah Roark: It is likely that we shall have some
+attractive offers to make to members in September. Watch for them. They
+are not quite ready now. Will Frances A. Rice send her address, that we
+may return some stamps?
+
+We have to thank Katherine Warren for her morsel about Bermuda. We fear,
+however, we shall not have space for it. Does any member know of a rule,
+condition, or whatever it might be called, regarding the title of the
+Emperor of Germany, or German Emperor--one that was fixed at the time
+William I. was proclaimed at Versailles? The question is whether "German
+Emperor" is the correct title, or "Emperor of Germany," and why? Who
+knows about it?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Tom S. Winston says he is immensely fond of machinery. Are you? He lives
+at Abbeville, La.--away down near the Texas line. He wishes the Table
+had a Chapter of amateur machinists or engineers. He may tell us about
+that stock ranch. Isabel McC. Lemmon, Englewood, N.J., asks if Elsie G.
+Unruh will send her address? She wishes to forward some pressed flowers.
+Berthold Landau, 310 East Third Street, New York, wants to join a
+literary Chapter.
+
+Dudley Polk asks if the "literature of to-day tends toward the realistic
+or the idealistic." We believe the critics say it tends toward the
+former. Some say that they think the day of literary realism is about
+over. G. G. B. asks the cost of a chicken-coop such as Mr. Chase
+recently described. The cost of material varies so, according to
+locality, that it is difficult to name any fixed sum. The cost can
+easily be figured out, as the drawing is made according to a scale. Find
+the number of square feet of lumber required, and the cost of the
+window-frame at any lumber dealer's.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+C. L. B. Beach, Hull, Iowa, wants to trade pressed flowers. He also
+wants specimens of the "fly-catcher" and of the "pitcher-plant." Andrew
+Neill: The numbers of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, November to April, and of
+HARPER'S ROUND TABLE, April 30th to the end of the year, will be bound
+into one volume, not two. Beginning with the change in form and name,
+pages containing advertisements will be bound into the volume, not cut
+out as formerly. Platinum and iridium are found in the Ural Mountains,
+in Brazil, California, and Ceylon. They are original or primary
+substances, not manufactures. Platinum is used in telegraph keys, and
+iridium, being very hard, for nibs in the ends of gold pens.
+
+Helen P. Hubbard: Common oyster-shells contain lime, nitrogen, iron,
+sulphur, manganese, magnesia, flour, bromine, phosphoric acid, and
+iodine, and, ground to a powder, were once used as medicine, since all
+of the substances are good for building up the system. Walter Henry, of
+Wisconsin, asks where he can procure silk-worm eggs. We think he can get
+them from the American Silk-Culture Association, Arch Street,
+Philadelphia, Pa., or from the Department of Agriculture, Washington,
+D.C. At any rate, both will be glad to give him information where he can
+get them.
+
+
+
+
+RICH TIMES.
+
+
+California was a rich spot for one to live in back in the fifties, or
+before then. The following account of nuggets of gold found in
+California in the old days, recently given by an authority, almost makes
+one wish that one had been living there at that time, although the
+hardships endured by the pioneer settlers were something which no amount
+of gold could compensate for.
+
+The largest mass of gold ever found in California was that dug out at
+Carson Hill, Calaveras County, in 1854. It weighed 195 pounds. Other
+lumps weighing several pounds were found at the same place. August 18,
+1860, W. A. Farish and Harry Warner took from the Monumental Quartz
+Mines, Sierra County, a mass of gold and quartz weighing 133 pounds. It
+was sold to R. B. Woodward, of San Francisco, for $21,636.52. It was
+exhibited at Woodward's Gardens for some time, then was melted down. It
+yielded gold to the value of $17,654.94.
+
+August 4, 1858, Ira A. Willard found on the west branch of the Feather
+River a nugget which weighed 54 pounds avoirdupois before and 49-1/2
+pounds after melting. A nugget dug at Kelsey, El Dorado County, was sold
+for $4700. In 1864 a nugget was found in the Middle Fork of the American
+River, two miles from Michigan Bluff, that weighed 18 pounds 10 ounces,
+and was sold for $4204 for the finder. In 1850 at Corona, Tuolumne
+County, was found a gold-quartz nugget weighing 151 pounds 6 ounces.
+Half a mile east of Columbia, Tuolumne County, near the Knapp Ranch, a
+Mr. Strain found a nugget which weighed 50 pounds avoirdupois. It
+yielded $8500 when melted. In 1849 was found in Sullivan's Creek,
+Tuolumne County, a nugget that weighed 28 pounds avoirdupois. In 1871 a
+nugget was found in Kanaka Creek, Sierra County, that weighed 96 pounds.
+At Rattlesnake Creek the same year a nugget weighing 106 pounds 2 ounces
+was found. A quartz bowlder found in French Gulch, Sierra County, 1851,
+yielded $8000 in gold. In 1867 a bowlder of gold quartz was found in
+what is known as the "Bowlder Gravel" claim, from which many smaller
+gold-quartz nuggets have been taken at various times.
+
+Outside of California few nuggets of note have been found in any of the
+Pacific coast States and Territories. The largest nugget ever found in
+Nevada was one taken out of the Osceola Placer Mine about twenty years
+ago. It weighed 24 pounds, and is supposed to have contained nearly
+$4000 in gold. A hired man found and stole it, but repenting, gave up to
+the owners in a month or two over $2000 in small bars--all he had left
+of the big chunk. In the same mine, about a year ago, a nugget worth
+$2190 was found. Montana's largest nugget was one found by Ed. Rising at
+Snow-Shoe Gulch, on the Little Blackfoot River. It was worth $3356. It
+lay twelve feet below the surface, and about a foot above the bedrock.
+Colorado's biggest nugget was found at Breckinridge. It weighed 1
+pounds, but was mixed with lead, carbonate, and quartz.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+JACK. "What two professions are the same?"
+
+BOBBY. "Don't know."
+
+JACK. "The dentist and the artist; they both have to draw."
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Ivory Soap]
+
+Try it for just one wash. Ivory Soap costs a little more, but it takes
+less to do the work, and how much whiter clothes are when they have been
+washed with it.
+
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+Bicycle; 10 lbs. for a Beautiful Gold Ring. Express prepaid if cash is
+sent for goods. Write for catalog and order sheet.
+
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+
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+AFTER ANNOYING HIS SISTER'S PET KITTEN.]
+
+
+
+
+TEACHER. "Now, girls, you all know what liquid measure is. Little Alice
+may tell me what measure treats of inches, feet, and yards."
+
+LITTLE ALICE. "Tape measure, teacher."
+
+
+
+
+Auntie was a Southern mammy who had come North with the family she was
+born in, for the first time in her life. The sights and peculiarities of
+the Northern people, so strange to her eyes, caused her a great deal of
+trouble and confusion, and also provoked much mirth. Now Auntie had seen
+but little ice in the South, and one very warm day she addressed her
+young missus: "Lor', chile, I's dot a powerful headdake."
+
+"Why, Auntie, I'll get you some ice," which the young lady did, telling
+her to put some in a handkerchief around her head, and take a small
+piece in her mouth.
+
+Auntie started to do as she was directed, but evidently overdid it, for
+in a short time she burst into the dining-room, shouting,
+
+"O Lor', missee, I's frizzed, I's gwine ter die. O Lor' er massy, gim me
+some hot water, quick, befo' I's a dead mammy."
+
+"Why, what on earth is the matter, Auntie?"
+
+After a great deal of trouble, the following explanation was given:
+
+"I's done swallow dat piece of ice as youse tole me, an' it stuck in my
+chest, an' den it began ter freeze all my chest, an' I done feel it er
+reachin' fer my heart. Dat settled it sure 'nough. Nothin' would stop
+that freezin' till I swallered de hot water ter melt it. Yes, I's better
+now, but I don' want no more ob dat ice."
+
+
+
+
+TEACHER. "If your father was to hear of your bad conduct it would make
+his hair turn gray."
+
+BOBBY. "I beg your pardon, sir, my father hasn't any hair left."
+
+
+
+
+TOMMY. "Why does the sun rise in the east?"
+
+BOBBY. "I guess there must be a (y)east factory over that way."
+
+
+
+
+FIRST BOY. "Did you hurt yourself when you fell that time?"
+
+SECOND BOY. "Nop, not when I fell; it was when I hit the ground I hurt
+myself."
+
+
+
+
+THE HORNETS' NEST.
+
+
+  The hornets' nest is football-shaped
+    About the rose-bush curled,
+  But I would never raise my foot
+    To kick it for the world.
+
+
+
+
+A gentleman once asked a lawyer what he would do provided he had loaned
+a man $500, and the man left the country without sending any
+acknowledgments.
+
+"Why, that's simple; just write him to send an acknowledgment for the
+$5000 you lent him, and he will doubtless reply stating it was only
+$500. That will suffice for a receipt, and you can proceed against him
+if necessary."
+
+
+
+
+
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