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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. 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 Young People, February 7, 1882 - An Illustrated Weekly - -Author: Various - -Release Date: October 2, 2016 [EBook #53187] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE *** - - - - -Produced by Annie R. McGuire - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#ARTS_ORGAN_ADVENTURE">ART'S ORGAN ADVENTURE.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_SNOW">THE SNOW.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#TOBOGGANING">TOBOGGANING.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#FUN_AND_PICTURES">FUN AND PICTURES.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_TALKING_LEAVES">THE TALKING LEAVES.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_BOY_COMMANDER_OF_THE_CAMISARDS">THE BOY COMMANDER OF THE CAMISARDS.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#BIRDS_NESTS_FOR_SOUP">BIRDS' NESTS FOR SOUP.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_LITTLE_DOLLS_DRESSMAKER">THE LITTLE DOLLS' DRESSMAKER.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#A_LOVING_KISS">A LOVING KISS.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#IN_THE_CORNER">IN THE CORNER.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#MONOGRAM_PUZZLE">MONOGRAM PUZZLE.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#OUR_POST_OFFICE_BOX">OUR POST-OFFICE BOX.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#ENIGMA">ENIGMA.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#EXPERIMENTS_WITH_ELECTRICITY">EXPERIMENTS WITH ELECTRICITY.</a></td></tr> -</table></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_225" id="Page_225">[Pg 225]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 800px;"> -<img src="images/ill_001.jpg" width="800" height="313" alt="HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE" /> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Vol. III.—No</span>. 119.</td><td align="center"><span class="smcap">Published by</span> HARPER & BROTHERS, <span class="smcap">New York</span>.</td><td align="right"><span class="smcap">price four cents</span>.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Tuesday, February 7, 1882.</td><td align="center">Copyright, 1882, by <span class="smcap">Harper & Brothers</span>.</td><td align="right">$1.50 per Year, in Advance.</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 700px;"><a name="ARTS_ORGAN_ADVENTURE" id="ARTS_ORGAN_ADVENTURE"></a> -<img src="images/ill_002.jpg" width="700" height="538" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">"HE WAS DRINKING COFFEE OR SOUP OUT OF A CUP FILLED FROM -A BOTTLE IN THE HANDS OF A LITTLE GIRL."</span> -</div> - -<h2>ART'S ORGAN ADVENTURE.</h2> - -<h3>BY MATTHEW WHITE, JUN.</h3> - -<p>The Dicksons were spending the winter in Paris, and Art, who was -fourteen, resolved to make the most of the grand opportunity thus -afforded him of thoroughly exploring the handsomest city in the world. -He had "done" the galleries, the churches, the prisons, and the palaces -with the rest of the family; but now that all the principal points of -interest had been visited, his mother and sister became absorbed in -"dressmaking and millinery" while his father spent hours at the <i>Herald</i> -office reading the American papers. As neither of these occupations was -lively enough to suit the taste of an eager, restless boy like Art, he -took to going off on long exploring trips by himself, up, down, across, -and around the city!</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_226" id="Page_226">[Pg 226]</a></span></p> - -<p>"Now, Arthur, do, I beg of you, be careful," his mother would say to -him. "If you could speak French, I wouldn't worry, but as it is, what if -you should get lost?"</p> - -<p>"Why, I'd just call a cab, sing out through my nose as loud as I could -the name of our hotel, and I'd be back here"—Art was going to add "in -no time," but recollecting that he was not supposed to be riding behind -his father's fast team in New York, changed it to "some time."</p> - -<p>One morning he had planned to spend on top of an omnibus running on a -route he had not yet been over, but on awaking he found quite a -snow-storm raging in the air, although the flakes melted as soon as they -touched the heated pavements.</p> - -<p>Now Art had not seen snow before all that winter, so when it had cleared -off he determined, instead of taking his omnibus ride, to walk out to -the Bois de Boulogne and feast his eyes on the "genuine article."</p> - -<p>He set out about eleven, walking at a brisk pace in order to be back in -good season for lunch at one. There was plenty to see on the way, so -although the distance from the hotel to the Bois was a long one, it did -not seem a great while to Art before he came within sight of a pure -white covering of snow on tree, shrub, and grass. His boyish heart -thrilled at once with delight, although he could not but acknowledge to -himself that a hill and a sled would not have come amiss. As a -substitute for these he fell to making quantities of soft snow-balls to -shy harmlessly at nowhere in particular.</p> - -<p>"I suppose, though," he presently reflected, "if one of those -gens-d'armes should happen to see me, he'd march me off to the Bastile -(if it hadn't been pulled down), for fear of my snow-balls suggesting -bullets to this revolutionary people."</p> - -<p>As this thought struck him he fired what he resolved should be his last -shot, which, as it happened, just grazed the money cup on top of a -hand-organ in the next path.</p> - -<p>The organ was resting on a portable stool, and behind it Art could see -its owner sitting on the low iron railing. He was drinking coffee or -soup out of a cup filled from a bottle in the hands of a little girl -seated on a basket in front of him. The group made quite a pretty -picture, which the lad stopped a moment to gaze at, thankful that his -snow-ball had not disturbed it.</p> - -<p>Then a squirrel nearer at hand caught his eye, and he stood watching the -cute little fellow frisk about, with his bright eyes and gracefully -waving tail, for fully five minutes.</p> - -<p>Presently, however, the confused sound of many voices coming from the -other path again turned Art's attention in the direction of the -hand-organ. He soon saw that it had been left by the man in charge of -the little girl, who was being teased by a company of school-boys.</p> - -<p>One of the latter had possessed himself of the bulging cotton umbrella -which had stood leaning against the post, and was making as if he were -going to run off with it, while the little girl chased him about, -scolding at a terrible rate in her fast French.</p> - -<p>At first Art was inclined to think that the boys were only in fun. But -when he saw two of them catch hold of the organ and hurry away with it -into the woods while the girl was running around the corner after her -umbrella, all his American blood was up, and he started after "the young -highwaymen."</p> - -<p>"I may not be a match for both of them in a fight," he reflected, as he -sped along, "but perhaps I can frighten them a little;" and making his -voice as deep as possible, Art shouted out after the runaways, who, -thinking a gen-darme was on their track, dropped the organ in the snow, -and dashed on at double-quick.</p> - -<p>Our hero slackened up a bit until they were out of sight, and then -hurried forward to see if anything had been broken. Luckily the organ -had escaped all damage, and picking it up, Art started to carry it back -to the little girl. But somehow he could not recollect the exact -direction from which he had entered the woods, and after tramping about -through the snow for some time, he was compelled to put his burden down -and rest awhile.</p> - -<p>"Well, well," he mused, as he wiped the perspiration from his forehead, -"this is a pretty fix for me to get myself into. I wonder what the -fellows at home would say at seeing me lug this hand-organ about through -the woods as if I were an Italian looking for a monkey. And, after all, -I don't believe those fellows really meant to steal it. Very likely they -only wanted to hide it from the little girl. Still, it was a mean thing -to do, and I'm—" But at this instant he became aware of a man running -toward him, shouting and shaking his fist, and before Art could make up -his mind what to do, he saw that it was the organ-grinder.</p> - -<p>Forgetting for the time that ten chances to one the man would not -understand a word he said, Art at once began explaining to him how he -had recovered his property, when, to his amazement, he was suddenly -interrupted by a rough grasp on the collar of his coat, and a torrent of -French fury, which ought to have caused him to tremble in his shoes, if -he had only deserved and comprehended it.</p> - -<p>He <i>did</i> comprehend the tight clutch by which he was held, however, and -quite naturally began to grow highly indignant at the injustice done -him.</p> - -<p>"But don't I tell you I half raced my legs off to get your organ back -for you?" he cried. "Why, I actually believe you think I was one of the -fellows that stole it!"</p> - -<p>Then, as the man took a still firmer grasp of his coat, and began a -louder series of exclamations, the boy became finally convinced that -this was really the state of the case.</p> - -<p>Explanations were of no avail; indeed, they only seemed to make matters -worse, for whenever Art attempted to make himself understood either by -loud talk or dumb-show, the organ-grinder only gripped deeper and -rattled on faster.</p> - -<p>"Well, this is a go!" muttered our hero to himself as he finally gave up -all resistance, and tried in vain to call up a word or two of French -that would be likely to help him out of the scrape. "He must certainly -know that I'm not French, but I don't see that that makes any difference -to him. I wonder, though, what he's going to do with me?"</p> - -<p>This query was soon answered, for now the man made signs to Art to pick -up the organ.</p> - -<p>"What! he wants me to carry the thing for him!" and the lad's hatred of -injustice again rose up strong within him, causing him to shake his head -in a most decided fashion.</p> - -<p>For reply the Frenchman simply shrugged his shoulders, and muttered the -word "Gens-d'armes."</p> - -<p>This was enough for Art. As has been already stated, he had a decided -prejudice to becoming intimate with the Paris police, and as the -spectacle of his being marched off to jail by one of them, before he -could hope to make himself understood, passed before his mental vision, -he stooped down, picked up the organ, and walked on by the side of its -owner, who all the while kept a hand on his shoulder.</p> - -<p>It was certainly a most humiliating situation, but Art managed to -extract some degree of consolation from the reflection that he was being -wronged. Then he suddenly recollected the snow-ball he had thrown which -had nearly overturned the money cup.</p> - -<p>"He must have noticed it, after all. What an awful combination of -circumstances against me! I wonder if I can't buy him off?" and as he -stumbled along beneath his burden, Art began to calculate how much money -he had in his various pockets.</p> - -<p>"But no," he suddenly resolved, "I will not act as if I were guilty. I -did what I thought was right, and now I'll stand by the consequences. I -know that I'm innocent, which is lots of comfort, and surely the -Frenchman will soon let me go when he sees how meekly I take my -punishment."</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_227" id="Page_227">[Pg 227]</a></span></p> - -<p>By this time they had reached the edge of the woods, and the man was -leading the way along one of the paths in the direction of the city.</p> - -<p>"Where on earth is the fellow going to take me, I wonder?" mused Art, -"and what can have become of the little girl and the big umbrella?"</p> - -<p>Presently they left the park behind them, and now our hero was given to -understand that his punishment was but just begun; for suddenly the man -stopped, opened the camp-stool arrangement, motioned to Art to set the -organ on top of it, and then intimated that he expected him to turn the -crank.</p> - -<p>"Never!" cried the boy, excitedly, and he attempted to shake himself -free of the Frenchman's grasp. But the struggle that ensued only served -to draw a gaping crowd around them, and Art speedily saw that the -easiest thing for him to do was to submit.</p> - -<p>So, with the man's hand still on his shoulder, he caught up the crank, -and began to grind out the waltz from the <i>Chimes of Normandy</i>, all the -while busily wondering how he could get back to the hotel in time for -lunch, and thus save his mother a deal of anxiety.</p> - -<p>Once he had thought of mentioning the name of the hotel to the -organ-grinder, but as often gave up the idea when he recollected in what -capacity he would be obliged to traverse the principal boulevards in -order to reach it.</p> - -<p>By this time faces began to appear at the windows of the houses, and -pieces of money were now and then thrown out. Some of these fell quite a -distance from the organ, and having noted this fact, Art set to work to -contrive a plan of escape.</p> - -<p>The Frenchman, however, was not to be easily fooled, for whenever he was -compelled to leave Art's side in order to pick up a coin, he pointed to -the crank and made a circular motion with his arm, to intimate that his -ears were open if his eyes were turned away, and that the instant the -music ceased he would know the reason why.</p> - -<p>Still our hero hoped for success in his scheme, in spite of the -Frenchman's wariness, so he played steadily on and waited his -opportunity, meanwhile taking from one of his pockets with his left hand -a five-centime piece, which is equal to one cent in American money.</p> - -<p>Presently that for which he had been watching happened. The second story -window of a house three or four doors off was opened and some money -thrown out. The man started to pick it up. As soon as his back was -turned, Art quickly transferred his sou from his left hand to his right, -continuing, meanwhile, to grind out the tune with the former. Then with -all the dexterity acquired as pitcher on the nine at home he threw the -money on ahead of the organ-grinder, started on a run up the street and -around the corner.</p> - -<p>He knew that the neighborhood—that of the American quarter—was a quiet -one, so he dashed on fearlessly until he came out on the Place of the -Star, in the centre of which stands the magnificent Arch of Triumph.</p> - -<p>From this point twelve different avenues diverge. Quickly selecting the -one leading furthest away from the spot where he had left the organ, Art -walked rapidly down it until satisfied that he was safe from pursuit. He -then crossed over to the Boulevard Haussmann, and in twenty minutes was -safe back at the hotel.</p> - -<p>When he related his adventures to the family, his father said he ought -to have appealed to the police, and his sister called him a goose for -having stood it as long as he did.</p> - -<p>But not so with the mother. Mrs. Dickson drew him to her side and -whispered that he was her gallant American knight, and after that Art -could not regret his attempt to right a wrong, although he often says -that the man did not deserve the sou he had thrown him so successfully.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="THE_SNOW" id="THE_SNOW">THE SNOW.</a></h2> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">Hurry and skurry! Hurrah for the snow!</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">How the flakes dance, and how the winds blow!</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">Run for the sleighs, and for mufflers run,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">Little ones eager for frolic and fun.</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">Pull on the mittens, and ring out the bells,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">Jolly, I say, is the music that tells</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">Winter has come and the Snow King is here—</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">There! a big snow-ball hit me on the ear!</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="TOBOGGANING" id="TOBOGGANING">TOBOGGANING.</a></h2> - -<h3>BY B. HARDWICKE.</h3> - -<p>This sport, under different names, is popular both in Canada and Russia. -Before Nihilism had terrified a great part of the life and gayety out of -the Russian court, it was a popular pastime even among members of the -imperial family.</p> - -<p>As soon as the Neva was frozen over sufficiently to bear the weight, two -immense piers of solid ice were built at distances of about a quarter to -half a mile apart. On one side there was a flight of steps to the top, -and on the other a precipitous descent at about an angle of forty-five -degrees. The sport consisted in descending this incline in a small -sleigh, or toboggan. The pilot and his one or more passengers having -descended the first incline, ascended the steps of the other pier on -foot, and made the return journey. The trip was repeated back and forth -until the parties were weary of the sport.</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 333px;"> -<img src="images/ill_003.jpg" width="333" height="400" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">THE TOBOGGAN.</span> -</div> - -<p>A toboggan may accommodate three or four persons, as shown in our -picture, but the smaller sleighs made to hold only two are more common -in Russia. A very slight movement suffices to guide the toboggan, or to -throw it out of its course. The steering is done by the occupant of the -back seat. An inexperienced pilot, finding his toboggan careering toward -the right, is apt to put too much force into his efforts to change its -course, and so upset both himself and his passengers. The toboggan -responds to the slightest touch. A stick of wood is sometimes used in -the guiding, but it can be readily done by the hand.</p> - -<p>To enjoy a toboggan ride it is necessary to be well skilled in the art -of guiding the sleigh, or to have great confidence in the person who is -to do the steering. By the time the toboggan has reached the level, it -has acquired velocity sufficient to carry it a very long distance.</p> - -<p>In Canada, where some people who are not fond of cold weather assert -that the winters are "thirteen months long," tobogganing is a most -popular sport. While the nights are enlivened with balls, hops, and -concerts, the days are devoted to snow-shoeing excursions and -tobogganing parties, in which all, both sexes and all ages, join, and -which brighten the hill-slopes and river-banks throughout the dominion.</p> - -<p>The Canadian toboggan proper is a light curved slip of birch bark, -daintily painted or embroidered in quaint Indian style, which glides -down the icy slope with delicious swiftness, and, skillfully guided, -carries its occupant far along the level ground at the base. In some -places in Canada there are courses of wood erected, and during the long -winters the sport can be frequently enjoyed.</p> - -<p>There is just danger enough in tobogganing to make it exciting. An -incautious guide may upset his passengers or run into another toboggan. -The pace being from thirty to sixty miles an hour, a collision may -result in some serious bruises. In most places the course chosen is some -natural declivity where the undulations may be smoothed down so that the -incline is even. Water is sometimes poured down the slope and allowed to -freeze, so as to increase the slipperiness of the surface.</p> - -<p>If any of our readers should have an opportunity of indulging in the -sport, they will do well to bear in mind our advice, and if they -undertake to act as pilots, must be very careful not to get excited. The -fun which boys in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_228" id="Page_228">[Pg 228]</a></span> the United States call coasting is only tobogganing -on a small scale; but the prepared course and the long run of the sleigh -on the level make the pastime much more exciting. Toboggans are sold at -all the large general stores in Montreal and Toronto. There is very -little demand for them in New York, but they may be obtained through a -firm in William Street, New York.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="FUN_AND_PICTURES" id="FUN_AND_PICTURES">FUN AND PICTURES.</a></h2> - -<h3>BY CHARLES BARNARD.</h3> - -<p>Within a year or two there has been introduced into this country a new -set of tools for girls and boys that will not only enable them to -procure a great deal of useful information, but lots of downright fun as -well.</p> - -<p>The first thing necessary is a small wooden box painted black, and -having a brass tube placed in one side. In this brass tube is a lens. -You see what that is. It is a camera. With the camera is a set of -sticks, hinged in the middle, and called a tripod. When folded up, it -makes a neat package that can be carried in the hand. When opened and -set up, the camera is placed on top, and kept in place by a screw.</p> - -<p>There is also a little cap for the tube of the camera, and two, or even -more flat little wooden boxes, with openings at each end, closed by -wooden slides. There is also a small pocket-lantern that gives a red -light. Before we can do any work we must buy some sensitive plates. -These come in packages of a dozen each, wrapped in black paper. They are -called gelatine plates, and sometimes dry plates. They are so sensitive -that the smallest ray of white light would ruin them at once. We must -open the package, therefore, by the light of our lantern in a dark room -when we come to put our plates in the little wooden boxes. Say we take -two and put them back to back; that gives us a chance to take four -pictures.</p> - -<p>It is a bright sunny day. Let us start for some fun and pictures. Ah! -there's a girl knitting on the door-step under a grape-vine. She is -busy, and sits quite still. We set the camera up before her. Point the -brass tube at her, and draw out the bellows at the back of the camera. -We have with us two sheets of pasteboard bound together at the edges, -like a book, with black cloth. Hold this before the ground glass on the -camera and look between the leaves or sheets of pasteboard. There is a -picture of the girl. It is upside down, and a little dim and hazy. The -first we can not help, and by moving the bellows in or out we change the -picture until each twig and leaf is sharp and clear on the glass.</p> - -<p>Now take off the ground glass very carefully, and place one of the -wooden boxes in its place, taking care to put the two handles at the -right, and to fasten the box to the camera by the clasp on top. Softly -now! Do not stir the camera. Put on the cap, and carefully draw out the -slide in the box next the camera. Steady. Take off the cap, and wait six -seconds. Put on the cap, and put the slide in the box again. "Much -obliged, little girl. We will send you your picture to-morrow." After -that we see a boy fishing, a rose-bush in full bloom, and a pretty house -by the pond, and we have a shot in the same way at each.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> -<img src="images/ill_004.jpg" width="400" height="279" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">GIRLS TAKING EACH OTHER'S PHOTOGRAPHS.</span> -</div> - -<p>Among other things we bought with the camera were three shallow pans and -four paper boxes containing dry chemicals, together with a few cents' -worth of oxalic acid in dry powder, a little sulphuric acid in a bottle, -and a bottle of dry bromide of ammonia. We shall also find a small pair -of scales and weights useful.</p> - -<p>Now for work. Open the box marked neutral oxalate of potash, and weigh -out two ounces, and put it in a bottle with six ounces of hot water. -Then to this add a few grains of the oxalic acid. For measuring the -water we use a glass graduate. From the box marked protosulphate of iron -weigh out two ounces, and put it in a bottle with six ounces of hot -water. To this add six drops of sulphuric acid. Let them stand until -they are cool. From<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_229" id="Page_229">[Pg 229]</a></span> the box marked hyposulphite of soda take one ounce, -and from the box marked alum two ounces, and put the chemicals in -bottles containing six ounces of cold water each. Lastly, weigh out one -hundred and twenty grains of the bromide of ammonia, and mix with two -ounces of cold water. Pour the first two mixtures into clean bottles, -taking care to keep back the sediment. For convenience, we will call the -bottle of oxalate of potash No. 1, the iron mixture No. 2, the -hyposulphite of soda No. 3, and the alum No. 4.</p> - -<p>After supper we will light the lantern, open our picture game-bag, and -see what we have captured. On the table we place the three pans, the -numbered bottles, and bromide of ammonia, which is called the -"restrainer." Now measure out one ounce of No. 1, and put it in one pan. -Then add one-quarter ounce of No. 2, and a few drops of the -"restrainer." In another pan pour enough of No. 3 to cover the bottom, -and in the third some of No. 4.</p> - -<p>Open one of the boxes, and take out a plate. Hold it right side up for a -moment in a bowl of cold water, and then drop it lightly into the pan -containing Nos. 1 and 2. Hold the pan in front of the lamp, and gently -rock it up and down. Why, look at that! See that black spot on the -plate. There's another in the corner. Oh, that's the sky. There are two -more spots. That is—yes, that's the girl's dress. There's her face, and -those two small spots are her hands.</p> - -<p>Now wash the plate at the sink, and place it in the pan containing No. 4 -for a moment. Then take it out, and put it in the pan containing No. 3. -How strange! The picture is fading away. No. That's all right. Wait a -moment, and then hold it up to the light. There it is, with the white -film quite faded away. Give it one more washing, and place it in No. 4 -for five minutes. Take the other plates and treat them each in the same -way.</p> - -<p>Next day we find that our four plates are regular photographic -negatives, and if we take them to the photographer, he will give us -prints of them at a very low price. Keep the negative, for if it is a -very pretty one, you can have as many prints made as you wish. Another -and cheaper way is to print them yourself. We buy a little picture-frame -having a movable back, and called a printing-frame. We place in this one -of the negatives, with the smooth side out, and lay over it a piece of -paper called ferroprussiate paper, or sensitive paper, and locking the -back of the frame, we put it in the bright sunshine for three or four -minutes. Then we open the frame in a shaded room, and taking out the -paper, we put it in a pail of water in a dark closet, and leave it -floating there for half an hour. When we open the closet, we take out -the paper, and hang it up to dry in the dark. When it is dry, there is -the picture, in blue and white.</p> - -<p>Any boy or girl twelve years old can do this work. The new tools cost -only a few dollars, and they bring a great deal of fun, and in a little -while a whole gallery of pictures.</p> - -<p>P.S.—Don't forget to send the picture to the girl as we promised.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="THE_TALKING_LEAVES" id="THE_TALKING_LEAVES"></a>THE TALKING LEAVES.<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a></h2> - -<h4>An Indian Story.</h4> - -<h3>BY WILLIAM O. STODDARD.</h3> - -<h3><span class="smcap">Chapter XVIII</span>.</h3> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 142px;"> -<img src="images/ill_005.jpg" width="142" height="150" alt="Drop Cap A" /> -</div> - -<p>fair amount of beauty as well as convenience marked the spot which the -Apache braves had chosen for their camp on the bank of the river. Many -Bears had approved of it when he came, but he had said nothing about the -beauty of it. He had only ordered two or three trusty warriors to go at -once and hunt for a ford, so that he could get upon the opposite bank of -the river if necessary.</p> - -<p>It was some little time before they found one, a mile lower down, and -then they and the great chief were astonished by a report brought to him -by Dolores. Some of the squaws, she said, had taken their children into -the river for a bath, right there by the camp, and one of them had found -a place where she could wade across and back.</p> - -<p>It was afterward found to be a flat ledge of rock, with deep water above -and below, but it was none the less a bitter pill for the pride of the -warriors.</p> - -<p>To think of squaws and children presuming to find, right there under -their noses, the very thing they were hunting for up and down so -anxiously! That, too, when any man's eyes, or any woman's, could now -perceive a slight ripple in the water on the shallow place, such as -ought to have made them suspect it at once.</p> - -<p>The discovery of the ford made the spot safe for the camp. Orders were -given not to put up any lodges or unpack any baggage until morning, and -the whole band prepared for a night in the open air.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_230" id="Page_230">[Pg 230]</a></span></p> - -<p>Long after Ni-ha-be was sound asleep, her adopted sister was lying wide -awake, and gazing at the stars overhead.</p> - -<p>"I remember now," she said to herself. "It was my father told me about -the stars. That's why I knew what the talking leaves meant. He was very -good to me. I can see him plainer and plainer all the while."</p> - -<p>Rita gazed and gazed, and thought and thought, until at last her eyelids -closed heavily, and she too was asleep. Not so soundly as Ni-ha-be, for -many strange dreams came to her, and all she could remember of them was -the very last and latest of all.</p> - -<p>It was just like the picture in the talking leaves which Many Bears had -spoken about the day before, only that now the miners did not look like -that, and Rita in her dream actually thought she saw Many Bears himself -among the Indians who were attacking them.</p> - -<p>"He said he was there. I see him. They are coming. The squaw I saw in -the book. Mother!"</p> - -<p>And suddenly Rita found herself wide awake, and all the rest of her -dream was lost to her.</p> - -<p>Ni-ha-be too was awake.</p> - -<p>"What is the matter, Rita?"</p> - -<p>"Oh, a dream!"</p> - -<p>"Ugh! I never dream. That's the talking leaves. Dreams are big lies like -them. What was it?"</p> - -<p>"The fight in the picture."</p> - -<p>"Miners? Pale-faces? Look, Rita, the braves are mounting. It is hardly -sunrise, but they are going. Did your dream say there was any danger -coming to us?"</p> - -<p>"No, it did not say."</p> - -<p>"I don't care. The Apaches are warriors, and Many Bears is a great -chief. He will not let an enemy come near his camp."</p> - -<p>"Besides, we can cross the river."</p> - -<p>"Yes, by the ford."</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> -<img src="images/ill_006.jpg" width="600" height="392" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">THE APACHE WOMEN WAITING FOR THE RETURN OF THE BRAVES.</span> -</div> - -<p>The return of the warriors was eagerly watched for, but Many Bears did -not seem disposed to hurry back to his camp after his meeting with Steve -and Murray.</p> - -<p>Perhaps he was the more willing to ride slowly because it gave him an -opportunity to ask a great many questions, and to consider the answers -given.</p> - -<p>He did not seem very curious as to the past history of his new friends. -Indian politeness compelled him to let them keep their own affairs to -themselves. Besides, the account they gave sounded well.</p> - -<p>"Send Warning and Knotted Cord find mine? Ugh! Good. Apache not want -him. Friend keep him. Then other pale-faces come for mine? Ugh! Bad. -Drive off friend. Too many rifle. Too many big strong. You not like it. -Ugh! Apaches drive 'em all away. Take every scalp. You see."</p> - -<p>"We're in no hurry about the mine," said Murray. "Go back for it some -day. Too many Lipans now."</p> - -<p>"They go away too. Go beyond mountains. Never come over here before. -Apaches teach 'em a lesson."</p> - -<p>The mind of Many Bears was very much troubled. He wanted to travel -westward as fast as possible, and yet here was a band of his tribe's -worst and most ancient enemies within easy striking distance. Not to -speak of Captain Skinner and his men, and the "plunder" there might be -in their "outfit."</p> - -<p>"What you say? Send Warning tell friend what do."</p> - -<p>"Let 'em all alone," said Murray, promptly. "Maybe Lipans fight -pale-faces. Maybe not. Both get scared and go away. No good to lose -warrior for nothing."</p> - -<p>"Get scalp. Get big name. Tribe say great chief."</p> - -<p>That was the difficulty. His pride was in the way of his good sense.</p> - -<p>Murray did his best in the remainder of that ride, and his peaceful -advice might perhaps have been taken if it had not been for the hot -temper of the younger braves and the "war spirit" they found at the camp -on their arrival.</p> - -<p>"They're a venomous lot," said Murray to Steve, as he looked around him, -while they were riding in. All the mixed "reserve" who could get ponies -had mounted them and ridden out to meet their chief and his warriors. -More than one squaw was among them, ready to ply bow and arrows, or even -a lance, if need should be.</p> - -<p>Rita, who was on the look-out, saw the party as it approached, and -called out to Ni-ha-be:</p> - -<p>"Where are your eyes? Don't you see who is coming?"</p> - -<p>"Father? All the braves? Oh, Rita, there are Knotted Cord and Send -Warning!"</p> - -<p>They did not so much as guess how eagerly their faces were all the while -sought for by the eyes of the two pale-faces.</p> - -<p>"Do you see them, Murray?" had been the first thing Steve had said as -they were riding in.</p> - -<p>"Not yet. Be careful, Steve. If you see them, you must not speak to -them. Contrary to rule."</p> - -<p>"Not speak to them!"</p> - -<p>"Not till the chief himself introduces you. Even after that you must not -say too much."</p> - -<p>Steve was well pleased, as he looked around him, to see how very strong -was that band of Apaches. It seemed as if he had just so much more -reason to feel safe about again falling into the hands of the Lipans.</p> - -<p>True, he was among the wildest kind of Indians, but he was not a -prisoner, and the Apaches had no claim on him.</p> - -<p>"They will not care whether I go or stay," he said to himself.</p> - -<p>He had not gotten away from them yet, however, and among the first to -welcome him was Red Wolf.</p> - -<p>Steve was glad to meet the young brave again, and showed it, and so did -Murray.</p> - -<p>The latter, indeed, won the heart of Many Bears by saying of his son, in -the presence of the warriors standing by,</p> - -<p>"Brave young man. Stand right up and fight. Make a great war chief some -day. I like him."</p> - -<p>"Young men go," said Many Bears. "Send Warning stay with gray-heads."</p> - -<p>Steve walked away at his new friend's side, both of them a little -puzzled what to do or say, until Steve asked a question in Mexican -Spanish.</p> - -<p>The ice was broken. Red Wolf understood that tongue as well as Steve -did.</p> - -<p>"You are my brother. You are not a pale-face."</p> - -<p>Steve was not altogether ignorant of Indian manners and of their bitter -prejudices, and he replied:</p> - -<p>"Brother. Yes. All right. I am an Apache now. Fight for tribe. Fight for -brother."</p> - -<p>That was precisely what he had already done, so that it was more than a -mere profession, but the reply of Red Wolf had a great deal of frankness -in it:</p> - -<p>"Red Wolf is an Apache. He hates pale-faces. Glad his brother has come -to be an Apache. Eat with him now. Show him foolish young squaw that ran -away and got caught. Squaw know very little."</p> - -<p>They had walked along for some distance when Red Wolf said that he was -very near his own camp fire. He had not intended this remark for any -ears but those of Steve Harrison, and his pride forbade his noticing the -ripple of laughter which immediately followed it.</p> - -<p>"Did you hear him, Rita?" said Ni-ha-be. "He was one of the braves who -went to find the ford. They forgot to ask the squaws where to look for -it."</p> - -<p>Steve heard the rippling laugh, but he did not understand the words. -Could they be making fun of him?</p> - -<p>His cheeks burned red hot at the thought of it, for he turned his head -just long enough to see that those two pairs of bright and searching -eyes were looking straight at him. They dropped instantly, but not -before they had seen the quick flush rise to his face.</p> - -<p>"Ni-ha-be," said Rita, "he will think we are rude."</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_231" id="Page_231">[Pg 231]</a></span></p> - -<p>"Ni-ha-be, Rita," said Red Wolf at that moment, "tell Dolores she must -cook for Knotted Cord. The chief says so. Bring blanket. Bring water. Be -quick."</p> - -<p>"Rita," said Ni-ha-be, while they were dipping their water gourds in the -river, "he is as handsome as an Apache."</p> - -<p>The two girls were certainly beginning to take a very great interest in -their white friends and visitors, but they both stood gravely and -silently enough before Red Wolf and Knotted Cord when they brought them -the water.</p> - -<p>"Young squaws thank you for help," said Red Wolf. "Both very glad. Very -young. Very foolish. Daughters of great chief himself."</p> - -<p>Steve almost forgot Murray's caution, for he frankly held out his hand, -saying,</p> - -<p>"I'm glad Murray and I were on hand to help. They're too nice to be -killed. Glad to see them both well."</p> - -<p>Mother Dolores was looking on, and was deeply scandalized by the -terrible boldness of Ni-ha-be, for that young lady actually took the -hand Steve held out, and shook it, for all the world as if she had been -a brave.</p> - -<p>Such a thing was unheard of, and what made it worse was the fact that -Rita instantly followed her example.</p> - -<p>Red Wolf hardly knew what to say, but he was pretty well used to seeing -Ni-ha-be have her own way. He was pleased that they had stopped short of -so grave an offense as speaking.</p> - -<p>"Rita will go. She will bring the talking leaves by-and-by. Red Wolf has -a question to ask of his brother. Ni-ha-be go too."</p> - -<p>Steve would have been glad to make a longer "call" upon the daughters of -the great chief, but they quietly walked away, as became them, not even -laughing until they were at some distance.</p> - -<p>Then it was Ni-ha-be who laughed, for Rita was thinking about the -talking leaves, and wishing with all her heart that she could manage to -ask some questions of her own concerning them.</p> - -<p>"If he could not answer me, I am sure Send Warning could. He is old and -he is wise, and I know he is good."</p> - -<h4>[<span class="smcap">to be continued</span>.]</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="THE_BOY_COMMANDER_OF_THE_CAMISARDS" id="THE_BOY_COMMANDER_OF_THE_CAMISARDS">THE BOY COMMANDER OF THE CAMISARDS.</a></h2> - -<h3>BY GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON.</h3> - -<p>When Louis XIV. was King of France, that country was Catholic, as it is -still, but in the mountainous region called the Cevennes more than half -the people were Protestants. At first the King consented that these -Protestant people should live in quiet, and worship as they pleased; but -in those days men were not tolerant in matters of religion, as they are -now, and so after a while King Louis made up his mind that he would -compel all his people to believe alike. The Protestants of the Cevennes -were required to become Catholics. When they refused, soldiers were sent -to compel them, and great cruelties were practiced.</p> - -<p>When this persecution had lasted for nearly thirty years, a body of -young men who were gathered together in the High Cevennes resolved to -defend themselves by force.</p> - -<p>Among these young men was one, a mere boy, named Jean Cavalier. This -boy, without knowing it, had military genius of a very high order, and -when it became evident that he and his comrades could not long hold out -against the large bodies of regular troops sent against them, he -suggested a plan which in the end proved to be so good that for years -the poor peasants were able to maintain war against all the armies that -King Louis could send.</p> - -<p>Cavalier's plan was to make uprisings in several places at once, so that -the King's officers could not tell in which way to turn. As he and his -comrades knew the country well, and had friends to tell them of the -enemy's movements, they could nearly always know when it was safe to -attack, and when they must hide in the woods.</p> - -<p>One Sunday, Cavalier, who was a preacher as well as a soldier, held -services in his camp in the woods, and all the Protestant peasants in -the neighborhood attended. The Governor of Alais, whose name was De la -Hay, thought this a good opportunity not only to defeat Cavalier's small -force, but also to catch the Protestant women and children in the act of -attending a Protestant service, the punishment for which was death. He -collected a force of about six hundred men and marched toward the wood, -where he knew he should outnumber the peasants three or four to one. He -had a mule loaded with ropes, declaring that he was going to hang all of -the rebels at once.</p> - -<p>When news of their coming was brought to the peasants, they sent away -all the women and children, and began to discuss the situation. They had -no commander, for although Cavalier had led them generally, he had no -authority to do so. On this occasion many thought it best to retreat at -once, as there were less than two hundred of them; but Cavalier declared -that if they would follow him, he would lead them to a place where -victory might be won. They consented, and he advanced to a point on the -road where he could shelter his men. Quickly disposing them in line of -battle behind some defenses, he awaited the coming of the enemy.</p> - -<p>De la Hay, being overconfident because of his superior numbers, -blundered at the outset. Instead of attacking first with his infantry, -he placed his horsemen in front, and ordered an assault. Cavalier was -quick to take advantage of this blunder. He ordered only a few of his -men to fire, and this drew a volley from the advancing horsemen, which -did little damage to the sheltered troops, but emptied the horsemen's -weapons. Instantly Cavalier ordered a charge and a volley, and the -horsemen, with empty pistols, gave way. Cavalier pursued hotly, giving -the enemy no time to rally. A re-enforcement coming up, tried to check -Cavalier's charge, but so violent was the onset that these fresh troops -gave way in their turn, and the chase ended only when the King's men had -shut themselves up in the fortified towns.</p> - -<p>When the battle was over it was decided unanimously to make Cavalier the -commander. He refused, however, unless they would also give him power to -enforce obedience, and his troops at once voted to make his authority -absolute, even in questions of life and death. According to the best -authorities, Cavalier was only seventeen years old when this absolute -command was conferred upon him.</p> - -<p>On one occasion Cavalier attacked a party of forty men who were marching -through the country to re-enforce a distant post, and killed most of -them. While searching the dead bodies, he found in the pocket of the -commanding officer an order signed by Count Broglio, the King's -Lieutenant, directing all military officers and town authorities to -lodge and feed the party on their march. No sooner had the boy soldier -read this paper than he resolved to turn it to his own advantage.</p> - -<p>The castle of Servas, near Alais, had long been a source of trouble to -Cavalier. It was a strong place, built upon a steep hill, and was so -difficult of approach that it would have been madness to try to take it -by force.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/ill_007.jpg" width="500" height="356" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">CAVALIER PERSONATING THE LIEUTENANT OF THE COUNT -BROGLIO.</span> -</div> - -<p>When he found the order referred to, he resolved to pretend that he was -the commander of the detachment which he had just destroyed. Dressing -himself in the dead officer's clothes, he ordered his men to put on the -clothing of the other dead royalists. Then he took six of his best men, -with their own Camisard uniforms on, and bound them with ropes, to -represent prisoners. One of them had been wounded in the arm, and his -bloody sleeve helped the stratagem. Putting these six men at the head of -his troop, with a guard of their disguised comrades over them, he -marched toward the castle. There he declared himself to be Count -Broglio's lieutenant, and said that he had met a company of the Barbets, -or Camisards, and had defeated them, taking six prisoners; that<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_232" id="Page_232">[Pg 232]</a></span> he was -afraid to keep these prisoners in the village overnight lest their -friends should rescue them; and that he wished to lodge them in the -castle for safety. When the Governor of the castle heard this story, and -saw the order of Count Broglio, he was completely imposed upon. He -ordered the prisoners to be brought into the castle, and invited -Cavalier to be his guest there for the night. Taking two of his officers -with him, Cavalier went into the castle to sup with the Governor. During -supper several of his soldiers, who were encamped just outside, went -into the castle upon pretense of getting wine or bread, and at a signal -from Cavalier they overpowered the sentinels, and threw the gates open. -The rest of the troop rushed in at once, and before the garrison could -seize their arms, the boy commander was master of the fortress.</p> - -<p>Failing to overcome him by force or strategy, Cavalier's foes fell back -upon the hope of starving him during the winter. But in indulging this -hope they forgot that the crown and glory of his work in the field had -been his wonderful fertility of resource. He knew quite as well as they -did that he must live all winter in the woods, so he gave his whole mind -to the question of how to do it.</p> - -<p>He began during the harvest to make his preparations. He explored all -the caves in the mountains, and selected the best ones for use as -store-houses, taking care to have them in all parts of the mountains, so -that if cut off from one he could draw upon another. In these caves he -stored quantities of grain and other provisions, and whenever he needed -meal, some of his men, who were millers, would carry grain to some -lonely country mill and grind it.</p> - -<p>To prevent this, the King's officers ordered that all the country mills -should be rendered unfit for use, but before this could be done, -Cavalier directed some of his men, who were skilled machinists, to -disable two or three of the mills by carrying away the important parts -of their machinery and storing them in his caves. Then, when he wanted -meal, his machinists had only to replace the machinery in some disabled -mill, and remove it again after his millers had done the necessary -grinding. His bakers made use of farmers' ovens to bake bread in, and -when the King's soldiers, hearing of this, destroyed the ovens, Cavalier -sent his masons—for he had all sorts of craftsmen in his ranks—to -rebuild them.</p> - -<p>Having two powder-makers with him, he collected salt-petre, burned -willow twigs for charcoal, and made all the powder he needed, in his -caves. For bullets he melted down the leaden weights of windows, and -when this source of supply failed, he melted down pewter vessels and -used pewter bullets—a fact which gave rise to the belief that he used -poisoned balls. Finally, in a dyer's establishment, he had the good luck -to find two great leaden kettles, weighing more than seven hundred -quintals, which, he says, "I caused immediately to be carried into the -magazines with as much diligence and care as if they had been silver."</p> - -<p>Chiefly by Cavalier's energy and military skill, the war was kept up -against fearful odds for years, and finally the young soldier succeeded -in making a treaty of peace in which perfect liberty of conscience and -worship—which was all they had been fighting for—was guaranteed to the -Protestants of the Cevennes. His friends rejected this treaty, however, -and Cavalier soon afterward went to Holland, where he was given command -of a regiment in the English service. His career in arms was a brilliant -one—so brilliant that the British made him a General, and Governor of -the island of Jersey; but he nowhere showed greater genius or manifested -higher soldierly qualities than during the time when he was the Boy -Commander of the Camisards.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_233" id="Page_233">[Pg 233]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 431px;"><a name="BIRDS_NESTS_FOR_SOUP" id="BIRDS_NESTS_FOR_SOUP"></a> -<img src="images/ill_008.jpg" width="431" height="600" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">"THEY WERE ACTUALLY STUCK AGAINST THE PERPENDICULAR WALL -OF ROCK."</span> -</div> - -<h2>BIRDS' NESTS FOR SOUP.</h2> - -<h3>BY RALPH WATSON.</h3> - -<p>One pleasant morning in the early part of last April I had just landed -in Macao. Having no idea that I was acquainted with any person in Asia, -you can imagine that I was not a little surprised to hear an exultant -shout burst forth behind me, and the familiar old college cry. "Rah! -rah! rah! Y—a—l—e! 26 South College, or there is no faith in the -blue! Well, Well, if this isn't glorious!"</p> - -<p>With the first sound a hand came down vigorously on my shoulder, -swinging me around in a way that reminded me of past experiences, and -lo! Jack Merriman had hold of me in earnest.</p> - -<p>"What a splendid fellow you have grown to be, Tom!—six feet, if you are -an inch. Look at me—five feet six; never could amount to anything, you -know."</p> - -<p>"But how come you here, Jack? What are you doing?"</p> - -<p>"In tea, my boy, in tea. And not a bad thing, now, tea is, when you take -it in the right way. But for yourself—whence and whither bound?"</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_234" id="Page_234">[Pg 234]</a></span></p> - -<p>"From London last, by Suez, Bombay, and Calcutta; to Canton to-morrow, -and then up the coast."</p> - -<p>"Very good; then we will make the most of our time to-day. Here we are -at my office, and this is, of course, your head-quarters. Three o'clock -now. I'll just send around and tell old Man Lok to be ready for us, for -I am going to give you something you never had—a regular Chinese -dinner. The old fellow has some of the best nests I have seen in months, -and you shall have trial of the same. Would you like a few fins too, or -perhaps a pacu-qui? But I forget; you are not yet up in our style of -rations. Never mind; I will show you what we can do."</p> - -<p>The rest of the afternoon Jack and I talked about old times. Then we -repaired to the restaurant, which he told me was noted for the -excellence of Chinese dishes served up in their own peculiar style.</p> - -<p>"Up to the chopsticks, Tom? I suppose not, and we must make allowance -for you. Man Lok has doubtless provided, for I told him you were a poor -Mellican man who did not know much yet. He will have a knife and fork -for you."</p> - -<p>On the table at my place were a knife and fork, as Jack had promised; at -his were the chopsticks, the use of which was a mystery to me then, -though subsequently I became expert in managing them. The dinner was a -most elaborate one, course succeeding course in great number and -variety, all very elegantly served. Many of them were such articles of -food as I had never seen, and as to the nature of some I could not even -hazard a guess. But I will not describe them at present, excepting a -single one.</p> - -<p>This was a soup, which made its appearance at, I think, the fifth -course. It was rather thick, and having a decidedly gelatinous look and -feeling, it might almost have been called a diluted jelly rather than a -soup. It was served very hot, and the flavor was excellent. With it were -brought small dishes of very peculiar preserves, which I thought the -most delicious things in their way that I had ever tasted. Jack said -nothing until some little progress had been made with the soup.</p> - -<p>"How do you like it, my boy? A twang of Asia clear through, is not -there? Recalls all your memories of Lalla Rookh and Sindbad the Sailor, -and those other worthies of ancient history, eh?"</p> - -<p>"It is certainly delightful," said I; "unlike anything I ever tasted."</p> - -<p>"I should think it might be. Precious little of it you ever see outside -the Flowery Land. And what is more, there is not, as I believe, another -man even in all China who can match old Man Lok in serving it. This is -the famous bird's-nest soup, about as much a peculiarity and a glory of -China as the Great Wall, and I was determined that you should make your -acquaintance with it under the auspices of Man Lok, the great -high-priest, the Soyer, of bird's nest."</p> - -<p>"But what is it, Jack? What are you talking about? How can you eat -grass, and sticks, and feathers, and leaves, to say nothing of mud? for -those make up birds' nests in general. I must say I never heard of their -being used for food."</p> - -<p>"Well done, old fellow! Hurrah for Yale! Here is education for you!—a -graduate of high standing who never even heard of bird's-nest soup. Why, -Tom, you are all adrift, man. I learned more than that in the course of -my college life, though I did graduate in the second term of Sophomore -year. But I see how it was; classics, mathematics, and boating were all -you studied, instead of taking to something useful."</p> - -<p>"All right, Jack, I acknowledge your wisdom; only I wish it would -enlighten my ignorance."</p> - -<p>"So I will, Tom—so I will; but we will wait till evening, and do it at -my lodgings, for I have some of the nests there, as well as the birds -which build them, and you shall see for yourself. For the present we -will do honor to Man Lok." Full honor was done to Man Lok, and evening -found me in Jack's rooms.</p> - -<p>"Now, Tom, if you will sit down and behave yourself properly, I will -give you a practical lecture on ornithology viewed as a science which -relates to soup. And that we may start right, I will show you in the -first place the origin of the soup."</p> - -<p>As he spoke, Jack opened a drawer, from which he took five or six -stuffed skins of small dark-colored birds, and after them three -curious-looking objects, which he gravely placed on the table before me -by the side of the skins. These queer things were irregularly circular, -rather broader than my hand, an inch and a half or two inches thick on -one side, thinning out almost to an edge on the opposite side. The -thickened side was flat, as though it had been formed against some hard -substance, from which it had been subsequently torn away.</p> - -<p>The one which Jack had placed nearest my hand was dark and dirty, had -feathers and filth of all kinds mixed in with its upper surface, and as, -like the others, it was sufficiently hollowed out above for such a -purpose. I could easily see that it might have been a nest in which a -brood of young birds had been hatched and reared. The one next to it was -cleaner, free from feathers, and showed no signs of having been used as -a nest; but it was of a dingy brown color, and looked generally <i>dirty</i>. -The third, however, was really beautiful. It was clean, clear as though -its fibres were of pure gelatine, and so brilliant that it looked almost -white.</p> - -<p>"What in the world are these things?"</p> - -<p>"Soup," said Jack, with great gravity—"undeveloped soup."</p> - -<p>"Do, for pity's sake, talk sense, Jack. Do you mean to tell me that I -have been eating such stuff as this?" pointing to the one nearest me.</p> - -<p>"Such are not my intentions. You dined, I think, at the establishment of -my friend Man Lok, and that sort of article never comes under his hand. -This light one is like what you caused to become part of you, and I -believe that even your prejudiced appetite can not fail to admit that it -was good. But come, Tom, let's commence with the birds, and we will take -up the nests afterward. Look at this little fellow, now; dull-colored -beggar, is not he? Do you recognize him? Or rather did you ever know any -bird which he resembles?"</p> - -<p>"No, none that I can remember."</p> - -<p>"Look again. Would he look natural whirling down into a chimney just at -evening?"</p> - -<p>"What! Do you mean a chimney-swallow, Jack?"</p> - -<p>"That is precisely what I mean. Yes, Tom, these nests, which are such a -peculiar delicacy to Chinese palates, are all made by swallows, and -there are, as far as I can trace them, four species which build nests of -this sort. They belong to a division of the swallows which are sometimes -called swifts, our common chimney-swallow of the United States being -included among the swifts. Those which build the edible nests are found -only on the islands of this Asiatic region, and mostly on the coasts of -the islands, though sometimes they go forty or fifty miles inland. They -are all of one genus, <i>Collocalia</i>, and this one in my hand, which I -shot myself, is the <i>Collocalia fuciphaga</i>.</p> - -<p>"Four years ago I made a run down to the north coast of Java, and it was -there I obtained these, the nests and the birds. The coast on that part -of the island is very rocky, and large caves exist in some places, -penetrating the rocks quite deeply. I knew that these caves were said to -be specially frequented by the swallows, and I found that the report was -true, for I visited five or six of them. The birds were very abundant, -and I had opportunity to see their nests in every stage of their -history. I brought away these three as fair representatives. You can see -how they were placed, and this engraving gives you a correct<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_235" id="Page_235">[Pg 235]</a></span> idea of -it. They were actually <i>stuck</i> against the perpendicular or sloping wall -of rock, precisely as a chimney-swallow sticks his nest against the side -of a chimney, his, however, consisting only of a worthless mass of -twigs. The Chinamen gather them from these places in boat-loads, and -bring them to market. Most of those which are brought here come, I -think, from Java and Borneo, though a good supply is obtained also in -Ceylon, the species which is found there being the <i>Collocalia -nidifica</i>. The nests, however, of the different species are sold -together, the only distinction being in quality as to cleanness and -color.</p> - -<p>"Of course the value of the nests, as with all other goods, depends upon -the quality. This dirty fellow here, which has evidently done its work, -and furnished board and lodging to a rising family, is of small value; -and yet even such as these Chinese patience and ingenuity can clean and -clear so perfectly that they are fit for use, though never becoming of -first class. This next one had not been used for rearing a brood, but it -was soiled in some way in the building, and is of about middle grade. -But this is what we call a prime article, this light one, and the whiter -it is the better price it commands. The best are worth more than their -weight in silver."</p> - -<p>"But of what do the birds build them, Jack? Where do they get any such -material? It is a strange-looking substance."</p> - -<p>"No more strange than honey, Tom, and made in the same way. It used to -be thought that it was something which the birds gathered from the -surface of the sea, but we know now that that is all foolishness. I saw -the swallows catching flies as industriously as I ever watched the -barn-swallows doing it over the Green in New Haven, and I opened the -stomachs of many specimens which I shot, and found them always filled -with insects, and with nothing else, so that we know that their food is -the same as that of other birds of their tribe.</p> - -<p>"But they have a set of glands, corresponding to the salivary glands at -the sides of the mouth, which form this peculiar gelatinous material -used by them in building their nests. You know the song says, 'Little by -little the bird builds its best,' and that is the way they deposit these -fine fibres. When first placed they are always clear and nearly white, -and of course nests gathered in that condition are highly prized; few, -however, are obtained that have not been more or less soiled. I do not -understand the mystery of Man Lok's art, but I know that bird's-nest -soup is made very much as any other form of such material—say isinglass -or gelatine—would be prepared for the table."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="THE_LITTLE_DOLLS_DRESSMAKER" id="THE_LITTLE_DOLLS_DRESSMAKER">THE LITTLE DOLLS' DRESSMAKER.</a></h2> - -<h4>ADAPTED FROM CHARLES DICKENS.</h4> - -<h3>BY MRS. ZADEL B. GUSTAFSON.—(<i>Concluded.</i>)</h3> - -<p>There stood on the door-step a rather overgrown boy, with a great many -buttons on his clothes, and a very kind, pleasant face; though not at -all handsome.</p> - -<p>"Come in, sir," said the little dressmaker. "And who may you be?"</p> - -<p>"My name's Sloppy, miss."</p> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 400px;"> -<img src="images/ill_009.jpg" width="400" height="315" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">"DON'T OPEN YOUR MOUTH SO WIDE; SOME DAY IT'LL CATCH -SO."</span> -</div> - -<p>"Ought to be Buttons," laughed Jenny. But when Master Sloppy threw back -his head and laughed, she exclaimed, "Goodness me! don't open your mouth -so wide; if you do, some day it'll catch so, and never come shut again."</p> - -<p>The big boy shut his mouth, and looked around the room for all the world -as if it had been described to him, and he was trying to verify the -description.</p> - -<p>"How do you like it?" asked Jenny.</p> - -<p>"Pretty well, miss."</p> - -<p>"And what do you think of <i>me</i>?"</p> - -<p>This question confused Master Sloppy. He pulled at his coat buttons, and -looked at her foolishly.</p> - -<p>"Don't be afraid," said she. "Speak out. You think I'm queer, now, don't -you?" She shook her head at him, and the broken-toothed comb with which -she had pushed back her hair fell out, so that the shining locks came -down and made a golden bower all around the tiny little figure.</p> - -<p>"Oh," cried Sloppy, "what a lot of it! and what a color!"</p> - -<p>"What did you come for?" asked Jenny, in her gentle voice, after a short -silence.</p> - -<p>"I heard you dressed dolls, miss," said Sloppy, giving a very odd look -at the door.</p> - -<p>"Did you, indeed? Do <i>you</i> want a doll dressed?"</p> - -<p>"You don't live here all alone, do you, miss?" said Sloppy, with another -look at the door.</p> - -<p>"No; I live here with my fairy godmother."</p> - -<p>"With—with—who did you say, miss?"</p> - -<p>"Well, of course you don't understand," Jenny explained. "With my second -father, or with my first, really." She shook her head and sighed. "If -you'd known a poor child I used to have, you'd have understood me; but -as it is, you don't, and you can't."</p> - -<p>"You must have been taught a long time, miss, before you could do such -nice work, and so pretty," Sloppy said, looking at the gay doll and the -quick fingers.</p> - -<p>"Never was taught a stitch. Just cobbled and cobbled until I found out -how. Did badly at first, but better now."</p> - -<p>"And here have I been ever so long a-learning of my -trade—cabinet-making," said the boy. "I'll tell you what, miss; I -should like to make you something."</p> - -<p>"Much obliged," said the little creature, with her sharp look, and her -head on one side. "You're a new sort of customer. What would you like to -make for me, now?"</p> - -<p>Sloppy looked all around the room. "I could make you a handy set of -nests to lay the dolls in, or I could make you a handy little set of -drawers to keep your silks and threads in, miss, or I could turn you a -pretty handle for that crutch. It belongs to him you call your -godmother?"</p> - -<p>"It belongs to <i>me</i>," said Jenny, blushing over her face and neck; "I'm -lame."</p> - -<p>Sloppy blushed too, for he was a kind boy in spite of his big mouth and -his lots of buttons.</p> - -<p>"I'm glad it's yours, miss," said he, very quickly, "because I'd rather -make it pretty for you than for any one else. Please may I look at it?"</p> - -<p>"You'd better see me use it," said Jenny, getting up. "See, this is the -way—hoppety-kickety-peg-peg-peg! Not graceful, is it?"</p> - -<p>"Why, it seems to me that you hardly want it at all," said Sloppy, very -kindly.</p> - -<p>The little dressmaker sat down again and gave the crutch to him, -thanking him with that soft voice and that better look that gave her a -kind of beauty all her own. He measured the handle on his sleeve, and -then gently laid the crutch down.</p> - -<p>"It would be a real pleasure to me, miss, to fix it. I've heard that you -can sing beautiful, and a song would pay me any time a deal better'n -money."</p> - -<p>"You're a very kind young man, and I accept your offer," said the little -creature, with a smile. "I suppose <i>he</i> won't mind," she added, -thoughtfully; and then, tossing her head, "if <i>he</i> does mind, why, <i>he</i> -may, that's all."</p> - -<p>"Meaning him you call your godmother, miss?" Sloppy asked.</p> - -<p>"No, no—<i>him, him, him</i>," said Jenny, with an odd, amused look at -Sloppy's wonder.</p> - -<p>"<i>Him, him, him,</i>" repeated Sloppy, staring.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_236" id="Page_236">[Pg 236]</a></span></p> - -<p>"Yes, <i>him</i> who is coming to court and marry me."</p> - -<p>"Oh, <i>him</i>," said Sloppy. "When is he coming, miss?"</p> - -<p>"What a question! How should I know?" cried the little dressmaker.</p> - -<p>"Where is he coming from, miss?"</p> - -<p>"Why, goodness gracious, boy, how can I tell that either? He's coming -from somewhere, I suppose, and he's coming some day. That's all I know -about him."</p> - -<p>At this Master Sloppy threw back his head and laughed so heartily, and -seemed so merry, that the dressmaker began to laugh too, and even Mr. -Riah joined in.</p> - -<p>"Now," said Jenny, when she had got her breath again, "you haven't told -me yet what you've come to see me for.—Oh, godmother! what's that?"</p> - -<p>"It's a bride, miss, a bride. And a wagon, a coach, a chariot, miss!" -roared Sloppy, who sprang up and threw the door wide open.</p> - -<p>There was a most unusual sound of wheels and voices, and in the same -moment the little dressmaker, golden bower of hair and all, was caught -up in the arms of Lizzie—Lizzie, in a wonderful silk dress, with -shining pearls around her neck, and lace to drive a little dolls' -dressmaker wild. Behind Lizzie stood a handsome gentleman, thin and pale -yet, but with the happiest look Jenny had ever seen in a man's face in -all her little watchful life.</p> - -<p>"Come," said this gentleman to Lizzie—"come, Mrs. Wrayburn, let me take -Miss Golden Hair, and you bring on the godmother."</p> - -<p>Sloppy was already out and on the driver's seat. And almost as quickly -as I have told it, the pretty coach and the span of dark gray -horses—which behaved as if they had been told all about it—were flying -away toward London.</p> - -<p>In the coach were Mr. Riah, who hardly knew how he came to be there, and -the little dressmaker, who sat between the handsome gentleman and -Lizzie—her own dear, kind Lizzie; but, oh, how different and how much -more beautiful! Jenny thought.</p> - -<p>When they had been riding into the city for a little while, the horses -stopped in front of a beautiful house, and Lizzie's "him" carried Jenny -up the wide stairs, by tall stands of lovely flowers, to a little room. -And oh, what a little room it was! The paper on the walls was a tea-rose -color; there was a pretty moss-rose carpet, and a little inlaid working -bench with little scissors, and a dainty basket with silks and ribbons -and velvets pouring out of it, all fit for a dressmaker to the fairies; -and a low chair, cushioned to be as soft as a bunch of clover; and a -beautiful book of pretty patterns, in which was written: "For my darling -Jenny Wren, from her Lizzie-Mizzie-Wizzie."</p> - -<p>Such a change—so great and so delightful that any real fairy godmother -might have been proud to have made it with her fairy wand—almost took -away the little dolls' dressmaker's breath.</p> - -<p>But while she sat in the soft low chair, and Lizzie told her how Mr. -Wrayburn had been very ill, and how when he got better he had asked to -keep his nurse always, and how she had said yes, if she might have her -Jenny Wren, and how he had said he couldn't do without Jenny Wren -either, the little dressmaker's eyes filled with tears, almost the first -happy tears that had ever come into them.</p> - -<p>She took Mr. Wrayburn's hand and kissed it, and wound some of her -beautiful hair around it, and then twisted some of Lizzie's dark hair -around that, and said, "It's a bargain."</p> - -<p>Then Lizzie told her that Mr. Riah was going to live in the little house -in Church Street, because he liked it best, and he was going to do some -nice work for Mr. Wrayburn, and be well paid for it. "And we are going -to take tea with him sometimes," said Lizzie, "and he is going to take -tea with us very often, my dear, and Sloppy is going to make you the -prettiest things, and go on your errands, Jenny love, and you are going -to live with us, and be as happy as the day is long, till 'he' comes."</p> - -<p>"Oh, he! He can stay away now," said Jenny, with the merriest little -laugh. "If he couldn't come when a person was alone, and had trouble, -and lots of work to do, he can stay away now as long as he likes."</p> - -<p>"And serve him right, miss," said Sloppy, who stood in the doorway, and -laughed as merrily as Jenny.</p> - -<p>"And, Jenny dear," said Lizzie, after the little dolls' dressmaker had -gone to bed under the pretty lace curtains, and both were looking -through the window into the pleasant evening sky, "now you can see your -long bright slanting rows of children?"</p> - -<p>Jenny waited a moment. "Yes, but not here," said she, softly. -"By-and-by, when I've gone up to be dead."</p> - -<h4>THE END.</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_237" id="Page_237">[Pg 237]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 236px;"><a name="A_LOVING_KISS" id="A_LOVING_KISS"></a> -<img src="images/ill_010.jpg" width="236" height="400" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2>A LOVING KISS.</h2> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">A big jar of sweetmeats</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">Stood high on the shelf;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">All eager to reach it,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">Climbed up a sweet elf.</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">A thumb and a finger</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">Were daintily dipped,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">When all of a sudden</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">A little foot slipped.</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">Then oh, what a tumble!</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">And oh, what a cry!</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">But you see a big brother</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">Was standing close by.</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">He saw in a moment</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">Just what was amiss—</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">A bruised little forehead</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">Was cured by a kiss.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="IN_THE_CORNER" id="IN_THE_CORNER">IN THE CORNER.</a></h2> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 14em;">On the chair an open lesson, open wide at A B C,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 14em;">In the corner little Lettice, just a little girl of three.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 14em;">Little Lettice is not stupid; she can learn if she will try;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 14em;">And she knows her A B C just as well as you or I.</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 14em;">But to-day she really will not think of anything at all</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 14em;">But the shining china dishes and the flowers on the wall;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 14em;">When to big A mother pointed, saying, "Letty, this you know,"</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 14em;">Letty twirled her little fingers and sedately answered, "O!"</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 14em;">This is why our little Lettice in the corner there you see,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 14em;">There to stand until it pleases her to say her A B C;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 14em;">For she knows the printed letters just as well as you or I,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 14em;">And the little miss could say them if she only chose to try.</span><br /> -</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 359px;"> -<img src="images/ill_011.jpg" width="359" height="400" alt="" /> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="MONOGRAM_PUZZLE" id="MONOGRAM_PUZZLE">MONOGRAM PUZZLE.</a></h2> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 700px;"> -<img src="images/ill_012.jpg" width="700" height="462" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>There is a novelty and ingenuity about this puzzle that can not fail to -delight our puzzle-loving readers. Here, under a fanciful disguise, are -four lines of poetry. Our artist has taken each word of a simple stanza, -and worked the letters into a graceful monogram. Among the monograms may -be found four well-known names. Take the four diagonals, beginning with -the one in the left-hand corner. The first two and the last give the -names of three popular authors, and the third that of a famous play.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_238" id="Page_238">[Pg 238]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"><a name="OUR_POST_OFFICE_BOX" id="OUR_POST_OFFICE_BOX"></a> -<img src="images/ill_013.jpg" width="600" height="253" alt="OUR POST-OFFICE BOX" /> -</div> - -<p>There is not a bit of use in being discouraged about it, children; but -we are not ashamed to tell you that sometimes we feel just a very little -blue when we have to lay aside so many of your dear letters simply -because we have not room enough to print them. And then we think of the -sweet faces that will be clouded with disappointment, and the provoked -faces that will frown, when the Post-office Box comes week after week -without the letters John and Jenny are watching for so patiently. But, -as we said, it isn't worth while to fret and cry, and so we, for -ourselves, make up our minds to enjoy hearing about the goats that draw -the little wagons, and the kittens that have such fearful fits, and the -birds which are so cunning, and the babies who are so cute. We like to -be told, even though we can not print the letters which so inform us, -that Molly's little sister Bess is learning to walk, and that Arthur's -brother Freddie claps his hands when he looks at the pictures in -<span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span>. And if you'll keep the secret, and never whisper -it to anybody, we'll tell you that we love just as dearly, and perhaps a -wee, tiny morsel more dearly, the boys and girls whose words we do not -print, than those whose letters are published in Our Post-office Box.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Cedar Hill, Pulaski County, Kentucky</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>We have been taking <span class="smcap">Young People</span> since last June; I like it very -much. I am ten years old. We live in the country, and our home is -called Cedar Hill because it has a great many cedar-trees in the -yard, and is on a hill. We have six canaries; they sing very -sweetly, and are very nice pets. We have a little black shepherd -dog; we call him Jipsy; he is very playful.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Sophie M</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>This dear little fellow who feeds the sparrows forgot to print his -address at the top of his letter. It is a very nice letter -notwithstanding:</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>I can not write good, so I will have to print my letter. I like -<span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span> better than any of my story-books. I have -about two hundred pets. You could never guess what they are, so I -will tell you; they are sparrows, and they are so tame that they -will come and perch on the window-sill and look for me to feed -them. I give them bread every day. Sometimes, if I do not see them, -they go around to the dining-room windows, and peep for me to come. -They have a nest inside our garret window.</p> - -<p>I wish Jimmy Brown would write and tell what he got for his -Christmas. I hope his stocking was full. I got lots of nice things -from Santa Claus. Good-by.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Theodore G. H</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Yoncalla, Oregon</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>We have a dog and five cats. Our dog's name is Telephone. He is a -good dog to catch rats and mice. We had a merry Christmas. My -brother and I milk the cows and chop the wood. I am eleven years -old, and my twin brother and I are going to grub all the ground we -can this winter, and pa is going to plough it, and give us the -proceeds. We have got about an acre and a half grubbed out. We -grubbed up a snake four feet long.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">George L</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<p>Grubbing must be hard work, George, and we have no doubt it develops -your muscles wonderfully. What are your brother and you going to do with -your money when you receive it?</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Danvers, Massachusetts</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>I am a little girl in the third class in the grammar school, and my -age is nine years. I have never seen a letter from Eastern -Massachusetts in <span class="smcap">Young People</span>, and so I thought that perhaps you -would put mine in print.</p> - -<p>Danvers is noted as the birth-place of the celebrated London banker -George Peabody; also of General Putnam, who was so famous in the -Revolution.</p> - -<p>I am very fond of your paper, and wish it came every day.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">May P. G</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Salubria, Idaho</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>I have taken <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span> for almost a year. I like it -very much. I look every week to see what new trouble has befallen -poor Jimmy Brown, and if I were his sister I would make him a -jacket and stuff it with feathers. I can hardly wait for the papers -to come, so as to hear what has become of Rita and Ni-ha-be. I have -lived almost all my life in the valleys of Idaho. There are many -beautiful sights here, such pretty flowers grow in valley and -mountain. One kind grows right near the edge of the snow, away up -the mountain-side. One can step right from the blossoms to the -snow.</p> - -<p>I wish I could have a good school to go to, like so many little -girls of my age. I have attended school but nine months in my life. -My mother teaches me at home. I have two horses all my own and a -saddle, and can ride splendidly, mamma says. I am twelve years old.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Alma C</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<p>Though deprived of the opportunity of going to school, you have learned -to use your eyes, and see the beautiful things which God has made; and -if you study and read and profit by your mother's instruction, you will -lay a good foundation for the class-room when you are older. It is quite -an advantage, too, to ride so well, and the health you gain as you -canter over the hills is something to be thankful for.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Prospect, Oneida County, New York</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>I live up here near the North Woods, and it is hard work to get -books to read, and the winters are long. My father is a guide, and -will send any one who will mail me a good book, a map of the Canada -lake region, showing the route from Utica, <i>via</i> Trenton Falls, -through the wilderness to the lakes.</p> - -<p>My father was in the war, and when the powder-magazine blew up at -Yorktown, Virginia, in December, 1863, he found between the walls -of an old brick house a curious pipe, made of mahogany, bone, and -brass, and he says I may offer it in exchange for a printing-press -and type, or a very fine scroll-saw and the attachments.</p> - -<p>I am eleven years old, and my pa says your paper is full of the -best reading for boys.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Alfred B. Worden</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Arivaca, Arizona</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>My brother takes <span class="smcap">Young People</span>, and we both enjoy reading it very -much. We wish to tell you of our pony, which we all love dearly. -When we have ridden him, he always wants a piece of bread or some -sugar, and if we do not give it to him as soon as he is unsaddled, -he opens the side door by turning the knob with his lips. Should we -drive him away and shut the door, he immediately opens it again, -and stands by it until he gets his piece, when he will go off to -eat grass. He is very gentle and knowing. Our mamma writes this for -us, as we were afraid you would have too much trouble to study it -out if we wrote it.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Lena</span> and <span class="smcap">Charlie B</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<p>What a wise pony! He deserves a large piece of bread with sugar on it; -and we hope he never has to wait long for his reward after taking his -little master and mistress to ride.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Detroit, Michigan</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>I am a little boy eight years old. I take <span class="smcap">Young People</span>. My sister -takes <i>St Nicholas</i>. I was twelve miles out in the country the -other day. The cars pass our door. We have a type-writer, and I -write on it instead of with a pen. My papa is a lawyer, and I copy -testimony sometimes. We have a little baby, and we call him Mr. -Google, but his right name is Herbert.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Norman F</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<p>Your beautiful type-writing made us feel like congratulating your father -that he has so intelligent and skillful a copyist.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Woodbury, New Jersey</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>Can any one beat Woodbury for late dandelions? The one inclosed was -found on our lawn this morning, January 10.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;">H.</span><br /> -</p> - -<p>And a little beauty it must have been, as we can testify, who received -it pressed.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Beulah, Kansas</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>I read before our lyceum the story of Jimmy Brown and his monkey; -it made everybody laugh. My uncle sent me a pair of Italian Leghorn -chickens. They are beauties. We call the rooster John, and the hen -Biddy. Biddy lays an egg every day. I think it pays to keep a hen. -We live in Southeastern Kansas; this is the great coal, lead, and -zinc region. We have had a very mild winter so far. This country is -thickly settled. There has been a large immigration during the last -two years. We have school nine months out of the year. I am eight -years old, and read in the Fifth Reader, and study geography, -grammar, arithmetic, spelling, and writing.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">William Pitt A</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<blockquote> - -<p>I am a little girl just six years old, and my name is Joe. I read -all the letters in <span class="smcap">Young People</span>. I have a cat named Cutty; but her -whole name is Connecticut, because she came from there in a box by -express. She is very smart, and can do a great many tricks. She can -lie down as if she were dead; can stand on her hind-legs; says her -prayers, gives her paw to shake hands, sits upon the piano-stool -with her paws on the keys, and her head thrown back, as if she were -singing a song. She sits at the table in a high chair, with a -napkin around her neck, and laps milk from a saucer without putting -her paws on the table. Now have any of the Young People got a -smarter cat than mine? I like <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span> very much, and -when I have finished reading it, I send it to a little boy who -lives on a farm in the country, where I spent last summer. I have -no brothers or sisters. But I am going to be a doctor when I am -big.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;">J. W. K.</span><br /> -</p> - -<p>We would like to know where this little girl lives, as she forgot to -tell us. Perhaps she will write again.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Santa Cruz, California</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>As I have seen only one letter from here, and that from my friend -Edith D., I thought I would write and tell you about my doll Martha -Washington. She is very large, and a perfect beauty. She has a nice -dress, and my mother is going to make me a nice hat for her. My -doll has brown eyes and white hair. We have two dogs and two cats -at our house, and each of the children has a fine bow and a set of -arrows, and we have a target to shoot at.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Jessie N. D</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<p>When you have learned to sew so well that you can make Madam Martha -Washington a dress and a hat with your own skillful fingers, you must -write and tell us how much you enjoy working for the darling yourself. -Little girls often learn to sew very beautifully by making clothes for -their dolls, and we think it is a great accomplishment to sew neatly by -hand as well as on the machine. What does your mother think?</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Cross Village, Michigan</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>I live on the shore of Lake Michigan, about twenty-five miles from -old Fort Mackinaw. It is lovely in the summer season to see the -vessels pass. Many of them land at the dock. We can also see two -light-houses. I think "Talking Leaves" is splendid. I have two -brothers and one sister. Ernest, Henry, and Olla are their names. -My grandma sent <span class="smcap">Young People</span> to me last year. Isn't she a dear good -grandma? I am eleven years old.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">M. Effa G</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Be sure to try your skill at unravelling our puzzle column, little -readers. You will find it a charming occupation for winter evenings. Try -to send us some puzzles of your own invention, inclosing the answer -invariably with the puzzle. We wish to print a long list of successful -solvers next week. If you can not untangle every enigma and arrange -every word square, never mind, but send us the answers of those which -you can puzzle out, and do not be discouraged by a little trouble at the -outset. The fun of making out a puzzle is in conquering it.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h4>C. Y. P. R. U.</h4> - -<p>A lady writes to us that she has found great satisfaction in reading -<span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span> to a number of boys, whom she invites to meet at -her house every Wednesday evening. She says she finds the stories and -articles excellent and charming. Besides reading aloud to the boys, she -lends them books, and, we presume, assists them in other womanly and -Christian ways to grow up to a useful and intelligent manhood. We desire -to thank Miss E. J. Y. for her kind letter, and we are not without the -hope that our allusion to it may indicate to other friends an easy and -beautiful method for doing good.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="smcap">Angie</span>.—To make nice sago gruel for your invalid sister, wash an ounce -of sago very carefully, and then soak it for two hours in a pint of -tepid water; simmer it in the same water about fifteen minutes, stirring -it gently. Sweeten and flavor it, and serve it at once.—Your milk toast -will be delicious if you brown your toast very evenly, dip it for an -instant into boiling water, and then spread it with a very little -butter. Lay it in a deep hot plate; a soup plate will do. Boil a -tea-cupful of milk, which you must thicken with a tea-spoonful of corn -starch mixed with a pinch of salt in a little cold water. Pour this over -your toast.</p> - -<p>In serving sick people with food please be sure not to offer them too -much at a time. Do not bother them by saying, "Would you like this?" and -"Will you have that?" They do not know what they wish, and they think -they want nothing. They have to be coaxed to eat, not in words, but by -offering them dainty things daintily and prettily prepared. The finest, -cleanest napkin, the thinnest, loveliest cup and saucer, and the -brightest silver should be taken when you are arranging the meals of -invalids. Sometimes, after all your trouble, they will scarcely taste -what you have prepared, and perhaps they<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_239" id="Page_239">[Pg 239]</a></span> may be a little cross and -petulant. Remember then that suffering has made them weak and tired, and -do not be discouraged, but try again, for on good and patient nursing -the doctor depends for success in treating the sick as much us he does -on his medicines and his skill.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>D. C. H.—There is a real Jimmy Brown. The Postmistress has seen him -several times.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>J. B.—It is easy to make a tennis net if you have any one to show you -how, but it is almost impossible to describe the manner of making it so -as to be understood. If you live near the sea-shore, you can get some -fisherman to teach you. If not, perhaps your mother or her seamstress -can show you how to make it. If you can not learn before next summer, -and yet want the net very badly, you may buy one for three dollars.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="smcap">Rita</span>.—You will probably obtain the information you desire about the -care of silk-worms by addressing the Ladies' Silk-culture Association, -1028 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (over Keystone National -Bank). This association, which is doing much to stimulate this branch of -industry, has recently given an exhibition at St. George's Hall in -Philadelphia. It was formally opened by Governor Hoyt, ex-Governor -Pollock, and other distinguished gentlemen. It was designed to -illustrate the various branches of the silk industry from the forming of -cocoons to the perfected fabric.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>It would seem as if the variety of the articles to which we would call -the attention of the C. Y. P. R. U. this week was extensive enough to -please readers of all tastes and ages. Mr. George Cary Eggleston carries -us back to those terrible days of religious persecution when differences -in creed bathed the soil of France with blood; Mr. Ralph Watson tells us -of the curious "Collocalia," whose nests supply the Chinese with the -principal ingredient of one of their most highly esteemed soups; Mr. -Charles Barnard gives us full information how to while away our leisure -hours with the interesting and inexpensive and at the same time -instructive pastime of taking photographs; and Mr. B. Hardwicke tells -the boys and girls how to supersede the pleasures of coasting by the -more exciting sport to be had with the toboggan.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h4>YOUNG PEOPLE'S COT.</h4> - -<p>We publish this week the January report of Miss E. Augusta Fanshawe, and -repeat that the contributions for Young People's Cot should be sent to -the treasurer of the Cot Fund, and not to Messrs. Harper & Brothers. -Please read Aunt Edna's letter, children.</p> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">New York City</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>In my last letter I told you I would soon let you know something -from <i>our</i> hospital. Well, the other day I went there, and such a -chatter of little voices as met my ear when the door opened! I -could hardly believe I was going to a place where there was -sickness and pain. I went up stairs to Holy Innocent's Ward—<i>our</i> -ward, you know—and how bright and sunny it looked! Sister Miriam, -the kind Sister who has charge of it, and who I wish you all knew, -as she is sunshine itself, was putting the finishing touches to the -morning dressing of the little ones. Every bed had its occupant, -though many of the children were not then in bed, but were running -about the room; and I was quickly surrounded by several little -"tots," who wanted to rub my muff, and see some cards I had that a -kind lady had sent them. But just now I am only going to speak of -two children and one cot, though I could easily tell you -interesting things of many more if I did not feel afraid the -Postmistress would shake her head.</p> - -<p>Sister Miriam is much pleased with your efforts, and thinks you -will certainly raise the whole amount if you will only keep on -trying, and to encourage you all she has selected a cot that will -be ours just as soon as we raise the money, but not before, -remember. It is the first cot in the south end of the room, right -in the sunshine, near a big window, where our child can look down -on Thirty-fourth Street. When I was there the occupant of that cot -was a funny little colored boy named Willie Stanward. He had been -very sick with something called by a very long name—pneumonia—but -was a great deal better, and when I saw him he was sitting in a -little chair near the window playing with something—looking very -much like a doll. He was only a wee boy, you know. He was going -home very soon, well, and Sister Miriam thought she would put in -his place a little white boy named Robert McGee, who, she said, -made very queer speeches, and was ever so funny. The doctor had -been making his legs straight, which before were crooked, and -though it was pretty hard to bear, he was getting on very nicely. -He also was a very little boy. I took up a "mite chest" and put it -over that cot, and think when we open it we will find something to -help on our work.</p> - -<p>Now good-by, but don't forget that we have not got the cot yet, but -must all try hard and raise the money, and then think how glad we -will all feel when we can say <i>that</i> is the Young People's Cot.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Aunt Edna</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<blockquote> - -<p>Contributions received for Young People's Cot in Holy Innocent's -Ward, St. Mary's Free Hospital for Children, 407 West Thirty-fourth -Street, New York:</p> - -<p>Willie and Georgie Campbell, Drummondville, $1; Clare Gardiner, -Troy, N. Y., 25c.; In Memoriam M. A., "a dear little one who will -never need the cot," $30; Kitty Tutwiler, Flatonia, Texas, 10c.; -Nobe Taylor, Flatonia, Texas, 10c.; Charles Roy Bangs, Brooklyn, -$3; Mary Dean, 25c.; Jennie Dart, Kingston, N. Y., $1; Ida Allison, -Harlem, N. Y., $2; Willie Allison, Harlem, N. Y., $2; T. Robert -Palmer, Palatka, Fla., 50c.; Will D. Sayer, Meadville, Penn., $2; -Green Clay, Jun., Mexico, Mo., $1; Ellie Earle, Chelten Hills, -Penn., $1; Agnes D. Cram, Mechanic Falls, 10c.; Jennie Bolton, New -York City, $1—total, $45.30. Previously acknowledged, $201.39; -total, January 16, $246.69.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">E. Augusta Fanshawe</span>, Treasurer,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;">43 New Street, New York City.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Flatonia, Texas</span>, <i>December</i> 15, 1881.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>I send you my <i>Three Little Kittens</i> book for <i>all</i> the children in -<i>that</i> room. I send you a dime for that bed you wrote about. Papa -read us that letter, and our black boy said he wanted to send a -dime too. His name is Nobe Taylor. He has lived with us for nine -years, and nursed me when I was a baby. He is big and fat. This is -all I've got to send. Aunt Net sent me the book from Alabama last -Christmas. Our school-teacher is going to give us a Christmas tree. -I can't write good enough, and got papa to write this for me.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Kitty Tutwiler</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>P.S.—Nobe incloses his dime too.</p></blockquote> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Chelten Hills, Pennsylvania</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>I got a good many china animals for Christmas, and now I have -forty-one altogether. Sophie and Horace, two of my school-mates, -have one hundred and fifty-one; Sophie has only fifteen of them, -though. I got a lovely coaster for Christmas, and I want to use it -very much. There is about an inch of snow on the ground now, but -not enough for coasting; there has not been deep snow on the ground -all winter. In my letter I send a dollar for the Young People's -Cot. Our tree was just taken down to-day, and the room where it was -looks all bare to me.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Ellie Earle</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<p>There are a number of other little letters about the Cot, and they are -very bright and sweet, but we have not room to insert any more.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.</h3> - -<h3>No. 1.</h3> - -<h3>ENIGMA.</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left">I am composed of 12 letters, and mean yielding content.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">My 1, 2, 3 is having placed.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">My 4, 5 is a verb.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">My 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 is a manufactory.</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Emma A</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>No. 2.</h3> - -<h3>A WORD SQUARE.</h3> - -<p class="center">1. To surrender. 2. A sluggard. 3. A funeral dirge. 4. Lawful. 5. -Sarcastically spoken.</p> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Empire City</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>No. 3.</h3> - -<h3>HISTORICAL ACROSTIC.</h3> - -<p>1. A battle of the Revolution. 2. A President. 3. An inventor. 4. An -island. 5. A river in Asia. 6. One of the great lakes. 7. A battle of -the French and Indian war. 8. One of the United States. 9. A country in -Africa. The primals form the name of a distinguished French general.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>No. 4.</h3> - -<h3>PI.</h3> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Ti asw het meit ehnw seliil lobw.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 18em;">Dan doulcs rea gihhset pu ni rai.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Rold noladr gouhtbr a yill heitw oed</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 18em;">Ot iveg sih sioune dyal lerac.</span><br /> -</p> - -<p class="center">Straighten out, and form a stanza from Tennyson.</p> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Emma</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>No. 5.</h3> - -<h3>?</h3> - -<p>Forward, I am a lady's name. Backward, I stand for something which will -make men forget troubles. You will find me in Anglo-Saxon nurseries, and -in ancient mythology.</p> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Robert</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>No. 6.</h3> - -<h3>DIAMOND.</h3> - -<p class="center">1. A consonant. 2. A hut. 3. Reeds. 4. Good policy. 5. Fretful. 6. A -pen. 7. A letter.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>No. 7.</h3> - -<h3>A DOUBLE SQUARE.</h3> - -<p>Across.—1. A girl's name. 2. A word used in prayers. 3. A hole. 4. -Finishes. Down.—1. A cavern. 2. A sign. 3. To tear. 4. Small insects.</p> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Eloise</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 116.</h3> - -<h3>No. 1.</h3> - -<p class="center">The eye.</p> - -<h3>No. 2.</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center">S</td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center">S</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center"></td><td align="center">S</td><td align="center">H</td><td align="center">E</td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center">R</td><td align="center">O</td><td align="center">T</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">S</td><td align="center">H</td><td align="center">A</td><td align="center">L</td><td align="center">L</td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center">S</td><td align="center">O</td><td align="center">L</td><td align="center">A</td><td align="center">R</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center"></td><td align="center">E</td><td align="center">L</td><td align="center">M</td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center">T</td><td align="center">A</td><td align="center">R</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center">L</td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center">R</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<h3>No. 3.</h3> - -<p class="center">Adder. Cobra.</p> - -<h3>No. 4.</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="center">C</td><td align="center">al</td><td align="center">M</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">A</td><td align="center">nemon</td><td align="center">E</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">M</td><td align="center">attres</td><td align="center">S</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">E</td><td align="center">dific</td><td align="center">E</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">L</td><td align="center">audanu</td><td align="center">M</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">L</td><td align="center">am</td><td align="center">B</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">I</td><td align="center">dle</td><td align="center">R</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">A</td><td align="center">bundantl</td><td align="center">Y</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">J</td><td align="center">erbo</td><td align="center">A</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">A</td><td align="center">mazo</td><td align="center">N</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">P</td><td align="center">in</td><td align="center">T</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">O</td><td align="center">stric</td><td align="center">H</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">N</td><td align="center">ightingal</td><td align="center">E</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">I</td><td align="center">ce-crea</td><td align="center">M</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">C</td><td align="center">hapea</td><td align="center">U</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">A</td><td align="center">lar</td><td align="center">M</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Correct answers to puzzles have been received from Eva Brown, Annie -Brown, Ambrose Elting, F. M. S., "Jack Frost," Artie Secor, John Phelan, -J. and H. Bates, Hetty R., J. C., Alice E. Garretson, "Prince," Henry -Berlan, Jun., "Bud," R. H. L., Maggie Dutto, Meredith Knapp, Susie -Perkins, "Snap," Alice Emmons.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center">[<i>For Exchanges, see 2d and 3d pages of cover.</i>]</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE.</h2> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h4>Special Inducements to Youthful Agents.</h4> - -<p>To any boy or girl who shall procure for <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span>, before -April 1, 1882, ten new yearly subscribers, and forward their names and -addresses to this office, with the sum of fifteen dollars, Messrs. -<span class="smcap">Harper & Brothers</span> will, on receipt of the same, present any one of the -volumes mentioned in the following list which may be selected:</p> - -<h4><span class="smcap">Col. Knox's Books of Travel in the Far East</span>.</h4> - -<p><i>The Boy Travellers in the Far East.—Part I.—Adventures of two Youths -in a Journal to Japan and China. Copiously Illustrated. 8vo, Ornamental -Cloth, $3.</i></p> - -<p><i>The Boy Travellers in the Far East.—Part II.—Adventures of two Youths -in a Journey to Siam and Java. With Descriptions of Cochin China, -Cambodia, Sumatra, and the Malay Archipelago. Copiously Illustrated. -8vo, Ornamental Cloth, $3.</i></p> - -<p><i>The Boy Travellers in the Far East.—Part III.—Adventures of two -Youths in a Journey to Ceylon and India. With Descriptions of Borneo, -the Philippine Islands, and Burmah. Copiously Illustrated. 8vo, -Ornamental Cloth, $3.</i></p> - -<h4><span class="smcap">Coffin's Historical Reading for the Young</span>.</h4> - -<p><i>The Story of Liberty.—Copiously Illustrated. 8vo, Ornamental Cloth, -$3.</i></p> - -<p><i>Old Times in the Colonies.—Copiously Illustrated. 8vo, Cloth, $3.</i></p> - -<p><i>The Boys of '76.—A History of the Battles of the Revolution. Copiously -Illustrated. 8vo, Cloth, $3.</i></p> - -<p>Messrs. <span class="smcap">Harper & Brothers</span> further offer to present to the boy or girl -from whom they shall receive, before April 1, 1882, the largest number -of new yearly subscriptions, with $1.50 for each.</p> - -<p><i>Harper's Household Edition of Charles Dickens's Works, in Sixteen -Volumes, handsomely bound in Cloth, in a box. Price $22.</i></p> - -<p>These prizes will be sent by mail or express, prepaid.</p> - -<p>In order that an accurate account may be kept of the number of -subscriptions received, it will be necessary for each one, when sending -a list of new subscriptions, to refer to these offers, and to state that -he or she desires to compete for these valuable prizes.</p> - -<p>Cash must accompany each order.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span>, $1.50 a year.</p> - -<p>☞ The extension for one month of the time for sending -subscriptions in competition is designed to accommodate boys and girls -residing in different parts of the country.</p> - -<h4>HARPER & BROTHERS,</h4> - -<h4>Franklin Square, New York.</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_240" id="Page_240">[Pg 240]</a></span></p> - -<h2><a name="ENIGMA" id="ENIGMA">ENIGMA.</a></h2> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Within the compass of my first</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 18em;">Are right and wrong, dissected;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Bold falsehood there is put to shame,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 18em;">And villainy detected.</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Of constant port, with royal parts,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 18em;">Tall, strong, and stately reckoned,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">But hauled about with tarry coat—</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 18em;">By these marks know my second.</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">My whole, devoted to one aim,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 18em;">One prize intent on gaining,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Expends its life in the pursuit,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 18em;">And dies in the obtaining.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h2><a name="EXPERIMENTS_WITH_ELECTRICITY" id="EXPERIMENTS_WITH_ELECTRICITY">EXPERIMENTS WITH ELECTRICITY.</a></h2> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 397px;"> -<img src="images/ill_014.jpg" width="397" height="400" alt="" /> -<span class="caption"><span class="smcap">Fig</span>. 1.</span> -</div> - -<p style="clear:both;"> </p> - -<p>This mysterious "agent," as people call it for want of a better word, -can be produced in the easiest fashion, and some of its ways studied -with the simplest kind of apparatus, constructed of articles that lie -close at hand.</p> - -<p>If we rub a stick of sealing-wax with a piece of cloth, we shall see -that it will attract some small fragments of paper placed near it. -Nothing is easier than to construct a small pendulum to show with -perfect clearness the wonder of electric attraction. A piece of iron is -fixed on a wooden pedestal, and holds a thread of silk, to the end of -which is fastened a little ball cut out of a piece of cork. The stick of -sealing-wax, after being rubbed with the cloth, will attract the ball, -as shown in Fig. 1.</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 370px;"> -<img src="images/ill_015.jpg" width="370" height="400" alt="" /> -<span class="caption"><span class="smcap">Fig</span>. 2.</span> -</div> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 292px;"> -<img src="images/ill_016.jpg" width="292" height="400" alt="" /> -<span class="caption"><span class="smcap">Fig</span>. 3.</span> -</div> - -<p style="clear:both;"> </p> - -<p>We can easily construct other electrical apparatus. Take a lacquered -tea-tray about a foot long, and cut out a sheet of thick wrapping paper -so that it will lie over all the level portion of the tray. At each side -of this sheet of paper fix two bands of paper, as in Fig. 2, so as to -serve as handles. The tea-tray should be placed upon two tumblers to -support it and to insulate it, glass being a "non-conductor." By a -non-conductor is meant a substance that will not convey electricity, or -allow it to pass away.</p> - -<p>Now rub the thick packing-paper over a hot fire or a stove until it is -thoroughly dry, and as hot as possible without charring. When this has -been done, place it quickly upon a wooden table, and rub it rapidly with -as dry and hard a clothes-brush as can be obtained. Place the paper upon -the tray; touch the tray with the knuckle, and draw away the paper by -the handles fixed to it (see Fig. 2); a spark will result. Then if the -paper be replaced upon the tray, and the hand again presented, the same -result will follow. This may be done five or six times, at least, with -success.</p> - -<p>We have in this tea-tray and its paper covering a real electric machine. -How can we manage to provide a Leyden-jar (so named from its inventor, -Muschenbrock, of Leyden) to contain our electricity? Nothing is more -easy. Let us take a tumbler, and partly fill it with shot; insert into -the glass a tea-spoon, and if all the articles are quite dry, we shall -possess a Leyden-jar.</p> - -<p>To charge the jar we must work our other machine. While one person lifts -off the paper as directed, another must hold the glass to the edge of -the tray, and touch the corner with the tea-spoon; the spark will then -enter the "jar." We can thus charge the jar as we please, and by -presenting the finger, as in Fig. 3, we shall obtain a discharge from -it.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 800px;"> -<img src="images/ill_017.jpg" width="800" height="421" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">FUN ON THE ICE—"KEEPING THE POT BOILING."</span> -</div> - -<p style="clear:both;"> </p> - -<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> Begun in No. 101, <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span>.</p></div></div> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, February 7, 1882, by Various - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE *** - -***** This file should be named 53187-h.htm or 53187-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/3/1/8/53187/ - -Produced by Annie R. 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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. 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 Young People, February 7, 1882 - An Illustrated Weekly - -Author: Various - -Release Date: October 2, 2016 [EBook #53187] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE *** - - - - -Produced by Annie R. McGuire - - - - - - - - -[Illustration: HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE] - - * * * * * - -VOL. III.--NO. 119. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR -CENTS. - -Tuesday, February 7, 1882. Copyright, 1882, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50 -per Year, in Advance. - - * * * * * - - - - -[Illustration: "HE WAS DRINKING COFFEE OR SOUP OUT OF A CUP FILLED FROM -A BOTTLE IN THE HANDS OF A LITTLE GIRL."] - -ART'S ORGAN ADVENTURE. - -BY MATTHEW WHITE, JUN. - - -The Dicksons were spending the winter in Paris, and Art, who was -fourteen, resolved to make the most of the grand opportunity thus -afforded him of thoroughly exploring the handsomest city in the world. -He had "done" the galleries, the churches, the prisons, and the palaces -with the rest of the family; but now that all the principal points of -interest had been visited, his mother and sister became absorbed in -"dressmaking and millinery" while his father spent hours at the _Herald_ -office reading the American papers. As neither of these occupations was -lively enough to suit the taste of an eager, restless boy like Art, he -took to going off on long exploring trips by himself, up, down, across, -and around the city! - -"Now, Arthur, do, I beg of you, be careful," his mother would say to -him. "If you could speak French, I wouldn't worry, but as it is, what if -you should get lost?" - -"Why, I'd just call a cab, sing out through my nose as loud as I could -the name of our hotel, and I'd be back here"--Art was going to add "in -no time," but recollecting that he was not supposed to be riding behind -his father's fast team in New York, changed it to "some time." - -One morning he had planned to spend on top of an omnibus running on a -route he had not yet been over, but on awaking he found quite a -snow-storm raging in the air, although the flakes melted as soon as they -touched the heated pavements. - -Now Art had not seen snow before all that winter, so when it had cleared -off he determined, instead of taking his omnibus ride, to walk out to -the Bois de Boulogne and feast his eyes on the "genuine article." - -He set out about eleven, walking at a brisk pace in order to be back in -good season for lunch at one. There was plenty to see on the way, so -although the distance from the hotel to the Bois was a long one, it did -not seem a great while to Art before he came within sight of a pure -white covering of snow on tree, shrub, and grass. His boyish heart -thrilled at once with delight, although he could not but acknowledge to -himself that a hill and a sled would not have come amiss. As a -substitute for these he fell to making quantities of soft snow-balls to -shy harmlessly at nowhere in particular. - -"I suppose, though," he presently reflected, "if one of those -gens-d'armes should happen to see me, he'd march me off to the Bastile -(if it hadn't been pulled down), for fear of my snow-balls suggesting -bullets to this revolutionary people." - -As this thought struck him he fired what he resolved should be his last -shot, which, as it happened, just grazed the money cup on top of a -hand-organ in the next path. - -The organ was resting on a portable stool, and behind it Art could see -its owner sitting on the low iron railing. He was drinking coffee or -soup out of a cup filled from a bottle in the hands of a little girl -seated on a basket in front of him. The group made quite a pretty -picture, which the lad stopped a moment to gaze at, thankful that his -snow-ball had not disturbed it. - -Then a squirrel nearer at hand caught his eye, and he stood watching the -cute little fellow frisk about, with his bright eyes and gracefully -waving tail, for fully five minutes. - -Presently, however, the confused sound of many voices coming from the -other path again turned Art's attention in the direction of the -hand-organ. He soon saw that it had been left by the man in charge of -the little girl, who was being teased by a company of school-boys. - -One of the latter had possessed himself of the bulging cotton umbrella -which had stood leaning against the post, and was making as if he were -going to run off with it, while the little girl chased him about, -scolding at a terrible rate in her fast French. - -At first Art was inclined to think that the boys were only in fun. But -when he saw two of them catch hold of the organ and hurry away with it -into the woods while the girl was running around the corner after her -umbrella, all his American blood was up, and he started after "the young -highwaymen." - -"I may not be a match for both of them in a fight," he reflected, as he -sped along, "but perhaps I can frighten them a little;" and making his -voice as deep as possible, Art shouted out after the runaways, who, -thinking a gen-darme was on their track, dropped the organ in the snow, -and dashed on at double-quick. - -Our hero slackened up a bit until they were out of sight, and then -hurried forward to see if anything had been broken. Luckily the organ -had escaped all damage, and picking it up, Art started to carry it back -to the little girl. But somehow he could not recollect the exact -direction from which he had entered the woods, and after tramping about -through the snow for some time, he was compelled to put his burden down -and rest awhile. - -"Well, well," he mused, as he wiped the perspiration from his forehead, -"this is a pretty fix for me to get myself into. I wonder what the -fellows at home would say at seeing me lug this hand-organ about through -the woods as if I were an Italian looking for a monkey. And, after all, -I don't believe those fellows really meant to steal it. Very likely they -only wanted to hide it from the little girl. Still, it was a mean thing -to do, and I'm--" But at this instant he became aware of a man running -toward him, shouting and shaking his fist, and before Art could make up -his mind what to do, he saw that it was the organ-grinder. - -Forgetting for the time that ten chances to one the man would not -understand a word he said, Art at once began explaining to him how he -had recovered his property, when, to his amazement, he was suddenly -interrupted by a rough grasp on the collar of his coat, and a torrent of -French fury, which ought to have caused him to tremble in his shoes, if -he had only deserved and comprehended it. - -He _did_ comprehend the tight clutch by which he was held, however, and -quite naturally began to grow highly indignant at the injustice done -him. - -"But don't I tell you I half raced my legs off to get your organ back -for you?" he cried. "Why, I actually believe you think I was one of the -fellows that stole it!" - -Then, as the man took a still firmer grasp of his coat, and began a -louder series of exclamations, the boy became finally convinced that -this was really the state of the case. - -Explanations were of no avail; indeed, they only seemed to make matters -worse, for whenever Art attempted to make himself understood either by -loud talk or dumb-show, the organ-grinder only gripped deeper and -rattled on faster. - -"Well, this is a go!" muttered our hero to himself as he finally gave up -all resistance, and tried in vain to call up a word or two of French -that would be likely to help him out of the scrape. "He must certainly -know that I'm not French, but I don't see that that makes any difference -to him. I wonder, though, what he's going to do with me?" - -This query was soon answered, for now the man made signs to Art to pick -up the organ. - -"What! he wants me to carry the thing for him!" and the lad's hatred of -injustice again rose up strong within him, causing him to shake his head -in a most decided fashion. - -For reply the Frenchman simply shrugged his shoulders, and muttered the -word "Gens-d'armes." - -This was enough for Art. As has been already stated, he had a decided -prejudice to becoming intimate with the Paris police, and as the -spectacle of his being marched off to jail by one of them, before he -could hope to make himself understood, passed before his mental vision, -he stooped down, picked up the organ, and walked on by the side of its -owner, who all the while kept a hand on his shoulder. - -It was certainly a most humiliating situation, but Art managed to -extract some degree of consolation from the reflection that he was being -wronged. Then he suddenly recollected the snow-ball he had thrown which -had nearly overturned the money cup. - -"He must have noticed it, after all. What an awful combination of -circumstances against me! I wonder if I can't buy him off?" and as he -stumbled along beneath his burden, Art began to calculate how much money -he had in his various pockets. - -"But no," he suddenly resolved, "I will not act as if I were guilty. I -did what I thought was right, and now I'll stand by the consequences. I -know that I'm innocent, which is lots of comfort, and surely the -Frenchman will soon let me go when he sees how meekly I take my -punishment." - -By this time they had reached the edge of the woods, and the man was -leading the way along one of the paths in the direction of the city. - -"Where on earth is the fellow going to take me, I wonder?" mused Art, -"and what can have become of the little girl and the big umbrella?" - -Presently they left the park behind them, and now our hero was given to -understand that his punishment was but just begun; for suddenly the man -stopped, opened the camp-stool arrangement, motioned to Art to set the -organ on top of it, and then intimated that he expected him to turn the -crank. - -"Never!" cried the boy, excitedly, and he attempted to shake himself -free of the Frenchman's grasp. But the struggle that ensued only served -to draw a gaping crowd around them, and Art speedily saw that the -easiest thing for him to do was to submit. - -So, with the man's hand still on his shoulder, he caught up the crank, -and began to grind out the waltz from the _Chimes of Normandy_, all the -while busily wondering how he could get back to the hotel in time for -lunch, and thus save his mother a deal of anxiety. - -Once he had thought of mentioning the name of the hotel to the -organ-grinder, but as often gave up the idea when he recollected in what -capacity he would be obliged to traverse the principal boulevards in -order to reach it. - -By this time faces began to appear at the windows of the houses, and -pieces of money were now and then thrown out. Some of these fell quite a -distance from the organ, and having noted this fact, Art set to work to -contrive a plan of escape. - -The Frenchman, however, was not to be easily fooled, for whenever he was -compelled to leave Art's side in order to pick up a coin, he pointed to -the crank and made a circular motion with his arm, to intimate that his -ears were open if his eyes were turned away, and that the instant the -music ceased he would know the reason why. - -Still our hero hoped for success in his scheme, in spite of the -Frenchman's wariness, so he played steadily on and waited his -opportunity, meanwhile taking from one of his pockets with his left hand -a five-centime piece, which is equal to one cent in American money. - -Presently that for which he had been watching happened. The second story -window of a house three or four doors off was opened and some money -thrown out. The man started to pick it up. As soon as his back was -turned, Art quickly transferred his sou from his left hand to his right, -continuing, meanwhile, to grind out the tune with the former. Then with -all the dexterity acquired as pitcher on the nine at home he threw the -money on ahead of the organ-grinder, started on a run up the street and -around the corner. - -He knew that the neighborhood--that of the American quarter--was a quiet -one, so he dashed on fearlessly until he came out on the Place of the -Star, in the centre of which stands the magnificent Arch of Triumph. - -From this point twelve different avenues diverge. Quickly selecting the -one leading furthest away from the spot where he had left the organ, Art -walked rapidly down it until satisfied that he was safe from pursuit. He -then crossed over to the Boulevard Haussmann, and in twenty minutes was -safe back at the hotel. - -When he related his adventures to the family, his father said he ought -to have appealed to the police, and his sister called him a goose for -having stood it as long as he did. - -But not so with the mother. Mrs. Dickson drew him to her side and -whispered that he was her gallant American knight, and after that Art -could not regret his attempt to right a wrong, although he often says -that the man did not deserve the sou he had thrown him so successfully. - - - - -THE SNOW. - - - Hurry and skurry! Hurrah for the snow! - How the flakes dance, and how the winds blow! - Run for the sleighs, and for mufflers run, - Little ones eager for frolic and fun. - - Pull on the mittens, and ring out the bells, - Jolly, I say, is the music that tells - Winter has come and the Snow King is here-- - There! a big snow-ball hit me on the ear! - - - - -TOBOGGANING. - -BY B. HARDWICKE. - - -This sport, under different names, is popular both in Canada and Russia. -Before Nihilism had terrified a great part of the life and gayety out of -the Russian court, it was a popular pastime even among members of the -imperial family. - -As soon as the Neva was frozen over sufficiently to bear the weight, two -immense piers of solid ice were built at distances of about a quarter to -half a mile apart. On one side there was a flight of steps to the top, -and on the other a precipitous descent at about an angle of forty-five -degrees. The sport consisted in descending this incline in a small -sleigh, or toboggan. The pilot and his one or more passengers having -descended the first incline, ascended the steps of the other pier on -foot, and made the return journey. The trip was repeated back and forth -until the parties were weary of the sport. - -[Illustration: THE TOBOGGAN.] - -A toboggan may accommodate three or four persons, as shown in our -picture, but the smaller sleighs made to hold only two are more common -in Russia. A very slight movement suffices to guide the toboggan, or to -throw it out of its course. The steering is done by the occupant of the -back seat. An inexperienced pilot, finding his toboggan careering toward -the right, is apt to put too much force into his efforts to change its -course, and so upset both himself and his passengers. The toboggan -responds to the slightest touch. A stick of wood is sometimes used in -the guiding, but it can be readily done by the hand. - -To enjoy a toboggan ride it is necessary to be well skilled in the art -of guiding the sleigh, or to have great confidence in the person who is -to do the steering. By the time the toboggan has reached the level, it -has acquired velocity sufficient to carry it a very long distance. - -In Canada, where some people who are not fond of cold weather assert -that the winters are "thirteen months long," tobogganing is a most -popular sport. While the nights are enlivened with balls, hops, and -concerts, the days are devoted to snow-shoeing excursions and -tobogganing parties, in which all, both sexes and all ages, join, and -which brighten the hill-slopes and river-banks throughout the dominion. - -The Canadian toboggan proper is a light curved slip of birch bark, -daintily painted or embroidered in quaint Indian style, which glides -down the icy slope with delicious swiftness, and, skillfully guided, -carries its occupant far along the level ground at the base. In some -places in Canada there are courses of wood erected, and during the long -winters the sport can be frequently enjoyed. - -There is just danger enough in tobogganing to make it exciting. An -incautious guide may upset his passengers or run into another toboggan. -The pace being from thirty to sixty miles an hour, a collision may -result in some serious bruises. In most places the course chosen is some -natural declivity where the undulations may be smoothed down so that the -incline is even. Water is sometimes poured down the slope and allowed to -freeze, so as to increase the slipperiness of the surface. - -If any of our readers should have an opportunity of indulging in the -sport, they will do well to bear in mind our advice, and if they -undertake to act as pilots, must be very careful not to get excited. The -fun which boys in the United States call coasting is only tobogganing -on a small scale; but the prepared course and the long run of the sleigh -on the level make the pastime much more exciting. Toboggans are sold at -all the large general stores in Montreal and Toronto. There is very -little demand for them in New York, but they may be obtained through a -firm in William Street, New York. - - - - -FUN AND PICTURES. - -BY CHARLES BARNARD. - - -Within a year or two there has been introduced into this country a new -set of tools for girls and boys that will not only enable them to -procure a great deal of useful information, but lots of downright fun as -well. - -The first thing necessary is a small wooden box painted black, and -having a brass tube placed in one side. In this brass tube is a lens. -You see what that is. It is a camera. With the camera is a set of -sticks, hinged in the middle, and called a tripod. When folded up, it -makes a neat package that can be carried in the hand. When opened and -set up, the camera is placed on top, and kept in place by a screw. - -There is also a little cap for the tube of the camera, and two, or even -more flat little wooden boxes, with openings at each end, closed by -wooden slides. There is also a small pocket-lantern that gives a red -light. Before we can do any work we must buy some sensitive plates. -These come in packages of a dozen each, wrapped in black paper. They are -called gelatine plates, and sometimes dry plates. They are so sensitive -that the smallest ray of white light would ruin them at once. We must -open the package, therefore, by the light of our lantern in a dark room -when we come to put our plates in the little wooden boxes. Say we take -two and put them back to back; that gives us a chance to take four -pictures. - -It is a bright sunny day. Let us start for some fun and pictures. Ah! -there's a girl knitting on the door-step under a grape-vine. She is -busy, and sits quite still. We set the camera up before her. Point the -brass tube at her, and draw out the bellows at the back of the camera. -We have with us two sheets of pasteboard bound together at the edges, -like a book, with black cloth. Hold this before the ground glass on the -camera and look between the leaves or sheets of pasteboard. There is a -picture of the girl. It is upside down, and a little dim and hazy. The -first we can not help, and by moving the bellows in or out we change the -picture until each twig and leaf is sharp and clear on the glass. - -Now take off the ground glass very carefully, and place one of the -wooden boxes in its place, taking care to put the two handles at the -right, and to fasten the box to the camera by the clasp on top. Softly -now! Do not stir the camera. Put on the cap, and carefully draw out the -slide in the box next the camera. Steady. Take off the cap, and wait six -seconds. Put on the cap, and put the slide in the box again. "Much -obliged, little girl. We will send you your picture to-morrow." After -that we see a boy fishing, a rose-bush in full bloom, and a pretty house -by the pond, and we have a shot in the same way at each. - -[Illustration: GIRLS TAKING EACH OTHER'S PHOTOGRAPHS.] - -Among other things we bought with the camera were three shallow pans and -four paper boxes containing dry chemicals, together with a few cents' -worth of oxalic acid in dry powder, a little sulphuric acid in a bottle, -and a bottle of dry bromide of ammonia. We shall also find a small pair -of scales and weights useful. - -Now for work. Open the box marked neutral oxalate of potash, and weigh -out two ounces, and put it in a bottle with six ounces of hot water. -Then to this add a few grains of the oxalic acid. For measuring the -water we use a glass graduate. From the box marked protosulphate of iron -weigh out two ounces, and put it in a bottle with six ounces of hot -water. To this add six drops of sulphuric acid. Let them stand until -they are cool. From the box marked hyposulphite of soda take one ounce, -and from the box marked alum two ounces, and put the chemicals in -bottles containing six ounces of cold water each. Lastly, weigh out one -hundred and twenty grains of the bromide of ammonia, and mix with two -ounces of cold water. Pour the first two mixtures into clean bottles, -taking care to keep back the sediment. For convenience, we will call the -bottle of oxalate of potash No. 1, the iron mixture No. 2, the -hyposulphite of soda No. 3, and the alum No. 4. - -After supper we will light the lantern, open our picture game-bag, and -see what we have captured. On the table we place the three pans, the -numbered bottles, and bromide of ammonia, which is called the -"restrainer." Now measure out one ounce of No. 1, and put it in one pan. -Then add one-quarter ounce of No. 2, and a few drops of the -"restrainer." In another pan pour enough of No. 3 to cover the bottom, -and in the third some of No. 4. - -Open one of the boxes, and take out a plate. Hold it right side up for a -moment in a bowl of cold water, and then drop it lightly into the pan -containing Nos. 1 and 2. Hold the pan in front of the lamp, and gently -rock it up and down. Why, look at that! See that black spot on the -plate. There's another in the corner. Oh, that's the sky. There are two -more spots. That is--yes, that's the girl's dress. There's her face, and -those two small spots are her hands. - -Now wash the plate at the sink, and place it in the pan containing No. 4 -for a moment. Then take it out, and put it in the pan containing No. 3. -How strange! The picture is fading away. No. That's all right. Wait a -moment, and then hold it up to the light. There it is, with the white -film quite faded away. Give it one more washing, and place it in No. 4 -for five minutes. Take the other plates and treat them each in the same -way. - -Next day we find that our four plates are regular photographic -negatives, and if we take them to the photographer, he will give us -prints of them at a very low price. Keep the negative, for if it is a -very pretty one, you can have as many prints made as you wish. Another -and cheaper way is to print them yourself. We buy a little picture-frame -having a movable back, and called a printing-frame. We place in this one -of the negatives, with the smooth side out, and lay over it a piece of -paper called ferroprussiate paper, or sensitive paper, and locking the -back of the frame, we put it in the bright sunshine for three or four -minutes. Then we open the frame in a shaded room, and taking out the -paper, we put it in a pail of water in a dark closet, and leave it -floating there for half an hour. When we open the closet, we take out -the paper, and hang it up to dry in the dark. When it is dry, there is -the picture, in blue and white. - -Any boy or girl twelve years old can do this work. The new tools cost -only a few dollars, and they bring a great deal of fun, and in a little -while a whole gallery of pictures. - -P.S.--Don't forget to send the picture to the girl as we promised. - - - - -THE TALKING LEAVES.[1] - -[1] Begun in No. 101, HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE. - -An Indian Story. - -BY WILLIAM O. STODDARD. - -CHAPTER XVIII. - - -A fair amount of beauty as well as convenience marked the spot which the -Apache braves had chosen for their camp on the bank of the river. Many -Bears had approved of it when he came, but he had said nothing about the -beauty of it. He had only ordered two or three trusty warriors to go at -once and hunt for a ford, so that he could get upon the opposite bank of -the river if necessary. - -It was some little time before they found one, a mile lower down, and -then they and the great chief were astonished by a report brought to him -by Dolores. Some of the squaws, she said, had taken their children into -the river for a bath, right there by the camp, and one of them had found -a place where she could wade across and back. - -It was afterward found to be a flat ledge of rock, with deep water above -and below, but it was none the less a bitter pill for the pride of the -warriors. - -To think of squaws and children presuming to find, right there under -their noses, the very thing they were hunting for up and down so -anxiously! That, too, when any man's eyes, or any woman's, could now -perceive a slight ripple in the water on the shallow place, such as -ought to have made them suspect it at once. - -The discovery of the ford made the spot safe for the camp. Orders were -given not to put up any lodges or unpack any baggage until morning, and -the whole band prepared for a night in the open air. - -Long after Ni-ha-be was sound asleep, her adopted sister was lying wide -awake, and gazing at the stars overhead. - -"I remember now," she said to herself. "It was my father told me about -the stars. That's why I knew what the talking leaves meant. He was very -good to me. I can see him plainer and plainer all the while." - -Rita gazed and gazed, and thought and thought, until at last her eyelids -closed heavily, and she too was asleep. Not so soundly as Ni-ha-be, for -many strange dreams came to her, and all she could remember of them was -the very last and latest of all. - -It was just like the picture in the talking leaves which Many Bears had -spoken about the day before, only that now the miners did not look like -that, and Rita in her dream actually thought she saw Many Bears himself -among the Indians who were attacking them. - -"He said he was there. I see him. They are coming. The squaw I saw in -the book. Mother!" - -And suddenly Rita found herself wide awake, and all the rest of her -dream was lost to her. - -Ni-ha-be too was awake. - -"What is the matter, Rita?" - -"Oh, a dream!" - -"Ugh! I never dream. That's the talking leaves. Dreams are big lies like -them. What was it?" - -"The fight in the picture." - -"Miners? Pale-faces? Look, Rita, the braves are mounting. It is hardly -sunrise, but they are going. Did your dream say there was any danger -coming to us?" - -"No, it did not say." - -"I don't care. The Apaches are warriors, and Many Bears is a great -chief. He will not let an enemy come near his camp." - -"Besides, we can cross the river." - -"Yes, by the ford." - -[Illustration: THE APACHE WOMEN WAITING FOR THE RETURN OF THE BRAVES.] - -The return of the warriors was eagerly watched for, but Many Bears did -not seem disposed to hurry back to his camp after his meeting with Steve -and Murray. - -Perhaps he was the more willing to ride slowly because it gave him an -opportunity to ask a great many questions, and to consider the answers -given. - -He did not seem very curious as to the past history of his new friends. -Indian politeness compelled him to let them keep their own affairs to -themselves. Besides, the account they gave sounded well. - -"Send Warning and Knotted Cord find mine? Ugh! Good. Apache not want -him. Friend keep him. Then other pale-faces come for mine? Ugh! Bad. -Drive off friend. Too many rifle. Too many big strong. You not like it. -Ugh! Apaches drive 'em all away. Take every scalp. You see." - -"We're in no hurry about the mine," said Murray. "Go back for it some -day. Too many Lipans now." - -"They go away too. Go beyond mountains. Never come over here before. -Apaches teach 'em a lesson." - -The mind of Many Bears was very much troubled. He wanted to travel -westward as fast as possible, and yet here was a band of his tribe's -worst and most ancient enemies within easy striking distance. Not to -speak of Captain Skinner and his men, and the "plunder" there might be -in their "outfit." - -"What you say? Send Warning tell friend what do." - -"Let 'em all alone," said Murray, promptly. "Maybe Lipans fight -pale-faces. Maybe not. Both get scared and go away. No good to lose -warrior for nothing." - -"Get scalp. Get big name. Tribe say great chief." - -That was the difficulty. His pride was in the way of his good sense. - -Murray did his best in the remainder of that ride, and his peaceful -advice might perhaps have been taken if it had not been for the hot -temper of the younger braves and the "war spirit" they found at the camp -on their arrival. - -"They're a venomous lot," said Murray to Steve, as he looked around him, -while they were riding in. All the mixed "reserve" who could get ponies -had mounted them and ridden out to meet their chief and his warriors. -More than one squaw was among them, ready to ply bow and arrows, or even -a lance, if need should be. - -Rita, who was on the look-out, saw the party as it approached, and -called out to Ni-ha-be: - -"Where are your eyes? Don't you see who is coming?" - -"Father? All the braves? Oh, Rita, there are Knotted Cord and Send -Warning!" - -They did not so much as guess how eagerly their faces were all the while -sought for by the eyes of the two pale-faces. - -"Do you see them, Murray?" had been the first thing Steve had said as -they were riding in. - -"Not yet. Be careful, Steve. If you see them, you must not speak to -them. Contrary to rule." - -"Not speak to them!" - -"Not till the chief himself introduces you. Even after that you must not -say too much." - -Steve was well pleased, as he looked around him, to see how very strong -was that band of Apaches. It seemed as if he had just so much more -reason to feel safe about again falling into the hands of the Lipans. - -True, he was among the wildest kind of Indians, but he was not a -prisoner, and the Apaches had no claim on him. - -"They will not care whether I go or stay," he said to himself. - -He had not gotten away from them yet, however, and among the first to -welcome him was Red Wolf. - -Steve was glad to meet the young brave again, and showed it, and so did -Murray. - -The latter, indeed, won the heart of Many Bears by saying of his son, in -the presence of the warriors standing by, - -"Brave young man. Stand right up and fight. Make a great war chief some -day. I like him." - -"Young men go," said Many Bears. "Send Warning stay with gray-heads." - -Steve walked away at his new friend's side, both of them a little -puzzled what to do or say, until Steve asked a question in Mexican -Spanish. - -The ice was broken. Red Wolf understood that tongue as well as Steve -did. - -"You are my brother. You are not a pale-face." - -Steve was not altogether ignorant of Indian manners and of their bitter -prejudices, and he replied: - -"Brother. Yes. All right. I am an Apache now. Fight for tribe. Fight for -brother." - -That was precisely what he had already done, so that it was more than a -mere profession, but the reply of Red Wolf had a great deal of frankness -in it: - -"Red Wolf is an Apache. He hates pale-faces. Glad his brother has come -to be an Apache. Eat with him now. Show him foolish young squaw that ran -away and got caught. Squaw know very little." - -They had walked along for some distance when Red Wolf said that he was -very near his own camp fire. He had not intended this remark for any -ears but those of Steve Harrison, and his pride forbade his noticing the -ripple of laughter which immediately followed it. - -"Did you hear him, Rita?" said Ni-ha-be. "He was one of the braves who -went to find the ford. They forgot to ask the squaws where to look for -it." - -Steve heard the rippling laugh, but he did not understand the words. -Could they be making fun of him? - -His cheeks burned red hot at the thought of it, for he turned his head -just long enough to see that those two pairs of bright and searching -eyes were looking straight at him. They dropped instantly, but not -before they had seen the quick flush rise to his face. - -"Ni-ha-be," said Rita, "he will think we are rude." - -"Ni-ha-be, Rita," said Red Wolf at that moment, "tell Dolores she must -cook for Knotted Cord. The chief says so. Bring blanket. Bring water. Be -quick." - -"Rita," said Ni-ha-be, while they were dipping their water gourds in the -river, "he is as handsome as an Apache." - -The two girls were certainly beginning to take a very great interest in -their white friends and visitors, but they both stood gravely and -silently enough before Red Wolf and Knotted Cord when they brought them -the water. - -"Young squaws thank you for help," said Red Wolf. "Both very glad. Very -young. Very foolish. Daughters of great chief himself." - -Steve almost forgot Murray's caution, for he frankly held out his hand, -saying, - -"I'm glad Murray and I were on hand to help. They're too nice to be -killed. Glad to see them both well." - -Mother Dolores was looking on, and was deeply scandalized by the -terrible boldness of Ni-ha-be, for that young lady actually took the -hand Steve held out, and shook it, for all the world as if she had been -a brave. - -Such a thing was unheard of, and what made it worse was the fact that -Rita instantly followed her example. - -Red Wolf hardly knew what to say, but he was pretty well used to seeing -Ni-ha-be have her own way. He was pleased that they had stopped short of -so grave an offense as speaking. - -"Rita will go. She will bring the talking leaves by-and-by. Red Wolf has -a question to ask of his brother. Ni-ha-be go too." - -Steve would have been glad to make a longer "call" upon the daughters of -the great chief, but they quietly walked away, as became them, not even -laughing until they were at some distance. - -Then it was Ni-ha-be who laughed, for Rita was thinking about the -talking leaves, and wishing with all her heart that she could manage to -ask some questions of her own concerning them. - -"If he could not answer me, I am sure Send Warning could. He is old and -he is wise, and I know he is good." - -[TO BE CONTINUED.] - - - - -THE BOY COMMANDER OF THE CAMISARDS. - -BY GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON. - - -When Louis XIV. was King of France, that country was Catholic, as it is -still, but in the mountainous region called the Cevennes more than half -the people were Protestants. At first the King consented that these -Protestant people should live in quiet, and worship as they pleased; but -in those days men were not tolerant in matters of religion, as they are -now, and so after a while King Louis made up his mind that he would -compel all his people to believe alike. The Protestants of the Cevennes -were required to become Catholics. When they refused, soldiers were sent -to compel them, and great cruelties were practiced. - -When this persecution had lasted for nearly thirty years, a body of -young men who were gathered together in the High Cevennes resolved to -defend themselves by force. - -Among these young men was one, a mere boy, named Jean Cavalier. This -boy, without knowing it, had military genius of a very high order, and -when it became evident that he and his comrades could not long hold out -against the large bodies of regular troops sent against them, he -suggested a plan which in the end proved to be so good that for years -the poor peasants were able to maintain war against all the armies that -King Louis could send. - -Cavalier's plan was to make uprisings in several places at once, so that -the King's officers could not tell in which way to turn. As he and his -comrades knew the country well, and had friends to tell them of the -enemy's movements, they could nearly always know when it was safe to -attack, and when they must hide in the woods. - -One Sunday, Cavalier, who was a preacher as well as a soldier, held -services in his camp in the woods, and all the Protestant peasants in -the neighborhood attended. The Governor of Alais, whose name was De la -Hay, thought this a good opportunity not only to defeat Cavalier's small -force, but also to catch the Protestant women and children in the act of -attending a Protestant service, the punishment for which was death. He -collected a force of about six hundred men and marched toward the wood, -where he knew he should outnumber the peasants three or four to one. He -had a mule loaded with ropes, declaring that he was going to hang all of -the rebels at once. - -When news of their coming was brought to the peasants, they sent away -all the women and children, and began to discuss the situation. They had -no commander, for although Cavalier had led them generally, he had no -authority to do so. On this occasion many thought it best to retreat at -once, as there were less than two hundred of them; but Cavalier declared -that if they would follow him, he would lead them to a place where -victory might be won. They consented, and he advanced to a point on the -road where he could shelter his men. Quickly disposing them in line of -battle behind some defenses, he awaited the coming of the enemy. - -De la Hay, being overconfident because of his superior numbers, -blundered at the outset. Instead of attacking first with his infantry, -he placed his horsemen in front, and ordered an assault. Cavalier was -quick to take advantage of this blunder. He ordered only a few of his -men to fire, and this drew a volley from the advancing horsemen, which -did little damage to the sheltered troops, but emptied the horsemen's -weapons. Instantly Cavalier ordered a charge and a volley, and the -horsemen, with empty pistols, gave way. Cavalier pursued hotly, giving -the enemy no time to rally. A re-enforcement coming up, tried to check -Cavalier's charge, but so violent was the onset that these fresh troops -gave way in their turn, and the chase ended only when the King's men had -shut themselves up in the fortified towns. - -When the battle was over it was decided unanimously to make Cavalier the -commander. He refused, however, unless they would also give him power to -enforce obedience, and his troops at once voted to make his authority -absolute, even in questions of life and death. According to the best -authorities, Cavalier was only seventeen years old when this absolute -command was conferred upon him. - -On one occasion Cavalier attacked a party of forty men who were marching -through the country to re-enforce a distant post, and killed most of -them. While searching the dead bodies, he found in the pocket of the -commanding officer an order signed by Count Broglio, the King's -Lieutenant, directing all military officers and town authorities to -lodge and feed the party on their march. No sooner had the boy soldier -read this paper than he resolved to turn it to his own advantage. - -The castle of Servas, near Alais, had long been a source of trouble to -Cavalier. It was a strong place, built upon a steep hill, and was so -difficult of approach that it would have been madness to try to take it -by force. - -[Illustration: CAVALIER PERSONATING THE LIEUTENANT OF THE COUNT -BROGLIO.] - -When he found the order referred to, he resolved to pretend that he was -the commander of the detachment which he had just destroyed. Dressing -himself in the dead officer's clothes, he ordered his men to put on the -clothing of the other dead royalists. Then he took six of his best men, -with their own Camisard uniforms on, and bound them with ropes, to -represent prisoners. One of them had been wounded in the arm, and his -bloody sleeve helped the stratagem. Putting these six men at the head of -his troop, with a guard of their disguised comrades over them, he -marched toward the castle. There he declared himself to be Count -Broglio's lieutenant, and said that he had met a company of the Barbets, -or Camisards, and had defeated them, taking six prisoners; that he was -afraid to keep these prisoners in the village overnight lest their -friends should rescue them; and that he wished to lodge them in the -castle for safety. When the Governor of the castle heard this story, and -saw the order of Count Broglio, he was completely imposed upon. He -ordered the prisoners to be brought into the castle, and invited -Cavalier to be his guest there for the night. Taking two of his officers -with him, Cavalier went into the castle to sup with the Governor. During -supper several of his soldiers, who were encamped just outside, went -into the castle upon pretense of getting wine or bread, and at a signal -from Cavalier they overpowered the sentinels, and threw the gates open. -The rest of the troop rushed in at once, and before the garrison could -seize their arms, the boy commander was master of the fortress. - -Failing to overcome him by force or strategy, Cavalier's foes fell back -upon the hope of starving him during the winter. But in indulging this -hope they forgot that the crown and glory of his work in the field had -been his wonderful fertility of resource. He knew quite as well as they -did that he must live all winter in the woods, so he gave his whole mind -to the question of how to do it. - -He began during the harvest to make his preparations. He explored all -the caves in the mountains, and selected the best ones for use as -store-houses, taking care to have them in all parts of the mountains, so -that if cut off from one he could draw upon another. In these caves he -stored quantities of grain and other provisions, and whenever he needed -meal, some of his men, who were millers, would carry grain to some -lonely country mill and grind it. - -To prevent this, the King's officers ordered that all the country mills -should be rendered unfit for use, but before this could be done, -Cavalier directed some of his men, who were skilled machinists, to -disable two or three of the mills by carrying away the important parts -of their machinery and storing them in his caves. Then, when he wanted -meal, his machinists had only to replace the machinery in some disabled -mill, and remove it again after his millers had done the necessary -grinding. His bakers made use of farmers' ovens to bake bread in, and -when the King's soldiers, hearing of this, destroyed the ovens, Cavalier -sent his masons--for he had all sorts of craftsmen in his ranks--to -rebuild them. - -Having two powder-makers with him, he collected salt-petre, burned -willow twigs for charcoal, and made all the powder he needed, in his -caves. For bullets he melted down the leaden weights of windows, and -when this source of supply failed, he melted down pewter vessels and -used pewter bullets--a fact which gave rise to the belief that he used -poisoned balls. Finally, in a dyer's establishment, he had the good luck -to find two great leaden kettles, weighing more than seven hundred -quintals, which, he says, "I caused immediately to be carried into the -magazines with as much diligence and care as if they had been silver." - -Chiefly by Cavalier's energy and military skill, the war was kept up -against fearful odds for years, and finally the young soldier succeeded -in making a treaty of peace in which perfect liberty of conscience and -worship--which was all they had been fighting for--was guaranteed to the -Protestants of the Cevennes. His friends rejected this treaty, however, -and Cavalier soon afterward went to Holland, where he was given command -of a regiment in the English service. His career in arms was a brilliant -one--so brilliant that the British made him a General, and Governor of -the island of Jersey; but he nowhere showed greater genius or manifested -higher soldierly qualities than during the time when he was the Boy -Commander of the Camisards. - - - - -[Illustration: "THEY WERE ACTUALLY STUCK AGAINST THE PERPENDICULAR WALL -OF ROCK."] - -BIRDS' NESTS FOR SOUP. - -BY RALPH WATSON. - - -One pleasant morning in the early part of last April I had just landed -in Macao. Having no idea that I was acquainted with any person in Asia, -you can imagine that I was not a little surprised to hear an exultant -shout burst forth behind me, and the familiar old college cry. "Rah! -rah! rah! Y--a--l--e! 26 South College, or there is no faith in the -blue! Well, Well, if this isn't glorious!" - -With the first sound a hand came down vigorously on my shoulder, -swinging me around in a way that reminded me of past experiences, and -lo! Jack Merriman had hold of me in earnest. - -"What a splendid fellow you have grown to be, Tom!--six feet, if you are -an inch. Look at me--five feet six; never could amount to anything, you -know." - -"But how come you here, Jack? What are you doing?" - -"In tea, my boy, in tea. And not a bad thing, now, tea is, when you take -it in the right way. But for yourself--whence and whither bound?" - -"From London last, by Suez, Bombay, and Calcutta; to Canton to-morrow, -and then up the coast." - -"Very good; then we will make the most of our time to-day. Here we are -at my office, and this is, of course, your head-quarters. Three o'clock -now. I'll just send around and tell old Man Lok to be ready for us, for -I am going to give you something you never had--a regular Chinese -dinner. The old fellow has some of the best nests I have seen in months, -and you shall have trial of the same. Would you like a few fins too, or -perhaps a pacu-qui? But I forget; you are not yet up in our style of -rations. Never mind; I will show you what we can do." - -The rest of the afternoon Jack and I talked about old times. Then we -repaired to the restaurant, which he told me was noted for the -excellence of Chinese dishes served up in their own peculiar style. - -"Up to the chopsticks, Tom? I suppose not, and we must make allowance -for you. Man Lok has doubtless provided, for I told him you were a poor -Mellican man who did not know much yet. He will have a knife and fork -for you." - -On the table at my place were a knife and fork, as Jack had promised; at -his were the chopsticks, the use of which was a mystery to me then, -though subsequently I became expert in managing them. The dinner was a -most elaborate one, course succeeding course in great number and -variety, all very elegantly served. Many of them were such articles of -food as I had never seen, and as to the nature of some I could not even -hazard a guess. But I will not describe them at present, excepting a -single one. - -This was a soup, which made its appearance at, I think, the fifth -course. It was rather thick, and having a decidedly gelatinous look and -feeling, it might almost have been called a diluted jelly rather than a -soup. It was served very hot, and the flavor was excellent. With it were -brought small dishes of very peculiar preserves, which I thought the -most delicious things in their way that I had ever tasted. Jack said -nothing until some little progress had been made with the soup. - -"How do you like it, my boy? A twang of Asia clear through, is not -there? Recalls all your memories of Lalla Rookh and Sindbad the Sailor, -and those other worthies of ancient history, eh?" - -"It is certainly delightful," said I; "unlike anything I ever tasted." - -"I should think it might be. Precious little of it you ever see outside -the Flowery Land. And what is more, there is not, as I believe, another -man even in all China who can match old Man Lok in serving it. This is -the famous bird's-nest soup, about as much a peculiarity and a glory of -China as the Great Wall, and I was determined that you should make your -acquaintance with it under the auspices of Man Lok, the great -high-priest, the Soyer, of bird's nest." - -"But what is it, Jack? What are you talking about? How can you eat -grass, and sticks, and feathers, and leaves, to say nothing of mud? for -those make up birds' nests in general. I must say I never heard of their -being used for food." - -"Well done, old fellow! Hurrah for Yale! Here is education for you!--a -graduate of high standing who never even heard of bird's-nest soup. Why, -Tom, you are all adrift, man. I learned more than that in the course of -my college life, though I did graduate in the second term of Sophomore -year. But I see how it was; classics, mathematics, and boating were all -you studied, instead of taking to something useful." - -"All right, Jack, I acknowledge your wisdom; only I wish it would -enlighten my ignorance." - -"So I will, Tom--so I will; but we will wait till evening, and do it at -my lodgings, for I have some of the nests there, as well as the birds -which build them, and you shall see for yourself. For the present we -will do honor to Man Lok." Full honor was done to Man Lok, and evening -found me in Jack's rooms. - -"Now, Tom, if you will sit down and behave yourself properly, I will -give you a practical lecture on ornithology viewed as a science which -relates to soup. And that we may start right, I will show you in the -first place the origin of the soup." - -As he spoke, Jack opened a drawer, from which he took five or six -stuffed skins of small dark-colored birds, and after them three -curious-looking objects, which he gravely placed on the table before me -by the side of the skins. These queer things were irregularly circular, -rather broader than my hand, an inch and a half or two inches thick on -one side, thinning out almost to an edge on the opposite side. The -thickened side was flat, as though it had been formed against some hard -substance, from which it had been subsequently torn away. - -The one which Jack had placed nearest my hand was dark and dirty, had -feathers and filth of all kinds mixed in with its upper surface, and as, -like the others, it was sufficiently hollowed out above for such a -purpose. I could easily see that it might have been a nest in which a -brood of young birds had been hatched and reared. The one next to it was -cleaner, free from feathers, and showed no signs of having been used as -a nest; but it was of a dingy brown color, and looked generally _dirty_. -The third, however, was really beautiful. It was clean, clear as though -its fibres were of pure gelatine, and so brilliant that it looked almost -white. - -"What in the world are these things?" - -"Soup," said Jack, with great gravity--"undeveloped soup." - -"Do, for pity's sake, talk sense, Jack. Do you mean to tell me that I -have been eating such stuff as this?" pointing to the one nearest me. - -"Such are not my intentions. You dined, I think, at the establishment of -my friend Man Lok, and that sort of article never comes under his hand. -This light one is like what you caused to become part of you, and I -believe that even your prejudiced appetite can not fail to admit that it -was good. But come, Tom, let's commence with the birds, and we will take -up the nests afterward. Look at this little fellow, now; dull-colored -beggar, is not he? Do you recognize him? Or rather did you ever know any -bird which he resembles?" - -"No, none that I can remember." - -"Look again. Would he look natural whirling down into a chimney just at -evening?" - -"What! Do you mean a chimney-swallow, Jack?" - -"That is precisely what I mean. Yes, Tom, these nests, which are such a -peculiar delicacy to Chinese palates, are all made by swallows, and -there are, as far as I can trace them, four species which build nests of -this sort. They belong to a division of the swallows which are sometimes -called swifts, our common chimney-swallow of the United States being -included among the swifts. Those which build the edible nests are found -only on the islands of this Asiatic region, and mostly on the coasts of -the islands, though sometimes they go forty or fifty miles inland. They -are all of one genus, _Collocalia_, and this one in my hand, which I -shot myself, is the _Collocalia fuciphaga_. - -"Four years ago I made a run down to the north coast of Java, and it was -there I obtained these, the nests and the birds. The coast on that part -of the island is very rocky, and large caves exist in some places, -penetrating the rocks quite deeply. I knew that these caves were said to -be specially frequented by the swallows, and I found that the report was -true, for I visited five or six of them. The birds were very abundant, -and I had opportunity to see their nests in every stage of their -history. I brought away these three as fair representatives. You can see -how they were placed, and this engraving gives you a correct idea of -it. They were actually _stuck_ against the perpendicular or sloping wall -of rock, precisely as a chimney-swallow sticks his nest against the side -of a chimney, his, however, consisting only of a worthless mass of -twigs. The Chinamen gather them from these places in boat-loads, and -bring them to market. Most of those which are brought here come, I -think, from Java and Borneo, though a good supply is obtained also in -Ceylon, the species which is found there being the _Collocalia -nidifica_. The nests, however, of the different species are sold -together, the only distinction being in quality as to cleanness and -color. - -"Of course the value of the nests, as with all other goods, depends upon -the quality. This dirty fellow here, which has evidently done its work, -and furnished board and lodging to a rising family, is of small value; -and yet even such as these Chinese patience and ingenuity can clean and -clear so perfectly that they are fit for use, though never becoming of -first class. This next one had not been used for rearing a brood, but it -was soiled in some way in the building, and is of about middle grade. -But this is what we call a prime article, this light one, and the whiter -it is the better price it commands. The best are worth more than their -weight in silver." - -"But of what do the birds build them, Jack? Where do they get any such -material? It is a strange-looking substance." - -"No more strange than honey, Tom, and made in the same way. It used to -be thought that it was something which the birds gathered from the -surface of the sea, but we know now that that is all foolishness. I saw -the swallows catching flies as industriously as I ever watched the -barn-swallows doing it over the Green in New Haven, and I opened the -stomachs of many specimens which I shot, and found them always filled -with insects, and with nothing else, so that we know that their food is -the same as that of other birds of their tribe. - -"But they have a set of glands, corresponding to the salivary glands at -the sides of the mouth, which form this peculiar gelatinous material -used by them in building their nests. You know the song says, 'Little by -little the bird builds its best,' and that is the way they deposit these -fine fibres. When first placed they are always clear and nearly white, -and of course nests gathered in that condition are highly prized; few, -however, are obtained that have not been more or less soiled. I do not -understand the mystery of Man Lok's art, but I know that bird's-nest -soup is made very much as any other form of such material--say isinglass -or gelatine--would be prepared for the table." - - - - -THE LITTLE DOLLS' DRESSMAKER. - -ADAPTED FROM CHARLES DICKENS. - -BY MRS. ZADEL B. GUSTAFSON.--(_Concluded._) - - -There stood on the door-step a rather overgrown boy, with a great many -buttons on his clothes, and a very kind, pleasant face; though not at -all handsome. - -"Come in, sir," said the little dressmaker. "And who may you be?" - -"My name's Sloppy, miss." - -[Illustration: "DON'T OPEN YOUR MOUTH SO WIDE; SOME DAY IT'LL CATCH -SO."] - -"Ought to be Buttons," laughed Jenny. But when Master Sloppy threw back -his head and laughed, she exclaimed, "Goodness me! don't open your mouth -so wide; if you do, some day it'll catch so, and never come shut again." - -The big boy shut his mouth, and looked around the room for all the world -as if it had been described to him, and he was trying to verify the -description. - -"How do you like it?" asked Jenny. - -"Pretty well, miss." - -"And what do you think of _me_?" - -This question confused Master Sloppy. He pulled at his coat buttons, and -looked at her foolishly. - -"Don't be afraid," said she. "Speak out. You think I'm queer, now, don't -you?" She shook her head at him, and the broken-toothed comb with which -she had pushed back her hair fell out, so that the shining locks came -down and made a golden bower all around the tiny little figure. - -"Oh," cried Sloppy, "what a lot of it! and what a color!" - -"What did you come for?" asked Jenny, in her gentle voice, after a short -silence. - -"I heard you dressed dolls, miss," said Sloppy, giving a very odd look -at the door. - -"Did you, indeed? Do _you_ want a doll dressed?" - -"You don't live here all alone, do you, miss?" said Sloppy, with another -look at the door. - -"No; I live here with my fairy godmother." - -"With--with--who did you say, miss?" - -"Well, of course you don't understand," Jenny explained. "With my second -father, or with my first, really." She shook her head and sighed. "If -you'd known a poor child I used to have, you'd have understood me; but -as it is, you don't, and you can't." - -"You must have been taught a long time, miss, before you could do such -nice work, and so pretty," Sloppy said, looking at the gay doll and the -quick fingers. - -"Never was taught a stitch. Just cobbled and cobbled until I found out -how. Did badly at first, but better now." - -"And here have I been ever so long a-learning of my -trade--cabinet-making," said the boy. "I'll tell you what, miss; I -should like to make you something." - -"Much obliged," said the little creature, with her sharp look, and her -head on one side. "You're a new sort of customer. What would you like to -make for me, now?" - -Sloppy looked all around the room. "I could make you a handy set of -nests to lay the dolls in, or I could make you a handy little set of -drawers to keep your silks and threads in, miss, or I could turn you a -pretty handle for that crutch. It belongs to him you call your -godmother?" - -"It belongs to _me_," said Jenny, blushing over her face and neck; "I'm -lame." - -Sloppy blushed too, for he was a kind boy in spite of his big mouth and -his lots of buttons. - -"I'm glad it's yours, miss," said he, very quickly, "because I'd rather -make it pretty for you than for any one else. Please may I look at it?" - -"You'd better see me use it," said Jenny, getting up. "See, this is the -way--hoppety-kickety-peg-peg-peg! Not graceful, is it?" - -"Why, it seems to me that you hardly want it at all," said Sloppy, very -kindly. - -The little dressmaker sat down again and gave the crutch to him, -thanking him with that soft voice and that better look that gave her a -kind of beauty all her own. He measured the handle on his sleeve, and -then gently laid the crutch down. - -"It would be a real pleasure to me, miss, to fix it. I've heard that you -can sing beautiful, and a song would pay me any time a deal better'n -money." - -"You're a very kind young man, and I accept your offer," said the little -creature, with a smile. "I suppose _he_ won't mind," she added, -thoughtfully; and then, tossing her head, "if _he_ does mind, why, _he_ -may, that's all." - -"Meaning him you call your godmother, miss?" Sloppy asked. - -"No, no--_him, him, him_," said Jenny, with an odd, amused look at -Sloppy's wonder. - -"_Him, him, him,_" repeated Sloppy, staring. - -"Yes, _him_ who is coming to court and marry me." - -"Oh, _him_," said Sloppy. "When is he coming, miss?" - -"What a question! How should I know?" cried the little dressmaker. - -"Where is he coming from, miss?" - -"Why, goodness gracious, boy, how can I tell that either? He's coming -from somewhere, I suppose, and he's coming some day. That's all I know -about him." - -At this Master Sloppy threw back his head and laughed so heartily, and -seemed so merry, that the dressmaker began to laugh too, and even Mr. -Riah joined in. - -"Now," said Jenny, when she had got her breath again, "you haven't told -me yet what you've come to see me for.--Oh, godmother! what's that?" - -"It's a bride, miss, a bride. And a wagon, a coach, a chariot, miss!" -roared Sloppy, who sprang up and threw the door wide open. - -There was a most unusual sound of wheels and voices, and in the same -moment the little dressmaker, golden bower of hair and all, was caught -up in the arms of Lizzie--Lizzie, in a wonderful silk dress, with -shining pearls around her neck, and lace to drive a little dolls' -dressmaker wild. Behind Lizzie stood a handsome gentleman, thin and pale -yet, but with the happiest look Jenny had ever seen in a man's face in -all her little watchful life. - -"Come," said this gentleman to Lizzie--"come, Mrs. Wrayburn, let me take -Miss Golden Hair, and you bring on the godmother." - -Sloppy was already out and on the driver's seat. And almost as quickly -as I have told it, the pretty coach and the span of dark gray -horses--which behaved as if they had been told all about it--were flying -away toward London. - -In the coach were Mr. Riah, who hardly knew how he came to be there, and -the little dressmaker, who sat between the handsome gentleman and -Lizzie--her own dear, kind Lizzie; but, oh, how different and how much -more beautiful! Jenny thought. - -When they had been riding into the city for a little while, the horses -stopped in front of a beautiful house, and Lizzie's "him" carried Jenny -up the wide stairs, by tall stands of lovely flowers, to a little room. -And oh, what a little room it was! The paper on the walls was a tea-rose -color; there was a pretty moss-rose carpet, and a little inlaid working -bench with little scissors, and a dainty basket with silks and ribbons -and velvets pouring out of it, all fit for a dressmaker to the fairies; -and a low chair, cushioned to be as soft as a bunch of clover; and a -beautiful book of pretty patterns, in which was written: "For my darling -Jenny Wren, from her Lizzie-Mizzie-Wizzie." - -Such a change--so great and so delightful that any real fairy godmother -might have been proud to have made it with her fairy wand--almost took -away the little dolls' dressmaker's breath. - -But while she sat in the soft low chair, and Lizzie told her how Mr. -Wrayburn had been very ill, and how when he got better he had asked to -keep his nurse always, and how she had said yes, if she might have her -Jenny Wren, and how he had said he couldn't do without Jenny Wren -either, the little dressmaker's eyes filled with tears, almost the first -happy tears that had ever come into them. - -She took Mr. Wrayburn's hand and kissed it, and wound some of her -beautiful hair around it, and then twisted some of Lizzie's dark hair -around that, and said, "It's a bargain." - -Then Lizzie told her that Mr. Riah was going to live in the little house -in Church Street, because he liked it best, and he was going to do some -nice work for Mr. Wrayburn, and be well paid for it. "And we are going -to take tea with him sometimes," said Lizzie, "and he is going to take -tea with us very often, my dear, and Sloppy is going to make you the -prettiest things, and go on your errands, Jenny love, and you are going -to live with us, and be as happy as the day is long, till 'he' comes." - -"Oh, he! He can stay away now," said Jenny, with the merriest little -laugh. "If he couldn't come when a person was alone, and had trouble, -and lots of work to do, he can stay away now as long as he likes." - -"And serve him right, miss," said Sloppy, who stood in the doorway, and -laughed as merrily as Jenny. - -"And, Jenny dear," said Lizzie, after the little dolls' dressmaker had -gone to bed under the pretty lace curtains, and both were looking -through the window into the pleasant evening sky, "now you can see your -long bright slanting rows of children?" - -Jenny waited a moment. "Yes, but not here," said she, softly. -"By-and-by, when I've gone up to be dead." - -THE END. - - - - -[Illustration] - -A LOVING KISS. - - - A big jar of sweetmeats - Stood high on the shelf; - All eager to reach it, - Climbed up a sweet elf. - - A thumb and a finger - Were daintily dipped, - When all of a sudden - A little foot slipped. - - Then oh, what a tumble! - And oh, what a cry! - But you see a big brother - Was standing close by. - - He saw in a moment - Just what was amiss-- - A bruised little forehead - Was cured by a kiss. - - - - -IN THE CORNER. - - - On the chair an open lesson, open wide at A B C, - In the corner little Lettice, just a little girl of three. - Little Lettice is not stupid; she can learn if she will try; - And she knows her A B C just as well as you or I. - - But to-day she really will not think of anything at all - But the shining china dishes and the flowers on the wall; - When to big A mother pointed, saying, "Letty, this you know," - Letty twirled her little fingers and sedately answered, "O!" - - This is why our little Lettice in the corner there you see, - There to stand until it pleases her to say her A B C; - For she knows the printed letters just as well as you or I, - And the little miss could say them if she only chose to try. - -[Illustration] - - - - -MONOGRAM PUZZLE. - - -[Illustration] - -There is a novelty and ingenuity about this puzzle that can not fail to -delight our puzzle-loving readers. Here, under a fanciful disguise, are -four lines of poetry. Our artist has taken each word of a simple stanza, -and worked the letters into a graceful monogram. Among the monograms may -be found four well-known names. Take the four diagonals, beginning with -the one in the left-hand corner. The first two and the last give the -names of three popular authors, and the third that of a famous play. - - - - -[Illustration: OUR POST-OFFICE BOX.] - - -There is not a bit of use in being discouraged about it, children; but -we are not ashamed to tell you that sometimes we feel just a very little -blue when we have to lay aside so many of your dear letters simply -because we have not room enough to print them. And then we think of the -sweet faces that will be clouded with disappointment, and the provoked -faces that will frown, when the Post-office Box comes week after week -without the letters John and Jenny are watching for so patiently. But, -as we said, it isn't worth while to fret and cry, and so we, for -ourselves, make up our minds to enjoy hearing about the goats that draw -the little wagons, and the kittens that have such fearful fits, and the -birds which are so cunning, and the babies who are so cute. We like to -be told, even though we can not print the letters which so inform us, -that Molly's little sister Bess is learning to walk, and that Arthur's -brother Freddie claps his hands when he looks at the pictures in -HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE. And if you'll keep the secret, and never whisper -it to anybody, we'll tell you that we love just as dearly, and perhaps a -wee, tiny morsel more dearly, the boys and girls whose words we do not -print, than those whose letters are published in Our Post-office Box. - - * * * * * - - CEDAR HILL, PULASKI COUNTY, KENTUCKY. - - We have been taking YOUNG PEOPLE since last June; I like it very - much. I am ten years old. We live in the country, and our home is - called Cedar Hill because it has a great many cedar-trees in the - yard, and is on a hill. We have six canaries; they sing very - sweetly, and are very nice pets. We have a little black shepherd - dog; we call him Jipsy; he is very playful. - - SOPHIE M. - - * * * * * - -This dear little fellow who feeds the sparrows forgot to print his -address at the top of his letter. It is a very nice letter -notwithstanding: - - I can not write good, so I will have to print my letter. I like - HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE better than any of my story-books. I have - about two hundred pets. You could never guess what they are, so I - will tell you; they are sparrows, and they are so tame that they - will come and perch on the window-sill and look for me to feed - them. I give them bread every day. Sometimes, if I do not see them, - they go around to the dining-room windows, and peep for me to come. - They have a nest inside our garret window. - - I wish Jimmy Brown would write and tell what he got for his - Christmas. I hope his stocking was full. I got lots of nice things - from Santa Claus. Good-by. - - THEODORE G. H. - - * * * * * - - YONCALLA, OREGON. - - We have a dog and five cats. Our dog's name is Telephone. He is a - good dog to catch rats and mice. We had a merry Christmas. My - brother and I milk the cows and chop the wood. I am eleven years - old, and my twin brother and I are going to grub all the ground we - can this winter, and pa is going to plough it, and give us the - proceeds. We have got about an acre and a half grubbed out. We - grubbed up a snake four feet long. - - GEORGE L. - -Grubbing must be hard work, George, and we have no doubt it develops -your muscles wonderfully. 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I have - lived almost all my life in the valleys of Idaho. There are many - beautiful sights here, such pretty flowers grow in valley and - mountain. One kind grows right near the edge of the snow, away up - the mountain-side. One can step right from the blossoms to the - snow. - - I wish I could have a good school to go to, like so many little - girls of my age. I have attended school but nine months in my life. - My mother teaches me at home. I have two horses all my own and a - saddle, and can ride splendidly, mamma says. I am twelve years old. - - ALMA C. - -Though deprived of the opportunity of going to school, you have learned -to use your eyes, and see the beautiful things which God has made; and -if you study and read and profit by your mother's instruction, you will -lay a good foundation for the class-room when you are older. It is quite -an advantage, too, to ride so well, and the health you gain as you -canter over the hills is something to be thankful for. - - * * * * * - - PROSPECT, ONEIDA COUNTY, NEW YORK. - - I live up here near the North Woods, and it is hard work to get - books to read, and the winters are long. My father is a guide, and - will send any one who will mail me a good book, a map of the Canada - lake region, showing the route from Utica, _via_ Trenton Falls, - through the wilderness to the lakes. - - My father was in the war, and when the powder-magazine blew up at - Yorktown, Virginia, in December, 1863, he found between the walls - of an old brick house a curious pipe, made of mahogany, bone, and - brass, and he says I may offer it in exchange for a printing-press - and type, or a very fine scroll-saw and the attachments. - - I am eleven years old, and my pa says your paper is full of the - best reading for boys. - - ALFRED B. WORDEN. - - * * * * * - - ARIVACA, ARIZONA. - - My brother takes YOUNG PEOPLE, and we both enjoy reading it very - much. We wish to tell you of our pony, which we all love dearly. - When we have ridden him, he always wants a piece of bread or some - sugar, and if we do not give it to him as soon as he is unsaddled, - he opens the side door by turning the knob with his lips. Should we - drive him away and shut the door, he immediately opens it again, - and stands by it until he gets his piece, when he will go off to - eat grass. He is very gentle and knowing. Our mamma writes this for - us, as we were afraid you would have too much trouble to study it - out if we wrote it. - - LENA and CHARLIE B. - -What a wise pony! He deserves a large piece of bread with sugar on it; -and we hope he never has to wait long for his reward after taking his -little master and mistress to ride. - - * * * * * - - DETROIT, MICHIGAN. - - I am a little boy eight years old. I take YOUNG PEOPLE. My sister - takes _St Nicholas_. I was twelve miles out in the country the - other day. The cars pass our door. We have a type-writer, and I - write on it instead of with a pen. My papa is a lawyer, and I copy - testimony sometimes. We have a little baby, and we call him Mr. - Google, but his right name is Herbert. - - NORMAN F. - -Your beautiful type-writing made us feel like congratulating your father -that he has so intelligent and skillful a copyist. - - * * * * * - - WOODBURY, NEW JERSEY. - - Can any one beat Woodbury for late dandelions? The one inclosed was - found on our lawn this morning, January 10. - - H. - -And a little beauty it must have been, as we can testify, who received -it pressed. - - * * * * * - - BEULAH, KANSAS. - - I read before our lyceum the story of Jimmy Brown and his monkey; - it made everybody laugh. My uncle sent me a pair of Italian Leghorn - chickens. They are beauties. We call the rooster John, and the hen - Biddy. Biddy lays an egg every day. I think it pays to keep a hen. - We live in Southeastern Kansas; this is the great coal, lead, and - zinc region. We have had a very mild winter so far. This country is - thickly settled. There has been a large immigration during the last - two years. We have school nine months out of the year. I am eight - years old, and read in the Fifth Reader, and study geography, - grammar, arithmetic, spelling, and writing. - - WILLIAM PITT A. - - * * * * * - - I am a little girl just six years old, and my name is Joe. I read - all the letters in YOUNG PEOPLE. I have a cat named Cutty; but her - whole name is Connecticut, because she came from there in a box by - express. She is very smart, and can do a great many tricks. She can - lie down as if she were dead; can stand on her hind-legs; says her - prayers, gives her paw to shake hands, sits upon the piano-stool - with her paws on the keys, and her head thrown back, as if she were - singing a song. She sits at the table in a high chair, with a - napkin around her neck, and laps milk from a saucer without putting - her paws on the table. Now have any of the Young People got a - smarter cat than mine? I like HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE very much, and - when I have finished reading it, I send it to a little boy who - lives on a farm in the country, where I spent last summer. I have - no brothers or sisters. But I am going to be a doctor when I am - big. - - J. W. K. - -We would like to know where this little girl lives, as she forgot to -tell us. Perhaps she will write again. - - * * * * * - - SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA. - - As I have seen only one letter from here, and that from my friend - Edith D., I thought I would write and tell you about my doll Martha - Washington. She is very large, and a perfect beauty. She has a nice - dress, and my mother is going to make me a nice hat for her. My - doll has brown eyes and white hair. We have two dogs and two cats - at our house, and each of the children has a fine bow and a set of - arrows, and we have a target to shoot at. - - JESSIE N. D. - -When you have learned to sew so well that you can make Madam Martha -Washington a dress and a hat with your own skillful fingers, you must -write and tell us how much you enjoy working for the darling yourself. -Little girls often learn to sew very beautifully by making clothes for -their dolls, and we think it is a great accomplishment to sew neatly by -hand as well as on the machine. What does your mother think? - - * * * * * - - CROSS VILLAGE, MICHIGAN. - - I live on the shore of Lake Michigan, about twenty-five miles from - old Fort Mackinaw. It is lovely in the summer season to see the - vessels pass. Many of them land at the dock. We can also see two - light-houses. I think "Talking Leaves" is splendid. I have two - brothers and one sister. Ernest, Henry, and Olla are their names. - My grandma sent YOUNG PEOPLE to me last year. Isn't she a dear good - grandma? I am eleven years old. - - M. EFFA G. - - * * * * * - -Be sure to try your skill at unravelling our puzzle column, little -readers. You will find it a charming occupation for winter evenings. Try -to send us some puzzles of your own invention, inclosing the answer -invariably with the puzzle. We wish to print a long list of successful -solvers next week. If you can not untangle every enigma and arrange -every word square, never mind, but send us the answers of those which -you can puzzle out, and do not be discouraged by a little trouble at the -outset. The fun of making out a puzzle is in conquering it. - - * * * * * - -C. Y. P. R. U. - -A lady writes to us that she has found great satisfaction in reading -HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE to a number of boys, whom she invites to meet at -her house every Wednesday evening. She says she finds the stories and -articles excellent and charming. Besides reading aloud to the boys, she -lends them books, and, we presume, assists them in other womanly and -Christian ways to grow up to a useful and intelligent manhood. We desire -to thank Miss E. J. Y. for her kind letter, and we are not without the -hope that our allusion to it may indicate to other friends an easy and -beautiful method for doing good. - - * * * * * - -ANGIE.--To make nice sago gruel for your invalid sister, wash an ounce -of sago very carefully, and then soak it for two hours in a pint of -tepid water; simmer it in the same water about fifteen minutes, stirring -it gently. Sweeten and flavor it, and serve it at once.--Your milk toast -will be delicious if you brown your toast very evenly, dip it for an -instant into boiling water, and then spread it with a very little -butter. Lay it in a deep hot plate; a soup plate will do. Boil a -tea-cupful of milk, which you must thicken with a tea-spoonful of corn -starch mixed with a pinch of salt in a little cold water. Pour this over -your toast. - -In serving sick people with food please be sure not to offer them too -much at a time. Do not bother them by saying, "Would you like this?" and -"Will you have that?" They do not know what they wish, and they think -they want nothing. They have to be coaxed to eat, not in words, but by -offering them dainty things daintily and prettily prepared. The finest, -cleanest napkin, the thinnest, loveliest cup and saucer, and the -brightest silver should be taken when you are arranging the meals of -invalids. Sometimes, after all your trouble, they will scarcely taste -what you have prepared, and perhaps they may be a little cross and -petulant. Remember then that suffering has made them weak and tired, and -do not be discouraged, but try again, for on good and patient nursing -the doctor depends for success in treating the sick as much us he does -on his medicines and his skill. - - * * * * * - -D. C. H.--There is a real Jimmy Brown. The Postmistress has seen him -several times. - - * * * * * - -J. B.--It is easy to make a tennis net if you have any one to show you -how, but it is almost impossible to describe the manner of making it so -as to be understood. If you live near the sea-shore, you can get some -fisherman to teach you. If not, perhaps your mother or her seamstress -can show you how to make it. If you can not learn before next summer, -and yet want the net very badly, you may buy one for three dollars. - - * * * * * - -RITA.--You will probably obtain the information you desire about the -care of silk-worms by addressing the Ladies' Silk-culture Association, -1028 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (over Keystone National -Bank). This association, which is doing much to stimulate this branch of -industry, has recently given an exhibition at St. George's Hall in -Philadelphia. It was formally opened by Governor Hoyt, ex-Governor -Pollock, and other distinguished gentlemen. It was designed to -illustrate the various branches of the silk industry from the forming of -cocoons to the perfected fabric. - - * * * * * - -It would seem as if the variety of the articles to which we would call -the attention of the C. Y. P. R. U. this week was extensive enough to -please readers of all tastes and ages. Mr. George Cary Eggleston carries -us back to those terrible days of religious persecution when differences -in creed bathed the soil of France with blood; Mr. Ralph Watson tells us -of the curious "Collocalia," whose nests supply the Chinese with the -principal ingredient of one of their most highly esteemed soups; Mr. -Charles Barnard gives us full information how to while away our leisure -hours with the interesting and inexpensive and at the same time -instructive pastime of taking photographs; and Mr. B. Hardwicke tells -the boys and girls how to supersede the pleasures of coasting by the -more exciting sport to be had with the toboggan. - - * * * * * - -YOUNG PEOPLE'S COT. - -We publish this week the January report of Miss E. Augusta Fanshawe, and -repeat that the contributions for Young People's Cot should be sent to -the treasurer of the Cot Fund, and not to Messrs. Harper & Brothers. -Please read Aunt Edna's letter, children. - - NEW YORK CITY. - - In my last letter I told you I would soon let you know something - from _our_ hospital. Well, the other day I went there, and such a - chatter of little voices as met my ear when the door opened! I - could hardly believe I was going to a place where there was - sickness and pain. I went up stairs to Holy Innocent's Ward--_our_ - ward, you know--and how bright and sunny it looked! Sister Miriam, - the kind Sister who has charge of it, and who I wish you all knew, - as she is sunshine itself, was putting the finishing touches to the - morning dressing of the little ones. Every bed had its occupant, - though many of the children were not then in bed, but were running - about the room; and I was quickly surrounded by several little - "tots," who wanted to rub my muff, and see some cards I had that a - kind lady had sent them. But just now I am only going to speak of - two children and one cot, though I could easily tell you - interesting things of many more if I did not feel afraid the - Postmistress would shake her head. - - Sister Miriam is much pleased with your efforts, and thinks you - will certainly raise the whole amount if you will only keep on - trying, and to encourage you all she has selected a cot that will - be ours just as soon as we raise the money, but not before, - remember. It is the first cot in the south end of the room, right - in the sunshine, near a big window, where our child can look down - on Thirty-fourth Street. When I was there the occupant of that cot - was a funny little colored boy named Willie Stanward. He had been - very sick with something called by a very long name--pneumonia--but - was a great deal better, and when I saw him he was sitting in a - little chair near the window playing with something--looking very - much like a doll. He was only a wee boy, you know. He was going - home very soon, well, and Sister Miriam thought she would put in - his place a little white boy named Robert McGee, who, she said, - made very queer speeches, and was ever so funny. The doctor had - been making his legs straight, which before were crooked, and - though it was pretty hard to bear, he was getting on very nicely. - He also was a very little boy. I took up a "mite chest" and put it - over that cot, and think when we open it we will find something to - help on our work. - - Now good-by, but don't forget that we have not got the cot yet, but - must all try hard and raise the money, and then think how glad we - will all feel when we can say _that_ is the Young People's Cot. - - AUNT EDNA. - - * * * * * - - Contributions received for Young People's Cot in Holy Innocent's - Ward, St. Mary's Free Hospital for Children, 407 West Thirty-fourth - Street, New York: - - Willie and Georgie Campbell, Drummondville, $1; Clare Gardiner, - Troy, N. Y., 25c.; In Memoriam M. A., "a dear little one who will - never need the cot," $30; Kitty Tutwiler, Flatonia, Texas, 10c.; - Nobe Taylor, Flatonia, Texas, 10c.; Charles Roy Bangs, Brooklyn, - $3; Mary Dean, 25c.; Jennie Dart, Kingston, N. Y., $1; Ida Allison, - Harlem, N. Y., $2; Willie Allison, Harlem, N.Y., $2; T. Robert - Palmer, Palatka, Fla., 50c.; Will D. Sayer, Meadville, Penn., $2; - Green Clay, Jun., Mexico, Mo., $1; Ellie Earle, Chelten Hills, - Penn., $1; Agnes D. Cram, Mechanic Falls, 10c.; Jennie Bolton, New - York City, $1--total, $45.30. Previously acknowledged, $201.39; - total, January 16, $246.69. - - E. AUGUSTA FANSHAWE, Treasurer, - 43 New Street, New York City. - - * * * * * - - FLATONIA, TEXAS, _December_ 15, 1881. - - I send you my _Three Little Kittens_ book for _all_ the children in - _that_ room. I send you a dime for that bed you wrote about. Papa - read us that letter, and our black boy said he wanted to send a - dime too. His name is Nobe Taylor. He has lived with us for nine - years, and nursed me when I was a baby. He is big and fat. This is - all I've got to send. Aunt Net sent me the book from Alabama last - Christmas. Our school-teacher is going to give us a Christmas tree. - I can't write good enough, and got papa to write this for me. - - KITTY TUTWILER. - - P.S.--Nobe incloses his dime too. - - * * * * * - - CHELTEN HILLS, PENNSYLVANIA. - - I got a good many china animals for Christmas, and now I have - forty-one altogether. Sophie and Horace, two of my school-mates, - have one hundred and fifty-one; Sophie has only fifteen of them, - though. I got a lovely coaster for Christmas, and I want to use it - very much. There is about an inch of snow on the ground now, but - not enough for coasting; there has not been deep snow on the ground - all winter. In my letter I send a dollar for the Young People's - Cot. Our tree was just taken down to-day, and the room where it was - looks all bare to me. - - ELLIE EARLE. - -There are a number of other little letters about the Cot, and they are -very bright and sweet, but we have not room to insert any more. - - * * * * * - -PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS. - -No. 1. - -ENIGMA. - - I am composed of 12 letters, and mean yielding content. - My 1, 2, 3 is having placed. - My 4, 5 is a verb. - My 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 is a manufactory. - - EMMA A. - - * * * * * - -No. 2. - -A WORD SQUARE. - -1. To surrender. 2. A sluggard. 3. A funeral dirge. 4. Lawful. 5. -Sarcastically spoken. - - EMPIRE CITY. - - * * * * * - -No. 3. - -HISTORICAL ACROSTIC. - -1. A battle of the Revolution. 2. A President. 3. An inventor. 4. An -island. 5. A river in Asia. 6. One of the great lakes. 7. A battle of -the French and Indian war. 8. One of the United States. 9. A country in -Africa. The primals form the name of a distinguished French general. - - * * * * * - -No. 4. - -PI. - - Ti asw het meit ehnw seliil lobw. - Dan doulcs rea gihhset pu ni rai. - Rold noladr gouhtbr a yill heitw oed - Ot iveg sih sioune dyal lerac. - -Straighten out, and form a stanza from Tennyson. - - EMMA. - - * * * * * - -No. 5. - -? - -Forward, I am a lady's name. Backward, I stand for something which will -make men forget troubles. You will find me in Anglo-Saxon nurseries, and -in ancient mythology. - - ROBERT. - - * * * * * - -No. 6. - -DIAMOND. - -1. A consonant. 2. A hut. 3. Reeds. 4. Good policy. 5. Fretful. 6. A -pen. 7. A letter. - - * * * * * - -No. 7. - -A DOUBLE SQUARE. - -Across.--1. A girl's name. 2. A word used in prayers. 3. A hole. 4. -Finishes. Down.--1. A cavern. 2. A sign. 3. To tear. 4. Small insects. - - ELOISE. - - * * * * * - -ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 116. - -No. 1. - -The eye. - -No. 2. - - S S - S H E R O T - S H A L L S O L A R - E L M T A R - L R - -No. 3. - -Adder. Cobra. - -No. 4. - - C al M - A nemon E - M attres S - E dific E - L audanu M - L am B - I dle R - A bundantl Y - J erbo A - A mazo N - P in T - O stric H - N ightingal E - I ce-crea M - C hapea U - A lar M - - * * * * * - -Correct answers to puzzles have been received from Eva Brown, Annie -Brown, Ambrose Elting, F. M. S., "Jack Frost," Artie Secor, John Phelan, -J. and H. Bates, Hetty R., J. C., Alice E. Garretson, "Prince," Henry -Berlan, Jun., "Bud," R. H. L., Maggie Dutto, Meredith Knapp, Susie -Perkins, "Snap," Alice Emmons. - - * * * * * - -[_For Exchanges, see 2d and 3d pages of cover._] - - - - -HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE. - - * * * * * - -Special Inducements to Youthful Agents. - -To any boy or girl who shall procure for HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, before -April 1, 1882, ten new yearly subscribers, and forward their names and -addresses to this office, with the sum of fifteen dollars, Messrs. -HARPER & BROTHERS will, on receipt of the same, present any one of the -volumes mentioned in the following list which may be selected: - -COL. KNOX'S BOOKS OF TRAVEL IN THE FAR EAST. - -_The Boy Travellers in the Far East.--Part I.--Adventures of two Youths -in a Journal to Japan and China. Copiously Illustrated. 8vo, Ornamental -Cloth, $3._ - -_The Boy Travellers in the Far East.--Part II.--Adventures of two Youths -in a Journey to Siam and Java. With Descriptions of Cochin China, -Cambodia, Sumatra, and the Malay Archipelago. Copiously Illustrated. -8vo, Ornamental Cloth, $3._ - -_The Boy Travellers in the Far East.--Part III.--Adventures of two -Youths in a Journey to Ceylon and India. With Descriptions of Borneo, -the Philippine Islands, and Burmah. Copiously Illustrated. 8vo, -Ornamental Cloth, $3._ - -COFFIN'S HISTORICAL READING FOR THE YOUNG. - -_The Story of Liberty.--Copiously Illustrated. 8vo, Ornamental Cloth, -$3._ - -_Old Times in the Colonies.--Copiously Illustrated. 8vo, Cloth, $3._ - -_The Boys of '76.--A History of the Battles of the Revolution. Copiously -Illustrated. 8vo, Cloth, $3._ - -Messrs. HARPER & BROTHERS further offer to present to the boy or girl -from whom they shall receive, before April 1, 1882, the largest number -of new yearly subscriptions, with $1.50 for each. - -_Harper's Household Edition of Charles Dickens's Works, in Sixteen -Volumes, handsomely bound in Cloth, in a box. Price $22._ - -These prizes will be sent by mail or express, prepaid. - -In order that an accurate account may be kept of the number of -subscriptions received, it will be necessary for each one, when sending -a list of new subscriptions, to refer to these offers, and to state that -he or she desires to compete for these valuable prizes. - -Cash must accompany each order. - -HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, $1.50 a year. - -The extension for one month of the time for sending -subscriptions in competition is designed to accommodate boys and girls -residing in different parts of the country. - -HARPER & BROTHERS, - -Franklin Square, New York. - - - - -ENIGMA. - - - Within the compass of my first - Are right and wrong, dissected; - Bold falsehood there is put to shame, - And villainy detected. - - Of constant port, with royal parts, - Tall, strong, and stately reckoned, - But hauled about with tarry coat-- - By these marks know my second. - - My whole, devoted to one aim, - One prize intent on gaining, - Expends its life in the pursuit, - And dies in the obtaining. - - - - -EXPERIMENTS WITH ELECTRICITY. - - -[Illustration: FIG. 1.] - -This mysterious "agent," as people call it for want of a better word, -can be produced in the easiest fashion, and some of its ways studied -with the simplest kind of apparatus, constructed of articles that lie -close at hand. - -If we rub a stick of sealing-wax with a piece of cloth, we shall see -that it will attract some small fragments of paper placed near it. -Nothing is easier than to construct a small pendulum to show with -perfect clearness the wonder of electric attraction. A piece of iron is -fixed on a wooden pedestal, and holds a thread of silk, to the end of -which is fastened a little ball cut out of a piece of cork. The stick of -sealing-wax, after being rubbed with the cloth, will attract the ball, -as shown in Fig. 1. - -[Illustration: FIG. 2.] - -We can easily construct other electrical apparatus. Take a lacquered -tea-tray about a foot long, and cut out a sheet of thick wrapping paper -so that it will lie over all the level portion of the tray. At each side -of this sheet of paper fix two bands of paper, as in Fig. 2, so as to -serve as handles. The tea-tray should be placed upon two tumblers to -support it and to insulate it, glass being a "non-conductor." By a -non-conductor is meant a substance that will not convey electricity, or -allow it to pass away. - -Now rub the thick packing-paper over a hot fire or a stove until it is -thoroughly dry, and as hot as possible without charring. When this has -been done, place it quickly upon a wooden table, and rub it rapidly with -as dry and hard a clothes-brush as can be obtained. Place the paper upon -the tray; touch the tray with the knuckle, and draw away the paper by -the handles fixed to it (see Fig. 2); a spark will result. Then if the -paper be replaced upon the tray, and the hand again presented, the same -result will follow. This may be done five or six times, at least, with -success. - -[Illustration: FIG. 3.] - -We have in this tea-tray and its paper covering a real electric machine. -How can we manage to provide a Leyden-jar (so named from its inventor, -Muschenbrock, of Leyden) to contain our electricity? Nothing is more -easy. Let us take a tumbler, and partly fill it with shot; insert into -the glass a tea-spoon, and if all the articles are quite dry, we shall -possess a Leyden-jar. - -To charge the jar we must work our other machine. While one person lifts -off the paper as directed, another must hold the glass to the edge of -the tray, and touch the corner with the tea-spoon; the spark will then -enter the "jar." We can thus charge the jar as we please, and by -presenting the finger, as in Fig. 3, we shall obtain a discharge from -it. - - - - -[Illustration: FUN ON THE ICE--"KEEPING THE POT BOILING."] - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, February 7, 1882, by Various - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE *** - -***** This file should be named 53187.txt or 53187.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/3/1/8/53187/ - -Produced by Annie R. 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