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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Harper's Round Table, December 31, 1895 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: February 21, 2016 [EBook #51264] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S ROUND TABLE, DEC 31, 1895 *** - - - - -Produced by Annie R. McGuire - - - - - - - - -[Illustration: HARPER'S ROUND TABLE] - -Copyright, 1895, by HARPER & BROTHERS. All Rights Reserved. - - * * * * * - -PUBLISHED WEEKLY. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1895. FIVE CENTS A -COPY. - -VOL. XVII.--NO. 844. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. - - * * * * * - -[Illustration] - -THE FATE OF LA SALLE. - -BY ROBERT H. FULLER. - - -In early times America was to the Spaniards a region of silver and gold, -which were to be wrung from the natives and squandered in Europe; to the -French and the Dutch it was a country of furs, which were to be -purchased from the Indians for beads, knives, and guns, and sold across -the sea at an enormous profit; to the English it was a land of homes, -with liberty to think and act. Thus, while the Spaniards were delving in -the mines of Mexico and Peru and freighting their argosies, and while -the French couriers of the woods were steering their fur-laden canoes -down the St. Lawrence, the English colonists along the Atlantic coast -were cultivating the soil, making and enforcing laws, and gaining a -foothold which was to remain firm long after their more restless and -adventurous neighbors had vanished from the New World. - -Nevertheless, the early French explorers, heedless of danger, bold and -free as the Indians themselves, threading rivers and exploring lakes in -their canoes, ranging through limitless solitudes of forest or over -interminable wastes of prairie, performed a service of the utmost value -to the future nation. They mapped out the road which slower but surer -feet were to follow, and if they could not organize and hold the -enormous territory which they claimed, at least they prepared it for -those who could. - -Above the crowd of ragged and fearless adventurers who throng through -the history of France's vain endeavors to found an empire in the Western -World, the figure of Réné-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, towers -like a statue of bronze. He was born in 1643, and was the son of a rich -merchant of Rouen. A brief connection with the religious order of the -Jesuits deprived him of his inheritance, and at the age of twenty-two he -sailed for Canada to seek his fortune, turning his back upon the Old -World, as did many another young Frenchman of gentle breeding at that -time. - -He was granted an estate, afterward named La Chine, near Montreal. The -name of the place is a memory of the belief, long cherished by the -French, that by way of the St. Lawrence, the Great Lakes, and the -Mississippi, a passage to the Pacific Ocean and the wealth of the East -might be found. On his domain, which served as an outpost of Montreal -against the incursions of the ferocious Iroquois, he lived a life of -rude freedom, ruling like a young seigneur over the tenants who gathered -about his stockade. - -But he could not long remain quiet. The thirst for adventure was strong -upon him, and, listening to the tales of his Indian visitors, he -determined to explore the Ohio and the Mississippi to the "Vermilion -Sea," or the Gulf of California, into which he was convinced the great -river flowed. At his own expense he fitted out an expedition, and pushed -boldly into the trackless wilderness. - -This was the beginning of a career of hardship and danger, of successes -achieved in the teeth of seemingly insurmountable obstacles and in spite -of the plots of powerful enemies, with a steadfast fortitude -unparalleled in the annals of discovery. La Salle's dream of reaching -the Pacific was soon dispelled; but it was the nature of his mind to -rear new plans on the ruins of the old. He never grew discouraged. In -the presence of calamities which would have overwhelmed a less stout -heart his brain was busy seeking new paths to the end he had in view. - -At his first step he encountered the jealous hostility of the Jesuits, -then powerful both at Quebec and Paris. To this was added the enmity of -those interested in the fur trade, who feared that he would disturb -their traffic; the hatred of all who had betrayed, deserted, and robbed -him--no small number; and the annoyances of such as had been induced to -invest in his schemes when his own resources were exhausted. While he -was absent, bearing the flag of France over thousands of miles of new -territory, slanderers and detractors were busy at home destroying his -credit, thwarting his plans, ridiculing his hopes, and seeking to rob -him of his honors. The obstacles cast in his path by nature or savage -tribes were slight when compared with those reared against him by his -own country men. But, unshaken in his purpose, he toiled on year after -year, enduring exposure, hunger, cold, illness, and treachery, exploring -the Ohio and the Illinois, and finally, in 1682, descending the -Mississippi to its mouth. - -This was his crowning exploit. He was now a man of middle age, inured to -peril and hardship, and burdened with a heavy load of responsibility. He -was stern, reserved, and self-reliant. There were few besides Tonti, his -devoted lieutenant, upon whom he could rely. His followers were fickle -savages or, worse still, the idle and insubordinate offscour of Europe. -He had built and equipped a vessel on the lakes, and she had been sunk -with her cargo. He had nearly finished another on the Illinois, when his -men mutinied in his absence, and deserted. He had erected forts and -planted colonies, which were destroyed or ordered abandoned by a hostile -governor. He had been robbed again and again of the stores and supplies -which he had transported at great cost into the wilderness, and of the -furs which he sent back to Canada. At last he felt that if he was to -secure for France the rich valley of the Mississippi and the boundless -region drained by its tributaries, and repay his creditors through the -monopoly of the trade which he hoped to establish there, he must secure -the support of the King himself. Accordingly he turned toward France. - -His plan found favor with Louis XIV. and his ministers. He was given -four vessels, which carried, besides supplies, a hundred soldiers, -mechanics and laborers, several families, a number of girls who hoped to -find husbands in the new colony, and thirty volunteers. Among these last -were several boys, two of them his own nephews, of whom one was destined -to be the cause of his death. The expedition was to make a settlement at -the mouth of the Mississippi, and organize a force to sweep the -Spaniards out of New Mexico. This La Salle promised to do. At last, -after so many trials and disappointments, he seemed to stand on the -threshold of success. - -But the dark cloud of misfortune which had so long lowered above his -head reappeared when the vessels approached their destination. Numbers -of the colonists fell ill on the voyage. At St. Domingo, La Salle -himself was stricken down by fever, and his life was despaired of. One -of his vessels was taken by Spanish pirates, and his men grew -discontented and undisciplined. To cap the climax, the fleet missed the -mouth of the Mississippi, and the colonists landed four hundred miles to -the westward, at Matagorda Bay. There another vessel was lost while -attempting to enter the harbor, and a third, which had acted as escort -only, returned to France. - -It did not take the unhappy pioneers long to discover that they were not -on the Mississippi, and La Salle, with unabated energy, set out in -search of the "fatal river." He did not find it, and on his return the -last of the vessels was lost, removing all hope of escape by sea. The -sufferings of the little colony were great, and La Salle formed the -desperate resolution of penetrating through the wilderness to Canada for -help. Some of his followers afterward escaped by this dangerous path, -but he himself was never to see Canada again. On the march food ran -short, and seven men were sent out to forage. Among them was a man named -Duhaut, who hated La Salle, and had once deserted him. The party killed -some buffaloes, and were curing the meat when one of La Salle's nephews, -Moranget, who had been sent in search of them with a companion, arrived. -Moranget did not lack courage, but he did lack prudence. He angered the -men by finding fault with them unjustly. - -Duhaut seized the opportunity, and drew four of the others into his -plot. That night Moranget and his companion, with La Salle's faithful -Indian servant, were murdered as they slept. The next morning, La Salle, -full of anxious foreboding at his nephew's failure to return, went after -him in company with a priest. Even in his defenceless condition the -wretches who had resolved on his death did not dare to attack him -openly. Crouched in the dry grass like savages, they awaited his coming, -and shot him through the brain as he approached. Then they came out of -their concealment and triumphed over the body, crying: "There thou -liest, tyrant! There thou liest!" - -So on the prairies of Texas perished La Salle. His name heads the list -of resolute adventurers who pierced the secrets of the wilderness, and -led the march of civilization across the continent. He was a man of -action. When beset, as he often was, by doubts and difficulties, he saw -at once what must be done, and did it without delay. Had his life been -spared he would, no doubt, have rescued the colonists. Without his aid -they perished miserably, Duhaut, the chief murderer, being shot down by -another of the accomplices. Of all the expedition only seven, including -the explorer's brother and his remaining nephew, reached Canada. - - - - -GRATITUDE. - - - I think all little children should - Be thankful in their prayers - To God for having been so good - To make their parents _theirs_. - - - - -HOW HARRY SOWERBY EARNED PROMOTION. - -BY WILLIAM HEMMINGWAY. - - -"May I go out to Blairstown on your special, Mr. Gannon?" asked Harry -Sowerby, the telegraph operator at Hammonds. - -"What do you want to go for, bub?" replied the superintendent of the -Lexington and Danville Railroad. "It's a nasty night for travelling, -and--" - -"I haven't been home in two months," said the boy, eagerly. "I may not -have another chance for a long time, and it's near Christmas. I can -report the departure of your train to 'X' office, and then there's -nothing more to be done here till 6.45 to-morrow morning." - -"Come on, then," answered the superintendent. He knew that Harry -Sowerby, the youngest telegraph operator on the road, was anxious to see -his mother and sisters, and he knew what a lonely place Hammonds Station -was. - -The sounder clicked rapidly for a few moments as Harry notified the -night train-despatcher at "X" office that the superintendent's special -was passing westward. Then he quickly cut out the telegraph instruments, -quenched the office lamp, and jumped aboard the car as it slowly rolled -past the glare of the bright platform light and out into the black rain. -He could not remember having ever heard such a heavy downpour. The snow -that had hidden the earth for weeks was fast melting under it. - -Harry Sowerby was only sixteen years old. He had been at Hammonds one -year, and he was heartily tired of it. The nearest house to the station -was a quarter of a mile away. He was anxious to be promoted to the -train-despatcher's staff at "X" office, that mysterious place whence the -orders came that governed all the trains on the road. But Mr. Gannon had -put him off, telling him that he was too young. - -"When you've had more experience, bub," said the big, good-natured -superintendent, "maybe the dispatcher will need you. You're young yet, -you know." - -This was a tender point with Harry. He knew he really looked as old as -most fellows of eighteen, and he felt that he had more experience at -railroading than many fellows of twenty-five. Besides, if he were sent -to "X," his pay would be increased to sixty-five dollars a month, and he -could send his sisters to a better school. - -Suddenly steam was shut off. Harry knew it by the silence with which the -light train plunged forward, without a sound from the exhaust or the -cylinders. Then came the sharp hissing of the air-brakes, but the train -ran on unchecked. One blast of the whistle called the brakeman to the -platform, where he whirled the brake-wheel swiftly, and set it up as -hard as if his life depended on that one act. A grinding noise forward -and a snarling from the driving-wheels told Harry's experienced ears -that the engineer had "thrown her over and given her sand"--that is, he -had reversed the lever and opened the sand-box, so that the -driving-wheels, now turning backward, might grip the wet rails firmly. - -Mr. Gannon, in his hip boots and mackintosh, was out in the snow and mud -and up ahead in less than half a minute. The front of the locomotive was -within thirty feet of the beginning of Williston cut. Tom Jackson had -not stopped her a moment too soon. The heavy rain had washed down tons -of earth and bowlders from the banks on to the track. The cut was -blocked for fully thirty yards. What it was that whispered danger to the -engineer he himself could not tell, but he had felt a sudden premonition -that it was not safe to run through the cut. - -Harry Sowerby saw the brakeman go back with a red lantern to protect the -superintendent's special train from No. 576, the way freight that was -due thirty minutes later. Suddenly the light flickered out. The wind and -rain were too much for it. Harry knew that the same thing might happen -just as the heavy freight train came along. It sickened him to think of -what would follow. He thought of the train crew scattered on the snowy -ground, bruised, perhaps killed. - -The boy's head throbbed with excitement. If he only could do something -to save the train! He had heard Ryan, the rear brakeman, say that there -was not a danger torpedo on the car. He ran hopelessly up to the -locomotive tender, knowing that there was none there either, but -thinking that perhaps he might find something. And as he searched in the -grimy tool-box he saw a long piece of heavy copper wire. There flashed -across his mind the recollection of how Kline, the lineman, had once -said it was possible for a "good man" to telegraph from any point on the -line. Here was something worth trying. - -"Bring a torch, Phil," he said to the fireman. Away he ran down the -track, the coil of wire in one hand and a pair of pliers in the other. -Throwing the coil around his neck and sticking the pliers in his pocket, -Harry began to climb the nearest telegraph pole, while Phil helped him -all he could with his free hand. - -The young telegrapher soon threw his leg over the cross-arm, and braced -himself securely. Fireman Phil held the flaring torch as high as he -could, so that the light was only fifteen feet below the wire. The torch -was so liberally soaked with petroleum that the wind could not blow it -out. - -Harry felt thankful when he saw, on the opposite end of the cross-arm -from that which held the single telegraph line, a new glass insulator -that had been placed for another line which was soon to be strung. That -made his work easier. Using his pliers dexterously, he quickly spliced -one end of the coil of copper wire around the wire of the telegraph line -about six inches away from the cross-arm. He twined the copper wire -around and around the live wire, so that it clung like a wild-grape vine -tendril to a tree bough. - -Then he took three turns of the copper wire around the empty insulator. -Now was the trying moment. If he cut the line, would its sagging weight -break his splice of copper wire? Yet if he was to carry out his plan he -must separate the telegraph line into two parts, so that by bringing the -ends together he could make the Morse signals. With a few nips of the -pliers he cut the telegraph line, and although it fell away with a sharp -snap, the copper-wire splice held it safely hung to the new insulator. - -Now he was in possession of a rude but effective telegraph key. By -touching the west end of the broken line, which was the jagged bit of -wire that stuck up from the old insulator, against the east end of the -line, which was the end of the copper wire leading back from the new -insulator, he could complete the electric circuit. He tapped the end of -the copper wire upon the line wire that stuck up. A tiny blue spark -flashed out, and he felt sharp pains in his wet right hand as the -current shot through it. But what mattered the pain? Because the current -shocked him so, he felt sure that the line was "O K." Now he began -tapping again. He let the wires barely touch to make dots, and held them -together an instant to make dashes. He began to call up the station at -Woodside, where No. 576 was due to pass within the next ten minutes. -Then he held the wire ends together to receive an answer. He soon could -feel the stinging, burning current bite the dots and dashes into his -hand like this: - - "-- -- -- -- -- ---- ---- ---- -- --." - -Now he telegraphed this order: - -"Operator, Woodside,--Flag and hold all west-bound trains. Williston cut -blockaded, and a special is stuck at east end." - -He signed Mr. Gannon's name to this. Then he held the wires together -while the operator telegraphed back the order, according to the railroad -rules, to show that he understood. The man at Woodside was surprised at -the message, but he quickly understood its importance. - -Harry twisted the loose end of the copper wire around the little piece -of wire that stuck up, so that the telegraph line should not be broken, -and then he slid down the pole. - -"They're holding all west-bound trains at Woodside!" he shouted to Phil -as his feet touched the ground. - -Phil gave him a congratulatory slap on the back that nearly upset him. -Then Phil ran to where the superintendent and the train crew were -standing, two hundred yards back of the train, trying to shield a red -light and keep it burning. He yelled the good news to them, and as -Harry came slowly up to the little group, the crew cheered him and -hugged him and told him he had saved the six lives on No. 576. - -"Bub," said Mr. Gannon, as he gravely shook Harry's burned right hand, -"I guess you've had enough experience to go to 'X' office. We need men -as quick-witted and plucky as you in this business. I'm going to report -your conduct to the directors of the road at their next meeting." - - - - -HOW MAGIC IS MADE. - - -I. - -When Samuel Butler wrote - - "Doubtless the pleasure is as great - Of being cheated, as to cheat," - -he afforded evidence that he had never been a conjurer. - -There is a nervous strain, an excitement, in the act of cheating at -conjuring that is entirely wanting when we are cheated. - -For the one who does the tricks there is a fascination that has never -been known to be even alleviated, but, like the proverbial brook, "goes -on forever." Yet, knowing this, I propose to lure my readers to this -incurable habit by teaching them the whole art and mystery of deceiving -one's neighbor--in an honest way. - -As an explanation of "palming," whether of coins, balls, or cards, or -any of the preliminary exercises necessary in order to become a -proficient conjurer, makes but dull reading, I shall postpone -instruction in such finger movements until actually needed, and begin -with a complete trick. I shall not content myself, however, with showing -the mere bare bones of the illusions, but will present something more -solid, and give such suggestions, with accompanying _patter_ and other -details, as will enable the student in what the French call "White -Magic," with some practice, to perform the tricks to his own -satisfaction and the delight of his audience. - -At the start let me caution my readers against being too quick. The -success of a sleight-of-hand trick depends on diverting the attention of -the audience upon misdirection rather than on rapidity of movement. It -is a fallacy that "the hand is quicker than the eye." The most -accomplished conjurers this country has ever seen, men like Buatier de -Kolta or the late Robert Heller, never made a rapid movement; they were -deliberate. They relied more on a nimble wit, a turn of the head, a -glance of the eye, a motion of the hand, and yet they successfully and -artistically deceived the keenest-eyed witness of their performance. - -And now to begin with our first lesson. As an opening for a performance, -something that will impress an audience with your skill, there is -nothing better than - -THE EVANESCENT HANDKERCHIEF. - -The performer begins by rolling up his sleeves, and showing his hands to -be empty. Yet bringing the latter together the next moment, he produces -a piece of colored silk about twelve inches square, which, in spite of -its diminutive size, he dignifies by the name of _handkerchief_. - -"This," he says, holding it out, "is property number One, and here," -picking up a candle from his table, "is number Two. This candle is -simply the _light_ and airy product of the chandler, and has not been -tampered with by any _wicked_ trickster since it left his hands. And yet -I propose to pass into its very centre this handkerchief." - -[Illustration: THE CANDLE.] - -A narrow strip of card-board, bent into semicircular form and having a -round hole cut in its centre, serves as a candlestick, and in this the -candle is stood. - -"You can readily see," continues the performer, "that there is -absolutely no chance here to gall you--no apparatus of any kind. And now -to begin." - -He rolls the handkerchief between his hands, and then extending his -closed right hand, while the left, also closed, goes behind his back, -says: "I shall now cause the handkerchief which is in my right hand to -pass invisibly into that candle. That will be a miracle, and a -prerequisite for a miracle is faith. You must believe that the -handkerchief is in my hand." - -"But," whispers a sharp-eyed, keen-witted spectator, "the handkerchief -is not there. He kept it in his left hand, and has thrust it into his -coat-tail pocket." - -Ah, suspicious mortal, how grievously mistaken you are! As Josh Billings -has wisely said, "It's better not to know so much than to know so much -that's not so." The performer opens his hand and shows that the -handkerchief is still there. - -Again he goes through the same manipulation, and again suspicion is -aroused. - -"Ah, ye of little faith!" he exclaims. "There is no need of concealing -my hands for such a simple trick. See! I merely roll the handkerchief, -so, between my hands"--suiting the action to the word--"and on opening -them we find them empty, nothing concealed in them, and nothing up my -sleeves," which he bares in proof. "Where has the handkerchief gone? It -has passed, as I promised it would pass, into the candle." - -"Should I cut open the candle," he goes on to say, "and in it find the -missing bit of silk, you would conclude that I use a prepared candle. To -prove this is not so I light the candle, and from its flame I thus -extract the handkerchief." Which he does. - -[Illustration: THE FALSE FINGER.] - -Pretty and mysterious as this trick is, it is very simple. The -handkerchief which is produced from the empty hands is concealed in a -hollow metal finger, which is painted a flesh-color, and is open at the -lower end, where it is cut in the following shape >. This finger is -placed between the second and third fingers of the left hand, and as the -performer keeps all the fingers close together, and turns his hands -rapidly backward and forward when showing them to be empty, it will be a -keen eye indeed that will detect the apparatus. When the hands are -brought together the false finger is quickly taken off, the handkerchief -is pulled out and shown to the audience. In laying the handkerchief on -the table the finger is placed there with it, or is retained in the hand -and afterward pocketed. - -Fastened to the performer's left arm, just below the elbow and under his -coat sleeve, is a strong cord--a piece of fine fish-line is -excellent--which passes up the sleeve, through the armholes of his vest, -across his back, and down the right sleeve, where it ends in a loop -placed over the right thumb. This cord is of such a length that it will -only reach the thumb when the arms are held with the elbows at the hips -and the forearm extended from that point. Releasing the loop from the -thumb, and straightening the arms forward and slightly upward, carries -the loop and anything in it well into the upper part of the sleeve. When -the handkerchief is to disappear, the performer, under cover of his -clasped hands, runs it through the loop, extends his arms quickly, and -the handkerchief flies up the sleeve. Just here comes in a little piece -of the _misdirection_ already alluded to. The performer does not open -his hands at once, but continues to rub them as if they still contained -the handkerchief; then he closes the right hand and holds it well out -from his body, letting the left hand fall, open, to his side. He -continues for a second to work the fingers of the right hand, as though -compressing the handkerchief, and finally, opening one finger after -another, shows the hand empty. Next he bares his arms, but in doing so -is careful to push up the left coat sleeve and turn his shirt sleeve -over it, so as to conceal the place at which the cord is fastened. - -[Illustration: THE MATCH-BOX AND THREAD.] - -The production of the handkerchief from the candle is as ingenious as -the rest of the trick. A _duplicate_ handkerchief is folded as small as -possible, and tied with very fine black cotton thread, to which is -attached a loop of horse-hair. This is placed in one end of the cover of -an ordinary parlor-match box, one of the kind that slides into its -cover, like a drawer. The box, half-way open, stands on the table, the -loop protruding. In picking it up to take out a match the forefinger of -the left hand is run through the loop, and the act of closing the box -pushes out the handkerchief, which dangles in the palm of the hand, and, -as the back is kept toward the audience, is not seen. _Care must be -taken not to_ PULL _out the handkerchief lest the thread should break_. -To produce it the hands are closed quickly over the flame of the candle, -extinguishing it, a sharp jerk breaks the thread, and the handkerchief -appears as if pulled from the wick. - -The metal finger has recently been improved on, but as the substitute -requires more delicate handling, I shall defer the explanation of it for -the present. - -This little trick originated with De Kolta, the famous French conjurer, -who, besides being the inventor of most of the tricks, great and small, -exhibited by the other magicians, is an accomplished actor. In his hands -it almost reaches the dignity of a work of art. Another trick of his is - -THE MISSION OF A PLATE. - -The performer shows a soup plate and two small handkerchiefs, a red one -and a blue, "made of raw silk," he remarks, adding, "Though the silk is -raw, let us hope the trick will be well done." - -That there may be no suspicion of a trap in the table, it is covered -with a newspaper. The plate is laid on it, mouth down. With his arms -bare to the elbow, the performer picks up one handkerchief, rolls it in -his hands, and after a moment shows first his right hand empty, then the -left. The second handkerchief is treated in the same way, and on lifting -the plate the handkerchiefs are found under it. - -Of course two sets of handkerchiefs are used, one of which is concealed -in the plate by means of a double bottom. The construction of the plate -is quite simple. A hole about one-eighth of an inch in diameter is -drilled in the bottom at the centre. A false bottom is made of -metal--zinc or tin--one side painted white to match the plate, the other -covered with newspaper. Soldered to the centre on the newspaper side is -a short wire, slightly hooked at the end, which passes through the hole -in the plate and just catches the edge. A touch with the finger of this -projecting hook dislodges the bottom. The handkerchiefs cover the wire, -while the newspaper lining, matching the paper on the table, conceals -the false bottom. - -[Illustration: CHANGING THE CORD.] - -So much for the plate. Now for the disappearance of the handkerchiefs. -For this a small black bag of some soft dull black material is used. -This bag ought not to be more than an inch and three-quarters long by -about the same measurement in width. In the mouth must be sewed a -curtain ring about seven-eighths of an inch in diameter, and extending -from the centre of one side of the bag to the centre of the other should -be a loop of fine flesh-colored sewing-silk, long enough to pass over -the forefinger and thumb when the former is held out from the fingers. -This bag is lying on a table or hanging at the back of a chair, and is -picked up with the first handkerchief. Shaking out this handkerchief, -the performer pretends to gather it into his hands, in reality stuffing -it into the bag by the help of his left forefinger. When completely in, -he runs that finger and the left thumb through the loop, works the bag -to the back of the left hand, and closes that hand. The right hand, of -which the back has been toward the audience, is now turned and shown to -be empty. The fingers of the left hand still keep moving, as if rolling -the handkerchief into still smaller compass, and then that hand is -opened and also shown empty. Almost at the same moment the tips of the -right-hand fingers are laid, for an instant only, near the left palm, as -if to emphasize the fact that the handkerchief has gone, but without -saying a word. This brings the right forefinger about the centre of the -loop, through which it passes. The hands almost immediately separate, -the bag is lifted off and brought against the right palm, in which -position it cannot be seen by the audience. Without calling attention to -it by words, the audience are made to see that the left hand is empty, -as the performer picks up the second handkerchief with it, thus showing -the back and front. - -The second handkerchief is now worked into the bag, which this time is -left hanging from the forefinger of the _right_ hand. This hand is -opened, but the audience, though not allowed to see the palm, conclude -it is empty, as it was in the case of the first handkerchief. The left -hand is kept closed, as if containing the handkerchief; then it is given -a sudden upward movement, as if throwing the handkerchief into space, -and opened. "The handkerchiefs are gone," says the performer, "and are -here." At this he touches the hook on the plate with the left -forefinger, disengaging the false bottom, lifts up the plate, and -reveals the duplicate handkerchiefs. These he picks up with his right -hand, thus covering the bag therein concealed. - -One who has not seen this trick cannot conceive the beauty of it, but if -the young conjurer will follow literally the instructions here laid -down, he will, with comparatively little practice, soon be able to -surprise and delight his friends with it. - -Mr. Adrian Plate, of New York, a most accomplished sleight-of-hand -performer, who confines himself to giving drawing-room entertainments, -has so far improved upon this trick that he dispenses with a prepared -plate. His duplicate handkerchiefs, closely folded, are concealed -beneath his table-top, and are drawn under the plate when lifting it, -ostensibly to show that nothing has been smuggled under it. - -There are two other very pretty handkerchief tricks easy of -accomplishment, but I must reserve them for my next paper. - - - - -A SWIM FOR LIFE. - - -"Here is an account, Grandfather," said Ralph, "of a sailor who kept -himself afloat at sea for ten hours with only an oar to cling to. Do you -think such a thing possible?" - -"Not only possible, my boy, but very probable," answered the old -captain. "I once knew a sailor who swam for two hours in a heavy sea -when he had not as much as a wooden toothpick to buoy him up, and if you -want the yarn here it is. - -"We were on our way from Cape Town to Boston, and when we reached the -parallel of Bermuda we lost a man overboard in the following way: Just -as evening fell, the wind that had been light all day freshened with a -long-drawn-out moaning sound through the rigging, and the captain sang -out to settle away royals and top-gallant sails, and to haul down the -flying-jib. As it was raining heavily we all kept our oil-skins on when -we went aloft. Upon reaching the cross-trees I laid out on the -top-gallant yard, while a seaman named Porter kept on past me, going up -to furl the royal. I had passed the gaskets around the sail and was -about to lay down from aloft, when something large and dark flashed by -me, fetched up against the top-mast rigging, then bounded clear of the -vessel, and fell into the sea. Porter had missed his footing, and was -now plunging down into the ocean's depths as the ship tore rapidly -onward. - -"'Man overboard!' I yelled; and, seizing a backstay, I slid down on -deck, repeating my warning in the descent. - -"There is no cry that will nerve a seaman to greater exertion than the -one that tells him a shipmate is in dire peril, and although each one -worked fiercely and with the natural strength of two men, the vessel had -swept fully a mile ahead before we could lay the main-yard aback and so -heave the ship to. Nimble hands cast one of the lee boats adrift from -her gripes, and the mate, followed by five seamen, tumbled into her, and -were lowered to the water alongside. - -"'I will burn a flare,' called the captain, 'so that you may keep the -ship in sight!' - -"Four of the sailors pulled at the long oars with powerful, sweeping -strokes, while the second mate guided the little vessel back into the -blackness of the night, and I stood in the bows peering ahead and -sending a ringing shout of encouragement across the waters every minute -or two. But not one of us expected to see poor Porter again; for -although he was known as a strong swimmer, how long, we reasoned, could -he keep afloat in that breaking sea, weighted down with his clothes--a -suit of oil-skins, and heavy sea-boots? However, we worked as zealously -as though the sight of a shipmate's struggling, drowning, beseeching -face were before us. The ship had been running free when Porter fell -from the yard, so to fetch the place where he had first sunk we had only -to pull dead against wind and sea. The men labored at the oars until -their breath was drawn in choking gasps, and the heavy oak blades were -almost swept from cramped and weakened arms. - -"'Cease rowing, and listen!' called the mate. - -"The ceaseless washing of the waves was the only sound that reached us. -The ship had continued to drift from us under the influence of the wind -upon her hull and rigging, and although we could still make out the -flare that was burned over her quarter, it had grown so faint with -distance that it now showed only as a blot of fire far away to leeward. -Then we 'darned the water,' as it is called, pulling this way and that, -while all the time I sent powerful cries into the teeth of the gale. At -last we gave up the search, and turned the boat's head around for the -ship. Not a word was spoken, each one of us silently busy with his own -gloomy thoughts, picturing a lost companion sinking down and down -through the unfathomable depths of the sea, to find at last a -resting-place upon the white sand and coral of the ocean's bed. Only the -thump, thump of oars against rowlocks; only the incessant seething of -the curling crests; only the hissing of the rain as it smote the water -about us, and oars rose and fell mechanically as the boat went -staggering down to where the glowworm light showed the ship to be. - -"Suddenly a faint, long-away cry trembled out of the darkness. - -"''Vast rowing!' shouted the mate, as he jumped excitedly to his feet. -Then he put his hands to his mouth and sent an ear-splitting shout -rolling across the sea. A moment later the answer came to our strained, -eager ears--another cry, but fuller than the first one, as though there -was heart in it. - -"'Give way, my lads! bend your backs, my boys,' thundered the mate, -sweeping the boat around with such a fierce pull at the yoke-lines that -she laid down until the top of a comber spilled over the gunwale. Then, -under the frenzied exertions of the men, we went smoking through the -water at right angles to the course we had been making. - -"'I see him!' I shouted. 'Cease rowing! Stern all!' And the next moment, -laughing and crying, we dragged our shipmate over the rail. We pulled -_him_ into the boat, but that was all. He was as naked as on the day he -came into the world. After coming to the surface from his plunge he -realized that the weight of his clothes would soon drag him down; so -amid the blackness, and in that jumping, tumbling sea, that broke and -boiled about his head, he kicked off his boots, and one by one got rid -of his garments, catching a long breath and allowing himself to sink -while he pulled and tore his clinging clothes away from him. He told us -that all hope of rescue by his shipmates had been given up, and that he -was trying to keep himself afloat until daylight, in hopes that some -vessel would pass within hail of him, when he heard the sound of oars, -and gave out the cry that the mate had first heard." - - - - -THE WINNING OF THE "Y." - -BY S. SCOVILLE, JUN. - - -The day of the Yale-Harvard meeting has come, and with it Jack Vail's -chance of becoming a "'varsity man," and winning the right to wear the -'varsity Y on sweater and jersey front. What that right means none but a -college man can really appreciate. Scores and scores of men spend long -years in training, hoping to win the coveted honor, and out of them all -only a few are chosen. To the 'varsity men more than to all others is -the college honor entrusted. They personify the courage and manliness of -the university, and must show themselves worthy of the trust, and the -man who "makes the 'varsity" by so doing obtains the respect and -consideration of the whole college world, for only one possessing -unusual qualities of mind and body is chosen as worthy to join the few -who represent their alma mater on track and field. And to-day, if Jack -can win his race against Harvard in the annual competition for the great -challenge cup, he wins his Y. - -The sun rises in a cloudless sky, and the day gradually grows hotter, -until, by afternoon, the last trace of heaviness has been burned out of -the cinder path, and the tiers of "bleachers" are packed and jammed with -cheering, sweltering college men and groups of equally enthusiastic -college girls. Three of the bleachers are a mass of crimson flags, -dresses, and ribbons--the Harvard "rooters," a loyal band who have come -down from Cambridge to encourage their team. And now the air is -shattered by volleys of cheers from the Yale tiers. Before each section -stand prominent Seniors who in ordinary life bear themselves with a -dignity befitting their high position in the college world, but who are -now devoting every atom of the energy which has made them marked men to -waving their arms and hats as leaders of the cheering, terminating each -effort with a peculiarly enthusiastic bound. A triple "Rah! Rah! Rah!" -from one section is followed from another by the classical -"Brekity-kek-coax-coax"--a cheer adopted from Aristophanes. The cause of -all the commotion is a great blue 'bus, which has just lumbered up to -the training-house, a short distance from the track, with "Varsity" -painted on the side. Out of this are pouring strapping hammer-throwers -and shot-putters, slim distance-runners, wiry jumpers, and all the other -competitors who go to make up an athletic team. And now the crimson -delegation have their innings as the Harvard team file into the -training-house. The Yale men are located on the ground-floor, while -above them in the same house are their rivals. - -In the training-house is the faint feverish smell of raw alcohol, and -the sound of resounding slaps as the brawny rubbers massage divers -sinewy legs. The sprinters and quarter-milers, whose events come first, -are slipping into their scanty jeans and lacing up spiked shoes, every -muscle quivering with that deathly nervousness which even veteran -runners feel before a race. - -Mike, the grim old trainer, is trotting around with a fixed smile on his -face that he fondly imagines to be reassuring, answering numberless -questions, encouraging this man, advising that, looking up lost -articles--in short, giving backbone to the whole team by his presence. -Suddenly the noise stops. The Captain of the team, a hammer-thrower with -a frame like a young Hercules, has climbed upon the rubbing-table, and -with a sixteen-pound hammer for a gavel, is calling for silence with a -series of crashing blows on the long-suffering table-top. - -"Boys, in five minutes we clinch with Harvard. All I've got to say is -that I am proud of every one of you. I had a good eye when I chose this -team, and there isn't a man on it but's full of sand. Keep cool, grit -your teeth, and go in to win, and if we get whipped Harvard'll know -she's been fighting." - -Bang! goes the hammer, and the customary last words are over. - -"Now, boys, a good big cheer for the Cap'n," shouts Mike, hopping up and -down in his excitement. And a good big cheer it is. Hardly has the last -deep-throated "Rah" died away before the door opens, and a field -official with a flowing badge shouts, "All out for the hundred!" and the -fight between the two great rivals is on. - -Jack's race, the mile run, is the next to the last event. To-day is his -first great race, for it was only this season, when he won the mile at -the college spring games, that Mike had recognized him as a runner -worthy to compete against Harvard. And he is not seasoned enough to -endure well the tremendous suspense. Very weak and nervous Mike finds -him as he rushes in from the track to see if all be well. - -"Sort of shaky, eh?" the latter growls, looking him over critically. -"Well, I wouldn't give a cent for a man that wasn't. You'll be all right -the minute the pistol goes off. Lay well back until the last ten yards!" -and Mike gives Jack a little shake to emphasize his words, "The last ten -yards, mind, and you'll win. You won't if you don't. Save your strength -for a last jump when you hear me yell. Throw yourself forward just -before you get to the tape. I'll be there to catch you. And oh, my boy, -win this race and the college is yours! Why--" - -But all further conversation is cut short by the precipitous entrance of -the Captain. He is all adrip with perspiration, for he has just won the -hammer throw. - -"We win the hammer," he shouts, "and the points are a tie. Now -everything depends on the mile. Harvard will take the high jump and the -two hundred and twenty, and we'll get the shot and pole-vault. So it's -the mile that will decide everything. They'll call it the next event, -Jack. Now, boys," and he again climbs upon the table, "I think a little -music will quiet Jack's nerves." And in a voice that shakes the windows -he commences the college slogan: "_Here's to good old Yale--drink it -down! Drink it down!_" - -"Every man on his feet and sing!" yells Mike. - -Off the beds and from retired corners rolled in blankets they stagger -into the circle, even the quarter and half milers, still deathly sick -from their races, add a few husky notes to the chorus. From above comes -a derisive yell and the rival strains of "Fair Harvard!" - -"Last call for the mile," comes through the open door. - -"Now, Jack," says the Captain, "we're all looking at you." - -"Remember what I told you, Jack!" shouts Mike, and then somebody else -calls for a cheer for Jack Vail. So Jack goes out of the door with their -voices still ringing in his ears. The three Harvard milers are already -out by the start, jogging up and down the track. Jack's appearance is -the signal for a burst of cheers from the Yale bleachers, and a similar -roar from the Harvard adherents. - -"Now, boys," remarked Dickie Arnot, Jack's chum, who is leading the -cheering in front of one tier, "save your voices until Jack turns into -the homestretch; then we'll ejaculate a few feeble notes just to let him -know that we're here." - -Jack takes a little spin down the stretch to be sure that his legs are -in proper working order, and then trots back to the starting-line, where -the customary ceremony between the runners takes place. Each Harvard man -shakes Jack's hand, and politely expresses great pleasure at the -meeting, and Jack looks each one over, and wonders how fast he can go, -and withal feels a bit lonely and lost--one man against three--without -his running-mate "Shorty" Farnham, who became ill a week before the -games, and had to stop training. - -[Illustration: HE CROUCHES IN THE REGULATION SPRINT START.] - -"Now-boys-I-shall-tell-you-to-get-set-and-then-fire-you-off. -Any-man-breaking-off-his-mark-before-the-pistol-goes-back-ten-yards," -clatters the starter, jumbling the words all together, according to the -time-honored custom of starters. Jack is on the extreme edge of the -track furthest from the pole. So when the command "Get set" comes, he -crouches in the regulation sprint start, much to the astonishment of the -Harvard milers, who are standing erect, as mile-runners usually start. - -"Bang!" goes the pistol, and Jack springs from his mark as if beginning -a hundred-yard dash. For nearly thirty yards he sprints, and rounds in -ahead of the startled Harvard men, and secures the pole. A roar from the -Yale men attests their appreciation of the neat manoeuvre. But now the -famed team-work of the Harvard men begins. With a tremendous spurt one -of them comes up from the rear, passes Jack, and secures the pole just -ahead, while at the same time another man tries to run up on the outside -and complete the "pocket." But Jack avoids the attempt by suddenly -swerving away from the pole. Immediately the other swerves out too, and -Jack is forced to run yards wide of the pole. - -He tries dropping back and trailing the others. But the two drop back -with him, and continue their worrying tactics. How Jack longs for the -faithful "Shorty" to protect him from threatened pockets. As it is now -he must either run on the outside and cover yards more than the others, -or take his chances at being cramped up in a pocket until the last lap. -Neither of these alternatives is to be considered for a moment, for -distance-runners learn by bitter experience that the amount of energy -available for a race is a fixed quantity, and that the runner who -diminishes it by the tiniest extra effort will fail in the stretch. Then -it is that a plan flashes into Jack's head. Two of the Harvard runners -he knows are only second-rate men. The other, plodding along placidly in -the rear while his two pace-makers weaken his rival, is the Harvard -record-holder, the great Cowles, and the only one of three that he need -fear. And no one but a miler of the first rank can stand a fast first -half-mile. So away goes Jack to the front, determined to make the first -half under 2.10, which will drop all but Cowles, and take his chances of -resting enough in the third quarter, undisturbed by any jockeying, to -gain strength for the last sprint. For Jack's strong point is his -sprinting, and a waiting race his best policy. So to the utter -bewilderment of his friends, who know his methods, Jack suddenly dashes -to the front, takes the pole away from the Harvard leader, and is off at -a tremendous pace. - -"Poor old Jack's lost his head," remarks Dickie, mournfully. "Mike's -often told him never to set the pace. But, boys, how about a still small -cheer?" And the energetic Richard leads his band of "Assorted Howlers," -as he has appropriately christened his section of the bleachers, in a -rattling, shattering "Brek-e-kek-kek" cheer that could have been heard -clear to the deserted campus two miles away. Only Mike appreciates the -true inwardness of Jack's action, for he has seen, with many misgivings, -the trained team-work of the crimson-barred runners. - -"Good boy! good boy!" he chuckles, slapping his knee ecstatically. "It's -the only thing left to do. Jack runs with his head more than any man -I've got." - -One of the Harvard pace-makers essays his old trick, and tries to sprint -up past Jack, but the latter is not to be passed this time, and the -quartet swing past the first quarter-post at a tremendous gait. - -"Sixty-one," shouts Mike, who has been holding his watch on the race, so -as to announce the time of the different quarters to Jack. - -The two Harvard pace-makers are unable to hold this gait, and as Jack -begins the backstretch of the second quarter at the same pace, they -begin to lag, and little by little drop back. Suddenly Cowles awakens to -the fact that he must depend upon his own efforts for the rest of the -race, and starts after Jack at a sprinting gait. Jack hears the rapid -steps close behind him, and tries a little stratagem of his own, hardly -hoping that it will succeed against a veteran runner like Cowles. By -slow degrees he swings out from the pole until nearly a yard away, -leaving a tempting gap. By the rules, any runner passing another on the -inside may be disqualified for fouling if so he interferes with the -runner ahead, for the leading runner has a right to the pole, and a -runner taking the inside does so at his own risk. Cowles knows the rules -well, but decides to take the chance and save the two or three yards -that passing on the outside would take. But just as he is almost abreast -of the crafty Jack, the latter swings back to the pole, and Cowles has -to stop almost short to avoid a collision, which by the rules would be -blamed to him, and while his stride is broken Jack gains nearly ten -yards. - -Now they are at the quarter-post again, and the first half-mile has been -traversed in 2.08. Jack is still leading, and by degrees sets a slower -and slower pace to save himself for the final effort in the stretch. But -half-way around Cowles suddenly recognizes his tactics, and with an -indignant effort takes the lead with that rapid even gait which seems to -devour the ground, and which so imperceptibly draws away from a -following runner if so be the latter relax his efforts in the least. Ah, -the bitter third quarter! when the weakness creeps up from a runner's -legs breast-high, and the laboring lungs feel as if iron bands were -tight around them; when the head swims, and flashes come and go before -the eyes, and every effort of body and mind is concentrated in a -struggle not to let the white-jersey back just ahead draw away ever so -little. Past the starting-post they go, and the others are hopelessly -behind. There is a tremendous roar from the Harvard men as they begin -the last quarter, and Cowles draws away ever so little from Jack. But -the latter grits his teeth and calls upon his numb legs, and the gap -closes up again. So they run like a tandem-team, and stride by stride -the last quarter lessens and lessens. - -The stretch is very near, and though the pace is terrific, Jack feels -that he has an atom of spirit left somewhere down in his heels. And as -they turn the last corner and the homestretch looms up before them, Jack -lengthens his stride a trifle, and the blue Y with two little a's on -either side, which the runner who has not won a point for Yale is -condemned to wear, is almost parallel with the crimson bar. A roar of -cheers fills the air as the two runners come down the stretch, fighting -every yard, their heads back, their eyes fixed in an unwinking stare -which sees only the red line between the finish posts but forty yards -away. - -[Illustration: "COME IN--COME IN, JACK!"] - -And now the band of Assorted Howlers get in their deadly work. Dickie's -hat and coat are off, his collar limp, and with most marvellous -gyrations he is leading his orchestra in a wonderfully constructed -cheer. Finally, "Nine Jack Vails!" he whoops, "and let 'em come loud." -And every Yale voice on the bleachers and grand stand joins in, and -"Jack Vail! Jack Vail! Jack Vail!" they thunder. But Jack, only ten -yards away from the finish, hears nothing but the sobbing gasps of the -runner beside him, sees nothing but the tape and the face of Mike all -working and distorted with excitement as he stands back of the judges. -And suddenly out of the din, which seems somehow far away and like a -dream, he hears Mike's voice, hoarse in its intensity: "It's the last -ten yards, me boy! Oh, _come in--come in_, Jack!" - -And Jack comes. With a last desperate staggering plunge he throws -himself forward, and feels the blessed pressure of the parting tape that -tells him the race is won. - -Nothing more does Jack remember until he finds himself lying in Mike's -strong arms in the training-house, while the rest of the team press up -to shake his hand, and the Captain, full of joyful chuckles, kneels -down, and with his penknife rips off the obnoxious a's, and the great -blue Y stands forth on his jersey front--won at last. - - - - -FOR KING OR COUNTRY. - -A Story of the Revolution. - -BY JAMES BARNES. - -CHAPTER XI. - -GLOOM AND VICTORY. - - -Oh, the disheartening days that followed--the constant marching to and -fro, the bitter defeats, and the hopeless feeling of being overwhelmed -by superior numbers! Oh, the heart-aches and the weariness! - -Once more, so to speak, George was on his native heath, for the -discouraged and partly shattered army of Washington was in full retreat -across the northern part of New Jersey. The men marched or, better, -hurried along despondently. It was more like a rabble fleeing before the -invaders than a body of fighting-men. The short enlistments were running -out; dissatisfaction was everywhere; and very early one morning they had -been compelled to evacuate their camp, leaving behind blankets, tents, -and even their breakfasts cooking at the fire, for the British had -followed them across the Hudson, and were close upon their heels. Fort -Washington had been taken, and Fort Lee had been abandoned with -everything it contained. - -And it was growing cold; the ice had formed in the meadows, and a slight -fall of snow lay melting in the muddy roads. Clothing and shoes were -scarce; the inhabitants of Newark and other towns came bravely to the -rescue. Yet there were many Tories who were praying already for the -advance of the British, and it was rumored every day that orders would -be received to resume the retreat, for recruiting had almost ceased. - -These were trying times for all, but for none more so than for -Lieutenant George Frothingham. By sickness and desertion his company had -dwindled to scarcely thirty men. All of his gold had gone to help keep -the remaining few together. - -And now began the weary, weary marching once more. Discouraged and -foot-sore, ragged and hungry, the patriot army retreated southward, the -British so close upon their rear that oftentimes they would come in full -sight, and skirmishes were frequent. - -New Brunswick, Princeton, and Trenton successively fell into the hands -of the enemy, and at last, on the 8th of December, Washington crossed -the Delaware, and, owing to every boat being in the hands of the -Americans on the southern shore, the pursuit was abandoned for the time. - -Soon, however, was a victory to be given to the shivering army, and -Washington was to astonish the eyes of the military world. But this is -casting ahead. - -"George," said Carter, one snowy afternoon--for Lieutenant Hewes had -recovered from his wound and hastened to the front again--"George, -to-morrow's Christmas, and although we get no plum-pudding, in my -opinion there's something afoot." - -"Then I trust that it may be forward," replied George; "this walking -backwards in order to face the enemy tires out men's souls and courage." - -The two friends were standing close to a small fire, holding out their -hands to the welcome glow. In the woods about them roughly built huts -showed everywhere, and before each one huddled clusters of -hungry-looking men, soldiers of an army that had known nothing but -defeat. - -"Colonel Roberts was called to attend a council at the General's -headquarters, and came back with a smile on his face. That must mean -cheering news of some sort, eh?" Carter warmed to his subject. "And -haven't you marked the gathering and mending of the flat-boats?" - -"Yes," answered George. "It means they will cross the river. I think -that it is well known that the Hessians in Trenton stay much abed this -weather. But the morrow will show. I'm off to my blanket." - -The boys bade each other good-night, and the fire burned low. - -At daybreak the next day along the American lines everything was in the -bustle of preparation for some great movement. What it was no one knew. -Rations were being prepared, powder and balls distributed, the strongest -men were being picked out and formed into separate companies, and the -weak and sickly were distributed up and down the line of earth-works. - -George awoke at the sun's first rays, and was buckling on his sword when -Carter Hewes hurriedly entered the hut he shared with Captain Clarkson. - -"It is Trenton surely," he whispered; "but there is a chance for us to -volunteer for a service that will make the army grateful. I spoke for -you as well as for myself. Was I right or not?" - -"Of course you were," said George, smiling. - -"Here it is," was the reply. "On the way to Trenton is an English -baggage-train, eight or ten big wagons filled with stores and -plunder--powder, too, perhaps. A spy, a reliable man, has just brought -in the news. He says that it is lightly guarded, and that a dozen men -with good horses could cross the river up above, and by fast riding -intercept and burn it. The General has given his permission." - -Somehow as Carter spoke he reminded George of his father, Colonel Hewes. - -"I will go," he said. "But how about my Captain, and how to cross the -river?" - -"Captain Clarkson will be told, and there is a big flat-boat five miles -up-stream that we can use. We will start when it is dark this evening." -He grasped George's hand. - -But it was not until midnight that everything was completed; men had to -be chosen, and horses that could travel fast were scarce. But at twelve -o'clock ten men, mounted and armed, started west along the river. It was -not until dawn that they came across the road from Trenton to the north, -for they had been forced to make a wide detour. The spy was with them; -objects were growing plainer, and he pointed with his finger. - -"There lies Trenton, eight miles away, and the Dutchmen all asleep," he -said, "and if my judgment fails me not, our wagon-train is encamped in -yonder hollow." - -The ten riders crossed a field and entered a forest of small pine-trees; -the snow deadened the sound of the horses. Suddenly they came to a -clearing, and the guide raised his hand. - -"There they are," he said. Before a small frame building ten big wagons -were halted in the road. The horses were blanketed and tethered to the -wheels; not a guard of any kind was to be seen. - -"Hark!" exclaimed one of the troopers. A loud boom sounded from the -southward. - -"General Washington has crossed the river," said Carter to George, who, -mounted on one of Colonel Roberts's horses, was at his elbow. - -Another cannon-shot, and then a roaring of them--a constant ripple and -crash of sound. Heads appeared at the windows of the frame house, a few -figures ran out. - -[Illustration: "CHARGE!" ORDERED THE CAPTAIN OF THE LITTLE PARTY.] - -"Charge!" ordered the Captain of the little party. - -So sudden was the attack that not a shot was fired. Then and there -twenty English soldiers and a score of teamsters surrendered to ten bold -Americans. They were disarmed, and penned in the frame house again. - -"Don't let us burn the wagons; let us take them in," suggested George. - -"Wait and see how it goes over there," said the guide. "Here! Hurry! -Harness up! If they retreat, it will be along the highway. I know a wood -road we can drive them into." - -In a few minutes the heavy wagons had been pulled up the hill and far -into the pines. The prisoners were placed underneath and guarded. - -"Here comes a man on horseback," said some one from the edge of the -thicket. - -A dragoon, helmetless and without a coat, tore by on the road below, -lashing his horse. - -"Hush! Don't cheer," said Carter, sternly. "Here comes another; we have -won the day." - -Breathlessly the little party watched the fugitives make up the road -towards Princeton, and when the last had gone, light-hearted they took -their prizes up the road towards Trenton. - -"There flies our flag," said Carter, as the houses came in sight. "Three -cheers now, men, and with a will!" - -Once more did George Frothingham shake hands with Washington. - -Five days flew by, and recruits swarmed in. But the British were not -idle. George was posting the guards outside of Washington's headquarters -on New-Year's night, when the Commander-in-chief accompanied by his -staff came walking by. The relief saluted, and the young Lieutenant -caught the words, "Retreat is now impossible." - -The next day the British advanced on Trenton. They did not force a -battle, for it was thought that the Americans would surrender; but the -latter retreated to the further side of a little creek called the -Assumpinck, and here again commenced the dreary work of digging into the -frozen earth, and, strange to say, the order was, "Make all the noise -you can." - -As soon as the darkness had settled down at night the watch-fires along -the line blazed brightly in the woods. Quickly word was passed for the -army, now swelled to five thousand men, to form into line. Washington -again was about to astonish military eyes. - -Under cover of the darkness he slipped across the creek, and marched -silently northward by a road unguarded by the British. The men, looking -over their shoulders, could see their own camp-fires still burning -brightly behind them, for a force of men had been left there to keep -them going, and pick and shovel were ringing busily. - -Again the British slept on, unconscious of what was happening, and in -the early morning an empty camp confronted them. But at the same time -his Majesty's forces at Princeton were astonished to see well-formed -bodies of troops swinging along the road toward their encampment on the -hill about the college buildings. - -George's company had halted, and was waiting for the word. It was a very -strange sight indeed, for the command was drawn up to the side of a -little brook, just across an arched stone bridge. - -As the light broadened they could see coming down the road in front of -them a line of red standing out brightly against the bare meadows and -patches of snow. They did not seem to be afraid of the forces gathered -below them in the meadow, for they did not even form a line of battle. - -Everything was quiet. A rabbit jumped from a thicket, darted out and -bobbed across the field. Some snow-birds twittered in the leafless -branches overhead; but soon was the stillness to be broken. - -"I declare, I don't think they see what they're about!" exclaimed a -soldier. - -The fact was, the regiment of British soldiers had taken the Americans -at first for Hessians. Soon, however, they were to be undeceived, for a -volley from a company off to the right warned the officers, and the -Redcoats spread out across the hill-side. A body of Americans at this -moment came out of a hollow and met them face to face. It was a mutual -surprise, and the fighting began at once. Some horsemen galloped back in -the direction of Princeton, one and a half miles or so away. -Re-enforcements of the enemy were hurried down the road on a run. The -detachment with which George had been standing charged up to join the -hand-to-hand fighting at the front. - -The battle had opened. Most of the Americans near the stone bridge were -raw militia. They could not be made to fire in volleys, but each man -apparently fought for himself. They had had little drilling, not having -been in the affair at Trenton, and this was their first sight of blood. -George saw that exhorting was of no avail. The men were full of fight, -but they were not trained to listen. He sheathed his sword, and picked -up a musket from the ground. - -The Redcoats, advancing in their well-dressed line, came steadily on. -The ranks of the militia broke and retreated; only a few stood their -ground. A man on horseback rode to the front. He stood up in his -stirrups, shouted, and waved his sword about his head. - -"Mark ye him there on the gray horse--'tis General Mercer," a voice -shouted, as the militia once more began to rally. "Stand firm! stand -firm!" the officer was crying. Suddenly his steed reared, and the rider -leaped up in the saddle, and, leaning across the big gray's neck, slid -to the ground. The horse stumbled and fell immediately, and the General -was seen almost alone, parrying the British bayonets with his sword. At -last down he went before any one could reach him. - -As George, for the nonce a private, was reloading his piece, he saw two -soldiers draw back their muskets and plunge the bayonets into the -prostrate form. A fury seized him, and with a handful of young -militiamen he rushed at the red bristling line. He swung his musket by -the barrel and struck to right and left. How he kept from being killed -was a miracle, for men fell and shots rang all about him. - -Now was the time for help, and, luckily, it came. Washington, at the -head of some hurrying troops, pushed forward from the eastward, and the -tide of battle turned. The British ran across the stone bridge, and many -fled toward the town. - -The pursuit was now kept up in two directions. Part of the American -forces chased after the retreating British across the bridge toward -Trenton, another detachment swept onward toward the town, where the -Redcoats had taken refuge in the college buildings. The companies were -mixed together by this time--Pennsylvanians, Virginians, New Jerseymen, -and New-Yorkers were fighting elbow to elbow. - -A strange sight that George had seen after the re-enforcements under -General Washington had been hurried up kept recurring to his mind as he -pressed forward. It was one of the small events that force themselves -upon the mind in moments of great excitement. - -The leader upon whom the fortunes of the country then depended had been -regardless of all danger, and had been mixed almost with the -hand-to-hand fighters, a conspicuous object on his white horse, but as -yet not a ball had touched him. - -Colonel Fitzgerald, one of the Irish officers attached to the American -service, had ridden up to Washington as soon as the British ranks had -broken. George recalled how strange it seemed. The brave Colonel's face -was contorting oddly, for he was crying like a baby, the tears rolling -down his cheeks, and the sobs almost preventing him from speaking. - -"Thank God! thank God!" he said, "your Excellency is safe." - -Washington had extended his hand, and replied, quietly, though he was -touched by the congratulation, "The day is ours, Fitzgerald." - -The men about had cheered as they hurried on. The sleeve of George's -coat was hanging in shreds and blackened with the stain of powder. He -remembered how he had grasped the muzzle of a musket, and it had seemed -to go off almost in his hand. The flint of his own gun had become -dislodged during its short use as a club, and was lost. He fruitlessly -searched for another as he ran. - -The troops of the enemy that had retreated northward had taken refuge -within the walls of the historic Nassau Hall. They had smashed in -windows, cut loop-holes, and had tried to get some artillery into -position. - -"Have you a spare flint?" George inquired of a panting figure at his -side as they climbed a fence at the back of a small farm-house. The man -he addressed turned. It was his fellow-clerk at Mr. Wyeth's, the man -whom he had thought a chicken-heart. - -"Ah, Frothingham," he said, his pale eyes alight with excitement, "I -have, and you are welcome." - -George grasped the hand and the extended flint together. "Bonsall," he -said, "you are a brave fellow, and I have misjudged you. I must have -been a nice curmudgeon in that old counting-house." - -"No, no," said the other; "we didn't understand each other, and you -thought I was a coward. Mayhap I was. Have you any ball about you?" - -George had still some of the King's statue mementos. He handed them to -his companion, who placed two or three of them in his mouth, much as a -boy might marbles. The two young soldiers advanced and caught up with -the line. Some scattering shots rang from the college campus. Bonsall, -who was just taking aim, whirled half around, clasped one hand to his -breast, and extended the other feebly before him. - -"I'm shot," he said, peering blindly into the young Lieutenant's eyes. - -George leaped forward and caught the dying boy; he bent over him, and -placed his head on his lap. - -The pale eyes opened. "Good-by, Frothingham," came the lad's voice in a -weak whisper. "In my pocket, here--here." - -George thrust his hand inside the threadbare coat. There was an envelope -addressed to Mrs. Lucius Bonsall, New York. - -"Give it to her," the poor boy said, "with love, with love." - -George laid him down on the frozen earth, and now crying himself, much -as the Irish Colonel had, he leaned against an elm, and aimed at the -windows of Nassau Hall. A battery of artillery was playing at the bottom -of the hill, and the masonry shattered from the old brown building. It -was too hot for the British, and they fled across the green, down the -turnpike toward New Brunswick and Rock Hill, the Americans at their -heels. - -"'Tis a fox chase," said a starved-looking soldier, with a grin on his -unshaven face. "I heard the General say it himself. Hurrah!" Off he -dashed. - -George did not join in the pursuit, but finding his old friend Thomas -and another soldier, they made their way back to the frozen garden, and -there dug a grave, and marked the spot where poor Luke Bonsall had -fallen. - -George looked into the college buildings an hour or so later. Scorched -with fire and littered with the remains of a cavalry occupation, -vandalism had been at work. Pictures were cut and slashed, and books -destroyed, and, strange to say, a cannon-ball had carried away the head -of a handsome portrait of his Majesty King George. - -The stay of the Continental forces here was short, for the astonished -and chagrined Cornwallis was coming up from Trenton. The next day all -were on the move to the northward. - -George searched for his company, and helped sift the men into something -of military shape. It was in horrible confusion, and had suffered many a -loss. During all this time he kept thinking of Bonsall's letter, that -was in his pocket next to that of his little sister's. It was not long -before it was to play quite an important part in our hero's personal -history. - -Elated with their victories, which had revived the flagging zeal of the -citizens, the army had marched to Morristown, and there sought -winter-quarters. - -They had only been a few days in the shelter of the town, resting from -the long marches and the consequences of freezing and fighting at the -same time, when Carter Hewes met George on the street. - -"Roberts told me to find you," he said. "There are important orders -waiting for you." - -What could it mean? George furbished up the few brass buttons left on -his famous coat, and walked up to the great house where a flag was -flying at the top of a rough pole. - -Colonel Roberts met him and took him to one side as soon as he had -entered, and an aid gave him a written order, which George read -hurriedly. There was no explanation; he had been detached from his -company, and the whole thing was somewhat confusing. Carter Hewes was -waiting at the gate, and threw his arms about his friend's shoulder as -soon as he came out on the roadway. - -"Is it an order for special duty or a promotion?" he inquired, much -excited. - -"It is the former," answered George, "but what to do I know not." - -To his intense surprise he had been ordered to report to Colonel Hewes, -to whom he bore despatches. And where could one suppose? At Stanham -Mills! A horse was placed at his disposal; he was to start at once. - -[TO BE CONTINUED.] - - - - -THE BABYHOOD OF DENVER. - -BY JULIAN RALPH. - - -The first cabin in any part of what is now Denver, the capital of -Colorado, was that of a hunter and trader, and is thought to have been -an Indian's old tepee. It stood in what is now West Denver in 1857. To -that neighborhood, in the early summer of 1858, came a party of Georgia -men headed by a leader named Green Russell, and hunting for gold on the -east slope of the Rocky Mountains. It had been said that some white men -had found gold there nine years before, and that three years later some -Indians also found a little. Later still a party of traders actually -carried some "pay dirt" from there to their homes in Missouri. "Pay -dirt," the reader should know, is any form of rock or earth or sand that -contains sufficient gold to pay for working it. - -Green Russell and his men arrived in June, 1858. If we stop a moment to -consider these true founders of Denver, we shall see that they add a new -picture to the varied, highly colored gallery of paintings that make the -true pictorial history of the growth of our country. We have seen the -stolid, dignified Dutchmen sail into New York Harbor with their swords, -banners, queer old flint-lock guns, and quaint long pipes. We have seen -the grave Puritans assemble in Massachusetts with their sober garments, -their stern faces, and their muskets and Bibles carried side by side. We -have seen the gorgeously dressed servants of the kings of France and -Spain at their work of founding New Orleans, having their wives sent to -them in ships, to make their acquaintance and be their wives after they -got there. And at St. Louis we came upon the same sort of men who built -up Canada--rough, brave boatmen in furs, singing and dancing, and -throwing away their money that they earned in pathless forests and in -savage Indian camps. When we came to study the birth of Helena, Montana, -we saw upon the canvas of history the veteran gold-miner, old at the -business, leaving one camp when it ceased to pay, and roaming all over -the mountains, with, sharp, ferretlike eyes that saw no beauties in -nature--nothing but the dull rocks and the sand in the beds of the -streams where gold might be found. Rough, long-haired, bearded, dressed -in whatever they could get, these "prospectors" clambered over the -mountains, leaving many cities behind them that did not exist until they -started them. - -And now, at the birth of Denver, we see the life of the immigrants on -the plains. We see the caravans of "prairie-schooners," crossing the -continent like flights of brown moths, and settling a city as winged -things light on a field or on a bed of flowers that offers food. They -were miners, or were led by miners, but they were not yet veterans of -the far Western type. They were closely followed by absolute strangers -to the business--Eastern folk who wanted to pick up gold between their -feet. Therefore the newest part of the picture is the life in the -caravans of "prairie-schooners." - -These were strong four-wheeled wagons, drawn by horses, and covered with -canvas tops drawn over a series of half-hoops. In these wagons were -beds, clothing, stoves, cooking and eating and drinking utensils, and -women, children, and whatever invalid men there were in the train. I -could not tell you fairly, in such a short article as this, a tenth part -of the general experiences of the people who built up the West by -travelling in these trains before the railroads came. Peril surrounded -them--peril in many shapes. They were attacked by Indians. They dodged -the savages, they fought them, they whipped them or were massacred. They -crossed rivers and swollen streams without bridges. They crossed the -plains through fearful heat or still more fearful cold. They found no -water, or water unfit to drink. They fell sick, they died; cholera -overtook some of them, chasing after them all the way from Asia. Their -horses were stolen or died or broke down. Their food ran out. There was -enough adventure in the journey to fill a lifetime--even to fill an -extraordinary lifetime. - -[Illustration: DENVER IN ITS EARLY YOUTH.] - -Those who reached Denver were a ragged, dust-grimed, tired-out lot, with -worn horses, battered wagons, and no immediate desire except to fling -themselves on the ground beside the Platte River, in the shade of the -cottonwoods, and rest. Stop a moment to think of the courage and -condition of those others who went all the way to Oregon! Their courage -passes belief. Well, Green Russell and his Georgia men built a hut of -logs, and roofed it with mud. When the rain fell it dropped on the roof -as water, but it came through the roof as mud. The hut stood by that of -the trader, where West Denver stands now. A third hut was built by one -Ross Hutchins, and the row or street or village was called Indian Row. -Gold was found in the nearby creek, and Russell took some back to -Georgia to coax more of his people out to the new camp. - -Then there came a party of twenty persons from Lawrence, Kansas. All -of Colorado was then Kansas. These new-comers went three miles farther -up the river, and washed the sand for gold at a village of their own, -which they called Montana. That was in midsummer. In September of -the same year, 1858, some of the Georgia men--or perhaps some -outsiders--organized a town where East Denver is now, and called it St. -Charles. They drew up formal organization papers, and then, not knowing -what to do with them, _filed them with themselves_. A month later the -Georgians established at Indian Row, now West Denver, formally turned -that queer little pin-point on the map into a town, which they called -Auraria. A store was added to the village very quickly, and one of the -merchants who opened it is alive in Denver to-day. Remember that all -this was only a little more than thirty years ago, when some of my -readers would have called Mr. Gladstone an old man. Prince Bismarck was -fifty years old when this happened. - -St. Charles village was a failure, and the founders of Montana soon -moved away and joined Auraria. Then came some men, such as are called -"hustlers" in the West, and they went to work in mighty earnest to make -a city of St. Charles. They agreed that each should build a house, and -in less than fifty days (by January, 1859) there were twenty houses -standing. They named the place Denver, using the name of an ex-Governor -of Kansas Territory, and they gave the town a full set of officials. -Then began a great rivalry between Denver and Auraria. Auraria seemed to -get the business places. The merchants went there, and there Mr. William -N. Byers established the first newspaper--the _Rocky Mountain News_. He -and the paper are both active to-day. But little Denver captured the -express company when it came, and that ended the rivalry, for all -communication with civilization was had through the express company. In -1860 the two towns became one, and were called Denver. - -It was in 1859 that the prairie-schooners going to Denver most nearly -resembled great swarms of moths. There had been a money panic in the -United States, and hard times followed. This led to a rush for the new -gold-fields. The truth was that there was not gold enough to pay the -crowds for coming, but two remarkable events happened. In the first -place, a miner named Gregory, who had been drifting about in the West, -happened just then to come upon rich "diggings" not far away. The people -came from the East as in a stampede. Some heard that the finding of gold -was a hoax, and turned back to go home, meeting other thousands on their -way to the diggings. In the East no one knew what to believe; but just -then three newspaper men--Horace Greeley, the great editor, Henry -Villard, and A. D. Richardson--arrived in this region, investigated the -new diggings, and wrote an account of them for all the world to read. -They told how a great many miners were making a great deal of money, and -how a much greater number were not finding any gold at all. Then they -warned the public not to come in such great numbers. I will repeat in -substance what they wrote, as it makes a picture of the surroundings of -Denver when it was a tiny baby city. - -They said they found 5000 persons in the ravine called Gregory's -Diggings. Hundreds poured in daily, and they passed tens of thousands -hurrying to the place. For all of these provisions must be carted from -the Missouri River, 700 miles, over mere trails, across unbridged -streams that were steep banked, miry, or swollen by rains. Part of the -way to the Diggings (and to Denver) was across a desert, with wood and -grass very scanty and miles apart. To try to cross this desert on foot -was madness, suicide, murder. To cross it with teams was only possible -to those who knew the way to find grass and water. In early autumn the -Diggings would be snowed under and frozen up. Then for six months there -would not be work, food, or shelter within 500 miles for the army of men -who were fooled into thinking that gold could be picked up like pebbles -at the sea-shore. This sensible report did vast good in moderating the -rush. There was great misery and hardship, nevertheless, but gold -continued to be found, and many towns sprang up around Denver, which -became the main city or metropolis of the region. For a time the people -called the region Jefferson Territory, though the Kansas people claimed -the district around Denver. The people established a territorial -government in this way as early as 1859, and in February, 1861, Congress -legally established the Territory, and called it Colorado. After that, -with many reverses and hardships, the place grew steadily as a city, and -as a capital not only of Colorado, but of the whole country between the -mountains and the Eastern frontier. It is a beautiful city. It is -actually on the plains, and yet at that point the plains are nearly a -mile in the air--above the sea-level. This makes the city a great health -resort, and brings to it so many Eastern people of wealth and refinement -that they have been able to give Denver a great deal of the character of -an Eastern city. It is modern, enterprising, and very beautiful. It is -full of lovely homes and magnificent hotels, public buildings, theatres, -stores, and office structures. It has almost 150,000 population. - -[Illustration: DENVER TO-DAY.] - -I could have gone far back of the birth of Denver to show how the -Spaniards explored Colorado before the Puritans landed on Plymouth Rock. -It was in 1541 that Vasquez Coronado entered Colorado with his little -army, coming from Mexico. In the year of our Revolutionary war a Spanish -priest journeyed toward California, sprinkling southern Colorado with -the pretty Spanish names now borne by the rivers and mountains and -valleys. The immediate neighborhood of Denver came to us in 1804 by the -Louisiana Purchase, and two years later Lieutenant Zebulon Pike explored -the region. In 1819 Major Stephen S. Long started upon a second -exploring expedition that led him literally to the site of Denver, where -he camped in July, 1820. Twenty-three years later John C. Fremont, "the -Pathfinder," came that way, and found several Indian traders established -along the Platte. In 1847 the hardy, enthusiastic Mormons passed over -this ground on their way to establish themselves in Utah. It is said, -too, that Francis Parkman, the historian, built a camp close to or on -the site of Denver when he made his famous journey in 1846. And yet it -seems to me that none of these events connects itself so closely with -the birth of Denver as the expedition of the gold-hunters from Georgia. - - - - -IN THE BARN. - - - Whenever there's a rainy day - They send us to the barn to play - From after lunch till supper-time. - And there they let us run and climb - And tumble in the hay and straw-- - Such funny tricks you never saw! - We overhaul the piles of junk, - We open every battered trunk, - And every corner we explore - As if we'd never searched before; - We play at burglars or at thieves, - And crawl along beneath the eaves, - Or else we are a garrison - Besieged, outnumbered ten to one, - And from the windows we repel - The foe that hides beyond the well. - And sometimes, if there's no one by - (If John has gone down to the sty - Or to the pasture for the cow, - Or--if John's absent, anyhow), - We take old Dobbin from the stall-- - Which we ought never do at all-- - And play at circus, while the horse - Plods around a ring, of course, - With one of us upon his back; - Another makes the long whip crack; - A third--the lucky one--is clown; - And all the girls have to sit down - On seats that have been put about, - And they must clap their hands and shout. - Oh, circus is the greatest fun! - When John goes out, it's always done. - - ALBERT LEE. - - - - -THE RAVELLED MITTEN. - -BY SOPHIE SWETT. - -(_In Two Parts_.) - -II. - - -Tilly Coombs watched the sled as it went crunching and jingling up the -hill, and then entered her house, with a long sigh that the party was -over. - -"I'm getting to have good times; they treat me 'most as if I was other -folks," she said to herself, happily. She would have liked to tell her -mother about the good time, but her father had come home. She heard his -querulous voice, and knew that he had been drinking just enough to make -it unsafe to disturb him; so she crept softly up to her room--a cold and -bare nook under the eaves. She pulled off her ravelled mitten and gazed -at it ruefully. "That was an awful queer thing to do!" she said to -herself aloud. "And, my! wa'n't it cold in that barn? But nobody saw -me--not a soul! Nobody will ever know! The worst of it is, if I had been -ketched, then nobody would ever believe that Alf wasn't a thief! An -awful queer thing!" For a minute or two Tilly was lost in painful and -perplexing reflection. Then she suddenly shook her fist fiercely at her -small, crooked reflection in the cracked piece of looking-glass upon the -wall. "Tilly Coombs, don't you never darst to think, as long as you -live, that anything _she_ did was queer!" she said, in an impressive -whisper that echoed from all the empty corners of the dreary little -room. And then Tilly tucked a ravelled mitten under the ragged ticking -of her bed, and slept in peace. - -While she slept, in the great farm-house at the top of Butternut Hill -they were still debating whether she should be arrested at once for the -theft of the spoons, or whether Patty should try to influence her to -confession and the restoration of the property. - -It was Aunt Eunice who suggested the latter course. Uncle Reuben -believed in stern justice. He said that the Coombs family was a disgrace -to the town; the father was drunken and good for nothing, and the son-- -His voice broke there; he had always felt that Alf Coombs was to blame -for Dave's running away. - -"We never heard anything really bad about Alf Coombs until--until he ran -away," Anson insisted. Aunt Eunice said she thought Mrs. Coombs seemed -like a good woman; and Patty tried to defend Tilly, although it _was_ -difficult to explain her knitting up that ravelled mitten! She said Ruby -Nutting wouldn't believe anything against Tilly, and you couldn't make -her. But Uncle Reuben shook his head over that, and said he was afraid -Ruby Nutting wasn't very sensible, and Ruby's father seemed to pity bad -folks just as much as good ones, and to take just as much comfort -doctoring them--without any pay. - -But it was finally decided that Patty should tell Tilly of the proof of -her guilt that had been discovered. If Patty failed to influence her, -then Aunt Eunice would no longer object to her arrest. - -Patty lay awake a long time that night, dreading her mission; she wished -she might ask Ruby Nutting to help her, but Uncle Reuben thought it best -that no one should be told. When she did sleep she dreamed a dreadful -dream, in which Tilly Coombs was being pursued down the long hill, -through the great snow-drifts, by an army of spoons with grotesque -faces, their mouths made of the initial letter that marked the stolen -spoons--O for Oliver, Grandma Barclay's maiden name; they were driving -Tilly into the mill-pond, which was open as if it were summer, in spite -of the January drifts, and Patty awoke with a start and a cry. But bad -as was the fantastic dream, Patty said to herself that the reality was -worse. - -When Pelatiah opened the back door the next morning, a fine pair of -chickens plucked and dressed hung upon the knob. That circumstance -seemed mysterious. Why should a thief who would steal a dozen spoons -have a weak conscience in the matter of a pair of chickens? Where could -Tilly Coombs get a pair of chickens? Patty added these mysteries to the -one about the ravelled mitten upon which Tilly had knit and knit and yet -worn it unmended, and felt as bewildered as she did when Anson made her -listen to something out of the rebus corner of the _Butternut Weekly -Voice_. But Uncle Reuben still insisted that it was a clear case; the -thief had restored the chickens in order to stifle suspicion about the -spoons. As to how the thief became possessed of the chickens, he "didn't -think it would trouble Coombses to rob hen-roosts." - -So as Patty set out to accuse Tilly of the theft the little spark of -hope which the deepened mystery had aroused in her was almost quenched. - -Tilly came to the door, and Patty tried to look at her with judicial -severity, as she had seen Uncle Reuben look at offenders, but she broke -down suddenly at sight of Tilly's beaming, friendly face. - -"Oh, Tilly," she cried, "you will give them back, won't you? It was such -a dreadful thing to do! But no one shall ever know; Uncle Reuben says -so, if you will only give them back." - -The warmth and color faded out of Tilly's face until it looked wan and -pinched in the morning light. - -"It's no matter about the chickens. You needn't even have given those -back. Of course it's always terrible to--to take things, but if you'll -only give back the spoons." - -"_The spoons?_" echoed Tilly, and there seemed to be such genuine -bewilderment in her tone that Patty felt inclined to believe Uncle -Reuben's accusation that she was sly. "I don't know anything about any -spoons." - -"Tilly, your mitten caught on the basket and was ravelled, and--and I -saw you knitting it up in the barn." Patty's tone was rather pitiful -than accusing, but Tilly's face flamed angrily. - -"I didn't s'pose you was one to go peeking round and spying on folks," -she cried. "I guess I've got a right to do a little knitting anywheres -that I'm a mind to, and--and you can't say 'twas a mitten." - -"I saw it, Tilly, a red mitten. This is the yarn that was caught on the -basket." Polly drew from her pocket the red ravelling, wound upon a bit -of paper. - -"_Yarn!_" echoed Tilly, contemptuously taking a bit between her thumb -and finger. "I call that worsted!" - -"And are your mittens yarn?" cried Tilly, eagerly. "Because that would -prove--" - -"I never said they were," said Tilly, quickly, the color deepening in -her cheeks, "I never said anything about them, and I sha'n't show them -to anybody. And I never saw your old spoons in all my born days--so -there!" Tilly would have shut the door, but Patty prevented her. - -"Oh, Tilly, I'm afraid you don't realize. Uncle Reuben will send a -sheriff to arrest you. And the girls have thought so much of -you--especially Ruby Nutting." - -"You needn't say a word about _her_." Tilly swallowed a lump chokingly. -"You needn't tell her, nor anything. She hasn't got anything to do with -it. She's give me all the chance I've had to get good times, and her -father has been awful good to us; and now I suppose they won't be any -more. But--but poor folks must expect to be called thieves, and took up. -The worst is, now they'll be sure Alf broke into that store, and he -didn't! no more'n your cousin did! No, that isn't the worst. The worst -is that Miss Farnham, the milliner, won't have me now! She was going to -take me half a day to do chores and help her; 'twas an awful good -chance! It chirked mother right up to think we were going to be so much -like folks, and now--" Tilly kept her voice steady, but it was by a -strong effort. - -"Tilly, it might come right now if you would only tell all about it," -said Patty, earnestly. "It seems as if there were some mystery." - -"You go 'long home!" cried Tilly, fiercely, and slammed the door upon -Patty. Her sharp, hard, little features were working convulsively, and -Patty heard a long sob inside the door. - -She went home feeling more strongly than ever that there was a mystery, -and pleaded earnestly for Tilly. Aunt Eunice joined her, and promised to -go and see Tilly's mother, and talk with her about the matter if Uncle -Reuben would delay his sterner measures. - -They might not have been able to persuade him to do so--his bitter grief -for his son had served to harden him against Alf Coombs's relatives--if -nature had not seemed to take Tilly's part and enforced a delay; the -heavy snow-fall was followed by a pouring rain and what they called at -Butternut Corner an old-fashioned January thaw. Uncle Reuben was a -mill-owner, and his property was threatened by the freshet, so he had no -time to think of Tilly Coombs. - -Aunt Eunice had a touch of her old enemy rheumatism, and could not go -down to confer with Mrs. Coombs, and so the matter remained unsettled. - -On the very first day when the sun shone out Ruby Nutting came up the -hill to ask Patty to take a walk. It made no difference that they would -go over shoe in mud with every step. Ruby wouldn't take no for an -answer; that was the way with Ruby; besides, she said that this was -something very particular. When they reached the foot of the hill Patty -found herself being led into the road which bordered the old mill-pond, -and she shrank back. - -"Yes, we're going to miser Jensen's house, but you needn't be afraid; he -has gone away for the winter. There won't be any more clothes-lines or -hen-roosts robbed now. And that makes me think. Oh, Patty, what _did_ -your aunt think of those chickens that were tied to her door-knob? And -what did you think of losing your nice roasted ones? But I didn't mean -to tell you that I took them until you had seen poor Tramp. Your aunt -liked Tramp; she will forgive me when she knows I took them for him." - -"_You_ took them--for Tramp?" repeated Patty, in bewilderment. "I heard -that Tramp was mad!" - -Tramp was an old dog which had roamed the streets of Butternut Corner -and Bymport for years, making his home for a week or two at one place or -another, as the fancy seized him, generally welcome, for he was a -favorite. - -"He had one of his fits, convulsions, in the street at Bymport; he has -often had them at our house, poor fellow! It seemed as if he came there -when one was coming on, knowing that we would take care of him. Some -foolish person raised a cry of mad dog, and people chased him with -pistols and clubs; he ran up here, and they lost track of him. That -night on your sled Alvan Sage told me that he had heard a dog whining, -as if in pain, in the miser's house; he said no one dared to go near, -because they thought it must be the mad dog. That was a week after they -had driven poor Tramp out of Bymport, and I thought of him suffering and -without food, and I seized the first basket I could lay hands on, and -pulled out a pair of roast chickens. I thought I never should get there -through the drifts! I borrowed a lantern at Jake Nesmith's, and it -really wasn't far, but the drifts were so deep! The poor dog's leg had -been hurt by a stone or a club so he could hardly move, and he was half -frozen and starved. Tilly, if you could have seen him eat your chickens, -I know you would have thought it better than to have them for the party! -I built a fire--luckily there was wood in the cellar--and I've been -there every day in all the rain to take care of him. Papa has been with -me, and to-morrow we're going to send Tramp to my Uncle Rufus at Bethel, -who is very fond of dogs, and will take great care of him. We couldn't -take him home, because Aunt Estelle is so nervous, and she wouldn't -believe he wasn't mad. I knew you would like to see old Tramp." - -"But--but the ravelled mitten!" faltered Patty, who couldn't as yet "see -through things." - -"How did you know about that?" asked Ruby, in astonishment. "I caught my -mitten on your basket in my haste to get the chickens, and the edge was -all ravelled off, and--the very queerest thing that ever happened!--some -one knit it on again--with yarn. The mittens are worsted; see the -difference." Ruby held up the mended mitten, with an edge of coarse -yarn, to Patty's gaze. "It was done at the party! I think it must have -been Grandma Pitkin who did it. Perhaps it had dropped from my pocket in -the dressing-room, and she saw it. Wasn't it kind of her? I must go and -thank her." - -Patty tried to say "it wasn't Grandma Pitkin; it was Tilly Coombs," but -there was a lump in her throat that choked her. And it happened that -they just then reached a turn in the road and saw a girl's figure ahead -of them. She walked from side to side of the road, keeping her eyes on -the ground, and occasionally prodding into it with a stick which she -carried. - -"It's Tilly Coombs, and she seems to be searching for something," said -Ruby. - -Patty darted on ahead, and seized Tilly around the neck with both arms. -Even then Patty saw how pitifully worn and pale the girl had grown. What -had been only a little comedy to Ruby, pleasant because she had so -happily relieved the dog's sufferings, had been almost a tragedy to -Tilly Coombs. - -[Illustration: "TILLY, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?" SAID PATTY.] - -"Tilly, can you ever forgive me?" said Patty, struggling with a tendency -to cry. "I know all about it--how you knitted the mitten to keep Ruby -from being found out, and how you bore it all and didn't tell." - -"You hain't been telling _her_?" said Tilly, anxiously. "I don't think -she knows she lost the spoons. I saw that she came down this road that -night, and I've been hunting for them. I ain't going to have a mite of -trouble come on her. She's been different to me from what anybody ever -was before, not looking down on me as if I was the dirt under her feet. -And her father, too, he's come and come to see mother when he knew there -wa'n't a cent to pay him with. I _have_ bore a sight"--Tilly's strained -voice threatened to break--"but I can bear more. I won't have trouble -come to her if I can help it. You _hain't_ been telling her all about -it?" - -Ruby came up to them before there was time for an answer. - -"Hunting for something, Tilly?" she asked, easily. "I'm afraid you won't -find it in all this mud." - -"No--no, I hain't found them," stammered Tilly, uncertain whether Ruby -knew about the spoons. "But"--and her face lighted with sudden -eagerness--"I've found something queer; you see if it isn't queer." -Tilly turned back, running before them up to the door of the miser's -little house. "No, it isn't the tracks," she added, as Ruby hurriedly -explained about the dog. "It's the door-stone; it looks as if it had -been moved lately. If you are looking along on the ground, as I was, you -notice it." - -"Well, what if it has?" asked Ruby, wondering, and a little impatient. - -"Somebody might have hidden something there," said Tilly, whose longing -to find the spoons was evidently desperate. - -"Some of the miser's treasures or his clothes-line booty," cried Ruby, -gayly, for miser Jensen was suspected of petty thieving, and Butternut -Corner breathed more freely when his summer sojourn was over. "Girls, -let's pry the stone up!" - -"I tried to, alone, but I couldn't," said Tilly, eagerly bringing a long -stake from the tumble-down fence. - -The three girls tried for a long time with their united strength. The -stone was flat and not very heavy, but was unwieldy, while Tramp, let -out of the house, barked and capered with excitement in spite of his -injured leg. - -When at last the stone was overturned, there was indeed something snugly -tucked into a hole dug beneath it--a bundle tied up in a bandana -handkerchief. Miser Jensen always wore old-fashioned bandana -handkerchiefs. When the girls opened it they found it filled, not with -spoils of the Butternut Corner clothes-lines, but with watches and -jewelry, most of it marked with the name of Burton, the Bymport -jeweller, whom Dave Perley and Alf Coombs were suspected of having -robbed. - -Patty burst into tears of joy. - -"It was miser Jensen who robbed the store! Tilly, don't you see what it -means? No one can ever say it was the boys again!" - -Tilly trembled in all her thin little frame, but her face was alight -with joy. "I know where they are! I can tell now," she said, proudly, -"Alf wrote to me. They are both in my cousin's store in L----; it's a -jewelry store. It was because Alf liked to see watches and things fixed -that he was always at Burton's, and so they suspected him. Dave didn't -want to be a minister or a farmer; that was why he ran away, but he -wants to come home; he says it doesn't pay to run away; and now he can!" - -All the cloud lifted from Butternut Hill. Patty could go home and tell -Uncle Reuben and Aunt Eunice; it seemed to her too good to be true. - -They forgot all about the spoons; even Tilly forgot them. And when Aunt -Eunice heard the good news, she said she didn't care anything about the -spoons, but she would do everything she could to make amends to Tilly -Coombs for the unjust suspicions. - -The spoons were found the very next day. Jake Nesmith, the blacksmith, -saw the corner of the napkin in which they were wrapped sticking out of -a mud-puddle. Ruby had pulled them out of the basket with the chickens, -and dropped them in the snow. - -Wheels had gone over them, and they had to be sent down to Burton's to -be bent into shape--that was all. - -Alf Coombs is still in his cousin's store, where he does well, but Dave -has come home to Butternut Hill. He says he isn't sure that he shall -ever be a minister or a farmer, but he is sure he shall never be wild -again. The awful suspicion that fell upon him cured him of that. Miser -Jensen was found and arrested, and confessed the theft; he escaped from -prison, but there is no fear that he will ever return to Butternut -Corner. Dr. Nutting wished to send Tilly to the Academy with Ruby--the -whole story of the ravelled mitten was told after the spoons were found; -no one could expect a human girl like Patty to keep it--but Tilly -thought she had a knack for millinery, and she liked to be independent, -and Miss Farnham wanted her; she says she is a good business woman, -although she is only fifteen. - -The doctor always takes off his hat to Tilly Coombs, while he gives only -a careless nod to the other fifteen-year-old girls. The minister, who is -his great friend, and hears a good deal about Butternut Corner people -through him, does so too, and just now the young people of the Corner -are making preparations for another birthday surprise party. They have -hired the new Town-hall, because the little house at the foot of the -hill wouldn't begin to hold Tilly's troops of friends, and everything is -to be in the very best style that is known to Butternut Corner, because -they want Tilly to feel that she is "just like other folks." - - - - -[Illustration: INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT] - - -[Illustration: J. J. PURTELL, Tackle.] - -[Illustration: LEE BEARDSELL, End.] - -[Illustration: GEORGE CALAHAN, Centre.] - -The All-Boston interscholastic football eleven for 1895 is as follows: - - JACK HALLOWELL, _Hopkinson_ end. - J. J. PURTELL, _English High-School_ tackle. - L. WARREN, _Cambridge High-School_ guard. - G. CALAHAN, _English High-School_ centre. - W. D. EATON, _English High-School_ guard. - R. C. SEAVER, _Brookline High-School_ tackle. - LEE BEARDSELL, _Cambridge High-School_ end. - A. D. SAUL, _Cam. High-School_ quarter-back. - T. H. MAGUIRE, _Boston Lat. School_ half-back. - A. C. WHITTEMORE, _Eng. H.-S._ half-back. - C. WATSON, _Cam. High-School_ full-back. - -[Illustration: T. H. MAGUIRE, Half-back.] - -[Illustration: L. WARREN, Guard.] - -[Illustration: W. D. EATON, Guard.] - -The substitutes for this team are S. W. Lewis, Brookline High-School, -end; A. P. Martin, Hopkinson, tackle; Oliver Talbot, Brookline -High-School, guard; Brayton, Boston Latin School, centre; E. H. -Sherlock, English High-School, quarter-back; and W. W. Aechtler, -Brookline High-School, back. - -[Illustration: A. C. WHITTEMORE, Half-back.] - -[Illustration: R. C. SEAVER, Tackle.] - -[Illustration: JACK HALLOWELL, End.] - -The first requirement that has been considered in selecting the players -for this representative All-Boston eleven has been sand. By sand is -meant not only physical fearlessness, but even more than that--the moral -courage to go into every game and play the hardest kind of football to -the end, whether the team is winning or is being overwhelmingly beaten. -That is the spirit that is worth more to a team than muscle or science, -for without it muscle and science are powerless. It is that which has -had more influence than anything else in determining the selection of -the All-Boston team. Not that the eleven _sandiest_ boys have been -chosen, but the eleven who combine sand and skill in the best ratio. -There are no quitters in this combination. - -[Illustration: CARROLL WATSON, Full-back.] - -[Illustration: A. D. SAUL, Quarter-back.] - -For centre, there is no doubt that Calahan of English High is the most -capable man. His playing is as aggressive and lively as any boy's in the -League; for he makes himself felt in tackle and end plays, and opens up -holes in beautiful style for his backs. The best man for substitute -centre would be Brayton of Boston Latin. Warren of Cambridge High is -probably the best guard the League has ever developed. He has unlimited -sand and endurance, understands the theory of his position perfectly, -and is a most valuable rusher and interferer. Close behind him in -prowess comes Eaton of English High. Before this year he has played -centre, but now he has turned out to be a powerful guard. English High's -surest play was to rush Eaton through the other guard. When the referee -would call "third down, three yards to gain," Eaton almost invariably -would make it first down. Far behind these two guards, but next best, is -Talbot of Brookline. - -For tackles, one is easily decided on; that is Seaver of Brookline High, -who has played a steady, sandy, reliable game throughout the year. The -other tackle is harder to choose. I give the place to Purtell of English -High, because, while not so valuable a man on the attack as Martin of -Hopkinson, his defence is much more reliable. At end one man has shown a -decided superiority in all the duties of the position; that, is -Hallowell of Hopkinson. He keeps his eye on the ball every moment that -it is in play, gets down on kicks beautifully, and I doubt if the -aggregate gains round his end in all the League games would amount to -ten yards. The other end I give to Beardsell of Cambridge High. He is -not so brilliant as Lewis of Brookline High, but is much steadier and -more aggressive. Lewis is apt to weaken when his team is losing ground, -while Beardsell can be depended upon at any stage of the game. - -Everybody admits that Arthur Saul, of Cambridge High, is the best -quarter-back of the year, and everybody is full of praise for his plucky -work. Not since the days when Bob Wrenn played quarter for this same -team have such hard tackling and clever passing been seen. In only one -thing does Sherlock of English High, his nearest rival, outclass him; -that is in running his team. But giving signals, while very important, -is not essentially the duty of a quarter-back, as in many of the -'varsity teams some other player calls them. And Saul is far and away -ahead of all the other quarters in every other respect. - -The trio of backs I would select are Whittemore of English High, Maguire -of Boston Latin, and Watson of Cambridge High. On offence, it would not -matter much just who took the middle position; but on defence Whittemore -and Maguire should play rush-line half-backs, and Watson full-back, for -he is the surest man to tackle and handle punts. All three of these men -can kick well; but the brunt of this work would fall to Maguire, as he -gets the ball away much more quickly than the others. Whittemore and -Watson could both buck the centre, and all three are exceptionally good -'round-the-end men. For substitute half we have Aechtler of Brookline, -who is just a trifle behind the others. It is his weak defence that -deprives him of a regular place. - -Maguire should be Captain of this team. After his work with the Boston -Latin team there can be little doubt of his capability. To be sure, -Calahan was Captain of the winning team, and did all manner of fine work -in that capacity. But his team was much better supported by the school, -and had the services of a thoroughly competent coach, while Maguire did -all the work of getting his team together. Moreover, Maguire has the -advantage of position and of experience, having been Captain part of -last season. And Calahan has never been really put to the test, as his -men have always been victorious, and never even in danger of losing a -game. In Maguire the team would have a courteous, energetic, brainy -Captain, and, above all, a Captain for whom they would always -instinctively do their best work. - -The standing of the teams in the Senior League is as follows: - - Games Games Games Points Points - Won. Lost. Tied. Won. Lost. - E. H. S. 5 0 0 56 14 - Hop. 4 1 0 40 36 - B. L. S. 3 2 0 14 14 - B. H. S. 2 3 0 22 16 - C. H. & L. 0 4 1 8 40 - C. M. T. S. 0 4 1 14 36 - -SCORES OF GAMES PLAYED. - - English High 4 -- Brookline 0 - English High 18 -- Hopkinson 6 - English High 4 -- Boston Latin 0 - English High 16 -- Cambridge High and Latin 0 - English High 14 -- Cambridge Manual 8 - Hopkinson 6 -- Boston Latin 2 - Hopkinson 6 -- Brookline High 4 - *Hopkinson 6 -- Cambridge High and Latin 8 - Hopkinson 16 -- Cambridge Manual 6 - Boston Latin 6 -- Brookline 0 - *Boston Latin 0 -- Cambridge High and Latin 4 - Boston Latin 6 -- Cambridge Manual 0 - Brookline High 18 -- Cambridge High and Latin 0 - *Brookline High 4 -- Cambridge Manual 0 - Cambridge High 0 -- Cambridge Manual 0 - -* Protested; ordered to be played over; forfeited by Cambridge. - -The standing in the Junior League is: - - Games Games Games Points Points - Won. Lost. Tied. Won. Lost. - Somerville High 5 0 1 106 10 - Newton High 4 1 1 69 32 - Chelsea High 4 2 0 76 74 - Roxbury Latin 3 3 0 82 41 - Dedham High 1 3 1 16 40 - Hyde Park High 1 4 1 20 84 - Roxbury High 0 5 0 6 70 - -The results of the New York, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut -Interscholastic League schedules are here given for the purpose of -record: - -NEW YORK I.S.F.B.A. - -FIRST SECTION. - - Cutler 24 -- Hamilton 0 - Trinity 16 -- Columbia Grammar 0 - Trinity 54 -- Hamilton 0 - Trinity 24 -- Cutler 4 - -Colombia Grammar forfeited to Cutler. - -SECOND SECTION. - - Berkeley 30 -- Barnard 0 - Berkeley 34 -- De La Salle 0 - -Barnard forfeited to De La Salle. - -FINAL GAME. - - Berkeley 38 -- Trinity 0 - -PHILADELPHIA I.S.F.B.A. - - October 18 -- De Lancey 22 -- Adelphi 6 - " " Penn Charter 68 -- Cheltenham 0 - " " Germantown 30 -- Haverford 0 - " 25 -- De Lancey 34 -- Haverford 0 - " " Germantown, by forfeit from Cheltenham. - " " Penn Charter 28 -- Adelphi 0 - November 1 -- Penn Charter 54 -- De Lancey 0 - " " Cheltenham 40 -- Haverford 0 - " " Germantown 12 -- Adelphi 2 - " 8 -- Adelphi 12 -- Haverford 4 - " " De Lancey 34 -- Cheltenham 0 - " 15 Germantown 18 -- De Lancey 6 - " " Penn Charter 34 -- Haverford 0 - " " Cheltenham 4 -- Adelphi 0 - " 22 -- Germantown 6 -- Penn Charter 4 - -CONNECTICUT I.S.F.B.A. - -NORTHERN DIVISION. - - October 26 -- Hartford 22 -- New Britain 12 - " " -- Norwich F. A. 4 -- Conn. Lit. Inst. 4 - " 30 -- Conn. Lit. Inst. 14 -- Norwich F. A. 0 - November 2 -- Hartford 22 -- Conn. Lit. Inst. 0 - -SOUTHERN DIVISION. - - October 26 -- Bridgeport 14 -- Hillhouse H.-S. 4 - " " -- Meriden 54 -- Waterbury 0 - November 2 -- Bridgeport 42 -- Meriden 0 - -FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP. - - November 9 -- Bridgeport 10 -- Hartford 10 - " 16 -- Bridgeport 4 -- Hartford 4 - " 28 -- Bridgeport 16 -- Hartford 12 - -If we may judge from the number of protests continually cropping up in -the New York League, there must be something radically wrong with school -sport in this town. The unhealthy desire to win seems to characterize -the young athletes of New York to a far greater extent than the healthy -spirit of indulging in sport for sport's sake. The greed for medals and -pennants seems to overshadow the true object of all these contests, and -this develops a spirit of professionalism, which, if not smothered at -once, will, in a very short while, put an end to every kind of -inter-school contests that are now known. - -When I speak of the greed for medals I am not talking at random. I am -telling of what I know. Last spring, at some games on the Berkeley Oval, -two young men who were tied for second place in a certain event sat on -the turf near where I stood, talking over the commercial aspect of their -prowess. They were trying to arrange a deal. One proposed to the other -to surrender second place if his rival would allow him to keep the -medal. The second mercenary, however, would not agree to this. He, too, -wanted the medal, and was perfectly willing that the first "sport" -should take the "empty honor" of second place. Both athletes being -therefore so morally corrupt, no deal could be arranged as to who should -have the medal, and they were thus forced by their very spirit of -unsportsmanship to decide the tie by actual contest. This is a true -story, in spite of its apparent enormity, and I know the names of both -young men. - -When such a spirit exists among individuals, it is easy to see how -entire teams may be led into a misconception of the ethics of sport. I -have no doubt, too, that a good many young men look upon it as clever -work to evade the rules and to compass an end in some unfair way, -provided they can do it without entailing punishment. A great deal of -this sort of thing doubtless started from ignorance, but nowadays it is -done because former breaches of honesty have been allowed to pass -unpunished. This sort of thing could not happen if the principals of the -schools were unanimous in their determination to keep sport clean and -absolutely honest. There are two or three head-masters, I know, who feel -this way, but the others wink at a great many small infractions, and by -so doing encourage greater ones which they know nothing of. - -Now that athletics have become such an important feature in the life of -American boys and men, I believe that it is just as important for school -athletes to be instructed and advised in these matters as it is in any -other branch of endeavor where morals and honesty and similar qualities -are involved. The trouble is that young men hitherto have been left -entirely too much to shift for themselves in athletics. It is not to be -expected that they should always do the right thing, and so those who -are responsible for these young men are to blame if they have not -counselled them as they should. - -In other words, the time has now come when every school that recognizes -athletics must recognize that there is a moral as well as a muscular -development to be looked to, and those pedagogues are unfaithful to -their trusts who do not give a greater amount of attention to the former -than they do to the latter. - -To bring a general discussion to a point with specific examples, let me -cite St. Paul's School, Concord, and Lawrenceville. At both of these -institutions the professors give personal attention to sport, and there -are especial and particular men--men of position, education, -integrity--in charge of the moral side of the scholars' athletic -development. Because of the clamlike attitude of the authorities of St. -Paul's, I know less of the particular methods in vogue up there. But -with the conditions at Lawrenceville I am familiar. - -Several years of experience there have shown the authorities that the -sports of the students can be kept in better condition if expert players -are detailed to manage the coaching and the games, but yet they do not -believe in hiring a man for the football season regardless of his -character and career in college. Since 1889 the policy of Lawrenceville -has been to have men as instructors who were not only the best -all-'round athletes of their college, but also the best scholars, and -held in high esteem for character. In 1889, for instance, George, -Princeton's centre-rush, went to Lawrenceville to teach mathematics. -After school hours he coached the football team, following up the -players day after day throughout the season. This is done in the just -conviction that boys should be taught how to play as well as how to -study. Two years ago Mr. George retired from active work in football, -and is now only an adviser, holding his position in the mathematical -department. - -In 1893 Lawrenceville secured Street, who played with Garfield on the -Williams team for three seasons, and received the cup given to the man -who made the best record in athletics during his college course. Street -was engaged to teach Latin and English, and incidentally he has taken up -the control of athletics. To him has been intrusted the responsibility -of allowing certain men to engage in football and baseball; he gets up -all the plays the boys use; he also follows up the team every day in its -practice, being practically Captain at all times, except when a -match-game is in progress. Street is a man of most excellent character, -and will not allow boys on the various teams to use profane language for -a moment. - -Evert unfair dodge and trick which a boy exhibits is instantly stopped, -and the men are urged to play perfectly straight, honest ball. Such a -thing as slugging, therefore, is unknown. The same thing is done in the -baseball season. This year Ward, the Princeton player, went to the -school to teach mathematics. He was the Latin salutatorian of his class -last year, and won the Fellowship in Mathematics, besides being -considered the brightest man Princeton has graduated in fifteen years. -He is to help the Lawrenceville students in football and baseball just -as Street is doing. - -Now the point of this recital is to show that Lawrenceville has at -present on its pedagogic staff representatives of five large college -teams, each one of whom is known as well for the honesty as for the -quality of the game he played on the field. I believe that the future of -our college athletics rests with the schools that are this year, and -next year, and so on, sending out to the larger institutions men who -will control the athletic organizations. Boys who learn bad tricks in -schools will play them in a more outlandish and stronger way when they -reach college teams. I believe, therefore, that it is the duty of -schoolmasters to see to it that their wards are instructed in the ethics -of sport as well as in the rule of three; for boys who have been left to -themselves to learn, and have learned to win by unfair means, will turn -out badly, as far as their future in athletics is concerned, and they -may then justly look back to their school days, and blame those whose -duty it was to teach them the truth of sport. Beneath the surface of -these words are a wanting and a suggestion which I sincerely trust may -be heeded and accepted. - -It is pleasant to learn that all the world is not hunting after medals, -and that the spirit of true sportsmanship is still alive in the -land--even if it is in the minority! As a consequence of my sermons of -the last few weeks I have received a number of letters. One -correspondent says: "I won a swimming match once, and got a ribbon for -it, and I prize that just as highly as though it were a gold medal. I -think the old Grecian and Roman method of awarding wreaths a striking -lesson for this age, and I hope they will play a prominent part in the -forth-coming Olympian games." - -The poor showing made by the Cambridge Manual-Training School team this -fall was largely due to poor management. They had for manager and coach -a graduate who knew nothing of football nor of training a team. As a -consequence, they went into the games a pitifully overworked and -spiritless set, depending upon fantastic tricks to win victories. The -futility of it caused the appointment of a coach who had played football -and understood the game. It was too late, however, to do any better than -tie the demoralized Cambridge High team in the Thanksgiving-day game. - -Owing to a delay in the receipt of the photographs, the announcement of -the All-New-York interscholastic football team has been necessarily -postponed until next week. - - THE GRADUATE. - - - - -ADVERTISEMENTS. - - - - -Highest of all in Leavening Strength.--Latest U.S. Gov't Report. - -[Illustration: Royal Baking Powder] - - - - -Arnold - -Constable & Co - - * * * * * - -CHILDREN'S Wear. - - * * * * * - -Reduction in Price. - -Children's Dancing-School Dresses. - -Children's School Frocks. - -Children's Coats. - -Reefers. - - * * * * * - -Broadway & 19th st. - -NEW YORK. - - - - -[Illustration] - -A Doll Chart - -Something new for the little folks. A chart by which dresses to fit any -doll can be quickly and easily cut by children--affording a never-ending -source of pleasure and amusement while it furnishes an early - -Lesson in Dressmaking - -Dresses cut to fit dolls of any size. Cut is but 1-16 actual size of -chart. Sent post-paid on receipt of 20c. in silver. - -A. C. CHAMPLIN, 151 N. 15th Street, Philada., Pa. - - - - -[Illustration] - -PRINTING OUTFIT 10c. - -Sets any name in one minute; prints 500 cards an hour. YOU can make -money with it. A font of pretty type, also Indelible Ink, Type, Holder, -Pads and Tweezers. Best Linen Marker; worth $1.00. Sample mailed FREE -for 10c. stamps for postage on outfit and large catalogue of 1000 -Bargains. Same outfit with figures 15c. Larger outfit for printing two -lines 25c. post-paid, - -Ingersoll & Bro. 65 Cortlandt St., N. Y. City - - - - -[Illustration] - - - - -[Illustration: BICYCLING] - - This Department is conducted in the interest of Bicyclers, and the - Editor will be pleased to answer any question on the subject. Our - maps and tours contain much valuable data kindly supplied from the - official maps and road-books of the League of American Wheelmen. - Recognizing the value of the work being done by the L. A. W., the - Editor will be pleased to furnish subscribers with membership - blanks and information so far as possible. - - -[Illustration: Copyright, 1895, by Harper & Brothers.] - -Having now given the better part of a dozen of the finest bicycle trips -in the vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts, we must turn our attention to -the completion of the trip from New York to Washington. The reader, by -referring to the note at the foot of this column, will there be able to -find in what numbers of HARPER'S ROUND TABLE the stages from New York to -Philadelphia were printed. We therefore take up the route from -Philadelphia, the first stage being from Market and Broad streets, -Philadelphia, to Compassville, a distance of forty-five miles. Leaving -City Hall by Broad and Twenty-second streets, proceed to Hamilton, -thence by Twenty-fifth Street to T. A. B. Fountain, thence to -Fifty-second Street, and there run into the Lancaster Pike, which is a -fine road for many miles from Philadelphia. Nine miles out you pass -through Ardmore. Then continuing on the Lancaster Pike a short two -miles, you run through Bryn-Mawr, and four miles further on pass through -Wayne. You should keep to the Lancaster Pike, crossing the railroad at -Eagle. After passing through Devon there is some hilly work until Paoli -is reached. All this time the rider has kept to the Lancaster Pike, but -it would be wiser for him to leave the Pike and bear to the left at a -fork less than a mile out of Paoli and just before reaching the West -Chester Intersection. The route then runs by a straight and fine road -out to Downington, where by a sharp turn to the right you cross the -tracks and again join the Lancaster Pike. The run from Downington to -Coatesville is direct and unmistakable. If the rider desires, he can put -up here for the night. If he is doing 60 to 100 miles in a day, he can -stop here for the noon meal. But it is wiser for both to go on to -Compassville. On leaving the hotel you should run along by the railroad -track almost due north, having crossed the main line at right angles. -The road winds about somewhat, and there are one or two hills out to -Wagontown, but with care and some inquiry there is no difficulty in -getting started on the road which runs quite direct to Compassville, -making a distance of forty-five miles from Philadelphia. Compassville is -a reasonably good place to spend the night, the hotel being clean and -the food good. - -The direct route from Philadelphia to Washington leaves the Lancaster -Pike at Paoli, and taking the left fork just beyond that town, runs out -to West Chester, and thence through Sager's Mills, Chad's Ford, Double -Bridge, to Wilmington. This route to Washington is shorter, but for -several reasons the longer route, of which we have above given the first -stage, is far more interesting to the bicycle tourist. In the first -place, the road is better. Then the hills are much less frequent. -Furthermore, the rider passes through much historic territory connected -with the Rebellion, and the field of Gettysburg is easily included; and, -finally, the scenery and the towns through which you pass are far more -interesting. - - NOTE.--Map of New York city asphalted streets in No. 809. Map of - route from New York to Tarrytown in No. 810. New York to Stamford, - Connecticut, in No. 811. New York to Staten Island in No. 812. New - Jersey from Hoboken to Pine Brook in No. 813. Brooklyn in No. 814. - Brooklyn to Babylon in No. 815. Brooklyn to Northport in No. 816. - Tarrytown to Poughkeepsie in No. 817. Poughkeepsie to Hudson in No. - 818. Hudson to Albany in No. 819. Tottenville to Trenton in No. - 920. Trenton to Philadelphia in No. 821. Philadelphia in No. 822. - Philadelphia--Wissahickon Route in No. 823. Philadelphia to West - Chester in No. 824. Philadelphia to Atlantic City--First Stage in - No. 825; Second Stage in No. 826. Philadelphia to Vineland--First - Stage in No. 827; Second Stage in No. 828. New York to - Boston--Second Stage in No. 829; Third Stage in No. 830; Fourth - Stage in No. 831; Fifth Stage in No. 832; Sixth Stage in No. 833. - Boston to Concord in No. 834. Boston in No. 835. Boston to - Gloucester in No. 836. Boston to Newburyport in No. 837. Boston to - New Bedford in No. 838. Boston to South Framingham in No. 839. - Boston to Nahant in No. 840. Boston to Lowell in No. 841. Boston to - Nantasket Beach in No. 842. Boston Circuit Ride in No. 843. - - - - -[Illustration: THE PUDDING STICK] - - This Department is conducted in the interest of Girls and Young - Women, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question on the - subject so far as possible. Correspondents should address Editor. - - -Probably most of you have heard of Helen Keller, but I have seen and -talked with her, and to see Helen and hear her sweet voice, which she, -dear child, cannot hear, is to have an experience which you never can -forget. "Come and take a cup of tea with me, and meet Helen Keller," -wrote my dear friend, and I went. - -It was on a winter day, late in the afternoon, when I entered my -friend's drawing-room. I saw, sitting beside her teacher, a fair young -girl, perhaps fifteen years old. Helen is straight and robust. She -carries herself finely, her head held up, her shoulders thrown back. Her -little hands are very white and finely shaped, with tapering fingers, -which are to her what eyes and ears are to us. Helen sees and hears with -those wonderful delicate hands of hers, and everything they tell her is -reflected in an instant on her sweet sensitive face. She has a very -merry laugh, and responds in a moment to the moods of others, whether -they are happy or sorrowful moods. Helen has fair curling hair and a -lovely complexion, and you would select her in any group of girls for -her beauty and air of grace and distinction. Better than looks is, what -her teacher says she possesses, a very sweet, patient, and loving -disposition. You discover this as you watch her, for there is so much -sunshine in her face, and her manners are so gentle and natural. Then, -too, she is very quick to express her thanks for any kindness shown, or -gift presented to her, and at any bit of fun her laugh is like a peal of -silvery bells. - -Helen Keller was a baby not two years old when she had the illness which -shut her into darkness and silence for the rest of her life. With sight -gone and hearing gone, it seemed as if a very mournful fate would be -hers. At eight years of age she was deaf, dumb, and blind, and knew no -more than some little docile animal, for nobody had found out how to -waken up her brain, or to enable her to communicate her ideas to her -fellow-creatures. - -It was at this period that her father and mother brought their little -girl to Boston, to place her in an institution designed for such -helpless children as she was then. Here she came under the immediate -care of the lady who has ever since been her friend, sister, and -teacher. Miss Sullivan says she had not taught Helen a single week -before she was aware that she had an extraordinary pupil. The child -learned so fast that her progress was amazing. Something of what Helen -has gained you will understand, girls, when I tell you that she reads -beautifully in the raised type the blind spell out with their fingers, -that she writes a clear, fine, strong hand, operates perfectly three -different typewriters, and is now beginning French and German in -addition to her English studies. She writes a very creditable letter in -French, and translates fables and stories with ease. - -Her contact with the world is, of course, through touch, and her senses -of smell and taste are acute. She lays her fingers on the lips of the -one speaking to her, and rapidly repeats whatever is said, answering at -once as any other child would, only Helen's answers are usually quicker -and brighter than those of girls of her age. Her teacher talks with her -by means of the mute alphabet, taking Helen's hand in her own, and in -this way Helen "sees" all sorts of things, Miss Sullivan being her -interpreter. When Miss Sullivan is talking to Helen, the latter has a -look of the most genuine attention; her whole face is full of interest. -You forget that she cannot see, so alert and alive are the features. - -Every day this dear young girl writes in her journal, and she puts into -this book just the same confidences, and tells it the same happy -stories, which other girls write and tell in their diaries. Helen Keller -is a happy, contented, merry girl. I am glad I know her, and I wish you -all might know her too. - -[Illustration: Signature] - - - - -AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION - -is cheaper than any quantity of cure. Don't give children narcotics or -sedatives. They are unnecessary when the infant is properly nourished, -as it will be if brought up on the Gail Borden Eagle Brand Condensed -Milk--[_Adv._] - - - - -ADVERTISEMENTS. - - - - -Postage Stamps, &c. - - - - -[Illustration] - -STAMPS! =300= fine mixed Victoria, Cape of G. H., India, Japan, etc., with -fine Stamp Album, only =10c=. New 80-p. Price-list =free=. _Agents wanted_ -at =50%= commission. STANDARD STAMP CO., 4 Nicholson Place, St. Louis, Mo. -Old U. S. and Confederate stamps bought. - - - - -[Illustration] - -100 all dif. Venezuela, Bolivia, etc., only 10c.; 200 all dif. Hayti, -Hawaii, etc., only 50c. Ag'ts w't'd at 50% com. List FREE! =C. A. -Stegmann=, 594l Cote Brilliante Ave., St. Louis, Mo - - - - -300 - -STAMPS FOR $l.00, all different, some quite rare. - -KEUTGEN BROTHERS, 322 Broadway, N. Y. - - - - -A NEW SECRET SPOKEN LANGUAGE. - -Can be learned in the evening. Book, 25 cents. - -N. L. 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Send 2c. stamp for postage. - -Address Banner Card Co., Cadiz, Ohio. - - - - -[Illustration] - - - - -[Illustration] - -Highest Award - -WORLD'S FAIR. - -SKATES - -CATALOGUE FREE. - -BARNEY & BERRY, Springfield, Mass. - - - - -HOOPING-COUGH - -CROUP. - -Roche's Herbal Embrocation. - -The celebrated and effectual English Cure without internal medicine. -Proprietors, W. EDWARD & SON. - -London, England. - -E. Fougera & Co., 30 North William St., N.Y. - - - - -An Appeal for a School-house. - - -Come, dear readers of the Table--Ladies, Knights, Patrons, and their -friends--let us make possible the laying of the corner-stone of Good -Will School next spring. The task is not a difficult one. It can be -accomplished in this way: - -Get one subscriber to HARPER'S ROUND TABLE. Remit the $2 for it for one -year. Attach the accompanying Coupon. Say in your letter that you wish -the 50 cents turned into the Fund. And the thing is done. The Fund is -complete. The corner-stone will be laid. The boys will have an -industrial school-house. The Order will have performed a grand, a -chivalrous deed. - -At this holiday-time every person who reads these lines has it within -his or her power to build this school-house. Because, if _you_ get the -one subscriber, the house will be built. If you do not, it will not--not -now. All depends on you. - -Go out and ask your friends about it. Ask them to help you get the -subscriber. Your parents and teachers will help you. Ask them to do so. -Set your heart on getting this one subscriber. Go to a Sunday-school or -church committee, a day school, some well-to-do man or woman who has -young persons in the household. Ask the well-to-do neighbor. Relate the -merits of the paper, and show a sample copy and Prospectus. We furnish -them free. Ask us to do so. - -But do more than this. Relate the story of Good Will. Tell the person -whom you are asking to subscribe why you want the subscription, and why -you want it now. Tell him or her that Good Will Farm, while in Maine, -takes boys from any part of the country, and is therefore not a local -but a national enterprise. Say that it is a house for an industrial -school that the Order is to build. The Farm is in good hands, and the -school itself will be well conducted. Our task is only to put up the -building, not to conduct the school. Say that during the last few -years--two or three--more than 700 poor boys have applied for admission -to Good Will, and had to be refused it for lack of room. These boys were -deserving. Say further that if you get the subscription the school will -be built, and, by turning a house now used for the school into a -dwelling, more boys can be taken--boys of five, six, and seven years of -age, who are now homeless, may be given homes, school advantages, and a -chance to become useful Christian men. - -During the next two weeks will _you_ get this subscription? Talk it -up--and get it. The appeal is not made to the Order. It is made to -_you_. If you do not wish to cut out the coupon, make a pen one nearly -like it, ask us for duplicates, or send on the subscription without a -coupon, simply saying that you got it to help the school, and that you -want 50 cents of the $2 given to the Fund. Be sure to give the -subscription address, and your own name for the Honor Roll. - -Come on, dear friends, let us build this school-house. - - -THIS COUPON - - Will be received by the publishers of HARPER'S ROUND TABLE as - -[Illustration: Fifty Cents] - - when accompanied by an order for a NEW subscription to HARPER'S - ROUND TABLE and One Dollar and Fifty Cents. The intent of this - Coupon is to pay you for inducing another person, _not now a - subscriber_, to subscribe for HARPER'S ROUND TABLE for one year. - This Coupon has nothing whatever to do with your own subscription; - that is, with the copy you expect to read next year, it matters not - in whose name it be ordered, and will not be accepted in payment - for any part of it. It is good for its face in the hands of any - person who performs the work indicated, whether said person is a - subscriber or not. HARPER & BROTHERS. - - * * * * * - -The St. Ives Puzzle Contest. - -The St. Ives story excited much interest. To new readers we must explain -that it was a tale of the man who came from St. Ives, related to the -famous person bound for that place. There were four riddles in it, and -the rest of the questions were double meanings of names, chiefly -geographical. On the journey the man of wives said he saw "an island of -Greece that wouldn't hold water"--Poros; and speaking of the character -of his many children, the man said not one was "an island off the -Mexican coast"--Angel. - -A great many solvers wrote to ask if a mistake had not been made in -Question No. 2, "because there were not one hundred words in the -paragraph." No mistake was made. The "99th" word is the one preceding -the c--100. Here are the answers: - -1, Wake; 2, Be just before you are generous; 3, Fife; 4, Tietar; 5, -Vilaine; 6, Wigtown; 7, Bureau; 8, Poros; 9, Net and Racquet; 10, Fad; -11, There is no wisdom like frankness; 12, Oka; 13. Mercury -(quicksilver); 14, Gull: 15, Yule; 16, Sasa; 17, Angel; 18, Faro and -Fortune; 19, Lard; 20, Book; 21, Clinch; 22, Palm; 23, Box-car. - -Of the twenty-three questions in the story, twenty-one were correctly -answered by William C. Thayer, aged 13, Michigan, and Pearl A. Coyle, -aged 13, Pennsylvania. The former missed Nos. 13 and 23, and the latter -Nos. 2 and 23. We divide the $10 prize between them, giving $5 to each. -The other $15 of the $25 offered is divided among other high solvers -thus: Frederic W. Darling and Joslyn Z. Smith, New York (Buffalo); Royal -J. Davis. Indiana; Edward L. Lyon, New York; J. M. Espey and Nora B. -Tucker, Pennsylvania, $2 each; and Ethel Ruth Sherman, New York; Mabel -Josephine Frye, District of Columbia; and Amy Erickson, Wisconsin, $1 -each. The money has been forwarded, and reached most of the winners by -Christmas day. - - * * * * * - -The Quarter is in the Fund. - - DEAR KNIGHTS AND LADIES,--I am a great black dog, and I have more - to do with the Round Table Department than you imagine. I have - helped one of your contributors prepare scores of articles for you, - and you have me to thank for their briefness. Whenever a manuscript - threatened to become too long, I would insist on having a door - opened for me, or would beg for a drink of water. So that my wants - might be supplied a long story had to be cut short. - - I am a lazy old fellow, but I am as good as I can be, and goodness - means everything with people, and dogs as well. Some little - children who once had a society called "Peacemakers" let me join - their club because I never fight. - - I am glad to hear that you are to build an Industrial School for - the Good Will Farm boys, for they have a Band of Mercy, and have - promised to be kind to all dumb animals. This means that when - everything does not go just right in the neat shops you are to fit - up for them, they will not lose their tempers and throw their tools - at any stray cat or dog which happens near. Kind boys will make - kind men; and I think that all the pets that read the ROUND TABLE - ought to raise a fund to help build that school for their mutual - friends. I enclose twenty-five cents for this purpose. If I were a - dog that could perform a great many tricks I would send a larger - amount, but I will leave such an honor to my accomplished brothers. - I suppose the little dogs would consider a dime as their proper - offering; and, by-the-way, what if we adopt that as our standard? - Will all the pets--dogs, kitties, rabbits, lambs, biddies, birds, - ponies--which are interested in boys who are bound to ever protect - them send ten cents for that Good Will School? - - I suppose my letter will be published as long as it is the first - from a dumb animal; but the rest of you must not be disappointed if - yours do not appear in print. This magazine is for children, and - they like it too well to give it over to us. However, I should not - be surprised if the most interesting letters should be printed; and - perhaps the pet that writes the most pleasing one will receive a - reward--a pretty collar, it may be. Hoping to see a long list of - "pet names" in the contributors' list for the School Fund, I will - now say - - Bow-wow, - BILLY. - BATH, ME. - - P. S.--Any pet that wishes boys to keep on abusing them should not - send their dimes. - - B. - - - - -[Illustration: THE CAMERA CLUB] - - Any questions in regard to photograph matters will be willingly - answered by the Editor of this column, and we should be glad to - hear from any of our club who can make helpful suggestions. - - -One of our Round Table patrons sends the following formula for a soda -developer, which he says he has used successfully for years: - - Hot Water 10 oz. - Sulphite of Soda Crystals 2 " - Sal Soda Crystals 2 " - Bromide Potassium 30 grs. - -This will take about twelve hours to dissolve. Keep bottle tightly -corked, and it will keep for two or three years, and be as good as if -not better than when first made. To use, take 5 oz. of cold-water, 1 oz. -of this solution, and 12 grs. of pyrogallic acid. This quantity will -develop four 5 by 8 plates, or half a dozen 4 by 5 plates. - -Several of our members have asked for formulas for developing solutions, -and will find the above to give excellent results. In our answers to -queries will be found a formula for hydroquinon and eikonogen developer, -and either of those formulas will give excellent negatives. - - SIR KNIGHT WILLIAM F. TOBEY asks when the prizes are to be - announced, and the grade of bromide paper most used by amateurs. - The prizes will be announced as soon after the close of the - competition as the judges are able to examine the pictures. The - grade of bromide paper most used by amateurs is that made by - Eastman & Co., of Rochester, N.Y. They make a bromide paper, called - platino-bromide, which gives beautiful results. The use of bromide - paper is recommended for winter, as by its use one is practically - independent of sunlight. - - SIR KNIGHT JOHN BYRNE, of California, asks what is the best camera - for beginners. A hand camera is the best for a beginner, and one - that is fitted for glass plates instead of film. With a hand camera - one can use a tripod, and make time pictures without the complex - swing-back, which is always more or less trouble to a beginner. A - good size is a camera that takes a 4 by 5 picture. - - SIR KNIGHT ALISON MARTIN, who sent a collection of fine photographs - to the contest, asks if those pictures which do not take a prize - can be criticised. If Sir Knight Alison could see the quantity of - pictures which have been sent in he would at once see that special - criticism of each picture would involve more time and space than - could be given to the Camera Club Department. After the contest - closes there will be a general criticism or description of the - pictures submitted. - - SIR KNIGHT MILTON E. PEASE, of Suffield, Connecticut, wants the - address of some firm where he can get good supplies, and also - wishes the formula for a good developing solution. Sir Knight - Milton will find reliable firms in Boston and New York, any one of - which will send price-list on application. The editor is not - familiar with firms in Springfield, Connecticut, but would advise - sending to some town near Suffield, as the charges are much less - for transportation. A good developing solution is made as follows: - Solution No. 1. Water, 10 oz.; sulphite of soda, 2 oz.; eikonogen, - 165 grs.; hydroquinon, 80 grs.; and add enough water to make the - solution up to 8 oz. Solution No. 2. Water, 10 oz.; carbonate of - potassium, 1 oz.; sodium carbonate, 1 oz.; and enough more water to - make the solution up to 16 oz. For developing take 1 oz. of No. 1, - 1 oz. of No. 2, and 4 oz. of water. - - SIR KNIGHT EDWIN V. GRISWOLD asks what kinds of trays to use for - developing, fixing, and toning. The best developing trays are made - of rubber, but celuloid makes a very good tray. An amber glass tray - is the best for a fixing-tray, as, being so unlike the other trays, - one never mistakes the hypo-tray for any other. A white porcelain - tray is usually chosen for a toning-tray. - - A CORRESPONDENT OF ENGLEWOOD, N.J., who does not sign name, asks a - good and cheap way to make a developer. Our correspondent will find - his question answered in the answer to Sir Knight Milton Pease in - this number, and also at the beginning of this column. - - - - -[Illustration: STAMPS] - - This Department is conducted in the interest of stamp and coin - collectors, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question - on these subjects so far as possible. Correspondents should address - Editor Stamp Department. - - -The new U. S. Postage-due stamps are printed in aniline colors, and if -wet the colors run badly. Do not soak any of them, as that would ruin -them. The higher values of these stamps (30 and 50 cents) are still -scarce, as many post-offices had large stocks of the old issue, or of -the lower values (1, 2, 3, 5, and 10) of the current issue. - -Proofs and essays of U. S. stamps are advancing in value rapidly. A few -years ago they brought nominal prices only. - -Unused U. S. stamps, with the original gum well centred, are worth from -30 per cent. to 50 per cent. more than when gum has been soaked off, or -when not evenly centred. - - F. BOGGS.--Write to any of the firms mentioned in our advertising - columns. - - E. S. D.--Dealers ask 20c. for the 1835 dime. - - J. S. POWELSON.--The 2c. 1869 can be bought for 8c. - - RUTH E. CHAMBERLIN.--The 1804 half-cent is quoted at 15c. - - GLEN CARTER.--"Helvetia" stamps are those of Switzerland from 1862 - to date. They are worth from 1c. to $1 each, according to scarcity. - - JOHN H. CAMPBELL.--The last issue of Mexico are the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, - 10, 12, 15, 20, and 50 centavos; 1, 5, and 10 pesos. - - F. WALDRON.--The prices quoted are those _asked_ by dealers, not - the prices paid by dealers for them. Address firms mentioned in our - advertising columns. - - R. S. C.--In die A, 1887, 2c. green U. S. envelope the bust points - to the space between the third and fourth "tooth" of the edge. In - die B, the common die, the bust points to space between second and - third "tooth." - - BEN B. WOOSTER.--It is frequently difficult to distinguish the two - dies of the 1851 U.S. 1c. stamp, as they were printed with very - small margins. The 1851 extra line U. S. 3c. is identical with the - 1851 die, but perforated. The extra line is at top and bottom only. - - A. C. G. WILLIAMS.--Die B, fawn, star watermark, is very common, - and worth very little. The rare envelope has the die C stamp. In - this the head of Washington is egg shaped. - - JOSIE S. GREY.--There is no 1775 Washington U. S. cent. For the - prices of the cents and half-cents see ROUND TABLE No. 842. The - other coins and tokens mentioned have no premium value. I do not - know the "Veto" token. - - E. M. FAREWELL.--Old English telegraph and revenue stamps are not - collected in this country. - - A. J. SELOVER.--The flying eagle cent, 1856, is worth $5. The other - dates do not bring any premium. - - A. WALTER.--No premium on the coins mentioned. - - S. M.--The legend "One Hundred Years" appears on the stamps of New - South Wales. - - H. B. BARBER.--The only way is to buy an illustrated catalogue, - which will give you prices also. - - - - -[Illustration: Ivory Soap] - -Have you noticed when discussing household affairs with other ladies -that each one has found some special use for Ivory Soap, usually the -cleansing of some article that it was supposed could not be safely -cleaned at home. - -THE PROCTER & GAMBLE CO., CIN'TI. - - - - -GEO. F. CRANE, - -90 Nassau St., - -NEW YORK, - -will pay cash for collections or scarce stamps. - - - - -BAKER sells recitations and PLAYS - -23 Winter St., Boston - -CATALOGUES FREE. - - - - -[Illustration] - - - - -[Illustration] - -THE - -BALTIMOREAN PRINTING-PRESS - -has earned more money for boys than all other presses in the market. -Boys, don't idle away your time when you can buy a self-inking -printing-press, type, and complete outfit for $5.00. Write for -particulars, there is money in it for you. - -THE J. F. W. DORMAN CO., - -Baltimore, Md., U.S.A. - - - - -FOR YOUNG PEOPLE - - * * * * * - -"HARPER'S ROUND TABLE" FOR 1895 - -Volume XVI. With 1096 Pages, and about 750 Illustrations. 4to, Cloth, -Ornamental, $3.50. - - * * * * * - -A LIFE OF CHRIST FOR YOUNG PEOPLE - -In Questions and Answers. By MARY HASTINGS FOOTE. With Map. Post 8vo, -Cloth, Ornamental, $1.25. - - The Rev. DR. DAVID H. GREER writes: - - "I believe it to be one of the most satisfactory manuals of that - character which I have ever seen. It meets a need both in the - family and the Sunday-school, and I am sure that its merits will be - very quickly and widely appreciated. It is not often that I can - give an indorsement so cordially and unreservedly as in this case." - - * * * * * - -OAKLEIGH - -A Story for Girls. By ELLEN DOUGLAS DELAND. Illustrated, Post 8vo, -Cloth, Ornamental, $1.25. - - The story is told in a simple and direct manner that enlists the - sympathy and attention of the reader.--_Saturday Evening Gazette_, - Boston. - - A story for girls, charmingly written, and illustrated throughout - with pictures dainty enough to please the most fastidious - damsel.... The incidents are full of life, the characters are very - natural, and the conversations well sustained, so that the story is - full of intense interest from beginning to end.--_Chicago - Inter-Ocean_. - - * * * * * - -By KIRK MUNROE. - -=Snow-Shoes and Sledges=, a Sequel to "The Fur-Seal's Tooth." Illustrated. -Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1.25. - - Will hold the interest of its readers from beginning to end.--_N. Y. - Evening Post_. - - The young folks will take delight in it.... We confess to have read - every word of the journal with as much interest as we once read - "Robinson Crusoe" or the "Swiss Family Robinson."--_Christian - Intelligencer_, N.Y. - -_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_: - -THE FUR-SEAL'S TOOTH.--RAFTMATES.--CANOEMATES.--CAMPMATES.--DORYMATES. -Each one volume. Illustrated. Post 8vo, Cloth, $1.25. - -WAKULLA.--THE FLAMINGO FEATHER.--DERRICK STERLING.--CHRYSTAL, JACK & -CO., and DELTA BIXBY. Illustrated. Square 16mo, Cloth, $1.00 each. - - * * * * * - -By MRS. SANGSTER - -=Little Knights and Ladies.= Verses for Young People. By MARGARET E. -SANGSTER, Author of "On the Road Home," etc. Illustrated. 16mo, Cloth, -Ornamental, $1.25. - - These verses for young people are brimful of sweetness and - tenderness; they will find generous welcome.... All through the - little volume runs a graceful current of personal influence, sunny - and gentle and sympathetic.--_Independent_, N. Y. - - * * * * * - -By W. J. HENDERSON - -=Afloat with the Flag.= By W. J. HENDERSON, Author of "Sea Yarns for -Boys," etc. Illustrated. Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1.25. - - Mr. W. J. Henderson's latest sea-story for boys is one of the best - we have seen.... The story has been read with eager interest by - thousands of ROUND TABLE readers, and it will have an additional - charm to them and others in its present book form.--_Boston - Advertiser_. - - * * * * * - -HARPER & BROTHERS, Publishers, New York - - - - -[Illustration: A STEEPLE-CHASE.] - - - - -REGGIE'S CONVALESCENCE. - -MAMMA. "Don't imagine you're sick, Reggie, or you'll never get well." - -REGGIE. "All right, mamma; then I'll play off well, and go skating just -to stop my sickness." - - * * * * * - -"How is your little sister, Robbie?" - -"She's getting well, she's taking celuloid milk." And he marched off -proud of having accomplished such a big word, for sterilized or celuloid -was all one to this little man of five. - - * * * * * - -"Mamma," said Clara, "the minister always says amen; when a lady prays -does she say awoman?" - - * * * * * - -BOBBY'S COMPOSITION. - -PARENTS. - - -Parents are things which boys have to look after them. Most girls also -have parents. Parents consist of Pas and Mas. Pas talk a good deal about -what they are going to do, but mostly it's Mas that make you mind. - -Sometimes it is different, though. Once there was a boy came home from -college on vacation. His parents lived on a farm. There was work to be -done on the farm. Work on a farm always has to be done early in the -morning. This boy didn't get up. His sister goes to the stairway and -calls: "Willie, 'tis a beautiful morning. Rise and list to the lark." -The boy didn't say anything. Then his Ma calls: "William, it is time to -get up. Your breakfast is growing cold." The boy kept right on not -saying anything. Then his Pa puts his head in the stairway, and says he, -"Bill!" "Coming, sir!" says the boy. - -I know a boy that hasn't got any parents. He goes in swimming whenever -he pleases. _But I am going to stick to my parents._ - -However, I don't tell them so, 'cause they might get it into their heads -that I couldn't get along without them. - -Says this boy to me, "Parents are a nuisance; they aren't what _they're_ -cracked up to be." Says I to him, "Just the same, I find 'em handy to -have. Parents have their failings, of course, like all of us, but on the -whole I approve of 'em." - -Once a man says to me, "Bobby, do you love your parents?" "Well," says -I, "I'm not a-quarrelling with 'em." - -Once a boy at boarding-school went to calling his Pa the Governor, and -got his allowance cut down one-half. His Pa said he ought to have waited -till he was going to college. - -Much more might be written about parents, showing their habits and so -forth, but I will leave the task to abler pens. - - * * * * * - -A BIRD'S PECULIAR NEST. - -There is preserved in the Museum of Natural History at Soleure, in -Switzerland, a bird's nest made of steel. - -A pair of wagtails had built a nest near the town of Soleure, and a -clock-maker who had to pass along a road near the nest noticed something -peculiar in its construction. He stopped one day and examined it, and, -much to his astonishment, found it made entirely of steel. It was more -than four inches across. As Soleure contains several clock-making shops, -and the windows of these shops are frequently left open, the natural -supposition is that the birds gathered up the thin spiral shavings of -steel, and built their nest. The ingenious way in which these strands of -steel are made to fit into one another and woven so compactly, is -marvellous when the bird's trifling bit of strength is considered. A -bird's nest is often an indication of its surroundings, as in the case -of a city sparrow's nest, which is usually made of strings, bits of -cotton, wisps of straw and hay, tooth-picks, cloth, the hair of horses, -and such miscellany. - - - - -THE CHINAMAN'S SLED. - -[Illustration: CHARLEY LEU'S BOB-SLED WENT ALMOST AS FAST AS MELICAN -MAN'S--] - -[Illustration: BUT IN THE MANAGEMENT OF IT HE BADLY LACKED THE SKILL -ACQUIRED BY EXPERIENCE AND INHERITANCE.] - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Round Table, December 31, 1895, by Various - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S ROUND TABLE, DEC 31, 1895 *** - -***** This file should be named 51264-8.txt or 51264-8.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/1/2/6/51264/ - -Produced by Annie R. 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McGuire - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_FATE_OF_LA_SALLE">THE FATE OF LA SALLE.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#GRATITUDE">GRATITUDE.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#HOW_HARRY_SOWERBY_EARNED_PROMOTION">HOW HARRY SOWERBY EARNED PROMOTION.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#HOW_MAGIC_IS_MADE">HOW MAGIC IS MADE.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#A_SWIM_FOR_LIFE">A SWIM FOR LIFE.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_WINNING_OF_THE_Y">THE WINNING OF THE "Y."</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#FOR_KING_OR_COUNTRY">FOR KING OR COUNTRY.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_BABYHOOD_OF_DENVER">THE BABYHOOD OF DENVER.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#IN_THE_BARN">IN THE BARN.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_RAVELLED_MITTEN">THE RAVELLED MITTEN.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#INTERSCHOLASTIC_SPORT">INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#BICYCLING">BICYCLING.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_PUDDING_STICK">THE PUDDING STICK.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_CAMERA_CLUB">THE CAMERA CLUB.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#STAMPS">STAMPS.</a></td></tr> -</table></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_205" id="Page_205">[Pg 205]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 800px;"> -<img src="images/ill_001.jpg" width="800" height="267" alt="HARPER'S ROUND TABLE" /> -</div> - -<p class="center">Copyright, 1895, by <span class="smcap">Harper & Brothers</span>. All Rights Reserved.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">published weekly</span>.</td><td align="center">NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1895.</td><td align="right"><span class="smcap">five cents a copy</span>.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">vol. xvii</span>.—<span class="smcap">no</span>. 844.</td><td align="center"></td><td align="right"><span class="smcap">two dollars a year</span>.</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 700px;"><a name="THE_FATE_OF_LA_SALLE" id="THE_FATE_OF_LA_SALLE"></a> -<img src="images/ill_002.jpg" width="700" height="579" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2>THE FATE OF LA SALLE.</h2> - -<h3>BY ROBERT H. FULLER.</h3> - -<p>In early times America was to the Spaniards a region of silver and gold, -which were to be wrung from the natives and squandered in Europe; to the -French and the Dutch it was a country of furs, which were to be -purchased from the Indians for beads, knives, and guns, and sold across -the sea at an enormous profit; to the English it was a land of homes, -with liberty to think and act. Thus, while the Spaniards were delving in -the mines of Mexico and Peru and freighting their argosies, and while -the French couriers of the woods were steering their fur-laden canoes -down the St. Lawrence, the English colonists along the Atlantic coast -were cultivating the soil, making and enforcing laws, and gaining a -foothold which was to remain firm long after their more restless and -adventurous neighbors had vanished from the New World.</p> - -<p>Nevertheless, the early French explorers, heedless of danger, bold and -free as the Indians themselves, threading rivers and exploring lakes in -their canoes, ranging through<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_206" id="Page_206">[Pg 206]</a></span> limitless solitudes of forest or over -interminable wastes of prairie, performed a service of the utmost value -to the future nation. They mapped out the road which slower but surer -feet were to follow, and if they could not organize and hold the -enormous territory which they claimed, at least they prepared it for -those who could.</p> - -<p>Above the crowd of ragged and fearless adventurers who throng through -the history of France's vain endeavors to found an empire in the Western -World, the figure of Réné-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, towers -like a statue of bronze. He was born in 1643, and was the son of a rich -merchant of Rouen. A brief connection with the religious order of the -Jesuits deprived him of his inheritance, and at the age of twenty-two he -sailed for Canada to seek his fortune, turning his back upon the Old -World, as did many another young Frenchman of gentle breeding at that -time.</p> - -<p>He was granted an estate, afterward named La Chine, near Montreal. The -name of the place is a memory of the belief, long cherished by the -French, that by way of the St. Lawrence, the Great Lakes, and the -Mississippi, a passage to the Pacific Ocean and the wealth of the East -might be found. On his domain, which served as an outpost of Montreal -against the incursions of the ferocious Iroquois, he lived a life of -rude freedom, ruling like a young seigneur over the tenants who gathered -about his stockade.</p> - -<p>But he could not long remain quiet. The thirst for adventure was strong -upon him, and, listening to the tales of his Indian visitors, he -determined to explore the Ohio and the Mississippi to the "Vermilion -Sea," or the Gulf of California, into which he was convinced the great -river flowed. At his own expense he fitted out an expedition, and pushed -boldly into the trackless wilderness.</p> - -<p>This was the beginning of a career of hardship and danger, of successes -achieved in the teeth of seemingly insurmountable obstacles and in spite -of the plots of powerful enemies, with a steadfast fortitude -unparalleled in the annals of discovery. La Salle's dream of reaching -the Pacific was soon dispelled; but it was the nature of his mind to -rear new plans on the ruins of the old. He never grew discouraged. In -the presence of calamities which would have overwhelmed a less stout -heart his brain was busy seeking new paths to the end he had in view.</p> - -<p>At his first step he encountered the jealous hostility of the Jesuits, -then powerful both at Quebec and Paris. To this was added the enmity of -those interested in the fur trade, who feared that he would disturb -their traffic; the hatred of all who had betrayed, deserted, and robbed -him—no small number; and the annoyances of such as had been induced to -invest in his schemes when his own resources were exhausted. While he -was absent, bearing the flag of France over thousands of miles of new -territory, slanderers and detractors were busy at home destroying his -credit, thwarting his plans, ridiculing his hopes, and seeking to rob -him of his honors. The obstacles cast in his path by nature or savage -tribes were slight when compared with those reared against him by his -own country men. But, unshaken in his purpose, he toiled on year after -year, enduring exposure, hunger, cold, illness, and treachery, exploring -the Ohio and the Illinois, and finally, in 1682, descending the -Mississippi to its mouth.</p> - -<p>This was his crowning exploit. He was now a man of middle age, inured to -peril and hardship, and burdened with a heavy load of responsibility. He -was stern, reserved, and self-reliant. There were few besides Tonti, his -devoted lieutenant, upon whom he could rely. His followers were fickle -savages or, worse still, the idle and insubordinate offscour of Europe. -He had built and equipped a vessel on the lakes, and she had been sunk -with her cargo. He had nearly finished another on the Illinois, when his -men mutinied in his absence, and deserted. He had erected forts and -planted colonies, which were destroyed or ordered abandoned by a hostile -governor. He had been robbed again and again of the stores and supplies -which he had transported at great cost into the wilderness, and of the -furs which he sent back to Canada. At last he felt that if he was to -secure for France the rich valley of the Mississippi and the boundless -region drained by its tributaries, and repay his creditors through the -monopoly of the trade which he hoped to establish there, he must secure -the support of the King himself. Accordingly he turned toward France.</p> - -<p>His plan found favor with Louis XIV. and his ministers. He was given -four vessels, which carried, besides supplies, a hundred soldiers, -mechanics and laborers, several families, a number of girls who hoped to -find husbands in the new colony, and thirty volunteers. Among these last -were several boys, two of them his own nephews, of whom one was destined -to be the cause of his death. The expedition was to make a settlement at -the mouth of the Mississippi, and organize a force to sweep the -Spaniards out of New Mexico. This La Salle promised to do. At last, -after so many trials and disappointments, he seemed to stand on the -threshold of success.</p> - -<p>But the dark cloud of misfortune which had so long lowered above his -head reappeared when the vessels approached their destination. Numbers -of the colonists fell ill on the voyage. At St. Domingo, La Salle -himself was stricken down by fever, and his life was despaired of. One -of his vessels was taken by Spanish pirates, and his men grew -discontented and undisciplined. To cap the climax, the fleet missed the -mouth of the Mississippi, and the colonists landed four hundred miles to -the westward, at Matagorda Bay. There another vessel was lost while -attempting to enter the harbor, and a third, which had acted as escort -only, returned to France.</p> - -<p>It did not take the unhappy pioneers long to discover that they were not -on the Mississippi, and La Salle, with unabated energy, set out in -search of the "fatal river." He did not find it, and on his return the -last of the vessels was lost, removing all hope of escape by sea. The -sufferings of the little colony were great, and La Salle formed the -desperate resolution of penetrating through the wilderness to Canada for -help. Some of his followers afterward escaped by this dangerous path, -but he himself was never to see Canada again. On the march food ran -short, and seven men were sent out to forage. Among them was a man named -Duhaut, who hated La Salle, and had once deserted him. The party killed -some buffaloes, and were curing the meat when one of La Salle's nephews, -Moranget, who had been sent in search of them with a companion, arrived. -Moranget did not lack courage, but he did lack prudence. He angered the -men by finding fault with them unjustly.</p> - -<p>Duhaut seized the opportunity, and drew four of the others into his -plot. That night Moranget and his companion, with La Salle's faithful -Indian servant, were murdered as they slept. The next morning, La Salle, -full of anxious foreboding at his nephew's failure to return, went after -him in company with a priest. Even in his defenceless condition the -wretches who had resolved on his death did not dare to attack him -openly. Crouched in the dry grass like savages, they awaited his coming, -and shot him through the brain as he approached. Then they came out of -their concealment and triumphed over the body, crying: "There thou -liest, tyrant! There thou liest!"</p> - -<p>So on the prairies of Texas perished La Salle. His name heads the list -of resolute adventurers who pierced the secrets of the wilderness, and -led the march of civilization across the continent. He was a man of -action. When beset, as he often was, by doubts and difficulties, he saw -at once what must be done, and did it without delay. Had his life been -spared he would, no doubt, have rescued the colonists. Without his aid -they perished miserably, Duhaut, the chief murderer, being shot down by -another of the accomplices. Of all the expedition only seven, including -the explorer's brother and his remaining nephew, reached Canada.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="GRATITUDE" id="GRATITUDE">GRATITUDE.</a></h2> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 18em;">I think all little children should</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">Be thankful in their prayers</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 18em;">To God for having been so good</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">To make their parents <i>theirs</i>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_207" id="Page_207">[Pg 207]</a></span></p> - -<h2><a name="HOW_HARRY_SOWERBY_EARNED_PROMOTION" id="HOW_HARRY_SOWERBY_EARNED_PROMOTION">HOW HARRY SOWERBY EARNED PROMOTION.</a></h2> - -<h3>BY WILLIAM HEMMINGWAY.</h3> - -<p>"May I go out to Blairstown on your special, Mr. Gannon?" asked Harry -Sowerby, the telegraph operator at Hammonds.</p> - -<p>"What do you want to go for, bub?" replied the superintendent of the -Lexington and Danville Railroad. "It's a nasty night for travelling, -and—"</p> - -<p>"I haven't been home in two months," said the boy, eagerly. "I may not -have another chance for a long time, and it's near Christmas. I can -report the departure of your train to 'X' office, and then there's -nothing more to be done here till 6.45 to-morrow morning."</p> - -<p>"Come on, then," answered the superintendent. He knew that Harry -Sowerby, the youngest telegraph operator on the road, was anxious to see -his mother and sisters, and he knew what a lonely place Hammonds Station -was.</p> - -<p>The sounder clicked rapidly for a few moments as Harry notified the -night train-despatcher at "X" office that the superintendent's special -was passing westward. Then he quickly cut out the telegraph instruments, -quenched the office lamp, and jumped aboard the car as it slowly rolled -past the glare of the bright platform light and out into the black rain. -He could not remember having ever heard such a heavy downpour. The snow -that had hidden the earth for weeks was fast melting under it.</p> - -<p>Harry Sowerby was only sixteen years old. He had been at Hammonds one -year, and he was heartily tired of it. The nearest house to the station -was a quarter of a mile away. He was anxious to be promoted to the -train-despatcher's staff at "X" office, that mysterious place whence the -orders came that governed all the trains on the road. But Mr. Gannon had -put him off, telling him that he was too young.</p> - -<p>"When you've had more experience, bub," said the big, good-natured -superintendent, "maybe the dispatcher will need you. You're young yet, -you know."</p> - -<p>This was a tender point with Harry. He knew he really looked as old as -most fellows of eighteen, and he felt that he had more experience at -railroading than many fellows of twenty-five. Besides, if he were sent -to "X," his pay would be increased to sixty-five dollars a month, and he -could send his sisters to a better school.</p> - -<p>Suddenly steam was shut off. Harry knew it by the silence with which the -light train plunged forward, without a sound from the exhaust or the -cylinders. Then came the sharp hissing of the air-brakes, but the train -ran on unchecked. One blast of the whistle called the brakeman to the -platform, where he whirled the brake-wheel swiftly, and set it up as -hard as if his life depended on that one act. A grinding noise forward -and a snarling from the driving-wheels told Harry's experienced ears -that the engineer had "thrown her over and given her sand"—that is, he -had reversed the lever and opened the sand-box, so that the -driving-wheels, now turning backward, might grip the wet rails firmly.</p> - -<p>Mr. Gannon, in his hip boots and mackintosh, was out in the snow and mud -and up ahead in less than half a minute. The front of the locomotive was -within thirty feet of the beginning of Williston cut. Tom Jackson had -not stopped her a moment too soon. The heavy rain had washed down tons -of earth and bowlders from the banks on to the track. The cut was -blocked for fully thirty yards. What it was that whispered danger to the -engineer he himself could not tell, but he had felt a sudden premonition -that it was not safe to run through the cut.</p> - -<p>Harry Sowerby saw the brakeman go back with a red lantern to protect the -superintendent's special train from No. 576, the way freight that was -due thirty minutes later. Suddenly the light flickered out. The wind and -rain were too much for it. Harry knew that the same thing might happen -just as the heavy freight train came along. It sickened him to think of -what would follow. He thought of the train crew scattered on the snowy -ground, bruised, perhaps killed.</p> - -<p>The boy's head throbbed with excitement. If he only could do something -to save the train! He had heard Ryan, the rear brakeman, say that there -was not a danger torpedo on the car. He ran hopelessly up to the -locomotive tender, knowing that there was none there either, but -thinking that perhaps he might find something. And as he searched in the -grimy tool-box he saw a long piece of heavy copper wire. There flashed -across his mind the recollection of how Kline, the lineman, had once -said it was possible for a "good man" to telegraph from any point on the -line. Here was something worth trying.</p> - -<p>"Bring a torch, Phil," he said to the fireman. Away he ran down the -track, the coil of wire in one hand and a pair of pliers in the other. -Throwing the coil around his neck and sticking the pliers in his pocket, -Harry began to climb the nearest telegraph pole, while Phil helped him -all he could with his free hand.</p> - -<p>The young telegrapher soon threw his leg over the cross-arm, and braced -himself securely. Fireman Phil held the flaring torch as high as he -could, so that the light was only fifteen feet below the wire. The torch -was so liberally soaked with petroleum that the wind could not blow it -out.</p> - -<p>Harry felt thankful when he saw, on the opposite end of the cross-arm -from that which held the single telegraph line, a new glass insulator -that had been placed for another line which was soon to be strung. That -made his work easier. Using his pliers dexterously, he quickly spliced -one end of the coil of copper wire around the wire of the telegraph line -about six inches away from the cross-arm. He twined the copper wire -around and around the live wire, so that it clung like a wild-grape vine -tendril to a tree bough.</p> - -<p>Then he took three turns of the copper wire around the empty insulator. -Now was the trying moment. If he cut the line, would its sagging weight -break his splice of copper wire? Yet if he was to carry out his plan he -must separate the telegraph line into two parts, so that by bringing the -ends together he could make the Morse signals. With a few nips of the -pliers he cut the telegraph line, and although it fell away with a sharp -snap, the copper-wire splice held it safely hung to the new insulator.</p> - -<p>Now he was in possession of a rude but effective telegraph key. By -touching the west end of the broken line, which was the jagged bit of -wire that stuck up from the old insulator, against the east end of the -line, which was the end of the copper wire leading back from the new -insulator, he could complete the electric circuit. He tapped the end of -the copper wire upon the line wire that stuck up. A tiny blue spark -flashed out, and he felt sharp pains in his wet right hand as the -current shot through it. But what mattered the pain? Because the current -shocked him so, he felt sure that the line was "O K." Now he began -tapping again. He let the wires barely touch to make dots, and held them -together an instant to make dashes. He began to call up the station at -Woodside, where No. 576 was due to pass within the next ten minutes. -Then he held the wire ends together to receive an answer. He soon could -feel the stinging, burning current bite the dots and dashes into his -hand like this:</p> - -<p class="center"> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"— — — — — —— —— —— — —."</span><br /> -</p> - -<p>Now he telegraphed this order:</p> - -<p>"Operator, Woodside,—Flag and hold all west-bound trains. Williston cut -blockaded, and a special is stuck at east end."</p> - -<p>He signed Mr. Gannon's name to this. Then he held the wires together -while the operator telegraphed back the order, according to the railroad -rules, to show that he understood. The man at Woodside was surprised at -the message, but he quickly understood its importance.</p> - -<p>Harry twisted the loose end of the copper wire around the little piece -of wire that stuck up, so that the telegraph line should not be broken, -and then he slid down the pole.</p> - -<p>"They're holding all west-bound trains at Woodside!" he shouted to Phil -as his feet touched the ground.</p> - -<p>Phil gave him a congratulatory slap on the back that nearly upset him. -Then Phil ran to where the superintendent and the train crew were -standing, two hundred yards back of the train, trying to shield a red -light and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_208" id="Page_208">[Pg 208]</a></span> keep it burning. He yelled the good news to them, and as -Harry came slowly up to the little group, the crew cheered him and -hugged him and told him he had saved the six lives on No. 576.</p> - -<p>"Bub," said Mr. Gannon, as he gravely shook Harry's burned right hand, -"I guess you've had enough experience to go to 'X' office. We need men -as quick-witted and plucky as you in this business. I'm going to report -your conduct to the directors of the road at their next meeting."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="HOW_MAGIC_IS_MADE" id="HOW_MAGIC_IS_MADE">HOW MAGIC IS MADE.</a></h2> - -<h3>I.</h3> - -<p>When Samuel Butler wrote</p> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">"Doubtless the pleasure is as great</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Of being cheated, as to cheat,"</span><br /> -</p> - -<p>he afforded evidence that he had never been a conjurer.</p> - -<p>There is a nervous strain, an excitement, in the act of cheating at -conjuring that is entirely wanting when we are cheated.</p> - -<p>For the one who does the tricks there is a fascination that has never -been known to be even alleviated, but, like the proverbial brook, "goes -on forever." Yet, knowing this, I propose to lure my readers to this -incurable habit by teaching them the whole art and mystery of deceiving -one's neighbor—in an honest way.</p> - -<p>As an explanation of "palming," whether of coins, balls, or cards, or -any of the preliminary exercises necessary in order to become a -proficient conjurer, makes but dull reading, I shall postpone -instruction in such finger movements until actually needed, and begin -with a complete trick. I shall not content myself, however, with showing -the mere bare bones of the illusions, but will present something more -solid, and give such suggestions, with accompanying <i>patter</i> and other -details, as will enable the student in what the French call "White -Magic," with some practice, to perform the tricks to his own -satisfaction and the delight of his audience.</p> - -<p>At the start let me caution my readers against being too quick. The -success of a sleight-of-hand trick depends on diverting the attention of -the audience upon misdirection rather than on rapidity of movement. It -is a fallacy that "the hand is quicker than the eye." The most -accomplished conjurers this country has ever seen, men like Buatier de -Kolta or the late Robert Heller, never made a rapid movement; they were -deliberate. They relied more on a nimble wit, a turn of the head, a -glance of the eye, a motion of the hand, and yet they successfully and -artistically deceived the keenest-eyed witness of their performance.</p> - -<p>And now to begin with our first lesson. As an opening for a performance, -something that will impress an audience with your skill, there is -nothing better than</p> - -<h4>THE EVANESCENT HANDKERCHIEF.</h4> - -<p>The performer begins by rolling up his sleeves, and showing his hands to -be empty. Yet bringing the latter together the next moment, he produces -a piece of colored silk about twelve inches square, which, in spite of -its diminutive size, he dignifies by the name of <i>handkerchief</i>.</p> - -<p>"This," he says, holding it out, "is property number One, and here," -picking up a candle from his table, "is number Two. This candle is -simply the <i>light</i> and airy product of the chandler, and has not been -tampered with by any <i>wicked</i> trickster since it left his hands. And yet -I propose to pass into its very centre this handkerchief."</p> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 300px;"> -<img src="images/ill_003.jpg" width="300" height="215" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">THE CANDLE.</span> -</div> - -<p>A narrow strip of card-board, bent into semicircular form and having a -round hole cut in its centre, serves as a candlestick, and in this the -candle is stood.</p> - -<p>"You can readily see," continues the performer, "that there is -absolutely no chance here to gall you—no apparatus of any kind. And now -to begin."</p> - -<p>He rolls the handkerchief between his hands, and then extending his -closed right hand, while the left, also closed, goes behind his back, -says: "I shall now cause the handkerchief which is in my right hand to -pass invisibly into that candle. That will be a miracle, and a -prerequisite for a miracle is faith. You must believe that the -handkerchief is in my hand."</p> - -<p>"But," whispers a sharp-eyed, keen-witted spectator, "the handkerchief -is not there. He kept it in his left hand, and has thrust it into his -coat-tail pocket."</p> - -<p>Ah, suspicious mortal, how grievously mistaken you are! As Josh Billings -has wisely said, "It's better not to know so much than to know so much -that's not so." The performer opens his hand and shows that the -handkerchief is still there.</p> - -<p>Again he goes through the same manipulation, and again suspicion is -aroused.</p> - -<p>"Ah, ye of little faith!" he exclaims. "There is no need of concealing -my hands for such a simple trick. See! I merely roll the handkerchief, -so, between my hands"—suiting the action to the word—"and on opening -them we find them empty, nothing concealed in them, and nothing up my -sleeves," which he bares in proof. "Where has the handkerchief gone? It -has passed, as I promised it would pass, into the candle."</p> - -<p>"Should I cut open the candle," he goes on to say, "and in it find the -missing bit of silk, you would conclude that I use a prepared candle. To -prove this is not so I light the candle, and from its flame I thus -extract the handkerchief." Which he does.</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 400px;"> -<img src="images/ill_004.jpg" width="400" height="137" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">THE FALSE FINGER.</span> -</div> - -<p>Pretty and mysterious as this trick is, it is very simple. The -handkerchief which is produced from the empty hands is concealed in a -hollow metal finger, which is painted a flesh-color, and is open at the -lower end, where it is cut in the following shape >. This finger is -placed between the second and third fingers of the left hand, and as the -performer keeps all the fingers close together, and turns his hands -rapidly backward and forward when showing them to be empty, it will be a -keen eye indeed that will detect the apparatus. When the hands are -brought together the false finger is quickly taken off, the handkerchief -is pulled out and shown to the audience. In laying the handkerchief on -the table the finger is placed there with it, or is retained in the hand -and afterward pocketed.</p> - -<p>Fastened to the performer's left arm, just below the elbow and under his -coat sleeve, is a strong cord—a piece of fine fish-line is -excellent—which passes up the sleeve, through the armholes of his vest, -across his back, and down the right sleeve, where it ends in a loop -placed over the right thumb. This cord is of such a length that it will -only reach the thumb when the arms are held with the elbows at the hips -and the forearm extended from that point. Releasing the loop from the -thumb, and straightening the arms forward and slightly upward, carries -the loop and anything in it well into the upper part of the sleeve. When -the handkerchief is to disappear, the performer, under cover of his -clasped hands, runs it through the loop, extends his arms quickly, and -the handkerchief flies up the sleeve. Just here comes in a little piece -of the <i>misdirection</i> already alluded to. The performer does not open -his hands at once, but continues to rub them as if they still contained -the handkerchief; then he closes the right hand and holds it well out -from his body, letting the left hand fall, open, to his side. He -continues for a second to work the fingers of the right hand, as though -compressing the handkerchief, and finally, opening one finger after -another, shows the hand empty. Next he bares his arms, but in doing so -is careful to push up the left coat sleeve and turn his shirt<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_209" id="Page_209">[Pg 209]</a></span> sleeve -over it, so as to conceal the place at which the cord is fastened.</p> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 400px;"> -<img src="images/ill_005.jpg" width="400" height="252" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">THE MATCH-BOX AND THREAD.</span> -</div> - -<p>The production of the handkerchief from the candle is as ingenious as -the rest of the trick. A <i>duplicate</i> handkerchief is folded as small as -possible, and tied with very fine black cotton thread, to which is -attached a loop of horse-hair. This is placed in one end of the cover of -an ordinary parlor-match box, one of the kind that slides into its -cover, like a drawer. The box, half-way open, stands on the table, the -loop protruding. In picking it up to take out a match the forefinger of -the left hand is run through the loop, and the act of closing the box -pushes out the handkerchief, which dangles in the palm of the hand, and, -as the back is kept toward the audience, is not seen. <i>Care must be -taken not to</i> <span class="smcap">pull</span> <i>out the handkerchief lest the thread should break</i>. -To produce it the hands are closed quickly over the flame of the candle, -extinguishing it, a sharp jerk breaks the thread, and the handkerchief -appears as if pulled from the wick.</p> - -<p>The metal finger has recently been improved on, but as the substitute -requires more delicate handling, I shall defer the explanation of it for -the present.</p> - -<p>This little trick originated with De Kolta, the famous French conjurer, -who, besides being the inventor of most of the tricks, great and small, -exhibited by the other magicians, is an accomplished actor. In his hands -it almost reaches the dignity of a work of art. Another trick of his is</p> - -<h4>THE MISSION OF A PLATE.</h4> - -<p>The performer shows a soup plate and two small handkerchiefs, a red one -and a blue, "made of raw silk," he remarks, adding, "Though the silk is -raw, let us hope the trick will be well done."</p> - -<p>That there may be no suspicion of a trap in the table, it is covered -with a newspaper. The plate is laid on it, mouth down. With his arms -bare to the elbow, the performer picks up one handkerchief, rolls it in -his hands, and after a moment shows first his right hand empty, then the -left. The second handkerchief is treated in the same way, and on lifting -the plate the handkerchiefs are found under it.</p> - -<p>Of course two sets of handkerchiefs are used, one of which is concealed -in the plate by means of a double bottom. The construction of the plate -is quite simple. A hole about one-eighth of an inch in diameter is -drilled in the bottom at the centre. A false bottom is made of -metal—zinc or tin—one side painted white to match the plate, the other -covered with newspaper. Soldered to the centre on the newspaper side is -a short wire, slightly hooked at the end, which passes through the hole -in the plate and just catches the edge. A touch with the finger of this -projecting hook dislodges the bottom. The handkerchiefs cover the wire, -while the newspaper lining, matching the paper on the table, conceals -the false bottom.</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 147px;"> -<img src="images/ill_006.jpg" width="147" height="400" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">CHANGING THE CORD.</span> -</div> - -<p>So much for the plate. Now for the disappearance of the handkerchiefs. -For this a small black bag of some soft dull black material is used. -This bag ought not to be more than an inch and three-quarters long by -about the same measurement in width. In the mouth must be sewed a -curtain ring about seven-eighths of an inch in diameter, and extending -from the centre of one side of the bag to the centre of the other should -be a loop of fine flesh-colored sewing-silk, long enough to pass over -the forefinger and thumb when the former is held out from the fingers. -This bag is lying on a table or hanging at the back of a chair, and is -picked up with the first handkerchief. Shaking out this handkerchief, -the performer pretends to gather it into his hands, in reality stuffing -it into the bag by the help of his left forefinger. When completely in, -he runs that finger and the left thumb through the loop, works the bag -to the back of the left hand, and closes that hand. The right hand, of -which the back has been toward the audience, is now turned and shown to -be empty. The fingers of the left hand still keep moving, as if rolling -the handkerchief into still smaller compass, and then that hand is -opened and also shown empty. Almost at the same moment the tips of the -right-hand fingers are laid, for an instant only, near the left palm, as -if to emphasize the fact that the handkerchief has gone, but without -saying a word. This brings the right forefinger about the centre of the -loop, through which it passes. The hands almost immediately separate, -the bag is lifted off and brought against the right palm, in which -position it cannot be seen by the audience. Without calling attention to -it by words, the audience are made to see that the left hand is empty, -as the performer picks up the second handkerchief with it, thus showing -the back and front.</p> - -<p>The second handkerchief is now worked into the bag, which this time is -left hanging from the forefinger of the <i>right</i> hand. This hand is -opened, but the audience, though not allowed to see the palm, conclude -it is empty, as it was in the case of the first handkerchief. The left -hand is kept closed, as if containing the handkerchief; then it is given -a sudden upward movement, as if throwing the handkerchief into space, -and opened. "The handkerchiefs are gone," says the performer, "and are -here." At this he touches the hook on the plate with the left -forefinger, disengaging the false bottom, lifts up the plate, and -reveals the duplicate handkerchiefs. These he picks up with his right -hand, thus covering the bag therein concealed.</p> - -<p>One who has not seen this trick cannot conceive the beauty of it, but if -the young conjurer will follow literally the instructions here laid -down, he will, with comparatively little practice, soon be able to -surprise and delight his friends with it.</p> - -<p>Mr. Adrian Plate, of New York, a most accomplished sleight-of-hand -performer, who confines himself to giving drawing-room entertainments, -has so far improved upon this trick that he dispenses with a prepared -plate. His duplicate handkerchiefs, closely folded, are concealed -beneath his table-top, and are drawn under the plate when lifting it, -ostensibly to show that nothing has been smuggled under it.</p> - -<p>There are two other very pretty handkerchief tricks easy of -accomplishment, but I must reserve them for my next paper.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="A_SWIM_FOR_LIFE" id="A_SWIM_FOR_LIFE">A SWIM FOR LIFE.</a></h2> - -<p>"Here is an account, Grandfather," said Ralph, "of a sailor who kept -himself afloat at sea for ten hours with only an oar to cling to. Do you -think such a thing possible?"</p> - -<p>"Not only possible, my boy, but very probable," answered the old -captain. "I once knew a sailor who swam for two hours in a heavy sea -when he had not as much as a wooden toothpick to buoy him up, and if you -want the yarn here it is.</p> - -<p>"We were on our way from Cape Town to Boston, and when we reached the -parallel of Bermuda we lost a man overboard in the following way: Just -as evening fell, the wind that had been light all day freshened with a -long-drawn-out moaning sound through the rigging, and the captain sang -out to settle away royals and top-gallant sails, and to haul down the -flying-jib. As it was raining heavily we all kept our oil-skins on when -we went aloft. Upon reaching the cross-trees I laid out on the -top-gallant yard, while a seaman named Porter kept on past me, going up -to furl the royal. I had passed the gaskets around the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_210" id="Page_210">[Pg 210]</a></span> sail and was -about to lay down from aloft, when something large and dark flashed by -me, fetched up against the top-mast rigging, then bounded clear of the -vessel, and fell into the sea. Porter had missed his footing, and was -now plunging down into the ocean's depths as the ship tore rapidly -onward.</p> - -<p>"'Man overboard!' I yelled; and, seizing a backstay, I slid down on -deck, repeating my warning in the descent.</p> - -<p>"There is no cry that will nerve a seaman to greater exertion than the -one that tells him a shipmate is in dire peril, and although each one -worked fiercely and with the natural strength of two men, the vessel had -swept fully a mile ahead before we could lay the main-yard aback and so -heave the ship to. Nimble hands cast one of the lee boats adrift from -her gripes, and the mate, followed by five seamen, tumbled into her, and -were lowered to the water alongside.</p> - -<p>"'I will burn a flare,' called the captain, 'so that you may keep the -ship in sight!'</p> - -<p>"Four of the sailors pulled at the long oars with powerful, sweeping -strokes, while the second mate guided the little vessel back into the -blackness of the night, and I stood in the bows peering ahead and -sending a ringing shout of encouragement across the waters every minute -or two. But not one of us expected to see poor Porter again; for -although he was known as a strong swimmer, how long, we reasoned, could -he keep afloat in that breaking sea, weighted down with his clothes—a -suit of oil-skins, and heavy sea-boots? However, we worked as zealously -as though the sight of a shipmate's struggling, drowning, beseeching -face were before us. The ship had been running free when Porter fell -from the yard, so to fetch the place where he had first sunk we had only -to pull dead against wind and sea. The men labored at the oars until -their breath was drawn in choking gasps, and the heavy oak blades were -almost swept from cramped and weakened arms.</p> - -<p>"'Cease rowing, and listen!' called the mate.</p> - -<p>"The ceaseless washing of the waves was the only sound that reached us. -The ship had continued to drift from us under the influence of the wind -upon her hull and rigging, and although we could still make out the -flare that was burned over her quarter, it had grown so faint with -distance that it now showed only as a blot of fire far away to leeward. -Then we 'darned the water,' as it is called, pulling this way and that, -while all the time I sent powerful cries into the teeth of the gale. At -last we gave up the search, and turned the boat's head around for the -ship. Not a word was spoken, each one of us silently busy with his own -gloomy thoughts, picturing a lost companion sinking down and down -through the unfathomable depths of the sea, to find at last a -resting-place upon the white sand and coral of the ocean's bed. Only the -thump, thump of oars against rowlocks; only the incessant seething of -the curling crests; only the hissing of the rain as it smote the water -about us, and oars rose and fell mechanically as the boat went -staggering down to where the glowworm light showed the ship to be.</p> - -<p>"Suddenly a faint, long-away cry trembled out of the darkness.</p> - -<p>"''Vast rowing!' shouted the mate, as he jumped excitedly to his feet. -Then he put his hands to his mouth and sent an ear-splitting shout -rolling across the sea. A moment later the answer came to our strained, -eager ears—another cry, but fuller than the first one, as though there -was heart in it.</p> - -<p>"'Give way, my lads! bend your backs, my boys,' thundered the mate, -sweeping the boat around with such a fierce pull at the yoke-lines that -she laid down until the top of a comber spilled over the gunwale. Then, -under the frenzied exertions of the men, we went smoking through the -water at right angles to the course we had been making.</p> - -<p>"'I see him!' I shouted. 'Cease rowing! Stern all!' And the next moment, -laughing and crying, we dragged our shipmate over the rail. We pulled -<i>him</i> into the boat, but that was all. He was as naked as on the day he -came into the world. After coming to the surface from his plunge he -realized that the weight of his clothes would soon drag him down; so -amid the blackness, and in that jumping, tumbling sea, that broke and -boiled about his head, he kicked off his boots, and one by one got rid -of his garments, catching a long breath and allowing himself to sink -while he pulled and tore his clinging clothes away from him. He told us -that all hope of rescue by his shipmates had been given up, and that he -was trying to keep himself afloat until daylight, in hopes that some -vessel would pass within hail of him, when he heard the sound of oars, -and gave out the cry that the mate had first heard."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="THE_WINNING_OF_THE_Y" id="THE_WINNING_OF_THE_Y">THE WINNING OF THE "Y."</a></h2> - -<h3>BY S. SCOVILLE, JUN.</h3> - -<p>The day of the Yale-Harvard meeting has come, and with it Jack Vail's -chance of becoming a "'varsity man," and winning the right to wear the -'varsity Y on sweater and jersey front. What that right means none but a -college man can really appreciate. Scores and scores of men spend long -years in training, hoping to win the coveted honor, and out of them all -only a few are chosen. To the 'varsity men more than to all others is -the college honor entrusted. They personify the courage and manliness of -the university, and must show themselves worthy of the trust, and the -man who "makes the 'varsity" by so doing obtains the respect and -consideration of the whole college world, for only one possessing -unusual qualities of mind and body is chosen as worthy to join the few -who represent their alma mater on track and field. And to-day, if Jack -can win his race against Harvard in the annual competition for the great -challenge cup, he wins his Y.</p> - -<p>The sun rises in a cloudless sky, and the day gradually grows hotter, -until, by afternoon, the last trace of heaviness has been burned out of -the cinder path, and the tiers of "bleachers" are packed and jammed with -cheering, sweltering college men and groups of equally enthusiastic -college girls. Three of the bleachers are a mass of crimson flags, -dresses, and ribbons—the Harvard "rooters," a loyal band who have come -down from Cambridge to encourage their team. And now the air is -shattered by volleys of cheers from the Yale tiers. Before each section -stand prominent Seniors who in ordinary life bear themselves with a -dignity befitting their high position in the college world, but who are -now devoting every atom of the energy which has made them marked men to -waving their arms and hats as leaders of the cheering, terminating each -effort with a peculiarly enthusiastic bound. A triple "Rah! Rah! Rah!" -from one section is followed from another by the classical -"Brekity-kek-coax-coax"—a cheer adopted from Aristophanes. The cause of -all the commotion is a great blue 'bus, which has just lumbered up to -the training-house, a short distance from the track, with "Varsity" -painted on the side. Out of this are pouring strapping hammer-throwers -and shot-putters, slim distance-runners, wiry jumpers, and all the other -competitors who go to make up an athletic team. And now the crimson -delegation have their innings as the Harvard team file into the -training-house. The Yale men are located on the ground-floor, while -above them in the same house are their rivals.</p> - -<p>In the training-house is the faint feverish smell of raw alcohol, and -the sound of resounding slaps as the brawny rubbers massage divers -sinewy legs. The sprinters and quarter-milers, whose events come first, -are slipping into their scanty jeans and lacing up spiked shoes, every -muscle quivering with that deathly nervousness which even veteran -runners feel before a race.</p> - -<p>Mike, the grim old trainer, is trotting around with a fixed smile on his -face that he fondly imagines to be reassuring, answering numberless -questions, encouraging this man, advising that, looking up lost -articles—in short, giving backbone to the whole team by his presence. -Suddenly the noise stops. The Captain of the team, a hammer-thrower with -a frame like a young Hercules, has climbed upon the rubbing-table, and -with a sixteen-pound<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_211" id="Page_211">[Pg 211]</a></span> hammer for a gavel, is calling for silence with a -series of crashing blows on the long-suffering table-top.</p> - -<p>"Boys, in five minutes we clinch with Harvard. All I've got to say is -that I am proud of every one of you. I had a good eye when I chose this -team, and there isn't a man on it but's full of sand. Keep cool, grit -your teeth, and go in to win, and if we get whipped Harvard'll know -she's been fighting."</p> - -<p>Bang! goes the hammer, and the customary last words are over.</p> - -<p>"Now, boys, a good big cheer for the Cap'n," shouts Mike, hopping up and -down in his excitement. And a good big cheer it is. Hardly has the last -deep-throated "Rah" died away before the door opens, and a field -official with a flowing badge shouts, "All out for the hundred!" and the -fight between the two great rivals is on.</p> - -<p>Jack's race, the mile run, is the next to the last event. To-day is his -first great race, for it was only this season, when he won the mile at -the college spring games, that Mike had recognized him as a runner -worthy to compete against Harvard. And he is not seasoned enough to -endure well the tremendous suspense. Very weak and nervous Mike finds -him as he rushes in from the track to see if all be well.</p> - -<p>"Sort of shaky, eh?" the latter growls, looking him over critically. -"Well, I wouldn't give a cent for a man that wasn't. You'll be all right -the minute the pistol goes off. Lay well back until the last ten yards!" -and Mike gives Jack a little shake to emphasize his words, "The last ten -yards, mind, and you'll win. You won't if you don't. Save your strength -for a last jump when you hear me yell. Throw yourself forward just -before you get to the tape. I'll be there to catch you. And oh, my boy, -win this race and the college is yours! Why—"</p> - -<p>But all further conversation is cut short by the precipitous entrance of -the Captain. He is all adrip with perspiration, for he has just won the -hammer throw.</p> - -<p>"We win the hammer," he shouts, "and the points are a tie. Now -everything depends on the mile. Harvard will take the high jump and the -two hundred and twenty, and we'll get the shot and pole-vault. So it's -the mile that will decide everything. They'll call it the next event, -Jack. Now, boys," and he again climbs upon the table, "I think a little -music will quiet Jack's nerves." And in a voice that shakes the windows -he commences the college slogan: "<i>Here's to good old Yale—drink it -down! Drink it down!</i>"</p> - -<p>"Every man on his feet and sing!" yells Mike.</p> - -<p>Off the beds and from retired corners rolled in blankets they stagger -into the circle, even the quarter and half milers, still deathly sick -from their races, add a few husky notes to the chorus. From above comes -a derisive yell and the rival strains of "Fair Harvard!"</p> - -<p>"Last call for the mile," comes through the open door.</p> - -<p>"Now, Jack," says the Captain, "we're all looking at you."</p> - -<p>"Remember what I told you, Jack!" shouts Mike, and then somebody else -calls for a cheer for Jack Vail. So Jack goes out of the door with their -voices still ringing in his ears. The three Harvard milers are already -out by the start, jogging up and down the track. Jack's appearance is -the signal for a burst of cheers from the Yale bleachers, and a similar -roar from the Harvard adherents.</p> - -<p>"Now, boys," remarked Dickie Arnot, Jack's chum, who is leading the -cheering in front of one tier, "save your voices until Jack turns into -the homestretch; then we'll ejaculate a few feeble notes just to let him -know that we're here."</p> - -<p>Jack takes a little spin down the stretch to be sure that his legs are -in proper working order, and then trots back to the starting-line, where -the customary ceremony between the runners takes place. Each Harvard man -shakes Jack's hand, and politely expresses great pleasure at the -meeting, and Jack looks each one over, and wonders how fast he can go, -and withal feels a bit lonely and lost—one man against three—without -his running-mate "Shorty" Farnham, who became ill a week before the -games, and had to stop training.</p> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 352px;"> -<img src="images/ill_007.jpg" width="352" height="400" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">HE CROUCHES IN THE REGULATION SPRINT START.</span> -</div> - -<p>"Now-boys-I-shall-tell-you-to-get-set-and-then-fire-you-off. -Any-man-breaking-off-his-mark-before-the-pistol-goes-back-ten-yards," -clatters the starter, jumbling the words all together, according to the -time-honored custom of starters. Jack is on the extreme edge of the -track furthest from the pole. So when the command "Get set" comes, he -crouches in the regulation sprint start, much to the astonishment of the -Harvard milers, who are standing erect, as mile-runners usually start.</p> - -<p>"Bang!" goes the pistol, and Jack springs from his mark as if beginning -a hundred-yard dash. For nearly thirty yards he sprints, and rounds in -ahead of the startled Harvard men, and secures the pole. A roar from the -Yale men attests their appreciation of the neat manœuvre. But now the -famed team-work of the Harvard men begins. With a tremendous spurt one -of them comes up from the rear, passes Jack, and secures the pole just -ahead, while at the same time another man tries to run up on the outside -and complete the "pocket." But Jack avoids the attempt by suddenly -swerving away from the pole. Immediately the other swerves out too, and -Jack is forced to run yards wide of the pole.</p> - -<p>He tries dropping back and trailing the others. But the two drop back -with him, and continue their worrying tactics. How Jack longs for the -faithful "Shorty" to protect him from threatened pockets. As it is now -he must either run on the outside and cover yards more than the others, -or take his chances at being cramped up in a pocket until the last lap. -Neither of these alternatives is to be considered for a moment, for -distance-runners learn by bitter experience that the amount of energy -available for a race is a fixed quantity, and that the runner who -diminishes it by the tiniest extra effort will fail in the stretch. Then -it is that a plan flashes into Jack's head. Two of the Harvard runners -he knows are only second-rate men. The other, plodding along placidly in -the rear while his two pace-makers weaken his rival, is the Harvard -record-holder, the great Cowles, and the only one of three that he need -fear. And no one but a miler of the first rank can stand a fast first -half-mile. So away goes Jack to the front, determined to make the first -half under 2.10, which will drop all but Cowles, and take his chances of -resting enough in the third quarter, undisturbed by any jockeying, to -gain strength for the last sprint. For Jack's strong point is his -sprinting, and a waiting race his best policy. So to the utter -bewilderment of his friends, who know his methods, Jack suddenly dashes -to the front, takes the pole away from the Harvard leader, and is off at -a tremendous pace.</p> - -<p>"Poor old Jack's lost his head," remarks Dickie, mournfully. "Mike's -often told him never to set the pace. But, boys, how about a still small -cheer?" And the energetic Richard leads his band of "Assorted Howlers," -as he has appropriately christened his section of the bleachers, in a -rattling, shattering "Brek-e-kek-kek" cheer that could have been heard -clear to the deserted campus two miles away. Only Mike appreciates the -true inwardness of Jack's action, for he has seen, with many misgivings, -the trained team-work of the crimson-barred runners.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_212" id="Page_212">[Pg 212]</a></span></p> - -<p>"Good boy! good boy!" he chuckles, slapping his knee ecstatically. "It's -the only thing left to do. Jack runs with his head more than any man -I've got."</p> - -<p>One of the Harvard pace-makers essays his old trick, and tries to sprint -up past Jack, but the latter is not to be passed this time, and the -quartet swing past the first quarter-post at a tremendous gait.</p> - -<p>"Sixty-one," shouts Mike, who has been holding his watch on the race, so -as to announce the time of the different quarters to Jack.</p> - -<p>The two Harvard pace-makers are unable to hold this gait, and as Jack -begins the backstretch of the second quarter at the same pace, they -begin to lag, and little by little drop back. Suddenly Cowles awakens to -the fact that he must depend upon his own efforts for the rest of the -race, and starts after Jack at a sprinting gait. Jack hears the rapid -steps close behind him, and tries a little stratagem of his own, hardly -hoping that it will succeed against a veteran runner like Cowles. By -slow degrees he swings out from the pole until nearly a yard away, -leaving a tempting gap. By the rules, any runner passing another on the -inside may be disqualified for fouling if so he interferes with the -runner ahead, for the leading runner has a right to the pole, and a -runner taking the inside does so at his own risk. Cowles knows the rules -well, but decides to take the chance and save the two or three yards -that passing on the outside would take. But just as he is almost abreast -of the crafty Jack, the latter swings back to the pole, and Cowles has -to stop almost short to avoid a collision, which by the rules would be -blamed to him, and while his stride is broken Jack gains nearly ten -yards.</p> - -<p>Now they are at the quarter-post again, and the first half-mile has been -traversed in 2.08. Jack is still leading, and by degrees sets a slower -and slower pace to save himself for the final effort in the stretch. But -half-way around Cowles suddenly recognizes his tactics, and with an -indignant effort takes the lead with that rapid even gait which seems to -devour the ground, and which so imperceptibly draws away from a -following runner if so be the latter relax his efforts in the least. Ah, -the bitter third quarter! when the weakness creeps up from a runner's -legs breast-high, and the laboring lungs feel as if iron bands were -tight around them; when the head swims, and flashes come and go before -the eyes, and every effort of body and mind is concentrated in a -struggle not to let the white-jersey back just ahead draw away ever so -little. Past the starting-post they go, and the others are hopelessly -behind. There is a tremendous roar from the Harvard men as they begin -the last quarter, and Cowles draws away ever so little from Jack. But -the latter grits his teeth and calls upon his numb legs, and the gap -closes up again. So they run like a tandem-team, and stride by stride -the last quarter lessens and lessens.</p> - -<p>The stretch is very near, and though the pace is terrific, Jack feels -that he has an atom of spirit left somewhere down in his heels. And as -they turn the last corner and the homestretch looms up before them, Jack -lengthens his stride a trifle, and the blue Y with two little a's on -either side, which the runner who has not won a point for Yale is -condemned to wear, is almost parallel with the crimson bar. A roar of -cheers fills the air as the two runners come down the stretch, fighting -every yard, their heads back, their eyes fixed in an unwinking stare -which sees only the red line between the finish posts but forty yards -away.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 700px;"> -<img src="images/ill_008.jpg" width="700" height="547" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">"COME IN—COME IN, JACK!"</span> -</div> - -<p>And now the band of Assorted Howlers get in their deadly work. Dickie's -hat and coat are off, his collar limp, and with most marvellous -gyrations he is leading his orchestra in a wonderfully constructed -cheer. Finally, "Nine Jack Vails!" he whoops, "and let 'em come loud." -And every Yale voice on the bleachers and grand stand joins in, and -"Jack Vail! Jack Vail! Jack Vail!" they thunder. But Jack, only ten -yards away from the finish, hears nothing but the sobbing gasps of the -runner beside him, sees nothing but the tape and the face of Mike all -working and distorted with excitement as he stands back of the judges. -And suddenly out of the din, which seems somehow far away and like a -dream, he hears Mike's voice, hoarse in its intensity: "It's the last -ten yards, me boy! Oh, <i>come in—come in</i>, Jack!"</p> - -<p>And Jack comes. With a last desperate staggering plunge he throws -himself forward, and feels the blessed pressure of the parting tape that -tells him the race is won.</p> - -<p>Nothing more does Jack remember until he finds himself lying in Mike's -strong arms in the training-house, while the rest of the team press up -to shake his hand, and the Captain, full of joyful chuckles, kneels -down, and with his penknife rips off the obnoxious a's, and the great -blue Y stands forth on his jersey front—won at last.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_213" id="Page_213">[Pg 213]</a></span></p> - -<h2><a name="FOR_KING_OR_COUNTRY" id="FOR_KING_OR_COUNTRY">FOR KING OR COUNTRY.</a></h2> - -<h4>A Story of the Revolution.</h4> - -<h3>BY JAMES BARNES.</h3> - -<h3>CHAPTER XI.</h3> - -<h3>GLOOM AND VICTORY.</h3> - -<p>Oh, the disheartening days that followed—the constant marching to and -fro, the bitter defeats, and the hopeless feeling of being overwhelmed -by superior numbers! Oh, the heart-aches and the weariness!</p> - -<p>Once more, so to speak, George was on his native heath, for the -discouraged and partly shattered army of Washington was in full retreat -across the northern part of New Jersey. The men marched or, better, -hurried along despondently. It was more like a rabble fleeing before the -invaders than a body of fighting-men. The short enlistments were running -out; dissatisfaction was everywhere; and very early one morning they had -been compelled to evacuate their camp, leaving behind blankets, tents, -and even their breakfasts cooking at the fire, for the British had -followed them across the Hudson, and were close upon their heels. Fort -Washington had been taken, and Fort Lee had been abandoned with -everything it contained.</p> - -<p>And it was growing cold; the ice had formed in the meadows, and a slight -fall of snow lay melting in the muddy roads. Clothing and shoes were -scarce; the inhabitants of Newark and other towns came bravely to the -rescue. Yet there were many Tories who were praying already for the -advance of the British, and it was rumored every day that orders would -be received to resume the retreat, for recruiting had almost ceased.</p> - -<p>These were trying times for all, but for none more so than for -Lieutenant George Frothingham. By sickness and desertion his company had -dwindled to scarcely thirty men. All of his gold had gone to help keep -the remaining few together.</p> - -<p>And now began the weary, weary marching once more. Discouraged and -foot-sore, ragged and hungry, the patriot army retreated southward, the -British so close upon their rear that oftentimes they would come in full -sight, and skirmishes were frequent.</p> - -<p>New Brunswick, Princeton, and Trenton successively fell into the hands -of the enemy, and at last, on the 8th of December, Washington crossed -the Delaware, and, owing to every boat being in the hands of the -Americans on the southern shore, the pursuit was abandoned for the time.</p> - -<p>Soon, however, was a victory to be given to the shivering army, and -Washington was to astonish the eyes of the military world. But this is -casting ahead.</p> - -<p>"George," said Carter, one snowy afternoon—for Lieutenant Hewes had -recovered from his wound and hastened to the front again—"George, -to-morrow's Christmas, and although we get no plum-pudding, in my -opinion there's something afoot."</p> - -<p>"Then I trust that it may be forward," replied George; "this walking -backwards in order to face the enemy tires out men's souls and courage."</p> - -<p>The two friends were standing close to a small fire, holding out their -hands to the welcome glow. In the woods about them roughly built huts -showed everywhere, and before each one huddled clusters of -hungry-looking men, soldiers of an army that had known nothing but -defeat.</p> - -<p>"Colonel Roberts was called to attend a council at the General's -headquarters, and came back with a smile on his face. That must mean -cheering news of some sort, eh?" Carter warmed to his subject. "And -haven't you marked the gathering and mending of the flat-boats?"</p> - -<p>"Yes," answered George. "It means they will cross the river. I think -that it is well known that the Hessians in Trenton stay much abed this -weather. But the morrow will show. I'm off to my blanket."</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_214" id="Page_214">[Pg 214]</a></span></p> - -<p>The boys bade each other good-night, and the fire burned low.</p> - -<p>At daybreak the next day along the American lines everything was in the -bustle of preparation for some great movement. What it was no one knew. -Rations were being prepared, powder and balls distributed, the strongest -men were being picked out and formed into separate companies, and the -weak and sickly were distributed up and down the line of earth-works.</p> - -<p>George awoke at the sun's first rays, and was buckling on his sword when -Carter Hewes hurriedly entered the hut he shared with Captain Clarkson.</p> - -<p>"It is Trenton surely," he whispered; "but there is a chance for us to -volunteer for a service that will make the army grateful. I spoke for -you as well as for myself. Was I right or not?"</p> - -<p>"Of course you were," said George, smiling.</p> - -<p>"Here it is," was the reply. "On the way to Trenton is an English -baggage-train, eight or ten big wagons filled with stores and -plunder—powder, too, perhaps. A spy, a reliable man, has just brought -in the news. He says that it is lightly guarded, and that a dozen men -with good horses could cross the river up above, and by fast riding -intercept and burn it. The General has given his permission."</p> - -<p>Somehow as Carter spoke he reminded George of his father, Colonel Hewes.</p> - -<p>"I will go," he said. "But how about my Captain, and how to cross the -river?"</p> - -<p>"Captain Clarkson will be told, and there is a big flat-boat five miles -up-stream that we can use. We will start when it is dark this evening." -He grasped George's hand.</p> - -<p>But it was not until midnight that everything was completed; men had to -be chosen, and horses that could travel fast were scarce. But at twelve -o'clock ten men, mounted and armed, started west along the river. It was -not until dawn that they came across the road from Trenton to the north, -for they had been forced to make a wide detour. The spy was with them; -objects were growing plainer, and he pointed with his finger.</p> - -<p>"There lies Trenton, eight miles away, and the Dutchmen all asleep," he -said, "and if my judgment fails me not, our wagon-train is encamped in -yonder hollow."</p> - -<p>The ten riders crossed a field and entered a forest of small pine-trees; -the snow deadened the sound of the horses. Suddenly they came to a -clearing, and the guide raised his hand.</p> - -<p>"There they are," he said. Before a small frame building ten big wagons -were halted in the road. The horses were blanketed and tethered to the -wheels; not a guard of any kind was to be seen.</p> - -<p>"Hark!" exclaimed one of the troopers. A loud boom sounded from the -southward.</p> - -<p>"General Washington has crossed the river," said Carter to George, who, -mounted on one of Colonel Roberts's horses, was at his elbow.</p> - -<p>Another cannon-shot, and then a roaring of them—a constant ripple and -crash of sound. Heads appeared at the windows of the frame house, a few -figures ran out.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 700px;"> -<img src="images/ill_009.jpg" width="700" height="476" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">"CHARGE!" ORDERED THE CAPTAIN OF THE LITTLE PARTY.</span> -</div> - -<p>"Charge!" ordered the Captain of the little party.</p> - -<p>So sudden was the attack that not a shot was fired. Then and there -twenty English soldiers and a score of teamsters surrendered to ten bold -Americans. They were disarmed, and penned in the frame house again.</p> - -<p>"Don't let us burn the wagons; let us take them in," suggested George.</p> - -<p>"Wait and see how it goes over there," said the guide. "Here! Hurry! -Harness up! If they retreat, it will be along the highway. I know a wood -road we can drive them into."</p> - -<p>In a few minutes the heavy wagons had been pulled up the hill and far -into the pines. The prisoners were placed underneath and guarded.</p> - -<p>"Here comes a man on horseback," said some one from the edge of the -thicket.</p> - -<p>A dragoon, helmetless and without a coat, tore by on the road below, -lashing his horse.</p> - -<p>"Hush! Don't cheer," said Carter, sternly. "Here comes another; we have -won the day."</p> - -<p>Breathlessly the little party watched the fugitives make up the road -towards Princeton, and when the last had gone, light-hearted they took -their prizes up the road towards Trenton.</p> - -<p>"There flies our flag," said Carter, as the houses came in sight. "Three -cheers now, men, and with a will!"</p> - -<p>Once more did George Frothingham shake hands with Washington.</p> - -<p>Five days flew by, and recruits swarmed in. But the British were not -idle. George was posting the guards outside of Washington's headquarters -on New-Year's night, when the Commander-in-chief accompanied by his -staff came walking by. The relief saluted, and the young Lieutenant -caught the words, "Retreat is now impossible."</p> - -<p>The next day the British advanced on Trenton. They did not force a -battle, for it was thought that the Americans would surrender; but the -latter retreated to the further side of a little creek called the -Assumpinck, and here again commenced the dreary work of digging into the -frozen earth, and, strange to say, the order was, "Make all the noise -you can."</p> - -<p>As soon as the darkness had settled down at night the watch-fires along -the line blazed brightly in the woods. Quickly word was passed for the -army, now swelled to five thousand men, to form into line. Washington -again was about to astonish military eyes.</p> - -<p>Under cover of the darkness he slipped across the creek, and marched -silently northward by a road unguarded by the British. The men, looking -over their shoulders, could see their own camp-fires still burning -brightly behind them, for a force of men had been left there to keep -them going, and pick and shovel were ringing busily.</p> - -<p>Again the British slept on, unconscious of what was happening, and in -the early morning an empty camp confronted them. But at the same time -his Majesty's forces at Princeton were astonished to see well-formed -bodies of troops swinging along the road toward their encampment on the -hill about the college buildings.</p> - -<p>George's company had halted, and was waiting for the word. It was a very -strange sight indeed, for the command was drawn up to the side of a -little brook, just across an arched stone bridge.</p> - -<p>As the light broadened they could see coming down the road in front of -them a line of red standing out brightly against the bare meadows and -patches of snow. They did not seem to be afraid of the forces gathered -below them in the meadow, for they did not even form a line of battle.</p> - -<p>Everything was quiet. A rabbit jumped from a thicket, darted out and -bobbed across the field. Some snow-birds twittered in the leafless -branches overhead; but soon was the stillness to be broken.</p> - -<p>"I declare, I don't think they see what they're about!" exclaimed a -soldier.</p> - -<p>The fact was, the regiment of British soldiers had taken the Americans -at first for Hessians. Soon, however, they were to be undeceived, for a -volley from a company off to the right warned the officers, and the -Redcoats spread out across the hill-side. A body of Americans at this -moment came out of a hollow and met them face to face. It was a mutual -surprise, and the fighting began at once. Some horsemen galloped back in -the direction of Princeton, one and a half miles or so away. -Re-enforcements of the enemy were hurried down the road on a run. The -detachment with which George had been standing charged up to join the -hand-to-hand fighting at the front.</p> - -<p>The battle had opened. Most of the Americans near the stone bridge were -raw militia. They could not be made to fire in volleys, but each man -apparently fought for himself. They had had little drilling, not having -been in the affair at Trenton, and this was their first sight of blood. -George saw that exhorting was of no avail. The men were full of fight, -but they were not trained to listen. He sheathed his sword, and picked -up a musket from the ground.</p> - -<p>The Redcoats, advancing in their well-dressed line, came steadily on. -The ranks of the militia broke and retreated; only a few stood their -ground. A man on horseback rode to the front. He stood up in his -stirrups, shouted, and waved his sword about his head.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_215" id="Page_215">[Pg 215]</a></span></p> - -<p>"Mark ye him there on the gray horse—'tis General Mercer," a voice -shouted, as the militia once more began to rally. "Stand firm! stand -firm!" the officer was crying. Suddenly his steed reared, and the rider -leaped up in the saddle, and, leaning across the big gray's neck, slid -to the ground. The horse stumbled and fell immediately, and the General -was seen almost alone, parrying the British bayonets with his sword. At -last down he went before any one could reach him.</p> - -<p>As George, for the nonce a private, was reloading his piece, he saw two -soldiers draw back their muskets and plunge the bayonets into the -prostrate form. A fury seized him, and with a handful of young -militiamen he rushed at the red bristling line. He swung his musket by -the barrel and struck to right and left. How he kept from being killed -was a miracle, for men fell and shots rang all about him.</p> - -<p>Now was the time for help, and, luckily, it came. Washington, at the -head of some hurrying troops, pushed forward from the eastward, and the -tide of battle turned. The British ran across the stone bridge, and many -fled toward the town.</p> - -<p>The pursuit was now kept up in two directions. Part of the American -forces chased after the retreating British across the bridge toward -Trenton, another detachment swept onward toward the town, where the -Redcoats had taken refuge in the college buildings. The companies were -mixed together by this time—Pennsylvanians, Virginians, New Jerseymen, -and New-Yorkers were fighting elbow to elbow.</p> - -<p>A strange sight that George had seen after the re-enforcements under -General Washington had been hurried up kept recurring to his mind as he -pressed forward. It was one of the small events that force themselves -upon the mind in moments of great excitement.</p> - -<p>The leader upon whom the fortunes of the country then depended had been -regardless of all danger, and had been mixed almost with the -hand-to-hand fighters, a conspicuous object on his white horse, but as -yet not a ball had touched him.</p> - -<p>Colonel Fitzgerald, one of the Irish officers attached to the American -service, had ridden up to Washington as soon as the British ranks had -broken. George recalled how strange it seemed. The brave Colonel's face -was contorting oddly, for he was crying like a baby, the tears rolling -down his cheeks, and the sobs almost preventing him from speaking.</p> - -<p>"Thank God! thank God!" he said, "your Excellency is safe."</p> - -<p>Washington had extended his hand, and replied, quietly, though he was -touched by the congratulation, "The day is ours, Fitzgerald."</p> - -<p>The men about had cheered as they hurried on. The sleeve of George's -coat was hanging in shreds and blackened with the stain of powder. He -remembered how he had grasped the muzzle of a musket, and it had seemed -to go off almost in his hand. The flint of his own gun had become -dislodged during its short use as a club, and was lost. He fruitlessly -searched for another as he ran.</p> - -<p>The troops of the enemy that had retreated northward had taken refuge -within the walls of the historic Nassau Hall. They had smashed in -windows, cut loop-holes, and had tried to get some artillery into -position.</p> - -<p>"Have you a spare flint?" George inquired of a panting figure at his -side as they climbed a fence at the back of a small farm-house. The man -he addressed turned. It was his fellow-clerk at Mr. Wyeth's, the man -whom he had thought a chicken-heart.</p> - -<p>"Ah, Frothingham," he said, his pale eyes alight with excitement, "I -have, and you are welcome."</p> - -<p>George grasped the hand and the extended flint together. "Bonsall," he -said, "you are a brave fellow, and I have misjudged you. I must have -been a nice curmudgeon in that old counting-house."</p> - -<p>"No, no," said the other; "we didn't understand each other, and you -thought I was a coward. Mayhap I was. Have you any ball about you?"</p> - -<p>George had still some of the King's statue mementos. He handed them to -his companion, who placed two or three of them in his mouth, much as a -boy might marbles. The two young soldiers advanced and caught up with -the line. Some scattering shots rang from the college campus. Bonsall, -who was just taking aim, whirled half around, clasped one hand to his -breast, and extended the other feebly before him.</p> - -<p>"I'm shot," he said, peering blindly into the young Lieutenant's eyes.</p> - -<p>George leaped forward and caught the dying boy; he bent over him, and -placed his head on his lap.</p> - -<p>The pale eyes opened. "Good-by, Frothingham," came the lad's voice in a -weak whisper. "In my pocket, here—here."</p> - -<p>George thrust his hand inside the threadbare coat. There was an envelope -addressed to Mrs. Lucius Bonsall, New York.</p> - -<p>"Give it to her," the poor boy said, "with love, with love."</p> - -<p>George laid him down on the frozen earth, and now crying himself, much -as the Irish Colonel had, he leaned against an elm, and aimed at the -windows of Nassau Hall. A battery of artillery was playing at the bottom -of the hill, and the masonry shattered from the old brown building. It -was too hot for the British, and they fled across the green, down the -turnpike toward New Brunswick and Rock Hill, the Americans at their -heels.</p> - -<p>"'Tis a fox chase," said a starved-looking soldier, with a grin on his -unshaven face. "I heard the General say it himself. Hurrah!" Off he -dashed.</p> - -<p>George did not join in the pursuit, but finding his old friend Thomas -and another soldier, they made their way back to the frozen garden, and -there dug a grave, and marked the spot where poor Luke Bonsall had -fallen.</p> - -<p>George looked into the college buildings an hour or so later. Scorched -with fire and littered with the remains of a cavalry occupation, -vandalism had been at work. Pictures were cut and slashed, and books -destroyed, and, strange to say, a cannon-ball had carried away the head -of a handsome portrait of his Majesty King George.</p> - -<p>The stay of the Continental forces here was short, for the astonished -and chagrined Cornwallis was coming up from Trenton. The next day all -were on the move to the northward.</p> - -<p>George searched for his company, and helped sift the men into something -of military shape. It was in horrible confusion, and had suffered many a -loss. During all this time he kept thinking of Bonsall's letter, that -was in his pocket next to that of his little sister's. It was not long -before it was to play quite an important part in our hero's personal -history.</p> - -<p>Elated with their victories, which had revived the flagging zeal of the -citizens, the army had marched to Morristown, and there sought -winter-quarters.</p> - -<p>They had only been a few days in the shelter of the town, resting from -the long marches and the consequences of freezing and fighting at the -same time, when Carter Hewes met George on the street.</p> - -<p>"Roberts told me to find you," he said. "There are important orders -waiting for you."</p> - -<p>What could it mean? George furbished up the few brass buttons left on -his famous coat, and walked up to the great house where a flag was -flying at the top of a rough pole.</p> - -<p>Colonel Roberts met him and took him to one side as soon as he had -entered, and an aid gave him a written order, which George read -hurriedly. There was no explanation; he had been detached from his -company, and the whole thing was somewhat confusing. Carter Hewes was -waiting at the gate, and threw his arms about his friend's shoulder as -soon as he came out on the roadway.</p> - -<p>"Is it an order for special duty or a promotion?" he inquired, much -excited.</p> - -<p>"It is the former," answered George, "but what to do I know not."</p> - -<p>To his intense surprise he had been ordered to report to Colonel Hewes, -to whom he bore despatches. And where could one suppose? At Stanham -Mills! A horse was placed at his disposal; he was to start at once.</p> - -<h4>[<span class="smcap">to be continued</span>.]</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_216" id="Page_216">[Pg 216]</a></span></p> - -<h2><a name="THE_BABYHOOD_OF_DENVER" id="THE_BABYHOOD_OF_DENVER">THE BABYHOOD OF DENVER.</a></h2> - -<h3>BY JULIAN RALPH.</h3> - -<p>The first cabin in any part of what is now Denver, the capital of -Colorado, was that of a hunter and trader, and is thought to have been -an Indian's old tepee. It stood in what is now West Denver in 1857. To -that neighborhood, in the early summer of 1858, came a party of Georgia -men headed by a leader named Green Russell, and hunting for gold on the -east slope of the Rocky Mountains. It had been said that some white men -had found gold there nine years before, and that three years later some -Indians also found a little. Later still a party of traders actually -carried some "pay dirt" from there to their homes in Missouri. "Pay -dirt," the reader should know, is any form of rock or earth or sand that -contains sufficient gold to pay for working it.</p> - -<p>Green Russell and his men arrived in June, 1858. If we stop a moment to -consider these true founders of Denver, we shall see that they add a new -picture to the varied, highly colored gallery of paintings that make the -true pictorial history of the growth of our country. We have seen the -stolid, dignified Dutchmen sail into New York Harbor with their swords, -banners, queer old flint-lock guns, and quaint long pipes. We have seen -the grave Puritans assemble in Massachusetts with their sober garments, -their stern faces, and their muskets and Bibles carried side by side. We -have seen the gorgeously dressed servants of the kings of France and -Spain at their work of founding New Orleans, having their wives sent to -them in ships, to make their acquaintance and be their wives after they -got there. And at St. Louis we came upon the same sort of men who built -up Canada—rough, brave boatmen in furs, singing and dancing, and -throwing away their money that they earned in pathless forests and in -savage Indian camps. When we came to study the birth of Helena, Montana, -we saw upon the canvas of history the veteran gold-miner, old at the -business, leaving one camp when it ceased to pay, and roaming all over -the mountains, with, sharp, ferretlike eyes that saw no beauties in -nature—nothing but the dull rocks and the sand in the beds of the -streams where gold might be found. Rough, long-haired, bearded, dressed -in whatever they could get, these "prospectors" clambered over the -mountains, leaving many cities behind them that did not exist until they -started them.</p> - -<p>And now, at the birth of Denver, we see the life of the immigrants on -the plains. We see the caravans of "prairie-schooners," crossing the -continent like flights of brown moths, and settling a city as winged -things light on a field or on a bed of flowers that offers food. They -were miners, or were led by miners, but they were not yet veterans of -the far Western type. They were closely followed by absolute strangers -to the business—Eastern folk who wanted to pick up gold between their -feet. Therefore the newest part of the picture is the life in the -caravans of "prairie-schooners."</p> - -<p>These were strong four-wheeled wagons, drawn by horses, and covered with -canvas tops drawn over a series of half-hoops. In these wagons were -beds, clothing, stoves, cooking and eating and drinking utensils, and -women, children, and whatever invalid men there were in the train. I -could not tell you fairly, in such a short article as this, a tenth part -of the general experiences of the people who built up the West by -travelling in these trains before the railroads came. Peril surrounded -them—peril in many shapes. They were attacked by Indians. They dodged -the savages, they fought them, they whipped them or were massacred. They -crossed rivers and swollen streams without bridges. They crossed the -plains through fearful heat or still more fearful cold. They found no -water, or water unfit to drink. They fell sick, they died; cholera -overtook some of them, chasing after them all the way from Asia. Their -horses were stolen or died or broke down. Their food ran out. There was -enough adventure in the journey to fill a lifetime—even to fill an -extraordinary lifetime.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 700px;"> -<img src="images/ill_010.jpg" width="700" height="183" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">DENVER IN ITS EARLY YOUTH.</span> -</div> - -<p>Those who reached Denver were a ragged, dust-grimed, tired-out lot, with -worn horses, battered wagons, and no immediate desire except to fling -themselves on the ground beside the Platte River, in the shade of the -cottonwoods, and rest. Stop a moment to think of the courage and -condition of those others who went all the way to Oregon! Their courage -passes belief. Well, Green Russell and his Georgia men built a hut of -logs, and roofed it with mud. When the rain fell it dropped on the roof -as water, but it came through the roof as mud. The hut stood by that of -the trader, where West Denver stands now. A third hut was built by one -Ross Hutchins, and the row or street or village was called Indian Row. -Gold was found in the nearby creek, and Russell took some back to -Georgia to coax more of his people out to the new camp.</p> - -<p>Then there came a party of twenty persons from Lawrence, Kansas. All -of Colorado was then Kansas. These new-comers went three miles farther -up the river, and washed the sand for gold at a village of their own, -which they called Montana. That was in midsummer. In September of -the same year, 1858, some of the Georgia men—or perhaps some -outsiders—organized a town where East Denver is now, and called it St. -Charles. They drew up formal organization papers, and then, not knowing -what to do with them, <i>filed them with themselves</i>. A month later the -Georgians established at Indian Row, now West Denver, formally turned -that queer little pin-point on the map into a town, which they called -Auraria. A store was added to the village very quickly, and one of the -merchants who opened it is alive in Denver to-day. Remember that all -this was only a little more than thirty years ago, when some of my -readers would have called Mr. Gladstone an old man. Prince Bismarck was -fifty years old when this happened.</p> - -<p>St. Charles village was a failure, and the founders of Montana soon -moved away and joined Auraria. Then came some men, such as are called -"hustlers" in the West, and they went to work in mighty earnest to make -a city of St. Charles. They agreed that each should build a house, and -in less than fifty days (by January, 1859) there were twenty houses -standing. They named the place Denver, using the name of an ex-Governor -of Kansas Territory, and they gave the town a full set of officials. -Then began a great rivalry between Denver and Auraria. Auraria seemed to -get the business places. The merchants went there, and there Mr. William -N. Byers established the first newspaper—the <i>Rocky Mountain News</i>. He -and the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_217" id="Page_217">[Pg 217]</a></span> paper are both active to-day. But little Denver captured the -express company when it came, and that ended the rivalry, for all -communication with civilization was had through the express company. In -1860 the two towns became one, and were called Denver.</p> - -<p>It was in 1859 that the prairie-schooners going to Denver most nearly -resembled great swarms of moths. There had been a money panic in the -United States, and hard times followed. This led to a rush for the new -gold-fields. The truth was that there was not gold enough to pay the -crowds for coming, but two remarkable events happened. In the first -place, a miner named Gregory, who had been drifting about in the West, -happened just then to come upon rich "diggings" not far away. The people -came from the East as in a stampede. Some heard that the finding of gold -was a hoax, and turned back to go home, meeting other thousands on their -way to the diggings. In the East no one knew what to believe; but just -then three newspaper men—Horace Greeley, the great editor, Henry -Villard, and A. D. Richardson—arrived in this region, investigated the -new diggings, and wrote an account of them for all the world to read. -They told how a great many miners were making a great deal of money, and -how a much greater number were not finding any gold at all. Then they -warned the public not to come in such great numbers. I will repeat in -substance what they wrote, as it makes a picture of the surroundings of -Denver when it was a tiny baby city.</p> - -<p>They said they found 5000 persons in the ravine called Gregory's -Diggings. Hundreds poured in daily, and they passed tens of thousands -hurrying to the place. For all of these provisions must be carted from -the Missouri River, 700 miles, over mere trails, across unbridged -streams that were steep banked, miry, or swollen by rains. Part of the -way to the Diggings (and to Denver) was across a desert, with wood and -grass very scanty and miles apart. To try to cross this desert on foot -was madness, suicide, murder. To cross it with teams was only possible -to those who knew the way to find grass and water. In early autumn the -Diggings would be snowed under and frozen up. Then for six months there -would not be work, food, or shelter within 500 miles for the army of men -who were fooled into thinking that gold could be picked up like pebbles -at the sea-shore. This sensible report did vast good in moderating the -rush. There was great misery and hardship, nevertheless, but gold -continued to be found, and many towns sprang up around Denver, which -became the main city or metropolis of the region. For a time the people -called the region Jefferson Territory, though the Kansas people claimed -the district around Denver. The people established a territorial -government in this way as early as 1859, and in February, 1861, Congress -legally established the Territory, and called it Colorado. After that, -with many reverses and hardships, the place grew steadily as a city, and -as a capital not only of Colorado, but of the whole country between the -mountains and the Eastern frontier. It is a beautiful city. It is -actually on the plains, and yet at that point the plains are nearly a -mile in the air—above the sea-level. This makes the city a great health -resort, and brings to it so many Eastern people of wealth and refinement -that they have been able to give Denver a great deal of the character of -an Eastern city. It is modern, enterprising, and very beautiful. It is -full of lovely homes and magnificent hotels, public buildings, theatres, -stores, and office structures. It has almost 150,000 population.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 700px;"> -<img src="images/ill_011.jpg" width="700" height="382" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">DENVER TO-DAY.</span> -</div> - -<p>I could have gone far back of the birth of Denver to show how the -Spaniards explored Colorado before the Puritans landed on Plymouth Rock. -It was in 1541 that Vasquez Coronado entered Colorado with his little -army, coming from Mexico. In the year of our Revolutionary war a Spanish -priest journeyed toward California, sprinkling southern Colorado with -the pretty Spanish names now borne by the rivers and mountains and -valleys. The immediate neighborhood of Denver came to us in 1804 by the -Louisiana Purchase, and two years later Lieutenant Zebulon Pike explored -the region. In 1819 Major Stephen S. Long started upon a second -exploring expedition that led him literally to the site of Denver, where -he camped in July, 1820. Twenty-three years later John C. Fremont, "the -Pathfinder," came that way, and found several Indian traders established -along the Platte. In 1847 the hardy, enthusiastic Mormons passed over -this ground on their way to establish themselves in Utah. It is said, -too, that Francis Parkman, the historian, built a camp close to or on -the site of Denver when he made his famous journey in 1846. And yet it -seems to me that none of these events connects itself so closely with -the birth of Denver as the expedition of the gold-hunters from Georgia.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_218" id="Page_218">[Pg 218]</a></span></p> - -<h2><a name="IN_THE_BARN" id="IN_THE_BARN">IN THE BARN.</a></h2> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Whenever there's a rainy day</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">They send us to the barn to play</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">From after lunch till supper-time.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">And there they let us run and climb</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">And tumble in the hay and straw—</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Such funny tricks you never saw!</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">We overhaul the piles of junk,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">We open every battered trunk,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">And every corner we explore</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">As if we'd never searched before;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">We play at burglars or at thieves,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">And crawl along beneath the eaves,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Or else we are a garrison</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Besieged, outnumbered ten to one,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">And from the windows we repel</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">The foe that hides beyond the well.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">And sometimes, if there's no one by</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">(If John has gone down to the sty</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Or to the pasture for the cow,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Or—if John's absent, anyhow),</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">We take old Dobbin from the stall—</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Which we ought never do at all—</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">And play at circus, while the horse</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Plods around a ring, of course,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">With one of us upon his back;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Another makes the long whip crack;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">A third—the lucky one—is clown;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">And all the girls have to sit down</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">On seats that have been put about,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">And they must clap their hands and shout.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Oh, circus is the greatest fun!</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">When John goes out, it's always done.</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Albert Lee</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h2><a name="THE_RAVELLED_MITTEN" id="THE_RAVELLED_MITTEN">THE RAVELLED MITTEN.</a></h2> - -<h3>BY SOPHIE SWETT.</h3> - -<h4>(<i>In Two Parts</i>.)</h4> - -<h3>II.</h3> - -<p>Tilly Coombs watched the sled as it went crunching and jingling up the -hill, and then entered her house, with a long sigh that the party was -over.</p> - -<p>"I'm getting to have good times; they treat me 'most as if I was other -folks," she said to herself, happily. She would have liked to tell her -mother about the good time, but her father had come home. She heard his -querulous voice, and knew that he had been drinking just enough to make -it unsafe to disturb him; so she crept softly up to her room—a cold and -bare nook under the eaves. She pulled off her ravelled mitten and gazed -at it ruefully. "That was an awful queer thing to do!" she said to -herself aloud. "And, my! wa'n't it cold in that barn? But nobody saw -me—not a soul! Nobody will ever know! The worst of it is, if I had been -ketched, then nobody would ever believe that Alf wasn't a thief! An -awful queer thing!" For a minute or two Tilly was lost in painful and -perplexing reflection. Then she suddenly shook her fist fiercely at her -small, crooked reflection in the cracked piece of looking-glass upon the -wall. "Tilly Coombs, don't you never darst to think, as long as you -live, that anything <i>she</i> did was queer!" she said, in an impressive -whisper that echoed from all the empty corners of the dreary little -room. And then Tilly tucked a ravelled mitten under the ragged ticking -of her bed, and slept in peace.</p> - -<p>While she slept, in the great farm-house at the top of Butternut Hill -they were still debating whether she should be arrested at once for the -theft of the spoons, or whether Patty should try to influence her to -confession and the restoration of the property.</p> - -<p>It was Aunt Eunice who suggested the latter course. Uncle Reuben -believed in stern justice. He said that the Coombs family was a disgrace -to the town; the father was drunken and good for nothing, and the son— -His voice broke there; he had always felt that Alf Coombs was to blame -for Dave's running away.</p> - -<p>"We never heard anything really bad about Alf Coombs until—until he ran -away," Anson insisted. Aunt Eunice said she thought Mrs. Coombs seemed -like a good woman; and Patty tried to defend Tilly, although it <i>was</i> -difficult to explain her knitting up that ravelled mitten! She said Ruby -Nutting wouldn't believe anything against Tilly, and you couldn't make -her. But Uncle Reuben shook his head over that, and said he was afraid -Ruby Nutting wasn't very sensible, and Ruby's father seemed to pity bad -folks just as much as good ones, and to take just as much comfort -doctoring them—without any pay.</p> - -<p>But it was finally decided that Patty should tell Tilly of the proof of -her guilt that had been discovered. If Patty failed to influence her, -then Aunt Eunice would no longer object to her arrest.</p> - -<p>Patty lay awake a long time that night, dreading her mission; she wished -she might ask Ruby Nutting to help her, but Uncle Reuben thought it best -that no one should be told. When she did sleep she dreamed a dreadful -dream, in which Tilly Coombs was being pursued down the long hill, -through the great snow-drifts, by an army of spoons with grotesque -faces, their mouths made of the initial letter that marked the stolen -spoons—O for Oliver, Grandma Barclay's maiden name; they were driving -Tilly into the mill-pond, which was open as if it were summer, in spite -of the January drifts, and Patty awoke with a start and a cry. But bad -as was the fantastic dream, Patty said to herself that the reality was -worse.</p> - -<p>When Pelatiah opened the back door the next morning, a fine pair of -chickens plucked and dressed hung upon the knob. That circumstance -seemed mysterious. Why should a thief who would steal a dozen spoons -have a weak conscience in the matter of a pair of chickens? Where could -Tilly Coombs get a pair of chickens? Patty added these mysteries to the -one about the ravelled mitten upon which Tilly had knit and knit and yet -worn it unmended, and felt as bewildered as she did when Anson made her -listen to something out of the rebus corner of the <i>Butternut Weekly -Voice</i>. But Uncle Reuben still insisted that it was a clear case; the -thief had restored the chickens in order to stifle suspicion about the -spoons. As to how the thief became possessed of the chickens, he "didn't -think it would trouble Coombses to rob hen-roosts."</p> - -<p>So as Patty set out to accuse Tilly of the theft the little spark of -hope which the deepened mystery had aroused in her was almost quenched.</p> - -<p>Tilly came to the door, and Patty tried to look at her with judicial -severity, as she had seen Uncle Reuben look at offenders, but she broke -down suddenly at sight of Tilly's beaming, friendly face.</p> - -<p>"Oh, Tilly," she cried, "you will give them back, won't you? It was such -a dreadful thing to do! But no one shall ever know; Uncle Reuben says -so, if you will only give them back."</p> - -<p>The warmth and color faded out of Tilly's face until it looked wan and -pinched in the morning light.</p> - -<p>"It's no matter about the chickens. You needn't even have given those -back. Of course it's always terrible to—to take things, but if you'll -only give back the spoons."</p> - -<p>"<i>The spoons?</i>" echoed Tilly, and there seemed to be such genuine -bewilderment in her tone that Patty felt inclined to believe Uncle -Reuben's accusation that she was sly. "I don't know anything about any -spoons."</p> - -<p>"Tilly, your mitten caught on the basket and was ravelled, and—and I -saw you knitting it up in the barn." Patty's tone was rather pitiful -than accusing, but Tilly's face flamed angrily.</p> - -<p>"I didn't s'pose you was one to go peeking round and spying on folks," -she cried. "I guess I've got a right to do a little knitting anywheres -that I'm a mind to, and—and you can't say 'twas a mitten."</p> - -<p>"I saw it, Tilly, a red mitten. This is the yarn that was caught on the -basket." Polly drew from her pocket the red ravelling, wound upon a bit -of paper.</p> - -<p>"<i>Yarn!</i>" echoed Tilly, contemptuously taking a bit between her thumb -and finger. "I call that worsted!"</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_219" id="Page_219">[Pg 219]</a></span></p> - -<p>"And are your mittens yarn?" cried Tilly, eagerly. "Because that would -prove—-"</p> - -<p>"I never said they were," said Tilly, quickly, the color deepening in -her cheeks, "I never said anything about them, and I sha'n't show them -to anybody. And I never saw your old spoons in all my born days—so -there!" Tilly would have shut the door, but Patty prevented her.</p> - -<p>"Oh, Tilly, I'm afraid you don't realize. Uncle Reuben will send a -sheriff to arrest you. And the girls have thought so much of -you—especially Ruby Nutting."</p> - -<p>"You needn't say a word about <i>her</i>." Tilly swallowed a lump chokingly. -"You needn't tell her, nor anything. She hasn't got anything to do with -it. She's give me all the chance I've had to get good times, and her -father has been awful good to us; and now I suppose they won't be any -more. But—but poor folks must expect to be called thieves, and took up. -The worst is, now they'll be sure Alf broke into that store, and he -didn't! no more'n your cousin did! No, that isn't the worst. The worst -is that Miss Farnham, the milliner, won't have me now! She was going to -take me half a day to do chores and help her; 'twas an awful good -chance! It chirked mother right up to think we were going to be so much -like folks, and now—" Tilly kept her voice steady, but it was by a -strong effort.</p> - -<p>"Tilly, it might come right now if you would only tell all about it," -said Patty, earnestly. "It seems as if there were some mystery."</p> - -<p>"You go 'long home!" cried Tilly, fiercely, and slammed the door upon -Patty. Her sharp, hard, little features were working convulsively, and -Patty heard a long sob inside the door.</p> - -<p>She went home feeling more strongly than ever that there was a mystery, -and pleaded earnestly for Tilly. Aunt Eunice joined her, and promised to -go and see Tilly's mother, and talk with her about the matter if Uncle -Reuben would delay his sterner measures.</p> - -<p>They might not have been able to persuade him to do so—his bitter grief -for his son had served to harden him against Alf Coombs's relatives—if -nature had not seemed to take Tilly's part and enforced a delay; the -heavy snow-fall was followed by a pouring rain and what they called at -Butternut Corner an old-fashioned January thaw. Uncle Reuben was a -mill-owner, and his property was threatened by the freshet, so he had no -time to think of Tilly Coombs.</p> - -<p>Aunt Eunice had a touch of her old enemy rheumatism, and could not go -down to confer with Mrs. Coombs, and so the matter remained unsettled.</p> - -<p>On the very first day when the sun shone out Ruby Nutting came up the -hill to ask Patty to take a walk. It made no difference that they would -go over shoe in mud with every step. Ruby wouldn't take no for an -answer; that was the way with Ruby; besides, she said that this was -something very particular. When they reached the foot of the hill Patty -found herself being led into the road which bordered the old mill-pond, -and she shrank back.</p> - -<p>"Yes, we're going to miser Jensen's house, but you needn't be afraid; he -has gone away for the winter. There won't be any more clothes-lines or -hen-roosts robbed now. And that makes me think. Oh, Patty, what <i>did</i> -your aunt think of those chickens that were tied to her door-knob? And -what did you think of losing your nice roasted ones? But I didn't mean -to tell you that I took them until you had seen poor Tramp. Your aunt -liked Tramp; she will forgive me when she knows I took them for him."</p> - -<p>"<i>You</i> took them—for Tramp?" repeated Patty, in bewilderment. "I heard -that Tramp was mad!"</p> - -<p>Tramp was an old dog which had roamed the streets of Butternut Corner -and Bymport for years, making his home for a week or two at one place or -another, as the fancy seized him, generally welcome, for he was a -favorite.</p> - -<p>"He had one of his fits, convulsions, in the street at Bymport; he has -often had them at our house, poor fellow! It seemed as if he came there -when one was coming on, knowing that we would take care of him. Some -foolish person raised a cry of mad dog, and people chased him with -pistols and clubs; he ran up here, and they lost track of him. That -night on your sled Alvan Sage told me that he had heard a dog whining, -as if in pain, in the miser's house; he said no one dared to go near, -because they thought it must be the mad dog. That was a week after they -had driven poor Tramp out of Bymport, and I thought of him suffering and -without food, and I seized the first basket I could lay hands on, and -pulled out a pair of roast chickens. I thought I never should get there -through the drifts! I borrowed a lantern at Jake Nesmith's, and it -really wasn't far, but the drifts were so deep! The poor dog's leg had -been hurt by a stone or a club so he could hardly move, and he was half -frozen and starved. Tilly, if you could have seen him eat your chickens, -I know you would have thought it better than to have them for the party! -I built a fire—luckily there was wood in the cellar—and I've been -there every day in all the rain to take care of him. Papa has been with -me, and to-morrow we're going to send Tramp to my Uncle Rufus at Bethel, -who is very fond of dogs, and will take great care of him. We couldn't -take him home, because Aunt Estelle is so nervous, and she wouldn't -believe he wasn't mad. I knew you would like to see old Tramp."</p> - -<p>"But—but the ravelled mitten!" faltered Patty, who couldn't as yet "see -through things."</p> - -<p>"How did you know about that?" asked Ruby, in astonishment. "I caught my -mitten on your basket in my haste to get the chickens, and the edge was -all ravelled off, and—the very queerest thing that ever happened!—some -one knit it on again—with yarn. The mittens are worsted; see the -difference." Ruby held up the mended mitten, with an edge of coarse -yarn, to Patty's gaze. "It was done at the party! I think it must have -been Grandma Pitkin who did it. Perhaps it had dropped from my pocket in -the dressing-room, and she saw it. Wasn't it kind of her? I must go and -thank her."</p> - -<p>Patty tried to say "it wasn't Grandma Pitkin; it was Tilly Coombs," but -there was a lump in her throat that choked her. And it happened that -they just then reached a turn in the road and saw a girl's figure ahead -of them. She walked from side to side of the road, keeping her eyes on -the ground, and occasionally prodding into it with a stick which she -carried.</p> - -<p>"It's Tilly Coombs, and she seems to be searching for something," said -Ruby.</p> - -<p>Patty darted on ahead, and seized Tilly around the neck with both arms. -Even then Patty saw how pitifully worn and pale the girl had grown. What -had been only a little comedy to Ruby, pleasant because she had so -happily relieved the dog's sufferings, had been almost a tragedy to -Tilly Coombs.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> -<img src="images/ill_012.jpg" width="600" height="519" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">"TILLY, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?" SAID PATTY.</span> -</div> - -<p>"Tilly, can you ever forgive me?" said Patty, struggling with a tendency -to cry. "I know all about it—how you knitted the mitten to keep Ruby -from being found out, and how you bore it all and didn't tell."</p> - -<p>"You hain't been telling <i>her</i>?" said Tilly, anxiously. "I don't think -she knows she lost the spoons. I saw that she came down this road that -night, and I've been hunting for them. I ain't going to have a mite of -trouble come on her. She's been different to me from what anybody ever -was before, not looking down on me as if I was the dirt under her feet. -And her father, too, he's come and come to see mother when he knew there -wa'n't a cent to pay him with. I <i>have</i> bore a sight"—Tilly's strained -voice threatened to break—"but I can bear more. I won't have trouble -come to her if I can help it. You <i>hain't</i> been telling her all about -it?"</p> - -<p>Ruby came up to them before there was time for an answer.</p> - -<p>"Hunting for something, Tilly?" she asked, easily. "I'm afraid you won't -find it in all this mud."</p> - -<p>"No—-no, I hain't found them," stammered Tilly, uncertain whether Ruby -knew about the spoons. "But"—and her face lighted with sudden -eagerness—"I've found something queer; you see if it isn't queer." -Tilly turned back, running before them up to the door of the miser's -little house. "No, it isn't the tracks," she added, as Ruby hurriedly -explained about the dog. "It's the door-stone; it looks as if it had -been moved lately. If you are looking along on the ground, as I was, you -notice it."</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_220" id="Page_220">[Pg 220]</a></span></p> - -<p>"Well, what if it has?" asked Ruby, wondering, and a little impatient.</p> - -<p>"Somebody might have hidden something there," said Tilly, whose longing -to find the spoons was evidently desperate.</p> - -<p>"Some of the miser's treasures or his clothes-line booty," cried Ruby, -gayly, for miser Jensen was suspected of petty thieving, and Butternut -Corner breathed more freely when his summer sojourn was over. "Girls, -let's pry the stone up!"</p> - -<p>"I tried to, alone, but I couldn't," said Tilly, eagerly bringing a long -stake from the tumble-down fence.</p> - -<p>The three girls tried for a long time with their united strength. The -stone was flat and not very heavy, but was unwieldy, while Tramp, let -out of the house, barked and capered with excitement in spite of his -injured leg.</p> - -<p>When at last the stone was overturned, there was indeed something snugly -tucked into a hole dug beneath it—a bundle tied up in a bandana -handkerchief. Miser Jensen always wore old-fashioned bandana -handkerchiefs. When the girls opened it they found it filled, not with -spoils of the Butternut Corner clothes-lines, but with watches and -jewelry, most of it marked with the name of Burton, the Bymport -jeweller, whom Dave Perley and Alf Coombs were suspected of having -robbed.</p> - -<p>Patty burst into tears of joy.</p> - -<p>"It was miser Jensen who robbed the store! Tilly, don't you see what it -means? No one can ever say it was the boys again!"</p> - -<p>Tilly trembled in all her thin little frame, but her face was alight -with joy. "I know where they are! I can tell now," she said, proudly, -"Alf wrote to me. They are both in my cousin's store in L——; it's a -jewelry store. It was because Alf liked to see watches and things fixed -that he was always at Burton's, and so they suspected him. Dave didn't -want to be a minister or a farmer; that was why he ran away, but he -wants to come home; he says it doesn't pay to run away; and now he can!"</p> - -<p>All the cloud lifted from Butternut Hill. Patty could go home and tell -Uncle Reuben and Aunt Eunice; it seemed to her too good to be true.</p> - -<p>They forgot all about the spoons; even Tilly forgot them. And when Aunt -Eunice heard the good news, she said she didn't care anything about the -spoons, but she would do everything she could to make amends to Tilly -Coombs for the unjust suspicions.</p> - -<p>The spoons were found the very next day. Jake Nesmith, the blacksmith, -saw the corner of the napkin in which they were wrapped sticking out of -a mud-puddle. Ruby had pulled them out of the basket with the chickens, -and dropped them in the snow.</p> - -<p>Wheels had gone over them, and they had to be sent down to Burton's to -be bent into shape—that was all.</p> - -<p>Alf Coombs is still in his cousin's store, where he does well, but Dave -has come home to Butternut Hill. He says he isn't sure that he shall -ever be a minister or a farmer, but he is sure he shall never be wild -again. The awful suspicion that fell upon him cured him of that. Miser -Jensen was found and arrested, and confessed the theft; he escaped from -prison, but there is no fear that he will ever return to Butternut -Corner. Dr. Nutting wished to send Tilly to the Academy with Ruby—the -whole story of the ravelled mitten was told after the spoons were found; -no one could expect a human girl like Patty to keep it—but Tilly -thought she had a knack for millinery, and she liked to be independent, -and Miss Farnham wanted her; she says she is a good business woman, -although she is only fifteen.</p> - -<p>The doctor always takes off his hat to Tilly Coombs, while he gives only -a careless nod to the other fifteen-year-old girls. The minister, who is -his great friend, and hears a good deal about Butternut Corner people -through him, does so too, and just now the young people of the Corner -are making preparations for another birthday surprise party. They have -hired the new Town-hall, because the little house at the foot of the -hill wouldn't begin to hold Tilly's troops of friends, and everything is -to be in the very best style that is known to Butternut Corner, because -they want Tilly to feel that she is "just like other folks."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_221" id="Page_221">[Pg 221]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"><a name="INTERSCHOLASTIC_SPORT" id="INTERSCHOLASTIC_SPORT"></a> -<img src="images/ill_013.jpg" width="450" height="100" alt="INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT" /> -</div> - -<p>The All-Boston interscholastic football eleven for 1895 is as follows:</p> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="right"><span class="smcap">Jack Hallowell</span>, <i>Hopkinson</i></td><td align="right">end.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="right"><span class="smcap">J. J. Purtell</span>, <i>English High-School</i></td><td align="right">tackle.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="right"><span class="smcap">L. Warren</span>, <i>Cambridge High-School</i></td><td align="right">guard.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="right"><span class="smcap">G. Calahan</span>, <i>English High-School</i></td><td align="right">centre.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="right"><span class="smcap">W. D. Eaton</span>, <i>English High-School</i></td><td align="right">guard.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="right"><span class="smcap">R. C. Seaver</span>, <i>Brookline High-School</i></td><td align="right">tackle.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="right"><span class="smcap">Lee Beardsell</span>, <i>Cambridge High-School</i></td><td align="right">end.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="right"><span class="smcap">A. D. Saul</span>, <i>Cam. High-School</i></td><td align="right">quarter-back.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="right"><span class="smcap">T. H. Maguire</span>, <i>Boston Lat. School</i></td><td align="right">half-back.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="right"><span class="smcap">A. C. Whittemore</span>, <i>Eng. H.-S.</i></td><td align="right">half-back.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="right"><span class="smcap">C. Watson</span>, <i>Cam. High-School</i></td><td align="right">full-back.</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 158px;"> -<img src="images/ill_014.jpg" width="158" height="300" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">J. J. PURTELL, Tackle.</span> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 158px;"> -<img src="images/ill_015.jpg" width="158" height="300" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">LEE BEARDSELL, End.</span> -</div> - -<p style="clear:both;"> </p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 152px;"> -<img src="images/ill_016.jpg" width="152" height="300" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">GEORGE CALAHAN, Centre.</span> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 149px;"> -<img src="images/ill_017.jpg" width="149" height="300" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">T. H. MAGUIRE, Half-back.</span> -</div> - -<p style="clear:both;"> </p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 162px;"> -<img src="images/ill_018.jpg" width="162" height="300" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">L. WARREN, Guard.</span> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 153px;"> -<img src="images/ill_019.jpg" width="153" height="300" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">W. D. EATON, Guard.</span> -</div> - -<p style="clear:both;"> </p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 167px;"> -<img src="images/ill_020.jpg" width="167" height="300" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">A. C. WHITTEMORE, Half-back.</span> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 164px;"> -<img src="images/ill_021.jpg" width="164" height="300" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">R. C. SEAVER, Tackle.</span> -</div> - -<p style="clear:both;"> </p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 169px;"> -<img src="images/ill_022.jpg" width="169" height="300" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">JACK HALLOWELL, End.</span> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 178px;"> -<img src="images/ill_023.jpg" width="178" height="300" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">CARROLL WATSON, Full-back.</span> -</div> - -<p style="clear:both;"> </p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 176px;"> -<img src="images/ill_024.jpg" width="176" height="300" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">A. D. SAUL, Quarter-back.</span> -</div> - -<p>The substitutes for this team are S. W. Lewis, Brookline High-School, -end; A. P. Martin, Hopkinson, tackle; Oliver Talbot, Brookline -High-School, guard; Brayton, Boston Latin School, centre; E. H. -Sherlock, English High-School, quarter-back; and W. W. Aechtler, -Brookline High-School, back.</p> - -<p>The first requirement that has been considered in selecting the players -for this representative All-Boston eleven has been sand. By sand is -meant not only physical fearlessness, but even more than that—the moral -courage to go into every game and play the hardest kind of football to -the end, whether the team is winning or is being overwhelmingly beaten. -That is the spirit that is worth more to a team than muscle or science, -for without it muscle and science are powerless. It is that which has -had more influence than anything else in determining the selection of -the All-Boston team. Not that the eleven <i>sandiest</i> boys have been -chosen, but the eleven who combine sand and skill in the best ratio. -There are no quitters in this combination.</p> - -<p>For centre, there is no doubt that Calahan of English High is the most -capable man. His playing is as aggressive and lively as any boy's in the -League; for he makes himself felt in tackle and end plays, and opens up -holes in beautiful style for his backs. The best man for substitute -centre would be Brayton of Boston Latin. Warren of Cambridge High is -probably the best guard the League has ever developed. He has unlimited -sand and endurance, understands the theory of his position perfectly, -and is a most valuable rusher and interferer. Close behind him in -prowess comes Eaton of English High. Before this year he has played -centre, but now he has turned out to be a powerful guard. English High's -surest play was to rush Eaton through the other guard. When the referee -would call "third down, three yards to gain," Eaton almost invariably -would make it first down. Far behind these two guards, but next best, is -Talbot of Brookline.</p> - -<p>For tackles, one is easily decided on; that is Seaver of Brookline High, -who has played a steady, sandy, reliable game throughout the year. The -other tackle is harder to choose. I give the place to Purtell of English -High, because, while not so valuable a man on the attack as Martin of -Hopkinson, his defence is much more reliable. At end one man has shown a -decided superiority in all the duties of the position; that, is -Hallowell of Hopkinson. He keeps his eye on the ball every moment that -it is in play, gets down on kicks beautifully, and I doubt if the -aggregate gains round his end in all the League games would amount to -ten yards. The other end I give to Beardsell of Cambridge High. He is -not so brilliant as Lewis of Brookline High, but is much steadier and -more aggressive. Lewis is apt to weaken when his team is losing ground, -while Beardsell can be depended upon at any stage of the game.</p> - -<p>Everybody admits that Arthur Saul, of Cambridge High, is the best -quarter-back of the year, and everybody is full of praise for his plucky -work. Not since the days when Bob Wrenn played quarter for this same -team have such hard tackling and clever passing been seen. In only one -thing does Sherlock of English High, his nearest rival, outclass him; -that is in running his team. But giving signals, while very important, -is not essentially the duty of a quarter-back, as in many of the -'varsity teams some other player calls them. And Saul is far and away -ahead of all the other quarters in every other respect.</p> - -<p>The trio of backs I would select are Whittemore of English High, Maguire -of Boston Latin, and Watson of Cambridge High. On offence, it would not -matter much just who took the middle position; but on defence Whittemore -and Maguire should play rush-line half-backs, and Watson full-back, for -he is the surest man to tackle and handle punts. All three of these men -can<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_222" id="Page_222">[Pg 222]</a></span> kick well; but the brunt of this work would fall to Maguire, as he -gets the ball away much more quickly than the others. Whittemore and -Watson could both buck the centre, and all three are exceptionally good -'round-the-end men. For substitute half we have Aechtler of Brookline, -who is just a trifle behind the others. It is his weak defence that -deprives him of a regular place.</p> - -<p>Maguire should be Captain of this team. After his work with the Boston -Latin team there can be little doubt of his capability. To be sure, -Calahan was Captain of the winning team, and did all manner of fine work -in that capacity. But his team was much better supported by the school, -and had the services of a thoroughly competent coach, while Maguire did -all the work of getting his team together. Moreover, Maguire has the -advantage of position and of experience, having been Captain part of -last season. And Calahan has never been really put to the test, as his -men have always been victorious, and never even in danger of losing a -game. In Maguire the team would have a courteous, energetic, brainy -Captain, and, above all, a Captain for whom they would always -instinctively do their best work.</p> - -<p>The standing of the teams in the Senior League is as follows:</p> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center">Games</td><td align="center">Games</td><td align="center">Games</td><td align="center">Points</td><td align="center">Points</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center">Won.</td><td align="center">Lost.</td><td align="center">Tied.</td><td align="center">Won.</td><td align="center">Lost.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">E. H. S.</td><td align="center">5</td><td align="center">0</td><td align="center">0</td><td align="center">56</td><td align="center">14</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Hop.</td><td align="center">4</td><td align="center">1</td><td align="center">0</td><td align="center">40</td><td align="center">36</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">B. H. S.</td><td align="center">2</td><td align="center">3</td><td align="center">0</td><td align="center">22</td><td align="center">16</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">C. H. & L.</td><td align="center">0</td><td align="center">4</td><td align="center">1</td><td align="center">8</td><td align="center">40</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">C. M. T. S.</td><td align="center">0</td><td align="center">4</td><td align="center">1</td><td align="center">14</td><td align="center">36</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<h3>SCORES OF GAMES PLAYED.</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left">English High</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Brookline</td><td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">English High</td><td align="right">18</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Hopkinson</td><td align="right">6</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">English High</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Boston Latin</td><td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">English High</td><td align="right">16</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Cambridge High and Latin</td><td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">English High</td><td align="right">14</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Cambridge Manual</td><td align="right">8</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Hopkinson</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Boston Latin</td><td align="right">2</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Hopkinson</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Brookline High</td><td align="right">4</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">*Hopkinson</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Cambridge High and Latin</td><td align="right">8</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Hopkinson</td><td align="right">16</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Cambridge Manual</td><td align="right">6</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Boston Latin</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Brookline</td><td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">*Boston Latin</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Cambridge High and Latin</td><td align="right">4</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Boston Latin</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Cambridge Manual</td><td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Brookline High</td><td align="right">18</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Cambridge High and Latin</td><td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">*Brookline High</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Cambridge Manual</td><td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Cambridge High</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Cambridge Manual</td><td align="right">0</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<p class="center">* Protested; ordered to be played over; forfeited by Cambridge.</p> - -<p>The standing in the Junior League is:</p> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center">Games</td><td align="center">Games</td><td align="center">Games</td><td align="center">Points</td><td align="center">Points</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center">Won.</td><td align="center">Lost.</td><td align="center">Tied.</td><td align="center">Won.</td><td align="center">Lost.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Somerville High</td><td align="center">5</td><td align="center">0</td><td align="center">1</td><td align="center">106</td><td align="center">10</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Newton High</td><td align="center">4</td><td align="center">1</td><td align="center">1</td><td align="center">69</td><td align="center">32</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Chelsea High</td><td align="center">4</td><td align="center">2</td><td align="center">0</td><td align="center">76</td><td align="center">74</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Roxbury Latin</td><td align="center">3</td><td align="center">3</td><td align="center">0</td><td align="center">82</td><td align="center">41</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Dedham High</td><td align="center">1</td><td align="center">3</td><td align="center">1</td><td align="center">16</td><td align="center">40</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Hyde Park High</td><td align="center">1</td><td align="center">4</td><td align="center">1</td><td align="center">20</td><td align="center">84</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Roxbury High</td><td align="center">0</td><td align="center">5</td><td align="center">0</td><td align="center">6</td><td align="center">70</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<p>The results of the New York, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut -Interscholastic League schedules are here given for the purpose of -record:</p> - -<h3>NEW YORK I.S.F.B.A.</h3> - -<h3>FIRST SECTION.</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left">Cutler</td><td align="right">24</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Hamilton</td><td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Trinity</td><td align="right">16</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Columbia Grammar</td><td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Trinity</td><td align="right">54</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Hamilton</td><td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Trinity</td><td align="right">24</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Cutler</td><td align="right">4</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<p class="center">Colombia Grammar forfeited to Cutler.</p> - -<h3>SECOND SECTION.</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left">Berkeley</td><td align="right">30</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Barnard</td><td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Berkeley</td><td align="right">34</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">De La Salle</td><td align="right">0</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<p class="center">Barnard forfeited to De La Salle.</p> - -<h3>FINAL GAME.</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left">Berkeley</td><td align="right">38</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Trinity</td><td align="right">0</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<h3>PHILADELPHIA I.S.F.B.A.</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left">October</td><td align="right">18</td><td align="left">De Lancey</td><td align="right">22</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Adelphi</td><td align="right">6</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="left">Penn Charter</td><td align="right">68</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Cheltenham</td><td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="left">Germantown</td><td align="right">30</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Haverford</td><td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">25</td><td align="left">De Lancey</td><td align="right">34</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Haverford</td><td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="left">Germantown, by forfeit from Cheltenham.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="left">Penn Charter</td><td align="right">28</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Adelphi</td><td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">November</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="left">Penn Charter</td><td align="right">54</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">De Lancey</td><td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="left">Cheltenham</td><td align="right">40</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Haverford</td><td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="left">Germantown</td><td align="right">12</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Adelphi</td><td align="right">2</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="left">Adelphi</td><td align="right">12</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Haverford</td><td align="right">4</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="left">De Lancey</td><td align="right">34</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Cheltenham</td><td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">15</td><td align="left">Germantown</td><td align="right">18</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">De Lancey</td><td align="right">6</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="left">Penn Charter</td><td align="right">34</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Haverford</td><td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="left">Cheltenham</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Adelphi</td><td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">22</td><td align="left">Germantown</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Penn Charter</td><td align="right">4</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<h3>CONNECTICUT I.S.F.B.A.</h3> - -<h3>NORTHERN DIVISION.</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left">October</td><td align="right">26</td><td align="left">Hartford</td><td align="right">22</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">New Britain</td><td align="right">12</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="left">Norwich F. A.</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Conn. Lit. Inst.</td><td align="right">4</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">30</td><td align="left">Conn. Lit. Inst.</td><td align="right">14</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Norwich F. A.</td><td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">November</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="left">Hartford</td><td align="right">22</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Conn. Lit. Inst.</td><td align="right">0</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<h3>SOUTHERN DIVISION.</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="right">October</td><td align="right">26</td><td align="left">Bridgeport</td><td align="right">14</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Hillhouse H.-S.</td><td align="right">4</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">"</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="left">Meriden</td><td align="right">54</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Waterbury</td><td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td align="right">November</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="left">Bridgeport</td><td align="right">42</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Meriden</td><td align="right">0</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<h3>FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP.</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left">November</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="left">Bridgeport</td><td align="right">10</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Hartford</td><td align="right">10</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">16</td><td align="left">Bridgeport</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Hartford</td><td align="right">4</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">28</td><td align="left">Bridgeport</td><td align="right">16</td><td align="right">—</td><td align="left">Hartford</td><td align="right">12</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<p>If we may judge from the number of protests continually cropping up in -the New York League, there must be something radically wrong with school -sport in this town. The unhealthy desire to win seems to characterize -the young athletes of New York to a far greater extent than the healthy -spirit of indulging in sport for sport's sake. The greed for medals and -pennants seems to overshadow the true object of all these contests, and -this develops a spirit of professionalism, which, if not smothered at -once, will, in a very short while, put an end to every kind of -inter-school contests that are now known.</p> - -<p>When I speak of the greed for medals I am not talking at random. I am -telling of what I know. Last spring, at some games on the Berkeley Oval, -two young men who were tied for second place in a certain event sat on -the turf near where I stood, talking over the commercial aspect of their -prowess. They were trying to arrange a deal. One proposed to the other -to surrender second place if his rival would allow him to keep the -medal. The second mercenary, however, would not agree to this. He, too, -wanted the medal, and was perfectly willing that the first "sport" -should take the "empty honor" of second place. Both athletes being -therefore so morally corrupt, no deal could be arranged as to who should -have the medal, and they were thus forced by their very spirit of -unsportsmanship to decide the tie by actual contest. This is a true -story, in spite of its apparent enormity, and I know the names of both -young men.</p> - -<p>When such a spirit exists among individuals, it is easy to see how -entire teams may be led into a misconception of the ethics of sport. I -have no doubt, too, that a good many young men look upon it as clever -work to evade the rules and to compass an end in some unfair way, -provided they can do it without entailing punishment. A great deal of -this sort of thing doubtless started from ignorance, but nowadays it is -done because former breaches of honesty have been allowed to pass -unpunished. This sort of thing could not happen if the principals of the -schools were unanimous in their determination to keep sport clean and -absolutely honest. There are two or three head-masters, I know, who feel -this way, but the others wink at a great many small infractions, and by -so doing encourage greater ones which they know nothing of.</p> - -<p>Now that athletics have become such an important feature in the life of -American boys and men, I believe that it is just as important for school -athletes to be instructed and advised in these matters as it is in any -other branch of endeavor where morals and honesty and similar qualities -are involved. The trouble is that young men hitherto have been left -entirely too much to shift for themselves in athletics. It is not to be -expected that they should always do the right thing, and so those who -are responsible for these young men are to blame if they have not -counselled them as they should.</p> - -<p>In other words, the time has now come when every school that recognizes -athletics must recognize that there is a moral as well as a muscular -development to be looked to, and those pedagogues are unfaithful to -their trusts who do not give a greater amount of attention to the former -than they do to the latter.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_223" id="Page_223">[Pg 223]</a></span></p> - -<p>To bring a general discussion to a point with specific examples, let me -cite St. Paul's School, Concord, and Lawrenceville. At both of these -institutions the professors give personal attention to sport, and there -are especial and particular men—men of position, education, -integrity—in charge of the moral side of the scholars' athletic -development. Because of the clamlike attitude of the authorities of St. -Paul's, I know less of the particular methods in vogue up there. But -with the conditions at Lawrenceville I am familiar.</p> - -<p>Several years of experience there have shown the authorities that the -sports of the students can be kept in better condition if expert players -are detailed to manage the coaching and the games, but yet they do not -believe in hiring a man for the football season regardless of his -character and career in college. Since 1889 the policy of Lawrenceville -has been to have men as instructors who were not only the best -all-'round athletes of their college, but also the best scholars, and -held in high esteem for character. In 1889, for instance, George, -Princeton's centre-rush, went to Lawrenceville to teach mathematics. -After school hours he coached the football team, following up the -players day after day throughout the season. This is done in the just -conviction that boys should be taught how to play as well as how to -study. Two years ago Mr. George retired from active work in football, -and is now only an adviser, holding his position in the mathematical -department.</p> - -<p>In 1893 Lawrenceville secured Street, who played with Garfield on the -Williams team for three seasons, and received the cup given to the man -who made the best record in athletics during his college course. Street -was engaged to teach Latin and English, and incidentally he has taken up -the control of athletics. To him has been intrusted the responsibility -of allowing certain men to engage in football and baseball; he gets up -all the plays the boys use; he also follows up the team every day in its -practice, being practically Captain at all times, except when a -match-game is in progress. Street is a man of most excellent character, -and will not allow boys on the various teams to use profane language for -a moment.</p> - -<p>Evert unfair dodge and trick which a boy exhibits is instantly stopped, -and the men are urged to play perfectly straight, honest ball. Such a -thing as slugging, therefore, is unknown. The same thing is done in the -baseball season. This year Ward, the Princeton player, went to the -school to teach mathematics. He was the Latin salutatorian of his class -last year, and won the Fellowship in Mathematics, besides being -considered the brightest man Princeton has graduated in fifteen years. -He is to help the Lawrenceville students in football and baseball just -as Street is doing.</p> - -<p>Now the point of this recital is to show that Lawrenceville has at -present on its pedagogic staff representatives of five large college -teams, each one of whom is known as well for the honesty as for the -quality of the game he played on the field. I believe that the future of -our college athletics rests with the schools that are this year, and -next year, and so on, sending out to the larger institutions men who -will control the athletic organizations. Boys who learn bad tricks in -schools will play them in a more outlandish and stronger way when they -reach college teams. I believe, therefore, that it is the duty of -schoolmasters to see to it that their wards are instructed in the ethics -of sport as well as in the rule of three; for boys who have been left to -themselves to learn, and have learned to win by unfair means, will turn -out badly, as far as their future in athletics is concerned, and they -may then justly look back to their school days, and blame those whose -duty it was to teach them the truth of sport. Beneath the surface of -these words are a wanting and a suggestion which I sincerely trust may -be heeded and accepted.</p> - -<p>It is pleasant to learn that all the world is not hunting after medals, -and that the spirit of true sportsmanship is still alive in the -land—even if it is in the minority! As a consequence of my sermons of -the last few weeks I have received a number of letters. One -correspondent says: "I won a swimming match once, and got a ribbon for -it, and I prize that just as highly as though it were a gold medal. I -think the old Grecian and Roman method of awarding wreaths a striking -lesson for this age, and I hope they will play a prominent part in the -forth-coming Olympian games."</p> - -<p>The poor showing made by the Cambridge Manual-Training School team this -fall was largely due to poor management. They had for manager and coach -a graduate who knew nothing of football nor of training a team. As a -consequence, they went into the games a pitifully overworked and -spiritless set, depending upon fantastic tricks to win victories. The -futility of it caused the appointment of a coach who had played football -and understood the game. It was too late, however, to do any better than -tie the demoralized Cambridge High team in the Thanksgiving-day game.</p> - -<p>Owing to a delay in the receipt of the photographs, the announcement of -the All-New-York interscholastic football team has been necessarily -postponed until next week.</p> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">The Graduate</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>ADVERTISEMENTS.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h3>Highest of all in Leavening Strength.—Latest U.S. Gov't Report.</h3> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/ill_025.jpg" width="500" height="142" alt="Royal Baking Powder" /> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>Arnold</h2> - -<h2>Constable & Co</h2> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>CHILDREN'S Wear.</h3> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>Reduction in Price.</h3> - -<p class="center">Children's Dancing-School Dresses.</p> - -<p class="center">Children's School Frocks.</p> - -<p class="center">Children's Coats.</p> - -<p class="center">Reefers.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h4>Broadway & 19th st.</h4> - -<h4>NEW YORK.</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> -<img src="images/ill_026.jpg" width="300" height="225" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2>A Doll Chart</h2> - -<p>Something new for the little folks. A chart by which dresses to fit any -doll can be quickly and easily cut by children—affording a never-ending -source of pleasure and amusement while it furnishes an early</p> - -<h3>Lesson in Dressmaking</h3> - -<p>Dresses cut to fit dolls of any size. Cut is but 1-16 actual size of -chart. Sent post-paid on receipt of 20c. in silver.</p> - -<h4>A. C. CHAMPLIN, 151 N. 15th Street, Philada., Pa.</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 150px;"> -<img src="images/ill_027.jpg" width="150" height="131" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2>PRINTING OUTFIT 10c.</h2> - -<p>Sets any name in one minute; prints 500 cards an hour. YOU can make -money with it. A font of pretty type, also Indelible Ink, Type, Holder, -Pads and Tweezers. Best Linen Marker; worth $1.00. Sample mailed FREE -for 10c. stamps for postage on outfit and large catalogue of 1000 -Bargains. Same outfit with figures 15c. Larger outfit for printing two -lines 25c. post-paid,</p> - -<h4>Ingersoll & Bro. 65 Cortlandt St., N. Y. City</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> -<img src="images/ill_028.jpg" width="400" height="62" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_224" id="Page_224">[Pg 224]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"><a name="BICYCLING" id="BICYCLING"></a> -<img src="images/ill_029.jpg" width="600" height="139" alt="BICYCLING" /> -</div> - -<blockquote> - -<p>This Department is conducted in the interest of Bicyclers, and the -Editor will be pleased to answer any question on the subject. Our -maps and tours contain much valuable data kindly supplied from the -official maps and road-books of the League of American Wheelmen. -Recognizing the value of the work being done by the L. A. W., the -Editor will be pleased to furnish subscribers with membership -blanks and information so far as possible.</p></blockquote> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 244px;"> -<img src="images/ill_030.jpg" width="244" height="700" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">Copyright, 1895, by Harper & Brothers.</span> -</div> - -<p>Having now given the better part of a dozen of the finest bicycle trips -in the vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts, we must turn our attention to -the completion of the trip from New York to Washington. The reader, by -referring to the note at the foot of this column, will there be able to -find in what numbers of <span class="smcap">Harper's Round Table</span> the stages from New York to -Philadelphia were printed. We therefore take up the route from -Philadelphia, the first stage being from Market and Broad streets, -Philadelphia, to Compassville, a distance of forty-five miles. Leaving -City Hall by Broad and Twenty-second streets, proceed to Hamilton, -thence by Twenty-fifth Street to T. A. B. Fountain, thence to -Fifty-second Street, and there run into the Lancaster Pike, which is a -fine road for many miles from Philadelphia. Nine miles out you pass -through Ardmore. Then continuing on the Lancaster Pike a short two -miles, you run through Bryn-Mawr, and four miles further on pass through -Wayne. You should keep to the Lancaster Pike, crossing the railroad at -Eagle. After passing through Devon there is some hilly work until Paoli -is reached. All this time the rider has kept to the Lancaster Pike, but -it would be wiser for him to leave the Pike and bear to the left at a -fork less than a mile out of Paoli and just before reaching the West -Chester Intersection. The route then runs by a straight and fine road -out to Downington, where by a sharp turn to the right you cross the -tracks and again join the Lancaster Pike. The run from Downington to -Coatesville is direct and unmistakable. If the rider desires, he can put -up here for the night. If he is doing 60 to 100 miles in a day, he can -stop here for the noon meal. But it is wiser for both to go on to -Compassville. On leaving the hotel you should run along by the railroad -track almost due north, having crossed the main line at right angles. -The road winds about somewhat, and there are one or two hills out to -Wagontown, but with care and some inquiry there is no difficulty in -getting started on the road which runs quite direct to Compassville, -making a distance of forty-five miles from Philadelphia. Compassville is -a reasonably good place to spend the night, the hotel being clean and -the food good.</p> - -<p>The direct route from Philadelphia to Washington leaves the Lancaster -Pike at Paoli, and taking the left fork just beyond that town, runs out -to West Chester, and thence through Sager's Mills, Chad's Ford, Double -Bridge, to Wilmington. This route to Washington is shorter, but for -several reasons the longer route, of which we have above given the first -stage, is far more interesting to the bicycle tourist. In the first -place, the road is better. Then the hills are much less frequent. -Furthermore, the rider passes through much historic territory connected -with the Rebellion, and the field of Gettysburg is easily included; and, -finally, the scenery and the towns through which you pass are far more -interesting.</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p><span class="smcap">Note</span>.—Map of New York city asphalted streets in No. 809. Map of -route from New York to Tarrytown in No. 810. New York to Stamford, -Connecticut, in No. 811. New York to Staten Island in No. 812. New -Jersey from Hoboken to Pine Brook in No. 813. Brooklyn in No. 814. -Brooklyn to Babylon in No. 815. Brooklyn to Northport in No. 816. -Tarrytown to Poughkeepsie in No. 817. Poughkeepsie to Hudson in No. -818. Hudson to Albany in No. 819. Tottenville to Trenton in No. -920. Trenton to Philadelphia in No. 821. Philadelphia in No. 822. -Philadelphia—Wissahickon Route in No. 823. Philadelphia to West -Chester in No. 824. Philadelphia to Atlantic City—First Stage in -No. 825; Second Stage in No. 826. Philadelphia to Vineland—First -Stage in No. 827; Second Stage in No. 828. New York to -Boston—Second Stage in No. 829; Third Stage in No. 830; Fourth -Stage in No. 831; Fifth Stage in No. 832; Sixth Stage in No. 833. -Boston to Concord in No. 834. Boston in No. 835. Boston to -Gloucester in No. 836. Boston to Newburyport in No. 837. Boston to -New Bedford in No. 838. Boston to South Framingham in No. 839. -Boston to Nahant in No. 840. Boston to Lowell in No. 841. Boston to -Nantasket Beach in No. 842. Boston Circuit Ride in No. 843.</p></blockquote> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_225" id="Page_225">[Pg 225]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"><a name="THE_PUDDING_STICK" id="THE_PUDDING_STICK"></a> -<img src="images/ill_031.jpg" width="450" height="123" alt="THE PUDDING STICK" /> -</div> - -<blockquote> - -<p>This Department is conducted in the interest of Girls and Young -Women, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question on the -subject so far as possible. Correspondents should address Editor.</p></blockquote> - -<p>Probably most of you have heard of Helen Keller, but I have seen and -talked with her, and to see Helen and hear her sweet voice, which she, -dear child, cannot hear, is to have an experience which you never can -forget. "Come and take a cup of tea with me, and meet Helen Keller," -wrote my dear friend, and I went.</p> - -<p>It was on a winter day, late in the afternoon, when I entered my -friend's drawing-room. I saw, sitting beside her teacher, a fair young -girl, perhaps fifteen years old. Helen is straight and robust. She -carries herself finely, her head held up, her shoulders thrown back. Her -little hands are very white and finely shaped, with tapering fingers, -which are to her what eyes and ears are to us. Helen sees and hears with -those wonderful delicate hands of hers, and everything they tell her is -reflected in an instant on her sweet sensitive face. She has a very -merry laugh, and responds in a moment to the moods of others, whether -they are happy or sorrowful moods. Helen has fair curling hair and a -lovely complexion, and you would select her in any group of girls for -her beauty and air of grace and distinction. Better than looks is, what -her teacher says she possesses, a very sweet, patient, and loving -disposition. You discover this as you watch her, for there is so much -sunshine in her face, and her manners are so gentle and natural. Then, -too, she is very quick to express her thanks for any kindness shown, or -gift presented to her, and at any bit of fun her laugh is like a peal of -silvery bells.</p> - -<p>Helen Keller was a baby not two years old when she had the illness which -shut her into darkness and silence for the rest of her life. With sight -gone and hearing gone, it seemed as if a very mournful fate would be -hers. At eight years of age she was deaf, dumb, and blind, and knew no -more than some little docile animal, for nobody had found out how to -waken up her brain, or to enable her to communicate her ideas to her -fellow-creatures.</p> - -<p>It was at this period that her father and mother brought their little -girl to Boston, to place her in an institution designed for such -helpless children as she was then. Here she came under the immediate -care of the lady who has ever since been her friend, sister, and -teacher. Miss Sullivan says she had not taught Helen a single week -before she was aware that she had an extraordinary pupil. The child -learned so fast that her progress was amazing. Something of what Helen -has gained you will understand, girls, when I tell you that she reads -beautifully in the raised type the blind spell out with their fingers, -that she writes a clear, fine, strong hand, operates perfectly three -different typewriters, and is now beginning French and German in -addition to her English studies. She writes a very creditable letter in -French, and translates fables and stories with ease.</p> - -<p>Her contact with the world is, of course, through touch, and her senses -of smell and taste are acute. She lays her fingers on the lips of the -one speaking to her, and rapidly repeats whatever is said, answering at -once as any other child would, only Helen's answers are usually quicker -and brighter than those of girls of her age. Her teacher talks with her -by means of the mute alphabet, taking Helen's hand in her own, and in -this way Helen "sees" all sorts of things, Miss Sullivan being her -interpreter. When Miss Sullivan is talking to Helen, the latter has a -look of the most genuine attention; her whole face is full of interest. -You forget that she cannot see, so alert and alive are the features.</p> - -<p>Every day this dear young girl writes in her journal, and she puts into -this book just the same confidences, and tells it the same happy -stories, which other girls write and tell in their diaries. Helen Keller -is a happy, contented, merry girl. I am glad I know her, and I wish you -all might know her too.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> -<img src="images/ill_032.jpg" width="400" height="97" alt="Signature" /> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION</h2> - -<p>is cheaper than any quantity of cure. Don't give children narcotics or -sedatives. They are unnecessary when the infant is properly nourished, -as it will be if brought up on the Gail Borden Eagle Brand Condensed -Milk—[<i>Adv.</i>]</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>ADVERTISEMENTS.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>Postage Stamps, &c.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 95px;"> -<img src="images/ill_033.jpg" width="95" height="98" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>STAMPS! <b>300</b> fine mixed Victoria, Cape of G. H., India, Japan, etc., with -fine Stamp Album, only <b>10c</b>. New 80-p. Price-list <b>free</b>. <i>Agents wanted</i> -at <b>50%</b> commission. STANDARD STAMP CO., 4 Nicholson Place, St. Louis, Mo. -Old U. S. and Confederate stamps bought.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 100px;"> -<img src="images/ill_034.jpg" width="100" height="74" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>100 all dif. Venezuela, Bolivia, etc., only 10c.; 200 all dif. Hayti, -Hawaii, etc., only 50c. Ag'ts w't'd at 50% com. List FREE! <b>C. A. -Stegmann</b>, 594l Cote Brilliante Ave., St. Louis, Mo</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h3>300</h3> - -<p class="center">STAMPS FOR $l.00, all different, some quite rare.</p> - -<h4>KEUTGEN BROTHERS, 322 Broadway, N. Y.</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h3>A NEW SECRET SPOKEN LANGUAGE.</h3> - -<p class="center">Can be learned in the evening. Book, 25 cents.</p> - -<h4>N. L. COLLIMER, Washington, D.C.</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h3>500</h3> - -<p class="center">Mixed Stamps, 20 cts.; 100 varieties, 15 cts. Agents wanted at 50%. -Reference required. List free.</p> - -<h4>F. W. H. MOYER, Bethlehem. Pa.</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<p class="center">FINE APPROVAL SHEETS. Agents wanted at 50% com. P. S. Chapman, Box 151, -Bridgeport, Ct.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<p>STAMPS! 100 all dif. Barbados, etc. Only 10c. Ag'ts w't'd at 50% com. -List free. L. DOVER & CO., 1469 Hodiamont, St. Louis, Mo.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 148px;"> -<img src="images/ill_035.jpg" width="148" height="300" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2>Timely Warning.</h2> - -<p>The great success of the chocolate preparations of the house of <b>Walter -Baker & Co.</b> (established in 1780) has led to the placing on the market -many misleading and unscrupulous imitations of their name, labels, and -wrappers. Walter Baker & Co. are the oldest and largest manufacturers of -pure and high-grade Cocoas and Chocolates on this continent. No -chemicals are used in their manufactures.</p> - -<p>Consumers should ask for, and be sure that they get, the genuine Walter -Baker &. Co.'s goods.</p> - -<h4>WALTER BAKER & CO., Limited,</h4> - -<h4>DORCHESTER, MASS.</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT</h2> - -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">of the AWARD on</span></p> - -<p class="center"><b>GILLOTT'S PENS</b> at the <span class="smcap">Chicago Exposition</span>.</p> - -<p><b>AWARD</b>: "For excellence of steel used in their manufacture, it being fine -grained and elastic; superior workmanship, especially shown by the -careful grinding which leaves the pens free from defects. The tempering -is excellent and the action of the finished pens perfect."</p> - -<h4>Approved: JOHN BOYD THACHER, <i>Chairman Exec. Com. on Awards</i>.</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h4>BREAKFAST—SUPPER.</h4> - -<h2>EPPS'S</h2> - -<h4>GRATEFUL—COMFORTING.</h4> - -<h2>COCOA</h2> - -<h4>BOILING WATER OR MILK.</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>CARDS</h2> - -<p>The FINEST SAMPLE BOOK of Gold Beveled Edge, Hidden Name, Silk Fringe, -Envelope and Calling Cards ever offered for a 2 cent stamp. These are -GENUINE CARDS, NOT TRASH.</p> - -<h4>UNION CARD CO., COLUMBUS, OHIO.</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>FREE.</h2> - -<p>Comic return envelopes. Sleight of Hand exposed. List of 600 gifts. -Album of cards. Send 2c. stamp for postage.</p> - -<h4>Address Banner Card Co., Cadiz, Ohio.</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> -<img src="images/ill_036.jpg" width="400" height="62" alt="" /> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> -<img src="images/ill_037.jpg" width="200" height="164" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h3>Highest Award</h3> - -<h3>WORLD'S FAIR.</h3> - -<h2>SKATES</h2> - -<h3>CATALOGUE FREE.</h3> - -<h4>BARNEY & BERRY, Springfield, Mass.</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>HOOPING-COUGH</h2> - -<h2>CROUP.</h2> - -<h3>Roche's Herbal Embrocation.</h3> - -<p class="center">The celebrated and effectual English Cure without internal medicine. -Proprietors, <span class="smcap">W. Edward & Son</span>.</p> - -<p class="center">London, England.</p> - -<h4>E. Fougera & Co., 30 North William St., N.Y.</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_226" id="Page_226">[Pg 226]</a></span></p> - -<h3>An Appeal for a School-house.</h3> - -<p>Come, dear readers of the Table—Ladies, Knights, Patrons, and their -friends—let us make possible the laying of the corner-stone of Good -Will School next spring. The task is not a difficult one. It can be -accomplished in this way:</p> - -<p>Get one subscriber to <span class="smcap">Harper's Round Table</span>. Remit the $2 for it for one -year. Attach the accompanying Coupon. Say in your letter that you wish -the 50 cents turned into the Fund. And the thing is done. The Fund is -complete. The corner-stone will be laid. The boys will have an -industrial school-house. The Order will have performed a grand, a -chivalrous deed.</p> - -<p>At this holiday-time every person who reads these lines has it within -his or her power to build this school-house. Because, if <i>you</i> get the -one subscriber, the house will be built. If you do not, it will not—not -now. All depends on you.</p> - -<p>Go out and ask your friends about it. Ask them to help you get the -subscriber. Your parents and teachers will help you. Ask them to do so. -Set your heart on getting this one subscriber. Go to a Sunday-school or -church committee, a day school, some well-to-do man or woman who has -young persons in the household. Ask the well-to-do neighbor. Relate the -merits of the paper, and show a sample copy and Prospectus. We furnish -them free. Ask us to do so.</p> - -<p>But do more than this. Relate the story of Good Will. Tell the person -whom you are asking to subscribe why you want the subscription, and why -you want it now. Tell him or her that Good Will Farm, while in Maine, -takes boys from any part of the country, and is therefore not a local -but a national enterprise. Say that it is a house for an industrial -school that the Order is to build. The Farm is in good hands, and the -school itself will be well conducted. Our task is only to put up the -building, not to conduct the school. Say that during the last few -years—two or three—more than 700 poor boys have applied for admission -to Good Will, and had to be refused it for lack of room. These boys were -deserving. Say further that if you get the subscription the school will -be built, and, by turning a house now used for the school into a -dwelling, more boys can be taken—boys of five, six, and seven years of -age, who are now homeless, may be given homes, school advantages, and a -chance to become useful Christian men.</p> - -<p>During the next two weeks will <i>you</i> get this subscription? Talk it -up—and get it. The appeal is not made to the Order. It is made to -<i>you</i>. If you do not wish to cut out the coupon, make a pen one nearly -like it, ask us for duplicates, or send on the subscription without a -coupon, simply saying that you got it to help the school, and that you -want 50 cents of the $2 given to the Fund. Be sure to give the -subscription address, and your own name for the Honor Roll.</p> - -<p>Come on, dear friends, let us build this school-house.</p> - -<h3>THIS COUPON</h3> - -<blockquote> - -<p class="center">Will be received by the publishers of <span class="smcap">Harper's Round Table</span> as</p></blockquote> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> -<img src="images/ill_038.jpg" width="400" height="97" alt="Fifty Cents" /> -</div> - -<blockquote> - -<p>when accompanied by an order for a NEW subscription to <span class="smcap">Harper's -Round Table</span> and One Dollar and Fifty Cents. The intent of this -Coupon is to pay you for inducing another person, <i>not now a -subscriber</i>, to subscribe for <span class="smcap">Harper's Round Table</span> for one year. -This Coupon has nothing whatever to do with your own subscription; -that is, with the copy you expect to read next year, it matters not -in whose name it be ordered, and will not be accepted in payment -for any part of it. It is good for its face in the hands of any -person who performs the work indicated, whether said person is a -subscriber or not. HARPER & BROTHERS.</p></blockquote> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>The St. Ives Puzzle Contest.</h3> - -<p>The St. Ives story excited much interest. To new readers we must explain -that it was a tale of the man who came from St. Ives, related to the -famous person bound for that place. There were four riddles in it, and -the rest of the questions were double meanings of names, chiefly -geographical. On the journey the man of wives said he saw "an island of -Greece that wouldn't hold water"—Poros; and speaking of the character -of his many children, the man said not one was "an island off the -Mexican coast"—Angel.</p> - -<p>A great many solvers wrote to ask if a mistake had not been made in -Question No. 2, "because there were not one hundred words in the -paragraph." No mistake was made. The "99th" word is the one preceding -the c—100. Here are the answers:</p> - -<p>1, Wake; 2, Be just before you are generous; 3, Fife; 4, Tietar; 5, -Vilaine; 6, Wigtown; 7, Bureau; 8, Poros; 9, Net and Racquet; 10, Fad; -11, There is no wisdom like frankness; 12, Oka; 13. Mercury -(quicksilver); 14, Gull: 15, Yule; 16, Sasa; 17, Angel; 18, Faro and -Fortune; 19, Lard; 20, Book; 21, Clinch; 22, Palm; 23, Box-car.</p> - -<p>Of the twenty-three questions in the story, twenty-one were correctly -answered by William C. Thayer, aged 13, Michigan, and Pearl A. Coyle, -aged 13, Pennsylvania. The former missed Nos. 13 and 23, and the latter -Nos. 2 and 23. We divide the $10 prize between them, giving $5 to each. -The other $15 of the $25 offered is divided among other high solvers -thus: Frederic W. Darling and Joslyn Z. Smith, New York (Buffalo); Royal -J. Davis. Indiana; Edward L. Lyon, New York; J. M. Espey and Nora B. -Tucker, Pennsylvania, $2 each; and Ethel Ruth Sherman, New York; Mabel -Josephine Frye, District of Columbia; and Amy Erickson, Wisconsin, $1 -each. The money has been forwarded, and reached most of the winners by -Christmas day.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>The Quarter is in the Fund.</h3> - -<blockquote> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dear Knights and Ladies</span>,—I am a great black dog, and I have more -to do with the Round Table Department than you imagine. I have -helped one of your contributors prepare scores of articles for you, -and you have me to thank for their briefness. Whenever a manuscript -threatened to become too long, I would insist on having a door -opened for me, or would beg for a drink of water. So that my wants -might be supplied a long story had to be cut short.</p> - -<p>I am a lazy old fellow, but I am as good as I can be, and goodness -means everything with people, and dogs as well. Some little -children who once had a society called "Peacemakers" let me join -their club because I never fight.</p> - -<p>I am glad to hear that you are to build an Industrial School for -the Good Will Farm boys, for they have a Band of Mercy, and have -promised to be kind to all dumb animals. This means that when -everything does not go just right in the neat shops you are to fit -up for them, they will not lose their tempers and throw their tools -at any stray cat or dog which happens near. Kind boys will make -kind men; and I think that all the pets that read the <span class="smcap">Round Table</span> -ought to raise a fund to help build that school for their mutual -friends. I enclose twenty-five cents for this purpose. If I were a -dog that could perform a great many tricks I would send a larger -amount, but I will leave such an honor to my accomplished brothers. -I suppose the little dogs would consider a dime as their proper -offering; and, by-the-way, what if we adopt that as our standard? -Will all the pets—dogs, kitties, rabbits, lambs, biddies, birds, -ponies—which are interested in boys who are bound to ever protect -them send ten cents for that Good Will School?</p> - -<p>I suppose my letter will be published as long as it is the first -from a dumb animal; but the rest of you must not be disappointed if -yours do not appear in print. This magazine is for children, and -they like it too well to give it over to us. However, I should not -be surprised if the most interesting letters should be printed; and -perhaps the pet that writes the most pleasing one will receive a -reward—a pretty collar, it may be. Hoping to see a long list of -"pet names" in the contributors' list for the School Fund, I will -now say</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;">Bow-wow,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Billy</span>.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><span class="smcap">Bath, Me</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>P. S.—Any pet that wishes boys to keep on abusing them should not -send their dimes.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;">B.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"><a name="THE_CAMERA_CLUB" id="THE_CAMERA_CLUB"></a> -<img src="images/ill_039.jpg" width="450" height="155" alt="THE CAMERA CLUB" /> -</div> - -<blockquote> - -<p>Any questions in regard to photograph matters will be willingly -answered by the Editor of this column, and we should be glad to -hear from any of our club who can make helpful suggestions.</p></blockquote> - -<p>One of our Round Table patrons sends the following formula for a soda -developer, which he says he has used successfully for years:</p> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left">Hot Water</td><td align="right">10</td><td align="left">oz.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Sulphite of Soda Crystals</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="left">"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Sal Soda Crystals</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="left">"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Bromide Potassium</td><td align="right">30</td><td align="left">grs.</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<p>This will take about twelve hours to dissolve. Keep bottle tightly -corked, and it will keep for two or three years, and be as good as if -not better than when first made. To use, take 5 oz. of cold-water, 1 oz. -of this solution, and 12 grs. of pyrogallic acid. This quantity will -develop four 5 by 8 plates, or half a dozen 4 by 5 plates.</p> - -<p>Several of our members have asked for formulas for developing solutions, -and will find the above to give excellent results. In our answers to -queries will be found a formula for hydroquinon and eikonogen developer, -and either of those formulas will give excellent negatives.</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sir Knight William F. Tobey</span> asks when the prizes are to be -announced, and the grade of bromide paper most used by amateurs. -The prizes will be announced as soon after the close of the -competition as the judges are able to examine the pictures. The -grade of bromide paper most used by amateurs is that made by -Eastman & Co., of Rochester, N.Y. They make a bromide paper, called -platino-bromide, which gives beautiful results. The use of bromide -paper is recommended for winter, as by its use one is practically -independent of sunlight.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sir Knight John Byrne</span>, of California, asks what is the best camera -for beginners. A hand camera is the best for a beginner, and one -that is fitted for glass plates instead of film. With a hand camera -one can use a tripod, and make time pictures without the complex -swing-back, which is always more or less trouble to a beginner. A -good size is a camera that takes a 4 by 5 picture.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sir Knight Alison Martin</span>, who sent a collection of fine photographs -to the contest, asks if those pictures which do not take a prize -can be criticised. If Sir Knight Alison could see the quantity of -pictures which have been sent in he would at once see that special -criticism of each picture would involve more time and space than -could be given to the Camera Club Department. After the contest -closes there will be a general criticism or description of the -pictures submitted.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sir Knight Milton E. Pease</span>, of Suffield, Connecticut, wants the -address of some firm where he can get good supplies, and also -wishes the formula for a good developing solution. Sir Knight -Milton will find reliable firms in Boston and New York, any one of -which will send price-list on application. The editor is not -familiar with firms in Springfield, Connecticut, but would advise -sending to some town near Suffield, as the charges are much less -for transportation. A good developing solution is made as follows: -Solution No. 1. Water, 10 oz.; sulphite of soda, 2 oz.; eikonogen, -165 grs.; hydroquinon, 80 grs.; and add enough water to make the -solution up to 8 oz. Solution No. 2. Water, 10 oz.; carbonate of -potassium, 1 oz.; sodium carbonate, 1 oz.; and enough more water to -make the solution up to 16 oz. For developing take 1 oz. of No. 1, -1 oz. of No. 2, and 4 oz. of water.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_227" id="Page_227">[Pg 227]</a></span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sir Knight Edwin V. Griswold</span> asks what kinds of trays to use for -developing, fixing, and toning. The best developing trays are made -of rubber, but celuloid makes a very good tray. An amber glass tray -is the best for a fixing-tray, as, being so unlike the other trays, -one never mistakes the hypo-tray for any other. A white porcelain -tray is usually chosen for a toning-tray.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">A correspondent of Englewood, N.J</span>., who does not sign name, asks a -good and cheap way to make a developer. Our correspondent will find -his question answered in the answer to Sir Knight Milton Pease in -this number, and also at the beginning of this column.</p></blockquote> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"><a name="STAMPS" id="STAMPS"></a> -<img src="images/ill_040.jpg" width="450" height="154" alt="STAMPS" /> -</div> - -<blockquote> - -<p>This Department is conducted in the interest of stamp and coin -collectors, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question -on these subjects so far as possible. Correspondents should address -Editor Stamp Department.</p></blockquote> - -<p>The new U. S. Postage-due stamps are printed in aniline colors, and if -wet the colors run badly. Do not soak any of them, as that would ruin -them. The higher values of these stamps (30 and 50 cents) are still -scarce, as many post-offices had large stocks of the old issue, or of -the lower values (1, 2, 3, 5, and 10) of the current issue.</p> - -<p>Proofs and essays of U. S. stamps are advancing in value rapidly. A few -years ago they brought nominal prices only.</p> - -<p>Unused U. S. stamps, with the original gum well centred, are worth from -30 per cent. to 50 per cent. more than when gum has been soaked off, or -when not evenly centred.</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p><span class="smcap">F. Boggs</span>.—Write to any of the firms mentioned in our advertising -columns.</p> - -<p>E. S. D.—Dealers ask 20c. for the 1835 dime.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">J. S. Powelson</span>.—The 2c. 1869 can be bought for 8c.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ruth E. Chamberlin</span>.—The 1804 half-cent is quoted at 15c.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Glen Carter</span>.—"Helvetia" stamps are those of Switzerland from 1862 -to date. They are worth from 1c. to $1 each, according to scarcity.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">John H. Campbell</span>.—The last issue of Mexico are the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, -10, 12, 15, 20, and 50 centavos; 1, 5, and 10 pesos.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">F. Waldron</span>.—The prices quoted are those <i>asked</i> by dealers, not -the prices paid by dealers for them. Address firms mentioned in our -advertising columns.</p> - -<p>R. S. C.—In die A, 1887, 2c. green U. S. envelope the bust points -to the space between the third and fourth "tooth" of the edge. In -die B, the common die, the bust points to space between second and -third "tooth."</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ben B. Wooster</span>.—It is frequently difficult to distinguish the two -dies of the 1851 U. S. 1c. stamp, as they were printed with very -small margins. The 1851 extra line U. S. 3c. is identical with the -1851 die, but perforated. The extra line is at top and bottom only.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">A. C. G. Williams</span>.—Die B, fawn, star watermark, is very common, -and worth very little. The rare envelope has the die C stamp. In -this the head of Washington is egg shaped.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Josie S. Grey</span>.—There is no 1775 Washington U. S. cent. For the -prices of the cents and half-cents see <span class="smcap">Round Table</span> No. 842. The -other coins and tokens mentioned have no premium value. I do not -know the "Veto" token.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">E. M. Farewell</span>.—Old English telegraph and revenue stamps are not -collected in this country.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">A. J. Selover</span>.—The flying eagle cent, 1856, is worth $5. The other -dates do not bring any premium.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">A. Walter</span>.—No premium on the coins mentioned.</p> - -<p>S. M.—The legend "One Hundred Years" appears on the stamps of New -South Wales.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">H. B. Barber</span>.—The only way is to buy an illustrated catalogue, -which will give you prices also.</p></blockquote> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/ill_041.jpg" width="500" height="132" alt="Ivory Soap" /> -</div> - -<p>Have you noticed when discussing household affairs with other ladies -that each one has found some special use for Ivory Soap, usually the -cleansing of some article that it was supposed could not be safely -cleaned at home.</p> - -<h4><span class="smcap">The Procter & Gamble Co., Cin'ti</span>.</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h3>GEO. F. CRANE,</h3> - -<p class="center">90 Nassau St.,</p> - -<p class="center">NEW YORK,</p> - -<p class="center">will pay cash for collections or scarce stamps.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h3>BAKER sells recitations and PLAYS</h3> - -<p class="center">23 Winter St., Boston</p> - -<h4>CATALOGUES FREE.</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> -<img src="images/ill_042.jpg" width="400" height="62" alt="" /> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 179px;"> -<img src="images/ill_043.jpg" width="179" height="200" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h3>THE</h3> - -<h3>BALTIMOREAN PRINTING-PRESS</h3> - -<p>has earned more money for boys than all other presses in the market. -Boys, don't idle away your time when you can buy a self-inking -printing-press, type, and complete outfit for $5.00. Write for -particulars, there is money in it for you.</p> - -<h4>THE J. F. W. DORMAN CO.,</h4> - -<h4>Baltimore, Md., U.S.A.</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>FOR YOUNG PEOPLE</h2> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>"HARPER'S ROUND TABLE" FOR 1895</h3> - -<p class="center">Volume XVI. With 1096 Pages, and about 750 Illustrations. 4to, Cloth, -Ornamental, $3.50.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>A LIFE OF CHRIST FOR YOUNG PEOPLE</h3> - -<p class="center">In Questions and Answers. By <span class="smcap">Mary Hastings Foote</span>. With Map. Post 8vo, -Cloth, Ornamental, $1.25.</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>The Rev. <span class="smcap">Dr. David H. Greer</span> writes:</p> - -<p>"I believe it to be one of the most satisfactory manuals of that -character which I have ever seen. It meets a need both in the -family and the Sunday-school, and I am sure that its merits will be -very quickly and widely appreciated. It is not often that I can -give an indorsement so cordially and unreservedly as in this case."</p></blockquote> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>OAKLEIGH</h3> - -<p class="center">A Story for Girls. By <span class="smcap">Ellen Douglas Deland</span>. Illustrated, Post 8vo, -Cloth, Ornamental, $1.25.</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>The story is told in a simple and direct manner that enlists the -sympathy and attention of the reader.—<i>Saturday Evening Gazette</i>, -Boston.</p> - -<p>A story for girls, charmingly written, and illustrated throughout -with pictures dainty enough to please the most fastidious -damsel.... The incidents are full of life, the characters are very -natural, and the conversations well sustained, so that the story is -full of intense interest from beginning to end.—<i>Chicago -Inter-Ocean</i>.</p></blockquote> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>By KIRK MUNROE.</h3> - -<p class="center"><b>Snow-Shoes and Sledges</b>, a Sequel to "The Fur-Seal's Tooth." Illustrated. -Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1.25.</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>Will hold the interest of its readers from beginning to end.—<i>N. Y. -Evening Post</i>.</p> - -<p>The young folks will take delight in it.... We confess to have read -every word of the journal with as much interest as we once read -"Robinson Crusoe" or the "Swiss Family Robinson."—<i>Christian -Intelligencer</i>, N.Y.</p></blockquote> - -<h4><i>BY THE SAME AUTHOR</i>:</h4> - -<p><span class="smcap">The Fur-Seal's Tooth</span>.—<span class="smcap">Raftmates</span>.—<span class="smcap">Canoemates</span>.—<span class="smcap">Campmates</span>.—<span class="smcap">Dorymates</span>. -Each one volume. Illustrated. Post 8vo, Cloth, $1.25.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wakulla</span>.—<span class="smcap">The Flamingo Feather</span>.—<span class="smcap">Derrick Sterling</span>.—<span class="smcap">Chrystal, Jack & -Co</span>., and <span class="smcap">Delta Bixby</span>. Illustrated. Square 16mo, Cloth, $1.00 each.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>By MRS. SANGSTER</h3> - -<p><b>Little Knights and Ladies.</b> Verses for Young People. By <span class="smcap">Margaret E. -Sangster</span>, Author of "On the Road Home," etc. Illustrated. 16mo, Cloth, -Ornamental, $1.25.</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>These verses for young people are brimful of sweetness and -tenderness; they will find generous welcome.... All through the -little volume runs a graceful current of personal influence, sunny -and gentle and sympathetic.—<i>Independent</i>, N. Y.</p></blockquote> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>By W. J. HENDERSON</h3> - -<p><b>Afloat with the Flag.</b> By <span class="smcap">W. J. Henderson</span>, Author of "Sea Yarns for -Boys," etc. Illustrated. Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1.25.</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>Mr. W. J. Henderson's latest sea-story for boys is one of the best -we have seen.... The story has been read with eager interest by -thousands of <span class="smcap">Round Table</span> readers, and it will have an additional -charm to them and others in its present book form.—<i>Boston -Advertiser</i>.</p></blockquote> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>HARPER & BROTHERS, Publishers, New York</h3> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_228" id="Page_228">[Pg 228]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 272px;"> -<img src="images/ill_044.jpg" width="272" height="400" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">A STEEPLE-CHASE.</span> -</div> - -<hr class="tb" /> -<h3>REGGIE'S CONVALESCENCE.</h3> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mamma</span>. "Don't imagine you're sick, Reggie, or you'll never get well."</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Reggie</span>. "All right, mamma; then I'll play off well, and go skating just -to stop my sickness."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"How is your little sister, Robbie?"</p> - -<p>"She's getting well, she's taking celuloid milk." And he marched off -proud of having accomplished such a big word, for sterilized or celuloid -was all one to this little man of five.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"Mamma," said Clara, "the minister always says amen; when a lady prays -does she say awoman?"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>BOBBY'S COMPOSITION.</h3> - -<h3>PARENTS.</h3> - -<p>Parents are things which boys have to look after them. Most girls also -have parents. Parents consist of Pas and Mas. Pas talk a good deal about -what they are going to do, but mostly it's Mas that make you mind.</p> - -<p>Sometimes it is different, though. Once there was a boy came home from -college on vacation. His parents lived on a farm. There was work to be -done on the farm. Work on a farm always has to be done early in the -morning. This boy didn't get up. His sister goes to the stairway and -calls: "Willie, 'tis a beautiful morning. Rise and list to the lark." -The boy didn't say anything. Then his Ma calls: "William, it is time to -get up. Your breakfast is growing cold." The boy kept right on not -saying anything. Then his Pa puts his head in the stairway, and says he, -"Bill!" "Coming, sir!" says the boy.</p> - -<p>I know a boy that hasn't got any parents. He goes in swimming whenever -he pleases. <i>But I am going to stick to my parents.</i></p> - -<p>However, I don't tell them so, 'cause they might get it into their heads -that I couldn't get along without them.</p> - -<p>Says this boy to me, "Parents are a nuisance; they aren't what <i>they're</i> -cracked up to be." Says I to him, "Just the same, I find 'em handy to -have. Parents have their failings, of course, like all of us, but on the -whole I approve of 'em."</p> - -<p>Once a man says to me, "Bobby, do you love your parents?" "Well," says -I, "I'm not a-quarrelling with 'em."</p> - -<p>Once a boy at boarding-school went to calling his Pa the Governor, and -got his allowance cut down one-half. His Pa said he ought to have waited -till he was going to college.</p> - -<p>Much more might be written about parents, showing their habits and so -forth, but I will leave the task to abler pens.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>A BIRD'S PECULIAR NEST.</h3> - -<p>There is preserved in the Museum of Natural History at Soleure, in -Switzerland, a bird's nest made of steel.</p> - -<p>A pair of wagtails had built a nest near the town of Soleure, and a -clock-maker who had to pass along a road near the nest noticed something -peculiar in its construction. He stopped one day and examined it, and, -much to his astonishment, found it made entirely of steel. It was more -than four inches across. As Soleure contains several clock-making shops, -and the windows of these shops are frequently left open, the natural -supposition is that the birds gathered up the thin spiral shavings of -steel, and built their nest. The ingenious way in which these strands of -steel are made to fit into one another and woven so compactly, is -marvellous when the bird's trifling bit of strength is considered. A -bird's nest is often an indication of its surroundings, as in the case -of a city sparrow's nest, which is usually made of strings, bits of -cotton, wisps of straw and hay, tooth-picks, cloth, the hair of horses, -and such miscellany.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>THE CHINAMAN'S SLED.</h2> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/ill_045.jpg" width="500" height="320" alt="" /> -<span class="caption"><span class="smcap">Charley Leu's bob-sled went almost as fast as Melican -man's</span>—</span> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/ill_046.jpg" width="500" height="320" alt="" /> -<span class="caption"><span class="smcap">But in the management of it he badly lacked the skill -acquired by experience and inheritance</span>.</span> -</div> - -<p style="clear:both;"> </p> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Round Table, December 31, 1895, by Various - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S ROUND TABLE, DEC 31, 1895 *** - -***** This file should be named 51264-h.htm or 51264-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/1/2/6/51264/ - -Produced by Annie R. 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