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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/44279-0.txt b/44279-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1dbb3e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/44279-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1953 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 44279 *** + +[Illustration: HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE +AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.] + + * * * * * + +VOL. II.--NO. 58. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR +CENTS. + +Tuesday, December 1, 1880. Copyright, 1880, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50 +per Year, in Advance. + + * * * * * + + + + +[Illustration: TOBY STRIKES A BARGAIN--DRAWN BY W. A. ROGERS.] + +TOBY TYLER; OR, TEN WEEKS WITH A CIRCUS. + +BY JAMES OTIS. + +CHAPTER I. + +TOBY'S INTRODUCTION TO THE CIRCUS. + + +"Couldn't you give more'n six pea-nuts for a cent?" was a question asked +by a very small boy with big, staring eyes, of a candy vender at a +circus booth. And as he spoke he looked wistfully at the quantity of +nuts piled high up on the basket, and then at the six, each of which now +looked so small as he held them in his hand. + +"Couldn't do it," was the reply of the proprietor of the booth, as he +put the boy's penny carefully away in the drawer. + +The little fellow looked for another moment at his purchase, and then +carefully cracked the largest one. + +A shade, and a very deep shade it was, of disappointment that passed +over his face, and then looking up anxiously, he asked, "Don't you swap +'em when they're bad?" + +The man's face looked as if a smile had been a stranger to it for a +long time; but one did pay it a visit just then, and he tossed the boy +two nuts, and asked him a question at the same time. "What is your +name?" + +The big brown eyes looked up for an instant, as if to learn whether the +question was asked in good faith, and then their owner said, as he +carefully picked apart another nut, "Toby Tyler." + +"Well, that's a queer name." + +"Yes, I s'pose so, myself; but, you see, I don't expect that's the name +that belongs to me. But the fellers call me so, an' so does Uncle +Dan'l." + +"Who is Uncle Daniel?" was the next question. In the absence of any more +profitable customer the man seemed disposed to get as much amusement out +of the boy as possible. + +"He hain't my uncle at all; I only call him so because all the boys do, +an' I live with him." + +"Where's your father and mother?" + +"I don't know," said Toby, rather carelessly. "I don't know much about +'em, an' Uncle Dan'l says they don't know much about me. Here's another +bad nut; goin' to give me two more?" + +The two nuts were given him, and he said, as he put them in his pocket, +and turned over and over again those which he held in his hand, "I +shouldn't wonder if all of these was bad. Sposen you give me two for +each one of 'em before I crack 'em, an' then they won't be spoiled so +you can't sell 'em again." + +As this offer of barter was made, the man looked amused, and he asked, +as he counted out the number which Toby desired, "If I give you these, I +suppose you'll want me to give you two more for each one, and you'll +keep that kind of a trade going until you get my whole stock?" + +"I won't open my head if every one of 'em's bad." + +"All right; you can keep what you've got, and I'll give you these +besides; but I don't want you to buy any more, for I don't want to do +that kind of business." + +Toby took the nuts offered, not in the least abashed, and seated himself +on a convenient stone to eat them, and at the same time to see all that +was going on around him. The coming of a circus to the little town of +Guilford was an event, and Toby had hardly thought of anything else +since the highly colored posters had first been put up. It was yet quite +early in the morning, and the tents were just being erected by the men. +Toby had followed, with eager eyes, everything that looked as if it +belonged to the circus, from the time the first wagon had entered the +town, until the street parade had been made, and everything was being +prepared for the afternoon's performance. + +The man who had made the losing trade in pea-nuts seemed disposed to +question the boy still further, probably owing to the fact that trade +was dull, and he had nothing better to do. + +"Who is this Uncle Daniel you say you live with--is he a farmer?" + +"No; he's a Deacon, an' he raps me over the head with the hymn-book +whenever I go to sleep in meetin', an' he says I eat four times as much +as I earn. I blame him for hittin' so hard when I go to sleep, but I +s'pose he's right about my eatin'. You see," and here his tone grew both +confidential and mournful, "I am an awful eater, an' I can't seem to +help it. Somehow I'm hungry all the time. I don't seem ever to get +enough till carrot-time comes, an' then I can get all I want without +troubling anybody." + +"Didn't you ever have enough to eat?" + +"I s'pose I did, but you see Uncle Dan'l he found me one mornin' on his +hay, an' he says I was cryin' for something to eat then, an' I've kept +it up ever since. I tried to get him to give me money enough to go into +the circus with; but he said a cent was all he could spare these hard +times, an' I'd better take that an' buy something to eat with it, for +the show wasn't very good anyway. I wish pea-nuts wasn't but a cent a +bushel." + +"Then you would make yourself sick eating them." + +"Yes, I s'pose I should; Uncle Dan'l says I'd eat till I was sick, if I +got the chance; but I'd like to try it once." + +He was a very small boy, with a round head covered with short red +hair, a face as speckled as any turkey's egg, but thoroughly +good-natured-looking, and as he sat there on the rather sharp point of +the rock, swaying his body to and fro as he hugged his knees with his +hands, and kept his eyes fastened on the tempting display of good things +before him, it would have been a very hard-hearted man who would not +have given him something. But Mr. Job Lord, the proprietor of the booth, +was a hard-hearted man, and he did not make the slightest advance toward +offering the little fellow anything. + +Toby rocked himself silently for a moment, and then he said, +hesitatingly, "I don't suppose you'd like to sell me some things, an' +let me pay you when I get older, would you?" + +Mr. Lord shook his head decidedly at this proposition. + +"I didn't s'pose you would," said Toby, quickly; "but you didn't seem to +be selling anything, an' I thought I'd just see what you'd say about +it." And then he appeared suddenly to see something wonderfully +interesting behind him, which served as an excuse to turn his reddening +face away. + +"I suppose your uncle Daniel makes you work for your living, don't he?" +asked Mr. Lord, after he had re-arranged his stock of candy, and had +added a couple of slices of lemon peel to what was popularly supposed to +be lemonade. + +"That's what I think; but he says that all the work I do wouldn't pay +for the meal that one chicken would eat, an' I s'pose it's so, for I +don't like to work as well as a feller without any father and mother +ought to. I don't know why it is, but I guess it's because I take up so +much time eatin' that it kinder tires me out. I s'pose you go into the +circus whenever you want to, don't you?" + +"Oh yes; I'm there at every performance, for I keep the stand under the +big canvas as well as this one out here." + +There was a great big sigh from out Toby's little round stomach, as he +thought what bliss it must be to own all those good things, and to see +the circus wherever it went. "It must be nice," he said, as he faced the +booth and its hard-visaged proprietor once more. + +"How would you like it?" asked Mr. Lord, patronizingly, as he looked +Toby over in a business way, very much as if he contemplated purchasing +him. + +"Like it!" echoed Toby; "why, I'd grow fat on it." + +"I don't know as that would be any advantage," continued Mr. Lord, +reflectively, "for it strikes me that you're about as fat now as a boy +of your age ought to be. But I've a great mind to give you a chance." + +"What!" cried Toby, in amazement, and his eyes opened to their widest +extent, as this possible opportunity of leading a delightful life +presented itself. + +"Yes, I've a great mind to give you the chance. You see," and now it was +Mr. Lord's turn to grow confidential, "I've had a boy with me this +season, but he cleared out at the last town, and I'm running the +business alone now." + +Toby's face expressed all the contempt he felt for the boy who would run +away from such a glorious life as Mr. Lord's assistant must lead; but he +said not a word, waiting in breathless expectation for the offer which +he now felt certain would be made him. + +"Now I ain't hard on a boy," continued Mr. Lord, still confidentially, +"and yet that one seemed to think that he was treated worse and made to +work harder than any boy in the world." + +"He ought to live with Uncle Dan'l a week," said Toby, eagerly. + +"Here I was just like a father to him," said Mr. Lord, paying no +attention to the interruption, "and I gave him his board and lodging, +and a dollar a week besides." + +"Could he do what he wanted to with the dollar?" + +"Of course he could. I never checked him, no matter how extravagant he +was, an' yet I've seen him spend his whole week's wages at this very +stand in one afternoon. And even after his money had all gone that way, +I've paid for peppermint and ginger out of my own pocket just to cure +his stomach-ache." + +Toby shook his head mournfully, as if deploring that depravity which +could cause a boy to run away from such a tender-hearted employer, and +from such a desirable position. But even as he shook his head so sadly, +he looked wistfully at the pea-nuts, and Mr. Lord observed the look. + +It may have been that Mr. Job Lord was the tender-hearted man he prided +himself upon being, or it may have been that he wished to purchase +Toby's sympathy; but, at all events, he gave him a large handful of +nuts, and Toby never bothered his little round head as to what motive +prompted the gift. Now he could listen to the story of the boy's +treachery and eat at the same time, therefore he was an attentive +listener. + +"All in the world that boy had to do," continued Mr. Lord, in the same +injured tone he had previously used, "was to help me set things to +rights when we struck a town in the morning, and then tend to the +counter till we left the town at night, and all the rest of the time he +had to himself. Yet that boy was ungrateful enough to run away." + +Mr. Lord paused as if expecting some expression of sympathy from his +listener; but Toby was so busily engaged with his unexpected feast, and +his mouth was so full, that it did not seem even possible for him to +shake his head. + +"Now what should you say if I told you that you looked to me like a boy +that was made especially to help run a candy counter at a circus, and if +I offered the place to you?" + +Toby made one frantic effort to swallow the very large mouthful, and in +a choking voice he answered, quickly, "I should say I'd go with you, an' +be mighty glad of the chance." + +"Then it's a bargain, my boy, and you shall leave town with me +to-night." + +[TO BE CONTINUED.] + + + + +SOUTH AFRICAN DIAMONDS. + + +A recent report from the Cape of Good Hope states that a diamond +weighing 225 carats has been found at the Du Toits Pan mine, and a very +fine white stone of 115 carats in Jagersfontein mine, in the Free State. + +The lucky finders of these stones are vastly richer than they were a few +weeks ago, for if these diamonds are of the best quality, they will be +worth thousands upon thousands of dollars. + +It is only ten years ago that all the world was taken by surprise at +hearing that some of these precious stones had been found in the African +colony; and this is how it came about. A little boy, the son of a Dutch +farmer living near Hope Town, of the name of Jacobs, had been amusing +himself in collecting pebbles. One of these was sufficiently bright to +attract the keen eye of his mother; but she regarded it simply as a +curious stone, and it was thrown down outside the house. Some time +afterward she mentioned it to a neighbor, who, on seeing it, offered to +buy it. The good woman laughed at the idea of selling a common bright +pebble, and at once gave it to him, and he intrusted it to a friend, to +find out its value; and Dr. Atherstone, of Graham's Town, was the first +to pronounce it a _diamond_. It was then sent to Cape Town, forwarded to +the Paris Exhibition, and it was afterward purchased by the Governor of +the colony, Sir Philip Wodehouse, for £500. + +This discovery of the _first_ Cape diamond was soon followed by others, +and led to the development of the great diamond fields of South Africa. + + + + +THE HEART OF BRUCE.[1] + +BY LILLIE E. BARR. + + Beside Dumbarton's castled steep the Bruce lay down to die; + Great Highland chiefs and belted earls stood sad and silent nigh. + The warm June breezes filled the room, all sweet with flowers and hay, + The warm June sunshine flecked the couch on which the monarch lay. + + The mailed men like statues stood; under their bated breath + The prostrate priests prayed solemnly within the room of death; + While through the open casements came the evening song of birds, + The distant cries of kye and sheep, the lowing of the herds. + + And so they kept their long, last watch till shades of evening fell; + Then strong and clear King Robert spoke: "Dear brother knights, farewell! + Come to me, Douglas--take my hand. Wilt thou, for my poor sake, + Redeem my vow, and fight my fight, lest I my promise break? + + "I ne'er shall see Christ's sepulchre, nor tread the Holy Land; + I ne'er shall lift my good broadsword against the Paynim band; + Yet I was vowed to Palestine: therefore take thou my heart, + And with far purer hands than mine play thou the Bruce's part." + + Then Douglas, weeping, kissed the King, and said: "While I have breath + The vow thou made I will fulfill--yea, even unto death: + Where'er I go thy heart shall go; it shall be first in fight. + Ten thousand thanks for such a trust! Douglas is Bruce's knight." + + They laid the King in Dunfermline--not yet his heart could rest; + For it hung within a priceless case upon the Douglas' breast. + And many a chief with Douglas stood: it was a noble line + Set sail to fight the Infidel in holy Palestine. + + Their vessel touched at fair Seville. They heard upon that day + How Christian Leon and Castile before the Moslem lay, + Then Douglas said, "O heart of Bruce! thy fortune still is great, + For, ere half done thy pilgrimage, the foe for thee doth wait." + + Dark Osmyn came; the Christians heard his long yell, "Allah hu!" + The brave Earl Douglas led the van as they to battle flew; + Sir William Sinclair on his left, the Logans on his right, + St. Andrew's blood-red cross above upon its field of white. + + Then Douglas took the Bruce's heart, and flung it far before. + "_Pass onward first_, O noble heart, as in the days of yore! + For Holy Rood and Christian Faith make thou a path, and we + With loyal hearts and flashing swords will gladly follow thee." + + All day the fiercest battle raged just where that heart did fall, + For round it stood the Scottish lords, a fierce and living wall. + Douglas was slain, with many a knight; yet died they not in vain, + For past that wall of hearts and steel the Moslem never came. + + The Bruce's heart and Douglas' corse went back to Scotland's land, + Borne by the wounded remnant of that brave and pious band. + Fair Melrose Abbey the great heart in quiet rest doth keep, + And Douglas in the Douglas' church hath sweet and honored sleep. + + In pillared marble Scotland tells her love, and grief, and pride. + Vain is the stone: all Scottish hearts the Bruce and Douglas hide. + The "gentle Sir James Douglas" and "the Bruce of Bannockburn" + Are names forever sweet and fresh for years untold to learn. + +FOOTNOTES: + +[1] See Kerr's _History of Scotland_, Vol. II., p. 499. + + + + +[Illustration: AMATEUR THEATRICALS--THE CALL BEFORE THE CURTAIN.] + + + + +THE KANGAROO. + + +In the large island of Australia--an island so vast as to be ranked as a +continent--nature has produced a singular menagerie. + +The first discoverers of this country must have stared in amazement at +the strange sights which met their eyes. There were wildernesses of +luxuriant and curious vegetable growths, inhabited by large quadrupeds +which appeared as bipeds; queer little beasts with bills like a duck, +ostriches covered with hair instead of feathers, and legions of odd +birds, while the whole woods were noisy with the screeching and prating +of thousands of paroquets and cockatoos. + +[Illustration: THE HOME OF THE KANGAROO.] + +The largest and oddest Australian quadruped is the kangaroo, a member of +that strange family, the Marsupialia, which are provided with a pouch, +or bag, in which they carry their little ones until they are strong +enough to scamper about and take care of themselves. + +The delicately formed head of this strange creature, and its short +fore-legs, are out of all proportion to the lower part of its body, +which is furnished with a very long tail, and its hind-legs, which are +large and very strong. It stands erect as tall as a man, and moves by a +succession of rapid jumps, propelled by its hind-feet, its fore-paws +meanwhile being folded across its breast. A large kangaroo will weigh +fully two hundred pounds, and will cover as much as sixteen feet at one +jump. + +The body of this beast is covered with thick, soft, woolly fur of a +grayish-brown color. It is very harmless and inoffensive, and it is a +very pretty sight to see a little group of kangaroos feeding quietly in +a forest clearing. Their diet is entirely vegetable. They nibble grass +or leaves, or eat certain kinds of roots, the stout, long claws of their +hind-feet serving them as a convenient pickaxe to dig with. + +The kangaroo is a very tender and affectionate mother. When the baby is +born it is the most helpless creature imaginable, blind, and not much +bigger than a new-born kitten. But the mother lifts it carefully with +her lips, and gently deposits it in her pocket, where it cuddles down +and begins to grow. This pocket is its home for six or seven months, +until it becomes strong and wise enough to fight its own battles in the +woodland world. While living in its mother's pocket it is very lively. +It is very funny to see a little head emerging all of a sudden from the +soft fur of the mother's breast, with bright eyes peeping about to see +what is going on in the outside world; or perhaps nothing is visible but +a little tail wagging contentedly, while its baby owner is hidden from +sight. + +The largest kangaroos are called menuahs or boomers by the Australian +natives, and their flesh is considered a great delicacy, in flavor +something like young venison. For this reason these harmless creatures +are hunted and killed in large numbers. They are very shy, and not very +easy to catch; but the cunning bushmen hide themselves in the thicket, +and when their unsuspecting prey approaches, they hurl a lance into its +body. The wounded kangaroo springs off with tremendous leaps, but soon +becomes exhausted, and falls on the turf. + +If brought to bay, this gentle beast will defend itself vigorously. With +its back planted firmly against a tree, it has been known to keep off an +army of dogs for hours, by dealing them terrible blows with its strong +hind-feet, until the arrival of the hunter with his gun put an end to +the contest. At other times the kangaroo, being an expert swimmer, will +rush into the water, and if a venturesome dog dares to follow, it will +seize him, and hold his head under water till he is drowned. + +Kangaroos are often brought to zoological gardens, and are contented in +captivity, so long as they have plenty of corn, roots, and fresh hay to +eat. + + + + +DECORATIONS FOR CHRISTMAS. + +BY A. W. ROBERTS. + + +A great variety of material abounds in our woods that can be utilized +for Christmas decorations. + +All trees, shrubs, mosses, and lichens that are evergreen during the +winter months, such as holly, ink-berry, laurels, hemlocks, cedars, +spruces, arbor vitæ, are used at Christmas-time for in-door +ornamentation. Then come the club-mosses (_Lycopodiums_), particularly +the one known as "bouquet-green," and ground-pine, which are useful for +the more delicate and smaller designs. Again, we have the wood mosses +and wood lichens, pressed native ferns and autumn leaves; and, if the +woods are not accessible, from our own gardens many cultivated +evergreens can be obtained, such as box, arbor vitæ, rhododendron, ivy, +juniper, etc. + +Where it is desirable to use bright colors to lighten up the sombreness +of some of the greens, our native berries can be used to great +advantage. In the woods are to be found the partridge-berries, +bitter-sweet, rose-berries, black alder, holly-berries, cedar-berries, +cranberries, and sumac. Dried grasses and everlasting-flowers can be +pressed into service. For very brilliant effects gold-leaf, gold paper, +and frosting (obtainable at paint stores) are used. + +[Illustration: Fig. 1.] + +Fig. 1 represents a simple wreath of holly leaves and berries, sewn on +to a circular piece of pasteboard, which was first coated with calcimine +of a delicate light blue, on which, before the glue contained in the +calcimine dried, a coating of white frosting was dusted. The monogram +XMS is drawn on drawing-paper highly illuminated with gold-leaf and +brilliant colors, after which it is cut out, and fastened in position. + +[Illustration: Fig. 2.] + +Fig. 2 consists of a foundation of pasteboard, shaped as shown in the +illustration. The four outside curves are perforated with a +darning-needle. These perforations are desirable when the bouquet-green +is to be fastened on in raised compact masses. The four crescent-shaped +pieces of board are colored white, and coated with white frosting. On +the crescents are sewn sprays of ivy and bunches of bright red berries. +From the outer edge of the crescents radiate branches of hemlock or +fronds of dried ferns. For the legend in the centre the monogram +I.H.S.,[2] or "A merry Christmas to all," cut out in gold paper, looks +well. + +[Illustration: Fig. 3.] + +Fig. 3 consists of a combination of branches of apple wood, or other +wood of rich colors and texture, neatly joined together so as to form +the letters M and X. (In selecting the wood always choose that which has +the heaviest growth of lichens and mosses.) + +For the ornamentation of the rustic monogram I use wood and rock +lichens, fungi, Spanish moss, and pressed climbing fern. Holes are bored +into the rustic letters, into which are inserted small branches of holly +in full berry. By trimming the monogram on both sides it looks very +effective when hung between the folding-doors of a parlor, where the +climbing fern may be trained out (on fine wires or green threads) in all +directions, so as to form a triumphal archway. By using large fungi for +the feet of the letters M and X (as shown in the illustration), the +monogram can be used as a mantel-piece ornament, training fern and ivy +from it and over picture-frames. The letter S in the monogram is +composed of immortelles. + +[Illustration: Fig. 4.] + +Fig. 4 consists of a narrow strip of white muslin, on which is first +drawn with a pencil in outline the design to be worked in evergreens. +For this purpose only the finer and lighter evergreens can be used, as +the intention of this design is to form a bordering for the angle formed +by the wall and ceiling. This wall drapery is heavily trimmed with +berries, to cause it to hang close to the wall, and at the same time to +obtain richer effects of color. The evergreens and berries are fastened +to the muslin with thread and needle. + +[Illustration: Fig. 5.] + +Fig. 5 is composed of a strip of card-board covered with gold paper on +which the evergreens are sewed. This style of ornamentation is used for +covering the frames of pictures. + +Natural flowers formed into groups can be made to produce very beautiful +effects for the mantel-piece and corner brackets of a room. The pots +should be hidden by covering them with evergreens, or the wood moss that +grows on the trunks of trees. For mounting berries fine wire will be +found very useful. I have always used, and with good effect, the rich +brown cones of evergreens and birches for Christmas decorations. + +Very rich and heavy effects of color can be produced by using dry colors +for backgrounds in the following manner. On the face of the pasteboard +on which you intend to work the evergreen design lay a thin coating of +hot glue; before the glue dries or chills dust on dry ultramarine blue, +or any of the lakes, or chrome greens. As soon as the glue has set, blow +off the remaining loose color, and the result will be a field of rich +"dead" color. To make the effect still more brilliant, touch up the +blues and lakes with slashings of gold-leaf ("Dutch metal" will answer +every purpose), fastening the gold-leaf with glue. Don't plaster it +down, but put it on loose, so that it stands out from the field of +color. + +FOOTNOTES: + +[2] Jesus Hominum Salvator. + + + + +W. HOLMAN HUNT'S "FINDING OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE." + +BY THE REV. WILLIAM M. TAYLOR, D.D. + + +The double-page picture which appears in this week's YOUNG PEOPLE is +well worthy of study, alike for the school to which it belongs, the +subject which it seeks to portray, and the manner in which that subject +is treated by the artist. The original painting, of which the +reproduction (save, of course, in the matter of coloring) is an +admirable representation, is the production of William Holman Hunt. Few +sermons have been so impressive as some of this artist's pictures. +Everybody knows the beautiful one which he has called "The Light of the +World," and no person of any intelligence can look upon that without +having recalled to his mind these words, "Behold, I stand at the door +and knock." But it may not be so generally known that this impression is +thus strongly produced upon the spectator because it was first very +deeply made on the artist himself. A friend of ours told us this +beautiful story. The original painting of "The Light of the World" is in +the possession of an English gentleman, at whose house one known to both +of us had been a guest. While he was there the frame had been taken off +the picture for purposes of cleaning, and the stranger had thus an +opportunity of examining it very closely. He found on the canvas, where +it had been covered by the frame, these words, in the writing of the +artist: "_Nec me prætermittas, Domine!_"--"Nor pass me by, O Lord!" +Thus, like the Fra Angelico, Mr. Hunt seems to have painted that work +upon his knees; and it is a sermon to those who look upon it, because it +was first a prayer in him who produced it. + +Much the same, we are confident, may be said of the picture which is now +before us. All our readers must know the story. When the "divine boy" +was about twelve years of age he was taken by Joseph and Mary to the +Passover feast at Jerusalem. They went up with a company from their own +neighborhood, and after the feast was over they had started to return in +the same way. But Jesus was not to be found. Still supposing that he was +somewhere in their company, they went a day's journey, and "sought him +among their kinsfolk and acquaintance." Their search, however, was +fruitless, and so, "sorrowing" and anxious, they returned to Jerusalem, +where they ultimately found him in the Temple, "sitting in the midst of +the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions." They were +amazed at the sight; and his mother, relieved, and perhaps also a little +troubled, said, "Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy +father and I have sought thee sorrowing." To which he made reply, "How +is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's +business?" These words are remarkable as the first recorded utterance of +conscious Messiahship that came from the lips of our Lord. They indicate +that now his human intelligence has come to the perception of his divine +dignity and mission; and when he went down to Nazareth, and was subject +to Joseph and Mary, it was with the distinct assurance within him that +Joseph was not his father, and that there was ultimately a higher +business before him than the work of the carpenter. Still, he knew that +only through the lower could he reach the higher, and therefore he went +down, contented to wait until the day of his manifestation came. + +The artist has seized the moment when Jesus made this striking reply to +his mother, and everything in the picture is made to turn on that. The +scene is the interior of the Temple. The time is high day, for workmen +are busily engaged at a stone on the outside, and a beggar is lolling at +the gate in the act of asking alms. The Jewish doctors are seated. First +in the line is an aged rabbi with flowing beard, and clasping a roll +with his right hand. Over his eyes a film is spread, which indicates +that he is blind; and so his neighbor, almost as aged as himself, is +explaining to him why the boy has ceased to ask his questions, by +telling him that his mother has come to claim him. Beside him, and the +third in the group, is a younger man, whose face is full of eager +thoughtfulness, and whose hands hold an unfolded roll, to which it +appears as if he had been referring because of something which had just +been said. + +The other faces are less marked with seriousness, and seem to be +indicative rather of curiosity; but we make little account of them +because of the fascination which draws our eyes to the principal group. +The face of Joseph, as Alford says, is "well-nigh faultless." It is full +of thankful joy over the discovery of the boy; and though to our +thinking Joseph was an older man than he is here depicted, yet +everything about him is natural and manly. The Mary is hardly so +successful. The narrative does not represent her as speaking softly into +the ear of her son, but rather as breaking in abruptly on the assembly +with her irrepressible outcry, "Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us?" +and there might well have been less of the soft persuasiveness and more +of the surprised look of what one might call wounded affection in her +face. But the portrayal of the boy Christ is admirable. We have never, +indeed, seen any representation of the face of Christ that has +thoroughly satisfied us, and we do not expect ever to see one. But this +one is most excellent. The "far-away" look in the eyes, and the +expression of absorption on the countenance, betoken that his thoughts +are intent upon that divine "business" which he came to earth to +transact. Exquisite, too, as so thoroughly human, is the playing of the +right hand with the strap of his girdle in his moment of abstraction. In +the far future the great business of his life is beckoning him on; but +close at hand his duty to his mother is asserting its immediate claim. +In his eager response to the first, he cries, "Wist ye not that I must +be about my Father's business?" and his thoughts are after that +meanwhile; but ere long the demand of the present will prevail, and he +will go down with his parents, and be subject to them. This +"righteousness" also he has to "fulfill," even as a part of that +"business." + +Take the picture, boys; frame it, and hang it where you can often see +it. You will be reminded by it wholesomely of one who was once as really +a boy as you; and when the future seems to be calling you on, and +begging you to leap at once into its work, a look at the Christ-face +will help you to seek the glory of the future in submission to the +claims of the duties of the present, and will say to you, "He that +believeth shall not make haste." Through the performance of the duties +of a son to his mother Jesus passed to the business of saving men; and +in the same way, through faithful diligence where you are, the door will +open for you into the future which seems to you so attractive. It is +right to have a business before you. It is right, also, for you to feel +that the work you want to do in the world is "your Father's business." +We would not have you fix your heart on anything which you could not so +describe. But whatever that may be, rely upon it you will never reach it +by neglecting present duty. On the contrary, the more diligent and +faithful you are now as boys in the home and in the school, the more +surely will the door into eminence open for you as men. Let the picture, +therefore, stimulate you to holy ambition, and yet encourage you to wait +patiently in the discharge of present duty until the time comes for your +elevation. The way to come at your true business in life is to do well +the present business of your boyhood. + +[Illustration: "THE FINDING OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE."--FROM A PAINTING +BY W. HOLMAN HUNT.--SEE PAGE 87.] + + + + +THE CAPTAIN'S BOY ON THE PENNY BOAT. + +BY H. F. REDDALL. + + +Imagine a side-wheel steamboat a hundred and fifty or two hundred feet +long, her hull painted black, red, or red and white, with only one deck, +entirely open from stem to stern; a hot, stuffy cabin below the +water-line, her engines, of the cylinder pattern, entirely below the +deck, and you have some idea of a London "penny boat"--a very different +affair from our jaunty American river craft. + +As most of my young readers are aware, the river Thames divides the +great city of London into nearly equal parts. For nearly twelve miles +the metropolis stretches along either bank, and, as might be expected, +the river forms a convenient-highway for traffic--a sort of marine +Broadway, in fact. There are a number of bridges, each possessing from +six to ten arches, and through these the swift tide pours with +tremendous energy. From early dawn to dark the river's bosom is crowded +with every description of vessel. Below London Bridge, the first we meet +in going up stream, may be seen the murky collier moored close to the +neat and trim East Indiaman, the heavy Dutch galiot scraping sides with +the swift mail-packet, or the fishing-boat nodding responsive to the +Custom-house revenue-cutter. + +Above and between the bridges the scene changes, but is none the less +animated. Here comes a heavy, lumbering barge, its brown sail loosely +furled, depending for its momentum upon the tide, and guided by a long +sweep. Barges, lighters, tugs, fishing-smacks, passenger steamboats, and +a variety of smaller craft so crowd the river that were we to stand on +Blackfriars Bridge a boat of some description would pass under the +arches every thirty or forty seconds. + +But by far the most important feature is the passenger-boats. These are +apparently countless. They make landings every few blocks, now on one +side the river, now on the other, darting here and there, up and down, +and adding largely to the bustle. For a penny, the equivalent of two +cents American currency, one may enjoy a water ride of five or six +miles--say from London Bridge to Lambeth Palace. When we reflect that +all this immense traffic is crowded between the banks of a stream at no +point as wide as the East River opposite Fulton Ferry, New York, and +impeded by bridges at that, the difficulties of navigation will be in +some measure understood; and I have purposely dwelt on this that my +readers may fully appreciate what follows. + +Every one knows how, in America, the steamboat is controlled by a pilot +perched high above the passengers in the "pilot-house"; how he steers +the boat, and at the same time communicates with the engineer far below +him by means of bells--the gong, the big jingle, the little jingle, and +so on. But the penny boats of the Thames are managed far differently. +The wheelsman is at the stern in the old-fashioned way; but on a bridge +stretched amidships between the two paddle-boxes, and right over a +skylight opening into the engine-room, stands the captain. Beneath him, +sitting or standing by this skylight, is a boy of not more than twelve +or fourteen years of age, who, I observed, from time to time called out +some utterly unintelligible words, in accordance with which the engine +was slowed, stopped, backed, or started ahead as occasion required. It +took me a long time to discover _what_ the boy said, from the peculiar +sing-song way in which he called out, but it took me much longer to find +out _why_ he said it. + +So far as I could see he had not as much interest in the boat as I had; +apparently he observed the constantly changing panorama of river +scenery--not an interesting sight on board escaped him, and yet as we +neared or departed from each landing-stage the same mysterious sounds, +only varied slightly, issued from his lips, and the boat stopped or went +ahead as the case might be. I asked myself if this wonderful boy might +not be the captain, but a glance at the weather-beaten figure on the +bridge showed me the absurdity of the idea. So I watched the latter +individual, from whom I was now sure the boy received his orders. But +how? That was the question. The captain and his boy were too far apart +to speak intelligibly to one another without all the passengers hearing +them: how, then, did the one on the bridge communicate his wishes to the +other at the skylight if not by speech? + +By dint of long watching I became aware that though apparently the eyes +of the lad saw everything there was to be seen, in reality he was most +watchful of the captain, hardly ever lifting his gaze from the figure +above him, and at last I discovered that by a scarcely perceptible +motion of his hand, merely opening and closing it, or with a simple +backward or forward motion from the wrist down, the captain conveyed his +orders to the boy, who responded by shouting in his shrill treble +through the skylight what, after much conjecture, I discovered to be +"Ease 'er!" "Stop 'er!" "Turn 'er astarn!" "Let 'er go ahead!" + +The gesture by the captain's hand was oftentimes so faint that I failed +to see it, though I was on the look-out; much less could I interpret its +meaning, yet the lad never once failed to give the correct order. + +Only think of it! The safety of these boats, their crews, and thousands +of passengers absolutely depends upon these youngsters, who in wind and +rain, sunshine or storm, are compelled to be at their posts for many +hours daily. If through inattention or inadvertence the wrong command +should be given to the engineer, a terrible calamity might occur. That +such is never or rarely the case speaks volumes for the fidelity and +attention to duty of these boys, who have very little opportunity for +training or education of any sort. + + + + +PACKAGE NO. 107. + +BY JAMES B. MARSHALL. + + +The express agent in San Francisco smiled very pleasantly when the +package was brought to him with a directed express tag properly tied on +it. But it was not so strange for him to smile, since he knew all about +that package, and had foretold the exact time required for a package to +reach New York. But the clerk who pasted a green label on the tag, and +marked on one end in blue ink "No. 107, Paid" so and so much, why should +he be amused? And why should the two express-wagon drivers who were in +the office at the time declare that that package would be something like +a surprise? + +Then an errand-boy came into the office to express a valise, having left +seven other boys standing on the nearest street corner before a +hand-organ that was playing the newest airs, which those seven boys were +learning to whistle. But why should that errand-boy, who was usually a +very quiet boy, immediately run to the office street door, and call, and +beckon, and wave his hat furiously for those seven boys to come and look +at package No. 107? Then those seven boys, in spite of the attraction of +the hand-organ, came on a run, and stood eagerly around the express +office door. And why wouldn't those boys go away until that package was +taken with other packages to the railroad station in one of the express +wagons? And what, also, greatly interested five other passing boys, a +Chinese laundry-man, two apple-women, and a policeman? + +Well, it was the same cause, which will soon appear, that made curious +and smiling the express people of Omaha, Chicago, and other places where +the package was seen on its way East to New York. + + * * * * * + +About a month previous to this, Mr. Benson had written to his wife from +California that owing to the slow settlement of the business that had +taken him there, he was beginning to fear he and Guy would not be able +to reach home even by the holidays. "But Guy says," wrote Mr. Benson, +"that if we only had mother here we would get along splendidly." + +A week later the unwelcome news came to Mrs. Benson in New York +explaining that Mr. Benson's business would further detain him in +California until the middle of March--three months to come. You may be +certain that Mrs. Benson was very sorry to think of passing Christmas +and New-Year's with three thousand miles separating her from her husband +and boy. But she was forced to smile as she read Guy's letter--mailed +with his father's--explaining how they might dine together on +Christmas-day, notwithstanding the three thousand miles. + +"I have found out," wrote Guy in his best handwriting, "that the +difference in time between New York and San Francisco is about three +hours and a quarter. So if you sit down to your dinner at a quarter past +four o'clock, your time, and we sit down to our dinner at one o'clock, +our time, we can in that way be dining together. We are going to have +for dinner exactly what we had at home on last Christmas. But you will +have the best time, for grandfather and grandmother will be with you, +and Uncle Tom and Aunt Mary, and Ben, Tom, Bertha, Sadie, Uncle Seth, +and all the rest of them." + +A few days after this letter was sent Mr. Benson mailed another one, in +which he told his wife that Guy had made a discovery on the previous +day, and they were going to send her a pleasant surprise--in fact, a +Christmas present. "The package will be sent by express, directed to +your address in New York," wrote Mr. Benson, "and we have so timed its +journey East that it will reach you some time on the day before +Christmas." + +This was package No. 107. + +But didn't Mrs. Benson wonder and wonder what was coming to her for a +surprise present? And didn't she imagine that it might be a nest of +Chinese tables, or a package of fine Russian tea, or an ivory castle, or +a bunch of California grapes weighing fifteen or twenty pounds, or +five-and-twenty other possible things? Then Guy's New York cousins, when +they heard of that expected package, didn't they all fall to guessing? +And they guessed and guessed until, as we say in "Hot Butter and Blue +Beans, please come to Supper," they were "cold," "very cold," and +"freezing." + +Cousin Ben finally decided, after changing his mind a dozen times a day, +that the package would prove to contain either the skin of the grizzly +bear that Guy, before leaving home, had thought he might find, or a big +piece of gold that Guy had been kindly allowed to dig out of some gold +mine. + +"Heigho! this is the day the package is to come," said Cousin Bertha, +the moment she awoke on that morning. But at noon-time Bertha, Ben, Jim, +Sadie, and even little Tom, knew that as yet the package had not +arrived. It had not arrived as late as four o'clock in the afternoon, +when the first three just mentioned, together with some of their elders, +went to Guy's mother's to supper. There Bertha, Ben, and Jim took turns +vainly watching at the windows for the express wagon, until they were +called to supper. + +Jingle! jingle! jingle! went the door-bell during the course of the +supper. And so much had that package been talked about and guessed about +that all paused in their eating and drinking, and listened in +expectation. + +"Please, ma'am," said Katie, coming from answering the ring, "the +expressman is at the door. He says he's got a most valuable package for +you, and would you please come and receipt for it?" + +Mrs. Benson found the expressman standing by the little table in the +hallway where Katie had left him, though in the mean time he had gone +back to his wagon and brought the package into the house. "Please sign +there," he said, pointing to his receipt-book. + +"It must be a very small package," thought Mrs. Benson, not seeing any +package, but imagining it might still be in the expressman's overcoat +pocket. + +"I was to say, Mrs. Benson," said the man, "that you must be prepared +for a very great, pleasant surprise." + +"Oh! I'm prepared to be surprised," answered Mrs. Benson. + +"Then please turn and look at the package standing there by the parlor +door." + +"Mother!" + +"Oh, Guy! my dear boy!" joyfully called Mrs. Benson, as Guy, with an +express tag tied around his arm, rushed into her arms, and clasped her +around the neck. + +"It's Guy himself," said Bertha, gleefully. + +"Hurrah! it's Guy!" called Ben and Jim; and they all instantly left the +supper table and hurried to greet him. + +But the adventures of package No. 107 could not be quickly told. Of how +it was discovered that it might be sent, how it had been directed like a +bundle of goods, how it had been receipted for over and over again, how +it had travelled all the way in the Pullman cars, how it was given as +much care and attention as if it had been a huge nugget of gold, and +very, very many more hows and whys. + + + + +MILDRED'S BARGAIN. + +A Story for Girls. + +BY MRS. JOHN LILLIE. + +CHAPTER I. + + +"Six o'clock! Thank fortune!" exclaimed one of a group of girls in Mr. +Hardman's store. + +Mildred Lee glanced up with a sigh of relief, moving with quicker +fingers at the thought of being so near the end of her day's work. She +was a pale pretty girl about sixteen, with soft brown hair, dark eyes, +and a something more refined in her air and manner than her associates. +Perhaps it was that in her dress there were none of the flimsy attempts +at finery which the other girls affected so strongly, or perhaps it was +only her quiet, lady-like self-possession which had in it nothing of +vulgar reticence or pride; but, in any case, there was a touch of +something superior to all lowering influences, and the most flippant +sales-woman in "Hardman's" lowered her tone of coarse good-humor, +stopped short in any gay recital, when Mildred's pretty face and quiet +little figure came in view. + +"Six o'clock," said Jenny Martin, a tall, "striking-looking" young +person, who was helping Milly to put away some ribbons. "Oh dear, now +we'll be kept! There comes that lady from Lane Street. She'll stay half +an hour." + +"Young ladies, what are you about?" exclaimed the voice of Mr. Hardman's +son and heir, a short, stout young man, very much overdressed, and who +bustled up to the counter, dispersing the little group with various +half-audible exclamations. Then he turned, bowing and smiling, to the +late customer. + +She was a plain, elderly woman, dressed in a quaint fashion, but bearing +unmistakable signs of good-breeding; evidently what even Mr. Tom Hardman +would recognize as a "_real_ lady." Miss Jenner, of Milltown, was +regarded by the store-keepers in her vicinity as a valuable customer. +She was known to be very rich, although eccentric, and her great red +brick house, a little back from the street, with its box-walked garden +and tall old trees, was one of the finest and most respectable in the +county. Miss Jenner had been two years abroad, and this was one of her +first visits to any Milltown store. She received Mr. Tom's servile +courtesies with rather an indifferent manner, glancing around the big, +showy store, scanning the faces of the tired young attendants, as she +said, "Is not Mildred Lee one of your sales-women?" + +"Miss Lee!" called out Mr. Tom. + +Mildred moved forward quickly, looking at the new customer with an air +of polite attention, but none of her employer's obsequiousness. + +[Illustration: THE LATE CUSTOMER--DRAWN BY JESSIE CURTIS SHEPHERD.] + +Miss Jenner met the young girl's glance with a swift critical stare. + +"Here," she said, rather shortly, "I want some gloves, and I'd prefer +your serving me." + +Miss Jenner's wishes could not be slighted, and so Mr. Hardman hovered +about deferentially, rather altering his tone of insolent command when +he spoke to the young sales-women, and finally dispersing them while he +walked up and down the cloak and mantle department, out of Miss Jenner's +hearing, yet sufficiently within sight to be recalled by a look from his +wealthy patroness. + +As soon as she found herself alone with the shop-girl, Miss Jenner said, +with a searching glance at the young face bending over the glove-box: + +"So you are Mildred! Child, it seems strange enough to see your father's +daughter here. How did it happen?" + +"Oh!" Mildred exclaimed. She drew a quick breath, while the color +flashed into her cheeks. "Did you know papa?" + +"Yes." Miss Jenner spoke rather shortly. + +"Well," said Mildred, "you see, after his death--we had almost nothing. +Mamma is giving music lessons, and I came here, just because it was all +I could get to do. Bertie is at school," the girl added, a little +proudly. + +"But your mother does not _live_ in Milltown?" the lady inquired, with a +frown of perplexity. + +"Not quite _in_ the town," said Mildred. "We have a little cottage on +the Dorsettown road. Papa seemed to think, before he died, that he would +like us to come to live here." + +Miss Jenner answered nothing for a few moments. She tapped the counter +with her fingers, pushed the point of her parasol into the ground, and +coughed significantly one or twice before she spoke. + +"Well, Mildred," she said, finally, "I suppose you know the way to my +house? I should like you to come to tea with me next Tuesday. I am +expecting some young friends." + +Mildred Lee could scarcely answer for a few moments. How often she had +passed and repassed the fine old house in Lane Street, wondering what +grandeur and comfort must repose between its walls, but never had she +dreamed of receiving an invitation from its owner. + +"Well," exclaimed Miss Jenner, drawing out her well-filled purse, "don't +you mean to come?" + +Mildred smiled, and drew a quick breath. + +"Oh yes, thank you, Miss Jenner, very much," she contrived to say; and +almost before she could revolve the question further in her mind Miss +Jenner was gone, and she found herself face to face with Mr. Tom. Now +this young man was Mildred's special aversion. Not that he was as +overbearing with her as with the other girls, but that he seemed to have +singled her out for attentions that Mildred found odious. + +"It's rather late, Miss Lee," he said, with his insolent smile; "so I +may as well walk home with you." + +"Thank you, Mr. Hardman," answered Milly--she never called him "Mr. +Tom," as did the other girls--"I can manage very nicely by myself. I +always walk fast, and I have always a great deal to think about." + +"Then walk fast, and let me think with you," he said, with a laugh. + +Mildred dared not offend him, and so she forced herself to accept his +escort, although it was evident even to the self-confident young man she +disliked it. They threaded the busy streets of Milltown, "Mr. Tom" +raising his hat jauntily to passing acquaintances, Mildred keeping her +eyes fastened on the ground, only anxious to reach the little white +cottage where her mother and brothers and sisters were waiting tea for +her return. + +"There, Mr. Hardman," she said, trying to look good-humored, as he held +open the gate; "I won't ask you to come in, because--" + +"Oh, I know," exclaimed Tom, with an easy laugh. "Because you think the +guv'nor would not like me to be visiting any of the girls. Never you +mind; he won't know." + +"That has nothing to do with it, sir," answered Mildred, speaking with +forced composure, though her face flushed scarlet. "It was because I +knew my mother prefers I shall not receive visits from people whom she +does not know; but if it _be_ true that your father objects to your +visiting any of his employees, that is an additional reason for your +never forcing attentions upon me again." + +And with a very stately bow Mildred moved past him, entering the little +house, while "Mr. Tom," indulging in a prolonged low whistle, turned on +his heel, with something not very agreeable in his expression. + +[TO BE CONTINUED.] + + + + +[Illustration] + +WINGY WING FOO. + +BY C. A. D. W. + + + Poor Wingy Wing Foo is a bright little fellow, + With complexion, indeed, most decidedly yellow, + And long almond eyes that take everything in; + But the way he is treated is really a sin. + For naughty Miss Polly _will_ turn up her nose + At his quaint shaven head and his queer little clothes, + And bestow all her love and affectionate care + On rosy-cheeked Mabel, with bright golden hair. + + In vain do I argue, in vain do I cry, + "Be kinder, my darling, I beg of you, try." + But Polly shakes harder her wise little head, + And kisses her golden-haired dolly instead. + "Remember he's far from his kindred and home; + 'Mid strange little children he's destined to roam, + And how sad is his fate, as no kind little mother + Will take him right in, and make him a brother + + "To the fair baby dollies that sit on her knee! + Just think, my own Polly, how hard it must be. + So give him a hug and a motherly kiss, + 'Tis one your own babies, I'm sure, never'll miss." + She stooped quickly down, and raised from the floor + The poor little stranger, discarded before, + And said, with a tear in her bright little eye, + "I'm sure I shall love him, mamma, by-and-by." + + + + +[Illustration: OUR POST-OFFICE BOX.] + + + I received a subscription to YOUNG PEOPLE for a present, and I like + the paper better than any I ever had before. I like the Post-office + Box and the puzzles especially, and the story of Paul Grayson I + like very much. + + I am collecting games and amusements, and I would be thankful to + any readers of YOUNG PEOPLE who send me any nice charades or + games. In return I will send some of my own collection, with full + directions for playing each one. + + JAMES O'CONNOR, + 287 Ontario Street, Chicago, Illinois. + + * * * * * + +Now that the season of long evenings has come again, pretty household +games are a necessary recreation for our young friends. There have been +directions in the columns of YOUNG PEOPLE for some entertaining winter +evening amusements, and more are in preparation. Descriptions of games +are generally too long for the Post-office Box, but if we receive any +that are short enough, we will print them, unless they are of games +already well known, or involve the pitching of knives or other dangerous +actions. + +There is a great deal of play-time by daylight, too, and it would be +interesting if boys in Canada, on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, in +the West and in the South, would now and then describe their out-of-door +sports during the winter. There will be skating, and coasting, and +sleigh-riding for some; orange-picking, rowing, and picnicking for +others. There is one amusement our boys and girls will all enjoy +together, and that is reading YOUNG PEOPLE; and if in the Post-office +Box they learn what are the pastimes of children in all sections of the +country, even those little people who live in solitary places where they +have no playmates, and see nothing all winter but ice-bound rivers and +snow-covered plains, will feel less lonely, and have imaginary +companionship during play-time. + + * * * * * + + CINCINNATI, OHIO. + + Seeing a letter from Violet S. in the Post-office Box about a + society, I thought I would write about a club we boys have here. + + The club, which is called the G. G., is strictly a military + organization, consisting of nine members, each having a gun. We + drill every Saturday. Any member who speaks during the drill is + confined to the "guard-house" for five minutes for each offense. + + We have also a library of nearly a hundred books, which is a + source of great pleasure to us. Every month we have an election + for librarian and secretary. + + Whenever an event of importance occurs concerning the club we have + a meeting to settle the matter. We are now preparing a play for + the Christmas holidays. + + BERT C. + + * * * * * + + BRANTFORD, ONTARIO, CANADA. + + Reba H. wished to know if any correspondent had seen peach-trees + blooming in September. I never saw peach-trees in blossom at that + season, but we once had two pear-trees that blossomed in October. + + I take great pleasure in reading YOUNG PEOPLE. I am eleven years + old. + + JOSIE B. G. + + * * * * * + + DARLINGTON HEIGHTS, VIRGINIA. + + I was very much interested in the account of sumac gathering in + YOUNG PEOPLE No. 51, and I thought you would like to know how it is + done here in Prince Edward County. + + The work of gathering begins in June, and lasts until some time in + August. It is gathered here before it turns red, and the berries + are not gathered at all. If the berries are mixed with the leaves + and twigs, it is worthless, and it is worth very little anyway, as + the price is only fifty or seventy-five cents a hundred pounds. + There are two kinds of sumac, the male and female; the former is + what the merchants want, but the negroes often try to cheat, for + it is very hard to tell the difference between the two kinds when + the sumac is dry. They do not dry it in a house, but lay it on the + ground in the sun for about two days, and then leave it in the + shade of the trees for about a week longer. + + HARRY J. + + * * * * * + + BELLE VERNON, PENNSYLVANIA. + + I live among the hills of Pennsylvania, where they get out great + quantities of coal and sand. We have glass factories in our town, + and it is so nice to see them make glass! We have a boat-yard here, + too, and when the boats are launched we can get on them. It is a + big slide when the boat goes into the river. + + I am nine years old, and send greeting to HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE. I + tuck it under my pillow every night. + + MABEL M. + + * * * * * + + PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. + + Have any of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE ever seen the dove-plant, + sometimes called the Espiritu Santo, or Holy Ghost flower? I saw + one in a conservatory here. It is bell-shaped and pure white, and + the petals form a perfect dove. + + PAUL DE M. + +You will find a description and a picture of this wonderful flower, +which is a native of the Isthmus of Panama, in HARPER'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE +for November, 1879, page 863. + + * * * * * + + SHORT HILLS, NEW JERSEY. + + Here is our recipe for johnny-cake, which may be useful to Mary G., + or to some other little girl: One tea-cupful of sweet milk; one + tea-cupful of buttermilk; one table-spoonful of melted butter; one + tea-spoonful of salt; one tea-spoonful of soda; enough Indian meal + to make it stiff enough to roll out into a sheet half an inch + thick. Spread it on a buttered tin, and bake forty minutes. As soon + as it begins to brown, baste it with melted butter, repeating the + operation four or five times, until it is brown and crisp. Do not + cut the sheet, but break it, and eat it for luncheon or tea. + + FLORENCE S. + + * * * * * + + BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. + + Here is my mother's recipe for johnny-cake for Mary G. One cup of + white sugar, three eggs, half a cup of butter. Beat these together + until they are light and creamy. Then add one cup of wheat flour, + three cups of Indian meal (yellow is best), three tea-spoonfuls of + Royal baking powder, one tea-spoonful of salt, sweet milk enough to + make a cake batter. Beat until very light, and bake in a quick oven + about thirty minutes. We like it best baked in little patty-pans, + but you can bake it in a large sheet just as well. + + ETHEL W. + +Recipes similar to the above have been sent by Louise H. A., Irma C. +Terry, Lena Fox, Jane L. Wilson, Ada Philips, Alexina N., and other +little housewives; and all unite in the wish that Mary G. may win the +prize offered by her papa. + + * * * * * + + DERBY, CONNECTICUT. + + I would like to tell you how I get YOUNG PEOPLE. We have a very + nice teacher at the school where I attend, and every week each + scholar who is perfect in deportment gets a copy of YOUNG PEOPLE. + All the scholars like the paper very much, and they all try to be + good. I have had a copy every week since the teacher began to give + them, and so have several other scholars. + + RUTH M. G. + + * * * * * + + OTSEGO LAKE, MICHIGAN. + + I am eight years old. I live in Northern Michigan, between the two + large lakes. + + I have a pet fawn. I call it Beauty. It followed me to church last + Sunday night; and although it behaved with perfect decorum, it + attracted so much attention that papa had to put it out. I have + every number of YOUNG PEOPLE. + + LOUIS S. G. + + * * * * * + + I belong to the Boys' Exploring Association, and last summer we + discovered the finest cave in the Rocky Mountains. It was filled + with beautiful stalactites and stalagmites. I have some of the + stalactites in my collection. The only living things we saw in the + cave were a bat and two old mountain rats, one of which had young + ones. + + A few days ago I visited a coal mine about six miles from Colorado + Springs. The coal there is soft, and lies in a narrow vein. Above + and below the coal are veins or strata of sandstone, which is well + covered with impressions of leaves, large and small. As I entered + the mine I looked up, and right over my head there was a perfect + impression of a palm-leaf, just like a palm-leaf fan. I tried to + take it out whole, but it would break in pieces. There were also + many impressions of small leaves, and I found pieces of the tree + itself. I brought a great many of these impressions home with me. + They must be many thousand years old, like the fossil shells, + baculites, and ammonites which I have in my collection. I would + like to exchange some of the leaf impressions with the readers of + YOUNG PEOPLE. I would like for them Florida beans, sea-shells, or + moss, or minerals from California or New Mexico. I have also some + new specimens of different minerals which I would exchange for + others. + + HERBERT E. PECK, + P. O. Box 296, Colorado Springs, Colorado. + +The Boys' Exploring Association alluded to in the above letter is a +society largely composed of the members of a Sunday-school in Colorado +Springs. Any boy in the school may become a member on the payment of a +trifling sum, and any other boy whose name is proposed by a member is +admitted by vote. The object of the society is to study the geology and +natural history of the surrounding country, and at certain seasons to +make exploring expeditions, under the leadership of the clergyman of the +church. The members pledge themselves to abstain from the use of tobacco +and intoxicating drinks, to use no vulgar or profane language, and to +carry no fire-arms while on exploring trips. + +During the past summer some important discoveries have been made, and +the boys, while deriving much pleasure from these camping-out +excursions, have also gained physically, mentally, and morally. + +We would be glad to receive reports of the future actions of this +society, which will undoubtedly be of interest to our young readers, and +will perhaps incite other boys to follow the example of these young +naturalists by forming societies to study the botanical, geological, and +other natural characteristics of the region in which they live. All +places may not contain so much that is new and wonderful as Colorado, +but everywhere nature has a great deal to teach, if boys and girls will +only open their eyes and hearts to learn. + + * * * * * + + I have a few patterns of lace, and would be very glad to exchange + with Alice C. Little, or any other correspondent of YOUNG PEOPLE. + + ANNA E. BRUCE, + Rimersburg, Clarion County, Pennsylvania. + + * * * * * + + I am a little boy ten years old. I live in Attleborough, where so + much jewelry is made. I take YOUNG PEOPLE, and I think it is the + best of all the papers for boys and girls. + + I would like to exchange postage stamps with any correspondent. + + JAMES ARTHUR HARRIS, + Attleborough, Massachusetts. + + * * * * * + + I live in the Paper City, where they make seventy-five tons of + paper in a day. I think some of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE would + like to go through the mills with me. + + I would like to exchange postage stamps with any one. I am eleven + years old. + + WILLIE H. P. SEYMOUR, + P. O. Box 210, Holyoke, Massachusetts. + + * * * * * + + I am seven years old. I am a subscriber to YOUNG PEOPLE, and I love + to have my mamma read the letters from the dear little children in + the Post-office Box. I go to school, but have to stay home on rainy + days. I have neither brothers nor sisters. I am a New Mexican boy + by birth, and travelled over three thousand miles with my dear papa + and mamma, mostly in stage-coaches, when I was less than a year + old. + + I have a large number of Mexican garnets, gathered by Indians upon + the plains and in the mountains and cañons, that I will gladly + exchange for choice sea-shells. + + CLAUDE D. MILLAR, + Walnut Hills, near Cincinnati, Ohio. + + * * * * * + + I have begun to collect stamps, and I wish to procure as many rare + ones as I can. I have two tiny shells which were picked up on the + coast of the Mediterranean Sea by a lady missionary, and sent to + America. I read letters from many shell collectors in the + Post-office Box. I will send one of these shells to any boy or girl + who will send me a reasonable number of foreign stamps in return. + + EFFIE K. PRICE, Bellefontaine, Ohio. + + * * * * * + + I would like to exchange rare specimens, coins and stamps, with any + readers of YOUNG PEOPLE. I would also exchange an arrow made by a + great Indian chief near here for something of equal value. + + ROBERT C. MANLY, P. O. Box 66, + Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. + + * * * * * + + I like YOUNG PEOPLE very much. I have taken it ever since it was + published, and have learned a great deal from it. + + In exchange for sea-shells, sea-weed, or curiosities or relics of + any kind, I will send a piece of the marble of which they are now + building the Washington Monument, or a piece of the granite of + which the new State, War, and Navy departments are being built, or + both if desired. I would like to exchange with some one on the + Florida and California coast. I am eight years old. + + T. BERTON RIDENOUS, + 1428 T Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. + + * * * * * + + I will exchange stamps from Egypt, Cape of Good Hope, Western + Australia, Tasmania, Cuba, Barbadoes, Mexico, and other foreign + countries, for others from New Brunswick, St. Lucia, Ecuador, + Lagos, and Dominica. I will also exchange birds' eggs. + + WILLIE FORD, Austin, Texas. + + * * * * * + +Exchanges are also offered by the following correspondents: + + Postmarks for specimens of red shale rock. + + SAM RISIEN, JUN., + Groesbeck, Limestone County, Texas. + + * * * * * + + Stamps and postmarks for curiosities, coins, Indian relics, or + shells. + + A. H. SPEAR, + 167 Madison Street, Brooklyn, New York. + + * * * * * + + Shells for other curiosities. + + J. BATZER, + Avenue O, between 18th and 19th Streets, + Galveston, Texas. + + * * * * * + + Fossil shells for Indian relics. + + SARAH H. WILSON, + Clermont, Columbia County, New York. + + * * * * * + + Foreign postage stamps with correspondents residing in Nova Scotia, + Newfoundland, or Prince Edward Island. + + B. HOENIG, + 703 Fifth Street, New York City. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps. + + WARREN S. BANKS, + 207 East Eighty-third Street, New York City. + + * * * * * + + Soil of Texas for that of any other State. + + JOS. L. PAXTON, + Taylor, Williamson County, Texas. + + * * * * * + + Twenty varieties of postmarks for five varieties of stamps from New + Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, or Prince Edward Island. + + A. GRAHAM, + 161 Somerset Street, Newark, New Jersey. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps. + + C. M. HEMSTREET, + 108 South Fourteenth Street, St. Louis, Missouri. + + * * * * * + + Birds' eggs, foreign postage stamps, and postmarks for eggs. + + HARRY H. SMITH, + 833 Logan Street, Cleveland, Ohio. + + * * * * * + + Foreign postage stamps for postmarks. + + JAMES LEONARD, + 35 Madison Avenue, New York City. + + * * * * * + + Pressed autumn leaves for foreign postage stamps. + + DANIEL H. ROGERS, + Mooretown, Butte County, California. + + * * * * * + + Rare stamps of all kinds. + + MORRIS STERNBACH, + 129 East Sixty-ninth Street, New York City. + + * * * * * + + Michigan postmarks and curiosities for postage stamps and minerals. + + TEDDY SMITH, + 641 Cass Avenue, Detroit, Michigan. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps. + + BESSIE C. SMITH, + Mapleton, Cass County, Dakota Territory. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps from Japan, Egypt, Hungary, and other countries for + stamps from China and South America. + + CLARENCE ROWE BARTON, + 1996 Lexington Avenue, New York City. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps for postmarks, stamps, Indian relics, and other + curiosities. + + H. BEYER, + 576 Market Street, Newark, New Jersey. + + * * * * * + + Postmarks. + + ANNE H. WILSON, + Care of Harold Wilson, Esq., Clermont, + Columbia County, New York. + + * * * * * + + Postmarks for minerals or postmarks. + + WILLIAM H. MASON, + 392 Sixth Avenue (near Tenth Street), + Brooklyn, New York. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps. + + BEN S. DARROW, + 545 North Illinois Street, Indianapolis, Indiana. + + * * * * * + + Soil of Maryland and Virginia for soil of the Northern and Western + States. + + D. FLETCHER, + Philopolis, Baltimore County, Maryland. + + * * * * * + + Five varieties of sharks' teeth for Indian arrowheads. + + F. H. WATERS, + Philopolis, Baltimore County, Maryland. + + * * * * * + + Stamps, postmarks, and birds' eggs. + + HOWARD B. MOSES, + Cheltenham Academy, + Shoemakertown, Pennsylvania. + + * * * * * + + Postmarks and curiosities. + + G. N. WILSON, + Bairdstown, Oglethorpe County, Georgia. + + * * * * * + + Stamps, minerals, and eggs of the crow, flicker, spotted tattler, + and kingfisher, for eggs of a loon, eagle, gull, or snipe. + + W. A. WEBSTER, + 394 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. + + * * * * * + + Foreign postage stamps, birds' nests, shells, and minerals for + birds' eggs, shells, and foreign coins. + + LAURA BINGHAM, + Lansing, Michigan. + + * * * * * + + Chinese curiosities, agates, and postmarks for rare birds' eggs and + postage stamps. + + C. H. GURNETT, + Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps and postmarks for stamps. + + MARY H. KIMBALL, + P. O. Box 493, Stamford, Connecticut. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps. + + T. N. CATREVAS, + 13 West Twentieth Street, New York City. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps and coin. + + SAMMIE P. CRANAGE, Bay City, Michigan. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps, especially specimens from Japan and Hong-Kong, for + others. + + F. L. MACONDRAY, + 1916 Jackson Street, San Francisco, California. + + * * * * * + + Birds' eggs, stamps, and postmarks for the same, or for minerals, + coins, or Indian relics. + + RALPH J. WOOD, + 39 (old number) Wildwood Avenue, + Jackson, Michigan. + + * * * * * + + Five foreign postage stamps for an ounce of soil from any State, or + thirty foreign stamps for an Indian arrow-head. No duplicate stamp + in either exchange. + + C. B. FERNALD, + 1123 Girard Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. + + * * * * * + + Foreign postage stamps or United States postmarks for shells or + minerals. + + GEORGE E. WELLS, + 40 Cottage Place, Hackensack, New Jersey. + + * * * * * + + Five rare foreign stamps for a good mineral specimen. + + C. C. SHELLEY, JUN., + 93 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, New York. + + * * * * * + + Sea and fresh water shells and minerals for other minerals and + Indian curiosities. + + ROYAL FERRAUD, + 141 Front Street, West, Detroit, Michigan. + + * * * * * + +WILLIAM TELL ARCHERS, NEW ORLEANS.--Bows vary in price from three +dollars to ninety and even one hundred dollars each. It would be well to +write to Messrs. Peck & Snyder, Nassau Street, New York city, importers +of English archery goods, for one of their catalogues. E. I. Horsman, of +80 William Street, New York city, would also send his catalogue on +application, and his list comprises all archery goods manufactured in +this country, which are sold at lower prices than the English +importations. We never heard of a whalebone bow on an archery field. + + * * * * * + +HENRY R. C., GEORGE E. B., AND OTHERS.--Messrs. Harper & Brothers will +furnish the cover for YOUNG PEOPLE, Vol. I., at the price stated in the +advertisement on this page, but in no case can they attend to the +binding. + + * * * * * + +LOUIS H.--A stamp collection consists of stamps of _different +denominations_ from all countries. The special locality in the country +from which the specimen is sent adds to the interest of a postmark, but +not to that of a stamp. Different issues of the same denomination, when +you can obtain them, should have a place in your stamp album. For +example, there have been a good many issues, varying in design and +color, of the United States three-cent stamp. Each one is a valuable +specimen; but if you have two or more exactly alike, paste only one in +your album, and reserve the duplicates for exchange. + + * * * * * + +B. B.--It is not often that we can make room in the Post-office Box for +pictures, and we are constantly compelled to decline pretty and +interesting drawings by our young friends. We can much more easily give +space to a short description in writing of any curious phase of wild +Indian life that you may notice than to a pictured representation. + + * * * * * + +W. E. L.--Your story shows imagination, but is not good enough to +print.--Unless you have a natural gift for ventriloquism you will find +it a difficult art to learn. Several books of instruction have been +published, but they are not very satisfactory, and you would learn +better by procuring a good teacher than by endeavoring to follow the +directions of a hand-book. + + * * * * * + +E. A. DE L.--A badge expressing the motto of your society is not very +easy to invent. A gold shield bearing the letters F. S. arranged as a +monogram, in blue, white, or black enamel would be very simple, and as +appropriate, perhaps, as any more marked design. + + * * * * * + +Favors are acknowledged from Charles Werner, Ida L. G., Harry C. Earle, +Pearl A. H., Isabella T. Niven, Will S. Norton, Mary K. Bidwell, George +K. Diller, Anna Wierum, Mark Manly, Latham T. Souther, Maggie +Behlendorff, Joey W. Dodson, Aaron W. King, Charlie, Hattie Wilcox, +Clara Clark, Florence M. Donalds, Eddie L. S., Sarabelle, E. T. Rice, J. +Fitzsimons, Cassie C. Fraleigh, Mary H. Lougee, Coleman E. A., Fred +S. C., Eddie R. T., Edgar E. Helm, Emmer Edwards, Eunice Kate, Clarence +D. C. + + * * * * * + +Correct answers to puzzles are received from Lena Fox, H. M. P., Stella +Pratt, Mary L. Fobes, "Unle Ravaler," C. Gaylor, William A. Lewis, C. H. +McB., Cal I. Forny, The Dawley Boys, Mary S. Twing. + + * * * * * + +PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS. + +No. 1. + +RHOMBOID--(_To Stella_). + +Across.--A portable dwelling; a kind of food; to inclose; a poem. +Down.--A consonant; a printer's measure; novel; a genus of plants; to +hit gently; one of a printer's trials; a consonant. + + MARK MARCY. + + * * * * * + +No. 2. + +NUMERICAL CHARADE. + +My whole is a Latin quotation, composed of 24 letters, from the fifth +book of Virgil's Æneid, which should be remembered by boys and girls. + +My 8, 23, 18, 7, 13 is a city of South America. + +My 3, 5, 24, 11, 22 is a city in India. + +My 2, 14, 22, 20, 6, 19 is a town of Belgium. + +My 1, 16, 24, 9 is a country of South America. + +My 21, 16, 17, 10, 4 is one of the British West Indies. + +My 15, 12, 11 is a town of Belgium, once a famous resort. + + J. D. H. + + * * * * * + +No. 3. + +ENIGMA. + + In HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE my first is hid. + In goat my second, but not in kid. + In letter my third, but the cunningest fox + Will never find it in Post-office Box. + My fourth is in apple, but not in tree. + My fifth in Newton will always be. + My sixth is in month, but never in day. + My seventh in lightning, but not in ray. + My eighth is in runic, but never in Goth. + My ninth is hidden away in moth. + My tenth is in cloth, which that insect destroys. + My eleventh is in racket, but never in boys. + My twelfth is in hearing, but is not in sight. + My thirteenth in shining, but never in bright. + The secrets I hide no man shall know + Though years may come and years may go. + + DAME DURDEN. + + * * * * * + +ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN NO. 55. + +No. 1. + + L O V E R + N A V A L + N I C E R + L E V E R + S I D E S + +No. 2. + + S E + T E A G A S + S E I N E E A G L E + A N T S L Y + E E + +No. 3. + + A caci A + R ave N + B lu E + U nifor M + T atto O + U niso N + S avag E + +Arbutus, Anemone. + + + + +HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE. + +SINGLE COPIES, 4 cents; ONE SUBSCRIPTION, one year, $1.50; FIVE +SUBSCRIPTIONS, one year, $7.00--_payable in advance, postage free_. + +The Volumes of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE commence with the first Number in +November of each year. + +Subscriptions may begin with any Number. 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Holbrook, Robert +M., L. E. Torrey, Walter Doerr, Theo. F. Muller, K. E. K., C. Halliday, +H. F. S., E. De C., Athalia H. Daly, Kerfoot W. Daly, C. E. S. S., +H. R., Ruby R. Carsard, Alexina Neville, Edward T. Balcom, Edwin Prindle, +Dollie Kopp, A. J. Carleton, Fernando Gonzala, Thomas Flaherty, John +Flaherty, Alice Brown, Frank Eaton, Winthrop M. Daniels, W. G. Harpee, +Pierre, Raba Thelin, Felix H. Gray, Freddie L. Temple, Winona D. +Anderson, Harry V. Register, Albert L. Register, S. Croft Register, +"Nelse Walton," W. H. C., John N. Howe, Dora K. Noble, Charles A. +Tomlinson, Irving W. Lamb, Burton Harwood, I. R. Herrick, E. W. Little, +Samuel von Behren, Harry Cowperthwait, Jack Nemo, Fanny Crampton, Mamie +B. Purdy, Percy B. Purdy, J. P. H., Mary A. Hale, E. D. F., Nella +Coover, F. Uhlenhaut, W. C. Siegert, P. N. Clark, Lillian Thomas, Annie +E. Barry, Charlie Conklin, Mary Burns, Lottie Norton, Hattie Venable, +Annie A. Siegert, E. W. Siegert, C. W. Mansur, G. W., "Bo-peep," Julius +Backofen, Nellie Beers, Oliver Drew, Frank W. Taylor, Willie A. Scott, +Reba Hedges, Arthur, Cora, Mark Manley, E. L. C., Thomas C. Vanderveer, +Nellie Hyde, George St. Clair, L. C. H., Mary C. Green, Frank Miller, +Helen S. W., P. B. A., Willie Dobbs, Charlie Dobbs, Agnes D. Cram, +Carrie Rauchfuss, L. O. S., Fred. K. Houston, Howard Starrett, Bertha W. +Gill, Willie B. Morris, Millie Olmsted, Nellie Cruger, F. J. Kaufman, +May Longwell, "Masher" (G. H. Gillett), Hattie Wilcox, Everett C. Fay, +C. H. T., Bennie Darrow, Claudius W. Tice, Lam, G. C. Meyer, Hugh +Downing, Carrie Davis, M. O. Krum, Howard Rathbon, D. B. C., Jun., +Newton C., J. B. D., Ida Belle, Agnes, Edith Williams, Herman Muhr, Big +Brother, Tommy Roberts, Mamie Hornfager, Hattie Kerr. + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, December 7, 1880, by Various + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 44279 *** diff --git a/44279-h/44279-h.htm b/44279-h/44279-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..546c682 --- /dev/null +++ b/44279-h/44279-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,2366 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> + <head> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> + <title> + The Project Gutenberg eBook of Harper's Young People, December 7, 1880, by Various. + </title> + <style type="text/css"> + +body { + margin-left: 10%; + margin-right: 10%; +} + + h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 { + text-align: center; /* all headings centered */ + clear: both; +} + +p { + margin-top: .51em; + text-align: justify; + margin-bottom: .49em; +} + +.p2 {margin-top: 2em;} +.p4 {margin-top: 4em;} +.p6 {margin-top: 6em;} + +hr { + width: 33%; + margin-top: 2em; + margin-bottom: 2em; + margin-left: auto; + margin-right: auto; + clear: both; +} + +hr.tb {width: 45%;} +hr.chap {width: 65%} +hr.full {width: 95%;} + +table { + margin-left: auto; + margin-right: auto; +} + +.pagenum { /* uncomment the next line for invisible page numbers */ + /* visibility: hidden; */ + position: absolute; + left: 92%; + font-size: smaller; + text-align: right; +} /* page numbers */ + +.blockquot { + margin-left: 5%; + margin-right: 10%; +} + +.center {text-align: center;} + +.right {text-align: right;} + +.smcap {font-variant: small-caps;} + +.caption {font-weight: bold;} + +/* Images */ +.figcenter { + margin: auto; + text-align: center; +} + +.figleft { + float: left; + clear: left; + margin-left: 0; + margin-bottom: 1em; + margin-top: 1em; + margin-right: 1em; + padding: 0; + text-align: center; +} + +.figright { + float: right; + clear: right; + margin-left: 1em; + margin-bottom: + 1em; + margin-top: 1em; + margin-right: 0; + padding: 0; + text-align: center; +} + +/* Footnotes */ +.footnotes {border: dashed 1px;} + +.footnote {margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 10%; font-size: 0.9em;} + +.fnanchor { + vertical-align: super; + font-size: .8em; + text-decoration: + none; +} + + </style> + </head> +<body> +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 44279 ***</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</a></span></p> + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#TOBY_TYLER_OR_TEN_WEEKS_WITH_A_CIRCUS">TOBY TYLER; OR, TEN WEEKS WITH A CIRCUS.</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#SOUTH_AFRICAN_DIAMONDS">SOUTH AFRICAN DIAMONDS.</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_HEART_OF_BRUCE">THE HEART OF BRUCE.</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#AMATEUR_THEATRICALS">AMATEUR THEATRICALS</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_KANGAROO">THE KANGAROO.</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#DECORATIONS_FOR_CHRISTMAS">DECORATIONS FOR CHRISTMAS.</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#W_HOLMAN_HUNTS_FINDING_OF_CHRIST_IN_THE_TEMPLE">W. HOLMAN HUNT'S "FINDING OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE."</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_CAPTAINS_BOY_ON_THE_PENNY_BOAT">THE CAPTAIN'S BOY ON THE PENNY BOAT.</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#PACKAGE_NO_107">PACKAGE NO. 107.</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#MILDREDS_BARGAIN">MILDRED'S BARGAIN.</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#WINGY_WING_FOO">WINGY WING FOO.</a></td></tr> +</table></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 1000px;"> +<img src="images/ill_001.jpg" width="1000" height="385" alt="Banner: Harper's Young People" /> +</div> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary=""> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Vol</span>. II.—<span class="smcap">No</span>. 58.</td><td align="center"><span class="smcap">Published by</span> HARPER & BROTHERS, <span class="smcap">New York</span>.</td><td align="right"><span class="smcap">Price Four Cents</span>.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Tuesday, December 1, 1880.</td><td align="center">Copyright, 1880, by <span class="smcap">Harper & Brothers</span>.</td><td align="right">$1.50 per Year, in Advance.</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"><a name="TOBY_TYLER_OR_TEN_WEEKS_WITH_A_CIRCUS" id="TOBY_TYLER_OR_TEN_WEEKS_WITH_A_CIRCUS"></a> +<img src="images/ill_002.jpg" width="600" height="548" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">TOBY STRIKES A BARGAIN—<span class="smcap">Drawn by W. A. Rogers</span>.</span> +</div> + +<h2>TOBY TYLER; OR, TEN WEEKS WITH A CIRCUS.</h2> + +<h3>BY JAMES OTIS.</h3> + +<h3><span class="smcap">Chapter I</span>.</h3> + +<h3>TOBY'S INTRODUCTION TO THE CIRCUS.</h3> + +<p>"Couldn't you give more'n six pea-nuts for a cent?" was a question asked +by a very small boy with big, staring eyes, of a candy vender at a +circus booth. And as he spoke he looked wistfully at the quantity of +nuts piled high up on the basket, and then at the six, each of which now +looked so small as he held them in his hand.</p> + +<p>"Couldn't do it," was the reply of the proprietor of the booth, as he +put the boy's penny carefully away in the drawer.</p> + +<p>The little fellow looked for another moment at his purchase, and then +carefully cracked the largest one.</p> + +<p>A shade, and a very deep shade it was, of disappointment that passed +over his face, and then looking up anxiously, he asked, "Don't you swap +'em when they're bad?"</p> + +<p>The man's face looked as if a smile had been a stranger to it<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span> for a +long time; but one did pay it a visit just then, and he tossed the boy +two nuts, and asked him a question at the same time. "What is your +name?"</p> + +<p>The big brown eyes looked up for an instant, as if to learn whether the +question was asked in good faith, and then their owner said, as he +carefully picked apart another nut, "Toby Tyler."</p> + +<p>"Well, that's a queer name."</p> + +<p>"Yes, I s'pose so, myself; but, you see, I don't expect that's the name +that belongs to me. But the fellers call me so, an' so does Uncle +Dan'l."</p> + +<p>"Who is Uncle Daniel?" was the next question. In the absence of any more +profitable customer the man seemed disposed to get as much amusement out +of the boy as possible.</p> + +<p>"He hain't my uncle at all; I only call him so because all the boys do, +an' I live with him."</p> + +<p>"Where's your father and mother?"</p> + +<p>"I don't know," said Toby, rather carelessly. "I don't know much about +'em, an' Uncle Dan'l says they don't know much about me. Here's another +bad nut; goin' to give me two more?"</p> + +<p>The two nuts were given him, and he said, as he put them in his pocket, +and turned over and over again those which he held in his hand, "I +shouldn't wonder if all of these was bad. Sposen you give me two for +each one of 'em before I crack 'em, an' then they won't be spoiled so +you can't sell 'em again."</p> + +<p>As this offer of barter was made, the man looked amused, and he asked, +as he counted out the number which Toby desired, "If I give you these, I +suppose you'll want me to give you two more for each one, and you'll +keep that kind of a trade going until you get my whole stock?"</p> + +<p>"I won't open my head if every one of 'em's bad."</p> + +<p>"All right; you can keep what you've got, and I'll give you these +besides; but I don't want you to buy any more, for I don't want to do +that kind of business."</p> + +<p>Toby took the nuts offered, not in the least abashed, and seated himself +on a convenient stone to eat them, and at the same time to see all that +was going on around him. The coming of a circus to the little town of +Guilford was an event, and Toby had hardly thought of anything else +since the highly colored posters had first been put up. It was yet quite +early in the morning, and the tents were just being erected by the men. +Toby had followed, with eager eyes, everything that looked as if it +belonged to the circus, from the time the first wagon had entered the +town, until the street parade had been made, and everything was being +prepared for the afternoon's performance.</p> + +<p>The man who had made the losing trade in pea-nuts seemed disposed to +question the boy still further, probably owing to the fact that trade +was dull, and he had nothing better to do.</p> + +<p>"Who is this Uncle Daniel you say you live with—is he a farmer?"</p> + +<p>"No; he's a Deacon, an' he raps me over the head with the hymn-book +whenever I go to sleep in meetin', an' he says I eat four times as much +as I earn. I blame him for hittin' so hard when I go to sleep, but I +s'pose he's right about my eatin'. You see," and here his tone grew both +confidential and mournful, "I am an awful eater, an' I can't seem to +help it. Somehow I'm hungry all the time. I don't seem ever to get +enough till carrot-time comes, an' then I can get all I want without +troubling anybody."</p> + +<p>"Didn't you ever have enough to eat?"</p> + +<p>"I s'pose I did, but you see Uncle Dan'l he found me one mornin' on his +hay, an' he says I was cryin' for something to eat then, an' I've kept +it up ever since. I tried to get him to give me money enough to go into +the circus with; but he said a cent was all he could spare these hard +times, an' I'd better take that an' buy something to eat with it, for +the show wasn't very good anyway. I wish pea-nuts wasn't but a cent a +bushel."</p> + +<p>"Then you would make yourself sick eating them."</p> + +<p>"Yes, I s'pose I should; Uncle Dan'l says I'd eat till I was sick, if I +got the chance; but I'd like to try it once."</p> + +<p>He was a very small boy, with a round head covered with short red +hair, a face as speckled as any turkey's egg, but thoroughly +good-natured-looking, and as he sat there on the rather sharp point of +the rock, swaying his body to and fro as he hugged his knees with his +hands, and kept his eyes fastened on the tempting display of good things +before him, it would have been a very hard-hearted man who would not +have given him something. But Mr. Job Lord, the proprietor of the booth, +was a hard-hearted man, and he did not make the slightest advance toward +offering the little fellow anything.</p> + +<p>Toby rocked himself silently for a moment, and then he said, +hesitatingly, "I don't suppose you'd like to sell me some things, an' +let me pay you when I get older, would you?"</p> + +<p>Mr. Lord shook his head decidedly at this proposition.</p> + +<p>"I didn't s'pose you would," said Toby, quickly; "but you didn't seem to +be selling anything, an' I thought I'd just see what you'd say about +it." And then he appeared suddenly to see something wonderfully +interesting behind him, which served as an excuse to turn his reddening +face away.</p> + +<p>"I suppose your uncle Daniel makes you work for your living, don't he?" +asked Mr. Lord, after he had re-arranged his stock of candy, and had +added a couple of slices of lemon peel to what was popularly supposed to +be lemonade.</p> + +<p>"That's what I think; but he says that all the work I do wouldn't pay +for the meal that one chicken would eat, an' I s'pose it's so, for I +don't like to work as well as a feller without any father and mother +ought to. I don't know why it is, but I guess it's because I take up so +much time eatin' that it kinder tires me out. I s'pose you go into the +circus whenever you want to, don't you?"</p> + +<p>"Oh yes; I'm there at every performance, for I keep the stand under the +big canvas as well as this one out here."</p> + +<p>There was a great big sigh from out Toby's little round stomach, as he +thought what bliss it must be to own all those good things, and to see +the circus wherever it went. "It must be nice," he said, as he faced the +booth and its hard-visaged proprietor once more.</p> + +<p>"How would you like it?" asked Mr. Lord, patronizingly, as he looked +Toby over in a business way, very much as if he contemplated purchasing +him.</p> + +<p>"Like it!" echoed Toby; "why, I'd grow fat on it."</p> + +<p>"I don't know as that would be any advantage," continued Mr. Lord, +reflectively, "for it strikes me that you're about as fat now as a boy +of your age ought to be. But I've a great mind to give you a chance."</p> + +<p>"What!" cried Toby, in amazement, and his eyes opened to their widest +extent, as this possible opportunity of leading a delightful life +presented itself.</p> + +<p>"Yes, I've a great mind to give you the chance. You see," and now it was +Mr. Lord's turn to grow confidential, "I've had a boy with me this +season, but he cleared out at the last town, and I'm running the +business alone now."</p> + +<p>Toby's face expressed all the contempt he felt for the boy who would run +away from such a glorious life as Mr. Lord's assistant must lead; but he +said not a word, waiting in breathless expectation for the offer which +he now felt certain would be made him.</p> + +<p>"Now I ain't hard on a boy," continued Mr. Lord, still confidentially, +"and yet that one seemed to think that he was treated worse and made to +work harder than any boy in the world."</p> + +<p>"He ought to live with Uncle Dan'l a week," said Toby, eagerly.</p> + +<p>"Here I was just like a father to him," said Mr. Lord, paying no +attention to the interruption, "and I gave him his board and lodging, +and a dollar a week besides."</p> + +<p>"Could he do what he wanted to with the dollar?"</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Of course he could. I never checked him, no matter how extravagant he +was, an' yet I've seen him spend his whole week's wages at this very +stand in one afternoon. And even after his money had all gone that way, +I've paid for peppermint and ginger out of my own pocket just to cure +his stomach-ache."</p> + +<p>Toby shook his head mournfully, as if deploring that depravity which +could cause a boy to run away from such a tender-hearted employer, and +from such a desirable position. But even as he shook his head so sadly, +he looked wistfully at the pea-nuts, and Mr. Lord observed the look.</p> + +<p>It may have been that Mr. Job Lord was the tender-hearted man he prided +himself upon being, or it may have been that he wished to purchase +Toby's sympathy; but, at all events, he gave him a large handful of +nuts, and Toby never bothered his little round head as to what motive +prompted the gift. Now he could listen to the story of the boy's +treachery and eat at the same time, therefore he was an attentive +listener.</p> + +<p>"All in the world that boy had to do," continued Mr. Lord, in the same +injured tone he had previously used, "was to help me set things to +rights when we struck a town in the morning, and then tend to the +counter till we left the town at night, and all the rest of the time he +had to himself. Yet that boy was ungrateful enough to run away."</p> + +<p>Mr. Lord paused as if expecting some expression of sympathy from his +listener; but Toby was so busily engaged with his unexpected feast, and +his mouth was so full, that it did not seem even possible for him to +shake his head.</p> + +<p>"Now what should you say if I told you that you looked to me like a boy +that was made especially to help run a candy counter at a circus, and if +I offered the place to you?"</p> + +<p>Toby made one frantic effort to swallow the very large mouthful, and in +a choking voice he answered, quickly, "I should say I'd go with you, an' +be mighty glad of the chance."</p> + +<p>"Then it's a bargain, my boy, and you shall leave town with me +to-night."</p> + +<h4>[<span class="smcap">to be continued</span>.]</h4> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<h2><a name="SOUTH_AFRICAN_DIAMONDS" id="SOUTH_AFRICAN_DIAMONDS">SOUTH AFRICAN DIAMONDS.</a></h2> + +<p>A recent report from the Cape of Good Hope states that a diamond +weighing 225 carats has been found at the Du Toits Pan mine, and a very +fine white stone of 115 carats in Jagersfontein mine, in the Free State.</p> + +<p>The lucky finders of these stones are vastly richer than they were a few +weeks ago, for if these diamonds are of the best quality, they will be +worth thousands upon thousands of dollars.</p> + +<p>It is only ten years ago that all the world was taken by surprise at +hearing that some of these precious stones had been found in the African +colony; and this is how it came about. A little boy, the son of a Dutch +farmer living near Hope Town, of the name of Jacobs, had been amusing +himself in collecting pebbles. One of these was sufficiently bright to +attract the keen eye of his mother; but she regarded it simply as a +curious stone, and it was thrown down outside the house. Some time +afterward she mentioned it to a neighbor, who, on seeing it, offered to +buy it. The good woman laughed at the idea of selling a common bright +pebble, and at once gave it to him, and he intrusted it to a friend, to +find out its value; and Dr. Atherstone, of Graham's Town, was the first +to pronounce it a <i>diamond</i>. It was then sent to Cape Town, forwarded to +the Paris Exhibition, and it was afterward purchased by the Governor of +the colony, Sir Philip Wodehouse, for £500.</p> + +<p>This discovery of the <i>first</i> Cape diamond was soon followed by others, +and led to the development of the great diamond fields of South Africa.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<h2><a name="THE_HEART_OF_BRUCE" id="THE_HEART_OF_BRUCE">THE HEART OF BRUCE.</a><a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a></h2> + +<h3>BY LILLIE E. BARR.</h3> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Beside Dumbarton's castled steep the Bruce lay down to die;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Great Highland chiefs and belted earls stood sad and silent nigh.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">The warm June breezes filled the room, all sweet with flowers and hay,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">The warm June sunshine flecked the couch on which the monarch lay.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">The mailed men like statues stood; under their bated breath</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">The prostrate priests prayed solemnly within the room of death;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">While through the open casements came the evening song of birds,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">The distant cries of kye and sheep, the lowing of the herds.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">And so they kept their long, last watch till shades of evening fell;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Then strong and clear King Robert spoke: "Dear brother knights, farewell!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Come to me, Douglas—take my hand. Wilt thou, for my poor sake,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Redeem my vow, and fight my fight, lest I my promise break?</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">"I ne'er shall see Christ's sepulchre, nor tread the Holy Land;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">I ne'er shall lift my good broadsword against the Paynim band;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Yet I was vowed to Palestine: therefore take thou my heart,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">And with far purer hands than mine play thou the Bruce's part."</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Then Douglas, weeping, kissed the King, and said: "While I have breath</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">The vow thou made I will fulfill—yea, even unto death:</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Where'er I go thy heart shall go; it shall be first in fight.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Ten thousand thanks for such a trust! Douglas is Bruce's knight."</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">They laid the King in Dunfermline—not yet his heart could rest;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">For it hung within a priceless case upon the Douglas' breast.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">And many a chief with Douglas stood: it was a noble line</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Set sail to fight the Infidel in holy Palestine.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Their vessel touched at fair Seville. They heard upon that day</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">How Christian Leon and Castile before the Moslem lay,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Then Douglas said, "O heart of Bruce! thy fortune still is great,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">For, ere half done thy pilgrimage, the foe for thee doth wait."</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Dark Osmyn came; the Christians heard his long yell, "Allah hu!"</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">The brave Earl Douglas led the van as they to battle flew;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Sir William Sinclair on his left, the Logans on his right,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">St. Andrew's blood-red cross above upon its field of white.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Then Douglas took the Bruce's heart, and flung it far before.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">"<i>Pass onward first</i>, O noble heart, as in the days of yore!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">For Holy Rood and Christian Faith make thou a path, and we</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">With loyal hearts and flashing swords will gladly follow thee."</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">All day the fiercest battle raged just where that heart did fall,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">For round it stood the Scottish lords, a fierce and living wall.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Douglas was slain, with many a knight; yet died they not in vain,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">For past that wall of hearts and steel the Moslem never came.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">The Bruce's heart and Douglas' corse went back to Scotland's land,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Borne by the wounded remnant of that brave and pious band.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Fair Melrose Abbey the great heart in quiet rest doth keep,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">And Douglas in the Douglas' church hath sweet and honored sleep.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">In pillared marble Scotland tells her love, and grief, and pride.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Vain is the stone: all Scottish hearts the Bruce and Douglas hide.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">The "gentle Sir James Douglas" and "the Bruce of Bannockburn"</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Are names forever sweet and fresh for years untold to learn.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 800px;"><a name="AMATEUR_THEATRICALS" id="AMATEUR_THEATRICALS"> +<img src="images/ill_003.jpg" width="800" height="528" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">AMATEUR THEATRICALS—THE CALL BEFORE THE CURTAIN.</span> +</a></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span></p> + +<h2><a name="THE_KANGAROO" id="THE_KANGAROO">THE KANGAROO.</a></h2> + +<p>In the large island of Australia—an island so vast as to be ranked as a +continent—nature has produced a singular menagerie.</p> + +<p>The first discoverers of this country must have stared in amazement at +the strange sights which met their eyes. There were wildernesses of +luxuriant and curious vegetable growths, inhabited by large quadrupeds +which appeared as bipeds; queer little beasts with bills like a duck, +ostriches covered with hair instead of feathers, and legions of odd +birds, while the whole woods were noisy with the screeching and prating +of thousands of paroquets and cockatoos.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/ill_004.jpg" width="600" height="466" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">THE HOME OF THE KANGAROO.</span> +</div> + +<p>The largest and oddest Australian quadruped is the kangaroo, a member of +that strange family, the Marsupialia, which are provided with a pouch, +or bag, in which they carry their little ones until they are strong +enough to scamper about and take care of themselves.</p> + +<p>The delicately formed head of this strange creature, and its short +fore-legs, are out of all proportion to the lower part of its body, +which is furnished with a very long tail, and its hind-legs, which are +large and very strong. It stands erect as tall as a man, and moves by a +succession of rapid jumps, propelled by its hind-feet, its fore-paws +meanwhile being folded across its breast. A large kangaroo will weigh +fully two hundred pounds, and will cover as much as sixteen feet at one +jump.</p> + +<p>The body of this beast is covered with thick, soft, woolly fur of a +grayish-brown color. It is very harmless and inoffensive, and it is a +very pretty sight to see a little group of kangaroos feeding quietly in +a forest clearing. Their diet is entirely vegetable. They nibble grass +or leaves, or eat certain kinds of roots, the stout, long claws of their +hind-feet serving them as a convenient pickaxe to dig with.</p> + +<p>The kangaroo is a very tender and affectionate mother. When the baby is +born it is the most helpless creature imaginable, blind, and not much +bigger than a new-born kitten. But the mother lifts it carefully with +her lips, and gently deposits it in her pocket, where it cuddles down +and begins to grow. This pocket is its home for six or seven months, +until it becomes strong and wise enough to fight its own battles in the +woodland world. While living in its mother's pocket it is very lively. +It is very funny to see a little head emerging all of a sudden from the +soft fur of the mother's breast, with bright eyes peeping about to see +what is going on in the outside world; or perhaps nothing is visible but +a little tail wagging contentedly, while its baby owner is hidden from +sight.</p> + +<p>The largest kangaroos are called menuahs or boomers by the Australian +natives, and their flesh is considered a great delicacy, in flavor +something like young venison. For this reason these harmless creatures +are hunted and killed in large numbers. They are very shy, and not very +easy to catch; but the cunning bushmen hide themselves in the thicket, +and when their unsuspecting prey approaches, they hurl a lance into its +body. The wounded kangaroo springs off with tremendous leaps, but soon +becomes exhausted, and falls on the turf.</p> + +<p>If brought to bay, this gentle beast will defend itself vigorously. With +its back planted firmly against a tree, it has been known to keep off an +army of dogs for hours, by dealing them terrible blows with its strong +hind-feet, until the arrival of the hunter with his gun put an end to +the contest. At other times the kangaroo, being an expert swimmer, will +rush into the water, and if a venturesome dog dares to follow, it will +seize him, and hold his head under water till he is drowned.</p> + +<p>Kangaroos are often brought to zoological gardens, and are contented in +captivity, so long as they have plenty of corn, roots, and fresh hay to +eat.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</a></span></p> + +<h2><a name="DECORATIONS_FOR_CHRISTMAS" id="DECORATIONS_FOR_CHRISTMAS">DECORATIONS FOR CHRISTMAS.</a></h2> + +<h3>BY A. W. ROBERTS.</h3> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/ill_005.jpg" width="200" height="194" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">Fig. 1.</span> +</div> + +<p>A great variety of material abounds in our woods that can be utilized +for Christmas decorations.</p> + +<p>All trees, shrubs, mosses, and lichens that are evergreen during the +winter months, such as holly, ink-berry, laurels, hemlocks, cedars, +spruces, arbor vitæ, are used at Christmas-time for in-door +ornamentation. Then come the club-mosses (<i>Lycopodiums</i>), particularly +the one known as "bouquet-green," and ground-pine, which are useful for +the more delicate and smaller designs. Again, we have the wood mosses +and wood lichens, pressed native ferns and autumn leaves; and, if the +woods are not accessible, from our own gardens many cultivated +evergreens can be obtained, such as box, arbor vitæ, rhododendron, ivy, +juniper, etc.</p> + +<p>Where it is desirable to use bright colors to lighten up the sombreness +of some of the greens, our native berries can be used to great +advantage. In the woods are to be found the partridge-berries, +bitter-sweet, rose-berries, black alder, holly-berries, cedar-berries, +cranberries, and sumac. Dried grasses and everlasting-flowers can be +pressed into service. For very brilliant effects gold-leaf, gold paper, +and frosting (obtainable at paint stores) are used.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/ill_006.jpg" width="200" height="188" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">Fig. 2.</span> +</div> + +<p>Fig. 1 represents a simple wreath of holly leaves and berries, sewn on +to a circular piece of pasteboard, which was first coated with calcimine +of a delicate light blue, on which, before the glue contained in the +calcimine dried, a coating of white frosting was dusted. The monogram +XMS is drawn on drawing-paper highly illuminated with gold-leaf and +brilliant colors, after which it is cut out, and fastened in position.</p> + +<p>Fig. 2 consists of a foundation of pasteboard, shaped as shown in the +illustration. The four outside curves are perforated with a +darning-needle. These perforations are desirable when the bouquet-green +is to be fastened on in raised compact masses. The four crescent-shaped +pieces of board are colored white, and coated with white frosting. On +the crescents are sewn sprays of ivy and bunches of bright red berries. +From the outer edge of the crescents radiate branches of hemlock or +fronds of dried ferns. For the legend in the centre the monogram +I.H.S.,<a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a> or "A merry Christmas to all," cut out in gold paper, looks +well.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/ill_007.jpg" width="200" height="210" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">Fig. 3.</span> +</div> + +<p>Fig. 3 consists of a combination of branches of apple wood, or other +wood of rich colors and texture, neatly joined together so as to form +the letters M and X. (In selecting the wood always choose that which has +the heaviest growth of lichens and mosses.)</p> + +<p>For the ornamentation of the rustic monogram I use wood and rock +lichens, fungi, Spanish moss, and pressed climbing fern. Holes are bored +into the rustic letters, into which are inserted small branches of holly +in full berry. By trimming the monogram on both sides it looks very +effective when hung between the folding-doors of a parlor, where the +climbing fern may be trained out (on fine wires or green threads) in all +directions, so as to form a triumphal archway. By using large fungi for +the feet of the letters M and X (as shown in the illustration), the +monogram can be used as a mantel-piece ornament, training fern and ivy +from it and over picture-frames. The letter S in the monogram is +composed of immortelles.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/ill_008.jpg" width="300" height="98" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">Fig. 4.</span> +</div> + +<p>Fig. 4 consists of a narrow strip of white muslin, on which is first +drawn with a pencil in outline the design to be worked in evergreens. +For this purpose only the finer and lighter evergreens can be used, as +the intention of this design is to form a bordering for the angle formed +by the wall and ceiling. This wall drapery is heavily trimmed with +berries, to cause it to hang close to the wall, and at the same time to +obtain richer effects of color. The evergreens and berries are fastened +to the muslin with thread and needle.</p> + +<p>Fig. 5 is composed of a strip of card-board covered with gold paper on +which the evergreens are sewed. This style of ornamentation is used for +covering the frames of pictures.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/ill_009.jpg" width="300" height="92" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">Fig. 5.</span> +</div> + +<p>Natural flowers formed into groups can be made to produce very beautiful +effects for the mantel-piece and corner brackets of a room. The pots +should be hidden by covering them with evergreens, or the wood moss that +grows on the trunks of trees. For mounting berries fine wire will be +found very useful. I have always used, and with good effect, the rich +brown cones of evergreens and birches for Christmas decorations.</p> + +<p>Very rich and heavy effects of color can be produced by using dry colors +for backgrounds in the following manner. On the face of the pasteboard +on which you intend to work the evergreen design lay a thin coating of +hot glue; before the glue dries or chills dust on dry ultramarine blue, +or any of the lakes, or chrome greens. As soon as the glue has set, blow +off the remaining loose<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</a></span> color, and the result will be a field of rich +"dead" color. To make the effect still more brilliant, touch up the +blues and lakes with slashings of gold-leaf ("Dutch metal" will answer +every purpose), fastening the gold-leaf with glue. Don't plaster it +down, but put it on loose, so that it stands out from the field of +color.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<h2><a name="W_HOLMAN_HUNTS_FINDING_OF_CHRIST_IN_THE_TEMPLE" id="W_HOLMAN_HUNTS_FINDING_OF_CHRIST_IN_THE_TEMPLE">W. HOLMAN HUNT'S "FINDING OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE."</a></h2> + +<h3>BY THE REV. WILLIAM M. TAYLOR, D.D.</h3> + +<p>The double-page picture which appears in this week's <span class="smcap">Young People</span> is +well worthy of study, alike for the school to which it belongs, the +subject which it seeks to portray, and the manner in which that subject +is treated by the artist. The original painting, of which the +reproduction (save, of course, in the matter of coloring) is an +admirable representation, is the production of William Holman Hunt. Few +sermons have been so impressive as some of this artist's pictures. +Everybody knows the beautiful one which he has called "The Light of the +World," and no person of any intelligence can look upon that without +having recalled to his mind these words, "Behold, I stand at the door +and knock." But it may not be so generally known that this impression is +thus strongly produced upon the spectator because it was first very +deeply made on the artist himself. A friend of ours told us this +beautiful story. The original painting of "The Light of the World" is in +the possession of an English gentleman, at whose house one known to both +of us had been a guest. While he was there the frame had been taken off +the picture for purposes of cleaning, and the stranger had thus an +opportunity of examining it very closely. He found on the canvas, where +it had been covered by the frame, these words, in the writing of the +artist: "<i>Nec me prætermittas, Domine!</i>"—"Nor pass me by, O Lord!" +Thus, like the Fra Angelico, Mr. Hunt seems to have painted that work +upon his knees; and it is a sermon to those who look upon it, because it +was first a prayer in him who produced it.</p> + +<p>Much the same, we are confident, may be said of the picture which is now +before us. All our readers must know the story. When the "divine boy" +was about twelve years of age he was taken by Joseph and Mary to the +Passover feast at Jerusalem. They went up with a company from their own +neighborhood, and after the feast was over they had started to return in +the same way. But Jesus was not to be found. Still supposing that he was +somewhere in their company, they went a day's journey, and "sought him +among their kinsfolk and acquaintance." Their search, however, was +fruitless, and so, "sorrowing" and anxious, they returned to Jerusalem, +where they ultimately found him in the Temple, "sitting in the midst of +the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions." They were +amazed at the sight; and his mother, relieved, and perhaps also a little +troubled, said, "Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy +father and I have sought thee sorrowing." To which he made reply, "How +is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's +business?" These words are remarkable as the first recorded utterance of +conscious Messiahship that came from the lips of our Lord. They indicate +that now his human intelligence has come to the perception of his divine +dignity and mission; and when he went down to Nazareth, and was subject +to Joseph and Mary, it was with the distinct assurance within him that +Joseph was not his father, and that there was ultimately a higher +business before him than the work of the carpenter. Still, he knew that +only through the lower could he reach the higher, and therefore he went +down, contented to wait until the day of his manifestation came.</p> + +<p>The artist has seized the moment when Jesus made this striking reply to +his mother, and everything in the picture is made to turn on that. The +scene is the interior of the Temple. The time is high day, for workmen +are busily engaged at a stone on the outside, and a beggar is lolling at +the gate in the act of asking alms. The Jewish doctors are seated. First +in the line is an aged rabbi with flowing beard, and clasping a roll +with his right hand. Over his eyes a film is spread, which indicates +that he is blind; and so his neighbor, almost as aged as himself, is +explaining to him why the boy has ceased to ask his questions, by +telling him that his mother has come to claim him. Beside him, and the +third in the group, is a younger man, whose face is full of eager +thoughtfulness, and whose hands hold an unfolded roll, to which it +appears as if he had been referring because of something which had just +been said.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</a></span></p> + +<p>The other faces are less marked with seriousness, and seem to be +indicative rather of curiosity; but we make little account of them +because of the fascination which draws our eyes to the principal group. +The face of Joseph, as Alford says, is "well-nigh faultless." It is full +of thankful joy over the discovery of the boy; and though to our +thinking Joseph was an older man than he is here depicted, yet +everything about him is natural and manly. The Mary is hardly so +successful. The narrative does not represent her as speaking softly into +the ear of her son, but rather as breaking in abruptly on the assembly +with her irrepressible outcry, "Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us?" +and there might well have been less of the soft persuasiveness and more +of the surprised look of what one might call wounded affection in her +face. But the portrayal of the boy Christ is admirable. We have never, +indeed, seen any representation of the face of Christ that has +thoroughly satisfied us, and we do not expect ever to see one. But this +one is most excellent. The "far-away" look in the eyes, and the +expression of absorption on the countenance, betoken that his thoughts +are intent upon that divine "business" which he came to earth to +transact. Exquisite, too, as so thoroughly human, is the playing of the +right hand with the strap of his girdle in his moment of abstraction. In +the far future the great business of his life is beckoning him on; but +close at hand his duty to his mother is asserting its immediate claim. +In his eager response to the first, he cries, "Wist ye not that I must +be about my Father's business?" and his thoughts are after that +meanwhile; but ere long the demand of the present will prevail, and he +will go down with his parents, and be subject to them. This +"righteousness" also he has to "fulfill," even as a part of that +"business."</p> + +<p>Take the picture, boys; frame it, and hang it where you can often see +it. You will be reminded by it wholesomely of one who was once as really +a boy as you; and when the future seems to be calling you on, and +begging you to leap at once into its work, a look at the Christ-face +will help you to seek the glory of the future in submission to the +claims of the duties of the present, and will say to you, "He that +believeth shall not make haste." Through the performance of the duties +of a son to his mother Jesus passed to the business of saving men; and +in the same way, through faithful diligence where you are, the door will +open for you into the future which seems to you so attractive. It is +right to have a business before you. It is right, also, for you to feel +that the work you want to do in the world is "your Father's business." +We would not have you fix your heart on anything which you could not so +describe. But whatever that may be, rely upon it you will never reach it +by neglecting present duty. On the contrary, the more diligent and +faithful you are now as boys in the home and in the school, the more +surely will the door into eminence open for you as men. Let the picture, +therefore, stimulate you to holy ambition, and yet encourage you to wait +patiently in the discharge of present duty until the time comes for your +elevation. The way to come at your true business in life is to do well +the present business of your boyhood.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 1000px;"> +<img src="images/ill_010.jpg" width="1000" height="615" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">"THE FINDING OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE."—<span class="smcap">From a Painting +by W. Holman Hunt</span>.—<span class="smcap">See Page</span> 87.</span> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<h2><a name="THE_CAPTAINS_BOY_ON_THE_PENNY_BOAT" id="THE_CAPTAINS_BOY_ON_THE_PENNY_BOAT">THE CAPTAIN'S BOY ON THE PENNY BOAT.</a></h2> + +<h3>BY H. F. REDDALL.</h3> + +<p>Imagine a side-wheel steamboat a hundred and fifty or two hundred feet +long, her hull painted black, red, or red and white, with only one deck, +entirely open from stem to stern; a hot, stuffy cabin below the +water-line, her engines, of the cylinder pattern, entirely below the +deck, and you have some idea of a London "penny boat"—a very different +affair from our jaunty American river craft.</p> + +<p>As most of my young readers are aware, the river Thames divides the +great city of London into nearly equal parts. For nearly twelve miles +the metropolis stretches along either bank, and, as might be expected, +the river forms a convenient-highway for traffic—a sort of marine +Broadway, in fact. There are a number of bridges, each possessing from +six to ten arches, and through these the swift tide pours with +tremendous energy. From early dawn to dark the river's bosom is crowded +with every description of vessel. Below London Bridge, the first we meet +in going up stream, may be seen the murky collier moored close to the +neat and trim East Indiaman, the heavy Dutch galiot scraping sides with +the swift mail-packet, or the fishing-boat nodding responsive to the +Custom-house revenue-cutter.</p> + +<p>Above and between the bridges the scene changes, but is none the less +animated. Here comes a heavy, lumbering barge, its brown sail loosely +furled, depending for its momentum upon the tide, and guided by a long +sweep. Barges, lighters, tugs, fishing-smacks, passenger steamboats, and +a variety of smaller craft so crowd the river that were we to stand on +Blackfriars Bridge a boat of some description would pass under the +arches every thirty or forty seconds.</p> + +<p>But by far the most important feature is the passenger-boats. These are +apparently countless. They make landings every few blocks, now on one +side the river, now on the other, darting here and there, up and down, +and adding largely to the bustle. For a penny, the equivalent of two +cents American currency, one may enjoy a water ride of five or six +miles—say from London Bridge to Lambeth Palace. When we reflect that +all this immense traffic is crowded between the banks of a stream at no +point as wide as the East River opposite Fulton Ferry, New York, and +impeded by bridges at that, the difficulties of navigation will be in +some measure understood; and I have purposely dwelt on this that my +readers may fully appreciate what follows.</p> + +<p>Every one knows how, in America, the steamboat is controlled by a pilot +perched high above the passengers in the "pilot-house"; how he steers +the boat, and at the same time communicates with the engineer far below +him by means of bells—the gong, the big jingle, the little jingle, and +so on. But the penny boats of the Thames are managed far differently. +The wheelsman is at the stern in the old-fashioned way; but on a bridge +stretched amidships between the two paddle-boxes, and right over a +skylight opening into the engine-room, stands the captain. Beneath him, +sitting or standing by this skylight, is a boy of not more than twelve +or fourteen years of age, who, I observed, from time to time called out +some utterly unintelligible words, in accordance with which the engine +was slowed, stopped, backed, or started ahead as occasion required. It +took me a long time to discover <i>what</i> the boy said, from the peculiar +sing-song way in which he called out, but it took me much longer to find +out <i>why</i> he said it.</p> + +<p>So far as I could see he had not as much interest in the boat as I had; +apparently he observed the constantly changing panorama of river +scenery—not an interesting sight on board escaped him, and yet as we +neared or departed from each landing-stage the same mysterious sounds, +only varied slightly, issued from his lips, and the boat stopped or went +ahead as the case might be. I asked myself if this wonderful boy might +not be the captain, but a glance at the weather-beaten figure on the +bridge showed me the absurdity of the idea. So I watched the latter +individual, from whom I was now sure the boy received his orders. But +how? That was the question. The captain and his boy were too far apart +to speak intelligibly to one another without all the passengers hearing +them: how, then, did the one on the bridge communicate his wishes to the +other at the skylight if not by speech?</p> + +<p>By dint of long watching I became aware that though apparently the eyes +of the lad saw everything there was to be seen, in reality he was most +watchful of the captain, hardly ever lifting his gaze from the figure +above him, and at last I discovered that by a scarcely perceptible +motion of his hand, merely opening and closing it, or with a simple +backward or forward motion from the wrist down, the captain conveyed his +orders to the boy, who responded by shouting in his shrill treble +through the skylight what, after much conjecture, I discovered to be +"Ease 'er!" "Stop 'er!" "Turn 'er astarn!" "Let 'er go ahead!"</p> + +<p>The gesture by the captain's hand was oftentimes so faint that I failed +to see it, though I was on the look-out; much less could I interpret its +meaning, yet the lad never once failed to give the correct order.</p> + +<p>Only think of it! The safety of these boats, their crews, and thousands +of passengers absolutely depends upon these youngsters, who in wind and +rain, sunshine or storm, are compelled to be at their posts for many +hours daily. If through inattention or inadvertence the wrong command +should be given to the engineer, a terrible calamity might occur. That +such is never or rarely the case speaks volumes for the fidelity and +attention to duty of these boys, who have very little opportunity for +training or education of any sort.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<h2><a name="PACKAGE_NO_107" id="PACKAGE_NO_107">PACKAGE NO. 107.</a></h2> + +<h3>BY JAMES B. MARSHALL.</h3> + +<p>The express agent in San Francisco smiled very pleasantly when the +package was brought to him with a directed express tag properly tied on +it. But it was not so strange for him to smile, since he knew all about +that package, and had foretold the exact time required for a package to +reach New York. But the clerk who pasted a green label on the tag, and +marked on one end in blue ink "No. 107, Paid" so and so much, why should +he be amused? And why should the two express-wagon drivers who were in +the office at the time declare that that package would be something like +a surprise?</p> + +<p>Then an errand-boy came into the office to express a valise, having left +seven other boys standing on the nearest street corner before a +hand-organ that was playing the newest airs, which those seven boys were +learning to whistle. But why should that errand-boy, who was usually a +very quiet boy, immediately run to the office street door, and call, and +beckon, and wave his hat furiously for those seven boys to come and look +at package No. 107? Then those seven boys, in spite of the attraction of +the hand-organ, came on a run, and stood eagerly around the express +office door. And why wouldn't those boys go away until that package was +taken with other packages to the railroad station in one of the express +wagons? And what, also, greatly interested five other passing boys, a +Chinese laundry-man, two apple-women, and a policeman?</p> + +<p>Well, it was the same cause, which will soon appear, that made curious +and smiling the express people of Omaha, Chicago, and other places where +the package was seen on its way East to New York.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p>About a month previous to this, Mr. Benson had written to his wife from +California that owing to the slow settlement<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</a></span> of the business that had +taken him there, he was beginning to fear he and Guy would not be able +to reach home even by the holidays. "But Guy says," wrote Mr. Benson, +"that if we only had mother here we would get along splendidly."</p> + +<p>A week later the unwelcome news came to Mrs. Benson in New York +explaining that Mr. Benson's business would further detain him in +California until the middle of March—three months to come. You may be +certain that Mrs. Benson was very sorry to think of passing Christmas +and New-Year's with three thousand miles separating her from her husband +and boy. But she was forced to smile as she read Guy's letter—mailed +with his father's—explaining how they might dine together on +Christmas-day, notwithstanding the three thousand miles.</p> + +<p>"I have found out," wrote Guy in his best handwriting, "that the +difference in time between New York and San Francisco is about three +hours and a quarter. So if you sit down to your dinner at a quarter past +four o'clock, your time, and we sit down to our dinner at one o'clock, +our time, we can in that way be dining together. We are going to have +for dinner exactly what we had at home on last Christmas. But you will +have the best time, for grandfather and grandmother will be with you, +and Uncle Tom and Aunt Mary, and Ben, Tom, Bertha, Sadie, Uncle Seth, +and all the rest of them."</p> + +<p>A few days after this letter was sent Mr. Benson mailed another one, in +which he told his wife that Guy had made a discovery on the previous +day, and they were going to send her a pleasant surprise—in fact, a +Christmas present. "The package will be sent by express, directed to +your address in New York," wrote Mr. Benson, "and we have so timed its +journey East that it will reach you some time on the day before +Christmas."</p> + +<p>This was package No. 107.</p> + +<p>But didn't Mrs. Benson wonder and wonder what was coming to her for a +surprise present? And didn't she imagine that it might be a nest of +Chinese tables, or a package of fine Russian tea, or an ivory castle, or +a bunch of California grapes weighing fifteen or twenty pounds, or +five-and-twenty other possible things? Then Guy's New York cousins, when +they heard of that expected package, didn't they all fall to guessing? +And they guessed and guessed until, as we say in "Hot Butter and Blue +Beans, please come to Supper," they were "cold," "very cold," and +"freezing."</p> + +<p>Cousin Ben finally decided, after changing his mind a dozen times a day, +that the package would prove to contain either the skin of the grizzly +bear that Guy, before leaving home, had thought he might find, or a big +piece of gold that Guy had been kindly allowed to dig out of some gold +mine.</p> + +<p>"Heigho! this is the day the package is to come," said Cousin Bertha, +the moment she awoke on that morning. But at noon-time Bertha, Ben, Jim, +Sadie, and even little Tom, knew that as yet the package had not +arrived. It had not arrived as late as four o'clock in the afternoon, +when the first three just mentioned, together with some of their elders, +went to Guy's mother's to supper. There Bertha, Ben, and Jim took turns +vainly watching at the windows for the express wagon, until they were +called to supper.</p> + +<p>Jingle! jingle! jingle! went the door-bell during the course of the +supper. And so much had that package been talked about and guessed about +that all paused in their eating and drinking, and listened in +expectation.</p> + +<p>"Please, ma'am," said Katie, coming from answering the ring, "the +expressman is at the door. He says he's got a most valuable package for +you, and would you please come and receipt for it?"</p> + +<p>Mrs. Benson found the expressman standing by the little table in the +hallway where Katie had left him, though in the mean time he had gone +back to his wagon and brought the package into the house. "Please sign +there," he said, pointing to his receipt-book.</p> + +<p>"It must be a very small package," thought Mrs. Benson, not seeing any +package, but imagining it might still be in the expressman's overcoat +pocket.</p> + +<p>"I was to say, Mrs. Benson," said the man, "that you must be prepared +for a very great, pleasant surprise."</p> + +<p>"Oh! I'm prepared to be surprised," answered Mrs. Benson.</p> + +<p>"Then please turn and look at the package standing there by the parlor +door."</p> + +<p>"Mother!"</p> + +<p>"Oh, Guy! my dear boy!" joyfully called Mrs. Benson, as Guy, with an +express tag tied around his arm, rushed into her arms, and clasped her +around the neck.</p> + +<p>"It's Guy himself," said Bertha, gleefully.</p> + +<p>"Hurrah! it's Guy!" called Ben and Jim; and they all instantly left the +supper table and hurried to greet him.</p> + +<p>But the adventures of package No. 107 could not be quickly told. Of how +it was discovered that it might be sent, how it had been directed like a +bundle of goods, how it had been receipted for over and over again, how +it had travelled all the way in the Pullman cars, how it was given as +much care and attention as if it had been a huge nugget of gold, and +very, very many more hows and whys.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<h2><a name="MILDREDS_BARGAIN" id="MILDREDS_BARGAIN">MILDRED'S BARGAIN.</a></h2> + +<h3>A Story for Girls.</h3> + +<h3>BY MRS. JOHN LILLIE.</h3> + +<h3><span class="smcap">Chapter I</span>.</h3> + +<p>"Six o'clock! Thank fortune!" exclaimed one of a group of girls in Mr. +Hardman's store.</p> + +<p>Mildred Lee glanced up with a sigh of relief, moving with quicker +fingers at the thought of being so near the end of her day's work. She +was a pale pretty girl about sixteen, with soft brown hair, dark eyes, +and a something more refined in her air and manner than her associates. +Perhaps it was that in her dress there were none of the flimsy attempts +at finery which the other girls affected so strongly, or perhaps it was +only her quiet, lady-like self-possession which had in it nothing of +vulgar reticence or pride; but, in any case, there was a touch of +something superior to all lowering influences, and the most flippant +sales-woman in "Hardman's" lowered her tone of coarse good-humor, +stopped short in any gay recital, when Mildred's pretty face and quiet +little figure came in view.</p> + +<p>"Six o'clock," said Jenny Martin, a tall, "striking-looking" young +person, who was helping Milly to put away some ribbons. "Oh dear, now +we'll be kept! There comes that lady from Lane Street. She'll stay half +an hour."</p> + +<p>"Young ladies, what are you about?" exclaimed the voice of Mr. Hardman's +son and heir, a short, stout young man, very much overdressed, and who +bustled up to the counter, dispersing the little group with various +half-audible exclamations. Then he turned, bowing and smiling, to the +late customer.</p> + +<p>She was a plain, elderly woman, dressed in a quaint fashion, but bearing +unmistakable signs of good-breeding; evidently what even Mr. Tom Hardman +would recognize as a "<i>real</i> lady." Miss Jenner, of Milltown, was +regarded by the store-keepers in her vicinity as a valuable customer. +She was known to be very rich, although eccentric, and her great red +brick house, a little back from the street, with its box-walked garden +and tall old trees, was one of the finest and most respectable in the +county. Miss Jenner had been two years abroad, and this was one of her +first visits to any Milltown store. She received Mr. Tom's servile +courtesies with rather an indifferent<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</a></span> manner, glancing around the big, +showy store, scanning the faces of the tired young attendants, as she +said, "Is not Mildred Lee one of your sales-women?"</p> + +<p>"Miss Lee!" called out Mr. Tom.</p> + +<p>Mildred moved forward quickly, looking at the new customer with an air +of polite attention, but none of her employer's obsequiousness.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 395px;"> +<img src="images/ill_011.jpg" width="395" height="400" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">THE LATE CUSTOMER—<span class="smcap">Drawn by Jessie Curtis Shepherd</span>.</span> +</div> + +<p>Miss Jenner met the young girl's glance with a swift critical stare.</p> + +<p>"Here," she said, rather shortly, "I want some gloves, and I'd prefer +your serving me."</p> + +<p>Miss Jenner's wishes could not be slighted, and so Mr. Hardman hovered +about deferentially, rather altering his tone of insolent command when +he spoke to the young sales-women, and finally dispersing them while he +walked up and down the cloak and mantle department, out of Miss Jenner's +hearing, yet sufficiently within sight to be recalled by a look from his +wealthy patroness.</p> + +<p>As soon as she found herself alone with the shop-girl, Miss Jenner said, +with a searching glance at the young face bending over the glove-box:</p> + +<p>"So you are Mildred! Child, it seems strange enough to see your father's +daughter here. How did it happen?"</p> + +<p>"Oh!" Mildred exclaimed. She drew a quick breath, while the color +flashed into her cheeks. "Did you know papa?"</p> + +<p>"Yes." Miss Jenner spoke rather shortly.</p> + +<p>"Well," said Mildred, "you see, after his death—we had almost nothing. +Mamma is giving music lessons, and I came here, just because it was all +I could get to do. Bertie is at school," the girl added, a little +proudly.</p> + +<p>"But your mother does not <i>live</i> in Milltown?" the lady inquired, with a +frown of perplexity.</p> + +<p>"Not quite <i>in</i> the town," said Mildred. "We have a little cottage on +the Dorsettown road. Papa seemed to think, before he died, that he would +like us to come to live here."</p> + +<p>Miss Jenner answered nothing for a few moments. She tapped the counter +with her fingers, pushed the point of her parasol into the ground, and +coughed significantly one or twice before she spoke.</p> + +<p>"Well, Mildred," she said, finally, "I suppose you know the way to my +house? I should like you to come to tea with me next Tuesday. I am +expecting some young friends."</p> + +<p>Mildred Lee could scarcely answer for a few moments. How often she had +passed and repassed the fine old house in Lane Street, wondering what +grandeur and comfort must repose between its walls, but never had she +dreamed of receiving an invitation from its owner.</p> + +<p>"Well," exclaimed Miss Jenner, drawing out her well-filled purse, "don't +you mean to come?"</p> + +<p>Mildred smiled, and drew a quick breath.</p> + +<p>"Oh yes, thank you, Miss Jenner, very much," she contrived to say; and +almost before she could revolve the question further in her mind Miss +Jenner was gone, and she found herself face to face with Mr. Tom. Now +this young man was Mildred's special aversion. Not that he was as +overbearing with her as with the other girls, but that he seemed to have +singled her out for attentions that Mildred found odious.</p> + +<p>"It's rather late, Miss Lee," he said, with his insolent smile; "so I +may as well walk home with you."</p> + +<p>"Thank you, Mr. Hardman," answered Milly—she never called him "Mr. +Tom," as did the other girls—"I can manage very nicely by myself. I +always walk fast, and I have always a great deal to think about."</p> + +<p>"Then walk fast, and let me think with you," he said, with a laugh.</p> + +<p>Mildred dared not offend him, and so she forced herself to accept his +escort, although it was evident even to the self-confident young man she +disliked it. They threaded the busy streets of Milltown, "Mr. Tom" +raising his hat jauntily to passing acquaintances, Mildred keeping her +eyes fastened on the ground, only anxious to reach the little white +cottage where her mother and brothers and sisters were waiting tea for +her return.</p> + +<p>"There, Mr. Hardman," she said, trying to look good-humored, as he held +open the gate; "I won't ask you to come in, because—"</p> + +<p>"Oh, I know," exclaimed Tom, with an easy laugh. "Because you think the +guv'nor would not like me to be visiting any of the girls. Never you +mind; he won't know."</p> + +<p>"That has nothing to do with it, sir," answered Mildred, speaking with +forced composure, though her face flushed scarlet. "It was because I +knew my mother prefers I shall not receive visits from people whom she +does not know; but if it <i>be</i> true that your father objects to your +visiting any of his employees, that is an additional reason for your +never forcing attentions upon me again."</p> + +<p>And with a very stately bow Mildred moved past him, entering the little +house, while "Mr. Tom," indulging in a prolonged low whistle, turned on +his heel, with something not very agreeable in his expression.</p> + +<h4>[<span class="smcap">to be continued</span>.]</h4> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 353px;"><a name="WINGY_WING_FOO" id="WINGY_WING_FOO"></a> +<img src="images/ill_012.jpg" width="353" height="500" alt="" /> +</div> + +<h2>WINGY WING FOO.</h2> + +<h3>BY C. A. D. W.</h3> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Poor Wingy Wing Foo is a bright little fellow,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">With complexion, indeed, most decidedly yellow,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And long almond eyes that take everything in;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">But the way he is treated is really a sin.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">For naughty Miss Polly <i>will</i> turn up her nose</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">At his quaint shaven head and his queer little clothes,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And bestow all her love and affectionate care</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">On rosy-cheeked Mabel, with bright golden hair.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">In vain do I argue, in vain do I cry,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"Be kinder, my darling, I beg of you, try."</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">But Polly shakes harder her wise little head,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And kisses her golden-haired dolly instead.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"Remember he's far from his kindred and home;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">'Mid strange little children he's destined to roam,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And how sad is his fate, as no kind little mother</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Will take him right in, and make him a brother</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"To the fair baby dollies that sit on her knee!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Just think, my own Polly, how hard it must be.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">So give him a hug and a motherly kiss,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">'Tis one your own babies, I'm sure, never'll miss."</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">She stooped quickly down, and raised from the floor</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">The poor little stranger, discarded before,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And said, with a tear in her bright little eye,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"I'm sure I shall love him, mamma, by-and-by."</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/ill_013.jpg" width="600" height="260" alt="OUR POST-OFFICE BOX" /> +</div> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I received a subscription to <span class="smcap">Young People</span> for a present, and I like +the paper better than any I ever had before. I like the Post-office +Box and the puzzles especially, and the story of Paul Grayson I +like very much.</p> + +<p>I am collecting games and amusements, and I would be thankful to +any readers of <span class="smcap">Young People</span> who send me any nice charades or +games. In return I will send some of my own collection, with full +directions for playing each one.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">James O'Connor</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">287 Ontario Street, Chicago, Illinois.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p>Now that the season of long evenings has come again, pretty household +games are a necessary recreation for our young friends. There have been +directions in the columns of <span class="smcap">Young People</span> for some entertaining winter +evening amusements, and more are in preparation. Descriptions of games +are generally too long for the Post-office Box, but if we receive any +that are short enough, we will print them, unless they are of games +already well known, or involve the pitching of knives or other dangerous +actions.</p> + +<p>There is a great deal of play-time by daylight, too, and it would be +interesting if boys in Canada, on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, in +the West and in the South, would now and then describe their out-of-door +sports during the winter. There will be skating, and coasting, and +sleigh-riding for some; orange-picking, rowing, and picnicking for +others. There is one amusement our boys and girls will all enjoy +together, and that is reading <span class="smcap">Young People</span>; and if in the Post-office +Box they learn what are the pastimes of children in all sections of the +country, even those little people who live in solitary places where they +have no playmates, and see nothing all winter but ice-bound rivers and +snow-covered plains, will feel less lonely, and have imaginary +companionship during play-time.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Cincinnati, Ohio</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Seeing a letter from Violet S. in the Post-office Box about a +society, I thought I would write about a club we boys have here.</p> + +<p>The club, which is called the G. G., is strictly a military +organization, consisting of nine members, each having a gun. We +drill every Saturday. Any member who speaks during the drill is +confined to the "guard-house" for five minutes for each offense.</p> + +<p>We have also a library of nearly a hundred books, which is a +source of great pleasure to us. Every month we have an election +for librarian and secretary.</p> + +<p>Whenever an event of importance occurs concerning the club we have +a meeting to settle the matter. We are now preparing a play for +the Christmas holidays.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Bert C</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Brantford, Ontario, Canada</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Reba H. wished to know if any correspondent had seen peach-trees +blooming in September. I never saw peach-trees in blossom at that +season, but we once had two pear-trees that blossomed in October.</p> + +<p>I take great pleasure in reading <span class="smcap">Young People</span>. I am eleven years +old.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Josie B. G</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Darlington Heights, Virginia</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I was very much interested in the account of sumac gathering in +<span class="smcap">Young People</span> No. 51, and I thought you would like to know how it is +done here in Prince Edward County.</p> + +<p>The work of gathering begins in June, and lasts until some time in +August. It is gathered here before it turns red, and the berries +are not gathered at all. If the berries are mixed with the leaves +and twigs, it is worthless, and it is worth very little anyway, as +the price is only fifty or seventy-five cents a hundred pounds. +There are two kinds of sumac, the male and female; the former is +what the merchants want, but the negroes often try to cheat, for +it is very hard to tell the difference between the two kinds when +the sumac is dry. They do not dry it in a house, but lay it on the +ground in the sun for about two days, and then leave it in the +shade of the trees for about a week longer.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Harry J</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I live among the hills of Pennsylvania, where they get out great +quantities of coal and sand. We have glass factories in our town, +and it is so nice to see them make glass! We have a boat-yard here, +too, and when the boats are launched we can get on them. It is a +big slide when the boat goes into the river.</p> + +<p>I am nine years old, and send greeting to <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span>. I +tuck it under my pillow every night.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Mabel M</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Have any of the readers of <span class="smcap">Young People</span> ever seen the dove-plant, +sometimes called the Espiritu Santo, or Holy Ghost flower? I saw +one in a conservatory here. It is bell-shaped and pure white, and +the petals form a perfect dove.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Paul de M</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>You will find a description and a picture of this wonderful flower, +which is a native of the Isthmus of Panama, in <span class="smcap">Harper's Monthly Magazine</span> +for November, 1879, page 863.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Short Hills, New Jersey</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Here is our recipe for johnny-cake, which may be useful to Mary G., +or to some other little girl: One tea-cupful of sweet milk; one +tea-cupful of buttermilk; one table-spoonful of melted butter; one +tea-spoonful of salt; one tea-spoonful of soda; enough Indian meal +to make it stiff enough to roll out into a sheet half an inch +thick. Spread it on a buttered tin, and bake forty minutes. As soon +as it begins to brown, baste it with melted butter, repeating the +operation four or five times, until it is brown and crisp. Do not +cut the sheet, but break it, and eat it for luncheon or tea.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Florence S</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Brooklyn, New York</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Here is my mother's recipe for johnny-cake for Mary G. One cup of +white sugar, three eggs, half a cup of butter. Beat these together +until they are light and creamy. Then add one cup of wheat flour, +three cups of Indian meal (yellow is best), three tea-spoonfuls of +Royal baking powder, one tea-spoonful of salt, sweet milk enough to +make a cake batter. Beat until very light, and bake in a quick oven +about thirty minutes. We like it best baked in little patty-pans, +but you can bake it in a large sheet just as well.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Ethel W</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>Recipes similar to the above have been sent by Louise H. A., Irma C. +Terry, Lena Fox, Jane L. Wilson, Ada Philips, Alexina N., and other +little housewives; and all unite in the wish that Mary G. may win the +prize offered by her papa.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Derby, Connecticut</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I would like to tell you how I get <span class="smcap">Young People</span>. We have a very +nice teacher at the school where I attend, and every week each +scholar who is perfect in deportment gets a copy of <span class="smcap">Young People</span>. +All the scholars like the paper very much, and they all try to be +good. I have had a copy every week since the teacher began to give +them, and so have several other scholars.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Ruth M. G</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Otsego Lake, Michigan</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I am eight years old. I live in Northern Michigan, between the two +large lakes.</p> + +<p>I have a pet fawn. I call it Beauty. It followed me to church last +Sunday night; and although it behaved with perfect decorum, it +attracted so much attention that papa had to put it out. I have +every number of <span class="smcap">Young People</span>.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Louis S. G</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I belong to the Boys' Exploring Association, and last summer we +discovered the finest cave in the Rocky Mountains. It was filled +with beautiful stalactites and stalagmites. I have some of the +stalactites in my collection. The only living things we saw in the +cave were a bat and two old mountain rats, one of which had young +ones.</p> + +<p>A few days ago I visited a coal mine about six miles from Colorado +Springs. The coal there is soft, and lies in a narrow vein. Above +and below the coal are veins or strata of sandstone, which is well +covered with impressions of leaves, large and small. As I entered +the mine I looked up, and right over my head there was a perfect +impression of a palm-leaf, just like a palm-leaf fan. I tried to +take it out whole, but it would break in pieces. There were also +many impressions of small leaves, and I found pieces of the tree +itself. I brought a great many of these impressions home with me. +They must be many thousand years old, like the fossil shells, +baculites, and ammonites which I have in my collection. I would +like to exchange some of the leaf impressions with the readers of +<span class="smcap">Young People</span>. I would like for them Florida beans, sea-shells, or +moss, or minerals from California or New Mexico. I have also some +new specimens of different minerals which I would exchange for +others.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Herbert E. Peck</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">P. O. Box 296, Colorado Springs, Colorado.</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>The Boys' Exploring Association alluded to in the above letter is a +society largely composed of the members of a Sunday-school in Colorado +Springs. Any boy in the school may become a member on the payment of a +trifling sum, and any other boy whose name is proposed by a member is +admitted by vote. The object of the society is to study the geology and +natural history of the surrounding country, and at certain seasons to +make exploring expeditions, under the leadership of the clergyman of the +church. The members pledge themselves to abstain from the use of tobacco +and intoxicating drinks, to use no vulgar or profane language, and to +carry no fire-arms while on exploring trips.</p> + +<p>During the past summer some important discoveries have been made, and +the boys, while deriving much pleasure from these camping-out +excursions, have also gained physically, mentally, and morally.</p> + +<p>We would be glad to receive reports of the future actions of this +society, which will undoubtedly be of interest to our young readers, and +will perhaps incite other boys to follow the example of these young +naturalists by forming societies to study the botanical, geological, and +other natural characteristics of the region in which they live. All +places may not contain so much that is new and wonderful as Colorado, +but everywhere nature has a great deal to teach, if boys and girls will +only open their eyes and hearts to learn.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I have a few patterns of lace, and would be very glad to exchange +with Alice C. Little, or any other correspondent of <span class="smcap">Young People</span>.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Anna E. Bruce</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Rimersburg, Clarion County, Pennsylvania.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I am a little boy ten years old. I live in Attleborough, where so +much jewelry is made. I take <span class="smcap">Young People</span>, and I think it is the +best of all the papers for boys and girls.</p> + +<p>I would like to exchange postage stamps with any correspondent.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">James Arthur Harris</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Attleborough, Massachusetts.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I live in the Paper City, where they make seventy-five tons of +paper in a day. I think some of the readers of <span class="smcap">Young People</span> would +like to go through the mills with me.</p> + +<p>I would like to exchange postage stamps with any one. I am eleven +years old.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Willie H. P. Seymour</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">P. O. Box 210, Holyoke, Massachusetts.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I am seven years old. I am a subscriber to <span class="smcap">Young People</span>, and I love +to have my mamma read the letters from the dear little children in +the Post-office Box. I go to school, but have to stay home on rainy +days. I have neither brothers nor sisters. I am a New Mexican boy +by birth, and travelled over three thousand miles with my dear papa +and mamma, mostly in stage-coaches, when I was less than a year +old.</p> + +<p>I have a large number of Mexican garnets, gathered by Indians upon +the plains and in the mountains and cañons, that I will gladly +exchange for choice sea-shells.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Claude D. Millar</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Walnut Hills, near Cincinnati, Ohio.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I have begun to collect stamps, and I wish to procure as many rare +ones as I can. I have two tiny shells which were picked up on the +coast of the Mediterranean Sea by a lady missionary, and sent to +America. I read letters from many shell collectors in the +Post-office Box. I will send one of these shells to any boy or girl +who will send me a reasonable number of foreign stamps in return.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Effie K. Price</span>, Bellefontaine, Ohio.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I would like to exchange rare specimens, coins and stamps, with any +readers of <span class="smcap">Young People</span>. I would also exchange an arrow made by a +great Indian chief near here for something of equal value.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Robert C. Manly</span>, P. O. Box 66,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I like <span class="smcap">Young People</span> very much. I have taken it ever since it was +published, and have learned a great deal from it.</p> + +<p>In exchange for sea-shells, sea-weed, or curiosities or relics of +any kind, I will send a piece of the marble of which they are now +building the Washington Monument, or a piece of the granite of +which the new State, War, and Navy departments are being built, or +both if desired. I would like to exchange with some one on the +Florida and California coast. I am eight years old.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">T. Berton Ridenous</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">1428 T Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I will exchange stamps from Egypt, Cape of Good Hope, Western +Australia, Tasmania, Cuba, Barbadoes, Mexico, and other foreign +countries, for others from New Brunswick, St. Lucia, Ecuador, +Lagos, and Dominica. I will also exchange birds' eggs.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Willie Ford</span>, Austin, Texas.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p>Exchanges are also offered by the following correspondents:</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postmarks for specimens of red shale rock.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Sam Risien, Jun</span>.,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Groesbeck, Limestone County, Texas.</span><br /> +</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[Pg 95]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Stamps and postmarks for curiosities, coins, Indian relics, or +shells.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">A. H. Spear</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">167 Madison Street, Brooklyn, New York.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Shells for other curiosities.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">J. Batzer</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Avenue O, between 18th and 19th Streets,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Galveston, Texas.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Fossil shells for Indian relics.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Sarah H. Wilson</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Clermont, Columbia County, New York.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Foreign postage stamps with correspondents residing in Nova Scotia, +Newfoundland, or Prince Edward Island.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">B. Hoenig</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">703 Fifth Street, New York City.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postage stamps.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Warren S. Banks</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">207 East Eighty-third Street, New York City.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Soil of Texas for that of any other State.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Jos. L. Paxton</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Taylor, Williamson County, Texas.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Twenty varieties of postmarks for five varieties of stamps from New +Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, or Prince Edward Island.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">A. Graham</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">161 Somerset Street, Newark, New Jersey.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postage stamps.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">C. M. Hemstreet</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">108 South Fourteenth Street, St. Louis, Missouri.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Birds' eggs, foreign postage stamps, and postmarks for eggs.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Harry H. Smith</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">833 Logan Street, Cleveland, Ohio.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Foreign postage stamps for postmarks.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">James Leonard</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">35 Madison Avenue, New York City.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Pressed autumn leaves for foreign postage stamps.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Daniel H. Rogers</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Mooretown, Butte County, California.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Rare stamps of all kinds.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Morris Sternbach</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">129 East Sixty-ninth Street, New York City.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Michigan postmarks and curiosities for postage stamps and minerals.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Teddy Smith</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">641 Cass Avenue, Detroit, Michigan.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postage stamps.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Bessie C. Smith</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Mapleton, Cass County, Dakota Territory.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postage stamps from Japan, Egypt, Hungary, and other countries for +stamps from China and South America.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Clarence Rowe Barton</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">1996 Lexington Avenue, New York City.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postage stamps for postmarks, stamps, Indian relics, and other +curiosities.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">H. Beyer</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">576 Market Street, Newark, New Jersey.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postmarks.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Anne H. Wilson</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Care of Harold Wilson, Esq., Clermont,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Columbia County, New York.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postmarks for minerals or postmarks.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">William H. Mason</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">392 Sixth Avenue (near Tenth Street),</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Brooklyn, New York.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postage stamps.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Ben S. Darrow</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">545 North Illinois Street, Indianapolis, Indiana.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Soil of Maryland and Virginia for soil of the Northern and Western +States.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">D. Fletcher</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Philopolis, Baltimore County, Maryland.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Five varieties of sharks' teeth for Indian arrowheads.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">F. H. Waters</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Philopolis, Baltimore County, Maryland.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Stamps, postmarks, and birds' eggs.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Howard B. Moses</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Cheltenham Academy,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Shoemakertown, Pennsylvania.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postmarks and curiosities.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">G. N. Wilson</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Bairdstown, Oglethorpe County, Georgia.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Stamps, minerals, and eggs of the crow, flicker, spotted tattler, +and kingfisher, for eggs of a loon, eagle, gull, or snipe.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">W. A. Webster</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">394 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Foreign postage stamps, birds' nests, shells, and minerals for +birds' eggs, shells, and foreign coins.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Laura Bingham</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Lansing, Michigan.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Chinese curiosities, agates, and postmarks for rare birds' eggs and +postage stamps.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">C. H. Gurnett</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postage stamps and postmarks for stamps.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Mary H. Kimball</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">P. O. Box 493, Stamford, Connecticut.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postage stamps.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">T. N. Catrevas</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">13 West Twentieth Street, New York City.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postage stamps and coin.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Sammie P. Cranage</span>, Bay City, Michigan.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postage stamps, especially specimens from Japan and Hong-Kong, for +others.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">F. L. Macondray</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">1916 Jackson Street, San Francisco, California.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Birds' eggs, stamps, and postmarks for the same, or for minerals, +coins, or Indian relics.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Ralph J. Wood</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">39 (old number) Wildwood Avenue,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Jackson, Michigan.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Five foreign postage stamps for an ounce of soil from any State, or +thirty foreign stamps for an Indian arrow-head. No duplicate stamp +in either exchange.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">C. B. Fernald</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">1123 Girard Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Foreign postage stamps or United States postmarks for shells or +minerals.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">George E. Wells</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">40 Cottage Place, Hackensack, New Jersey.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Five rare foreign stamps for a good mineral specimen.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">C. C. Shelley, Jun</span>.,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">93 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, New York.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Sea and fresh water shells and minerals for other minerals and +Indian curiosities.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Royal Ferraud</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">141 Front Street, West, Detroit, Michigan.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">William Tell Archers, New Orleans</span>.—Bows vary in price from three +dollars to ninety and even one hundred dollars each. It would be well to +write to Messrs. Peck & Snyder, Nassau Street, New York city, importers +of English archery goods, for one of their catalogues. E. I. Horsman, of +80 William Street, New York city, would also send his catalogue on +application, and his list comprises all archery goods manufactured in +this country, which are sold at lower prices than the English +importations. We never heard of a whalebone bow on an archery field.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Henry R. C., George E. B., and Others</span>.—Messrs. Harper & Brothers will +furnish the cover for <span class="smcap">Young People</span>, Vol. I., at the price stated in the +advertisement on this page, but in no case can they attend to the +binding.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Louis H</span>.—A stamp collection consists of stamps of <i>different +denominations</i> from all countries. The special locality in the country +from which the specimen is sent adds to the interest of a postmark, but +not to that of a stamp. Different issues of the same denomination, when +you can obtain them, should have a place in your stamp album. For +example, there have been a good many issues, varying in design and +color, of the United States three-cent stamp. Each one is a valuable +specimen; but if you have two or more exactly alike, paste only one in +your album, and reserve the duplicates for exchange.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">B. B</span>.—It is not often that we can make room in the Post-office Box for +pictures, and we are constantly compelled to decline pretty and +interesting drawings by our young friends. We can much more easily give +space to a short description in writing of any curious phase of wild +Indian life that you may notice than to a pictured representation.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">W. E. L</span>.—Your story shows imagination, but is not good enough to +print.—Unless you have a natural gift for ventriloquism you will find +it a difficult art to learn. Several books of instruction have been +published, but they are not very satisfactory, and you would learn +better by procuring a good teacher than by endeavoring to follow the +directions of a hand-book.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">E. A. De L</span>.—A badge expressing the motto of your society is not very +easy to invent. A gold shield bearing the letters F. S. arranged as a +monogram, in blue, white, or black enamel would be very simple, and as +appropriate, perhaps, as any more marked design.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p>Favors are acknowledged from Charles Werner, Ida L. G., Harry C. Earle, +Pearl A. H., Isabella T. Niven, Will S. Norton, Mary K. Bidwell, George +K. Diller, Anna Wierum, Mark Manly, Latham T. Souther, Maggie +Behlendorff, Joey W. Dodson, Aaron W. King, Charlie, Hattie Wilcox, +Clara Clark, Florence M. Donalds, Eddie L. S., Sarabelle, E. T. Rice, J. +Fitzsimons, Cassie C. Fraleigh, Mary H. Lougee, Coleman E. A., Fred +S. C., Eddie R. T., Edgar E. Helm, Emmer Edwards, Eunice Kate, Clarence +D. C.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p>Correct answers to puzzles are received from Lena Fox, H. M. P., Stella +Pratt, Mary L. Fobes, "Unle Ravaler," C. Gaylor, William A. Lewis, C. H. +McB., Cal I. Forny, The Dawley Boys, Mary S. Twing.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<h3>PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.</h3> + +<h3>No. 1.</h3> + +<h3>RHOMBOID—(<i>To Stella</i>).</h3> + +<p>Across.—A portable dwelling; a kind of food; to inclose; a poem. +Down.—A consonant; a printer's measure; novel; a genus of plants; to +hit gently; one of a printer's trials; a consonant.</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Mark Marcy</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<h3>No. 2.</h3> + +<h3>NUMERICAL CHARADE.</h3> + +<p>My whole is a Latin quotation, composed of 24 letters, from the fifth +book of Virgil's Æneid, which should be remembered by boys and girls.</p> + +<p>My 8, 23, 18, 7, 13 is a city of South America.</p> + +<p>My 3, 5, 24, 11, 22 is a city in India.</p> + +<p>My 2, 14, 22, 20, 6, 19 is a town of Belgium.</p> + +<p>My 1, 16, 24, 9 is a country of South America.</p> + +<p>My 21, 16, 17, 10, 4 is one of the British West Indies.</p> + +<p>My 15, 12, 11 is a town of Belgium, once a famous resort.</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">J. D. H</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<h3>No. 3.</h3> + +<h3>ENIGMA.</h3> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">In <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span> my first is hid.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">In goat my second, but not in kid.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">In letter my third, but the cunningest fox</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Will never find it in Post-office Box.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My fourth is in apple, but not in tree.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My fifth in Newton will always be.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My sixth is in month, but never in day.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My seventh in lightning, but not in ray.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My eighth is in runic, but never in Goth.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My ninth is hidden away in moth.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My tenth is in cloth, which that insect destroys.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My eleventh is in racket, but never in boys.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My twelfth is in hearing, but is not in sight.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My thirteenth in shining, but never in bright.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">The secrets I hide no man shall know</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Though years may come and years may go.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Dame Durden</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<h3>ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN NO. 55.</h3> + +<h3>No. 1.</h3> + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align="left">L</td><td align="left">O</td><td align="left">V</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">R</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left">N</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">V</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">L</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">N</td><td align="left">I</td><td align="left">C</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">R</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">L</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">V</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">R</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">S</td><td align="left">I</td><td align="left">D</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">S</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<h3>No. 2.</h3> + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">S</td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">E</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left">T</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">G</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">S</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">S</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">I</td><td align="left">N</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">G</td><td align="left">L</td><td align="left">E</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">N</td><td align="left">T</td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">S</td><td align="left">L</td><td align="left">Y</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">E</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<h3>No. 3.</h3> + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align="center">A</td><td align="center">caci</td><td align="center">A</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">R</td><td align="center">ave</td><td align="center">N</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">B</td><td align="center">lu</td><td align="center">E</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">U</td><td align="center">nifor</td><td align="center">M</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">T</td><td align="center">atto</td><td align="center">O</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">U</td><td align="center">niso</td><td align="center">N</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">S</td><td align="center">avag</td><td align="center">E</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<p class="center">Arbutus, Anemone.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<h2><a name="HARPERS_YOUNG_PEOPLE" id="HARPERS_YOUNG_PEOPLE">HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE.</a></h2> + +<p><span class="smcap">Single Copies</span>, 4 cents; 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Green, Frank Miller, +Helen S. W., P. B. A., Willie Dobbs, Charlie Dobbs, Agnes D. Cram, +Carrie Rauchfuss, L. O. S., Fred. K. Houston, Howard Starrett, Bertha W. +Gill, Willie B. Morris, Millie Olmsted, Nellie Cruger, F. J. Kaufman, +May Longwell, "Masher" (G. H. Gillett), Hattie Wilcox, Everett C. Fay, +C. H. T., Bennie Darrow, Claudius W. Tice, Lam, G. C. Meyer, Hugh +Downing, Carrie Davis, M. O. Krum, Howard Rathbon, D. B. C., Jun., +Newton C., J. B. D., Ida Belle, Agnes, Edith Williams, Herman Muhr, Big +Brother, Tommy Roberts, Mamie Hornfager, Hattie Kerr.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> See Kerr's <i>History of Scotland</i>, Vol. II., p. 499.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> Jesus Hominum Salvator.</p></div></div> + +<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 44279 ***</div> +</body> +</html> diff --git a/44279-h/images/ill_001.jpg b/44279-h/images/ill_001.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..b3529ec --- /dev/null +++ b/44279-h/images/ill_001.jpg diff --git a/44279-h/images/ill_002.jpg b/44279-h/images/ill_002.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..90e2749 --- /dev/null +++ b/44279-h/images/ill_002.jpg diff --git a/44279-h/images/ill_003.jpg b/44279-h/images/ill_003.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..5a0be0e --- /dev/null +++ b/44279-h/images/ill_003.jpg diff --git a/44279-h/images/ill_004.jpg b/44279-h/images/ill_004.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..6491c1e --- /dev/null +++ b/44279-h/images/ill_004.jpg diff --git a/44279-h/images/ill_005.jpg b/44279-h/images/ill_005.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..c4531f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/44279-h/images/ill_005.jpg diff --git a/44279-h/images/ill_006.jpg b/44279-h/images/ill_006.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..c49ee47 --- /dev/null +++ b/44279-h/images/ill_006.jpg diff --git a/44279-h/images/ill_007.jpg b/44279-h/images/ill_007.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..38f1e2f --- /dev/null +++ b/44279-h/images/ill_007.jpg diff --git a/44279-h/images/ill_008.jpg b/44279-h/images/ill_008.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..96937e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/44279-h/images/ill_008.jpg diff --git a/44279-h/images/ill_009.jpg b/44279-h/images/ill_009.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..7720fd9 --- /dev/null +++ b/44279-h/images/ill_009.jpg diff --git a/44279-h/images/ill_010.jpg b/44279-h/images/ill_010.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..acbc204 --- /dev/null +++ b/44279-h/images/ill_010.jpg diff --git a/44279-h/images/ill_011.jpg b/44279-h/images/ill_011.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..5c3c604 --- /dev/null +++ b/44279-h/images/ill_011.jpg diff --git a/44279-h/images/ill_012.jpg b/44279-h/images/ill_012.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..e22730e --- /dev/null +++ b/44279-h/images/ill_012.jpg diff --git a/44279-h/images/ill_013.jpg b/44279-h/images/ill_013.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..9a9482e --- /dev/null +++ b/44279-h/images/ill_013.jpg diff --git a/44279-h/images/ill_014.jpg b/44279-h/images/ill_014.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..1c27265 --- /dev/null +++ b/44279-h/images/ill_014.jpg diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6312041 --- /dev/null +++ b/LICENSE.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +This eBook, including all associated images, markup, improvements, +metadata, and any other content or labor, has been confirmed to be +in the PUBLIC DOMAIN IN THE UNITED STATES. + +Procedures for determining public domain status are described in +the "Copyright How-To" at https://www.gutenberg.org. + +No investigation has been made concerning possible copyrights in +jurisdictions other than the United States. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Harper's Young People, December 7, 1880 + An Illustrated Monthly + +Author: Various + +Release Date: November 24, 2013 [EBook #44279] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, DEC 7, 1880 *** + + + + +Produced by Annie R. McGuire + + + + + + + + +[Illustration: HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE +AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.] + + * * * * * + +VOL. II.--NO. 58. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR +CENTS. + +Tuesday, December 1, 1880. Copyright, 1880, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50 +per Year, in Advance. + + * * * * * + + + + +[Illustration: TOBY STRIKES A BARGAIN--DRAWN BY W. A. ROGERS.] + +TOBY TYLER; OR, TEN WEEKS WITH A CIRCUS. + +BY JAMES OTIS. + +CHAPTER I. + +TOBY'S INTRODUCTION TO THE CIRCUS. + + +"Couldn't you give more'n six pea-nuts for a cent?" was a question asked +by a very small boy with big, staring eyes, of a candy vender at a +circus booth. And as he spoke he looked wistfully at the quantity of +nuts piled high up on the basket, and then at the six, each of which now +looked so small as he held them in his hand. + +"Couldn't do it," was the reply of the proprietor of the booth, as he +put the boy's penny carefully away in the drawer. + +The little fellow looked for another moment at his purchase, and then +carefully cracked the largest one. + +A shade, and a very deep shade it was, of disappointment that passed +over his face, and then looking up anxiously, he asked, "Don't you swap +'em when they're bad?" + +The man's face looked as if a smile had been a stranger to it for a +long time; but one did pay it a visit just then, and he tossed the boy +two nuts, and asked him a question at the same time. "What is your +name?" + +The big brown eyes looked up for an instant, as if to learn whether the +question was asked in good faith, and then their owner said, as he +carefully picked apart another nut, "Toby Tyler." + +"Well, that's a queer name." + +"Yes, I s'pose so, myself; but, you see, I don't expect that's the name +that belongs to me. But the fellers call me so, an' so does Uncle +Dan'l." + +"Who is Uncle Daniel?" was the next question. In the absence of any more +profitable customer the man seemed disposed to get as much amusement out +of the boy as possible. + +"He hain't my uncle at all; I only call him so because all the boys do, +an' I live with him." + +"Where's your father and mother?" + +"I don't know," said Toby, rather carelessly. "I don't know much about +'em, an' Uncle Dan'l says they don't know much about me. Here's another +bad nut; goin' to give me two more?" + +The two nuts were given him, and he said, as he put them in his pocket, +and turned over and over again those which he held in his hand, "I +shouldn't wonder if all of these was bad. Sposen you give me two for +each one of 'em before I crack 'em, an' then they won't be spoiled so +you can't sell 'em again." + +As this offer of barter was made, the man looked amused, and he asked, +as he counted out the number which Toby desired, "If I give you these, I +suppose you'll want me to give you two more for each one, and you'll +keep that kind of a trade going until you get my whole stock?" + +"I won't open my head if every one of 'em's bad." + +"All right; you can keep what you've got, and I'll give you these +besides; but I don't want you to buy any more, for I don't want to do +that kind of business." + +Toby took the nuts offered, not in the least abashed, and seated himself +on a convenient stone to eat them, and at the same time to see all that +was going on around him. The coming of a circus to the little town of +Guilford was an event, and Toby had hardly thought of anything else +since the highly colored posters had first been put up. It was yet quite +early in the morning, and the tents were just being erected by the men. +Toby had followed, with eager eyes, everything that looked as if it +belonged to the circus, from the time the first wagon had entered the +town, until the street parade had been made, and everything was being +prepared for the afternoon's performance. + +The man who had made the losing trade in pea-nuts seemed disposed to +question the boy still further, probably owing to the fact that trade +was dull, and he had nothing better to do. + +"Who is this Uncle Daniel you say you live with--is he a farmer?" + +"No; he's a Deacon, an' he raps me over the head with the hymn-book +whenever I go to sleep in meetin', an' he says I eat four times as much +as I earn. I blame him for hittin' so hard when I go to sleep, but I +s'pose he's right about my eatin'. You see," and here his tone grew both +confidential and mournful, "I am an awful eater, an' I can't seem to +help it. Somehow I'm hungry all the time. I don't seem ever to get +enough till carrot-time comes, an' then I can get all I want without +troubling anybody." + +"Didn't you ever have enough to eat?" + +"I s'pose I did, but you see Uncle Dan'l he found me one mornin' on his +hay, an' he says I was cryin' for something to eat then, an' I've kept +it up ever since. I tried to get him to give me money enough to go into +the circus with; but he said a cent was all he could spare these hard +times, an' I'd better take that an' buy something to eat with it, for +the show wasn't very good anyway. I wish pea-nuts wasn't but a cent a +bushel." + +"Then you would make yourself sick eating them." + +"Yes, I s'pose I should; Uncle Dan'l says I'd eat till I was sick, if I +got the chance; but I'd like to try it once." + +He was a very small boy, with a round head covered with short red +hair, a face as speckled as any turkey's egg, but thoroughly +good-natured-looking, and as he sat there on the rather sharp point of +the rock, swaying his body to and fro as he hugged his knees with his +hands, and kept his eyes fastened on the tempting display of good things +before him, it would have been a very hard-hearted man who would not +have given him something. But Mr. Job Lord, the proprietor of the booth, +was a hard-hearted man, and he did not make the slightest advance toward +offering the little fellow anything. + +Toby rocked himself silently for a moment, and then he said, +hesitatingly, "I don't suppose you'd like to sell me some things, an' +let me pay you when I get older, would you?" + +Mr. Lord shook his head decidedly at this proposition. + +"I didn't s'pose you would," said Toby, quickly; "but you didn't seem to +be selling anything, an' I thought I'd just see what you'd say about +it." And then he appeared suddenly to see something wonderfully +interesting behind him, which served as an excuse to turn his reddening +face away. + +"I suppose your uncle Daniel makes you work for your living, don't he?" +asked Mr. Lord, after he had re-arranged his stock of candy, and had +added a couple of slices of lemon peel to what was popularly supposed to +be lemonade. + +"That's what I think; but he says that all the work I do wouldn't pay +for the meal that one chicken would eat, an' I s'pose it's so, for I +don't like to work as well as a feller without any father and mother +ought to. I don't know why it is, but I guess it's because I take up so +much time eatin' that it kinder tires me out. I s'pose you go into the +circus whenever you want to, don't you?" + +"Oh yes; I'm there at every performance, for I keep the stand under the +big canvas as well as this one out here." + +There was a great big sigh from out Toby's little round stomach, as he +thought what bliss it must be to own all those good things, and to see +the circus wherever it went. "It must be nice," he said, as he faced the +booth and its hard-visaged proprietor once more. + +"How would you like it?" asked Mr. Lord, patronizingly, as he looked +Toby over in a business way, very much as if he contemplated purchasing +him. + +"Like it!" echoed Toby; "why, I'd grow fat on it." + +"I don't know as that would be any advantage," continued Mr. Lord, +reflectively, "for it strikes me that you're about as fat now as a boy +of your age ought to be. But I've a great mind to give you a chance." + +"What!" cried Toby, in amazement, and his eyes opened to their widest +extent, as this possible opportunity of leading a delightful life +presented itself. + +"Yes, I've a great mind to give you the chance. You see," and now it was +Mr. Lord's turn to grow confidential, "I've had a boy with me this +season, but he cleared out at the last town, and I'm running the +business alone now." + +Toby's face expressed all the contempt he felt for the boy who would run +away from such a glorious life as Mr. Lord's assistant must lead; but he +said not a word, waiting in breathless expectation for the offer which +he now felt certain would be made him. + +"Now I ain't hard on a boy," continued Mr. Lord, still confidentially, +"and yet that one seemed to think that he was treated worse and made to +work harder than any boy in the world." + +"He ought to live with Uncle Dan'l a week," said Toby, eagerly. + +"Here I was just like a father to him," said Mr. Lord, paying no +attention to the interruption, "and I gave him his board and lodging, +and a dollar a week besides." + +"Could he do what he wanted to with the dollar?" + +"Of course he could. I never checked him, no matter how extravagant he +was, an' yet I've seen him spend his whole week's wages at this very +stand in one afternoon. And even after his money had all gone that way, +I've paid for peppermint and ginger out of my own pocket just to cure +his stomach-ache." + +Toby shook his head mournfully, as if deploring that depravity which +could cause a boy to run away from such a tender-hearted employer, and +from such a desirable position. But even as he shook his head so sadly, +he looked wistfully at the pea-nuts, and Mr. Lord observed the look. + +It may have been that Mr. Job Lord was the tender-hearted man he prided +himself upon being, or it may have been that he wished to purchase +Toby's sympathy; but, at all events, he gave him a large handful of +nuts, and Toby never bothered his little round head as to what motive +prompted the gift. Now he could listen to the story of the boy's +treachery and eat at the same time, therefore he was an attentive +listener. + +"All in the world that boy had to do," continued Mr. Lord, in the same +injured tone he had previously used, "was to help me set things to +rights when we struck a town in the morning, and then tend to the +counter till we left the town at night, and all the rest of the time he +had to himself. Yet that boy was ungrateful enough to run away." + +Mr. Lord paused as if expecting some expression of sympathy from his +listener; but Toby was so busily engaged with his unexpected feast, and +his mouth was so full, that it did not seem even possible for him to +shake his head. + +"Now what should you say if I told you that you looked to me like a boy +that was made especially to help run a candy counter at a circus, and if +I offered the place to you?" + +Toby made one frantic effort to swallow the very large mouthful, and in +a choking voice he answered, quickly, "I should say I'd go with you, an' +be mighty glad of the chance." + +"Then it's a bargain, my boy, and you shall leave town with me +to-night." + +[TO BE CONTINUED.] + + + + +SOUTH AFRICAN DIAMONDS. + + +A recent report from the Cape of Good Hope states that a diamond +weighing 225 carats has been found at the Du Toits Pan mine, and a very +fine white stone of 115 carats in Jagersfontein mine, in the Free State. + +The lucky finders of these stones are vastly richer than they were a few +weeks ago, for if these diamonds are of the best quality, they will be +worth thousands upon thousands of dollars. + +It is only ten years ago that all the world was taken by surprise at +hearing that some of these precious stones had been found in the African +colony; and this is how it came about. A little boy, the son of a Dutch +farmer living near Hope Town, of the name of Jacobs, had been amusing +himself in collecting pebbles. One of these was sufficiently bright to +attract the keen eye of his mother; but she regarded it simply as a +curious stone, and it was thrown down outside the house. Some time +afterward she mentioned it to a neighbor, who, on seeing it, offered to +buy it. The good woman laughed at the idea of selling a common bright +pebble, and at once gave it to him, and he intrusted it to a friend, to +find out its value; and Dr. Atherstone, of Graham's Town, was the first +to pronounce it a _diamond_. It was then sent to Cape Town, forwarded to +the Paris Exhibition, and it was afterward purchased by the Governor of +the colony, Sir Philip Wodehouse, for £500. + +This discovery of the _first_ Cape diamond was soon followed by others, +and led to the development of the great diamond fields of South Africa. + + + + +THE HEART OF BRUCE.[1] + +BY LILLIE E. BARR. + + Beside Dumbarton's castled steep the Bruce lay down to die; + Great Highland chiefs and belted earls stood sad and silent nigh. + The warm June breezes filled the room, all sweet with flowers and hay, + The warm June sunshine flecked the couch on which the monarch lay. + + The mailed men like statues stood; under their bated breath + The prostrate priests prayed solemnly within the room of death; + While through the open casements came the evening song of birds, + The distant cries of kye and sheep, the lowing of the herds. + + And so they kept their long, last watch till shades of evening fell; + Then strong and clear King Robert spoke: "Dear brother knights, farewell! + Come to me, Douglas--take my hand. Wilt thou, for my poor sake, + Redeem my vow, and fight my fight, lest I my promise break? + + "I ne'er shall see Christ's sepulchre, nor tread the Holy Land; + I ne'er shall lift my good broadsword against the Paynim band; + Yet I was vowed to Palestine: therefore take thou my heart, + And with far purer hands than mine play thou the Bruce's part." + + Then Douglas, weeping, kissed the King, and said: "While I have breath + The vow thou made I will fulfill--yea, even unto death: + Where'er I go thy heart shall go; it shall be first in fight. + Ten thousand thanks for such a trust! Douglas is Bruce's knight." + + They laid the King in Dunfermline--not yet his heart could rest; + For it hung within a priceless case upon the Douglas' breast. + And many a chief with Douglas stood: it was a noble line + Set sail to fight the Infidel in holy Palestine. + + Their vessel touched at fair Seville. They heard upon that day + How Christian Leon and Castile before the Moslem lay, + Then Douglas said, "O heart of Bruce! thy fortune still is great, + For, ere half done thy pilgrimage, the foe for thee doth wait." + + Dark Osmyn came; the Christians heard his long yell, "Allah hu!" + The brave Earl Douglas led the van as they to battle flew; + Sir William Sinclair on his left, the Logans on his right, + St. Andrew's blood-red cross above upon its field of white. + + Then Douglas took the Bruce's heart, and flung it far before. + "_Pass onward first_, O noble heart, as in the days of yore! + For Holy Rood and Christian Faith make thou a path, and we + With loyal hearts and flashing swords will gladly follow thee." + + All day the fiercest battle raged just where that heart did fall, + For round it stood the Scottish lords, a fierce and living wall. + Douglas was slain, with many a knight; yet died they not in vain, + For past that wall of hearts and steel the Moslem never came. + + The Bruce's heart and Douglas' corse went back to Scotland's land, + Borne by the wounded remnant of that brave and pious band. + Fair Melrose Abbey the great heart in quiet rest doth keep, + And Douglas in the Douglas' church hath sweet and honored sleep. + + In pillared marble Scotland tells her love, and grief, and pride. + Vain is the stone: all Scottish hearts the Bruce and Douglas hide. + The "gentle Sir James Douglas" and "the Bruce of Bannockburn" + Are names forever sweet and fresh for years untold to learn. + +FOOTNOTES: + +[1] See Kerr's _History of Scotland_, Vol. II., p. 499. + + + + +[Illustration: AMATEUR THEATRICALS--THE CALL BEFORE THE CURTAIN.] + + + + +THE KANGAROO. + + +In the large island of Australia--an island so vast as to be ranked as a +continent--nature has produced a singular menagerie. + +The first discoverers of this country must have stared in amazement at +the strange sights which met their eyes. There were wildernesses of +luxuriant and curious vegetable growths, inhabited by large quadrupeds +which appeared as bipeds; queer little beasts with bills like a duck, +ostriches covered with hair instead of feathers, and legions of odd +birds, while the whole woods were noisy with the screeching and prating +of thousands of paroquets and cockatoos. + +[Illustration: THE HOME OF THE KANGAROO.] + +The largest and oddest Australian quadruped is the kangaroo, a member of +that strange family, the Marsupialia, which are provided with a pouch, +or bag, in which they carry their little ones until they are strong +enough to scamper about and take care of themselves. + +The delicately formed head of this strange creature, and its short +fore-legs, are out of all proportion to the lower part of its body, +which is furnished with a very long tail, and its hind-legs, which are +large and very strong. It stands erect as tall as a man, and moves by a +succession of rapid jumps, propelled by its hind-feet, its fore-paws +meanwhile being folded across its breast. A large kangaroo will weigh +fully two hundred pounds, and will cover as much as sixteen feet at one +jump. + +The body of this beast is covered with thick, soft, woolly fur of a +grayish-brown color. It is very harmless and inoffensive, and it is a +very pretty sight to see a little group of kangaroos feeding quietly in +a forest clearing. Their diet is entirely vegetable. They nibble grass +or leaves, or eat certain kinds of roots, the stout, long claws of their +hind-feet serving them as a convenient pickaxe to dig with. + +The kangaroo is a very tender and affectionate mother. When the baby is +born it is the most helpless creature imaginable, blind, and not much +bigger than a new-born kitten. But the mother lifts it carefully with +her lips, and gently deposits it in her pocket, where it cuddles down +and begins to grow. This pocket is its home for six or seven months, +until it becomes strong and wise enough to fight its own battles in the +woodland world. While living in its mother's pocket it is very lively. +It is very funny to see a little head emerging all of a sudden from the +soft fur of the mother's breast, with bright eyes peeping about to see +what is going on in the outside world; or perhaps nothing is visible but +a little tail wagging contentedly, while its baby owner is hidden from +sight. + +The largest kangaroos are called menuahs or boomers by the Australian +natives, and their flesh is considered a great delicacy, in flavor +something like young venison. For this reason these harmless creatures +are hunted and killed in large numbers. They are very shy, and not very +easy to catch; but the cunning bushmen hide themselves in the thicket, +and when their unsuspecting prey approaches, they hurl a lance into its +body. The wounded kangaroo springs off with tremendous leaps, but soon +becomes exhausted, and falls on the turf. + +If brought to bay, this gentle beast will defend itself vigorously. With +its back planted firmly against a tree, it has been known to keep off an +army of dogs for hours, by dealing them terrible blows with its strong +hind-feet, until the arrival of the hunter with his gun put an end to +the contest. At other times the kangaroo, being an expert swimmer, will +rush into the water, and if a venturesome dog dares to follow, it will +seize him, and hold his head under water till he is drowned. + +Kangaroos are often brought to zoological gardens, and are contented in +captivity, so long as they have plenty of corn, roots, and fresh hay to +eat. + + + + +DECORATIONS FOR CHRISTMAS. + +BY A. W. ROBERTS. + + +A great variety of material abounds in our woods that can be utilized +for Christmas decorations. + +All trees, shrubs, mosses, and lichens that are evergreen during the +winter months, such as holly, ink-berry, laurels, hemlocks, cedars, +spruces, arbor vitæ, are used at Christmas-time for in-door +ornamentation. Then come the club-mosses (_Lycopodiums_), particularly +the one known as "bouquet-green," and ground-pine, which are useful for +the more delicate and smaller designs. Again, we have the wood mosses +and wood lichens, pressed native ferns and autumn leaves; and, if the +woods are not accessible, from our own gardens many cultivated +evergreens can be obtained, such as box, arbor vitæ, rhododendron, ivy, +juniper, etc. + +Where it is desirable to use bright colors to lighten up the sombreness +of some of the greens, our native berries can be used to great +advantage. In the woods are to be found the partridge-berries, +bitter-sweet, rose-berries, black alder, holly-berries, cedar-berries, +cranberries, and sumac. Dried grasses and everlasting-flowers can be +pressed into service. For very brilliant effects gold-leaf, gold paper, +and frosting (obtainable at paint stores) are used. + +[Illustration: Fig. 1.] + +Fig. 1 represents a simple wreath of holly leaves and berries, sewn on +to a circular piece of pasteboard, which was first coated with calcimine +of a delicate light blue, on which, before the glue contained in the +calcimine dried, a coating of white frosting was dusted. The monogram +XMS is drawn on drawing-paper highly illuminated with gold-leaf and +brilliant colors, after which it is cut out, and fastened in position. + +[Illustration: Fig. 2.] + +Fig. 2 consists of a foundation of pasteboard, shaped as shown in the +illustration. The four outside curves are perforated with a +darning-needle. These perforations are desirable when the bouquet-green +is to be fastened on in raised compact masses. The four crescent-shaped +pieces of board are colored white, and coated with white frosting. On +the crescents are sewn sprays of ivy and bunches of bright red berries. +From the outer edge of the crescents radiate branches of hemlock or +fronds of dried ferns. For the legend in the centre the monogram +I.H.S.,[2] or "A merry Christmas to all," cut out in gold paper, looks +well. + +[Illustration: Fig. 3.] + +Fig. 3 consists of a combination of branches of apple wood, or other +wood of rich colors and texture, neatly joined together so as to form +the letters M and X. (In selecting the wood always choose that which has +the heaviest growth of lichens and mosses.) + +For the ornamentation of the rustic monogram I use wood and rock +lichens, fungi, Spanish moss, and pressed climbing fern. Holes are bored +into the rustic letters, into which are inserted small branches of holly +in full berry. By trimming the monogram on both sides it looks very +effective when hung between the folding-doors of a parlor, where the +climbing fern may be trained out (on fine wires or green threads) in all +directions, so as to form a triumphal archway. By using large fungi for +the feet of the letters M and X (as shown in the illustration), the +monogram can be used as a mantel-piece ornament, training fern and ivy +from it and over picture-frames. The letter S in the monogram is +composed of immortelles. + +[Illustration: Fig. 4.] + +Fig. 4 consists of a narrow strip of white muslin, on which is first +drawn with a pencil in outline the design to be worked in evergreens. +For this purpose only the finer and lighter evergreens can be used, as +the intention of this design is to form a bordering for the angle formed +by the wall and ceiling. This wall drapery is heavily trimmed with +berries, to cause it to hang close to the wall, and at the same time to +obtain richer effects of color. The evergreens and berries are fastened +to the muslin with thread and needle. + +[Illustration: Fig. 5.] + +Fig. 5 is composed of a strip of card-board covered with gold paper on +which the evergreens are sewed. This style of ornamentation is used for +covering the frames of pictures. + +Natural flowers formed into groups can be made to produce very beautiful +effects for the mantel-piece and corner brackets of a room. The pots +should be hidden by covering them with evergreens, or the wood moss that +grows on the trunks of trees. For mounting berries fine wire will be +found very useful. I have always used, and with good effect, the rich +brown cones of evergreens and birches for Christmas decorations. + +Very rich and heavy effects of color can be produced by using dry colors +for backgrounds in the following manner. On the face of the pasteboard +on which you intend to work the evergreen design lay a thin coating of +hot glue; before the glue dries or chills dust on dry ultramarine blue, +or any of the lakes, or chrome greens. As soon as the glue has set, blow +off the remaining loose color, and the result will be a field of rich +"dead" color. To make the effect still more brilliant, touch up the +blues and lakes with slashings of gold-leaf ("Dutch metal" will answer +every purpose), fastening the gold-leaf with glue. Don't plaster it +down, but put it on loose, so that it stands out from the field of +color. + +FOOTNOTES: + +[2] Jesus Hominum Salvator. + + + + +W. HOLMAN HUNT'S "FINDING OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE." + +BY THE REV. WILLIAM M. TAYLOR, D.D. + + +The double-page picture which appears in this week's YOUNG PEOPLE is +well worthy of study, alike for the school to which it belongs, the +subject which it seeks to portray, and the manner in which that subject +is treated by the artist. The original painting, of which the +reproduction (save, of course, in the matter of coloring) is an +admirable representation, is the production of William Holman Hunt. Few +sermons have been so impressive as some of this artist's pictures. +Everybody knows the beautiful one which he has called "The Light of the +World," and no person of any intelligence can look upon that without +having recalled to his mind these words, "Behold, I stand at the door +and knock." But it may not be so generally known that this impression is +thus strongly produced upon the spectator because it was first very +deeply made on the artist himself. A friend of ours told us this +beautiful story. The original painting of "The Light of the World" is in +the possession of an English gentleman, at whose house one known to both +of us had been a guest. While he was there the frame had been taken off +the picture for purposes of cleaning, and the stranger had thus an +opportunity of examining it very closely. He found on the canvas, where +it had been covered by the frame, these words, in the writing of the +artist: "_Nec me prætermittas, Domine!_"--"Nor pass me by, O Lord!" +Thus, like the Fra Angelico, Mr. Hunt seems to have painted that work +upon his knees; and it is a sermon to those who look upon it, because it +was first a prayer in him who produced it. + +Much the same, we are confident, may be said of the picture which is now +before us. All our readers must know the story. When the "divine boy" +was about twelve years of age he was taken by Joseph and Mary to the +Passover feast at Jerusalem. They went up with a company from their own +neighborhood, and after the feast was over they had started to return in +the same way. But Jesus was not to be found. Still supposing that he was +somewhere in their company, they went a day's journey, and "sought him +among their kinsfolk and acquaintance." Their search, however, was +fruitless, and so, "sorrowing" and anxious, they returned to Jerusalem, +where they ultimately found him in the Temple, "sitting in the midst of +the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions." They were +amazed at the sight; and his mother, relieved, and perhaps also a little +troubled, said, "Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy +father and I have sought thee sorrowing." To which he made reply, "How +is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's +business?" These words are remarkable as the first recorded utterance of +conscious Messiahship that came from the lips of our Lord. They indicate +that now his human intelligence has come to the perception of his divine +dignity and mission; and when he went down to Nazareth, and was subject +to Joseph and Mary, it was with the distinct assurance within him that +Joseph was not his father, and that there was ultimately a higher +business before him than the work of the carpenter. Still, he knew that +only through the lower could he reach the higher, and therefore he went +down, contented to wait until the day of his manifestation came. + +The artist has seized the moment when Jesus made this striking reply to +his mother, and everything in the picture is made to turn on that. The +scene is the interior of the Temple. The time is high day, for workmen +are busily engaged at a stone on the outside, and a beggar is lolling at +the gate in the act of asking alms. The Jewish doctors are seated. First +in the line is an aged rabbi with flowing beard, and clasping a roll +with his right hand. Over his eyes a film is spread, which indicates +that he is blind; and so his neighbor, almost as aged as himself, is +explaining to him why the boy has ceased to ask his questions, by +telling him that his mother has come to claim him. Beside him, and the +third in the group, is a younger man, whose face is full of eager +thoughtfulness, and whose hands hold an unfolded roll, to which it +appears as if he had been referring because of something which had just +been said. + +The other faces are less marked with seriousness, and seem to be +indicative rather of curiosity; but we make little account of them +because of the fascination which draws our eyes to the principal group. +The face of Joseph, as Alford says, is "well-nigh faultless." It is full +of thankful joy over the discovery of the boy; and though to our +thinking Joseph was an older man than he is here depicted, yet +everything about him is natural and manly. The Mary is hardly so +successful. The narrative does not represent her as speaking softly into +the ear of her son, but rather as breaking in abruptly on the assembly +with her irrepressible outcry, "Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us?" +and there might well have been less of the soft persuasiveness and more +of the surprised look of what one might call wounded affection in her +face. But the portrayal of the boy Christ is admirable. We have never, +indeed, seen any representation of the face of Christ that has +thoroughly satisfied us, and we do not expect ever to see one. But this +one is most excellent. The "far-away" look in the eyes, and the +expression of absorption on the countenance, betoken that his thoughts +are intent upon that divine "business" which he came to earth to +transact. Exquisite, too, as so thoroughly human, is the playing of the +right hand with the strap of his girdle in his moment of abstraction. In +the far future the great business of his life is beckoning him on; but +close at hand his duty to his mother is asserting its immediate claim. +In his eager response to the first, he cries, "Wist ye not that I must +be about my Father's business?" and his thoughts are after that +meanwhile; but ere long the demand of the present will prevail, and he +will go down with his parents, and be subject to them. This +"righteousness" also he has to "fulfill," even as a part of that +"business." + +Take the picture, boys; frame it, and hang it where you can often see +it. You will be reminded by it wholesomely of one who was once as really +a boy as you; and when the future seems to be calling you on, and +begging you to leap at once into its work, a look at the Christ-face +will help you to seek the glory of the future in submission to the +claims of the duties of the present, and will say to you, "He that +believeth shall not make haste." Through the performance of the duties +of a son to his mother Jesus passed to the business of saving men; and +in the same way, through faithful diligence where you are, the door will +open for you into the future which seems to you so attractive. It is +right to have a business before you. It is right, also, for you to feel +that the work you want to do in the world is "your Father's business." +We would not have you fix your heart on anything which you could not so +describe. But whatever that may be, rely upon it you will never reach it +by neglecting present duty. On the contrary, the more diligent and +faithful you are now as boys in the home and in the school, the more +surely will the door into eminence open for you as men. Let the picture, +therefore, stimulate you to holy ambition, and yet encourage you to wait +patiently in the discharge of present duty until the time comes for your +elevation. The way to come at your true business in life is to do well +the present business of your boyhood. + +[Illustration: "THE FINDING OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE."--FROM A PAINTING +BY W. HOLMAN HUNT.--SEE PAGE 87.] + + + + +THE CAPTAIN'S BOY ON THE PENNY BOAT. + +BY H. F. REDDALL. + + +Imagine a side-wheel steamboat a hundred and fifty or two hundred feet +long, her hull painted black, red, or red and white, with only one deck, +entirely open from stem to stern; a hot, stuffy cabin below the +water-line, her engines, of the cylinder pattern, entirely below the +deck, and you have some idea of a London "penny boat"--a very different +affair from our jaunty American river craft. + +As most of my young readers are aware, the river Thames divides the +great city of London into nearly equal parts. For nearly twelve miles +the metropolis stretches along either bank, and, as might be expected, +the river forms a convenient-highway for traffic--a sort of marine +Broadway, in fact. There are a number of bridges, each possessing from +six to ten arches, and through these the swift tide pours with +tremendous energy. From early dawn to dark the river's bosom is crowded +with every description of vessel. Below London Bridge, the first we meet +in going up stream, may be seen the murky collier moored close to the +neat and trim East Indiaman, the heavy Dutch galiot scraping sides with +the swift mail-packet, or the fishing-boat nodding responsive to the +Custom-house revenue-cutter. + +Above and between the bridges the scene changes, but is none the less +animated. Here comes a heavy, lumbering barge, its brown sail loosely +furled, depending for its momentum upon the tide, and guided by a long +sweep. Barges, lighters, tugs, fishing-smacks, passenger steamboats, and +a variety of smaller craft so crowd the river that were we to stand on +Blackfriars Bridge a boat of some description would pass under the +arches every thirty or forty seconds. + +But by far the most important feature is the passenger-boats. These are +apparently countless. They make landings every few blocks, now on one +side the river, now on the other, darting here and there, up and down, +and adding largely to the bustle. For a penny, the equivalent of two +cents American currency, one may enjoy a water ride of five or six +miles--say from London Bridge to Lambeth Palace. When we reflect that +all this immense traffic is crowded between the banks of a stream at no +point as wide as the East River opposite Fulton Ferry, New York, and +impeded by bridges at that, the difficulties of navigation will be in +some measure understood; and I have purposely dwelt on this that my +readers may fully appreciate what follows. + +Every one knows how, in America, the steamboat is controlled by a pilot +perched high above the passengers in the "pilot-house"; how he steers +the boat, and at the same time communicates with the engineer far below +him by means of bells--the gong, the big jingle, the little jingle, and +so on. But the penny boats of the Thames are managed far differently. +The wheelsman is at the stern in the old-fashioned way; but on a bridge +stretched amidships between the two paddle-boxes, and right over a +skylight opening into the engine-room, stands the captain. Beneath him, +sitting or standing by this skylight, is a boy of not more than twelve +or fourteen years of age, who, I observed, from time to time called out +some utterly unintelligible words, in accordance with which the engine +was slowed, stopped, backed, or started ahead as occasion required. It +took me a long time to discover _what_ the boy said, from the peculiar +sing-song way in which he called out, but it took me much longer to find +out _why_ he said it. + +So far as I could see he had not as much interest in the boat as I had; +apparently he observed the constantly changing panorama of river +scenery--not an interesting sight on board escaped him, and yet as we +neared or departed from each landing-stage the same mysterious sounds, +only varied slightly, issued from his lips, and the boat stopped or went +ahead as the case might be. I asked myself if this wonderful boy might +not be the captain, but a glance at the weather-beaten figure on the +bridge showed me the absurdity of the idea. So I watched the latter +individual, from whom I was now sure the boy received his orders. But +how? That was the question. The captain and his boy were too far apart +to speak intelligibly to one another without all the passengers hearing +them: how, then, did the one on the bridge communicate his wishes to the +other at the skylight if not by speech? + +By dint of long watching I became aware that though apparently the eyes +of the lad saw everything there was to be seen, in reality he was most +watchful of the captain, hardly ever lifting his gaze from the figure +above him, and at last I discovered that by a scarcely perceptible +motion of his hand, merely opening and closing it, or with a simple +backward or forward motion from the wrist down, the captain conveyed his +orders to the boy, who responded by shouting in his shrill treble +through the skylight what, after much conjecture, I discovered to be +"Ease 'er!" "Stop 'er!" "Turn 'er astarn!" "Let 'er go ahead!" + +The gesture by the captain's hand was oftentimes so faint that I failed +to see it, though I was on the look-out; much less could I interpret its +meaning, yet the lad never once failed to give the correct order. + +Only think of it! The safety of these boats, their crews, and thousands +of passengers absolutely depends upon these youngsters, who in wind and +rain, sunshine or storm, are compelled to be at their posts for many +hours daily. If through inattention or inadvertence the wrong command +should be given to the engineer, a terrible calamity might occur. That +such is never or rarely the case speaks volumes for the fidelity and +attention to duty of these boys, who have very little opportunity for +training or education of any sort. + + + + +PACKAGE NO. 107. + +BY JAMES B. MARSHALL. + + +The express agent in San Francisco smiled very pleasantly when the +package was brought to him with a directed express tag properly tied on +it. But it was not so strange for him to smile, since he knew all about +that package, and had foretold the exact time required for a package to +reach New York. But the clerk who pasted a green label on the tag, and +marked on one end in blue ink "No. 107, Paid" so and so much, why should +he be amused? And why should the two express-wagon drivers who were in +the office at the time declare that that package would be something like +a surprise? + +Then an errand-boy came into the office to express a valise, having left +seven other boys standing on the nearest street corner before a +hand-organ that was playing the newest airs, which those seven boys were +learning to whistle. But why should that errand-boy, who was usually a +very quiet boy, immediately run to the office street door, and call, and +beckon, and wave his hat furiously for those seven boys to come and look +at package No. 107? Then those seven boys, in spite of the attraction of +the hand-organ, came on a run, and stood eagerly around the express +office door. And why wouldn't those boys go away until that package was +taken with other packages to the railroad station in one of the express +wagons? And what, also, greatly interested five other passing boys, a +Chinese laundry-man, two apple-women, and a policeman? + +Well, it was the same cause, which will soon appear, that made curious +and smiling the express people of Omaha, Chicago, and other places where +the package was seen on its way East to New York. + + * * * * * + +About a month previous to this, Mr. Benson had written to his wife from +California that owing to the slow settlement of the business that had +taken him there, he was beginning to fear he and Guy would not be able +to reach home even by the holidays. "But Guy says," wrote Mr. Benson, +"that if we only had mother here we would get along splendidly." + +A week later the unwelcome news came to Mrs. Benson in New York +explaining that Mr. Benson's business would further detain him in +California until the middle of March--three months to come. You may be +certain that Mrs. Benson was very sorry to think of passing Christmas +and New-Year's with three thousand miles separating her from her husband +and boy. But she was forced to smile as she read Guy's letter--mailed +with his father's--explaining how they might dine together on +Christmas-day, notwithstanding the three thousand miles. + +"I have found out," wrote Guy in his best handwriting, "that the +difference in time between New York and San Francisco is about three +hours and a quarter. So if you sit down to your dinner at a quarter past +four o'clock, your time, and we sit down to our dinner at one o'clock, +our time, we can in that way be dining together. We are going to have +for dinner exactly what we had at home on last Christmas. But you will +have the best time, for grandfather and grandmother will be with you, +and Uncle Tom and Aunt Mary, and Ben, Tom, Bertha, Sadie, Uncle Seth, +and all the rest of them." + +A few days after this letter was sent Mr. Benson mailed another one, in +which he told his wife that Guy had made a discovery on the previous +day, and they were going to send her a pleasant surprise--in fact, a +Christmas present. "The package will be sent by express, directed to +your address in New York," wrote Mr. Benson, "and we have so timed its +journey East that it will reach you some time on the day before +Christmas." + +This was package No. 107. + +But didn't Mrs. Benson wonder and wonder what was coming to her for a +surprise present? And didn't she imagine that it might be a nest of +Chinese tables, or a package of fine Russian tea, or an ivory castle, or +a bunch of California grapes weighing fifteen or twenty pounds, or +five-and-twenty other possible things? Then Guy's New York cousins, when +they heard of that expected package, didn't they all fall to guessing? +And they guessed and guessed until, as we say in "Hot Butter and Blue +Beans, please come to Supper," they were "cold," "very cold," and +"freezing." + +Cousin Ben finally decided, after changing his mind a dozen times a day, +that the package would prove to contain either the skin of the grizzly +bear that Guy, before leaving home, had thought he might find, or a big +piece of gold that Guy had been kindly allowed to dig out of some gold +mine. + +"Heigho! this is the day the package is to come," said Cousin Bertha, +the moment she awoke on that morning. But at noon-time Bertha, Ben, Jim, +Sadie, and even little Tom, knew that as yet the package had not +arrived. It had not arrived as late as four o'clock in the afternoon, +when the first three just mentioned, together with some of their elders, +went to Guy's mother's to supper. There Bertha, Ben, and Jim took turns +vainly watching at the windows for the express wagon, until they were +called to supper. + +Jingle! jingle! jingle! went the door-bell during the course of the +supper. And so much had that package been talked about and guessed about +that all paused in their eating and drinking, and listened in +expectation. + +"Please, ma'am," said Katie, coming from answering the ring, "the +expressman is at the door. He says he's got a most valuable package for +you, and would you please come and receipt for it?" + +Mrs. Benson found the expressman standing by the little table in the +hallway where Katie had left him, though in the mean time he had gone +back to his wagon and brought the package into the house. "Please sign +there," he said, pointing to his receipt-book. + +"It must be a very small package," thought Mrs. Benson, not seeing any +package, but imagining it might still be in the expressman's overcoat +pocket. + +"I was to say, Mrs. Benson," said the man, "that you must be prepared +for a very great, pleasant surprise." + +"Oh! I'm prepared to be surprised," answered Mrs. Benson. + +"Then please turn and look at the package standing there by the parlor +door." + +"Mother!" + +"Oh, Guy! my dear boy!" joyfully called Mrs. Benson, as Guy, with an +express tag tied around his arm, rushed into her arms, and clasped her +around the neck. + +"It's Guy himself," said Bertha, gleefully. + +"Hurrah! it's Guy!" called Ben and Jim; and they all instantly left the +supper table and hurried to greet him. + +But the adventures of package No. 107 could not be quickly told. Of how +it was discovered that it might be sent, how it had been directed like a +bundle of goods, how it had been receipted for over and over again, how +it had travelled all the way in the Pullman cars, how it was given as +much care and attention as if it had been a huge nugget of gold, and +very, very many more hows and whys. + + + + +MILDRED'S BARGAIN. + +A Story for Girls. + +BY MRS. JOHN LILLIE. + +CHAPTER I. + + +"Six o'clock! Thank fortune!" exclaimed one of a group of girls in Mr. +Hardman's store. + +Mildred Lee glanced up with a sigh of relief, moving with quicker +fingers at the thought of being so near the end of her day's work. She +was a pale pretty girl about sixteen, with soft brown hair, dark eyes, +and a something more refined in her air and manner than her associates. +Perhaps it was that in her dress there were none of the flimsy attempts +at finery which the other girls affected so strongly, or perhaps it was +only her quiet, lady-like self-possession which had in it nothing of +vulgar reticence or pride; but, in any case, there was a touch of +something superior to all lowering influences, and the most flippant +sales-woman in "Hardman's" lowered her tone of coarse good-humor, +stopped short in any gay recital, when Mildred's pretty face and quiet +little figure came in view. + +"Six o'clock," said Jenny Martin, a tall, "striking-looking" young +person, who was helping Milly to put away some ribbons. "Oh dear, now +we'll be kept! There comes that lady from Lane Street. She'll stay half +an hour." + +"Young ladies, what are you about?" exclaimed the voice of Mr. Hardman's +son and heir, a short, stout young man, very much overdressed, and who +bustled up to the counter, dispersing the little group with various +half-audible exclamations. Then he turned, bowing and smiling, to the +late customer. + +She was a plain, elderly woman, dressed in a quaint fashion, but bearing +unmistakable signs of good-breeding; evidently what even Mr. Tom Hardman +would recognize as a "_real_ lady." Miss Jenner, of Milltown, was +regarded by the store-keepers in her vicinity as a valuable customer. +She was known to be very rich, although eccentric, and her great red +brick house, a little back from the street, with its box-walked garden +and tall old trees, was one of the finest and most respectable in the +county. Miss Jenner had been two years abroad, and this was one of her +first visits to any Milltown store. She received Mr. Tom's servile +courtesies with rather an indifferent manner, glancing around the big, +showy store, scanning the faces of the tired young attendants, as she +said, "Is not Mildred Lee one of your sales-women?" + +"Miss Lee!" called out Mr. Tom. + +Mildred moved forward quickly, looking at the new customer with an air +of polite attention, but none of her employer's obsequiousness. + +[Illustration: THE LATE CUSTOMER--DRAWN BY JESSIE CURTIS SHEPHERD.] + +Miss Jenner met the young girl's glance with a swift critical stare. + +"Here," she said, rather shortly, "I want some gloves, and I'd prefer +your serving me." + +Miss Jenner's wishes could not be slighted, and so Mr. Hardman hovered +about deferentially, rather altering his tone of insolent command when +he spoke to the young sales-women, and finally dispersing them while he +walked up and down the cloak and mantle department, out of Miss Jenner's +hearing, yet sufficiently within sight to be recalled by a look from his +wealthy patroness. + +As soon as she found herself alone with the shop-girl, Miss Jenner said, +with a searching glance at the young face bending over the glove-box: + +"So you are Mildred! Child, it seems strange enough to see your father's +daughter here. How did it happen?" + +"Oh!" Mildred exclaimed. She drew a quick breath, while the color +flashed into her cheeks. "Did you know papa?" + +"Yes." Miss Jenner spoke rather shortly. + +"Well," said Mildred, "you see, after his death--we had almost nothing. +Mamma is giving music lessons, and I came here, just because it was all +I could get to do. Bertie is at school," the girl added, a little +proudly. + +"But your mother does not _live_ in Milltown?" the lady inquired, with a +frown of perplexity. + +"Not quite _in_ the town," said Mildred. "We have a little cottage on +the Dorsettown road. Papa seemed to think, before he died, that he would +like us to come to live here." + +Miss Jenner answered nothing for a few moments. She tapped the counter +with her fingers, pushed the point of her parasol into the ground, and +coughed significantly one or twice before she spoke. + +"Well, Mildred," she said, finally, "I suppose you know the way to my +house? I should like you to come to tea with me next Tuesday. I am +expecting some young friends." + +Mildred Lee could scarcely answer for a few moments. How often she had +passed and repassed the fine old house in Lane Street, wondering what +grandeur and comfort must repose between its walls, but never had she +dreamed of receiving an invitation from its owner. + +"Well," exclaimed Miss Jenner, drawing out her well-filled purse, "don't +you mean to come?" + +Mildred smiled, and drew a quick breath. + +"Oh yes, thank you, Miss Jenner, very much," she contrived to say; and +almost before she could revolve the question further in her mind Miss +Jenner was gone, and she found herself face to face with Mr. Tom. Now +this young man was Mildred's special aversion. Not that he was as +overbearing with her as with the other girls, but that he seemed to have +singled her out for attentions that Mildred found odious. + +"It's rather late, Miss Lee," he said, with his insolent smile; "so I +may as well walk home with you." + +"Thank you, Mr. Hardman," answered Milly--she never called him "Mr. +Tom," as did the other girls--"I can manage very nicely by myself. I +always walk fast, and I have always a great deal to think about." + +"Then walk fast, and let me think with you," he said, with a laugh. + +Mildred dared not offend him, and so she forced herself to accept his +escort, although it was evident even to the self-confident young man she +disliked it. They threaded the busy streets of Milltown, "Mr. Tom" +raising his hat jauntily to passing acquaintances, Mildred keeping her +eyes fastened on the ground, only anxious to reach the little white +cottage where her mother and brothers and sisters were waiting tea for +her return. + +"There, Mr. Hardman," she said, trying to look good-humored, as he held +open the gate; "I won't ask you to come in, because--" + +"Oh, I know," exclaimed Tom, with an easy laugh. "Because you think the +guv'nor would not like me to be visiting any of the girls. Never you +mind; he won't know." + +"That has nothing to do with it, sir," answered Mildred, speaking with +forced composure, though her face flushed scarlet. "It was because I +knew my mother prefers I shall not receive visits from people whom she +does not know; but if it _be_ true that your father objects to your +visiting any of his employees, that is an additional reason for your +never forcing attentions upon me again." + +And with a very stately bow Mildred moved past him, entering the little +house, while "Mr. Tom," indulging in a prolonged low whistle, turned on +his heel, with something not very agreeable in his expression. + +[TO BE CONTINUED.] + + + + +[Illustration] + +WINGY WING FOO. + +BY C. A. D. W. + + + Poor Wingy Wing Foo is a bright little fellow, + With complexion, indeed, most decidedly yellow, + And long almond eyes that take everything in; + But the way he is treated is really a sin. + For naughty Miss Polly _will_ turn up her nose + At his quaint shaven head and his queer little clothes, + And bestow all her love and affectionate care + On rosy-cheeked Mabel, with bright golden hair. + + In vain do I argue, in vain do I cry, + "Be kinder, my darling, I beg of you, try." + But Polly shakes harder her wise little head, + And kisses her golden-haired dolly instead. + "Remember he's far from his kindred and home; + 'Mid strange little children he's destined to roam, + And how sad is his fate, as no kind little mother + Will take him right in, and make him a brother + + "To the fair baby dollies that sit on her knee! + Just think, my own Polly, how hard it must be. + So give him a hug and a motherly kiss, + 'Tis one your own babies, I'm sure, never'll miss." + She stooped quickly down, and raised from the floor + The poor little stranger, discarded before, + And said, with a tear in her bright little eye, + "I'm sure I shall love him, mamma, by-and-by." + + + + +[Illustration: OUR POST-OFFICE BOX.] + + + I received a subscription to YOUNG PEOPLE for a present, and I like + the paper better than any I ever had before. I like the Post-office + Box and the puzzles especially, and the story of Paul Grayson I + like very much. + + I am collecting games and amusements, and I would be thankful to + any readers of YOUNG PEOPLE who send me any nice charades or + games. In return I will send some of my own collection, with full + directions for playing each one. + + JAMES O'CONNOR, + 287 Ontario Street, Chicago, Illinois. + + * * * * * + +Now that the season of long evenings has come again, pretty household +games are a necessary recreation for our young friends. There have been +directions in the columns of YOUNG PEOPLE for some entertaining winter +evening amusements, and more are in preparation. Descriptions of games +are generally too long for the Post-office Box, but if we receive any +that are short enough, we will print them, unless they are of games +already well known, or involve the pitching of knives or other dangerous +actions. + +There is a great deal of play-time by daylight, too, and it would be +interesting if boys in Canada, on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, in +the West and in the South, would now and then describe their out-of-door +sports during the winter. There will be skating, and coasting, and +sleigh-riding for some; orange-picking, rowing, and picnicking for +others. There is one amusement our boys and girls will all enjoy +together, and that is reading YOUNG PEOPLE; and if in the Post-office +Box they learn what are the pastimes of children in all sections of the +country, even those little people who live in solitary places where they +have no playmates, and see nothing all winter but ice-bound rivers and +snow-covered plains, will feel less lonely, and have imaginary +companionship during play-time. + + * * * * * + + CINCINNATI, OHIO. + + Seeing a letter from Violet S. in the Post-office Box about a + society, I thought I would write about a club we boys have here. + + The club, which is called the G. G., is strictly a military + organization, consisting of nine members, each having a gun. We + drill every Saturday. Any member who speaks during the drill is + confined to the "guard-house" for five minutes for each offense. + + We have also a library of nearly a hundred books, which is a + source of great pleasure to us. Every month we have an election + for librarian and secretary. + + Whenever an event of importance occurs concerning the club we have + a meeting to settle the matter. We are now preparing a play for + the Christmas holidays. + + BERT C. + + * * * * * + + BRANTFORD, ONTARIO, CANADA. + + Reba H. wished to know if any correspondent had seen peach-trees + blooming in September. I never saw peach-trees in blossom at that + season, but we once had two pear-trees that blossomed in October. + + I take great pleasure in reading YOUNG PEOPLE. I am eleven years + old. + + JOSIE B. G. + + * * * * * + + DARLINGTON HEIGHTS, VIRGINIA. + + I was very much interested in the account of sumac gathering in + YOUNG PEOPLE No. 51, and I thought you would like to know how it is + done here in Prince Edward County. + + The work of gathering begins in June, and lasts until some time in + August. It is gathered here before it turns red, and the berries + are not gathered at all. If the berries are mixed with the leaves + and twigs, it is worthless, and it is worth very little anyway, as + the price is only fifty or seventy-five cents a hundred pounds. + There are two kinds of sumac, the male and female; the former is + what the merchants want, but the negroes often try to cheat, for + it is very hard to tell the difference between the two kinds when + the sumac is dry. They do not dry it in a house, but lay it on the + ground in the sun for about two days, and then leave it in the + shade of the trees for about a week longer. + + HARRY J. + + * * * * * + + BELLE VERNON, PENNSYLVANIA. + + I live among the hills of Pennsylvania, where they get out great + quantities of coal and sand. We have glass factories in our town, + and it is so nice to see them make glass! We have a boat-yard here, + too, and when the boats are launched we can get on them. It is a + big slide when the boat goes into the river. + + I am nine years old, and send greeting to HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE. I + tuck it under my pillow every night. + + MABEL M. + + * * * * * + + PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. + + Have any of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE ever seen the dove-plant, + sometimes called the Espiritu Santo, or Holy Ghost flower? I saw + one in a conservatory here. It is bell-shaped and pure white, and + the petals form a perfect dove. + + PAUL DE M. + +You will find a description and a picture of this wonderful flower, +which is a native of the Isthmus of Panama, in HARPER'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE +for November, 1879, page 863. + + * * * * * + + SHORT HILLS, NEW JERSEY. + + Here is our recipe for johnny-cake, which may be useful to Mary G., + or to some other little girl: One tea-cupful of sweet milk; one + tea-cupful of buttermilk; one table-spoonful of melted butter; one + tea-spoonful of salt; one tea-spoonful of soda; enough Indian meal + to make it stiff enough to roll out into a sheet half an inch + thick. Spread it on a buttered tin, and bake forty minutes. As soon + as it begins to brown, baste it with melted butter, repeating the + operation four or five times, until it is brown and crisp. Do not + cut the sheet, but break it, and eat it for luncheon or tea. + + FLORENCE S. + + * * * * * + + BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. + + Here is my mother's recipe for johnny-cake for Mary G. One cup of + white sugar, three eggs, half a cup of butter. Beat these together + until they are light and creamy. Then add one cup of wheat flour, + three cups of Indian meal (yellow is best), three tea-spoonfuls of + Royal baking powder, one tea-spoonful of salt, sweet milk enough to + make a cake batter. Beat until very light, and bake in a quick oven + about thirty minutes. We like it best baked in little patty-pans, + but you can bake it in a large sheet just as well. + + ETHEL W. + +Recipes similar to the above have been sent by Louise H. A., Irma C. +Terry, Lena Fox, Jane L. Wilson, Ada Philips, Alexina N., and other +little housewives; and all unite in the wish that Mary G. may win the +prize offered by her papa. + + * * * * * + + DERBY, CONNECTICUT. + + I would like to tell you how I get YOUNG PEOPLE. We have a very + nice teacher at the school where I attend, and every week each + scholar who is perfect in deportment gets a copy of YOUNG PEOPLE. + All the scholars like the paper very much, and they all try to be + good. I have had a copy every week since the teacher began to give + them, and so have several other scholars. + + RUTH M. G. + + * * * * * + + OTSEGO LAKE, MICHIGAN. + + I am eight years old. I live in Northern Michigan, between the two + large lakes. + + I have a pet fawn. I call it Beauty. It followed me to church last + Sunday night; and although it behaved with perfect decorum, it + attracted so much attention that papa had to put it out. I have + every number of YOUNG PEOPLE. + + LOUIS S. G. + + * * * * * + + I belong to the Boys' Exploring Association, and last summer we + discovered the finest cave in the Rocky Mountains. It was filled + with beautiful stalactites and stalagmites. I have some of the + stalactites in my collection. The only living things we saw in the + cave were a bat and two old mountain rats, one of which had young + ones. + + A few days ago I visited a coal mine about six miles from Colorado + Springs. The coal there is soft, and lies in a narrow vein. Above + and below the coal are veins or strata of sandstone, which is well + covered with impressions of leaves, large and small. As I entered + the mine I looked up, and right over my head there was a perfect + impression of a palm-leaf, just like a palm-leaf fan. I tried to + take it out whole, but it would break in pieces. There were also + many impressions of small leaves, and I found pieces of the tree + itself. I brought a great many of these impressions home with me. + They must be many thousand years old, like the fossil shells, + baculites, and ammonites which I have in my collection. I would + like to exchange some of the leaf impressions with the readers of + YOUNG PEOPLE. I would like for them Florida beans, sea-shells, or + moss, or minerals from California or New Mexico. I have also some + new specimens of different minerals which I would exchange for + others. + + HERBERT E. PECK, + P. O. Box 296, Colorado Springs, Colorado. + +The Boys' Exploring Association alluded to in the above letter is a +society largely composed of the members of a Sunday-school in Colorado +Springs. Any boy in the school may become a member on the payment of a +trifling sum, and any other boy whose name is proposed by a member is +admitted by vote. The object of the society is to study the geology and +natural history of the surrounding country, and at certain seasons to +make exploring expeditions, under the leadership of the clergyman of the +church. The members pledge themselves to abstain from the use of tobacco +and intoxicating drinks, to use no vulgar or profane language, and to +carry no fire-arms while on exploring trips. + +During the past summer some important discoveries have been made, and +the boys, while deriving much pleasure from these camping-out +excursions, have also gained physically, mentally, and morally. + +We would be glad to receive reports of the future actions of this +society, which will undoubtedly be of interest to our young readers, and +will perhaps incite other boys to follow the example of these young +naturalists by forming societies to study the botanical, geological, and +other natural characteristics of the region in which they live. All +places may not contain so much that is new and wonderful as Colorado, +but everywhere nature has a great deal to teach, if boys and girls will +only open their eyes and hearts to learn. + + * * * * * + + I have a few patterns of lace, and would be very glad to exchange + with Alice C. Little, or any other correspondent of YOUNG PEOPLE. + + ANNA E. BRUCE, + Rimersburg, Clarion County, Pennsylvania. + + * * * * * + + I am a little boy ten years old. I live in Attleborough, where so + much jewelry is made. I take YOUNG PEOPLE, and I think it is the + best of all the papers for boys and girls. + + I would like to exchange postage stamps with any correspondent. + + JAMES ARTHUR HARRIS, + Attleborough, Massachusetts. + + * * * * * + + I live in the Paper City, where they make seventy-five tons of + paper in a day. I think some of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE would + like to go through the mills with me. + + I would like to exchange postage stamps with any one. I am eleven + years old. + + WILLIE H. P. SEYMOUR, + P. O. Box 210, Holyoke, Massachusetts. + + * * * * * + + I am seven years old. I am a subscriber to YOUNG PEOPLE, and I love + to have my mamma read the letters from the dear little children in + the Post-office Box. I go to school, but have to stay home on rainy + days. I have neither brothers nor sisters. I am a New Mexican boy + by birth, and travelled over three thousand miles with my dear papa + and mamma, mostly in stage-coaches, when I was less than a year + old. + + I have a large number of Mexican garnets, gathered by Indians upon + the plains and in the mountains and cañons, that I will gladly + exchange for choice sea-shells. + + CLAUDE D. MILLAR, + Walnut Hills, near Cincinnati, Ohio. + + * * * * * + + I have begun to collect stamps, and I wish to procure as many rare + ones as I can. I have two tiny shells which were picked up on the + coast of the Mediterranean Sea by a lady missionary, and sent to + America. I read letters from many shell collectors in the + Post-office Box. I will send one of these shells to any boy or girl + who will send me a reasonable number of foreign stamps in return. + + EFFIE K. PRICE, Bellefontaine, Ohio. + + * * * * * + + I would like to exchange rare specimens, coins and stamps, with any + readers of YOUNG PEOPLE. I would also exchange an arrow made by a + great Indian chief near here for something of equal value. + + ROBERT C. MANLY, P. O. Box 66, + Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. + + * * * * * + + I like YOUNG PEOPLE very much. I have taken it ever since it was + published, and have learned a great deal from it. + + In exchange for sea-shells, sea-weed, or curiosities or relics of + any kind, I will send a piece of the marble of which they are now + building the Washington Monument, or a piece of the granite of + which the new State, War, and Navy departments are being built, or + both if desired. I would like to exchange with some one on the + Florida and California coast. I am eight years old. + + T. BERTON RIDENOUS, + 1428 T Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. + + * * * * * + + I will exchange stamps from Egypt, Cape of Good Hope, Western + Australia, Tasmania, Cuba, Barbadoes, Mexico, and other foreign + countries, for others from New Brunswick, St. Lucia, Ecuador, + Lagos, and Dominica. I will also exchange birds' eggs. + + WILLIE FORD, Austin, Texas. + + * * * * * + +Exchanges are also offered by the following correspondents: + + Postmarks for specimens of red shale rock. + + SAM RISIEN, JUN., + Groesbeck, Limestone County, Texas. + + * * * * * + + Stamps and postmarks for curiosities, coins, Indian relics, or + shells. + + A. H. SPEAR, + 167 Madison Street, Brooklyn, New York. + + * * * * * + + Shells for other curiosities. + + J. BATZER, + Avenue O, between 18th and 19th Streets, + Galveston, Texas. + + * * * * * + + Fossil shells for Indian relics. + + SARAH H. WILSON, + Clermont, Columbia County, New York. + + * * * * * + + Foreign postage stamps with correspondents residing in Nova Scotia, + Newfoundland, or Prince Edward Island. + + B. HOENIG, + 703 Fifth Street, New York City. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps. + + WARREN S. BANKS, + 207 East Eighty-third Street, New York City. + + * * * * * + + Soil of Texas for that of any other State. + + JOS. L. PAXTON, + Taylor, Williamson County, Texas. + + * * * * * + + Twenty varieties of postmarks for five varieties of stamps from New + Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, or Prince Edward Island. + + A. GRAHAM, + 161 Somerset Street, Newark, New Jersey. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps. + + C. M. HEMSTREET, + 108 South Fourteenth Street, St. Louis, Missouri. + + * * * * * + + Birds' eggs, foreign postage stamps, and postmarks for eggs. + + HARRY H. SMITH, + 833 Logan Street, Cleveland, Ohio. + + * * * * * + + Foreign postage stamps for postmarks. + + JAMES LEONARD, + 35 Madison Avenue, New York City. + + * * * * * + + Pressed autumn leaves for foreign postage stamps. + + DANIEL H. ROGERS, + Mooretown, Butte County, California. + + * * * * * + + Rare stamps of all kinds. + + MORRIS STERNBACH, + 129 East Sixty-ninth Street, New York City. + + * * * * * + + Michigan postmarks and curiosities for postage stamps and minerals. + + TEDDY SMITH, + 641 Cass Avenue, Detroit, Michigan. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps. + + BESSIE C. SMITH, + Mapleton, Cass County, Dakota Territory. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps from Japan, Egypt, Hungary, and other countries for + stamps from China and South America. + + CLARENCE ROWE BARTON, + 1996 Lexington Avenue, New York City. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps for postmarks, stamps, Indian relics, and other + curiosities. + + H. BEYER, + 576 Market Street, Newark, New Jersey. + + * * * * * + + Postmarks. + + ANNE H. WILSON, + Care of Harold Wilson, Esq., Clermont, + Columbia County, New York. + + * * * * * + + Postmarks for minerals or postmarks. + + WILLIAM H. MASON, + 392 Sixth Avenue (near Tenth Street), + Brooklyn, New York. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps. + + BEN S. DARROW, + 545 North Illinois Street, Indianapolis, Indiana. + + * * * * * + + Soil of Maryland and Virginia for soil of the Northern and Western + States. + + D. FLETCHER, + Philopolis, Baltimore County, Maryland. + + * * * * * + + Five varieties of sharks' teeth for Indian arrowheads. + + F. H. WATERS, + Philopolis, Baltimore County, Maryland. + + * * * * * + + Stamps, postmarks, and birds' eggs. + + HOWARD B. MOSES, + Cheltenham Academy, + Shoemakertown, Pennsylvania. + + * * * * * + + Postmarks and curiosities. + + G. N. WILSON, + Bairdstown, Oglethorpe County, Georgia. + + * * * * * + + Stamps, minerals, and eggs of the crow, flicker, spotted tattler, + and kingfisher, for eggs of a loon, eagle, gull, or snipe. + + W. A. WEBSTER, + 394 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. + + * * * * * + + Foreign postage stamps, birds' nests, shells, and minerals for + birds' eggs, shells, and foreign coins. + + LAURA BINGHAM, + Lansing, Michigan. + + * * * * * + + Chinese curiosities, agates, and postmarks for rare birds' eggs and + postage stamps. + + C. H. GURNETT, + Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps and postmarks for stamps. + + MARY H. KIMBALL, + P. O. Box 493, Stamford, Connecticut. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps. + + T. N. CATREVAS, + 13 West Twentieth Street, New York City. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps and coin. + + SAMMIE P. CRANAGE, Bay City, Michigan. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps, especially specimens from Japan and Hong-Kong, for + others. + + F. L. MACONDRAY, + 1916 Jackson Street, San Francisco, California. + + * * * * * + + Birds' eggs, stamps, and postmarks for the same, or for minerals, + coins, or Indian relics. + + RALPH J. WOOD, + 39 (old number) Wildwood Avenue, + Jackson, Michigan. + + * * * * * + + Five foreign postage stamps for an ounce of soil from any State, or + thirty foreign stamps for an Indian arrow-head. No duplicate stamp + in either exchange. + + C. B. FERNALD, + 1123 Girard Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. + + * * * * * + + Foreign postage stamps or United States postmarks for shells or + minerals. + + GEORGE E. WELLS, + 40 Cottage Place, Hackensack, New Jersey. + + * * * * * + + Five rare foreign stamps for a good mineral specimen. + + C. C. SHELLEY, JUN., + 93 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, New York. + + * * * * * + + Sea and fresh water shells and minerals for other minerals and + Indian curiosities. + + ROYAL FERRAUD, + 141 Front Street, West, Detroit, Michigan. + + * * * * * + +WILLIAM TELL ARCHERS, NEW ORLEANS.--Bows vary in price from three +dollars to ninety and even one hundred dollars each. It would be well to +write to Messrs. Peck & Snyder, Nassau Street, New York city, importers +of English archery goods, for one of their catalogues. E. I. Horsman, of +80 William Street, New York city, would also send his catalogue on +application, and his list comprises all archery goods manufactured in +this country, which are sold at lower prices than the English +importations. We never heard of a whalebone bow on an archery field. + + * * * * * + +HENRY R. C., GEORGE E. B., AND OTHERS.--Messrs. Harper & Brothers will +furnish the cover for YOUNG PEOPLE, Vol. I., at the price stated in the +advertisement on this page, but in no case can they attend to the +binding. + + * * * * * + +LOUIS H.--A stamp collection consists of stamps of _different +denominations_ from all countries. The special locality in the country +from which the specimen is sent adds to the interest of a postmark, but +not to that of a stamp. Different issues of the same denomination, when +you can obtain them, should have a place in your stamp album. For +example, there have been a good many issues, varying in design and +color, of the United States three-cent stamp. Each one is a valuable +specimen; but if you have two or more exactly alike, paste only one in +your album, and reserve the duplicates for exchange. + + * * * * * + +B. B.--It is not often that we can make room in the Post-office Box for +pictures, and we are constantly compelled to decline pretty and +interesting drawings by our young friends. We can much more easily give +space to a short description in writing of any curious phase of wild +Indian life that you may notice than to a pictured representation. + + * * * * * + +W. E. L.--Your story shows imagination, but is not good enough to +print.--Unless you have a natural gift for ventriloquism you will find +it a difficult art to learn. Several books of instruction have been +published, but they are not very satisfactory, and you would learn +better by procuring a good teacher than by endeavoring to follow the +directions of a hand-book. + + * * * * * + +E. A. DE L.--A badge expressing the motto of your society is not very +easy to invent. A gold shield bearing the letters F. S. arranged as a +monogram, in blue, white, or black enamel would be very simple, and as +appropriate, perhaps, as any more marked design. + + * * * * * + +Favors are acknowledged from Charles Werner, Ida L. G., Harry C. Earle, +Pearl A. H., Isabella T. Niven, Will S. Norton, Mary K. Bidwell, George +K. Diller, Anna Wierum, Mark Manly, Latham T. Souther, Maggie +Behlendorff, Joey W. Dodson, Aaron W. King, Charlie, Hattie Wilcox, +Clara Clark, Florence M. Donalds, Eddie L. S., Sarabelle, E. T. Rice, J. +Fitzsimons, Cassie C. Fraleigh, Mary H. Lougee, Coleman E. A., Fred +S. C., Eddie R. T., Edgar E. Helm, Emmer Edwards, Eunice Kate, Clarence +D. C. + + * * * * * + +Correct answers to puzzles are received from Lena Fox, H. M. P., Stella +Pratt, Mary L. Fobes, "Unle Ravaler," C. Gaylor, William A. Lewis, C. H. +McB., Cal I. Forny, The Dawley Boys, Mary S. Twing. + + * * * * * + +PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS. + +No. 1. + +RHOMBOID--(_To Stella_). + +Across.--A portable dwelling; a kind of food; to inclose; a poem. +Down.--A consonant; a printer's measure; novel; a genus of plants; to +hit gently; one of a printer's trials; a consonant. + + MARK MARCY. + + * * * * * + +No. 2. + +NUMERICAL CHARADE. + +My whole is a Latin quotation, composed of 24 letters, from the fifth +book of Virgil's Æneid, which should be remembered by boys and girls. + +My 8, 23, 18, 7, 13 is a city of South America. + +My 3, 5, 24, 11, 22 is a city in India. + +My 2, 14, 22, 20, 6, 19 is a town of Belgium. + +My 1, 16, 24, 9 is a country of South America. + +My 21, 16, 17, 10, 4 is one of the British West Indies. + +My 15, 12, 11 is a town of Belgium, once a famous resort. + + J. D. H. + + * * * * * + +No. 3. + +ENIGMA. + + In HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE my first is hid. + In goat my second, but not in kid. + In letter my third, but the cunningest fox + Will never find it in Post-office Box. + My fourth is in apple, but not in tree. + My fifth in Newton will always be. + My sixth is in month, but never in day. + My seventh in lightning, but not in ray. + My eighth is in runic, but never in Goth. + My ninth is hidden away in moth. + My tenth is in cloth, which that insect destroys. + My eleventh is in racket, but never in boys. + My twelfth is in hearing, but is not in sight. + My thirteenth in shining, but never in bright. + The secrets I hide no man shall know + Though years may come and years may go. + + DAME DURDEN. + + * * * * * + +ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN NO. 55. + +No. 1. + + L O V E R + N A V A L + N I C E R + L E V E R + S I D E S + +No. 2. + + S E + T E A G A S + S E I N E E A G L E + A N T S L Y + E E + +No. 3. + + A caci A + R ave N + B lu E + U nifor M + T atto O + U niso N + S avag E + +Arbutus, Anemone. + + + + +HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE. + +SINGLE COPIES, 4 cents; ONE SUBSCRIPTION, one year, $1.50; FIVE +SUBSCRIPTIONS, one year, $7.00--_payable in advance, postage free_. + +The Volumes of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE commence with the first Number in +November of each year. + +Subscriptions may begin with any Number. When no time is specified, it +will be understood that the subscriber desires to commence with the +Number issued after the receipt of the order. + +Remittances should be made by POST-OFFICE MONEY-ORDER OR DRAFT, to avoid +risk of loss. + +Volume I., containing the first 52 Numbers, handsomely bound in +illuminated cloth, $3.00, postage prepaid: Cover, title-page, and index +for Volume I., 35 cents; postage, 13 cents additional. + + HARPER & BROTHERS, + Franklin Square, N. Y. + + + + +[Illustration: SOME ANSWERS TO WIGGLE No. 15, OUR ARTIST'S IDEA, AND NEW +WIGGLE, No. 16.] + +The following also sent in answers to Wiggle No. 15: + +T. A. C., C. S. C., D. H. Freeman, Thomas William Allen, Madgie Ranch, +Orin Simons, Norma Hall, L. C. Sutherland, Harry Lander, I. La Rue, +J. R. Glen, Percy F. Jamieson, Cevy Freeman, Isabel Clark, Christiana +Clark, Edna May Morrill, H. M. P., Long Legs, W. Bloomfield, Winthrop, +M. E. Farrell, Isabel Jacob, Emma Shaffer, Charles A. Holbrook, Robert +M., L. E. Torrey, Walter Doerr, Theo. F. Muller, K. E. K., C. Halliday, +H. F. S., E. De C., Athalia H. Daly, Kerfoot W. Daly, C. E. S. S., +H. R., Ruby R. Carsard, Alexina Neville, Edward T. Balcom, Edwin Prindle, +Dollie Kopp, A. J. Carleton, Fernando Gonzala, Thomas Flaherty, John +Flaherty, Alice Brown, Frank Eaton, Winthrop M. Daniels, W. G. Harpee, +Pierre, Raba Thelin, Felix H. Gray, Freddie L. Temple, Winona D. +Anderson, Harry V. Register, Albert L. Register, S. Croft Register, +"Nelse Walton," W. H. C., John N. Howe, Dora K. Noble, Charles A. +Tomlinson, Irving W. Lamb, Burton Harwood, I. R. Herrick, E. W. Little, +Samuel von Behren, Harry Cowperthwait, Jack Nemo, Fanny Crampton, Mamie +B. Purdy, Percy B. Purdy, J. P. H., Mary A. Hale, E. D. F., Nella +Coover, F. Uhlenhaut, W. C. Siegert, P. N. Clark, Lillian Thomas, Annie +E. Barry, Charlie Conklin, Mary Burns, Lottie Norton, Hattie Venable, +Annie A. Siegert, E. W. Siegert, C. W. Mansur, G. W., "Bo-peep," Julius +Backofen, Nellie Beers, Oliver Drew, Frank W. Taylor, Willie A. Scott, +Reba Hedges, Arthur, Cora, Mark Manley, E. L. C., Thomas C. Vanderveer, +Nellie Hyde, George St. Clair, L. C. H., Mary C. Green, Frank Miller, +Helen S. W., P. B. A., Willie Dobbs, Charlie Dobbs, Agnes D. Cram, +Carrie Rauchfuss, L. O. S., Fred. K. Houston, Howard Starrett, Bertha W. +Gill, Willie B. Morris, Millie Olmsted, Nellie Cruger, F. J. Kaufman, +May Longwell, "Masher" (G. H. Gillett), Hattie Wilcox, Everett C. Fay, +C. H. T., Bennie Darrow, Claudius W. Tice, Lam, G. C. Meyer, Hugh +Downing, Carrie Davis, M. O. Krum, Howard Rathbon, D. B. C., Jun., +Newton C., J. B. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Harper's Young People, December 7, 1880 + An Illustrated Monthly + +Author: Various + +Release Date: November 24, 2013 [EBook #44279] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, DEC 7, 1880 *** + + + + +Produced by Annie R. McGuire + + + + + +</pre> + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</a></span></p> + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#TOBY_TYLER_OR_TEN_WEEKS_WITH_A_CIRCUS">TOBY TYLER; OR, TEN WEEKS WITH A CIRCUS.</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#SOUTH_AFRICAN_DIAMONDS">SOUTH AFRICAN DIAMONDS.</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_HEART_OF_BRUCE">THE HEART OF BRUCE.</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#AMATEUR_THEATRICALS">AMATEUR THEATRICALS</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_KANGAROO">THE KANGAROO.</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#DECORATIONS_FOR_CHRISTMAS">DECORATIONS FOR CHRISTMAS.</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#W_HOLMAN_HUNTS_FINDING_OF_CHRIST_IN_THE_TEMPLE">W. HOLMAN HUNT'S "FINDING OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE."</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_CAPTAINS_BOY_ON_THE_PENNY_BOAT">THE CAPTAIN'S BOY ON THE PENNY BOAT.</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#PACKAGE_NO_107">PACKAGE NO. 107.</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#MILDREDS_BARGAIN">MILDRED'S BARGAIN.</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#WINGY_WING_FOO">WINGY WING FOO.</a></td></tr> +</table></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 1000px;"> +<img src="images/ill_001.jpg" width="1000" height="385" alt="Banner: Harper's Young People" /> +</div> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary=""> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Vol</span>. II.—<span class="smcap">No</span>. 58.</td><td align="center"><span class="smcap">Published by</span> HARPER & BROTHERS, <span class="smcap">New York</span>.</td><td align="right"><span class="smcap">Price Four Cents</span>.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Tuesday, December 1, 1880.</td><td align="center">Copyright, 1880, by <span class="smcap">Harper & Brothers</span>.</td><td align="right">$1.50 per Year, in Advance.</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"><a name="TOBY_TYLER_OR_TEN_WEEKS_WITH_A_CIRCUS" id="TOBY_TYLER_OR_TEN_WEEKS_WITH_A_CIRCUS"></a> +<img src="images/ill_002.jpg" width="600" height="548" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">TOBY STRIKES A BARGAIN—<span class="smcap">Drawn by W. A. Rogers</span>.</span> +</div> + +<h2>TOBY TYLER; OR, TEN WEEKS WITH A CIRCUS.</h2> + +<h3>BY JAMES OTIS.</h3> + +<h3><span class="smcap">Chapter I</span>.</h3> + +<h3>TOBY'S INTRODUCTION TO THE CIRCUS.</h3> + +<p>"Couldn't you give more'n six pea-nuts for a cent?" was a question asked +by a very small boy with big, staring eyes, of a candy vender at a +circus booth. And as he spoke he looked wistfully at the quantity of +nuts piled high up on the basket, and then at the six, each of which now +looked so small as he held them in his hand.</p> + +<p>"Couldn't do it," was the reply of the proprietor of the booth, as he +put the boy's penny carefully away in the drawer.</p> + +<p>The little fellow looked for another moment at his purchase, and then +carefully cracked the largest one.</p> + +<p>A shade, and a very deep shade it was, of disappointment that passed +over his face, and then looking up anxiously, he asked, "Don't you swap +'em when they're bad?"</p> + +<p>The man's face looked as if a smile had been a stranger to it<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span> for a +long time; but one did pay it a visit just then, and he tossed the boy +two nuts, and asked him a question at the same time. "What is your +name?"</p> + +<p>The big brown eyes looked up for an instant, as if to learn whether the +question was asked in good faith, and then their owner said, as he +carefully picked apart another nut, "Toby Tyler."</p> + +<p>"Well, that's a queer name."</p> + +<p>"Yes, I s'pose so, myself; but, you see, I don't expect that's the name +that belongs to me. But the fellers call me so, an' so does Uncle +Dan'l."</p> + +<p>"Who is Uncle Daniel?" was the next question. In the absence of any more +profitable customer the man seemed disposed to get as much amusement out +of the boy as possible.</p> + +<p>"He hain't my uncle at all; I only call him so because all the boys do, +an' I live with him."</p> + +<p>"Where's your father and mother?"</p> + +<p>"I don't know," said Toby, rather carelessly. "I don't know much about +'em, an' Uncle Dan'l says they don't know much about me. Here's another +bad nut; goin' to give me two more?"</p> + +<p>The two nuts were given him, and he said, as he put them in his pocket, +and turned over and over again those which he held in his hand, "I +shouldn't wonder if all of these was bad. Sposen you give me two for +each one of 'em before I crack 'em, an' then they won't be spoiled so +you can't sell 'em again."</p> + +<p>As this offer of barter was made, the man looked amused, and he asked, +as he counted out the number which Toby desired, "If I give you these, I +suppose you'll want me to give you two more for each one, and you'll +keep that kind of a trade going until you get my whole stock?"</p> + +<p>"I won't open my head if every one of 'em's bad."</p> + +<p>"All right; you can keep what you've got, and I'll give you these +besides; but I don't want you to buy any more, for I don't want to do +that kind of business."</p> + +<p>Toby took the nuts offered, not in the least abashed, and seated himself +on a convenient stone to eat them, and at the same time to see all that +was going on around him. The coming of a circus to the little town of +Guilford was an event, and Toby had hardly thought of anything else +since the highly colored posters had first been put up. It was yet quite +early in the morning, and the tents were just being erected by the men. +Toby had followed, with eager eyes, everything that looked as if it +belonged to the circus, from the time the first wagon had entered the +town, until the street parade had been made, and everything was being +prepared for the afternoon's performance.</p> + +<p>The man who had made the losing trade in pea-nuts seemed disposed to +question the boy still further, probably owing to the fact that trade +was dull, and he had nothing better to do.</p> + +<p>"Who is this Uncle Daniel you say you live with—is he a farmer?"</p> + +<p>"No; he's a Deacon, an' he raps me over the head with the hymn-book +whenever I go to sleep in meetin', an' he says I eat four times as much +as I earn. I blame him for hittin' so hard when I go to sleep, but I +s'pose he's right about my eatin'. You see," and here his tone grew both +confidential and mournful, "I am an awful eater, an' I can't seem to +help it. Somehow I'm hungry all the time. I don't seem ever to get +enough till carrot-time comes, an' then I can get all I want without +troubling anybody."</p> + +<p>"Didn't you ever have enough to eat?"</p> + +<p>"I s'pose I did, but you see Uncle Dan'l he found me one mornin' on his +hay, an' he says I was cryin' for something to eat then, an' I've kept +it up ever since. I tried to get him to give me money enough to go into +the circus with; but he said a cent was all he could spare these hard +times, an' I'd better take that an' buy something to eat with it, for +the show wasn't very good anyway. I wish pea-nuts wasn't but a cent a +bushel."</p> + +<p>"Then you would make yourself sick eating them."</p> + +<p>"Yes, I s'pose I should; Uncle Dan'l says I'd eat till I was sick, if I +got the chance; but I'd like to try it once."</p> + +<p>He was a very small boy, with a round head covered with short red +hair, a face as speckled as any turkey's egg, but thoroughly +good-natured-looking, and as he sat there on the rather sharp point of +the rock, swaying his body to and fro as he hugged his knees with his +hands, and kept his eyes fastened on the tempting display of good things +before him, it would have been a very hard-hearted man who would not +have given him something. But Mr. Job Lord, the proprietor of the booth, +was a hard-hearted man, and he did not make the slightest advance toward +offering the little fellow anything.</p> + +<p>Toby rocked himself silently for a moment, and then he said, +hesitatingly, "I don't suppose you'd like to sell me some things, an' +let me pay you when I get older, would you?"</p> + +<p>Mr. Lord shook his head decidedly at this proposition.</p> + +<p>"I didn't s'pose you would," said Toby, quickly; "but you didn't seem to +be selling anything, an' I thought I'd just see what you'd say about +it." And then he appeared suddenly to see something wonderfully +interesting behind him, which served as an excuse to turn his reddening +face away.</p> + +<p>"I suppose your uncle Daniel makes you work for your living, don't he?" +asked Mr. Lord, after he had re-arranged his stock of candy, and had +added a couple of slices of lemon peel to what was popularly supposed to +be lemonade.</p> + +<p>"That's what I think; but he says that all the work I do wouldn't pay +for the meal that one chicken would eat, an' I s'pose it's so, for I +don't like to work as well as a feller without any father and mother +ought to. I don't know why it is, but I guess it's because I take up so +much time eatin' that it kinder tires me out. I s'pose you go into the +circus whenever you want to, don't you?"</p> + +<p>"Oh yes; I'm there at every performance, for I keep the stand under the +big canvas as well as this one out here."</p> + +<p>There was a great big sigh from out Toby's little round stomach, as he +thought what bliss it must be to own all those good things, and to see +the circus wherever it went. "It must be nice," he said, as he faced the +booth and its hard-visaged proprietor once more.</p> + +<p>"How would you like it?" asked Mr. Lord, patronizingly, as he looked +Toby over in a business way, very much as if he contemplated purchasing +him.</p> + +<p>"Like it!" echoed Toby; "why, I'd grow fat on it."</p> + +<p>"I don't know as that would be any advantage," continued Mr. Lord, +reflectively, "for it strikes me that you're about as fat now as a boy +of your age ought to be. But I've a great mind to give you a chance."</p> + +<p>"What!" cried Toby, in amazement, and his eyes opened to their widest +extent, as this possible opportunity of leading a delightful life +presented itself.</p> + +<p>"Yes, I've a great mind to give you the chance. You see," and now it was +Mr. Lord's turn to grow confidential, "I've had a boy with me this +season, but he cleared out at the last town, and I'm running the +business alone now."</p> + +<p>Toby's face expressed all the contempt he felt for the boy who would run +away from such a glorious life as Mr. Lord's assistant must lead; but he +said not a word, waiting in breathless expectation for the offer which +he now felt certain would be made him.</p> + +<p>"Now I ain't hard on a boy," continued Mr. Lord, still confidentially, +"and yet that one seemed to think that he was treated worse and made to +work harder than any boy in the world."</p> + +<p>"He ought to live with Uncle Dan'l a week," said Toby, eagerly.</p> + +<p>"Here I was just like a father to him," said Mr. Lord, paying no +attention to the interruption, "and I gave him his board and lodging, +and a dollar a week besides."</p> + +<p>"Could he do what he wanted to with the dollar?"</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Of course he could. I never checked him, no matter how extravagant he +was, an' yet I've seen him spend his whole week's wages at this very +stand in one afternoon. And even after his money had all gone that way, +I've paid for peppermint and ginger out of my own pocket just to cure +his stomach-ache."</p> + +<p>Toby shook his head mournfully, as if deploring that depravity which +could cause a boy to run away from such a tender-hearted employer, and +from such a desirable position. But even as he shook his head so sadly, +he looked wistfully at the pea-nuts, and Mr. Lord observed the look.</p> + +<p>It may have been that Mr. Job Lord was the tender-hearted man he prided +himself upon being, or it may have been that he wished to purchase +Toby's sympathy; but, at all events, he gave him a large handful of +nuts, and Toby never bothered his little round head as to what motive +prompted the gift. Now he could listen to the story of the boy's +treachery and eat at the same time, therefore he was an attentive +listener.</p> + +<p>"All in the world that boy had to do," continued Mr. Lord, in the same +injured tone he had previously used, "was to help me set things to +rights when we struck a town in the morning, and then tend to the +counter till we left the town at night, and all the rest of the time he +had to himself. Yet that boy was ungrateful enough to run away."</p> + +<p>Mr. Lord paused as if expecting some expression of sympathy from his +listener; but Toby was so busily engaged with his unexpected feast, and +his mouth was so full, that it did not seem even possible for him to +shake his head.</p> + +<p>"Now what should you say if I told you that you looked to me like a boy +that was made especially to help run a candy counter at a circus, and if +I offered the place to you?"</p> + +<p>Toby made one frantic effort to swallow the very large mouthful, and in +a choking voice he answered, quickly, "I should say I'd go with you, an' +be mighty glad of the chance."</p> + +<p>"Then it's a bargain, my boy, and you shall leave town with me +to-night."</p> + +<h4>[<span class="smcap">to be continued</span>.]</h4> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<h2><a name="SOUTH_AFRICAN_DIAMONDS" id="SOUTH_AFRICAN_DIAMONDS">SOUTH AFRICAN DIAMONDS.</a></h2> + +<p>A recent report from the Cape of Good Hope states that a diamond +weighing 225 carats has been found at the Du Toits Pan mine, and a very +fine white stone of 115 carats in Jagersfontein mine, in the Free State.</p> + +<p>The lucky finders of these stones are vastly richer than they were a few +weeks ago, for if these diamonds are of the best quality, they will be +worth thousands upon thousands of dollars.</p> + +<p>It is only ten years ago that all the world was taken by surprise at +hearing that some of these precious stones had been found in the African +colony; and this is how it came about. A little boy, the son of a Dutch +farmer living near Hope Town, of the name of Jacobs, had been amusing +himself in collecting pebbles. One of these was sufficiently bright to +attract the keen eye of his mother; but she regarded it simply as a +curious stone, and it was thrown down outside the house. Some time +afterward she mentioned it to a neighbor, who, on seeing it, offered to +buy it. The good woman laughed at the idea of selling a common bright +pebble, and at once gave it to him, and he intrusted it to a friend, to +find out its value; and Dr. Atherstone, of Graham's Town, was the first +to pronounce it a <i>diamond</i>. It was then sent to Cape Town, forwarded to +the Paris Exhibition, and it was afterward purchased by the Governor of +the colony, Sir Philip Wodehouse, for £500.</p> + +<p>This discovery of the <i>first</i> Cape diamond was soon followed by others, +and led to the development of the great diamond fields of South Africa.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<h2><a name="THE_HEART_OF_BRUCE" id="THE_HEART_OF_BRUCE">THE HEART OF BRUCE.</a><a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a></h2> + +<h3>BY LILLIE E. BARR.</h3> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Beside Dumbarton's castled steep the Bruce lay down to die;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Great Highland chiefs and belted earls stood sad and silent nigh.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">The warm June breezes filled the room, all sweet with flowers and hay,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">The warm June sunshine flecked the couch on which the monarch lay.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">The mailed men like statues stood; under their bated breath</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">The prostrate priests prayed solemnly within the room of death;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">While through the open casements came the evening song of birds,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">The distant cries of kye and sheep, the lowing of the herds.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">And so they kept their long, last watch till shades of evening fell;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Then strong and clear King Robert spoke: "Dear brother knights, farewell!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Come to me, Douglas—take my hand. Wilt thou, for my poor sake,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Redeem my vow, and fight my fight, lest I my promise break?</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">"I ne'er shall see Christ's sepulchre, nor tread the Holy Land;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">I ne'er shall lift my good broadsword against the Paynim band;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Yet I was vowed to Palestine: therefore take thou my heart,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">And with far purer hands than mine play thou the Bruce's part."</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Then Douglas, weeping, kissed the King, and said: "While I have breath</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">The vow thou made I will fulfill—yea, even unto death:</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Where'er I go thy heart shall go; it shall be first in fight.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Ten thousand thanks for such a trust! Douglas is Bruce's knight."</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">They laid the King in Dunfermline—not yet his heart could rest;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">For it hung within a priceless case upon the Douglas' breast.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">And many a chief with Douglas stood: it was a noble line</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Set sail to fight the Infidel in holy Palestine.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Their vessel touched at fair Seville. They heard upon that day</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">How Christian Leon and Castile before the Moslem lay,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Then Douglas said, "O heart of Bruce! thy fortune still is great,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">For, ere half done thy pilgrimage, the foe for thee doth wait."</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Dark Osmyn came; the Christians heard his long yell, "Allah hu!"</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">The brave Earl Douglas led the van as they to battle flew;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Sir William Sinclair on his left, the Logans on his right,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">St. Andrew's blood-red cross above upon its field of white.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Then Douglas took the Bruce's heart, and flung it far before.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">"<i>Pass onward first</i>, O noble heart, as in the days of yore!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">For Holy Rood and Christian Faith make thou a path, and we</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">With loyal hearts and flashing swords will gladly follow thee."</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">All day the fiercest battle raged just where that heart did fall,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">For round it stood the Scottish lords, a fierce and living wall.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Douglas was slain, with many a knight; yet died they not in vain,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">For past that wall of hearts and steel the Moslem never came.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">The Bruce's heart and Douglas' corse went back to Scotland's land,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Borne by the wounded remnant of that brave and pious band.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Fair Melrose Abbey the great heart in quiet rest doth keep,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">And Douglas in the Douglas' church hath sweet and honored sleep.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">In pillared marble Scotland tells her love, and grief, and pride.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Vain is the stone: all Scottish hearts the Bruce and Douglas hide.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">The "gentle Sir James Douglas" and "the Bruce of Bannockburn"</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Are names forever sweet and fresh for years untold to learn.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 800px;"><a name="AMATEUR_THEATRICALS" id="AMATEUR_THEATRICALS"> +<img src="images/ill_003.jpg" width="800" height="528" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">AMATEUR THEATRICALS—THE CALL BEFORE THE CURTAIN.</span> +</a></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span></p> + +<h2><a name="THE_KANGAROO" id="THE_KANGAROO">THE KANGAROO.</a></h2> + +<p>In the large island of Australia—an island so vast as to be ranked as a +continent—nature has produced a singular menagerie.</p> + +<p>The first discoverers of this country must have stared in amazement at +the strange sights which met their eyes. There were wildernesses of +luxuriant and curious vegetable growths, inhabited by large quadrupeds +which appeared as bipeds; queer little beasts with bills like a duck, +ostriches covered with hair instead of feathers, and legions of odd +birds, while the whole woods were noisy with the screeching and prating +of thousands of paroquets and cockatoos.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/ill_004.jpg" width="600" height="466" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">THE HOME OF THE KANGAROO.</span> +</div> + +<p>The largest and oddest Australian quadruped is the kangaroo, a member of +that strange family, the Marsupialia, which are provided with a pouch, +or bag, in which they carry their little ones until they are strong +enough to scamper about and take care of themselves.</p> + +<p>The delicately formed head of this strange creature, and its short +fore-legs, are out of all proportion to the lower part of its body, +which is furnished with a very long tail, and its hind-legs, which are +large and very strong. It stands erect as tall as a man, and moves by a +succession of rapid jumps, propelled by its hind-feet, its fore-paws +meanwhile being folded across its breast. A large kangaroo will weigh +fully two hundred pounds, and will cover as much as sixteen feet at one +jump.</p> + +<p>The body of this beast is covered with thick, soft, woolly fur of a +grayish-brown color. It is very harmless and inoffensive, and it is a +very pretty sight to see a little group of kangaroos feeding quietly in +a forest clearing. Their diet is entirely vegetable. They nibble grass +or leaves, or eat certain kinds of roots, the stout, long claws of their +hind-feet serving them as a convenient pickaxe to dig with.</p> + +<p>The kangaroo is a very tender and affectionate mother. When the baby is +born it is the most helpless creature imaginable, blind, and not much +bigger than a new-born kitten. But the mother lifts it carefully with +her lips, and gently deposits it in her pocket, where it cuddles down +and begins to grow. This pocket is its home for six or seven months, +until it becomes strong and wise enough to fight its own battles in the +woodland world. While living in its mother's pocket it is very lively. +It is very funny to see a little head emerging all of a sudden from the +soft fur of the mother's breast, with bright eyes peeping about to see +what is going on in the outside world; or perhaps nothing is visible but +a little tail wagging contentedly, while its baby owner is hidden from +sight.</p> + +<p>The largest kangaroos are called menuahs or boomers by the Australian +natives, and their flesh is considered a great delicacy, in flavor +something like young venison. For this reason these harmless creatures +are hunted and killed in large numbers. They are very shy, and not very +easy to catch; but the cunning bushmen hide themselves in the thicket, +and when their unsuspecting prey approaches, they hurl a lance into its +body. The wounded kangaroo springs off with tremendous leaps, but soon +becomes exhausted, and falls on the turf.</p> + +<p>If brought to bay, this gentle beast will defend itself vigorously. With +its back planted firmly against a tree, it has been known to keep off an +army of dogs for hours, by dealing them terrible blows with its strong +hind-feet, until the arrival of the hunter with his gun put an end to +the contest. At other times the kangaroo, being an expert swimmer, will +rush into the water, and if a venturesome dog dares to follow, it will +seize him, and hold his head under water till he is drowned.</p> + +<p>Kangaroos are often brought to zoological gardens, and are contented in +captivity, so long as they have plenty of corn, roots, and fresh hay to +eat.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</a></span></p> + +<h2><a name="DECORATIONS_FOR_CHRISTMAS" id="DECORATIONS_FOR_CHRISTMAS">DECORATIONS FOR CHRISTMAS.</a></h2> + +<h3>BY A. W. ROBERTS.</h3> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/ill_005.jpg" width="200" height="194" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">Fig. 1.</span> +</div> + +<p>A great variety of material abounds in our woods that can be utilized +for Christmas decorations.</p> + +<p>All trees, shrubs, mosses, and lichens that are evergreen during the +winter months, such as holly, ink-berry, laurels, hemlocks, cedars, +spruces, arbor vitæ, are used at Christmas-time for in-door +ornamentation. Then come the club-mosses (<i>Lycopodiums</i>), particularly +the one known as "bouquet-green," and ground-pine, which are useful for +the more delicate and smaller designs. Again, we have the wood mosses +and wood lichens, pressed native ferns and autumn leaves; and, if the +woods are not accessible, from our own gardens many cultivated +evergreens can be obtained, such as box, arbor vitæ, rhododendron, ivy, +juniper, etc.</p> + +<p>Where it is desirable to use bright colors to lighten up the sombreness +of some of the greens, our native berries can be used to great +advantage. In the woods are to be found the partridge-berries, +bitter-sweet, rose-berries, black alder, holly-berries, cedar-berries, +cranberries, and sumac. Dried grasses and everlasting-flowers can be +pressed into service. For very brilliant effects gold-leaf, gold paper, +and frosting (obtainable at paint stores) are used.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/ill_006.jpg" width="200" height="188" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">Fig. 2.</span> +</div> + +<p>Fig. 1 represents a simple wreath of holly leaves and berries, sewn on +to a circular piece of pasteboard, which was first coated with calcimine +of a delicate light blue, on which, before the glue contained in the +calcimine dried, a coating of white frosting was dusted. The monogram +XMS is drawn on drawing-paper highly illuminated with gold-leaf and +brilliant colors, after which it is cut out, and fastened in position.</p> + +<p>Fig. 2 consists of a foundation of pasteboard, shaped as shown in the +illustration. The four outside curves are perforated with a +darning-needle. These perforations are desirable when the bouquet-green +is to be fastened on in raised compact masses. The four crescent-shaped +pieces of board are colored white, and coated with white frosting. On +the crescents are sewn sprays of ivy and bunches of bright red berries. +From the outer edge of the crescents radiate branches of hemlock or +fronds of dried ferns. For the legend in the centre the monogram +I.H.S.,<a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a> or "A merry Christmas to all," cut out in gold paper, looks +well.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/ill_007.jpg" width="200" height="210" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">Fig. 3.</span> +</div> + +<p>Fig. 3 consists of a combination of branches of apple wood, or other +wood of rich colors and texture, neatly joined together so as to form +the letters M and X. (In selecting the wood always choose that which has +the heaviest growth of lichens and mosses.)</p> + +<p>For the ornamentation of the rustic monogram I use wood and rock +lichens, fungi, Spanish moss, and pressed climbing fern. Holes are bored +into the rustic letters, into which are inserted small branches of holly +in full berry. By trimming the monogram on both sides it looks very +effective when hung between the folding-doors of a parlor, where the +climbing fern may be trained out (on fine wires or green threads) in all +directions, so as to form a triumphal archway. By using large fungi for +the feet of the letters M and X (as shown in the illustration), the +monogram can be used as a mantel-piece ornament, training fern and ivy +from it and over picture-frames. The letter S in the monogram is +composed of immortelles.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/ill_008.jpg" width="300" height="98" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">Fig. 4.</span> +</div> + +<p>Fig. 4 consists of a narrow strip of white muslin, on which is first +drawn with a pencil in outline the design to be worked in evergreens. +For this purpose only the finer and lighter evergreens can be used, as +the intention of this design is to form a bordering for the angle formed +by the wall and ceiling. This wall drapery is heavily trimmed with +berries, to cause it to hang close to the wall, and at the same time to +obtain richer effects of color. The evergreens and berries are fastened +to the muslin with thread and needle.</p> + +<p>Fig. 5 is composed of a strip of card-board covered with gold paper on +which the evergreens are sewed. This style of ornamentation is used for +covering the frames of pictures.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/ill_009.jpg" width="300" height="92" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">Fig. 5.</span> +</div> + +<p>Natural flowers formed into groups can be made to produce very beautiful +effects for the mantel-piece and corner brackets of a room. The pots +should be hidden by covering them with evergreens, or the wood moss that +grows on the trunks of trees. For mounting berries fine wire will be +found very useful. I have always used, and with good effect, the rich +brown cones of evergreens and birches for Christmas decorations.</p> + +<p>Very rich and heavy effects of color can be produced by using dry colors +for backgrounds in the following manner. On the face of the pasteboard +on which you intend to work the evergreen design lay a thin coating of +hot glue; before the glue dries or chills dust on dry ultramarine blue, +or any of the lakes, or chrome greens. As soon as the glue has set, blow +off the remaining loose<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</a></span> color, and the result will be a field of rich +"dead" color. To make the effect still more brilliant, touch up the +blues and lakes with slashings of gold-leaf ("Dutch metal" will answer +every purpose), fastening the gold-leaf with glue. Don't plaster it +down, but put it on loose, so that it stands out from the field of +color.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<h2><a name="W_HOLMAN_HUNTS_FINDING_OF_CHRIST_IN_THE_TEMPLE" id="W_HOLMAN_HUNTS_FINDING_OF_CHRIST_IN_THE_TEMPLE">W. HOLMAN HUNT'S "FINDING OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE."</a></h2> + +<h3>BY THE REV. WILLIAM M. TAYLOR, D.D.</h3> + +<p>The double-page picture which appears in this week's <span class="smcap">Young People</span> is +well worthy of study, alike for the school to which it belongs, the +subject which it seeks to portray, and the manner in which that subject +is treated by the artist. The original painting, of which the +reproduction (save, of course, in the matter of coloring) is an +admirable representation, is the production of William Holman Hunt. Few +sermons have been so impressive as some of this artist's pictures. +Everybody knows the beautiful one which he has called "The Light of the +World," and no person of any intelligence can look upon that without +having recalled to his mind these words, "Behold, I stand at the door +and knock." But it may not be so generally known that this impression is +thus strongly produced upon the spectator because it was first very +deeply made on the artist himself. A friend of ours told us this +beautiful story. The original painting of "The Light of the World" is in +the possession of an English gentleman, at whose house one known to both +of us had been a guest. While he was there the frame had been taken off +the picture for purposes of cleaning, and the stranger had thus an +opportunity of examining it very closely. He found on the canvas, where +it had been covered by the frame, these words, in the writing of the +artist: "<i>Nec me prætermittas, Domine!</i>"—"Nor pass me by, O Lord!" +Thus, like the Fra Angelico, Mr. Hunt seems to have painted that work +upon his knees; and it is a sermon to those who look upon it, because it +was first a prayer in him who produced it.</p> + +<p>Much the same, we are confident, may be said of the picture which is now +before us. All our readers must know the story. When the "divine boy" +was about twelve years of age he was taken by Joseph and Mary to the +Passover feast at Jerusalem. They went up with a company from their own +neighborhood, and after the feast was over they had started to return in +the same way. But Jesus was not to be found. Still supposing that he was +somewhere in their company, they went a day's journey, and "sought him +among their kinsfolk and acquaintance." Their search, however, was +fruitless, and so, "sorrowing" and anxious, they returned to Jerusalem, +where they ultimately found him in the Temple, "sitting in the midst of +the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions." They were +amazed at the sight; and his mother, relieved, and perhaps also a little +troubled, said, "Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy +father and I have sought thee sorrowing." To which he made reply, "How +is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's +business?" These words are remarkable as the first recorded utterance of +conscious Messiahship that came from the lips of our Lord. They indicate +that now his human intelligence has come to the perception of his divine +dignity and mission; and when he went down to Nazareth, and was subject +to Joseph and Mary, it was with the distinct assurance within him that +Joseph was not his father, and that there was ultimately a higher +business before him than the work of the carpenter. Still, he knew that +only through the lower could he reach the higher, and therefore he went +down, contented to wait until the day of his manifestation came.</p> + +<p>The artist has seized the moment when Jesus made this striking reply to +his mother, and everything in the picture is made to turn on that. The +scene is the interior of the Temple. The time is high day, for workmen +are busily engaged at a stone on the outside, and a beggar is lolling at +the gate in the act of asking alms. The Jewish doctors are seated. First +in the line is an aged rabbi with flowing beard, and clasping a roll +with his right hand. Over his eyes a film is spread, which indicates +that he is blind; and so his neighbor, almost as aged as himself, is +explaining to him why the boy has ceased to ask his questions, by +telling him that his mother has come to claim him. Beside him, and the +third in the group, is a younger man, whose face is full of eager +thoughtfulness, and whose hands hold an unfolded roll, to which it +appears as if he had been referring because of something which had just +been said.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</a></span></p> + +<p>The other faces are less marked with seriousness, and seem to be +indicative rather of curiosity; but we make little account of them +because of the fascination which draws our eyes to the principal group. +The face of Joseph, as Alford says, is "well-nigh faultless." It is full +of thankful joy over the discovery of the boy; and though to our +thinking Joseph was an older man than he is here depicted, yet +everything about him is natural and manly. The Mary is hardly so +successful. The narrative does not represent her as speaking softly into +the ear of her son, but rather as breaking in abruptly on the assembly +with her irrepressible outcry, "Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us?" +and there might well have been less of the soft persuasiveness and more +of the surprised look of what one might call wounded affection in her +face. But the portrayal of the boy Christ is admirable. We have never, +indeed, seen any representation of the face of Christ that has +thoroughly satisfied us, and we do not expect ever to see one. But this +one is most excellent. The "far-away" look in the eyes, and the +expression of absorption on the countenance, betoken that his thoughts +are intent upon that divine "business" which he came to earth to +transact. Exquisite, too, as so thoroughly human, is the playing of the +right hand with the strap of his girdle in his moment of abstraction. In +the far future the great business of his life is beckoning him on; but +close at hand his duty to his mother is asserting its immediate claim. +In his eager response to the first, he cries, "Wist ye not that I must +be about my Father's business?" and his thoughts are after that +meanwhile; but ere long the demand of the present will prevail, and he +will go down with his parents, and be subject to them. This +"righteousness" also he has to "fulfill," even as a part of that +"business."</p> + +<p>Take the picture, boys; frame it, and hang it where you can often see +it. You will be reminded by it wholesomely of one who was once as really +a boy as you; and when the future seems to be calling you on, and +begging you to leap at once into its work, a look at the Christ-face +will help you to seek the glory of the future in submission to the +claims of the duties of the present, and will say to you, "He that +believeth shall not make haste." Through the performance of the duties +of a son to his mother Jesus passed to the business of saving men; and +in the same way, through faithful diligence where you are, the door will +open for you into the future which seems to you so attractive. It is +right to have a business before you. It is right, also, for you to feel +that the work you want to do in the world is "your Father's business." +We would not have you fix your heart on anything which you could not so +describe. But whatever that may be, rely upon it you will never reach it +by neglecting present duty. On the contrary, the more diligent and +faithful you are now as boys in the home and in the school, the more +surely will the door into eminence open for you as men. Let the picture, +therefore, stimulate you to holy ambition, and yet encourage you to wait +patiently in the discharge of present duty until the time comes for your +elevation. The way to come at your true business in life is to do well +the present business of your boyhood.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 1000px;"> +<img src="images/ill_010.jpg" width="1000" height="615" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">"THE FINDING OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE."—<span class="smcap">From a Painting +by W. Holman Hunt</span>.—<span class="smcap">See Page</span> 87.</span> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<h2><a name="THE_CAPTAINS_BOY_ON_THE_PENNY_BOAT" id="THE_CAPTAINS_BOY_ON_THE_PENNY_BOAT">THE CAPTAIN'S BOY ON THE PENNY BOAT.</a></h2> + +<h3>BY H. F. REDDALL.</h3> + +<p>Imagine a side-wheel steamboat a hundred and fifty or two hundred feet +long, her hull painted black, red, or red and white, with only one deck, +entirely open from stem to stern; a hot, stuffy cabin below the +water-line, her engines, of the cylinder pattern, entirely below the +deck, and you have some idea of a London "penny boat"—a very different +affair from our jaunty American river craft.</p> + +<p>As most of my young readers are aware, the river Thames divides the +great city of London into nearly equal parts. For nearly twelve miles +the metropolis stretches along either bank, and, as might be expected, +the river forms a convenient-highway for traffic—a sort of marine +Broadway, in fact. There are a number of bridges, each possessing from +six to ten arches, and through these the swift tide pours with +tremendous energy. From early dawn to dark the river's bosom is crowded +with every description of vessel. Below London Bridge, the first we meet +in going up stream, may be seen the murky collier moored close to the +neat and trim East Indiaman, the heavy Dutch galiot scraping sides with +the swift mail-packet, or the fishing-boat nodding responsive to the +Custom-house revenue-cutter.</p> + +<p>Above and between the bridges the scene changes, but is none the less +animated. Here comes a heavy, lumbering barge, its brown sail loosely +furled, depending for its momentum upon the tide, and guided by a long +sweep. Barges, lighters, tugs, fishing-smacks, passenger steamboats, and +a variety of smaller craft so crowd the river that were we to stand on +Blackfriars Bridge a boat of some description would pass under the +arches every thirty or forty seconds.</p> + +<p>But by far the most important feature is the passenger-boats. These are +apparently countless. They make landings every few blocks, now on one +side the river, now on the other, darting here and there, up and down, +and adding largely to the bustle. For a penny, the equivalent of two +cents American currency, one may enjoy a water ride of five or six +miles—say from London Bridge to Lambeth Palace. When we reflect that +all this immense traffic is crowded between the banks of a stream at no +point as wide as the East River opposite Fulton Ferry, New York, and +impeded by bridges at that, the difficulties of navigation will be in +some measure understood; and I have purposely dwelt on this that my +readers may fully appreciate what follows.</p> + +<p>Every one knows how, in America, the steamboat is controlled by a pilot +perched high above the passengers in the "pilot-house"; how he steers +the boat, and at the same time communicates with the engineer far below +him by means of bells—the gong, the big jingle, the little jingle, and +so on. But the penny boats of the Thames are managed far differently. +The wheelsman is at the stern in the old-fashioned way; but on a bridge +stretched amidships between the two paddle-boxes, and right over a +skylight opening into the engine-room, stands the captain. Beneath him, +sitting or standing by this skylight, is a boy of not more than twelve +or fourteen years of age, who, I observed, from time to time called out +some utterly unintelligible words, in accordance with which the engine +was slowed, stopped, backed, or started ahead as occasion required. It +took me a long time to discover <i>what</i> the boy said, from the peculiar +sing-song way in which he called out, but it took me much longer to find +out <i>why</i> he said it.</p> + +<p>So far as I could see he had not as much interest in the boat as I had; +apparently he observed the constantly changing panorama of river +scenery—not an interesting sight on board escaped him, and yet as we +neared or departed from each landing-stage the same mysterious sounds, +only varied slightly, issued from his lips, and the boat stopped or went +ahead as the case might be. I asked myself if this wonderful boy might +not be the captain, but a glance at the weather-beaten figure on the +bridge showed me the absurdity of the idea. So I watched the latter +individual, from whom I was now sure the boy received his orders. But +how? That was the question. The captain and his boy were too far apart +to speak intelligibly to one another without all the passengers hearing +them: how, then, did the one on the bridge communicate his wishes to the +other at the skylight if not by speech?</p> + +<p>By dint of long watching I became aware that though apparently the eyes +of the lad saw everything there was to be seen, in reality he was most +watchful of the captain, hardly ever lifting his gaze from the figure +above him, and at last I discovered that by a scarcely perceptible +motion of his hand, merely opening and closing it, or with a simple +backward or forward motion from the wrist down, the captain conveyed his +orders to the boy, who responded by shouting in his shrill treble +through the skylight what, after much conjecture, I discovered to be +"Ease 'er!" "Stop 'er!" "Turn 'er astarn!" "Let 'er go ahead!"</p> + +<p>The gesture by the captain's hand was oftentimes so faint that I failed +to see it, though I was on the look-out; much less could I interpret its +meaning, yet the lad never once failed to give the correct order.</p> + +<p>Only think of it! The safety of these boats, their crews, and thousands +of passengers absolutely depends upon these youngsters, who in wind and +rain, sunshine or storm, are compelled to be at their posts for many +hours daily. If through inattention or inadvertence the wrong command +should be given to the engineer, a terrible calamity might occur. That +such is never or rarely the case speaks volumes for the fidelity and +attention to duty of these boys, who have very little opportunity for +training or education of any sort.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<h2><a name="PACKAGE_NO_107" id="PACKAGE_NO_107">PACKAGE NO. 107.</a></h2> + +<h3>BY JAMES B. MARSHALL.</h3> + +<p>The express agent in San Francisco smiled very pleasantly when the +package was brought to him with a directed express tag properly tied on +it. But it was not so strange for him to smile, since he knew all about +that package, and had foretold the exact time required for a package to +reach New York. But the clerk who pasted a green label on the tag, and +marked on one end in blue ink "No. 107, Paid" so and so much, why should +he be amused? And why should the two express-wagon drivers who were in +the office at the time declare that that package would be something like +a surprise?</p> + +<p>Then an errand-boy came into the office to express a valise, having left +seven other boys standing on the nearest street corner before a +hand-organ that was playing the newest airs, which those seven boys were +learning to whistle. But why should that errand-boy, who was usually a +very quiet boy, immediately run to the office street door, and call, and +beckon, and wave his hat furiously for those seven boys to come and look +at package No. 107? Then those seven boys, in spite of the attraction of +the hand-organ, came on a run, and stood eagerly around the express +office door. And why wouldn't those boys go away until that package was +taken with other packages to the railroad station in one of the express +wagons? And what, also, greatly interested five other passing boys, a +Chinese laundry-man, two apple-women, and a policeman?</p> + +<p>Well, it was the same cause, which will soon appear, that made curious +and smiling the express people of Omaha, Chicago, and other places where +the package was seen on its way East to New York.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p>About a month previous to this, Mr. Benson had written to his wife from +California that owing to the slow settlement<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</a></span> of the business that had +taken him there, he was beginning to fear he and Guy would not be able +to reach home even by the holidays. "But Guy says," wrote Mr. Benson, +"that if we only had mother here we would get along splendidly."</p> + +<p>A week later the unwelcome news came to Mrs. Benson in New York +explaining that Mr. Benson's business would further detain him in +California until the middle of March—three months to come. You may be +certain that Mrs. Benson was very sorry to think of passing Christmas +and New-Year's with three thousand miles separating her from her husband +and boy. But she was forced to smile as she read Guy's letter—mailed +with his father's—explaining how they might dine together on +Christmas-day, notwithstanding the three thousand miles.</p> + +<p>"I have found out," wrote Guy in his best handwriting, "that the +difference in time between New York and San Francisco is about three +hours and a quarter. So if you sit down to your dinner at a quarter past +four o'clock, your time, and we sit down to our dinner at one o'clock, +our time, we can in that way be dining together. We are going to have +for dinner exactly what we had at home on last Christmas. But you will +have the best time, for grandfather and grandmother will be with you, +and Uncle Tom and Aunt Mary, and Ben, Tom, Bertha, Sadie, Uncle Seth, +and all the rest of them."</p> + +<p>A few days after this letter was sent Mr. Benson mailed another one, in +which he told his wife that Guy had made a discovery on the previous +day, and they were going to send her a pleasant surprise—in fact, a +Christmas present. "The package will be sent by express, directed to +your address in New York," wrote Mr. Benson, "and we have so timed its +journey East that it will reach you some time on the day before +Christmas."</p> + +<p>This was package No. 107.</p> + +<p>But didn't Mrs. Benson wonder and wonder what was coming to her for a +surprise present? And didn't she imagine that it might be a nest of +Chinese tables, or a package of fine Russian tea, or an ivory castle, or +a bunch of California grapes weighing fifteen or twenty pounds, or +five-and-twenty other possible things? Then Guy's New York cousins, when +they heard of that expected package, didn't they all fall to guessing? +And they guessed and guessed until, as we say in "Hot Butter and Blue +Beans, please come to Supper," they were "cold," "very cold," and +"freezing."</p> + +<p>Cousin Ben finally decided, after changing his mind a dozen times a day, +that the package would prove to contain either the skin of the grizzly +bear that Guy, before leaving home, had thought he might find, or a big +piece of gold that Guy had been kindly allowed to dig out of some gold +mine.</p> + +<p>"Heigho! this is the day the package is to come," said Cousin Bertha, +the moment she awoke on that morning. But at noon-time Bertha, Ben, Jim, +Sadie, and even little Tom, knew that as yet the package had not +arrived. It had not arrived as late as four o'clock in the afternoon, +when the first three just mentioned, together with some of their elders, +went to Guy's mother's to supper. There Bertha, Ben, and Jim took turns +vainly watching at the windows for the express wagon, until they were +called to supper.</p> + +<p>Jingle! jingle! jingle! went the door-bell during the course of the +supper. And so much had that package been talked about and guessed about +that all paused in their eating and drinking, and listened in +expectation.</p> + +<p>"Please, ma'am," said Katie, coming from answering the ring, "the +expressman is at the door. He says he's got a most valuable package for +you, and would you please come and receipt for it?"</p> + +<p>Mrs. Benson found the expressman standing by the little table in the +hallway where Katie had left him, though in the mean time he had gone +back to his wagon and brought the package into the house. "Please sign +there," he said, pointing to his receipt-book.</p> + +<p>"It must be a very small package," thought Mrs. Benson, not seeing any +package, but imagining it might still be in the expressman's overcoat +pocket.</p> + +<p>"I was to say, Mrs. Benson," said the man, "that you must be prepared +for a very great, pleasant surprise."</p> + +<p>"Oh! I'm prepared to be surprised," answered Mrs. Benson.</p> + +<p>"Then please turn and look at the package standing there by the parlor +door."</p> + +<p>"Mother!"</p> + +<p>"Oh, Guy! my dear boy!" joyfully called Mrs. Benson, as Guy, with an +express tag tied around his arm, rushed into her arms, and clasped her +around the neck.</p> + +<p>"It's Guy himself," said Bertha, gleefully.</p> + +<p>"Hurrah! it's Guy!" called Ben and Jim; and they all instantly left the +supper table and hurried to greet him.</p> + +<p>But the adventures of package No. 107 could not be quickly told. Of how +it was discovered that it might be sent, how it had been directed like a +bundle of goods, how it had been receipted for over and over again, how +it had travelled all the way in the Pullman cars, how it was given as +much care and attention as if it had been a huge nugget of gold, and +very, very many more hows and whys.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<h2><a name="MILDREDS_BARGAIN" id="MILDREDS_BARGAIN">MILDRED'S BARGAIN.</a></h2> + +<h3>A Story for Girls.</h3> + +<h3>BY MRS. JOHN LILLIE.</h3> + +<h3><span class="smcap">Chapter I</span>.</h3> + +<p>"Six o'clock! Thank fortune!" exclaimed one of a group of girls in Mr. +Hardman's store.</p> + +<p>Mildred Lee glanced up with a sigh of relief, moving with quicker +fingers at the thought of being so near the end of her day's work. She +was a pale pretty girl about sixteen, with soft brown hair, dark eyes, +and a something more refined in her air and manner than her associates. +Perhaps it was that in her dress there were none of the flimsy attempts +at finery which the other girls affected so strongly, or perhaps it was +only her quiet, lady-like self-possession which had in it nothing of +vulgar reticence or pride; but, in any case, there was a touch of +something superior to all lowering influences, and the most flippant +sales-woman in "Hardman's" lowered her tone of coarse good-humor, +stopped short in any gay recital, when Mildred's pretty face and quiet +little figure came in view.</p> + +<p>"Six o'clock," said Jenny Martin, a tall, "striking-looking" young +person, who was helping Milly to put away some ribbons. "Oh dear, now +we'll be kept! There comes that lady from Lane Street. She'll stay half +an hour."</p> + +<p>"Young ladies, what are you about?" exclaimed the voice of Mr. Hardman's +son and heir, a short, stout young man, very much overdressed, and who +bustled up to the counter, dispersing the little group with various +half-audible exclamations. Then he turned, bowing and smiling, to the +late customer.</p> + +<p>She was a plain, elderly woman, dressed in a quaint fashion, but bearing +unmistakable signs of good-breeding; evidently what even Mr. Tom Hardman +would recognize as a "<i>real</i> lady." Miss Jenner, of Milltown, was +regarded by the store-keepers in her vicinity as a valuable customer. +She was known to be very rich, although eccentric, and her great red +brick house, a little back from the street, with its box-walked garden +and tall old trees, was one of the finest and most respectable in the +county. Miss Jenner had been two years abroad, and this was one of her +first visits to any Milltown store. She received Mr. Tom's servile +courtesies with rather an indifferent<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</a></span> manner, glancing around the big, +showy store, scanning the faces of the tired young attendants, as she +said, "Is not Mildred Lee one of your sales-women?"</p> + +<p>"Miss Lee!" called out Mr. Tom.</p> + +<p>Mildred moved forward quickly, looking at the new customer with an air +of polite attention, but none of her employer's obsequiousness.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 395px;"> +<img src="images/ill_011.jpg" width="395" height="400" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">THE LATE CUSTOMER—<span class="smcap">Drawn by Jessie Curtis Shepherd</span>.</span> +</div> + +<p>Miss Jenner met the young girl's glance with a swift critical stare.</p> + +<p>"Here," she said, rather shortly, "I want some gloves, and I'd prefer +your serving me."</p> + +<p>Miss Jenner's wishes could not be slighted, and so Mr. Hardman hovered +about deferentially, rather altering his tone of insolent command when +he spoke to the young sales-women, and finally dispersing them while he +walked up and down the cloak and mantle department, out of Miss Jenner's +hearing, yet sufficiently within sight to be recalled by a look from his +wealthy patroness.</p> + +<p>As soon as she found herself alone with the shop-girl, Miss Jenner said, +with a searching glance at the young face bending over the glove-box:</p> + +<p>"So you are Mildred! Child, it seems strange enough to see your father's +daughter here. How did it happen?"</p> + +<p>"Oh!" Mildred exclaimed. She drew a quick breath, while the color +flashed into her cheeks. "Did you know papa?"</p> + +<p>"Yes." Miss Jenner spoke rather shortly.</p> + +<p>"Well," said Mildred, "you see, after his death—we had almost nothing. +Mamma is giving music lessons, and I came here, just because it was all +I could get to do. Bertie is at school," the girl added, a little +proudly.</p> + +<p>"But your mother does not <i>live</i> in Milltown?" the lady inquired, with a +frown of perplexity.</p> + +<p>"Not quite <i>in</i> the town," said Mildred. "We have a little cottage on +the Dorsettown road. Papa seemed to think, before he died, that he would +like us to come to live here."</p> + +<p>Miss Jenner answered nothing for a few moments. She tapped the counter +with her fingers, pushed the point of her parasol into the ground, and +coughed significantly one or twice before she spoke.</p> + +<p>"Well, Mildred," she said, finally, "I suppose you know the way to my +house? I should like you to come to tea with me next Tuesday. I am +expecting some young friends."</p> + +<p>Mildred Lee could scarcely answer for a few moments. How often she had +passed and repassed the fine old house in Lane Street, wondering what +grandeur and comfort must repose between its walls, but never had she +dreamed of receiving an invitation from its owner.</p> + +<p>"Well," exclaimed Miss Jenner, drawing out her well-filled purse, "don't +you mean to come?"</p> + +<p>Mildred smiled, and drew a quick breath.</p> + +<p>"Oh yes, thank you, Miss Jenner, very much," she contrived to say; and +almost before she could revolve the question further in her mind Miss +Jenner was gone, and she found herself face to face with Mr. Tom. Now +this young man was Mildred's special aversion. Not that he was as +overbearing with her as with the other girls, but that he seemed to have +singled her out for attentions that Mildred found odious.</p> + +<p>"It's rather late, Miss Lee," he said, with his insolent smile; "so I +may as well walk home with you."</p> + +<p>"Thank you, Mr. Hardman," answered Milly—she never called him "Mr. +Tom," as did the other girls—"I can manage very nicely by myself. I +always walk fast, and I have always a great deal to think about."</p> + +<p>"Then walk fast, and let me think with you," he said, with a laugh.</p> + +<p>Mildred dared not offend him, and so she forced herself to accept his +escort, although it was evident even to the self-confident young man she +disliked it. They threaded the busy streets of Milltown, "Mr. Tom" +raising his hat jauntily to passing acquaintances, Mildred keeping her +eyes fastened on the ground, only anxious to reach the little white +cottage where her mother and brothers and sisters were waiting tea for +her return.</p> + +<p>"There, Mr. Hardman," she said, trying to look good-humored, as he held +open the gate; "I won't ask you to come in, because—"</p> + +<p>"Oh, I know," exclaimed Tom, with an easy laugh. "Because you think the +guv'nor would not like me to be visiting any of the girls. Never you +mind; he won't know."</p> + +<p>"That has nothing to do with it, sir," answered Mildred, speaking with +forced composure, though her face flushed scarlet. "It was because I +knew my mother prefers I shall not receive visits from people whom she +does not know; but if it <i>be</i> true that your father objects to your +visiting any of his employees, that is an additional reason for your +never forcing attentions upon me again."</p> + +<p>And with a very stately bow Mildred moved past him, entering the little +house, while "Mr. Tom," indulging in a prolonged low whistle, turned on +his heel, with something not very agreeable in his expression.</p> + +<h4>[<span class="smcap">to be continued</span>.]</h4> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 353px;"><a name="WINGY_WING_FOO" id="WINGY_WING_FOO"></a> +<img src="images/ill_012.jpg" width="353" height="500" alt="" /> +</div> + +<h2>WINGY WING FOO.</h2> + +<h3>BY C. A. D. W.</h3> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Poor Wingy Wing Foo is a bright little fellow,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">With complexion, indeed, most decidedly yellow,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And long almond eyes that take everything in;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">But the way he is treated is really a sin.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">For naughty Miss Polly <i>will</i> turn up her nose</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">At his quaint shaven head and his queer little clothes,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And bestow all her love and affectionate care</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">On rosy-cheeked Mabel, with bright golden hair.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">In vain do I argue, in vain do I cry,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"Be kinder, my darling, I beg of you, try."</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">But Polly shakes harder her wise little head,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And kisses her golden-haired dolly instead.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"Remember he's far from his kindred and home;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">'Mid strange little children he's destined to roam,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And how sad is his fate, as no kind little mother</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Will take him right in, and make him a brother</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"To the fair baby dollies that sit on her knee!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Just think, my own Polly, how hard it must be.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">So give him a hug and a motherly kiss,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">'Tis one your own babies, I'm sure, never'll miss."</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">She stooped quickly down, and raised from the floor</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">The poor little stranger, discarded before,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And said, with a tear in her bright little eye,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"I'm sure I shall love him, mamma, by-and-by."</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/ill_013.jpg" width="600" height="260" alt="OUR POST-OFFICE BOX" /> +</div> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I received a subscription to <span class="smcap">Young People</span> for a present, and I like +the paper better than any I ever had before. I like the Post-office +Box and the puzzles especially, and the story of Paul Grayson I +like very much.</p> + +<p>I am collecting games and amusements, and I would be thankful to +any readers of <span class="smcap">Young People</span> who send me any nice charades or +games. In return I will send some of my own collection, with full +directions for playing each one.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">James O'Connor</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">287 Ontario Street, Chicago, Illinois.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p>Now that the season of long evenings has come again, pretty household +games are a necessary recreation for our young friends. There have been +directions in the columns of <span class="smcap">Young People</span> for some entertaining winter +evening amusements, and more are in preparation. Descriptions of games +are generally too long for the Post-office Box, but if we receive any +that are short enough, we will print them, unless they are of games +already well known, or involve the pitching of knives or other dangerous +actions.</p> + +<p>There is a great deal of play-time by daylight, too, and it would be +interesting if boys in Canada, on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, in +the West and in the South, would now and then describe their out-of-door +sports during the winter. There will be skating, and coasting, and +sleigh-riding for some; orange-picking, rowing, and picnicking for +others. There is one amusement our boys and girls will all enjoy +together, and that is reading <span class="smcap">Young People</span>; and if in the Post-office +Box they learn what are the pastimes of children in all sections of the +country, even those little people who live in solitary places where they +have no playmates, and see nothing all winter but ice-bound rivers and +snow-covered plains, will feel less lonely, and have imaginary +companionship during play-time.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Cincinnati, Ohio</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Seeing a letter from Violet S. in the Post-office Box about a +society, I thought I would write about a club we boys have here.</p> + +<p>The club, which is called the G. G., is strictly a military +organization, consisting of nine members, each having a gun. We +drill every Saturday. Any member who speaks during the drill is +confined to the "guard-house" for five minutes for each offense.</p> + +<p>We have also a library of nearly a hundred books, which is a +source of great pleasure to us. Every month we have an election +for librarian and secretary.</p> + +<p>Whenever an event of importance occurs concerning the club we have +a meeting to settle the matter. We are now preparing a play for +the Christmas holidays.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Bert C</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Brantford, Ontario, Canada</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Reba H. wished to know if any correspondent had seen peach-trees +blooming in September. I never saw peach-trees in blossom at that +season, but we once had two pear-trees that blossomed in October.</p> + +<p>I take great pleasure in reading <span class="smcap">Young People</span>. I am eleven years +old.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Josie B. G</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Darlington Heights, Virginia</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I was very much interested in the account of sumac gathering in +<span class="smcap">Young People</span> No. 51, and I thought you would like to know how it is +done here in Prince Edward County.</p> + +<p>The work of gathering begins in June, and lasts until some time in +August. It is gathered here before it turns red, and the berries +are not gathered at all. If the berries are mixed with the leaves +and twigs, it is worthless, and it is worth very little anyway, as +the price is only fifty or seventy-five cents a hundred pounds. +There are two kinds of sumac, the male and female; the former is +what the merchants want, but the negroes often try to cheat, for +it is very hard to tell the difference between the two kinds when +the sumac is dry. They do not dry it in a house, but lay it on the +ground in the sun for about two days, and then leave it in the +shade of the trees for about a week longer.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Harry J</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I live among the hills of Pennsylvania, where they get out great +quantities of coal and sand. We have glass factories in our town, +and it is so nice to see them make glass! We have a boat-yard here, +too, and when the boats are launched we can get on them. It is a +big slide when the boat goes into the river.</p> + +<p>I am nine years old, and send greeting to <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span>. I +tuck it under my pillow every night.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Mabel M</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Have any of the readers of <span class="smcap">Young People</span> ever seen the dove-plant, +sometimes called the Espiritu Santo, or Holy Ghost flower? I saw +one in a conservatory here. It is bell-shaped and pure white, and +the petals form a perfect dove.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Paul de M</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>You will find a description and a picture of this wonderful flower, +which is a native of the Isthmus of Panama, in <span class="smcap">Harper's Monthly Magazine</span> +for November, 1879, page 863.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Short Hills, New Jersey</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Here is our recipe for johnny-cake, which may be useful to Mary G., +or to some other little girl: One tea-cupful of sweet milk; one +tea-cupful of buttermilk; one table-spoonful of melted butter; one +tea-spoonful of salt; one tea-spoonful of soda; enough Indian meal +to make it stiff enough to roll out into a sheet half an inch +thick. Spread it on a buttered tin, and bake forty minutes. As soon +as it begins to brown, baste it with melted butter, repeating the +operation four or five times, until it is brown and crisp. Do not +cut the sheet, but break it, and eat it for luncheon or tea.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Florence S</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Brooklyn, New York</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Here is my mother's recipe for johnny-cake for Mary G. One cup of +white sugar, three eggs, half a cup of butter. Beat these together +until they are light and creamy. Then add one cup of wheat flour, +three cups of Indian meal (yellow is best), three tea-spoonfuls of +Royal baking powder, one tea-spoonful of salt, sweet milk enough to +make a cake batter. Beat until very light, and bake in a quick oven +about thirty minutes. We like it best baked in little patty-pans, +but you can bake it in a large sheet just as well.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Ethel W</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>Recipes similar to the above have been sent by Louise H. A., Irma C. +Terry, Lena Fox, Jane L. Wilson, Ada Philips, Alexina N., and other +little housewives; and all unite in the wish that Mary G. may win the +prize offered by her papa.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Derby, Connecticut</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I would like to tell you how I get <span class="smcap">Young People</span>. We have a very +nice teacher at the school where I attend, and every week each +scholar who is perfect in deportment gets a copy of <span class="smcap">Young People</span>. +All the scholars like the paper very much, and they all try to be +good. I have had a copy every week since the teacher began to give +them, and so have several other scholars.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Ruth M. G</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Otsego Lake, Michigan</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I am eight years old. I live in Northern Michigan, between the two +large lakes.</p> + +<p>I have a pet fawn. I call it Beauty. It followed me to church last +Sunday night; and although it behaved with perfect decorum, it +attracted so much attention that papa had to put it out. I have +every number of <span class="smcap">Young People</span>.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Louis S. G</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I belong to the Boys' Exploring Association, and last summer we +discovered the finest cave in the Rocky Mountains. It was filled +with beautiful stalactites and stalagmites. I have some of the +stalactites in my collection. The only living things we saw in the +cave were a bat and two old mountain rats, one of which had young +ones.</p> + +<p>A few days ago I visited a coal mine about six miles from Colorado +Springs. The coal there is soft, and lies in a narrow vein. Above +and below the coal are veins or strata of sandstone, which is well +covered with impressions of leaves, large and small. As I entered +the mine I looked up, and right over my head there was a perfect +impression of a palm-leaf, just like a palm-leaf fan. I tried to +take it out whole, but it would break in pieces. There were also +many impressions of small leaves, and I found pieces of the tree +itself. I brought a great many of these impressions home with me. +They must be many thousand years old, like the fossil shells, +baculites, and ammonites which I have in my collection. I would +like to exchange some of the leaf impressions with the readers of +<span class="smcap">Young People</span>. I would like for them Florida beans, sea-shells, or +moss, or minerals from California or New Mexico. I have also some +new specimens of different minerals which I would exchange for +others.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Herbert E. Peck</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">P. O. Box 296, Colorado Springs, Colorado.</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>The Boys' Exploring Association alluded to in the above letter is a +society largely composed of the members of a Sunday-school in Colorado +Springs. Any boy in the school may become a member on the payment of a +trifling sum, and any other boy whose name is proposed by a member is +admitted by vote. The object of the society is to study the geology and +natural history of the surrounding country, and at certain seasons to +make exploring expeditions, under the leadership of the clergyman of the +church. The members pledge themselves to abstain from the use of tobacco +and intoxicating drinks, to use no vulgar or profane language, and to +carry no fire-arms while on exploring trips.</p> + +<p>During the past summer some important discoveries have been made, and +the boys, while deriving much pleasure from these camping-out +excursions, have also gained physically, mentally, and morally.</p> + +<p>We would be glad to receive reports of the future actions of this +society, which will undoubtedly be of interest to our young readers, and +will perhaps incite other boys to follow the example of these young +naturalists by forming societies to study the botanical, geological, and +other natural characteristics of the region in which they live. All +places may not contain so much that is new and wonderful as Colorado, +but everywhere nature has a great deal to teach, if boys and girls will +only open their eyes and hearts to learn.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I have a few patterns of lace, and would be very glad to exchange +with Alice C. Little, or any other correspondent of <span class="smcap">Young People</span>.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Anna E. Bruce</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Rimersburg, Clarion County, Pennsylvania.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I am a little boy ten years old. I live in Attleborough, where so +much jewelry is made. I take <span class="smcap">Young People</span>, and I think it is the +best of all the papers for boys and girls.</p> + +<p>I would like to exchange postage stamps with any correspondent.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">James Arthur Harris</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Attleborough, Massachusetts.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I live in the Paper City, where they make seventy-five tons of +paper in a day. I think some of the readers of <span class="smcap">Young People</span> would +like to go through the mills with me.</p> + +<p>I would like to exchange postage stamps with any one. I am eleven +years old.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Willie H. P. Seymour</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">P. O. Box 210, Holyoke, Massachusetts.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I am seven years old. I am a subscriber to <span class="smcap">Young People</span>, and I love +to have my mamma read the letters from the dear little children in +the Post-office Box. I go to school, but have to stay home on rainy +days. I have neither brothers nor sisters. I am a New Mexican boy +by birth, and travelled over three thousand miles with my dear papa +and mamma, mostly in stage-coaches, when I was less than a year +old.</p> + +<p>I have a large number of Mexican garnets, gathered by Indians upon +the plains and in the mountains and cañons, that I will gladly +exchange for choice sea-shells.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Claude D. Millar</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Walnut Hills, near Cincinnati, Ohio.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I have begun to collect stamps, and I wish to procure as many rare +ones as I can. I have two tiny shells which were picked up on the +coast of the Mediterranean Sea by a lady missionary, and sent to +America. I read letters from many shell collectors in the +Post-office Box. I will send one of these shells to any boy or girl +who will send me a reasonable number of foreign stamps in return.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Effie K. Price</span>, Bellefontaine, Ohio.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I would like to exchange rare specimens, coins and stamps, with any +readers of <span class="smcap">Young People</span>. I would also exchange an arrow made by a +great Indian chief near here for something of equal value.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Robert C. Manly</span>, P. O. Box 66,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I like <span class="smcap">Young People</span> very much. I have taken it ever since it was +published, and have learned a great deal from it.</p> + +<p>In exchange for sea-shells, sea-weed, or curiosities or relics of +any kind, I will send a piece of the marble of which they are now +building the Washington Monument, or a piece of the granite of +which the new State, War, and Navy departments are being built, or +both if desired. I would like to exchange with some one on the +Florida and California coast. I am eight years old.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">T. Berton Ridenous</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">1428 T Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I will exchange stamps from Egypt, Cape of Good Hope, Western +Australia, Tasmania, Cuba, Barbadoes, Mexico, and other foreign +countries, for others from New Brunswick, St. Lucia, Ecuador, +Lagos, and Dominica. I will also exchange birds' eggs.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Willie Ford</span>, Austin, Texas.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p>Exchanges are also offered by the following correspondents:</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postmarks for specimens of red shale rock.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Sam Risien, Jun</span>.,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Groesbeck, Limestone County, Texas.</span><br /> +</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[Pg 95]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Stamps and postmarks for curiosities, coins, Indian relics, or +shells.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">A. H. Spear</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">167 Madison Street, Brooklyn, New York.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Shells for other curiosities.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">J. Batzer</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Avenue O, between 18th and 19th Streets,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Galveston, Texas.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Fossil shells for Indian relics.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Sarah H. Wilson</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Clermont, Columbia County, New York.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Foreign postage stamps with correspondents residing in Nova Scotia, +Newfoundland, or Prince Edward Island.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">B. Hoenig</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">703 Fifth Street, New York City.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postage stamps.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Warren S. Banks</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">207 East Eighty-third Street, New York City.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Soil of Texas for that of any other State.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Jos. L. Paxton</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Taylor, Williamson County, Texas.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Twenty varieties of postmarks for five varieties of stamps from New +Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, or Prince Edward Island.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">A. Graham</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">161 Somerset Street, Newark, New Jersey.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postage stamps.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">C. M. Hemstreet</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">108 South Fourteenth Street, St. Louis, Missouri.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Birds' eggs, foreign postage stamps, and postmarks for eggs.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Harry H. Smith</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">833 Logan Street, Cleveland, Ohio.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Foreign postage stamps for postmarks.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">James Leonard</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">35 Madison Avenue, New York City.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Pressed autumn leaves for foreign postage stamps.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Daniel H. Rogers</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Mooretown, Butte County, California.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Rare stamps of all kinds.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Morris Sternbach</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">129 East Sixty-ninth Street, New York City.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Michigan postmarks and curiosities for postage stamps and minerals.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Teddy Smith</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">641 Cass Avenue, Detroit, Michigan.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postage stamps.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Bessie C. Smith</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Mapleton, Cass County, Dakota Territory.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postage stamps from Japan, Egypt, Hungary, and other countries for +stamps from China and South America.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Clarence Rowe Barton</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">1996 Lexington Avenue, New York City.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postage stamps for postmarks, stamps, Indian relics, and other +curiosities.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">H. Beyer</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">576 Market Street, Newark, New Jersey.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postmarks.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Anne H. Wilson</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Care of Harold Wilson, Esq., Clermont,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Columbia County, New York.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postmarks for minerals or postmarks.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">William H. Mason</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">392 Sixth Avenue (near Tenth Street),</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Brooklyn, New York.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postage stamps.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Ben S. Darrow</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">545 North Illinois Street, Indianapolis, Indiana.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Soil of Maryland and Virginia for soil of the Northern and Western +States.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">D. Fletcher</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Philopolis, Baltimore County, Maryland.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Five varieties of sharks' teeth for Indian arrowheads.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">F. H. Waters</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Philopolis, Baltimore County, Maryland.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Stamps, postmarks, and birds' eggs.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Howard B. Moses</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Cheltenham Academy,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Shoemakertown, Pennsylvania.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postmarks and curiosities.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">G. N. Wilson</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Bairdstown, Oglethorpe County, Georgia.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Stamps, minerals, and eggs of the crow, flicker, spotted tattler, +and kingfisher, for eggs of a loon, eagle, gull, or snipe.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">W. A. Webster</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">394 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Foreign postage stamps, birds' nests, shells, and minerals for +birds' eggs, shells, and foreign coins.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Laura Bingham</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Lansing, Michigan.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Chinese curiosities, agates, and postmarks for rare birds' eggs and +postage stamps.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">C. H. Gurnett</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postage stamps and postmarks for stamps.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Mary H. Kimball</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">P. O. Box 493, Stamford, Connecticut.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postage stamps.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">T. N. Catrevas</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">13 West Twentieth Street, New York City.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postage stamps and coin.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Sammie P. Cranage</span>, Bay City, Michigan.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postage stamps, especially specimens from Japan and Hong-Kong, for +others.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">F. L. Macondray</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">1916 Jackson Street, San Francisco, California.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Birds' eggs, stamps, and postmarks for the same, or for minerals, +coins, or Indian relics.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Ralph J. Wood</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">39 (old number) Wildwood Avenue,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Jackson, Michigan.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Five foreign postage stamps for an ounce of soil from any State, or +thirty foreign stamps for an Indian arrow-head. No duplicate stamp +in either exchange.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">C. B. Fernald</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">1123 Girard Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Foreign postage stamps or United States postmarks for shells or +minerals.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">George E. Wells</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">40 Cottage Place, Hackensack, New Jersey.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Five rare foreign stamps for a good mineral specimen.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">C. C. Shelley, Jun</span>.,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">93 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, New York.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Sea and fresh water shells and minerals for other minerals and +Indian curiosities.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Royal Ferraud</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">141 Front Street, West, Detroit, Michigan.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">William Tell Archers, New Orleans</span>.—Bows vary in price from three +dollars to ninety and even one hundred dollars each. It would be well to +write to Messrs. Peck & Snyder, Nassau Street, New York city, importers +of English archery goods, for one of their catalogues. E. I. Horsman, of +80 William Street, New York city, would also send his catalogue on +application, and his list comprises all archery goods manufactured in +this country, which are sold at lower prices than the English +importations. We never heard of a whalebone bow on an archery field.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Henry R. C., George E. B., and Others</span>.—Messrs. Harper & Brothers will +furnish the cover for <span class="smcap">Young People</span>, Vol. I., at the price stated in the +advertisement on this page, but in no case can they attend to the +binding.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Louis H</span>.—A stamp collection consists of stamps of <i>different +denominations</i> from all countries. The special locality in the country +from which the specimen is sent adds to the interest of a postmark, but +not to that of a stamp. Different issues of the same denomination, when +you can obtain them, should have a place in your stamp album. For +example, there have been a good many issues, varying in design and +color, of the United States three-cent stamp. Each one is a valuable +specimen; but if you have two or more exactly alike, paste only one in +your album, and reserve the duplicates for exchange.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">B. B</span>.—It is not often that we can make room in the Post-office Box for +pictures, and we are constantly compelled to decline pretty and +interesting drawings by our young friends. We can much more easily give +space to a short description in writing of any curious phase of wild +Indian life that you may notice than to a pictured representation.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">W. E. L</span>.—Your story shows imagination, but is not good enough to +print.—Unless you have a natural gift for ventriloquism you will find +it a difficult art to learn. Several books of instruction have been +published, but they are not very satisfactory, and you would learn +better by procuring a good teacher than by endeavoring to follow the +directions of a hand-book.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">E. A. De L</span>.—A badge expressing the motto of your society is not very +easy to invent. A gold shield bearing the letters F. S. arranged as a +monogram, in blue, white, or black enamel would be very simple, and as +appropriate, perhaps, as any more marked design.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p>Favors are acknowledged from Charles Werner, Ida L. G., Harry C. Earle, +Pearl A. H., Isabella T. Niven, Will S. Norton, Mary K. Bidwell, George +K. Diller, Anna Wierum, Mark Manly, Latham T. Souther, Maggie +Behlendorff, Joey W. Dodson, Aaron W. King, Charlie, Hattie Wilcox, +Clara Clark, Florence M. Donalds, Eddie L. S., Sarabelle, E. T. Rice, J. +Fitzsimons, Cassie C. Fraleigh, Mary H. Lougee, Coleman E. A., Fred +S. C., Eddie R. T., Edgar E. Helm, Emmer Edwards, Eunice Kate, Clarence +D. C.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p>Correct answers to puzzles are received from Lena Fox, H. M. P., Stella +Pratt, Mary L. Fobes, "Unle Ravaler," C. Gaylor, William A. Lewis, C. H. +McB., Cal I. Forny, The Dawley Boys, Mary S. Twing.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<h3>PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.</h3> + +<h3>No. 1.</h3> + +<h3>RHOMBOID—(<i>To Stella</i>).</h3> + +<p>Across.—A portable dwelling; a kind of food; to inclose; a poem. +Down.—A consonant; a printer's measure; novel; a genus of plants; to +hit gently; one of a printer's trials; a consonant.</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Mark Marcy</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<h3>No. 2.</h3> + +<h3>NUMERICAL CHARADE.</h3> + +<p>My whole is a Latin quotation, composed of 24 letters, from the fifth +book of Virgil's Æneid, which should be remembered by boys and girls.</p> + +<p>My 8, 23, 18, 7, 13 is a city of South America.</p> + +<p>My 3, 5, 24, 11, 22 is a city in India.</p> + +<p>My 2, 14, 22, 20, 6, 19 is a town of Belgium.</p> + +<p>My 1, 16, 24, 9 is a country of South America.</p> + +<p>My 21, 16, 17, 10, 4 is one of the British West Indies.</p> + +<p>My 15, 12, 11 is a town of Belgium, once a famous resort.</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">J. D. H</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<h3>No. 3.</h3> + +<h3>ENIGMA.</h3> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">In <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span> my first is hid.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">In goat my second, but not in kid.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">In letter my third, but the cunningest fox</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Will never find it in Post-office Box.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My fourth is in apple, but not in tree.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My fifth in Newton will always be.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My sixth is in month, but never in day.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My seventh in lightning, but not in ray.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My eighth is in runic, but never in Goth.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My ninth is hidden away in moth.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My tenth is in cloth, which that insect destroys.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My eleventh is in racket, but never in boys.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My twelfth is in hearing, but is not in sight.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My thirteenth in shining, but never in bright.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">The secrets I hide no man shall know</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Though years may come and years may go.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Dame Durden</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<h3>ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN NO. 55.</h3> + +<h3>No. 1.</h3> + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align="left">L</td><td align="left">O</td><td align="left">V</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">R</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left">N</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">V</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">L</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">N</td><td align="left">I</td><td align="left">C</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">R</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">L</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">V</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">R</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">S</td><td align="left">I</td><td align="left">D</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">S</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<h3>No. 2.</h3> + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">S</td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">E</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left">T</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">G</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">S</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">S</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">I</td><td align="left">N</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">G</td><td align="left">L</td><td align="left">E</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">N</td><td align="left">T</td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">S</td><td align="left">L</td><td align="left">Y</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">E</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<h3>No. 3.</h3> + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align="center">A</td><td align="center">caci</td><td align="center">A</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">R</td><td align="center">ave</td><td align="center">N</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">B</td><td align="center">lu</td><td align="center">E</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">U</td><td align="center">nifor</td><td align="center">M</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">T</td><td align="center">atto</td><td align="center">O</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">U</td><td align="center">niso</td><td align="center">N</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">S</td><td align="center">avag</td><td align="center">E</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<p class="center">Arbutus, Anemone.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<h2><a name="HARPERS_YOUNG_PEOPLE" id="HARPERS_YOUNG_PEOPLE">HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE.</a></h2> + +<p><span class="smcap">Single Copies</span>, 4 cents; 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Green, Frank Miller, +Helen S. W., P. B. A., Willie Dobbs, Charlie Dobbs, Agnes D. Cram, +Carrie Rauchfuss, L. O. S., Fred. K. Houston, Howard Starrett, Bertha W. +Gill, Willie B. Morris, Millie Olmsted, Nellie Cruger, F. J. Kaufman, +May Longwell, "Masher" (G. H. Gillett), Hattie Wilcox, Everett C. Fay, +C. H. T., Bennie Darrow, Claudius W. Tice, Lam, G. C. Meyer, Hugh +Downing, Carrie Davis, M. O. Krum, Howard Rathbon, D. B. C., Jun., +Newton C., J. B. D., Ida Belle, Agnes, Edith Williams, Herman Muhr, Big +Brother, Tommy Roberts, Mamie Hornfager, Hattie Kerr.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> See Kerr's <i>History of Scotland</i>, Vol. II., p. 499.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> Jesus Hominum Salvator.</p></div></div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, December 7, 1880, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, DEC 7, 1880 *** + +***** This file should be named 44279-h.htm or 44279-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/4/4/2/7/44279/ + +Produced by Annie R. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Harper's Young People, December 7, 1880 + An Illustrated Monthly + +Author: Various + +Release Date: November 24, 2013 [EBook #44279] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, DEC 7, 1880 *** + + + + +Produced by Annie R. McGuire + + + + + + + + +[Illustration: HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE +AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.] + + * * * * * + +VOL. II.--NO. 58. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR +CENTS. + +Tuesday, December 1, 1880. Copyright, 1880, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50 +per Year, in Advance. + + * * * * * + + + + +[Illustration: TOBY STRIKES A BARGAIN--DRAWN BY W. A. ROGERS.] + +TOBY TYLER; OR, TEN WEEKS WITH A CIRCUS. + +BY JAMES OTIS. + +CHAPTER I. + +TOBY'S INTRODUCTION TO THE CIRCUS. + + +"Couldn't you give more'n six pea-nuts for a cent?" was a question asked +by a very small boy with big, staring eyes, of a candy vender at a +circus booth. And as he spoke he looked wistfully at the quantity of +nuts piled high up on the basket, and then at the six, each of which now +looked so small as he held them in his hand. + +"Couldn't do it," was the reply of the proprietor of the booth, as he +put the boy's penny carefully away in the drawer. + +The little fellow looked for another moment at his purchase, and then +carefully cracked the largest one. + +A shade, and a very deep shade it was, of disappointment that passed +over his face, and then looking up anxiously, he asked, "Don't you swap +'em when they're bad?" + +The man's face looked as if a smile had been a stranger to it for a +long time; but one did pay it a visit just then, and he tossed the boy +two nuts, and asked him a question at the same time. "What is your +name?" + +The big brown eyes looked up for an instant, as if to learn whether the +question was asked in good faith, and then their owner said, as he +carefully picked apart another nut, "Toby Tyler." + +"Well, that's a queer name." + +"Yes, I s'pose so, myself; but, you see, I don't expect that's the name +that belongs to me. But the fellers call me so, an' so does Uncle +Dan'l." + +"Who is Uncle Daniel?" was the next question. In the absence of any more +profitable customer the man seemed disposed to get as much amusement out +of the boy as possible. + +"He hain't my uncle at all; I only call him so because all the boys do, +an' I live with him." + +"Where's your father and mother?" + +"I don't know," said Toby, rather carelessly. "I don't know much about +'em, an' Uncle Dan'l says they don't know much about me. Here's another +bad nut; goin' to give me two more?" + +The two nuts were given him, and he said, as he put them in his pocket, +and turned over and over again those which he held in his hand, "I +shouldn't wonder if all of these was bad. Sposen you give me two for +each one of 'em before I crack 'em, an' then they won't be spoiled so +you can't sell 'em again." + +As this offer of barter was made, the man looked amused, and he asked, +as he counted out the number which Toby desired, "If I give you these, I +suppose you'll want me to give you two more for each one, and you'll +keep that kind of a trade going until you get my whole stock?" + +"I won't open my head if every one of 'em's bad." + +"All right; you can keep what you've got, and I'll give you these +besides; but I don't want you to buy any more, for I don't want to do +that kind of business." + +Toby took the nuts offered, not in the least abashed, and seated himself +on a convenient stone to eat them, and at the same time to see all that +was going on around him. The coming of a circus to the little town of +Guilford was an event, and Toby had hardly thought of anything else +since the highly colored posters had first been put up. It was yet quite +early in the morning, and the tents were just being erected by the men. +Toby had followed, with eager eyes, everything that looked as if it +belonged to the circus, from the time the first wagon had entered the +town, until the street parade had been made, and everything was being +prepared for the afternoon's performance. + +The man who had made the losing trade in pea-nuts seemed disposed to +question the boy still further, probably owing to the fact that trade +was dull, and he had nothing better to do. + +"Who is this Uncle Daniel you say you live with--is he a farmer?" + +"No; he's a Deacon, an' he raps me over the head with the hymn-book +whenever I go to sleep in meetin', an' he says I eat four times as much +as I earn. I blame him for hittin' so hard when I go to sleep, but I +s'pose he's right about my eatin'. You see," and here his tone grew both +confidential and mournful, "I am an awful eater, an' I can't seem to +help it. Somehow I'm hungry all the time. I don't seem ever to get +enough till carrot-time comes, an' then I can get all I want without +troubling anybody." + +"Didn't you ever have enough to eat?" + +"I s'pose I did, but you see Uncle Dan'l he found me one mornin' on his +hay, an' he says I was cryin' for something to eat then, an' I've kept +it up ever since. I tried to get him to give me money enough to go into +the circus with; but he said a cent was all he could spare these hard +times, an' I'd better take that an' buy something to eat with it, for +the show wasn't very good anyway. I wish pea-nuts wasn't but a cent a +bushel." + +"Then you would make yourself sick eating them." + +"Yes, I s'pose I should; Uncle Dan'l says I'd eat till I was sick, if I +got the chance; but I'd like to try it once." + +He was a very small boy, with a round head covered with short red +hair, a face as speckled as any turkey's egg, but thoroughly +good-natured-looking, and as he sat there on the rather sharp point of +the rock, swaying his body to and fro as he hugged his knees with his +hands, and kept his eyes fastened on the tempting display of good things +before him, it would have been a very hard-hearted man who would not +have given him something. But Mr. Job Lord, the proprietor of the booth, +was a hard-hearted man, and he did not make the slightest advance toward +offering the little fellow anything. + +Toby rocked himself silently for a moment, and then he said, +hesitatingly, "I don't suppose you'd like to sell me some things, an' +let me pay you when I get older, would you?" + +Mr. Lord shook his head decidedly at this proposition. + +"I didn't s'pose you would," said Toby, quickly; "but you didn't seem to +be selling anything, an' I thought I'd just see what you'd say about +it." And then he appeared suddenly to see something wonderfully +interesting behind him, which served as an excuse to turn his reddening +face away. + +"I suppose your uncle Daniel makes you work for your living, don't he?" +asked Mr. Lord, after he had re-arranged his stock of candy, and had +added a couple of slices of lemon peel to what was popularly supposed to +be lemonade. + +"That's what I think; but he says that all the work I do wouldn't pay +for the meal that one chicken would eat, an' I s'pose it's so, for I +don't like to work as well as a feller without any father and mother +ought to. I don't know why it is, but I guess it's because I take up so +much time eatin' that it kinder tires me out. I s'pose you go into the +circus whenever you want to, don't you?" + +"Oh yes; I'm there at every performance, for I keep the stand under the +big canvas as well as this one out here." + +There was a great big sigh from out Toby's little round stomach, as he +thought what bliss it must be to own all those good things, and to see +the circus wherever it went. "It must be nice," he said, as he faced the +booth and its hard-visaged proprietor once more. + +"How would you like it?" asked Mr. Lord, patronizingly, as he looked +Toby over in a business way, very much as if he contemplated purchasing +him. + +"Like it!" echoed Toby; "why, I'd grow fat on it." + +"I don't know as that would be any advantage," continued Mr. Lord, +reflectively, "for it strikes me that you're about as fat now as a boy +of your age ought to be. But I've a great mind to give you a chance." + +"What!" cried Toby, in amazement, and his eyes opened to their widest +extent, as this possible opportunity of leading a delightful life +presented itself. + +"Yes, I've a great mind to give you the chance. You see," and now it was +Mr. Lord's turn to grow confidential, "I've had a boy with me this +season, but he cleared out at the last town, and I'm running the +business alone now." + +Toby's face expressed all the contempt he felt for the boy who would run +away from such a glorious life as Mr. Lord's assistant must lead; but he +said not a word, waiting in breathless expectation for the offer which +he now felt certain would be made him. + +"Now I ain't hard on a boy," continued Mr. Lord, still confidentially, +"and yet that one seemed to think that he was treated worse and made to +work harder than any boy in the world." + +"He ought to live with Uncle Dan'l a week," said Toby, eagerly. + +"Here I was just like a father to him," said Mr. Lord, paying no +attention to the interruption, "and I gave him his board and lodging, +and a dollar a week besides." + +"Could he do what he wanted to with the dollar?" + +"Of course he could. I never checked him, no matter how extravagant he +was, an' yet I've seen him spend his whole week's wages at this very +stand in one afternoon. And even after his money had all gone that way, +I've paid for peppermint and ginger out of my own pocket just to cure +his stomach-ache." + +Toby shook his head mournfully, as if deploring that depravity which +could cause a boy to run away from such a tender-hearted employer, and +from such a desirable position. But even as he shook his head so sadly, +he looked wistfully at the pea-nuts, and Mr. Lord observed the look. + +It may have been that Mr. Job Lord was the tender-hearted man he prided +himself upon being, or it may have been that he wished to purchase +Toby's sympathy; but, at all events, he gave him a large handful of +nuts, and Toby never bothered his little round head as to what motive +prompted the gift. Now he could listen to the story of the boy's +treachery and eat at the same time, therefore he was an attentive +listener. + +"All in the world that boy had to do," continued Mr. Lord, in the same +injured tone he had previously used, "was to help me set things to +rights when we struck a town in the morning, and then tend to the +counter till we left the town at night, and all the rest of the time he +had to himself. Yet that boy was ungrateful enough to run away." + +Mr. Lord paused as if expecting some expression of sympathy from his +listener; but Toby was so busily engaged with his unexpected feast, and +his mouth was so full, that it did not seem even possible for him to +shake his head. + +"Now what should you say if I told you that you looked to me like a boy +that was made especially to help run a candy counter at a circus, and if +I offered the place to you?" + +Toby made one frantic effort to swallow the very large mouthful, and in +a choking voice he answered, quickly, "I should say I'd go with you, an' +be mighty glad of the chance." + +"Then it's a bargain, my boy, and you shall leave town with me +to-night." + +[TO BE CONTINUED.] + + + + +SOUTH AFRICAN DIAMONDS. + + +A recent report from the Cape of Good Hope states that a diamond +weighing 225 carats has been found at the Du Toits Pan mine, and a very +fine white stone of 115 carats in Jagersfontein mine, in the Free State. + +The lucky finders of these stones are vastly richer than they were a few +weeks ago, for if these diamonds are of the best quality, they will be +worth thousands upon thousands of dollars. + +It is only ten years ago that all the world was taken by surprise at +hearing that some of these precious stones had been found in the African +colony; and this is how it came about. A little boy, the son of a Dutch +farmer living near Hope Town, of the name of Jacobs, had been amusing +himself in collecting pebbles. One of these was sufficiently bright to +attract the keen eye of his mother; but she regarded it simply as a +curious stone, and it was thrown down outside the house. Some time +afterward she mentioned it to a neighbor, who, on seeing it, offered to +buy it. The good woman laughed at the idea of selling a common bright +pebble, and at once gave it to him, and he intrusted it to a friend, to +find out its value; and Dr. Atherstone, of Graham's Town, was the first +to pronounce it a _diamond_. It was then sent to Cape Town, forwarded to +the Paris Exhibition, and it was afterward purchased by the Governor of +the colony, Sir Philip Wodehouse, for L500. + +This discovery of the _first_ Cape diamond was soon followed by others, +and led to the development of the great diamond fields of South Africa. + + + + +THE HEART OF BRUCE.[1] + +BY LILLIE E. BARR. + + Beside Dumbarton's castled steep the Bruce lay down to die; + Great Highland chiefs and belted earls stood sad and silent nigh. + The warm June breezes filled the room, all sweet with flowers and hay, + The warm June sunshine flecked the couch on which the monarch lay. + + The mailed men like statues stood; under their bated breath + The prostrate priests prayed solemnly within the room of death; + While through the open casements came the evening song of birds, + The distant cries of kye and sheep, the lowing of the herds. + + And so they kept their long, last watch till shades of evening fell; + Then strong and clear King Robert spoke: "Dear brother knights, farewell! + Come to me, Douglas--take my hand. Wilt thou, for my poor sake, + Redeem my vow, and fight my fight, lest I my promise break? + + "I ne'er shall see Christ's sepulchre, nor tread the Holy Land; + I ne'er shall lift my good broadsword against the Paynim band; + Yet I was vowed to Palestine: therefore take thou my heart, + And with far purer hands than mine play thou the Bruce's part." + + Then Douglas, weeping, kissed the King, and said: "While I have breath + The vow thou made I will fulfill--yea, even unto death: + Where'er I go thy heart shall go; it shall be first in fight. + Ten thousand thanks for such a trust! Douglas is Bruce's knight." + + They laid the King in Dunfermline--not yet his heart could rest; + For it hung within a priceless case upon the Douglas' breast. + And many a chief with Douglas stood: it was a noble line + Set sail to fight the Infidel in holy Palestine. + + Their vessel touched at fair Seville. They heard upon that day + How Christian Leon and Castile before the Moslem lay, + Then Douglas said, "O heart of Bruce! thy fortune still is great, + For, ere half done thy pilgrimage, the foe for thee doth wait." + + Dark Osmyn came; the Christians heard his long yell, "Allah hu!" + The brave Earl Douglas led the van as they to battle flew; + Sir William Sinclair on his left, the Logans on his right, + St. Andrew's blood-red cross above upon its field of white. + + Then Douglas took the Bruce's heart, and flung it far before. + "_Pass onward first_, O noble heart, as in the days of yore! + For Holy Rood and Christian Faith make thou a path, and we + With loyal hearts and flashing swords will gladly follow thee." + + All day the fiercest battle raged just where that heart did fall, + For round it stood the Scottish lords, a fierce and living wall. + Douglas was slain, with many a knight; yet died they not in vain, + For past that wall of hearts and steel the Moslem never came. + + The Bruce's heart and Douglas' corse went back to Scotland's land, + Borne by the wounded remnant of that brave and pious band. + Fair Melrose Abbey the great heart in quiet rest doth keep, + And Douglas in the Douglas' church hath sweet and honored sleep. + + In pillared marble Scotland tells her love, and grief, and pride. + Vain is the stone: all Scottish hearts the Bruce and Douglas hide. + The "gentle Sir James Douglas" and "the Bruce of Bannockburn" + Are names forever sweet and fresh for years untold to learn. + +FOOTNOTES: + +[1] See Kerr's _History of Scotland_, Vol. II., p. 499. + + + + +[Illustration: AMATEUR THEATRICALS--THE CALL BEFORE THE CURTAIN.] + + + + +THE KANGAROO. + + +In the large island of Australia--an island so vast as to be ranked as a +continent--nature has produced a singular menagerie. + +The first discoverers of this country must have stared in amazement at +the strange sights which met their eyes. There were wildernesses of +luxuriant and curious vegetable growths, inhabited by large quadrupeds +which appeared as bipeds; queer little beasts with bills like a duck, +ostriches covered with hair instead of feathers, and legions of odd +birds, while the whole woods were noisy with the screeching and prating +of thousands of paroquets and cockatoos. + +[Illustration: THE HOME OF THE KANGAROO.] + +The largest and oddest Australian quadruped is the kangaroo, a member of +that strange family, the Marsupialia, which are provided with a pouch, +or bag, in which they carry their little ones until they are strong +enough to scamper about and take care of themselves. + +The delicately formed head of this strange creature, and its short +fore-legs, are out of all proportion to the lower part of its body, +which is furnished with a very long tail, and its hind-legs, which are +large and very strong. It stands erect as tall as a man, and moves by a +succession of rapid jumps, propelled by its hind-feet, its fore-paws +meanwhile being folded across its breast. A large kangaroo will weigh +fully two hundred pounds, and will cover as much as sixteen feet at one +jump. + +The body of this beast is covered with thick, soft, woolly fur of a +grayish-brown color. It is very harmless and inoffensive, and it is a +very pretty sight to see a little group of kangaroos feeding quietly in +a forest clearing. Their diet is entirely vegetable. They nibble grass +or leaves, or eat certain kinds of roots, the stout, long claws of their +hind-feet serving them as a convenient pickaxe to dig with. + +The kangaroo is a very tender and affectionate mother. When the baby is +born it is the most helpless creature imaginable, blind, and not much +bigger than a new-born kitten. But the mother lifts it carefully with +her lips, and gently deposits it in her pocket, where it cuddles down +and begins to grow. This pocket is its home for six or seven months, +until it becomes strong and wise enough to fight its own battles in the +woodland world. While living in its mother's pocket it is very lively. +It is very funny to see a little head emerging all of a sudden from the +soft fur of the mother's breast, with bright eyes peeping about to see +what is going on in the outside world; or perhaps nothing is visible but +a little tail wagging contentedly, while its baby owner is hidden from +sight. + +The largest kangaroos are called menuahs or boomers by the Australian +natives, and their flesh is considered a great delicacy, in flavor +something like young venison. For this reason these harmless creatures +are hunted and killed in large numbers. They are very shy, and not very +easy to catch; but the cunning bushmen hide themselves in the thicket, +and when their unsuspecting prey approaches, they hurl a lance into its +body. The wounded kangaroo springs off with tremendous leaps, but soon +becomes exhausted, and falls on the turf. + +If brought to bay, this gentle beast will defend itself vigorously. With +its back planted firmly against a tree, it has been known to keep off an +army of dogs for hours, by dealing them terrible blows with its strong +hind-feet, until the arrival of the hunter with his gun put an end to +the contest. At other times the kangaroo, being an expert swimmer, will +rush into the water, and if a venturesome dog dares to follow, it will +seize him, and hold his head under water till he is drowned. + +Kangaroos are often brought to zoological gardens, and are contented in +captivity, so long as they have plenty of corn, roots, and fresh hay to +eat. + + + + +DECORATIONS FOR CHRISTMAS. + +BY A. W. ROBERTS. + + +A great variety of material abounds in our woods that can be utilized +for Christmas decorations. + +All trees, shrubs, mosses, and lichens that are evergreen during the +winter months, such as holly, ink-berry, laurels, hemlocks, cedars, +spruces, arbor vitae, are used at Christmas-time for in-door +ornamentation. Then come the club-mosses (_Lycopodiums_), particularly +the one known as "bouquet-green," and ground-pine, which are useful for +the more delicate and smaller designs. Again, we have the wood mosses +and wood lichens, pressed native ferns and autumn leaves; and, if the +woods are not accessible, from our own gardens many cultivated +evergreens can be obtained, such as box, arbor vitae, rhododendron, ivy, +juniper, etc. + +Where it is desirable to use bright colors to lighten up the sombreness +of some of the greens, our native berries can be used to great +advantage. In the woods are to be found the partridge-berries, +bitter-sweet, rose-berries, black alder, holly-berries, cedar-berries, +cranberries, and sumac. Dried grasses and everlasting-flowers can be +pressed into service. For very brilliant effects gold-leaf, gold paper, +and frosting (obtainable at paint stores) are used. + +[Illustration: Fig. 1.] + +Fig. 1 represents a simple wreath of holly leaves and berries, sewn on +to a circular piece of pasteboard, which was first coated with calcimine +of a delicate light blue, on which, before the glue contained in the +calcimine dried, a coating of white frosting was dusted. The monogram +XMS is drawn on drawing-paper highly illuminated with gold-leaf and +brilliant colors, after which it is cut out, and fastened in position. + +[Illustration: Fig. 2.] + +Fig. 2 consists of a foundation of pasteboard, shaped as shown in the +illustration. The four outside curves are perforated with a +darning-needle. These perforations are desirable when the bouquet-green +is to be fastened on in raised compact masses. The four crescent-shaped +pieces of board are colored white, and coated with white frosting. On +the crescents are sewn sprays of ivy and bunches of bright red berries. +From the outer edge of the crescents radiate branches of hemlock or +fronds of dried ferns. For the legend in the centre the monogram +I.H.S.,[2] or "A merry Christmas to all," cut out in gold paper, looks +well. + +[Illustration: Fig. 3.] + +Fig. 3 consists of a combination of branches of apple wood, or other +wood of rich colors and texture, neatly joined together so as to form +the letters M and X. (In selecting the wood always choose that which has +the heaviest growth of lichens and mosses.) + +For the ornamentation of the rustic monogram I use wood and rock +lichens, fungi, Spanish moss, and pressed climbing fern. Holes are bored +into the rustic letters, into which are inserted small branches of holly +in full berry. By trimming the monogram on both sides it looks very +effective when hung between the folding-doors of a parlor, where the +climbing fern may be trained out (on fine wires or green threads) in all +directions, so as to form a triumphal archway. By using large fungi for +the feet of the letters M and X (as shown in the illustration), the +monogram can be used as a mantel-piece ornament, training fern and ivy +from it and over picture-frames. The letter S in the monogram is +composed of immortelles. + +[Illustration: Fig. 4.] + +Fig. 4 consists of a narrow strip of white muslin, on which is first +drawn with a pencil in outline the design to be worked in evergreens. +For this purpose only the finer and lighter evergreens can be used, as +the intention of this design is to form a bordering for the angle formed +by the wall and ceiling. This wall drapery is heavily trimmed with +berries, to cause it to hang close to the wall, and at the same time to +obtain richer effects of color. The evergreens and berries are fastened +to the muslin with thread and needle. + +[Illustration: Fig. 5.] + +Fig. 5 is composed of a strip of card-board covered with gold paper on +which the evergreens are sewed. This style of ornamentation is used for +covering the frames of pictures. + +Natural flowers formed into groups can be made to produce very beautiful +effects for the mantel-piece and corner brackets of a room. The pots +should be hidden by covering them with evergreens, or the wood moss that +grows on the trunks of trees. For mounting berries fine wire will be +found very useful. I have always used, and with good effect, the rich +brown cones of evergreens and birches for Christmas decorations. + +Very rich and heavy effects of color can be produced by using dry colors +for backgrounds in the following manner. On the face of the pasteboard +on which you intend to work the evergreen design lay a thin coating of +hot glue; before the glue dries or chills dust on dry ultramarine blue, +or any of the lakes, or chrome greens. As soon as the glue has set, blow +off the remaining loose color, and the result will be a field of rich +"dead" color. To make the effect still more brilliant, touch up the +blues and lakes with slashings of gold-leaf ("Dutch metal" will answer +every purpose), fastening the gold-leaf with glue. Don't plaster it +down, but put it on loose, so that it stands out from the field of +color. + +FOOTNOTES: + +[2] Jesus Hominum Salvator. + + + + +W. HOLMAN HUNT'S "FINDING OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE." + +BY THE REV. WILLIAM M. TAYLOR, D.D. + + +The double-page picture which appears in this week's YOUNG PEOPLE is +well worthy of study, alike for the school to which it belongs, the +subject which it seeks to portray, and the manner in which that subject +is treated by the artist. The original painting, of which the +reproduction (save, of course, in the matter of coloring) is an +admirable representation, is the production of William Holman Hunt. Few +sermons have been so impressive as some of this artist's pictures. +Everybody knows the beautiful one which he has called "The Light of the +World," and no person of any intelligence can look upon that without +having recalled to his mind these words, "Behold, I stand at the door +and knock." But it may not be so generally known that this impression is +thus strongly produced upon the spectator because it was first very +deeply made on the artist himself. A friend of ours told us this +beautiful story. The original painting of "The Light of the World" is in +the possession of an English gentleman, at whose house one known to both +of us had been a guest. While he was there the frame had been taken off +the picture for purposes of cleaning, and the stranger had thus an +opportunity of examining it very closely. He found on the canvas, where +it had been covered by the frame, these words, in the writing of the +artist: "_Nec me praetermittas, Domine!_"--"Nor pass me by, O Lord!" +Thus, like the Fra Angelico, Mr. Hunt seems to have painted that work +upon his knees; and it is a sermon to those who look upon it, because it +was first a prayer in him who produced it. + +Much the same, we are confident, may be said of the picture which is now +before us. All our readers must know the story. When the "divine boy" +was about twelve years of age he was taken by Joseph and Mary to the +Passover feast at Jerusalem. They went up with a company from their own +neighborhood, and after the feast was over they had started to return in +the same way. But Jesus was not to be found. Still supposing that he was +somewhere in their company, they went a day's journey, and "sought him +among their kinsfolk and acquaintance." Their search, however, was +fruitless, and so, "sorrowing" and anxious, they returned to Jerusalem, +where they ultimately found him in the Temple, "sitting in the midst of +the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions." They were +amazed at the sight; and his mother, relieved, and perhaps also a little +troubled, said, "Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy +father and I have sought thee sorrowing." To which he made reply, "How +is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's +business?" These words are remarkable as the first recorded utterance of +conscious Messiahship that came from the lips of our Lord. They indicate +that now his human intelligence has come to the perception of his divine +dignity and mission; and when he went down to Nazareth, and was subject +to Joseph and Mary, it was with the distinct assurance within him that +Joseph was not his father, and that there was ultimately a higher +business before him than the work of the carpenter. Still, he knew that +only through the lower could he reach the higher, and therefore he went +down, contented to wait until the day of his manifestation came. + +The artist has seized the moment when Jesus made this striking reply to +his mother, and everything in the picture is made to turn on that. The +scene is the interior of the Temple. The time is high day, for workmen +are busily engaged at a stone on the outside, and a beggar is lolling at +the gate in the act of asking alms. The Jewish doctors are seated. First +in the line is an aged rabbi with flowing beard, and clasping a roll +with his right hand. Over his eyes a film is spread, which indicates +that he is blind; and so his neighbor, almost as aged as himself, is +explaining to him why the boy has ceased to ask his questions, by +telling him that his mother has come to claim him. Beside him, and the +third in the group, is a younger man, whose face is full of eager +thoughtfulness, and whose hands hold an unfolded roll, to which it +appears as if he had been referring because of something which had just +been said. + +The other faces are less marked with seriousness, and seem to be +indicative rather of curiosity; but we make little account of them +because of the fascination which draws our eyes to the principal group. +The face of Joseph, as Alford says, is "well-nigh faultless." It is full +of thankful joy over the discovery of the boy; and though to our +thinking Joseph was an older man than he is here depicted, yet +everything about him is natural and manly. The Mary is hardly so +successful. The narrative does not represent her as speaking softly into +the ear of her son, but rather as breaking in abruptly on the assembly +with her irrepressible outcry, "Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us?" +and there might well have been less of the soft persuasiveness and more +of the surprised look of what one might call wounded affection in her +face. But the portrayal of the boy Christ is admirable. We have never, +indeed, seen any representation of the face of Christ that has +thoroughly satisfied us, and we do not expect ever to see one. But this +one is most excellent. The "far-away" look in the eyes, and the +expression of absorption on the countenance, betoken that his thoughts +are intent upon that divine "business" which he came to earth to +transact. Exquisite, too, as so thoroughly human, is the playing of the +right hand with the strap of his girdle in his moment of abstraction. In +the far future the great business of his life is beckoning him on; but +close at hand his duty to his mother is asserting its immediate claim. +In his eager response to the first, he cries, "Wist ye not that I must +be about my Father's business?" and his thoughts are after that +meanwhile; but ere long the demand of the present will prevail, and he +will go down with his parents, and be subject to them. This +"righteousness" also he has to "fulfill," even as a part of that +"business." + +Take the picture, boys; frame it, and hang it where you can often see +it. You will be reminded by it wholesomely of one who was once as really +a boy as you; and when the future seems to be calling you on, and +begging you to leap at once into its work, a look at the Christ-face +will help you to seek the glory of the future in submission to the +claims of the duties of the present, and will say to you, "He that +believeth shall not make haste." Through the performance of the duties +of a son to his mother Jesus passed to the business of saving men; and +in the same way, through faithful diligence where you are, the door will +open for you into the future which seems to you so attractive. It is +right to have a business before you. It is right, also, for you to feel +that the work you want to do in the world is "your Father's business." +We would not have you fix your heart on anything which you could not so +describe. But whatever that may be, rely upon it you will never reach it +by neglecting present duty. On the contrary, the more diligent and +faithful you are now as boys in the home and in the school, the more +surely will the door into eminence open for you as men. Let the picture, +therefore, stimulate you to holy ambition, and yet encourage you to wait +patiently in the discharge of present duty until the time comes for your +elevation. The way to come at your true business in life is to do well +the present business of your boyhood. + +[Illustration: "THE FINDING OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE."--FROM A PAINTING +BY W. HOLMAN HUNT.--SEE PAGE 87.] + + + + +THE CAPTAIN'S BOY ON THE PENNY BOAT. + +BY H. F. REDDALL. + + +Imagine a side-wheel steamboat a hundred and fifty or two hundred feet +long, her hull painted black, red, or red and white, with only one deck, +entirely open from stem to stern; a hot, stuffy cabin below the +water-line, her engines, of the cylinder pattern, entirely below the +deck, and you have some idea of a London "penny boat"--a very different +affair from our jaunty American river craft. + +As most of my young readers are aware, the river Thames divides the +great city of London into nearly equal parts. For nearly twelve miles +the metropolis stretches along either bank, and, as might be expected, +the river forms a convenient-highway for traffic--a sort of marine +Broadway, in fact. There are a number of bridges, each possessing from +six to ten arches, and through these the swift tide pours with +tremendous energy. From early dawn to dark the river's bosom is crowded +with every description of vessel. Below London Bridge, the first we meet +in going up stream, may be seen the murky collier moored close to the +neat and trim East Indiaman, the heavy Dutch galiot scraping sides with +the swift mail-packet, or the fishing-boat nodding responsive to the +Custom-house revenue-cutter. + +Above and between the bridges the scene changes, but is none the less +animated. Here comes a heavy, lumbering barge, its brown sail loosely +furled, depending for its momentum upon the tide, and guided by a long +sweep. Barges, lighters, tugs, fishing-smacks, passenger steamboats, and +a variety of smaller craft so crowd the river that were we to stand on +Blackfriars Bridge a boat of some description would pass under the +arches every thirty or forty seconds. + +But by far the most important feature is the passenger-boats. These are +apparently countless. They make landings every few blocks, now on one +side the river, now on the other, darting here and there, up and down, +and adding largely to the bustle. For a penny, the equivalent of two +cents American currency, one may enjoy a water ride of five or six +miles--say from London Bridge to Lambeth Palace. When we reflect that +all this immense traffic is crowded between the banks of a stream at no +point as wide as the East River opposite Fulton Ferry, New York, and +impeded by bridges at that, the difficulties of navigation will be in +some measure understood; and I have purposely dwelt on this that my +readers may fully appreciate what follows. + +Every one knows how, in America, the steamboat is controlled by a pilot +perched high above the passengers in the "pilot-house"; how he steers +the boat, and at the same time communicates with the engineer far below +him by means of bells--the gong, the big jingle, the little jingle, and +so on. But the penny boats of the Thames are managed far differently. +The wheelsman is at the stern in the old-fashioned way; but on a bridge +stretched amidships between the two paddle-boxes, and right over a +skylight opening into the engine-room, stands the captain. Beneath him, +sitting or standing by this skylight, is a boy of not more than twelve +or fourteen years of age, who, I observed, from time to time called out +some utterly unintelligible words, in accordance with which the engine +was slowed, stopped, backed, or started ahead as occasion required. It +took me a long time to discover _what_ the boy said, from the peculiar +sing-song way in which he called out, but it took me much longer to find +out _why_ he said it. + +So far as I could see he had not as much interest in the boat as I had; +apparently he observed the constantly changing panorama of river +scenery--not an interesting sight on board escaped him, and yet as we +neared or departed from each landing-stage the same mysterious sounds, +only varied slightly, issued from his lips, and the boat stopped or went +ahead as the case might be. I asked myself if this wonderful boy might +not be the captain, but a glance at the weather-beaten figure on the +bridge showed me the absurdity of the idea. So I watched the latter +individual, from whom I was now sure the boy received his orders. But +how? That was the question. The captain and his boy were too far apart +to speak intelligibly to one another without all the passengers hearing +them: how, then, did the one on the bridge communicate his wishes to the +other at the skylight if not by speech? + +By dint of long watching I became aware that though apparently the eyes +of the lad saw everything there was to be seen, in reality he was most +watchful of the captain, hardly ever lifting his gaze from the figure +above him, and at last I discovered that by a scarcely perceptible +motion of his hand, merely opening and closing it, or with a simple +backward or forward motion from the wrist down, the captain conveyed his +orders to the boy, who responded by shouting in his shrill treble +through the skylight what, after much conjecture, I discovered to be +"Ease 'er!" "Stop 'er!" "Turn 'er astarn!" "Let 'er go ahead!" + +The gesture by the captain's hand was oftentimes so faint that I failed +to see it, though I was on the look-out; much less could I interpret its +meaning, yet the lad never once failed to give the correct order. + +Only think of it! The safety of these boats, their crews, and thousands +of passengers absolutely depends upon these youngsters, who in wind and +rain, sunshine or storm, are compelled to be at their posts for many +hours daily. If through inattention or inadvertence the wrong command +should be given to the engineer, a terrible calamity might occur. That +such is never or rarely the case speaks volumes for the fidelity and +attention to duty of these boys, who have very little opportunity for +training or education of any sort. + + + + +PACKAGE NO. 107. + +BY JAMES B. MARSHALL. + + +The express agent in San Francisco smiled very pleasantly when the +package was brought to him with a directed express tag properly tied on +it. But it was not so strange for him to smile, since he knew all about +that package, and had foretold the exact time required for a package to +reach New York. But the clerk who pasted a green label on the tag, and +marked on one end in blue ink "No. 107, Paid" so and so much, why should +he be amused? And why should the two express-wagon drivers who were in +the office at the time declare that that package would be something like +a surprise? + +Then an errand-boy came into the office to express a valise, having left +seven other boys standing on the nearest street corner before a +hand-organ that was playing the newest airs, which those seven boys were +learning to whistle. But why should that errand-boy, who was usually a +very quiet boy, immediately run to the office street door, and call, and +beckon, and wave his hat furiously for those seven boys to come and look +at package No. 107? Then those seven boys, in spite of the attraction of +the hand-organ, came on a run, and stood eagerly around the express +office door. And why wouldn't those boys go away until that package was +taken with other packages to the railroad station in one of the express +wagons? And what, also, greatly interested five other passing boys, a +Chinese laundry-man, two apple-women, and a policeman? + +Well, it was the same cause, which will soon appear, that made curious +and smiling the express people of Omaha, Chicago, and other places where +the package was seen on its way East to New York. + + * * * * * + +About a month previous to this, Mr. Benson had written to his wife from +California that owing to the slow settlement of the business that had +taken him there, he was beginning to fear he and Guy would not be able +to reach home even by the holidays. "But Guy says," wrote Mr. Benson, +"that if we only had mother here we would get along splendidly." + +A week later the unwelcome news came to Mrs. Benson in New York +explaining that Mr. Benson's business would further detain him in +California until the middle of March--three months to come. You may be +certain that Mrs. Benson was very sorry to think of passing Christmas +and New-Year's with three thousand miles separating her from her husband +and boy. But she was forced to smile as she read Guy's letter--mailed +with his father's--explaining how they might dine together on +Christmas-day, notwithstanding the three thousand miles. + +"I have found out," wrote Guy in his best handwriting, "that the +difference in time between New York and San Francisco is about three +hours and a quarter. So if you sit down to your dinner at a quarter past +four o'clock, your time, and we sit down to our dinner at one o'clock, +our time, we can in that way be dining together. We are going to have +for dinner exactly what we had at home on last Christmas. But you will +have the best time, for grandfather and grandmother will be with you, +and Uncle Tom and Aunt Mary, and Ben, Tom, Bertha, Sadie, Uncle Seth, +and all the rest of them." + +A few days after this letter was sent Mr. Benson mailed another one, in +which he told his wife that Guy had made a discovery on the previous +day, and they were going to send her a pleasant surprise--in fact, a +Christmas present. "The package will be sent by express, directed to +your address in New York," wrote Mr. Benson, "and we have so timed its +journey East that it will reach you some time on the day before +Christmas." + +This was package No. 107. + +But didn't Mrs. Benson wonder and wonder what was coming to her for a +surprise present? And didn't she imagine that it might be a nest of +Chinese tables, or a package of fine Russian tea, or an ivory castle, or +a bunch of California grapes weighing fifteen or twenty pounds, or +five-and-twenty other possible things? Then Guy's New York cousins, when +they heard of that expected package, didn't they all fall to guessing? +And they guessed and guessed until, as we say in "Hot Butter and Blue +Beans, please come to Supper," they were "cold," "very cold," and +"freezing." + +Cousin Ben finally decided, after changing his mind a dozen times a day, +that the package would prove to contain either the skin of the grizzly +bear that Guy, before leaving home, had thought he might find, or a big +piece of gold that Guy had been kindly allowed to dig out of some gold +mine. + +"Heigho! this is the day the package is to come," said Cousin Bertha, +the moment she awoke on that morning. But at noon-time Bertha, Ben, Jim, +Sadie, and even little Tom, knew that as yet the package had not +arrived. It had not arrived as late as four o'clock in the afternoon, +when the first three just mentioned, together with some of their elders, +went to Guy's mother's to supper. There Bertha, Ben, and Jim took turns +vainly watching at the windows for the express wagon, until they were +called to supper. + +Jingle! jingle! jingle! went the door-bell during the course of the +supper. And so much had that package been talked about and guessed about +that all paused in their eating and drinking, and listened in +expectation. + +"Please, ma'am," said Katie, coming from answering the ring, "the +expressman is at the door. He says he's got a most valuable package for +you, and would you please come and receipt for it?" + +Mrs. Benson found the expressman standing by the little table in the +hallway where Katie had left him, though in the mean time he had gone +back to his wagon and brought the package into the house. "Please sign +there," he said, pointing to his receipt-book. + +"It must be a very small package," thought Mrs. Benson, not seeing any +package, but imagining it might still be in the expressman's overcoat +pocket. + +"I was to say, Mrs. Benson," said the man, "that you must be prepared +for a very great, pleasant surprise." + +"Oh! I'm prepared to be surprised," answered Mrs. Benson. + +"Then please turn and look at the package standing there by the parlor +door." + +"Mother!" + +"Oh, Guy! my dear boy!" joyfully called Mrs. Benson, as Guy, with an +express tag tied around his arm, rushed into her arms, and clasped her +around the neck. + +"It's Guy himself," said Bertha, gleefully. + +"Hurrah! it's Guy!" called Ben and Jim; and they all instantly left the +supper table and hurried to greet him. + +But the adventures of package No. 107 could not be quickly told. Of how +it was discovered that it might be sent, how it had been directed like a +bundle of goods, how it had been receipted for over and over again, how +it had travelled all the way in the Pullman cars, how it was given as +much care and attention as if it had been a huge nugget of gold, and +very, very many more hows and whys. + + + + +MILDRED'S BARGAIN. + +A Story for Girls. + +BY MRS. JOHN LILLIE. + +CHAPTER I. + + +"Six o'clock! Thank fortune!" exclaimed one of a group of girls in Mr. +Hardman's store. + +Mildred Lee glanced up with a sigh of relief, moving with quicker +fingers at the thought of being so near the end of her day's work. She +was a pale pretty girl about sixteen, with soft brown hair, dark eyes, +and a something more refined in her air and manner than her associates. +Perhaps it was that in her dress there were none of the flimsy attempts +at finery which the other girls affected so strongly, or perhaps it was +only her quiet, lady-like self-possession which had in it nothing of +vulgar reticence or pride; but, in any case, there was a touch of +something superior to all lowering influences, and the most flippant +sales-woman in "Hardman's" lowered her tone of coarse good-humor, +stopped short in any gay recital, when Mildred's pretty face and quiet +little figure came in view. + +"Six o'clock," said Jenny Martin, a tall, "striking-looking" young +person, who was helping Milly to put away some ribbons. "Oh dear, now +we'll be kept! There comes that lady from Lane Street. She'll stay half +an hour." + +"Young ladies, what are you about?" exclaimed the voice of Mr. Hardman's +son and heir, a short, stout young man, very much overdressed, and who +bustled up to the counter, dispersing the little group with various +half-audible exclamations. Then he turned, bowing and smiling, to the +late customer. + +She was a plain, elderly woman, dressed in a quaint fashion, but bearing +unmistakable signs of good-breeding; evidently what even Mr. Tom Hardman +would recognize as a "_real_ lady." Miss Jenner, of Milltown, was +regarded by the store-keepers in her vicinity as a valuable customer. +She was known to be very rich, although eccentric, and her great red +brick house, a little back from the street, with its box-walked garden +and tall old trees, was one of the finest and most respectable in the +county. Miss Jenner had been two years abroad, and this was one of her +first visits to any Milltown store. She received Mr. Tom's servile +courtesies with rather an indifferent manner, glancing around the big, +showy store, scanning the faces of the tired young attendants, as she +said, "Is not Mildred Lee one of your sales-women?" + +"Miss Lee!" called out Mr. Tom. + +Mildred moved forward quickly, looking at the new customer with an air +of polite attention, but none of her employer's obsequiousness. + +[Illustration: THE LATE CUSTOMER--DRAWN BY JESSIE CURTIS SHEPHERD.] + +Miss Jenner met the young girl's glance with a swift critical stare. + +"Here," she said, rather shortly, "I want some gloves, and I'd prefer +your serving me." + +Miss Jenner's wishes could not be slighted, and so Mr. Hardman hovered +about deferentially, rather altering his tone of insolent command when +he spoke to the young sales-women, and finally dispersing them while he +walked up and down the cloak and mantle department, out of Miss Jenner's +hearing, yet sufficiently within sight to be recalled by a look from his +wealthy patroness. + +As soon as she found herself alone with the shop-girl, Miss Jenner said, +with a searching glance at the young face bending over the glove-box: + +"So you are Mildred! Child, it seems strange enough to see your father's +daughter here. How did it happen?" + +"Oh!" Mildred exclaimed. She drew a quick breath, while the color +flashed into her cheeks. "Did you know papa?" + +"Yes." Miss Jenner spoke rather shortly. + +"Well," said Mildred, "you see, after his death--we had almost nothing. +Mamma is giving music lessons, and I came here, just because it was all +I could get to do. Bertie is at school," the girl added, a little +proudly. + +"But your mother does not _live_ in Milltown?" the lady inquired, with a +frown of perplexity. + +"Not quite _in_ the town," said Mildred. "We have a little cottage on +the Dorsettown road. Papa seemed to think, before he died, that he would +like us to come to live here." + +Miss Jenner answered nothing for a few moments. She tapped the counter +with her fingers, pushed the point of her parasol into the ground, and +coughed significantly one or twice before she spoke. + +"Well, Mildred," she said, finally, "I suppose you know the way to my +house? I should like you to come to tea with me next Tuesday. I am +expecting some young friends." + +Mildred Lee could scarcely answer for a few moments. How often she had +passed and repassed the fine old house in Lane Street, wondering what +grandeur and comfort must repose between its walls, but never had she +dreamed of receiving an invitation from its owner. + +"Well," exclaimed Miss Jenner, drawing out her well-filled purse, "don't +you mean to come?" + +Mildred smiled, and drew a quick breath. + +"Oh yes, thank you, Miss Jenner, very much," she contrived to say; and +almost before she could revolve the question further in her mind Miss +Jenner was gone, and she found herself face to face with Mr. Tom. Now +this young man was Mildred's special aversion. Not that he was as +overbearing with her as with the other girls, but that he seemed to have +singled her out for attentions that Mildred found odious. + +"It's rather late, Miss Lee," he said, with his insolent smile; "so I +may as well walk home with you." + +"Thank you, Mr. Hardman," answered Milly--she never called him "Mr. +Tom," as did the other girls--"I can manage very nicely by myself. I +always walk fast, and I have always a great deal to think about." + +"Then walk fast, and let me think with you," he said, with a laugh. + +Mildred dared not offend him, and so she forced herself to accept his +escort, although it was evident even to the self-confident young man she +disliked it. They threaded the busy streets of Milltown, "Mr. Tom" +raising his hat jauntily to passing acquaintances, Mildred keeping her +eyes fastened on the ground, only anxious to reach the little white +cottage where her mother and brothers and sisters were waiting tea for +her return. + +"There, Mr. Hardman," she said, trying to look good-humored, as he held +open the gate; "I won't ask you to come in, because--" + +"Oh, I know," exclaimed Tom, with an easy laugh. "Because you think the +guv'nor would not like me to be visiting any of the girls. Never you +mind; he won't know." + +"That has nothing to do with it, sir," answered Mildred, speaking with +forced composure, though her face flushed scarlet. "It was because I +knew my mother prefers I shall not receive visits from people whom she +does not know; but if it _be_ true that your father objects to your +visiting any of his employees, that is an additional reason for your +never forcing attentions upon me again." + +And with a very stately bow Mildred moved past him, entering the little +house, while "Mr. Tom," indulging in a prolonged low whistle, turned on +his heel, with something not very agreeable in his expression. + +[TO BE CONTINUED.] + + + + +[Illustration] + +WINGY WING FOO. + +BY C. A. D. W. + + + Poor Wingy Wing Foo is a bright little fellow, + With complexion, indeed, most decidedly yellow, + And long almond eyes that take everything in; + But the way he is treated is really a sin. + For naughty Miss Polly _will_ turn up her nose + At his quaint shaven head and his queer little clothes, + And bestow all her love and affectionate care + On rosy-cheeked Mabel, with bright golden hair. + + In vain do I argue, in vain do I cry, + "Be kinder, my darling, I beg of you, try." + But Polly shakes harder her wise little head, + And kisses her golden-haired dolly instead. + "Remember he's far from his kindred and home; + 'Mid strange little children he's destined to roam, + And how sad is his fate, as no kind little mother + Will take him right in, and make him a brother + + "To the fair baby dollies that sit on her knee! + Just think, my own Polly, how hard it must be. + So give him a hug and a motherly kiss, + 'Tis one your own babies, I'm sure, never'll miss." + She stooped quickly down, and raised from the floor + The poor little stranger, discarded before, + And said, with a tear in her bright little eye, + "I'm sure I shall love him, mamma, by-and-by." + + + + +[Illustration: OUR POST-OFFICE BOX.] + + + I received a subscription to YOUNG PEOPLE for a present, and I like + the paper better than any I ever had before. I like the Post-office + Box and the puzzles especially, and the story of Paul Grayson I + like very much. + + I am collecting games and amusements, and I would be thankful to + any readers of YOUNG PEOPLE who send me any nice charades or + games. In return I will send some of my own collection, with full + directions for playing each one. + + JAMES O'CONNOR, + 287 Ontario Street, Chicago, Illinois. + + * * * * * + +Now that the season of long evenings has come again, pretty household +games are a necessary recreation for our young friends. There have been +directions in the columns of YOUNG PEOPLE for some entertaining winter +evening amusements, and more are in preparation. Descriptions of games +are generally too long for the Post-office Box, but if we receive any +that are short enough, we will print them, unless they are of games +already well known, or involve the pitching of knives or other dangerous +actions. + +There is a great deal of play-time by daylight, too, and it would be +interesting if boys in Canada, on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, in +the West and in the South, would now and then describe their out-of-door +sports during the winter. There will be skating, and coasting, and +sleigh-riding for some; orange-picking, rowing, and picnicking for +others. There is one amusement our boys and girls will all enjoy +together, and that is reading YOUNG PEOPLE; and if in the Post-office +Box they learn what are the pastimes of children in all sections of the +country, even those little people who live in solitary places where they +have no playmates, and see nothing all winter but ice-bound rivers and +snow-covered plains, will feel less lonely, and have imaginary +companionship during play-time. + + * * * * * + + CINCINNATI, OHIO. + + Seeing a letter from Violet S. in the Post-office Box about a + society, I thought I would write about a club we boys have here. + + The club, which is called the G. G., is strictly a military + organization, consisting of nine members, each having a gun. We + drill every Saturday. Any member who speaks during the drill is + confined to the "guard-house" for five minutes for each offense. + + We have also a library of nearly a hundred books, which is a + source of great pleasure to us. Every month we have an election + for librarian and secretary. + + Whenever an event of importance occurs concerning the club we have + a meeting to settle the matter. We are now preparing a play for + the Christmas holidays. + + BERT C. + + * * * * * + + BRANTFORD, ONTARIO, CANADA. + + Reba H. wished to know if any correspondent had seen peach-trees + blooming in September. I never saw peach-trees in blossom at that + season, but we once had two pear-trees that blossomed in October. + + I take great pleasure in reading YOUNG PEOPLE. I am eleven years + old. + + JOSIE B. G. + + * * * * * + + DARLINGTON HEIGHTS, VIRGINIA. + + I was very much interested in the account of sumac gathering in + YOUNG PEOPLE No. 51, and I thought you would like to know how it is + done here in Prince Edward County. + + The work of gathering begins in June, and lasts until some time in + August. It is gathered here before it turns red, and the berries + are not gathered at all. If the berries are mixed with the leaves + and twigs, it is worthless, and it is worth very little anyway, as + the price is only fifty or seventy-five cents a hundred pounds. + There are two kinds of sumac, the male and female; the former is + what the merchants want, but the negroes often try to cheat, for + it is very hard to tell the difference between the two kinds when + the sumac is dry. They do not dry it in a house, but lay it on the + ground in the sun for about two days, and then leave it in the + shade of the trees for about a week longer. + + HARRY J. + + * * * * * + + BELLE VERNON, PENNSYLVANIA. + + I live among the hills of Pennsylvania, where they get out great + quantities of coal and sand. We have glass factories in our town, + and it is so nice to see them make glass! We have a boat-yard here, + too, and when the boats are launched we can get on them. It is a + big slide when the boat goes into the river. + + I am nine years old, and send greeting to HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE. I + tuck it under my pillow every night. + + MABEL M. + + * * * * * + + PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. + + Have any of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE ever seen the dove-plant, + sometimes called the Espiritu Santo, or Holy Ghost flower? I saw + one in a conservatory here. It is bell-shaped and pure white, and + the petals form a perfect dove. + + PAUL DE M. + +You will find a description and a picture of this wonderful flower, +which is a native of the Isthmus of Panama, in HARPER'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE +for November, 1879, page 863. + + * * * * * + + SHORT HILLS, NEW JERSEY. + + Here is our recipe for johnny-cake, which may be useful to Mary G., + or to some other little girl: One tea-cupful of sweet milk; one + tea-cupful of buttermilk; one table-spoonful of melted butter; one + tea-spoonful of salt; one tea-spoonful of soda; enough Indian meal + to make it stiff enough to roll out into a sheet half an inch + thick. Spread it on a buttered tin, and bake forty minutes. As soon + as it begins to brown, baste it with melted butter, repeating the + operation four or five times, until it is brown and crisp. Do not + cut the sheet, but break it, and eat it for luncheon or tea. + + FLORENCE S. + + * * * * * + + BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. + + Here is my mother's recipe for johnny-cake for Mary G. One cup of + white sugar, three eggs, half a cup of butter. Beat these together + until they are light and creamy. Then add one cup of wheat flour, + three cups of Indian meal (yellow is best), three tea-spoonfuls of + Royal baking powder, one tea-spoonful of salt, sweet milk enough to + make a cake batter. Beat until very light, and bake in a quick oven + about thirty minutes. We like it best baked in little patty-pans, + but you can bake it in a large sheet just as well. + + ETHEL W. + +Recipes similar to the above have been sent by Louise H. A., Irma C. +Terry, Lena Fox, Jane L. Wilson, Ada Philips, Alexina N., and other +little housewives; and all unite in the wish that Mary G. may win the +prize offered by her papa. + + * * * * * + + DERBY, CONNECTICUT. + + I would like to tell you how I get YOUNG PEOPLE. We have a very + nice teacher at the school where I attend, and every week each + scholar who is perfect in deportment gets a copy of YOUNG PEOPLE. + All the scholars like the paper very much, and they all try to be + good. I have had a copy every week since the teacher began to give + them, and so have several other scholars. + + RUTH M. G. + + * * * * * + + OTSEGO LAKE, MICHIGAN. + + I am eight years old. I live in Northern Michigan, between the two + large lakes. + + I have a pet fawn. I call it Beauty. It followed me to church last + Sunday night; and although it behaved with perfect decorum, it + attracted so much attention that papa had to put it out. I have + every number of YOUNG PEOPLE. + + LOUIS S. G. + + * * * * * + + I belong to the Boys' Exploring Association, and last summer we + discovered the finest cave in the Rocky Mountains. It was filled + with beautiful stalactites and stalagmites. I have some of the + stalactites in my collection. The only living things we saw in the + cave were a bat and two old mountain rats, one of which had young + ones. + + A few days ago I visited a coal mine about six miles from Colorado + Springs. The coal there is soft, and lies in a narrow vein. Above + and below the coal are veins or strata of sandstone, which is well + covered with impressions of leaves, large and small. As I entered + the mine I looked up, and right over my head there was a perfect + impression of a palm-leaf, just like a palm-leaf fan. I tried to + take it out whole, but it would break in pieces. There were also + many impressions of small leaves, and I found pieces of the tree + itself. I brought a great many of these impressions home with me. + They must be many thousand years old, like the fossil shells, + baculites, and ammonites which I have in my collection. I would + like to exchange some of the leaf impressions with the readers of + YOUNG PEOPLE. I would like for them Florida beans, sea-shells, or + moss, or minerals from California or New Mexico. I have also some + new specimens of different minerals which I would exchange for + others. + + HERBERT E. PECK, + P. O. Box 296, Colorado Springs, Colorado. + +The Boys' Exploring Association alluded to in the above letter is a +society largely composed of the members of a Sunday-school in Colorado +Springs. Any boy in the school may become a member on the payment of a +trifling sum, and any other boy whose name is proposed by a member is +admitted by vote. The object of the society is to study the geology and +natural history of the surrounding country, and at certain seasons to +make exploring expeditions, under the leadership of the clergyman of the +church. The members pledge themselves to abstain from the use of tobacco +and intoxicating drinks, to use no vulgar or profane language, and to +carry no fire-arms while on exploring trips. + +During the past summer some important discoveries have been made, and +the boys, while deriving much pleasure from these camping-out +excursions, have also gained physically, mentally, and morally. + +We would be glad to receive reports of the future actions of this +society, which will undoubtedly be of interest to our young readers, and +will perhaps incite other boys to follow the example of these young +naturalists by forming societies to study the botanical, geological, and +other natural characteristics of the region in which they live. All +places may not contain so much that is new and wonderful as Colorado, +but everywhere nature has a great deal to teach, if boys and girls will +only open their eyes and hearts to learn. + + * * * * * + + I have a few patterns of lace, and would be very glad to exchange + with Alice C. Little, or any other correspondent of YOUNG PEOPLE. + + ANNA E. BRUCE, + Rimersburg, Clarion County, Pennsylvania. + + * * * * * + + I am a little boy ten years old. I live in Attleborough, where so + much jewelry is made. I take YOUNG PEOPLE, and I think it is the + best of all the papers for boys and girls. + + I would like to exchange postage stamps with any correspondent. + + JAMES ARTHUR HARRIS, + Attleborough, Massachusetts. + + * * * * * + + I live in the Paper City, where they make seventy-five tons of + paper in a day. I think some of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE would + like to go through the mills with me. + + I would like to exchange postage stamps with any one. I am eleven + years old. + + WILLIE H. P. SEYMOUR, + P. O. Box 210, Holyoke, Massachusetts. + + * * * * * + + I am seven years old. I am a subscriber to YOUNG PEOPLE, and I love + to have my mamma read the letters from the dear little children in + the Post-office Box. I go to school, but have to stay home on rainy + days. I have neither brothers nor sisters. I am a New Mexican boy + by birth, and travelled over three thousand miles with my dear papa + and mamma, mostly in stage-coaches, when I was less than a year + old. + + I have a large number of Mexican garnets, gathered by Indians upon + the plains and in the mountains and canyons, that I will gladly + exchange for choice sea-shells. + + CLAUDE D. MILLAR, + Walnut Hills, near Cincinnati, Ohio. + + * * * * * + + I have begun to collect stamps, and I wish to procure as many rare + ones as I can. I have two tiny shells which were picked up on the + coast of the Mediterranean Sea by a lady missionary, and sent to + America. I read letters from many shell collectors in the + Post-office Box. I will send one of these shells to any boy or girl + who will send me a reasonable number of foreign stamps in return. + + EFFIE K. PRICE, Bellefontaine, Ohio. + + * * * * * + + I would like to exchange rare specimens, coins and stamps, with any + readers of YOUNG PEOPLE. I would also exchange an arrow made by a + great Indian chief near here for something of equal value. + + ROBERT C. MANLY, P. O. Box 66, + Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. + + * * * * * + + I like YOUNG PEOPLE very much. I have taken it ever since it was + published, and have learned a great deal from it. + + In exchange for sea-shells, sea-weed, or curiosities or relics of + any kind, I will send a piece of the marble of which they are now + building the Washington Monument, or a piece of the granite of + which the new State, War, and Navy departments are being built, or + both if desired. I would like to exchange with some one on the + Florida and California coast. I am eight years old. + + T. BERTON RIDENOUS, + 1428 T Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. + + * * * * * + + I will exchange stamps from Egypt, Cape of Good Hope, Western + Australia, Tasmania, Cuba, Barbadoes, Mexico, and other foreign + countries, for others from New Brunswick, St. Lucia, Ecuador, + Lagos, and Dominica. I will also exchange birds' eggs. + + WILLIE FORD, Austin, Texas. + + * * * * * + +Exchanges are also offered by the following correspondents: + + Postmarks for specimens of red shale rock. + + SAM RISIEN, JUN., + Groesbeck, Limestone County, Texas. + + * * * * * + + Stamps and postmarks for curiosities, coins, Indian relics, or + shells. + + A. H. SPEAR, + 167 Madison Street, Brooklyn, New York. + + * * * * * + + Shells for other curiosities. + + J. BATZER, + Avenue O, between 18th and 19th Streets, + Galveston, Texas. + + * * * * * + + Fossil shells for Indian relics. + + SARAH H. WILSON, + Clermont, Columbia County, New York. + + * * * * * + + Foreign postage stamps with correspondents residing in Nova Scotia, + Newfoundland, or Prince Edward Island. + + B. HOENIG, + 703 Fifth Street, New York City. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps. + + WARREN S. BANKS, + 207 East Eighty-third Street, New York City. + + * * * * * + + Soil of Texas for that of any other State. + + JOS. L. PAXTON, + Taylor, Williamson County, Texas. + + * * * * * + + Twenty varieties of postmarks for five varieties of stamps from New + Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, or Prince Edward Island. + + A. GRAHAM, + 161 Somerset Street, Newark, New Jersey. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps. + + C. M. HEMSTREET, + 108 South Fourteenth Street, St. Louis, Missouri. + + * * * * * + + Birds' eggs, foreign postage stamps, and postmarks for eggs. + + HARRY H. SMITH, + 833 Logan Street, Cleveland, Ohio. + + * * * * * + + Foreign postage stamps for postmarks. + + JAMES LEONARD, + 35 Madison Avenue, New York City. + + * * * * * + + Pressed autumn leaves for foreign postage stamps. + + DANIEL H. ROGERS, + Mooretown, Butte County, California. + + * * * * * + + Rare stamps of all kinds. + + MORRIS STERNBACH, + 129 East Sixty-ninth Street, New York City. + + * * * * * + + Michigan postmarks and curiosities for postage stamps and minerals. + + TEDDY SMITH, + 641 Cass Avenue, Detroit, Michigan. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps. + + BESSIE C. SMITH, + Mapleton, Cass County, Dakota Territory. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps from Japan, Egypt, Hungary, and other countries for + stamps from China and South America. + + CLARENCE ROWE BARTON, + 1996 Lexington Avenue, New York City. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps for postmarks, stamps, Indian relics, and other + curiosities. + + H. BEYER, + 576 Market Street, Newark, New Jersey. + + * * * * * + + Postmarks. + + ANNE H. WILSON, + Care of Harold Wilson, Esq., Clermont, + Columbia County, New York. + + * * * * * + + Postmarks for minerals or postmarks. + + WILLIAM H. MASON, + 392 Sixth Avenue (near Tenth Street), + Brooklyn, New York. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps. + + BEN S. DARROW, + 545 North Illinois Street, Indianapolis, Indiana. + + * * * * * + + Soil of Maryland and Virginia for soil of the Northern and Western + States. + + D. FLETCHER, + Philopolis, Baltimore County, Maryland. + + * * * * * + + Five varieties of sharks' teeth for Indian arrowheads. + + F. H. WATERS, + Philopolis, Baltimore County, Maryland. + + * * * * * + + Stamps, postmarks, and birds' eggs. + + HOWARD B. MOSES, + Cheltenham Academy, + Shoemakertown, Pennsylvania. + + * * * * * + + Postmarks and curiosities. + + G. N. WILSON, + Bairdstown, Oglethorpe County, Georgia. + + * * * * * + + Stamps, minerals, and eggs of the crow, flicker, spotted tattler, + and kingfisher, for eggs of a loon, eagle, gull, or snipe. + + W. A. WEBSTER, + 394 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. + + * * * * * + + Foreign postage stamps, birds' nests, shells, and minerals for + birds' eggs, shells, and foreign coins. + + LAURA BINGHAM, + Lansing, Michigan. + + * * * * * + + Chinese curiosities, agates, and postmarks for rare birds' eggs and + postage stamps. + + C. H. GURNETT, + Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps and postmarks for stamps. + + MARY H. KIMBALL, + P. O. Box 493, Stamford, Connecticut. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps. + + T. N. CATREVAS, + 13 West Twentieth Street, New York City. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps and coin. + + SAMMIE P. CRANAGE, Bay City, Michigan. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps, especially specimens from Japan and Hong-Kong, for + others. + + F. L. MACONDRAY, + 1916 Jackson Street, San Francisco, California. + + * * * * * + + Birds' eggs, stamps, and postmarks for the same, or for minerals, + coins, or Indian relics. + + RALPH J. WOOD, + 39 (old number) Wildwood Avenue, + Jackson, Michigan. + + * * * * * + + Five foreign postage stamps for an ounce of soil from any State, or + thirty foreign stamps for an Indian arrow-head. No duplicate stamp + in either exchange. + + C. B. FERNALD, + 1123 Girard Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. + + * * * * * + + Foreign postage stamps or United States postmarks for shells or + minerals. + + GEORGE E. WELLS, + 40 Cottage Place, Hackensack, New Jersey. + + * * * * * + + Five rare foreign stamps for a good mineral specimen. + + C. C. SHELLEY, JUN., + 93 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, New York. + + * * * * * + + Sea and fresh water shells and minerals for other minerals and + Indian curiosities. + + ROYAL FERRAUD, + 141 Front Street, West, Detroit, Michigan. + + * * * * * + +WILLIAM TELL ARCHERS, NEW ORLEANS.--Bows vary in price from three +dollars to ninety and even one hundred dollars each. It would be well to +write to Messrs. Peck & Snyder, Nassau Street, New York city, importers +of English archery goods, for one of their catalogues. E. I. Horsman, of +80 William Street, New York city, would also send his catalogue on +application, and his list comprises all archery goods manufactured in +this country, which are sold at lower prices than the English +importations. We never heard of a whalebone bow on an archery field. + + * * * * * + +HENRY R. C., GEORGE E. B., AND OTHERS.--Messrs. Harper & Brothers will +furnish the cover for YOUNG PEOPLE, Vol. I., at the price stated in the +advertisement on this page, but in no case can they attend to the +binding. + + * * * * * + +LOUIS H.--A stamp collection consists of stamps of _different +denominations_ from all countries. The special locality in the country +from which the specimen is sent adds to the interest of a postmark, but +not to that of a stamp. Different issues of the same denomination, when +you can obtain them, should have a place in your stamp album. For +example, there have been a good many issues, varying in design and +color, of the United States three-cent stamp. Each one is a valuable +specimen; but if you have two or more exactly alike, paste only one in +your album, and reserve the duplicates for exchange. + + * * * * * + +B. B.--It is not often that we can make room in the Post-office Box for +pictures, and we are constantly compelled to decline pretty and +interesting drawings by our young friends. We can much more easily give +space to a short description in writing of any curious phase of wild +Indian life that you may notice than to a pictured representation. + + * * * * * + +W. E. L.--Your story shows imagination, but is not good enough to +print.--Unless you have a natural gift for ventriloquism you will find +it a difficult art to learn. Several books of instruction have been +published, but they are not very satisfactory, and you would learn +better by procuring a good teacher than by endeavoring to follow the +directions of a hand-book. + + * * * * * + +E. A. DE L.--A badge expressing the motto of your society is not very +easy to invent. A gold shield bearing the letters F. S. arranged as a +monogram, in blue, white, or black enamel would be very simple, and as +appropriate, perhaps, as any more marked design. + + * * * * * + +Favors are acknowledged from Charles Werner, Ida L. G., Harry C. Earle, +Pearl A. H., Isabella T. Niven, Will S. Norton, Mary K. Bidwell, George +K. Diller, Anna Wierum, Mark Manly, Latham T. Souther, Maggie +Behlendorff, Joey W. Dodson, Aaron W. King, Charlie, Hattie Wilcox, +Clara Clark, Florence M. Donalds, Eddie L. S., Sarabelle, E. T. Rice, J. +Fitzsimons, Cassie C. Fraleigh, Mary H. Lougee, Coleman E. A., Fred +S. C., Eddie R. T., Edgar E. Helm, Emmer Edwards, Eunice Kate, Clarence +D. C. + + * * * * * + +Correct answers to puzzles are received from Lena Fox, H. M. P., Stella +Pratt, Mary L. Fobes, "Unle Ravaler," C. Gaylor, William A. Lewis, C. H. +McB., Cal I. Forny, The Dawley Boys, Mary S. Twing. + + * * * * * + +PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS. + +No. 1. + +RHOMBOID--(_To Stella_). + +Across.--A portable dwelling; a kind of food; to inclose; a poem. +Down.--A consonant; a printer's measure; novel; a genus of plants; to +hit gently; one of a printer's trials; a consonant. + + MARK MARCY. + + * * * * * + +No. 2. + +NUMERICAL CHARADE. + +My whole is a Latin quotation, composed of 24 letters, from the fifth +book of Virgil's AEneid, which should be remembered by boys and girls. + +My 8, 23, 18, 7, 13 is a city of South America. + +My 3, 5, 24, 11, 22 is a city in India. + +My 2, 14, 22, 20, 6, 19 is a town of Belgium. + +My 1, 16, 24, 9 is a country of South America. + +My 21, 16, 17, 10, 4 is one of the British West Indies. + +My 15, 12, 11 is a town of Belgium, once a famous resort. + + J. D. H. + + * * * * * + +No. 3. + +ENIGMA. + + In HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE my first is hid. + In goat my second, but not in kid. + In letter my third, but the cunningest fox + Will never find it in Post-office Box. + My fourth is in apple, but not in tree. + My fifth in Newton will always be. + My sixth is in month, but never in day. + My seventh in lightning, but not in ray. + My eighth is in runic, but never in Goth. + My ninth is hidden away in moth. + My tenth is in cloth, which that insect destroys. + My eleventh is in racket, but never in boys. + My twelfth is in hearing, but is not in sight. + My thirteenth in shining, but never in bright. + The secrets I hide no man shall know + Though years may come and years may go. + + DAME DURDEN. + + * * * * * + +ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN NO. 55. + +No. 1. + + L O V E R + N A V A L + N I C E R + L E V E R + S I D E S + +No. 2. + + S E + T E A G A S + S E I N E E A G L E + A N T S L Y + E E + +No. 3. + + A caci A + R ave N + B lu E + U nifor M + T atto O + U niso N + S avag E + +Arbutus, Anemone. + + + + +HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE. + +SINGLE COPIES, 4 cents; ONE SUBSCRIPTION, one year, $1.50; FIVE +SUBSCRIPTIONS, one year, $7.00--_payable in advance, postage free_. + +The Volumes of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE commence with the first Number in +November of each year. + +Subscriptions may begin with any Number. 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