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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Harper's Round Table, December 1, 1896 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: August 1, 2019 [EBook #60027] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S ROUND TABLE, DEC 1, 1896 *** - - - - -Produced by Annie R. McGuire - - - - - - - - -[Illustration: HARPER'S ROUND TABLE] - -Copyright, 1896, by HARPER & BROTHERS. All Rights Reserved. - - * * * * * - -PUBLISHED WEEKLY. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1896. FIVE CENTS A -COPY. - -VOL. XVIII.--NO. 892. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. - - * * * * * - - - - -[Illustration] - -THE MATERIALIZATION OF CHARLES AND MIVANWAY. - -BY JEROME K. JEROME. - - -The fault that most people will find with this story is that it is -unconvincing. Its scheme is improbable, its atmosphere artificial. To -confess that the thing really happened--not as I am about to set it -down, for the pen of the professional writer cannot but adorn and -embroider, even to the detriment of his material--is, I am well aware, -only an aggravation of my offence; for the facts of life are the -impossibilities of fiction. A truer artist would have left this story -alone, or at most have kept it for the irritation of his private circle. -My lower instinct is to make use of it. A very old man told me the tale; -he was landlord of the Cromlech Arms, the only inn of a small, -rock-sheltered village on the northeast coast of Cornwall, and had been -so for nine-and-forty years. It is called the Cromlech Hotel now, and is -under new management, and during the season some four coach-loads of -tourists sit down each day to _table d'hôte_ lunch in the low-ceilinged -parlor. But I am speaking of some time ago when the place was a mere -fishing-harbor, undiscovered by the guide-books. - -The old landlord talked, and I harkened, the while we both sat drinking -thin ale from earthen-ware mugs late one summer's evening, on the bench -that runs along the wall just beneath the latticed windows; and during -the many pauses when the old landlord stopped to puff his pipe in -silence and lay in a new stock of breath, there came to us the deep -voices of the Atlantic, and often, mingled with the pompous roar of the -big breakers further out, we would hear the rippling laugh of some small -wave that, maybe, had crept in to listen to the tale the landlord told. - - * * * * * - -The mistake that Charles Seabohn, junior partner of the firm of Seabohn -& Son, civil engineers, of London and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Mivanway -Evans, youngest daughter of the Rev. Thomas Evans, pastor of the -Presbyterian church at Bristol, made originally was in marrying too -young. Charles Seabohn could hardly have been twenty years of age, and -Mivanway could have been little more than seventeen, when they first met -upon the cliffs two miles above the Cromlech Arms. Young Charles -Seabohn, coming upon the village in the course of a walking-tour, had -decided to spend a day or two exploring the picturesque coast; and -Mivanway's father had hired a neighboring farm-house wherein to spend -his summer vacation. Early one morning--for, at twenty, one takes -exercise before breakfast--as young Charles Seabohn lay upon the cliffs, -watching the white waters come and go upon the black rocks beneath him, -he became aware of a form rising from the waves. The figure was too far -off for him to see it clearly, but, judging from the costume, it was a -female figure, and promptly the mind of Charles, poetically inclined, -turned to thoughts of Venus or Aphrodite, as he, being a gentleman of -delicate taste, would have preferred to term her. He saw the figure -disappear behind a headland, but still waited. In about ten minutes or a -quarter of an hour it reappeared clothed in the garments of the -eighteen-sixties, and came towards him. Hidden from sight himself behind -a group of rocks, he could watch it at his leisure ascending the steep -path from the beach; and an exceedingly sweet and dainty figure it would -have appeared even to eyes less susceptible than those of twenty. -Sea-water--I stand open to correction--is not, I believe, considered -anything of a substitute for curling-tongs, but to the hair of the -youngest Miss Evans it had given an additional and most fascinating -wave. Nature's red and white had been most cunningly laid on, and the -large childish eyes seemed to be searching the world for laughter with -which to feed a pair of delicious, pouting lips. Charles's upturned -face, petrified into admiration, appeared to be just the sort of thing -for which they were on the lookout. A startled "Oh!" came from the -slightly parted lips, followed by the merriest of laughs, which in its -turn was suddenly stopped by a deep blush. Then the youngest Miss Evans -looked offended, as though the whole affair had been Charles's fault, -which is the way of women. And Charles, feeling himself guilty under -that stern gaze of indignation, rose awkwardly and apologized meekly, -whether for being on the cliffs at all or for having got up too early he -would have been unable to explain. - -The youngest Miss Evans graciously accepted the apology thus tendered -with a bow, and passed on, and Charles stood staring after her till the -valley gathered her into its spreading arms and hid her from his view. - -That was the beginning of all things--I am speaking of the universe as -viewed from the stand-point of Charles and Mivanway. - -Six months later they were man and wife; or perhaps it would be more -correct to say boy and wifelet. Seabohn senior counselled delay, but was -overruled by his junior partner. The Rev. Mr. Evans, in common with most -theologians, possessed a goodly supply of unmarried daughters and a -limited income. Personally he saw no necessity for postponement of the -marriage. - -The month's honeymoon was spent in the New Forest. That was a mistake to -begin with. The New Forest in February is depressing, and they had -chosen the loneliest spot they could find. A fortnight in Paris or Rome -would have been more helpful. As yet they had nothing to talk about -except love, and that they had been talking and writing about steadily -all through the winter. On the tenth morning Charles yawned, and -Mivanway had a quiet half-hour's cry about it in her own room. On the -sixteenth evening Mivanway, feeling irritable, and wondering why (as -though fifteen damp, chilly days in the New Forest were not sufficient -to make any woman irritable), requested Charles not to disarrange her -hair; and Charles, speechless with astonishment, went out into the -garden and swore before all the stars that he would never caress -Mivanway's hair again as long as he lived. - -One supreme folly they had conspired to commit even before the -commencement of the honeymoon. Charles, after the manner of very young -lovers, had earnestly requested Mivanway to impose upon him some task. -He desired to do something great and noble to show his devotion. Dragons -were the things he had in his mind, though he may not have been aware of -it. Dragons also, no doubt, flitted through Mivanway's brain; but -unfortunately for lovers, the supply of dragons has lapsed. Mivanway, -liking the conceit, however, thought over it, and then decided that -Charles must give up smoking. She had discussed the matter with her -favorite sister, and that was the only thing the girls could think of. -Charles's face fell. He suggested some more herculean labor, some -sacrifice more worthy to lay at Mivanway's feet. But Mivanway had -spoken. She might think of some other task, but the smoking prohibition -would in any case remain. She dismissed the subject with a pretty -hauteur that would have graced Marie Antoinette. - -Thus tobacco, the good angel of all men, no longer came each day to -teach Charles patience and amiability, and he fell into the ways of -short temper and selfishness. - -They took up their residence in a suburb of Newcastle, and this was also -unfortunate for them, because there the society was scanty and -middle-aged, and in consequence they had still to depend much upon their -own resources. They knew little of life, less of each other, and nothing -at all of themselves. Of course they quarrelled, and each quarrel left -the wound a little deeper than before. No kindly experienced friend was -at hand to laugh at them. Mivanway would write down all her sorrows in a -bulky diary, which made her feel worse; so that before she had written -for ten minutes her pretty unwise head would drop upon her dimpled arm, -and the book, the proper place for which was behind the fire, would -become damp with her tears; and Charles, his day's work done and the -clerks gone, would linger in his dingy office and hatch trifles into -troubles. - -The end came one evening after dinner, when in the heat of a silly -squabble Charles boxed Mivanway's ears. That was very ungentlemanly -conduct, and he was most heartily ashamed of himself the moment he had -done it, which was right and proper for him to be. The only excuse to be -urged on his behalf is that girls sufficiently pretty to have been -spoiled from childhood by every one about them can at times be intensely -irritating. Mivanway rushed up to her room and locked herself in; -Charles flew after her to apologize, but only arrived in time to have -the door slammed in his face. - -It had only been the merest touch; a boy's muscles move quicker than his -thoughts. But to Mivanway it was a blow. This is what it had come to! -This was the end of a man's love! - -She spent half the night writing in the precious diary, with the result -that in the morning she came down feeling more bitter than when she had -gone up. Charles had walked the streets of Newcastle all night, and that -had not done him any good. He met her with an apology combined with an -excuse, which was bad policy. Mivanway, of course, fastened upon the -excuse, and the quarrel recommenced. She mentioned that she hated him, -he hinted that she had never loved him, and she retorted that he had -never loved her. Had there been anybody by to knock their heads together -and suggest breakfast, the thing might have blown over; but the combined -effect of a sleepless night and an empty stomach upon each proved -disastrous. Their words came poisoned from their brains, and they -believed they meant what they said. That afternoon Charles sailed from -Hull on a ship bound for the Cape, and that evening Mivanway arrived at -the paternal home in Bristol with two trunks and the curt information -that she and Charles had separated forever. The next morning both -thought of a soft speech to say to the other, but the next morning was -just twenty-four hours too late. - -Eight days afterward Charles's ship was run down in a fog near the coast -of Portugal, and every soul on board was supposed to have perished. -Mivanway read his name among the list of lost. - -By good luck, however, Charles and one other man were rescued by a small -trading-vessel, and landed in Algiers. There Charles learned of his -supposed death, and the idea occurred to him to leave the report -uncontradicted. For one thing, it solved a problem that had been -troubling him. He could trust his father to see to it that his own small -fortune, with possibly something added, was handed over to Mivanway, and -she would be free, if she wished, to marry again. He was convinced that -she did not care for him, and that she had read of his death with a -sense of relief. He would make a new life for himself and forget her. - -He continued his journey to the Cape, and once there he soon gained for -himself an excellent position. The colony was young, engineers were -welcome, and Charles knew his business. He found the life interesting -and exciting. The rough, dangerous up-country work suited him, and the -time passed swiftly. - -But in thinking he would forget Mivanway, he had not taken into -consideration his own character, which at bottom was a very gentlemanly -character. Out on the lonely veldt he found himself dreaming of her. The -memory of her pretty face and merry laugh came back to him at all hours. -Occasionally he would rate her roundly, but that only meant that he was -sore because of the thought of her; what he was really rating was -himself and his own folly. Softened by the distance, her quick temper, -her very petulance became mere added graces; and if we consider women as -human beings, and not as angels, it was certainly a fact that he had -lost a very sweet and lovable woman. - -Ah! if only she were by his side now--now that he was a man, capable of -appreciating her, and not a foolish, selfish boy. This thought would -come to him as he sat smoking at the door of his tent, and then he would -regret that the stars looking down upon him were not the same stars that -were watching her; it would have made him feel nearer to her. For, -though young people may not credit it, one grows more sentimental as one -grows older--at least some of us do, and they, perhaps, not the least -wise. - -One night he had a vivid dream of her. She came to him and held out her -hand, and he took it, and they said good-by to one another. They were -standing on the cliff where he had first met her, and one of them was -going upon a long journey, though he was not sure which. - -In the towns men laugh at dreams, but away from civilization we listen -more readily to the strange tales that Nature whispers to us. Charles -Seabohn recollected this dream when he awoke in the morning. - -"She is dying," he said, "and she has come to wish me good-by." - -He made up his mind to return to England at once; perhaps if he made -haste he would be in time to kiss her. But he could not start that day, -for work was to be done, and Charles Seabohn, lover though he still was, -had grown to be a man, and knew that work must not be neglected even -though the heart may be calling. So for a day or two he staid, and on -the third night he dreamed of Mivanway again, and this time she lay -within the little chapel at Bristol where, on Sunday mornings, he had -often sat with her. He heard her father's voice reading the burial -service over her, and the sister she had loved best was sitting beside -him, crying softly! Then Charles knew that there was no need for him to -hasten. So he remained to finish his work. That done, he would return to -England. He would like again to stand upon the cliffs above the little -Cornish village where they had first met. - -Thus, a few months later, Charles Seabohn--or Charles Denning, as he -called himself--aged and bronzed, not easily recognizable by those who -had not known him well, walked into the Cromlech Arms, as six years -before he had walked in with his knapsack on his back, and asked for a -room, saying he would be stopping in the village for a short while. - -In the evening he strolled out and made his way to the cliffs. It was -twilight when he reached the place of rocks to which the fancy-loving -Cornish folk had given the name of the Witches' Caldron. It was from -this spot that he had first watched Mivanway coming to him from the sea. - -He took the pipe from his mouth, and leaning against a rock whose rugged -outline seemed fashioned into the face of an old friend, gazed down the -narrow pathway now growing indistinct in the dim light. And as he gazed, -the figure of Mivanway came slowly up the pathway from the sea and -paused before him. - -He felt no fear. He had half expected it. Her coming was the complement -of his dreams. She looked older and graver than he remembered her, but -for that the face was the sweeter. - -He wondered if she would speak to him, but she only looked at him with -sad eyes; and he stood there in the shadow of the rocks without moving, -and she passed on into the twilight. - -Had he, on his return, cared to discuss the subject with his landlord, -had he even shown himself a ready listener--for the old man loved to -gossip--he might have learned that a young widow-lady named Mrs. Charles -Seabohn, accompanied by an unmarried sister, had lately come to reside -in the neighborhood, having, upon the death of the former tenant, taken -the lease of a small farm-house sheltered in the valley a mile beyond -the village; and that her favorite evening's walk was to the sea and -back by the steep footway leading past the Witches' Caldron. - -Had he followed the figure of Mivanway into the valley, he would have -known that out of sight of the Witches' Caldron it took to running fast -till it reached a welcome door, and fell panting into the arms of -another figure that had hastened out to meet it. - -"My dear," said the older woman, "you are trembling like a leaf. What -has happened?" - -"I have seen him!" answered Mivanway. - -"Seen whom?" - -"Charles." - -"Charles!" repeated the other, looking at Mivanway as though she thought -her mad. - -"His spirit, I mean," explained Mivanway, in an awed voice. "It was -standing in the shadow of the rocks, in the exact spot where we first -met. It looked older and more careworn; but oh! Margaret, so sad and -reproachful." - -"My dear," said her sister, leading her in, "you are over-wrought. I -wish we had never come back to this house." - -"Oh, but I was not frightened," answered Mivanway. "I have been -expecting it every evening. I am so glad it came. Perhaps it will come -again, and I can ask it to forgive me." - -So next night Mivanway, though much against her sister's wishes and -advice, persisted in her usual walk, and Charles, at the same twilight -hour, started from the inn. - -Again Mivanway saw him standing in the shadow of the rocks. Charles had -made up his mind that if the thing happened again he would speak; but -when the silent figure of Mivanway, clothed in the fading light, stopped -and gazed at him, his will failed him. - -That it was the spirit of Mivanway standing before him he had not the -faintest doubt. One may dismiss other people's ghosts as the fantasies -of a weak brain, but one knows one's own to be realities; and Charles -for the last five years had mingled with a people whose dead dwelt about -them. Once, drawing his courage around him, he made to speak, but as he -did so, the figure of Mivanway shrank from him, and only a sigh escaped -his lips; and hearing that, the figure of Mivanway turned, and again -passed down the path into the valley, leaving Charles gazing after it. - -But the third night both arrived at the trysting-spot with -determination screwed up to the sticking-point. Charles was the first to -speak. As the figure of Mivanway came towards him with its eyes fixed -sadly on him, he moved from the shadow of the rocks, and stood before -it. - -"Mivanway!" he said. - -"Charles," replied the figure of Mivanway. Both spoke in an awed whisper -suitable to the circumstances, and each stood gazing sorrowfully upon -the other. "Are you happy?" asked Mivanway. - -The question strikes one as somewhat farcical, but it must be remembered -that Mivanway was the daughter of a gospeller of the old school, and had -been brought up to beliefs that were not then out of date. - -"As happy as I deserve to be," was the sad reply; and the answer--the -inference was not complimentary to Charles's deserts--struck a chill to -Mivanway's heart. "How could I be happy, having lost you?" went on the -voice of Charles. - -Now this speech fell very pleasantly upon Mivanway's ears. In the first -place it relieved her of her despair regarding Charles's future. No -doubt his present suffering was keen, but there was hope for him. -Secondly, it was a decidedly "pretty" speech for a ghost, and I am not -at all sure that Mivanway was the kind of woman to be averse to a little -mild flirtation with the spirit of Charles. - -"Can you forgive me?" asked Mivanway. - -"Forgive _you_?" replied Charles, in a tone of awed astonishment. "Can -you forgive me? I was a brute--a fool--I was not worthy to love you." A -most gentlemanly spirit it seemed to be. Mivanway forgot to be afraid of -it. - -"We were both to blame," answered Mivanway. But this time there was less -submission in her tones. "But I was the most at fault. I was a petulant -child. I did not know how deeply I loved you." - -"You loved me?" repeated the voice of Charles, and the voice lingered -over the words. - -"Surely you never doubted it," answered the voice of Mivanway. "I shall -love you always and ever." - -The figure of Charles sprang forward as though it would clasp the ghost -of Mivanway in its arms, but halted a step or two off. "Bless me before -you go," he said; and with uncovered head the figure of Charles knelt to -the figure of Mivanway. - -Really ghosts could be exceedingly nice when they liked. Mivanway bent -graciously towards her shadowy suppliant, and as she did so, her eye -caught sight of something on the grass beside it; that something was a -well-colored meerschaum pipe. There was no mistaking it for anything -else even in that treacherous night; it lay glistening where Charles, in -falling upon his knees, had jerked it from his breast pocket. - -Charles, following Mivanway's eyes, saw it also, and the memory of the -prohibition against smoking came back. - -Without stopping to consider the futility of the action--nay, the direct -confession implied thereby--he instinctively grabbed at the pipe, and -rammed it back into his pocket; and then an avalanche of mingled -understanding and bewilderment, fear and joy, swept Mivanway's brain -before it. She felt she must do one of two things--laugh or scream, and -go on screaming; and she laughed. Peal after peal of laughter she sent -echoing among the rocks, and Charles, springing to his feet, was just in -time to catch her as she fell forward, a dead weight into his arms. - -Ten minutes later the eldest Miss Evans, hearing heavy footsteps, went -to the door. She saw what she took to be the spirit of Charles Seabohn -staggering under the weight of the lifeless body of Mivanway, and the -sight not unnaturally alarmed her. Charles's suggestion of a stimulant, -however, sounded human, and the urgent need of attending to Mivanway -kept her mind from dwelling upon problems tending towards insanity. - -Charles carried Mivanway to her room and laid her upon the bed. "I'll -leave her with you," he whispered to the eldest Miss Evans. "It will be -better for her not to see me until she is quite recovered. She has had a -shock." - -Charles waited in the dark parlor for what seemed to him an exceedingly -long time. But at last the eldest Miss Evans returned. - -"She's all right now," were the welcome words he heard. - -"I'll go and see her," he said. - -And the eldest Miss Evans, left alone, sat down and wrestled with the -conviction that she was dreaming. - - - - -MODELLING IN CLAY. - -BY J. HARRY ADAMS. - - -The boy or girl on whom nature has bestowed the natural talent and -liking for art and art-work, will find clay-modelling a fascinating and -pleasing branch to follow. - -[Illustration: FIG. 1.] - -To become a perfect modeller, and finally a sculptor, requires years of -patience and perseverance to accomplish the highest degree that can be -aimed at; and to successfully carry out the most minute detail -accurately, necessitates a great deal of patient study and close -application to the work. - -To copy simple objects in clay, carrying out the detail and general line -in quite a satisfactory manner, is not a difficult matter, and with some -clay, a few tools, and the skeletons or supports, the amateur should not -meet with any great obstacle if the following descriptions and -instructions are accepted and practised. - -It is not possible to give the young modeller the complete -demonstration, but the primary helps can be suggested, so that, if -carried out in the right manner and by the worker with brains, minute -features in the detail can be accomplished that only the inventive brain -of the young artist would grasp and use to good advantage. - -[Illustration: FIG. 2.] - -Very few tools are necessary at the beginning, and those shown in Nos. -1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, Fig. 5, are a full complement for any beginner. -The first four are wire tools, made of spring steel or brass wire, about -which fine wire is wrapped; the ends of the wires are securely bound to -the end of a round wooden handle, and sometimes for convenience two ends -are made fast to a single handle; and these tools are called -double-enders, and are used in roughing out the clay in the first stages -of the work. No. 5 is a boxwood tool with one serrated edge, and is used -for finishing. The tools shown in Nos. 6 and 7 are of steel, and are of -use on plaster, where others would not be sufficiently durable. Any of -these tools can be purchased at an art-material store for a few cents -each, except the steel tools, which are more expensive. - -A stand or pedestal will be necessary on which to place the clay model, -unless perhaps it should be a medallion, which may be worked over on a -table. - -[Illustration: FIG. 3.] - -Fig. 6 is a stand that can be made by any boy from a few pieces of pine -two inches square, and a top board one inch and a half in thickness, -and arranged with a central shaft that may be raised or lowered, and to -the top of which a platform is securely attached. - -The movable shaft can have some holes bored through it from side to -side, through which a small iron pin may be adjusted to hold the -platform at a desired height. Clay can be purchased at the art stores by -the pound, or in the country a very good quality of light slate-colored -clay may sometimes be found along the edges of brooks, or in swampy -places where running water has washed away the dirt and gravel, leaving -the clear deposit of clay in the consistency of putty. - -[Illustration: FIG. 4.] - -Supports which the clay models are built upon can be made of wood and -wire, as the requirements necessitate. That for the head is shown in -Fig. 1. Nearly every clay model of any size will need some support, as -clay is heavy and settles, and if not properly supported will soon -become distorted, and the composition spoiled. Add to the paraphernalia -some old soft cloths that can be applied wet to the clay, a pair of -calipers, and a small trowel or spatula. - -To model well, the art of drawing is constantly used, the idea of form -is continually brought into play, so the knowledge of drawing is -essential to the good modeller. To begin with, choose some simple object -to copy, such as a vase or some small ornament, then when a satisfactory -result has been obtained, select something a trifle more difficult, such -as a hand or foot. - -Plaster heads, hands, feet, and all parts of the human body, as well as -animals and flower pieces, can be purchased at the art stores, but if -they are not available something that may be at hand in which artistic -merit is evident may be chosen as a model. - -When copying a head obtain a bust support on which to work the clay, and -a very simple and strong one can be made from a piece of board, two -sticks, and a short piece of pipe wired to the top end of the upright -stick, Fig. 1. - -To carry out the proportions of a bust similar to Fig. 4, the clay can -be packed about the support much after the manner shown in Fig. 2. This -will be the support for the clay. - -With a lump of clay and the fingers form the general outline as shown in -Fig. 2 for the head, then with the wire tools begin to work away the -clay in places so as to follow the lines of the model. With the calipers -measurements can be taken from the plaster head and used advantageously -in carrying out the accuracy of the clay model. Turn the plaster model -and clay copy occasionally, so that all sides may be presented and -closely followed in line and detail. - -Modelling differs from drawing and painting in that every side of the -model is visible, while only the face of the painting is presented to -the eye, where the impression of form and outline is worked out on a -flat surface. - -The contour of proportion is the most difficult part of modelling, and -for this reason it is to the student and amateur one of the most -beneficial branches of the fine arts. Having successfully mastered the -head, next attempt a foot from a plaster cast. Select a simple foot, and -afterwards a more elaborate subject, such as a whole figure, can be -tried. - -[Illustration: FIG. 5.] - -With the wire modelling-tools and the fingers begin to work away the -clay to obtain the general outline and form; continue this in a rough -manner, until a perfect composition is obtained that compares favorably -with the original model; the finishing-touches may then be applied, and -the detail worked up more carefully. - -Never complete one part and leave the remaining ones until later; always -work up the model uniformly, adding a little here and there, or taking -away, as may be necessary, and so developing the total composition -gradually. - -Always turn both model and copy frequently, that comparison may be -frequently made, and thus training the eye to detect any little -miscalculation in proportions and lines, and by the addition or removal -of small masses the clay will finally take the form and accurate outline -and detail of the original. - -Moisten the clay occasionally with water sprayed on with a small -watering-pot or a green-house sprinkler, to keep it soft and ductile, -and when not being worked upon it should be covered with wet cloths to -keep it moist. - -[Illustration: FIG. 6.] - -As the work progresses the clay may be allowed to harden and -consolidate, but not to dry; if allowed to dry entirely the model may be -considered ruined, as the shrinkage of the clay around the support -results in fissures and fractures that cannot be repaired. - -By the time the amateur has acquired the knowledge to attempt a -full-size figure he will invent the devices to support it. - -The support or skeleton must of course be adapted to line with the pose -of the figure, and should be of pipe and heavy wire or rods securely -anchored to the base-plate. - -The composition of flowers, fruit, foliage, animal life, and landscape -is an inexhaustible one, and some beautiful effects can be had in -flat-work. Good examples of this character of work can be found on all -sides, and to the genius the field of modelling is a broad one, without -limit. - -For the help and assistance of those who desire to make a deeper study -there are many hand-books and treatises on the subject by masters and -sculptors, but the boy or girl adopting the work as a pleasant pastime -will find this description very beneficial in the selection of tools and -materials, as well as the primary steps to the great art of sculpture. - -When casting from hands, feet, or ornaments where undercut predominates, -the most successful mode is in the use of gelatine or glue. - -To cast a head similar to the one shown in Fig. 4, it will be necessary -to make a box frame large enough to place the head in. - -The cast is to be well oiled, and down the front and back, running -around under and back over the base block, strong linen threads are to -be stuck on with oil. Warm glue or gelatine is then poured in the box, -and left to chill and solidify. - -When sufficiently cold the frame may be removed, leaving the solid block -of glue like hard jelly; the ends of the threads are to be grasped and -torn through the gelatine, thus separating it in two or three parts. The -plaster head may then be removed, and the mould put together again and -surrounded by the frame to hold it in place. - -To make a plaster head this plaster of Paris may be poured into the -mould and left for a while, when, on removing the frame and taking the -glue mould away, a perfect reproduction of the original head will be -found. - -When very large objects that would require a great deal of plaster are -cast, they are generally made hollow in the following manner: - -Obtain the glue mould by the process described, and into it pour a -quantity of thin plaster, having first oiled the surfaces that come in -contact with it. Turn the mould about and upside down, so the plaster -will enter every part and adhere to the glue form. Allow it to "set," -and again pour some plaster into the mould, which will adhere to the -first coating, and after this has set repeat the operation several -times, until a deposit or coating an inch or more in thickness has been -made. - -The glue mould on being removed will reveal a perfect plaster casting -that, instead of being solid, is hollow, and in consequence is much -lighter. - - - - -MIDSHIPMAN JACK, U.S.N. - -BY WILLIAM DRYSDALE. - - -"I am not one of those fellows who 'can fight and run away, and live to -fight some other day,'" one of the bravest Lieutenant-Commanders in the -United States navy said one evening to a party of friends, who were -making him feel uncomfortable by discussing his brilliant war record. -"My bad leg won't let me run, so I always have to stand and fight it -out." - -"Why, Commander," one of his friends exclaimed, "I did not know that you -had a bad leg. You do not limp." - -"No," he answered, "not ordinarily. But when I tire myself I limp a -little, and if I were to undertake to run I should come to grief." - -"Where did you receive your injury?" another asked. - -"In action at Apalachicola," the Commander replied; "the severest action -I ever saw." - -There was a twinkle in his eye as he spoke, and he looked about the -table to see what effect the words had upon his friends. Two of them -merely muttered their sympathy, and the third asked for the story of the -fight; but the fourth man looked up with a comical expression that told -the Commander he was understood in one quarter at least. - -"You will certainly have to tell us about that," this fourth man -laughed, seeing that the Commander was waiting for a question; "for I -have always understood that Apalachicola, being an out-of-the-way place, -was one of the few Southern towns that escaped without a scratch in the -war. I never heard of any battle there." - -"No, there was no battle there," the Commander replied, "and you would -hardly hear of the action, because there were so few engaged in it. In -fact, I was the only one on the Federal side, and there were no -Confederates. When I was a boy there I fell out of a pine-tree and broke -my thigh; so it was my own action, and one that I still have reason to -remember." - -This was the Commander's modest way of describing an accident that -brought out all the manliness he had in him, and made him an officer in -the United States navy, and he seldom gives any other account of it; but -some of the grown-up boys of Apalachicola tell the story in a very -different way--the same "boys," some of them, who used to set out in -parties of three or four and chase young Jack Radway and make life -miserable for him. - -Jack had a strange habit, when he was between fifteen and sixteen (this -is the way they tell the story in Apalachicola), of going down to the -wharf and sitting by the half-hour on the end of a spile, looking out -over the bay. That was in 1862. His name was not Jack Radway, but that -is a fairly good sort of name, and on account of the Commander's modesty -it will have to answer for the present. While he sat in this way it was -necessary for him to keep the corner of one eye on the wharf and the -adjacent street, watching for enemies. Oddly enough, every white boy in -the town was Jack's enemy, generous as he was, and brave and -good-hearted; and when one came alone, or even two, if they were not too -big, he was always ready to stay and defend himself. But when three or -four came together he was forced to retire to his father's big brick -warehouse, across the street. They would not follow him there, because -it was well known that the rifle standing beside the desk was always -kept loaded. - -This enmity with the other boys, for no fault of his own, was Jack's -great sorrow. A year or two before he had been a favorite with all the -boys and girls, and now he was hungry for a single friend of his own -age. The reason of it was that his father was the only Union man in -Apalachicola. Every white man, woman, and child in the town sympathized -with the Confederacy, except John Radway and his wife and their son -Jack. The elder Radway had thought it over when the trouble began, and -had made up his mind that his allegiance belonged to the old government -that his grandfather had fought for. - -Near the mouth of the river lay the United States gunboat _Alleghany_, -guarding the harbor, with the stars and stripes floating bravely at her -stern. - -"Look at that flag," Jack's father told him. "Your great-grandfather -fought for it, and I want you always to honor it. It is the grandest -flag in the whole world. It is my flag and yours, and you must never -desert it." - -By the side of Mr. Radway's house stood a tall pine-tree, much higher -than the top of the house, with no limbs growing out of the trunk except -at the very top, after the manner of Southern pines. Jack was a great -climber, and nearly every day, when he did not go down town, he -"shinned" up this tall tree to make sure that the gunboat was still in -the harbor. And one day, the day of what the Commander calls "the action -at Apalachicola," he lost his hold in some way, or a limb broke, and he -fell from the top to the ground. - -For some time he lay there unconscious, and when he came to his senses -he could not get up. There was a terrible pain in his left hip, and he -called for help, and his mother and some of the colored women ran out -and carried him into the house, and when they laid him on a bed he -fainted again from the pain. - -Mr. Radway was sent for, and after he had examined the leg as well as he -could, he looked very solemn, for there was no doubt that the bone was -badly broken. Even Jack, young as he was, could tell that; but with all -his pain he made no complaint. - -"This is serious business," he said to his wife when they were out of -Jack's hearing. "The bone is badly fractured at the thigh, and there is -not a doctor left in Apalachicola to set it. Every one of them is away -in the army, and I don't know of a doctor within a hundred miles." - -"Except on the gunboat," Mrs. Radway interrupted; "there must be a -surgeon on the gunboat." - -"I have thought of that," Mr. Radway answered; "but if he should come -ashore he would almost certainly be killed, so I could not ask him to -come. And if I should take Jack out to the boat, we would very likely be -attacked on the way. I must take time to think." - -Medicines were scarce in Apalachicola in those days, but they gave Jack -a few drops of laudanum to ease the pain, and made a cushion of pillows -for his leg. For all his terrible suffering, and the doubt about getting -the bone set, he did not utter a word of complaint. But he turned white -as the pillows, and the great heat of midsummer on the shore of the Gulf -added to his misery. - -For hours Mr. Radway walked the floor, trying to make up his mind what -to do. Jack's suffering was agony to him, and the uncertainty of getting -help increased it. Late in the evening, when all the household were in -bed but Mr. and Mrs. Radway, they heard the sound of many feet coming up -the walk, then a shuffling of feet on the piazza, and a heavy knock at -the front door. - -[Illustration: "COULD THEY COME TO ATTACK US WHEN THEY KNOW WHAT TROUBLE -WE ARE IN?"] - -"Have they the heart for that?" Mr. Radway exclaimed. "Could they come -to attack us when they know what trouble we are in? Some of them shall -pay dearly for it if they have." - -The knock was repeated, louder than before, and Mr. Radway took up a -rifle and started for the door. Standing the rifle in the corner of the -wall, and with a cocked revolver in one hand, he turned the key and -opened the door a crack, keeping one foot well braced against it. - -"You don't need your gun, neighbor," said the spokesman of the party -without; "it's a peaceable errand we are on this time." - -"What is it?" Mr. Radway asked, still suspicious. - -"We know the trouble you are in," the man continued, "and we are sorry -for you. It's not John Radway we are down on; it's his principles; but -we want to forget them till we get you out of this scrape. There are -twenty of us here, all your neighbors and former friends. We know there -is no doctor in Apalachicola, and we have come to say that if you can -get the surgeon of the gunboat to come ashore and mend up the sick lad, -he shall have safe-conduct both ways. We will guard him ourselves, and -we pledge our word that not a hair of his head shall be touched." - -This friendly act came nearer to breaking down John Radway's bold front -than all the persecutions he had been subjected to. He threw the door -wide open, put the revolver in his pocket, and grasped the spokesman's -hand. - -"I need not try to thank you," he said; "you know what I would say if I -could. My poor Jack is in great pain, and I shall make up my mind -between this and daylight what had better be done." - -The knowledge that he was surrounded by friends instead of enemies made -Jack feel better in a few minutes; but the pain was too great to be -relieved permanently in such a way, and all night long he lay with his -teeth shut tight, determined to make no complaint. - -By daylight he was in such a high fever that his father had no further -doubts about what to do. He must have medical attendance at once; and -the quickest way was to take him out to the gunboat, rather than risk -the delay of getting the surgeon ashore. So a cot-bed was converted into -a stretcher by lashing handles to the sides. Colored men were sent for -to carry it, and another was sent down to the shore to make Mr. Radway's -little boat ready. - -The morning sun was just beginning to gild the smooth water of -Apalachicola Bay, when the after-watchman on the gunboat's deck, who for -some time had been watching a little sail-boat with half a table-cloth -flying at the mast-head, called out, - -"Small flag-of-truce boat on the port quarter!" - -Jack Radway, lying on the stretcher in the bottom of the boat, heard the -words repeated in a lower tone, evidently at the door of the Captain's -cabin: "Small flag-of-truce boat on the port quarter, sir." - -An instant later a young officer appeared at the rail with a marine -glass in his hand. - -"Ahoy there in the boat!" he called. "Put up your helm! Sheer off!" - -The _Alleghany_ lay in an enemy's waters, and she was not to be caught -napping. Nothing was allowed to approach without giving a good reason -for it. - -Then Jack's father stood up in the boat. "I have a boy here with a -broken thigh," he said. "I want your surgeon to set it." - -"Who are you?" the officer asked. - -"John Radway--a loyal man," was the answer. - -The name was as good as a passport, for the gunboat people had heard of -John Radway. - -"Come alongside," the officer called; and five minutes later a big -sailor had Jack in his arms, carrying him up the gangway, and he was -taken into the boat's hospital and laid on another cot. It was an -unusual thing on a naval vessel, and when the big bluff surgeon came the -Captain was with him, and several more of the officers. - -The examination gave Jack more pain than he had had before, but still he -kept his teeth clinched, and refused even to moan. - -"It is a bad fracture, and should have been attended to sooner," the -surgeon said at length. "There is nothing to be done for it now but to -take off the leg." - -"Oh, I hope not!" Mr. Radway exclaimed. "Is there no other way?" - -"He knows best, father," Jack said; "he will do the best he can for me." - -"He is too weak now for an operation," the surgeon continued; "but you -can leave him with me, and I think by to-morrow he will be able to stand -it." - -If Jack had made the least fuss at the prospect of having his leg cut -off, or had let a single groan escape, there is hardly any doubt that he -would be limping through life on one leg. But the brave way that he -bore the pain and the doctor's verdict made him a powerful friend. - -The Captain of a naval vessel cannot control his surgeon's treatment of -a case; but the Captain's wishes naturally go a long way, even with the -surgeon. So it was a great point for Jack when the Captain interceded -for him. - -"There's the making of an Admiral in that lad in the hospital," the -Captain told the doctor later in the day. "I never saw a boy bear pain -better. I wish you would save his leg if you possibly can." - -"He'd be well much quicker to take it off," the surgeon retorted. "But -I'll give him every chance I can. There is a bare possibility that I may -be able to save it." - -There was joy in the Radway family when it became known that there was a -chance of saving Jack's leg; but all that Jack himself would say was, -"Leave it all to the doctor; he will do what he can." - -Three weeks afterward Jack still lay in the _Alleghany_'s hospital with -two legs to his body, but one half hidden in splints and plaster. Mr. -and Mrs. Radway visited him every day, and the broken bone was healing -so nicely that the doctor thought that in three or four weeks more Jack -might be able to hobble about the deck on crutches, when more trouble -came. A new gunboat steamed into the harbor to take the _Alleghany_'s -place, bringing orders for the _Alleghany_ to go at once to the Brooklyn -Navy-Yard. This was particularly unfortunate for Jack, for his broken -bone was just in that state where the motion of taking him ashore would -be likely to displace it. But that unwelcome order from Washington -proved to be a long step toward making Jack one of our American naval -heroes. - -"It would be a great risk to take him ashore," the surgeon said to Mr. -Radway. "The least movement of the leg would set him back to where we -began. You had much better let him go north with us. The voyage will do -him good; and even if we are not sent back here, he can easily make his -way home when he is able to travel." - -Nothing could have suited Jack better than this, for he had become -attached to the gunboat and her officers; so it was soon settled that he -was to lie still on his bed and be carried to Brooklyn. For more than a -month he lay there without seeing anything of the great city on either -side of him; and the _Alleghany_ was already under orders to sail for -Key West before he was able to venture on deck with a crutch under each -arm. There were delays in getting away, so by the time the gunboat was -steaming down the coast Jack was walking slowly about her deck with a -cane, and the color was in his cheeks again, and the old sparkle in his -eyes. He was in hopes of finding a schooner at Key West that would carry -him to Apalachicola; but he was not to see the old town again for many a -day. - -The _Alleghany_ was a little below Hatteras, when she sighted a -Confederate blockade-runner, and she immediately gave chase. But, much -to the surprise of the officers, this blockade-runner did not run away, -as they generally did. She was much larger than the _Alleghany_, and -well manned and armed, and she preferred to stay and fight. Almost -before he knew it Jack was in the midst of a hot naval battle. The two -vessels were soon close together, and there was such a thunder of guns -and such a smother of smoke that he does not pretend to remember exactly -what happened. But after it was all over, and the blockade-runner was a -prize, with the stars and stripes flying from her stern, Jack walked as -straight as anybody down to the little hospital where he had spent so -many weeks. - -His mother would hardly have known him as he stepped into the hospital -and waited till the surgeon had time to take a big splinter from his -left arm. - -"Where's your cane, young man?" the surgeon asked, when Jack's turn -came. - -"I don't know, sir!" Jack replied, surprised to find himself standing -without it. "I must have forgotten all about it. I saw one of the -gunners fall, and I took his place, and that's all I remember, sir, -except seeing the enemy strike her colors." - -That action made Jack a Midshipman in the United States navy, and gave -him a share in the prize-money, and a year later he was an Ensign. For -special gallantry in action in Mobile Bay he was made a Lieutenant -before the close of the war, and in the long years since then he has -risen more slowly to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander. - - - - -[Illustration] - -A LOYAL TRAITOR.[1] - -[1] Begun in HARPER'S ROUND TABLE No. 888. - -A STORY OF THE WAR OF 1812 BETWEEN AMERICA AND ENGLAND. - -BY JAMES BARNES. - - -CHAPTER VI. - -A LAND VOYAGE. - -As soon as breakfast had been finished I bade farewell to Captain -Morrison, and to the mate and all of the crew, with whom I had somehow -gained popularity, and then I was set on shore. - -When I felt the solid ground beneath me and smelt the familiar odors of -a seaport town, my fears almost gained the upper hand, and I was tempted -to stay by the brig and return to Maryland in her. But finding that the -town of Miller's Falls was distant only some thirty miles up in the -country, and getting the right direction from the first person I asked, -a blacksmith standing at the entrance to his forge, I set out bravely on -foot with my belongings on a stick over my back, the way I had seen -sailors start on a land voyage from Baltimore. - -Hill country was new to me, and the stone walls and fences and neat -white houses gave me much to wonder at, as I plodded along the road that -was deep in dry dust, and such hard travelling that after I had made -twelve miles, or such a matter of distance, I grew very tired, and -determined to rest. - -Although it was November the day was quite warm, and I sat down by the -edge of a little brook and bathed my feet, that had blistered badly. The -cold water felt very comforting, and I took my ease. - -While drawing on my shoes I heard a strange sound, and saw coming down -the road a two-wheeled cart drawn by a team of swaying oxen. Climbing up -to the roadway and hailing the man who was walking at their heads, -(calling out "Gee," "Haw," every other minute), I asked my whereabouts -and the hour. - -The farmer, even before he replied to my questionings, began to subject -me to many of his own: "Where was I bound?" "Where did I come from?" -and, "Who did I know in the parts?" To these I replied as best I could, -and with a directness that seemed rather to disconcert him. - -But he was a kindly man, and noticing that I limped, and that I was in -no condition to travel, he proposed my stopping the night with him, and -he would carry me part way on my journey on the morrow. To this I -agreed, as I found I had wandered somewhat out of my way. - -At supper that evening I tasted for the first time the delightful cakes -made out of buckwheat, and had to relate again, for the benefit of my -host and his wife (a tall, sharp-featured woman who spoke with a whining -drawl), the story of my adventures and the eventful voyage of the -_Minetta_. - -When I told of the affair of the severed hand, and the action of the -English, the woman quoted a passage from the Bible that was quite as -much as a curse on the heads of the offenders, it breathed so of -vengeance. But we had not burned half a candle before we all were -yawning. Well, to be short, I slept in a great feather bed that night, -and the next morning I started northward, mounted astride, behind Farmer -Lyman on a jolting gray nag. - -When my friend put me down he bade me a farewell, and told me I had but -five miles before me to the town of Miller's Falls. - -It was up and down hill, slow going, and noon, I should judge by the -shadows, before I saw the village, nestling at the bend of a small -valley. On the wind came to me the shrieking and clanking of machinery -and the jarring of a waterfall. - -I sat down on the top rail of a fence, and surveyed the village for some -time before I descended the hill. As I walked along I saw in a steep -gorge, a sheer descent of some fifty feet to one side of the roadway, a -rushing brook, and almost in the centre of the town itself a pond that -spread back into the hills. - -The mill that was raising such a clatter stood at one side of a dam -built of stone and timber that had backed the water of the pond; and I -walked up close to the building and looked with wonder at everything. A -huge over-shot wheel was turning and plashing busily, and the water was -roaring over the dam and breaking on the brown slippery rocks below. It -fascinated me, and I stood for some time leaning over the rail watching -it. I grew so interested, in fact, that I almost forgot my mission or -where I was, and was recalled to myself by a voice hailing me from only -a few feet above my head. - -"Well, sonny," said a drawling voice, "be ye wondering where all that -water is goin' to?" - -A thin cadaverous face with a very pointed nose and chin was thrust out -of a little window, and two long hands on either side gave the man the -effect of holding himself in his position by the exercise of sheer -strength. - -"I suppose it goes into the sea," I replied, perceiving that he wished -to chaff me. - -"Correct," he answered. "Go to the head." - -"May I come into the mill?" I asked, for I had never seen one, and the -varied noises excited my curiosity. - -"Why, certainly," the man said. "Pull the latch-string in the door -yonder and come in." - -The mill not only sawed the long pine trunks into planks and squared -timbers, of which there was a profusion about, but also ground most of -the grain for the neighborhood. As I entered, the stones were grumbling -and the air was full of dust. - -"What is it you're making?" I shouted into the tall man's ear. He had -greeted me at the doorway. - -"Buckwheat cakes," he replied, thrusting his hand into the top of an -open sack. "Ye're a stranger here, ain't ye?" - -I knew what to expect by this time, and that probably my appearance had -determined the miller to find out all he could about me merely for his -own satisfaction. So, half shouting in his ear, I related (by the -answering of questions) part of my story--at least I told him where I -had come from and the why and wherefore of my trip. When it came to the -asking for my uncle's place of residence I ran against trouble, and my -heart sank. - -"What is the name?" asked the thin man when I had first mentioned it. - -"Monsieur Henri Amedee Lavalle de Brienne." - -"Eh?" - -I had to repeat it. - -"No such person in these parts," the man answered, shaking his head -positively. "And I ought to know," he added. (I dare say he did, and -most people's private business besides.) - -But here was an uncomfortable position. What was I to do? Somehow the -hum and groaning and rumbling of the mill appeared to prevent my -thinking, and I stepped to the door. - -The village of Miller's Falls stretched down one wide road that curved -about the edge of the mill-pond. It was not a cheerful-looking place -taking it altogether, but it had a certain air of prosperity; there was -some movement, and a number of horses and carts were on the streets. - -All at once the chatter of voices and the familiarly shrill cries of -boys at some rough merriment came up from the road at the right. I -looked about the corner of the mill and saw that a half-dozen youngsters -of about my own age were coming down the hill, and before them rode an -odd figure on a small brown horse. It was a little man, who sat very -erect, and who had a semi-military hat set aslant his gray hair, which -was gathered in a long queue behind. His coat was of a very old fashion, -made of velvet, and heavy riding-gaiters encased his thin legs. - -The horse he was riding was by no means a bad one, and it was apparently -all the old man could do to keep him from breaking into a run; and to -accomplish this last was the evident intention of the crowd of small -boys, for they were tickling the horse's heels, or giving him a cut now -and then with some long switches; they varied this by pelting small -pebbles at the rider. The latter, however, kept his seat and controlled -the horse exceedingly well, although it was apparent that he was both -angry and frightened, for he would stop and scold at the boys, and often -turn his horse's head threateningly in their direction. This would -excite a scattering and shouts of derision and laughter. - -Some one spoke over my head at this moment, and I saw that the tall man -and one of the mill hands, attracted by the noise, had perceived the -approach of the old man and his tormentors. - -"Why, it's old Debrin, from Mountain Brook," said the miller. "Come down -to get his wheat ground, I reckon." - -Slung across his saddle were two bags, and the rider was now headed -toward the mill and restraining the horse with difficulty. When he drew -up at the little platform it was all he could do to throw off the bags, -and when he had lifted his legs from the stirrups and slid to ground I -thought he would have fallen, and for the first time I perceived how old -a man he was. Moved by some impulse, I jumped down from the door-sill -and helped him tie the rope halter of the little horse fast to a post. -The old man's hands were trembling so that I doubt if he could have -accomplished it unaided. - -My action had so surprised the boys that they had gathered in a circle -about us in silence and astonishment. When I had finished, the old -gentleman looked at me with his black beadlike eyes and raised his hat. - -"Thank you, thank you very much," he said, in broken English, in which I -recognized at once the manner in which my mother had spoken. The trace -of the French tongue was there beyond all doubt. So I lifted my own cap, -and answered in what I may well call my native tongue, and told him in -French that I was very glad to have been able to help him. - -His astonishment at hearing me address him thus was so great that for a -minute it deprived him of the power of answering, but then he burst -forth into such rapid speech and into so many violent gesticulations -that it was all I could do to follow. The little crowd pressed us so -close that I became embarrassed, and the old man, who had been -complaining of the conduct of the boys and the temper of his horse, and -at the same time stating how welcome it was to hear his own tongue -again, suddenly saw that he was creating a great deal of amusement for -the gaping, snickering circle about us. He drew himself up and his lip -curled with contempt. I now, for the first time, had an opportunity to -ask a question that had been forming itself in my mind. - -"Are you Monsieur de Brienne?" I ventured. - -"I am, and you?" he replied. - -"Am Jean Hurdiss, your nephew, who has come all the way from Baltimore -to see you." - -Instantly his manner changed. I thought he was going to fling his arms -about me. But if such was his intention he controlled himself. - -"We will not talk before this canaille," he said, quietly, "and I cannot -here express my delight at seeing you." - -This must have appeared very strange to the on-lookers, who, of course, -understood no word of what we were saying, and what happened afterwards -must have been stranger still; and I can now readily see why I was -regarded as a mystery by the inhabitants of Miller's Falls during the -whole course of my stopping there. - -The old man with a great deal of dignity laid hold of the sack of corn, -and seeing that nobody volunteered to help him, I took up the other end, -and we carried it into the mill. There he flung it on the floor, and M. -de Brienne pointed at it with his finger. - -"Grind me this," he said, in a commanding tone, despite the broken and -twisted accents. "I will pay for it when I return." - -The surprise occasioned by our actions at the meeting had evidently -struck the crowd of youngsters dumb, but they were soon started again in -their shouts of laughter by the difficulty that my uncle and I -immediately had with the little brown horse. How so feeble a man as he -appeared to be could ever manage the restive beast at all was more than -I could see. Full half a dozen times he failed to make the saddle, even -with my assistance, and this started the boys in their shouts of -derision, and even drew laughter from the windows in which some of the -mill-crew had gathered. - -At last, however, I succeeded in getting the old gentleman into the -saddle, and, obeying him, I crawled up behind him and placed my arms -about his waist. But between my lack of knowledge, the horse's -scampering, and the old man's weakness, we almost came to grief more -than once. - -Three of the little rapscallions, who of course could not follow us, for -we had started on a run down the road, cut across the meadow by a path, -as if intending to head us off for some reason. - -They reached the main roadway first, and were waiting in an orchard at -the end of a stone wall for us to go by. I noticed that they had -gathered some apples, which they held in the hollows of their arms, much -as boys carry snow-balls in an attack. I had been angry before, but now -my one desire was to get at them. I often fear that I must be a -vindictive person indeed. - -As we approached they let fly, of course, and one of the apples caught -my uncle squarely in the forehead. He would have fallen, I believe, had -I not held him for an instant, and reaching forward I caught the reins -and brought the little horse to a sudden halt. Then I slipped from my -seat to the ground, and with no weapons but my closed fist I charged the -enemy. - -It is not bragging to say that from some ancestor I have inherited -immense strength, and even at the age of thirteen I believe I should -have been a match and more for some lads four or five years older. -(Since I have been sixteen years old even I have never met a grown man -who could force down my arms or twist a finger with me.) But to return: -I caught the first boy a jolt with my closed fist on the side of the -head, and seizing the second, who came to his rescue, I fairly believe I -threw him over the fence without so much as touching it. He landed on -some loose stones on the other side, and set up a tremendous bawling. -The third lad did not stop to get a chance, but legged it as fast as he -could across the meadow. I was so angry now that I believe murder was in -my heart, and I picked up the broken branch of a tree and stood over the -first boy whom I had struck. He looked up at me and began to beg for -mercy. - -"Bravo!" called my uncle from the horse, that for a wonder was standing -still. "Bravo, mon enfant!" - -He was wiping the juice of the apple from his eyes, but catching my -glance he threw me a kiss from his finger-tips, and laughed a laugh of -congratulation and sympathetic triumph. - -I covered my fallen antagonist with added chagrin by scooping up with a -sideway stroke of the foot some dust out of the road on top of him, and, -walking to the horse, I clambered up behind again. Then, digging my -heels into the nag's side, we started on a gallop up the hill and -entered the woods that lined the crest. - -I had been so angry that I dare say I had shed tears even at the moment -of my victory (what varieties of weeping there are, to be sure), and I -had such a lump in my throat that I waited for my uncle to begin any -conversation he might wish, but he did not speak until after we had -progressed some distance in among the trees. Then he pulled the horse up -with a jerk (that caused me almost to break my nose on the back of his -head), and he ordered me to dismount. I did so. Monsieur de Brienne -leaned from the saddle and turned me around by the shoulder, much as I -have seen a planter look at a negro before purchasing. - -"Very like indeed," he muttered. "A true De Brienne." - -Then he leaned further over and told me to embrace him. I complied, and -he kissed me on each cheek and between the eyes. This quite embarrassed -me, and I dropped my glance to the ground and shuffled uneasily; but the -old man had begun to talk, and I dare say it was an hour that we stood -there, for I had to tell him, of course, of my mother's death and of the -burning of Marshwood. When I came to relate of the loss of the -strong-box and its contents, the old gentleman grew quite pale, then he -drew a long breath, and ripped out into a frightful burst of temper. For -some reason I could not help but feel that it was directed against me, -and I waited until he had calmed before I went on. Then I remembered the -letter which had given me the only clew that had led to this meeting, -and I thrust my hand into my coat pocket. It was not there? Fruitlessly -I searched with a growing fear upon me, and I saw that my uncle's little -black eyes were following my every movement; I could see that there was -a certain suspicion in his look, but the letter was not forth-coming, -and was not to be found in my bundle, although I undid it from the strap -of the saddle-bag where I had tied it, and spread its few contents on -the road-side. - -"Where is the miniature that you spoke of finding?" inquired Monsieur de -Brienne, in a cold harsh voice. - -I told him what I imagined had become of it. - -"Ah, bah!" he cried at this, and raised his hand as if he would have -struck me. Had he done so I believe I should have pulled him from the -saddle. He was scarcely larger than myself, and I was growing angry at -his unnecessary and unjust words. - -"What have you done?" he cried, restraining himself. "You have lost all -the proofs--all the papers, you fool! Now we can prove nothing. A curse -on such stupidity! What use are you without them? Why did you come?" - -I had gathered up my possessions, and was tying together the corners of -the handkerchief, making up my mind to burden him no longer with my -presence, and to return whence I had started (for I still had a number -of the gold pieces sewed in the lining of my cap, where Mr. Edgerton's -maiden sister had placed them), but suddenly M. de Brienne spoke in -rather an eager tone, and asked me to come closer to him. I did so, -wondering. He leaned forward and caught one of the buttons of my coat -between his thumb and forefinger and looked at it closely. Then he -heaved a sigh. - -"All there is left," he said. "Ah, my child, my child, you do not know -what you have lost. Pardon my rough speech of a moment since, but what -you told, and what has happened, appeared to turn into ashes what little -hope I had left in life." - -I was softened by the sadness of his tone and the real grief that showed -itself in his small pinched features. So I looked up at him, and tried -to smile. - -"What is your name?" he questioned of me, eagerly, in a whisper, as if -to extract a secret that I might not care to disclose aloud. - -"John Hurdiss," I replied. "That's all I know." - -The old man drew a long sigh. "Was your mother's name Hortense or -Hélène?" he questioned again, suddenly and hoarsely. - -"I don't know," I said. "I have no idea." - -"So be it," he replied, as if accepting a decision against which there -was no use railing. "Come, son; up with you, and we will ride on to my -château." - -We followed the well-worn road, and then turned off through the woods, -and came to some pasture bars at the edge of a clearing. I slid to the -ground and opened them at a command from my uncle, and replaced them -after he had gone through. The field that we entered had been -sheep-grazed, and was poor pasturage. Here and there crumbling hoof-worn -patches of rock showed through the wiry close-cropped turf; clusters of -rank fern and hard-back bushes were dotted about, and we threaded them, -following a narrow path, until we came to another gate, which I opened -in the way I had the first. A half-mile of travelling through an expanse -of soft swampy ground, grown with alders and dogwood, and I heard the -sound of running water. Soon we came to a clear brook that gurgled -under overhanging banks, and purled about gleaming time-smoothed stones; -crossing it, and clambering up the steep bank, we came to a second -clearing, hardly five acres in extent. A half-score of large apple-trees -and a diminutive garden were to the left, and at the upper edge of the -clearing was a small unpainted house, and behind it a little barn, whose -foundations extended into the hill-side. - -"Gaston! Gaston!" called Monsieur de Brienne, at top voice. "Where are -you hiding?" - -In answer a head was thrust from the doorway, and the oddest-looking -figure that I had ever seen came into view. It was an old man, whose -frame when covered with flesh or muscles must have been enormous, but -now so scantily cushioned were the bones that the quaint clothes hung on -him much in the way that a coat hangs on a fence post. But the man moved -with incredible swiftness. He gave a strange look at me, and took -Monsieur de Brienne's stirrup-leather in his hand and assisted him to -dismount. I pushed myself backwards over the horse's hind quarters. - -"A guest, Gaston, to Belair. My nephew, Monsieur Jean Hurdiss. This is -Gaston, my valet, chef, major-domo, and standing army." - -My uncle had smiled as he said this, but the other's face was most -serious. As I eyed him closely his countenance looked more like a ball -of tightly wound twine with ears and features than anything else I could -imagine. I had never seen such a mesh of wrinkles, or imagined that age -could stamp itself so wonderfully. That the old man was not decrepit, -however, was evident from the deft way in which he unsaddled the little -horse and threw the trappings over his shoulder. - -Now my uncle turned to me again. "Welcome, my son," he said. "Consider -all here as yours entirely." - -He ushered me through the doorway. I could scarce control an expression -of my astonishment as I looked about. Immediately facing the light I saw -something that caused me to start suddenly. It was the figure of a man -in flowing satins and velvets; great heavy curls fell over his -shoulders, and torrents of lace poured at his wristbands and knees. He -had on high red-heeled shoes, fronted by wide bows, and his slender -bejewelled hand rested on the top of a tall walking-stick. - -It took me a second glance to perceive that it was but a portrait that -extended from the floor to ceiling, and was merely nailed, without -framing, against the wall. A rough table made of pine boards but covered -with a handsome cloth was in the centre of the room. It was heaped high -with books in embossed leather covers. Tacked about the walls were many -portraits of times long since. One especially, before which I drew a -long breath, dumfounded me (it was so like my mother). But Monsieur de -Brienne had gathered me by the elbow, as it were, and marched me around. - -The portrait whose resemblance had struck me so vividly he told me was -my grandmother, and then went on, stopping before each, "Your -great-grandfather, your great-uncle, your aunt," and so forth and so -forth. - -One might have thought that I was being introduced in person to all my -ancestors and past family. In fact, I found myself bowing as if it were -expected of me. - -After a few minutes I had a chance to look about me. There were but four -rooms on the ground-floor of the little house and three above; and if -the furniture of Marshwood had been an odd assortment, that of Belair -was odder still. I had noticed, as I have said, that the portraits were -not in frames. They had evidently been brought from their former -residence rolled in some shape or other for convenience. Many of them -showed traces of rough handling, and were much cracked and soiled. - -My uncle slept on the first floor in a great four-poster bed hung about -with heavy curtains of embroidered silk, but the rest of the -_ameublement_, was made up of clumsy wooden benches and stools, not the -workmanship of a joiner, but clearly made by unskilled hands. - -The room upstairs to which I was shown contained nothing but a mattress -stuffed with cornhusks, and a beautiful painted landscape (which -comparing with some that I have since seen must have been nothing less -than a Claude, I dare say). A bench on which stood an ebony cross, and a -large brass blunderbuss that hung from a nail over the door, were all -the other things in the room. - -At dinner that night we were waited upon by the great wizzened-faced -servant, and my uncle, who was taken with a sleepy, tongue-tied mood, -had attired himself in such a brilliantly faded costume that he -resembled nothing less than one of the pictures that looked down at us. - -Before the meal was half finished, however (it was exceedingly well -cooked and toothsome), I received a shock. - -Monsieur de Brienne suddenly and without a warning gave a little cry and -fell back in his arm-chair (a home-made affair, cut from a barrel of -some sort), and I, frightened, ran to his side. - -But the old servant appeared quite used to this, and together we got my -uncle into his bed, where we rubbed and chafed his limbs until I grew so -tired I could hardly move. The next day I thought he was like to die. He -would not let me leave him, and talked so incoherently that I could make -no sense out of his maunderings at all. - -Now begins such a strange existence that if it were told to me by any -one who claimed to have led it I should be most doubtful. It would make -a volume in itself, maybe, but I intend to hasten over this period, and -to get quickly into that from which has developed the present, and which -is leading up to whatever future there is before me. - -To this end I shall do my best to resist any temptation to dwell at too -great length on the life I led at the lonely farm-house on Mountain -Brook. - -[TO BE CONTINUED.] - - - - -HARNESSING NIAGARA. - -BY ELIZABETH FLINT WADE. - - -Two men were once boasting of their wonderful physical powers, and a -story told by one would be immediately capped by the other by the -relation of a capability far more marvellous. Suddenly one of them -pointed to a church spire which could be seen across the valley, and -said, - -"Do you see that church spire yonder?" - -"I do," replied the other. - -"Well, I can see a fly crawling on it! Can you?" - -His companion looked at it attentively a moment, and said, slowly, - -"No, I can't see it, but," placing his hand behind his ear and leaning -forward, "I can hear it walk!" - -Something quite as remarkable as the hearing the foot-step of a fly on a -church steeple a mile distant was accomplished a few weeks ago, when, by -means of a slender wire attached to an ordinary telephone, the sound of -the "voice of many waters," situated 500 miles away, was distinctly -heard in New York city. - -The National Electric Light Association held its last annual meeting in -New York, and in the Industrial Arts Building were exhibited the latest -appliances of electricity; but of all the wonderful demonstrations of -that strange power which slips so swiftly and silently along a slender -wire, the most novel, if not the most wonderful, was the transmitting -the roar of the Falls of Niagara through the long-distance telephone by -means of the power generated by the cataract itself. - -The meaning of the Indian name Niagara is "thunder of the waters," and -it certainly was a most original idea to place this thunder on -exhibition--"thunder on tap," a humorist might call it. The point chosen -for collecting the sound was near the Cave of the Winds, where at the -foot of the cliff one can get nearer to the waterfall than at any other -point. The Cave of the Winds is between Goat and Luna islands, and is -reached by the Biddle Stairway, a frail-looking structure built on the -face of the cliff, and the adventurous tourist who ventures down this -winding stair is almost deafened by the noise of the water as it strikes -the great rocks that lie just below him. - -[Illustration: MOUTH OF THE TUNNEL.] - -The mechanical arrangements for sending the sound were very simple. An -ordinary telephone, with the necessary apparatus, was placed in a tight -wooden box, so that the instrument might be protected from the spray. -Wires connected with the long-distance telephone were carried down the -side of the cliff and attached to the telephone in the box. From one -side of the box projected an immense tin funnel. This was the -sound-collector. The rest of the operation was very easy. The current -was turned on, and in a few seconds the sound was heard at the extreme -end of the line. In the centre of the hall where the electric exposition -was held was a working model of the Niagara Falls electric plant; around -this model were twenty-four telephone transmitters, and the visitor -could not only see the machinery moved by the power generated at the -Falls, but hear the ceaseless roar of the great waters. - -The greatest distance that electric power had ever before been -transmitted was from the Falls of Neckar, in Germany, to a point 110 -miles distant. Power for the exposition was to come nearly five times -that length, and the occasion was so momentous a one that the gold key -which President Cleveland used to set in motion the machinery for the -World's Fair was used by Governor Morton to turn on the electric current -generated by the Falls. As soon as the exposition was declared open, -Governor Morton, according to a previously arranged plan, turned on a -current from the Falls power which discharged a piece of government -artillery simultaneously in the public squares of Augusta, Maine; St. -Paul, Minnesota; San Francisco, California; and New Orleans, Louisiana. - -[Illustration: TURBINE READY TO BE LOWERED TO THE BOTTOM OF THE -WHEEL-PIT.] - -The capturing of Niagara and setting it to work is one of the greatest -feats of modern engineering. For years engineers have watched the power -going to waste down the great cataract, and studied how it could be made -available for mechanical purposes. The only device for using it was the -building of a hydraulic canal opening out of the river above the Falls, -and emptying into it at the edge of the bluff a mile or two below the -Falls. Power was thus carried to several mills built on the bank, but it -was a mere cipher compared to the great force daily poured over the -great precipice, a force which has been scientifically estimated to -equal nearly 6,000,000 horse-power, enough to drive all the machinery on -the American continent. - -Many plans for using this power were made, only to be abandoned, till -Mr. Thomas Evershed, a division engineer on the Erie Canal, devised the -scheme of digging wheel-pits above the Falls, placing turbine-wheels at -the bottom of the pits, conveying water from the river to turn the -wheels--which should be used to furnish the power to generate -electricity--and carrying off the waste water through a large tunnel and -emptying it into the river. The plan was found feasible, and in 1886 the -Niagara Falls Power Company was incorporated by the Legislature of New -York. Millions of dollars and the service of the most skilful engineers -in the world were employed in carrying out the plan. Work was begun in -1887, and in January, 1894, the first great turbine-wheel was set at -work. - -[Illustration: THE WHEEL-PIT IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION.] - -The manner of using a part of the tremendous power of the cataract, -though constructed on so gigantic a scale, is as simple to understand as -the mechanism of a toy water-wheel, which, placed under a tiny fall of -water, turns a miniature windmill on the bank of the stream. An inlet -canal 1500 feet long, 500 feet wide, and 12 feet deep opens from the -river at a point about a mile and a half above the Falls. A short -distance from the side of the canal nearest the Falls, and near the end -farthest from the river, are two wheel-pits 160 feet deep, and at the -bottom of each pit is a 5000 horse-power Girard double turbine-wheel. -From the canal to these pits are head-races fitted with sluices through -which the water is admitted to the wheel-pits. Both the canal and the -head-races are lined with solid masonry, and the gates which regulate -the supply of water are open and shut by automatic levers. In each -wheel-pit is an immense iron tube reaching from top to bottom of the -pit, made of boiler iron. This tube, called a penstock, is seven feet in -diameter, and the water pours down this huge pipe into the wheel-case in -which the turbine revolves. A turbine-wheel is a vertical wheel which -revolves from side to side like a top, the name being derived from the -Latin word _turbo_, whirling, or spinning like a top. - -[Illustration: SECTIONAL DIAGRAM OF POWER-HOUSE.] - -Now a stream of water seven feet in diameter, falling from a height of -140 feet, must cause this mammoth water-top to spin round in its case at -rather a lively rate, and so it does, for the turbine shaft revolves at -the rate of 250 times a minute, and the speed can be increased to twice -that number of times. The vertical shaft of the turbine is attached to a -propeller shaft which rises to the floor of the power-house--built over -the wheel-pits--where it is attached to a dynamo. Though the dynamos are -the largest in the world, they are not the size originally designed, -owing to the fact that no cars were large or stout enough to transport -them, so the size of the base-plate of the dynamo was limited to one -which could be carried by rail from the manufactory to the Falls. - -Standing in the visitors' gallery of the power-house and watching these -great dynamos whirling round so swiftly that the eye can scarcely -perceive their motion, and remembering that it is caused by the -expenditure of but a fraction of the power flowing over the Falls, one -can form some idea of the great force which it has so long been the -dream of engineers to turn to account. - -Almost as great a feat as the digging of the wheel-pits and placing the -turbines at the bottom, was the excavating of the tunnel to carry off -the waste water. This tunnel, which is 7000 feet long, starts near the -bottom of the wheel-pits, runs under the city, and empties into the -river just below the suspension-bridge. It is horseshoe shaped, is 21 -feet high, and 19 feet wide, in the curve. It is lined with brick, -overlaid with rubble above, and the outlet is lined for 200 feet back -with heavy cast-iron plates. The water does not run directly into the -tunnel from the wheel-pits, but flows into it through a lateral tunnel -or tail-race. This tail-race enters the main tunnel at an angle of sixty -degrees. Both tunnels are horseshoe shaped, and where they unite they -each curve differently, and it required a skilful mathematician to -calculate the cutting and fitting of the stone for the bisecting of the -arches. - -It is interesting to see how this powerful machinery is kept in working -order. From a circular opening in the floor of the power-house a winding -staircase descends to the elevator landing. From this landing one may -pass directly under the electric generators and see the various pipes -which convey oil and water to the different parts of the machinery. One -pipe carries oil to the upper, and a second pipe oil to the lower, -bearings of the dynamos. A third pipe allows water to pass to the -cooling chamber of the upper bearings, and a fourth, water to a similar -chamber in the lower bearings. - -The tank which holds the oil supply is placed near the roof of the -power-house. After the oil has passed to the bearings of the dynamos and -shafts it is conducted into a filtering cylinder; the clean oil runs -into a tank below the cylinder, from which a pump forces it back into -the supply tank. The pumps are run by the waste water in the bottom of -the wheel-pits. - -The main-shaft bearings are oiled in a novel manner. An immense iron -cup, large enough to serve as a drinking-cup for the greatest of -Gulliver's Brobdingnagians, is attached to the revolving shaft below the -bearings. A pipe dips into the oil with which the cup is filled, and the -centrifugal force of the revolving shaft is so great that it forces the -oil up through the pipe to the top of the bearings, which it thoroughly -oils, and the waste oil finds its way back into the cup. All that is -necessary to supply the cup with fresh oil is to open a valve at the -bottom, the dirty oil runs into the filtering cylinder, and the cup is -filled with fresh oil from the supply tank. - -An elevator descends to the bottom of the wheel-pits, where there are -four galleries which enable the engineers to pass round the turbines and -examine the workings. On the upper elevator landing one may see the -gearings which connect the governor with the dynamos and with the -turbine shaft, and the perfectly balanced levers which open and close -the water-gates. - -One of the interesting features of the power-house is a -travelling-crane, which commands every portion of the floor of the -building, and is capable of handling the largest piece of machinery in -the works. If anything goes wrong with any part of the machinery, it can -be removed with the greatest expedition, and a similar piece fitted in -its place by means of this useful crane. - -In July a company was incorporated under the name of the Cataract Power -and Conduit Company for the purpose of furnishing electric power to the -city of Buffalo from the Niagara Falls plant. Niagara Falls at once -became the centre of interest for manufacturers, engineers, -electricians, and scientists, and two days after the company was -incorporated the electric plant was visited by a large party of -distinguished men from different parts of the country. - -Among the number was the great electrical magician Nikola Tesla, who -believes that sooner or later the electricity in the earth may be pumped -out of it at any point where it may be needed. The opinion of Mr. Tesla -on the possibility of transmitting the power from the Falls any -considerable distance was awaited with a great deal of eagerness. - -"The project is sure to be successful," said Mr. Tesla, after inspecting -the marvellous electrical machinery and viewing the almost unlimited -capacity of the water-power. - -The contracts for constructing the transmission line were let at once, -and on November 4--two days after the election of the next -President--Buffalo will be receiving power from the Falls of Niagara. -The lines through which it is to be sent will be capable of transmitting -40,000 horse-power--enough to turn all the wheels in the Minneapolis -flour-mills and whirl all the spindles in busy Holyoke. - -The present power-station at the Falls, when fully equipped, will -contain ten dynamos, the combined capacity of which will be 50,000 -horse-power. Besides this station the company has a permit for -constructing another canal the same size on the American side, and a -franchise for a similar work on the Canadian side, provided the work is -begun in three years from the granting of the franchise. - -Everything connected with this work is on so gigantic a scale that it -will not be surprising to learn that the tunnel through which the waste -water is discharged is the largest hydraulic tunnel in the world, and of -sufficient size to carry away enough water to develop 120,000 -horse-power. Even this great volume of water diverted from its natural -channel will not perceptibly lessen the 7000 tons which leap over the -precipice every minute. - -The end of the tunnel opening into the river is fifty feet lower than at -its beginning, and as there are no rocks or stones to impede the passage -of the water, it slides over the smooth floor at a tremendous speed, -taking but a little over three minutes from the time that it enters the -tunnel before it reaches the outlet. It rushes out of the tunnel with -such force that it creates a cross-current far out into the river. - -Knowing from whence it came and what it has been doing, one cannot but -think, as he sees it come tumbling, leaping, and roaring out of the dark -underground passage, that it is like a boy who has just finished some -irksome task and is at last free to run and shout and play. - - - - -RABBIT-HUNTING IN THE SNOW. - -BY ANNIE T. ASHMORE. - - -Jim and Ned were evidently bound to be good business men. Some of their -plans for money-making were very peculiar. They lived side by side on -Staten Island, in places where there was a magnificent view of the bay -and harbor, and whence incoming and outgoing steamers could be seen to -great advantage. They fitted up an office in a room in the attic of -Jim's house, hung up a sign, "Shipping Office; latest news furnished of -incoming and outgoing crafts"; and as they went at it in a systematic -manner, had a capital spy-glass, and had been drilled from their -earliest infancy in the knowledge of the different boats, they were -often called upon by their neighbors to tell when a ship was due, or if -it had already entered the Narrows. For this information they charged -varying sums; and while not on the high-road to fortune, still made -enough to provide many bottles of sarsaparilla, and more chewing-gum and -bolivars than were at all good for the digestion. - -Another scheme was selling eggs to their respective mothers, and they -really had a very good chicken-yard for a time, while a mysterious -account-book which bore the heading "JimandNedeggs" occasioned much -merriment among their families (of course unknown to the boys). But -latterly business had been dull. The best hens had succumbed to an -epidemic, nobody wanted to know about the ships; it was early winter, -and there were no more walks to be raked; in fact, a financial crisis -was fast overtaking the two partners. Something had to be done, for -there were Christmas presents to be bought, new bob-sleds to be had, and -of a kind more dangerous than any they had yet risked their lives on. It -was evident that only serious and concentrated thought could extricate -the firm from the situation in which it was placed. - -"Ned, we must think of some way in which we can make money. I was -talking to Tom about it the other day, and all he would say was, 'Marse -Jim, you leave it to me, and I'll think out a plan.' But not a syllable -will he say as to what the plan is. He came up to the dining-room last -night and called me out, said he had something of importance to tell me, -and all it was, he asked me to ask mother for five dollars. Now you know -as well as I do that mother won't let me have another cent for I don't -know how long. She's mad because that money she gave us to put into the -incubator was all thrown away by our forgetting about it, and leaving -the eggs in there till the lamp exploded, and the eggs too. No, there's -no use; we've got to find our way out ourselves. What do you think of -our going out on a musk-rat hunt, and then selling the skins?" - -"All very well," said Ned, the more prudent of the two; "but where are -you going to find musk-rats, to begin with? How are you going to catch -them when you do find them, and who's going to skin them?" - -Blank despair settled down upon the two boys' countenances, and two more -unhappy-looking individuals have, fortunately, rarely been seen. -Suddenly around the corner of the house appeared a colored boy of about -eighteen, black as the ace of spades, but grinning from ear to ear with -good humor and amusement. - -"What you sitting here in the cold for, you boys? Marse Ned, Marse Jim, -you ought to be ashamed of yourselves. If missus found you sitting in -the cold, she won't give you no more money for your 'lowance, and you -dun bus' now, you tole me." - -"Oh, Tom, do tell us a way to get out of this--a way to make money!" -said the two boys, simultaneously. - -"Well, this nigger ain't much good making money, but you two boys come -in the black hole and talk it over, and Tom'll help when he can." - -The black hole was in the cellar where the furnace was, and was a -favorite resort of Tom's. As they talked now Tom looked up suddenly. An -idea had come to him, and he said: "Marse Jim, Marse Ned, you better -raise rabbits. Then ask yer mother to let me go to New York jus' befo' -Christmas-time; I'll sell 'em in the streets, fifty cents and dollar -apiece. Rabbits don't cost nuffin' down hyar, to begin with, and we'll -make so much money that you boys will give Tom 'nuf to go down South -with an' see his poor old father and mother." - -The scheme sounded very plausible, told in Tom's excited way; but then -Ned suddenly said, "Tom, where are we going to get the rabbits to start -with?" - -That was rather a poser. But Tom had his answer ready. - -"You boys, now listen to me. I wah just now chasing a rabbit harder'n I -ever chased one befo'. Dat ah rabbit, he lives down the big hedge round -de garden; he got sisters, brothers, cousins, lots of 'em. We ketch -father and mother rabbit, then when we have lots of little rabbits we'se -all right. Tom'll build big house for rabbits, keep it outside dar in -the coal cellar, and feed 'em every day regular; no trouble at all after -we catch father and mother." - -The boys knew what rabbit tracks looked like in the snow, and the plan -proposed by Tom was that, the first morning after a light snow-fall, -they should get up early, and follow the tracks to the part of the hedge -where the rabbits lived. He would every night put out some chopped -carrots and turnips, and just as soon as the rabbits appeared, they all -being in hiding themselves, jump out and catch them. After a long -consultation they agreed the old plan was the only safe one--that of -tying a string around their big toes, hanging the string out of their -respective windows down over the piazza, then Tom would pull the string -attached to Massa Jim's toe, and as soon as Jim was dressed, he'd run -over and pull the string attached to Ned's. This plan had its -disadvantages in summer, for mischievous elder sisters and brothers who -sat up late in the evening had a nasty way of pulling the string before -they went to bed, and more than once the boys had gotten up in the -middle of the night, accordingly, and dressed themselves to go out, only -to be met downstairs by the other members of the family with the news -that it was still night, and not morning. In December few people sit up -on the piazza, so there was less danger, and finally that was settled -upon as the best way to do. - -Several anxious days passed without any more snow, and the parents of -the boys could not understand their sudden interest in the weather, as -they generally didn't care at all. They read the weather reports until -their eyes ached, but the only snow in sight was out in western Dakota, -and it seemed as if it never would come to this region of the country. -But as all comes round to him who will but wait, Jim was awakened one -night--or as it seemed to him, night--with a hideous dream in which a -rabbit was eating off his toe, to find that the string was being -violently jerked. It didn't take him half a minute to get to the window, -and when he looked out there was the sun just coming up and the ground -covered with the loveliest, whitest snow. Jim did not wait to perform a -very extensive toilet, and was over at Ned's, pulling the string -attached to his toe, in less time than it takes to tell about it. Then -as soon as Ned got out the two boys went in search of Tom, who was in a -great state of excitement, and who had collected together two other -darkies. The air was decidedly cold, but nobody minded it, so great was -the excitement; and when some tiny little marks were seen in the snow -the boys felt as if it were the greatest moment of their lives, all the -more delicious because they all had to keep absolute silence. They went -in single file, following down the little footfalls of the rabbit, when -suddenly, just ahead of them, they saw the animal they were in search -of, and not one only, but three of them. They looked so pretty nibbling -away there at the carrots and turnips, and so wise with their long ears, -that the boys could not bear to have them interrupted, and watched them -for some little time. - -[Illustration: A NICE LONG CHASE HE LED THEM OVER HILL AND DOWN DALE.] - -Suddenly, as though scenting danger in the air, the biggest fellow sat -up on his haunches, then gave a sideways leap, and went down the hill -with big bounds. This was too much for the darkies to stand, and with -wild whoops of delight they followed, Jim and Ned also joining in the -chase. But Master Rabbit did not intend to be caught so easily, and a -nice long chase he led them over hill and down dale. One of the darkies -who was holding a big stick flung it after the rabbit, and came within -an inch of hitting him; but that put an end to the fun, for while Jim -and Ned wanted to catch the rabbits, they were not willing to see them -killed, and they called to Tom to stop--the game was up. - -"Tom," said the boys, "we want to catch those rabbits, but we do not -want to kill the animals." - -"All right, massa," said Tom, "we catch 'em, not kill 'em"; and like a -general marshalling an army, he gave each boy directions where to go. -They formed in a ring, and gradually drew nearer together, until the -rabbit lay quite still, utterly tired, and quite at the mercy of his -captors. Tom then slipped him into a bag, which he slung over his back, -and they went back to where the other rabbits were feeding again. They -had returned, and by a little strategy another one was caught, and the -boys declared they had had enough of it for the day. They had gotten two -fine rabbits, and soon had them safely ensconced in the rabbit-hut. They -took good care of them, and with Tom's constant aid and attention the -scheme proved a good one; and yet, strange to say, the boys never went -rabbit-hunting again after that first morning. They could not forget how -piteous the poor little animal had looked when the darky wanted to throw -the stick at him, and as they had enough to get along with, they -concluded they'd rather try another plan next time. - -Colored people have a great weakness for what they call hares--they like -them almost as well as they do watermelons--and it is sad to say that -the three darkies who went on that expedition went on many another -before the winter was over. - - - - -[Illustration: INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT] - - -Lawrenceville defeated Andover in their annual football game a week ago -Friday. This result was doubtless a surprise to those who had witnessed -the Exeter-Andover game of the previous week, but it was an event not -entirely unlooked for by the Lawrenceville coachers. - -The game was interesting and exciting from start to finish, and the -result doubtful until the last moment of play. The strength displayed by -Lawrenceville was no doubt largely due to the good advice they have been -getting during the past few weeks from Princeton football-players, who -had been trying to knit some sort of a team out of the many individuals -that had been developed by the work of the early fall. Lawrenceville had -hoped that this method would culminate in a general successful movement -by the entire team, and after a week's hard work just this result was -obtained. I do not think that Lawrenceville has ever before put into the -field an eleven that played so steadily as these men did in the Andover -game. The necessity for steadiness was urged upon the players, and they -were well aware that this must be their only reliance, since no man upon -the team could be termed a brilliant player, and looked to for some -dashing performance at a critical moment. - -The game progressed most satisfactorily, and during the entire afternoon -there was not one word of protest or argument from either side. This was -largely due, no doubt, to the excellence of the officials--Messrs. -Alexander Moffat and Clinton T. Wood. The Lawrenceville players were -penalized a great deal in the first half, some sixty yards being lost -for off-side play and interference. This spirit of restlessness, which -causes men frequently to be over-anxious, proved a good thing in the end -for Lawrenceville, in spite of her heavy penalties, for as it became -controlled during the progress of the game it was transformed to a -quickness and alertness that proved most valuable. - -On the kick-off in the first half, by Andover, Lawrenceville returned -the ball, which was fumbled by Elliott of Andover. Of the two teams I -had expected to see Lawrenceville do most of the fumbling, but it was -Andover that proved the weaker of the two in this matter. I had expected -likewise to see Andover kick a great deal, but she did not adopt these -tactics, her line being unable to protect her backs. The Andover -full-back kicked but four times in his regular position; the rest of the -time he kicked from the half-back's position, and consequently his kicks -were high and short. The best feature of Andover's work was the -interference. This was formed quickly, and was very effective. On four -occasions runs were made around the Lawrenceville ends, which almost -proved disastrous. Andover's ends were superior to the Lawrenceville -players, and Captain Richards, of Lawrenceville, was fairly outplayed by -his opponent in the first half. In the second half, however, Richards -held his own. - -As to generalship Andover was inferior to Lawrenceville. This may have -been due somewhat to the absence of Captain Barker in the first half, -although matters did not improve materially when he entered the play in -the second half. The Lawrenceville full-back made long and sure punts, -and on several occasions her quarter-back kicked effectively for a gain -of several yards. With the exception therefore of the ends and Captain -Richards, in the first half Lawrenceville may fairly be said to have -outplayed Andover. I think, however, that to these exceptions should be -included Elliott of Andover; he is really better than either of the -Lawrenceville half-backs. - -As to the game itself: After Andover's kick-off and Lawrenceville's -return, the Jerseymen got the ball on a fumble, and by an attack on the -centre and tackles worked down to the twenty-yard line. A quarter-back -kick brought the ball to the five-yard line, where Andover secured it on -downs. Andover kicked to the twenty-yard line only, and after being -rushed back to the fifteen-yard line, the full-back missed a goal from -the field by a few inches. On the kick-off from the twenty-yard line -Lawrenceville advanced the ball surely down the field by short plunges -through the line, and the first touch-down was made by Cadwalader, who -also kicked the goal. On the kick-off Lawrenceville was successively -penalized for off-side play until the ball was on her twenty-yard line. -By the criss-cross trick White ran for Andover's only touch-down around -Lawrenceville's right end. The ball was punted, but the goal failed. On -the next kick-off Lawrenceville braced up considerably, both as to -playing and keeping on-side. By short rushes around the ends and through -the line she had the ball on Andover's one-yard line, on the first down, -when the first half was called. - -The second half began by Andover playing very fiercely, but -Lawrenceville played better than ever. After ten minutes' play -Lawrenceville punted to the one-yard line, and when the ball was punted -out by Andover, Lay heeled it on the twenty-five-yard line. Cadwalader -failed on the place kick. On the kick-off again, Andover by short -plunges through the line, and two runs around the end for fifteen and -twenty yards respectively, had the ball on Lawrenceville's five-yard -line. Lawrenceville here made a strong stand. On the second down Andover -surged to within three feet of the goal-line; on the third down Andover -was pushed back five yards, and the ball changed hands. Here Cleveland -made a fumble, and the ball was Andover's again on the four-yard line. -Lawrenceville held Andover again for the four downs, and Mattis dropped -back of the goal-line for a punt. The ball struck an Andover man in its -upward course, but was not retarded sufficiently to be caught. Dudley, -Lawrenceville's end, who had started down the field to tackle Andover's -full-back, got the ball, as it failed to go within twenty yards of the -Andover full-back. Dodging White and Barker, who were playing back, -Dudley made the play of the day, running eighty yards for a touch-down. -Cadwalader again kicked the goal in the gathering gloom. On the kick-off -Lawrenceville held the ball for some minutes, and it was not until this -time that she was able to make any ground around Andover's ends. The -ball was on Andover's twenty-yard line when time was called, on account -of darkness, with a few minutes yet remaining to play. - -[Illustration: BROOKLYN HIGH-SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAM.] - -Although the final game in the championship series of the Philadelphia -Inter-Academic League was not played until a week ago to-day, that game -being between Penn Charter and Germantown, Cheltenham Military Academy -won the pennant by defeating Germantown on November 13th (16-10). The -game was a hotly contested one, and the feature of the play was -Cheltenham's team-work. The soldiers' superiority in this matter won -them the game. - -On the kick-off Cheltenham got the ball, and by steady gains pushed it -over for a touch-down, from which a goal was kicked. A little later on, -Lincoln of Cheltenham secured the ball on a fumble by Germantown, and by -a fine run placed it behind the posts. The goal was kicked. Up to this -time Germantown had not been able to gain any ground worth speaking of. -About five minutes before time was called Perkins took the ball on a -criss-cross, and by a run of thirty yards around right end touched it -down in Cheltenham's goal. Pearson kicked the goal. This ended the -scoring in the first half, the game now standing 12 to 6 in Cheltenham's -favor. - -In the second half Germantown, by using the Pennsylvania style of -guards-back play, scored another touch-down, but failed at goal. At this -point Cheltenham braced up, and by steady plunges through the line and -one end run scored a touch-down, but failed at goal. Time was called -soon after, with the ball in Cheltenham's possession on her opponents' -ten-yard line. Score--Cheltenham, 16; Germantown, 10. For Cheltenham, -Potter and Boyd did good work, while Flavell, Perkins, and Newhall -excelled for Germantown. - -Cheltenham deserves credit for her fine showing this year. The school is -by long odds the smallest in the Association, yet by hard practice they -have developed team-work and interference that would do credit to a -college. Vail, the Pennsylvania quarter-back of '93, coached the team, -and by his untiring energy infused them with that snap and dash so -essential to good playing. - -[Illustration: TAFT'S SCHOOL (WATERTOWN, CONNECTICUT) FOOTBALL SQUAD.] - -A very strong team for a school of sixty boys has been developed at -Taft's School, Middletown, Connecticut, this fall. At the time the -accompanying picture was taken the team had played six games, all but -one being against much heavier opponents than themselves, and had not -been scored against. Their weight averages about 148 pounds, and the -players are nearly all strong and heavy. Their success is due, not to -brilliant plays of individual members, but to team-work, which they have -brought up to a very high standard. - -If any member of the team may be said to excel the others, perhaps -Townsend, at full-back, does the best work. In the game against Cheshire -Episcopal Academy he broke through the opposing line, dodged one -half-back, threw off their full-back who tackled him, and after a run of -sixty-five yards made a touch-down. In the line, Welch, right guard, -probably offers the strongest and steadiest game. Merriman, at centre, -Guthrie, left guard, and L. White and Bell, tackles, are all well -skilled in blocking, making openings, breaking through, and hard -tackling. Lloyd and Barnett, the ends, are sure tacklers and swift -runners. O. White, at quarter, is quick and generally accurate. G. and -J. Lear (the captain), the half-backs, are both heavy plungers and hard -tacklers. - -Shady Side Academy of Pittsburg was again defeated by Kiskiminetas on -November 16th last--the score, 12-4. McColl, the Kiskiminetas right -half-back, was the star player of the day; by his splendid running he -scored two of the touch-downs credited to his side. The first touch-down -was scored by the winners a few moments after play began, but S.S.A. -took a brace immediately afterwards, and the ball was kept slowly -travelling up and down the field. The S.S.A. line was very good, and at -no time was Kiskiminetas able to make any very considerable gains -through it. Brainard and Irwin stopped a number of plays through the -centre. Aikens did a good deal of fumbling, but fortunately none of his -fumbles proved very costly. - -The interference of the Kiskiminetas team was considerably superior to -that of Shady Side. Beeman's kicking was accurate and quick, and he -frequently put his side out of danger by a timely punt. McConnel -distinguished himself by his tackling, and especially at one time, when -McColl was making for the goal-posts with no one in his way but Shady -Side's quarter-back. In the second half, Kiskiminetas started off with -another rush, and scored almost immediately. Thereupon the Shady Side -players gathered themselves together again, and managed to keep the play -in the enemy's country for the rest of the half. Toward the close of the -half Beeman got around Montgomery and scored for Shady Side, but no -goal resulted. - -The best playing for Kiskiminetas was done by Montgomery, McColl, and -Aikens. Montgomery at end was a good tackler and a speedy runner. McColl -seemed indefatigable, and mostly ran with the ball. Captain Aiken -interfered well, but was not as good a quarter-back as McConnel. For -S.S.A., Captain Schildecker broke through and made several good tackles. -Irwin played a better game than he has played yet. He is strong, bucks -the line hard, but does not use his head enough. Neither of the ends put -up their usual game. Arundel got into the play more than he has done -before, and made some hard tackles. On the whole S.S.A. tackled better -than Kiskiminetas, and they had plenty of opportunities for practice, as -the ball was mostly in their opponents' possession. - -The Madison High-School has again won the championship of the Wisconsin -Interscholastic League by defeating, 42-0, the Milwaukee East-Side -High-School on November 14. The game was played on a slippery field, and -the Milwaukeeans apparently had an off day. Madison secured the ball on -the kick-off, and scored three touch-downs before Milwaukee had really -been able to find out what the ball felt like. When at last Milwaukee -did secure possession of the leather her players managed to work it -slowly up the field, but time was called before any decided advantage -had been gained. - -In the second half Milwaukee again had little chance for aggressive -play, having the ball in her possession but once. Madison had things -practically all her own way. The weakness displayed by the Milwaukee -East-Side High-School team is probably due to the strict rules recently -adopted by the faculties of the various High-Schools of Milwaukee. It is -probable, for one or two seasons to come, that these rules will to a -certain extent cripple teams that have hitherto had little to regulate -their style of make-up, but in the end I feel sure that the regulations -laid down by the faculties will prove of the greatest benefit to amateur -sport in Wisconsin. - -In the game between Madison High and the South Side High-School of -Milwaukee, the Madisonians were again the victors, 14-4. The game was -played on November 7, and was close all the way through. Madison scored -first on a fluke, but after this she outplayed the Milwaukee team. The -captain of the South Side High-School team did the best work for his -side, while Curtis and Anderson did the best work for Madison. - -The football season in Chicago is nearing its close. The most important -of recent games were those played on November 18, between Lake View and -North Division, and Northwest Division and West Division. Lake View won -its match, 18-6. 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Our - maps and tours contain many valuable data kindly supplied from the - official maps and road-books of the League of American Wheelmen. - Recognizing the value of the work being done by the L.A.W., the - Editor will be pleased to furnish subscribers with membership - blanks and information so far as possible. - - -[Illustration: Copyright, 1896, by Harper & Brothers.] - -The third stage on the general route from New York to Newburgh by the -west bank of the Hudson is given in the map accompanying the Department -this week. We spoke last week of the road running from Hackensack or -Paterson to Sufferns. This road is perhaps the best route for Newburgh, -as it runs through beautiful country, and, on the whole, the roads are -the best. - -On leaving Sufferns a short run brings the rider to Ramapo, thence a -mile or more brings him into Sterlington, and following the railroad he -can run direct to Tuxedo Park. The road is very attractive about there, -and the road-bed good. From Tuxedo Park continue on to Southfield, -keeping to the right here, and following the railroad track to Arden, -there crossing the railroad, and running on to Central Valley, Highland -Mills, Woodbury Falls, and so on. This is the direct route for Newburgh. -A good run, however, is to turn westward at Southfield, leaving the -railroad and running to Monroe, and thence through Oxford to -Washingtonville, returning thence to Blooming Grove and Chester, through -Dutch Hollow to Greenwood Lake, and down the west shore of the lake, -turning eastward at this southern end, and running up to Sterlington and -Ramapo again through Kingwood and Eagle Valley. - -The roads from Tuxedo Park to Greenwood Iron-Works and Central Valley, -westward, on the Hudson are not good riding, as there are many hills, -and the road-bed is not well cared for. The wheelman is advised, -therefore, if he is taking a series of runs through this country, to -keep either to the bank of the Hudson, or to the country back from the -river. The best way to get from Sufferns (supposing the wheelman to be -there) to the Hudson is to run southward through Tallmans, Clarksville, -and West Nyack to Nyack, then turning northward, through Upper Nyack, -New City, Haverstraw, Dunderberg, to Fort Montgomery, which appears on -the accompanying map. This road runs along close by the bank of the -Hudson, and most of the time in sight of the river. It is an attractive -road, but the road-bed is not in as good condition as the turnpikes in -and around Greenwood Lake. At Nyack there is a good stretch of road -close by the bank of the river running southward for several miles, -which is in capital condition, and is one of the picturesque stretches -in this part of the country. No one who rides up this side of the Hudson -should fail to take this short run at some time during his trip. - - * * * * * - -HIS DOG SNYDER. - -He was a tattered, weary-looking beggar, and he had hardly commenced -speaking before one knew that Germany was his native land. He was in -quest of a dog, and Snyder was the canine's name. - -"You don't know noddings mid him?" he asked. "Dot vos queer; eferybodies -knowed him, 'cause vot mit only vone eye dat don't pother him, on -accoundt of he knows noddings of the odder, seein' mit one shust as he -seed mit two before, de beoples already don't fergot him. No, he don't -answer ven you calls him soon, but come quick ven you shust asks him -Snyder. He say pow-wow-wow, unt his tail dot vos lost mit vone-half by a -vagon vheel he vag, und he don't vag the end vat he don't have on -accoundt of he fergets vat he don't have now. - -"Inshtinct, yah; he vos have vonderful inshtinct. You shust pat him mit -your hand on his head, und he die for you on accoundt of he knows soon -dot you like him, but you hit him mit your stick on de head, und den he -suhspect right off dot you care mit nottings for him. His hair vos upon -a time vonce peautiful, but und gonsquence of a tramp cat mit scraggy -fur he loss some by te handful, und now he don't scratch himself no -more; but de cat vat vos 'cause him trouble mit his hair, she don't valk -on de fences neider. - -"You could told Snyder vot vas so much like himself dot you vould dink -he vos dwins. Und you see him you knows Snyder 'cause he vos mitout -anoder dog de same as he vas, und now I goes to find my palt-headed -doggie;" and the poor old man wandered down the street. - - - - -[Illustration: THE CAMERA CLUB] - - Any questions in regard to photograph matters will be willingly - answered by the Editor of this column, and we should be glad to - hear from any of our club who can make helpful suggestions. - - -Owing to the number of questions, we devote the entire Department to -answers this week. - - SIR KNIGHT ROBERT HUNTER asks if the Premo B Camera, with Rochester - Optical Company's single-view lens, is a good hand-camera for an - amateur. The Premo is an excellent camera, and the lens mentioned - is a good one. This camera is fitted either for films or glass - plates. - - SIR KNIGHT FREDERICK CLAPP sends a photograph of some greenhouses - taken from a kite sent up with a camera attached to it, and - promises to send full directions of the manner of taking them. They - are quite interesting, and Sir Frederick wants to know if any of - the members of the club have ever tried the experiment. - - SIR KNIGHT W. D. CAMPBELL asks how long prints made on solio paper - and toned in Eastman's combined bath will keep. Prints made on this - paper, if fixed and well washed, should keep indefinitely. If after - toning they are put for three minutes into a fixing-bath of 1 oz. - hypo, to 10 oz. water, it will tend to make them more permanent, as - the combined bath does not always fix them enough. Our - correspondent is the first member of the club to take advantage of - the photographic print exchange outlined in No. 885. - - LOE OLDS asks if one can purchase a good camera for ten dollars, - and wishes the name of some reliable firm, and if one taking a - picture 3-1/2 by 4-1/2 would be large enough. A good camera may be - had for ten dollars, but would advise getting one which will take a - picture 4 by 5 in size. Write the Eastman Company, Rochester, - N. Y.; Rochester Optical Company, Rochester, N. Y.; Manhattan - Optical Company, or Scovill, Adams Company, New York city, for - catalogues. - - M. FOSTER asks for a formula for platino paper; if platino and - platinum are the same; a formula for platinum toning-solution; if - Rives paper is salted; and if it is necessary to prepare blue-print - paper on salted paper. Do not try to make platino paper, as it is a - long process, and not always successful. It is cheaper in the end - to buy it. Try some of the simpler processes for sensitizing paper. - Will send the formula if you wish to try platinum. Platino is a - commercial term applied to paper sensitized with platinum. Rives - paper is raw photographic paper. Blue prints do not need to be made - on salted paper. - - L. K. asks what is the matter with his negatives which show, after - a few months, spots on the film. From the description of the spots, - they are doubtless due to a poor fixing-bath. Will L. K. please - give his formula for fixing? - - PERCY MEREDITH REESE, JUN., 1210 Mount Royal Ave., Baltimore, Md.; - LESLEY ASHBURNER, Media, Pa.; HARRY CHASE, 175 Summer St., Malden, - Mass.; DWIGHT N. FOSTER, 35 Pleasant St., Dorchester, Mass.; JOHN - N. PROTHERO, Du Bois, Pa.; JOHN NORTON ATKINS, Bayonne City, N. J.; - J. R. SIXX, 95 Broadway, Paterson, N. J.; R. T. POBBS, Swedeland, - Pa.; L. P. DODGE, 71 High St., Newburyport, Mass; FOSTER HARTWELL, - 629 Third Ave., Lansingburg, N. Y.; S. F. MACQUAIDE, 46 Mechlin - St., Germantown, Pa.; VINCENT AULES, New Dorp, Staten Island; E. V. - BRAGDON, 87 West Thirty-second St., Bayonne, N. J.; ERNEST T. - SELIG, Lawrence, Kan.; GEORGE L. COLEMAN, 114 Van Buren St., - Dayton, O.--wish to be enrolled as members of the Camera Club. - - SIR KNIGHT JOHN NORTON ATKINS asks if the glycerine solution used - for keeping films from curling can be used more than once; if the - accelerator mentioned in No. 822 may be used with eiko-cum-hydro - developer; and if the piece of drawing-paper enclosed in his letter - could be used for sensitizing. The glycerine preparation may be - used as long as it is clear. The accelerator may be used with the - developer mentioned. The sample of drawing-paper did not reach the - editor, but if it is pure paper, free from chemicals, it may be - used for plain paper. 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It includes a series of poems for recitation in -character; describes a series of tableaux which may be given singly or -as a whole. 12 full-page and many smaller pictures by L. J. Bridgman. - -Price, 12mo, cloth, $1.00. - - * * * * * - -Illustrated Catalogue of New Books for Children, Free. - -_At booksellers; or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the -publishers,_ - -ALPHA PUBLISHING COMPANY, - -212 Boylston Street, BOSTON, MASS. - - - - -A Stranger in New Orleans. - - Changing one's home from Staten Island to New Orleans in the fall - of the year means a good deal of a change in climate and weather, - not to mention the change in one's surroundings noticeable at any - season. We like our new home much. Canal, the principal street, is - very wide, and there are seven trolley lines upon it. Yesterday we - took one of them and went six miles out to Jackson Barracks, where - the United States troops are. - - The barracks face the Mississippi River, and are not casemates or - stone walls, as are barracks in most of the forts around New York. - They are houses, large and roomy. The soldiers seemed to know the - place little better than we did, for they said they had only - recently come here. They belong to the First United States - Artillery, batteries of which are now scattered along the Gulf - coast, some being at Pensacola, and others at St. Augustine. The - Mississippi River is here higher than the city, hence the - foundations for buildings are none of the best. So one of the - peculiarities one notices, in contrast with the tall buildings I - was long familiar with in New York, is the low structures. - Everything seems so flat. Since coming here we have had much - rain--tropical rain, it seems to me to be, for the water simply - tumbles down for hours at a time. The days are warm, but the nights - are not. I hope we shall like New Orleans, as we must live here for - some years, but just now I am seeing new and strange things, and - sometimes I long for a sight of Brooklyn Bridge, the Liberty - Statue, and the White Squadron lying off Tompkinsville. - - F. W. - NEW ORLEANS. - - * * * * * - -The Convent Puzzle. - - This puzzle is a translation from the French, and is over two - hundred years old. - - In a certain convent were nine cells, of which all but the central - one were occupied by nuns. An abbess resided in the middle room, - and visited the eight cells at regular intervals, to make sure that - the sisters were keeping their vows, and each time found three nuns - in each cell, which made nine in every row. Four nuns went out, - however, but the abbess on her second round still found nine in a - row. The four nuns now came back, each bringing a friend, and the - good abbess still had no misgivings when she found the same number - in each row as before. Four more friends were introduced, and still - the correct number was found in the cells. How was all this - possible? The answer to this puzzle will be published later on. - - VINCENT V. M. BEEDE. - - * * * * * - -A Day on an Island of the Sea. - - I will try to tell the Table something about one of the islands of - our coast, namely, St. Helena. It is a large island, and on it is - grown that famous sea-island cotton valuable on account of its long - fibre. St. Helena is now almost wholly peopled by colored folk, not - a few of whom were once slaves. They are not equal to the raising - of island cotton of so long fibre as are the white growers; but in - almost every other respect they do exceedingly well at imitating - the successful methods of their former masters. - - They have divided the island into small farms. These the more - prosperous have purchased, and, what is equally important, they are - paying for them. A few years ago they thought they had reached a - wonderful degree of progress because they were able to begin - putting glass into their house windows. Since then they have - adopted other improvements, such as lamps, and even modern ploughs - and other field implements. These negroes chiefly raise vegetables - for the Northern markets, and I doubt not that not a few vegetables - which you have bought early in the season, and paid a high price - for, were grown on this island of the sea. - - The negroes of St. Helena have one quaint superstition, which some, - but not all cling to yet. It is that if a child be carried from a - house while asleep, its spirit remains behind beckoning the child - back. The negroes here, as in many other parts of the South, will - not work on Saturdays, and cannot by any inducement be made to do - so. This comes from an old custom of slavery times, when Saturdays - were devoted to clearing up the negro cabins, and then a holiday. - - LUCY H. EMORY. - BEAUFORT, S. C. - - * * * * * - -At Church in Wesley's Chapel. - - A few days after our trip up the Thames and our visit to Teddington - and Hampton Court, we--there was nearly the same party--went into - East London to see what may be called "the Cradle of Methodism." It - is City Road Chapel, which both John and Charles Wesley preached - in. It has been several times restored, but is now almost exactly - as it was when the Wesleys lived. We went on a tram-car, which had - a double deck to it, and which went as slowly as do the few - remaining horse-cars in our own land. Our route lay out behind the - Bank of England, into a poor part of the city, but a part that - makes an attempt to brush itself up along the line of broad City - Road. - - The chapel is still the centre of Wesleyan activity, and we got to - it in time to hear a part of the morning service--a service which - was, by-the-way, an odd mixture of Church of England forms and - Methodist simplicity. After service we met the pastor, a charming - man of sixty, who, knowing us at once as Americans, showed us every - part of the chapel. I even read a verse from Wesley's Bible while - standing in the pulpit in which he preached. The grave of John - Wesley is a few feet without the rear chancel window of the chapel, - and within thirty or forty feet of the pulpit. It is a common grave - in the sense that it is in the ground and not in a building, and a - fence surrounds it. Charles Wesley is buried at the right of the - path, fifty feet farther back, and Susannah Wesley, the mother of - both men, is interred in Bunhill Fields, which is across the street - from City Road Chapel; and not very far from her, in the very - centre of the "Field," lies John Bunyan, author of _Pilgrim's - Progress_. - - We enjoyed our Sunday exceedingly--so well that two of us went back - on Monday to see more of this old "Cradle of Methodism." - - ANNA BURTON. - NEW YORK. - - * * * * * - -Questions and Answers. - -John B. Henry: Most emphatically does the Table approve the reading of -daily newspapers by boys and young men. They should carefully select -what newspapers they read, of course. A choice can be made by asking -some man in whom you have confidence what newspaper of your city has the -most character, stands for the best in civic and social life, is the -best edited. When you get the answer, buy the newspaper named, and read -it. Young men--you say you are fifteen--who do not rush through -high-school and college, but who take their time for it, who do five or -six years' studying in eight years, and read good literature and the -newspapers meanwhile, will be farther along at twenty-five, other traits -being equal, than those who do four years' studying in three, and -confine themselves to classics and cloisters. Don't be in a hurry. -Remember the saying, "The heavens are full of days, and all are coming -this way."--"Royalty": We do not know the purpose the Czar of Russia has -in view in visiting the other capitals of Europe, but it is often said -that those whom royalties visit wish they had not them as guests, and -often make grimaces over the cost.--"Sport": "Tom Tiddler's Ground" is -one of those games with an "it" in it, similar to "wood-tag." Tom has a -preserve--that is, a staked-off space. Others in play run on this space -and shout. Tom tries to catch one while on his ground. If successful, -the person caught becomes Tom. - -"Does Mrs. Sangster approve of girls reading the daily newspapers?" asks -a Pennsylvania reader. She does, because she thinks girls should make -themselves informed on the topics of the day.--Frank H. King wants -sample copies of amateur newspapers. He lives at 53 Convent Avenue, New -York.--Beverly S. King, 1625 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., wants -original jokes for the _Jester_.--"Science" asks if there is a real man -by the name of "Keeley," or "is the Keeley motor a joke?" Mr. Keeley is -the name of a real person. His full name is John W. Keeley, and he lives -in Philadelphia. His workshop, where the famous "motor" is, is at Eighth -and Master streets in that city. Mr. Keeley has been experimenting since -1872, seeking to invent or perfect a machine that will run itself -practically without cost. He is not a searcher after perpetual motion, -but claims to be working on scientific principles. Opinions differ -whether the Keeley motor is or is not a joke. - -"Ambitious" asks how he can obtain a position in a bank or trust -company's counting-room. He is willing to begin at the bottom, of -course. Go to the president or cashier of said institution and formally -apply. Take with you, of course, a letter of introduction if you can do -so. If you cannot, have some references ready. Apply at all the places -you know of, so as to have the largest number of chances at a vacancy. -Apply in person. Letters written to banks in distant places will do you -little good. If you chance to have a relative or friend in a distant -city, and can ask a favor of him, request him to apply for you if -convenient for him to do so. Such positions pay little at first, and -generally are to be had only by good endorsements and patient -waiting.--C. Arnold Kruckman says it is desired to form, in St. Louis, -an Amateur Press Club, to include amateur journalists of not only the -city, but adjacent towns of Missouri and Illinois. He will be at Jones -College, Fifth Street, between Locust and Olive streets, on Saturdays, -and mail may be sent to him there. He hopes to hear from you.--Edgar -Hill, 3612 Columbia Avenue, Cincinnati, wants to receive copies of -amateur papers, and to join a literary Chapter or society desiring -corresponding members.--"Inquirer": The pretty Year Book of the -Kearsarge Round Table Chapter, recently described, may be had for -twenty-nine cents. Address L. G. Price, 547 Union Street, Hudson, -N. Y.--H. Lang: There is no binder for the ROUND TABLE such as you -describe. The publishers sell the board covers at fifty cents. They are -intended to be taken to a bookbinder, with the fifty-two numbers for the -year, who makes a perfect library book. - -Henry Jones: The Quarantine Station, New York Harbor, is maintained and -supervised by the State of New York, and not by the United States -Government. The United States leads in number of Sunday-school scholars. -In 1893, the latest report at hand, there were about ten million young -persons in the schools of all denominations. The country coming next -this is, of course, England, which had, in the same year, six millions -in round numbers.--John B. Condon: Silver is not mined wholly from -silver-mines so-called. Indeed, the last report of the Director of the -United States Mint shows that more than one-half of the annual silver -product of this country is mined in copper and lead mines, as a -by-product. - -Satchell asks where a complete United States sailor's uniform can be -had. Inquiry at the navy-yard in Brooklyn brings the information that -none will be sold there, and the only way to obtain a uniform made by -the government tailor is to buy it from some sailor at private purchase. -Tailors near the yard say they cannot furnish uniforms. But a leading -New York furnisher tells the Table, upon inquiry, that costumers have -these uniforms, or that any tailor of your city can make them. The cost -in summer-weight goods will be about $16; in winter-weight, $24. The -shirt may be bought ready made; the trousers should be short-waisted, -close-fitting, and lace in the back. The size at the knee for an average -man of, say, five feet nine inches tall, should be seventeen inches; at -bottom twenty-one inches.--_The Advocate_, an amateur paper published by -M. J. Bowen, Station B, Boston, Mass., wants sketches, verses, and fun -to fill its columns.--Fred B. Ely should apply to his member of Congress -for information about entering the Naval Academy. Entrance cannot now be -had till next year at best, and not then unless there be a vacancy from -his district. The examinations are on the common branches only, but are -very rigid on them. The physical test is also severe. - - - - -[Illustration: STAMPS] - - This Department is conducted in the interest of stamp and coin - collectors, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question - on these subjects so far as possible. Correspondents should address - Editor Stamp Department. - - -The Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing reports that the -sale of stamps during the past year was as follows: - - Postage-stamps 3,025,481,467 - Special-delivery stamps 4,666,270 - Postage-due stamps 19,348,714 - Newspaper stamps 5,505,672 - -In addition, the bureau made the following stamps for internal-revenue -purposes: 36,044,732 sheets of Tobacco, Liquor, and Playing-card stamps; -214,000 sheets Custom-house stamps, besides a vast quantity of United -States bonds, bank-notes, certificates, etc. - -Crime and philately were formerly strangers to each other, but the -growing value of stamps is reflected by the criminal statistics of -to-day. In one number of the _Stamp-Collectors' Fortnightly_, published -in England, I find the following items (I omit details): 1. The trial of -Aubert and Margaret Dubois for the murder of Delahaef, committed to -obtain possession of Delahaef's stamp collection. The man was condemned -to penal servitude for life, the woman to three years' imprisonment. 2. -The trial of two young men in Liverpool for stealing stamps from -dealers. 3. A similar case in Aberdeen. 4. A similar case at -Bournemouth. 5. Two other cases at London. - -In addition, a large part of the paper is taken up with the Sydney -_Bulletin_'s article on the "unauthorised and scandalous" trading in -postage-stamps by post-office officials; the sale of 5-peseta stamps at -Gibraltar, which could not be obtained at the post-office, as -practically the whole stock had been sold to one man; and to a review of -the Nova Scotia remainder mystery. The author comes to the conclusion -that the Nova Scotia stamps (cents issue) had best be left alone by all -collectors. Then there is a review of the silly article which appeared -in a New York paper a short time ago, in which the failure of a large -mercantile house was ascribed to the neglect of business by the head of -the house while he pottered over his collection of postage-stamps. - - A. C. TARR.--Dealers ask $1.50 for early gold dollars, and $2 to - $2.50 for the later dates; half-dollars, silver, 1828, 75c.; 3c. - silver pieces, 10c. for early dates, 50c. to $1 for late dates; but - coins must be in "Fine" condition. Ordinary circulated U.S. coins - are worth face only. - - W. T. HOWELL.--The 50c. blue and black U.S. Revenue are very - common, and can be bought at 2c. - - G. G. MORSE.--The prices quoted were for unperforated stamps only. - Those with perforations are, as a rule, of little value. As there - are hundreds of varieties, it is impossible to give a list, but - would advise your purchasing a stamp-catalogue, which prices U.S. - Revenues of all descriptions. No idea as to value can be formed - without examination. - - J. D. DUFF.--As the button fad is rapidly dying out, this - Department can not advise regarding them. - - W. E. SHREVE, Ridley Park, Pa., wishes to exchange stamps. - - B. B. MEGGS.--The 1897 catalogues will probably all be published - during the month of December or early in January. The prices vary - from 10c. to $1.50; but 50c. will be the price of probably the best - one. - - AMATEUR.--Addresses can not be given in this column, with the - exception of readers of the ROUND TABLE who wish to exchange - stamps. - - PHILATUS. - - - - -[Illustration: IVORY SOAP] - -At all grocery stores east of the Rocky Mountains two sizes of Ivory -Soap are sold; one that costs five cents a cake, and a larger size. The -larger cake is the more convenient and economical for laundry and -general household use. 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McGuire - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_MATERIALIZATION_OF_CHARLES_AND_MIVANWAY">THE MATERIALIZATION OF CHARLES AND MIVANWAY.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#MODELLING_IN_CLAY">MODELLING IN CLAY.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#MIDSHIPMAN_JACK_USN">MIDSHIPMAN JACK, U.S.N.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#A_LOYAL_TRAITOR">A LOYAL TRAITOR.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#HARNESSING_NIAGARA">HARNESSING NIAGARA.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#RABBIT-HUNTING_IN_THE_SNOW">RABBIT-HUNTING IN THE SNOW.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#INTERSCHOLASTIC_SPORT">INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#BICYCLING">BICYCLING.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_CAMERA_CLUB">THE CAMERA CLUB.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#STAMPS">STAMPS.</a></td></tr> -</table></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[Pg 105]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 800px;"> -<img src="images/ill_001.jpg" width="800" height="327" alt="HARPER'S ROUND TABLE" /> -</div> - -<p class="center">Copyright, 1896, by <span class="smcap">Harper & Brothers</span>. All Rights Reserved.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">published weekly</span>.</td><td align="center">NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1896.</td><td align="right"><span class="smcap">five cents a copy</span>.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">vol. xviii.—no</span>. 892.</td><td align="center"></td><td align="right"><span class="smcap">two dollars a year</span>.</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 700px;"><a name="THE_MATERIALIZATION_OF_CHARLES_AND_MIVANWAY" id="THE_MATERIALIZATION_OF_CHARLES_AND_MIVANWAY"></a> -<img src="images/ill_002.jpg" width="700" height="494" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2>THE MATERIALIZATION OF CHARLES AND MIVANWAY.</h2> - -<h3>BY JEROME K. JEROME.</h3> - -<p>The fault that most people will find with this story is that it is -unconvincing. Its scheme is improbable, its atmosphere artificial. To -confess that the thing really happened—not as I am about to set it -down, for the pen of the professional writer cannot but adorn and -embroider, even to the detriment of his material—is, I am well aware, -only an aggravation of my offence; for the facts of life are the -impossibilities of fiction. A truer artist would have left this story -alone, or at most have kept it for the irritation of his private circle. -My lower instinct is to make use of it. A very old man told me the tale; -he was landlord of the Cromlech Arms, the only inn of a small, -rock-sheltered village on the northeast coast of Cornwall, and had been -so for nine-and-forty years. It is called the Cromlech Hotel now, and is -under new management, and during the season some four coach-loads of -tourists sit down each day to <i>table d'hôte</i> lunch in the low-ceilinged -parlor. But I am speaking of some time ago when the place was a mere -fishing-harbor, undiscovered by the guide-books.</p> - -<p>The old landlord talked, and I harkened, the while we<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[Pg 106]</a></span> both sat drinking -thin ale from earthen-ware mugs late one summer's evening, on the bench -that runs along the wall just beneath the latticed windows; and during -the many pauses when the old landlord stopped to puff his pipe in -silence and lay in a new stock of breath, there came to us the deep -voices of the Atlantic, and often, mingled with the pompous roar of the -big breakers further out, we would hear the rippling laugh of some small -wave that, maybe, had crept in to listen to the tale the landlord told.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The mistake that Charles Seabohn, junior partner of the firm of Seabohn -& Son, civil engineers, of London and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Mivanway -Evans, youngest daughter of the Rev. Thomas Evans, pastor of the -Presbyterian church at Bristol, made originally was in marrying too -young. Charles Seabohn could hardly have been twenty years of age, and -Mivanway could have been little more than seventeen, when they first met -upon the cliffs two miles above the Cromlech Arms. Young Charles -Seabohn, coming upon the village in the course of a walking-tour, had -decided to spend a day or two exploring the picturesque coast; and -Mivanway's father had hired a neighboring farm-house wherein to spend -his summer vacation. Early one morning—for, at twenty, one takes -exercise before breakfast—as young Charles Seabohn lay upon the cliffs, -watching the white waters come and go upon the black rocks beneath him, -he became aware of a form rising from the waves. The figure was too far -off for him to see it clearly, but, judging from the costume, it was a -female figure, and promptly the mind of Charles, poetically inclined, -turned to thoughts of Venus or Aphrodite, as he, being a gentleman of -delicate taste, would have preferred to term her. He saw the figure -disappear behind a headland, but still waited. In about ten minutes or a -quarter of an hour it reappeared clothed in the garments of the -eighteen-sixties, and came towards him. Hidden from sight himself behind -a group of rocks, he could watch it at his leisure ascending the steep -path from the beach; and an exceedingly sweet and dainty figure it would -have appeared even to eyes less susceptible than those of twenty. -Sea-water—I stand open to correction—is not, I believe, considered -anything of a substitute for curling-tongs, but to the hair of the -youngest Miss Evans it had given an additional and most fascinating -wave. Nature's red and white had been most cunningly laid on, and the -large childish eyes seemed to be searching the world for laughter with -which to feed a pair of delicious, pouting lips. Charles's upturned -face, petrified into admiration, appeared to be just the sort of thing -for which they were on the lookout. A startled "Oh!" came from the -slightly parted lips, followed by the merriest of laughs, which in its -turn was suddenly stopped by a deep blush. Then the youngest Miss Evans -looked offended, as though the whole affair had been Charles's fault, -which is the way of women. And Charles, feeling himself guilty under -that stern gaze of indignation, rose awkwardly and apologized meekly, -whether for being on the cliffs at all or for having got up too early he -would have been unable to explain.</p> - -<p>The youngest Miss Evans graciously accepted the apology thus tendered -with a bow, and passed on, and Charles stood staring after her till the -valley gathered her into its spreading arms and hid her from his view.</p> - -<p>That was the beginning of all things—I am speaking of the universe as -viewed from the stand-point of Charles and Mivanway.</p> - -<p>Six months later they were man and wife; or perhaps it would be more -correct to say boy and wifelet. Seabohn senior counselled delay, but was -overruled by his junior partner. The Rev. Mr. Evans, in common with most -theologians, possessed a goodly supply of unmarried daughters and a -limited income. Personally he saw no necessity for postponement of the -marriage.</p> - -<p>The month's honeymoon was spent in the New Forest. That was a mistake to -begin with. The New Forest in February is depressing, and they had -chosen the loneliest spot they could find. A fortnight in Paris or Rome -would have been more helpful. As yet they had nothing to talk about -except love, and that they had been talking and writing about steadily -all through the winter. On the tenth morning Charles yawned, and -Mivanway had a quiet half-hour's cry about it in her own room. On the -sixteenth evening Mivanway, feeling irritable, and wondering why (as -though fifteen damp, chilly days in the New Forest were not sufficient -to make any woman irritable), requested Charles not to disarrange her -hair; and Charles, speechless with astonishment, went out into the -garden and swore before all the stars that he would never caress -Mivanway's hair again as long as he lived.</p> - -<p>One supreme folly they had conspired to commit even before the -commencement of the honeymoon. Charles, after the manner of very young -lovers, had earnestly requested Mivanway to impose upon him some task. -He desired to do something great and noble to show his devotion. Dragons -were the things he had in his mind, though he may not have been aware of -it. Dragons also, no doubt, flitted through Mivanway's brain; but -unfortunately for lovers, the supply of dragons has lapsed. Mivanway, -liking the conceit, however, thought over it, and then decided that -Charles must give up smoking. She had discussed the matter with her -favorite sister, and that was the only thing the girls could think of. -Charles's face fell. He suggested some more herculean labor, some -sacrifice more worthy to lay at Mivanway's feet. But Mivanway had -spoken. She might think of some other task, but the smoking prohibition -would in any case remain. She dismissed the subject with a pretty -hauteur that would have graced Marie Antoinette.</p> - -<p>Thus tobacco, the good angel of all men, no longer came each day to -teach Charles patience and amiability, and he fell into the ways of -short temper and selfishness.</p> - -<p>They took up their residence in a suburb of Newcastle, and this was also -unfortunate for them, because there the society was scanty and -middle-aged, and in consequence they had still to depend much upon their -own resources. They knew little of life, less of each other, and nothing -at all of themselves. Of course they quarrelled, and each quarrel left -the wound a little deeper than before. No kindly experienced friend was -at hand to laugh at them. Mivanway would write down all her sorrows in a -bulky diary, which made her feel worse; so that before she had written -for ten minutes her pretty unwise head would drop upon her dimpled arm, -and the book, the proper place for which was behind the fire, would -become damp with her tears; and Charles, his day's work done and the -clerks gone, would linger in his dingy office and hatch trifles into -troubles.</p> - -<p>The end came one evening after dinner, when in the heat of a silly -squabble Charles boxed Mivanway's ears. That was very ungentlemanly -conduct, and he was most heartily ashamed of himself the moment he had -done it, which was right and proper for him to be. The only excuse to be -urged on his behalf is that girls sufficiently pretty to have been -spoiled from childhood by every one about them can at times be intensely -irritating. Mivanway rushed up to her room and locked herself in; -Charles flew after her to apologize, but only arrived in time to have -the door slammed in his face.</p> - -<p>It had only been the merest touch; a boy's muscles move quicker than his -thoughts. But to Mivanway it was a blow. This is what it had come to! -This was the end of a man's love!</p> - -<p>She spent half the night writing in the precious diary, with the result -that in the morning she came down feeling more bitter than when she had -gone up. Charles had walked the streets of Newcastle all night, and that -had not done him any good. He met her with an apology combined with an -excuse, which was bad policy. Mivanway, of course, fastened upon the -excuse, and the quarrel recommenced. She mentioned that she hated him, -he hinted that she had never loved him, and she retorted that he had -never loved her. Had there been anybody by to knock their heads together -and suggest breakfast, the thing might have blown over; but the combined -effect of a sleepless night and an empty stomach upon each proved -disastrous. Their words came poisoned from their brains, and they -believed<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[Pg 107]</a></span> they meant what they said. That afternoon Charles sailed from -Hull on a ship bound for the Cape, and that evening Mivanway arrived at -the paternal home in Bristol with two trunks and the curt information -that she and Charles had separated forever. The next morning both -thought of a soft speech to say to the other, but the next morning was -just twenty-four hours too late.</p> - -<p>Eight days afterward Charles's ship was run down in a fog near the coast -of Portugal, and every soul on board was supposed to have perished. -Mivanway read his name among the list of lost.</p> - -<p>By good luck, however, Charles and one other man were rescued by a small -trading-vessel, and landed in Algiers. There Charles learned of his -supposed death, and the idea occurred to him to leave the report -uncontradicted. For one thing, it solved a problem that had been -troubling him. He could trust his father to see to it that his own small -fortune, with possibly something added, was handed over to Mivanway, and -she would be free, if she wished, to marry again. He was convinced that -she did not care for him, and that she had read of his death with a -sense of relief. He would make a new life for himself and forget her.</p> - -<p>He continued his journey to the Cape, and once there he soon gained for -himself an excellent position. The colony was young, engineers were -welcome, and Charles knew his business. He found the life interesting -and exciting. The rough, dangerous up-country work suited him, and the -time passed swiftly.</p> - -<p>But in thinking he would forget Mivanway, he had not taken into -consideration his own character, which at bottom was a very gentlemanly -character. Out on the lonely veldt he found himself dreaming of her. The -memory of her pretty face and merry laugh came back to him at all hours. -Occasionally he would rate her roundly, but that only meant that he was -sore because of the thought of her; what he was really rating was -himself and his own folly. Softened by the distance, her quick temper, -her very petulance became mere added graces; and if we consider women as -human beings, and not as angels, it was certainly a fact that he had -lost a very sweet and lovable woman.</p> - -<p>Ah! if only she were by his side now—now that he was a man, capable of -appreciating her, and not a foolish, selfish boy. This thought would -come to him as he sat smoking at the door of his tent, and then he would -regret that the stars looking down upon him were not the same stars that -were watching her; it would have made him feel nearer to her. For, -though young people may not credit it, one grows more sentimental as one -grows older—at least some of us do, and they, perhaps, not the least -wise.</p> - -<p>One night he had a vivid dream of her. She came to him and held out her -hand, and he took it, and they said good-by to one another. They were -standing on the cliff where he had first met her, and one of them was -going upon a long journey, though he was not sure which.</p> - -<p>In the towns men laugh at dreams, but away from civilization we listen -more readily to the strange tales that Nature whispers to us. Charles -Seabohn recollected this dream when he awoke in the morning.</p> - -<p>"She is dying," he said, "and she has come to wish me good-by."</p> - -<p>He made up his mind to return to England at once; perhaps if he made -haste he would be in time to kiss her. But he could not start that day, -for work was to be done, and Charles Seabohn, lover though he still was, -had grown to be a man, and knew that work must not be neglected even -though the heart may be calling. So for a day or two he staid, and on -the third night he dreamed of Mivanway again, and this time she lay -within the little chapel at Bristol where, on Sunday mornings, he had -often sat with her. He heard her father's voice reading the burial -service over her, and the sister she had loved best was sitting beside -him, crying softly! Then Charles knew that there was no need for him to -hasten. So he remained to finish his work. That done, he would return to -England. He would like again to stand upon the cliffs above the little -Cornish village where they had first met.</p> - -<p>Thus, a few months later, Charles Seabohn—or Charles Denning, as he -called himself—aged and bronzed, not easily recognizable by those who -had not known him well, walked into the Cromlech Arms, as six years -before he had walked in with his knapsack on his back, and asked for a -room, saying he would be stopping in the village for a short while.</p> - -<p>In the evening he strolled out and made his way to the cliffs. It was -twilight when he reached the place of rocks to which the fancy-loving -Cornish folk had given the name of the Witches' Caldron. It was from -this spot that he had first watched Mivanway coming to him from the sea.</p> - -<p>He took the pipe from his mouth, and leaning against a rock whose rugged -outline seemed fashioned into the face of an old friend, gazed down the -narrow pathway now growing indistinct in the dim light. And as he gazed, -the figure of Mivanway came slowly up the pathway from the sea and -paused before him.</p> - -<p>He felt no fear. He had half expected it. Her coming was the complement -of his dreams. She looked older and graver than he remembered her, but -for that the face was the sweeter.</p> - -<p>He wondered if she would speak to him, but she only looked at him with -sad eyes; and he stood there in the shadow of the rocks without moving, -and she passed on into the twilight.</p> - -<p>Had he, on his return, cared to discuss the subject with his landlord, -had he even shown himself a ready listener—for the old man loved to -gossip—he might have learned that a young widow-lady named Mrs. Charles -Seabohn, accompanied by an unmarried sister, had lately come to reside -in the neighborhood, having, upon the death of the former tenant, taken -the lease of a small farm-house sheltered in the valley a mile beyond -the village; and that her favorite evening's walk was to the sea and -back by the steep footway leading past the Witches' Caldron.</p> - -<p>Had he followed the figure of Mivanway into the valley, he would have -known that out of sight of the Witches' Caldron it took to running fast -till it reached a welcome door, and fell panting into the arms of -another figure that had hastened out to meet it.</p> - -<p>"My dear," said the older woman, "you are trembling like a leaf. What -has happened?"</p> - -<p>"I have seen him!" answered Mivanway.</p> - -<p>"Seen whom?"</p> - -<p>"Charles."</p> - -<p>"Charles!" repeated the other, looking at Mivanway as though she thought -her mad.</p> - -<p>"His spirit, I mean," explained Mivanway, in an awed voice. "It was -standing in the shadow of the rocks, in the exact spot where we first -met. It looked older and more careworn; but oh! Margaret, so sad and -reproachful."</p> - -<p>"My dear," said her sister, leading her in, "you are over-wrought. I -wish we had never come back to this house."</p> - -<p>"Oh, but I was not frightened," answered Mivanway. "I have been -expecting it every evening. I am so glad it came. Perhaps it will come -again, and I can ask it to forgive me."</p> - -<p>So next night Mivanway, though much against her sister's wishes and -advice, persisted in her usual walk, and Charles, at the same twilight -hour, started from the inn.</p> - -<p>Again Mivanway saw him standing in the shadow of the rocks. Charles had -made up his mind that if the thing happened again he would speak; but -when the silent figure of Mivanway, clothed in the fading light, stopped -and gazed at him, his will failed him.</p> - -<p>That it was the spirit of Mivanway standing before him he had not the -faintest doubt. One may dismiss other people's ghosts as the fantasies -of a weak brain, but one knows one's own to be realities; and Charles -for the last five years had mingled with a people whose dead dwelt about -them. Once, drawing his courage around him, he made to speak, but as he -did so, the figure of Mivanway shrank from him, and only a sigh escaped -his lips; and hearing that, the figure of Mivanway turned, and again -passed down the path into the valley, leaving Charles gazing after it.</p> - -<p>But the third night both arrived at the trysting-spot<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[Pg 108]</a></span> with -determination screwed up to the sticking-point. Charles was the first to -speak. As the figure of Mivanway came towards him with its eyes fixed -sadly on him, he moved from the shadow of the rocks, and stood before -it.</p> - -<p>"Mivanway!" he said.</p> - -<p>"Charles," replied the figure of Mivanway. Both spoke in an awed whisper -suitable to the circumstances, and each stood gazing sorrowfully upon -the other. "Are you happy?" asked Mivanway.</p> - -<p>The question strikes one as somewhat farcical, but it must be remembered -that Mivanway was the daughter of a gospeller of the old school, and had -been brought up to beliefs that were not then out of date.</p> - -<p>"As happy as I deserve to be," was the sad reply; and the answer—the -inference was not complimentary to Charles's deserts—struck a chill to -Mivanway's heart. "How could I be happy, having lost you?" went on the -voice of Charles.</p> - -<p>Now this speech fell very pleasantly upon Mivanway's ears. In the first -place it relieved her of her despair regarding Charles's future. No -doubt his present suffering was keen, but there was hope for him. -Secondly, it was a decidedly "pretty" speech for a ghost, and I am not -at all sure that Mivanway was the kind of woman to be averse to a little -mild flirtation with the spirit of Charles.</p> - -<p>"Can you forgive me?" asked Mivanway.</p> - -<p>"Forgive <i>you</i>?" replied Charles, in a tone of awed astonishment. "Can -you forgive me? I was a brute—a fool—I was not worthy to love you." A -most gentlemanly spirit it seemed to be. Mivanway forgot to be afraid of -it.</p> - -<p>"We were both to blame," answered Mivanway. But this time there was less -submission in her tones. "But I was the most at fault. I was a petulant -child. I did not know how deeply I loved you."</p> - -<p>"You loved me?" repeated the voice of Charles, and the voice lingered -over the words.</p> - -<p>"Surely you never doubted it," answered the voice of Mivanway. "I shall -love you always and ever."</p> - -<p>The figure of Charles sprang forward as though it would clasp the ghost -of Mivanway in its arms, but halted a step or two off. "Bless me before -you go," he said; and with uncovered head the figure of Charles knelt to -the figure of Mivanway.</p> - -<p>Really ghosts could be exceedingly nice when they liked. Mivanway bent -graciously towards her shadowy suppliant, and as she did so, her eye -caught sight of something on the grass beside it; that something was a -well-colored meerschaum pipe. There was no mistaking it for anything -else even in that treacherous night; it lay glistening where Charles, in -falling upon his knees, had jerked it from his breast pocket.</p> - -<p>Charles, following Mivanway's eyes, saw it also, and the memory of the -prohibition against smoking came back.</p> - -<p>Without stopping to consider the futility of the action—nay, the direct -confession implied thereby—he instinctively grabbed at the pipe, and -rammed it back into his pocket; and then an avalanche of mingled -understanding and bewilderment, fear and joy, swept Mivanway's brain -before it. She felt she must do one of two things—laugh or scream, and -go on screaming; and she laughed. Peal after peal of laughter she sent -echoing among the rocks, and Charles, springing to his feet, was just in -time to catch her as she fell forward, a dead weight into his arms.</p> - -<p>Ten minutes later the eldest Miss Evans, hearing heavy footsteps, went -to the door. She saw what she took to be the spirit of Charles Seabohn -staggering under the weight of the lifeless body of Mivanway, and the -sight not unnaturally alarmed her. Charles's suggestion of a stimulant, -however, sounded human, and the urgent need of attending to Mivanway -kept her mind from dwelling upon problems tending towards insanity.</p> - -<p>Charles carried Mivanway to her room and laid her upon the bed. "I'll -leave her with you," he whispered to the eldest Miss Evans. "It will be -better for her not to see me until she is quite recovered. She has had a -shock."</p> - -<p>Charles waited in the dark parlor for what seemed to him an exceedingly -long time. But at last the eldest Miss Evans returned.</p> - -<p>"She's all right now," were the welcome words he heard.</p> - -<p>"I'll go and see her," he said.</p> - -<p>And the eldest Miss Evans, left alone, sat down and wrestled with the -conviction that she was dreaming.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="MODELLING_IN_CLAY" id="MODELLING_IN_CLAY">MODELLING IN CLAY.</a></h2> - -<h3>BY J. HARRY ADAMS.</h3> - -<p>The boy or girl on whom nature has bestowed the natural talent and -liking for art and art-work, will find clay-modelling a fascinating and -pleasing branch to follow.</p> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 239px;"> -<img src="images/ill_003.jpg" width="239" height="350" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">FIG. 1.</span> -</div> - -<p>To become a perfect modeller, and finally a sculptor, requires years of -patience and perseverance to accomplish the highest degree that can be -aimed at; and to successfully carry out the most minute detail -accurately, necessitates a great deal of patient study and close -application to the work.</p> - -<p>To copy simple objects in clay, carrying out the detail and general line -in quite a satisfactory manner, is not a difficult matter, and with some -clay, a few tools, and the skeletons or supports, the amateur should not -meet with any great obstacle if the following descriptions and -instructions are accepted and practised.</p> - -<p>It is not possible to give the young modeller the complete -demonstration, but the primary helps can be suggested, so that, if -carried out in the right manner and by the worker with brains, minute -features in the detail can be accomplished that only the inventive brain -of the young artist would grasp and use to good advantage.</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 257px;"> -<img src="images/ill_004.jpg" width="257" height="350" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">FIG. 2.</span> -</div> - -<p>Very few tools are necessary at the beginning, and those shown in Nos. -1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, Fig. 5, are a full complement for any beginner. -The first four are wire tools, made of spring steel or brass wire, about -which fine wire is wrapped; the ends of the wires are securely bound to -the end of a round wooden handle, and sometimes for convenience two ends -are made fast to a single handle; and these tools are called -double-enders, and are used in roughing out the clay in the first stages -of the work. No. 5 is a boxwood tool with one serrated edge, and is used -for finishing. The tools shown in Nos. 6 and 7 are of steel, and are of -use on plaster, where others would not be sufficiently durable. Any of -these tools can be purchased at an art-material store for a few cents -each, except the steel tools, which are more expensive.</p> - -<p>A stand or pedestal will be necessary on which to place the clay model, -unless perhaps it should be a medallion, which may be worked over on a -table.</p> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 261px;"> -<img src="images/ill_005.jpg" width="261" height="350" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">FIG. 3.</span> -</div> - -<p>Fig. 6 is a stand that can be made by any boy from a few pieces of pine -two inches square, and a top board one<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[Pg 109]</a></span> inch and a half in thickness, -and arranged with a central shaft that may be raised or lowered, and to -the top of which a platform is securely attached.</p> - -<p>The movable shaft can have some holes bored through it from side to -side, through which a small iron pin may be adjusted to hold the -platform at a desired height. Clay can be purchased at the art stores by -the pound, or in the country a very good quality of light slate-colored -clay may sometimes be found along the edges of brooks, or in swampy -places where running water has washed away the dirt and gravel, leaving -the clear deposit of clay in the consistency of putty.</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 256px;"> -<img src="images/ill_006.jpg" width="256" height="350" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">FIG. 4.</span> -</div> - -<p>Supports which the clay models are built upon can be made of wood and -wire, as the requirements necessitate. That for the head is shown in -Fig. 1. Nearly every clay model of any size will need some support, as -clay is heavy and settles, and if not properly supported will soon -become distorted, and the composition spoiled. Add to the paraphernalia -some old soft cloths that can be applied wet to the clay, a pair of -calipers, and a small trowel or spatula.</p> - -<p>To model well, the art of drawing is constantly used, the idea of form -is continually brought into play, so the knowledge of drawing is -essential to the good modeller. To begin with, choose some simple object -to copy, such as a vase or some small ornament, then when a satisfactory -result has been obtained, select something a trifle more difficult, such -as a hand or foot.</p> - -<p>Plaster heads, hands, feet, and all parts of the human body, as well as -animals and flower pieces, can be purchased at the art stores, but if -they are not available something that may be at hand in which artistic -merit is evident may be chosen as a model.</p> - -<p>When copying a head obtain a bust support on which to work the clay, and -a very simple and strong one can be made from a piece of board, two -sticks, and a short piece of pipe wired to the top end of the upright -stick, Fig. 1.</p> - -<p>To carry out the proportions of a bust similar to Fig. 4, the clay can -be packed about the support much after the manner shown in Fig. 2. This -will be the support for the clay.</p> - -<p>With a lump of clay and the fingers form the general outline as shown in -Fig. 2 for the head, then with the wire tools begin to work away the -clay in places so as to follow the lines of the model. With the calipers -measurements can be taken from the plaster head and used advantageously -in carrying out the accuracy of the clay model. Turn the plaster model -and clay copy occasionally, so that all sides may be presented and -closely followed in line and detail.</p> - -<p>Modelling differs from drawing and painting in that every side of the -model is visible, while only the face of the painting is presented to -the eye, where the impression of form and outline is worked out on a -flat surface.</p> - -<p>The contour of proportion is the most difficult part of modelling, and -for this reason it is to the student and amateur one of the most -beneficial branches of the fine arts. Having successfully mastered the -head, next attempt a foot from a plaster cast. Select a simple foot, and -afterwards a more elaborate subject, such as a whole figure, can be -tried.</p> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 358px;"> -<img src="images/ill_007.jpg" width="358" height="400" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">FIG. 5.</span> -</div> - -<p>With the wire modelling-tools and the fingers begin to work away the -clay to obtain the general outline and form; continue this in a rough -manner, until a perfect composition is obtained that compares favorably -with the original model; the finishing-touches may then be applied, and -the detail worked up more carefully.</p> - -<p>Never complete one part and leave the remaining ones until later; always -work up the model uniformly, adding a little here and there, or taking -away, as may be necessary, and so developing the total composition -gradually.</p> - -<p>Always turn both model and copy frequently, that comparison may be -frequently made, and thus training the eye<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[Pg 110]</a></span> to detect any little -miscalculation in proportions and lines, and by the addition or removal -of small masses the clay will finally take the form and accurate outline -and detail of the original.</p> - -<p>Moisten the clay occasionally with water sprayed on with a small -watering-pot or a green-house sprinkler, to keep it soft and ductile, -and when not being worked upon it should be covered with wet cloths to -keep it moist.</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 231px;"> -<img src="images/ill_008.jpg" width="231" height="400" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">FIG. 6.</span> -</div> - -<p>As the work progresses the clay may be allowed to harden and -consolidate, but not to dry; if allowed to dry entirely the model may be -considered ruined, as the shrinkage of the clay around the support -results in fissures and fractures that cannot be repaired.</p> - -<p>By the time the amateur has acquired the knowledge to attempt a -full-size figure he will invent the devices to support it.</p> - -<p>The support or skeleton must of course be adapted to line with the pose -of the figure, and should be of pipe and heavy wire or rods securely -anchored to the base-plate.</p> - -<p>The composition of flowers, fruit, foliage, animal life, and landscape -is an inexhaustible one, and some beautiful effects can be had in -flat-work. Good examples of this character of work can be found on all -sides, and to the genius the field of modelling is a broad one, without -limit.</p> - -<p>For the help and assistance of those who desire to make a deeper study -there are many hand-books and treatises on the subject by masters and -sculptors, but the boy or girl adopting the work as a pleasant pastime -will find this description very beneficial in the selection of tools and -materials, as well as the primary steps to the great art of sculpture.</p> - -<p>When casting from hands, feet, or ornaments where undercut predominates, -the most successful mode is in the use of gelatine or glue.</p> - -<p>To cast a head similar to the one shown in Fig. 4, it will be necessary -to make a box frame large enough to place the head in.</p> - -<p>The cast is to be well oiled, and down the front and back, running -around under and back over the base block, strong linen threads are to -be stuck on with oil. Warm glue or gelatine is then poured in the box, -and left to chill and solidify.</p> - -<p>When sufficiently cold the frame may be removed, leaving the solid block -of glue like hard jelly; the ends of the threads are to be grasped and -torn through the gelatine, thus separating it in two or three parts. The -plaster head may then be removed, and the mould put together again and -surrounded by the frame to hold it in place.</p> - -<p>To make a plaster head this plaster of Paris may be poured into the -mould and left for a while, when, on removing the frame and taking the -glue mould away, a perfect reproduction of the original head will be -found.</p> - -<p>When very large objects that would require a great deal of plaster are -cast, they are generally made hollow in the following manner:</p> - -<p>Obtain the glue mould by the process described, and into it pour a -quantity of thin plaster, having first oiled the surfaces that come in -contact with it. Turn the mould about and upside down, so the plaster -will enter every part and adhere to the glue form. Allow it to "set," -and again pour some plaster into the mould, which will adhere to the -first coating, and after this has set repeat the operation several -times, until a deposit or coating an inch or more in thickness has been -made.</p> - -<p>The glue mould on being removed will reveal a perfect plaster casting -that, instead of being solid, is hollow, and in consequence is much -lighter.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="MIDSHIPMAN_JACK_USN" id="MIDSHIPMAN_JACK_USN">MIDSHIPMAN JACK, U.S.N.</a></h2> - -<h3>BY WILLIAM DRYSDALE.</h3> - -<p>"I am not one of those fellows who 'can fight and run away, and live to -fight some other day,'" one of the bravest Lieutenant-Commanders in the -United States navy said one evening to a party of friends, who were -making him feel uncomfortable by discussing his brilliant war record. -"My bad leg won't let me run, so I always have to stand and fight it -out."</p> - -<p>"Why, Commander," one of his friends exclaimed, "I did not know that you -had a bad leg. You do not limp."</p> - -<p>"No," he answered, "not ordinarily. But when I tire myself I limp a -little, and if I were to undertake to run I should come to grief."</p> - -<p>"Where did you receive your injury?" another asked.</p> - -<p>"In action at Apalachicola," the Commander replied; "the severest action -I ever saw."</p> - -<p>There was a twinkle in his eye as he spoke, and he looked about the -table to see what effect the words had upon his friends. Two of them -merely muttered their sympathy, and the third asked for the story of the -fight; but the fourth man looked up with a comical expression that told -the Commander he was understood in one quarter at least.</p> - -<p>"You will certainly have to tell us about that," this fourth man -laughed, seeing that the Commander was waiting for a question; "for I -have always understood that Apalachicola, being an out-of-the-way place, -was one of the few Southern towns that escaped without a scratch in the -war. I never heard of any battle there."</p> - -<p>"No, there was no battle there," the Commander replied, "and you would -hardly hear of the action, because there were so few engaged in it. In -fact, I was the only one on the Federal side, and there were no -Confederates. When I was a boy there I fell out of a pine-tree and broke -my thigh; so it was my own action, and one that I still have reason to -remember."</p> - -<p>This was the Commander's modest way of describing an accident that -brought out all the manliness he had in him, and made him an officer in -the United States navy, and he seldom gives any other account of it; but -some of the grown-up boys of Apalachicola tell the story in a very -different way—the same "boys," some of them, who used to set out in -parties of three or four and chase young Jack Radway and make life -miserable for him.</p> - -<p>Jack had a strange habit, when he was between fifteen and sixteen (this -is the way they tell the story in Apalachicola), of going down to the -wharf and sitting by the half-hour on the end of a spile, looking out -over the bay. That was in 1862. His name was not Jack Radway, but that -is a fairly good sort of name, and on account of the Commander's modesty -it will have to answer for the present. While he sat in this way it was -necessary for him to keep the corner of one eye on the wharf and the -adjacent street, watching for enemies. Oddly enough, every white boy in -the town was Jack's enemy, generous as he was, and brave and -good-hearted; and when one came alone, or even two, if they were not too -big, he was always ready to stay and defend himself. But when three or -four came together he was forced to retire to his father's big brick -warehouse, across the street. They would not follow him there, because -it was well known that the rifle standing beside the desk was always -kept loaded.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[Pg 111]</a></span></p> - -<p>This enmity with the other boys, for no fault of his own, was Jack's -great sorrow. A year or two before he had been a favorite with all the -boys and girls, and now he was hungry for a single friend of his own -age. The reason of it was that his father was the only Union man in -Apalachicola. Every white man, woman, and child in the town sympathized -with the Confederacy, except John Radway and his wife and their son -Jack. The elder Radway had thought it over when the trouble began, and -had made up his mind that his allegiance belonged to the old government -that his grandfather had fought for.</p> - -<p>Near the mouth of the river lay the United States gunboat <i>Alleghany</i>, -guarding the harbor, with the stars and stripes floating bravely at her -stern.</p> - -<p>"Look at that flag," Jack's father told him. "Your great-grandfather -fought for it, and I want you always to honor it. It is the grandest -flag in the whole world. It is my flag and yours, and you must never -desert it."</p> - -<p>By the side of Mr. Radway's house stood a tall pine-tree, much higher -than the top of the house, with no limbs growing out of the trunk except -at the very top, after the manner of Southern pines. Jack was a great -climber, and nearly every day, when he did not go down town, he -"shinned" up this tall tree to make sure that the gunboat was still in -the harbor. And one day, the day of what the Commander calls "the action -at Apalachicola," he lost his hold in some way, or a limb broke, and he -fell from the top to the ground.</p> - -<p>For some time he lay there unconscious, and when he came to his senses -he could not get up. There was a terrible pain in his left hip, and he -called for help, and his mother and some of the colored women ran out -and carried him into the house, and when they laid him on a bed he -fainted again from the pain.</p> - -<p>Mr. Radway was sent for, and after he had examined the leg as well as he -could, he looked very solemn, for there was no doubt that the bone was -badly broken. Even Jack, young as he was, could tell that; but with all -his pain he made no complaint.</p> - -<p>"This is serious business," he said to his wife when they were out of -Jack's hearing. "The bone is badly fractured at the thigh, and there is -not a doctor left in Apalachicola to set it. Every one of them is away -in the army, and I don't know of a doctor within a hundred miles."</p> - -<p>"Except on the gunboat," Mrs. Radway interrupted; "there must be a -surgeon on the gunboat."</p> - -<p>"I have thought of that," Mr. Radway answered; "but if he should come -ashore he would almost certainly be killed, so I could not ask him to -come. And if I should take Jack out to the boat, we would very likely be -attacked on the way. I must take time to think."</p> - -<p>Medicines were scarce in Apalachicola in those days, but they gave Jack -a few drops of laudanum to ease the pain, and made a cushion of pillows -for his leg. For all his terrible suffering, and the doubt about getting -the bone set, he did not utter a word of complaint. But he turned white -as the pillows, and the great heat of midsummer on the shore of the Gulf -added to his misery.</p> - -<p>For hours Mr. Radway walked the floor, trying to make up his mind what -to do. Jack's suffering was agony to him, and the uncertainty of getting -help increased it. Late in the evening, when all the household were in -bed but Mr. and Mrs. Radway, they heard the sound of many feet coming up -the walk, then a shuffling of feet on the piazza, and a heavy knock at -the front door.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/ill_009.jpg" width="500" height="335" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">"COULD THEY COME TO ATTACK US WHEN THEY KNOW WHAT TROUBLE -WE ARE IN?"</span> -</div> - -<p>"Have they the heart for that?" Mr. Radway exclaimed. "Could they come -to attack us when they know what trouble we are in? Some of them shall -pay dearly for it if they have."</p> - -<p>The knock was repeated, louder than before, and Mr. Radway took up a -rifle and started for the door. Standing the rifle in the corner of the -wall, and with a cocked revolver in one hand, he turned the key and -opened the door a crack, keeping one foot well braced against it.</p> - -<p>"You don't need your gun, neighbor," said the spokesman of the party -without; "it's a peaceable errand we are on this time."</p> - -<p>"What is it?" Mr. Radway asked, still suspicious.</p> - -<p>"We know the trouble you are in," the man continued, "and we are sorry -for you. It's not John Radway we are down on; it's his principles; but -we want to forget them till we get you out of this scrape. There are -twenty of us here, all your neighbors and former friends. We know there -is no doctor in Apalachicola, and we have come to say that if you can -get the surgeon of the gunboat to come ashore and mend up the sick lad, -he shall have safe-conduct both ways. We will guard him ourselves, and -we pledge our word that not a hair of his head shall be touched."</p> - -<p>This friendly act came nearer to breaking down John Radway's bold front -than all the persecutions he had been subjected to. He threw the door -wide open, put the revolver in his pocket, and grasped the spokesman's -hand.</p> - -<p>"I need not try to thank you," he said; "you know what I would say if I -could. My poor Jack is in great pain, and I shall make up my mind -between this and daylight what had better be done."</p> - -<p>The knowledge that he was surrounded by friends instead of enemies made -Jack feel better in a few minutes; but the pain was too great to be -relieved permanently in such a way, and all night long he lay with his -teeth shut tight, determined to make no complaint.</p> - -<p>By daylight he was in such a high fever that his father had no further -doubts about what to do. He must have medical attendance at once; and -the quickest way was to take him out to the gunboat, rather than risk -the delay of getting the surgeon ashore. So a cot-bed was converted into -a stretcher by lashing handles to the sides. Colored men were sent for -to carry it, and another was sent down to the shore to make Mr. Radway's -little boat ready.</p> - -<p>The morning sun was just beginning to gild the smooth water of -Apalachicola Bay, when the after-watchman on the gunboat's deck, who for -some time had been watching a little sail-boat with half a table-cloth -flying at the mast-head, called out,</p> - -<p>"Small flag-of-truce boat on the port quarter!"</p> - -<p>Jack Radway, lying on the stretcher in the bottom of the boat, heard the -words repeated in a lower tone, evidently at the door of the Captain's -cabin: "Small flag-of-truce boat on the port quarter, sir."</p> - -<p>An instant later a young officer appeared at the rail with a marine -glass in his hand.</p> - -<p>"Ahoy there in the boat!" he called. "Put up your helm! Sheer off!"</p> - -<p>The <i>Alleghany</i> lay in an enemy's waters, and she was not to be caught -napping. Nothing was allowed to approach without giving a good reason -for it.</p> - -<p>Then Jack's father stood up in the boat. "I have a boy here with a -broken thigh," he said. "I want your surgeon to set it."</p> - -<p>"Who are you?" the officer asked.</p> - -<p>"John Radway—a loyal man," was the answer.</p> - -<p>The name was as good as a passport, for the gunboat people had heard of -John Radway.</p> - -<p>"Come alongside," the officer called; and five minutes later a big -sailor had Jack in his arms, carrying him up the gangway, and he was -taken into the boat's hospital and laid on another cot. It was an -unusual thing on a naval vessel, and when the big bluff surgeon came the -Captain was with him, and several more of the officers.</p> - -<p>The examination gave Jack more pain than he had had before, but still he -kept his teeth clinched, and refused even to moan.</p> - -<p>"It is a bad fracture, and should have been attended to sooner," the -surgeon said at length. "There is nothing to be done for it now but to -take off the leg."</p> - -<p>"Oh, I hope not!" Mr. Radway exclaimed. "Is there no other way?"</p> - -<p>"He knows best, father," Jack said; "he will do the best he can for me."</p> - -<p>"He is too weak now for an operation," the surgeon continued; "but you -can leave him with me, and I think by to-morrow he will be able to stand -it."</p> - -<p>If Jack had made the least fuss at the prospect of having his leg cut -off, or had let a single groan escape, there is hardly any doubt that he -would be limping through life on<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[Pg 112]</a></span> one leg. But the brave way that he -bore the pain and the doctor's verdict made him a powerful friend.</p> - -<p>The Captain of a naval vessel cannot control his surgeon's treatment of -a case; but the Captain's wishes naturally go a long way, even with the -surgeon. So it was a great point for Jack when the Captain interceded -for him.</p> - -<p>"There's the making of an Admiral in that lad in the hospital," the -Captain told the doctor later in the day. "I never saw a boy bear pain -better. I wish you would save his leg if you possibly can."</p> - -<p>"He'd be well much quicker to take it off," the surgeon retorted. "But -I'll give him every chance I can. There is a bare possibility that I may -be able to save it."</p> - -<p>There was joy in the Radway family when it became known that there was a -chance of saving Jack's leg; but all that Jack himself would say was, -"Leave it all to the doctor; he will do what he can."</p> - -<p>Three weeks afterward Jack still lay in the <i>Alleghany</i>'s hospital with -two legs to his body, but one half hidden in splints and plaster. Mr. -and Mrs. Radway visited him every day, and the broken bone was healing -so nicely that the doctor thought that in three or four weeks more Jack -might be able to hobble about the deck on crutches, when more trouble -came. A new gunboat steamed into the harbor to take the <i>Alleghany</i>'s -place, bringing orders for the <i>Alleghany</i> to go at once to the Brooklyn -Navy-Yard. This was particularly unfortunate for Jack, for his broken -bone was just in that state where the motion of taking him ashore would -be likely to displace it. But that unwelcome order from Washington -proved to be a long step toward making Jack one of our American naval -heroes.</p> - -<p>"It would be a great risk to take him ashore," the surgeon said to Mr. -Radway. "The least movement of the leg would set him back to where we -began. You had much better let him go north with us. The voyage will do -him good; and even if we are not sent back here, he can easily make his -way home when he is able to travel."</p> - -<p>Nothing could have suited Jack better than this, for he had become -attached to the gunboat and her officers; so it was soon settled that he -was to lie still on his bed and be carried to Brooklyn. For more than a -month he lay there without seeing anything of the great city on either -side of him; and the <i>Alleghany</i> was already under orders to sail for -Key West before he was able to venture on deck with a crutch under each -arm. There were delays in getting away, so by the time the gunboat was -steaming down the coast Jack was walking slowly about her deck with a -cane, and the color was in his cheeks again, and the old sparkle in his -eyes. He was in hopes of finding a schooner at Key West that would carry -him to Apalachicola; but he was not to see the old town again for many a -day.</p> - -<p>The <i>Alleghany</i> was a little below Hatteras, when she sighted a -Confederate blockade-runner, and she immediately gave chase. But, much -to the surprise of the officers, this blockade-runner did not run away, -as they generally did. She was much larger than the <i>Alleghany</i>, and -well manned and armed, and she preferred to stay and fight. Almost -before he knew it Jack was in the midst of a hot naval battle. The two -vessels were soon close together, and there was such a thunder of guns -and such a smother of smoke that he does not pretend to remember exactly -what happened. But after it was all over, and the blockade-runner was a -prize, with the stars and stripes flying from her stern, Jack walked as -straight as anybody down to the little hospital where he had spent so -many weeks.</p> - -<p>His mother would hardly have known him as he stepped into the hospital -and waited till the surgeon had time to take a big splinter from his -left arm.</p> - -<p>"Where's your cane, young man?" the surgeon asked, when Jack's turn -came.</p> - -<p>"I don't know, sir!" Jack replied, surprised to find himself standing -without it. "I must have forgotten all about it. I saw one of the -gunners fall, and I took his place, and that's all I remember, sir, -except seeing the enemy strike her colors."</p> - -<p>That action made Jack a Midshipman in the United States navy, and gave -him a share in the prize-money, and a year later he was an Ensign. For -special gallantry in action in Mobile Bay he was made a Lieutenant -before the close of the war, and in the long years since then he has -risen more slowly to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[Pg 113]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 700px;"><a name="A_LOYAL_TRAITOR" id="A_LOYAL_TRAITOR"></a> -<img src="images/ill_010.jpg" width="700" height="558" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2>A LOYAL TRAITOR.<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a></h2> - -<h3>A STORY OF THE WAR OF 1812 BETWEEN AMERICA AND ENGLAND.</h3> - -<h3>BY JAMES BARNES.</h3> - -<h3>CHAPTER VI.</h3> - -<h3>A LAND VOYAGE.</h3> - -<p>As soon as breakfast had been finished I bade farewell to Captain -Morrison, and to the mate and all of the crew, with whom I had somehow -gained popularity, and then I was set on shore.</p> - -<p>When I felt the solid ground beneath me and smelt the familiar odors of -a seaport town, my fears almost gained the upper hand, and I was tempted -to stay by the brig and return to Maryland in her. But finding that the -town of Miller's Falls was distant only some thirty miles up in the -country, and getting the right direction from the first person I asked, -a blacksmith standing at the entrance to his forge, I set out bravely on -foot with my belongings on a stick over my back, the way I had seen -sailors start on a land voyage from Baltimore.</p> - -<p>Hill country was new to me, and the stone walls and fences and neat -white houses gave me much to wonder at, as I plodded along the road that -was deep in dry dust, and such hard travelling that after I had made -twelve miles, or such a matter of distance, I grew very tired, and -determined to rest.</p> - -<p>Although it was November the day was quite warm, and I sat down by the -edge of a little brook and bathed my feet, that had blistered badly. The -cold water felt very comforting, and I took my ease.</p> - -<p>While drawing on my shoes I heard a strange sound, and saw coming down -the road a two-wheeled cart drawn by a team of swaying oxen. Climbing up -to the roadway and hailing the man who was walking at their heads, -(calling out "Gee," "Haw," every other minute), I asked my whereabouts -and the hour.</p> - -<p>The farmer, even before he replied to my questionings, began to subject -me to many of his own: "Where was I bound?" "Where did I come from?" -and, "Who did I know in the parts?" To these I replied as best I could, -and with a directness that seemed rather to disconcert him.</p> - -<p>But he was a kindly man, and noticing that I limped, and that I was in -no condition to travel, he proposed my stopping the night with him, and -he would carry me part way on my journey on the morrow. To this I -agreed, as I found I had wandered somewhat out of my way.</p> - -<p>At supper that evening I tasted for the first time the delightful cakes -made out of buckwheat, and had to relate again, for the benefit of my -host and his wife (a tall, sharp-featured woman who spoke with a whining -drawl), the story of my adventures and the eventful voyage of the -<i>Minetta</i>.</p> - -<p>When I told of the affair of the severed hand, and the action of the -English, the woman quoted a passage from the Bible that was quite as -much as a curse on the heads of the offenders, it breathed so of -vengeance. But we had not burned half a candle before we all were -yawning. Well, to be short, I slept in a great feather bed that night, -and the next morning I started northward, mounted astride, behind Farmer -Lyman on a jolting gray nag.</p> - -<p>When my friend put me down he bade me a farewell,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[Pg 114]</a></span> and told me I had but -five miles before me to the town of Miller's Falls.</p> - -<p>It was up and down hill, slow going, and noon, I should judge by the -shadows, before I saw the village, nestling at the bend of a small -valley. On the wind came to me the shrieking and clanking of machinery -and the jarring of a waterfall.</p> - -<p>I sat down on the top rail of a fence, and surveyed the village for some -time before I descended the hill. As I walked along I saw in a steep -gorge, a sheer descent of some fifty feet to one side of the roadway, a -rushing brook, and almost in the centre of the town itself a pond that -spread back into the hills.</p> - -<p>The mill that was raising such a clatter stood at one side of a dam -built of stone and timber that had backed the water of the pond; and I -walked up close to the building and looked with wonder at everything. A -huge over-shot wheel was turning and plashing busily, and the water was -roaring over the dam and breaking on the brown slippery rocks below. It -fascinated me, and I stood for some time leaning over the rail watching -it. I grew so interested, in fact, that I almost forgot my mission or -where I was, and was recalled to myself by a voice hailing me from only -a few feet above my head.</p> - -<p>"Well, sonny," said a drawling voice, "be ye wondering where all that -water is goin' to?"</p> - -<p>A thin cadaverous face with a very pointed nose and chin was thrust out -of a little window, and two long hands on either side gave the man the -effect of holding himself in his position by the exercise of sheer -strength.</p> - -<p>"I suppose it goes into the sea," I replied, perceiving that he wished -to chaff me.</p> - -<p>"Correct," he answered. "Go to the head."</p> - -<p>"May I come into the mill?" I asked, for I had never seen one, and the -varied noises excited my curiosity.</p> - -<p>"Why, certainly," the man said. "Pull the latch-string in the door -yonder and come in."</p> - -<p>The mill not only sawed the long pine trunks into planks and squared -timbers, of which there was a profusion about, but also ground most of -the grain for the neighborhood. As I entered, the stones were grumbling -and the air was full of dust.</p> - -<p>"What is it you're making?" I shouted into the tall man's ear. He had -greeted me at the doorway.</p> - -<p>"Buckwheat cakes," he replied, thrusting his hand into the top of an -open sack. "Ye're a stranger here, ain't ye?"</p> - -<p>I knew what to expect by this time, and that probably my appearance had -determined the miller to find out all he could about me merely for his -own satisfaction. So, half shouting in his ear, I related (by the -answering of questions) part of my story—at least I told him where I -had come from and the why and wherefore of my trip. When it came to the -asking for my uncle's place of residence I ran against trouble, and my -heart sank.</p> - -<p>"What is the name?" asked the thin man when I had first mentioned it.</p> - -<p>"Monsieur Henri Amedee Lavalle de Brienne."</p> - -<p>"Eh?"</p> - -<p>I had to repeat it.</p> - -<p>"No such person in these parts," the man answered, shaking his head -positively. "And I ought to know," he added. (I dare say he did, and -most people's private business besides.)</p> - -<p>But here was an uncomfortable position. What was I to do? Somehow the -hum and groaning and rumbling of the mill appeared to prevent my -thinking, and I stepped to the door.</p> - -<p>The village of Miller's Falls stretched down one wide road that curved -about the edge of the mill-pond. It was not a cheerful-looking place -taking it altogether, but it had a certain air of prosperity; there was -some movement, and a number of horses and carts were on the streets.</p> - -<p>All at once the chatter of voices and the familiarly shrill cries of -boys at some rough merriment came up from the road at the right. I -looked about the corner of the mill and saw that a half-dozen youngsters -of about my own age were coming down the hill, and before them rode an -odd figure on a small brown horse. It was a little man, who sat very -erect, and who had a semi-military hat set aslant his gray hair, which -was gathered in a long queue behind. His coat was of a very old fashion, -made of velvet, and heavy riding-gaiters encased his thin legs.</p> - -<p>The horse he was riding was by no means a bad one, and it was apparently -all the old man could do to keep him from breaking into a run; and to -accomplish this last was the evident intention of the crowd of small -boys, for they were tickling the horse's heels, or giving him a cut now -and then with some long switches; they varied this by pelting small -pebbles at the rider. The latter, however, kept his seat and controlled -the horse exceedingly well, although it was apparent that he was both -angry and frightened, for he would stop and scold at the boys, and often -turn his horse's head threateningly in their direction. This would -excite a scattering and shouts of derision and laughter.</p> - -<p>Some one spoke over my head at this moment, and I saw that the tall man -and one of the mill hands, attracted by the noise, had perceived the -approach of the old man and his tormentors.</p> - -<p>"Why, it's old Debrin, from Mountain Brook," said the miller. "Come down -to get his wheat ground, I reckon."</p> - -<p>Slung across his saddle were two bags, and the rider was now headed -toward the mill and restraining the horse with difficulty. When he drew -up at the little platform it was all he could do to throw off the bags, -and when he had lifted his legs from the stirrups and slid to ground I -thought he would have fallen, and for the first time I perceived how old -a man he was. Moved by some impulse, I jumped down from the door-sill -and helped him tie the rope halter of the little horse fast to a post. -The old man's hands were trembling so that I doubt if he could have -accomplished it unaided.</p> - -<p>My action had so surprised the boys that they had gathered in a circle -about us in silence and astonishment. When I had finished, the old -gentleman looked at me with his black beadlike eyes and raised his hat.</p> - -<p>"Thank you, thank you very much," he said, in broken English, in which I -recognized at once the manner in which my mother had spoken. The trace -of the French tongue was there beyond all doubt. So I lifted my own cap, -and answered in what I may well call my native tongue, and told him in -French that I was very glad to have been able to help him.</p> - -<p>His astonishment at hearing me address him thus was so great that for a -minute it deprived him of the power of answering, but then he burst -forth into such rapid speech and into so many violent gesticulations -that it was all I could do to follow. The little crowd pressed us so -close that I became embarrassed, and the old man, who had been -complaining of the conduct of the boys and the temper of his horse, and -at the same time stating how welcome it was to hear his own tongue -again, suddenly saw that he was creating a great deal of amusement for -the gaping, snickering circle about us. He drew himself up and his lip -curled with contempt. I now, for the first time, had an opportunity to -ask a question that had been forming itself in my mind.</p> - -<p>"Are you Monsieur de Brienne?" I ventured.</p> - -<p>"I am, and you?" he replied.</p> - -<p>"Am Jean Hurdiss, your nephew, who has come all the way from Baltimore -to see you."</p> - -<p>Instantly his manner changed. I thought he was going to fling his arms -about me. But if such was his intention he controlled himself.</p> - -<p>"We will not talk before this canaille," he said, quietly, "and I cannot -here express my delight at seeing you."</p> - -<p>This must have appeared very strange to the on-lookers, who, of course, -understood no word of what we were saying, and what happened afterwards -must have been stranger still; and I can now readily see why I was -regarded as a mystery by the inhabitants of Miller's Falls during the -whole course of my stopping there.</p> - -<p>The old man with a great deal of dignity laid hold of the sack of corn, -and seeing that nobody volunteered to help him, I took up the other end, -and we carried it into the mill. There he flung it on the floor, and M. -de Brienne pointed at it with his finger.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[Pg 115]</a></span></p> - -<p>"Grind me this," he said, in a commanding tone, despite the broken and -twisted accents. "I will pay for it when I return."</p> - -<p>The surprise occasioned by our actions at the meeting had evidently -struck the crowd of youngsters dumb, but they were soon started again in -their shouts of laughter by the difficulty that my uncle and I -immediately had with the little brown horse. How so feeble a man as he -appeared to be could ever manage the restive beast at all was more than -I could see. Full half a dozen times he failed to make the saddle, even -with my assistance, and this started the boys in their shouts of -derision, and even drew laughter from the windows in which some of the -mill-crew had gathered.</p> - -<p>At last, however, I succeeded in getting the old gentleman into the -saddle, and, obeying him, I crawled up behind him and placed my arms -about his waist. But between my lack of knowledge, the horse's -scampering, and the old man's weakness, we almost came to grief more -than once.</p> - -<p>Three of the little rapscallions, who of course could not follow us, for -we had started on a run down the road, cut across the meadow by a path, -as if intending to head us off for some reason.</p> - -<p>They reached the main roadway first, and were waiting in an orchard at -the end of a stone wall for us to go by. I noticed that they had -gathered some apples, which they held in the hollows of their arms, much -as boys carry snow-balls in an attack. I had been angry before, but now -my one desire was to get at them. I often fear that I must be a -vindictive person indeed.</p> - -<p>As we approached they let fly, of course, and one of the apples caught -my uncle squarely in the forehead. He would have fallen, I believe, had -I not held him for an instant, and reaching forward I caught the reins -and brought the little horse to a sudden halt. Then I slipped from my -seat to the ground, and with no weapons but my closed fist I charged the -enemy.</p> - -<p>It is not bragging to say that from some ancestor I have inherited -immense strength, and even at the age of thirteen I believe I should -have been a match and more for some lads four or five years older. -(Since I have been sixteen years old even I have never met a grown man -who could force down my arms or twist a finger with me.) But to return: -I caught the first boy a jolt with my closed fist on the side of the -head, and seizing the second, who came to his rescue, I fairly believe I -threw him over the fence without so much as touching it. He landed on -some loose stones on the other side, and set up a tremendous bawling. -The third lad did not stop to get a chance, but legged it as fast as he -could across the meadow. I was so angry now that I believe murder was in -my heart, and I picked up the broken branch of a tree and stood over the -first boy whom I had struck. He looked up at me and began to beg for -mercy.</p> - -<p>"Bravo!" called my uncle from the horse, that for a wonder was standing -still. "Bravo, mon enfant!"</p> - -<p>He was wiping the juice of the apple from his eyes, but catching my -glance he threw me a kiss from his finger-tips, and laughed a laugh of -congratulation and sympathetic triumph.</p> - -<p>I covered my fallen antagonist with added chagrin by scooping up with a -sideway stroke of the foot some dust out of the road on top of him, and, -walking to the horse, I clambered up behind again. Then, digging my -heels into the nag's side, we started on a gallop up the hill and -entered the woods that lined the crest.</p> - -<p>I had been so angry that I dare say I had shed tears even at the moment -of my victory (what varieties of weeping there are, to be sure), and I -had such a lump in my throat that I waited for my uncle to begin any -conversation he might wish, but he did not speak until after we had -progressed some distance in among the trees. Then he pulled the horse up -with a jerk (that caused me almost to break my nose on the back of his -head), and he ordered me to dismount. I did so. Monsieur de Brienne -leaned from the saddle and turned me around by the shoulder, much as I -have seen a planter look at a negro before purchasing.</p> - -<p>"Very like indeed," he muttered. "A true De Brienne."</p> - -<p>Then he leaned further over and told me to embrace him. I complied, and -he kissed me on each cheek and between the eyes. This quite embarrassed -me, and I dropped my glance to the ground and shuffled uneasily; but the -old man had begun to talk, and I dare say it was an hour that we stood -there, for I had to tell him, of course, of my mother's death and of the -burning of Marshwood. When I came to relate of the loss of the -strong-box and its contents, the old gentleman grew quite pale, then he -drew a long breath, and ripped out into a frightful burst of temper. For -some reason I could not help but feel that it was directed against me, -and I waited until he had calmed before I went on. Then I remembered the -letter which had given me the only clew that had led to this meeting, -and I thrust my hand into my coat pocket. It was not there? Fruitlessly -I searched with a growing fear upon me, and I saw that my uncle's little -black eyes were following my every movement; I could see that there was -a certain suspicion in his look, but the letter was not forth-coming, -and was not to be found in my bundle, although I undid it from the strap -of the saddle-bag where I had tied it, and spread its few contents on -the road-side.</p> - -<p>"Where is the miniature that you spoke of finding?" inquired Monsieur de -Brienne, in a cold harsh voice.</p> - -<p>I told him what I imagined had become of it.</p> - -<p>"Ah, bah!" he cried at this, and raised his hand as if he would have -struck me. Had he done so I believe I should have pulled him from the -saddle. He was scarcely larger than myself, and I was growing angry at -his unnecessary and unjust words.</p> - -<p>"What have you done?" he cried, restraining himself. "You have lost all -the proofs—all the papers, you fool! Now we can prove nothing. A curse -on such stupidity! What use are you without them? Why did you come?"</p> - -<p>I had gathered up my possessions, and was tying together the corners of -the handkerchief, making up my mind to burden him no longer with my -presence, and to return whence I had started (for I still had a number -of the gold pieces sewed in the lining of my cap, where Mr. Edgerton's -maiden sister had placed them), but suddenly M. de Brienne spoke in -rather an eager tone, and asked me to come closer to him. I did so, -wondering. He leaned forward and caught one of the buttons of my coat -between his thumb and forefinger and looked at it closely. Then he -heaved a sigh.</p> - -<p>"All there is left," he said. "Ah, my child, my child, you do not know -what you have lost. Pardon my rough speech of a moment since, but what -you told, and what has happened, appeared to turn into ashes what little -hope I had left in life."</p> - -<p>I was softened by the sadness of his tone and the real grief that showed -itself in his small pinched features. So I looked up at him, and tried -to smile.</p> - -<p>"What is your name?" he questioned of me, eagerly, in a whisper, as if -to extract a secret that I might not care to disclose aloud.</p> - -<p>"John Hurdiss," I replied. "That's all I know."</p> - -<p>The old man drew a long sigh. "Was your mother's name Hortense or -Hélène?" he questioned again, suddenly and hoarsely.</p> - -<p>"I don't know," I said. "I have no idea."</p> - -<p>"So be it," he replied, as if accepting a decision against which there -was no use railing. "Come, son; up with you, and we will ride on to my -château."</p> - -<p>We followed the well-worn road, and then turned off through the woods, -and came to some pasture bars at the edge of a clearing. I slid to the -ground and opened them at a command from my uncle, and replaced them -after he had gone through. The field that we entered had been -sheep-grazed, and was poor pasturage. Here and there crumbling hoof-worn -patches of rock showed through the wiry close-cropped turf; clusters of -rank fern and hard-back bushes were dotted about, and we threaded them, -following a narrow path, until we came to another gate, which I opened -in the way I had the first. A half-mile of travelling through an expanse -of soft swampy ground, grown with alders and dogwood, and I heard the -sound of running water. Soon we came to a clear brook that gurgled<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[Pg 116]</a></span> -under overhanging banks, and purled about gleaming time-smoothed stones; -crossing it, and clambering up the steep bank, we came to a second -clearing, hardly five acres in extent. A half-score of large apple-trees -and a diminutive garden were to the left, and at the upper edge of the -clearing was a small unpainted house, and behind it a little barn, whose -foundations extended into the hill-side.</p> - -<p>"Gaston! Gaston!" called Monsieur de Brienne, at top voice. "Where are -you hiding?"</p> - -<p>In answer a head was thrust from the doorway, and the oddest-looking -figure that I had ever seen came into view. It was an old man, whose -frame when covered with flesh or muscles must have been enormous, but -now so scantily cushioned were the bones that the quaint clothes hung on -him much in the way that a coat hangs on a fence post. But the man moved -with incredible swiftness. He gave a strange look at me, and took -Monsieur de Brienne's stirrup-leather in his hand and assisted him to -dismount. I pushed myself backwards over the horse's hind quarters.</p> - -<p>"A guest, Gaston, to Belair. My nephew, Monsieur Jean Hurdiss. This is -Gaston, my valet, chef, major-domo, and standing army."</p> - -<p>My uncle had smiled as he said this, but the other's face was most -serious. As I eyed him closely his countenance looked more like a ball -of tightly wound twine with ears and features than anything else I could -imagine. I had never seen such a mesh of wrinkles, or imagined that age -could stamp itself so wonderfully. That the old man was not decrepit, -however, was evident from the deft way in which he unsaddled the little -horse and threw the trappings over his shoulder.</p> - -<p>Now my uncle turned to me again. "Welcome, my son," he said. "Consider -all here as yours entirely."</p> - -<p>He ushered me through the doorway. I could scarce control an expression -of my astonishment as I looked about. Immediately facing the light I saw -something that caused me to start suddenly. It was the figure of a man -in flowing satins and velvets; great heavy curls fell over his -shoulders, and torrents of lace poured at his wristbands and knees. He -had on high red-heeled shoes, fronted by wide bows, and his slender -bejewelled hand rested on the top of a tall walking-stick.</p> - -<p>It took me a second glance to perceive that it was but a portrait that -extended from the floor to ceiling, and was merely nailed, without -framing, against the wall. A rough table made of pine boards but covered -with a handsome cloth was in the centre of the room. It was heaped high -with books in embossed leather covers. Tacked about the walls were many -portraits of times long since. One especially, before which I drew a -long breath, dumfounded me (it was so like my mother). But Monsieur de -Brienne had gathered me by the elbow, as it were, and marched me around.</p> - -<p>The portrait whose resemblance had struck me so vividly he told me was -my grandmother, and then went on, stopping before each, "Your -great-grandfather, your great-uncle, your aunt," and so forth and so -forth.</p> - -<p>One might have thought that I was being introduced in person to all my -ancestors and past family. In fact, I found myself bowing as if it were -expected of me.</p> - -<p>After a few minutes I had a chance to look about me. There were but four -rooms on the ground-floor of the little house and three above; and if -the furniture of Marshwood had been an odd assortment, that of Belair -was odder still. I had noticed, as I have said, that the portraits were -not in frames. They had evidently been brought from their former -residence rolled in some shape or other for convenience. Many of them -showed traces of rough handling, and were much cracked and soiled.</p> - -<p>My uncle slept on the first floor in a great four-poster bed hung about -with heavy curtains of embroidered silk, but the rest of the -<i>ameublement</i>, was made up of clumsy wooden benches and stools, not the -workmanship of a joiner, but clearly made by unskilled hands.</p> - -<p>The room upstairs to which I was shown contained nothing but a mattress -stuffed with cornhusks, and a beautiful painted landscape (which -comparing with some that I have since seen must have been nothing less -than a Claude, I dare say). A bench on which stood an ebony cross, and a -large brass blunderbuss that hung from a nail over the door, were all -the other things in the room.</p> - -<p>At dinner that night we were waited upon by the great wizzened-faced -servant, and my uncle, who was taken with a sleepy, tongue-tied mood, -had attired himself in such a brilliantly faded costume that he -resembled nothing less than one of the pictures that looked down at us.</p> - -<p>Before the meal was half finished, however (it was exceedingly well -cooked and toothsome), I received a shock.</p> - -<p>Monsieur de Brienne suddenly and without a warning gave a little cry and -fell back in his arm-chair (a home-made affair, cut from a barrel of -some sort), and I, frightened, ran to his side.</p> - -<p>But the old servant appeared quite used to this, and together we got my -uncle into his bed, where we rubbed and chafed his limbs until I grew so -tired I could hardly move. The next day I thought he was like to die. He -would not let me leave him, and talked so incoherently that I could make -no sense out of his maunderings at all.</p> - -<p>Now begins such a strange existence that if it were told to me by any -one who claimed to have led it I should be most doubtful. It would make -a volume in itself, maybe, but I intend to hasten over this period, and -to get quickly into that from which has developed the present, and which -is leading up to whatever future there is before me.</p> - -<p>To this end I shall do my best to resist any temptation to dwell at too -great length on the life I led at the lonely farm-house on Mountain -Brook.</p> - -<h4>[<span class="smcap">to be continued</span>.]</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="HARNESSING_NIAGARA" id="HARNESSING_NIAGARA">HARNESSING NIAGARA.</a></h2> - -<h3>BY ELIZABETH FLINT WADE.</h3> - -<p>Two men were once boasting of their wonderful physical powers, and a -story told by one would be immediately capped by the other by the -relation of a capability far more marvellous. Suddenly one of them -pointed to a church spire which could be seen across the valley, and -said,</p> - -<p>"Do you see that church spire yonder?"</p> - -<p>"I do," replied the other.</p> - -<p>"Well, I can see a fly crawling on it! Can you?"</p> - -<p>His companion looked at it attentively a moment, and said, slowly,</p> - -<p>"No, I can't see it, but," placing his hand behind his ear and leaning -forward, "I can hear it walk!"</p> - -<p>Something quite as remarkable as the hearing the foot-step of a fly on a -church steeple a mile distant was accomplished a few weeks ago, when, by -means of a slender wire attached to an ordinary telephone, the sound of -the "voice of many waters," situated 500 miles away, was distinctly -heard in New York city.</p> - -<p>The National Electric Light Association held its last<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[Pg 117]</a></span> annual meeting in -New York, and in the Industrial Arts Building were exhibited the latest -appliances of electricity; but of all the wonderful demonstrations of -that strange power which slips so swiftly and silently along a slender -wire, the most novel, if not the most wonderful, was the transmitting -the roar of the Falls of Niagara through the long-distance telephone by -means of the power generated by the cataract itself.</p> - -<p>The meaning of the Indian name Niagara is "thunder of the waters," and -it certainly was a most original idea to place this thunder on -exhibition—"thunder on tap," a humorist might call it. The point chosen -for collecting the sound was near the Cave of the Winds, where at the -foot of the cliff one can get nearer to the waterfall than at any other -point. The Cave of the Winds is between Goat and Luna islands, and is -reached by the Biddle Stairway, a frail-looking structure built on the -face of the cliff, and the adventurous tourist who ventures down this -winding stair is almost deafened by the noise of the water as it strikes -the great rocks that lie just below him.</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 350px;"> -<img src="images/ill_011.jpg" width="350" height="262" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">MOUTH OF THE TUNNEL.</span> -</div> - -<p>The mechanical arrangements for sending the sound were very simple. An -ordinary telephone, with the necessary apparatus, was placed in a tight -wooden box, so that the instrument might be protected from the spray. -Wires connected with the long-distance telephone were carried down the -side of the cliff and attached to the telephone in the box. From one -side of the box projected an immense tin funnel. This was the -sound-collector. The rest of the operation was very easy. The current -was turned on, and in a few seconds the sound was heard at the extreme -end of the line. In the centre of the hall where the electric exposition -was held was a working model of the Niagara Falls electric plant; around -this model were twenty-four telephone transmitters, and the visitor -could not only see the machinery moved by the power generated at the -Falls, but hear the ceaseless roar of the great waters.</p> - -<p>The greatest distance that electric power had ever before been -transmitted was from the Falls of Neckar, in Germany, to a point 110 -miles distant. Power for the exposition was to come nearly five times -that length, and the occasion was so momentous a one that the gold key -which President Cleveland used to set in motion the machinery for the -World's Fair was used by Governor Morton to turn on the electric current -generated by the Falls. As soon as the exposition was declared open, -Governor Morton, according to a previously arranged plan, turned on a -current from the Falls power which discharged a piece of government -artillery simultaneously in the public squares of Augusta, Maine; St. -Paul, Minnesota; San Francisco, California; and New Orleans, Louisiana.</p> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 400px;"> -<img src="images/ill_012.jpg" width="400" height="298" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">TURBINE READY TO BE LOWERED TO THE BOTTOM OF THE -WHEEL-PIT.</span> -</div> - -<p>The capturing of Niagara and setting it to work is one of the greatest -feats of modern engineering. For years engineers have watched the power -going to waste down the great cataract, and studied how it could be made -available for mechanical purposes. The only device for using it was the -building of a hydraulic canal opening out of the river above the Falls, -and emptying into it at the edge of the bluff a mile or two below the -Falls. Power was thus carried to several mills built on the bank, but it -was a mere cipher compared to the great force daily poured over the -great precipice, a force which has been scientifically estimated to -equal nearly 6,000,000 horse-power, enough to drive all the machinery on -the American continent.</p> - -<p>Many plans for using this power were made, only to be abandoned, till -Mr. Thomas Evershed, a division engineer on the Erie Canal, devised the -scheme of digging wheel-pits above the Falls, placing turbine-wheels at -the bottom of the pits, conveying water from the river to turn the -wheels—which should be used to furnish the power to generate -electricity—and carrying off the waste water through a large tunnel and -emptying it into the river. The plan was found feasible, and in 1886 the -Niagara Falls Power Company was incorporated by the Legislature of New -York. Millions of dollars and the service of the most skilful engineers -in the world were employed in carrying out the plan. Work was begun<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[Pg 118]</a></span> in -1887, and in January, 1894, the first great turbine-wheel was set at -work.</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 316px;"> -<img src="images/ill_013.jpg" width="316" height="400" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">THE WHEEL-PIT IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION.</span> -</div> - -<p>The manner of using a part of the tremendous power of the cataract, -though constructed on so gigantic a scale, is as simple to understand as -the mechanism of a toy water-wheel, which, placed under a tiny fall of -water, turns a miniature windmill on the bank of the stream. An inlet -canal 1500 feet long, 500 feet wide, and 12 feet deep opens from the -river at a point about a mile and a half above the Falls. A short -distance from the side of the canal nearest the Falls, and near the end -farthest from the river, are two wheel-pits 160 feet deep, and at the -bottom of each pit is a 5000 horse-power Girard double turbine-wheel. -From the canal to these pits are head-races fitted with sluices through -which the water is admitted to the wheel-pits. Both the canal and the -head-races are lined with solid masonry, and the gates which regulate -the supply of water are open and shut by automatic levers. In each -wheel-pit is an immense iron tube reaching from top to bottom of the -pit, made of boiler iron. This tube, called a penstock, is seven feet in -diameter, and the water pours down this huge pipe into the wheel-case in -which the turbine revolves. A turbine-wheel is a vertical wheel which -revolves from side to side like a top, the name being derived from the -Latin word <i>turbo</i>, whirling, or spinning like a top.</p> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 305px;"> -<img src="images/ill_014.jpg" width="305" height="400" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">SECTIONAL DIAGRAM OF POWER-HOUSE.</span> -</div> - -<p>Now a stream of water seven feet in diameter, falling from a height of -140 feet, must cause this mammoth water-top to spin round in its case at -rather a lively rate, and so it does, for the turbine shaft revolves at -the rate of 250 times a minute, and the speed can be increased to twice -that number of times. The vertical shaft of the turbine is attached to a -propeller shaft which rises to the floor of the power-house—built over -the wheel-pits—where it is attached to a dynamo. Though the dynamos are -the largest in the world, they are not the size originally designed, -owing to the fact that no cars were large or stout enough to transport -them, so the size of the base-plate of the dynamo was limited to one -which could be carried by rail from the manufactory to the Falls.</p> - -<p>Standing in the visitors' gallery of the power-house and watching these -great dynamos whirling round so swiftly that the eye can scarcely -perceive their motion, and remembering that it is caused by the -expenditure of but a fraction of the power flowing over the Falls, one -can form some idea of the great force which it has so long been the -dream of engineers to turn to account.</p> - -<p>Almost as great a feat as the digging of the wheel-pits and placing the -turbines at the bottom, was the excavating of the tunnel to carry off -the waste water. This tunnel, which is 7000 feet long, starts near the -bottom of the wheel-pits, runs under the city, and empties into the -river just below the suspension-bridge. It is horseshoe shaped, is 21 -feet high, and 19 feet wide, in the curve. It is lined with brick, -overlaid with rubble above, and the outlet is lined for 200 feet back -with heavy cast-iron plates. The water does not run directly into the -tunnel from the wheel-pits, but flows into it through a lateral tunnel -or tail-race. This tail-race enters the main tunnel at an angle of sixty -degrees. Both tunnels are horseshoe shaped, and where they unite they -each curve differently, and it required a skilful mathematician to -calculate the cutting and fitting of the stone for the bisecting of the -arches.</p> - -<p>It is interesting to see how this powerful machinery is kept in working -order. From a circular opening in the floor of the power-house a winding -staircase descends to the elevator landing. From this landing one may -pass directly under the electric generators and see the various pipes -which convey oil and water to the different parts of the machinery. One -pipe carries oil to the upper, and a second pipe oil to the lower, -bearings of the dynamos. A third pipe allows water to pass to the -cooling chamber of the upper bearings, and a fourth, water to a similar -chamber in the lower bearings.</p> - -<p>The tank which holds the oil supply is placed near the roof of the -power-house. After the oil has passed to the bearings of the dynamos and -shafts it is conducted into a filtering cylinder; the clean oil runs -into a tank below the cylinder, from which a pump forces it back into -the supply tank. The pumps are run by the waste water in the bottom of -the wheel-pits.</p> - -<p>The main-shaft bearings are oiled in a novel manner. An immense iron -cup, large enough to serve as a drinking-cup for the greatest of -Gulliver's Brobdingnagians, is attached to the revolving shaft below the -bearings. A pipe dips into the oil with which the cup is filled, and the -centrifugal force of the revolving shaft is so great that it forces the -oil up through the pipe to the top of the bearings, which it thoroughly -oils, and the waste oil finds its way back into the cup. All that is -necessary to supply the cup with fresh oil is to open a valve at the -bottom, the dirty oil runs into the filtering cylinder, and the cup is -filled with fresh oil from the supply tank.</p> - -<p>An elevator descends to the bottom of the wheel-pits, where there are -four galleries which enable the engineers to pass round the turbines and -examine the workings. On the upper elevator landing one may see the -gearings which connect the governor with the dynamos and with the -turbine shaft, and the perfectly balanced levers which open and close -the water-gates.</p> - -<p>One of the interesting features of the power-house is a -travelling-crane, which commands every portion of the floor of the -building, and is capable of handling the largest piece of machinery in -the works. If anything goes wrong with any part of the machinery, it can -be removed with the greatest expedition, and a similar piece fitted in -its place by means of this useful crane.</p> - -<p>In July a company was incorporated under the name of the Cataract Power -and Conduit Company for the purpose of furnishing electric power to the -city of Buffalo from the Niagara Falls plant. Niagara Falls at once -became the centre of interest for manufacturers, engineers, -electricians, and scientists, and two days after the company was -incorporated the electric plant was visited by a large party of -distinguished men from different parts of the country.</p> - -<p>Among the number was the great electrical magician<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[Pg 119]</a></span> Nikola Tesla, who -believes that sooner or later the electricity in the earth may be pumped -out of it at any point where it may be needed. The opinion of Mr. Tesla -on the possibility of transmitting the power from the Falls any -considerable distance was awaited with a great deal of eagerness.</p> - -<p>"The project is sure to be successful," said Mr. Tesla, after inspecting -the marvellous electrical machinery and viewing the almost unlimited -capacity of the water-power.</p> - -<p>The contracts for constructing the transmission line were let at once, -and on November 4—two days after the election of the next -President—Buffalo will be receiving power from the Falls of Niagara. -The lines through which it is to be sent will be capable of transmitting -40,000 horse-power—enough to turn all the wheels in the Minneapolis -flour-mills and whirl all the spindles in busy Holyoke.</p> - -<p>The present power-station at the Falls, when fully equipped, will -contain ten dynamos, the combined capacity of which will be 50,000 -horse-power. Besides this station the company has a permit for -constructing another canal the same size on the American side, and a -franchise for a similar work on the Canadian side, provided the work is -begun in three years from the granting of the franchise.</p> - -<p>Everything connected with this work is on so gigantic a scale that it -will not be surprising to learn that the tunnel through which the waste -water is discharged is the largest hydraulic tunnel in the world, and of -sufficient size to carry away enough water to develop 120,000 -horse-power. Even this great volume of water diverted from its natural -channel will not perceptibly lessen the 7000 tons which leap over the -precipice every minute.</p> - -<p>The end of the tunnel opening into the river is fifty feet lower than at -its beginning, and as there are no rocks or stones to impede the passage -of the water, it slides over the smooth floor at a tremendous speed, -taking but a little over three minutes from the time that it enters the -tunnel before it reaches the outlet. It rushes out of the tunnel with -such force that it creates a cross-current far out into the river.</p> - -<p>Knowing from whence it came and what it has been doing, one cannot but -think, as he sees it come tumbling, leaping, and roaring out of the dark -underground passage, that it is like a boy who has just finished some -irksome task and is at last free to run and shout and play.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="RABBIT-HUNTING_IN_THE_SNOW" id="RABBIT-HUNTING_IN_THE_SNOW">RABBIT-HUNTING IN THE SNOW.</a></h2> - -<h3>BY ANNIE T. ASHMORE.</h3> - -<p>Jim and Ned were evidently bound to be good business men. Some of their -plans for money-making were very peculiar. They lived side by side on -Staten Island, in places where there was a magnificent view of the bay -and harbor, and whence incoming and outgoing steamers could be seen to -great advantage. They fitted up an office in a room in the attic of -Jim's house, hung up a sign, "Shipping Office; latest news furnished of -incoming and outgoing crafts"; and as they went at it in a systematic -manner, had a capital spy-glass, and had been drilled from their -earliest infancy in the knowledge of the different boats, they were -often called upon by their neighbors to tell when a ship was due, or if -it had already entered the Narrows. For this information they charged -varying sums; and while not on the high-road to fortune, still made -enough to provide many bottles of sarsaparilla, and more chewing-gum and -bolivars than were at all good for the digestion.</p> - -<p>Another scheme was selling eggs to their respective mothers, and they -really had a very good chicken-yard for a time, while a mysterious -account-book which bore the heading "JimandNedeggs" occasioned much -merriment among their families (of course unknown to the boys). But -latterly business had been dull. The best hens had succumbed to an -epidemic, nobody wanted to know about the ships; it was early winter, -and there were no more walks to be raked; in fact, a financial crisis -was fast overtaking the two partners. Something had to be done, for -there were Christmas presents to be bought, new bob-sleds to be had, and -of a kind more dangerous than any they had yet risked their lives on. It -was evident that only serious and concentrated thought could extricate -the firm from the situation in which it was placed.</p> - -<p>"Ned, we must think of some way in which we can make money. I was -talking to Tom about it the other day, and all he would say was, 'Marse -Jim, you leave it to me, and I'll think out a plan.' But not a syllable -will he say as to what the plan is. He came up to the dining-room last -night and called me out, said he had something of importance to tell me, -and all it was, he asked me to ask mother for five dollars. Now you know -as well as I do that mother won't let me have another cent for I don't -know how long. She's mad because that money she gave us to put into the -incubator was all thrown away by our forgetting about it, and leaving -the eggs in there till the lamp exploded, and the eggs too. No, there's -no use; we've got to find our way out ourselves. What do you think of -our going out on a musk-rat hunt, and then selling the skins?"</p> - -<p>"All very well," said Ned, the more prudent of the two; "but where are -you going to find musk-rats, to begin with? How are you going to catch -them when you do find them, and who's going to skin them?"</p> - -<p>Blank despair settled down upon the two boys' countenances, and two more -unhappy-looking individuals have, fortunately, rarely been seen. -Suddenly around the corner of the house appeared a colored boy of about -eighteen, black as the ace of spades, but grinning from ear to ear with -good humor and amusement.</p> - -<p>"What you sitting here in the cold for, you boys? Marse Ned, Marse Jim, -you ought to be ashamed of yourselves. If missus found you sitting in -the cold, she won't give you no more money for your 'lowance, and you -dun bus' now, you tole me."</p> - -<p>"Oh, Tom, do tell us a way to get out of this—a way to make money!" -said the two boys, simultaneously.</p> - -<p>"Well, this nigger ain't much good making money, but you two boys come -in the black hole and talk it over, and Tom'll help when he can."</p> - -<p>The black hole was in the cellar where the furnace was, and was a -favorite resort of Tom's. As they talked now Tom looked up suddenly. An -idea had come to him, and he said: "Marse Jim, Marse Ned, you better -raise rabbits. Then ask yer mother to let me go to New York jus' befo' -Christmas-time; I'll sell 'em in the streets, fifty cents and dollar -apiece. Rabbits don't cost nuffin' down hyar, to begin with, and we'll -make so much money that you boys will give Tom 'nuf to go down South -with an' see his poor old father and mother."</p> - -<p>The scheme sounded very plausible, told in Tom's excited way; but then -Ned suddenly said, "Tom, where are we going to get the rabbits to start -with?"</p> - -<p>That was rather a poser. But Tom had his answer ready.</p> - -<p>"You boys, now listen to me. I wah just now chasing a rabbit harder'n I -ever chased one befo'. Dat ah rabbit, he lives down the big hedge round -de garden; he got sisters, brothers, cousins, lots of 'em. We ketch -father and mother rabbit, then when we have lots of little rabbits we'se -all right. Tom'll build big house for rabbits, keep it outside dar in -the coal cellar, and feed 'em every day regular; no trouble at all after -we catch father and mother."</p> - -<p>The boys knew what rabbit tracks looked like in the snow, and the plan -proposed by Tom was that, the first morning after a light snow-fall, -they should get up early, and follow the tracks to the part of the hedge -where the rabbits lived. He would every night put out some chopped -carrots and turnips, and just as soon as the rabbits appeared, they all -being in hiding themselves, jump out and catch them. After a long -consultation they agreed the old plan was the only safe one—that of -tying a string around their big toes, hanging the string out of their -respective windows down over the piazza, then Tom would pull the string -attached to Massa Jim's toe, and as soon as Jim was dressed, he'd run -over and pull the string attached to Ned's. This plan had its -disadvantages in summer, for mischievous elder sisters and brothers who -sat up late in the evening had a nasty way of pulling the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[Pg 120]</a></span> string before -they went to bed, and more than once the boys had gotten up in the -middle of the night, accordingly, and dressed themselves to go out, only -to be met downstairs by the other members of the family with the news -that it was still night, and not morning. In December few people sit up -on the piazza, so there was less danger, and finally that was settled -upon as the best way to do.</p> - -<p>Several anxious days passed without any more snow, and the parents of -the boys could not understand their sudden interest in the weather, as -they generally didn't care at all. They read the weather reports until -their eyes ached, but the only snow in sight was out in western Dakota, -and it seemed as if it never would come to this region of the country. -But as all comes round to him who will but wait, Jim was awakened one -night—or as it seemed to him, night—with a hideous dream in which a -rabbit was eating off his toe, to find that the string was being -violently jerked. It didn't take him half a minute to get to the window, -and when he looked out there was the sun just coming up and the ground -covered with the loveliest, whitest snow. Jim did not wait to perform a -very extensive toilet, and was over at Ned's, pulling the string -attached to his toe, in less time than it takes to tell about it. Then -as soon as Ned got out the two boys went in search of Tom, who was in a -great state of excitement, and who had collected together two other -darkies. The air was decidedly cold, but nobody minded it, so great was -the excitement; and when some tiny little marks were seen in the snow -the boys felt as if it were the greatest moment of their lives, all the -more delicious because they all had to keep absolute silence. They went -in single file, following down the little footfalls of the rabbit, when -suddenly, just ahead of them, they saw the animal they were in search -of, and not one only, but three of them. They looked so pretty nibbling -away there at the carrots and turnips, and so wise with their long ears, -that the boys could not bear to have them interrupted, and watched them -for some little time.</p> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 316px;"> -<img src="images/ill_015.jpg" width="316" height="450" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">A NICE LONG CHASE HE LED THEM OVER HILL AND DOWN DALE.</span> -</div> - -<p>Suddenly, as though scenting danger in the air, the biggest fellow sat -up on his haunches, then gave a sideways leap, and went down the hill -with big bounds. This was too much for the darkies to stand, and with -wild whoops of delight they followed, Jim and Ned also joining in the -chase. But Master Rabbit did not intend to be caught so easily, and a -nice long chase he led them over hill and down dale. One of the darkies -who was holding a big stick flung it after the rabbit, and came within -an inch of hitting him; but that put an end to the fun, for while Jim -and Ned wanted to catch the rabbits, they were not willing to see them -killed, and they called to Tom to stop—the game was up.</p> - -<p>"Tom," said the boys, "we want to catch those rabbits, but we do not -want to kill the animals."</p> - -<p>"All right, massa," said Tom, "we catch 'em, not kill 'em"; and like a -general marshalling an army, he gave each boy directions where to go. -They formed in a ring, and gradually drew nearer together, until the -rabbit lay quite still, utterly tired, and quite at the mercy of his -captors. Tom then slipped him into a bag, which he slung over his back, -and they went back to where the other rabbits were feeding again. They -had returned, and by a little strategy another one was caught, and the -boys declared they had had enough of it for the day. They had gotten two -fine rabbits, and soon had them safely ensconced in the rabbit-hut. They -took good care of them, and with Tom's constant aid and attention the -scheme proved a good one; and yet, strange to say, the boys never went -rabbit-hunting again after that first morning. They could not forget how -piteous the poor little animal had looked when the darky wanted to throw -the stick at him, and as they had enough to get along with, they -concluded they'd rather try another plan next time.</p> - -<p>Colored people have a great weakness for what they call hares—they like -them almost as well as they do watermelons—and it is sad to say that -the three darkies who went on that expedition went on many another -before the winter was over.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[Pg 121]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 700px;"><a name="INTERSCHOLASTIC_SPORT" id="INTERSCHOLASTIC_SPORT"></a> -<img src="images/ill_016.jpg" width="700" height="139" alt="INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT" /> -</div> - -<p>Lawrenceville defeated Andover in their annual football game a week ago -Friday. This result was doubtless a surprise to those who had witnessed -the Exeter-Andover game of the previous week, but it was an event not -entirely unlooked for by the Lawrenceville coachers.</p> - -<p>The game was interesting and exciting from start to finish, and the -result doubtful until the last moment of play. The strength displayed by -Lawrenceville was no doubt largely due to the good advice they have been -getting during the past few weeks from Princeton football-players, who -had been trying to knit some sort of a team out of the many individuals -that had been developed by the work of the early fall. Lawrenceville had -hoped that this method would culminate in a general successful movement -by the entire team, and after a week's hard work just this result was -obtained. I do not think that Lawrenceville has ever before put into the -field an eleven that played so steadily as these men did in the Andover -game. The necessity for steadiness was urged upon the players, and they -were well aware that this must be their only reliance, since no man upon -the team could be termed a brilliant player, and looked to for some -dashing performance at a critical moment.</p> - -<p>The game progressed most satisfactorily, and during the entire afternoon -there was not one word of protest or argument from either side. This was -largely due, no doubt, to the excellence of the officials—Messrs. -Alexander Moffat and Clinton T. Wood. The Lawrenceville players were -penalized a great deal in the first half, some sixty yards being lost -for off-side play and interference. This spirit of restlessness, which -causes men frequently to be over-anxious, proved a good thing in the end -for Lawrenceville, in spite of her heavy penalties, for as it became -controlled during the progress of the game it was transformed to a -quickness and alertness that proved most valuable.</p> - -<p>On the kick-off in the first half, by Andover, Lawrenceville returned -the ball, which was fumbled by Elliott of Andover. Of the two teams I -had expected to see Lawrenceville do most of the fumbling, but it was -Andover that proved the weaker of the two in this matter. I had expected -likewise to see Andover kick a great deal, but she did not adopt these -tactics, her line being unable to protect her backs. The Andover -full-back kicked but four times in his regular position; the rest of the -time he kicked from the half-back's position, and consequently his kicks -were high and short. The best feature of Andover's work was the -interference. This was formed quickly, and was very effective. On four -occasions runs were made around the Lawrenceville ends, which almost -proved disastrous. Andover's ends were superior to the Lawrenceville -players, and Captain Richards, of Lawrenceville, was fairly outplayed by -his opponent in the first half. In the second half, however, Richards -held his own.</p> - -<p>As to generalship Andover was inferior to Lawrenceville. This may have -been due somewhat to the absence<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[Pg 122]</a></span> of Captain Barker in the first half, -although matters did not improve materially when he entered the play in -the second half. The Lawrenceville full-back made long and sure punts, -and on several occasions her quarter-back kicked effectively for a gain -of several yards. With the exception therefore of the ends and Captain -Richards, in the first half Lawrenceville may fairly be said to have -outplayed Andover. I think, however, that to these exceptions should be -included Elliott of Andover; he is really better than either of the -Lawrenceville half-backs.</p> - -<p>As to the game itself: After Andover's kick-off and Lawrenceville's -return, the Jerseymen got the ball on a fumble, and by an attack on the -centre and tackles worked down to the twenty-yard line. A quarter-back -kick brought the ball to the five-yard line, where Andover secured it on -downs. Andover kicked to the twenty-yard line only, and after being -rushed back to the fifteen-yard line, the full-back missed a goal from -the field by a few inches. On the kick-off from the twenty-yard line -Lawrenceville advanced the ball surely down the field by short plunges -through the line, and the first touch-down was made by Cadwalader, who -also kicked the goal. On the kick-off Lawrenceville was successively -penalized for off-side play until the ball was on her twenty-yard line. -By the criss-cross trick White ran for Andover's only touch-down around -Lawrenceville's right end. The ball was punted, but the goal failed. On -the next kick-off Lawrenceville braced up considerably, both as to -playing and keeping on-side. By short rushes around the ends and through -the line she had the ball on Andover's one-yard line, on the first down, -when the first half was called.</p> - -<p>The second half began by Andover playing very fiercely, but -Lawrenceville played better than ever. After ten minutes' play -Lawrenceville punted to the one-yard line, and when the ball was punted -out by Andover, Lay heeled it on the twenty-five-yard line. Cadwalader -failed on the place kick. On the kick-off again, Andover by short -plunges through the line, and two runs around the end for fifteen and -twenty yards respectively, had the ball on Lawrenceville's five-yard -line. Lawrenceville here made a strong stand. On the second down Andover -surged to within three feet of the goal-line; on the third down Andover -was pushed back five yards, and the ball changed hands. Here Cleveland -made a fumble, and the ball was Andover's again on the four-yard line. -Lawrenceville held Andover again for the four downs, and Mattis dropped -back of the goal-line for a punt. The ball struck an Andover man in its -upward course, but was not retarded sufficiently to be caught. Dudley, -Lawrenceville's end, who had started down the field to tackle Andover's -full-back, got the ball, as it failed to go within twenty yards of the -Andover full-back. Dodging White and Barker, who were playing back, -Dudley made the play of the day, running eighty yards for a touch-down. -Cadwalader again kicked the goal in the gathering gloom. On the kick-off -Lawrenceville held the ball for some minutes, and it was not until this -time that she was able to make any ground around Andover's ends. The -ball was on Andover's twenty-yard line when time was called, on account -of darkness, with a few minutes yet remaining to play.</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 400px;"> -<img src="images/ill_017.jpg" width="400" height="296" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">BROOKLYN HIGH-SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAM.</span> -</div> - -<p>Although the final game in the championship series of the Philadelphia -Inter-Academic League was not played until a week ago to-day, that game -being between Penn Charter and Germantown, Cheltenham Military Academy -won the pennant by defeating Germantown on November 13th (16-10). The -game was a hotly contested one, and the feature of the play was -Cheltenham's team-work. The soldiers' superiority in this matter won -them the game.</p> - -<p>On the kick-off Cheltenham got the ball, and by steady gains pushed it -over for a touch-down, from which a goal was kicked. A little later on, -Lincoln of Cheltenham secured the ball on a fumble by Germantown, and by -a fine run placed it behind the posts. The goal was kicked. Up to this -time Germantown had not been able to gain any ground worth speaking of. -About five minutes before time was called Perkins took the ball on a -criss-cross, and by a run of thirty yards around right end touched it -down in Cheltenham's goal. Pearson kicked the goal. This ended the -scoring in the first half, the game now standing 12 to 6 in Cheltenham's -favor.</p> - -<p>In the second half Germantown, by using the Pennsylvania style of -guards-back play, scored another touch-down, but failed at goal. At this -point Cheltenham braced up, and by steady plunges through the line and -one end run scored a touch-down, but failed at goal. Time was called -soon after, with the ball in Cheltenham's possession on her opponents' -ten-yard line. Score—Cheltenham, 16; Germantown, 10. For Cheltenham, -Potter and Boyd did good work, while Flavell, Perkins, and Newhall -excelled for Germantown.</p> - -<p>Cheltenham deserves credit for her fine showing this year. The school is -by long odds the smallest in the Association, yet by hard practice they -have developed team-work and interference that would do credit to a -college. Vail, the Pennsylvania quarter-back of '93, coached the team, -and by his untiring energy infused them with that snap and dash so -essential to good playing.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 700px;"> -<img src="images/ill_018.jpg" width="700" height="338" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">TAFT'S SCHOOL (WATERTOWN, CONNECTICUT) FOOTBALL SQUAD.</span> -</div> - -<p>A very strong team for a school of sixty boys has been developed at -Taft's School, Middletown, Connecticut, this fall. At the time the -accompanying picture was taken the team had played six games, all but -one being against much heavier opponents than themselves, and had not -been scored against. Their weight averages about 148 pounds, and the -players are nearly all strong and heavy. Their success is due, not to -brilliant plays of individual members, but to team-work, which they have -brought up to a very high standard.</p> - -<p>If any member of the team may be said to excel the others, perhaps -Townsend, at full-back, does the best work. In the game against Cheshire -Episcopal Academy he broke through the opposing line, dodged one -half-back, threw off their full-back who tackled him, and after a run of -sixty-five yards made a touch-down. In the line, Welch, right guard, -probably offers the strongest and steadiest game. Merriman, at centre, -Guthrie, left guard, and L. White and Bell, tackles, are all well -skilled in blocking, making openings, breaking through, and hard -tackling. Lloyd and Barnett, the ends, are sure tacklers and swift -runners. O. White, at quarter, is quick and generally accurate. G. and -J. Lear (the captain), the half-backs, are both heavy plungers and hard -tacklers.</p> - -<p>Shady Side Academy of Pittsburg was again defeated by Kiskiminetas on -November 16th last—the score, 12-4. McColl, the Kiskiminetas right -half-back, was the star player of the day; by his splendid running he -scored two of the touch-downs credited to his side. The first touch-down -was scored by the winners a few moments after play began, but S.S.A. -took a brace immediately afterwards, and the ball was kept slowly -travelling up and down the field. The S.S.A. line was very good, and at -no time was Kiskiminetas able to make any very considerable gains -through it. Brainard and Irwin stopped a number of plays through the -centre. Aikens did a good deal of fumbling, but fortunately none of his -fumbles proved very costly.</p> - -<p>The interference of the Kiskiminetas team was considerably superior to -that of Shady Side. Beeman's kicking was accurate and quick, and he -frequently put his side out of danger by a timely punt. McConnel -distinguished himself by his tackling, and especially at one time, when -McColl was making for the goal-posts with no one in his way but Shady -Side's quarter-back. In the second half, Kiskiminetas started off with -another rush, and scored almost immediately. Thereupon the Shady Side -players gathered themselves together again, and managed to keep the play -in the enemy's country for the rest of the half. Toward the close of the -half Beeman got around<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[Pg 123]</a></span> Montgomery and scored for Shady Side, but no -goal resulted.</p> - -<p>The best playing for Kiskiminetas was done by Montgomery, McColl, and -Aikens. Montgomery at end was a good tackler and a speedy runner. McColl -seemed indefatigable, and mostly ran with the ball. Captain Aiken -interfered well, but was not as good a quarter-back as McConnel. For -S.S.A., Captain Schildecker broke through and made several good tackles. -Irwin played a better game than he has played yet. He is strong, bucks -the line hard, but does not use his head enough. Neither of the ends put -up their usual game. Arundel got into the play more than he has done -before, and made some hard tackles. On the whole S.S.A. tackled better -than Kiskiminetas, and they had plenty of opportunities for practice, as -the ball was mostly in their opponents' possession.</p> - -<p>The Madison High-School has again won the championship of the Wisconsin -Interscholastic League by defeating, 42-0, the Milwaukee East-Side -High-School on November 14. The game was played on a slippery field, and -the Milwaukeeans apparently had an off day. Madison secured the ball on -the kick-off, and scored three touch-downs before Milwaukee had really -been able to find out what the ball felt like. When at last Milwaukee -did secure possession of the leather her players managed to work it -slowly up the field, but time was called before any decided advantage -had been gained.</p> - -<p>In the second half Milwaukee again had little chance for aggressive -play, having the ball in her possession but once. Madison had things -practically all her own way. The weakness displayed by the Milwaukee -East-Side High-School team is probably due to the strict rules recently -adopted by the faculties of the various High-Schools of Milwaukee. It is -probable, for one or two seasons to come, that these rules will to a -certain extent cripple teams that have hitherto had little to regulate -their style of make-up, but in the end I feel sure that the regulations -laid down by the faculties will prove of the greatest benefit to amateur -sport in Wisconsin.</p> - -<p>In the game between Madison High and the South Side High-School of -Milwaukee, the Madisonians were again the victors, 14-4. The game was -played on November 7, and was close all the way through. Madison scored -first on a fluke, but after this she outplayed the Milwaukee team. The -captain of the South Side High-School team did the best work for his -side, while Curtis and Anderson did the best work for Madison.</p> - -<p>The football season in Chicago is nearing its close. The most important -of recent games were those played on November 18, between Lake View and -North Division, and Northwest Division and West Division. Lake View won -its match, 18-6. Everybody played hard, since the result of that game -would put one of the teams into an assured position for fourth place in -the League. In the first half the score was 6-6, but North Division -could not keep up the pace, and Lake View had an easy time of it in the -second half.</p> - -<h4>"A PRIMER OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL."—<span class="smcap">By W. H. 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CHAPMAN, Box 151, Bridgeport, Ct.</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[Pg 124]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"><a name="BICYCLING" id="BICYCLING"></a> -<img src="images/ill_025.jpg" width="600" height="138" alt="BICYCLING" /> -</div> - -<blockquote> - -<p>This Department is conducted in the interest of Bicyclers, and the -Editor will be pleased to answer any question on the subject. Our -maps and tours contain many valuable data kindly supplied from the -official maps and road-books of the League of American Wheelmen. -Recognizing the value of the work being done by the L.A.W., the -Editor will be pleased to furnish subscribers with membership -blanks and information so far as possible.</p></blockquote> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 350px;"> -<img src="images/ill_026.jpg" width="350" height="500" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">Copyright, 1896, by Harper & Brothers.</span> -</div> - -<p>The third stage on the general route from New York to Newburgh by the -west bank of the Hudson is given in the map accompanying the Department -this week. We spoke last week of the road running from Hackensack or -Paterson to Sufferns. This road is perhaps the best route for Newburgh, -as it runs through beautiful country, and, on the whole, the roads are -the best.</p> - -<p>On leaving Sufferns a short run brings the rider to Ramapo, thence a -mile or more brings him into Sterlington, and following the railroad he -can run direct to Tuxedo Park. The road is very attractive about there, -and the road-bed good. From Tuxedo Park continue on to Southfield, -keeping to the right here, and following the railroad track to Arden, -there crossing the railroad, and running on to Central Valley, Highland -Mills, Woodbury Falls, and so on. This is the direct route for Newburgh. -A good run, however, is to turn westward at Southfield, leaving the -railroad and running to Monroe, and thence through Oxford to -Washingtonville, returning thence to Blooming Grove and Chester, through -Dutch Hollow to Greenwood Lake, and down the west shore of the lake, -turning eastward at this southern end, and running up to Sterlington and -Ramapo again through Kingwood and Eagle Valley.</p> - -<p>The roads from Tuxedo Park to Greenwood Iron-Works and Central Valley, -westward, on the Hudson are not good riding, as there are many hills, -and the road-bed is not well cared for. The wheelman is advised, -therefore, if he is taking a series of runs through this country, to -keep either to the bank of the Hudson, or to the country back from the -river. The best way to get from Sufferns (supposing the wheelman to be -there) to the Hudson is to run southward through Tallmans, Clarksville, -and West Nyack to Nyack, then turning northward, through Upper Nyack, -New City, Haverstraw, Dunderberg, to Fort Montgomery, which appears on -the accompanying map. This road runs along close by the bank of the -Hudson, and most of the time in sight of the river. It is an attractive -road, but the road-bed is not in as good condition as the turnpikes in -and around Greenwood Lake. At Nyack there is a good stretch of road -close by the bank of the river running southward for several miles, -which is in capital condition, and is one of the picturesque stretches -in this part of the country. No one who rides up this side of the Hudson -should fail to take this short run at some time during his trip.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>HIS DOG SNYDER.</h3> - -<p>He was a tattered, weary-looking beggar, and he had hardly commenced -speaking before one knew that Germany was his native land. He was in -quest of a dog, and Snyder was the canine's name.</p> - -<p>"You don't know noddings mid him?" he asked. "Dot vos queer; eferybodies -knowed him, 'cause vot mit only vone eye dat don't pother him, on -accoundt of he knows noddings of the odder, seein' mit one shust as he -seed mit two before, de beoples already don't fergot him. No, he don't -answer ven you calls him soon, but come quick ven you shust asks him -Snyder. He say pow-wow-wow, unt his tail dot vos lost mit vone-half by a -vagon vheel he vag, und he don't vag the end vat he don't have on -accoundt of he fergets vat he don't have now.</p> - -<p>"Inshtinct, yah; he vos have vonderful inshtinct. You shust pat him mit -your hand on his head, und he die for you on accoundt of he knows soon -dot you like him, but you hit him mit your stick on de head, und den he -suhspect right off dot you care mit nottings for him. His hair vos upon -a time vonce peautiful, but und gonsquence of a tramp cat mit scraggy -fur he loss some by te handful, und now he don't scratch himself no -more; but de cat vat vos 'cause him trouble mit his hair, she don't valk -on de fences neider.</p> - -<p>"You could told Snyder vot vas so much like himself dot you vould dink -he vos dwins. Und you see him you knows Snyder 'cause he vos mitout -anoder dog de same as he vas, und now I goes to find my palt-headed -doggie;" and the poor old man wandered down the street.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[Pg 125]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"><a name="THE_CAMERA_CLUB" id="THE_CAMERA_CLUB"></a> -<img src="images/ill_027.jpg" width="600" height="194" alt="THE CAMERA CLUB" /> -</div> - -<blockquote> - -<p>Any questions in regard to photograph matters will be willingly -answered by the Editor of this column, and we should be glad to -hear from any of our club who can make helpful suggestions.</p></blockquote> - -<p>Owing to the number of questions, we devote the entire Department to -answers this week.</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sir Knight Robert Hunter</span> asks if the Premo B Camera, with Rochester -Optical Company's single-view lens, is a good hand-camera for an -amateur. The Premo is an excellent camera, and the lens mentioned -is a good one. This camera is fitted either for films or glass -plates.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sir Knight Frederick Clapp</span> sends a photograph of some greenhouses -taken from a kite sent up with a camera attached to it, and -promises to send full directions of the manner of taking them. They -are quite interesting, and Sir Frederick wants to know if any of -the members of the club have ever tried the experiment.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sir Knight W. D. Campbell</span> asks how long prints made on solio paper -and toned in Eastman's combined bath will keep. Prints made on this -paper, if fixed and well washed, should keep indefinitely. If after -toning they are put for three minutes into a fixing-bath of 1 oz. -hypo, to 10 oz. water, it will tend to make them more permanent, as -the combined bath does not always fix them enough. Our -correspondent is the first member of the club to take advantage of -the photographic print exchange outlined in No. 885.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Loe Olds</span> asks if one can purchase a good camera for ten dollars, -and wishes the name of some reliable firm, and if one taking a -picture 3½ by 4½ would be large enough. A good camera may be -had for ten dollars, but would advise getting one which will take a -picture 4 by 5 in size. Write the Eastman Company, Rochester, -N. Y.; Rochester Optical Company, Rochester, N. Y.; Manhattan -Optical Company, or Scovill, Adams Company, New York city, for -catalogues.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">M. Foster</span> asks for a formula for platino paper; if platino and -platinum are the same; a formula for platinum toning-solution; if -Rives paper is salted; and if it is necessary to prepare blue-print -paper on salted paper. Do not try to make platino paper, as it is a -long process, and not always successful. It is cheaper in the end -to buy it. Try some of the simpler processes for sensitizing paper. -Will send the formula if you wish to try platinum. Platino is a -commercial term applied to paper sensitized with platinum. Rives -paper is raw photographic paper. Blue prints do not need to be made -on salted paper.</p> - -<p>L. K. asks what is the matter with his negatives which show, after -a few months, spots on the film. From the description of the spots, -they are doubtless due to a poor fixing-bath. Will L. K. please -give his formula for fixing?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Percy Meredith Reese, Jun</span>., 1210 Mount Royal Ave., Baltimore, Md.; -<span class="smcap">Lesley Ashburner</span>, Media, Pa.; <span class="smcap">Harry Chase</span>, 175 Summer St., Malden, -Mass.; <span class="smcap">Dwight N. Foster</span>, 35 Pleasant St., Dorchester, Mass.; <span class="smcap">John -N. Prothero</span>, Du Bois, Pa.; <span class="smcap">John Norton Atkins</span>, Bayonne City, N. J.; -<span class="smcap">J. R. Sixx</span>, 95 Broadway, Paterson, N. J.; <span class="smcap">R. T. Pobbs</span>, Swedeland, -Pa.; <span class="smcap">L. P. Dodge</span>, 71 High St., Newburyport, Mass; <span class="smcap">Foster Hartwell</span>, -629 Third Ave., Lansingburg, N. Y.; <span class="smcap">S. F. Macquaide</span>, 46 Mechlin -St., Germantown, Pa.; <span class="smcap">Vincent Aules</span>, New Dorp, Staten Island; <span class="smcap">E. V. -Bragdon</span>, 87 West Thirty-second St., Bayonne, N. J.; <span class="smcap">Ernest T. -Selig</span>, Lawrence, Kan.; <span class="smcap">George L. Coleman</span>, 114 Van Buren St., -Dayton, O.—wish to be enrolled as members of the Camera Club.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sir Knight John Norton Atkins</span> asks if the glycerine solution used -for keeping films from curling can be used more than once; if the -accelerator mentioned in No. 822 may be used with eiko-cum-hydro -developer; and if the piece of drawing-paper enclosed in his letter -could be used for sensitizing. The glycerine preparation may be -used as long as it is clear. The accelerator may be used with the -developer mentioned. The sample of drawing-paper did not reach the -editor, but if it is pure paper, free from chemicals, it may be -used for plain paper. Whatman's drawing-paper is considered pure.</p></blockquote> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>NOV. & DEC.</h2> - -<h2>FREE</h2> - -<h4>On New Yearly Subscriptions Received before Jan. 1, '97, for</h4> - -<h4>BABYLAND and LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN.</h4> - -<blockquote> - -<p>"These publications give the children the right taste for reading, -and help to an extent that is beyond expression in making them -intelligent and in educating the moral nature, while furnishing -them delightful entertainment."—<i>Herald and News.</i></p></blockquote> - -<h2>BABYLAND</h2> - -<h3>ENLARGED TO 16 PAGES.</h3> - -<h4>50 CTS. A YEAR.</h4> - -<h4>Sample Copy Free.</h4> - -<p class="center">Every <b>MOTHER</b>, <b>KINDERGARTNER</b>, and <b>PRIMARY TEACHER</b> should have <span class="smcap">Babyland</span>.</p> - -<h4>SOME OF THE FEATURES FOR '97:</h4> - -<p><b>BUZ-BUZ.</b> A tiny Serial Story. By <span class="smcap">Chas. Stuart Pratt</span>. The "twelve -adventures of a housefly." Something really new in nursery literature; -as simple as it is novel.</p> - -<p><b>GUESSING STORIES.</b> By <span class="smcap">Margaret Johnson</span>. Small pictures take the place of -words. <b>Very easy</b>, <b>entertaining</b>, and <b>educational</b>.</p> - -<p><b>A PINT OF PEAS.</b> Work for Little Fingers. The construction of various -objects, using soaked peas and wood toothpicks. <b>Endless amusement.</b></p> - -<p class="center">JINGLES, LITTLE STORIES, PICTURES.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h2>LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN</h2> - -<h4>The only Magazine</h4> - -<h4>edited especially for</h4> - -<h3>CHILDREN from 7 to 11</h3> - -<h4>$1.00 A YEAR. Specimen Free.</h4> - -<h4>THREE SPLENDID SERIALS:</h4> - -<p class="center"><b>JOHNNY, JACK, AND JOHN.</b> By <span class="smcap">Margaret Compton</span>.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>JO AND BETTY; or, Out in the World.</b> By <span class="smcap">Sophie Swett</span>.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>GOING WITH THE BIG BOYS.</b> By <span class="smcap">Kate Upson Clark</span>.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><b>BOY HEROES OF THE WAR.</b> By Mrs. <span class="smcap">A. R. Watson</span>. Pathetic, humorous, -thrilling. A dozen stories of young heroes of our Civil War—six of the -South, six of the North.</p> - -<p><b>THE TALKING BIRDS.</b> By <span class="smcap">M. C. Crowley</span>. A series of amusing and marvellous -parrot stories—<i>true</i> stories.</p> - -<h4>Notable Articles,</h4> - -<h4>Short Stories, Poems,</h4> - -<h4>Beautiful Pictures,</h4> - -<h4>Children's Songs.</h4> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>ALPHA PUBLISHING CO., Boston.</h3> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>THE CREAM OF</h2> - -<h2>CHILDREN'S BOOKS</h2> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>MARCHING PLAYS</h3> - -<h4>By GREY BURLESON</h4> - -<p>This is the one new book which should be in every home where there are -children; it is the one book no mother, primary teacher, or -kindergartner can afford to do without. No other book affords such -varied and lasting pleasures to little children; no other affords such -helps and suggestions to mothers and teachers, in entertaining children, -and in making entertainment educational.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 230px;"> -<img src="images/ill_028.jpg" width="230" height="300" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">A FRAGMENT FROM THE "OWL" PLAY</span> -</div> - -<blockquote> - -<p>Familiar animals, birds, and insects are the natural motif of these -gay and graceful Marching Plays, which develop the ready -friendliness of children toward the animal creation. The twelve -plays are elaborately illustrated by L. J. Bridgman for the -pleasure of children and the guidance of mothers and teachers. They -are also set to music by Kate L. Brown and F. E. Saville.</p></blockquote> - -<p>Each play has a page of suggestions showing how it can be varied and -adapted in many ways, both for amusement and instruction.</p> - -<p class="center">Price, quarto, fine cloth binding, $1.25.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN</h3> - -<h4>The New Bound Volume.—Annual for 1896.</h4> - -<p>The most popular volume issued for boys and girls from seven to twelve. -It contains the <i>most</i> of the <i>best reading and pictures</i> at the <i>right -price</i>. <i>Four Complete Serials. 400 quarto pages.</i></p> - -<p class="center">Price, quarto, extra cloth, $1.50.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>BABYLAND</h3> - -<h4>The New Bound Volume.—Annual for 1896.</h4> - -<p>"Babyland" is designed to meet the needs of the little children, from -baby up to the seven-year-old. Many short stories, poems, jingles.</p> - -<p class="center">Price, quarto, extra cloth, $1.00.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>BOCKERS, AND HIS CHUM PEGGY</h3> - -<h4>By MARGARET COMPTON</h4> - -<p class="center">A lively story of two city school-boys.</p> - -<p class="center">Price, $1.25.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>AN AMERICAN DOG ABROAD</h3> - -<h4>By FRANK POPE HUMPHREY</h4> - -<p>Dog Tony's experiences are very amusing. The accounts of their own life -and ways given to Tony by his foreign dog friends add much to this -unique tale of travel. 34 full-page illustrations.</p> - -<p class="center">Price, 12mo, cloth, $1.25.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>GREAT CATS I HAVE MET</h3> - -<h4>By W. THOMSON</h4> - -<p>A dozen hunting adventures, <i>every one true</i>, with the "great -cats"—pumas, lions, tigers, leopards, etc. About seventy very striking -and educating pictures.</p> - -<p class="center">Price, 8vo, cloth, $1.25.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>LITTLE PETERKIN VANDIKE</h3> - -<h4>The Story of his Famous Poetry Party</h4> - -<h4>By CHAS. STUART PRATT</h4> - -<p>An amusing story. It includes a series of poems for recitation in -character; describes a series of tableaux which may be given singly or -as a whole. 12 full-page and many smaller pictures by L. J. Bridgman.</p> - -<p class="center">Price, 12mo, cloth, $1.00.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h4>Illustrated Catalogue of New Books for Children, Free.</h4> - -<p class="center"><i>At booksellers; or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the -publishers,</i></p> - -<h3>ALPHA PUBLISHING COMPANY,</h3> - -<p class="center">212 Boylston Street, BOSTON, MASS.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[Pg 126]</a></span></p> - -<h2>A Stranger in New Orleans.</h2> - -<blockquote> - -<p>Changing one's home from Staten Island to New Orleans in the fall -of the year means a good deal of a change in climate and weather, -not to mention the change in one's surroundings noticeable at any -season. We like our new home much. Canal, the principal street, is -very wide, and there are seven trolley lines upon it. Yesterday we -took one of them and went six miles out to Jackson Barracks, where -the United States troops are.</p> - -<p>The barracks face the Mississippi River, and are not casemates or -stone walls, as are barracks in most of the forts around New York. -They are houses, large and roomy. The soldiers seemed to know the -place little better than we did, for they said they had only -recently come here. They belong to the First United States -Artillery, batteries of which are now scattered along the Gulf -coast, some being at Pensacola, and others at St. Augustine. The -Mississippi River is here higher than the city, hence the -foundations for buildings are none of the best. So one of the -peculiarities one notices, in contrast with the tall buildings I -was long familiar with in New York, is the low structures. -Everything seems so flat. Since coming here we have had much -rain—tropical rain, it seems to me to be, for the water simply -tumbles down for hours at a time. The days are warm, but the nights -are not. I hope we shall like New Orleans, as we must live here for -some years, but just now I am seeing new and strange things, and -sometimes I long for a sight of Brooklyn Bridge, the Liberty -Statue, and the White Squadron lying off Tompkinsville.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 34em;">F. W.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">New Orleans</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>The Convent Puzzle.</h3> - -<blockquote> - -<p>This puzzle is a translation from the French, and is over two -hundred years old.</p> - -<p>In a certain convent were nine cells, of which all but the central -one were occupied by nuns. An abbess resided in the middle room, -and visited the eight cells at regular intervals, to make sure that -the sisters were keeping their vows, and each time found three nuns -in each cell, which made nine in every row. Four nuns went out, -however, but the abbess on her second round still found nine in a -row. The four nuns now came back, each bringing a friend, and the -good abbess still had no misgivings when she found the same number -in each row as before. Four more friends were introduced, and still -the correct number was found in the cells. How was all this -possible? The answer to this puzzle will be published later on.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Vincent V. M. Beede</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>A Day on an Island of the Sea.</h3> - -<blockquote> - -<p>I will try to tell the Table something about one of the islands of -our coast, namely, St. Helena. It is a large island, and on it is -grown that famous sea-island cotton valuable on account of its long -fibre. St. Helena is now almost wholly peopled by colored folk, not -a few of whom were once slaves. They are not equal to the raising -of island cotton of so long fibre as are the white growers; but in -almost every other respect they do exceedingly well at imitating -the successful methods of their former masters.</p> - -<p>They have divided the island into small farms. These the more -prosperous have purchased, and, what is equally important, they are -paying for them. A few years ago they thought they had reached a -wonderful degree of progress because they were able to begin -putting glass into their house windows. Since then they have -adopted other improvements, such as lamps, and even modern ploughs -and other field implements. These negroes chiefly raise vegetables -for the Northern markets, and I doubt not that not a few vegetables -which you have bought early in the season, and paid a high price -for, were grown on this island of the sea.</p> - -<p>The negroes of St. Helena have one quaint superstition, which some, -but not all cling to yet. It is that if a child be carried from a -house while asleep, its spirit remains behind beckoning the child -back. The negroes here, as in many other parts of the South, will -not work on Saturdays, and cannot by any inducement be made to do -so. This comes from an old custom of slavery times, when Saturdays -were devoted to clearing up the negro cabins, and then a holiday.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Lucy H. Emory</span>.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Beaufort, S. C</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>At Church in Wesley's Chapel.</h3> - -<blockquote> - -<p>A few days after our trip up the Thames and our visit to Teddington -and Hampton Court, we—there was nearly the same party—went into -East London to see what may be called "the Cradle of Methodism." It -is City Road Chapel, which both John and Charles Wesley preached -in. It has been several times restored, but is now almost exactly -as it was when the Wesleys lived. We went on a tram-car, which had -a double deck to it, and which went as slowly as do the few -remaining horse-cars in our own land. Our route lay out behind the -Bank of England, into a poor part of the city, but a part that -makes an attempt to brush itself up along the line of broad City -Road.</p> - -<p>The chapel is still the centre of Wesleyan activity, and we got to -it in time to hear a part of the morning service—a service which -was, by-the-way, an odd mixture of Church of England forms and -Methodist simplicity. After service we met the pastor, a charming -man of sixty, who, knowing us at once as Americans, showed us every -part of the chapel. I even read a verse from Wesley's Bible while -standing in the pulpit in which he preached. The grave of John -Wesley is a few feet without the rear chancel window of the chapel, -and within thirty or forty feet of the pulpit. It is a common grave -in the sense that it is in the ground and not in a building, and a -fence surrounds it. Charles Wesley is buried at the right of the -path, fifty feet farther back, and Susannah Wesley, the mother of -both men, is interred in Bunhill Fields, which is across the street -from City Road Chapel; and not very far from her, in the very -centre of the "Field," lies John Bunyan, author of <i>Pilgrim's -Progress</i>.</p> - -<p>We enjoyed our Sunday exceedingly—so well that two of us went back -on Monday to see more of this old "Cradle of Methodism."</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Anna Burton</span>.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">New York</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>Questions and Answers.</h3> - -<p>John B. Henry: Most emphatically does the Table approve the reading of -daily newspapers by boys and young men. They should carefully select -what newspapers they read, of course. A choice can be made by asking -some man in whom you have confidence what newspaper of your city has the -most character, stands for the best in civic and social life, is the -best edited. When you get the answer, buy the newspaper named, and read -it. Young men—you say you are fifteen—who do not rush through -high-school and college, but who take their time for it, who do five or -six years' studying in eight years, and read good literature and the -newspapers meanwhile, will be farther along at twenty-five, other traits -being equal, than those who do four years' studying in three, and -confine themselves to classics and cloisters. Don't be in a hurry. -Remember the saying, "The heavens are full of days, and all are coming -this way."—"Royalty": We do not know the purpose the Czar of Russia has -in view in visiting the other capitals of Europe, but it is often said -that those whom royalties visit wish they had not them as guests, and -often make grimaces over the cost.—"Sport": "Tom Tiddler's Ground" is -one of those games with an "it" in it, similar to "wood-tag." Tom has a -preserve—that is, a staked-off space. Others in play run on this space -and shout. Tom tries to catch one while on his ground. If successful, -the person caught becomes Tom.</p> - -<p>"Does Mrs. Sangster approve of girls reading the daily newspapers?" asks -a Pennsylvania reader. She does, because she thinks girls should make -themselves informed on the topics of the day.—Frank H. King wants -sample copies of amateur newspapers. He lives at 53 Convent Avenue, New -York.—Beverly S. King, 1625 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., wants -original jokes for the <i>Jester</i>.—"Science" asks if there is a real man -by the name of "Keeley," or "is the Keeley motor a joke?" Mr. Keeley is -the name of a real person. His full name is John W. Keeley, and he lives -in Philadelphia. His workshop, where the famous "motor" is, is at Eighth -and Master streets in that city. Mr. Keeley has been experimenting since -1872, seeking to invent or perfect a machine that will run itself -practically without cost. He is not a searcher after perpetual motion, -but claims to be working on scientific principles. Opinions differ -whether the Keeley motor is or is not a joke.</p> - -<p>"Ambitious" asks how he can obtain a position in a bank or trust -company's counting-room. He is willing to begin at the bottom, of -course. Go to the president or cashier of said institution and formally -apply. Take with you, of course, a letter of introduction if you can do -so. If you cannot, have some references ready. Apply at all the places -you know of, so as to have the largest number of chances at a vacancy. -Apply in person. Letters written to banks in distant places will do you -little good. If you chance to have a relative or friend in a distant -city, and can ask a favor of him, request him to apply for you if -convenient for him to do so. Such positions pay little at first, and -generally are to be had only by good endorsements and patient -waiting.—C. Arnold Kruckman says it is desired to form, in St. Louis, -an Amateur Press Club, to include amateur journalists of not only the -city, but adjacent towns of Missouri and Illinois. He will be at Jones -College, Fifth Street, between Locust and Olive streets, on Saturdays, -and mail may be sent to him there. He hopes to hear from you.—Edgar -Hill, 3612 Columbia Avenue, Cincinnati, wants to receive copies of -amateur papers, and to join a literary Chapter or society desiring -corresponding members.—"Inquirer": The pretty Year Book of the -Kearsarge Round Table Chapter, recently described, may be had for -twenty-nine cents. Address L. G. Price, 547 Union Street, Hudson, N. Y.—H. -Lang: There is no binder for the <span class="smcap">Round Table</span> such as you -describe. The publishers sell the board covers at fifty cents. They are -intended to be taken to a bookbinder, with the fifty-two numbers for the -year, who makes a perfect library book.</p> - -<p>Henry Jones: The Quarantine Station, New York Harbor, is maintained and -supervised by the State of New York, and not by the United States -Government. The United States leads in number of Sunday-school scholars. -In 1893, the latest report at hand, there were about ten million young -persons in the schools of all denominations. The country coming next -this is, of course, England, which had, in the same year, six millions -in round numbers.—John B. Condon: Silver is not mined wholly from -silver-mines so-called. Indeed, the last report of the Director of the -United States Mint shows that more than one-half of the annual silver -product of this country is mined in copper and lead mines, as a -by-product.</p> - -<p>Satchell asks where a complete United States sailor's uniform can be -had. Inquiry at the navy-yard in Brooklyn brings the information that -none will be sold there, and the only way to obtain a uniform made by -the government tailor is to buy it from some sailor at private purchase. -Tailors near the yard say they cannot furnish uniforms. But a leading -New York furnisher tells the Table, upon inquiry, that costumers have -these uniforms, or that any tailor of your city can make them. The cost -in summer-weight goods will be about $16; in winter-weight, $24. The -shirt may be bought ready made; the trousers should be short-waisted, -close-fitting, and lace in the back. The size at the knee for an average -man of, say, five feet nine inches tall, should be seventeen inches; at -bottom twenty-one inches.—<i>The Advocate</i>, an amateur paper published by -M. J. Bowen, Station B, Boston, Mass., wants sketches, verses, and fun -to fill its columns.—Fred B. Ely should apply to his member of Congress -for information about entering the Naval Academy. Entrance cannot now be -had till next year at best, and not then unless there be a vacancy from -his district. The examinations are on the common branches only, but are -very rigid on them. The physical test is also severe.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[Pg 127]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"><a name="STAMPS" id="STAMPS"></a> -<img src="images/ill_029.jpg" width="600" height="200" alt="STAMPS" /> -</div> - -<blockquote> - -<p>This Department is conducted in the interest of stamp and coin -collectors, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question -on these subjects so far as possible. Correspondents should address -Editor Stamp Department.</p></blockquote> - -<p>The Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing reports that the -sale of stamps during the past year was as follows:</p> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left">Postage-stamps</td><td align="right">3,025,481,467</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Special-delivery stamps</td><td align="right">4,666,270</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Postage-due stamps</td><td align="right">19,348,714</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Newspaper stamps</td><td align="right">5,505,672</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<p>In addition, the bureau made the following stamps for internal-revenue -purposes: 36,044,732 sheets of Tobacco, Liquor, and Playing-card stamps; -214,000 sheets Custom-house stamps, besides a vast quantity of United -States bonds, bank-notes, certificates, etc.</p> - -<p>Crime and philately were formerly strangers to each other, but the -growing value of stamps is reflected by the criminal statistics of -to-day. In one number of the <i>Stamp-Collectors' Fortnightly</i>, published -in England, I find the following items (I omit details): 1. The trial of -Aubert and Margaret Dubois for the murder of Delahaef, committed to -obtain possession of Delahaef's stamp collection. The man was condemned -to penal servitude for life, the woman to three years' imprisonment. 2. -The trial of two young men in Liverpool for stealing stamps from -dealers. 3. A similar case in Aberdeen. 4. A similar case at -Bournemouth. 5. Two other cases at London.</p> - -<p>In addition, a large part of the paper is taken up with the Sydney -<i>Bulletin</i>'s article on the "unauthorised and scandalous" trading in -postage-stamps by post-office officials; the sale of 5-peseta stamps at -Gibraltar, which could not be obtained at the post-office, as -practically the whole stock had been sold to one man; and to a review of -the Nova Scotia remainder mystery. The author comes to the conclusion -that the Nova Scotia stamps (cents issue) had best be left alone by all -collectors. Then there is a review of the silly article which appeared -in a New York paper a short time ago, in which the failure of a large -mercantile house was ascribed to the neglect of business by the head of -the house while he pottered over his collection of postage-stamps.</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p><span class="smcap">A. C. Tarr</span>.—Dealers ask $1.50 for early gold dollars, and $2 to -$2.50 for the later dates; half-dollars, silver, 1828, 75c.; 3c. -silver pieces, 10c. for early dates, 50c. to $1 for late dates; but -coins must be in "Fine" condition. Ordinary circulated U.S. coins -are worth face only.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">W. T. Howell</span>.—The 50c. blue and black U.S. Revenue are very -common, and can be bought at 2c.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">G. G. Morse</span>.—The prices quoted were for unperforated stamps only. -Those with perforations are, as a rule, of little value. As there -are hundreds of varieties, it is impossible to give a list, but -would advise your purchasing a stamp-catalogue, which prices U.S. -Revenues of all descriptions. No idea as to value can be formed -without examination.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">J. D. Duff</span>.—As the button fad is rapidly dying out, this -Department can not advise regarding them.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">W. E. Shreve</span>, Ridley Park, Pa., wishes to exchange stamps.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">B. B. Meggs</span>.—The 1897 catalogues will probably all be published -during the month of December or early in January. The prices vary -from 10c. to $1.50; but 50c. will be the price of probably the best -one.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Amateur</span>.—Addresses can not be given in this column, with the -exception of readers of the <span class="smcap">Round Table</span> who wish to exchange -stamps.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Philatus</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> -<img src="images/ill_030.jpg" width="600" height="162" alt="IVORY SOAP" /> -</div> - -<p>At all grocery stores east of the Rocky Mountains two sizes of Ivory -Soap are sold; one that costs five cents a cake, and a larger size. The -larger cake is the more convenient and economical for laundry and -general household use. If your Grocer is out of it, insist on his -getting it for you.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">The Procter & Gamble Co., Cin'ti</span>.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>JOSEPH GILLOTT'S</h2> - -<h3>STEEL PENS</h3> - -<p class="center">Nos. 303, 404, 170, 604 E.F., 601 E.F.</p> - -<p class="center">And other styles to suit all hands.</p> - -<h4>THE MOST PERFECT OF PENS.</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 288px;"> -<img src="images/ill_031.jpg" width="288" height="299" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h3>EARN A GOLD WATCH!</h3> - -<p>We wish to introduce our <b>Teas and Baking Powder</b>. Sell 50 lbs. to earn a -<b>Waltham Gold Watch and Chain</b>; 25 lbs. for a <b>Silver Watch and Chain</b>; 10 -lbs. for a <b>Gold Ring</b>; 50 lbs. for a <b>Decorated Dinner Set</b>; 75 lbs. for a -<b>Bicycle</b>. Write for a Catalog and Order Blank to Dept. I</p> - -<h4>W. G. BAKER,</h4> - -<h4>Springfield, Mass.</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 283px;"> -<img src="images/ill_032.jpg" width="283" height="229" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h3><i>X-RAY CAMERA.</i></h3> - -<p>Roentgen and Edison out-done. The great up to date Sensation! Penetrates -any object inserted between its lenses, no matter how thick or dense. -You can see through a solid piece of iron or a part of your body, as -through a crystal; of all optical marvels ever discovered this is the -most wonderful. Two sets of compound lenses in handsome telescope case -3½ in. long. Sells for 25c. Sample complete and mailed postpaid with -catalogue of 1000 Bargains for 15c. 2 for 25c. $1.25 Doz. AGENTS WANTED. -DON'T WAIT—DO IT NOW.</p> - -<h4>Robt. H. Ingersoll & Bro., Dept. No. 62, 65 Cortlandt St., N. 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Illustrated. -Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1.75.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h4>HARPER & BROTHERS, Publishers, New York</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[Pg 128]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/ill_033.jpg" width="500" height="223" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h3>THE MOON-FAY PORTRAIT-GALLERY.</h3> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">Upon a giant lily-pad the Bull-frog sits at night</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">To have his portrait painted by a cunning little sprite;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">The artist begs him take a pose that gives him greatest ease,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">And every now and then he says, "Look pleasant, if you please."</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Some years ago there lived in England a certain bishop who was extremely -pompous, and very fond of impressing upon the minds of the poorer people -the evil of doing wrong. As they never seemed to do aught but wrong in -the worthy man's opinion, it sometimes became irksome to these people to -hear him constantly admonishing them to do right. One of the bishop's -habits was to visit the miners a short distance from his city, and his -presence grew familiar to these toilers. During one of his calls he -found a group of them talking together, and after a few preliminary -words on his customary subject of doing right, he asked them what they -were talking of.</p> - -<p>"You see," said one of the men, "we found a kettle, and us has been -er-trying who can tell the biggest loi to own the kettle."</p> - -<p>The bishop was duly surprised, and read the men a lecture in which he -spoke of how strongly the offence of lying had been impressed upon him -when he was young, and how he had never told a lie in the whole course -of his life. He had hardly finished when one of the men cried out,</p> - -<p>"Gi'e him the kettle, Jim! Gi'e him the kettle."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>TIT FOR TAT.</h3> - -<p>A British sailor being a witness in a murder case, was called to the -stand, and was asked by the counsel for the Crown whether he was for the -plaintiff or defendant.</p> - -<p>"Plaintiff or defendant?" said the sailor, scratching his head. "Why, I -don't know what you mean by plaintiff or defendant. I come to speak for -me friend," pointing to the prisoner.</p> - -<p>"You're a pretty fellow for a witness," said the counsel, "not to know -what plaintiff or defendant means."</p> - -<p>Later in the trial the counsel asked the sailor what part of the ship he -was in at the time of the murder.</p> - -<p>"Abaft the binnacle, me lord," said the sailor.</p> - -<p>"Abaft the binnacle?" replied the barrister. "What part of the ship is -that?"</p> - -<p>"Ain't you a pretty feller for a counsellor," said the sailor, grinning -at the counsel, "not to know what abaft the binnacle is!"</p> - -<p>The court laughed.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>EASILY SATISFIED.</h3> - -<p>There was once a mandarin who was excessively fond of jewels, and always -walked abroad with his robe covered with the sparkling gems. One day he -was accosted by an old bonze, who, following him through the street, -bowed himself often to the ground and thanked the mandarin for his -jewels.</p> - -<p>"What does the man mean?" cried the mandarin, in great alarm. Then -addressing the bonze, he said, "I never gave you any jewels, man!"</p> - -<p>"No," replied the bonze, "but you have let me look at them, and that is -all the use you can make of them yourself, so there is no difference -between us, except that you have the trouble of guarding them, a task I -should not care for."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>In a book of travels written by a Mr. Barrow we find this interesting -bit of information. A Hottentot was seen to apply the short end of his -wooden tobacco-pipe to the mouth of a snake when the reptile was darting -out its tongue. Death was instantaneous, the effect almost like an -electric shock; with a convulsive motion that lasted only for a moment -the snake half untwisted itself, and then became still. And upon -examination the muscles were found to be so contracted that the snake -felt as hard as if it had been dried in the sun.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Frederick the Great of Prussia used to tell a laughable story of an -experience of his own. During one of his campaigns in Silesia, he made -it his habit to stroll through his camp in disguise at night, to come -more in touch with his soldiers. One night he was stopped by a sentry, -but, giving the proper password, was permitted to proceed. Instead of -doing so, however, he endeavored to tempt the sentry into accepting a -cigar, saying that a smoke would solace his long watch.</p> - -<p>"It is against the rules," said the soldier.</p> - -<p>"But you have my permission," said Frederick.</p> - -<p>"Your permission!" cried the soldier. "And who are you?"</p> - -<p>"I am the King."</p> - -<p>"The King be hanged!" said the incorruptible sentry. "What would my -Captain say?"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>AN EMBARRASSING REQUEST.</h3> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/ill_034.jpg" width="500" height="326" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">"<span class="smcap">Will you kindly lend us your brush for a moment, Sir -Reynard? You know a beaver never looks neat unless well brushed</span>."</span> -</div> - -<p style="clear:both;"> </p> - -<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> Begun in <span class="smcap">Harper's Round Table</span> No. 888.</p></div></div> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Round Table, December 1, 1896, by Various - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S ROUND TABLE, DEC 1, 1896 *** - -***** This file should be named 60027-h.htm or 60027-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/0/0/2/60027/ - -Produced by Annie R. 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