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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 58167 ***
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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, JUNE 16, 1896. FIVE CENTS A COPY.
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+VOL. XVII.--NO. 868. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR.
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+[Illustration]
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+A VIRGINIA CAVALIER.
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+BY MOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELL.
+
+CHAPTER I.
+
+
+"_Nature made Washington great; but he made himself virtuous._"
+
+The sun shines not upon a lovelier land than midland Virginia. Great
+rivers roll seaward through rich woodlands and laughing corn-fields and
+fair meadow-lands. Afar off the misty lines of blue hills shine faintly
+against the deeper blue of the sky. The atmosphere is singularly clear,
+and the air wholesome and refreshing.
+
+Never was it more beautiful than on an afternoon in late October of
+1746. The Indian-summer was at hand--that golden time when Nature utters
+a solemn "Hush!" to the season, and calls back the summer-time for a
+little while. The scene was full of peace--the broad and placid
+Rappahannock shimmering in the sun, its bosom unvexed except by the
+sails of an occasional grain-laden vessel making its way quietly and
+slowly down the blue river. The quiet homesteads lay basking in the
+fervid sun, while woods and streams and fields were full of those soft
+harmonious country sounds which make a kind of musical silence.
+
+A mile or two back from the river ran the King's highway--a good road
+for those days, and showing signs of much travel. It passed at one point
+through a natural clearing, on the top of which grew a few melancholy
+pines. The road came out of the dense woods on one side of this open
+space, and disappeared in the woods on the other side.
+
+On this October afternoon, about three o'clock, a boy with a gun on his
+shoulder and a dog at his heels came noiselessly out of the woods and
+walked to the top of the knoll. The day was peculiarly still, but only
+the quickest ear could have detected the faint sound the boy made, as
+with a quick and graceful step he marched up the hill--for George
+Washington was a natural woodsman from his young boyhood, and he had
+early learned how to make his way through forest and field without so
+much as alarming the partridge on her nest. No art or craft of the
+woods, whether of white man or Indian, was unknown to him; and he
+understood Nature, the mighty mother, in all her civilized and
+uncivilized moods.
+
+A full game-bag on his back showed what his employment had been, but now
+he gave himself over to the rare but delicious idleness which
+occasionally overtakes everybody who tramps long through the woods. He
+sat down and took off his cap, revealing his handsome blond head. The
+dog, a beautiful, long-eared setter, laid his nose confidentially upon
+his master's knee, and blinked solemnly with his large tawny eyes into
+his master's blue ones. The boy's eyes were remarkable--a light but
+beautiful blue, and softening a face that even in boyhood was full of
+resolution, and even of sternness. His figure was as near perfection as
+the human form could be--tall, athletic, clean of limb and deep of
+chest, singularly graceful, and developed, as the wise old Greeks
+developed their bodies, by manly exercises and healthful brain-work and
+the cleanest and most wholesome living. Neither the face nor the figure
+could belong to a milksop. The indications of strong passions, of fierce
+loves and hates and resentments, were plain enough. But stronger even
+than these was that noble expression which a purity of soul and a
+commanding will always write upon the human countenance. This boy was a
+gentleman at heart and in soul--not because he had no temptation to be
+otherwise, but because he chose to be a gentleman. He sat in silence for
+half an hour, the dog resting against him, the two communing together as
+only a boy and a dog can. The sun shone, the wind scarcely ruffled a
+dying leaf. A crow circled around in the blue air, uttering a caw that
+was lost in the immensity of the heavens. The silence seemed to grow
+deeper every moment, when, with a quick movement, George laid his ear to
+the ground. To an unpractised ear there was not the slightest break in
+the quiet, but to the boy's trained hearing something was approaching
+along the highway which induced him to sit still awhile longer. It was
+some time in coming, for the heavy coaches in those days hung upon wide
+leather straps, and with broad-tired wheels made much commotion as they
+rolled along, to say nothing of the steady beat of the horses' hoofs
+upon the hard road. George's eyes were as quick as his ears, but he
+caught nothing of the approaching travellers until the cavalcade flashed
+suddenly into the sun, and with its roar and rattle seemed to spring out
+of the ground.
+
+First came four sturdy negro outriders, in a gorgeous livery of green
+and gold, and mounted upon stout bay horses, well adapted for hard
+travel. Then came a magnificent travelling coach, crest-emblazoned,
+which would not have discredited the King's levee. It was drawn by four
+superb roans, exactly matched in form, color, and action. They took the
+road as if they had just warmed up to their work; but from the dust on
+the whole cavalcade it was plain they had travelled far that day. With
+heads well in the air, the horses threw their legs together with a style
+and at a gait that showed them to be of the best-blood in the horse
+kingdom. A black postilion in green and gold rode the off horse of the
+leaders, while a black coachman handled the reins. On the box, next the
+coachman, sat a white man, evidently a servant out of livery. One glance
+told that he was an old soldier. He had at his side one of the huge
+holsters of the day, in which he carried a pair of long horse-pistols;
+and a stout wooden box, upon which he rested his feet, showed that the
+party had means of defence had it been attacked.
+
+George was so stunned with admiration at the splendor of the equipage
+that he scarcely glanced at the interior of the coach until the sunlight
+flashed upon something that fairly dazzled him. It was a diamond-hilted
+dress-sword, worn by a gentleman of about fifty, who sat alone upon the
+back seat. The gorgeous sword-hilt was the only thing about him that
+shone or glinted, for his brown travelling suit was as studiously simple
+as his equipage was splendid. He wore plain silver buckles at his knees
+and upon his handsome high-arched feet, and his hair, streaked with
+gray, was without powder, and tied into a club with a black ribbon.
+
+One glance at his face fixed George's attention. It was pale and
+somewhat angular, unlike the type of florid, high-colored Virginia
+squires with which George was familiar. He had been handsome in his
+youth, and was still handsome, with a stately, grave beauty; but even a
+boy could see that this man had had but little joy in life.
+
+From the moment that George's eyes fell upon this gentleman he looked
+upon nothing else. Neither the great coach nor the superb horses had any
+power to attract his gaze, although never in all his short life had he
+seen anything so splendid. His mother had a coach, and so had most of
+the people roundabout, but all had a common air of having once been
+handsome, and of having reached the comfortable, shabby-genteel stage.
+And many persons drove four horses to these great lumbering vehicles,
+but all four would not be worth one of the gallant roans that trotted
+along the road so gayly.
+
+It was out of sight in a few minutes, and in a few minutes more it was
+out of hearing; but in that short time George, who was quick-witted, had
+shrewdly guessed the name and rank of the gentleman with the plain
+clothes and the diamond-hilted sword. It was the great Earl of
+Fairfax--the soldier, the wit, the rich nobleman--who for some
+mysterious reason had chosen to come to this new land and to build a
+lodge in the wilderness. The boy had often heard his mother, Madam
+Washington, speak of Earl Fairfax. Meeting with him was one of the
+events of that great journey she had made in her girlhood to England,
+where for a time she lived in the house of her brother, Joseph Ball, at
+Cookham, in Berkshire, who had left his Virginia home and had taken up
+his residence in England. Here Mary Ball had met Angustine Washington,
+then in England upon affairs connected with his property. Augustine
+Washington was one of the handsomest men of his day, and from him his
+eldest son George inherited the noble air and figure that marked him.
+Mary Ball was a Virginia beauty, and although admired by many Englishmen
+of distinction, she chose rather to marry Augustine Washington, albeit
+he had been married before, and had two motherless boys. In England,
+therefore, were they married, sailing soon after for Virginia, and
+within twelve years Mrs. Washington was a widow with five children. She
+loved to talk to her children of those happy English days, when she had
+first pledged herself to Augustine Washington. It had also been the only
+time of excitement in her quiet life, and she had met many of the wits
+and cavaliers and belles of the reign of George the Second. She
+sometimes spoke of Lord Fairfax, but always guardedly; and George had
+conceived the idea that his mother perhaps knew Lord Fairfax better, and
+the reasons for his abandonment of his own country, than she cared to
+tell.
+
+He began to wonder, quite naturally, where the Earl was bound; and
+suddenly it came to him in a flash--"He is going to pay his respects to
+my mother." In another instant he was on his feet and speeding like a
+deer through the woods towards home.
+
+The house at Ferry Farm which was home to him was a good four miles by
+the road; but by paths through the woods and fields, and a foot-bridge
+across a creek, it was barely a mile. It took him only a short time to
+make it, but before he could reach the house he saw the coach and
+outriders dash into sight and draw up before the porch. The old soldier
+jumped from the box, and opened the door and let down the steps, and the
+Earl descended in state. On the porch stood Uncle Jasper, the venerable
+black butler, in a suit of homespun, with a long white apron that
+reached from his chin to his knees. George saw him bowing and ushering
+the Earl in. The outriders loosened their horses' girths, and after
+breathing them, led them to the watering-trough in the stable lot back
+of the house. They then watered the coach horses, the coachman sitting
+in solitary magnificence on his box, while the old soldier stretched his
+legs by walking about the lot. George saw this as he came through the
+stableway, his dog still at his heels. Uncle Jasper was waiting for him
+on the back porch.
+
+"De madam," he began, in a mysterious whisper, "will want you ter put on
+yo' Sunday clo'es 'fo' you come in ter see de Earl o' Fairfax. He's in
+de settin'-room now."
+
+George understood very well, and immediately went to his room to change
+his hunting-clothes, which were the worse for both dirt and wear. It was
+a ceremonious age, and the formalities of dress and manners were very
+strictly observed.
+
+Meanwhile, in the sitting-room, on opposite sides of the fireplace, sat
+Madam Washington and the Earl. Truly, the beauty that had distinguished
+Mary Ball remained with Madam Washington. Her figure was slight and
+delicate (not from her had her eldest son inherited his brawn and
+muscle), and in her severely simple black gown she looked even slighter
+than usual. Her complexion was dazzlingly fair, and little rings of
+chestnut hair escaped from her widow's cap; but her fine blue eyes were
+the counterpart of her eldest son's. The room was plainly furnished,
+even for the times, but scrupulously neat. A rag-carpet covered the
+middle of the floor, while around the edges the polished planks were
+bare. In one corner a small harpsichord was open, with music on the
+rack. Dimity curtains shaded the small-paned windows, and a great fire
+sparkled in the large fireplace. Over the mantel hung the portrait of a
+handsome young man in a satin coat with lace ruffles. This was a
+portrait of Augustine Washington in his youth. Opposite it was a
+portrait of Madam Washington as a girl--a lovely young face and figure.
+There were one or two other portraits, and a few pieces of silver upon a
+mahogany bullet opposite the harpsichord--relics of Wakefield, the
+Westmoreland plantation where George was born, and of which the house
+had burned to the ground in the absence of the master, and much of the
+household belongings had been destroyed.
+
+The Earl's eyes lingered upon the girlish portrait of Madam Washington
+as the two sat gravely conversing.
+
+"It was thus you looked, madam, when I first had the honor of knowing
+you in England," he said.
+
+"Time and sorrow and responsibilities have done their work upon me, my
+lord," answered Madam Washington. "The care of five children, that they
+may be brought up to be worthy of their dead father, the making of good
+men out of four boys, the task of bringing up an only daughter to be a
+Christian gentlewoman, is no mean task, I assure you, and taxes my
+humble powers."
+
+"True, madam," responded the Earl, with a low bow; "but I know of no
+woman better fitted for so great an undertaking than Madam Washington."
+
+Madam Washington leaned forward and bowed in response, and then resumed
+her upright position, not once touching the back of her chair.
+
+"And may I not have the pleasure of seeing your children, madam?" asked
+the Earl, who cared little for children generally, but to whom the
+children of her who had once been the beautiful Mary Ball were of the
+greatest interest.
+
+"Certainly, my lord," answered Madam Washington, rising, "if you will
+excuse me for a moment while I fetch them."
+
+The Earl, left alone, rose and walked thoughtfully to the portrait of
+Mary Ball, and looked at it for several minutes. His face, full of
+melancholy and weariness, grew more melancholy and weary. He shook his
+head once or twice, and made a motion with his hand as if putting
+something away from him, and then returned to his chair by the fire. He
+looked into the blaze and tapped his foot softly with his dress-sword.
+This beautiful, grave widow of forty, her heart wrapped up in her
+children, was not the girl of eighteen years before. There was no
+turning back of the leaves of the book of life for her. She had room now
+for but one thought in her mind, one feeling in her heart--her children.
+
+Presently the door opened, and Madam Washington re-entered with her
+usual sedate grace. Following her was a young girl of fourteen, her
+mother's image, the quaintest, daintiest little maiden imaginable, her
+round white arms bare to the elbow, from which muslin ruffles fell back,
+a little muslin cap covering her hair, much lighter than her mother's,
+and her shy eyes fixed upon the door. Behind her were three sturdy,
+handsome boys of twelve, ten, and eight, as alike as pease in a pod. In
+those days the children of gentle people were neither pert and forward
+nor awkward and ashamed at meeting strangers. Drilled in a precise
+etiquette, they knew exactly what to do, which consisted chiefly in
+making many low bows to their elders, and answering in respectful
+monosyllables such questions as were asked them. They learned in this
+way a grace and courtesy quite unknown to modern children.
+
+"My daughter, Mistress Betty Washington, my Lord of Fairfax," was Madam
+Washington's introduction.
+
+The Earl rose from his chair and made the little girl a bow as if she
+were the Princess Royal, while Mistress Betty, scorning to be outdone,
+courtesied to the floor in response, her full skirt making a balloon as
+she sunk and rose in the most approved fashion.
+
+"I am most happy to meet you, Mistress Betty," said he; to which
+Mistress Betty, in a quavering voice--for she had never before seen an
+Earl, or a coach like the one he came in--made answer, "Thank you, my
+lord."
+
+The three boys were then introduced as Samuel, John, and Charles. To
+each the Earl made a polite bow, but not so low as to Mistress Betty.
+The boys returned the bow without the slightest shyness or awkwardness,
+and then took their places in silence behind their mother's chair. They
+exchanged keen glances, though, among themselves, and wondered when they
+would be allowed to depart, so that they might further investigate the
+coach and the four roan horses. Madam Washington spoke.
+
+"I am every moment expecting my eldest son George; he is out hunting
+to-day, and said that he would return at this hour, and he is always
+punctual to the minute. It will be a severe disappointment to me if I
+should not have the pleasure of showing your lordship my eldest son."
+
+It did not take a very acute person to note the tone of pride in madam's
+voice when she said "my eldest son."
+
+"It will be a disappointment to me also, madam," replied the Earl. "I
+hope he is all that the eldest son of such a mother should be."
+
+Madam Washington smiled one of her rare smiles. "'Tis all I can do, my
+lord, to keep down the spirit of pride, so unbecoming to all of us, when
+I regard my son George. My other sons, I trust, will be as great a
+comfort to me, but they are still of too tender years for me to depend
+upon." Then, turning to the three boys, she gave them a look which meant
+permission to leave the room. The boys bowed gravely to their mother,
+gravely to the Earl, and walked more gravely out of the room. Once the
+door was softly closed they made a quick but noiseless dash for the back
+door, and were soon outside examining the roans and the great coach,
+chattering like magpies to the negro outriders, until, having made the
+acquaintance of the old soldier, Lance by name, they were soon hanging
+about him, begging that he would tell them about a battle.
+
+Meanwhile, within the sitting-room, Madam Washington heard a step upon
+the uncarpeted stairs. A light came into her eyes as she spoke.
+
+"There is my son now going to his room. He will join us shortly. I
+cannot tell you, my lord, how great a help I have in my son. As you
+know, my step-son, Captain Laurence Washington, late of the British
+army, since leaving his Majesty's service and marrying Mistress Anne
+Fairfax, has lived at the Hunting Creek place, which he has called Mount
+Vernon, in honor of his old friend and comrade-in-arms, Admiral Vernon.
+It is a good day's journey from here, and although Laurence is most kind
+and attentive, I have had to depend, since his marriage, upon my son
+George to take his father's place in the conduct of my affairs and in my
+household. It is he who reads family prayers night and morning, and who
+presides with dignity at the foot of my table. It may seem strange to
+those who do not know his character how much I rely upon his judgment,
+and he but fifteen. Even my younger sons obey and respect him, and my
+daughter Betty does hang upon her brother. 'Tis most sweet to see them
+together." At which Mistress Betty smiled and glanced at the Earl, and
+saw so kind a look in his eyes that she looked at him quite boldly after
+that.
+
+"It is most gratifying to hear of this, madam," replied the Earl; "but
+it is hardly merciful of you to a childless old man, who would give many
+worldly advantages had he but a son to lean upon in his old age."
+
+"You should have married twenty years ago, my lord."
+
+Something like a gleam of saturnine humor appeared in the Earl's eyes at
+this, but he only replied, dryly. "Perhaps it is not wholly my fault,
+madam, that I find myself alone in my old age."
+
+At that moment the door opened, and young Washington stood upon the
+threshold.
+
+[TO BE CONTINUED.]
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+A GIRL IN TRAINING.
+
+BY MARY TAYLOR BISSELL.
+
+
+There are three things which every girl would undoubtedly wish for if
+she believed they were within her reach. First, to be healthy, so that
+she might enjoy life with zest; second, to be graceful, for beauty's
+sake; and third, to be skilful, physically accomplished; and it is
+probable that if she knew that a certain training in life would give her
+these qualities she would follow it gladly.
+
+Unfortunately there is no royal road to health or to skill any more than
+to learning. These are only gained by a little effort here and a little
+more there. It is known to every one, however, that training will do
+wonders in the way of improving and making over the human body.
+
+Every girl who has a brother at college knows how ruddy and muscular and
+alert the college teams become when they have been in training for a
+season, and no one imagines that any miracle has been worked for their
+benefit. It is only that every man in the team is so devoted to the idea
+of being strong and skilful that he is faithful as the sun to the rules
+which regulate his eating and sleeping and exercise and bathing, so that
+he comes out of this so fortified that no ordinary exertion can fatigue
+him, and he enjoys life and its occupations with a zest which no
+weakling can imagine.
+
+Of course this is the experience of men who are already healthy. Even
+greater differences could be shown between the condition of persons in
+originally poor health before and after they had adopted a suitable
+course of training. Now if girls of fourteen or fifteen would only agree
+among themselves to go into training for about four years, what fine
+types of young women we might hope for!
+
+[Illustration: BICYCLING.]
+
+For our young American girl of fourteen or fifteen is a tall young
+creature, who seems for the most part to need only a little widening,
+and sometimes a little straightening, to give her a fine figure, and the
+systematic exercise and wholesome food and sleep, that are part of real
+training, to make her healthy.
+
+Training does not mean exercise only, as many seem to think. It means
+the best sort of treatment of the body to develop and beautify and
+strengthen it. It means plenty of good food for bone and muscle and
+blood, it means plenty of sleep to keep the nerves calm and strong,
+plenty of pure air, and regular activity and exercise which shall be
+felt all over the body.
+
+Now if this girl of fifteen or thereabouts is in earnest in wishing to
+develop herself into a fine specimen of womanhood, she must follow a few
+rules, which may be the text of her training. She can have them printed
+on the type-writer and hung up over her looking-glass, where she will be
+likely to see them often. They should include the following, and others
+may be added from time to time.
+
+1. Sleep nine hours every night, beginning as early as 9.30 P.M. The
+beauty sleep is in the first part of the night. When thoroughly awake in
+the morning do not lounge in bed, but rise at once. Bathe first, or
+exercise before bathing as you prefer. In any case,
+
+2. Take a sponge-bath every morning in water as it runs from the
+cold-water faucet. If you begin the practice in warm weather you will
+not notice the gradually lowered temperature of winter. Rub the skin
+well with a coarse towel until it is reddened. This will give you a fine
+sense of freshness, and prevent your catching cold easily.
+
+3. Exercise for ten minutes at least before breakfast, if strong and
+hearty, in the way suggested later; if delicate, take five minutes'
+exercise, and the remainder two hours after breakfast or at five o'clock
+in the afternoon.
+
+4. Wear no tight clothing of any kind. Tight bands about the limbs
+interfere with the circulation, change the natural curves of the part
+into ugly ones, and restrain the muscles unnaturally. About the waist,
+as a corset, they interfere with the lungs, with the stomach, and with
+other abdominal organs, and when all these are unnaturally cramped
+health and grace are impossible. The most graceful of actresses wear no
+stays, for they know that perfect ease and grace are impossible in tight
+clothing.
+
+Also, if you would walk gracefully, never wear tight shoes, French
+heels, or pointed toes. The graceful Greek girl wore a broad sandal, and
+had the use of her toes, which our modern girls cannot have in the
+fashionable shoe, but which is essential for a dignified and graceful
+step.
+
+5. Spend at least one hour out-of-doors every day in some form of
+exercise, and two or three whenever possible.
+
+6. Use your mind actively in study for a few hours daily, for an idle
+mind is not a healthy one, but finish your studies at a definite hour,
+and then rest--_i.e._, play or exercise your body.
+
+[Illustration: GOLF.]
+
+Some of the girls who may read this doubtless have the good fortune to
+be absolutely healthy, and perhaps their circumstances offer them all
+the exercise they need, although in city life this is improbable, and
+the healthiest will be benefited, kept in trim, physically, by following
+the rule for daily morning exercises.
+
+But the girl who wishes to be strong and symmetrical often finds that in
+one way or another she needs a little help to straighten her shoulders,
+or to bring out her chest, or to give her an erect carriage; yet it is
+difficult for her to train herself, as she cannot see her own defects.
+
+One device to aid self-instruction is the following: Take any old long
+mirror, and mark it with horizontal lines, about ten inches apart, in
+white chalk. The lines should be exactly straight. Then stand in front
+of this in your natural position, and notice whether the line of your
+shoulders agrees with the straight line across the mirror at their
+level. Probably you will see the reflection of a girl with one shoulder
+a little higher than the other, or perhaps standing unevenly, so that
+one hip is higher than the other. More than likely you will see that her
+chest is not full enough to make a fine figure. Perhaps the shoulders
+stoop a little, or possibly, while none of these defects are noticeable,
+the mirror shows a figure that needs only a little setting up, a more
+erect carriage, and the expression of a little more muscular energy, to
+make it satisfactory. A few special exercises that we shall add here
+will be excellent for all of these slight deviations from the normal;
+but it will be well to begin exercising every morning with two or three
+simple movements that will warm and limber the muscles and joints.
+
+Begin by rising slowly on the toes and sinking back to the heels ten
+times. Then increase the speed, rising and falling quite rapidly twenty
+times, or more, if not fatigued. Then give the arm and shoulder-joint a
+chance. Swing the right arm out from the shoulder in a circle, and
+repeat this ten times. Then the left arm. After a week's practice use
+both arms fifteen times. Next use the trunk a little. Bend the body
+forward at the waist slowly as far as possible without bending the
+knees, and repeat this ten times. Next bend slowly to the right side
+without raising the left foot, and then to the left, each ten times.
+
+Repeat the foot-raising rapidly five times, the arm-swinging and the
+body-bending five times each, and you will feel fresher already.
+
+Now let us take a shoulder exercise. Take a one-pound dumbbell in each
+hand; face the mirror, standing firmly on both feet, with head erect and
+knees firm. Count one, strike the bells lightly against the thighs, with
+the palms turned in; on two, raise the arms to the sides, horizontally,
+shoulder high; and on three, stretch them backward as far as possible
+without lowering them, while the palms are turned forward. Hold them in
+this position a moment, then drop to the sides. Repeat this until slight
+fatigue is felt.
+
+Exercise No, 2. Also for shoulders and back. Place both hands behind the
+neck, throwing the head and elbows back. Now bend stiffly forward from
+the waist, holding the body in that position for a moment. Rest a
+moment, and repeat this for a few times. If this is done properly it
+will be felt in the shoulder-blade region.
+
+If fatigue is felt now, rest the upper muscles by skipping about the
+room. Use as many fancy steps as you can invent, or such as you may have
+learned in dancing-school or at the gymnasium.
+
+Now take two or three movements for the chest. Take dumbbells, holding
+them down at the sides. On one, carry them forward in front,
+horizontally; on two, swing them back to shoulders with some force; on
+three, carry them straight up above the head, then back to the
+shoulders, horizontally; and on four, down again to the sides.
+
+These movements can be done without dumbbells, but give a little more
+vigorous exercise with them.
+
+Next take a breathing exercise. Hold arms at sides, palms forward.
+Inhale deeply and slowly with closed mouth, at the same time raising the
+arms slowly above the head, with the palms facing forward. Hold the
+breath with arms in this position for a moment, then slowly exhale it,
+lowering the arms slowly, as the breath goes out, until they reach the
+original positions at the sides. The elbows should be kept stiff all
+this time, and the palms facing forward. Repeat this slowly five times.
+
+Another good breathing exercise may be taken with dumbbells. Hold the
+bells at the sides, waist high, palms up and elbows crooked. Then take a
+deep breath, and hold it while you swing the arms back vigorously past
+the hips, holding them in that position as long as you can retain the
+breath. The palms should face forward, and this position will throw out
+the upper chest finely. This movement should be repeated three or four
+times.
+
+All of these movements should be taken in loose clothing, without
+corsets. If taken in the morning, they may be practised before the
+mirror in undress costume. At any time a loose waist is absolutely
+necessary.
+
+Movements that keep the body balanced on the toes are good for grace and
+poise.
+
+Such an exercise is walking on tiptoe on a narrow board about six inches
+high and thirty feet or more long, with arms extended wide, and a light
+weight on cushions balanced on the head. Such an exercise cultivates the
+spinal muscles, and helps to give the control over them that is
+necessary for a graceful and even carriage of the body.
+
+Peasants in foreign countries, who carry baskets full of produce up and
+down hill, where walking is more difficult than on a level, are often
+noted for their graceful bearing, which is undoubtedly cultivated by
+this exercise.
+
+What is called the deep-knee bend is another excellent balancing
+movement, and may be practised as follows: Stand erect, hands on hips.
+Rise on toes; then, bending the knees, sink down on the toes as far as
+possible, holding the upper part of the body erect. Rise and rest on the
+whole foot; then repeat. This is still more difficult if taken with arms
+held above the head, or sidewise, shoulder high.
+
+When out-of-doors a girl should learn to climb nimbly and well, trying
+first on a low fence or a stout low tree. It is excellent practice, and
+gives her good control of herself. For the same reason practise climbing
+a ladder up and down, inside and outside. This is considered worthy of
+being taught in the gymnasium, and girls may well learn it at home in
+the country.
+
+The practice and the courage it gives may some time save a girl's life,
+and to learn how to use one's body in every sort of position is a part
+of good training.
+
+[Illustration: BASKET-BALL.]
+
+For the same reason girls should play ball or other games that cultivate
+dexterity and quick judgment, and that train the eye; and in the summer
+many such sports are open to them as well as to boys.
+
+A girl should also practise running whenever possible, and learn to run
+in good form. It is an excellent exercise for the chest, and helps to
+cultivate physical endurance.
+
+Very few girls run properly. In running the arms should be carried close
+to the sides, the elbows bent, and a rather long step taken, running on
+the ball of the foot. If new to the exercise, the first two or three
+trials should be made slowly and only for a short distance, perhaps the
+length of a city block. The speed, as well as the distance, may be
+gradually increased, always beginning and ending slowly, the highest
+speed being attained in the middle of the run.
+
+In the country opportunities for this practice are numerous, but in town
+a gymnasium hall is the only opportunity that is always open.
+
+Walking is indispensable for a girl who hopes for health and vigor, and
+training for this consists in beginning with moderation, but
+systematically, to walk short distances, gradually increasing the length
+of the excursion, until ordinary country jaunts and mountain climbs
+become easy and delightful matters.
+
+Another exercise which is excellent for girls, and which is now being
+very widely indulged in by them, is bicycling. It is an excellent
+exercise if not overdone. Girls should remember when they first begin to
+ride that the muscles which are brought into play are not ready to stand
+the work which they may be able to perform after having been trained for
+some months. Therefore, only short rides of from four to five miles
+should be taken at the beginning, making the excursions a little longer
+week by week, but always stopping as soon as fatigue begins to be felt.
+Most girls will find that they can ride much farther, and with less
+fatigue, if they will rest for about fifteen minutes midway in their
+journey.
+
+
+
+
+THE CASTLE NEAR THE WINDOW-SEAT.
+
+BY CARLYLE SMITH.
+
+
+  There's a castle here near the window-seat, a castle made of wood,
+  Where dwells full many a wondrous wight, some very bad, some good.
+  On the tiptop floor lives Crusoe bold, and Mr. Gulliver, who
+  Once sailed afar on the broad salt sea; and there's Columbus too;
+
+  And next to them lives Robin Hood and all of his merry band,
+  With his little namesake Riding-hood, upon his strong right hand;
+  And funny old Don Quixote, too, lives 'way up there with these,
+  With his battered helmet on his head and tin caps on his knees.
+
+  On the lower floor is a fairy store--Titania and her fays,
+  And Brownies by the dozens who are pranking all their days;
+  And Cinderella lives near them, with her good old fairy friend,
+  And close to her Aladdin dwells with stores of gold to spend.
+
+  Hop-o'-my-Thumb lives up there too, and Jack with his bag of beans,
+  And Alice of the Looking-Glass, with her queer old fussy Queens;
+  And all the Barbers dwell therein, of the old Arabian Nights,
+  And strewn about are heroes of at least a thousand fights.
+
+  'Tis a wondrous band of persons grand that nursery castle holds;
+  With fearful beasts, and fearful birds, and witches too, and scolds;
+  And you'd almost think it would frighten me to know, when I go to bed,
+  That all these creatures live so close, almost at my very head.
+
+  But it doesn't, you see, for I am King, and I hold the castle keys;
+  Not one can stir from his settled place within unless I please.
+  And, after all, they are safe enough, in spite of their wicked looks,
+  For the castle walls of which I speak make the case where I keep my
+      books.
+
+
+
+
+MARY KENT ON DECK.
+
+BY W. J. HENDERSON.
+
+
+The bark _Bunker Hill_, of Boston, homeward bound from Rio Janeiro, was
+staggering across as wild a stretch of the north Atlantic as ever
+frightened the heart of man. She had left Rio in early October, with a
+wafting of gentle winds among the swelling curves of her snowy
+studding-sails, and had floated northward to the equator in a sea of
+lucent blue that looked as if it had never known how to frown. Once
+across the line, the _Bunker Hill_ had run into the doldrums, and for
+ten long days had slatted the lax folds of her canvas against her tall
+yellow masts, until Captain Elisha Kent's heart turned sore and heavy
+within him. Then the northeast trades reached down into those latitudes,
+and the bark began to fight her way northward against a breeze that
+would not let her lie within four points of her course.
+
+But at length, early in November, she was somewhere to the northward and
+eastward of Bermuda, when the barometer began to go down with a steady
+rush, and the wind died completely out. A sickening roll of mountainous
+swell set in from the southeast, and the sky hardened down to a callous
+unbroken gray. Captain Kent walked the quarter-deck with his daughter
+Mary, a brown-cheeked, healthy girl of sixteen. Every day Mary took a
+trick at the wheel, for she could steer a compass course as well as any
+fore-mast hand. Better still, she could work out a ship's
+dead-reckoning, and "shoot" the sun for latitude or longitude, as well
+as her father, who had taught her how.
+
+"It's coming, lassie," he said to her, as they walked the reeling deck
+together.
+
+"Yea, father, there's a storm down there somewhere," she answered.
+
+"Well, I think we're as snug as we can be," he said, gazing aloft.
+
+The morning and forenoon watches had been spent in preparing for the
+gale, and with extra lashings on everything movable about the deck, and
+the bark down to a close-reefed main-topsail, a shred of spanker, and a
+storm jib, Captain Kent and his pretty little mate felt that all that
+was possible had been done.
+
+"I'd feel easier in my mind, though," said the Captain, "if one of my
+mates was able to be on deck."
+
+"I know I'm only a girl, father," said Mary, "but I think I've been of
+some use to you on this voyage."
+
+"Bless you, my girl," said the Captain; "you've been the greatest help
+in the world to me with your bright face and cheerful ways. But I don't
+think you can stand watch in a heavy gale, dear, and I'm worried for
+fear this one that's coming may outlast my strength."
+
+"Then I'll tell you what I think you ought to do, father."
+
+"And what's that, Mary?"
+
+"The bark is snug, so you go and lie down now. See if you can't get two
+or three hours of sleep before the gale begins. I'll keep the deck, and
+call you at the first change in the weather."
+
+The Captain looked at her thoughtfully for a moment, and remembered how
+thorough her sea-training had been. But she was so young!
+
+"Well," he said, "I fancy there's some sense in your idea. Now pay
+attention."
+
+"Yes, father."
+
+"You see that particularly hard-looking spot down there in the
+southeast?"
+
+"Do you mean where the clouds look so much like slate-pencil?"
+
+"That's the place exactly. Now you keep your eye on that spot, because
+that's where I'm expecting the wind to come from. If that spot grows
+lighter, you call me at once."
+
+"All right, father," said the girl; "you make your mind easy. I sha'n't
+lose sight of that spot."
+
+"But at the same time, Mary," continued the Captain, "you mustn't
+neglect to keep a sharp lookout all around, for the wind may come from
+some unexpected quarter."
+
+"Don't be afraid, father dear," said Mary, smiling up at him bravely;
+"you know I've been at sea before."
+
+"Yes, my girl, I know; but you've never had quite so much responsibility
+on your shoulders. There, now, I'll go below and lie down just to please
+you."
+
+Captain Kent paused a moment at the door of his cabin and shook his
+head.
+
+"It's a strange thing to leave a young girl like that on watch at such a
+time, but what else can I do? She knows more in a minute than those
+muttonheads forward do in a month."
+
+And with that thought in his mind the Captain went below and tried to
+snatch a brief rest before the coming of the storm. Mary, who was well
+accustomed to the wild movements of a vessel's deck, stood balanced with
+her shapely feet well apart and her hands clasped behind her back. With
+her knitted woollen cap pulled down over her ears, a big muffler around
+her neck, a heavy pea-jacket, and a plain skirt, she looked not unlike a
+picture of one of those old Dutch skippers that one sees in pictures of
+the days when the Netherlands were a power on the high-seas. The sharp
+frosty air made her cheeks as red as roses, and her brown eyes sparkled
+like stars. The man at the wheel, who had little enough to do in such a
+villanous calm beyond keeping the spokes from jumping, gazed at her in
+admiration, and the men forward nodded their heads approvingly at one
+another as they saw the Captain go below.
+
+"Sorra's the weather we'll be afther havin' afoor noight," said Pat
+Maginn, "an' it's good the Cap'n goes to resht lavin' the foinist mate
+oi iver see on watch. But oi wish thim fellies that's sick beyant war on
+the deck too."
+
+At four o'clock in the afternoon, just at the beginning of the first
+dog-watch, Mary saw a sudden glow of ghastly light in the hard spot in
+the southeast. Springing to the head of the companionway, she called
+down into the cabin:
+
+"Father! Father! It's coming!"
+
+The next moment Captain Kent hastened on deck, and after a quick glance
+said:
+
+"Good, Mary, you caught it at the start. We'll have a capful of wind
+here presently, and a sea fit to swallow us before morning, for the
+centre of this storm is southwest of us, and we're on its worst side. We
+must get the bark hove to on the port tack."
+
+A few moments later ragged patches of grayish-brown cloud began to fly
+over the bark, and then the wind burst upon her with a wild and
+terrifying shriek. It came fair over the starboard-quarter, and drove
+the _Bunker Hill_'s lee rail level with the water; but under Captain
+Kent's orders the canvas was trimmed, the bark's head fell off, she wore
+round, and came up to the wind on the port tack. The ocean was blown out
+into a flat plain of boiling foam for a few minutes, but that state of
+things could not last long. Before five o'clock a tremendous sea was
+running, and the _Bunker Hill_ was reeling through it like a crazy
+vessel.
+
+Mary was already tired. She would not have confessed it, but she felt
+the strain of the long voyage, with its succession of nursing and
+service as assistant to her father. So she was glad enough to see him
+looking fresh, hearty, and reliant as he stood near the lee rail.
+
+"Well, dear," he roared in her ear, "we are as snug as we can be, and
+you and I'd better go below and get a bite to eat."
+
+The girl willingly accompanied her father to the cabin, where they made
+shift to get such a meal as the crazy swoops and lurches of the vessel
+allowed. They had hardly finished when there was a report like a
+cannon-shot, and one of the men bawled down,
+
+"The main-tops'l's gone, sir."
+
+"Stay you here, Mary," said the Captain, as he sprang up the steps to
+the deck.
+
+Mary heard his strong voice shouting orders that rang above the roaring
+of the gale. Then there was a confusion of cries forward and the crash
+of tons of water falling on the forecastle deck. Mary knew that the bark
+had shipped a great wave, and she felt instinctively that something had
+happened. She rushed on deck. The lee scuppers were running off water in
+great spouts, and the deck forward was littered with disarranged
+rigging. But that was not what terrified Mary. She saw her father half
+lying and half leaning against the lee rail, apparently in an agony of
+pain.
+
+"Father! father!" she cried, as she ran to his side, "what is the
+matter?"
+
+"A thump--in the ribs," he gasped. "I guess--something's broken."
+
+For an instant the girl's courage faltered, and she felt as if she would
+faint; but her innate strength of character supported her.
+
+"Something must be done for him at once," she said to herself, as she
+called to some of the men to come and help her. They picked the Captain
+up and carried him to his cabin, where they laid him gently on a
+cushioned locker.
+
+"What on earth'll--we do--now?" gasped the Captain. "I'm laid out--for
+the rest--of the voyage."
+
+"Oh no, father," said Mary, with a cheerfulness that she did not feel;
+"you'll be all right again before this gale is over, and we'll pull the
+_Bunker Hill_ through that all right. Won't we, men?"
+
+"Ay, ay, miss; that we will."
+
+"God bless you, my child," gasped the Captain; "and you too, men;
+but--I've got two--broken ribs here."
+
+They were all silent for a few minutes, while the cabin reeled from side
+to side, and the hollows of the vessel were full of groans from the
+straining of her timbers.
+
+"Father," said Mary at length, "don't worry about the bark, anyhow.
+You've got a good crew, and they'll take care of the bark."
+
+"Yes, sir, Cap'n Kent," said one of the men; "we're mortal sorry for to
+see you done up, sir, for you've treated us good, an' we knows it."
+
+"Thank you--men," said the Captain, and then he fainted. Mary sent the
+men on deck, and with the assistance of the cook put her father in his
+bunk, where he presently recovered his consciousness, but was still in
+great pain. Mary sat beside him in deep thought.
+
+"Dare I do it?" she said to herself. "I am so young; yet I am not
+inexperienced, and something must be done. Half the crew and the mates
+down with berri-berri, and the Captain disabled; the bark must be-- I'll
+do it."
+
+"What are you--thinking about, Mary?" asked her father.
+
+"This. We must make for the nearest port that you may have proper
+medical attention, father, and we must do it the minute the gale
+moderates enough to let us clap more cloth on the bark. The barometer is
+rising, and the wind has shifted four points. The gale will break by
+morning. We are on the outside edge of it, and we'll soon be out of it.
+Now, father, put me in command of the bark, and I'll take her into New
+York."
+
+"But will the crew--obey you?"
+
+"Ask them."
+
+Mary went on deck and asked the men, except the helmsman, to come to the
+cabin.
+
+"Men," she said, "the Captain is hurt, the mates and half the crew are
+sick. The bark ought to go to the nearest port. I can take her there.
+Will you help me? What do you say?"
+
+"That you're right, miss," said one of the men. "And we'll take our
+orders from you same as from the Cap'n. Won't we, lads?"
+
+"Yes, yes!"
+
+"Now, father," said Mary.
+
+"I turn over--the command--to you, dear," said the Captain.
+
+The next day at noon the gale had moderated to a fresh breeze, and
+though a heavy sea was running, the clouds had broken and the sun was
+peeping through. Mary went on deck with the sextant to get the ship's
+latitude. She poised herself on her graceful limbs, and handled the
+instrument like a veteran. Presently she got the sun's highest altitude.
+
+"Make eight bells!" she cried.
+
+"Ay, ay, sir--I mean, ma'am!" cried one of the men forward as he sprang
+to obey the order.
+
+Mary went below and worked out her reckoning, while her father eyed her
+lovingly as she thumbed the navigation tables and the nautical almanac.
+
+"It's three hundred and thirty miles west nor'west to Sandy Hook,
+father. The wind is sou' sou'west, and we can lay our course."
+
+The Captain smiled faintly, for he was in much pain, and murmured,
+"Bless you!"
+
+[Illustration: "ALL HANDS MAKE SAIL!"]
+
+Mary went on deck and shouted, "All hands make sail!"
+
+Every able man in the crew, including the cook, sprang on deck with the
+activity of cats, eager to show their willingness to serve her. The bark
+was still under the flying-jib, maintopmast stay-sail and reefed spanker
+which she had carried through the end of the gale. The men were anxious
+to know how their young skipperess would go to work. The girl's face was
+calm and confident. Her cheeks glowed and her eyes burned. In a clear
+musical voice she cried:
+
+"Shake out the reefs in the spanker! Hoist the jib and haul out the
+spanker!"
+
+As soon as these orders were executed she cried again, "Loose the
+foretop-sail and maintop-gallant sail!"
+
+The men danced aloft to attend to these orders.
+
+"Stand by! Let fall! Sheet home and hoist away!"
+
+The men flew about like bees.
+
+"That's sail enough till the sea goes down," she said. "Brace sharp up
+and haul out the tacks! West nor'west," she added to the man at the
+wheel.
+
+"Three cheers for Miss Captain Kent!" cried one of the men, and they
+were given with a will. Two days later the bark _Bunker Hill_ went up
+the Swash Channel behind a tug, and dropped anchor off Quarantine, where
+the ship-news reporters learned of her remarkable story and filled the
+papers with Mary's fame. In the following summer Mary was granted a
+master's license, and when Captain Kent went to rest in the old
+churchyard, his daughter took command of his ship, and was one of the
+few women sea-captains in the world.
+
+
+
+
+RICK DALE.
+
+BY KIRK MUNROE,
+
+AUTHOR OF "SNOW-SHOES AND SLEDGES," "THE FUR-SEAL'S TOOTH," "THE 'MATE'
+SERIES," "FLAMINGO FEATHER," ETC.
+
+CHAPTER XXXIII.
+
+LAID UP FOR REPAIRS.
+
+
+About the time when Alaric was pleasantly travelling with his mother
+through Germany, Hans Altman, with Gretchen, his wife, and Eittel, his
+little daughter, dwelt in a valley of the Harz Mountains. Although Hans
+was a poor man, he found plenty of work with which to support his family
+in comfort, but he could never forget that his father had been a
+burgomeister, and much better off in this world's goods than he.
+Thinking of this made him discontented and unhappy, until finally he
+determined to sell what little they had and come to America, or, as he
+called it, "the land of gold," with the hope of bettering his fortunes.
+In vain did Gretchen protest that nowhere in the world could they be so
+happy or so well off as in their own land and among their own people.
+Even her tears failed to turn him from his purpose. So they came to this
+country, and at length drifted to the far-away shores of Puget Sound,
+where they stranded, wellnigh penniless, ignorant of the language and
+customs of those about them, helpless and forlorn. With the distress of
+mind caused by this state of affairs Hans grew melancholy and irritable,
+and when Eittel died he declared that he himself had killed her. The
+faithful Gretchen soon followed her little daughter, and with this
+terrible blow the poor man's mind gave way entirely. He not only fancied
+himself a murderer, but believed officers of the law to be in pursuit of
+him, and that if captured he would be hanged.
+
+Filled with this idea, he fled on the very night of his wife's death,
+and having been born among mountains, now instinctively sought in them a
+place of refuge. He carried an axe with him, and somewhere procured a
+ride with a plentiful supply of ammunition. Through the vast forest he
+made his way far from the haunts of men, ever climbing higher and
+penetrating more deeply among the friendly mountains, until finally he
+reached a tiny valley, in which he believed himself safe from pursuit.
+Here he built a rude hut, and became a hunter of mountain-goats. Their
+flesh furnished him with food, their skins with bedding and clothing,
+while from their horns he carved many a rude utensil.
+
+In this way he had lived for nearly two months, when our lost and sorely
+perplexed lads stumbled upon his camp, and found in it a haven of
+safety. In the peaceful quiet of those mountain solitudes the poor man
+had become calmly content with his primitive mode of life, and was even
+happy as he recalled how skilfully he had eluded a fancied pursuit, and
+how impossible it had now become for those who sought his life to
+discover his retreat.
+
+It was in this frame of mind that, on returning from a long day's hunt
+with the body of a goat slung across his back, he saw, to his dismay,
+that his hiding-place had been found, and that his camp was occupied by
+strangers. Of course they were enemies who were now waiting to kill him.
+He would fly so fast and so far that they could never follow. No; better
+than that, he would kill them before they were even aware of his
+presence. This was a grand idea, and the madman chuckled softly to
+himself as it came to him. Laying his dead goat on the ground, and
+whispering to it not to be afraid, for he would soon return, the man
+crept stealthily forward toward the fire-light. At length he spied the
+form of what he believed to be one of his pursuers, sitting half hid in
+the shadows, and doubtless waiting for him. Ha! ha! How disappointed
+that enemy would be when he found himself dead! and with a silent
+chuckle the madman slowly lifted his rifle.
+
+At that terrible moment the notes of Alaric's song were borne to him on
+the still night air, and then came the words, "Muss i denn, muss i
+denn ... und du, mein Schatz, bleibst hier." It was his Gretchen's song,
+and those were the very words she had sung to him so often in their
+happy Harz Valley home. The uplifted arm dropped as though palsied, and
+like one who hears a voice from the dead the man uttered a mighty cry of
+mingled fear and longing; at the same moment he stepped into the full
+glare of fire-light, and confronted Alaric, at whom he poured a torrent
+of questions in German.
+
+"Who are you? How came you here? What do you want? Have you seen my
+Gretchen? Where did you learn to sing '_Muss i denn_'?"
+
+"In Germany, of course, where everybody sings it," replied Alaric,
+answering the last question first, and speaking in the man's own
+language. "And I didn't think you would mind if we took possession of
+your camp until your return; for you see we are in great trouble."
+
+"Ach no! All who are in trouble should come with me; for I too have
+many, many troubles," replied the man, his blue eyes losing their fierce
+look and filling with tears. "But I never meant to do it. Gott in Himmel
+knows I never meant to do it."
+
+"Of course not," said Alaric, soothingly, anxious to quiet the man's
+agitation, and suspecting that his mind was not quite right. "Nobody
+thinks you did."
+
+"Yes, they do, the cruel men who would kill me; but you will stay and
+drive them away if they come, will you not? You will be my friend--you,
+to whom I can talk with the tongue of the father-land?"
+
+"Certainly I will stay and be your friend, if you will help me care for
+another friend who lies yonder very ill."
+
+"Ja! ja! I will help you if you will stay and talk to me of Gretchen,
+and sing to me '_Muss i denn_.'"
+
+"Very good," agreed Alaric. "It is, then, a contract between us." At the
+same time he said to himself: "He is a mighty queer-looking chap to have
+for a friend; but I suppose there are worse, and I guess I can manage
+him. It's a lucky thing I know a little German, though, for he looked
+fierce enough to kill me until I began to talk with him."
+
+The appearance of the man was certainly calculated to inspire
+uneasiness, especially when taken in connection with his incoherent
+words. He was an immense fellow with shaggy hair and untrimmed heard. On
+his head was perched a ridiculous little cloth cap, while over his
+shoulders was flung a cloak of goat-skins that added greatly to his
+appearance of size and general shagginess. His lower limbs were covered
+with leggings of the same hairy material. His ordinary expression was
+the fierce look of a hunted animal, but now it was softened by the rare
+pleasure of meeting one who could talk with him in his own language.
+
+From that first moment of strange introduction his eagerness to be with
+Alaric and induce him to talk was pathetic. To him he poured out all his
+sorrows, together with daily protests that he never meant to kill his
+Gretchen and little Eittel. For the sake of this companionship he was
+willing to do anything that might add to the comfort of his guests. He
+scoured forest and mountain-side in search of game, and rarely returned
+empty-handed. He fetched amazing loads of wood on his back, went on long
+expeditions after berries, set cunningly devised snares for ptarmigan,
+and found ample recompense for all his labor in lying at full length
+before the camp-fire at night and talking with Alaric. Bonny he
+mistrusted as being one who could speak no German, and only bore with
+him for the sake of his friend.
+
+Nor was he greatly liked by the lad, whose injuries compelled a long
+acceptance of his hospitality. "I know he's good to us, and won't let
+you do any work that he can help, and all that," Bonny would say; "but
+somehow I can't trust him nor like him. He'll play us some mean trick
+yet; see if he don't."
+
+"But he saved our lives; for if we hadn't found his camp we should
+certainly have starved to death."
+
+"That's just it! We found his camp. He didn't find us, and never would
+have. Anyhow, he's as crazy as a loon, and will bear a heap of
+watching."
+
+For all this, Bonny did not allow his anxiety to interfere with a speedy
+recovery from his injuries, and by the aid of youthful vigor, a splendid
+constitution, complete rest, plenty of food, and the glorious mountain
+air, his broken bones knit so rapidly that in one month's time he
+declared himself to be mended and as good as new.
+
+The boys often talked of M. Filbert, and wondered what had become of
+him. At first Alaric made an earnest effort to induce Hans Altman to go
+in search of the Frenchman's camp and notify him of their safety; but
+the German became so excitedly angry at the mere mention of such a thing
+that he was forced to relinquish the idea.
+
+Their strange host became equally angry at any mention of their leaving
+him, and refused to give any information concerning their present
+locality or the nearest point at which other human beings might be
+found. Nor did he ever evince the least curiosity as to where they had
+come from. It was enough for him that they were there.
+
+When the time for them to depart drew near, Alaric made another effort
+to gain some information from the German that would guide their
+movements, but in vain. He only succeeded in arousing the man's
+suspicions to such an extent that he grew morose, would not leave camp
+unless Alaric went with him, and watched furtively every movement that
+the boys made.
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXIV.
+
+CHASED BY A MADMAN.
+
+Bonny's bed was nearest the side of the hut, while Alaric lay beyond him
+towards its centre. Morning was breaking when the former awoke from a
+troubled dream, so filled with a presentiment of impending evil that his
+forehead was bathed in a cold perspiration. For the space of a minute he
+lay motionless, striving to reassure himself that his terror was without
+foundation. All at once he became conscious that some one was talking in
+a low tone, and, glancing in that direction, saw the form of their host,
+magnified by the dim light into gigantic proportions, bending over
+Alaric. The man held an uplifted knife, and was muttering to himself in
+German; but at Bonny's cry of horror he leaped to his feet, and
+disappeared through the doorway.
+
+"What is the matter?" asked Alaric, sleepily, only half awakened by
+Bonny's cry. "Been having bad dreams?"
+
+"Yes, and a worse reality," answered the other, huskily. "Oh, Rick! he
+was going to kill you, and if I hadn't waked when I did we should both
+have been dead by this time. He has made up his mind to murder us, I
+know he has."
+
+A minute later Alaric had heard the whole story, and, as excited as
+Bonny himself, was hurriedly slipping on his coat and boots. They knew
+not which way to go, nor what to do, but both were eager to escape from
+the hut into the open, where they might at least have a chance to run in
+case of an attack.
+
+As they emerged from the doorway, casting apprehensive glances in every
+direction, Alaric's baseball, that had been left in one of his coat
+pockets the evening before, slipped through a hole in the lining and
+fell to the ground. Hardly conscious of what he was doing, the lad
+stooped to pick it up. At that same instant came the sharp crack of a
+rifle, and the "ping" of a bullet that whistled just above his head.
+
+"He is shooting at us!" gasped Bonny. "Come, quick, before he can
+reload."
+
+Without another word the lads dashed into the clump of trees sheltering
+the camp, and down the slope on which it stood. They would have
+preferred going the other way but the rifle-shot had come from that
+direction, and so they had no choice. Their movements being at first
+concealed by the timber, there was no sign of pursuit until they gained
+the open valley and started to cross it. Then came a wild yell from
+behind, and they knew that their flight was discovered.
+
+Breathlessly they sped through the dewy meadow, sadly impeded by its
+rank growth of grass and flowers, toward a narrow exit through the wall
+bounding its lower end that Alaric had long ago discovered. Through this
+a brawling stream made its way, and by means of its foaming channel the
+boys hoped to effect an escape.
+
+As they gained the rocky portal Bonny glanced back and uttered a cry of
+dismay, for their late host was in plain view, leaping down the slope
+toward the meadow they had just crossed. He was then bent on overtaking
+them, and the pursuit had begun in earnest.
+
+As there was no pathway besides that offered by the bed of the stream,
+they were forced to plunge into its icy torrent and follow its
+tumultuous course over slippery rocks, through occasional still pools
+whose waters often reached to the waist, and down foaming cascades, with
+a reckless disregard for life or limb. In this manner they descended
+several hundred feet, and when from the bottom they looked up over the
+way they had come they felt that they must surely have been upborne by
+wings. But there was no time for contemplation, for at that moment a
+plunging bowlder from above warned them that their pursuer was already
+in the channel.
+
+Now they were in a forest, not of the giant trees they would find at a
+lower altitude, but one of tall hemlocks and Alpine firs, growing with
+such density that the panting fugitives could with difficulty force a
+way between them. They stumbled over prostrate trunks, slipped on beds
+of damp mosses, were clutched by woody fingers, from whose hold their
+clothing was torn with many a grievous rent; and, with all their
+efforts, made such slow progress that they momentarily expected to be
+overtaken. Nor were their fears groundless, for they had not gone half a
+mile ere a crashing behind them told that their pursuer was close at
+hand. As they exchanged a despairing glance, Bonny said, "The only thing
+we can do is to hide; for I can't run any further."
+
+"Where?" asked Alaric.
+
+"Here," replied Bonny, diving as he spoke into a bed of ferns. Alaric
+followed, and as they flattened themselves to the ground, barely
+concealed by the green tips nodding above their backs, the madman leaped
+into the space they had just vacated, and stood so close to them that
+they could have reached out and touched him. His cap had disappeared,
+his hair streamed over his shoulders like a tawny mane; his clothing was
+torn, a scratch had streaked his face with blood, and his deep-set eyes
+shone with the wild light of insanity. He had flung away his rifle; but
+his right hand clutched a knife, keen, and long-bladed. The crouching
+lads held their breaths as he paused for an instant beside them. Then,
+uttering a snarling cry, he dashed on, and with cautiously lifted heads
+they watched him out of sight.
+
+"Whew!" ejaculated Bonny, "that was a close call. But I say, Rick, this
+business of running away and being chased seems quite like old times,
+don't it?"
+
+"Yes," answered Alaric, with a shuddering sigh of mingled relief and
+apprehension, "it certainly does, and this is the worst of all. But what
+shall we do now?"
+
+"I don't know of anything else but to keep right on down hill after
+going far enough to one side to give his course a wide berth. I'd like
+awfully to have some breakfast, but I wouldn't go back to that camp for
+it if it were the only place in the world. I'd about as soon starve as
+eat another mouthful of goat, anyway. We are sure to come out somewhere,
+though, if we only stick to a downward course long enough."
+
+So the boys bore to the right, and within a few minutes had the
+satisfaction of noting certain gleamings through the trees that
+betokened some kind of an opening. Guided by these, they soon came to a
+ridge of bowlders and gravel, forming one of the lateral moraines of a
+glacier that lay in glistening whiteness beyond.
+
+"We might as well follow along its edge," suggested Bonny; "for all
+these glaciers seem to run down hill, and, bad as the walking is over
+mud and rocks, we can make better time here than through the woods."
+
+[Illustration: THEY WERE PARALYZED WITH TERROR TO SEE THE MADMAN
+GRINNING HORRIBLY.]
+
+They had not gone more than a mile in this fashion, and believing that
+they had successfully eluded their pursuer, were rapidly recovering from
+their recent fright, when they were startled by a cry like that of a
+wild beast close at hand. Glancing up, they were nearly paralyzed with
+terror to see the madman grinning horribly with delight at having
+discovered them, and about to rush down the steep slope to where they
+stood.
+
+There was but an instant of hesitation, and then both lads sprang out on
+the rugged surface of the glacier, and made a dash for its far-away
+opposite side.
+
+They ran, slipped, stumbled, took flying leaps over the parted white
+lips of narrow crevasses, and made detours to avoid such as were too
+wide to be thus spanned. They had no time to look behind, nor any need.
+The fierce cries of the madman warned them that he was in hot pursuit
+and ever drawing nearer. At one place the ice rang hollow beneath their
+feet, and they even fancied that it gave an ominous crack; but they
+could not pause to speculate as to its condition. That it was behind
+them was enough.
+
+Ere half the distance was passed they were drawing their breath with
+panting sobs, and Bonny, not yet wholly recovered from his illness,
+began to lag behind. Noting this, Alaric also slackened his speed; but
+his comrade gasped: "No, Rick. Don't stop. Save yourself. I'm done for.
+You can't help me. Good-by."
+
+Thus saying, and too exhausted to run further, the lad faced about to
+meet their terrible pursuer, and struggle with him for a delay that
+might aid the escape of his friend. To his amazement, there was no
+pursuer, nor in all that white expanse was there a human being to be
+seen save themselves.
+
+At his comrade's despairing words Alaric too had turned, with the
+determination of sharing his fate; so they now stood side by side
+breathing heavily, and gazing about them in wondering silence.
+
+"What has become of him?" asked Bonny at length, in an awed tone, but
+little above a whisper.
+
+"I don't know," replied Alaric. "He can't have gone back, for there
+hasn't been time. He can't be in hiding, for there is no place in which
+he could conceal himself, nor have we passed any crevasse that he could
+not leap. But, if he has slipped into one! Oh, Bonny! it is too awful to
+think of!"
+
+"I heard him only a few seconds ago," said Bonny, in the same awed tone,
+"and his voice sounded so close that with each instant I expected to be
+in his clutches."
+
+"Bonny," exclaimed Alaric, "do you remember a place that sounded
+hollow?"
+
+"Yes."
+
+"We must go back to it; for I believe he has broken through. If it is in
+our power to help him we must do it; if not, we must know what has
+happened."
+
+They had to retrace their steps but a few yards before coming to a
+fathomless opening with jagged sides and splintered edges, where the
+thin ice that had afforded them a safe passage had given way beneath the
+heavier weight of their pursuer. No sound save that of rushing waters
+came from the cruel depths, nor was there any sign.
+
+The boys lingered irresolutely about the place for a few minutes, and
+then fled from it as from an impending terror.
+
+For the remainder of that day, though no longer in dread of pursuit,
+they made what speed they might down the mountain-side, following rough
+river-beds, threading belts of mighty forest, climbing steep slopes, and
+descending others into narrow valleys.
+
+The sun was near his setting, and our lads were so nigh exhausted that
+they had seated themselves on a moss-covered log to rest, when they were
+startled by a heavy rending crash that echoed through the listening
+forest with a roar like distant thunder.
+
+The boys looked at each other, and then at what bits of sky they could
+see through the far-away tree-tops. It was of unclouded blue, and the
+sun was still shining.
+
+"Rick!" cried Bonny, starting to his feet. "I believe it was a falling
+tree."
+
+"Well?"
+
+"I mean one that was made to fall by axe and saw."
+
+"Oh, Bonny!" was all that Alaric could reply; but in another instant he
+was leading the way through tall ferns and along the stately forest
+aisles in the direction from which had come the mighty crash.
+
+[TO BE CONTINUED.]
+
+
+
+
+A NEW WATER ROUTE TO CENTRAL AFRICA.
+
+BY CYRUS C. ADAMS.
+
+
+Any man who reveals to the world a great river on which steamboats can
+ply for hundreds of miles is a benefactor, and his name will be recorded
+among important explorers. Dr. Ludwig Wolf, in 1886, found a new water
+route to central Africa, and in all the good work he did until his death
+he never won a greater prize. Dr. Wolf loved the big continent, and he
+said that in all his life in Africa he never experienced such almost
+insupportable heat as he endured in Philadelphia during the Centennial
+Exposition. But he was convinced that women from the temperate zones
+should not try to live in tropical Africa, and believed that white men
+who spend their lives there should humanely renounce the idea of taking
+wives from their own race, and should marry women who were born in
+tropical countries.
+
+Dr. Wolf's little steamer puffed up the big Sankuru River, threading its
+way among many islands, and revealing a great new highway and many
+unaccustomed sights. One day Dr. Wolf was astounded to see, some ways up
+the river, what appeared to be a raging snow-storm. Of course snow never
+falls there, but the illusion was perfect. It was caused by myriads of
+white butterflies zigzagging through the air. Two or three years later a
+black boy named Pitti, who had been taken from his home on this river to
+Germany, came rushing to his friends, exclaiming; "Oh, look out of the
+window! The air is full of butterflies." It was snowing hard. You see,
+the first impressions both of the learned doctor and of the ignorant
+little black boy were erroneous, because neither of them was in a
+country that he knew very well. You will see on your map that the great
+northern bend of the Congo is like a bent bow, and far below it is the
+string of the bow--the Sankuru--pieced out at one end by the Kassai
+River, which unites it with the Congo, while the other end stretches far
+across, almost to the other end of the bow. Dr. Wolf's discovery added
+almost 800 miles of navigable waters to the Congo basin, stretching
+almost due east to central Africa. Many a boy who loves adventure would
+think it a proud honor to add so important a fact to geographic
+knowledge, but I wonder how many boys would be willing to pay the great
+price that Dr. Wolf and all the pioneer explorers have had to pay for
+the discoveries that made them famous.
+
+How would you like to be among hostile natives, many hundreds of miles
+from the nearest white settlement, with no means of transportation
+except a wheezy little steamboat that was likely to blow up or break
+down beyond repair at any moment? The worn-out _En Avant_, which carried
+Dr. Wolf's little party, was tired all the time, and incessantly on the
+verge of giving up entirely. There was no machinist on board to coax the
+complaining engine into good humor. The boiler-plates were sprung, and
+every morning the cracks were plastered over with a fresh layer of clay.
+Some of the tubing and the furnace grates gave out, and the doctor
+mournfully sacrificed gun-barrels from his slender stock of fire-arms to
+replace the worn-out parts. Of course, he would have repaired his
+rickety little steamer before he started if he had had anything with
+which to patch it up. With everything right at our hand at home, we have
+little idea of the countless perplexities that beset the explorer. Some
+years ago the French carried a steamboat in sections, at great cost, to
+the bank of a river in the French Congo, where they wished to launch it,
+and there the vessel lay uselessly on the shore for more than a year,
+because they had lost one little package that had to be replaced from
+Europe before a fire could be kindled under the boiler. Dr. Wolf was not
+able to move up stream as fast as a land party would have travelled; and
+around sharp bends in the river, under full pressure of steam, he was
+often two hours in making 700 feet against the rapid current.
+
+Until he had ascended far towards the sources of the river, he found the
+Sankuru a noble stream, one to two miles in width; and, curiously
+enough, the natives on the north bank were very hostile, while those
+living south of the river were perfectly friendly and hospitable. The
+wide river was a boundary between peoples who differed from each other
+in many respects. This has often been observed in savage lands. On the
+middle Congo, where the river for long stretches is from fifteen to
+twenty miles wide and crowded with islands, there are thousands of
+natives who, until recently, had never seen the opposite shore nor the
+people who live there.
+
+Soon after the explorer entered the Sankuru he had an adventure with the
+hostile natives of the north shore that a little resembled the fabled
+story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith. The doctor was steaming
+along about twenty feet from the bank, when he saw a girl, wearing
+ornaments that showed she was the daughter of a chief, leaping through
+the grass towards the water and shouting:
+
+[Illustration: "STOP! DON'T SHOOT!"]
+
+"Stop, you fools! Don't shoot! Let them go! They will not harm you!"
+
+Dr. Wolf took in the situation in an instant. He saw a party of
+Bassongo-Mino crouching in the herbage at the water's edge, their
+bowstrings drawn, all ready to launch the arrows. The girl sprang in
+among them and knocked the bow and arrow from the hands of the man
+nearest to her. She cowed the men with her loud upbraidings, and they
+lowered their weapons as the steamer swept past. There is little doubt
+that her word of command, spoken in behalf of white strangers, the like
+of whom she had never seen before, saved the lives of some of Dr. Wolf's
+party. Perhaps she knew how grateful they were for her humane and
+friendly act, though they had no opportunity to express their gratitude.
+
+Sometimes the more important women among these barbarous tribes exert
+great influence. At another place on the Sankuru Dr. Wolf thanked his
+lucky stars that a woman took his part. He had stopped in front of a
+large settlement and tried to make friends with the people. They made no
+answer, but sprang to their weapons and advanced to attack him. Among
+the foremost suddenly appeared a girl named Pemba, the daughter of the
+most powerful chief in all that region. With a few words and a wave of
+her hand she stilled the angry tumult. She had never seen white men
+before, but she called to them to wait. She ordered some ivory and
+native grass cloth to be put into a boat, and, perfectly fearless, she
+went out to the strangers, had a good talk with them through the
+interpreter, received beads, brass wire, and cotton cloth for her
+commodities, and when the paddle-wheels began to revolve the boat was
+loaded with food bought of the natives, who at first had only arrows for
+the visitors. Through the influence of this girl, the explorer escaped
+an attack from the most powerful tribe along the river.
+
+[Illustration: HE LOOKED AT A GUN WITH GREAT CURIOSITY.]
+
+For a long distance the hostile tribes were found to speak practically
+the same language, and Dr. Wolf's interpreter was the most important
+person on the boat. The natives thought the strangers could not
+understand them, and so they freely talked of their plans for attacking
+them. One day, when Dr. Wolf stopped to repair the _En Avant_, natives
+armed with bows and arrows speedily surrounded the steamer. They were
+not a bit afraid, and drew right up alongside. Their chief, Tongolata,
+told his warriors that these strangers were entirely at his mercy. Why,
+he couldn't see a single weapon among them! He looked at a gun with
+great curiosity. "Whatever the thing is," he finally declared, "it is
+not a weapon." He told his people it would be easy enough to kill these
+folks and seize all the strange and beautiful things they were showing.
+Things were beginning to look squally. More canoes were coming every
+minute. Dr. Wolf was a man of peace, and would not take a human life
+unless it was necessary to save his own men. But he must do something to
+over-awe these savages. He showed the chief a revolver, and told him it
+carried lightning that killed men. Then he held the weapon so that its
+discharge would hurt no one, but the barrel was close to the King's ear.
+He pulled the trigger, and the chief fell to the bottom of his boat,
+stunned by the terrible noise. All the natives were stupefied with
+astonishment and fear. The chief held on to both his ears until he
+decided that he was not hurt, and then he declared that he was the white
+man's good brother, and honored his new friend with a present of two
+chickens. Some explorers--very few, it is hoped--would have fired into
+the crowd under such circumstances. But men who are fit to be trusted
+among barbarous peoples have very often been able to insure safety when
+danger threatened by some such expedient as that which Dr. Wolf adopted.
+
+The actions of some of these tribes when they first caught sight of the
+wonderful "fire-canoe" were very curious. The Bena-Jehka, for instance,
+threw themselves on the ground--not in fear, however, for they greeted
+the coming vessel with a hearty clapping of hands. The friendly natives
+were greatly tickled to find that this puffing boat was no match in a
+race with their canoes. They could travel all around her; and no wonder,
+for some of their dugouts were nearly ninety feet long--twice the length
+of the _En Avant_--and eighty paddlers standing erect in the larger
+boats made them fairly skim through the water. Sometimes fifty of these
+canoes were darting here and there, playing tag with the slow steamer,
+and dodging her every time. It was great sport for the friendly natives
+of the south bank, and the hostiles across the river did not know how
+much fun they were missing. None of these people had ever heard of a
+gun.
+
+The African telephone was busy, as the steamer advanced, carrying the
+news up the river. The deep notes of the big drum, or tomtom, are the
+signal of great events in those parts, and crowds flocked to the banks
+long before the vessel puffed into view, straining their eyes for the
+first glimpse of anything wonderful or menacing. These signals, however,
+do not compare with the ingenious system perfected by a few small tribes
+in the Cameroons, West Africa, where the sounds on the drum represent
+syllables and words, and so grow into sentences, like the ticks of a
+telegraph instrument. Only about two hundred natives have been
+instructed in the art, and the secret is so carefully guarded that no
+white man is yet able to interpret these drum-beats, which carry verbal
+messages from one drummer to another as fast as sound travels.
+
+Far up the river Dr. Wolf discovered some remarkable houses built in the
+branches of trees. Many African tribes, like the people of New Guinea
+and the Solomon Islands, in the Pacific, build platforms high up in the
+trees, so that their lookouts may quickly discover the approach of an
+enemy, or their women and children take refuge among the branches in
+time of danger. An invention of the white men is destroying this custom
+of building tree refuges, and you can easily guess what it is. Traders
+have introduced many guns among the natives, and the women find that
+their rude perches in the air are no protection against bullets. But the
+tree houses Dr. Wolf saw serve a different purpose. The natives live in
+them to keep out of the wet when the land is flooded. A platform is
+firmly lodged in the widest fork of a tree, and a roof is built on the
+top of uprights that rest on the platform. The boys and girls are a
+happy lot when the floods subside and they can press the ground again
+with their bare feet.
+
+It was a joyous lot of black men whom Dr. Wolf restored to their homes
+in Angola, after they had served him well for many months while he was
+adding this river to the maps. But on the way home they had one serious
+disappointment. One day they saw a group of baobab-trees, the largest
+plant that grows in Africa. It was many a day since they had seen the
+familiar sight. "Hurrah!" they cried; "we are near the sea. We are in
+Angola again." But they were still far from Angola.
+
+These humble negroes helped to prepare the way for the busy white
+stations that are now planted on the Sankuru's banks. They should have
+their share of credit for the good work that was done.
+
+
+
+
+GAMES IN THE REAL COUNTRY.
+
+BY JNO. GILMER SPEED.
+
+
+The boys in the cities, and especially in the suburban towns, have a
+very much gayer time than their fathers did twenty years ago. When a man
+of middle age now visits his old college, or, indeed, any athletic
+field, the fact is impressed upon him with great and ever-increasing
+force that he was born two score years too soon. In my boyhood, which
+was not so very long ago, town ball on the commons and baseball on a
+rough and unprepared field were about the only games of a general nature
+that we had. Of course there was a brief season for shinney, a little
+while for marbles, and in the hottest weather of midsummer we languidly
+indulged in mumble-the-peg. But we had no athletic fields in the sense
+that they exist to-day for general sports, while the fascinating tennis
+had not been introduced, and football as it is played to-day was
+unknown. We were therefore, judging by present-day standards, pretty
+badly off.
+
+By the real country I mean those sections where the boys live on farms
+or in villages not influenced by close contact with the people from
+large cities. In such places, and I am writing in such a place, the boys
+do not seem to have a very gay time; but as they do not know that their
+sports so impress an on-looker, they are not unhappy about the matter.
+Just across the village street from the house in which I write is the
+village school (Academy it is called in high-sounding phrase), and the
+play-ground about it is bare in some spots, high grown with weeds in
+others, while great stones and small lie around in an abundance that
+menaces the security of every step a fast-running urchin takes. The boys
+on one side of the yard are playing baseball at this moment, and on the
+other side the girls, with shrill cries that express all at once
+delight, apprehension, and downright fear, are playing prisoner's-base.
+The boys do not have a "diamond" for their game, but the field is laid
+out in an irregular way that must have been determined partly by chance
+and somewhat by necessity. The pitcher stands a few feet in front of a
+maple-tree, and the catcher is so close to a rail fence that every
+passed ball goes into the ploughed field beyond. The ball is so
+frequently lost in this field and in the weeds in the school-yard that
+quite half the time of the game is spent in searching for it. The bats
+are clumsy things, that seem too heavy for the youngsters to wield with
+ease and accuracy; but as the pitching is not fast the batters succeed
+in hitting the ball as often as they miss it. And every time there is a
+hit there is a mighty scrambling in every part of the field, as the
+right-fielder appears to think it his duty to cover third base, and the
+first-base man displays an ambition to capture flies in the left field.
+The smaller the score, I believe, in both the professional and amateur
+worlds, the better the game. But in the baseball games in the real
+country the opposite is held to be true, and if less than twenty runs on
+a side are made the game is counted to have been a failure.
+
+These games at the Academy are not played continuously, but begin before
+school in the morning, then at morning recess, then during the dinner
+hour, and are finished in the afternoon recess. After school, with
+whoops and cries of divers sorts the youngsters disperse to their homes,
+some of which are miles away. Several years ago they all walked home,
+but now the majority of them go to and fro on bicycles. In watching my
+neighbors of the school and their goings and comings I have discovered
+where the discarded bicycles that have gone out of fashion in town
+disappear to. They are taken to the country, and there the lads in the
+cowhide boots in winter and bare feet in summer pedal them up hill and
+down, alike ignorant of and indifferent to the fact that their
+much-cherished wheels are out of style.
+
+The games the real country boys play are few, and would not be exciting
+to the lads who exercise on the Berkeley Oval; but they are entirely
+wholesome and harmless, and serve just as good a purpose as they would
+if they were in what more sophisticated people call good form. Fun is,
+to a great extent, a matter of education, and the same standard will not
+serve to measure the amusements of all classes alike. This is a most
+fortunate fact; and when I consider it I doubt whether in my own youth I
+may not, after all, have had in my limited range as much genuine sport
+as the lads I see in my neighbors' lawns, throwing off their gayly
+striped blazers preparatory to trying their skill in the tennis-court
+that has just been marked out.
+
+
+
+
+THE DAISIES.
+
+BY JOHN VANCE CHENEY.
+
+
+  Daisies, once, in noonday dream,
+  Heard I gossip by a stream,
+  Secrecies too sweet to name;
+  'Mong them, daisies, how you came
+  By your shining skyey faces,
+  Where you learned these magic paces.
+  On a night, far, far away,
+  Certain stars that loved to play
+  In the pond across the way,
+  At a signal--so they say--
+  Put their beams out; what is more,
+  One by one they slipped ashore.
+  When their mates look from the sky.
+  Now we know why every eye,
+  Up and down this fairy ground,
+  Plays go-sleepin' oh, so sound!
+  Eyes and hearts of summer day,
+  Daisies, you have run away.
+
+
+
+
+THE SLAMBANGAREE.
+
+(_In Two Parts._)
+
+BY R. K. MUNKITTRICK.
+
+Part I.
+
+
+The other night Reginald was tossing about in his little bed, unable to
+go to sleep. The dull monotonous ticking of the clock fell upon his ear
+in a way that drove him almost mad, and the rain pattering upon the
+window-pane added to his misery, and made him wish for the light of
+morning as he had never wished for it before. And when the trees moaned
+in the wind, it filled poor Reginald's mind with dire forebodings, and
+caused him to bury his curly head deeper in the pillow to deaden the
+weird refrain that rippled in the blinds with a sort of fiendish
+playfulness.
+
+And then he heard a soft footfall on the carpet, and, looking up, saw
+the strangest creature he had ever set eye upon standing grinning by the
+bedpost. At first Reginald was so frightened that he could say nothing;
+but when he noticed that the creature didn't move, and that his grin
+could not hurt him, he found his voice, and said, "Please, Mr. Robber--"
+
+"Did you say robber?" asked the Presence, with angry emphasis.
+
+"I did," replied Reginald, trembling violently; "but it was all your
+fault, I meant to say Mr. Robertson, but you cut me short before I could
+pronounce the last syllable."
+
+"I will then pardon you," replied the Presence, which continued quickly,
+as if to catch Reginald in a lie: "What did you intend to say after
+robber?"
+
+"I intended to say," replied Reginald, still trembling, "Mr. Robertson,
+can you tell me what time it is. That clock doesn't strike, and I cannot
+sleep. If I thought you to be a thief, I would ask you not to take my
+new locomotive or boxwood tops."
+
+"Very good," replied the Presence, as it took the grin off its face, and
+holding an end in each hand, proceeded to stretch it this way and that,
+until it was a yard long.
+
+"Why, what a singularly large smile you have!" said Reginald, who by
+this time had partially recovered his composure. "I never saw anything
+like it before."
+
+The Presence evidently felt complimented, and proceeded to entertain
+Reginald further. It fastened one end of the grin to the bureau, and
+walked to the opposite side of the room, with the other end in its hand.
+
+"Oh, don't," cried Reginald; "it might break!"
+
+But just then the Presence let go of the end it held in its hand, and
+the grin flew across the room, and settled down to its size when in
+repose, on the bureau.
+
+"Oh, please put it on again," pleaded Reginald; "because it is so
+becoming, and when it is off, you look so sad and homely."
+
+So the Presence readjusted its grin, and looked just as it did when
+Reginald had first beheld it.
+
+"Will you kindly tell me what you are?" asked Reginald, who was really
+at a loss for a question.
+
+"With pleasure," replied the Presence; "because I am always ready to
+show myself in my true colors, which are warranted never to fade or wash
+out, and I am always ready to submit myself to the strictest critical
+scrutiny." Then the Presence drew itself up proudly, and sang, to a
+lively measure:
+
+  "In reply to your question, so natural, I
+  Shall be happy to make you a truthful reply,
+  And inform you that I am a-roaming, care free,
+  The sprite of the pudding, the Slambangaree.
+
+  "Of the pudding of plum, when you've eaten too much,
+  And you drop into sleep as the pillow you touch.
+  Oh, you tumble about, and you snore, and you see
+  Awful things, all produced by the Slambangaree.
+
+  "But as now you can't sleep, this occasion I take
+  All my antics to play on you while you're awake;
+  And until your plum-pudding's digested, ah, me!
+  You can bill no farewell to the Slambangaree.
+
+"But now, if it is just the same to you, I will drop into plain every-day
+prose. You see, it is just this way, to put it in a condensed form:
+Myself and my fellow-Slambangarees are the sprites--or the fiends, if
+you will--of the canned plum-pudding. From being slammed and banged
+around so much in our cans we gain our name of Slambangaree. Now, you
+see, to put it more clearly than I could do in song, after you have
+eaten too much plum-pudding, against which I exhort you to refrain (for
+it is better to be temperate in all things), you fall asleep, and have
+awful nightmares--dream you are falling off houses, and all that sort of
+thing. It is the mission of the Slambangaree to bring about this
+condition of things. But as you cannot sleep to-night, I, the
+Slambangaree representing the plum-pudding you have eaten, have come to
+give you your nightmare while awake. My brother Slambangarees are taking
+care of the others who devoured the rest of the plum-pudding, and not
+until all that pudding is digested shall we be free disembodied
+spirits."
+
+Here the Slambangaree took off its grin and wiped its mouth, after which
+the grin was readjusted with great care. Then it said, "I will now see
+what you have in your pockets, for I am a little curious."
+
+Then, while Reginald felt very anxious about the precious things in his
+pockets, the Slambangaree's eyes became larger, and shot out of his head
+and across the room, seeming to be attached to long wands.
+
+"Those are the roots of my eyes," it remarked, playfully, as it shot its
+eyeballs into the pockets of Reginald's trousers, and sang:
+
+  "Two boxwood tops herein I see,
+    A sling-shot and a knife,
+  And a tin horn that unto me,
+  With its uncanny witchery,
+    A burden makes of life.
+
+  "Here are two soldiers made of lead,
+    And here a little boat,
+  And seven agates, blue and red,
+  Likewise the hind leg and the head
+    Of a green candy goat."
+
+Then the Slambangaree withdrew its eyes, as if satisfied with the result
+of its investigations, and, as it did so, noticed Reginald's drum lying
+on the floor. No sooner had it seen it than the roots of its eyes
+suddenly lengthened, and it began to play a solo on it with its
+eyeballs. As the rumpy-tum-tum filled the room, Reginald thought the
+noise would alarm the house and bring some one to his rescue. But in
+this he was mistaken. The Slambangaree played on until weary of the
+sport.
+
+"How long is this going to last?" asked Reginald.
+
+"Until the pudding within you is digested; you must have patience--"
+
+"I would rather have some pepsin tablets," said Reginald.
+
+"I suppose so," replied the Slambangaree; "but you must never be upset
+by yearning for the thing you haven't got, or you never will be happy. I
+can only leave you, as I said before, when the pudding is digested. I
+will therefore leave you by degrees. The better your digestion, the
+sooner you will be rid of me. Now for the fun!"
+
+Here the Slambangaree turned itself upside down and danced gracefully
+all over the ceiling. While Reginald was looking on in open-mouthed
+wonder, the Slambangaree reached down from the ceiling and lifted him
+out of bed in its arms and capered all over the room with him, but never
+bumped his head, although it floated under the bed with him, and jumped
+from the mantel-piece to the clock and from the clock to the bureau with
+great rapidity. When it dropped Reginald back into bed, it said,
+
+"That was only to hurry your digestion."
+
+"I would greatly prefer to let it take its time," replied Reginald.
+
+Here the Slambangaree, not noticing what Reginald had said, took the
+top-cord from the surprised boy's pocket, and seating itself on the
+clock, threw one end of it into the water-pitcher. In another instant it
+pulled out a great fish, which, when released, flew about the room like
+a bird, for its fins were like wings.
+
+[TO BE CONCLUDED.]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: From Chum to Chum]
+
+BY GASTON V. DRAKE.
+
+XX.--FROM BOB TO JACK.
+
+
+  HOME AGAIN.
+
+     [Illustration]
+
+     [Illustration]
+
+     DEAR JACK,--Well its all over. We got to Hoboken, yesterday and
+     thinking we'd seen all the foreign lands we cared to for a little
+     while we decided not to stay there and came right through to
+     Yonkers. Yonkers isn't such a bad place after all, but its queer:
+     you can stay there a year and see it all in a day while those
+     foreign cities you can stay in only a day when you couldn't see 'em
+     in a year. Things seem to be arranged very queerly in this world.
+     The kitten has turned into a cat four times too large for any use
+     and my corn in the garden has grown so high it reminds me of the
+     trees at Versailles.
+
+     [Illustration]
+
+     [Illustration]
+
+     The trip home was pretty fine. We didn't find much to do at Genoa
+     and with all due respect to Columbus's birthplace the only thing I
+     particularly remember seeing there was a dead horse. The hotel was
+     interesting. We had five rooms and one of 'em smelt like macaroni,
+     another smelt like pie, the third smelt like cake, the fourth
+     reminded me of the circus and we didn't keep the fifth. As for the
+     house where Columbus lived we drove out to see it and that was the
+     time I saw the dead horse. Columbus's house was a very poor sight,
+     and between you and me I don't believe he ever lived there, because
+     if he had he'd have gone into the business of selling cabbages the
+     way everybody else in the neighborhood does instead of becoming a
+     great discoverer, though I'll tell you one thing. If I'd had to
+     live a week in that neighborhood I'd have wanted to be on the ocean
+     for the rest of my natural life to get fresh air enough to carry me
+     through. That's a queer thing about Italy. There's less fresh air
+     to the square inch in Italy than there is anywhere else in the
+     world. Pop says Italians most always sleep with their windows open
+     and maybe that's the trouble. It is the closest country I ever was
+     in.
+
+     We got on board the _Werra_ Thursday morning and she's a great
+     ship. Aunt Sarah says the only thing against her is the band that
+     plays all through dinner, but Pop doesn't think so. He says the
+     band is a good investment because it keeps people from eating and
+     hasn't been known to blow a ship to pieces, which is a great thing
+     considering the band. I liked the music. Why one night I was
+     feeling pretty mean when the sausages were served, and I wanted to
+     go up on deck and the band began to play the Washington Post March,
+     and it settled my stomick right away. Besides the officers aren't
+     so great but what they can notice kids. I got to know every officer
+     on the boat from the deck steward down to the Captain, and when
+     they weren't on duty they were fine; but on duty--my--you'd have
+     thought the world depended on 'em. I tell you, Jack, I liked
+     Chesterfield, and I liked the officers on the _New York_, but if a
+     _Werra_ man chose to throw me overboard I wouldn't care because I'd
+     _know_ he'd get me home safe and was looking after me whatever he
+     did, whether the band played or not. You are ten and I'm nine but
+     we can size up fellows just the same, and when it comes to sizing
+     up, give me Captain Pohle and Captain Polack. They can have me for
+     a cabin-boy or anything else. I'll get home safe as long as I'm
+     with them and I won't have to wear rubbers either.
+
+     After leaving Genoa we sailed through a sea so blue that you could
+     imagine the red and white and the stars and the stripes. It's
+     called the Mediterranean and it reminds me more of America than any
+     sea I've seen. It's pleasant. It sort of winks at you when the sun
+     shines, but its as independent as if it was an ocean.
+
+     After we sailed about two days through this beautiful blue water we
+     came to Gibraltar, and how it does stick up out of the water! A big
+     insurance building is very noble in a city but Gibraltar beats
+     everything I ever saw. It just sticks itself up and says look at me
+     and whether you want to look at it or not you've got to. It's like
+     Pop when he's nervous. You've got to do what he says and not say a
+     word. Every time I've seen anything over here I've had something to
+     say, but when I took in that bit of rock, I wanted to go off and
+     sit in a chair and not move for five minutes. Aunt Sarah was the
+     same way, and that's saying lots.
+
+     And if we hadn't gone ashore it would have been all right, but we
+     did go ashore and then it seemed different. Pop took me to see a
+     comic opera once, and Gibraltar reminded me of it. Everybody wore a
+     costume and when we'd meet a man dressed up like an Arab we'd stop
+     to see if maybe he wasn't going to sing a song. Nobody did though
+     and everybody walked along as if they were going to market in
+     Yonkers and didn't know they were at Gibraltar, which I think is
+     awfully queer, but it has made me think that maybe when I think
+     there's nothing to see in Yonkers its because I'm so used to it
+     that I forget it all.
+
+     There were lots of boys selling matches and grapes and flowers at
+     Gibraltar and Pop threw away a beautiful coin collection buying
+     everything he could find. They take any kind of money there. But
+     after it was all over and we were back on the _Werra_ again and
+     sailing towards home, I forgot all about everything except the rock
+     and how it just made you hold your breath and wonder how on earth
+     Spain ever let England have it.
+
+     And that's all about the trip. We're home and nothings happened.
+     After seeing Gibraltar I'm not going to waste my ink describing
+     Hoboken--but I will tell you one thing; when you've travelled all
+     around the way we have and seen lots of beautiful places and
+     beautiful things, and then come back home you're just as glad after
+     all that you live home instead of abroad. The people on the streets
+     at home look better and happier, and somehow or other the world
+     doesn't seem quite so much in need of an airing as it does abroad.
+
+     Good-by for the present. Next time either of us goes anywhere I
+     move we start up a correspondence again, for whether you've enjoyed
+     this one or not I have.
+
+  Always yours       BOB.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: L. D. Waddell, r.f. F. H. Croker, 3.b.
+
+R. A. Kinne, c.f. A. R. T. Hillebrand, p. A. Barnwell, Jun., sub.
+
+I. J. French, s.s. J. Wentworth, l.f. R. M. Barton, Capt. and 1.b. A. S.
+Goodwin, c. F. L. Quinby, 2.b.
+
+THE PHILLIPS ACADEMY, ANDOVER, BASEBALL TEAM.]
+
+[Illustration: BASCOM JOHNSON,
+
+Worcester Academy.]
+
+[Illustration: A. N. RICE,
+
+Noble's School, Boston.]
+
+[Illustration: INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT]
+
+
+An unusually small crowd turned out to witness the New England
+Interscholastics on Holmes Field a week ago Friday. The meeting,
+however, proved an exceptionally good one, and although but few records
+were broken, the general standard of performance was uniformly
+excellent. The figures were changed in the mile bicycle, half-mile run,
+and pole vault, and those equalled were the 120-yard hurdle and the
+320-yard flat.
+
+Worcester Academy won the meet, with English High second, and Andover
+third. Worcester High, last year's champions, landed in eighth place.
+The day was warm and still, without being sultry; just an ideal day for
+record-breaking. The track was in excellent condition. The standards set
+by the Executive Committee of the N.E.I.S.A.A., which must be attained
+by the athletes who are to be sent to the National Games, Saturday, were
+equalled or excelled in all but two events--the mile walk and the
+shot--and as it is well known that the winners of both these events are
+capable of at least equalling those standards, it was determined by
+special vote to send them to New York. It will be seen, too, that in
+every event in which the conditions are similar to those obtaining at
+the recent New York Interscholastics, with the exceptions of the hammer
+and the quarter, the New England records are superior. Verily these New
+England boys will be a hard crowd to beat!
+
+The first event on the programme was the 100-yard dash. Jones of Andover
+won, in 10-2/5 sec., with Robinson of W. A. second, and Kane of E. H.-S.
+third. Jones tied the record, 22-2/5 sec., in the 220. Robinson and Kane
+drew second and third places. The half-mile was the best performance of
+the day. About fifteen started, and ran in a bunch for a lap. Then
+Hanson, E.H.-S., let himself out, followed closely by Albertson, W. H.,
+and Gaskill, P. A. A. Hanson's pace proved too much for the others, and
+when he turned into the homestretch he was leading by twenty yards, and
+seemed to be adding a little with every stride. He finished in excellent
+form, having lowered the record from 2 m. 5-1/5 sec. to 2 m. 1-1/5 sec.
+There was a pretty race for second place. Albertson, last year's
+champion, finally got it by a narrow margin over Gaskill.
+
+A big field started in the mile run. Mills of Berkeley took the pole and
+held it throughout. He gave a fine exhibition of running, and won in the
+fast time of 4 m. 33-4/5 sec.; but he was so far superior to the others
+that as a race the event was a failure. Sullivan of W. H. was second,
+and Palmer of Andover a good third. When the time was announced, it was
+thought that the record had been broken, as Laing's time was down on the
+score-card as 4 m. 34-2/5 sec., but on investigation it was found that
+Laing's record was 4 m. 32-2/5 sec.
+
+The best race of the meet was in the final heat of the 440. Bascom
+Johnson, W. A., took the lead, followed by Warren, C. H. and L., and
+Whitcomb, P. E. A. They held this order until the turn into the
+homestretch. Then Johnson let out a little, and won by a scant five
+yards. Warren was plugging along, trying to save second place from the
+smaller Whitcomb, but Whitcomb gained surely, step by step, and plunged
+across the line second.
+
+Hallowell of Hopkinson's won his heat in the high hurdles in 17-2/5
+sec., equalling Hoyt's old record, which has stood since 1893. Edmands
+of W. A., who was booked to win the event, had a streak of his usual
+hard luck, and got mixed up with a hurdle in his heat. The final was an
+exciting race. Shirk of W. A. proved equal to the emergency of winning
+in default of Edmands, although it was only in the short dash for the
+tape that he managed to slip by Hallowell, who had made an unfortunate
+stumble. Cady of Andover drew third place. Converse of E. H.-S, won the
+low hurdles, as was expected. His time was 27 secs. Peters of Andover
+was a good second, and MacDonald of Chelsea ran third.
+
+New England. I.S.A.A. Games, Holmes Field, Cambridge, June 5, 1896.
+
+  Event.                       Winner.              Performance.
+  100-yard dash              Jones, P.A.                 10-2/5 sec.
+  220-yard dash              Jones, P.A.                 22-3/5  "
+  Quarter-mile run           Johnson, W.A.               52-3/5  "
+  Half-mile run              Hanson, E.H.-S.       2 m.   1-1/5  "
+  One-mile run               Mills, Berk.          4 "   33-4/5  "
+  120-yard hurdles           Shirk, P.A.                 17-2/5  "
+  220-yard hurdles           Converse, E.H.-S.           27      "
+  One-mile walk              O'Toole, E.H.-S.      7 "   43      "
+  One-mile bicycle           Boardman, Noble's.    2 "   35-4/5  "
+  Two-mile bicycle           -------------
+  Running high jump          Rice, Noble's.        5 ft.  7-1/4 in.
+  Running broad jump         Hersey, W.A.         21  "   5      "
+  Pole vault                 Johnson, W.A.        10  "   9      "
+  Throwing 16-lb. hammer     -------------
+  Throwing 12-lb. hammer     Boyce. B.H.-S       122  "   1      "
+  Putting 16-lb. shot        Heath, Hop.          36  "   7      "
+  Putting 12-lb. shot        -------------
+
+Connecticut H.-S.A.A. Games, Yale Field, New Haven, June 8, 1896.
+
+  Event.                        Winner.                Performance.
+  100-yard dash             Luce, H.P.H.-S.                10-2/5 sec.
+  220-yard dash             Morris, H.P.H.-S.              23-3/5  "
+  Quarter-mile run          Morris, H.P.H.-S.              52-4/5  "
+  Half-mile run             Bradin, H.P.H.-S.        2 m.  10
+  One-mile run              Twitchell, H.S.          5 "   13-4/5  "
+  120-yard hurdles          Ellsworth, H.S.                17-2/5  "
+  220-yard hurdles          Ellsworth, H.S.                27-2/5  "
+  One-mile walk             Eelk, H.S.               7 "   11-3/5  "
+  One-mile bicycle          -------------
+  Two-mile bicycle          Rutz, H.H.-S.            5 "   26-2/5  "
+  Running high jump         Sturtevant, H.P.H.-S.    5 ft.  6     in.
+  Running broad jump        Brown, H.S.             19  "   8-1/2  "
+  Pole vault                Sturtevant, H.P.H.-S.   10  "     1/2  "
+  Throwing 16-lb. hammer    Ingalls, H.P.H.-S.     118  "   2-3/4  "
+  Throwing 12-lb. hammer    -------------
+  Putting 16-lb. shot       Ingalls, H.P.H.-S.      34  "   2-1/2  "
+  Putting 12-lb. shot       -------------
+
+New Jersey I.S.A.A. Games, Bergen Point, New Jersey, June 6, 1896.
+
+  Event.                       Winner.        Performance.
+  100-yard dash             Sulzer, P.S.             10-4/5 sec.
+  220-yard dash             Sulzer, P.S.             24-2/5  "
+  Quarter-mile run          Manvel, P.S.             54-1/5  "
+  Half-mile run             -------------
+  One-mile run              Adams, N.A. }      5 m.  27-2/5  "
+                            Myers, P.S. }
+  120-yard hurdles          -------------
+  220-yard hurdles          Plum, N.A.               29-4/5  "
+  One-mile walk             Adams, N.A.        8 "   20-3/5  "
+  One-mile bicycle          Pager, M.H.-S.     2 "   58-2/5  "
+  Two-mile bicycle          -------------
+  Running high jump         Jones, N.A.        5 ft.  3-3/4 in.
+  Running broad jump        Jones, N.A.       19  "   2-1/2  "
+  Pole vault                Smith, P.H.-S.     9  "   3      "
+  Throwing 16-lb. hammer    -------------
+  Throwing 12-lb. hammer    Smith, P.H.-S.    96  "   4-1/2  "
+  Putting 16-lb. shot       -------------
+  Putting 12-lb. shot       Smith, P.H.-S.    37  "   2      "
+
+     ABBREVIATIONS:--P.A., Phillips Andover Academy; W.A., Worcester
+     Academy; E.H.-S., Boston English High-School; Berk., Berkeley
+     School, Boston; Noble's, of Boston; B.H.-S., Brookline High-School;
+     H.P.H.-S., Hartford Public High-School; H.S., Hotchkiss School,
+     Lakeville; H.H.-S., Hillhouse High-School, New Haven; P.S.,
+     Pingry's School, Elizabeth; N.A., Newark Academy; P.H.-S.,
+     Plainfield High-School; M.H.-S., Montclair High-School.
+
+O'Toole of E. H.-S. won the mile walk, with 70 yards to spare, and, as
+usual, got through without a caution. Mallette, B. L. S., was ruled off,
+after a hard brush with O'Toole on the third lap. Lockwood of W. A. got
+second, and Mohan of E. H.-S. third.
+
+The mile bicycle was a genuine race, and, strange to say, proved
+exciting. Stone of Andover was thrown in his trial heat. Lincoln of
+B. L. S., who was looked upon as the next best entry, met with an
+accident in the final. Then a pretty race began among Boardman of
+Noble's, Warnock of C. H. and L., and Hardy of Hopkinson's. They
+finished in that order, Warnock breaking away from a bad pocket just in
+time to spurt for second place.
+
+The field events developed uniformly high performances. Rice of Noble's
+won the high jump, after a close contest; his height was 5 ft. 7-1/4
+in.; Perry of Andover was second, with 5 ft. 6 in.; Lorrimer (Mechanics
+Arts), Howe (W.A.), and Phillips (Noble's), tied for third. Hersey of
+W.A. won the broad jump with a performance of 21 ft. 5-1/2 in.; within
+half an inch of Brewer's record made in 1890; Theman, W.A., was second
+with 21 ft. 4 in.; and Prouty, P. E. A., third, 21 ft. 1 in., making
+this event much more even and creditable than usual. Bascom Johnson,
+W.A., added two inches to his own record of 10 ft. 7 in. in the pole
+vault, beating out Clapp of Williston, who vaulted 10 ft. 6 in.; Kendall
+of W.A. and Prouty were tied for third. Boyce of B. H.-S. won the
+hammer, throwing it 122 ft. 1 in.; Edmands was second, 117 ft.; and
+Shaw, Hopkinson's, third, with 105 ft. O'Brien, E. H.-S., failed in the
+shot, putting it only 36 ft. 2 in.; Heath, Hopkinson's, surprised the
+crowd by doing 36 ft. 7 in.; Edmands was able to do only 34 ft. 2-1/2
+in.
+
+The Hartford High-School track team won first place at the Connecticut
+High-School games a week ago Saturday for the sixth time in the history
+of the association. There were only five schools entered, and Hartford
+took the pennant with 51 points, Hotchkiss School coming second, with
+37. Five records were broken--the 100-yard dash, the walk, the high
+jump, the hammer, and the pole vault.
+
+[Illustration: F. C. INGALLS.
+
+Hartford High-School.]
+
+[Illustration: F. R. STURTEVANT.
+
+Hartford High-School.]
+
+The star performers of the day were Morris, Sturtevant, Ingalls, and
+Luce of Hartford, and Ellsworth of Hotchkiss. The 100 was taken by Luce
+in .10-2/5, with Morris and Pendleton behind him. The 220 was a race
+among these same men, but on this occasion Morris won after a sharp
+tussle with Luce, who came second, with Pendleton again third, the time
+being .23-3/5. Morris took another first by winning the quarter. This
+race had been conceded to Luce beforehand, but his work before he came
+to the scratch had taken a good deal out of him, and consequently he was
+not so fresh as Morris. The latter ran a very clever race, and finished
+strong, with Luce only about four feet behind him, in .52-4/5, Cheney
+being a good third.
+
+Bradin's winning of the half-mile was somewhat of a surprise, the
+knowing ones thinking the event would go to Kearney. Bradin took the
+lead about half-way around the track on the first lap, and kept it to
+the tape. Kearney hung back with Luce, fearing him, and when the spurt
+came he was unable to overcome Bradin's long lead. Bradin's time was 2
+min. 10 sec., and I am told that in practice he has frequently done 2
+min. 5 sec.
+
+The time in the mile was exceedingly slow. Breed of Hartford burst out
+ahead of the bunch at the beginning of the third lap, and was ahead
+until within 75 yards of the finish, when the two Hotchkiss men,
+Twitchell and Fox, dashed ahead, and won in that order. The walk went to
+Eelk of Hotchkiss, who finished some fifty yards ahead of Blakeslee. The
+time was 7 min. 11-3/5 sec., which is better than any other
+interscholastic performance that I know of.
+
+Both the hurdles went to Ellsworth of Hotchkiss, who cleared the
+obstacles in excellent form, and is undoubtedly one of the cleverest
+hurdlers in the schools to-day. In his trial heat for the shorter
+distance his time was 17-1/5 sec.
+
+Both the hammer and the shot went to Ingalls of Hartford, as had been
+anticipated. He surpassed himself in the first event, throwing 118 ft.
+2-3/4 in., but in the shot his performance was less noteworthy, his best
+put being 34 ft. 2-1/2 in. He will be a factor in the National Games
+next Saturday. Sturtevant took the high jump, clearing 5 ft. 6 in., with
+Goodwin second. He can do much better than this, his record being 5 ft.
+9-1/2 in., but he was not pushed on this occasion. Sturtevant also took
+the pole vault, clearing 10 ft. 1/2 in., with Hixon second.
+
+The most exciting race of the day was the two-mile bicycle. In the first
+heat Strong's chain broke and threw him, and three other men ran into
+him and spilled. Lycett of Hartford was the only man in the heat who was
+not thrown, and was about half a lap ahead when the first man of the
+tumblers had mounted again. By the time Strong had secured another wheel
+Lycett was coming on him a lap to the good, but Strong pushed off, and
+before the heat was finished he had passed every one but the leader, and
+finished a close second to Lycett. In the finals, although badly bruised
+from his fall, he finished second to Ruiz, Hillhouse High, who won in 5
+min. 26-2/5 sec.
+
+The New Jersey Interscholastic A.A. is one of the new leagues brought
+into existence by the formation of the National I.S.A.A., and it is
+probably one of the strongest, and certainly one of the most promising,
+of all of them. Its first field meeting was held on the grounds of the
+New Jersey Athletic Club, at Bergen Point, a week ago Saturday, and some
+very creditable performances resulted. Hitherto our knowledge as to the
+capabilities of New Jersey school-boy athletes has been drawn from the
+performances of individuals in open games given by New York schools.
+The result of this field meeting shows that there is a high general
+average of proficiency among the teams of the New Jersey League.
+
+The meet was won by Newark Academy, whose team scored 40-1/2 points;
+Pingry's School of Elizabeth was a very close second, with 35-1/2
+points. Then came Plainfield High, with 27, and Montclair High, with 14;
+Stevens' Prep, of Hoboken did not score.
+
+The star performers of the day were G. P. Smith, of Plainfield High, who
+scored a triple win, taking both the weight events and the pole vault,
+and finished second in the low hurdles; J. P. Adams, of Newark, and
+C. T. Meyers, of Pingry's, who finished a dead heat in the mile walk;
+and S. H. Plum, Jun., of Newark, who ran a beautiful race in the
+hurdles. The firsts and seconds in each event will represent the
+Association at the National games next Saturday, and there is every
+reason to expect that New Jersey's name will figure in the point
+schedule.
+
+Lawrenceville defeated Andover in their annual baseball game, which was
+played at Lawrenceville on Friday, June 5. The score was 10-2, and
+Lawrenceville played an almost errorless game. The Andover men did not
+appear to be in very good condition when they walked on the field,
+seeming slightly tired from their journey, and their play showed, in
+addition, that a number of the players had not been as thoroughly
+coached in their duties as they might have been.
+
+The Lawrenceville batters found the ball in the early part of the game,
+Hillebrand being ineffective during the first inning, whereas Arrott,
+who was in the box for the home team, never pitched a better game. He
+struck out only seven men, however, to Hillebrand's nine, but only four
+hits were obtained off him to ten off Hillebrand.
+
+The weakest playing for Andover was done by the short-stop and the whole
+out-field, they being responsible for eight errors, which let in five
+runs. Fumbles and muffs covered most of the errors, and of course the
+Lawrenceville players took advantage of every occasion. Goodwin,
+Andover's catcher, is an excellent player, and allowed only two bases to
+be stolen off him. The Andover men did not try to steal bases on Kafer,
+the Lawrenceville catcher, after having failed on the first attempt. The
+latter played a star game, and captained the team in perfect style. He
+will be a valuable acquisition to the Princeton nine next year.
+
+Only seven Andover men reached first base. Their two runs were made in
+the seventh inning, when Barton knocked a home run, which brought in
+Croker. Lawrenceville's scoring was done in the first, third, fifth,
+sixth, and seventh innings. Hastie, their right-fielder, who has not
+made an error this year, knocked out two singles and a home run. Three
+of Lawrenceville's thus were let in by Wentworth, Andover's
+left-fielder, who allowed a base hit to be stretched into a home run by
+letting the ball roll by him. Most of the other points were earned by
+hard and timely hitting.
+
+Never before this year have the Lawrenceville players shown so much
+head-work in batting as they did on this occasion. Andover, on the other
+hand, resorted to bunting, trying in that way to advance men on first
+base, but they were almost always unsuccessful. Besides the good work of
+the Lawrenceville battery--Arrott and Kafer--good work was done by
+Righter at second base, who played a first-rate game, accepting every
+chance offered, and he had many. The out-field work was almost flawless,
+and it is very probable that if Hastie had not been playing so close up
+to the infield, Barton's home run might have been pulled down
+considerably.
+
+  THE GRADUATE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Round Table Fund.
+
+The vote in favor of turning over the money in hand to the trustees of
+Good Will Farm seems to be unanimous. And hence, in accordance with
+these instructions a formal transfer will be prepared, to be placed in
+the hands of these trustees. This transfer will set forth, 1, That the
+money is to be known as the Round Table Fund; 2, That it is to be
+invested and the proceeds used to help one or more students at Good
+Will, the application of said income to be left wholly to the trustees.
+There is to be, we believe, a girl's department at Good Will, and the
+trustees are to be left free to apply the income of the Fund toward the
+support and education of a girl, if their judgment at any time approves;
+3, The memorials, originally intended to buy stones for the school
+building foundation, will be indicated in the transfer, the name of each
+person or Chapter being mentioned.
+
+Details of this plan will be carried out at once, and the formal
+correspondence and the deed of transfer published here.
+
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+It is a Collection which no one who loves music should fail to own; it
+should find a place in every home. Never before, it may truthfully be
+said, has a song book been published at once so cheap, so good, and so
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+
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+
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+
+     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 many valuable data kindly supplied from the
+     official maps and road-books of the League of American Wheelmen.
+     Recognising 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.]
+
+One of the best trips in New England is to start from Hartford,
+Connecticut, run out through the northwestern corner of the State into
+Massachusetts, through Great Barrington, Lenox, and Pittsfield, and
+either to Springfield or back to Hartford or to the Hudson River. It is
+one of the best routes in the Berkshire Hills, and though there are some
+severe climbs, the varied scenery, the attractive towns, and the good
+roads make up for the few hills that must be walked. This route we shall
+give in the next two weeks.
+
+Leaving Hartford at the City Hall, run along Main Street, and follow the
+car tracks upwards of half a mile. At Albany Avenue turn to the left,
+and you will find the road direct to Talcott in good condition and with
+few hills, until you have passed Hartford Reservoir No. 2, where there
+is a steep climb over the hill by Talcott and down into Avon. It is
+impossible to ride this hill, and you must walk about half a mile.
+Unless you are somewhat used to riding, you are strongly advised to walk
+down part of the hill to Avon, though with great care it may be ridden.
+Cross the railroad at Avon, and run direct five miles to Canton. There
+are a few hills along this part of the road, but as the road-bed is in
+fairly good condition they can all be easily ridden.
+
+At Canton bear to the left and cross Farmington River, turning to the
+right and running up the west bank close by the railroad into New
+Hartford, always following the river and the railroad, sometimes between
+the two and sometimes to the west of the path. Turn finally, after
+passing Greenwood Pond, to the left of the fork, keeping to the railroad
+and leaving the river. There are one or two pretty steep hills here.
+Pleasant Valley, through which you pass next, is easy riding, and
+Winsted is soon reached. From Winsted to Canaan is very hilly in parts,
+and the rider is advised to walk up many of the hills. Leaving Long Lake
+on the left, follow the railroad out to Colebrook; then keep to the
+right at the fork, through Mill Brook--where there are some bad hills
+around Burr Mountain--leaving Bigelow Pond on the right, to the depot at
+Norfolk. Turn to the right at Norfolk, run out by Mill Pond, and take
+the left fork, running along the valley through West Norfolk to East
+Canaan, where, crossing the railroad, bear to the left, and follow the
+railroad itself into Canaan, crossing it once more before entering the
+town. Canaan is a somewhat extensive town, and there are good
+accommodations for the night. The distance is forty-one miles from
+Hartford.
+
+     NOTE.--Map of New York city asphalted streets in No. 809. Map of
+     route from New York to Tarrytown in No. 810. New York to Stamford,
+     Connecticut, in No. 811. New York to Staten Island in No. 812. New
+     Jersey from Hoboken to Pine Brook in No. 813. Brooklyn in No. 814.
+     Brooklyn to Babylon in No. 815. Brooklyn to Northport in No. 816.
+     Tarrytown to Poughkeepsie in No. 817. Poughkeepsie to Hudson in No.
+     818. Hudson to Albany in No. 819. Tottenville to Trenton in No.
+     820. Trenton to Philadelphia in No. 821. Philadelphia in No. 822.
+     Philadelphia-Wissahickon Route in No. 823. Philadelphia to West
+     Chester in No. 824. Philadelphia to Atlantic City--First Stage in
+     No. 825; Second Stage in No. 826. Philadelphia to Vineland--First
+     Stage in No. 827; Second Stage in No. 828. New York to
+     Boston--Second Stage in No. 829; Third Stage in No. 830; Fourth
+     Stage in No. 831; Fifth Stage in No. 832; Sixth Stage in No. 833.
+     Boston to Concord in No. 834. Boston in No. 835. Boston to
+     Gloucester in No. 836. Boston to Newburyport in No. 837. Boston to
+     New Bedford in No. 838. Boston to South Framingham in No. 839.
+     Boston to Nahant in No. 840. Boston to Lowell in No. 841. Boston to
+     Nantasket Beach in No. 842. Boston Circuit Ride in No. 843.
+     Philadelphia to Washington--First Stage in No. 844; Second Stage in
+     No. 845; Third Stage in No. 846; Fourth Stage in No. 847; Fifth
+     Stage in No. 848. City of Washington in No. 849. City of Albany in
+     No. 854; Albany to Fonda in No 855; Fonda to Utica in No. 856;
+     Utica to Syracuse in No. 857; Syracuse to Lyons in No. 858; Lyons
+     to Rochester in No. 859: Rochester to Batavia in No. 860; Batavia
+     to Buffalo in No. 861; Poughkeepsie to Newtown in No. 864; Newtown
+     to Hartford in No. 865; New Haven to Hartford in No. 866; Hartford
+     to Springfield in No. 867.
+
+
+
+
+[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.
+
+
+Yes, my dears, I agree with you that the weather is warm. It was cold
+not so very long ago; and whether cold or whether warm, we must take it
+as it comes. To complain about the weather, to fret over it, to fuss and
+to fidget, and make everybody else as well as ourselves uncomfortable in
+consequence, is very stupid.
+
+I have generally found that the heat or the cold, the wet weather or the
+dry, the windy or the cloudy day, affected me very little if I went
+calmly on and made the best of it. One's work should occupy one's
+thoughts and hands so fully that one has no time to be troubled about
+surroundings of atmosphere. The busy girl is happier than the indolent
+girl for the reason that her mind is taken up with something worth
+while.
+
+A little caution about fans. Don't fan so vigorously that you put
+yourself into a heat by the exertion. Never fan the back of your
+friend's neck if you are sitting behind her. Fan with a gentle steady
+motion, so that waves of air strike your own face, but not so that you
+send icy shivers down your neighbor's spine.
+
+On a very sultry day nothing is gained by drinking a great deal of
+ice-water. The more one drinks, the more thirsty one grows. A little
+water held in the mouth a moment, and allowed to trickle slowly down the
+throat, will relieve thirst more effectually than a gobletful hastily
+tossed off.
+
+I wonder if my girls are careful, in these sultry days, of the comfort
+of their pets? The dog and cat grow thirsty, and cannot help themselves,
+as we can. The little singing-bird droops if it has not fresh water for
+its bath and in its drinking-cup. Pets are a dear delight, but they must
+be looked after every day, and whoever undertakes the responsibility of
+making their little lives happy must have them on her mind. It is
+surprising to watch the growth of intelligence in birds when they are
+daily and lovingly cared for. Of course we expect intelligence in the
+dog and the cat, but the bird seems less responsive; yet nobody who
+loves a canary or a parrot, or any other caged though contented captive,
+will fail to see its wonderful powers if it is cared for gently.
+
+The question comes up every summer, how shall we best keep our homes
+cool during the sultry part of the day? Shall we close them and shut out
+the heat, or simply darken them and allow the air to come in? My way has
+been to open every window, both at the top and at the bottom, early in
+the morning, flooding the house with the sweet cool air. Then, about ten
+o'clock, or earlier, close the windows, except for a few inches at the
+bottom, and fasten shutters and blinds so that they will not fly open.
+Darken every room which you are not using until the sun goes down. But
+do not sit to read, sew, or practise in the dark. Your eyes need plenty
+of light. When you go into the darkened rooms, do so to rest, not to
+work.
+
+Lottie and Carrie ask if I like flowers on the table. Why, certainly.
+Flowers should always form a part of the table decoration, and one does
+not need a great many. A few roses in a bowl, a bunch of white pinks
+with some green leaves, daisies with their glory of white and gold,
+ferns, whatever you can most conveniently obtain at the moment, will
+adorn your table well. Only bear in mind that withering, dying flowers
+are an offence, and not a pleasure. You must have your flowers fresh
+every day, and the daughter of the house is the one who should attend to
+this, relieving her mother of every thought on the subject.
+
+  MARGARET E. SANGSTER.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+That Fatal Letter.
+
+The message was formed of all the words found in the letter that had
+more than one way of spelling, and also more than one meaning. Single
+letters were also used in the same way. Of these there was, however, but
+one, "R." The "H" was used simply to increase the difficulty of getting
+the clew. Connective words, of course, were omitted from the message. It
+was noticed, doubtless, that great care was used in avoiding in certain
+places words of double meaning and spelling. The awkwardness of this
+construction was the only clew, as where the letter said, "A man _of_
+this town," "in" being the more natural word, but, of course, according
+to the plan of the letter, not allowable in that place.
+
+"Your guilt is seen. You are chased. I sent draft to Belle Isle. Meet me
+there. Flee or you die."
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+     answered by the Editor of this column, and we should be glad to
+     hear from any of our club who can make helpful suggestions.
+
+HOW TO PREPARE GOLD FOR USE IN PHOTOGRAPHY.
+
+
+Several queries have been sent to the editor recently asking how to
+prepare gold for photographic use. Gold is one of the chemical elements.
+Its symbol is "Au," the first two letters of the word aurum, the Latin
+name for gold. Gold is used in photography in the form of chloride of
+gold. To make chloride of gold, pure gold is dissolved in a mixture of
+nitric and hydrochloric (muriatic) acid. This mixture is called
+"aqua-regia," from its being the only known solvent of gold. It is made
+by mixing one part of nitric acid, two parts of muriatic acid, and three
+parts of water. Gold dissolves very readily in this mixture.
+
+Chloride of gold may be made from gold-leaf (such as is used by
+dentists), gold coins, scraps of gold ornaments, etc. Where the amateur
+prepares his own gold about half the expense is saved. Put the gold into
+a glass vessel and pour over it eight times its weight of aqua-regia.
+Set the vessel in a dish of hot water, and let it stand on the back of
+the stove till the gold is entirely dissolved. Pour the solution into a
+porcelain crucible, and subject to heat till all the free acid is
+evaporated or driven off. After the acid is evaporated, add three or
+four drachms of distilled water and evaporate again. When the water is
+evaporated, enough distilled water must be added to make the solution up
+to a standard strength--one grain of gold to three drachms of water. If
+twenty-four grains of pure gold are used, add nine ounces of distilled
+water. Keep this solution in a dark place or in an opaque bottle. The
+bottle may be wrapped in black needle-paper, which will also protect it
+from the light.
+
+Gold coins and jewelry contain more or less alloy, but this does not
+seem to affect the print in any way. One grain of gold will tone from
+twenty to twenty-five cabinet prints. The chemical formula for chloride
+of gold is AuCl_{3}, meaning that a molecule of chloride of gold
+contains one atom of gold and three atoms of chlorine. In order to
+preserve the gold chloride longer, it is usually prepared with salt, and
+is called chloride of gold and sodium. It is in this form that it is
+sold for use in photographic work, the pure chloride of gold attracting
+and absorbing moisture from the air.
+
+The chloride of gold and sodium is prepared by dissolving common salt in
+a solution of chloride of gold and then evaporating the solution. Sodium
+chloro-aurate is also another name for this salt. Chloride of sodium is
+common salt, and the chemical formula is NaCl, meaning that it is
+composed of one part natrium (the Latin name for sodium) and one part
+chlorine. The chemical formula for chloride of gold and sodium is NaCl,
+AuCl_{3}+2H_{2}O, meaning that it is composed of one molecule of
+chloride of sodium, one molecule of chloride of gold, to which are added
+(+) two molecules of water. The chemical formula is also written in this
+way: NaAuCl_{4}+2H_{2}O. When chloride of gold and sodium is used for
+toning, a larger quantity by weight must be used than when the pure
+chloride of gold is used.
+
+A stock solution may be prepared by adding 15 grains of chloride of gold
+and sodium to 7-1/2 oz. of water. (By a "stock solution" is meant a
+solution that keeps for a long time, and may therefore be prepared in a
+large quantity.)
+
+The toning-bath is made by taking 3-1/2 oz. of water and pouring in the
+gold solution till the mixture will turn blue litmus-paper red. (About
+half an ounce will be sufficient.) To this mixture add bicarbonate of
+soda until it turns the red litmus back to blue. This bath should be
+prepared about half an hour before it is needed for toning. A saturated
+solution (see first paper on simple chemistry) should be made of
+bicarbonate of soda, and kept in stock.
+
+Bicarbonate of soda is a fine white powder, soluble in ten parts of
+water. It is used for neutralizing the excess of acid in gold
+toning-baths. Natural deposits of bicarbonate of soda are found in
+Africa, where it is called "trona," and in South America, where it is
+called "urao." Its chemical formula is HNaCO_{3}.
+
+Names of chemical elements mentioned and their atomic weight:
+
+                                            Atomic
+  Chemical Element.             Symbol.     Weight.
+  Carbon                          C           12
+  Chlorine                        Cl          35.5
+  Gold (Latin name Aurum)         Au         196
+  Hydrogen (standard weight)      H           11
+  Oxygen                          O           12
+  Sodium (Latin name Natrium)     Na          23
+
+Hydrogen is the lightest substance known, and an atom of hydrogen is
+used as the standard weight by which all other atoms of the chemical
+elements are weighed.
+
+     SIR KNIGHT SILAS LEON SMITH, New Orleans, La., asks for a formula
+     for making paper which can be exposed in the camera like a plate.
+     Calotype-paper is probably the paper which Sir Silas says he has
+     seen described, and which produces a positive picture when exposed
+     in the camera. The process is too long to describe in the space
+     devoted to the "Answers to Querists," but the formula may be found
+     in _Wilson's Cyclopedia of Photography_, which is in most public
+     libraries. Sir Silas sends a formula for sensitizing paper to
+     produce a red image, for which he will please accept thanks. The
+     formula will soon be published in the Camera Club, and credit
+     given.
+
+     SIR KNIGHT FRANK EVANS, JUN., sends the following formula for
+     developer, which he recommends both for plates and for bromide
+     paper.
+
+     EIKONOGEN DEVELOPER.
+
+     NO. 1.
+  Sulphite of Soda (Crystals)   3 oz.
+  Hot Water                    45  "
+
+     Thoroughly dissolve, then add 1 oz. of eikonogen.
+
+     No. 2.
+  Sal Soda       4 oz.
+  Water         15  "
+
+     To develop, take of No. 1, 3 oz.; No. 2, 1 oz.
+
+     This developer can be used over again.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Questions and Answers.
+
+Irving R. Kenyon asks what paper should be used and what rules should be
+followed by persons submitting manuscripts to editors. It is not a
+matter of paper or rules that determines the value of poetry or prose
+articles. True, there are a few rules, but they are those dictated by
+convenience chiefly. For instance, write on one side of the paper only.
+Do not roll manuscripts. Fold them. Use common letter-paper, any
+convenient size. Write plainly, punctuate according to your judgment,
+and insert paragraphs where needed. If you can do so, have your
+manuscript typewritten. This is not a condition to its acceptance;
+merely a more easily read form for it. Put your name and full address at
+the top of the first sheet. A long letter to the editor is unnecessary.
+You can say that the manuscript is submitted at the publisher's regular
+rates, if you wish. These rates vary from 1/2 to 3 cents per word, with
+perhaps 1 cent per word as the average. Newspapers pay by the column,
+but rarely more than 1/8 cent per word. Anything beyond these simple
+rules is needless. Whether or not your production is accepted depends on
+many conditions: Its merit; its suitability to the publication to which
+you send it; the supply of such matter which the editor has already in
+hand, etc.
+
+Archibald R. Smith asks if there is a national flower, and if there is
+none, which is the favorite American flower? There is no national
+flower, and no pronouncedly favorite one. Efforts are always making to
+have a flower selected as the national one, but they meet with
+indifferent success. Everybody seems busy, and there is no authority
+competent to decide, save, perhaps, Congress, and that is busier than
+the rest of us. The golden-rod and the rose have, we believe, their
+partisans. Harry R. Harbeck, 183 Elm Street, Albany. N. Y., is
+interested in photography, and wants to hear from others who have
+amateur photographs of interesting spots near their homes. He has many
+good Albany views. Edward C. Wood, 156 School Lane, Germantown,
+Philadelphia, Pa., is well posted on the medals and souvenirs prepared
+to sell to visitors to the United States Mint in his city, and kindly
+offers to procure for members any of them at actual cost. There are
+fac-similes of the Liberty Bell and medals bearing the Lord's Prayer.
+
+Forest Gaines, 703 North State Street, Champaign, Ill., wants to buy
+Nos. 644 and 655, March 1 and May 17, 1892, HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE. T. J.
+Pleavin, 61 Bland Street, Alexandra Park, Manchester, England, wants to
+hear from members describing their home scenery, industries, and
+interests, and he promises to reply in the same line. E. Raymond
+Jefferis is informed that the Table has at present no badges in stock.
+If new ones are in hand in future, due notice will be given on this
+page. David Blondheim says he has read _Recreations in Botany_,
+recommended in the "Handy Book," and now asks for definitions of genus,
+family, species, and classes. Genus is a group, having so many points of
+structure in common that they receive a common name. A genus may not be
+the lowest group, for all the species of oak may form a single genus
+only. In the animal kingdom the lion, tiger, and leopard species form a
+single genus, namely, the cat. A family is a group of organisms, more
+comprehensive than the genus, because based on fewer points of likeness.
+A species is an ideal or single group that proceeds from a single
+ancestor, and reproduces itself in readily identified forms, as the dog,
+the rose. Classes are general divisions of things having general points
+in common, but capable of being subdivided into species, genus, and
+families. Suppose you write to the author, in care of the publishers,
+suggesting definitions of these terms in future editions.
+
+The centre of population of the earth is asked for. It would be
+impossible, we think, to determine such a point. Carrie Brush, Chelsea,
+Iowa, is interested in natural history, and wants specimens and
+correspondents. Harry J. Blunt asks again that question about entering
+the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Apply to your member of Congress. Only
+one cadet is allowed from each Congressional district at one time. There
+is no expense attached. Each cadet receives a salary equal to his board,
+tuition, and uniforms. Edith F. Morris is secretary of the New York
+Stamp Exchange, which issues comprehensive rules. If you want these
+rules, enclose a stamp to her at 95 Third Avenue, New York.
+
+
+
+
+[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.
+
+
+One of the leading English philatelic journals says, "Some day we may be
+able to publish a list of postmaster dealers" (those who make or cause
+to be made new surcharges, etc.). Such a list would be most instructive.
+It would explain much, and open the eyes of many collectors to what is
+going on in certain quarters.
+
+Of the rare wood-block Cape of Good Hope errors it has been definitely
+ascertained that only 201 of the 1d. error and 386 of the 4d. error were
+printed. Each sheet contained 64 stamps, and only one stamp on each of
+the 587 sheets was an error. It is wonderful that any copies should have
+survived.
+
+One of the Boston papers claims that the P.O. clerk who sold the first
+U. S. stamp in 1847 and the first U. S. envelope in 1853 is alive, and
+in the Boston Post-office to-day. His name is James Lafitte Smith,
+seventy-nine years of age, and he has been in the service of the U. S.
+Post-office Department for more than fifty years.
+
+The movement to encourage collecting "straight" issues of stamps and to
+disregard minute varieties is gaining ground. One dealer in New York
+printed a catalogue omitting different perforations, etc., etc., and his
+album corresponds with the catalogue. Now another of the large dealers
+has sent out circulars notifying customers of a catalogue and an album
+on the same lines. It is a step in the right direction. Let the
+millionaires--and there are many of them--who are stamp-collectors, make
+up albums showing different perforations, inverted water-marks, double
+impressions, etc. They have the time and the money necessary. But
+ordinary collectors of moderate means are not wise in trying to follow
+them. The whole tendency hitherto has been to force the money values of
+stamps into prominence, and naturally this has attracted the attention
+of speculators. The pleasure in collecting stamps has been lost sight
+of. I hope the corner has been turned.
+
+     HARRY T. LEES.--Send your address to the stamp editor.
+
+     G. TARLETAN.--Before postage-stamps and stamped envelopes were used
+     it was the custom to collect the postage from the receivers of the
+     letters. The postage was charged according to weight and distance.
+     For instance, I have a number of letters sent from Illinois to New
+     York, on which the postage was $1.87-1/2 each. The same letter
+     could now be sent for 4c. In the few cases (comparatively) where
+     the postage was prepaid the postmaster either wrote the word
+     "Paid," or else printed on the letter "Paid 5c." (10c., 25c.,
+     etc.). As such letters are neither stamped envelopes nor do they
+     bear adhesive stamps, they are not collected by philatelists.
+     Consequently they have no value.
+
+     WURTEMBERG.--You say you have a "complete" set of _unused_
+     Wurtemberg stamps. If you mean a set from 1851 to date, you have a
+     fortune in your grasp. Some of the earlier issues, used, sell for
+     5c. or 10c. each, but unused they are worth $50 or $100 each.
+
+  PHILATUS.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Ivory Soap]
+
+The frequent use of a good soap like the Ivory will purify the
+complexion as no cosmetic can.
+
+THE PROCTER & GAMBLE CO., CIN'TI.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: THOMPSON'S EYE WATER]
+
+
+
+
+=Second-hand printing-presses.= All sizes and makes. Catalogue free. F. L.
+Garbutt, Garbutt, N.Y.
+
+
+
+
+By CAPTAIN CHARLES KING
+
+CADET DAYS.
+
+A Story of West Point. Illustrated. Post 8vo, Cloth, $1.25.
+
+CAMPAIGNING WITH CROOK,
+
+And Stories of Army Life. Illustrated. Post 8vo, Cloth, $1.25.
+
+BETWEEN THE LINES.
+
+A Story of the War. Illustrated by GILBERT GAUL. Post 8vo, Cloth, $1.25.
+
+A WAR-TIME WOOING.
+
+A Story. Illustrated by R. F. ZOGBAUM. Post 8vo, Cloth, $1.00.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+By THOMAS W. KNOX
+
+THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE LEVANT.
+
+Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through Morocco, Algeria, Tunis,
+Greece, and Turkey, with Visits to the Islands of Rhodes and Cyprus, and
+the Site of Ancient Troy. Illustrated. Square 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental,
+$3.00.
+
+_THE "BOY TRAVELLERS" SERIES._
+
+Copiously Illustrated. Square 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $3.00 per volume.
+
+ADVENTURES OF TWO YOUTHS--
+
+  IN SOUTHERN EUROPE.
+  IN CENTRAL EUROPE.
+  IN NORTHERN EUROPE.
+  IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
+  IN MEXICO.
+  IN AUSTRALASIA.
+  ON THE CONGO.
+  IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE.
+  IN SOUTH AMERICA.
+  IN CENTRAL AFRICA.
+  IN EGYPT AND PALESTINE.
+  IN CEYLON AND INDIA.
+  IN SIAM AND JAVA.
+  IN JAPAN AND CHINA.
+
+_OTHER BOOKS BY COLONEL KNOX:_
+
+Hunting Adventures on Land and Sea.
+
+2 vols. Copiously Illustrated. Square 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $2.50
+each.
+
+  THE YOUNG NIMRODS IN NORTH AMERICA.
+  THE YOUNG NIMRODS AROUND THE WORLD.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+HARPER & BROTHERS, Publishers, New York.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  "IF FLOWERS HAD A LANGUAGE, AS HAS OFTENTIMES BEEN SAID,
+  I WONDER IF THE BUTTERCUPS WOULD CRY ALOUD FOR BREAD?"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+SLEPT IN THE HEN-COOP.
+
+"Papa, is Mrs. Bigelow very poor?"
+
+"No, Cedric, Mrs. Bigelow is well off; don't you know what a nice house
+she has?"
+
+"But she sleeps in the hen-coop, papa."
+
+"Why, Cedric!"
+
+"She said she did."
+
+"What do you mean?"
+
+"Don't you remember when she was here to dinner night before last she
+excused herself, and said she must go home early because she went to bed
+with the chickens!"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ELDERLY GENTLEMAN. "Well, my son, can you tell me what little boys are
+good for, anyway?"
+
+BOY. "Yes, sir; they're good to make men out of."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+He was a delicate young man in a pink shirt and duck trousers, both of
+which he wore in a pompous and conceited manner. He was seated in the
+train dangling his tennis racquet, and busily amusing a number of bright
+young ladies and gentlemen of his party.
+
+"Ah, how good! Here's the conductor. Watch me astonish him."
+
+"Ticket, sir," said the conductor.
+
+"My dear man," said the young man, "my--er--face is my ticket."
+
+The conductor smiled and looked around at the young man's friends, and
+then, in a polite and apologetic manner, said, "I beg your pardon,
+ladies and gentlemen, but my orders are to punch all tickets, and I'm
+afraid I might destroy this ticket so much that I can't turn it in at
+the end of the run."
+
+Here the young man colored redder than his shirt, and hastily produced
+his ticket amid shouts of laughter from his friends.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The penny-in-the-slot-machine can be found in the remotest portions of
+the backwoods, and sometimes it is about the only thing to remind one of
+civilization that can be found there.
+
+A weary hunting party stopped at a small hotel off in the backwoods not
+long ago, and wishing to remove the evidences of their long tramp before
+supper, found after washing that to secure a towel they would be obliged
+to make use of a slot-machine that stood next to the wash-basin. The
+sign read, "To obtain a clean towel put a penny in the slot, and pull
+the drawer slowly out." One of the party was somewhat of a wag, and
+procuring all the coppers he could gather he proceeded to abstract the
+towels one at a time. He had reached the fifth towel when the proprietor
+entered to wash his hands. He gazed at the man with the five towels in
+astonishment. The wag laughingly complimented the proprietor upon his
+enterprise in selling new towels for such a little money. It is needless
+to say the proprietor later put up a sign that read, "For the use of a
+clean towel put a penny in the slot."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Every lover of art knows of the celebrated works of Meissonier, the
+painter. Now Meissonier not only could paint, but he could tell a good
+story, and he was especially fond of relating this little anecdote of
+his gardener, whose horticultural erudition was remarkable. A smattering
+of learning is a dangerous thing, and Meissonier's gardener had a little
+knowledge of the Latin tongue, which he was fond of using to name his
+different plants. Meissonier for a long time was sceptical of the
+correctness of his gardener's Latin, so one day he set a trap for him by
+giving him the roe of a red herring and asking what seed it was. Without
+hesitating the gardener gave it a long Latin name, and promised that it
+would bloom in about three weeks. Meissonier chuckled to himself, and
+agreed to inspect the blooms in three weeks or more. When the time came
+the painter questioned his learned horticulturist about it, and that
+party led him into the hot-house to an enormous flower-pot. There, sure
+enough, were the blooms in the nature of the heads of six red herrings
+just emerging from the dirt in the pot. Meissonier breathed a deep sigh,
+and shook his gardener's hand, exclaiming, "What a wonderful man you
+are!"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+[Illustration: A TAIL OF WOE, OR THE MONKEY WRENCH.]
+
+
+
+
+
+End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Round Table, June 16, 1896, by Various
+
+*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 58167 ***