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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 56539 ***
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+[Illustration: HARPER'S ROUND TABLE]
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+Copyright, 1896, by HARPER & BROTHERS. All Rights Reserved.
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+PUBLISHED WEEKLY. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1896. FIVE CENTS A COPY.
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+VOL. XVII.--NO. 855. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR.
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+[Illustration]
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+A BOY OF 1775.
+
+BY MOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELL.
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+
+Can you not see the boy of 1775 now--his sturdy legs encased in stout
+black stockings, german-silver buckles to his knee-breeches, his hair
+plaited and tied with a smart black ribbon, and all this magnificence
+topped by three real silver buttons with which his hat is rakishly
+cocked? But the boy himself is better worth looking at than all his
+finery--so thought Captain Moore, of his Majesty's ship _Margaretta_,
+lying at anchor in the harbor of Machias. Jack Leverett was the boy's
+name--a handsome stripling of sixteen, with a quiet manner but a
+fearless eye.
+
+The two were sitting opposite each other at the cabin table, and through
+the open port they could see the village and the harbor, bathed in the
+bright white light of a day in May. The Captain was conscious that this
+young guest was decidedly in a hurry to leave. A whole hour had they sat
+at the dinner table, Captain Moore, with the utmost art, trying to find
+out Jack's errand to Machias--for those were the stirring days when
+every American had to take his stand for or against King George--and
+Captain Moore particularly desired to know how Squire Leverett, Jack's
+father, stood toward the King. But Jack, with native mother-wit, had
+managed to baffle the Captain. He had readily admitted that he was the
+bearer of a letter from his father to Jerry O'Brien, master of Squire
+Leverett's sloop _Priscilla_, in regard to heaving down the sloop. But
+the Captain, with a seaman's eye, had noted that the _Priscilla_ was in
+perfect order and did not need to be hove down, and he more than
+suspected that Jack was the bearer of other and more important news.
+Through the cabin windows they could see the sloop, a beautiful craft,
+being warped into her dock, while across the blue water was wafted
+sweetly the voices of the men, led by the shanty man,[1] singing the old
+shanty song:
+
+  "Haul the bowline, our jolly ship's a-rolling,
+    Haul the bowline, the bowline _haul_!
+  Haul the bowline, our jolly mate's a-growling,
+    Haul the bowline, the bowline _haul_!"
+
+[1] "Shanty man"--from "Chantez"--a man who could lead the singing while
+the men worked. A good shanty man was considered to be a valuable
+acquisition to a vessel.
+
+As soon as Jack decently could, he started to rise from the table.
+Captain Moore had observed that the glass of wine at Jack's plate
+remained untasted, and it suggested a means of finding out whether the
+Leveretts meant to go with the King or not.
+
+"Do not go," he said, "until you have joined me in drinking the health
+of his Majesty King George."
+
+Jack had no notion whatever of drinking the King's health, but he was at
+his wits' end how to avoid it. Just then, though, the Captain turned to
+speak to his orderly, and Jack took the opportunity of gulping down his
+wine with more haste than elegance. Captain Moore, seeing it, was
+surprised and disgusted at the boy's apparent greediness for wine, but
+raising his glass, said, "To the King."
+
+"Excuse me, sir," answered Jack, coolly, "but my father never allows me
+to drink but one glass of wine, and that I have already had."
+
+"Then I will drink the toast alone," said Captain Moore, with a stern
+look at the boy. "Here is to his Majesty King George. Health and long
+life to him! God save the King!"
+
+As Captain Moore uttered this sentiment Jack rose and promptly put on
+his hat. The Captain was quite sure that the boy's action, like his
+gulping down the wine, meant a distaste for the King, and not a want of
+breeding. But he thought it best not to notice the incident, and said,
+civilly, to his young guest:
+
+"Present my compliments to your honored father, and tell him that his
+Majesty's officers have the kindest feelings toward these misguided
+people; and while if attacked we will certainly defend ourselves, we
+have strict orders to avoid a conflict if possible, and not to fire
+until fired upon."
+
+"I will remember your message, sir," was Jack's answer; and the Captain,
+having no further excuse for detaining his young guest, allowed him to
+depart.
+
+He was soon alongside of the _Priscilla_, and there, standing at the
+gangway, was the sloop's master, Jerry O'Brien. Jerry, by an accident of
+fate, had inherited an Irish name, but he was as arrant a Yankee as ever
+stepped. He was a handsome fellow withal, and in his natty blue suit
+much more resembled the Captain of an armed cruiser than the master of a
+smart merchant vessel. The _Priscilla_, too, was a wonderful contrast to
+the slovenly merchantmen around her. She was as clean as hands could
+make her, and her beautiful lines were brought out by the shining coat
+of black paint upon her hull. Her men were smart and seamanlike. Jerry
+O'Brien was the most exacting ship-master on that coast, but he never
+had any trouble in shipping men, for, while making them do their work
+with the quickness and steadiness of man-o'-war's men, he used neither
+blows nor curses. A natural leader of men, he made himself respected
+first, and after that it is always easy to command obedience.
+
+As soon as Jack Leverett came over the side Jerry took him to the cabin.
+Jack produced a letter, and by the heat from a ship's lantern some
+writing in lemon juice was deciphered. It contained a full account of
+the affairs at Lexington and Concord, of which only vague rumors had
+reached Machias. At every sentence descriptive of American valor Jerry
+would give a half-suppressed whoop, and at the end he could not forbear
+letting out a huzza that made the little cabin ring.
+
+"Suppose," said Jack, who had hard work to keep from hurrahing wildly,
+"instead of making a noise, we should invent a scheme to capture the
+_Margaretta_. If the farmers around Boston could, with hay-forks and
+blunderbusses, beat off the British regulars, the sailors and fishermen
+about here ought to be able to get alongside the _Margaretta_ and take
+her."
+
+Jerry's mouth was large, and it came open like a rat-trap at this bold
+proposition. After a pause he spoke. "Boy," said he, "the enterprise
+shall be tried; and if we succeed, you shall be prize-master of the
+_Margaretta_."
+
+Jack's heart leaped at these words. He was an admirable sailor, like
+most of the hardy youngsters on the coast, and had more than once taken
+the _Priscilla_ on short trips. But his mother and the Squire meant him
+to be something else than a merchant Captain, and kept him under a tutor
+when he would much rather have been sailing blue water. For hours Jack
+and Jerry sat in the cabin talking over their scheme. Jerry knew that
+the people of Machias were heart and soul with the cause of freedom, and
+could be depended upon in any desperate adventure. The _Margaretta_
+carried four brass guns and a number of swivels; but, as Jerry shrewdly
+said, if once the _Priscilla_ could grapple with her, it would be a
+battle of men and musketry, not of guns. At nightfall Jack and Jerry
+went ashore. A great vivid moon hung in the sky, and they could see the
+_Margaretta_ almost as well as in daylight. She was a handsome vessel,
+schooner rigged, and in a state of preparation that showed Captain Moore
+did not mean to be caught napping. All her boats were hoisted in, her
+anchors had springs on them, and her sails were merely clewed up,
+instead of being furled.
+
+"There you are, my beauty," said Jerry. "It's a shame, so it is, that
+King George's ensign should fly from your peak. You deserve an American
+flag, and we'll try and give it you."
+
+All that night they spent going from house to house of the men who had
+the patriotism to enlist with them, and by daylight they had the promise
+of twenty-five resolute men who, at a signal of three cheers given from
+the _Priscilla_, would at once board her and put themselves under Jerry
+O'Brien's command.
+
+All this commotion on shore had not escaped Captain Moore's lookouts
+during the night, and although the Captain would much have preferred
+staying and fighting it out, his orders compelled him to cut and run if
+signs of an outbreak were visible. The British government then earnestly
+wished to conciliate the colonists, and by no means to come to blows.
+
+The next morning was Sunday, and as beautifully clear and bright as the
+day before. In order to avoid the appearance of fear, Captain Moore
+determined, with his officers, to go to church as usual. As the
+Captain's gig landed the officers, Jerry O'Brien and Jack Leverett, with
+the six men who composed the _Priscilla_'s crew, were all on deck,
+keeping a sharp eye on the _Margaretta_ and her boat.
+
+"What say you, men," suddenly asked Jerry, "to bagging those officers in
+church?"
+
+"We say yes," answered every man at once. In a few minutes, with Jerry
+and Jack in the lead, and all well armed, they took the road toward the
+church. As they neared it they heard the faint sweet echo of a hymn that
+floated out on the spring air--the only sound that broke the heavenly
+stillness.
+
+Jerry silently posted his men at the entrance, and then opening the door
+softly, raised his horse-pistol and levelled it straight at Captain
+Moore, who sat in the last pew.
+
+The British Captain happened to turn his head at that instant. The
+congregation was too absorbed in the singing to notice what was going
+on. Jerry nodded at the Captain, as much as to say, "You are my
+prisoner." The Captain coolly shook his head, as if to answer, "Not
+quite, my fine fellow," and the next moment he made a sudden dash for
+the open window, followed by all of his officers, and before Jerry could
+realize that the birds had flown, they had run half-way to the shore. In
+vain Jerry and Jack and their followers pursued. The officers had too
+long a lead, and by the time the Americans reached the shore the
+Captain's gig was being pulled rapidly to the ship. As soon as the boat
+reached it the anchors were picked up, every sail that would draw was
+shaken out, and the cruiser made for the offing. As soon as she was well
+under way she sent a shot of defiance screaming over the town, and was
+answered by three thundering American cheers from the _Priscilla_. As if
+by magic the sloop's deck was alive with armed men, and with a quickness
+equal to the cruiser's, her mainsail was up, and she was winging her way
+in pursuit of her enemy.
+
+Well had the _Priscilla_ been called the fastest sloop in all that
+region. The wind was dead ahead, and both vessels had to get out of the
+river on "a long leg and a short one." The _Margaretta_ was handled in a
+seamanlike manner, but on every tack the _Priscilla_ gained, and showed
+that she was a better sailer both on and off the wind. In an hour they
+were within hailing distance, and the men on the _Margaretta_ were
+called to quarters by the tap of the drum. Her guns were run out, their
+tompions withdrawn, and the cruiser showed herself to be an ugly
+customer to tackle. But this did not intimidate the Americans, who were
+closing on her fast.
+
+A hail came from the _Margaretta_, "What are you following us for?"
+
+"To learn how to tack ship!" responded Jerry O'Brien, who had taken the
+wheel himself. This reply caused a roar of laughter from the Americans,
+as the _Priscilla_ could come about in half the time of the
+_Margaretta_.
+
+"Keep off or I'll fire!" was the next hail.
+
+"Fire away, gentlemen," bawled Jerry, "and light your matches with your
+orders not to fire first!"
+
+At this the gallant British tars groaned loudly, and Captain Moore,
+drawing his sword and shaking it at the rapidly advancing sloop,
+shouted:
+
+"Orders or no orders, I will fire one round if I lose my commission for
+it. Blow your matches, boys!"
+
+The guns were already manned, and at the word there was a flash of
+light, a puff of smoke, and a round shot came hissing and shrieking
+across the water and struck the _Priscilla_'s mainmast fairly in the
+middle, splintering it. The sloop staggered under the blow, and in a
+minute or two the mast went by the board with a crash.
+
+A great cheer broke from the _Margaretta_'s men at that.
+
+"Never mind," cried Jerry. "This is not the first mast that was ever
+carried away, and we have spare spars and carpenters too. Wait for us in
+Holmes Bay, and we will fight it out yard-arm to yard-arm before
+sundown."
+
+The _Margaretta_, with her men cheering and jeering, sailed away toward
+the open sea. The _Priscilla_ being the best-found sloop in New England,
+in a little while the stump of the mast was cleared away, a lighter
+spar, but still good enough, was fitted, and she made sail on it.
+
+As she neared the ocean the wind freshened every moment, and although
+the sun shone brilliantly, a heavy sea was kicked up. Soon they sighted
+the _Margaretta_, with her topsail backed, and gallantly waiting for her
+enemy.
+
+In all this time Jack Leverett showed a steadiness and coolness beyond
+his years. Once Jerry O'Brien said to him,
+
+"Youngster, if you flinch, depend upon it, your father shall know it."
+
+"All right," answered Jack; "and if I don't flinch I want my mother to
+know it."
+
+The two vessels now neared each other on opposite tacks. Captain Moore
+manoeuvred to get into a raking position before delivering his fire,
+but the _Priscilla_, by skilful yawing and by the roughness of the sea,
+proved to be as difficult to hit as if she had been a cork bobbing up
+and down. In vain they played their two starboard guns and all their
+swivels on her; their shot rarely struck, and when it struck, did small
+damage.
+
+Not so with the Americans. Without a single cannon, they poured forth a
+musketry fire at close quarters that did fearful work and made hot the
+_Margaretta_'s decks. The brave British sailors stood manfully to their
+guns, but the Americans were gradually edging up, and their fire grew
+more deadly every moment. The _Margaretta_ tried to sheer off, but the
+_Priscilla_, closing up, got her jibboom entangled in her adversary's
+main rigging, and a dozen Americans sprang forward to make the two ships
+fast.
+
+As the vessels came grinding together Jerry O'Brien, leaping on the
+taffrail, shouted, "I will be the first man to board--and follow me!"
+
+But Jerry was mistaken. He was suddenly seized by the coat tails, jerked
+backwards, and fell sprawling upon the deck, and the next instant Jack
+Leverett sprang over him, and was first upon the _Margaretta_'s deck.
+
+"Drat the boy!" was Jerry's involuntary exclamation as he scrambled to
+his feet.
+
+The Americans poured over the side, and met with a warm reception.
+Captain Moore, surrounded by his officers, retreated to the fo'c's'le,
+fighting every step of the way. At last Jerry O'Brien came face to face
+with him. The Captain defended himself with his sword, but it was
+knocked out of his hand by Jerry with a pistol butt. They clinched and
+fell to the deck fighting. The struggle was sharp but short, and in
+fifteen minutes from the time the Americans had lashed the ships
+together the Captain was overpowered, nearly every officer had been cut
+down, and the cruiser was in the hands of the Americans. There had been
+much cheering on the _Priscilla_ that day, but when the British ensign
+was hauled down, and Jerry, in default of a national flag, hoisted his
+own jacket at the mast-head, there were three cheers given that could
+almost be heard at Machias.
+
+The prisoners were quickly transferred to the _Priscilla_, and as Jerry
+O'Brien required all of his best men on board, he could only spare a few
+landsmen for a prize crew on the _Margaretta_.
+
+"But I will give her a prize master who, although not very old, can sail
+a schooner or any other craft--John Leverett, there," said Jerry. "And
+he will take her in, you may be sure."
+
+Oh, how Jack's heart beat with delight at these words!
+
+Soon they were heading up the river, and when, under a fair wind, they
+made a quick run to Machias, the May moon made the heavens glorious.
+Jack Leverett thought the happiest moment of his life had come when they
+cast anchor amid the thunder of cheers from the people assembled along
+the shores.
+
+But there was a happier moment yet in store for him. A week afterward
+Jack and Jerry O'Brien entered Squire Leverett's study, where sat the
+Squire and Madam Leverett. The mother uttered a cry of joy and clasped
+her boy in her arms. Then Jerry O'Brien, taking him by the hand, led him
+to the Squire.
+
+"Sir," he said, "here is your brave boy. You have reason to be proud of
+him. I have been promised two things when the navy of the Colonies is
+formed. One is a Captain's commission for myself, and the other is a
+midshipman's commission for this lad. He is born for the sea, and to
+make a landsman of him would be like putting a mackerel in a barnyard to
+scratch for his living."
+
+The Squire, too moved to speak, silently took one of Jack's hands in
+both of his, and Madam Leverett, falling on her boy's neck, cried, "How
+happy am I to have such a boy to give to my country!"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+GRANT'S TROUBLESOME SOLDIER.
+
+General Grant used to tell a story of a soldier in a certain regiment
+during the war who was continually bothering him by asking favors. Grant
+one day said to him, "Look here; I believe you are the most troublesome
+man in the Union army."
+
+The man quickly replied, "Why, that's funny, sir!"
+
+"Funny; how do you make it out funny?"
+
+"Because it is just what the enemy says about you."
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: From Chum to Chum.]
+
+BY GASTON V. DRAKE.
+
+VII.--FROM BOB TO JACK.
+
+
+  LONDON.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+DEAR JACK,--When I left off my letter to you last night it was nearly
+ten o'clock, but almost broad daylight. What do you think of that? It's
+the queerest thing you ever saw. The clock and the sun don't seem to gee
+over here at all. You can read after nine o'clock without any gas-light
+at all. Pop says it's a special British arrangement, because London is
+such an interesting place and so many people can only stay a few days
+that they like to keep it lit up as long as they can. I'd heard before
+that the sun never sat on the British Empire but I never knew it was so
+long about setting in England. The hall-porter on our floor says it
+makes up for it in winter though by rising about midday and setting ten
+minutes later. If that's so how it must whiz across the sky. I'd rather
+like to see it then. He says too that last winter they had a fog so
+thick that people had to dig their way through it with spades, and he
+told another boy that it was a regular business in winter for boys and
+men who couldn't get other work to do to go about the city and shovel
+the fog off the front door steps and walks just as snow-shovellers do in
+New York. It must be fun living here then.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+We didn't get into London until about seven o'clock Wednesday night, but
+it was fine travelling coming up from Southampton. You'd have thought
+the cars had rubber bicycle tyres on their wheels--see that word
+tyres?--that's English for tires--I saw it on a sign. They rode along
+just as smoothly as a bicycle would on a tar pavement, and go--Jerusalem
+how they did go! That little toy engine I told you about once she got
+started just leaped over the ground. You'd almost think you were
+travelling on a streak of lightning and _in a packing box_. That's all
+the cars are, just little packing boxes petitioned off into stalls
+running from side to side. You get into one of these stalls and the
+guard--they call brakemen guards over here--the guard locks you in and
+off you go. It isn't a bit like travelling in America, and I don't know
+as I like it quite as much as the American cars with Isles down the
+middle of 'em because the broken mixed candy and banana boys can't walk
+through and sell you things! haven't seen a broken mixed candy and
+banana boy over here and it's all because their cars haven't any Isles.
+There aren't any comic paper boys either but I guess that's a good
+thing. Pop bought a copy of one of the English comic papers and he
+nearly ruined his eyes trying to see the jokes, their points were so
+awful fine.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+It took us about four hours to get here and two to find our baggage
+after we got here because the porters had put some of it with the B
+baggage and Aunt Sarah's trunk had wandered off among the C's. The
+station was crowded with hacks and omnibuses and people and almost every
+hack was engaged. Finally Pop managed to get a cab they called a
+four-wheeler. It looked scarcely big enough for two but as we got into
+it it sort of stretched and by the time the driver had us packed in we
+had seven people in it, Pop, Mamma, Aunt Sarah, the two children, the
+nurse and me. How we ever managed it I don't know, but we did, and then
+instead of sending the baggage to the hotel by an express-wagon the
+cabman put it all on top of the cab, two Saratoga trunks, three steamer
+trunks, a bath-tub, four bundles of rugs, two hat-boxes, three
+dress-suit cases and the hamper--and all for one horse! I didn't believe
+the horse could move us, but the minute the driver chirruped to him off
+he started like a regular race-horse and I tell you it was exciting.
+There we seven people were, cooped up inside with all those trunks piled
+up on the little bit of a roof right over our heads being galloped
+around corners as if we were playing snap-the-whip, darting in and out
+between policemen, lamp-posts and omnibuses. Mamma and Aunt Sarah were
+scared to death. They weren't afraid we'd tip over but they had half a
+notion that the roof might cave in and let all that baggage down on us;
+and I think Pop felt uneasy too because he tried several times to tell
+the driver to go slow, but he couldn't because he was wedged in so
+tight.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+It wasn't possible to see much, we went so fast, but we did catch a
+glimpse of a fearfully dirty river as we crossed it and Pop said he
+guessed it was the Thames and it turned out to be so later on, and the
+bridge we were on led right up to the houses of Pollyment, I think
+they're called and I tell you they're beautiful. They look good enough
+to put on a mantel piece. Two minutes later we got here and Pop managed
+to pull us out of the carriage and get the baggage taken into a hotel by
+a man who was dressed up as gorgissly as a drum major, and all that cab
+cost was three dollars! Pop says he couldn't have got off for less than
+ten in New York and the driver cheated him into the bargain!
+
+When he paid the cabby Pop told him he'd driven too fast and the man
+said he hadn't at all. "Aren't you afraid you'll run into somebody?"
+asked Pop. "No," said the man, "I'm afraid somebody'll run into me."
+Which is why he tore so to keep out of the way of the cabs behind him.
+
+I can't say I think much of the hotels here. They're very handsome to
+look at, but its hard work getting anything at 'em. The people here
+behaved so that Pop thought we'd been landed at Buckingham Palace by
+mistake, and asked if he might see the Queen and apologize for
+intruding, but the man never laughed a bit; just turned away tired. We
+got our rooms finally though and there isn't a bed in one of 'em without
+a canopy over it and all the wash-stands have bottles of patent
+tooth-powders on 'em with signs saying if you open this bottle it'll
+cost you a shilling. I opened two of 'em before I saw the sign and Pop
+says I'm out fifty cents for my curiosity, but I don't mind. It'll go on
+the bill and he'll pay it.
+
+We're off now to see the Tower of London. The next time I write I'll
+tell you all about it. I wish Sandboys was here. It would do these
+English hall-boys good to see how Sandboys does his work. It would take
+one of them English boys a year to carry up as much ice-water as
+Sandboys does in a night, but then they've got as much work as they can
+do looking after their buttons. I should think it would be a day's work
+buttoning up a hall-boy's coat over here. Ours has sixty between his
+chin and his waist.
+
+  Yours ever
+  BOB.
+
+
+
+
+THE VOYAGE OF HIRAM AND DAVE.
+
+BY A. J. ENSIGN.
+
+
+George Whittingham was staring at a Billingsgate fish-woman. She was
+glaring at George, and treating him to some of that wonderfully abusive
+language known to all Englishmen as "Billingsgate." George was just
+about to repeat the expedient of a noted English wit, and call her a
+"miserable isosceles triangle, a beastly rectangular parallelopipedon,"
+when some one pulled his coat sleeve and said,
+
+"Mr. George, let 'er alone; she can beat you at that every time."
+
+George whirled around at the sound of a familiar voice, and exclaimed:
+"Hiram Wardell! Well, what on earth are you doing in London?"
+
+"Tryin' to find out how to get home, Mr. George. Me and Dave Hulick here
+ain't in London on a tour, I can tell you, and we don't want to stay
+here either."
+
+"Then it's lucky for you that my father is in the consular service here.
+I guess he can help you two boys. But, say, this is a funny case, isn't
+it? Only a year ago you fellows were taking me out fishing off Joppa,
+and now--How did you get here, anyhow?"
+
+"Well, Mr. George, this ain't a very good place for story-telling. Can't
+we go where it's quiet?"
+
+"You two boys come to my father's office with me," said George, "and
+then you can tell him and me the story at the same time. I think that
+will be the best way to manage it."
+
+So the well-dressed young gentleman, accompanied by the two rude-looking
+New Jersey "beach-combers," set off through the jostling, bustling
+London crowds toward Mr. Whittingham's office in Cheapside. George's
+father was at his desk, and expressed his readiness to listen to the
+story of the two boys, whom he was surprised to see in London. Hiram
+Wardell, when bidden to go on with his narrative, hung his head and
+twisted his cap nervously in his long red fingers.
+
+"Go on, Hi," said his companion; "ye got to tell it, an' ye might as
+well start an' git through."
+
+Hiram straightened himself up with a jerk, ran the red fingers through
+his shock of dust-brown hair, and began: "Well, sir, I s'pose we two
+boys is a pair o' fools, an' that's the truth. But we'll know better
+nex' time. You see, it ain't very much of a country down there on the
+Jersey coast, except in the summer, when the city people is there, an'
+then what is it? Only drivin' a hack, or takin' a gentleman out fishin',
+or somethin' o' that sort. So Dave an' I this spring got mighty tired o'
+the whole business, an' we made up our minds that we'd got to git out.
+So one day we was a-settin' on the beach talkin' about it, an' Dave he
+says to me to look at a schooner wot was goin' down to the south'ard.
+An' he says to me, wot was the matter with goin' to New York an'
+shippin' on one o' them schooners an' goin' to the West Injies, or
+Savannah, or Halifax, or some sich place? Right off it seemed to me that
+was about the finest scheme I'd ever heard of. But we didn't have much
+money betwixt--only sixty-four cents--an' the question were how to git
+to New York. First off, Dave thought it would be the best way for him to
+take the money an' go to York, an' when he'd earned enough to send for
+me. But I was mistrustful o' bein' left behind an' seein' Dave wave his
+hat at me some day from the deck o' one o' them schooners goin' South."
+
+Mr. Whittingham lay back in his chair and shook with laughter, while
+Dave Hulick looked at Hiram with a countenance full of solemn reproach.
+
+"Well, you know you'd 'a' done it, Dave," said Hiram, as he continued
+with his story. "After talkin' the thing over for a good while, I
+proposed that we pervision Dave's father's smallest fishin' skiff with
+them sixty-four cents an' sail for York. Dave he said it weren't fair
+for him to furnish twenty-eight cents an' the boat, an' me only
+thirty-six cents. But I told him the boat didn't cost him nothin', an'
+he had to allow that I was tellin' the truth; so he agreed to my plan. I
+ain't a-goin' to stop to tell you all the botheration we had a-gettin'
+them pervisions an' gettin' 'em stored ready for shippin'. Land sakes!
+Folks was so mighty curious that I 'most lost my wits inventin' answers
+for all their questions."
+
+"All about sixty-four cents' worth of provisions?" inquired Mr.
+Whittingham, who could not conceal his amusement.
+
+"Jest that, sir, an' nothin' else," replied Hiram, gravely. "Well, at
+last everything was all ready, an' bright an' 'arly one fine mornin' we
+slipped out an' down to the beach. Of course it wasn't no great shakes
+of a matter for us two boys to launch the boat an' get out through the
+surf. Mr. George he knows that, 'cause he's often gone out with us.
+Well, when we got out there wasn't enough wind to sail, the ocean bein'
+as smooth as one o' the plate-glass winders in Bill Smock's drug-store.
+So we had to get to work an' row. There was other boats goin' out, an'
+my sakes alive! what a lot of questions we had to answer! Seems to me
+there wasn't any reason for 'em, either, 'cause we boys often went out
+fishin'. But anyhow we pulled along till we got well to the north'ard o'
+Joppa an' out o' reach o' questions, an' then Dave he struck work.
+'Blowed if I'm goin' to row all the way to York,' says he. Didn't you,
+Dave?"
+
+"That's wot I said," was Dave's laconic answer.
+
+"We set the mast an' sail, an' let her drift. It was a putty middlin'
+hot day, an' along in the early afternoon, when we hadn't got more'n
+five or six miles to the north'ard, I reckon both of us fell asleep. I
+don't know how long we was asleep, but I know what woke us up. The
+blamed boat turned turtle."
+
+"What--upset?" exclaimed Mr. Whittingham.
+
+[Illustration: "THEN I GOT OUT MY BIG RED HANDKERCHER AND WAVED IT."]
+
+"Yes, sir, upset. You see, there was a kind of a squall, an' we, bein'
+asleep, didn't get no notice of't till we was in the water. Well, I
+climbed up on to the bottom o' the boat, an' Dave he hung on to me an'
+grumbled. 'Nice sort o' doin's,' says Dave; 'there's that sixty-four
+cents' worth o' good grub gone to feed the fish.' An' then I says to
+Dave to shut up his all-fired nonsense, and be glad that we wasn't gone
+along with the grub. Then I got out my big red handkercher an' waved it.
+There was a small coastin' schooner ratchin' along not more'n a mile
+away. The squall had died down to a good breeze, an' she was a hustlin'.
+She didn't see us, though. Well, sir, we hung on to the bottom o' that
+there boat till putty nigh sundown, an' all the time we was a-driftin'
+further an' further out to sea. About then this here Dave he woke up an'
+says, 'Here comes a big wessel right at us.' Sure enough, there was a
+full-rigged ship what had just cast off her tug an' was a-makin' sail.
+She was a-headin' so's to come within a hundred yards of us. So I got
+the handkercher out again an' waved it, and when she got putty near we
+both yelled. The ship hove to an' lowered a boat, an' in a few minutes
+we was aboard o' her. We told the skipper our story an' he laffed. He
+wasn't putty when he laffed, either, because his teeth was all out in
+front an' his nose was broke. 'So you was bound to New York, was you?'
+says he. 'Well, now you're bound to London.' I didn't want to go to
+London, but this here Dave--he don't know much, sir--he said he'd jest
+as leave go to London on a ship as the West Injies on a schooner. So to
+make the story short, sir, we two lunatics--'cause that's ezackly what
+we was--shipped on to that there wessel as green hands."
+
+Hiram paused a moment, overcome by the flood of his melancholy
+recollections.
+
+"I hope, sir," he continued, gravely, "that you was never a green hand
+on a ship. A green hand don't know how to do nothin', an' one o' the
+mates tells him to do it, an' then yells, 'I'll l'arn ye, ye slob!' An'
+he allus teaches him with his fist or his foot or a belayin'-pin. I bin
+punched, kicked, an' knocked down all the way from off Long Beach to the
+North Foreland. I was taught to furl a royal off Davis South Shoal with
+a kick in the ribs. I had a long splice, a short splice, an eye splice,
+an' a black eye punched into me off George's Bank. I got the science o'
+heavin' to in a gale o' wind kicked clean through me off Cape Race. I
+learned how to heave the log off Sable Island by bein' hove down the
+forehatch head fust,'cause I didn't know how to do 't. I got a
+fust-class chart o' the North Atlantic Ocean hammered on to my body in
+black an' blue, an' ef ever I git lost out there again, it'll be because
+the Jersey coast has lost its anchor an' gone adrift. An' now, sir,
+here's Dave an' me; we don't want to go South on to a schooner no more.
+All we wants to do is to git back to Joppa, let our fathers lick us, an'
+then settle down to cod-fishin' an' peace an' quiet for the rest of our
+lives."
+
+Mr. Whittingham laughed heartily over this account of the two boys, but
+said their final decision was a very wise one, and that he thought they
+had paid in full all they owed for having run away from home. He sent
+them home in the steerage of a swift ocean liner that landed them in
+Joppa a week later.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE SCIENTIST AND THE FARMER.
+
+A distinguished scientific writer was once on a shooting excursion in an
+English shire. Coming across a bluff, hale farmer, he entered into
+conversation with him. As they walked along, they reached a heap of
+stones. Pointing to them, the scientific man asked the farmer if he knew
+how they were made. The farmer grinned and replied, "Why, they bean't
+made, sir; they grows."
+
+"Grow? Why, nonsense, man! What do you mean by grow?"
+
+"Why, same as 'taters grows."
+
+"Dear me! Why, those stones can never grow!" said the scientific man.
+"They have been that way for years and years, and if you were to look at
+them years hence, they would be just the same size."
+
+At this the farmer actually laughed, and looked at the man of science as
+though he pitied his ignorance as he exclaimed, "Why, in course they'd
+be, 'cause they've been taken out o' the earth, and they stops growin'
+then same as 'taters would."
+
+
+
+
+FOR KING OR COUNTRY.
+
+BY JAMES BARNES.
+
+A Story of the Revolution.
+
+CHAPTER XXIV.
+
+A LOYAL TRAITOR.
+
+
+"How many men have you?" inquired William, as he accompanied the
+black-bearded man down the road.
+
+"About one hundred," he said; "but there are about twice as many good
+lads gathering to the southward who will be up in time to assist us. The
+English have taken possession of a brick house with a stone wall, and
+are afraid to leave it. They are waiting for re-enforcements."
+
+To his astonishment, William saw that the company was composed, with the
+exception of the men who had met him in the road, of few whom he would
+consider fit to fight in the ranks--boys of fourteen and old gray-headed
+men that had been left at home, for the flower of New Jersey manhood was
+in the army.
+
+Ralston had called a score or so about him. "Friends," he said, "this is
+an old comrade, now a Lieutenant in the army. Let us hold counsel. It is
+right that he should take command. We are quite well drilled but not
+equipped, sir," he said, turning to William.
+
+The latter looked about. Some of the farmers were armed only with
+pitch-forks or rough pikes made from scythes. The Quaker with the pig
+had been greeted with the cry of "Fresh pork! Fresh pork!" and a rail
+fence was soon converted into fuel.
+
+"I am on special duty," William said, after a thought. "I should not
+tarry long."
+
+If he refused to accede to their wishes he would place himself in a
+dangerous position, and not only that, but would probably hurt most
+seriously the brother whom he was supposed to be. What would he not give
+for some news about George's condition? He had only gathered, from what
+Cato had told him, that his younger brother was not seriously wounded.
+
+"Let's adjourn to the barn," suggested the sergeant, "and talk matters
+over."
+
+All followed him, and seated themselves on the edge of a large bin. With
+ears of corn Ralston marked out the position that the English and
+Hessians held in the valley below. To save himself, William could not
+help but be interested.
+
+"Keep them talking," he thought. "That's it; but propose great caution.
+It may give the others time to get away."
+
+A freckle-faced red-eyed boy with a narrow-stocked rifle much taller
+than himself looked into the door.
+
+"What is it, Tommy?" said one of the men, as the boy pulled off his
+coon-skin cap.
+
+"Are we going to fight, sir?" asked the youth.
+
+"Ay, you'll get your chance," was the answer.
+
+The boy shouldered his musket and walked away.
+
+"Did you mark the lad, Mr. Frothingham?" said Ralston, glancing up from
+his plan. "The Hessians two days ago killed his old grandfather and
+burnt his sick mother's house down about her head."
+
+This recital started another of the group, and William listened in
+horror and amazement. In common with many other officers in the English
+service, he had deprecated the use of the German hirelings. His anger at
+their outrages overcame every other feeling in his breast.
+
+"You say the Hessians are here," he said, pointing with his finger at a
+bunch of corn-cobs, "and that the hill is off here to the right?"
+
+"Yes," answered Ralston, "and the swamp guards their retreat to the
+eastward."
+
+Before he knew it, William found himself offering a plan of attack. The
+others listened with great attention.
+
+"A true military eye," observed one old man, leaning over his neighbor's
+shoulder. "It is a young David come to lead us against the Philistines."
+
+Suddenly William caught his breath. What was he doing? This was nice
+work for an officer in the service of the King. "How far off is this
+brick house you speak of?" he asked, hoping that even now he might
+escape the consequences of his impetuosity.
+
+"Maybe a mile or so," was the response from the old man.
+
+"Had we better not divide our forces, as you suggest, and prepare for an
+attack?" said Ralston.
+
+"Yes, I have a thirsty sword." The man tapped an old Scotch claymore
+that hung by his side.
+
+"Well said, McPherson," put in another, and William followed them as
+they went out through the barn door.
+
+"Draw up in line, comrades, the older men to the top of the hill, and
+the younger take position at the edge of the swamp," Ralston spoke
+again.
+
+It seemed impossible that such a mob could do anything against an
+organized resistance, but a surge of mingled admiration and pride swept
+over William. A great lump came into his throat. He glanced at the eager
+boys and the bent forms of the old men. Ye gods! These were his
+countrymen! Some one, he did not know who, shouted, "Forward!" and he
+found himself at the head of a shuffling, swaying company that straggled
+out across the road. He was leading as they silently went through the
+meadow and came to the crest of a hill where the stubble of the
+corn-stalks just showed above the snow. Below him he saw a large brick
+house, and about it a strong stone wall. Even from this distance he
+could make out the green uniforms of the Hessians and a few red coats
+dotted amongst them. William halted an instant.
+
+The weak point of the defence he observed at once. From behind the rocks
+on the hill-side the interior of the yard could be commanded. There were
+few windows in the house facing the westward, and a large hay-cock
+stretched up almost to the second story. He could not help it! The tales
+he had heard made him hate the mercenary green coats that had brought
+disgrace upon warfare, if such could be. He was in command. He could not
+back out, but hesitated to give the word. Another mind, however, had
+seen the same opportunity that had struck William so forcibly. As the
+men stopped on the hill-side there was a rattling volley below them. A
+body of ragged men in homespun much like those grouped about him
+appeared on the edge of the alders in the swamp. Others swarmed out from
+the woods. The party from the southward had decided to wait no longer
+for assistance from the forces under Ralston. Captain Littel, of New
+Jersey, was in command of this attack. So well feared and hated had he
+been that there was a reward upon his head. William was surprised at the
+intrepid charge that these farmer soldiers made upon the wall. A handful
+ran out across the meadow, and despite the fact that three fell before
+they had gone one hundred yards, they reached the side of the house. One
+of the men was carrying a flaming torch. In an instant the hay-cock
+roared up in flames, and now the men about him could stand it no longer,
+but with a shout they dashed down the hill-side with no more order than
+a herd of charging cattle. Spurts of smoke sprang from the windows of
+the farm-house. The Waldeckers and the British were driven from behind
+the wall, but the house had now caught fire from the burning hay. The
+Americans swarmed about it. A man with an axe burst the door. There were
+some more shots, but soon the white flag was extended from one of the
+windows. This recalled William to his senses, and then he noticed that
+he was not alone. Ralston stood beside him.
+
+"Hasten!" he said. "They have surrendered; but so great is their rage
+that I am afraid if we do not interfere our people will take no
+prisoners. Their blood is hot, they seek revenge!"
+
+Holding his lame arm closely to his side, William ran down the hill, and
+was soon at the house. Captain Littel, who had led the first attack, had
+been wounded.
+
+"Is any one in command here?" shouted a voice from the window.
+
+Looking up, a British officer was seen standing there. One of the
+countrymen levelled a rifle at him, taking aim.
+
+William knocked the piece aside. "Teach them a lesson. Behave like men.
+You are not murdering Indians!"
+
+"But those green-coated devils are," said the man, "which is just as
+bad." Again he rested his rifle.
+
+William drew back his hand as if to fell the man.
+
+"Hold! You are right," said the latter; "but if you had seen what I
+have--" He stopped.
+
+In a minute William found himself haranguing the angry crowd about him.
+The fearless ring of his voice and his soldierly bearing had its effect.
+
+The men grew calmer. The fire had now eaten its way into the interior of
+the house, and the roof was blazing.
+
+"We surrender," said the officer at the window. "Is there any one here
+to whom I can give my sword? For God's sake, don't burn us all to death!"
+
+Ralston, standing at William's side, shouted back, "Come down, then, all
+of you."
+
+He pushed the men hither and thither with his strong arms, and formed a
+lane for them to pass through. Again he needed strong efforts to
+restrain the feelings of the victors as the frightened Hessians and a
+few English hurried out of the burning house. The officer was carrying
+his sword by the blade. He approached and extended it toward Ralston,
+but the latter waved him to where William was standing, pale and torn
+with conflicting emotions. As the man in the red coat approached he
+started, and almost dropped his sword. It was Captain Markham, who only
+a few days ago William had left in the coffee-room at the tavern in New
+York.
+
+"Do I give my sword to you?" he said.
+
+"Keep it," said William.
+
+"I will not," said the officer, and he dashed it to the ground at the
+latter's feet. "So you are in your true colors at last," he said; "but
+let me tell you, sir, it was lucky that you left just when you did. You
+were seen talking in a doorway with a man who is now known to be a spy,
+and, worse luck, he escaped us also. You know whom I mean?"
+
+"I do not," was William's reply.
+
+"That old man Norton."
+
+William said nothing. He remembered the incident now in the snow-storm.
+
+"Your name is stricken from your regiment, and you are posted for what
+you are, you rebel!"
+
+William had no reply to this long speech, and his attention was now
+called to a different direction. One of the attacking party had
+recognized a low-visaged German who had been prominent in the outrages
+at the village. They were for hanging him at once. The band of English
+were outnumbered now three to one. They had piled their arms in a heap
+as they left the doorway of the house, and were huddled together in an
+angle of the wall. Once more William's calm words and appearance had
+their effect, and there was a lull. Quickly he told off the most
+prominent leaders of the guerilla forces and divided the prisoners into
+squads. Once started on the march, it would be easier to keep order.
+When this was accomplished he spoke to Captain Markham.
+
+"I cannot reply at length to what you say. All I can do is to save your
+lives. Maybe fortune has granted me that power. I am not a traitor by
+intent."
+
+The company moved out across the fields, taking up their wounded, and
+leaving the dead Hessians where they were.
+
+Captain Markham marched silently along, paying no attention to the looks
+that were thrown at him by the angry victors. He admired William's
+bearing, despite the standpoint from which he looked upon him. "I
+understand now," he said, "why it was you never took the oath of
+allegiance to the King."
+
+It was William's turn to start. It was a fact. The ceremony, owing to
+the haste in the purchasing of his command and of the departure of
+Colonel Forsyth from England, had been omitted.
+
+"What are you going to do with us?" asked the Captain. "How did you come
+to be in command?"
+
+"Through fate, perhaps," responded William; "it has decided many things.
+I am going to take you to Morristown, if I can; and as for myself, I
+shall turn myself in as a prisoner of war with the rest of you. I cannot
+explain. Some day you will understand."
+
+It was necessary to hasten the march now, for a messenger had arrived,
+stating that re-enforcements of the British were approaching from
+Elizabethtown. They marched ahead at a faster pace.
+
+It was a strange tale that William Frothingham related when he brought
+his command to the American lines. The idea of an English officer
+leading an American attack, and after victory convoying his prisoners to
+his enemy's lines, and there insisting upon giving himself up also as a
+prisoner of war--this was something new in the annals of history. He
+found himself in the most remarkable position that probably a man had
+ever been placed in before.
+
+After hearing his tale and recovering from the astonishment of finding
+that it was not the Lieutenant Frothingham they knew, the Americans
+would not accept him as a prisoner. The Commander-in-Chief expressed the
+sentiment of the meeting in these words:
+
+"You are free to return, sir, without exchange; but it is my advice that
+you do not do so. What you can explain to us you could never explain to
+the gentlemen who are temporarily in New York city."
+
+Colonel Roberts, of Washington's staff, here whispered a suggestion. It
+was taken up at once, and the sentence of the court to which William had
+presented his remarkable petition was as follows:
+
+"Lieutenant William Frothingham, late of his Majesty King George's
+service, is hereby ordered to free confinement at the Manor House of
+Stanham Mills, to be paroled there on honor not to escape or desert a
+country that has profited by his free service."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+It was at Stanham Mills.
+
+"Yes, I knowed it all de time," said old Cato to the group in the
+kitchen. The old man was breathless from reiterating this statement.
+
+In the big hall a strange meeting was taking place. So many explanations
+had to be made; so many questions asked and answered; so many stops and
+pauses for Aunt Clarissa to overcome her tears and bursts of
+self-deprecation, that it was a long time before quiet and calm could be
+restored; but when this had happened, the impossible seemed to have been
+accomplished, for there sat the twins as they had years and years
+before, hand in hand, and grouped around them were Aunt Clarissa,
+Colonel Hewes, Grace, and Carter, for the young Captain had
+considerately been given charge of the remarkable prisoner, and many a
+long chat and silent hand-grasp had they indulged in between Morristown
+and Stanham. William's depression was rolling off him. Somehow it seemed
+very natural to be here with his own people again, so much happier than
+being with the roistering, swaggering officers that he had so long been
+thrown in with.
+
+At last good-nights were said, and Aunt Clarissa, with a final burst of
+weeping, had gone up stairs on the arm of her tall young niece. George
+and William stepped to the door as they watched Carter and his father
+mount their horses, for the latter was now living in a small house with
+the troops at the foundry.
+
+A figure was standing leaning against one of the pillars. It advanced as
+the twins came out upon the piazza.
+
+"How!" was the greeting in a deep chest tone.
+
+"How, Adam!" William responded, taking the old Indian's extended hand.
+Again the latter repeated this exclamation, and turning, shuffled off.
+In his belt shone a great horse-pistol. It had once belonged to Cloud,
+the Renegade.
+
+"Brother mine," said George, placing his arm across William's shoulder,
+"it has been the finger of the Lord."
+
+William rested his head on his arm. "But they say I am a traitor," he
+replied.
+
+[Illustration: "BROTHER MINE," SAID GEORGE.... "IT IS FOR KING OR
+COUNTRY."]
+
+George laughed. "You are a patriot, then," he said. "You could not help
+what grew up in your heart. It is for King or country."
+
+"For country, then," said William, firmly.
+
+"God prosper us," said George, "we will help deliver it together."
+
+[THE END.]
+
+
+
+
+RICK DALE.
+
+BY KIRK MUNROE.
+
+CHAPTER VII.
+
+CAPTAIN DUFF OF THE SLOOP "FANCY."
+
+
+As the newly engaged crew of the sloop _Fancy_ slowly and awkwardly
+descended the slippery ladder leading down to his ship, he experienced
+his first regrets at the decisive step he had taken, and doubts as to
+its wisdom. The real character of the sloop as shown by a single glance
+was so vastly different from his ideal, that for a moment it did not
+seem as though he could accept the disreputable old craft as even a
+temporary home. Never before had he realized how he loathed dirt and
+disorder, and all things that offended his delicately trained senses.
+Never before had he appreciated the cleanly and orderly forms of living
+to which he had always been accustomed. He could not imagine it possible
+to eat, sleep, or even exist on board such a craft as lay just beneath
+him, and his impulse was to fly to some remote place where he should
+never see or hear of the _Fancy_ again. But even as he was about to do
+this the sound of Bonny's reassuring voice completely changed the
+current of his thoughts.
+
+Was not the lad who had brought him to this place a very picture of
+cheerful health, and just such a strong, active, self-reliant boy as he
+longed to become? Surely what Bonny could endure he could! Perhaps
+disagreeable things were necessary to the proper development of a boy.
+That thought had never come to him before, but now he remembered how
+much his hands had suffered before they were trained to catch a
+regulation ball.
+
+Besides all this, had not Bonny hesitated before consenting to give him
+a trial, and had he not insisted on coming? Had he not also confidently
+asserted that all he wanted was a chance to show what he was good for,
+and that nothing save a dismissal should cause him to relinquish
+whatever position was given to him? After all, no matter how bad things
+might prove on the sloop, there would always be plenty of fresh air and
+sunshine, besides an unlimited supply of clean water. He could remember
+catching glimpses, in foreign cities, of innumerable pestilential places
+in which human beings were compelled to spend whole lifetimes, where
+none of these things were to be had.
+
+Yes, he would keep on and make the best of whatever presented itself,
+for perhaps things would not prove to be as bad as they seemed; and,
+after all, he was willing to endure a great deal for the sake of
+continuing the friendship just begun between himself and Bonny Brooks.
+He remembered now having once heard his father say that a friendship
+worth having was worth fighting for. If that were the case, what a
+coward he would be to even think of relinquishing his first real
+friendship without making an effort to retain it!
+
+By the time all these thoughts had flashed through the boy's mind he had
+gained the sloop's deck, where he was startled by an angry voice that
+sounded like the bellow of an enraged bull. Turning quickly, he saw his
+friend Bonny confronted by a big man with a red face and bristling
+beard. This individual, supported by a pair of rudely made crutches, was
+standing beside the after-companionway and glaring at the bag containing
+his own effects that had been tossed down from the wharf.
+
+"Ye've got a hand, have ye?" roared this man, whom Alaric instinctively
+knew to be the Captain. "Is this his dunnage?"
+
+"Yes, sir," replied the first mate. "And I think--"
+
+"Never mind what you think," interrupted the Captain, fiercely. "Send
+him about his business, and pitch his dunnage back on the wharf or pitch
+it overboard, I don't care which. Pitch it! d'ye hear?"
+
+"But, Captain Duff, I think--"
+
+"Who asked ye to think? I do the thinking on board this craft. Don't ye
+suppose I know what I'm talking about? I tell ye I had this Phil Ryder
+with me on one cruise, and I'll never have him on another! An impudent
+young puppy as ever lived, and a desarter to boot. Took off two of my
+best men with him, too. Oh, I know him, and I'd Phil him full of his own
+rifle-bullets ef I had the chance! I'd like to Ryder him on a rail,
+too."
+
+"You are certainly mistaken, sir, this time, for--"
+
+"Who, I? You dare say I'm mistaken, you tarry young swab you?" roared
+the man, his face turning purple with rage. "Oh, ef I had the proper use
+of my feet for one minute I'd show ye! Put him ashore, I tell ye, and do
+it in a hurry too, or you'll go with him without one cent of wages--not
+one cent, d'ye hear? I'll have no mutiny where I'm Cap'n."
+
+Poor Alaric listened to this fierce outbreak with mingled fear and
+dismay. Now that the situation he had deemed so surely his either to
+accept or reject was denied him, it again seemed very desirable. He was
+about to speak up in his own behalf when the angry man's last threat
+caused him to change his mind. He could not permit Bonny to suffer on
+his account, and lose the position he had so recently attained. No, the
+very first law of friendship forbade that; and so, stepping forward to
+claim his bag, he said, in a low tone, "Never mind me, Bonny; I'll go."
+
+"No, you won't!" retorted the young mate, stoutly, "or, if you do, I'll
+go with you; and I'll have my wages too, Captain Duff, or know the
+reason why."
+
+Without paying the slightest attention to this remark, the man was
+staring at Alaric, whom he had not noticed until this moment. "Who is
+that landlubber togged out like a sporty salt?" he demanded.
+
+"He's the crew I hired, and the one you have just bounced," replied
+Bonny.
+
+"What's his name?"
+
+"Rick Dale."
+
+"What made you say it was Phil Ryder, then?"
+
+"I didn't, sir. You--"
+
+"Don't contradict me, you unlicked cub! Can he shoot?"
+
+"No, sir," replied Alaric, as Bonny looked at him inquiringly.
+
+"All right. I wouldn't have him aboard if he could. Why don't he take
+his thundering dunnage and go for'ard, where he belongs, and cook me
+some grub when he knows I haven't had anything to eat sence sunup? Why
+don't he, I say?"
+
+With this Captain Duff turned and clumped heavily to the other side of
+the deck; while Bonny, hastily picking up the bag that had been the
+innocent cause of all this uproar, said, in a low voice,
+
+"Come on, Rick. It's all right."
+
+As they went forward together he dropped the bag down a tiny forecastle
+hatch. Then, after asking Alaric to cut some kindlings and start a fire
+in the galley stove, which was housed on deck, he dove into the cabin to
+see what he could find that could be cooked for dinner.
+
+When he reappeared a minute later, he found his crew struggling with an
+axe and a chunk of hard wood, from which he was vainly attempting to
+detach some slivers. He had already cut two deep gashes in the deck, and
+in another moment would probably have needed crutches as badly as the
+Captain himself.
+
+"Hold on, Rick!" cried the young mate, catching the axe-helve just as
+the weapon was making another erratic descent. "I find those grocery
+chaps haven't sent down any stores. So do you just run up there. It's
+two doors this side of Uncle Isaac's, you know, and hurry them along.
+I'll 'tend to the fire while you are gone."
+
+Gladly exchanging his unaccustomed, and what he considered to be very
+dangerous, task of wood-chopping for a task that he felt sure he could
+accomplish creditably, Alaric hastened away. He found the grocer's
+easily enough, and demanded of the first clerk he met why the stores for
+the sloop _Fancy_ had not been sent down.
+
+"Must have been the other clark, sir, and I suppose he forgot all about
+'em; but I'll attend to the order at once, sir," replied the man, who
+took in at a glance Alaric's gentlemanly bearing and the newness of his
+nautical garb. "Have 'em right down, sir. Hard bread, salt junk, rice,
+and coffee, I believe. Anything else, sir?"
+
+"I'm sure I don't know," replied Alaric.
+
+"Going to take a run on the _Fancy_ yourself, sir?"
+
+"Yes."
+
+"Then of course you'll want some soft bread, a few tins of milk, half a
+dozen jars of marmalade, and a dozen or so of potted meats?"
+
+"I suppose so," assented the boy.
+
+"Step this way, sir, and let me show you some of our fine goods,"
+suggested the clerk, insinuatingly.
+
+In another part of the building he prattled glibly of pâté-de-foie-gras
+and Neufchatel cheese, truffles, canned mushrooms, Albert biscuit,
+anchovy paste, stuffed olives, Weisbaden prunes, and a variety of
+things--all of which were so familiar to the millionaire's son, and had
+appeared so naturally on all the tables at which he had ever sat, that
+he never for a moment doubted but what they must be necessities on the
+_Fancy_ as well. Of ten million boys he was perhaps the only one
+absolutely ignorant that these luxuries were not daily articles of food
+with all persons above the grade of paupers; and as he was equally
+without a knowledge of their cost, he allowed the clerk to add a dozen
+jars of this, and as many pots of that, to his list, until even that
+wily individual could think of nothing else with which to tempt this
+easy-going customer. So, promising that the supplies just ordered should
+be sent down directly, he bowed Alaric out of the door, at the same time
+trusting that they should be honored with his future patronage.
+
+Bethinking himself that he must have a tooth-brush, and that it would
+also be just as well to have his own comb, in spite of Bonny's assurance
+that the ship's comb would be at his service, the lad went in search of
+these articles. When he found them he was also tempted to invest in what
+he regarded as two other indispensables, namely, a cake of fine soap and
+a bottle of eau-de-Cologne.
+
+He had gone quite a distance for these things, and occupied a full
+half-hour in getting them. As he retraced his steps toward the wharves
+he passed the slop-shop in which his first purchases of the day had been
+made, and was greeted by the proprietor with an inquiry as to whether
+old Duff had taken aboard his cargo of "chinks and dope" yet. Not
+understanding the question Alaric did not answer it; but as he passed on
+he wondered what sort of a cargo that would be.
+
+By the time he regained the wharf to which the _Fancy_ was moored the
+flooding tide had raised her to a level with it, and on her deck Alaric
+beheld a scene that filled him with amazement. The stores that he had
+ordered had arrived. The wagon in which they had come stood at one side,
+and they had all been taken aboard. One of the two men who had brought
+them was exchanging high words and even a shaking of fists with the
+young first mate of the sloop, while the other was presenting a bill to
+the Captain and insisting upon its payment.
+
+[Illustration: CAPTAIN DUFF, FOAMING AT THE MOUTH AND PURPLE IN THE
+FACE, WAS SPEECHLESS WITH RAGE.]
+
+Captain Duff, foaming at the mouth and purple in the face, was
+speechless with rage, and could only make futile passes with one of his
+crutches at the man with the bill, who dodged each blow with great
+agility. As Alaric appeared this individual cried out,
+
+"Here's the young gent as ordered the goods now!"
+
+"Certainly," said Alaric, advancing to the sloop's side. "I was told to
+order some stores, and I did so."
+
+"Oh, you did, did ye! you thundering young blunderbuss?" roared Captain
+Duff, finding his voice at last. "Then suppose you pay for 'em."
+
+"Very well," replied the lad, quietly, thinking this an official command
+that must be obeyed.
+
+A minute later peace was restored, Captain Duff was gasping, and his
+first mate was staring with amazement. The bill had been paid, the wagon
+driven away, and Alaric was again without a single cent in his pockets.
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII.
+
+AN UNLUCKY SMASH.
+
+Captain Duff's first order after peace was thus restored and he had
+recovered the use of his voice, temporarily lost through amazement at
+the spectacle of a sailor before the mast paying out of his own pocket
+for a ship's stores, and stores of such an extraordinary character as
+well, was that the goods thus acquired should be immediately
+transferred to his own cabin. So Bonny, with Alaric to assist, began to
+carry the things below.
+
+The cabin was very small, dirty, and stuffy. The air of the place was so
+pervaded with a combination odor of stale tobacco smoke, mouldy leather,
+damp clothing, bilge water, kerosene, onions, and other things of an
+equally obtrusive nature, that poor Alaric gasped for breath on first
+descending the steep flight of steps leading to it.
+
+On his next trip below the lad drew in a long breath of fresh air just
+before entering the evil-smelling cabin, and determined not to take
+another until he should emerge from it. In his haste to execute this
+plan he dropped his armful of cans, and without waiting to stow them,
+had gained the steps before realizing that the Captain was ordering him
+to come back.
+
+Furious at having his command thus disregarded, the man reached out with
+one of his crutches, caught it around the boy's neck, and gave him a
+violent jerk backward.
+
+The startled lad, losing his foothold, came to the floor with a crash
+and a loud escaping "Ah!" of pent-up breath. At the same moment the
+cabin began to be pervaded with a new and unaccustomed odor so strong
+that all the others temporarily withdrew in its favor.
+
+"Oh, murder! Let me out!" gasped Captain Duff, as he scrambled for the
+companionway and a breath of outer air. "Of all the smells I ever
+smelled that's the worst!"
+
+"What have you broken, Rick?" asked Bonny, anxiously, thrusting his head
+down the companionway. He had been curiously reading the unfamiliar
+labels on the various jars, pots, and bottles, and now fancied that his
+crew had slipped down the steep steps with some of these in his arms.
+
+"Whew! but it's strong!" he continued, as the penetrating fumes greeted
+his nostrils. "Is it the truffles or the pate grass or the cheese?"
+
+"I'm afraid," replied Alaric, sadly, as he slowly rose from the cabin
+floor and thrust a cautious hand into one of his hip pockets, "that it
+is a bottle of eau-de-Cologne."
+
+"Cologne!" cried Bonny, incredulously, as he caught the word. "If these
+foreign kinds of grub are put up in Cologne, it's no wonder that I never
+heard of them before. Why, it's poison, that's what it is, and nothing
+less. Shall I heave the rest of the truck overboard, sir?"
+
+"Hold on!" cried Alaric, emerging with rueful face from the cabin in
+time to catch this suggestion. "It isn't in them. It was in my pocket
+all by itself."
+
+"I wish it had staid there, and you'd gone to Halifax with it afore ever
+ye brought the stuff aboard this ship!" thundered the Captain. "Avast,
+ye lubber! Don't come anigh me. Go out on the dock and air yourself."
+
+So the unhappy lad, his clothing saturated with cologne, betook himself
+to the wharf, where, as he slowly walked up and down, filling the air
+with perfume, he carefully removed bits of broken glass from his moist
+pocket, and disgustedly flung them overboard.
+
+While he was thus engaged, the first mate, under the Captain's personal
+supervision, was fumigating the cabin by burning in it a bunch of oakum
+over which was scattered a small quantity of tobacco. When the
+atmosphere of the place was thus so nearly restored to its normal
+condition that Captain Duff could again endure it, Bonny finished
+stowing the supplies, and then turned his attention to preparing supper.
+
+Meanwhile Alaric had been joined in his lonely promenade by a stranger,
+who, with a curious expression on his face as he drew near the lad,
+changed his position so as to get on the windward side, and then began a
+conversation.
+
+"Fine evening," he said.
+
+"Is it?" asked Alaric, moodily.
+
+"I think so. Do you belong on that sloop? Where does she run to from
+here?"
+
+"The Sound," answered Alaric, shortly.
+
+"What does she carry?"
+
+"Passengers and cargo."
+
+"Indeed? And may I ask what sort of a cargo?"
+
+"You may."
+
+"Well, then, what sort?" persisted the stranger.
+
+"Chinks and dope," returned Alaric, glancing up with the expectation of
+seeing a look of bewilderment on his questioner's face. But the latter
+only said:
+
+"Um! About what I thought. Paying business, isn't it?"
+
+"If it wasn't we wouldn't be in it," replied the boy.
+
+"No, I suppose not; and it must pay big since it enables even the
+cabin-boy to drench himself with perfumery."
+
+Ere Alaric could reply the stranger was walking rapidly away, and Bonny
+was calling him to supper.
+
+The first mate apologized for serving this meal on deck, but that
+Captain Duff objected to the crew's presence at his table on this
+occasion. "So," said Bonny, "I told him he might eat alone, then, for I
+should come out here and eat with you."
+
+"I hope he will always feel the same way," retorted Alaric, "for it
+doesn't seem as though I could possibly stay in that cabin long enough
+to eat a meal."
+
+"Oh, I guess you could," laughed Bonny. "Anyway, it will be all right by
+breakfast-time, for the smell is nearly gone now. But I say, Rick Dale,
+what an awfully funny fellow you are anyway! What made you pay for all
+that truck? It must have taken every cent you had."
+
+"So it did," replied Alaric. "But what of that? It was the easiest way
+to smooth things over that I knew of."
+
+"It wouldn't have been for me, then," rejoined Bonny, "for I haven't
+handled a dollar in so long that it would scare me to find one in my
+pocket. But why didn't you let them take back the things we didn't
+need?"
+
+"Because, having ordered them, we were bound to accept them, and I
+thought we needed them all. I'm awfully tired of such things myself, but
+I didn't know you were."
+
+"What, olives and mushrooms and truffles, and the rest of the things
+with queer names? I never tasted one of them in my life, and don't
+believe the Captain did, either."
+
+"That seems odd," reflected Alaric.
+
+"Doesn't it?" responded Bonny, quizzically. "And that cologne, too. What
+ever made you buy it?"
+
+"I don't know exactly. Because I happened to see it, I suppose, and
+thought it would be a useful thing to have along. A little of it is nice
+in your bath, you know, or to put on your handkerchief when you have a
+headache."
+
+"My stars!" exclaimed Bonny. "Listen to that, will you? Why, Rick, to
+hear you talk, one would think you were a prince in disguise, or a
+bloated aristocrat!"
+
+"Well, I'm not," answered Alaric, shortly. "I'm only a sailor on board
+the sloop _Fancy_, who has just eaten a fine supper and enjoyed it."
+
+"Have you, really?" asked the other, dubiously. "It didn't seem to me
+that just coffee without any milk, hard bread, and fried salt pork were
+very fine, and I was afraid that perhaps you wouldn't like 'em."
+
+"I do, though," insisted Alaric. "You see, I never tasted any of those
+things before, and they are first class."
+
+"Well," said Bonny, "I don't think much of such grub, and I've had it
+for more than a year, too; but then every one to his liking. Now I've
+got to notify our passengers, for we sail to-night. You may come with me
+and learn the ropes if you want to."
+
+"But we haven't any cargo aboard," objected Alaric.
+
+"Oh, that won't take long. A few minutes will fix the cargo all right."
+
+Alaric wondered what sort of a cargo could be taken aboard in a few
+minutes, but concluded to wait and see.
+
+Soon both lads went ashore and walked up into the town. Although it was
+now evening, Bonny did not seek the well-lighted business streets, but
+made his way to what struck Alaric as a peculiarly disreputable
+neighborhood. The houses were small and dingy, and their windows were so
+closely shuttered that no ray of light issued from them.
+
+At length they paused before a low door, on which Bonny rapped in a
+peculiar manner. It was cautiously opened by a man who held a dim lamp
+over his head, and who evidently regarded them with suspicion. He was
+reassured by a few words from the young mate; the door was closed behind
+them, and, with the stranger leading the way, while Alaric, filled with
+curiosity, brought up the rear, all three entered a narrow and very dark
+passage, the air of which was close and stifling.
+
+[TO BE CONTINUED.]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: THE SPEEDWAY AS IT IS TO-DAY, LOOKING TOWARD HIGH
+BRIDGE.]
+
+
+
+
+BUILDING A BOULEVARD.
+
+BY J. PARMLY PARET.
+
+
+A few years ago the people of New York decided that they must have a new
+boulevard, where fast horses could be driven without running over people
+or upsetting the carriages of those who didn't want to drive so fast.
+They puzzled their heads for some time to find a suitable spot for their
+new driveway, and it was many months before they finally agreed upon the
+bank of the Harlem River which runs along the east side of the city. The
+shore here is straight for several miles, and is lined with such steep,
+wooded bluffs that all the bridges cross the river high up in the air.
+Here there is no danger of interruption, and as the roadway can be both
+straight and level, it was chosen as an ideal spot, and the Harlem River
+Speedway is now being built there.
+
+The building of this great boulevard has already been going on for two
+years, and it will probably take fully two more to complete it. The
+steep banks sloped down to the very edge of the river, so it was
+necessary to build the road out in the water for most of its length, and
+the workmen had to make land to build it on. In one or two places great
+masses of rocks were in the way, and here they cut the driveway right
+through the solid rock. At one point there was a big gap in the cliffs,
+and the road was built up on top of a high stone wall for over a quarter
+of a mile, while in another place they had to blast out thousands of
+tons of rocks from under the water to make room for the new drive.
+
+[Illustration: LEVEL STRETCH OF THE SPEEDWAY, SHOWING CRIBS, DREDGES,
+AND PORTIONS OF THE RIVER THAT MUST BE FILLED IN.]
+
+Long before they could begin the actual work of building such a big road
+as this the civil engineers spent many months preparing their "plans and
+specifications." They estimate so many hundreds of thousands of cubic
+yards of mud to be dredged out of the river bed; so many thousands of
+feet of crib-work to be built; so many hundreds of yards of stone wall
+to be built; so many cubic yards of filling and grading, and so
+many--well, so many other things to be done that it took a big printed
+pamphlet to mention them all. Then the contractors who wanted to build
+the driveway made their offers to do the work, and the contract was
+given to the lowest bidder. This is the way with all public
+improvements.
+
+Three months after the boulevard was started the river front for two
+miles fairly swarmed with workmen. At times there were nearly two
+thousand men at work there, and from the top of the big stone bridge,
+under whose high arches the road was to pass, a busy scene was
+presented. Far down below the hordes of men looked like little black
+ants crawling about at their work. All day long the little steam-drills
+that bored holes to blast away the rocks puffed out their little clouds
+of white smoke; the big pile-drivers thumped on regularly upon the tops
+of great piles as they sunk deeper and deeper into the soft mud, and
+clumsy steam-derricks and mud-dredges groaned under their work, while
+the scores of little carts, with their tiny horses and tiny workmen
+looked like swarms of bugs and ants quarreling together. The boats were
+covered with workmen, the shore was black with workmen, the rocky
+heights were sprinkled with workmen--everywhere it was alive with them.
+High Bridge was often lined with people looking down at the busy scene
+below.
+
+Perhaps the most interesting part of the work was making the new land to
+build the roadway on. If they had simply dumped earth into the river, it
+would soon have washed away with the tides, so they had to begin from
+the outside and build in toward the shore.
+
+First, a swarm of bristling, beetlelike mud-dredges anchored along in
+line just off the shore, and for many weeks their big scoops chunked up
+and down in the shallow water, each time bringing up with them great
+masses of black slimy mud. Scows were loaded down to the water's edge by
+the dredges, and sent off to dump the mud somewhere else where filling
+was wanted. When they came back, too, they generally towed behind them
+rafts of loose logs. For months these logs were coming up the river
+almost every day, and were anchored off the scene of the work. Hundreds
+of thousands of loose logs were towed up for this work at different
+times, and just before the crib-work was begun that part of the river
+looked like a logging camp.
+
+When the dredges had dug a long deep trench in the mud where the outer
+edge of the roadway was to be, the work of sinking the cribs began.
+These cribs are made of logs laid crosswise, like old-fashioned log
+cabins, and fastened together. They were built at a ship-yard, in
+sections several hundred feet long, and towed up the river to be sunk in
+the trench. No sooner had they been fastened in place, by a row of
+piles, than the hordes of workmen began to swarm all over them. The
+loose logs were hauled up out of the water and laid on the cribs
+crosswise, and fastened in place with great spikes.
+
+[Illustration: CRIB IN FOREGROUND, PILES IN SHOAL WATER, AND WALL OF
+MASONRY IN BACKGROUND.]
+
+But though the workmen kept on building up the cribs, they did not seem
+to grow any higher. As fast as the new logs were added the weight
+carried them down deeper into the water. Finally they were sunk into the
+mud at the bottom of the trenches by filling them with tons upon tons of
+broken rocks, and when they were firmly imbedded they were built up to
+the proper height with more logs.
+
+In some places these cribs are higher than an ordinary city house, and
+considerably wider at the bottom. Imagine a log cabin bigger than a
+house, and you have a good idea of what these cribs would look like if
+entirely out of water. When finally settled in place the outside edges
+were trimmed with smooth-cut timbers, and the work of filling in began.
+A little railroad was built along the tops of the sunken cribs and up
+the side of the hill, where a lot of blasting and digging was going on.
+Dummy-cars pulled by mules were loaded with rocks and earth, and dumped
+into the great gap between the cribs and the shore. Many thousands of
+tons of dirt and rocks were thrown in here before the big opening was
+filled up.
+
+[Illustration: WHERE THE CRIBS HAVE SLID OUT OF PLACE.]
+
+But the engineers had made a serious mistake in planning this part of
+the boulevard, and the weight of the filling behind them pushed some of
+the cribs out into the water. Far down under the soft muddy bottom there
+is hard rock, and this shelves out rapidly toward the middle of the
+river; so when the great weight was filled in behind the sunken cribs,
+the mud, cribs and all, slid out in places away from the shore. Some
+parts have moved as much as eight feet at the top, and apparently much
+more at the bottom, and before the great speedway can be finished, this
+work will have to be repaired, and the outer edge moved back out of the
+channel of the river.
+
+Just below the bridge a great rocky promontory jutted out into the way
+like a cape, and nearly a hundred thousand cubic yards of rock were
+blasted away to make room for the boulevard. When the workmen got down
+to the level of the water, submarine drills had to be used for the
+blasting. This work, too, was very interesting. Divers in rubber suits
+with glass eyes were sent down under the water to fix the drills in
+position, and then the holes were bored from the floats above. When they
+had been sunk deep enough, the divers went down again and fixed the
+charges of powder that blasted out the rocks. It was like a small
+earthquake and water-spout combined when one of these blasts went off.
+
+Down at the lower end of the road the approach winds down the side of
+the rocky heights. Here it is supported for nearly half a mile on a
+great stone wall, which gradually grows smaller and smaller as the
+approach nears the level of the river. At one point another great mass
+of rock got in the way of the workmen, and they blasted their way right
+through its centre. The carriages will disappear in this cut as though
+they had been swallowed up by the rocks, and come out again on the other
+side as they wind their way down toward the straight part of the road
+along the river-bank. Over forty thousand cubic yards of rock were cut
+out of this place alone, and the workmen used all this and much more to
+fill in the cribs when they sunk them in the river below.
+
+The big wall that supports the approach was another difficult part of
+the work. In one place this is over forty feet high, and more than half
+as thick at the bottom. Just think of a solid stone wall as high as a
+house and more than half as thick at its base! It narrows down to two or
+three feet in thickness at its top, like a pyramid of masonry, and above
+this will be a railing to prevent people from falling off, for there is
+to be a sidewalk along the outer edge of the driveway here. It took
+many, many months to build that wall alone.
+
+There will be two sidewalks in most parts of the new boulevard, but
+people will be allowed to cross from one to the other only at certain
+points, and then under the roadway. It would be dangerous to cross where
+fast horses are constantly passing, so there will be two or three
+tunnels, or transverse culverts, as the engineers call them, at
+different parts of the driveway. These tunnels will pass under the
+road-bed, connecting both sidewalks with stone steps at either side.
+Sewer culverts, too, have been built at a number of points along the
+driveway, for the amount of rain that drains off the slopes at the side
+of the boulevard after a storm would almost undermine it if there were
+not proper outlets for the water.
+
+[Illustration: THE COFFER-DAM AT THE BEGINNING OF THE LEVEL STRETCH.]
+
+Another engineering difficulty was found when the workmen reached the
+lower end of the approach, for the rocky bluffs end suddenly there
+before the approach has reached the level of the crib-work. Here they
+had to dig down forty feet in the mud to get a hard bottom for the rest
+of the support. A wooden wall was built around the spot to keep the
+water out, and inside of this "coffer-dam," as the engineers call it,
+the masons laid the foundations for the last end of the stone wall. It
+was almost impossible to keep the wooden sides from leaking too, and
+they had to keep pumps at work almost all the time to prevent the inside
+from filling with water.
+
+The work was stopped for the winter, but as soon as the mild weather
+comes again the river front will once more swarm with an army of
+workmen, and the busy little ants will tear down a lot of the work that
+has been done and do it all over again. The mistake of the engineers
+will make the new boulevard cost hundreds of thousands of dollars more
+than it was expected, and New York will have to pay over two million
+dollars for her new speedway before it is finished.
+
+
+
+
+MOLLY PITCHER.
+
+
+In all our school histories--that is, histories of the United
+States--honorable mention is made of Molly Pitcher, who did good service
+as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. None of these text-books gives us
+any clew to Molly's origin, but nearly all of them tell us that the
+brave woman lies in an unmarked grave, after having passed away without
+the recognition of her ungrateful country. Sometimes she is buried on
+the banks of the Hudson, but as a general thing the historians leave us
+to infer that the location of her grave is entirely unknown. This is all
+wrong, and I hope that the compiler of the next school history of our
+country will read what is here told of the heroine, and after verifying
+the facts, give in his book such attention to the true story of her life
+as her services entitle her to.
+
+Mary Ludwig was the daughter of Pennsylvania Dutch parents, industrious
+people with a large family to support. In 1768, when about twenty years
+old, Mary "hired out" as maid of all work in the family of William
+Irvine of Carlisle, and on July 24th of the following year became the
+wife of John Casper Hayes, the town barber. Seven years later, when the
+war broke out, Hayes enlisted as a private in the First Pennsylvania
+Artillery, but was afterward transferred to the Seventh Pennsylvania
+Infantry, commanded by Colonel William Irvine, his wife's former
+employer. When the artillery regiment was ordered to go to the front
+Molly marched with it, having obtained the authority of the Colonel
+(Thomas Proctor) to serve in her husband's battery as cook and
+laundress. At the battle of Monmouth (Freehold), New Jersey, Hayes was
+wounded while serving his gun; but his place was soon filled by his
+wife, who rushed to the front when she heard of his fall, picked up the
+rammer he had dropped, and till the battle ended did as good service in
+loading the piece as could have been done by the best-drilled man in the
+battery. When the fight was over, Molly busied herself in carrying water
+for the wounded, and it was from this service she came by the pet name
+"Molly Pitcher."
+
+Molly's husband did not die on the field, but when he recovered from his
+wound he entered the infantry regiment mentioned above, and remained
+with it till peace was declared. A few months after reaching Carlisle,
+Molly was left a widow, but a year later she married John McCauley, who
+seems to have led her an unhappy life. On Washington's birthday, 1822,
+when Molly was nearly seventy-five years old, the Legislature of
+Pennsylvania voted her a gift of forty dollars and pension of forty
+dollars a year for her noteworthy services during the Revolutionary war.
+
+Molly lived to be nearly ninety. She died on the 22d of January, 1833,
+and was buried as a soldier, "with the honors of war," in the old
+Carlisle cemetery. More than forty years afterward--that is, on the
+Fourth of July, 1876--the citizens of Carlisle erected a handsome
+monument, over the heroine's grave. It bears this inscription:
+
+  MOLLY MCCAULEY,
+
+  RENOWNED IN HISTORY AS "MOLLY PITCHER,"
+
+  THE HEROINE OF MONMOUTH.
+
+  Died January, 1833.
+
+         *       *       *       *       *
+
+  Erected by the Citizens of Cumberland County, July 4, 1876.
+
+
+
+
+THE WEATHER BUREAU.
+
+BY W. J. HENDERSON.
+
+
+What is the Weather Bureau? It is a branch of the national government
+service whose duty it is to make forecasts of the weather, to estimate
+and publish the probabilities twice in every twenty-four hours. Its
+headquarters are at Washington, and it is attached to the Agricultural
+Department. It was originally a part of the army, for on June 1, 1860,
+Congress passed an act establishing the Signal Service, and detailing a
+major and several signal officers to conduct it. In 1863 the Signal
+Corps was organized. It served through the war, and was then permitted
+to disband. It was reorganized in 1866, and the weather predictions were
+a part of its duties until recently. Now the weather service, or, to be
+more accurate, the Meteorological Bureau, is a separate service.
+
+Its business is to predict the weather as nearly as it can. Most persons
+are of the opinion that it can do this accurately. At any rate, they
+blame the observers very severely when, owing to local causes, their
+predictions, intended to cover a large territory, are not fulfilled to
+the letter. If they predict showers followed by clearing weather in
+eastern New York, and it does not clear up in New York city till nine
+o'clock in the evening, inhabitants of the metropolis are very likely to
+say unkind things about the observers. They forget that the chief
+objects of this service are to furnish valuable information to mariners,
+to the great rice and cotton growers of the South, to the farmers, and
+to all other persons upon whose prosperity the weather has a potent
+influence. The fact that John Smith is caught in an unexpected rain and
+gets his new hat spoiled is not so important as the sailing of a ship,
+laden with valuable freight, into the teeth of a howling hurricane, of
+which she might have been warned. The government spends a good deal of
+money on this service. It costs $5000 to fit out a station, and the
+yearly allowance for incidentals alone is $500. This is exclusive of the
+pay of observers and the cost of telegraphing. And there are 182 of
+these stations at work now.
+
+Twice a day, at 8 A.M. and at 8 P.M., the observations of the weather
+conditions are taken; and they are immediately telegraphed, in a cipher
+devised for the purpose, to Washington, at the headquarters. There the
+facts contained in the reports from the different parts of the country
+are collated, and the probabilities deduced from them. The bulletins
+which are printed in the newspapers are sent out, and also weather maps.
+On these maps are printed lines showing the areas over which certain
+variations of the barometer exist, and other lines showing the changes
+in temperature. If you understand the manner in which American weather
+operates, you can take these maps every day and make pretty good
+predictions yourself.
+
+As I have said, it is from the local observations that the general
+predictions are made. In the city of New York the weather is studied
+away up on top of the tall building of the Manhattan Life-insurance
+Company. The Local Forecast Observer--that's his official title--is
+E. B. Dunn, who, when this was an army service, was Sergeant Dunn. Now
+the irreverent newspapers call him "Farmer" Dunn. What he does in his
+office is what all the other observers throughout the country do in
+theirs. I am going to describe his methods as he described them to me,
+and then you'll know all about it.
+
+The instruments used in observing the weather are the aneroid and
+cistern barometers, wet and dry bulb thermometers, wind vane and
+compass, anemometer and anemograph, and the rainfall. Of all these the
+barometer is probably the most important. The standard form of the
+instrument is a tube thirty-four inches long, closed at the top,
+exhausted of air, and immersed at the bottom in a cup of mercury. The
+purpose of the barometer is to measure the pressure of the atmosphere.
+In general, the mercury will stand high in the tube when the weather is
+fair, and low when it is foul. By noting the minute changes, measured on
+a graduated scale beside the tube, the observer reads the indications of
+the barometer. The words "fair," "change," etc., engraved on the front
+of the instrument are disregarded. They have no significance whatever.
+The rising or falling of the mercury in the tube is caused by the
+beginning of those atmospheric changes which precede a storm but are not
+discernible by our senses. The barometer discerns them for us, and gives
+warning of weather changes. Of course there are many different
+conditions which affect the instrument, and the weather observers are
+instructed in these matters. The aneroid barometer is round, like one of
+the cheap nickel-plated clocks that are so numerous, and the changes are
+indicated by a hand moving across a scale on the dial. The weight of the
+atmosphere is measured not by a column of mercury in a tube, but by the
+expansion and compression of a small metal box from which the air has
+been exhausted.
+
+The thermometer, as the reader knows, measures the temperature of the
+air; and in all readings of the barometer the changes in temperature
+have to be taken into account. The weather observers use two kinds of
+thermometers, the dry and the wet bulb. The dry bulb is the ordinary
+form, which every one knows, and is used to measure heat and cold. The
+wet has the bulb wrapped in some absorbent material, which is kept
+soaked with water. Now you know, without my telling you, that the water
+will cool the bulb, and hence the wet-bulb thermometer will stand lower
+than the dry. That cold is caused by evaporation, and the evaporating
+power of the atmosphere depends upon the amount of moisture there is in
+the air. So you at once see that the difference between the readings of
+the wet and dry bulb thermometers indicates the amount of moisture in
+the air. This amount the observers express in percentages of 100; and
+thus we read of "humidity, 60 per cent." Under ordinary circumstances,
+when the humidity gets close to 100, the point at which the air is
+soaked with moisture, it is going to rain. The temperature, however, and
+also the wind, have a good deal to do with this. The form in which the
+weather observers use these two thermometers is called the whirling
+psychrometer. The two instruments are put on the end of an arm, which is
+fixed on an axle turned by a crank. The observer whirls this around a
+few times before reading the instrument, for the purpose of making the
+air act freely on the two bulbs.
+
+The direction of the wind, as every one knows, is shown by a weather
+vane. Those which are used by the observing stations, however, have an
+attachment which automatically records on a sheet of paper every
+variation of the vane, so that the office has an account of the smallest
+changes of the wind during the twenty-four hours. The speed of the wind
+is measured by the anemometer. This consists of four half-spheres at the
+end of four horizontal arms, which centre on an upright axle. The force
+of the wind causes the arms to revolve, and it has been found that 500
+revolutions equal one mile. If the arms revolve 3000 times in an hour,
+the wind is blowing six miles an hour. The revolving of the upright axle
+operates a contrivance by which the speed of the wind for every minute
+in the day is recorded.
+
+The amount of rain which falls is measured in a way which shows what the
+depth of water would be on a level surface if it did not, in the natural
+order of things, run off. The rain is caught in a funnel 8-1/2 inches in
+diameter, so placed as to be protected from all gusts of wind. The
+record is made in five-hundredths of an inch.
+
+In addition to all these instruments the observers watch the well-known
+weather signs in the sky. Sunset and sunrise and the various changes in
+the appearance of the clouds are carefully studied. When a man has spent
+a year or two of his life in watching all these things, he can make a
+pretty safe prediction as to the weather for the next twenty-four hours.
+The Weather Bureau does not profess to foretell the conditions, except
+in special instances, for more than forty-eight hours.
+
+Now I have told you what the local observers at each station watch and
+record and note in their reports sent to Washington. What you naturally
+desire now to know is how do the officials at the central office make
+their deductions as to the probable weather throughout the country. How
+do they know that a cold wave is advancing eastward, or that a severe
+storm is travelling up the coast, and that cautionary signals are to be
+set between Cape Henry and Passamaquoddy, or some other points? One of
+the principal ways in which the observers can tell the path of a storm
+is by watching the rainfall ahead of it. They have found that there is a
+sort of advance guard of rain, behind which is the lowest barometric
+area; and they regard that part of the country where the barometer is
+lowest as the centre of the storm. The reports from various stations
+show the path of the advancing rain, and the weather observers know that
+a low barometer is likely to follow it. They cannot tell exactly how
+fast it will advance, for areas of clear weather stand in the way of
+the storm, and local causes sometimes prevent them from yielding
+quickly.
+
+[Illustration: COURSE OF CIRCULAR STORM SHOWING ITS TWO MOVEMENTS.]
+
+The chief reliance of the observers, however, is on a general
+acquaintance with the laws of storms. Years of observation and recording
+have proved that storms have ways of their own, and when you know where
+a storm has come from you can come very close to telling just where it
+is going. At any rate, it cannot get lost so long as it is in the United
+States, for the weather men are always on its track. The greatest
+originating place for storms is the equator, and, in our hemisphere,
+that part of it which is near the West Indies. Most of our cyclones, or
+revolving storms, originate there. These storms have two kinds of
+motions. In the first place, the storm-wind blows in a circle, like a
+gigantic whirlwind; and in the second place this whole thing advances
+over the land and sea, very much as a top, while spinning on its own
+centre, will move slowly along the floor. A cyclone starting down near
+the equator will begin by moving westward; then it curves around and
+goes northward, its diameter increasing and the velocity of its rotation
+decreasing, and finally it edges off over the New England States, and
+goes out to sea. (See diagram.) In the southern hemisphere these storms
+follow a similar track to the southward. In both hemispheres the storms
+advance at from two to forty miles per hour, and it is this movement
+which is uncertain and which requires close watching.
+
+The storms which come from the far West are less understood. One theory
+is that they go around the world; and some of them have been traced all
+the way around, except in Asia, where there are no observers. These
+storms cross the United States in three ways. Sometimes they come in by
+way of Alaska, sometimes further down the Pacific coast, and again by
+Lower California. They usually lose some of their force when they reach
+the middle of the continent. From that point they are very likely to
+move to the Lake region, where they acquire a fresh supply of vapor and
+energy, and finally go off to the Atlantic by way of the St. Lawrence
+River. The observers keep posted as to their path by watching the
+premonitory rainfall and the succeeding low barometer.
+
+Cold waves also have ways of their own, and the observers have learned
+them. The waves come in from three different points--northwest, west,
+and southwest. Those from the northwest often move directly east, and in
+that case the cold weather is not likely to extend south of the Ohio
+River. Sometimes, however, they move in a southeasterly direction, and
+then the whole country east of the Mississippi is affected. Those which
+come in from the southwest usually extend in a north-easterly direction.
+In these cases there are large decreases in temperature at Shreveport,
+St. Louis, and such places, before Chicago is affected.
+
+Thus I have given you the outlines of the data from which the Weather
+Bureau predicts what kind of a day it will be to-morrow. The observers
+could tell more than they do now if they could only keep track of the
+storms when they are out on the ocean. But unfortunately there is no
+method by which stations can be maintained on the face of the great
+deep. The weather students are compelled to do the best they can with
+such information as they can obtain from ship captains, and this is not
+constant or systematic, and is therefore far from satisfactory. The
+value of the information which the service furnishes to the sailors is,
+on the other hand, very great. The steamers of the regular lines, of
+course, sail as they are advertised to do, without considering the
+weather; but they know what to expect, and can be prepared for it.
+Sailing-vessels, however, often avoid heavy weather and even danger at
+sea by heeding the warnings of the observers. You and I just take our
+umbrellas with us when the probabilities are rain, but the sailor stays
+in his harbor and lets the cyclone get well out to sea ahead of him
+before he sets sail.
+
+[Illustration: "FARMER" DUNN'S HOME.]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT]
+
+
+The mile run is about the only long-distance event practised by American
+school and college athletes. In England the three-mile race is popular,
+and is one of the standard events of the inter-university field
+meetings, but it has not as yet been adopted in this country. At the
+International games last fall it was on the card, and Conneff won for
+the New York Athletic Club. Since then there has been some talk of
+placing the event on the Inter-collegiate schedule, but the proposition
+was defeated at a recent meeting of the Executive Committee of the
+I.C.A.A.A.A.
+
+[Illustration: T. P. CONNEFF'S STRIDE IN THE MILE RUN.]
+
+Training for the mile run may be begun at almost any time of the year,
+but it is presumed in all these short sketches that training will be
+started in the winter-time and developed in the spring. Preliminary work
+in long-distance running is of the simplest kind, consisting merely of
+walking and running at a slow jog four or five miles every day until the
+spring season has fairly set in. For this kind of work the best costume
+to wear are knickerbockers, heavy shoes and stockings, a flannel shirt,
+and a sweater. This walking and running across country will harden the
+muscles and gradually develop staying powers, which can be acquired in
+no other way.
+
+When the weather has become warm enough to go on the track in light
+running costume, the following scheme will be found a good one for
+steady training: On the first day do a mile and a half at an easy jog;
+on the second day, run a half-mile at a good pace, trying to do it in 2
+min. 45 sec. (as the weeks pass by the athlete should try to reduce this
+time for the half-mile down to 2 min. 30 sec. or below); on the third
+day run a quarter of a mile at speed; on the fourth day cover
+three-quarters of a mile at an easy jog; on the fifth day do a mile and
+a half again very leisurely; on the sixth day another quarter at speed.
+Always lay off on Sunday, for one day's rest a week is necessary when
+training for any event.
+
+After this method has been practised for several weeks, it will be well
+to take a trial mile on time. But thereafter do not run trials more
+frequently than once in ten days, and never make a trial within ten days
+of the date for the race. Before a competition it is well to lay off for
+two or three days, and before trying a mile on time during the practice
+season it is always best to lay off the day before. In other words, do
+your trial mile on Monday, Sunday being the regular lay-off day.
+
+There is little to be said about the strategy of mile-running. The
+mile-runner must know just how fast he can run, and when he goes into a
+race he should cover his distances regardless of what his rivals are
+doing. This is sometimes very difficult, especially for younger runners
+who are not judges of pace, and who allow themselves to be run off their
+feet in the first half-mile. It is true that the first half-mile is
+always run at a greater speed than the second; but a well-trained
+athlete, who knows exactly how fast he can do his event, should not
+allow any opponent to make him go faster than he is in training for. A
+number of athletes, knowing the average weakness of mile-runners, train
+themselves to go a very fast half-mile at first, in the hope that they
+may run their opponents, who have trained in a different way, off their
+feet. Those, however, who are confident of their ability, and are judges
+of pace, will frequently allow these fast fellows to get a quarter of a
+lap ahead of them, knowing very well that in the second half-mile they
+will be able to close up and finish strongly.
+
+[Illustration: W. E. LUTYENS.
+
+English Inter-University Champion.]
+
+The accompanying pictures show the stride of Conneff--the American and
+International champion--and Lutyens, the English Inter-University
+champion, who was defeated by Conneff in the International games last
+fall. It is plain to see that the Englishman's stride is much longer
+than Conneff's; but stride does not seem to be such an important factor
+in long-distance running as it is in the shorter distances. In fact, it
+will be noticed that most mile-runners are short, stocky men, although,
+as a rule, their legs are much longer in proportion to their bodies than
+is the case with other men. Conneff runs with his mouth open the whole
+distance, and, as I have already said, this is undoubtedly the best
+method for runners to adopt, in spite of the old adage about breathing
+through the nose. Conneff also runs with his arms hanging down, which is
+by far the best way, as it relieves the chest and shoulders of the
+weight of the arms (which counts in a long race), and the swinging of
+the hands low down seems to give a forward impetus similar to that which
+a jumper gets when he uses dumb-bells. The costume and footwear for
+long-distance running are the same as for other distances, except,
+perhaps, that the shoes may be made a trifle heavier if the athlete
+prefers.
+
+Training for the low hurdles is, in general, the same as that for the
+high hurdles, which was described in this Department last week. The jump
+over the obstacle itself, however, is radically different, and it is for
+this reason that many hurdlers who are invincible over the shorter
+distance are frequently defeated in the longer. It is hardly necessary
+to repeat here that the low hurdles are placed twenty yards apart, and
+are only 2 feet 6 inches high. The fact, however, that they are 2 feet 6
+inches high only is what makes the difference in the style necessary.
+
+[Illustration: DIAGRAM SHOWING THE PROPER (A) AND THE IMPROPER (B) LINE
+ALONG WHICH THE SHOULDERS OF A LOW-HURDLER SHOULD TRAVEL.]
+
+In clearing the low hurdles the athlete should endeavor not to jump. He
+must put as little spring as possible into his effort, but should clear
+the obstacle by a dexterous management of the legs. Here is where the
+advantage of the double-jump exercise comes in. In the 220 race the body
+of the hurdler should be kept on as constant a level as possible. In
+other words, his shoulders should move along an imaginary straight line
+from start to finish.
+
+The diagram at the top of the page shows this more clearly perhaps than
+any description could. The line A is the one that the shoulders should
+follow; the line B shows the motion that should be avoided. With
+practice this form can be readily acquired, and it adds greatly to the
+speed of the hurdler. The secret of the motion is to lunge slightly
+forward at the hurdle and to spread the legs to the widest angle as you
+clear it. The movement is somewhat similar to that which a man would
+make if he were suspended from the ceiling, his toes just touching the
+floor, and a series of hurdles on a treadmill were passing under him. To
+avoid being struck he would merely lift his legs, as he has learned to
+do in the double jump.
+
+In running the high hurdles the athlete may use either foot he chooses
+at the take-off, although it is better to become accustomed to jump from
+the right foot. It is better, because in the low hurdles the successful
+man must jump from the right foot. This is made necessary by curved
+tracks. There are few 220 straightaway courses; most low hurdle contests
+being conducted on a curved track, and it is practically impossible to
+make any speed at all on such a path when jumping from the left foot.
+Jim Lee used to jump from the left foot, and for that reason he almost
+never entered a contest on a curved track. He knew he could not win.
+
+The low hurdles being placed twenty yards apart, it is of course
+necessary to take a greater number of steps between obstacles. Seven
+strides is the number to be aimed at, although a runner with a short
+stride has to be content with nine. This sometimes necessitates slowing
+up before each hurdle, which is bad; and consequently it is more
+advisable to train for eight strides, in that case jumping from
+alternate feet. This makes the race more complicated, and is a form that
+should be avoided, although there are many men who are compelled to
+adopt it.
+
+In practice the athlete should never go over more than seven hurdles in
+succession, except, perhaps, once a month for a trial on time, for the
+event is too exhausting. The footwear adopted by hurdlers is similar to
+the high-jumper's shoes. They are made of kangaroo-skin, and should be
+slightly heavier than sprinters' shoes. The heel should be constructed
+of quarter-inch leather with two spikes placed at the extremities of
+diagonals drawn through the centre of the heel. This precludes the
+possibility of bruising from the constant pounding on the jumping foot.
+In the toes there should be the usual six spikes.
+
+Berkeley turned the tables on Barnard by scoring thirty-four points to
+the latter's fifteen at the Berkeley in-door games a week ago Saturday.
+At the Barnard games a fortnight previous the Harlemites took thirty-six
+points to Berkeley's thirteen. Each institution has thus presented the
+other with a trophy, and both are now preparing to shake out of their
+respective sleeves what they count on to win with at the
+Interscholastics in May. It will be interesting, too, to see how close
+they will come to one another in points at the New Manhattan Athletic
+Club games on the 28th.
+
+Irwin-Martin showed himself to be in excellent form, and broke two
+in-door scholastic records--the quarter-mile and the 220-yard run. In
+the quarter he took the lead from the start, and did not bother about
+any of his rivals until he had finished, although Evans of Oxford School
+kept pretty close to him all the way around. The half-mile run went to
+Hipple of Barnard, as might have been expected, for Hipple is
+undoubtedly the strongest man for this distance that has run in
+interscholastic contests for a number of years.
+
+Another Berkeley athlete who showed himself to be in excellent form was
+Walker, the well-named. There is no doubt about his being the best
+walker of the schools in this vicinity. He made a brave attempt for
+first honors at the Interscholastics last spring, and finished an
+exceedingly close second, showing that he had plenty of grit and
+undoubted ability. He has vastly improved in the past nine months, and I
+doubt if there is any one who can touch him in his class. He is a little
+fellow, too, and must have worked very hard and conscientiously to
+develop such a great amount of strength and speed, maintaining at the
+same time such excellent form. At these games there were about a dozen
+starters besides Walker, but at the crack of the pistol he strode to the
+front, and literally walked away from the laboring bunch behind him. He
+kept increasing his distance so steadily that the contest really
+narrowed down to a battle for second place. This struggle was very hot
+between Myers and Adams, the former barely reaching the tape ahead of
+the others. Walker's time was 8 min. 13-1/5 Sec.
+
+In the mile run Bedford took good care not to give Manvel of Pingry's a
+chance, and set a 2 min. 14-1/5 sec. pace for the first half-mile, which
+practically ran all the other contestants off their feet. But this pace
+was hot enough even to tire Bedford, for he had to slow up considerably
+in the last half, although he covered the whole distance in the
+excellent time of 4 min. 54-1/5 sec.
+
+The dashes developed several speedy runners, three of the heat winners
+getting close to record time. In the final, Moore of Barnard and Doudge
+of Berkeley ran a dead heat in 7-3/5 sec., but in the run-off Moore
+proved himself to have the greatest staying powers, and took the event.
+The hurdle-racing was also good, the winners of each of the preliminary
+heats making the same time. Bien showed himself in excellent form in the
+trials, but in the final heat he did not do so well, and let Herrick
+pass him.
+
+The field events were not particularly interesting. Pell tied Duval at 5
+ft. 5 in. in the high jump; Young tied Irwin-Martin at 37 ft. 2 in. in
+the shot; and Eddy tied Katzenbach for third place in the pole vault at
+8 ft. 10-3/4 in. In each one of these instances athletics were
+superseded by the less exhausting expedient of gambling, and coins
+tossed into the air decided which man should take the medal.
+
+The points made by the several schools are as follows:
+
+  School.            First.     Second.    Third.    Total
+  Berkeley           4-1/2      3-1/2       1         34
+  Barnard            3          0           0         15
+  St. Paul's         1          2           2         13
+  Adelphi Academy    1          1           0          8
+  Brooklyn High      1          1           0          8
+  Pingry's           0          2           0          6
+  Newark Academy     0          1           2          5
+  Brooklyn Latin      1/2        1/2        0          4
+  Ailing Art         0          0           1          1
+  Columbia Grammar   0          0           1          1
+  Cutler             0          0           1          1
+  Oxford             0          0           1          1
+  Pratt Institute    0          0           1          1
+  Poly. Prep         0          0           1          1
+
+St. Paul's School again made a good record on this occasion, as her
+athletes did at the recent games of the Long Island Inter-scholastic
+League in Brooklyn. These St. Paul athletes seem to be developing at a
+rapid rate, and may be counted upon to make an excellent showing at the
+New Manhattan Athletic Club games, and they will probably take a strong
+membership in the team which is to represent the Long Island League in
+the National Meet this spring.
+
+  THE GRADUATE.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: THE CAMERA CLUB.]
+
+     Any questions in regard to photograph matters will be willingly
+     answered by the Editor of this column, and we should be glad to
+     hear from any of our club who can make helpful suggestions.
+
+
+MARKING NEGATIVES.
+
+It is sometimes desirable to have the name of a picture marked on the
+negative so that it may appear in the finished print. This may be done
+in several ways. One of the simplest is to write the name backwards in
+India ink on the film side of the negative. This should be done with a
+fine drawing-pen, and the lettering made in one of the lower corners. As
+the title appears white in the finished print the writing should be done
+where the glass is clear or in the deepest shadows.
+
+To have the name appear in black on the print, take a fine steel needle,
+and having first marked the letters lightly with a pencil, scratch the
+letters through the film to the clear glass. Make the edges smooth, and
+see that the lines of the letters are perfect, as every imperfection in
+the lettering appears in the print.
+
+One should always put his initials on a good negative. They can be put
+on either in India ink or scratched through the film.
+
+If one does not wish to write the name on the negative it can be written
+on the sensitive paper before the print is made. India ink is to be
+preferred, but good black ink will do. The ink will wash off in the
+toning solution, leaving the name clear and distinct on the print.
+
+An ink for writing on photographic prints may be made by taking 2 ounces
+potassium iodide, 6 ounces distilled water, half an ounce gum-arabic,
+1-1/2 drams iodide. This is used for writing on the dark part of
+photographic prints.
+
+     SIR KNIGHT JAMES G. ZIMMERMAN sends a photograph of a flash of
+     lightning, and wishes to know if the picture is printed right, if
+     there is any use for such a photograph, and if it is necessary to
+     have it copyrighted before having it reproduced. The printing of
+     the picture is correct. Pictures of this kind are useful for
+     meteorological purposes. It was not till the introduction of
+     instantaneous photography that the shape of a flash was known.
+     Artists always drew pictures of a lightning's flash in zigzag lines
+     with sharp angles, whereas instantaneous photographs prove that the
+     electric fluid forms a curve and never an acute angle. The enclosed
+     picture is an excellent one, and shows several distinct loops in
+     the line of the electricity, something very unusual. It is not
+     necessary to have a picture copyrighted before having it
+     reproduced. The use of the copyright is to protect the owner of the
+     picture from others making use of it without his consent.
+
+     SIR KNIGHT ERNEST BRIGGS asks for a formula to use with
+     under-exposed plates. Sir Ernest will find formula in No. 839
+     (November 26).
+
+     SIR KNIGHT JAMES H. HARTLEY, 33 Temple Street, Paterson, N.J., says
+     that he would like to exchange prints with other members of the
+     club, and that he has some good views of Passaic Falls. Sir James
+     is informed that his first request, which he says he sent some time
+     ago, did not reach the editor.
+
+
+
+
+ADVERTISEMENTS.
+
+
+
+
+Arnold
+
+Constable & Co
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MANTLE AND SUIT
+
+DEPARTMENT
+
+SPRING FASHIONS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_London and Paris_
+
+Wraps, Coats, Capes,
+
+Dress Skirts,
+
+Silk Waists.
+
+_A special importation of novelties,_
+
+_to which particular attention is invited._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_Broadway & 19th st._
+
+NEW YORK.
+
+
+
+
+TO MAKE THE BEST FOOD.
+
+
+Mrs. Ellen H. Richards, Instructor in Sanitary Chemistry in the
+Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says: "Baking powders prepared
+from soda and cream of tartar chiefly are, when put up in tin cans with
+the maker's name and label, much more reliable than any other form of
+bread-raising preparation."
+
+Many receipts are given in cook-books and newspapers for making biscuit,
+cake, muffins, crusts, etc., in the old-fashioned way with sour milk and
+soda, or cream of tartar and soda. In every such receipt much better
+results will be obtained by substituting the Royal Baking Powder for the
+sour milk or cream of tartar and soda. Exactly the same
+gas--carbonic--is produced, but with the Royal Baking Powder there is
+avoided all alkalinity or acidity in the food, one of which always
+results from the old-fashioned methods because of the impossibility of
+mixing the cream of tartar and the soda or sour milk in the proper
+proportions. Besides, the cream of tartar bought from the shops by the
+housekeeper is always impure, frequently containing alum, lime, and
+sulphuric acid, while the cream of tartar employed in the manufacture of
+the Royal Baking Powder is specially refined and chemically pure. With
+the use of the Royal, therefore, the food is rendered not only more
+perfect in appearance and taste, but more wholesome.--_Household
+Journal_.
+
+
+
+
+  Cock-a-doodle doo--
+    My dame has lost her shoe;
+  But CUPID Hair-Pins held her hair--
+    Or she'd have lost that too.
+
+Its in the TWIST.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+By the makers
+
+of the famous DELONG
+
+Hook and Eye.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Richardson & DeLong Bros.,
+
+Philadelphia.
+
+
+
+
+Harper's Catalogue,
+
+Thoroughly revised, classified, and indexed, will be sent by mail to any
+address on receipt of ten cents.
+
+
+
+
+CARDS
+
+FOR 1896. 50 Sample Styles AND LIST OF 400 PREMIUM ARTICLES FREE.
+HAVERFIELD PUB. CO., Cadiz, Ohio.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: THOMPSON'S EYE WATER]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: BICYCLING]
+
+     This Department is conducted in the interest of Bicyclers, and the
+     Editor will be pleased to answer any question on the subject. Our
+     maps and tours contain much valuable data kindly supplied from the
+     official maps and road-books of the League of American Wheelmen.
+     Recognizing the value of the work being done by the L. A. W., the
+     Editor will be pleased to furnish subscribers with membership
+     blanks and information so far as possible.
+
+
+[Illustration: Copyright, 1896, by Harper & Brothers.]
+
+The maps which will be given for the next few weeks will have as their
+principal object the usual trip from Albany to Buffalo. At the same time
+they have been prepared in such a way, by giving the dotted routes, as
+to show all the roads in the vicinity of this general route which are in
+the best condition for bicyclists, so that, while we give only the
+details of the direct route, any one desiring to turn off at any point
+to reach some special town or city will be able to find for himself the
+most suitable route.
+
+The bicyclist will therefore notice on the present map that the best
+route along the Hudson north of Albany, through Waterford, etc., is
+given; that it is possible to run out towards Schenectady, through
+Guilderland, and though the road becomes poorer beyond there, it is
+nevertheless in reasonable condition most of the way; that while the
+best route from Schenectady on towards Fonda and Utica runs on the
+southern bank of the river and crosses at Hoffman's Ferry to the north
+bank, there is nevertheless a moderately good road following the other
+side of the river and keeping along the canal and the railroad. In other
+words, while it is our purpose to describe a general route, there is
+also the secondary purpose of giving maps containing all good roads in
+the vicinity of these longer trips.
+
+Leaving the Kenmore Hotel in Albany, proceed by the shortest way to
+Broadway, and on this till the Londonville Plank Road is reached;
+turning left into this, proceed through Londonville and Newtonville to
+Lathams. This is a little more than seven miles from the hotel, and at
+this point a shairp turn to the left should be made and the road
+followed to Watervliet Centre. From Watervliet, through Niskayuna, to
+Schenectady, is straight level road, none too well suited to the
+bicyclist, as it occasionally has somewhat difficult sandy spots, though
+the bulk of the road is, in good weather, firm clay and gravel.
+Schenectady is twenty miles from the Kenmore Hotel at Albany, and a stop
+can be made here, if desired, at the Barhydt Hotel, where, if you are a
+member of the L. A. W., you can procure somewhat less rates than the
+ordinary traveller. If you wish to reach Fonda in one day from Albany,
+it is well to refrain from stopping at Schenectady.
+
+Leaving the city still on the south side of the river, follow along near
+the canal to Pattersonville, ten miles to the west. The road becomes
+somewhat more hilly, but it is in fair condition. At Pattersonville turn
+down to Hoffman's Ferry and cross to the north bank of the river;
+thence, turning to the left, follow the road running along by the New
+York Central Railroad tracks to Cranesville, and thence, over some hilly
+country, continue to Amsterdam, always keeping parallel with the
+railroad. This stretch between Hoffman's Ferry and Amsterdam is a
+somewhat poorer road, there being some sand and less clay and gravel
+than heretofore, and in some places some very considerable hills.
+Amsterdam is thirty-three miles from Albany, and here a stop may be
+made, the Hotel Warner being the best place for a wheelman to stop at.
+The run from Amsterdam through Tribes Hill, always in the vicinity of
+the river and the railroad, to Fonda is fifteen miles further. The road
+continues in parts somewhat sandy, and there are some hills, especially
+beyond Tribes Hill; but taken together, the run from Albany is not a bad
+one. If the wheelman is in no great hurry, a very interesting run may be
+made by leaving the route towards Buffalo at Fonda, and riding
+twenty-three miles out through Johnstown, Gloversville, Mayfield,
+Cranberry Creek, Gifford, to Sacandaga Park, which is a famous fishing
+place.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: THE PUDDING STICK]
+
+     This Department is conducted in the interest of Girls and Young
+     Women, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question on the
+     subject so far as possible. Correspondents should address Editor.
+
+
+How can I make my room pretty without spending money on it, I haven't
+much of that, writes one of my correspondents.
+
+I have seen very ugly rooms on which people had spent heaps of money,
+and there are lovely ones which have cost their owners very little
+beyond good taste and the exercise of common-sense and care. In the
+first place, cleanliness in a room is in itself a great beauty. Make war
+on every bit of dust, every cobweb, every speck and stain. A perfectly
+clean room, although quite bare of ornament, is inviting, and when its
+owner puts in her little individual touches, her books on a hanging
+shelf, which her brother can make for her, or which she can buy for
+forty or fifty cents, her favorite engravings, cut from illustrated
+papers if she chooses and simply tacked on the wall, her pot of
+primroses on the window-sill, her toilet table draped with white net
+over pink silesia, her plain scrim curtains at the window tied back with
+bits of ribbon, the room will be dainty and pretty enough to please the
+most fastidious. If you have not much to do with, manage with what you
+have, is a good rule for girls to follow.
+
+A carpet is by no means a necessity in any sleeping-room. In fact, many
+people prefer a stained or painted floor, with a rug which may be easily
+lifted and shaken. A small wooden rocking-chair, a table or stand for a
+candlestick, a two-leaved screen, which you can make yourself, and a
+little rack over your washstand for your towels, and then, with a nicely
+made bed, the room will be complete.
+
+One's own room is so dear to every girl that I do not wonder she prizes
+it. One must have hours when it is a pleasure to be alone. One likes to
+be by herself at times, to think and read and plan. After a little space
+of solitude we go back to others rested and cheered. Where sisters share
+the same apartment, each should have her corner, divided from the other
+part of the room either by curtains or by screens, so that when they
+prefer to be alone they may be so. In some schools which I have known
+there are twenty-minute or half-hour intervals during the day, when
+every pupil is required to be by herself, and in home life girls who can
+should try to adopt a similar rule.
+
+And cannot you contrive, girlies, to give your dear mothers the same
+chance to take a rest all by their precious selves every day.
+
+When mamma goes to her chamber and shuts the door, you, I am sure, can
+take care that the little ones do not disturb her privacy; you can
+entertain the caller or dispose of the person who comes on a business
+errand. The mater will gain new life if her daughters secure for her
+this little daily space, and I am sure they will at least make the
+effort.
+
+     CHARLOTTE BLAND.--For an afghan large enough to cover a lounge you
+     will require three pounds of worsted, if you crochet it, as the
+     crochet-needle takes up a great deal of work; a knitted afghan will
+     take less wool, and I think two pounds will be sufficient
+
+     DORA T.--If your hands are rough and chapped use cold cream on them
+     at night, and sleep in a loose pair of gloves. An old pair of
+     brother Tom's will answer the purpose. You should be careful to
+     wash your hands in warm water only during cold weather, and to dry
+     them thoroughly before going out. Rose-water and glycerine in equal
+     parts makes a nice lotion for the hands. Rose-water diluted with
+     ordinary rain water is very soothing to the eyes.
+
+     ARLINE.--A white and gold room is very pretty on the sunless side
+     of the house, and it can be easily managed without much expense if
+     you have clever fingers and good taste.
+
+[Illustration: Signature]
+
+
+
+
+ADVERTISEMENTS.
+
+
+
+
+10 TIMES OUT OF 10
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The New York Journal recently offered ten bicycles to the ten winners in
+a guessing contest, leaving the choice of machine to each.
+
+ALL OF THEM
+
+CHOSE
+
+[Illustration: Columbia Bicycles]
+
+Standard of the World.
+
+Nine immediately, and one after he had looked at others. And the Journal
+bought ten Columbias. Paid $100 each for them, too. On even terms a
+Columbia is chosen
+
+10 TIMES OUT OF 10
+
+POPE MFG. CO., Hartford, Conn.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: HARTFORD Single Tube TIRE]
+
+
+
+
+WALTER BAKER & CO., LIMITED.
+
+Established Dorchester, Mass., 1780.
+
+Breakfast Cocoa
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Always ask for Walter Baker & Co.'s
+
+Breakfast Cocoa
+
+Made at
+
+DORCHESTER, MASS.
+
+It bears their Trade Mark
+
+"La Belle Chocolatiere" on every can.
+
+Beware of Imitations.
+
+
+
+
+HOOPING
+
+COUGH
+
+CROUP
+
+_Can be cured_
+
+by using
+
+ROCHE'S HERBAL
+
+EMBROCATION
+
+The celebrated and effectual English cure, without internal medicine. W.
+EDWARD & SON, Props., London, Eng. Wholesale, E. FOUGERA & CO., New York
+
+
+
+
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+
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+
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+
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+=50%= commission. STANDARD STAMP CO., 4 Nicholson Place, St. Louis, Mo.
+Old U. S. and Confederate Stamps bought.
+
+
+
+
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+recent issues of Singapore, Johore, Perak, Selangor, and other stamps.
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+
+[Illustration: THOMPSON'S EYEWATER]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: MR. CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN]
+
+
+On the 2d of March, at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, hardly more
+than a fortnight after his golden-wedding anniversary, Mr. Charles
+Carleton Coffin passed away. He died suddenly, and so escaped the pain
+and weariness of lingering illness. Some readers of the ROUND TABLE who
+were in the great throng of young people in the New York Building at the
+World's Fair, when we kept our first reunion in the beautiful White
+City, no doubt remember Mr. Coffin as one of the speakers on that happy
+occasion. With Kirk Munroe, Charles Dudley Warner, and others, Mr.
+Coffin was present then, and he said several things which made a deep
+impression on my mind as I looked over the sea of bright young faces
+gathered under our starry flag. He told the boys that they owed
+something to their country, that they must grow up prepared to be her
+lovers and defenders, to stand up for her through all things, and to be
+good true citizens, and Americans who cared for America wherever they
+might go.
+
+What Mr. Coffin said that day with his voice so eloquently he had been
+saying in print for many years. He wrote nineteen books, all of them the
+gift of a fine mind and true heart, to the boys and girls of America.
+The names of these books are familiar to you, and the very titles are
+attractive, as, for example, _My Days and Nights on the Battle-field_,
+_Following the Flag_, _Winning his Way_, _The Boys of '76_, _Our New Way
+'Round the World_, and similar stirring and suggestive names. Among Mr.
+Coffin's delightfully exciting volumes, I am very fond of _The Story of
+Liberty_, a book which carries us back to old England, and shows us the
+cradle of our American freedom in the mother-land. Mr. Coffin had the
+rare art of standing outside his story and letting it tell itself. He
+marshalled its incidents and events with historic accuracy, and so made
+his narrative always useful and acceptable as supplementary reading to
+the boy or girl who was studying a period at school, but he also allowed
+his people to speak and act in a natural way. His books unroll like the
+panorama at the show, and a very satisfactory panorama they are, ideally
+painted for the library of young America.
+
+Personally Mr. Coffin was full of enthusiasm and enjoyment in his work,
+and he cared a great deal for his youthful audience. He did not
+under-rate their intelligence and write down to them. He took it for
+granted that our young people are intelligent and interested in both
+work and play, and his books paid them the compliment of dealing with
+serious themes, though always in a sprightly manner. All his books are
+so beautifully illustrated that they are really fine picture galleries,
+in which one sees how people dressed, how buildings and streets looked,
+and how houses were furnished in the times of which Mr. Coffin wrote.
+
+A man who spent his life in such a beautiful way, writing books so
+worthy, and never writing a sentence one would wish omitted, bestowed a
+great gift on his period. His books will live and continue to give
+pleasure to hosts of young people, to whom Mr. Coffin will be a guide
+and friend in years to come, for the author of a good book never dies.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Winter News from Jamaica.
+
+     It is our winter now in the shape of north winds and cold rains,
+     beginning in November and ending in March or April, and we
+     thoroughly detest them.
+
+     I would like to know something about Lord Byron. My great-uncle was
+     at school with him, and I would like to know about him, as I have
+     never read anything about him, or scarcely ever read anything of
+     his.
+
+     I have a dear little kitten now--a tortoise-shell. He is very
+     funny. Last night his mother, Trilby, was very uneasy till we let
+     her out. Then after we had shut the door my kitty became unhappy
+     too. So my father opened the door, and cat and kitten ran against
+     each other. Trilby had a nice fat rat. We suppose she must have
+     smelt it outside. Her child's name is Tony. He hates Tipsy, my
+     little dog, and poor Tipsy is so frightened of it, and always walks
+     away when she sees the dear fluffy pet. Would it bother dear Mrs.
+     Sangster if I wanted her autograph? I love HARPER'S ROUND TABLE, as
+     I am sure all members of the Order do.
+
+     I have eleven Seychells stamps, and two Sicilies, of which I am
+     very proud. The 1_d_. blue Jamaica, cut in half, is, I believe, not
+     in any catalogue, though it is perfectly genuine. I have a lovely
+     Lilium Speciosa open now. My aunt gave it to me. The other day we
+     caught a mongoose in a trap, but before my father could shoot it,
+     Tipsy and Bennie, her child, had killed it. Poor Tipsy in the
+     excitement of killing sent her own sharp tooth right through her
+     lip. It must have hurt her dreadfully. I have about 2500 stamps.
+     The other "Round-Tablers" have helped me a lot.
+
+  NELLIE STEPHENS.
+  RADNOR, HAGLEY GAP, JAMAICA, W. I.
+
+Mrs. Sangster will send her autograph if you ask her.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+How Shingles are Made.
+
+     In making shingles on a large scale the logs are first cut into
+     blocks by what is termed the "band" saw. They are then taken to the
+     "knee-bolter," where the bark and sap are cut off, making the
+     blocks smooth on all sides. From the knee-bolter they are carried
+     to the "power-feed machine," where a piece is cut out at each
+     movement that is the exact thickness of the shingle. They then drop
+     into a "carrier," where they are transported to the "knot-sawyers,"
+     who cut out all knots and even up the edges. They are then packed
+     into bunches, whence they are taken to the "dry kiln" to dry. Only
+     the "red-cedar shingle" is manufactured in this (the southwestern)
+     part of the State. Every bunch has to be weighed when taken from
+     the dry kiln, after which it is loaded on cars and shipped to
+     different parts of the United States. The average mill employs from
+     twelve to twenty men.
+
+  RUEL M. NIMS.
+  COSMOPOLIS, WASH.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Questions and Answers.
+
+C. Arnold Kruckman, 1235 North Thirteenth Street, St. Louis, is a bright
+"Shut-in," and wants to join a literary club as a corresponding member,
+and to contribute to amateur papers. The N.A.P.A., dear Sir Arnold, is
+a national association of young persons who publish or contribute to
+amateur papers. It has a full set of officers, elected annually.
+Besides, there are, in close affiliation with the National Association,
+local or district associations, as the Pacific, the Maryland, the New
+England, etc., each having its own officers. Indeed, so many officers
+are there that one has to get pretty well into the "dom" in order to
+tell off-hand who is who, and where all belong. If you fail to hear from
+President Hancock of the National Association, write to Edgar R. Bauer,
+3328 South Ninth Street, your city, to Fred W. Arnold, 3221 State
+Street, Chicago, or to Charles R. Burger, Colorado Springs, Col.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+H. Barker asks how to make a strong but cheap battery to operate an
+electric bell. It is better to buy than to make a battery, because
+cheaper. You can get from Bonnell & Co., New York, a good cell for
+seventy-five cents that will last a long time, and it is what is called
+a "dry" battery, hence it does not overflow. If you must make one, you
+will find the "dry" kind expensive, so make a gravity one. Take a glass
+candy jar and put into the bottom some old copper, any shape. To it
+attach covered wire, leading out of the jar. Suspend about the middle a
+piece of zinc, and fasten to it a second wire. Pour lukewarm water in
+until the zinc is well covered, and drop into it a dozen bits of blue
+vitriol (sulphate of copper). Let stand for two or three days, cleaning
+the zinc with a brush daily. Lester L. Riley, 929 East Fifth Street,
+Dayton, O., wants to send to publishers of amateur papers some stories,
+poems, etc. Who wants them? W. Randall Sperlock, 3108 Imogene Avenue,
+Mt. Auburn, Cincinnati, O., is desirous of procuring a copy of HARPER'S
+YOUNG PEOPLE, No. 640, dated February 2, 1892. Who can sell it to him?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Edward D. Cassin: Tuition in the large colleges varies from $40 to $150
+a year. Select your college and apply to the Dean for rates. Military
+academies are located at many points--Manlius, N. Y., Chester, Pa.,
+Cornwall, N. Y., etc. See list of them in the advertising pages of
+HARPER'S MAGAZINE. Subjects embraced in the New York Regents'
+examination are some twenty in number. For full information, which would
+require this entire page to give you here, apply to Melvil Dewey,
+Secretary of the State Board of Regents, Albany. The price of the
+papers, with full explanations, is twenty-five cents. The principal of
+your school is likely to possess a copy.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: STAMPS]
+
+     This Department is conducted in the interest of stamp and coin
+     collectors, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question
+     on these subjects so far as possible. Correspondents should address
+     Editor Stamp Department.
+
+
+The new Cuban Republic, it is understood, has made arrangements with
+parties in New York city for the printing of bonds and postage-stamps.
+As yet no designs for stamps have been seen.
+
+In the past few months I have had occasion to examine a large number of
+stamps, and several collections belonging to members of the "Round
+Table." I am sorry to say that a great many of the stamps show that they
+have not been handled with the care they should have had, especially in
+the matter of hinges, or "stickers." These are seemingly very
+insignificant things, and any dealer will supply hinges for 10c. per
+1000, while for 15c. a very superior quality can be obtained. Home-made
+hinges frequently injure the stamps through chemicals in the gum or
+paste making a change in the color of the stamp. Of course the majority
+of stamps I have seen have been very common stamps, but every collector
+should take as great pains in the mounting of common stamps as of the
+most valuable specimens. I advise you to use the best hinges that can be
+obtained. Their cost is insignificant, and they will save you many
+damaged stamps.
+
+I have sometimes been asked to recommend Philatelic publications. This
+has led me to investigate as to the number of Philatelic publications
+that have been issued up to date. I find that their number is at least
+16,000, and probably 20,000 in all. Of these about one-half are in the
+English language, and most of these have been issued in America. Nearly
+one-third are in the German language. The balance is distributed among
+the French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, etc. Most Philatelic journals have
+ended their career before the end of the first volume, and very few
+survive a second year.
+
+     C. C. DUNNING, Wrightsville, Pa., wants to exchange rare coins.
+
+     J. F. HAMMOND, Harford, N.Y., wants to exchange stamps.
+
+     J. HALL.--Beware of counterfeit grilled stamps. They are apt to
+     deceive any one not an expert.
+
+     J. SCHMIDTBERGER.--Only 363 sets of the U. S. State Department $5,
+     $10, and $20 stamps were made. They should be of equal value, but
+     they are not. The $5 is worth the other three together.
+
+     J. A. RAYCE.--English stamps are often marked by perforations in
+     the form of initials. This is done to prevent theft, as the owners
+     can prove their property.
+
+     J. O'NEAL.--Your gold coins have no premiums. You can get a coin
+     book through any dealer.
+
+     B. B. MORRIS.--The 1857 "flying eagle" is worth 5c. if it has been
+     circulated but still in fine condition. The 1856 "flying eagle" is
+     worth $4.
+
+     SQUIRE REICK.--No premium.
+
+     READER.--Take the offer of $1 for the 1822 silver half-dollar. You
+     can do no better.
+
+     A. PARRISH.--I cannot tell you what advertisers mean by "good," but
+     I should say they do not mean uncancelled.
+
+     R. N. KOFOID.--It is not advisable to take Revenue stamps from
+     legal documents, unless these documents of themselves have no value
+     at this time.
+
+     J. KOLB.--Afghanistan postage-stamps, either used or unused, are
+     very scarce. It is almost an impossibility to obtain a perfect used
+     copy, for the reason that the postage officials in Afghanistan
+     construe their instructions to cancel the stamps used for postage
+     by tearing out a piece of the same, therefore genuinely used stamps
+     from this country can be obtained in no other form.
+
+  PHILATUS.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Ivory Soap]
+
+    A bath as cleansing, sweet and mild
+  As Ivory makes it, always seems
+    To bring such comfort, that the child
+  Drops fast asleep with happy dreams.
+
+Copyrighted, 1896, by The Procter & Gamble Co., Cin'ti.
+
+
+
+
+PRINTING OUTFIT 10c.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration: G. A. R. 25c.]
+
+[Illustration: Brownies 10c.]
+
+For printing cards, marking linen, books, etc. Contains everything shown
+in cut. Type, Tweezers, Holder, Indelible Ink, Ink Pad, etc. Thoroughly
+practical for business or household use and a most instructive
+amusement. Sent with catalogue illustrating over 1000 Tricks and
+Novelties, for 10c. in stamps to pay postage and packing on outfit and
+catalogue. Same outfit with figures 15c. Large outfit for printing two
+lines 25c.
+
+=Brownie Rubber Stamps=--A set of 6 grotesque little people with ink pad;
+price, postpaid, 10c.
+
+G. A. R. series Rubber Stamps, 12 characters. Makes all kinds of
+Battles, Encampments and other military pictures, 25c. postpaid. Address
+
+ROBERT H. INGERSOLL & BRO,
+
+Dep't No. 62, 65 Cortlandt St., New York.
+
+
+
+
+There's no doubt about the advisability of riding a wheel--the only
+question now is what wheel to ride.
+
+Monarch
+
+King of Bicycles,
+
+represents cycle manufacture in its highest development. A wheel with
+which no fault can be found.
+
+4 models. $80 and $100, fully guaranteed. For children and adults who
+want a lower price wheel the Defiance is made in 8 models, $40 to $75.
+Send for Monarch book.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+MONARCH
+
+CYCLE MFG. CO.,
+
+Lake, Halsted and Fulton Sts., CHICAGO.
+
+83 Reade St., NEW YORK.
+
+
+
+
+BREAKFAST--SUPPER.
+
+EPPS'S
+
+GRATEFUL--COMFORTING.
+
+COCOA
+
+BOILING WATER OR MILK.
+
+
+
+
+DOLL CLOTHES
+
+Eleven Complete Patterns (all separate), for every article of Dolly's
+clothing, with full directions for making, and one yard of fine lace,
+all sent to any address for =only Ten Cents= (silver or stamps). Address
+
+DOLL SUPPLY HOUSE, East 51st St., Bayonne, N. J.
+
+
+
+
+A NEAT BOX, containing 12 mineral specimens from Millard County, Utah,
+including genuine gold and silver ore, copper, onyx, etc., postpaid to
+any address for 25 cts. J. A. ROBINSON, Clear Lake, Utah.
+
+
+
+
+CARDS
+
+The FINEST SAMPLE BOOK of Gold Beveled Edge, Hidden Name, Silk Fringe,
+Envelope and Calling Cards ever offered for a 2 cent stamp. These are
+GENUINE CARDS, NOT TRASH. UNION CARD CO., COLUMBUS, OHIO.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: THOMPSON'S EYE WATER]
+
+
+
+
+_NOW READY._
+
+Tommy Toddles
+
+     By ALBERT LEE. Illustrated by PETER S. NEWELL. Square 16mo, Cloth,
+     Ornamental, $1.25.
+
+The wonderful adventures of a small boy who wanders through a fantastic
+country in search of the wooden animals that have come to life and
+strayed away from a Noah's Ark are described in a humorous and
+imaginative style that will amuse older heads, while the peculiar
+incidents of the narrative cannot fail to bring delight to every
+youngster. There is a good leaven of light verse to the tale, which,
+with the illustrations in Mr. Newell's happiest vein, make the book a
+welcome addition to juvenile literature.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+HARPER & BROTHERS, Publishers, New York.
+
+
+
+
+AN AFRICAN STRATAGEM.
+
+
+[Illustration: TURTLE. "IT'S SIMPLE ENOUGH TO GET RID OF HIM. YOU HIDE,
+AND WATCH ME."]
+
+[Illustration: TURTLE (_loq_.). "AN UNCONSCIOUS AIR--]
+
+[Illustration: DECEIVES MAN, AND--]
+
+[Illustration: RIDS ME OF TWO DANGERS AT ONCE."]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+AT THE CIRCUS.
+
+KANGAROO. "You had great luck last year getting your trunk through the
+custom-house without paying a duty."
+
+ELEPHANT. "Never mind; you have your chance this year."
+
+KANGAROO. "What do you mean?"
+
+ELEPHANT. "Don't you know this is leap-year?"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MOTHER. "What are you going to do with that _ear_ of corn?"
+
+BOBBY. "I'm going to eat it, so's I'll be sure to hear you call
+to-morrow morning."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+WILLIE I-WONT-PLAY.
+
+  Wilful Willie I-Wont-Play
+  Always wants to have his way;
+  With him it is _I_ or _me_,
+  Whatsoe'er the sport may be--
+  Prisoner's Goal or Pull-away,--
+  Wilful Willie I-Wont-Play.
+
+  If another faster run,
+  Though the game be just begun,
+  Then he'll pout and sulk and scowl,
+  Gloomy as a day-caught owl,
+  Spoil the whole glad holiday,--
+  Wilful Willie I-Wont-Play.
+
+  Where's the boy would be like him,
+  Stout of arm and strong of limb,
+  Hearty as a sailor, yet
+  Ever in a selfish pet?
+  Shame upon his head, I say,
+  Wilful Willie I-Wont-Play!
+
+  CLINTON SCOLLARD.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+TEACHER. "Now, children, what is the first meal you eat every day?"
+
+GREAT CHORUS OF CHILDREN. "Oat-meal."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MAMMA. "My dear, you've been out to luncheon every day this week; can't
+you stay at home just for once?"
+
+ETHEL. "But, mamma, I'm trying to keep Lent."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+TOMMY (_impatiently_). "I wish I were Billy Barlow."
+
+MAMMA. "But Billy hasn't any dear little brothers and sisters."
+
+TOMMY. "That is just where he's in luck; he doesn't have to be an
+example to them all the time."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+At a temperance gathering during the recent campaign an orator
+exclaimed: "The glorious work will never be accomplished until the good
+ship _Temperance_ shall sail from one end of the land to the other, and
+with a cry of 'Victory!' at each step she takes, shall plant her banner
+in every city, town, and village of the United States." Another speaker
+said that "All along the untrodden paths of the future we can see the
+hidden footprints of an unseen hand."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+[Illustration]
+
+BETTER OUT THAN IN.
+
+TEACHER. "JONATHAN, YOU MAY SPELL YACHT."
+
+JONATHAN. "Y-A-H-T."
+
+TEACHER. "ISN'T THERE A 'C' IN IT?"
+
+JONATHAN. "DEFENDS ON TH' WEATHER, MA'AM."
+
+
+
+
+
+End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Round Table, March 3, 1896, by Various
+
+*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 56539 ***