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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, February 9, 1897 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: November 13, 2019 [EBook #60681] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S ROUND TABLE *** - - - - -Produced by Annie R. McGuire - - - - - - - - -[Illustration: HARPER'S ROUND TABLE] - -Copyright, 1897, by HARPER & BROTHERS. All Rights Reserved. - - * * * * * - -PUBLISHED WEEKLY. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1897. FIVE CENTS A -COPY. - -VOL. XVIII.--NO. 902. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. - - * * * * * - - - - -[Illustration] - -A WILD DAY IN '48. - -BY WILLIAM BLACK. - - -There was a vague apprehension in the air; every one appeared conscious -that something was about to happen, though no one seemed to know -precisely what; and so, as childhood is naturally curious, the writer of -these lines, being then of the age of seven, managed to escape from the -house unobserved, out into the great murmuring town. Half-frightened -glances turned towards the east were a kind of guidance; and in that -direction he accordingly wandered, until he came in sight of a -crowd--not a beautiful, richly colored, processional crowd such as might -have gone through the streets of Florence in mediæval times, with boy -choristers chanting, and maidens carrying palms, but a black and grimy -and amorphous assemblage of men, silent, in deadly earnest, who at the -moment were engaged in tearing down the tall iron railing surrounding -Glasgow Green, in order to secure weapons for themselves. And this small -person of seven thought that he too must be up and doing. The others -were wresting these enormous bars from their soldered sockets; why -should not he also be furnished with an implement of destruction? And so -he tugged and pulled and struggled; and yet the iron bar, about thrice -as high as himself, remained obdurate; and again and again he pulled, -and dragged, and vainly shook; in the midst of which determined -endeavors a hand was swiftly laid on his arm, and a young Highland lass -(her eyes jumping out of her head with terror), who had been wildly -running and searching all over the neighborhood, dragged away the young -rebel from the now marshalling crowd. Perhaps the alarm in her face -impressed him; at all events he meekly yielded. That was not the usual -expression of her face--when she was telling marvellous tales of -children being carried away by eagles and brought up in a nest on a -crag; the heroine of these various adventures, I remember, was called -Angel; and whatever else happened to her, in the end her constancy, and -virtue, and beauty were invariably rewarded by a happy marriage. - -But now the surging mass of rioters came along, each man of them with -one of those long spikes over his shoulder; and the trembling Highland -lass, still clinging tightly to her charge, shrank hiding into an -archway, and tried to conceal the child with her substantial skirts, -till the man-eating ogres should go by. "Willst du nicht aufstehn, -Wilhelm, zu schauen die Prozession?" some one might have asked--but not -this Highland girl, who was doubtless thinking (in Gaelic) that the -people who dwelt in cities were capable of dreadful things. Well, when -one did peep out, there was not much to see--at least, nothing -picturesque to attract the wondering eyes of childhood: there were no -flags, no Mænads with flowing hair; nor was there any gesticulation, nor -any attempt at oratory; only this great dark multitude moving on into -the city, with two or three leaders marching in front, these ominously -glancing from right to left, as if to judge where the sacking should -begin. For they had come to sack a city, had these men. There was a talk -at the time of bread riots; and no doubt there was a great deal of -distress prevailing, as there generally is; and presumably there was a -considerable proportion of these demonstrators honestly protesting -against a social system that did not provide them with work. But it was -not loaves the instigators of this movement were after, as events -showed; rather it was silver teapots, and diamond brooches, and silk -umbrellas--in short, a general partitioning of property; and of course -there were plenty of vagabonds and ne'er-do-weels only too ready to fall -in with that entrancing idea. - -By what secret and devious ways the Highland lass managed to get herself -and her captive back to our home in the Trongate--the historic Trongate -of the ancient city of Glasgow--I cannot now say; but she must have been -clever and smart about it; for when one at length reached the eagerly -thronged windows, it was found that the fun in the thoroughfare below -was only beginning. The whole thing looked strange. Musgrave the -gunsmith (his sign was two gold guns crossed) was the first to put up -his shutters. Perhaps the police had warned him that the rioters would -make straight for his premises, to seize arms and ammunition, though, to -be sure, there was not a policeman anywhere visible. No; what was -visible was a great, swarming, tumultuous assemblage of men and lads -who, at a signal from their leaders, had become stationary in front of a -silversmith's shop. The silversmith, like the rest of his neighbors, had -hurriedly shut and locked up his shop on hearing of the approach of the -mob; but that did not avail him much. Another signal was given. -Volunteers rushed forward, and proceeded with their long iron pikes to -batter in the panels of the door. Then a hole was made. Then one man -stooped and crawled in and opened the door from the inside. The curious -thing was that the crowd did not now rush into the shop. Perhaps some -instinct told them that they would instantly block up the place, and -would thus escheat themselves of the spoils of victory. There was a -cheer, doubtless, when the panel was hammered in--a long, hoarse, -raucous cheer; but the mass held back; only the leaders entered; and for -a few moments there was a dumb expectancy. - -What now followed was one of the most singular scenes that any small boy -of seven ever set eyes upon. From the wide-opened door flashing white -things came flying out; high above the heads of the crowd they came; but -as they descended a forest of straining arms and hands received them; -and there was cheer after cheer as the plunder went on. It did not -matter what it was: silver fish-knives, coffee-pots, biscuit-boxes, -cruet-stands, opera-glasses--out they came flying to fall into this or -that one's clutch; and again and again the hoarse roar of exultation -went up, even from those who could not get near enough to share. These -people with the upstretched arms appeared to have no fear whatever of -getting their heads cut open by an electro-plated salver, a drawing-room -lamp, or a brass candlestick. Out the missiles came; and the covetous -fingers grabbed here and there; and the fierce tumult of applause ebbed -and flowed. Where were the police? Well, there did not seem to be any -police. It is true, a number of special constables had been hastily -sworn in (my eldest brother was one of them, and according to his own -account performed prodigies of valor); but they could not be everywhere; -and meanwhile the poor silversmith's goods were being catapulted out to -those clamorous upstretched hands. - -Of a sudden a new feature appeared in this changing panorama. Ten or a -dozen men (I think they wore some sash or badge of office, but I am not -positive on this point) who seemed to have dropped from the clouds were -jamming their way through the dense multitude; and when at length they -had reached the pavement in front of the silversmith's shop, they began -to lay about them lustily with their staves, each blow falling -vertically on several heads at once. In Egypt I have seen an old Arab -sheik do precisely the same thing, when his young men had become unruly. -And in neither case was there the slightest resistance to constituted -authority. This great mass of people could have turned upon the handful -of special constables and rent them in pieces; but they did not; they -tried in a kind of way to move on, though by this time all the central -thoroughfares of the city were blocked, and a man who has a cruet-stand -or a silver dish-cover concealed under his coat cannot glide easily -between his neighbors. Whether the constables succeeded in arresting any -of the ringleaders at this particular spot, I cannot recollect; but all -the afternoon came wilder and wilder stories of chases, and captures, -and seizures of booty. My brother was personally conducting a party of -five of the rioters to the police-station, through a very bad -neighborhood, when they turned on him, tripped him, and threw him down. -But he was up again in a moment, with the cursory declaration that if -any one of them advanced a step towards him, or attempted to escape -either, he would forthwith split his, the thief's, skull in two. And -what is more, he would have done it; for he was a powerful man; and he -had a drawn truncheon; and he was never at any time a slave to -punctilio. I forget the number of gold and silver watches found in the -possession of these rascals. - -But now the great event of the day, to the imagination of childhood, at -all events, was approaching; for the bruit was gone abroad that the -cavalry had been ordered in from their suburban barracks to ride through -the streets and disperse the mob, and put an end to any lingering -lawlessness. Plundering in the main thoroughfares had by this time -mostly ceased; for the chief ringleaders had been arrested and haled off -to the police-stations; while the worst of their followers roamed about -in a surreptitious way, seeking what they could devour, rather than -daring openly to attack the shuttered shops. The central parts of the -city still remained congested, notwithstanding the reading of the Riot -Act; for many simple country folk had wandered in, perhaps out of -curiosity, perhaps anxious about their relatives; and of course they -could not well get about, because of the crush. Altogether they formed a -restless, half-frightened, elbowing, and struggling crowd; but it was a -sombre crowd--especially as the dusk of the afternoon drew on to -twilight; so that the delight of one small spectator may be imagined -when there appeared in the distance a fringe of color--a splendor of -uniforms--the glint of helmet and drawn sabre--the prancing of horses. -And now began a wild hurry-and-scurry, the people surging against -themselves in their frantic efforts to get free, a chaos and confusion -impossible to describe. On came the dragoons, pressing against this -nebulous mass of humanity, sparing the women as well as they could, but -riding down the men--especially where any disposition was shown to form -defiant groups--and striking right and left with the back of their -swords. It was all very picturesque and splendid--to one youthful -onlooker--here in the gathering gloom: the flash of brass and steel, the -clink-clank of bridle and scabbard, the fleeing of fugitives, the pawing -and rearing of reined-in chargers where a group of terrified women found -themselves incapable of retreat. Why, it was better than the fight with -Apollyon in the _Pilgrim's Progress_; for that was only a picture, in -flaming red and yellow colors; whereas this was full of movement and -change; and a certain dim fascination of fear. And so the dark came -down; and the gases in the house were lit; but out there the dragoons -were still riding hither and thither through the night, pursuing and -dispersing, with a rattle of horses' hoofs on the stony street. - -What happened next was remarkable enough. The fact is, you cannot at a -moment's notice drive a welded crowd out of a long and narrow -thoroughfare. It is not to be done; and in this case it was not done; -for the people, seeing their neighbors here and there knocked over by -the horses or slapped on the shoulder by those gleaming blades, -forthwith fled pell-mell into the adjacent "closes," lanes, archways, -and common stair-cases, which were very speedily choked up. To all -outward seeming, the pavements and the causeway, now dimly visible under -the yellow light of the street lamps, had been swept clear; but none the -less the Trongate held all these innumerable huddled and hiding groups -of frightened folk, as we were soon to know. For, through some accident -or another, the outer door of our house chanced to be opened for a -second, and instantly there burst into the lobby and into the rooms a -whole number of women, panting, shaking, haggard-eyed, and speechless. - -They made no apology for taking possession of a stranger's dwelling, the -simple reason being that in their agony of alarm they were incapable of -uttering a word; they did not know what they were doing or where they -were; they were entirely bereft of their senses. A friend of mine who -was through a long war (I do not mention his nationality, for fear of -wounding patriotic sensitiveness) told me that on one occasion, after an -unexpected reverse, the regiment in which he served was seized by a -perfectly ungovernable panic; there was no withstanding the infection of -this madness; the whole lot of them, himself included, took to their -heels, and ran, and ran, and ran, hour after hour, until they flung -themselves exhausted on the floor of any barn or shanty that chanced to -be on their way; and then there was never more than ten minutes' sleep -to be snatched, for one or other of them was sure to spring up with the -cry, "They're coming!" and off they would set again, in hysterical and -insensate flight. It would seem as if a regiment had a nervous system -just as a human being has, and that either may find it fail at a -critical moment, until reason reasserts itself. I remember regarding -with the greatest curiosity these unaccountable visitors who had invaded -our home. Decent-looking, respectably-dressed women they were, who -obviously had had no more to do with the riot than the man in the moon; -most likely they had never heard of such a thing as a Riot Act; but here -they were imprisoned, their voice and wits alike gone from them, and no -means possible to them of communicating with their friends. Not any one -of them appeared to know any other of them. Some stood in the middle of -the dining-room, seemingly unable to move another step, pale, trembling, -distraught; one or two had sunk helplessly into chairs; one or two were -looking out from the windows at the terrors from which they had just -escaped, their scared eyes following the clanking up and down of the -dragoons, the charging of the horses, the escape of this or that -guilty-conscienced runaway along the dark and gas-lit street. And what -was to be done with these paralyzed and speechless guests, when once -they had partially come to themselves? Among the elder members of the -family I gathered there was some talk of our being able to pass them -through the lines of the soldiery when our special constable should -return; but no one knew at what hour his multifarious duties might be -over. Well, that is all I can relate of this peculiar situation of -affairs, for now I was taken off to bed; and at what hour, and under -what escort these tremulous fugitives were conveyed past the lines of -military occupancy I cannot determine. Altogether it was a wild and -memorable day, and many and wild and wonderful were the tales thereafter -told of it; so that, for the time being, in the case of one small -listener, his old friends the Giants Pope and Pagan, Robinson Crusoe and -Friday, and even the eagle-captured children of the far West Highlands -were quite put into the shade. - - - - -MILADY'S CAST-OFFS. - - - I found a garment yesterday - A-lying on the hills; - 'Twas rare with radiant coloring - And rich with gleaming frills: - A skirt of crinkled golden-rod - And purple-aster sleeves, - A belt of burning cardinals, - A mantle of brown leaves, - And a bodice of the laces - That the dandelion weaves. - - A bonnet trimmed with thistle-blooms - Was lying not far off, - And sandals made of birchen bark - Were satin--brown and buff; - And dainty, dainty mittens - Were lying here and there, - Grown by the loving sumach-tree - For hands both small and fair, - With other witching trinkets that - A woodsy nymph might wear. - - I touched the garments tenderly - As they were lying there, - And longed to see the maiden who - Such finery did wear; - So roaming through the woodland dale, - And searching every nook, - I paused at last to listen - To the prattle of the brook, - And all the pretty tale he knew - Just like a little book: - - These were the gorgeous autumn robes - Of Nature not long since, - But now she'll dress in gems and white, - For she's to wed a prince-- - The wondrous, jolly Winter Prince, - Fast coming from the north, - His heralds speeding on the wind, - Their trumpets shouting mirth; - And soon a snow-white wedding-feast - Will spread all o'er the earth. - - SARAH STIRLING MCENERY. - - - - -GORGONZOLA, THE AUTHOR. - -BY JOHN KENDRICK BANGS. - - -It was upon the occasion of my second visit to Schnitzelhammerstein on -the Zugvitz that my friend Hans Pumpernickel, who, as some of you may -remember, is the Mayor of the queer old city, let me into the secret of -poor old Gorgonzola's embarrassing situation. We were taking one of our -usual summer-evening walks on the banks of the Zugvitz, and on our way -back to Hans's residence we passed a gloomy-looking old house on the -right-hand side of the Hochstrasse, near the public gardens. With the -exception of a dim light which struggled through a window on the top -floor, the mansion was in utter darkness, and was, in fact, in such -strong contrast to the general air of cheerfulness which is one of the -strongest attributes of this broad avenue that I remarked it. - -"Dear me!" I cried, as I stood before it. "What a place of gloom! It -reminds me of a small black cloud on an otherwise perfect sky. Who lives -there?" - -"It is the home of poor old Gorgonzola, the author," said Hans, shaking -his head sadly. "The light you see is from his study--his den. It is -there that he is at work." - -I did not like to confess my ignorance by telling Hans that I had never -heard of Gorgonzola, the author. For all I knew, Gorgonzola, the author, -might be one of the features of the town, and so, wishing neither to -betray my ignorance nor to offend my kindly host, I said: - -"Oh! Really? How interesting!" - -At this remark Hans threw his head back and laughed. "Is it so?" he -said. "Indeed, now, how interesting do you find it?" - -"Well," I replied, after some hesitation, "we have a word in our -language which expresses it. 'Quite' is the word. I find it quite -interesting, though, to tell you the truth, my dear Mr. Mayor, I never -heard of Herr Gorgonzola before. In our country almost every town of -importance has an author of which it is proud, and it was only my desire -to be tactful that kept me from asking, when you mentioned Gorgonzola, -who on earth he was. The fact that I never heard of him does not prove -that he is not a great man. What has he written?" - -"Nothing--practically nothing. He hasn't even written a poem for the -Schnitzelhammerstein _Blaetter_." - -"Then why do you call him an author?" I asked. - -"Because," Hans replied, naïvely, "every man has to do something, and -poor old Gorgonzola is nothing else. Besides, he called himself that." - -There was a pause. I was more or less baffled to know what to say, and -in accordance with the old German maxim, "When you nothing have to say -already, do not say it yet," I deemed it well to keep silent. -Fortunately, before the silence that followed became too deep, -Pumpernickel himself put in with, - -"He did not want to call himself an author, but he had to. You know we -have a Directory here in our city--a great, thick, heavy book--" - -"Which he wrote?" I suggested, desiring to say something, for I had in -mind that other old proverb, "He who says nothing, has nothing to say; -and having nothing to say, therefore thinks nothing in his brains." - -"Not at all, not at all," cried Hans, impatiently. "He merely let them -use his name in it for completeness' sake. You see, it was this way," -the Mayor continued. "When Bingenburg and Rheinfels went to our Board of -Trade and said let us get up the Directory of this city, the Board of -Trade said: 'Donner and Blitzen! not unless you make it complete. The -last Directory was full of addresses that no one wished to know, and had -none that would help a stranger to our town.' - -"'We will make it complete,' said Bingenburg and Rheinfels. 'There shall -be no living soul in Schnitzelhammerstein on the Zugvitz whose name and -occupation and domicile shall not be down in full.' - -"'Then,' said the Board of Trade, 'you may make the Directory, but if we -find one name left out, or without an occupation and an address, then -will we not only not endorse your Directory, but we will say it is bad, -and advise the citizens of this town not to go to those addresses which -you print.' - -"'We will do our best,' said Bingenburg and Rheinfels. - -"'That's good,' replied the Board of Trade. 'Go ahead. What we have -feared from experience is that you would do your worst.' - -"And so," continued Hans Pumpernickel to me, "these persons were -commissioned to prepare a Directory for Schnitzelhammerstein on the -Zugvitz. They went ahead and got most everybody. In their original -manuscript, submitted to the Board of Trade, they had entries like this: -'Hans Blumenthal, baby, Altgeldstrasse, 19 bis.' They had 'Gretchen -Frorumelstine, doll-fancier, 4612 Funf Avenue'--in fact, they had every -single human being in town, by name and by occupation, however trivial, -mentioned. - -"Now, of course, to do this they had to see everybody, and among others -they saw poor old Gorgonzola, and he willingly gave them his address and -his name. - -"'But your occupation?' said the agent, instructed beforehand already. - -"'I have none,' said he. - -"'Then we put you down as "Wilhelm Gorgonzola, nothing,"' said the -agent. - -"'But I am not nothing,' cried Gorgonzola. - -"'Then what are you--a butcher?" said the agent. - -"'You are insulting,' said Gorgonzola, indignantly. - -"'We may be, but we do not intend to be,' said the agent. 'The man who -is nothing is nothing; if he is not nothing, he is something else. -Therefore you may be a butcher.' - -"'You cannot have my name at all, then,' said Gorgonzola, with an angry -wave of his hand. - -"'Oh yes, we can,' replied the agent. 'Your name is here. Therefore we -have your name and address. Your occupation is what we wish to learn. If -you are not occupied, we will put you down as "vacant," or "to let," or -as "nothing." We are under contract to the Board of Trade to give them a -complete Directory, and we intend to do so. What, then, are you?' - -"'Well, you see,' said Gorgonzola, desperately, 'as yet I am nothing, -but I hope to be an author--' - -"'And how soon do you hope to be an author?" asked the agent. - -"'It may come at any time--to-morrow, or the next day--or the day -after--' - -"'Oh, well, then, it is all right already,' put in the agent, 'for our -Directory will not be out before that. Under no circumstances can we -have it ready before to-morrow, or the next day, or the day after. I -will therefore put you down as an "author," for doubtless you will be -one before our Directory is published.' - -"To this," Hans continued, "poor old Gorgonzola weakly consented. You -see, he fully expected to be one before the Directory came out; but, -alas! he was too hopeful. The day of publication arrived, and as yet he -had not written a line. He sent word to Bingenburg and Rheinfels, and -begged them to wait a month; but they said no, they would wait ten days -and no longer. - -"'But I have not yet even an idea for my book,' said Gorgonzola. - -"'That is not our fault,' replied Bingenburg and Rheinfels. 'You have had -six months in which to become an "author"; we grant you ten days more. -If you are not one by that time, our Directory will have to come out, -anyhow, and inasmuch as we have your authorization to put you down as -such, we shall require that you shall be one at least in name by then, -for we have promised that the book shall have no errors. If we get into -trouble with the Board of Trade on your account, then shall we sue you -for the damages!'" - -"The poor old fellow," said I, my sympathy aroused. - -[Illustration: BINGENBURG CAME IN PERSON TO SEE HIM.] - -"It was a dreadfully hard position for him, no doubt," said Hans; "but, -after all, it was his own fault, and has been so ever since. When the -ten days were up, Gorgonzola had even yet not an idea, much less a book, -and Bingenburg came in person to see him. Gorgonzola begged him to blot -out the word author, but neither he nor Rheinfels would go to the -expense, and they threatened that if he ever denied that he was an -author, in public or in private, they would ruin him. 'It is all your -own doings,' said Rheinfels. 'We would gladly have put you down as a -butcher, or a baker, or anything else that is easy to be, and you would -not let us. We offered to put you down as a nothing, and you grew angry, -and it was yourself that said you expected to be an author before our -Directory came out, and we put you down so with your consent. Now our -Directory has cost us five thousand thalers to make, and if one mistake -is found therein the Board of Trade will decline to take it off our -hands, and we shall lose all that money; and so it comes that you have -got to keep your promise to us and be what you said you would.' - -"'I see,' moaned Gorgonzola; 'I cannot blame you, Rheinfels. But it is -awfully hard.' - -"'It would have been easier to be a butcher, but you would not,' put in -Bingenburg. - -"'I know, I know,' said Gorgonzola, 'but I hate butchering.' - -"'Well, anyhow,' said Rheinfels, 'the entry is going to attract -attention, and the Board of Trade will try to find an error in the book -so that they may not have to pay us, and we want you to understand that -we hold you responsible for this. If they summon you, you must confess.' - -"'Confess?' cried Gorgonzola. 'Confess what?' - -"'That you are an author,' said Rheinfels, calmly. - -"'But suppose they ask me of what?' pleaded Gorgonzola, wringing his -hands. - -"'That is your business, not ours,' retorted Bingenburg and Rheinfels in -one breath, and with that they left him. - -"And so it happened," continued Hans. "The Directory was published, and -the Board of Trade appointed a Committee of Three on Errors, who should -read the book and see if it should be paid for or confiscated. Ten -possible errors were discovered. Nine of them were found not to be -errors, but in the case of Gorgonzola they reported that since he was -not an author there was clearly one error in the book, and that they -therefore recommended the non-acceptance of the Directory. The Board so -decided, and Bingenburg and Rheinfels carried their case to the courts. -The Board of Trade stated that they had rejected the book upon the -agreement in the contract that one error should be sufficient to relieve -them of the payment required, and they had fifty witnesses to say that -Gorgonzola was not an author, but a mild-mannered gentleman who had -struck them as being a querist. - -"'A querist?' asked the Judge. - -"'Yes,' said the witnesses. 'A querist--one who is only queer and -nothing else.' - -"Then Bingenburg and Rheinfels called Gorgonzola as a witness. Poor old -fellow! he felt awfully about it, but he had to testify. - -"'Your name,' said the lawyer. - -[Illustration: HANS JOSEF WILHELM GORGONZOLA, AUTHOR.] - -"'Hans Josef Wilhelm Gorgonzola,' he replied. - -"'A good name for an author,' sneered the lawyer. 'What is your -business?' - -"'I am an author,' said Gorgonzola, with tears in his eyes. - -"'He confesses it! he confesses it!' cried Bingenburg and Rheinfels, -overjoyed, while the Board of Trade looked blue, and the Judge called -the firm to order. - -"'Author of what?' asked the lawyer, triumphantly. - -"Gorgonzola hesitated, and Bingenburg and Rheinfels held their breath. - -"'Of--what I have written,' said Gorgonzola, sadly. - -"'And what is that?' insisted the lawyer. - -"'I cannot tell,' said Gorgonzola, 'because it--it is my secret. If I -told what I have written, some one else might steal it and publish it -over his name, and all my work would be gone for nothing, which is -hardly fair.' - -"'A good point,' said the Judge, nodding pleasantly at Gorgonzola. - -"'But you have never published anything?' said the lawyer in a manner so -impressive as to affect the jury. - -"'No,' said Gorgonzola. 'No, I have never published anything; but that -is because I am not a publisher. If I were a publisher, I should -publish. As I am only an author, I merely authorize.' - -"'Do not authors frequently publish?' asked the lawyer. - -"'Often,' returned Gorgonzola. 'But I am not of that kind. It is said by -some who seem to know that the best books are still unwritten, much less -published. I am writing one of the unwritten and unpublished books.' - -"'Yet you have written something?' suggested the Judge, who admired the -modest demeanor of Gorgonzola. - -"'Yes,' said Gorgonzola. 'I have written the first paragraph of my new -book.' - -"'Then,' said the Judge, 'the entry is correct. If he has written the -first paragraph, or even the first word of his new novel, he is an -author, and I so decide. Next case.' - -"So," said Hans, "it was decided that Gorgonzola was properly entered as -an author on the pages of the Schnitzelhammerstein Directory, and the -Board of Trade was compelled to pay for it. That," Hans added, "was -twenty years ago." - -"As long ago as that, eh?" said I. "And was Gorgonzola's novel published -later?" - -"No," said Hans. "Not yet. You see, he is still at work on it. That is -why you see that dim light from his study window. Gorgonzola begins work -at seven in the morning and retires at midnight. He is still at work on -the novel, but, having written that first paragraph, we of course allude -to him as the Author." - -I laughed again. I had to, though I still had a great sympathy for -Gorgonzola. - -"What was his first paragraph?" I asked, very much interested; "or don't -you know?" - -"Yes, indeed, I know," replied Hans. "He has read it to me many times. -Let's see--it is like this: 'It was a pleasant day in June. The buds -were bursting on the trees, and all nature seemed alive, as Gretchen -walked down the stairs and out into the garden.'" - -"That's a good start," said I. "And tell me, Mr. Mayor, how far has he -got in these twenty years?" - -"He is still at work on his second paragraph," said the Mayor. - -"Well," said I, "there's a good story for you--but, after all, Hans, it -hasn't much of a moral." - -"Oh yes, it has," retorted Hans. "It has a great moral. In fact you -English-speaking people have the very moral well expressed." - -"Indeed," said I, anxiously, "what is that?" - -"First be sure you write, then go ahead," said Hans, simply. - - - - -THE MIDDLETON BOWL.[1] - -[1] Begun in HARPER'S ROUND TABLE No. 898. - -BY ELLEN DOUGLAS DELAND. - - -CHAPTER V. - -Yes, some one was in the room. Theodora felt a little thrill of -excitement as she realized this fact. Was it a robber who had hidden -there? Perhaps, though, it was only one of the servants. She felt almost -disappointed when this thought crossed her mind--a robber would be so -much more uncommon. And yet he might try to kill her; robbers frequently -did such things. She withdrew more into the shadow, and waited. - -Not another sound was to be heard. Brave as she naturally was, Theodora -felt a tremor of fear as she sat there in the silence of the night. She -was quite sure that she had heard something; of that there was no doubt. -She knew with absolute certainty that some one or something alive was in -her aunts' parlor besides herself. - -Should she go and call somebody? No, that would not do, for her aunts -had had too much excitement already. If they knew that a burglar--for it -certainly might be one--was in the drawing-room they would without doubt -scream and faint, and that would be bad for her aunt Joanna, to say the -least. The servants would be useless, for they were all elderly, and -were quite as unstrung as were their five mistresses, and John, the only -man of the household, was ill in his room over the stable. - -The doctor was upstairs, to be sure, but it was early in the night, and -he was in close attendance upon his patient, who was not yet out of -danger. All these thoughts passed rapidly through Teddy's mind, and she -saw that she must act alone. - -"I don't believe a robber would kill a little girl," she said to -herself, "and I will speak to him very politely." - -Her first act was to walk around the room pulling up all the -Venetian-blinds as high as they would go. There were seven windows in -the large room--two at each end, and three on the side that had the two -fireplaces. On the fourth side of the room were two doors, one leading -into the front hall, the other into the back. The parlor occupied the -whole of that side of the main house. The kitchens were in the "L" at -the back, cut off by a door into the hall. - -It required some courage to go from window to window, particularly when -Teddy reached that part of the room whence the sound had come, but she -felt that she must have as much light as possible. Her fingers trembled -as she tried to fasten the cord which held the blinds. Once their -strength failed them, and the slats of the blind fell down with a -terrifying clatter; but she pulled them up again, and wound the cord -firmly about the hook. - -At last the seven shades were up, and the room was as light as the world -without. Only here and there lay a black shadow which might -contain--anything! Teddy then took up her position near the door, that -she might escape should affairs become very alarming, and tried to -speak. At first not a sound came from her. She cleared her throat, and -tried again. - -"Is anybody in this room?" she asked. Only the silence and the shadows -made reply. "I am quite sure some one is," she continued, gaining -courage at the sound of her own voice; "I heard you breathe a little -while ago, and I heard you knock something. If you don't come out I -shall have to go and call Dr. Morton, who is upstairs. He is with my -aunt Joanna, who is very ill. I should lock the parlor doors while I am -gone, so you couldn't get out." - -She thought this was a brilliant inspiration, quite forgetting the seven -windows within easy reach of the ground. To this long speech, however, -there was no reply. - -"I declare, it is too bad!" went on Teddy. "I do think you might say -something. I won't let any one hurt you, and if you are a robber I'll -let you get away as easily as anything, if you'll only come out!" - -She ceased again, and suddenly a voice replied. It sounded so near, and -it was so unexpected--for she had now almost made up her mind that no -one was there, after all--that it made Teddy jump. - -"Do you mean that?" it said. - -"Yes, of course I do," said she, speaking very rapidly, and fixing her -eyes upon the old-fashioned sofa with the high back, whence the voice -seemed to proceed. "Please come out and tell me who you are and what you -want." - -The sofa was placed across a corner, and as Teddy watched it eagerly it -was pushed slightly from behind, and a boyish figure rose against the -wall. There was something about the intruder that seemed familiar to -her, and she stepped forward. - -"Why--why, is it you?" she exclaimed, as the boy climbed over the sofa -and stood in the moonlight. - -"Yes, it's me," was the reply. - -Sure enough, it was Andy Morse, the boy who stoned the kitten. - -"Why, what do you want here?" asked Teddy, all her fear vanishing at -sight of this well-known face. "I am so glad it is you, for, do you -know, I was really afraid it was somebody come to steal something. What -have you come for, and why did you come in such a queer way in the -middle of the night?" - -The boy shuffled his feet, and looked away from her. - -"Is there anything I can do for you?" she continued. - -"Yes," said he, in a hoarse whisper; "I'm awful hungry." - -"Oh, are you? Well, just wait here, and I'll get you something to eat. -Or perhaps you had better come with me, for my aunts don't like to have -eating in the parlor. You might drop the crumbs, you know. I often do. -We'll go out to the kitchen; but first I must find some matches." - -"Here's one," said Morse, diving into his pocket. - -He followed her through the door into the back hall. She could not reach -the gas-burner, so he lighted it for her both there and in the kitchen. -She went to the bread-box and took out a loaf of Catharine's delicious -Graham-bread, and then she went to the refrigerator in the hall and -procured some butter. A pitcher of milk and some cold mutton were also -within reach. These she brought and placed upon the kitchen table, -inviting her guest at the same time to draw up a chair. Then, having -supplied him with a knife and fork, and some cookies which she found in -the store-room, she sat down at the table herself. - -"I am hungry too," she remarked, affably. "I have been up all night, and -I went after the doctor on a bicycle. It makes you awfully hungry to do -so much in the night." - -Her guest made no reply to this, but devoted himself to his supper with -an avidity which left no doubt of his being hungry himself. Every drop -of the milk had disappeared, every scrap of meat upon the mutton bone -had been devoured before he spoke. Then he pushed back his chair. "Thank -you," said he. "I 'ain't had nothin' ter eat since day before -yesterday." - -"Oh!" cried Theodora, "I don't wonder you were hungry! Won't you have -something more? Why, how did it happen?" - -"It happened 'cause I'm tired of askin' folks ter give me somethun when -they don't want ter, and I 'ain't had no money ter pay for it, and yer -can't get nothin' without payin' for it unless yer wants ter get chucked -inter jail. So that is the reason I come here. I thought I'd get ter -jail sooner or later, and I might as well try for somethun big first. -Yer don't much care what yer do when yer as hungry as I was." - -"What do you mean?" asked Teddy. "I don't quite understand what you say -about jail." - -The boy looked at her in silence for a moment or two. "Look ahere," said -he, at last. "I thought I hated yer 'count o' that black eye yer give me -long o' that cat. I 'ain't never been set onter by a girl before, and it -jest made me rippin' mad. I didn't s'pose I'd ever git over it, and I'd -'a' liked ter 'a' paid yer back over and over again, but I feel -diff'runt now. Yer've been mighty perlite, and give me as good a lot o' -victuals as I ever tasted. I feel better, now I've got somethun inside -o' me, and I'm agoin' ter tell yer somethun. I don't believe, after all, -as yer the kind o' girl as would git me inter trouble." - -"Oh no; of course not!" said Teddy, earnestly. "I was very mad at you -that day, for I do think it is perfectly horrible for any one to hurt an -animal. I'm sorry I hurt you very badly, but I may just as well tell you -the truth. You had better never do it again if you see me anywhere near, -for I am sure, perfectly sure, that it would make me just as mad as it -did that day, and I am very much afraid I should attack you the same -way. My aunts did not like my doing it at all, and they said it was -unladylike, and I suppose it was. But oh! you don't know how angry it -makes me to see any one cruel to animals!" - -They were standing facing each other, the little girl in her pretty red -frock, with the mass of tumbled brown hair falling over her shoulders; -the tall ungainly boy in his ragged clothes, twisting his hat in his -hands as he listened to this tirade. When she had finished, he lifted -his eyes and looked at her admiringly. - -[Illustration: "I WON'T STONE NO MORE KITTENS, NOT IF I CAN HELP IT, NOR -PUPPIES NEITHER."] - -"Yer a good one," said he. "I kinder like yer underneath fer it, though -yer did give me a black eye and make me mad. And yer've been that good -ter me ter-night, givin' me such a lot ter eat, that I'm willin' ter -promise yer somethun. I won't stone no more kittens, not if I can help -it, nor puppies neither." - -"Oh, thank you!" cried Theodora, fervently. "I am so much obliged to you -for saying that! Will you really be kind to animals after this? You -don't know what a relief to my mind it is. I have often thought of you -since, and wondered if you were being cruel; and now I shall feel quite -easy about you. The poor kitten died, you know." - -Morse said nothing to this. - -"And we had a funeral," continued Teddy. "That was a dreadful day -altogether, except the funeral. That was nice, but a terrible misfortune -happened to our family that day. But you said you were going to tell me -something. Was it about being kind to animals?" - -"No, it warn't about animals." - -"What was it?" asked Theodora, much interested. - -"Will yer promise not ter git me inter trouble?" he asked again. - -"Of course I'll promise." - -"Then I'll tell yer. Do yer know how I got in here ter-night?" - -"No; I was going to ask you that." - -"Well, yer know when yer went out on the bike?" - -"When I went for the doctor? Yes." - -"Well, I was down near the gate, a-hangin' round, not knowin' what I was -agoin' ter do, and when I seen yer go by, I thinks here's a chance. Most -likely she's left a door open or somethun, and I can git in and git -somethun or other. Yer see, I was so hungry I was ready for anything. -And I found the back door open, and I walked in as easy as anything. I -was afraid to hide in the kitchen, for I heard people movin' round, so I -crep' inter the parlor, for I knew the big sofa there'd hide me." - -"Why, how did you know that?" asked Theodora. "Have you ever been in our -parlor?" - -The boy dropped his eyes again, and again shifted his hat. - -"I jest thought there'd be some place there," said he; "most folks has -sofas." - -"And what were you going to do? Were you going to stay there all night?" - -"I was agoin' ter stay there till the house got quiet, and then I was -agoin' ter make a grab and be off." - -"A grab?" repeated Teddy, wonderingly. - -"Yes, a grab. I was agoin' ter take a lot o' things--them silver things -and some o' the chiny--anythin' I could get." - -"You mean you were going to _steal_ something?" - -"Yes," he said, doggedly. - -Theodora drew a step nearer. - -"Then you were a robber after all!" she said. "I never saw one before. -But oh, I am so sorry it was you! I am _too_ sorry! I was just getting -to like you, because you said you would be kind to animals after this. -Are, you really a robber?" - -"I ain't one yet," said the boy, "and now I dun'no' as I'll ever be one. -I feel kinder diff'runt about it, now I've got somethun inside o' me. I -guess you'd feel like stealin' if yer hadn't had nothin' ter eat since -day before yesterday." - -"I do believe I would," said Theodora, compassionately; "it must be -perfectly awful! But oh, I hope you won't steal anything. It is such a -wicked thing to do. You know there is a commandment entirely about that, -so it must be one of the wickedest things there are. _Please_ don't -steal!" - -"I won't," said Andy Morse. "I feel diff'runt now." - -There was a pause, while Theodora rapidly thought over the situation. - -"What are you going to do to-morrow?" she asked. "How will you get -something to eat then?" - -"Dun'no'. Trust ter luck, I guess." - -"Haven't you any relations?" - -"Only an uncle, and he's drunk most o' the time and won't give me -nothin'." - -"And won't any of your friends give you anything?" - -"'Ain't got none, and I'm tired of askin' people ter give me victuals. -There ain't no one as seems ter want ter. Yer see, I've got a kinder bad -name round here. That's the reason I can't get no work." - -"Wouldn't you like some money?" asked Teddy. "I've got some upstairs I -could very well give you, if you would let me. Then you could buy -yourself something to eat for a few days, at any rate." - -The boy looked at her. "Yer a real good un," said he, after a moment's -grateful pause. "If I had a little money ter git some decent clo'es, I -might git some work somewhere or other. I'd rather be honest if I can, -but a poor shabby-lookin' feller like me don't stand no chance, and -everybody in Alden thinks I'm no good. If I could git away from here, I -might git somethun ter do somewheres else. Do yer really mean yer'd give -me some money?" - -"Of course I do," replied Teddy; "I'll go up and get it now. It's in my -bank. Suppose we put this light out and go back to the parlor; you can -wait for me there." - -They reached the drawing-room door, and Teddy, opening it, motioned to -her guest to go in and be seated. The moonlight still flooded the room, -and it lighted up the old silver snuffers and trays, the tall silver -candelabra which flanked both ends of the two mantel-pieces, and even -Great-grandfather Middleton's gold snuff-box, which was always kept upon -a cabinet in the front of the room. - -"Say!" exclaimed Andy Morse, in a sharp whisper; "ain't yer 'fraid ter -leave me here with all them things? Ain't yer 'fraid I might steal 'em, -after all?" - -"Oh no," said Theodora, following him into the room and closing the -door; "of course not. You just told me you wouldn't steal, that you were -going to be honest, and _of course_ I believe you." - -And then she went out of the parlor and left him alone in the moonlight -with the gold and the silver, and all the priceless china, from the -Middleton bowl down. She was absent about ten minutes. When she returned -she carried a small silk bag in her hand, which she gave to Morse. - -"It is all in there," she said--"all I have. I just emptied my bank -right into that work-bag, for I thought it would be easier for you to -carry the money that way. I don't know how much there is there, but I -think it is about fifteen dollars, for I've been saving it for some -time. It seems heavy, for so much of it is in pennies and five and ten -cent pieces, but I don't believe you will mind carrying it." - -Andy Morse was speechless. He took the bag, shook it, weighed it, looked -at it in the light. Twice he tried to speak, but no words came. - -"Do yer--do yer really mean ter give me all this?" he stammered at last. - -"Certainly I do," replied Teddy. "I only hope it will be enough for you -to get what you want." - -"Look ahere," said Andy; "jest yer listen ter me! I solemnly promise -I'll act straight after this. I won't steal, and I won't hurt no -animals, and I won't do nothin' yer wouldn't like. And if I ever make -enough, I'll pay yer back this money, sure 's I'm alive. I'll count it, -and I'll pay yer back every cent. Do yer believe me?" - -"Yes, indeed I do; but you needn't bother about paying it back, for you -really need it a great deal more than I do." As she spoke her glance -fell upon the Middleton bowl, gleaming in the moonlight. "Before you go, -I want to show you this," she said, moving over to the Chinese table in -the window. - -"This was broken the day--the day the kitten died, and we can't find out -who did it. It is very, very valuable, and all of our family think more -of it than anything else we own, because my great-grandfather brought it -home and gave it to his son, and when my aunts die it is to go to my -father, and then to me. It is never to go out of the family, and now it -is broken, and had to be mended. We can't find out who did it, and it -has given us lots of trouble. My aunts thought at first that I did it, -and sometimes they think so now, I am sure; but I didn't. It makes me so -unhappy to think they don't believe me." She paused for a moment and -gazed at the bowl. Then she continued. "It isn't nice not to be -believed, and that is the reason I am telling you about it. I just -happened to think of it. I want to tell you again that I really and -truly believe you. I don't want you to feel unhappy about that, the way -I do about the Middleton bowl." - -Andy looked at it in silence. Then he turned away. - -"I'm agoin' now," he said. "Good-by. Yer've saved me, and I'll never -forgit it. Would yer please tell me what yer name is?" he asked, shyly. -"Yer first name, I mean. Of course I know yer other name's Middleton." - -"Theodora," said she, "but everybody calls me Teddy, and I like that -best. Good-by! I hope you will be able to get some work. I'm very glad I -came down here to-night. If Aunt Joanna hadn't been so ill I shouldn't -have come. If I can ever do anything else for you, I wish you would tell -me. Please go out the back door, the way you came in, if you don't mind, -for I am afraid my aunts might hear the front door shut, and it would -frighten them." - -She followed him to the back door and watched him walk away in the -moonlight, swinging the bag in his hand. Then she closed the door and -went back to the drawing-room. - -"It must be dreadful to be so hungry," she said, to herself, as she -again stood by the Middleton bowl, "and I'm glad I told him I believed -him. It certainly is dreadful not to be believed." - -[TO BE CONTINUED.] - - - - -A LOYAL TRAITOR. - -A STORY OF THE WAR OF 1812 BETWEEN AMERICA AND ENGLAND. - -BY JAMES BARNES. - - -CHAPTER XVI. - -WHY I NEVER REACHED FRANCE. - -We drew up our horses before the house nearest to the stone pier or -jetty that ran out some hundred feet or more from the shore. On one side -of it was a small dock or basin large enough to give shelter to four or -five fishing-boats about the size of those we call dories in New -England. - -As we dismounted, Monsieur de Brissac gave a halloo, and a figure -appeared in the doorway. I was surprised to see that it was Monsieur de -la Remy. He called back into the room, and a man followed him out and -took our horses. - -"Ah, De Brissac! you're on time as usual, and I see that you have not -forgotten your way," Monsieur de la Remy cried, as he grasped my -patron's elbows in his two hands in a half embrace. Then he bowed to me -without much effusion. "Good-morning, Monsieur le Marquis," was all he -said. - -I had not known that my host of the Gloucester Arms was going to be one -of us, and so expressed my surprise at seeing him. He made no -explanation, but I take it he must have been in London for some time, -and that he had come direct from there, although I had not met him at -any of the routs or parties I had attended. - -"Why should I forget my way, monsieur?" my patron said, laughing, as he -paused on the door-step. "Have I not travelled it every month for three -years?" - -As we entered the house the Marquis de Senez was standing at the door, -and greeted us in his usual reserved way. We were in a large room, and I -noticed the smell of the same kind of tobacco that the sailors use on -shipboard in the English service--a smell that seems to cling to them -and to all of their belongings--but apparently none of the gentlemen had -been smoking. - -"Everything is most propitious," said De Senez, as he brought forward -two chairs from the table. "Dame Fortune smiles on us. But pardon me; -you have not noticed Monsieur de Rembolez." - -It was then that I saw for the first time that there was a figure -sitting back in the dark shadows in the corner of the room. I recognized -the name, and as soon as the man stepped forward into the light of the -single candle, I remembered his face, and that I had seen it in London. -He was a sharp-featured, thick-set man--that is, big as to his chest and -shoulders, but very light and muscular in his underpinning. His eyes -were so black that they appeared all pupils, and his teeth were so large -and even that I believe that he could have bitten a tenpenny nail in two -with them, as his jaw also looked strong as a vise. I did not like the -man, and as I had good cause to remember afterwards, he on his part had -conceived no great affection for me. - -At the mention of my name he merely glanced up and showed his teeth, at -which I was tempted to show mine in return, for the meaning of that -display was rather ambiguous. He was to be the fifth one of the party, -and I am quite sure he was not of Monsieur de Brissac's choosing. - -"It's a good night for the crossing," observed Monsieur de Senez. "Did -you see the lookout on the cliff as you came down?" - -"I doubt not he saw us," retained my patron. "But he probably kept well -hidden. Is everything ready? Is Captain St. Croix here?" - -"Yes, and most of his crew within calling distance," returned the -steel-jawed man, casting a look over his shoulder. - -I saw no door, or anything that would suggest that there was an -adjoining room, for the one we were in occupied the whole ground-floor -of the house; but behind De Rembolez was a tall oak cupboard that -reached almost to the ceiling. There had come a lull in our -conversation; De Senez and the host of the Gloucester Arms were talking -in whispers, and Monsieur de Brissac was engaged in pulling off his -heavy riding-boots. All at once the low grumbling of men's voices in -talk was heard, and then an oath in good seafaring English issued -apparently from the tall cupboard. I fairly jumped as the door of it was -opened outward and a great, black-whiskered man stepped out of it. Then -I saw where the smell of tobacco came from, for the smoke rolled out -with him, and the ember in his long clay pipe was glowing. - -[Illustration: ASTONISHED, I LOOKED PAST HIM, AND SAW THAT THE CUPBOARD -CONCEALED A GOOD-SIZED TRAP-DOOR.] - -Astonished, I looked past him, and saw that the cupboard concealed a -good-sized trap-door; it was open, the top of a ladder extended through -the floor, and the sound of voices came from below. It was a most -ingenious idea. The cellar to which this passageway led was not under -the house, but under the garden at the back of it. The floor of the room -in which we were was made of hard, dry earth, and digging there would -have revealed nothing. - -I found out, by questioning afterwards on the voyage over, that the two -other houses which abutted on the innocent-looking garden also had -passageways that led to the cleverly concealed smugglers' cabin. - -The bewhiskered man was addressed by the company as Captain St. Croix, -but I would bet a new anchor to a ship's biscuit that he was more -English than French, although his accent was fairly good. - -"It looks the night for our purpose, gentlemen," he said. "We have -brewed a punch below. What say you I send for some of it, and we will -pledge a successful passage to the _Hirondelle_, eh?" - -"And destruction to the Corsican upstart," put in he of the beady eyes. - -The Captain gave a halloo down the shaft and ordered some one to bring -up the punch-bowl. At the same time he set about getting us something to -eat from a rough side-board near the fireplace. - -Just as a man's head appeared coming up the ladder there were three -sharp knocks on the door, and a tall fisher-lad in a dripping great-coat -came in. - -"It's thick and raining," he said. "I've seen the lights of the old -boat. She'll be off the point in a few minutes." - -"Then we must bear a hand," said the Captain. "So, gentlemen, let us eat -and drink and dispense with ceremony." - -I was very hungry, and fell to at once, as did the others. In half an -hour we left the shelter of the house, and hurrying down to the dock, we -were all crowded into one of the row-boats. Then pulling away, we headed -against the driving rain through the half-darkness. - -As it was wet when we reached the _Hirondelle_, I followed the four -other gentlemen down into the little cabin, although my love of the sea -was returning so strongly that I was tempted to stay on deck and court a -soaking. - -The little box of a place in which we were sitting was dimly lighted -with a swinging lamp, and as we conversed of the plot and object of our -trip (of which I shall say nothing), I could tell that we were -travelling at a good rate of speed by the rushing and lapping of the -water against the bull. The reason I do not give any full account of the -plot in which I was supposed to be engaged is that I think even now I -should keep it silent, as it concerns neither me nor my story. - -After a time we all fell asleep, most of us in a sitting posture, and I -was the first to awaken. It was between three and four, and still -raining, when I came out of the close musty cabin and breathed the fine -air. I noticed we had shortened sail, and that a man in the bow was -heaving the lead. He did not call out the soundings, but signalled them -to the Captain by motions of his hand. I knew we must be in shoal water, -but in how many fathoms I could not tell. All at once the man at the -wheel threw the lugger up into the wind, and we lay hove to for probably -half an hour. Every one on deck was listening. - -Suddenly the dark shape of a great row-boat could be seen approaching, -and going below into the cabin I aroused the rest of the passengers; De -Rembolez appeared rather nervous. - -Where the lugger put off her cargo I do not know, for as soon as the -five of us had clambered over her side into the row-boat, and Monsieur -De Senez had given a handful of gold to the Captain, the latter stood -off presumably to the southward, while we rowed directly to the east. - -Not a word had been spoken by the rowers or the man at the tiller, and I -was so interested in wondering what next was going to happen that I was -perfectly satisfied to curb my curiosity and ask no questions. I was not -anxious to anticipate, and felt really sad to think that I was soon to -leave M. De Brissac--for what, I knew not. - -We were off the coast between Dunkerque and Gravelines, and I should -judge that the boat had rowed out some seven or eight miles. The men at -the oars looked part Dutch and part French. They were a -villanous-looking set, however, and the fellow at the tiller appeared -little above them in order of intelligence; but while we were pulling -straight ahead, the cockswain suddenly stood up straight in his box. - -"Arrêtez!" he whispered, hoarsely. - -The men backed-water skilfully, but yet such headway did the boat have -on that it required three or four efforts before we came to a stop. -There right ahead of us lay a long white, lapstreak boat, sharp at both -ends. She had pulled directly athwart our bows. Had we been keeping a -sharp lookout we would have seen her long before, as her crew must have -had us in sight for some minutes. One glance at them told me that these -men were not Frenchmen. De Rembolez had stood up almost as soon as the -cockswain, and was looking forward eagerly, but I saw his face change to -a puzzled expression. - -"Les Anglais!" exclaimed the cockswain between his teeth. - -A few strokes of the long oars that the men in the stranger craft -wielded, and she was almost alongside of us. - -"Un pilote," said a voice with an execrable accent and a drawling twang -through the nose. "We want a pilot. Avez-vous un pilote?" - -"We have no pilot for you!" answered Monsieur de la Remy, in good -English. "Keep away from us." - -But what was I doing at this very moment? - -It was with difficulty that I was restraining an inclination to plunge -overboard and strike out for the whale-boat. - -It is almost past believing, but unless my eyes were playing me false, -there stood my old friend Cy Plummer of the _Minetta_, balancing a -boat-hook in his hand. This aside, it would have required but a close -glance at the wiry, strong-knit figures and the keen sharp-featured -faces, for one who knew, to declare that they were no English press-gang -bullies, but Yankee sailor-men. - -I was trying to find my voice, which had left me in my astonishment, but -the nobleman landlord did not notice my condition, and was still -continuing his warning. - -"Come no closer," he said. "At your peril. We have no pilot for you." - -At the same time he drew from the breast of his coat a small -double-barrelled pistol. - -"Who are you and where do you come from?" put in De Rembolez. - -There was evidently some consternation in the white boat at hearing the -sound of English. The men were leaning forward preparing to take a -stroke, and Plummer was evidently perplexed and at a loss what to do, -when I found my tongue. - -"Plummer! Cy Plummer! get me out of this," I cried. - -We were so near by this time that our oars were almost touching, but the -astonishment occasioned on both sides by my sudden outbreak seemed to -paralyze all hands. - -"Who in the name of Davy Jones are you?" Plummer questioned, quickly. - -"John Hurdiss of the _Young Eagle_," I cried, throwing off my cloak. -Just as I was about to dive overboard I felt myself grasped about the -arm. - -It was De Rembolez who had laid hold of me. The words he hissed I did -not catch, but in order to loose myself I drew back my free hand and -caught him a blow fairly between the eyes. He did not relax his hold, -however, and endeavored to throw me into the bottom of the boat. -Although he was a powerful man, he probably did not know much about -wrestling. I had the firmer footing, and twisting him round, I turned -the tables, and was forcing him away from me, when he sank his great -white teeth into the sleeve of my coat. Had he caught my flesh I might -have lost the use of my arm, but as it was he laid hold of the cloth -only, and the sleeve parted at the shoulder; but the little French -cockswain now decided to take a hand, and sprang upon me from behind, -but the result was to my helping. I just remembered hearing the sharp -snapping of Monsieur de la Remy's pistol, which missed fire, when I went -overboard over the gunwale, and with me fell Beady Eyes and the little -cockswain. I came up between the two boats. In the mean time both the -crews were laying about with their oars over my head, and there was a -lusty scrimmage going on. As soon as he felt the water closing over him, -De Rembolez released his hold, but the little 'longshoreman in the -striped shirt still held on, and before I knew it some one grabbed me -and him also, and pulled us both over into the long white boat. Somehow -the combatants had drifted apart, and with a quickness that was -surprising the Yankees had got out their oars and were giving way. - -I scrambled to my feet, and looking over the stern I saw that the other -boat was after us, but they never could have caught us had they been -pulling two men on a thwart. In five minutes they turned about and made -off in the opposite direction. - -"Douse my top-lights!" exclaimed Plummer, leaning forward and smearing -the blood away from a slight wound on the side of his face. "Where, in -the name of goodness, did you come from, lad?" - -"From an English prison, in the first place," I said; "but it's a long -story. Oh, but I will be glad to see our colors again!" - -The French cockswain here interrupted any more questions or explanations -by an effort to jump overboard. - -"Lay hold of him," cried Plummer to the men in the bow. "Hold the -frog-eater!" and in a minute they had pinioned the little Frenchman -down. "Pull, larboard; hold, star-board!" Plummer cried all at once, -jamming the helm down, and I, following the glance of his eye, saw the -outlines of a vessel not five hundred yards away. - -"What ship is that?" I asked. - -"The _Yankee_, privateer," my friend replied. "The luckiest vessel ever -launched--that's honest truth. Oh, we've some yarns to spin, my son, and -so must you, and, ecod! we'll have a time of it. I can scarce believe -that it is you at all, lad. But it's just the sort of a thing I might -expect would happen on a cruise like the one we've had since leaving -Buzzard's Bay." - -"Well, I have had some adventures myself, Plummer," I said. "And in the -very first place, I owe you a debt of gratitude for the loan of the -clothes and cap, my man." - -Now upon my soul I did not mean to be condescending in my speech, but -there must have been something in my tone that caused the honest seaman -to make a change in his. - -"I hope they brought you luck, sir," he said. - -I noticed that he had said "sir" involuntarily. - -"Indeed they did," I returned. "I'll have to tell you all about it." - -But now the bowmen were getting in their oars, and we were close -alongside of a small topsail schooner, as fine a bit of ship-building as -one would wish to see. She was hove to, and the great mainsail was -crackling, and the reef-points keeping up a continuous drumming against -it; and the sound was good to my ears. - -"What have we here?" called a voice over the rail, only a few feet above -our heads. - -"A pilot and a passenger," answered Plummer, fending the whale-boat off -from the side of the schooner with his hands. - -A short rope was thrown over to us, and, laying hold of it, I clambered -over the bulwarks, and came down on deck, where I found myself face to -face with one of the strangest-looking figures that I have met in the -course of my adventures. - -Before me stood a slight stoop-shouldered man, dressed in a blue -broadcloth coat and a long yellow satin waist-coat. He had on a pair of -tight-fitting buckskin breeches thrust into heavy sea-boots. The -expression on his face was the remarkable thing about him. At first I -thought that he was laughing at me, for his light blue eyes had such an -eager twinkling light in them that they appeared to show amusement. His -mouth was parted in a smile, and a continual lifting and lowering of his -eyebrows lent the idea that he considered me or my appearance some huge -joke. - -"Is this the passenger or the pilot?" he asked, lifting a heavy cocked -hat, and giving it a little flourish, as it were, over his head. - -"Neither passenger nor pilot," I replied, "but an escaped prisoner from -England, who is anxious to get a chance to fight for America again. I -was captured from the _Young Eagle_, privateer." - -The man's voice had surprised me. It was as fresh and young as a boy's. -When I mentioned the _Young Eagle_ he made a grimace as if he were about -to whistle, but he changed it to a little rippling laugh. - -"Oh, ho! Temple of Stonington, eh! Such a reckless, careless devil. I -know him. Good sailor, though. So you would ship with us?" - -"Yes, sir," I answered. "And try to do my duty." - -"Oh, we can use you, never fear," the strange man chuckled. "And now -where are we?" - -"Eh?" I ejaculated. - -"What's our latitude and longitude?" he inquired. - -This was a puzzler for me, for I hardly knew one from the other, and -could not have answered. - -"Do you mean to say that you don't know that?" I asked, trying to fend -off answering. - -"I haven't the slightest idea where I am," he answered. "I don't know -whether I'm in the English Channel, the North Sea, or the Bay of -Biscay." - -This was told to me as if it were another huge joke, but I thought it -was a strange condition for the Captain of a vessel to be in. - -"We're off the coast of France," I said, "not far from Dunkerque." - -"Dunkerque?" repeated the Captain. "Ho, ho! that's fortunate." - -At this moment Plummer, with two or three of the crew of the whale-boat, -which was being hoisted in, came aft. They had the little Frenchman, who -looked half frightened to death, with them. - -"Here's the pilot, Captain Gorham," Plummer said, touching his cap. - -The Captain's reply to this, and the effect of it, almost took my breath -away. - -"Ah, Pierre," he said, "c'est donc vous? How is Madame Burron, and the -little ones?" - -The little Frenchman drew back, and then fell at the Captain's feet, -grasping his hand. - -"Ah, Capitaine Rieur, bonne fortune!" he cried, and he mumbled something -I could not catch. - -[TO BE CONTINUED.] - - - - -[Illustration: AN IMPROMPTU HOSPITAL FOR EUROPEANS.] - -CAPTAIN LEARY'S SAMOAN EXPERIENCE. - -SOME STIRRING INCIDENTS IN RECENT AMERICAN NAVAL HISTORY. - -BY FRANKLIN MATTHEWS. - - -On October 23, 1888, there occurred an incident in Apia Harbor, Samoa, -which sorely tried the patience of Commander Leary, in charge of the -United States war-vessel _Adams_, and which soon led directly to other -incidents that nearly caused a war between this country and Germany. The -representatives of the foreign governments had met a few days before, -and had decided that a "neutral zone" should be established in and about -Apia. A party of unarmed natives were crossing the harbor in one of -their canoes, singing one of their stirring native songs. The Samoans -have beautiful voices, and the lusty melody of their song was rolling -across the water. They had just dug up an old and practically worthless -cannon which the Tamasese party in the civil war had thrown overboard. - -[Illustration: A NATIVE WAR CANOE.] - -Suddenly two volleys of rifle-shots and several stray shots were fired -from the German war-ship _Adler_ on the canoe. - -Fortunately none of the party was killed, but the boat was sunk, and the -natives had to swim to the shore to save their lives. Some of the shots -entered houses of foreigners on shore. Leary's blood boiled with anger -that such an occurrence should happen within the neutral zone, that the -war-ship of any nation should fire on a body of unarmed men, and that -Germany should openly take the side of the Tamasese faction in the -presence of another nation's war-ship. He at once sent a vigorous letter -to the Captain of the _Adler_, in which he said: - - "I have the honor to inform you that the hostile attack made last - night in this harbor by an armed force under your command upon a - boat manned by natives, who were harmlessly crossing the harbor, - was an act that seriously endangered the lives of the Americans and - others, afloat and ashore, in the vicinity of Matautu, and cannot - but be regarded otherwise than a most serious affair, coming so - soon after arranging and accepting terms establishing neutral - ground within the limits of which no hostilities should occur, with - a view to securing safety to the foreign residents in and around - Apia. - - "I am unable to understand your action, as the alleged causes of - the attack cannot be accepted as justifying such dangerous and - careless conduct. I shall report the affair to my government as a - gross violation of the principles of international law, and as a - breach of neutrality. - - "For the security of Americans and others within the neutral lines - I protest against the apparently unwarranted attack made by your - men last night, and also against a recurrence of any hostile action - within the harbor, whereby the lives of foreigners and - non-combatants would be jeopardized." - -Leary did as he said he would do, and the records of the Navy Department -show that in his report to the Secretary of the Navy he characterized -this conduct by the Germans as a "most dastardly disregard for the -safety of human life, as well as a cowardly breach of faith and -neutrality." In this connection it may be said that in some cases the -language of Leary's reports was softened when they were transmitted to -Congress. A close examination of the written and printed reports shows -many adjectives and phrases omitted. One can imagine what was omitted. - -[Illustration: THE VAISIGNANO BRIDGE.] - -A few days before the natives were fired upon by the _Adler_'s men -another incident had occurred which showed the spirit that animated -Leary. The Vaisignano bridge that connected the town of Apia with a -suburb where most of the foreigners lived had been partly wrecked by a -storm. Under the inspiration of the German authorities advertisements -had been called for the removal of the bridge. This would have cut the -foreigners off from the town, and have seriously crippled the work in -the offices of the various consuls. It was proposed to establish a ferry -instead of repairing the bridge. Leary saw the notice calling for the -removal of the bridge posted on a tree near the bridge, and without -hesitation tore it down, and sent word to the authorities that that -bridge must not be removed. He then declared that he would repair the -bridge, and protect it, if necessary, while this was being done with an -armed force. Early the next day he lowered some boats from the _Adams_, -and filled them with his sailors and marines fully armed. Then he sent -his carpenters ashore, and they started to repair the bridge. The -commander of the English war-ship in the harbor saw what was going on, -and he also sent carpenters to assist in the work, and that bridge was -never disturbed after that. The English and American residents on the -island afterward co-operated in providing a suitable hospital for the -wounded in the Samoan fights, and in caring for them. - -By this time there was a state of almost open hostility between the -German and American war-ships. The great crisis came on November 15, -1888. About seven miles from Apia the forts of the Tamasese party and -the Mataafa party faced each other on property that was clearly under -American protection. The Mataafa party had received notice from the -Germans to vacate the place or take the consequences. Mataafa hastily -sent a runner to Captain Leary and informed him of the situation. He -asked for advice. Leary sent word that he had a right to remain where he -was, giving him some simple information in international law. Leary also -said that he would not permit the German war-ship to fire on property -under his protection. - -Leary received his information about dusk on November 14. The _Adler_ -was to start out the next morning just before daybreak. Leary at once -sent word to all of his officers who were ashore to report on board the -ship by midnight, and to ask no questions. He knew that the Germans -expected to steal a march on him, and were watching him to see if he had -steam up. Had they seen smoke coming out of the smoke-pipes of the -_Adams_ they would have probably postponed the proposed attack until -some time when they might catch Leary napping. He was ready for them. He -had some anthracite coal on board. He transferred some live coals from -his galley fire to the furnace under one boiler of the ship, and by -using hard coal had a fire started there without attracting the -attention of the Germans. It was slow work. When the fire was going well -under the first boiler, he transferred live coals to another boiler, and -then to another, and soon after midnight had full steam up on board the -ship. The Germans, who always kept steam up, had not the slightest -inkling of Leary's action. - -Then Leary had his anchor-chains muffled with native mats, and waited -for the outcome. All hands were summoned at four o'clock in the morning. -Soon the anchors of the German ship were drawn up. Leary shortened his -anchors. At last the German vessel with a rush started out of the -harbor. Leary's anchors were up in a jiffy. He didn't stop to take in -the hawser holding his ship to a pier by the stern. He fastened one end -of the rope to a buoy and threw it overboard. Leary was pointed straight -out to sea. The German Captain had to make a turn to get out. By the -time the _Adler_ reached the entrance to the harbor the _Adams_ was -close behind. The Germans saw the real situation at once. There was -great excitement on board both vessels, but the Germans would not -compromise themselves by turning back. - -As the two ships, which were about equally matched in size and in -fighting strength, reached the open sea, Leary was in the rear only a -few hundred yards. The German vessel took a wide turn, and headed for -the point of attack. Day was breaking then. Leary made a short turn -close to the coral reefs, and cut in between the German and the shore. -His boat lapped the stern of the German vessel, only about three hundred -yards away. Suddenly the orders to clear for action were heard -throughout the American ship. All preparations had been made for this, -and with despatch the decks were cleared, ammunition was brought up, and -the guns were loaded. The Germans saw what was going on, and they -cleared for action also. Then the two ships went down the coast, dipping -to the swells, and stripped for war. It was a trying occasion, and both -commanders knew what tremendous results were dependent upon the outcome -of their actions that day. Steadily the ships held their course. When -they approached the point where the forts were situated, the German ship -slowed up and dropped anchor. Leary did the same. It was broad daylight -now. Soon a boat was lowered from the German ship, and some German -officials were sent ashore under a guard. Then it was that Leary ordered -one of his boats cleared away to carry this note of warning to the -Captain of the German ship, which Leary had written on the way down and -after both ships had cleared for action: - -[Illustration: "I AM HERE FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROTECTING THE SAME."] - - "I have the honor to inform you that having received information - that American property in the Latogo vicinity of Laulii, Lotoanuu, - and Solo Solo is liable to be invaded this day, _I am here for the - purpose of protecting the same_, and I hope that the friendly - relations existing between our respective governments may prevent - the occasion from causing any complaint." - -The American officer was rowed over to the German ship and gave the note -to the officer of the deck, and returned without waiting for any reply. -Then the crews of the two vessels stood by their guns for hours waiting -for developments. Leary's note was polite and firm; but when such a note -is sent from the commander of one war-ship to the commander of another -war-ship, and when the decks of both ships are cleared for action, it -can mean but one thing--war. Leary meant that no shot should go over his -deck into the settlement on shore. For several hours the two ships lay -at anchor, with the crews waiting to spring at each other. Soon after -noon the Germans got under way again, and made a long detour down the -coast, with the Americans close behind, and still ready for battle. Then -slowly the German vessel turned about and steamed for Apia Harbor. Leary -followed with his ship. Both came to anchor in the places from which -they had started early in the day, and that incident, laden with -frightful possibilities for two great nations, was ended. - -Leary was ordered home soon afterward, and it is known that he received -the personal thanks from our officials in the highest seats of -government. The strangest part of the affair, however, is the fact that -no official notice was ever taken of his splendid determination to -uphold the honor of the American flag. Leary's friends say that he has -not so much as a piece of paper to show from the Navy Department that he -ever stood up for the honor of the flag in so signal a manner in Samoa. -Congress passes votes of thanks to men who are conspicuous in saving -life on the high seas. Congress never passed a vote of thanks to Leary. -I need not go into the reasons for this apparent neglect. If republics -are ungrateful, it may be said that Leary never asked for any such -action, nor even desired it. He had performed his sworn duty, and that -was sufficient for him. He was probably the youngest officer in the navy -ever called upon to perform such a responsible task, and if there seemed -to be envy on the part of those older and of higher rank in the service, -"Dick" Leary went his way modestly, and asked for no public recognition -of his services. - -His native State, however, Maryland, could not let such a display of -patriotism go unrewarded, and the Legislature voted him a handsome gold -watch. It was presented to him in the presence of a brilliant company at -the State Capitol. The national government kept silent officially, -however, and that silence has never been broken. - -Leary probably cares least of all for this apparent oversight. It has -been given to few officers in the American navy to write, - -"I AM HERE _for the purpose of protecting the same_." (American -property.) - -That is Leary's reward. It is enough for him to know that he did his -duty, and that the people respect him for it. As Americans, we are proud -of certain sentiments uttered by those who have worn our country's -uniform in time of war. "Don't give up the ship!" still rings in the -ears of all patriotic citizens. "If any man hauls down the flag, shoot -him on the spot!" still inspires and thrills us. With these, and other -sentiments like them, I wish to write Leary's declaration, - -"I AM HERE _for the purpose of protecting the same_." - - - - -WOOD-CARVING. - -BY J. HARRY ADAMS. - - -A knowledge of drawing and modelling will be very helpful to the young -carver, as the outline of ornament can be readily drawn, while to carve -objects from wood the art of modelling form is most desirable and -essential to obtain a satisfactory result. - -If the beginner possesses a knowledge of form acquired by drawing and -modelling, then the art of wood-carving can be readily and quickly -mastered; but even if these advantages should be lacking, it is possible -that considerable progress can be made by those who will follow the -instructions given on these pages. - -The most important feature of carving is the ability to sharpen and -maintain the little tools, and when this is mastered, more than half the -difficulty has been overcome. Carving-tools can be purchased at most any -large hardware store, and as there are a great many shapes and styles of -edges to select from, a few suggestions will give a clear idea of -necessary ones to begin with. - -At the start a numerous assortment of tools will not be necessary, as -the flat-work will meet with the best success at the hands of the -beginner. Six or eight chisels will constitute a good set, and those -shown in Fig. 3 will answer very well. - -No. 1 is a plain flat chisel with a straight edge, commonly called a -firmer. No. 2 is a flat one also, with an angle or oblique edge, and -commonly called a skew firmer. Nos. 3 and 4 are flat and extra flat -gouges, while No. 5 is an ordinary gouge with a half-circular sweep. No. -6 is a grounder, or bent back ground tool, and is very useful for -reaching when a flat tool cannot. No. 7 is a "quick gouge," in the form -of a U, and No. 8 is a V gouge, a very handy tool for cutting the veins -in leaves and in "chip-carving." - -A flannel or felt case should be made for the tools, so they may be -kept nicely. The case can be made to roll up, and provided with pockets -into which the tools are slipped. - -The stones needed on which to sharpen the tools will be an ordinary flat -oil-stone, and two Turkey or Arkansas slips six or eight inches long, -having the shape of those shown in Fig. 2, A and B. C is the flat stone, -and every boy who carries a good pocket-knife should be provided with -one on which to sharpen the blades. - -The other tools necessary to complete the kit will be several clamps -similar to the one shown in Fig. 2; also a glue-pot, and a fret-saw like -the one depicted in Fig. 2. - -The boy who possesses a bracket or jig saw, however, will not need the -fret-saw, as more and better work can be done with it than with the hand -affair. - -A carver's bench on which to work is of course the greatest necessity; -but if it is not possible to get one, a good wooden-top kitchen table -will answer very well. - -The proper kind of a bench gives greater facility for working; it is -more convenient and solid, and as the height is better than that of an -ordinary table, the carver works under more pleasant conditions. - -[Illustration: FIG. 1.--A DESIGN FOR WOOD-CARVING.] - -The boy who is handy with tools can make a good bench in a short time, -and the design of one is shown in Fig. 5 that can easily be made from -wood of the necessary kind that is free from knots and sappy places. The -top should measure four feet long, two feet wide, and should be one inch -and a half in thickness; it can be of yellow pine, ash, or oak, and the -wood must be well seasoned. The framework must be well made, and the -cross-pieces and braces securely mortised together, or firmly screwed to -the uprights or legs, which can be of yellow pine or ash two inches -square. - -The top of the bench should be three feet and three inches high from the -floor; and to one side of the bench a carpenter's vise may be attached, -as shown in the figure. - -The first essential to good clean cutting is that the tools shall be -absolutely sharp and in a workmanlike condition. It is often the case -that amateurs' tools are in such a state that no professional carver -could produce satisfactory results, so that in every instance the -condition of the tools governs the finished work. - -The variety of carving-tools is so limited, that if the difficulties of -sharpening a firmer and gouge are mastered, the task is practically -ended. - -If the tools should be unusually dull, they must first be ground on a -grindstone. It should be remembered that carvers' tools are sharpened on -both sides, and not only on one, like the carpenters' chisels. After -grinding, the tools must be sharpened on the oil-stone or slips before -they are ready for use. The firmers can be sharpened on the oil-stone -laid flat on the bench, but the gouges must be held in the hand in order -to sharpen the inside curve with a slip. The outer curve can be -sharpened on the flat oil-stone. - -Great care must be taken to give the tools a finished and smooth edge, -and when they have reached the proper degree of sharpness it will be an -easy matter to cut across the grain of white pine, leaving a furrow that -is very smooth and almost polished. - -In the use of the oil-stone and slips, neat's-foot oil or a good thin -machine oil should be employed. Water must not be used, as it would -spoil the stones and not produce the sharp edge on the tools. - -The finest stones are the best for use, and although they take longer to -produce the keen edge, the sharpest tools are made with them, and they -will be found the most satisfactory in the end. Avoid grit and dust on -the stones, and before using them they should be wiped off with an oiled -rag. - -For gouges of the various sweeps the slip shown in Fig. 2A will be -necessary, but for the V gouges the triangular one, Fig. 2B, is the -right one to use. The stone, Fig. 2C, can be used to sharpen the -firmers. - -[Illustration: FIG. 2.--CLAMP, SAW, AND CHISEL STONES.] - -The beginner must not consider any pains too great to make himself a -thorough master of the tools, and to keep a perfect edge on all of them. -It is necessary, when using them, to exercise care to prevent any -unpleasant cut that would be the result of carelessness. Undivided -attention and a little common-sense are necessary at all times. - -The tools being in proper condition, the next step is to acquire a -knowledge of the best methods of handling them so as to produce any -desired result. It will require some time and practice to become -thoroughly familiar with the manner in which tools are handled, and, if -it is possible, it would be well to watch some carver at work. The -chisels should always be held with one hand on the handle and two -fingers of the other hand near the edge of the tool. This is to give -sufficient pressure at the end to keep it down to the wood, while the -hand on the handle gives the necessary push to make the tool cut. - -[Illustration: FIG. 3.--CHISELS.] - -Of the woods that are adapted to carve in there are a great many, but -perhaps yellow pine, walnut, or mahogany will be found most desirable, -as they are easily cut, and do not split as some of the softer and -harder woods. - -[Illustration: FIG. 4.--A SAMPLE Of WOOD-CARVING. - -1. The Drawn Design. 2. The Preliminary Stage. 3. The Finished Carving.] - -To begin with, it is best to work out a simple pattern that can be -followed easily and without a great deal of dexterity in handling the -tools. Get a piece of yellow pine one inch thick, eight inches wide, and -sixteen long. - -On a piece of smooth paper draw one-half of a pattern similar to the one -shown in Fig. 4, and on a piece of tracing-paper copy the design. Over -the face of the wood lay a sheet of transfer-paper with the black -surface down, and on it the tracing-paper, and go over all the lines -with a lead-pencil, bearing down on the point so that the lines will be -transferred to the wood. Repeat it at the other end, so that as a result -the piece of wood will have the pattern. - -To one corner of the bench clamp the piece of wood with three or four of -the clamps shown in Fig. 2. Do not place the clamp directly on the wood, -but place between the jaw and the pine a piece of heavy card-board or -another piece of thin wood, to prevent the clamp from bruising the -surface of the yellow pine. With a small wooden mallet and a firmer -chisel begin to cut down into the face of the wood on the lines until -they have all been cut. Then with the gouges and grounding tool cut away -the surface not a part of the pattern to a depth of an eighth of an inch -or more, until a result is obtained similar to that shown in the second -cut of Fig. 4. - -The entire design and edge will now be in relief, but its surface will -be flat and entirely void of any "feeling." With the flat, extra flat, -and plain gouges begin to carve some life in the ornament. A little -practice will soon enable you to observe which parts should be high, the -others that should be low, and the surfaces that can be left neutral or -between high and low relief. - -This part of carving is termed "life," or "feeling," and it is this -quality that lends the beauty to the finest wood-carvings. The work when -completed should have the appearance of the third cut in Fig. 4, and if -nicely done it should be a credit to any beginner. The effect of this -panel can be had also by applied carving, which is a very simple and -less tedious process. - -The design is transferred to a thin piece of wood, and cut out with the -fret or jig saw. The pieces are then glued in position on a thick piece -of wood, and the feeling carved in a similar manner as described. The -former method is called carving in the solid, while the latter is known -as applied carving. - -Such pieces of carving can be used as panels to small drawers, to -cabinets, and to form the sides and covers of useful little boxes, etc. -If these simple suggestions are carefully followed, the inventive boy -should be able to design some very pretty patterns that can be carved -nicely in any desirable wood that is not too hard. - -When flat, or relief, carving has been mastered, it would be well to -attempt something in figure or bold work, such as animals, fruit, or -heads, on all sides of which some careful study and good work can be -done. It will be some time, however, before the amateur can successfully -accomplish good results, so that for some time the flat-work should be -practised, and as improvement is noticed the ornament can be undercut to -lend it a richness and boldness. - -Chip-carving, or engraving, is a simple but effective manner of -ornamenting flat surfaces, and some very pretty results can be obtained -in a little while with the gouges and V tools, also the spade chisel and -veiner. There is no grounding out in chip-carving, as the pattern is -produced by chipping out the figure itself. - -Fig. 1 is a simple pattern of a vine and leaves; the stem is engraved -with the V chisel, and with a small firmer the leaves are cut. Two -curved incisions will cut the leaf, and the angle through the centre -describes the main vein. The chipping can be shallow or deep, as a -matter of choice, but more effect can be had by cutting fairly deep. - -To finish wood-work in most any color, it is possible to obtain stains -at a paint or hardware store, and over the stained surface, when dry, -several thin coats of hard oil or furniture varnish can be applied. The -back and edges of a carved panel should always be painted to protect it -from moisture and dampness, and in this manner warping and splitting are -avoided. Some pieces of carving only need oiling with raw linseed oil, -while others may be varnished. A favorite mode of darkening oak in -France and England before it is varnished is to expose it to the fumes -of ammonia, or to paint ammonia on with a brush until the desired -antique shade is obtained; this, however, is not so satisfactory as the -colors resulting from the use of prepared stains that can be purchased. - -[Illustration: FIG. 5.--A PRACTICAL WORKBENCH.] - - - - -[Illustration: INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT] - - -Although golf has been played for several years at Lawrenceville, it is -only within the past year that the game has established itself on an -equal footing of popularity with the other sports of the school. As soon -as the students' interest in the game became apparent, however, the -authorities, following their custom with regard to all departments of -the school, engaged an instructor to take charge of those who desired to -become proficient. They secured the services of Mr. James Swan, who was -superintendent at the St. Andrew's Club last year and at the Shinnecock -Club the year before. His first work on going to Lawrenceville was to -select a site for the course and to lay out links. - -As there are over two hundred acres in the school property, he was able -to take up some thirty or forty acres directly north of the school -buildings for this purpose, and when the course has been completely -arranged, it will doubtless be one of the best short courses in the -country. At present there have been only six holes laid out, although -probably next year this number will be increased to nine. For the -requirements of the players now, however, these links give just about -the amount of ground that can be covered in the afternoon from the close -of school exercises until the recreation hour ends. - -At Lawrenceville every student is required to devote a certain time each -day to out-door exercise, and each boy is allowed to choose the sport -that suits him best. About one hundred have decided to play golf in -preference to other required exercise, and already some of them have -developed good form, notably Griggs, Drake, Childs, Hutchings, and -Little. Doubtless one of the reasons for this favorable development is -that the players are required to study the rules carefully, and each one -follows the game under the supervision of the instructor, who allows no -loose form or slouch play. - -THE LAWRENCEVILLE GOLF LINKS. - -[Illustration: ONE STROKE FROM THE FIFTH HOLE.] - -[Illustration: AT THE FIRST HOLE.] - -The start of the course, as it is at present laid out, is made from the -first tee over comparatively level ground for 175 yards, starting near -the fence that divides the central school property from the land which -lies north of it. The barbed-wire fence which crosses this links forms -an undesirable obstacle, but it will be removed in the spring and -replaced by a short bunker. - -The second tee begins the next link in a northerly direction, in a -parallel line with the country road, or the Old King's Highway. This -road is the one which was traversed for several decades by the -mail-stages from New York to Washington. The ground sinks some eight -feet at a distance of 140 yards in this second link of 304 yards, ending -with a running brook some nine feet wide. The ground from the brook to -the second hole rises slightly. - -From the third tee to the third hole, a distance of 282 yards, the -ground falls and rises considerably, the brook in this link proving a -difficult hazard, as the south side of the bank is several feet higher -than the north side. The rise from the brook to the third hole is but a -light one. From the fourth tee to the fourth hole, 187 yards, the drive -is comparatively good, the brook proving an insignificant hazard to the -good driver, but a troublesome one to the beginner who, "topping" the -ball, finds that here, as perhaps at no other part in the course, a -resort must be made to "dropping" the ball. Indeed to the novice the -fourth hole is a trial to the temper. - -[Illustration: THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL GOLF LINKS.] - -To the right of the third hole stands a farm-house; the course leading -to the fourth hole might be across the miniature pond indicated in the -plot plan. The ground falls gradually to the brook from the fifth tee, -241 yards, and beyond the brook the ground rises abruptly some 15 feet. -The last link, 326 yards long, is the longest in the course, and is one -of the most trying. At present it leads over a low hay-stack, which will -be removed shortly, and before the hole is reached a bunker must be -encountered. The fields are traversed pretty completely in making the -course, 1-1/4 miles in length, and the sixth hole brings the player -almost home. - -The course has been made several times by the instructor in 27 strokes, -and a few of the better players among the boys in 36 strokes, Griggs in -29. The majority of the boys, however, content themselves with some -number between 40 and 50. In the course of a few months some twenty or -thirty of the boys will be singled out and given more specific -instructions, so that the tournaments to be held in the spring may be -well played. - -The announcement which came to us from New Haven some few days since, -that the Hillhouse High-School would not put a track-athletic team into -the field this year, brings up the question again of uniting the various -athletic associations of the State. The football association of the -Connecticut schools is a different organization from the track-athletic -association, although both are made up of about the same schools. The -football association is financially prosperous--in fact it came out some -$400 to the good this year after paying all expenses, and this money is -now doubtless drawing interest in the savings-bank. - -The track-athletic association, however, is not so great a success from -a financial point of view, and is now in debt, or, if not, it has been -until very recently. This state of affairs is probably due to the fact -that the expenses of a track-athletic meeting are heavy, and there is -only one meeting a year, to which the small admission-fees charged are -not sufficient to defray all the expenses. - -On the other hand, there is a great popular interest in football in -Connecticut, and the money contributed by spectators at the principal -championship games is very much in excess of the requirements of the -association. Perhaps, too, so far as track athletics are concerned, -there has been a little mismanagement. The spring games of 1895 were -very successfully managed, and proved a financial success, but the -association was in heavy debt previous to that date, and the profits of -1895 went to make good some of the deficiencies of previous occasions. - -In 1896, however, the managers of the games were incompetent, and the -meeting proved a financial failure. The games were not properly -advertised in New Haven, where they were held, and on the day of the -meeting there were more spectators present from Hartford than there were -from the home city. Furthermore, the managers were extravagant in the -purchase of prize cups, and when they came to figure up their accounts -there was a deficit. - -It is the belief among a number of the young men interested in track -athletics in Connecticut that if the track-athletic meetings cannot be -conducted at a profit, they ought certainly, by good management, to be -conducted without loss. It has been suggested that instead of having a -football association, a track-athletic association, a baseball -association, and perhaps other athletic organizations, it would be the -better plan to have a single association that would govern all -interscholastic sports in the State. The managers of this association -would be the managers of each sport as it came up with the season, and -the treasurer of the association would be responsible for all the moneys -received and disbursed. - -Thus if there was a profit from football, that profit could go to the -assistance of any deficit there might be in track athletics. At the -larger colleges this plan of uniting all branches of athletics under one -financial management has been found to be the best plan, for in sport -there must always be one branch that is self-supporting while another is -not. - -Furthermore this plan of uniting all school sports under one financial -management in Connecticut would solve the problem of what to do with the -surplus in the treasury at the end of the football season. It would seem -that, knowing there was a deficit in the track-athletic treasury, the -officials of the football association would have turned over from their -surplus the amount necessary to make good the shortage. It is to be -hoped that the desire of those who wish to unite all sports under one -head will be carried out, for it would be to the benefit of athletics in -Connecticut. - -The Hartford High-School will have three representatives at the -Knickerbocker A.C. games next month. F. R. Sturtevant will enter the -high jump. He won the event last year with 5 ft. 7-1/2 in. He will also -enter the pole-vault. His record in this event is 10 ft. 5 in. J. F. -Morris will enter the 100, 220, and 440 yard dashes. He has run the 100 -in 10-1/2 sec.; the 220 in 23-3/5 sec.; the 440 in 52-4/5 sec. C. A. -Roberts will enter the walk. He is an unknown quantity. - -The Board of Education of Chicago seems to be taking a hand in -athletics, so far as the high-schools of that city are concerned. A rule -has been passed which makes it necessary for the Cook County athletes to -work hard at their lessons. No scholar at any of the high-schools who is -not a regular student taking a regular course may represent his school -in any athletic event. The principal of the school is required to sign a -voucher certifying to these facts, and it is also required of him to see -that no pupil lets his marks fall below a certain average, the penalty -for this being that he must give up athletics until his school work is -brought up to the required standard. - -There is a lull in athletics among the Chicago schools just at -present--the quiet before the storm, most likely. The in-door baseball -games do not seem to be getting along very prosperously, and there is -considerable opposition to them among some of the students, on the -ground that an admission-fee is charged. Lake View High-School still -leads for the championship, having won every game played, with Austin -second. - -There has been a protest game, of course. It was in the match between -North Division and Evanston. In the last half of the ninth inning North -Division was at the bat, with the score 7-9 in favor of Evanston. The -crowd that was looking on got in pretty close to the Evanston fielders, -who claimed that this prevented them from doing their proper and -necessary work. The Evanston captain protested against the crowding, but -as this had no effect with the on-lookers he left the floor with his -team. - -The matter was of course brought up at the next League meeting, but the -executive committee decided that Evanston was in the wrong, gave the -game to North Division, and legislated that in the future any nine that -left the floor should forfeit the game to the opponents. - -The Long Island Interscholastic Athletic League has decided to hold the -first annual skating championships of the organization at the Clermont -Avenue Ice-Skating Rink, on Clermont Avenue near Myrtle, Brooklyn. J. A. -Forney, of Adelphi Academy, has been appointed to ascertain upon what -conditions the Rink may be had for the races, which will probably be -held the last week of this month. - -The in-door games of the Long Island Interscholastic League will be held -on February 20 at the Cycle Club, Brooklyn. There will be ten events -contested, and among them one of those precious events for "juniors." - -The basket ball championship series has already begun, and the schedule -will be played out as follows: - - Feb. 5. Poly. Prep. _vs._ Pratt Institute, and Adelphi Academy - _vs._ Brooklyn High-School. - - Feb. 12. Brooklyn High-School _vs._ Poly. Prep., and Pratt - Institute _vs._ Brooklyn Latin School. - - Feb. 19. Poly. Prep. _vs._ Brooklyn Latin School, and Adelphi - Academy _vs._ Pratt Institute. - - Feb. 26. Adelphi Academy _vs._ Brooklyn Latin School, and Brooklyn - High-School _vs._ Pratt Institute. - - March 2. Brooklyn High-School _vs._ Brooklyn Latin School, and - Adelphi Academy _vs._ Poly. Prep. - -Arrangements for the track meeting between Lawrenceville and the Hill -School are about to be completed, and it is sincerely to be hoped that -whatever arrangements are made will be carried out. Last year the -meeting that was proposed, and the league of big schools in New Jersey -and Pennsylvania, never came to anything; but as sport advances all -these plans will doubtless be carried through, and a strong organization -ought to grow out of them. - -"TRACK ATHLETICS IN DETAIL."--ILLUSTRATED.--8VO, CLOTH, ORNAMENTAL, -$1.25. - - THE GRADUATE. - - * * * * * - -A CURIOSITY OF LITERATURE. - -John Heywood, the playwright and epigrammatist, was patronized by Henry -VIII. and Elizabeth. "What the 'Faery Queen,'" says Warton, "could not -procure for Spenser from the penurious Elizabeth and her precise -ministers, Heywood gained by puns and conceits." The object of one of -his books, as disclosed by the title-page, is singular: "A Dialogue, -containing in effect the Number of all the Proverbs in the English -Tongue, compact in a Matter concerning Two Marriages." - -When the Marquis of Winchester, Lord High Treasurer, was presented with -a copy of this book by the author, he inquired what it contained, and -being answered, "All the proverbs in English," replied, "What! all? No, -no. 'Bate me an ace, quoth Bolton'"--a form of speech once much in -vogue. "By my faith," said Heywood, "that is not in." - -It happened that the marquis casually uttered the only proverb not in -the book. - -Camden mentions an interview of Heywood with Queen Mary, at which her -Majesty inquired what wind blew him to court. He answered, "Two, -specially--the one to see your Majesty." - -"We thank you for that," said the Queen; "but I pray you, what is the -other?" - -"That your Grace," said he, "might see me." - -The curious work on proverbs is in rhyme, and contains many sayings that -are now forgotten, as well as allusions to superstitions still -remaining. - - * * * * * - -ENGLISH AND ENGLISH. - -Most American boys and girls feel confident that they are tolerably -familiar with the English language, and they are right in so feeling; -but sometimes one cannot but wonder, in reading over the English -newspapers, whether some expressions which are common enough to the -English mind would prove puzzling to the American reader or not. For -instance, here is a specimen paragraph from the _Western Morning News_, -published in England: - -"_An Extraordinary Express._--The Cornish corridor express from -Paddington, on the morning of the 31st ult., was one of the heaviest -fast trains ever sent out of a London terminus. It started with 15 -eight-wheel bogie coaches on, reckoned as equal to 22-1/2 ordinary -vehicles. But as these corridor carriages weigh about 25 tons each, the -coach load must have been over 370 tons, or quite equal to a train of 30 -six-wheeled coaches. This for an express run at over 53 miles an hour! -There were two engines on of the largest class. West of Swindon the -train was split into two parts." - -How many of us know what a "corridor express" is? or who can guess the -meaning of the term "bogie coach"? and to how many of us, indeed, is the -word "coach" a natural expression for car? and, finally, when a train or -anything else is "split" into two parts, does not the expression convey -to our minds something divided from end to end longitudinally, and not -cut in two? After all, the English spoken in one place differs largely -from the English spoken elsewhere, and probably ours is as good as that -of any one else. - - - - -ADVERTISEMENTS. - - - - -[Illustration: ROYAL BAKING POWDER] - -Celebrated for its great leavening strength and healthfulness. Assures -the food against alum and all forms of adulteration common to the cheap -brands. - -ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. - - - - -[Illustration: PISO'S CURE FOR CONSUMPTION] - -CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. - -Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use - -in time. Sold by druggists. - - - - -QUESTIONS FOR YOUNG MEN. - - -ON KEEPING YOUR OWN COUNSEL. - -It is an old saying among schoolboys and college men that the fellow who -keeps his mouth shut is always the big man; that he who deliberately -says little quickly wins for himself the name for wisdom. Such -statements are quite as true in the outer world to a certain degree as -they are in college and school. The pith of the matter is that if in any -way you arrive at a position of any importance, the less you talk to -every one the more credit you receive for care, for thoughtfulness, for -sound well-considered opinions. Here is nothing which urges a boy to -have no opinions or to never express them; and in fact this "wise -silence" at school and college as often, perhaps, covers up an empty -mind as it does the wisdom of Solomon. There is, however, a good rule to -follow, which may be given briefly, to the effect that it is well to say -little until you have thoroughly made up your mind, and then not to -hesitate in your statements. The temptation of the average man is to -express some opinion at once, but if that is changed later, the full -force of the final opinion is lost. - -Let others do the wrangling. Your opinion will have all the more -influence if you come out strong with it at the close of the discussion, -when not only are the others considerably in doubt as to what they do -want, but you have also had the advantage of hearing many sides of the -case. - -That is to say, that in your daily behavior towards the others in school -it is well to keep your "talk" in reserve. It is a habit easily -acquired, and one that in the end works both ways. It adds both to the -value of your advice, because the advice is better considered, and it -gives the advice an added value so far as others are concerned, because -when you only say a little, that little has the more consideration. - -In the course of athletic games there are two ways of treating friends -and opponents. One way is as easy as another, for both are merely -habits. Many a good chap at baseball or football is constantly grumbling -whenever the umpire or referee gives a decision. He objects to the -decision on principle; he goes back to his place in the field -criticising the partisanship of the official, and makes himself -uncomfortable as well as disagreeable to the umpires and the other -teams. If this young man should be asked some day--off the field, of -course--whether it were sportsmanlike to criticise in the midst of a -game an umpire properly chosen, he would, no doubt, maintain in strong -terms that such criticism was the most unsportsmanlike thing possible, -and then he would promptly deny that he ever made such criticism. Yet -there are many such, and it is unfortunately one of the most common -sights on a school athletic field to-day to find the two teams wrangling -with the umpire over a decision he has made, and this, too, after he has -been asked ten minutes before to decide all such questions for them. It -is only another form of the same lack of habit in courteous behavior, -and it causes most of the hard feeling between schools and colleges -to-day. - -So one might go on by the hour speaking of the different questions in -school and college life which are examples of lack of behavior of the -most ordinary kind, but the root of the matter is that each boy should -say to himself that he will be constantly reserved, that he will wait -for the proper moment to speak and act, and that he will then act -vigorously if he is convinced the time has come. - - * * * * * - -A BLOCKADE VENTURE. - -During the blockade of Buenos Ayres a clipper bark laden with flour was -fitted out at Boston with the express purpose of running in. The late -Augustus Hemenway was her supercargo. After a tedious voyage she arrived -off Buenos Ayres, and found the blockade too close to run in, and was -compelled to cruise off and on, waiting for a change in her favor. While -thus lazily reconnoitring, she spoke a vessel from Valparaiso, which -reported a famine there. Mr. Hemenway at once decided to try Valparaiso. -The Captain hesitated; he said his vessel was not adapted to double Cape -Horn in the dead of winter; but young Hemenway assumed the entire -responsibility, and the Captain yielded. She had a favorable slant round -the Horn, and reached Valparaiso in safety, where her cargo was sold at -high prices. The Chilians were so grateful for the timely relief that -they loaded the bark as deep as she could safely swim with copper ore, -and all concerned in the venture made a fortune. Later, Mr. Hemenway -opened a trade with Valparaiso in copper, wool, nitrate, etc., by which -he became one of the richest men in Boston. - - * * * * * - -DAYBREAK. - - When the sunlight peeps in through the curtains at dawn, - His Highness awakes with a smile and a yawn, - And his little fat hands fly up in the air, - Out of whole-souled delight that a new day is there. - - He laughs to himself and he churns his pink heels, - He gurgles and chirps at the pleasure he feels, - And he looks with dismay at the big folk near by - Who sleep while the daylight is kissing the sky. - - The sight of a sunbeam is thrilling and new; - The big folk are missing it--that will not do! - Awake, oh, good people, awake to the sight! - Come out of your pillows, 'tis no longer night! - - See what a wonderful broad streak of gold - Has come through the window! Arise and behold - A slice of the dawn dancing over the floor! - Was ever so glorious a vision before? - - But the elders, to whom the awakening of day - Is old as their memories, turn blindly away, - And his Highness is left, with the birds of the trees, - To carol his joy at the new life he sees. - - ALBERT LEE. - - * * * * * - -CAPTAIN HEARD'S EXPLOIT WITH A PRIVATEER. - -The speed of the Baltimore clippers in days gone by made history redound -with their exploits. Every boy and girl has read at some time or place -of the piratical long, low, rakish-looking schooners that cruised the -ocean ostensibly as privateers, but chiefly as pirates, in those days, -and have marvelled more or less at their astounding adventures. A good -story is told of the late Captain Augustine Heard, that while in command -of a fine ship richly laden, bound from China to New York, he was -overhauled by one of this kind, which came up under his lee, fired a -shot into his ship, and demanded in "good English" that she should be -hove to. Captain Heard watched a favorable opportunity, squared his -yards, ran the privateer down, passed over her between the masts, and -when well to leeward brought his ship to the wind and resumed his -course. She had lost some of her head-gear, but sustained no damage in -her hull. Captain Heard left the "long, low, black privateer," or -pirate, to her fate, and had no doubt that all her crew perished. - -It was a dangerous thing to do, but Heard relied upon the good timber in -his ship's bows to withstand the shock, although his heart grew sad at -the loss of life. Still, as he put it, "My honor and life were at stake, -so he had to go under." - - - - -[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. - - -Another No. 89 Plate No. has been found, and is now offered at $100. -There may be a lot of this No. at some small post-office, as the larger -offices do not seem to have received any of this particular No. - -During the past month the stamp business has begun to revive, and there -are indications that better prices will be obtained in the auction-room -than in the past three months. The main difficulty seems to lie in the -fact that there are seemingly as many dealers as collectors. Years ago -the New York city stamp business was practically in the hands of two or -three men, while to-day Nassau Street and Twenty-third Street are -overflowing with dealers. Some of these dealers have entered into an -engagement with each other not to buy at auctions. If they keep to their -word so much the better for the collectors. - -Guatemala has just issued a new set of fourteen adhesive stamps, five -postal cards, two envelopes, and one wrapper. The stamps are all printed -in black on colored papers. The size is about that of our Columbian -issue, and the entire set is made to commemorate and advertise the -Central American Exposition to be held this year. - - 1 centavo Black on lilac. - 2 centavos Black on olive. - 6 centavos Black on ochre. - 10 centavos Black on indigo. - 12 centavos Black on rose. - 20 centavos Black on vermilion. - 50 centavos Black on brown. - 75 centavos Black on blue. - 100 centavos Black on blue-green. - 150 centavos Black on light rose - 200 centavos Black on mauve. - 500 centavos Black on yellow-green. - -The probabilities are that the entire issue will be condemned by the -S.S.S.S. - -The American Bank-Note Company of New York has just secured the contract -for printing the Canadian stamps. It is said that the cost of printing -will be about $600,000 for the five and a half years, and that the -saving to the Canadian government compared with late contracts will be -$125,000. - - B. B. PERKINS.--I would advise your buying a packet of 1000 stamps - for $10, or 1500 stamps for $25. If you intend to collect certain - countries only, such packets would not serve your purpose. - - BEATRICE FINK.--Tromsö stamps are locals from Norway. Wuhu is a - Chinese local. Poste-Locale, 40 paras, is a Turkish local. - - BEVERLY S. KING, 31 New York Ave., Brooklyn, wishes to exchange - stamps. Refer to your catalogue for the number of stamps issued by - U.S., Great Britain, France, etc. A "complete" collection of stamps - is a very vague quantity. I know one collection of Great Britain - containing many thousands of stamps, no two alike, and yet the - owner says he has just begun to collect Great Britain. - - D. MCPHERSON.--The unused Department stamps are higher than the - used simply on account of the demand for unused stamps. The amount - of money proposed by you will buy you very many good stamps, and - ensure many hours of enjoyment, and that is the best investment. - - W. R. WHEELER.--Before postage-stamps were used the postmaster used - to print with an iron or copper hand-stamp "Paid," "Paid 10," etc. - Envelopes with such printing are very common, and while very - interesting have no money value. - - PHILATUS. - - - - -[Illustration: IVORY SOAP] - - Reject all compounds which dispense - With honest work and common sense; - With Ivory Soap the wash is good - And takes no longer than it should. - -Copyright 1896, by The Procter & Gamble Co., Cin'ti - - - - -_READY FEBRUARY 11_ - -By Ellen Douglas Deland - -=IN THE OLD HERRICK HOUSE=, and Other Stories. Illustrated. Post 8vo, -Cloth, Ornamental, $1.50. - - Besides the title story, this volume contains "At the Camerons'" - and "The Little Red Book." Like all of Miss Deland's stories, these - are wholesome and attractive, while there is an abundance of - incident. - - * * * * * - -By Charles Carleton Coffin - -ABRAHAM LINCOLN. - -Profusely Illustrated. Square 8vo, Cloth, $3.00. - - All the best characteristics of the author are found in his last - work, "Abraham Lincoln"; his brilliant power of revivifying the - past, his skill in interweaving anecdote with narrative, his - ability to present characters without dull description, are placed - at their best use in sketching the life and times of the nation's - hero.--_Boston Journal._ - -=OLD TIMES IN THE COLONIES.= Profusely Illustrated. Square 8vo, Cloth, -$3.00. - -=THE BOYS OF '76.= A History of the Battles of the Revolution. Profusely -Illustrated. Square 8vo, Cloth, $3.00. - -=BUILDING THE NATION.= Events in the History of the United States from the -Revolution to the Civil War. Profusely Illustrated. Square 8vo, Cloth, -$3.00. - -=THE DRUM-BEAT OF THE NATION.= The First Period of the War of the -Rebellion, from its Outbreak to the Close of 1862. Profusely -Illustrated. Square 8vo, Cloth, $3.00. - -=MARCHING TO VICTORY.= The Second Period of the War of the Rebellion, -including the Year 1863. Profusely Illustrated. Square 8vo, Cloth, -$3.00. - -=REDEEMING THE REPUBLIC.= The Third Period of the War of the Rebellion, to -September, 1864. Profusely Illustrated. Square 8vo, Cloth, $3.00. - -=FREEDOM TRIUMPHANT.= The Fourth Period of the War of the Rebellion, from -September, 1864, to its Close. Profusely Illustrated. Square 8vo, Cloth, -$3.00. - - * * * * * - -Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York - - - - -A Great Soldier's Amusing Experience. - -Some letters of Count Von Moltke, long at the head of the German army, -and the man who took the German thousands and made of them the greatest -engine of war the world ever saw, are now being published for the first -time. In one of them he tells of a visit he made to London as a young -soldier, when, during a review in fashionable Hyde Park, he tried to -appear to his best advantage. The Count thus describes his experience: - -"The Lord in His wrath made the Duke of Wellington Master of the Horse; -he understood nothing about horses, so he provided me with an animal -that had won at the last races. I never rode a more uncomfortable one; -likely enough that he had never been ridden before except by a jockey; -or my light overcoat so tickled his back that he bucked the whole time, -and bored as well..... To make it perfect, one of my trouser straps -burst. I had to manoeuvre with the utmost circumspection, and am -thankful to have got out of it so passably." - - * * * * * - -A Far-West Fishing Village. - - Skamokana is a little town on the banks of the Columbia River, - about twenty-eight miles from its mouth. The place is divided into - three valleys, east, west, and middle. The principal industries are - fishing, logging, and farming. The fishing season begins about the - 10th of April and ends about the 10th of August. The fish are - caught in gill-nets, seines, and fish-traps. There are streams in - the valleys where mountain-trout are caught. - - It is very pleasant here in the summer, but it rains nearly all - winter. There are a great many salmon-canneries on the river. In - the summer we find a great many mosses and ferns. There is some - pretty scenery in the town. There are two bluffs seventy feet high. - At the bottom of the bluffs runs a creek. The bluffs are covered - with mosses and ferns. Part of the town is built on an island. The - island and the mainland are connected. Part of this island is - covered with sawdust from the mill. - - ESTHER SILVERMAN. - SKAMOKANA, WASH. - - * * * * * - -Great Caution, and the Lack of It. - -Almost everybody has heard of the woman who, when her bed took fire, -refrained from throwing upon it the milk in a pitcher which stood near -by, because, as she explained, the milk would grease the bedroom floor. -So she lost her house and its contents, but she didn't grease the floor. - -A farmer living in West Virginia had a hog afflicted with fleas. Some -one told him that kerosene oil would drive them away. It was night when -he returned home, but he resolved to put the prescription to the test at -once. Taking a torch out to the pen, he stuck it in the ground while he -poured the oil over the pig. The animal did not relish the treatment. He -ran squealing away, and of course ran near the torch. The oil took fire -and the pig ran to the barn. That ignited, and the pig, crazed with -pain, rushed toward the house, pushed the wood-shed door open, and -brought up in the kitchen. Pig, barn, and house were ashes before -daylight. - - * * * * * - -A Peep at a Queer City. - - New Orleans is, I think, entirely different from any other city in - the United States. You see things here that you see nowhere else, - and you hear things on the street that you hear nowhere else. - French is heard oftener than English, and Spanish and Italian are - spoken a great deal, as a large percentage of the population is - made up of these nationalities. The old French people, and a - mixture of French and Spanish, represent the aristocracy of New - Orleans, and are known as "Creoles." But these have degenerated to - some extent, and the younger generation of Creoles, especially the - men, are said to be lazy and worthless. - - Canal Street, the principal retail shopping street of the city, - forms the dividing line between the French and English portions, - and I may venture to say, on good authority, that some of the old - French Indies have never crossed Canal Street to penetrate into the - English part of the city. - - One of the first things a visitor goes to see is the old French - Market on the river front. This is interesting to a stranger, but - years ago it was even more so. The thing that strikes you most is - the dirt, which is in great abundance; but you will find that most - anywhere in New Orleans, although they are trying to improve it. - Everybody that goes to the French Market gets a cup of coffee and a - doughnut, commonly known as a "sinker," on account of its great - solidity. Frenchmen, Italians or "dagos," old black mammies with - their heads done up in bright bandannas, Indian women with herbs - and bright baskets for sale--these and many others you see in the - old market. A short distance from it are the historic Jackson - Square and St. Louis Cathedral, one of the oldest churches in the - United States. Jackson Square has beautiful flowers in it the year - round, and a fine equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson graces the - centre. I have never been in the cathedral except during service, - but I know there are some beautiful pictures there which time has - not spoiled, but rather increased the interest one always feels for - such things. - - The winters here are what makes New Orleans so attractive to many - people, and they certainly are delightful. It is a customary thing - to see roses in great abundance, beautiful green lawns, and a great - many flowers in bloom the entire year; but they don't do so well in - summer--it is too hot. - - A drive along the principal residence street, St. Charles Avenue, - is very delightful on a bright winter morning, for there are so - many handsome houses, and they all have gardens beautifully kept. - That is a good thing about New Orleans. There is plenty of air; - each house has some yard; they are not close together as in other - cities. In my next morsel I will tell you about Mardi Gras. Shall I - describe a sugar plantation for you? - - SOPHIE ELEANOR CLARK. - -Yes, please do. - - * * * * * - -Grave of a Faithful Itinerant. - - Perhaps ROUND TABLE readers would like to hear about the grave of - William Watters, the first native American Methodist minister. This - grave is in Fairfax County, Virginia, six miles from Washington, in - an old graveyard. The monument is a simple veined marble shaft - about seven feet high, with these inscriptions: - - In Memory of - Rev. William Watters - The First Native Itinerant - Methodist Preacher in - America - Born Oct. 16, 1751 - Died Mar. 29, 1827 - - He was a pioneer leading - the way for the vast army of - American Methodist Itinerants - having the Everlasting - Gospel to preach. - - Fervent in spirit, prudent - in council, abundant in - labors, skillful in winning - souls, he was a workman that - needed not to be ashamed. - - Also His Wife - Sarah Adams. - Erected by the Virginia - Conference of - The Methodist Episcopal - Church. - - This was not the minister's home. He was on his way from North - Carolina to Baltimore when he died. The monument was not erected - until years after. - - DOROTHEA F. SHERMAN, R.T.L. - ASH GROVE, VA. - - * * * * * - -Omens Common in Virginia. - - Three white frosts in succession, a sure sign of rain. - - When the crescent is on her back it never rains. - - When there is a small circle around the moon, rain is not far off; - a large circle, no rain. - - When the wild-ducks fly overhead it is a sure sign of cold weather. - - Show your money to the new moon, and it will surely increase. - - Spill salt, lend it out, or give away parsely plants, is very bad - luck. - - Break a looking-glass and you will have seven years of bad luck. - - If you fall up the stairs you will not be married that year. - - Never move on Saturday: "A Saturday's flit is a short sit." - - A strange black cat coming to you will bring luck. - - When the smoke descends, it is sure to rain. - - Never hang a horseshoe this way, (upside down U), as your luck will - run out. It should be put up the other way--U. - - The best one I know is an old Scotch saying: - - "Luck is with the Lord; belief, with the people." - - JOHN R. MORELAND, R.T.F. - NORFOLK. - - * * * * * - -Cracking Walnuts. - - Select a hard table or flat-iron, placing the nuts near by. If you - look at the nut carefully, you will find a slightly raised ridge - running around the nut. Place the nut on its side, holding it - firmly. Strike upon the ridge with a heavy hammer with short even - blows until cracked. Fresh nuts are the best for both cracking and - eating. - - H. H. W. - DETROIT. - - * * * * * - -Questions and Answers. - -Wilton, Ct., asked about Greek in Barnard College, and Registrar N. W. -Liggett, of Barnard, replies as follows: - -At the present writing Greek is absolutely essential for entrance to the -undergraduate department of Barnard College, and, after entrance, to the -completion of the Freshman year. In and after October, 1897, Greek will -no longer be required for entrance, other subjects being permitted as a -substitute, and it will then no longer be compulsory during the course. - -Arthur L. Flagg, 34 Park Ave., Woonsocket, R. I., is collecting minerals -and wants correspondents. - -"Win" writes to us: - -"Please advise me on seeking a trade. Mention a good one. Is there any -law against canvassing books in this way--if you buy a book for a price, -and you sell it again for a gain of fifty per cent." - -No one can advise you about a trade until such one knows something about -your tastes and your education. What trade do you feel most interested -in? Consider your inclinations, and follow them, unless there is a -reason for not doing so. Plumbing is a good trade. So is bookbinding. So -is carpentry. So are many others. Farming is a good occupation. Printing -is not a bad trade. Many people think its difficulties great, but this -impression is due to the fact that many printers own newspapers, and can -fill them with accounts of their own troubles. Blacksmiths have -troubles, but they own no newspaper in which to publish them. There is -no statute law against buying a book and selling it for a higher price. - -Fred F. Colyer asks how Mr. McKinley will officially know of his -election as President of the United States, and what the recent meetings -of electors were. To answer the last question first, they were the -castings of the ballot of the electors in accordance with the plurality -vote of the State. For example, in Pennsylvania, your own State, the -voters cast their ballots not for Mr. McKinley, but for Presidential -electors equal in number to the number of men in both Houses of Congress -from Pennsylvania. They meet at the State capital. As a majority of the -voters of the State voted for Mr. McKinley and Mr. Hobart, these -official electors cast their ballots for them. This is the vote of -Pennsylvania. The returns of these votes are sent to Washington, one -copy by mail, and the other by special messenger. Both go to the -President of the United States Senate, who, in the presence of both -House and Senate, opens and records the result. This result is the -official declaration, and by it Mr. McKinley and everybody else -officially knows who the next President and Vice-President of the United -States are to be. - - - - -[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. - - -POOR NEGATIVES AND SOME OF THE CAUSES. - -One of the most common mistakes of the young amateur is in not carrying -the development of a plate quite far enough. This is shown when the -plate, after removing from the fixing-bath, though full of detail, is so -thin and weak that it is impossible to get a good print from it, the -toning resulting in turning the print to a slaty gray color or an ugly -brown. A plate which has been properly exposed but not sufficiently -developed may be redeveloped by a process called in photography -intensification. Directions for intensifying were given in No. 824, -August 13, 1895, but for the benefit of new members of the club we give -another formula. - -INTENSIFYING SOLUTIONS. - -No. 1. - - Chloride of ammonia 100 grs. - Bichloride of mercury 100 grs. - Water 10 oz. - -No. 2. - - Strong ammonia 2 drms. - Water 20 oz. - -If the negative has been washed and dried, soak it for a few minutes -till the film is thoroughly wet, then place it film side up in a tray -and pour over it enough of solution No. 1 to cover it well. Allow it to -remain, rocking the tray now and then, till the image has turned white. -Wash thoroughly in several changes of water, place it face up in another -tray, and cover it with solution No. 2, leaving it till the image has -turned brown. Wash well, and dry. If the negative is still too weak, -either repeat the process or redevelop in a weak solution of -hydrochinon. Solution No. 1 may be used repeatedly, but solution No. 2 -must be thrown away after once using. - -A plate that has been developed too long will be found dark all over, -and it will take a long time to make a print from it. A print made from -a very dense negative fades out quickly in the toning solution, and must -be printed deeper than one made from a good negative, in order to get a -good picture. An over-developed negative may be reduced so as to make a -fine negative. There are many formulas for reducing solutions, but the -one considered the most reliable is called "Farmer's Reducer," the -formula for which is as follows: - - Water 4 oz. - Hypo 30 grs. - Potassium ferridcyanide 3 grs. - -This solution must be made up just before using. Place the negative -while wet in the tray and cover it with the solution. Rock the tray all -the time, and look at the negative frequently to see if the reduction -has been carried far enough. A convenient way of handling the plate -during the process is to put it into a plate-lifter, immerse it in the -solution for a minute or two, lift out and rinse, and if the reduction -has not been carried far enough return it again to the solution. Care -must be taken that the picture is not reduced too much. - -When the negative is dense in the high lights and without detail in the -shadows, it indicates that the plate was under-exposed. Where the -subject is one which cannot be obtained again, the negative may be -treated according to directions given recently in one of the papers on -retouching; but if the picture can be repeated, it is not worth while to -spend time on a poor negative. - -A negative which shows clear glass in the corners is due to the lens -being too small for the plate, and does not fully cover it. - -Fogged negatives are caused in several ways. If the edges of the plate -which come under the protector in the plate-holder are clear, and the -rest of the plate is fogged, the fog is caused by light entering the -camera, or by over-exposure of the plate. If there are streaks across -the plate, it is due to a small hole in the camera or to the rays of the -sun striking the lens during exposure. A plate which has been fogged by -the sun may be reduced by drying the plate and then taking a clean piece -of chamois, dipping it in alcohol, and rubbing the fogged spots gently -and evenly. Do this very carefully, touching only the places that are -fogged. Dense high lights may also be reduced by rubbing the places with -alcohol, this process bringing out the details which are lost in the -development. - - FREDERICK MONTGOMERY, 2421 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D. C.; T. - PARKER HALL, Taunton, Mass.; HUBERT BURNHAM, 232 Dempster St., - Evanston, Ill.; JOHN H. ASHUM, 1404 State St., Eau Claire, Wis.; - ELIZUR SMITH, P. O. Box 436, Lee, Mass.; RALPH B. LEONARD, 98 Green - St., Cumberland, Md.; FLOYD W. GILES, 49 Columbia Ave., Cumberland, - Md.; T. K. WELLINGTON, 33 Walnut Place, Eighth St., Troy, N. Y.; - STANLEY SYMMES, 630 Harrison St., San Francisco, Cal.; HALL M. - CROSSMAN, Steelton, Pa.; ROXLEY F. WEBER, Salamanca, N. Y.; BRONSON - M. WARREN, Bridgeport, Conn.; WILBUR T. HELM, 15 W. 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FOUGERA & CO., NEW YORK. - - - - -Hold their place in the front rank of the publications to which they -belong.--_Boston Journal_, Feb. 19, 1896. - -HARPER'S - -PERIODICALS - - MAGAZINE, $4.00 A YEAR - WEEKLY, $4.00 A YEAR - BAZAR, $4.00 A YEAR - ROUND TABLE, $2.00 A YEAR - - - - -CARDS - -FOR 1897. 50 Sample Styles AND LIST OF 400 PREMIUM ARTICLES FREE. -HAVERFIELD PUB CO., CADIZ, OHIO - - - - -[Illustration: THE GOSSIPS. - -"THE TRAINED DOG IN THE NEXT CAGE SAYS HE'S GOING TO MOVE!" - -"WHAT FOR?" - -"HE SAYS THERE'S TOO MUCH RED APE ABOUT THIS MENAGERIE."] - - * * * * * - -FROM ONE BOY TO ANOTHER. - - I'm sorry for you, King of Spain-- - You're just a boy like me-- - But even though you are a boy - You are not half as free! - - You're fenced about by etiquette-- - By lots of little rules - Like those we have to mind when we - Are in our dancing-schools. - - Poor little King!--you have no fun - Like that of other boys; - You cannot jump and romp about, - And try to make a noise. - - You cannot take a sled and slide - Like lightning down a hill; - To land head-first in snow would make - Your little highness ill. - - You have a tutor come to you - Instead, like we boys have, - Of going to school and romping there, - With none to domineer! - - Poor little King!--I weep for you, - Deprived of all life's joy; - And when I pray, I pray you'll dream - That you're a Yankee boy. - - For I have found that that which comes - By day, for wrong or right, - Is easier made by fairy dreams - Which come to me at night. - - So, little King, I beg you take - From me, a Yankee free, - The message of a boy who has - A deal of sympathy. - - And while we do not care for kings, - And look on thrones askance, - We love you as a fellow-boy, - And wish you had a chance! - - JOHN KENDRICK BANGS. - - * * * * * - -A VALID REASON. - -Jimmieboy had just moved into town, and he didn't like hotel life. - -"What's the matter, Jimmieboy? Why don't you like it here?" asked a -friend. - -"Oh, it's sort of flat," said Jimmieboy. "Home I can go all over the -house, but here pop's got lots of visitors that seem to own the rooms. I -wish he'd never hired this old hotel!" - - * * * * * - -THE AMERICAN BOY. - -"And where did you come from?" asked the foreigner of Bobbie. - -"Mamma bought me at Tiffany's," replied Bobbie. - - * * * * * - -AN UNPLEASANT PLACE. - -"I'd like to be a policeman for five minutes!" said Jack, after he'd -been punished. - -"What for?" asked his sister. - -"I'd arrest papa for hitting me!" sobbed Jack. - -"Where'd you put him?" asked the little girl. - -"Nowhere," answered Jack. "That's the worst place I know of to be in." - - * * * * * - -NOT ALWAYS BEST. - -"Well, Tommie, how far have you got in arithmetic?" - -"Fractions," said Tommie. - -"And do you like them?" - -"Well--I prefer bananas for dessert," said Tommie. - - * * * * * - -FROM THE ARITHMETIC CLASS. - -"Suppose I take seventeen boys," began the teacher, "and one pie. And I -divide that pie equally among them." - -"Yes," said the class. - -"What, Willie Robinson, will one of those pieces amount to?" - -"One swaller," said Willie. - - * * * * * - -A HINT. - -"Well, Jacky," said Uncle George, "what are you going to be when you -grow up?" - -"An uncle if I can afford it," said Jacky. "Uncles ought always to have -pockets full of nickels to give to their nephews--don't you think?" - - * * * * * - -WILLIE'S QUESTIONS. - -"Pop," said Willie. - -"Well?" replied his father. - -"I want to ask you a question." - -"What is it?" - -"Do you suppose birds sing for nothing, because they know nobody'd ever -pay their bill?" - - * * * * * - -THE REASON FOR IT. - -"How fast you are growing, Tommie." - -"Yes. Too fast, I think. They water me too much. Why, I have to take a -bath every morning." - - * * * * * - -NONCOMMITTAL. - -"Are you fond of your aunts, Polly?" asked one of those dear relatives. - -"Don't collect 'em," said Polly. 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McGuire - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#A_WILD_DAY_IN_48">A WILD DAY IN '48.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#MILADYS_CAST-OFFS">MILADY'S CAST-OFFS.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#GORGONZOLA_THE_AUTHOR">GORGONZOLA, THE AUTHOR.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_MIDDLETON_BOWL">THE MIDDLETON BOWL.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#A_LOYAL_TRAITOR">A LOYAL TRAITOR.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#CAPTAIN_LEARYS_SAMOAN_EXPERIENCE">CAPTAIN LEARY'S SAMOAN EXPERIENCE.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#WOOD-CARVING">WOOD-CARVING.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#INTERSCHOLASTIC_SPORT">INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#QUESTIONS_FOR_YOUNG_MEN">QUESTIONS FOR YOUNG MEN.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#STAMPS">STAMPS.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_CAMERA_CLUB">THE CAMERA CLUB.</a></td></tr> -</table></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_353" id="Page_353">[Pg 353]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 800px;"> -<img src="images/ill_001.jpg" width="800" height="326" alt="HARPER'S ROUND TABLE" /> -</div> - -<p class="center">Copyright, 1897, 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, FEBRUARY 9, 1897.</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>. 902.</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="A_WILD_DAY_IN_48" id="A_WILD_DAY_IN_48"></a> -<img src="images/ill_002.jpg" width="700" height="412" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2>A WILD DAY IN '48.</h2> - -<h3>BY WILLIAM BLACK.</h3> - -<p>There was a vague apprehension in the air; every one appeared conscious -that something was about to happen, though no one seemed to know -precisely what; and so, as childhood is naturally curious, the writer of -these lines, being then of the age of seven, managed to escape from the -house unobserved, out into the great murmuring town. Half-frightened -glances turned towards the east were a kind of guidance; and in that -direction he accordingly wandered, until he came in sight of a -crowd—not a beautiful, richly colored, processional crowd such as might -have gone through the streets of Florence in mediæval times, with boy -choristers chanting, and maidens carrying palms, but a black and grimy -and amorphous assemblage of men, silent, in deadly earnest, who at the -moment were engaged in tearing down the tall iron railing surrounding -Glasgow Green, in order to secure weapons for themselves. And this small -person of seven thought that he too must be up and doing. The others -were wresting these enormous bars from their soldered sockets; why -should not he also be furnished with an implement of destruction? And so -he tugged and pulled and struggled; and yet the iron bar, about thrice -as high as himself, remained obdurate; and again and again he pulled, -and dragged, and vainly shook; in the midst of which determined -endeavors a hand was swiftly laid on his arm, and a young Highland lass -(her eyes jumping out of her head with terror), who had been wildly -running and searching all over the neighborhood, dragged away the young -rebel from the now marshalling crowd. Perhaps the alarm in her face -impressed him; at all events he meekly yielded. That was not the usual -expression of her face—when she was telling marvellous tales of -children being carried away by eagles and brought up in a nest on a -crag; the heroine of these various adventures, I remember, was called -Angel; and whatever else<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_354" id="Page_354">[Pg 354]</a></span> happened to her, in the end her constancy, and -virtue, and beauty were invariably rewarded by a happy marriage.</p> - -<p>But now the surging mass of rioters came along, each man of them with -one of those long spikes over his shoulder; and the trembling Highland -lass, still clinging tightly to her charge, shrank hiding into an -archway, and tried to conceal the child with her substantial skirts, -till the man-eating ogres should go by. "Willst du nicht aufstehn, -Wilhelm, zu schauen die Prozession?" some one might have asked—but not -this Highland girl, who was doubtless thinking (in Gaelic) that the -people who dwelt in cities were capable of dreadful things. Well, when -one did peep out, there was not much to see—at least, nothing -picturesque to attract the wondering eyes of childhood: there were no -flags, no Mænads with flowing hair; nor was there any gesticulation, nor -any attempt at oratory; only this great dark multitude moving on into -the city, with two or three leaders marching in front, these ominously -glancing from right to left, as if to judge where the sacking should -begin. For they had come to sack a city, had these men. There was a talk -at the time of bread riots; and no doubt there was a great deal of -distress prevailing, as there generally is; and presumably there was a -considerable proportion of these demonstrators honestly protesting -against a social system that did not provide them with work. But it was -not loaves the instigators of this movement were after, as events -showed; rather it was silver teapots, and diamond brooches, and silk -umbrellas—in short, a general partitioning of property; and of course -there were plenty of vagabonds and ne'er-do-weels only too ready to fall -in with that entrancing idea.</p> - -<p>By what secret and devious ways the Highland lass managed to get herself -and her captive back to our home in the Trongate—the historic Trongate -of the ancient city of Glasgow—I cannot now say; but she must have been -clever and smart about it; for when one at length reached the eagerly -thronged windows, it was found that the fun in the thoroughfare below -was only beginning. The whole thing looked strange. Musgrave the -gunsmith (his sign was two gold guns crossed) was the first to put up -his shutters. Perhaps the police had warned him that the rioters would -make straight for his premises, to seize arms and ammunition, though, to -be sure, there was not a policeman anywhere visible. No; what was -visible was a great, swarming, tumultuous assemblage of men and lads -who, at a signal from their leaders, had become stationary in front of a -silversmith's shop. The silversmith, like the rest of his neighbors, had -hurriedly shut and locked up his shop on hearing of the approach of the -mob; but that did not avail him much. Another signal was given. -Volunteers rushed forward, and proceeded with their long iron pikes to -batter in the panels of the door. Then a hole was made. Then one man -stooped and crawled in and opened the door from the inside. The curious -thing was that the crowd did not now rush into the shop. Perhaps some -instinct told them that they would instantly block up the place, and -would thus escheat themselves of the spoils of victory. There was a -cheer, doubtless, when the panel was hammered in—a long, hoarse, -raucous cheer; but the mass held back; only the leaders entered; and for -a few moments there was a dumb expectancy.</p> - -<p>What now followed was one of the most singular scenes that any small boy -of seven ever set eyes upon. From the wide-opened door flashing white -things came flying out; high above the heads of the crowd they came; but -as they descended a forest of straining arms and hands received them; -and there was cheer after cheer as the plunder went on. It did not -matter what it was: silver fish-knives, coffee-pots, biscuit-boxes, -cruet-stands, opera-glasses—out they came flying to fall into this or -that one's clutch; and again and again the hoarse roar of exultation -went up, even from those who could not get near enough to share. These -people with the upstretched arms appeared to have no fear whatever of -getting their heads cut open by an electro-plated salver, a drawing-room -lamp, or a brass candlestick. Out the missiles came; and the covetous -fingers grabbed here and there; and the fierce tumult of applause ebbed -and flowed. Where were the police? Well, there did not seem to be any -police. It is true, a number of special constables had been hastily -sworn in (my eldest brother was one of them, and according to his own -account performed prodigies of valor); but they could not be everywhere; -and meanwhile the poor silversmith's goods were being catapulted out to -those clamorous upstretched hands.</p> - -<p>Of a sudden a new feature appeared in this changing panorama. Ten or a -dozen men (I think they wore some sash or badge of office, but I am not -positive on this point) who seemed to have dropped from the clouds were -jamming their way through the dense multitude; and when at length they -had reached the pavement in front of the silversmith's shop, they began -to lay about them lustily with their staves, each blow falling -vertically on several heads at once. In Egypt I have seen an old Arab -sheik do precisely the same thing, when his young men had become unruly. -And in neither case was there the slightest resistance to constituted -authority. This great mass of people could have turned upon the handful -of special constables and rent them in pieces; but they did not; they -tried in a kind of way to move on, though by this time all the central -thoroughfares of the city were blocked, and a man who has a cruet-stand -or a silver dish-cover concealed under his coat cannot glide easily -between his neighbors. Whether the constables succeeded in arresting any -of the ringleaders at this particular spot, I cannot recollect; but all -the afternoon came wilder and wilder stories of chases, and captures, -and seizures of booty. My brother was personally conducting a party of -five of the rioters to the police-station, through a very bad -neighborhood, when they turned on him, tripped him, and threw him down. -But he was up again in a moment, with the cursory declaration that if -any one of them advanced a step towards him, or attempted to escape -either, he would forthwith split his, the thief's, skull in two. And -what is more, he would have done it; for he was a powerful man; and he -had a drawn truncheon; and he was never at any time a slave to -punctilio. I forget the number of gold and silver watches found in the -possession of these rascals.</p> - -<p>But now the great event of the day, to the imagination of childhood, at -all events, was approaching; for the bruit was gone abroad that the -cavalry had been ordered in from their suburban barracks to ride through -the streets and disperse the mob, and put an end to any lingering -lawlessness. Plundering in the main thoroughfares had by this time -mostly ceased; for the chief ringleaders had been arrested and haled off -to the police-stations; while the worst of their followers roamed about -in a surreptitious way, seeking what they could devour, rather than -daring openly to attack the shuttered shops. The central parts of the -city still remained congested, notwithstanding the reading of the Riot -Act; for many simple country folk had wandered in, perhaps out of -curiosity, perhaps anxious about their relatives; and of course they -could not well get about, because of the crush. Altogether they formed a -restless, half-frightened, elbowing, and struggling crowd; but it was a -sombre crowd—especially as the dusk of the afternoon drew on to -twilight; so that the delight of one small spectator may be imagined -when there appeared in the distance a fringe of color—a splendor of -uniforms—the glint of helmet and drawn sabre—the prancing of horses. -And now began a wild hurry-and-scurry, the people surging against -themselves in their frantic efforts to get free, a chaos and confusion -impossible to describe. On came the dragoons, pressing against this -nebulous mass of humanity, sparing the women as well as they could, but -riding down the men—especially where any disposition was shown to form -defiant groups—and striking right and left with the back of their -swords. It was all very picturesque and splendid—to one youthful -onlooker—here in the gathering gloom: the flash of brass and steel, the -clink-clank of bridle and scabbard, the fleeing of fugitives, the pawing -and rearing of reined-in chargers where a group of terrified women found -themselves incapable of retreat. Why, it was better than the fight with -Apollyon in the <i>Pilgrim's Progress</i>; for that was only a picture, in -flaming red and yellow colors; whereas this was full of movement and -change; and a certain<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_355" id="Page_355">[Pg 355]</a></span> dim fascination of fear. And so the dark came -down; and the gases in the house were lit; but out there the dragoons -were still riding hither and thither through the night, pursuing and -dispersing, with a rattle of horses' hoofs on the stony street.</p> - -<p>What happened next was remarkable enough. The fact is, you cannot at a -moment's notice drive a welded crowd out of a long and narrow -thoroughfare. It is not to be done; and in this case it was not done; -for the people, seeing their neighbors here and there knocked over by -the horses or slapped on the shoulder by those gleaming blades, -forthwith fled pell-mell into the adjacent "closes," lanes, archways, -and common stair-cases, which were very speedily choked up. To all -outward seeming, the pavements and the causeway, now dimly visible under -the yellow light of the street lamps, had been swept clear; but none the -less the Trongate held all these innumerable huddled and hiding groups -of frightened folk, as we were soon to know. For, through some accident -or another, the outer door of our house chanced to be opened for a -second, and instantly there burst into the lobby and into the rooms a -whole number of women, panting, shaking, haggard-eyed, and speechless.</p> - -<p>They made no apology for taking possession of a stranger's dwelling, the -simple reason being that in their agony of alarm they were incapable of -uttering a word; they did not know what they were doing or where they -were; they were entirely bereft of their senses. A friend of mine who -was through a long war (I do not mention his nationality, for fear of -wounding patriotic sensitiveness) told me that on one occasion, after an -unexpected reverse, the regiment in which he served was seized by a -perfectly ungovernable panic; there was no withstanding the infection of -this madness; the whole lot of them, himself included, took to their -heels, and ran, and ran, and ran, hour after hour, until they flung -themselves exhausted on the floor of any barn or shanty that chanced to -be on their way; and then there was never more than ten minutes' sleep -to be snatched, for one or other of them was sure to spring up with the -cry, "They're coming!" and off they would set again, in hysterical and -insensate flight. It would seem as if a regiment had a nervous system -just as a human being has, and that either may find it fail at a -critical moment, until reason reasserts itself. I remember regarding -with the greatest curiosity these unaccountable visitors who had invaded -our home. Decent-looking, respectably-dressed women they were, who -obviously had had no more to do with the riot than the man in the moon; -most likely they had never heard of such a thing as a Riot Act; but here -they were imprisoned, their voice and wits alike gone from them, and no -means possible to them of communicating with their friends. Not any one -of them appeared to know any other of them. Some stood in the middle of -the dining-room, seemingly unable to move another step, pale, trembling, -distraught; one or two had sunk helplessly into chairs; one or two were -looking out from the windows at the terrors from which they had just -escaped, their scared eyes following the clanking up and down of the -dragoons, the charging of the horses, the escape of this or that -guilty-conscienced runaway along the dark and gas-lit street. And what -was to be done with these paralyzed and speechless guests, when once -they had partially come to themselves? Among the elder members of the -family I gathered there was some talk of our being able to pass them -through the lines of the soldiery when our special constable should -return; but no one knew at what hour his multifarious duties might be -over. Well, that is all I can relate of this peculiar situation of -affairs, for now I was taken off to bed; and at what hour, and under -what escort these tremulous fugitives were conveyed past the lines of -military occupancy I cannot determine. Altogether it was a wild and -memorable day, and many and wild and wonderful were the tales thereafter -told of it; so that, for the time being, in the case of one small -listener, his old friends the Giants Pope and Pagan, Robinson Crusoe and -Friday, and even the eagle-captured children of the far West Highlands -were quite put into the shade.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="MILADYS_CAST-OFFS" id="MILADYS_CAST-OFFS">MILADY'S CAST-OFFS.</a></h2> -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 21em;">I found a garment yesterday</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 22em;">A-lying on the hills;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 21em;">'Twas rare with radiant coloring</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 22em;">And rich with gleaming frills:</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 21em;">A skirt of crinkled golden-rod</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 22em;">And purple-aster sleeves,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 21em;">A belt of burning cardinals,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 22em;">A mantle of brown leaves,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And a bodice of the laces</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 22em;">That the dandelion weaves.</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 21em;">A bonnet trimmed with thistle-blooms</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Was lying not far off,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And sandals made of birchen bark</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Were satin—brown and buff;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And dainty, dainty mittens</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Were lying here and there,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Grown by the loving sumach-tree</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 22em;">For hands both small and fair,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 21em;">With other witching trinkets that</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 22em;">A woodsy nymph might wear.</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 21em;">I touched the garments tenderly</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 22em;">As they were lying there,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And longed to see the maiden who</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Such finery did wear;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 21em;">So roaming through the woodland dale,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 22em;">And searching every nook,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 21em;">I paused at last to listen</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 22em;">To the prattle of the brook,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And all the pretty tale he knew</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Just like a little book:</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 21em;">These were the gorgeous autumn robes</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Of Nature not long since,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 21em;">But now she'll dress in gems and white,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 22em;">For she's to wed a prince—</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 21em;">The wondrous, jolly Winter Prince,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Fast coming from the north,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 21em;">His heralds speeding on the wind,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Their trumpets shouting mirth;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And soon a snow-white wedding-feast</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Will spread all o'er the earth.</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Sarah Stirling McEnery</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="GORGONZOLA_THE_AUTHOR" id="GORGONZOLA_THE_AUTHOR">GORGONZOLA, THE AUTHOR.</a></h2> - -<h3>BY JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.</h3> - -<p>It was upon the occasion of my second visit to Schnitzelhammerstein on -the Zugvitz that my friend Hans Pumpernickel, who, as some of you may -remember, is the Mayor of the queer old city, let me into the secret of -poor old Gorgonzola's embarrassing situation. We were taking one of our -usual summer-evening walks on the banks of the Zugvitz, and on our way -back to Hans's residence we passed a gloomy-looking old house on the -right-hand side of the Hochstrasse, near the public gardens. With the -exception of a dim light which struggled through a window on the top -floor, the mansion was in utter darkness, and was, in fact, in such -strong contrast to the general air of cheerfulness which is one of the -strongest attributes of this broad avenue that I remarked it.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_356" id="Page_356">[Pg 356]</a></span></p> - -<p>"Dear me!" I cried, as I stood before it. "What a place of gloom! It -reminds me of a small black cloud on an otherwise perfect sky. Who lives -there?"</p> - -<p>"It is the home of poor old Gorgonzola, the author," said Hans, shaking -his head sadly. "The light you see is from his study—his den. It is -there that he is at work."</p> - -<p>I did not like to confess my ignorance by telling Hans that I had never -heard of Gorgonzola, the author. For all I knew, Gorgonzola, the author, -might be one of the features of the town, and so, wishing neither to -betray my ignorance nor to offend my kindly host, I said:</p> - -<p>"Oh! Really? How interesting!"</p> - -<p>At this remark Hans threw his head back and laughed. "Is it so?" he -said. "Indeed, now, how interesting do you find it?"</p> - -<p>"Well," I replied, after some hesitation, "we have a word in our -language which expresses it. 'Quite' is the word. I find it quite -interesting, though, to tell you the truth, my dear Mr. Mayor, I never -heard of Herr Gorgonzola before. In our country almost every town of -importance has an author of which it is proud, and it was only my desire -to be tactful that kept me from asking, when you mentioned Gorgonzola, -who on earth he was. The fact that I never heard of him does not prove -that he is not a great man. What has he written?"</p> - -<p>"Nothing—practically nothing. He hasn't even written a poem for the -Schnitzelhammerstein <i>Blaetter</i>."</p> - -<p>"Then why do you call him an author?" I asked.</p> - -<p>"Because," Hans replied, naïvely, "every man has to do something, and -poor old Gorgonzola is nothing else. Besides, he called himself that."</p> - -<p>There was a pause. I was more or less baffled to know what to say, and -in accordance with the old German maxim, "When you nothing have to say -already, do not say it yet," I deemed it well to keep silent. -Fortunately, before the silence that followed became too deep, -Pumpernickel himself put in with,</p> - -<p>"He did not want to call himself an author, but he had to. You know we -have a Directory here in our city—a great, thick, heavy book—"</p> - -<p>"Which he wrote?" I suggested, desiring to say something, for I had in -mind that other old proverb, "He who says nothing, has nothing to say; -and having nothing to say, therefore thinks nothing in his brains."</p> - -<p>"Not at all, not at all," cried Hans, impatiently. "He merely let them -use his name in it for completeness' sake. You see, it was this way," -the Mayor continued. "When Bingenburg and Rheinfels went to our Board of -Trade and said let us get up the Directory of this city, the Board of -Trade said: 'Donner and Blitzen! not unless you make it complete. The -last Directory was full of addresses that no one wished to know, and had -none that would help a stranger to our town.'</p> - -<p>"'We will make it complete,' said Bingenburg and Rheinfels. 'There shall -be no living soul in Schnitzelhammerstein on the Zugvitz whose name and -occupation and domicile shall not be down in full.'</p> - -<p>"'Then,' said the Board of Trade, 'you may make the Directory, but if we -find one name left out, or without an occupation and an address, then -will we not only not endorse your Directory, but we will say it is bad, -and advise the citizens of this town not to go to those addresses which -you print.'</p> - -<p>"'We will do our best,' said Bingenburg and Rheinfels.</p> - -<p>"'That's good,' replied the Board of Trade. 'Go ahead. What we have -feared from experience is that you would do your worst.'</p> - -<p>"And so," continued Hans Pumpernickel to me, "these persons were -commissioned to prepare a Directory for Schnitzelhammerstein on the -Zugvitz. They went ahead and got most everybody. In their original -manuscript, submitted to the Board of Trade, they had entries like this: -'Hans Blumenthal, baby, Altgeldstrasse, 19 bis.' They had 'Gretchen -Frorumelstine, doll-fancier, 4612 Funf Avenue'—in fact, they had every -single human being in town, by name and by occupation, however trivial, -mentioned.</p> - -<p>"Now, of course, to do this they had to see everybody, and among others -they saw poor old Gorgonzola, and he willingly gave them his address and -his name.</p> - -<p>"'But your occupation?' said the agent, instructed beforehand already.</p> - -<p>"'I have none,' said he.</p> - -<p>"'Then we put you down as "Wilhelm Gorgonzola, nothing,"' said the -agent.</p> - -<p>"'But I am not nothing,' cried Gorgonzola.</p> - -<p>"'Then what are you—a butcher?" said the agent.</p> - -<p>"'You are insulting,' said Gorgonzola, indignantly.</p> - -<p>"'We may be, but we do not intend to be,' said the agent. 'The man who -is nothing is nothing; if he is not nothing, he is something else. -Therefore you may be a butcher.'</p> - -<p>"'You cannot have my name at all, then,' said Gorgonzola, with an angry -wave of his hand.</p> - -<p>"'Oh yes, we can,' replied the agent. 'Your name is here. Therefore we -have your name and address. Your occupation is what we wish to learn. If -you are not occupied, we will put you down as "vacant," or "to let," or -as "nothing." We are under contract to the Board of Trade to give them a -complete Directory, and we intend to do so. What, then, are you?'</p> - -<p>"'Well, you see,' said Gorgonzola, desperately, 'as yet I am nothing, -but I hope to be an author—'</p> - -<p>"'And how soon do you hope to be an author?" asked the agent.</p> - -<p>"'It may come at any time—to-morrow, or the next day—or the day -after—'</p> - -<p>"'Oh, well, then, it is all right already,' put in the agent, 'for our -Directory will not be out before that. Under no circumstances can we -have it ready before to-morrow, or the next day, or the day after. I -will therefore put you down as an "author," for doubtless you will be -one before our Directory is published.'</p> - -<p>"To this," Hans continued, "poor old Gorgonzola weakly consented. You -see, he fully expected to be one before the Directory came out; but, -alas! he was too hopeful. The day of publication arrived, and as yet he -had not written a line. He sent word to Bingenburg and Rheinfels, and -begged them to wait a month; but they said no, they would wait ten days -and no longer.</p> - -<p>"'But I have not yet even an idea for my book,' said Gorgonzola.</p> - -<p>"'That is not our fault,' replied Bingenburg and Rheinfels. 'You have had -six months in which to become an "author"; we grant you ten days more. -If you are not one by that time, our Directory will have to come out, -anyhow, and inasmuch as we have your authorization to put you down as -such, we shall require that you shall be one at least in name by then, -for we have promised that the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_357" id="Page_357">[Pg 357]</a></span> book shall have no errors. If we get into -trouble with the Board of Trade on your account, then shall we sue you -for the damages!'"</p> - -<p>"The poor old fellow," said I, my sympathy aroused.</p> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 215px;"> -<img src="images/ill_003.jpg" width="215" height="400" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">BINGENBURG CAME IN PERSON TO SEE HIM.</span> -</div> - -<p>"It was a dreadfully hard position for him, no doubt," said Hans; "but, -after all, it was his own fault, and has been so ever since. When the -ten days were up, Gorgonzola had even yet not an idea, much less a book, -and Bingenburg came in person to see him. Gorgonzola begged him to blot -out the word author, but neither he nor Rheinfels would go to the -expense, and they threatened that if he ever denied that he was an -author, in public or in private, they would ruin him. 'It is all your -own doings,' said Rheinfels. 'We would gladly have put you down as a -butcher, or a baker, or anything else that is easy to be, and you would -not let us. We offered to put you down as a nothing, and you grew angry, -and it was yourself that said you expected to be an author before our -Directory came out, and we put you down so with your consent. Now our -Directory has cost us five thousand thalers to make, and if one mistake -is found therein the Board of Trade will decline to take it off our -hands, and we shall lose all that money; and so it comes that you have -got to keep your promise to us and be what you said you would.'</p> - -<p>"'I see,' moaned Gorgonzola; 'I cannot blame you, Rheinfels. But it is -awfully hard.'</p> - -<p>"'It would have been easier to be a butcher, but you would not,' put in -Bingenburg.</p> - -<p>"'I know, I know,' said Gorgonzola, 'but I hate butchering.'</p> - -<p>"'Well, anyhow,' said Rheinfels, 'the entry is going to attract -attention, and the Board of Trade will try to find an error in the book -so that they may not have to pay us, and we want you to understand that -we hold you responsible for this. If they summon you, you must confess.'</p> - -<p>"'Confess?' cried Gorgonzola. 'Confess what?'</p> - -<p>"'That you are an author,' said Rheinfels, calmly.</p> - -<p>"'But suppose they ask me of what?' pleaded Gorgonzola, wringing his -hands.</p> - -<p>"'That is your business, not ours,' retorted Bingenburg and Rheinfels in -one breath, and with that they left him.</p> - -<p>"And so it happened," continued Hans. "The Directory was published, and -the Board of Trade appointed a Committee of Three on Errors, who should -read the book and see if it should be paid for or confiscated. Ten -possible errors were discovered. Nine of them were found not to be -errors, but in the case of Gorgonzola they reported that since he was -not an author there was clearly one error in the book, and that they -therefore recommended the non-acceptance of the Directory. The Board so -decided, and Bingenburg and Rheinfels carried their case to the courts. -The Board of Trade stated that they had rejected the book upon the -agreement in the contract that one error should be sufficient to relieve -them of the payment required, and they had fifty witnesses to say that -Gorgonzola was not an author, but a mild-mannered gentleman who had -struck them as being a querist.</p> - -<p>"'A querist?' asked the Judge.</p> - -<p>"'Yes,' said the witnesses. 'A querist—one who is only queer and -nothing else.'</p> - -<p>"Then Bingenburg and Rheinfels called Gorgonzola as a witness. Poor old -fellow! he felt awfully about it, but he had to testify.</p> - -<p>"'Your name,' said the lawyer.</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 324px;"> -<img src="images/ill_004.jpg" width="324" height="400" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">HANS JOSEF WILHELM GORGONZOLA, AUTHOR.</span> -</div> - -<p>"'Hans Josef Wilhelm Gorgonzola,' he replied.</p> - -<p>"'A good name for an author,' sneered the lawyer. 'What is your -business?'</p> - -<p>"'I am an author,' said Gorgonzola, with tears in his eyes.</p> - -<p>"'He confesses it! he confesses it!' cried Bingenburg and Rheinfels, -overjoyed, while the Board of Trade looked blue, and the Judge called -the firm to order.</p> - -<p>"'Author of what?' asked the lawyer, triumphantly.</p> - -<p>"Gorgonzola hesitated, and Bingenburg and Rheinfels held their breath.</p> - -<p>"'Of—what I have written,' said Gorgonzola, sadly.</p> - -<p>"'And what is that?' insisted the lawyer.</p> - -<p>"'I cannot tell,' said Gorgonzola, 'because it—it is my secret. If I -told what I have written, some one else might steal it and publish it -over his name, and all my work would be gone for nothing, which is -hardly fair.'</p> - -<p>"'A good point,' said the Judge, nodding pleasantly at Gorgonzola.</p> - -<p>"'But you have never published anything?' said the lawyer in a manner so -impressive as to affect the jury.</p> - -<p>"'No,' said Gorgonzola. 'No, I have never published anything; but that -is because I am not a publisher. If I were a publisher, I should -publish. As I am only an author, I merely authorize.'</p> - -<p>"'Do not authors frequently publish?' asked the lawyer.</p> - -<p>"'Often,' returned Gorgonzola. 'But I am not of that kind. It is said by -some who seem to know that the best books are still unwritten, much less -published. I am writing one of the unwritten and unpublished books.'</p> - -<p>"'Yet you have written something?' suggested the Judge, who admired the -modest demeanor of Gorgonzola.</p> - -<p>"'Yes,' said Gorgonzola. 'I have written the first paragraph of my new -book.'</p> - -<p>"'Then,' said the Judge, 'the entry is correct. If he has written the -first paragraph, or even the first word of his new novel, he is an -author, and I so decide. Next case.'</p> - -<p>"So," said Hans, "it was decided that Gorgonzola was properly entered as -an author on the pages of the Schnitzelhammerstein Directory, and the -Board of Trade was compelled to pay for it. That," Hans added, "was -twenty years ago."</p> - -<p>"As long ago as that, eh?" said I. "And was Gorgonzola's novel published -later?"</p> - -<p>"No," said Hans. "Not yet. You see, he is still at work on it. That is -why you see that dim light from his study window. Gorgonzola begins work -at seven in the morning and retires at midnight. He is still at work on -the novel, but, having written that first paragraph, we of course allude -to him as the Author."</p> - -<p>I laughed again. I had to, though I still had a great sympathy for -Gorgonzola.</p> - -<p>"What was his first paragraph?" I asked, very much interested; "or don't -you know?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, indeed, I know," replied Hans. "He has read it<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_358" id="Page_358">[Pg 358]</a></span> to me many times. -Let's see—it is like this: 'It was a pleasant day in June. The buds -were bursting on the trees, and all nature seemed alive, as Gretchen -walked down the stairs and out into the garden.'"</p> - -<p>"That's a good start," said I. "And tell me, Mr. Mayor, how far has he -got in these twenty years?"</p> - -<p>"He is still at work on his second paragraph," said the Mayor.</p> - -<p>"Well," said I, "there's a good story for you—but, after all, Hans, it -hasn't much of a moral."</p> - -<p>"Oh yes, it has," retorted Hans. "It has a great moral. In fact you -English-speaking people have the very moral well expressed."</p> - -<p>"Indeed," said I, anxiously, "what is that?"</p> - -<p>"First be sure you write, then go ahead," said Hans, simply.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="THE_MIDDLETON_BOWL" id="THE_MIDDLETON_BOWL"></a>THE MIDDLETON BOWL.<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a></h2> - -<h3>BY ELLEN DOUGLAS DELAND.</h3> - -<h3>CHAPTER V.</h3> - -<p>Yes, some one was in the room. Theodora felt a little thrill of -excitement as she realized this fact. Was it a robber who had hidden -there? Perhaps, though, it was only one of the servants. She felt almost -disappointed when this thought crossed her mind—a robber would be so -much more uncommon. And yet he might try to kill her; robbers frequently -did such things. She withdrew more into the shadow, and waited.</p> - -<p>Not another sound was to be heard. Brave as she naturally was, Theodora -felt a tremor of fear as she sat there in the silence of the night. She -was quite sure that she had heard something; of that there was no doubt. -She knew with absolute certainty that some one or something alive was in -her aunts' parlor besides herself.</p> - -<p>Should she go and call somebody? No, that would not do, for her aunts -had had too much excitement already. If they knew that a burglar—for it -certainly might be one—was in the drawing-room they would without doubt -scream and faint, and that would be bad for her aunt Joanna, to say the -least. The servants would be useless, for they were all elderly, and -were quite as unstrung as were their five mistresses, and John, the only -man of the household, was ill in his room over the stable.</p> - -<p>The doctor was upstairs, to be sure, but it was early in the night, and -he was in close attendance upon his patient, who was not yet out of -danger. All these thoughts passed rapidly through Teddy's mind, and she -saw that she must act alone.</p> - -<p>"I don't believe a robber would kill a little girl," she said to -herself, "and I will speak to him very politely."</p> - -<p>Her first act was to walk around the room pulling up all the -Venetian-blinds as high as they would go. There were seven windows in -the large room—two at each end, and three on the side that had the two -fireplaces. On the fourth side of the room were two doors, one leading -into the front hall, the other into the back. The parlor occupied the -whole of that side of the main house. The kitchens were in the "L" at -the back, cut off by a door into the hall.</p> - -<p>It required some courage to go from window to window, particularly when -Teddy reached that part of the room whence the sound had come, but she -felt that she must have as much light as possible. Her fingers trembled -as she tried to fasten the cord which held the blinds. Once their -strength failed them, and the slats of the blind fell down with a -terrifying clatter; but she pulled them up again, and wound the cord -firmly about the hook.</p> - -<p>At last the seven shades were up, and the room was as light as the world -without. Only here and there lay a black shadow which might -contain—anything! Teddy then took up her position near the door, that -she might escape should affairs become very alarming, and tried to -speak. At first not a sound came from her. She cleared her throat, and -tried again.</p> - -<p>"Is anybody in this room?" she asked. Only the silence and the shadows -made reply. "I am quite sure some one is," she continued, gaining -courage at the sound of her own voice; "I heard you breathe a little -while ago, and I heard you knock something. If you don't come out I -shall have to go and call Dr. Morton, who is upstairs. He is with my -aunt Joanna, who is very ill. I should lock the parlor doors while I am -gone, so you couldn't get out."</p> - -<p>She thought this was a brilliant inspiration, quite forgetting the seven -windows within easy reach of the ground. To this long speech, however, -there was no reply.</p> - -<p>"I declare, it is too bad!" went on Teddy. "I do think you might say -something. I won't let any one hurt you, and if you are a robber I'll -let you get away as easily as anything, if you'll only come out!"</p> - -<p>She ceased again, and suddenly a voice replied. It sounded so near, and -it was so unexpected—for she had now almost made up her mind that no -one was there, after all—that it made Teddy jump.</p> - -<p>"Do you mean that?" it said.</p> - -<p>"Yes, of course I do," said she, speaking very rapidly, and fixing her -eyes upon the old-fashioned sofa with the high back, whence the voice -seemed to proceed. "Please come out and tell me who you are and what you -want."</p> - -<p>The sofa was placed across a corner, and as Teddy watched it eagerly it -was pushed slightly from behind, and a boyish figure rose against the -wall. There was something about the intruder that seemed familiar to -her, and she stepped forward.</p> - -<p>"Why—why, is it you?" she exclaimed, as the boy climbed over the sofa -and stood in the moonlight.</p> - -<p>"Yes, it's me," was the reply.</p> - -<p>Sure enough, it was Andy Morse, the boy who stoned the kitten.</p> - -<p>"Why, what do you want here?" asked Teddy, all her fear vanishing at -sight of this well-known face. "I am so glad it is you, for, do you -know, I was really afraid it was somebody come to steal something. What -have you come for, and why did you come in such a queer way in the -middle of the night?"</p> - -<p>The boy shuffled his feet, and looked away from her.</p> - -<p>"Is there anything I can do for you?" she continued.</p> - -<p>"Yes," said he, in a hoarse whisper; "I'm awful hungry."</p> - -<p>"Oh, are you? Well, just wait here, and I'll get you something to eat. -Or perhaps you had better come with me, for my aunts don't like to have -eating in the parlor. You might drop the crumbs, you know. I often do. -We'll go out to the kitchen; but first I must find some matches."</p> - -<p>"Here's one," said Morse, diving into his pocket.</p> - -<p>He followed her through the door into the back hall. She could not reach -the gas-burner, so he lighted it for her both there and in the kitchen. -She went to the bread-box and took out a loaf of Catharine's delicious -Graham-bread, and then she went to the refrigerator in the hall and -procured some butter. A pitcher of milk and some cold mutton were also -within reach. These she brought and placed upon the kitchen table, -inviting her guest at the same time to draw up a chair. Then, having -supplied him with a knife and fork, and some cookies which she found in -the store-room, she sat down at the table herself.</p> - -<p>"I am hungry too," she remarked, affably. "I have been up all night, and -I went after the doctor on a bicycle. It makes you awfully hungry to do -so much in the night."</p> - -<p>Her guest made no reply to this, but devoted himself to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_359" id="Page_359">[Pg 359]</a></span> his supper with -an avidity which left no doubt of his being hungry himself. Every drop -of the milk had disappeared, every scrap of meat upon the mutton bone -had been devoured before he spoke. Then he pushed back his chair. "Thank -you," said he. "I 'ain't had nothin' ter eat since day before -yesterday."</p> - -<p>"Oh!" cried Theodora, "I don't wonder you were hungry! Won't you have -something more? Why, how did it happen?"</p> - -<p>"It happened 'cause I'm tired of askin' folks ter give me somethun when -they don't want ter, and I 'ain't had no money ter pay for it, and yer -can't get nothin' without payin' for it unless yer wants ter get chucked -inter jail. So that is the reason I come here. I thought I'd get ter -jail sooner or later, and I might as well try for somethun big first. -Yer don't much care what yer do when yer as hungry as I was."</p> - -<p>"What do you mean?" asked Teddy. "I don't quite understand what you say -about jail."</p> - -<p>The boy looked at her in silence for a moment or two. "Look ahere," said -he, at last. "I thought I hated yer 'count o' that black eye yer give me -long o' that cat. I 'ain't never been set onter by a girl before, and it -jest made me rippin' mad. I didn't s'pose I'd ever git over it, and I'd -'a' liked ter 'a' paid yer back over and over again, but I feel -diff'runt now. Yer've been mighty perlite, and give me as good a lot o' -victuals as I ever tasted. I feel better, now I've got somethun inside -o' me, and I'm agoin' ter tell yer somethun. I don't believe, after all, -as yer the kind o' girl as would git me inter trouble."</p> - -<p>"Oh no; of course not!" said Teddy, earnestly. "I was very mad at you -that day, for I do think it is perfectly horrible for any one to hurt an -animal. I'm sorry I hurt you very badly, but I may just as well tell you -the truth. You had better never do it again if you see me anywhere near, -for I am sure, perfectly sure, that it would make me just as mad as it -did that day, and I am very much afraid I should attack you the same -way. My aunts did not like my doing it at all, and they said it was -unladylike, and I suppose it was. But oh! you don't know how angry it -makes me to see any one cruel to animals!"</p> - -<p>They were standing facing each other, the little girl in her pretty red -frock, with the mass of tumbled brown hair falling over her shoulders; -the tall ungainly boy in his ragged clothes, twisting his hat in his -hands as he listened to this tirade. When she had finished, he lifted -his eyes and looked at her admiringly.</p> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 384px;"> -<img src="images/ill_005.jpg" width="384" height="500" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">"I WON'T STONE NO MORE KITTENS, NOT IF I CAN HELP IT, NOR -PUPPIES NEITHER."</span> -</div> - -<p>"Yer a good one," said he. "I kinder like yer underneath fer it, though -yer did give me a black eye and make me mad. And yer've been that good -ter me ter-night, givin' me such a lot ter eat, that I'm willin' ter -promise yer somethun. I won't stone no more kittens, not if I can help -it, nor puppies neither."</p> - -<p>"Oh, thank you!" cried Theodora, fervently. "I am so much obliged to you -for saying that! Will you really be kind to animals after this? You -don't know what a relief to my mind it is. I have often thought of you -since, and wondered if you were being cruel; and now I shall feel quite -easy about you. The poor kitten died, you know."</p> - -<p>Morse said nothing to this.</p> - -<p>"And we had a funeral," continued Teddy. "That was a dreadful day -altogether, except the funeral. That was nice, but a terrible misfortune -happened to our family that day. But you said you were going to tell me -something. Was it about being kind to animals?"</p> - -<p>"No, it warn't about animals."</p> - -<p>"What was it?" asked Theodora, much interested.</p> - -<p>"Will yer promise not ter git me inter trouble?" he asked again.</p> - -<p>"Of course I'll promise."</p> - -<p>"Then I'll tell yer. Do yer know how I got in here ter-night?"</p> - -<p>"No; I was going to ask you that."</p> - -<p>"Well, yer know when yer went out on the bike?"</p> - -<p>"When I went for the doctor? Yes."</p> - -<p>"Well, I was down near the gate, a-hangin' round, not knowin' what I was -agoin' ter do, and when I seen yer go by, I thinks here's a chance. Most -likely she's left a door open or somethun, and I can git in and git -somethun or other. Yer see, I was so hungry I was ready for anything. -And I found the back door open, and I walked in as easy as anything. I -was afraid to hide in the kitchen, for I heard people movin' round, so I -crep' inter the parlor, for I knew the big sofa there'd hide me."</p> - -<p>"Why, how did you know that?" asked Theodora. "Have you ever been in our -parlor?"</p> - -<p>The boy dropped his eyes again, and again shifted his hat.</p> - -<p>"I jest thought there'd be some place there," said he; "most folks has -sofas."</p> - -<p>"And what were you going to do? Were you going to stay there all night?"</p> - -<p>"I was agoin' ter stay there till the house got quiet, and then I was -agoin' ter make a grab and be off."</p> - -<p>"A grab?" repeated Teddy, wonderingly.</p> - -<p>"Yes, a grab. I was agoin' ter take a lot o' things—them silver things -and some o' the chiny—anythin' I could get."</p> - -<p>"You mean you were going to <i>steal</i> something?"</p> - -<p>"Yes," he said, doggedly.</p> - -<p>Theodora drew a step nearer.</p> - -<p>"Then you were a robber after all!" she said. "I never saw one before. -But oh, I am so sorry it was you! I am <i>too</i> sorry! I was just getting -to like you, because you said you would be kind to animals after this. -Are, you really a robber?"</p> - -<p>"I ain't one yet," said the boy, "and now I dun'no' as I'll ever be one. -I feel kinder diff'runt about it, now I've got somethun inside o' me. I -guess you'd feel like stealin' if yer hadn't had nothin' ter eat since -day before yesterday."</p> - -<p>"I do believe I would," said Theodora, compassionately; "it must be -perfectly awful! But oh, I hope you won't steal anything. It is such a -wicked thing to do. You know there is a commandment entirely about that, -so it must be one of the wickedest things there are. <i>Please</i> don't -steal!"</p> - -<p>"I won't," said Andy Morse. "I feel diff'runt now."</p> - -<p>There was a pause, while Theodora rapidly thought over the situation.</p> - -<p>"What are you going to do to-morrow?" she asked. "How will you get -something to eat then?"</p> - -<p>"Dun'no'. Trust ter luck, I guess."</p> - -<p>"Haven't you any relations?"</p> - -<p>"Only an uncle, and he's drunk most o' the time and won't give me -nothin'."</p> - -<p>"And won't any of your friends give you anything?"</p> - -<p>"'Ain't got none, and I'm tired of askin' people ter give me victuals. -There ain't no one as seems ter want ter. Yer see, I've got a kinder bad -name round here. That's the reason I can't get no work."</p> - -<p>"Wouldn't you like some money?" asked Teddy. "I've got some upstairs I -could very well give you, if you would let me. Then you could buy -yourself something to eat for a few days, at any rate."</p> - -<p>The boy looked at her. "Yer a real good un," said he, after a moment's -grateful pause. "If I had a little money ter git some decent clo'es, I -might git some work somewhere or other. I'd rather be honest if I can, -but a poor shabby-lookin' feller like me don't stand no chance, and -everybody in Alden thinks I'm no good. If I could git away from here, I -might git somethun ter do somewheres else. Do yer really mean yer'd give -me some money?"</p> - -<p>"Of course I do," replied Teddy; "I'll go up and get it now. It's in my -bank. Suppose we put this light out and go back to the parlor; you can -wait for me there."</p> - -<p>They reached the drawing-room door, and Teddy, opening it, motioned to -her guest to go in and be seated. The moonlight still flooded the room, -and it lighted up the old silver snuffers and trays, the tall silver -candelabra which flanked both ends of the two mantel-pieces, and even -Great-grandfather Middleton's gold snuff-box, which was always kept upon -a cabinet in the front of the room.</p> - -<p>"Say!" exclaimed Andy Morse, in a sharp whisper; "ain't yer 'fraid ter -leave me here with all them things? Ain't yer 'fraid I might steal 'em, -after all?"</p> - -<p>"Oh no," said Theodora, following him into the room and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_360" id="Page_360">[Pg 360]</a></span> closing the -door; "of course not. You just told me you wouldn't steal, that you were -going to be honest, and <i>of course</i> I believe you."</p> - -<p>And then she went out of the parlor and left him alone in the moonlight -with the gold and the silver, and all the priceless china, from the -Middleton bowl down. She was absent about ten minutes. When she returned -she carried a small silk bag in her hand, which she gave to Morse.</p> - -<p>"It is all in there," she said—"all I have. I just emptied my bank -right into that work-bag, for I thought it would be easier for you to -carry the money that way. I don't know how much there is there, but I -think it is about fifteen dollars, for I've been saving it for some -time. It seems heavy, for so much of it is in pennies and five and ten -cent pieces, but I don't believe you will mind carrying it."</p> - -<p>Andy Morse was speechless. He took the bag, shook it, weighed it, looked -at it in the light. Twice he tried to speak, but no words came.</p> - -<p>"Do yer—do yer really mean ter give me all this?" he stammered at last.</p> - -<p>"Certainly I do," replied Teddy. "I only hope it will be enough for you -to get what you want."</p> - -<p>"Look ahere," said Andy; "jest yer listen ter me! I solemnly promise -I'll act straight after this. I won't steal, and I won't hurt no -animals, and I won't do nothin' yer wouldn't like. And if I ever make -enough, I'll pay yer back this money, sure 's I'm alive. I'll count it, -and I'll pay yer back every cent. Do yer believe me?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, indeed I do; but you needn't bother about paying it back, for you -really need it a great deal more than I do." As she spoke her glance -fell upon the Middleton bowl, gleaming in the moonlight. "Before you go, -I want to show you this," she said, moving over to the Chinese table in -the window.</p> - -<p>"This was broken the day—the day the kitten died, and we can't find out -who did it. It is very, very valuable, and all of our family think more -of it than anything else we own, because my great-grandfather brought it -home and gave it to his son, and when my aunts die it is to go to my -father, and then to me. It is never to go out of the family, and now it -is broken, and had to be mended. We can't find out who did it, and it -has given us lots of trouble. My aunts thought at first that I did it, -and sometimes they think so now, I am sure; but I didn't. It makes me so -unhappy to think they don't believe me." She paused for a moment and -gazed at the bowl. Then she continued. "It isn't nice not to be -believed, and that is the reason I am telling you about it. I just -happened to think of it. I want to tell you again that I really and -truly believe you. I don't want you to feel unhappy about that, the way -I do about the Middleton bowl."</p> - -<p>Andy looked at it in silence. Then he turned away.</p> - -<p>"I'm agoin' now," he said. "Good-by. Yer've saved me, and I'll never -forgit it. Would yer please tell me what yer name is?" he asked, shyly. -"Yer first name, I mean. Of course I know yer other name's Middleton."</p> - -<p>"Theodora," said she, "but everybody calls me Teddy, and I like that -best. Good-by! I hope you will be able to get some work. I'm very glad I -came down here to-night. If Aunt Joanna hadn't been so ill I shouldn't -have come. If I can ever do anything else for you, I wish you would tell -me. Please go out the back door, the way you came in, if you don't mind, -for I am afraid my aunts might hear the front door shut, and it would -frighten them."</p> - -<p>She followed him to the back door and watched him walk away in the -moonlight, swinging the bag in his hand. Then she closed the door and -went back to the drawing-room.</p> - -<p>"It must be dreadful to be so hungry," she said, to herself, as she -again stood by the Middleton bowl, "and I'm glad I told him I believed -him. It certainly is dreadful not to be believed."</p> - -<h4>[<span class="smcap">to be continued</span>.]</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_361" id="Page_361">[Pg 361]</a></span></p> - -<h2><a name="A_LOYAL_TRAITOR" id="A_LOYAL_TRAITOR">A LOYAL TRAITOR.</a></h2> - -<h4>A STORY OF THE WAR OF 1812 BETWEEN AMERICA AND ENGLAND.</h4> - -<h3>BY JAMES BARNES.</h3> - -<h3>CHAPTER XVI.</h3> - -<h3>WHY I NEVER REACHED FRANCE.</h3> - -<p>We drew up our horses before the house nearest to the stone pier or -jetty that ran out some hundred feet or more from the shore. On one side -of it was a small dock or basin large enough to give shelter to four or -five fishing-boats about the size of those we call dories in New -England.</p> - -<p>As we dismounted, Monsieur de Brissac gave a halloo, and a figure -appeared in the doorway. I was surprised to see that it was Monsieur de -la Remy. He called back into the room, and a man followed him out and -took our horses.</p> - -<p>"Ah, De Brissac! you're on time as usual, and I see that you have not -forgotten your way," Monsieur de la Remy cried, as he grasped my -patron's elbows in his two hands in a half embrace. Then he bowed to me -without much effusion. "Good-morning, Monsieur le Marquis," was all he -said.</p> - -<p>I had not known that my host of the Gloucester Arms was going to be one -of us, and so expressed my surprise at seeing him. He made no -explanation, but I take it he must have been in London for some time, -and that he had come direct from there, although I had not met him at -any of the routs or parties I had attended.</p> - -<p>"Why should I forget my way, monsieur?" my patron said, laughing, as he -paused on the door-step. "Have I not travelled it every month for three -years?"</p> - -<p>As we entered the house the Marquis de Senez was standing at the door, -and greeted us in his usual reserved way. We were in a large room, and I -noticed the smell of the same kind of tobacco that the sailors use on -shipboard in the English service—a smell that seems to cling to them -and to all of their belongings—but apparently none of the gentlemen had -been smoking.</p> - -<p>"Everything is most propitious," said De Senez, as he brought forward -two chairs from the table. "Dame Fortune smiles on us. But pardon me; -you have not noticed Monsieur de Rembolez."</p> - -<p>It was then that I saw for the first time that there was a figure -sitting back in the dark shadows in the corner of the room. I recognized -the name, and as soon as the man stepped forward into the light of the -single candle, I remembered his face, and that I had seen it in London. -He was a sharp-featured, thick-set man—that is, big as to his chest and -shoulders, but very light and muscular in his underpinning. His eyes -were so black that they appeared all pupils, and his teeth were so large -and even that I believe that he could have bitten a tenpenny nail in two -with them, as his jaw also looked strong as a vise. I did<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_362" id="Page_362">[Pg 362]</a></span> not like the -man, and as I had good cause to remember afterwards, he on his part had -conceived no great affection for me.</p> - -<p>At the mention of my name he merely glanced up and showed his teeth, at -which I was tempted to show mine in return, for the meaning of that -display was rather ambiguous. He was to be the fifth one of the party, -and I am quite sure he was not of Monsieur de Brissac's choosing.</p> - -<p>"It's a good night for the crossing," observed Monsieur de Senez. "Did -you see the lookout on the cliff as you came down?"</p> - -<p>"I doubt not he saw us," retained my patron. "But he probably kept well -hidden. Is everything ready? Is Captain St. Croix here?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, and most of his crew within calling distance," returned the -steel-jawed man, casting a look over his shoulder.</p> - -<p>I saw no door, or anything that would suggest that there was an -adjoining room, for the one we were in occupied the whole ground-floor -of the house; but behind De Rembolez was a tall oak cupboard that -reached almost to the ceiling. There had come a lull in our -conversation; De Senez and the host of the Gloucester Arms were talking -in whispers, and Monsieur de Brissac was engaged in pulling off his -heavy riding-boots. All at once the low grumbling of men's voices in -talk was heard, and then an oath in good seafaring English issued -apparently from the tall cupboard. I fairly jumped as the door of it was -opened outward and a great, black-whiskered man stepped out of it. Then -I saw where the smell of tobacco came from, for the smoke rolled out -with him, and the ember in his long clay pipe was glowing.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 700px;"> -<img src="images/ill_006.jpg" width="700" height="621" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">ASTONISHED, I LOOKED PAST HIM, AND SAW THAT THE CUPBOARD -CONCEALED A GOOD-SIZED TRAP-DOOR.</span> -</div> - -<p>Astonished, I looked past him, and saw that the cupboard concealed a -good-sized trap-door; it was open, the top of a ladder extended through -the floor, and the sound of voices came from below. It was a most -ingenious idea. The cellar to which this passageway led was not under -the house, but under the garden at the back of it. The floor of the room -in which we were was made of hard, dry earth, and digging there would -have revealed nothing.</p> - -<p>I found out, by questioning afterwards on the voyage over, that the two -other houses which abutted on the innocent-looking garden also had -passageways that led to the cleverly concealed smugglers' cabin.</p> - -<p>The bewhiskered man was addressed by the company as Captain St. Croix, -but I would bet a new anchor to a ship's biscuit that he was more -English than French, although his accent was fairly good.</p> - -<p>"It looks the night for our purpose, gentlemen," he said. "We have -brewed a punch below. What say you I send for some of it, and we will -pledge a successful passage to the <i>Hirondelle</i>, eh?"</p> - -<p>"And destruction to the Corsican upstart," put in he of the beady eyes.</p> - -<p>The Captain gave a halloo down the shaft and ordered some one to bring -up the punch-bowl. At the same time he set about getting us something to -eat from a rough side-board near the fireplace.</p> - -<p>Just as a man's head appeared coming up the ladder there were three -sharp knocks on the door, and a tall fisher-lad in a dripping great-coat -came in.</p> - -<p>"It's thick and raining," he said. "I've seen the lights of the old -boat. She'll be off the point in a few minutes."</p> - -<p>"Then we must bear a hand," said the Captain. "So, gentlemen, let us eat -and drink and dispense with ceremony."</p> - -<p>I was very hungry, and fell to at once, as did the others. In half an -hour we left the shelter of the house, and hurrying down to the dock, we -were all crowded into one of the row-boats. Then pulling away, we headed -against the driving rain through the half-darkness.</p> - -<p>As it was wet when we reached the <i>Hirondelle</i>, I followed the four -other gentlemen down into the little cabin, although my love of the sea -was returning so strongly that I was tempted to stay on deck and court a -soaking.</p> - -<p>The little box of a place in which we were sitting was dimly lighted -with a swinging lamp, and as we conversed of the plot and object of our -trip (of which I shall say nothing), I could tell that we were -travelling at a good rate of speed by the rushing and lapping of the -water against the bull. The reason I do not give any full account of the -plot in which I was supposed to be engaged is that I think even now I -should keep it silent, as it concerns neither me nor my story.</p> - -<p>After a time we all fell asleep, most of us in a sitting posture, and I -was the first to awaken. It was between three and four, and still -raining, when I came out of the close musty cabin and breathed the fine -air. I noticed we had shortened sail, and that a man in the bow was -heaving the lead. He did not call out the soundings, but signalled them -to the Captain by motions of his hand. I knew we must be in shoal water, -but in how many fathoms I could not tell. All at once the man at the -wheel threw the lugger up into the wind, and we lay hove to for probably -half an hour. Every one on deck was listening.</p> - -<p>Suddenly the dark shape of a great row-boat could be seen approaching, -and going below into the cabin I aroused the rest of the passengers; De -Rembolez appeared rather nervous.</p> - -<p>Where the lugger put off her cargo I do not know, for as soon as the -five of us had clambered over her side into the row-boat, and Monsieur -De Senez had given a handful of gold to the Captain, the latter stood -off presumably to the southward, while we rowed directly to the east.</p> - -<p>Not a word had been spoken by the rowers or the man at the tiller, and I -was so interested in wondering what next was going to happen that I was -perfectly satisfied to curb my curiosity and ask no questions. I was not -anxious to anticipate, and felt really sad to think that I was soon to -leave M. De Brissac—for what, I knew not.</p> - -<p>We were off the coast between Dunkerque and Gravelines, and I should -judge that the boat had rowed out some seven or eight miles. The men at -the oars looked part Dutch and part French. They were a -villanous-looking set, however, and the fellow at the tiller appeared -little above them in order of intelligence; but while we were pulling -straight ahead, the cockswain suddenly stood up straight in his box.</p> - -<p>"Arrêtez!" he whispered, hoarsely.</p> - -<p>The men backed-water skilfully, but yet such headway did the boat have -on that it required three or four efforts before we came to a stop. -There right ahead of us lay a long white, lapstreak boat, sharp at both -ends. She had pulled directly athwart our bows. Had we been keeping a -sharp lookout we would have seen her long before, as her crew must have -had us in sight for some minutes. One glance at them told me that these -men were not Frenchmen. De Rembolez had stood up almost as soon as the -cockswain, and was looking forward eagerly, but I saw his face change to -a puzzled expression.</p> - -<p>"Les Anglais!" exclaimed the cockswain between his teeth.</p> - -<p>A few strokes of the long oars that the men in the stranger craft -wielded, and she was almost alongside of us.</p> - -<p>"Un pilote," said a voice with an execrable accent and a drawling twang -through the nose. "We want a pilot. Avez-vous un pilote?"</p> - -<p>"We have no pilot for you!" answered Monsieur de la Remy, in good -English. "Keep away from us."</p> - -<p>But what was I doing at this very moment?</p> - -<p>It was with difficulty that I was restraining an inclination to plunge -overboard and strike out for the whale-boat.</p> - -<p>It is almost past believing, but unless my eyes were playing me false, -there stood my old friend Cy Plummer of the <i>Minetta</i>, balancing a -boat-hook in his hand. This aside, it would have required but a close -glance at the wiry, strong-knit figures and the keen sharp-featured -faces, for one who knew, to declare that they were no English press-gang -bullies, but Yankee sailor-men.</p> - -<p>I was trying to find my voice, which had left me in my astonishment, but -the nobleman landlord did not notice my condition, and was still -continuing his warning.</p> - -<p>"Come no closer," he said. "At your peril. We have no pilot for you."</p> - -<p>At the same time he drew from the breast of his coat a small -double-barrelled pistol.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_363" id="Page_363">[Pg 363]</a></span></p> - -<p>"Who are you and where do you come from?" put in De Rembolez.</p> - -<p>There was evidently some consternation in the white boat at hearing the -sound of English. The men were leaning forward preparing to take a -stroke, and Plummer was evidently perplexed and at a loss what to do, -when I found my tongue.</p> - -<p>"Plummer! Cy Plummer! get me out of this," I cried.</p> - -<p>We were so near by this time that our oars were almost touching, but the -astonishment occasioned on both sides by my sudden outbreak seemed to -paralyze all hands.</p> - -<p>"Who in the name of Davy Jones are you?" Plummer questioned, quickly.</p> - -<p>"John Hurdiss of the <i>Young Eagle</i>," I cried, throwing off my cloak. -Just as I was about to dive overboard I felt myself grasped about the -arm.</p> - -<p>It was De Rembolez who had laid hold of me. The words he hissed I did -not catch, but in order to loose myself I drew back my free hand and -caught him a blow fairly between the eyes. He did not relax his hold, -however, and endeavored to throw me into the bottom of the boat. -Although he was a powerful man, he probably did not know much about -wrestling. I had the firmer footing, and twisting him round, I turned -the tables, and was forcing him away from me, when he sank his great -white teeth into the sleeve of my coat. Had he caught my flesh I might -have lost the use of my arm, but as it was he laid hold of the cloth -only, and the sleeve parted at the shoulder; but the little French -cockswain now decided to take a hand, and sprang upon me from behind, -but the result was to my helping. I just remembered hearing the sharp -snapping of Monsieur de la Remy's pistol, which missed fire, when I went -overboard over the gunwale, and with me fell Beady Eyes and the little -cockswain. I came up between the two boats. In the mean time both the -crews were laying about with their oars over my head, and there was a -lusty scrimmage going on. As soon as he felt the water closing over him, -De Rembolez released his hold, but the little 'longshoreman in the -striped shirt still held on, and before I knew it some one grabbed me -and him also, and pulled us both over into the long white boat. Somehow -the combatants had drifted apart, and with a quickness that was -surprising the Yankees had got out their oars and were giving way.</p> - -<p>I scrambled to my feet, and looking over the stern I saw that the other -boat was after us, but they never could have caught us had they been -pulling two men on a thwart. In five minutes they turned about and made -off in the opposite direction.</p> - -<p>"Douse my top-lights!" exclaimed Plummer, leaning forward and smearing -the blood away from a slight wound on the side of his face. "Where, in -the name of goodness, did you come from, lad?"</p> - -<p>"From an English prison, in the first place," I said; "but it's a long -story. Oh, but I will be glad to see our colors again!"</p> - -<p>The French cockswain here interrupted any more questions or explanations -by an effort to jump overboard.</p> - -<p>"Lay hold of him," cried Plummer to the men in the bow. "Hold the -frog-eater!" and in a minute they had pinioned the little Frenchman -down. "Pull, larboard; hold, star-board!" Plummer cried all at once, -jamming the helm down, and I, following the glance of his eye, saw the -outlines of a vessel not five hundred yards away.</p> - -<p>"What ship is that?" I asked.</p> - -<p>"The <i>Yankee</i>, privateer," my friend replied. "The luckiest vessel ever -launched—that's honest truth. Oh, we've some yarns to spin, my son, and -so must you, and, ecod! we'll have a time of it. I can scarce believe -that it is you at all, lad. But it's just the sort of a thing I might -expect would happen on a cruise like the one we've had since leaving -Buzzard's Bay."</p> - -<p>"Well, I have had some adventures myself, Plummer," I said. "And in the -very first place, I owe you a debt of gratitude for the loan of the -clothes and cap, my man."</p> - -<p>Now upon my soul I did not mean to be condescending in my speech, but -there must have been something in my tone that caused the honest seaman -to make a change in his.</p> - -<p>"I hope they brought you luck, sir," he said.</p> - -<p>I noticed that he had said "sir" involuntarily.</p> - -<p>"Indeed they did," I returned. "I'll have to tell you all about it."</p> - -<p>But now the bowmen were getting in their oars, and we were close -alongside of a small topsail schooner, as fine a bit of ship-building as -one would wish to see. She was hove to, and the great mainsail was -crackling, and the reef-points keeping up a continuous drumming against -it; and the sound was good to my ears.</p> - -<p>"What have we here?" called a voice over the rail, only a few feet above -our heads.</p> - -<p>"A pilot and a passenger," answered Plummer, fending the whale-boat off -from the side of the schooner with his hands.</p> - -<p>A short rope was thrown over to us, and, laying hold of it, I clambered -over the bulwarks, and came down on deck, where I found myself face to -face with one of the strangest-looking figures that I have met in the -course of my adventures.</p> - -<p>Before me stood a slight stoop-shouldered man, dressed in a blue -broadcloth coat and a long yellow satin waist-coat. He had on a pair of -tight-fitting buckskin breeches thrust into heavy sea-boots. The -expression on his face was the remarkable thing about him. At first I -thought that he was laughing at me, for his light blue eyes had such an -eager twinkling light in them that they appeared to show amusement. His -mouth was parted in a smile, and a continual lifting and lowering of his -eyebrows lent the idea that he considered me or my appearance some huge -joke.</p> - -<p>"Is this the passenger or the pilot?" he asked, lifting a heavy cocked -hat, and giving it a little flourish, as it were, over his head.</p> - -<p>"Neither passenger nor pilot," I replied, "but an escaped prisoner from -England, who is anxious to get a chance to fight for America again. I -was captured from the <i>Young Eagle</i>, privateer."</p> - -<p>The man's voice had surprised me. It was as fresh and young as a boy's. -When I mentioned the <i>Young Eagle</i> he made a grimace as if he were about -to whistle, but he changed it to a little rippling laugh.</p> - -<p>"Oh, ho! Temple of Stonington, eh! Such a reckless, careless devil. I -know him. Good sailor, though. So you would ship with us?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, sir," I answered. "And try to do my duty."</p> - -<p>"Oh, we can use you, never fear," the strange man chuckled. "And now -where are we?"</p> - -<p>"Eh?" I ejaculated.</p> - -<p>"What's our latitude and longitude?" he inquired.</p> - -<p>This was a puzzler for me, for I hardly knew one from the other, and -could not have answered.</p> - -<p>"Do you mean to say that you don't know that?" I asked, trying to fend -off answering.</p> - -<p>"I haven't the slightest idea where I am," he answered. "I don't know -whether I'm in the English Channel, the North Sea, or the Bay of -Biscay."</p> - -<p>This was told to me as if it were another huge joke, but I thought it -was a strange condition for the Captain of a vessel to be in.</p> - -<p>"We're off the coast of France," I said, "not far from Dunkerque."</p> - -<p>"Dunkerque?" repeated the Captain. "Ho, ho! that's fortunate."</p> - -<p>At this moment Plummer, with two or three of the crew of the whale-boat, -which was being hoisted in, came aft. They had the little Frenchman, who -looked half frightened to death, with them.</p> - -<p>"Here's the pilot, Captain Gorham," Plummer said, touching his cap.</p> - -<p>The Captain's reply to this, and the effect of it, almost took my breath -away.</p> - -<p>"Ah, Pierre," he said, "c'est donc vous? How is Madame Burron, and the -little ones?"</p> - -<p>The little Frenchman drew back, and then fell at the Captain's feet, -grasping his hand.</p> - -<p>"Ah, Capitaine Rieur, bonne fortune!" he cried, and he mumbled something -I could not catch.</p> - -<h4>[<span class="smcap">to be continued</span>.]</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_364" id="Page_364">[Pg 364]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"><a name="CAPTAIN_LEARYS_SAMOAN_EXPERIENCE" id="CAPTAIN_LEARYS_SAMOAN_EXPERIENCE"></a> -<img src="images/ill_007.jpg" width="500" height="231" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">AN IMPROMPTU HOSPITAL FOR EUROPEANS.</span> -</div> - -<h2>CAPTAIN LEARY'S SAMOAN EXPERIENCE.</h2> - -<h4>SOME STIRRING INCIDENTS IN RECENT AMERICAN NAVAL HISTORY.</h4> - -<h3>BY FRANKLIN MATTHEWS.</h3> - -<p>On October 23, 1888, there occurred an incident in Apia Harbor, Samoa, -which sorely tried the patience of Commander Leary, in charge of the -United States war-vessel <i>Adams</i>, and which soon led directly to other -incidents that nearly caused a war between this country and Germany. The -representatives of the foreign governments had met a few days before, -and had decided that a "neutral zone" should be established in and about -Apia. A party of unarmed natives were crossing the harbor in one of -their canoes, singing one of their stirring native songs. The Samoans -have beautiful voices, and the lusty melody of their song was rolling -across the water. They had just dug up an old and practically worthless -cannon which the Tamasese party in the civil war had thrown overboard.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/ill_008.jpg" width="500" height="295" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">A NATIVE WAR CANOE.</span> -</div> - -<p>Suddenly two volleys of rifle-shots and several stray shots were fired -from the German war-ship <i>Adler</i> on the canoe.</p> - -<p>Fortunately none of the party was killed, but the boat was sunk, and the -natives had to swim to the shore to save their lives. Some of the shots -entered houses of foreigners on shore. Leary's blood boiled with anger -that such an occurrence should happen within the neutral zone, that the -war-ship of any nation should fire on a body of unarmed men, and that -Germany should openly take the side of the Tamasese faction in the -presence of another nation's war-ship. He at once sent a vigorous letter -to the Captain of the <i>Adler</i>, in which he said:</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>"I have the honor to inform you that the hostile attack made last -night in this harbor by an armed force under your command upon a -boat manned by natives, who were harmlessly crossing the harbor, -was an act that seriously endangered the lives of the Americans and -others, afloat and ashore, in the vicinity of Matautu, and cannot -but be regarded otherwise than a most serious affair, coming so -soon after arranging and accepting terms establishing neutral -ground within the limits of which no hostilities should occur, with -a view to securing safety to the foreign residents in and around -Apia.</p> - -<p>"I am unable to understand your action, as the alleged causes of -the attack cannot be accepted as justifying such dangerous and -careless conduct. I shall report the affair to my government as a -gross violation of the principles of international law, and as a -breach of neutrality.</p> - -<p>"For the security of Americans and others within the neutral lines -I protest against the apparently unwarranted attack made by your -men last night, and also against a recurrence of any hostile action -within the harbor, whereby the lives of foreigners and -non-combatants would be jeopardized."</p></blockquote> - -<p>Leary did as he said he would do, and the records of the Navy Department -show that in his report to the Secretary of the Navy he characterized -this conduct by the Germans as a "most dastardly disregard for the -safety of human life, as well as a cowardly breach of faith and -neutrality." In this connection it may be said that in some cases the -language of Leary's reports was softened when they were transmitted to -Congress. A close examination of the written and printed reports shows -many adjectives and phrases omitted. One can imagine what was omitted.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/ill_009.jpg" width="500" height="271" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">THE VAISIGNANO BRIDGE.</span> -</div> - -<p>A few days before the natives were fired upon by the <i>Adler</i>'s men -another incident had occurred which showed the spirit that animated -Leary. The Vaisignano bridge that connected the town of Apia with a -suburb where most of the foreigners lived had been partly wrecked by a -storm. Under the inspiration of the German authorities advertisements -had been called for the removal of the bridge. This would have cut the -foreigners off from the town, and have seriously crippled the work in -the offices of the various consuls. It was proposed to establish a ferry -instead of repairing the bridge. Leary saw the notice calling for the -removal of the bridge posted on a tree near the bridge, and without -hesitation tore it down, and sent word to the authorities that that -bridge must not be removed. He then declared that he would repair the -bridge, and protect it, if necessary, while this was being done with an -armed force. Early the next day he lowered some boats from the <i>Adams</i>, -and filled them with his sailors and marines fully armed. Then he sent -his carpenters ashore, and they started to repair the bridge. The -commander of the English war-ship in the harbor saw what was going on, -and he also sent carpenters to assist in the work, and that bridge was -never disturbed after that. The English and American residents on the -island afterward co-operated in providing a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_365" id="Page_365">[Pg 365]</a></span> suitable hospital for the -wounded in the Samoan fights, and in caring for them.</p> - -<p>By this time there was a state of almost open hostility between the -German and American war-ships. The great crisis came on November 15, -1888. About seven miles from Apia the forts of the Tamasese party and -the Mataafa party faced each other on property that was clearly under -American protection. The Mataafa party had received notice from the -Germans to vacate the place or take the consequences. Mataafa hastily -sent a runner to Captain Leary and informed him of the situation. He -asked for advice. Leary sent word that he had a right to remain where he -was, giving him some simple information in international law. Leary also -said that he would not permit the German war-ship to fire on property -under his protection.</p> - -<p>Leary received his information about dusk on November 14. The <i>Adler</i> -was to start out the next morning just before daybreak. Leary at once -sent word to all of his officers who were ashore to report on board the -ship by midnight, and to ask no questions. He knew that the Germans -expected to steal a march on him, and were watching him to see if he had -steam up. Had they seen smoke coming out of the smoke-pipes of the -<i>Adams</i> they would have probably postponed the proposed attack until -some time when they might catch Leary napping. He was ready for them. He -had some anthracite coal on board. He transferred some live coals from -his galley fire to the furnace under one boiler of the ship, and by -using hard coal had a fire started there without attracting the -attention of the Germans. It was slow work. When the fire was going well -under the first boiler, he transferred live coals to another boiler, and -then to another, and soon after midnight had full steam up on board the -ship. The Germans, who always kept steam up, had not the slightest -inkling of Leary's action.</p> - -<p>Then Leary had his anchor-chains muffled with native mats, and waited -for the outcome. All hands were summoned at four o'clock in the morning. -Soon the anchors of the German ship were drawn up. Leary shortened his -anchors. At last the German vessel with a rush started out of the -harbor. Leary's anchors were up in a jiffy. He didn't stop to take in -the hawser holding his ship to a pier by the stern. He fastened one end -of the rope to a buoy and threw it overboard. Leary was pointed straight -out to sea. The German Captain had to make a turn to get out. By the -time the <i>Adler</i> reached the entrance to the harbor the <i>Adams</i> was -close behind. The Germans saw the real situation at once. There was -great excitement on board both vessels, but the Germans would not -compromise themselves by turning back.</p> - -<p>As the two ships, which were about equally matched in size and in -fighting strength, reached the open sea, Leary was in the rear only a -few hundred yards. The German vessel took a wide turn, and headed for -the point of attack. Day was breaking then. Leary made a short turn -close to the coral reefs, and cut in between the German and the shore. -His boat lapped the stern of the German vessel, only about three hundred -yards away. Suddenly the orders to clear for action were heard -throughout the American ship. All preparations had been made for this, -and with despatch the decks were cleared, ammunition was brought up, and -the guns were loaded. The Germans saw what was going on, and they -cleared for action also. Then the two ships went down the coast, dipping -to the swells, and stripped for war. It was a trying occasion, and both -commanders knew what tremendous results were dependent<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_366" id="Page_366">[Pg 366]</a></span> upon the outcome -of their actions that day. Steadily the ships held their course. When -they approached the point where the forts were situated, the German ship -slowed up and dropped anchor. Leary did the same. It was broad daylight -now. Soon a boat was lowered from the German ship, and some German -officials were sent ashore under a guard. Then it was that Leary ordered -one of his boats cleared away to carry this note of warning to the -Captain of the German ship, which Leary had written on the way down and -after both ships had cleared for action:</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 700px;"> -<img src="images/ill_010.jpg" width="700" height="547" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">"I AM HERE FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROTECTING THE SAME."</span> -</div> - -<blockquote> - -<p>"I have the honor to inform you that having received information -that American property in the Latogo vicinity of Laulii, Lotoanuu, -and Solo Solo is liable to be invaded this day, <i>I am here for the -purpose of protecting the same</i>, and I hope that the friendly -relations existing between our respective governments may prevent -the occasion from causing any complaint."</p></blockquote> - -<p>The American officer was rowed over to the German ship and gave the note -to the officer of the deck, and returned without waiting for any reply. -Then the crews of the two vessels stood by their guns for hours waiting -for developments. Leary's note was polite and firm; but when such a note -is sent from the commander of one war-ship to the commander of another -war-ship, and when the decks of both ships are cleared for action, it -can mean but one thing—war. Leary meant that no shot should go over his -deck into the settlement on shore. For several hours the two ships lay -at anchor, with the crews waiting to spring at each other. Soon after -noon the Germans got under way again, and made a long detour down the -coast, with the Americans close behind, and still ready for battle. Then -slowly the German vessel turned about and steamed for Apia Harbor. Leary -followed with his ship. Both came to anchor in the places from which -they had started early in the day, and that incident, laden with -frightful possibilities for two great nations, was ended.</p> - -<p>Leary was ordered home soon afterward, and it is known that he received -the personal thanks from our officials in the highest seats of -government. The strangest part of the affair, however, is the fact that -no official notice was ever taken of his splendid determination to -uphold the honor of the American flag. Leary's friends say that he has -not so much as a piece of paper to show from the Navy Department that he -ever stood up for the honor of the flag in so signal a manner in Samoa. -Congress passes votes of thanks to men who are conspicuous in saving -life on the high seas. Congress never passed a vote of thanks to Leary. -I need not go into the reasons for this apparent neglect. If republics -are ungrateful, it may be said that Leary never asked for any such -action, nor even desired it. He had performed his sworn duty, and that -was sufficient for him. He was probably the youngest officer in the navy -ever called upon to perform such a responsible task, and if there seemed -to be envy on the part of those older and of higher rank in the service, -"Dick" Leary went his way modestly, and asked for no public recognition -of his services.</p> - -<p>His native State, however, Maryland, could not let such a display of -patriotism go unrewarded, and the Legislature voted him a handsome gold -watch. It was presented to him in the presence of a brilliant company at -the State Capitol. The national government kept silent officially, -however, and that silence has never been broken.</p> - -<p>Leary probably cares least of all for this apparent oversight. It has -been given to few officers in the American navy to write,</p> - -<p>"<span class="smcap">I am here</span> <i>for the purpose of protecting the same</i>." (American -property.)</p> - -<p>That is Leary's reward. It is enough for him to know that he did his -duty, and that the people respect him for it. As Americans, we are proud -of certain sentiments uttered by those who have worn our country's -uniform in time of war. "Don't give up the ship!" still rings in the -ears of all patriotic citizens. "If any man hauls down the flag, shoot -him on the spot!" still inspires and thrills us. With these, and other -sentiments like them, I wish to write Leary's declaration,</p> - -<p>"<span class="smcap">I am here</span> <i>for the purpose of protecting the same</i>."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="WOOD-CARVING" id="WOOD-CARVING">WOOD-CARVING.</a></h2> - -<h3>BY J. HARRY ADAMS.</h3> - -<p>A knowledge of drawing and modelling will be very helpful to the young -carver, as the outline of ornament can be readily drawn, while to carve -objects from wood the art of modelling form is most desirable and -essential to obtain a satisfactory result.</p> - -<p>If the beginner possesses a knowledge of form acquired by drawing and -modelling, then the art of wood-carving can be readily and quickly -mastered; but even if these advantages should be lacking, it is possible -that considerable progress can be made by those who will follow the -instructions given on these pages.</p> - -<p>The most important feature of carving is the ability to sharpen and -maintain the little tools, and when this is mastered, more than half the -difficulty has been overcome. Carving-tools can be purchased at most any -large hardware store, and as there are a great many shapes and styles of -edges to select from, a few suggestions will give a clear idea of -necessary ones to begin with.</p> - -<p>At the start a numerous assortment of tools will not be necessary, as -the flat-work will meet with the best success at the hands of the -beginner. Six or eight chisels will constitute a good set, and those -shown in Fig. 3 will answer very well.</p> - -<p>No. 1 is a plain flat chisel with a straight edge, commonly called a -firmer. No. 2 is a flat one also, with an angle or oblique edge, and -commonly called a skew firmer. Nos. 3 and 4 are flat and extra flat -gouges, while No. 5 is an ordinary gouge with a half-circular sweep. No. -6 is a grounder, or bent back ground tool, and is very useful for -reaching when a flat tool cannot. No. 7 is a "quick gouge," in the form -of a U, and No. 8 is a V gouge, a very handy tool for cutting the veins -in leaves and in "chip-carving."</p> - -<p>A flannel or felt case should be made for the tools, so<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_367" id="Page_367">[Pg 367]</a></span> they may be -kept nicely. The case can be made to roll up, and provided with pockets -into which the tools are slipped.</p> - -<p>The stones needed on which to sharpen the tools will be an ordinary flat -oil-stone, and two Turkey or Arkansas slips six or eight inches long, -having the shape of those shown in Fig. 2, A and B. C is the flat stone, -and every boy who carries a good pocket-knife should be provided with -one on which to sharpen the blades.</p> - -<p>The other tools necessary to complete the kit will be several clamps -similar to the one shown in Fig. 2; also a glue-pot, and a fret-saw like -the one depicted in Fig. 2.</p> - -<p>The boy who possesses a bracket or jig saw, however, will not need the -fret-saw, as more and better work can be done with it than with the hand -affair.</p> - -<p>A carver's bench on which to work is of course the greatest necessity; -but if it is not possible to get one, a good wooden-top kitchen table -will answer very well.</p> - -<p>The proper kind of a bench gives greater facility for working; it is -more convenient and solid, and as the height is better than that of an -ordinary table, the carver works under more pleasant conditions.</p> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 400px;"> -<img src="images/ill_011.jpg" width="400" height="205" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">FIG. 1.—A DESIGN FOR WOOD-CARVING.</span> -</div> - -<p>The boy who is handy with tools can make a good bench in a short time, -and the design of one is shown in Fig. 5 that can easily be made from -wood of the necessary kind that is free from knots and sappy places. The -top should measure four feet long, two feet wide, and should be one inch -and a half in thickness; it can be of yellow pine, ash, or oak, and the -wood must be well seasoned. The framework must be well made, and the -cross-pieces and braces securely mortised together, or firmly screwed to -the uprights or legs, which can be of yellow pine or ash two inches -square.</p> - -<p>The top of the bench should be three feet and three inches high from the -floor; and to one side of the bench a carpenter's vise may be attached, -as shown in the figure.</p> - -<p>The first essential to good clean cutting is that the tools shall be -absolutely sharp and in a workmanlike condition. It is often the case -that amateurs' tools are in such a state that no professional carver -could produce satisfactory results, so that in every instance the -condition of the tools governs the finished work.</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 270px;"> -<img src="images/ill_012.jpg" width="270" height="400" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">FIG. 2.—CLAMP, SAW, AND CHISEL STONES.</span> -</div> - -<p>The variety of carving-tools is so limited, that if the difficulties of -sharpening a firmer and gouge are mastered, the task is practically -ended.</p> - -<p>If the tools should be unusually dull, they must first be ground on a -grindstone. It should be remembered that carvers' tools are sharpened on -both sides, and not only on one, like the carpenters' chisels. After -grinding, the tools must be sharpened on the oil-stone or slips before -they are ready for use. The firmers can be sharpened on the oil-stone -laid flat on the bench, but the gouges must be held in the hand in order -to sharpen the inside curve with a slip. The outer curve can be -sharpened on the flat oil-stone.</p> - -<p>Great care must be taken to give the tools a finished and smooth edge, -and when they have reached the proper degree of sharpness it will be an -easy matter to cut across the grain of white pine, leaving a furrow that -is very smooth and almost polished.</p> - -<p>In the use of the oil-stone and slips, neat's-foot oil or a good thin -machine oil should be employed. Water must not be used, as it would -spoil the stones and not produce the sharp edge on the tools.</p> - -<p>The finest stones are the best for use, and although they take longer to -produce the keen edge, the sharpest tools are made with them, and they -will be found the most satisfactory in the end. Avoid grit and dust on -the stones, and before using them they should be wiped off with an oiled -rag.</p> - -<p>For gouges of the various sweeps the slip shown in Fig. 2A will be -necessary, but for the V gouges the triangular one, Fig. 2B, is the -right one to use. The stone, Fig. 2C, can be used to sharpen the -firmers.</p> - -<p>The beginner must not consider any pains too great to make himself a -thorough master of the tools, and to keep a perfect edge on all of them. -It is necessary, when using them, to exercise care to prevent any -unpleasant cut that would be the result of carelessness. Undivided -attention and a little common-sense are necessary at all times.</p> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 347px;"> -<img src="images/ill_013.jpg" width="347" height="400" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">FIG. 3.—CHISELS.</span> -</div> - -<p>The tools being in proper condition, the next step is to acquire a -knowledge of the best methods of handling them so as to produce any -desired result. It will require some time and practice to become -thoroughly familiar with the manner in which tools are handled, and, if -it is possible, it would be well to watch some carver at work. The -chisels should always be held with one hand on the handle and two -fingers of the other hand near the edge of the tool. This is to give -sufficient pressure at the end to keep it down to the wood, while the -hand on the handle gives the necessary push to make the tool cut.</p> - -<p>Of the woods that are adapted to carve in there are<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_368" id="Page_368">[Pg 368]</a></span> a great many, but -perhaps yellow pine, walnut, or mahogany will be found most desirable, -as they are easily cut, and do not split as some of the softer and -harder woods.</p> - -<p>To begin with, it is best to work out a simple pattern that can be -followed easily and without a great deal of dexterity in handling the -tools. Get a piece of yellow pine one inch thick, eight inches wide, and -sixteen long.</p> - -<p>On a piece of smooth paper draw one-half of a pattern similar to the one -shown in Fig. 4, and on a piece of tracing-paper copy the design. Over -the face of the wood lay a sheet of transfer-paper with the black -surface down, and on it the tracing-paper, and go over all the lines -with a lead-pencil, bearing down on the point so that the lines will be -transferred to the wood. Repeat it at the other end, so that as a result -the piece of wood will have the pattern.</p> - -<p>To one corner of the bench clamp the piece of wood with three or four of -the clamps shown in Fig. 2. Do not place the clamp directly on the wood, -but place between the jaw and the pine a piece of heavy card-board or -another piece of thin wood, to prevent the clamp from bruising the -surface of the yellow pine. With a small wooden mallet and a firmer -chisel begin to cut down into the face of the wood on the lines until -they have all been cut. Then with the gouges and grounding tool cut away -the surface not a part of the pattern to a depth of an eighth of an inch -or more, until a result is obtained similar to that shown in the second -cut of Fig. 4.</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 397px;"> -<img src="images/ill_014.jpg" width="397" height="650" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">FIG. 4.—A SAMPLE Of WOOD-CARVING.<br /><br /> -1. The Drawn Design. 2. The Preliminary Stage. 3. The Finished Carving.</span> -</div> - -<p>The entire design and edge will now be in relief, but its surface will -be flat and entirely void of any "feeling." With the flat, extra flat, -and plain gouges begin to carve some life in the ornament. A little -practice will soon enable you to observe which parts should be high, the -others that should be low, and the surfaces that can be left neutral or -between high and low relief.</p> - -<p>This part of carving is termed "life," or "feeling," and it is this -quality that lends the beauty to the finest wood-carvings. The work when -completed should have the appearance of the third cut in Fig. 4, and if -nicely done it should be a credit to any beginner. The effect of this -panel can be had also by applied carving, which is a very simple and -less tedious process.</p> - -<p>The design is transferred to a thin piece of wood, and cut out with the -fret or jig saw. The pieces are then glued in position on a thick piece -of wood, and the feeling carved in a similar manner as described. The -former method is called carving in the solid, while the latter is known -as applied carving.</p> - -<p>Such pieces of carving can be used as panels to small drawers, to -cabinets, and to form the sides and covers of useful little boxes, etc. -If these simple suggestions are carefully followed, the inventive boy -should be able to design some very pretty patterns that can be carved -nicely in any desirable wood that is not too hard.</p> - -<p>When flat, or relief, carving has been mastered, it would be well to -attempt something in figure or bold work, such as animals, fruit, or -heads, on all sides of which some careful study and good work can be -done. It will be some time, however, before the amateur can successfully -accomplish good results, so that for some time the flat-work should be -practised, and as improvement is noticed the ornament can be undercut to -lend it a richness and boldness.</p> - -<p>Chip-carving, or engraving, is a simple but effective manner of -ornamenting flat surfaces, and some very pretty results can be obtained -in a little while with the gouges and V tools, also the spade chisel and -veiner. There is no grounding out in chip-carving, as the pattern is -produced by chipping out the figure itself.</p> - -<p>Fig. 1 is a simple pattern of a vine and leaves; the stem is engraved -with the V chisel, and with a small firmer the leaves are cut. Two -curved incisions will cut the leaf, and the angle through the centre -describes the main vein. The chipping can be shallow or deep, as a -matter of choice, but more effect can be had by cutting fairly deep.</p> - -<p>To finish wood-work in most any color, it is possible to obtain stains -at a paint or hardware store, and over the stained surface, when dry, -several thin coats of hard oil or furniture varnish can be applied. The -back and edges of a carved panel should always be painted to protect it -from moisture and dampness, and in this manner warping and splitting are -avoided. Some pieces of carving only need oiling with raw linseed oil, -while others may be varnished. A favorite mode of darkening oak in -France and England before it is varnished is to expose it to the fumes -of ammonia, or to paint ammonia on with a brush until the desired -antique shade is obtained; this, however, is not so satisfactory as the -colors resulting from the use of prepared stains that can be purchased.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> -<img src="images/ill_015.jpg" width="400" height="333" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">FIG. 5.—A PRACTICAL WORKBENCH.</span> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_369" id="Page_369">[Pg 369]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"><a name="INTERSCHOLASTIC_SPORT" id="INTERSCHOLASTIC_SPORT"></a> -<img src="images/ill_016.jpg" width="600" height="119" alt="INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT" /> -</div> - -<p>Although golf has been played for several years at Lawrenceville, it is -only within the past year that the game has established itself on an -equal footing of popularity with the other sports of the school. As soon -as the students' interest in the game became apparent, however, the -authorities, following their custom with regard to all departments of -the school, engaged an instructor to take charge of those who desired to -become proficient. They secured the services of Mr. James Swan, who was -superintendent at the St. Andrew's Club last year and at the Shinnecock -Club the year before. His first work on going to Lawrenceville was to -select a site for the course and to lay out links.</p> - -<p>As there are over two hundred acres in the school property, he was able -to take up some thirty or forty acres directly north of the school -buildings for this purpose, and when the course has been completely -arranged, it will doubtless be one of the best short courses in the -country. At present there have been only six holes laid out, although -probably next year this number will be increased to nine. For the -requirements of the players now, however, these links give just about -the amount of ground that can be covered in the afternoon from the close -of school exercises until the recreation hour ends.</p> - -<p>At Lawrenceville every student is required to devote a certain time each -day to out-door exercise, and each boy is allowed to choose the sport -that suits him best. About one hundred have decided to play golf in -preference to other required exercise, and already some of them have -developed good form, notably Griggs, Drake, Childs, Hutchings, and -Little. Doubtless one of the reasons for this favorable development is -that the players are required to study the rules carefully, and each one -follows the game under the supervision of the instructor, who allows no -loose form or slouch play.</p> - -<h3>THE LAWRENCEVILLE GOLF LINKS.</h3> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 700px;"> -<img src="images/ill_017.jpg" width="700" height="227" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">ONE STROKE FROM THE FIFTH HOLE.</span> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 700px;"> -<img src="images/ill_018.jpg" width="700" height="234" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">AT THE FIRST HOLE.</span> -</div> - -<p>The start of the course, as it is at present laid out, is made from the -first tee over comparatively level ground for 175 yards, starting near -the fence that divides the central school property from the land which -lies north of it.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_370" id="Page_370">[Pg 370]</a></span> The barbed-wire fence which crosses this links forms -an undesirable obstacle, but it will be removed in the spring and -replaced by a short bunker.</p> - -<p>The second tee begins the next link in a northerly direction, in a -parallel line with the country road, or the Old King's Highway. This -road is the one which was traversed for several decades by the -mail-stages from New York to Washington. The ground sinks some eight -feet at a distance of 140 yards in this second link of 304 yards, ending -with a running brook some nine feet wide. The ground from the brook to -the second hole rises slightly.</p> - -<p>From the third tee to the third hole, a distance of 282 yards, the -ground falls and rises considerably, the brook in this link proving a -difficult hazard, as the south side of the bank is several feet higher -than the north side. The rise from the brook to the third hole is but a -light one. From the fourth tee to the fourth hole, 187 yards, the drive -is comparatively good, the brook proving an insignificant hazard to the -good driver, but a troublesome one to the beginner who, "topping" the -ball, finds that here, as perhaps at no other part in the course, a -resort must be made to "dropping" the ball. Indeed to the novice the -fourth hole is a trial to the temper.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/ill_019.jpg" width="500" height="301" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL GOLF LINKS.</span> -</div> - -<p>To the right of the third hole stands a farm-house; the course leading -to the fourth hole might be across the miniature pond indicated in the -plot plan. The ground falls gradually to the brook from the fifth tee, -241 yards, and beyond the brook the ground rises abruptly some 15 feet. -The last link, 326 yards long, is the longest in the course, and is one -of the most trying. At present it leads over a low hay-stack, which will -be removed shortly, and before the hole is reached a bunker must be -encountered. The fields are traversed pretty completely in making the -course, 1¼ miles in length, and the sixth hole brings the player -almost home.</p> - -<p>The course has been made several times by the instructor in 27 strokes, -and a few of the better players among the boys in 36 strokes, Griggs in -29. The majority of the boys, however, content themselves with some -number between 40 and 50. In the course of a few months some twenty or -thirty of the boys will be singled out and given more specific -instructions, so that the tournaments to be held in the spring may be -well played.</p> - -<p>The announcement which came to us from New Haven some few days since, -that the Hillhouse High-School would not put a track-athletic team into -the field this year, brings up the question again of uniting the various -athletic associations of the State. The football association of the -Connecticut schools is a different organization from the track-athletic -association, although both are made up of about the same schools. The -football association is financially prosperous—in fact it came out some -$400 to the good this year after paying all expenses, and this money is -now doubtless drawing interest in the savings-bank.</p> - -<p>The track-athletic association, however, is not so great a success from -a financial point of view, and is now in debt, or, if not, it has been -until very recently. This state of affairs is probably due to the fact -that the expenses of a track-athletic meeting are heavy, and there is -only one meeting a year, to which the small admission-fees charged are -not sufficient to defray all the expenses.</p> - -<p>On the other hand, there is a great popular interest in football in -Connecticut, and the money contributed by spectators at the principal -championship games is very much in excess of the requirements of the -association. Perhaps, too, so far as track athletics are concerned, -there has been a little mismanagement. The spring games of 1895 were -very successfully managed, and proved a financial success, but the -association was in heavy debt previous to that date, and the profits of -1895 went to make good some of the deficiencies of previous occasions.</p> - -<p>In 1896, however, the managers of the games were incompetent, and the -meeting proved a financial failure. The games were not properly -advertised in New Haven, where they were held, and on the day of the -meeting there were more spectators present from Hartford than there were -from the home city. Furthermore, the managers were extravagant in the -purchase of prize cups, and when they came to figure up their accounts -there was a deficit.</p> - -<p>It is the belief among a number of the young men interested in track -athletics in Connecticut that if the track-athletic meetings cannot be -conducted at a profit, they ought certainly, by good management, to be -conducted without loss. It has been suggested that instead of having a -football association, a track-athletic association, a baseball -association, and perhaps other athletic organizations, it would be the -better plan to have a single association that would govern all -interscholastic sports in the State. The managers of this association -would be the managers of each sport as it came up with the season, and -the treasurer of the association would be responsible for all the moneys -received and disbursed.</p> - -<p>Thus if there was a profit from football, that profit could go to the -assistance of any deficit there might be in track athletics. At the -larger colleges this plan of uniting all branches of athletics under one -financial management has been found to be the best plan, for in sport -there must always be one branch that is self-supporting while another is -not.</p> - -<p>Furthermore this plan of uniting all school sports under one financial -management in Connecticut would solve the problem of what to do with the -surplus in the treasury at the end of the football season. It would seem -that, knowing there was a deficit in the track-athletic treasury, the -officials of the football association would have turned over from their -surplus the amount necessary to make good<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_371" id="Page_371">[Pg 371]</a></span> the shortage. It is to be -hoped that the desire of those who wish to unite all sports under one -head will be carried out, for it would be to the benefit of athletics in -Connecticut.</p> - -<p>The Hartford High-School will have three representatives at the -Knickerbocker A.C. games next month. F. R. Sturtevant will enter the -high jump. He won the event last year with 5 ft. 7½ in. He will also -enter the pole-vault. His record in this event is 10 ft. 5 in. J. F. -Morris will enter the 100, 220, and 440 yard dashes. He has run the 100 -in 10½ sec.; the 220 in 23-3/5 sec.; the 440 in 52-4/5 sec. C. A. -Roberts will enter the walk. He is an unknown quantity.</p> - -<p>The Board of Education of Chicago seems to be taking a hand in -athletics, so far as the high-schools of that city are concerned. A rule -has been passed which makes it necessary for the Cook County athletes to -work hard at their lessons. No scholar at any of the high-schools who is -not a regular student taking a regular course may represent his school -in any athletic event. The principal of the school is required to sign a -voucher certifying to these facts, and it is also required of him to see -that no pupil lets his marks fall below a certain average, the penalty -for this being that he must give up athletics until his school work is -brought up to the required standard.</p> - -<p>There is a lull in athletics among the Chicago schools just at -present—the quiet before the storm, most likely. The in-door baseball -games do not seem to be getting along very prosperously, and there is -considerable opposition to them among some of the students, on the -ground that an admission-fee is charged. Lake View High-School still -leads for the championship, having won every game played, with Austin -second.</p> - -<p>There has been a protest game, of course. It was in the match between -North Division and Evanston. In the last half of the ninth inning North -Division was at the bat, with the score 7-9 in favor of Evanston. The -crowd that was looking on got in pretty close to the Evanston fielders, -who claimed that this prevented them from doing their proper and -necessary work. The Evanston captain protested against the crowding, but -as this had no effect with the on-lookers he left the floor with his -team.</p> - -<p>The matter was of course brought up at the next League meeting, but the -executive committee decided that Evanston was in the wrong, gave the -game to North Division, and legislated that in the future any nine that -left the floor should forfeit the game to the opponents.</p> - -<p>The Long Island Interscholastic Athletic League has decided to hold the -first annual skating championships of the organization at the Clermont -Avenue Ice-Skating Rink, on Clermont Avenue near Myrtle, Brooklyn. J. A. -Forney, of Adelphi Academy, has been appointed to ascertain upon what -conditions the Rink may be had for the races, which will probably be -held the last week of this month.</p> - -<p>The in-door games of the Long Island Interscholastic League will be held -on February 20 at the Cycle Club, Brooklyn. There will be ten events -contested, and among them one of those precious events for "juniors."</p> - -<p>The basket ball championship series has already begun, and the schedule -will be played out as follows:</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>Feb. 5. Poly. Prep. <i>vs.</i> Pratt Institute, and Adelphi Academy -<i>vs.</i> Brooklyn High-School.</p> - -<p>Feb. 12. Brooklyn High-School <i>vs.</i> Poly. Prep., and Pratt -Institute <i>vs.</i> Brooklyn Latin School.</p> - -<p>Feb. 19. Poly. Prep. <i>vs.</i> Brooklyn Latin School, and Adelphi -Academy <i>vs.</i> Pratt Institute.</p> - -<p>Feb. 26. Adelphi Academy <i>vs.</i> Brooklyn Latin School, and Brooklyn -High-School <i>vs.</i> Pratt Institute.</p> - -<p>March 2. Brooklyn High-School <i>vs.</i> Brooklyn Latin School, and -Adelphi Academy <i>vs.</i> Poly. Prep.</p></blockquote> - -<p>Arrangements for the track meeting between Lawrenceville and the Hill -School are about to be completed, and it is sincerely to be hoped that -whatever arrangements are made will be carried out. Last year the -meeting that was proposed, and the league of big schools in New Jersey -and Pennsylvania, never came to anything; but as sport advances all -these plans will doubtless be carried through, and a strong organization -ought to grow out of them.</p> - -<h4>"TRACK ATHLETICS IN DETAIL."—<span class="smcap">Illustrated.—8vo, Cloth, Ornamental</span>, -$1.25.</h4> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">The Graduate</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>A CURIOSITY OF LITERATURE.</h3> - -<p>John Heywood, the playwright and epigrammatist, was patronized by Henry -VIII. and Elizabeth. "What the 'Faery Queen,'" says Warton, "could not -procure for Spenser from the penurious Elizabeth and her precise -ministers, Heywood gained by puns and conceits." The object of one of -his books, as disclosed by the title-page, is singular: "A Dialogue, -containing in effect the Number of all the Proverbs in the English -Tongue, compact in a Matter concerning Two Marriages."</p> - -<p>When the Marquis of Winchester, Lord High Treasurer, was presented with -a copy of this book by the author, he inquired what it contained, and -being answered, "All the proverbs in English," replied, "What! all? No, -no. 'Bate me an ace, quoth Bolton'"—a form of speech once much in -vogue. "By my faith," said Heywood, "that is not in."</p> - -<p>It happened that the marquis casually uttered the only proverb not in -the book.</p> - -<p>Camden mentions an interview of Heywood with Queen Mary, at which her -Majesty inquired what wind blew him to court. He answered, "Two, -specially—the one to see your Majesty."</p> - -<p>"We thank you for that," said the Queen; "but I pray you, what is the -other?"</p> - -<p>"That your Grace," said he, "might see me."</p> - -<p>The curious work on proverbs is in rhyme, and contains many sayings that -are now forgotten, as well as allusions to superstitions still -remaining.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>ENGLISH AND ENGLISH.</h3> - -<p>Most American boys and girls feel confident that they are tolerably -familiar with the English language, and they are right in so feeling; -but sometimes one cannot but wonder, in reading over the English -newspapers, whether some expressions which are common enough to the -English mind would prove puzzling to the American reader or not. For -instance, here is a specimen paragraph from the <i>Western Morning News</i>, -published in England:</p> - -<p>"<i>An Extraordinary Express.</i>—The Cornish corridor express from -Paddington, on the morning of the 31st ult., was one of the heaviest -fast trains ever sent out of a London terminus. It started with 15 -eight-wheel bogie coaches on, reckoned as equal to 22½ ordinary -vehicles. But as these corridor carriages weigh about 25 tons each, the -coach load must have been over 370 tons, or quite equal to a train of 30 -six-wheeled coaches. This for an express run at over 53 miles an hour! -There were two engines on of the largest class. West of Swindon the -train was split into two parts."</p> - -<p>How many of us know what a "corridor express" is? or who can guess the -meaning of the term "bogie coach"? and to how many of us, indeed, is the -word "coach" a natural expression for car? and, finally, when a train or -anything else is "split" into two parts, does not the expression convey -to our minds something divided from end to end longitudinally, and not -cut in two? After all, the English spoken in one place differs largely -from the English spoken elsewhere, and probably ours is as good as that -of any one else.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>ADVERTISEMENTS.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 235px;"> -<img src="images/ill_020.jpg" width="235" height="400" alt="ROYAL BAKING POWDER" /> -</div> - -<p>Celebrated for its great leavening strength and healthfulness. Assures -the food against alum and all forms of adulteration common to the cheap -brands.</p> - -<h4>ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> -<img src="images/ill_021.jpg" width="400" height="140" alt="PISO'S CURE FOR CONSUMPTION" /> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_372" id="Page_372">[Pg 372]</a></span></p> - -<h2><a name="QUESTIONS_FOR_YOUNG_MEN" id="QUESTIONS_FOR_YOUNG_MEN">QUESTIONS FOR YOUNG MEN.</a></h2> - -<h3>ON KEEPING YOUR OWN COUNSEL.</h3> - -<p>It is an old saying among schoolboys and college men that the fellow who -keeps his mouth shut is always the big man; that he who deliberately -says little quickly wins for himself the name for wisdom. Such -statements are quite as true in the outer world to a certain degree as -they are in college and school. The pith of the matter is that if in any -way you arrive at a position of any importance, the less you talk to -every one the more credit you receive for care, for thoughtfulness, for -sound well-considered opinions. Here is nothing which urges a boy to -have no opinions or to never express them; and in fact this "wise -silence" at school and college as often, perhaps, covers up an empty -mind as it does the wisdom of Solomon. There is, however, a good rule to -follow, which may be given briefly, to the effect that it is well to say -little until you have thoroughly made up your mind, and then not to -hesitate in your statements. The temptation of the average man is to -express some opinion at once, but if that is changed later, the full -force of the final opinion is lost.</p> - -<p>Let others do the wrangling. Your opinion will have all the more -influence if you come out strong with it at the close of the discussion, -when not only are the others considerably in doubt as to what they do -want, but you have also had the advantage of hearing many sides of the -case.</p> - -<p>That is to say, that in your daily behavior towards the others in school -it is well to keep your "talk" in reserve. It is a habit easily -acquired, and one that in the end works both ways. It adds both to the -value of your advice, because the advice is better considered, and it -gives the advice an added value so far as others are concerned, because -when you only say a little, that little has the more consideration.</p> - -<p>In the course of athletic games there are two ways of treating friends -and opponents. One way is as easy as another, for both are merely -habits. Many a good chap at baseball or football is constantly grumbling -whenever the umpire or referee gives a decision. He objects to the -decision on principle; he goes back to his place in the field -criticising the partisanship of the official, and makes himself -uncomfortable as well as disagreeable to the umpires and the other -teams. If this young man should be asked some day—off the field, of -course—whether it were sportsmanlike to criticise in the midst of a -game an umpire properly chosen, he would, no doubt, maintain in strong -terms that such criticism was the most unsportsmanlike thing possible, -and then he would promptly deny that he ever made such criticism. Yet -there are many such, and it is unfortunately one of the most common -sights on a school athletic field to-day to find the two teams wrangling -with the umpire over a decision he has made, and this, too, after he has -been asked ten minutes before to decide all such questions for them. It -is only another form of the same lack of habit in courteous behavior, -and it causes most of the hard feeling between schools and colleges -to-day.</p> - -<p>So one might go on by the hour speaking of the different questions in -school and college life which are examples of lack of behavior of the -most ordinary kind, but the root of the matter is that each boy should -say to himself that he will be constantly reserved, that he will wait -for the proper moment to speak and act, and that he will then act -vigorously if he is convinced the time has come.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>A BLOCKADE VENTURE.</h3> - -<p>During the blockade of Buenos Ayres a clipper bark laden with flour was -fitted out at Boston with the express purpose of running in. The late -Augustus Hemenway was her supercargo. After a tedious voyage she arrived -off Buenos Ayres, and found the blockade too close to run in, and was -compelled to cruise off and on, waiting for a change in her favor. While -thus lazily reconnoitring, she spoke a vessel from Valparaiso, which -reported a famine there. Mr. Hemenway at once decided to try Valparaiso. -The Captain hesitated; he said his vessel was not adapted to double Cape -Horn in the dead of winter; but young Hemenway assumed the entire -responsibility, and the Captain yielded. She had a favorable slant round -the Horn, and reached Valparaiso in safety, where her cargo was sold at -high prices. The Chilians were so grateful for the timely relief that -they loaded the bark as deep as she could safely swim with copper ore, -and all concerned in the venture made a fortune. Later, Mr. Hemenway -opened a trade with Valparaiso in copper, wool, nitrate, etc., by which -he became one of the richest men in Boston.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>DAYBREAK.</h3> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">When the sunlight peeps in through the curtains at dawn,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">His Highness awakes with a smile and a yawn,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">And his little fat hands fly up in the air,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">Out of whole-souled delight that a new day is there.</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">He laughs to himself and he churns his pink heels,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">He gurgles and chirps at the pleasure he feels,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">And he looks with dismay at the big folk near by</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">Who sleep while the daylight is kissing the sky.</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">The sight of a sunbeam is thrilling and new;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">The big folk are missing it—that will not do!</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">Awake, oh, good people, awake to the sight!</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">Come out of your pillows, 'tis no longer night!</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">See what a wonderful broad streak of gold</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">Has come through the window! Arise and behold</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">A slice of the dawn dancing over the floor!</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">Was ever so glorious a vision before?</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">But the elders, to whom the awakening of day</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">Is old as their memories, turn blindly away,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">And his Highness is left, with the birds of the trees,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">To carol his joy at the new life he sees.</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Albert Lee</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>CAPTAIN HEARD'S EXPLOIT WITH A PRIVATEER.</h3> - -<p>The speed of the Baltimore clippers in days gone by made history redound -with their exploits. Every boy and girl has read at some time or place -of the piratical long, low, rakish-looking schooners that cruised the -ocean ostensibly as privateers, but chiefly as pirates, in those days, -and have marvelled more or less at their astounding adventures. A good -story is told of the late Captain Augustine Heard, that while in command -of a fine ship richly laden, bound from China to New York, he was -overhauled by one of this kind, which came up under his lee, fired a -shot into his ship, and demanded in "good English" that she should be -hove to. Captain Heard watched a favorable opportunity, squared his -yards, ran the privateer down, passed over her between the masts, and -when well to leeward brought his ship to the wind and resumed his -course. She had lost some of her head-gear, but sustained no damage in -her hull. Captain Heard left the "long, low, black privateer," or -pirate, to her fate, and had no doubt that all her crew perished.</p> - -<p>It was a dangerous thing to do, but Heard relied upon the good timber in -his ship's bows to withstand the shock, although his heart grew sad at -the loss of life. Still, as he put it, "My honor and life were at stake, -so he had to go under."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_373" id="Page_373">[Pg 373]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"><a name="STAMPS" id="STAMPS"></a> -<img src="images/ill_022.jpg" width="600" height="202" 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>Another No. 89 Plate No. has been found, and is now offered at $100. -There may be a lot of this No. at some small post-office, as the larger -offices do not seem to have received any of this particular No.</p> - -<p>During the past month the stamp business has begun to revive, and there -are indications that better prices will be obtained in the auction-room -than in the past three months. The main difficulty seems to lie in the -fact that there are seemingly as many dealers as collectors. Years ago -the New York city stamp business was practically in the hands of two or -three men, while to-day Nassau Street and Twenty-third Street are -overflowing with dealers. Some of these dealers have entered into an -engagement with each other not to buy at auctions. If they keep to their -word so much the better for the collectors.</p> - -<p>Guatemala has just issued a new set of fourteen adhesive stamps, five -postal cards, two envelopes, and one wrapper. The stamps are all printed -in black on colored papers. The size is about that of our Columbian -issue, and the entire set is made to commemorate and advertise the -Central American Exposition to be held this year.</p> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="right">1</td><td align="left">centavo</td><td align="left">Black on lilac.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="right">2</td><td align="left">centavos</td><td align="left">Black on olive.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="right">6</td><td align="left">centavos</td><td align="left">Black on ochre.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="right">10</td><td align="left">centavos</td><td align="left">Black on indigo.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="right">12</td><td align="left">centavos</td><td align="left">Black on rose.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="right">20</td><td align="left">centavos</td><td align="left">Black on vermilion.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="right">50</td><td align="left">centavos</td><td align="left">Black on brown.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="right">75</td><td align="left">centavos</td><td align="left">Black on blue.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="right">100</td><td align="left">centavos</td><td align="left">Black on blue-green.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="right">150</td><td align="left">centavos</td><td align="left">Black on light rose</td></tr> -<tr><td align="right">200</td><td align="left">centavos</td><td align="left">Black on mauve.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="right">500</td><td align="left">centavos</td><td align="left">Black on yellow-green.</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<p>The probabilities are that the entire issue will be condemned by the -S.S.S.S.</p> - -<p>The American Bank-Note Company of New York has just secured the contract -for printing the Canadian stamps. It is said that the cost of printing -will be about $600,000 for the five and a half years, and that the -saving to the Canadian government compared with late contracts will be -$125,000.</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p><span class="smcap">B. B. Perkins</span>.—I would advise your buying a packet of 1000 stamps -for $10, or 1500 stamps for $25. If you intend to collect certain -countries only, such packets would not serve your purpose.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Beatrice Fink</span>.—Tromsö stamps are locals from Norway. Wuhu is a -Chinese local. Poste-Locale, 40 paras, is a Turkish local.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Beverly S. King</span>, 31 New York Ave., Brooklyn, wishes to exchange -stamps. Refer to your catalogue for the number of stamps issued by -U.S., Great Britain, France, etc. A "complete" collection of stamps -is a very vague quantity. I know one collection of Great Britain -containing many thousands of stamps, no two alike, and yet the -owner says he has just begun to collect Great Britain.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">D. McPherson</span>.—The unused Department stamps are higher than the -used simply on account of the demand for unused stamps. The amount -of money proposed by you will buy you very many good stamps, and -ensure many hours of enjoyment, and that is the best investment.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">W. R. Wheeler</span>.—Before postage-stamps were used the postmaster used -to print with an iron or copper hand-stamp "Paid," "Paid 10," etc. -Envelopes with such printing are very common, and while very -interesting have no money value.</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_023.jpg" width="600" height="285" alt="IVORY SOAP" /> -</div> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">Reject all compounds which dispense</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">With honest work and common sense;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">With Ivory Soap the wash is good</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">And takes no longer than it should.</span><br /> -</p> - -<p class="center">Copyright 1896, by The Procter & Gamble Co., Cin'ti</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h4><i>READY FEBRUARY 11</i></h4> - -<h2>By Ellen Douglas Deland</h2> - -<h3><b>IN THE OLD HERRICK HOUSE</b>, and Other Stories. Illustrated. Post 8vo, -Cloth, Ornamental, $1.50.</h3> - -<blockquote> - -<p>Besides the title story, this volume contains "At the Camerons'" -and "The Little Red Book." Like all of Miss Deland's stories, these -are wholesome and attractive, while there is an abundance of -incident.</p></blockquote> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h2>By Charles Carleton Coffin</h2> - -<h3>ABRAHAM LINCOLN.</h3> - -<p class="center">Profusely Illustrated. Square 8vo, Cloth, $3.00.</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>All the best characteristics of the author are found in his last -work, "Abraham Lincoln"; his brilliant power of revivifying the -past, his skill in interweaving anecdote with narrative, his -ability to present characters without dull description, are placed -at their best use in sketching the life and times of the nation's -hero.—<i>Boston Journal.</i></p></blockquote> - -<p><b>OLD TIMES IN THE COLONIES.</b> Profusely Illustrated. Square 8vo, Cloth, -$3.00.</p> - -<p><b>THE BOYS OF '76.</b> A History of the Battles of the Revolution. Profusely -Illustrated. Square 8vo, Cloth, $3.00.</p> - -<p><b>BUILDING THE NATION.</b> Events in the History of the United States from the -Revolution to the Civil War. Profusely Illustrated. Square 8vo, Cloth, -$3.00.</p> - -<p><b>THE DRUM-BEAT OF THE NATION.</b> The First Period of the War of the -Rebellion, from its Outbreak to the Close of 1862. Profusely -Illustrated. Square 8vo, Cloth, $3.00.</p> - -<p><b>MARCHING TO VICTORY.</b> The Second Period of the War of the Rebellion, -including the Year 1863. Profusely Illustrated. Square 8vo, Cloth, -$3.00.</p> - -<p><b>REDEEMING THE REPUBLIC.</b> The Third Period of the War of the Rebellion, to -September, 1864. Profusely Illustrated. Square 8vo, Cloth, $3.00.</p> - -<p><b>FREEDOM TRIUMPHANT.</b> The Fourth Period of the War of the Rebellion, from -September, 1864, to its Close. Profusely Illustrated. Square 8vo, Cloth, -$3.00.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h4>Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_374" id="Page_374">[Pg 374]</a></span></p> - -<h3>A Great Soldier's Amusing Experience.</h3> - -<p>Some letters of Count Von Moltke, long at the head of the German army, -and the man who took the German thousands and made of them the greatest -engine of war the world ever saw, are now being published for the first -time. In one of them he tells of a visit he made to London as a young -soldier, when, during a review in fashionable Hyde Park, he tried to -appear to his best advantage. The Count thus describes his experience:</p> - -<p>"The Lord in His wrath made the Duke of Wellington Master of the Horse; -he understood nothing about horses, so he provided me with an animal -that had won at the last races. I never rode a more uncomfortable one; -likely enough that he had never been ridden before except by a jockey; -or my light overcoat so tickled his back that he bucked the whole time, -and bored as well..... To make it perfect, one of my trouser straps -burst. I had to manœuvre with the utmost circumspection, and am -thankful to have got out of it so passably."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>A Far-West Fishing Village.</h3> - -<blockquote> - -<p>Skamokana is a little town on the banks of the Columbia River, -about twenty-eight miles from its mouth. The place is divided into -three valleys, east, west, and middle. The principal industries are -fishing, logging, and farming. The fishing season begins about the -10th of April and ends about the 10th of August. The fish are -caught in gill-nets, seines, and fish-traps. There are streams in -the valleys where mountain-trout are caught.</p> - -<p>It is very pleasant here in the summer, but it rains nearly all -winter. There are a great many salmon-canneries on the river. In -the summer we find a great many mosses and ferns. There is some -pretty scenery in the town. There are two bluffs seventy feet high. -At the bottom of the bluffs runs a creek. The bluffs are covered -with mosses and ferns. Part of the town is built on an island. The -island and the mainland are connected. Part of this island is -covered with sawdust from the mill.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Esther Silverman</span>.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Skamokana, Wash</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>Great Caution, and the Lack of It.</h3> - -<p>Almost everybody has heard of the woman who, when her bed took fire, -refrained from throwing upon it the milk in a pitcher which stood near -by, because, as she explained, the milk would grease the bedroom floor. -So she lost her house and its contents, but she didn't grease the floor.</p> - -<p>A farmer living in West Virginia had a hog afflicted with fleas. Some -one told him that kerosene oil would drive them away. It was night when -he returned home, but he resolved to put the prescription to the test at -once. Taking a torch out to the pen, he stuck it in the ground while he -poured the oil over the pig. The animal did not relish the treatment. He -ran squealing away, and of course ran near the torch. The oil took fire -and the pig ran to the barn. That ignited, and the pig, crazed with -pain, rushed toward the house, pushed the wood-shed door open, and -brought up in the kitchen. Pig, barn, and house were ashes before -daylight.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>A Peep at a Queer City.</h3> - -<blockquote> - -<p>New Orleans is, I think, entirely different from any other city in -the United States. You see things here that you see nowhere else, -and you hear things on the street that you hear nowhere else. -French is heard oftener than English, and Spanish and Italian are -spoken a great deal, as a large percentage of the population is -made up of these nationalities. The old French people, and a -mixture of French and Spanish, represent the aristocracy of New -Orleans, and are known as "Creoles." But these have degenerated to -some extent, and the younger generation of Creoles, especially the -men, are said to be lazy and worthless.</p> - -<p>Canal Street, the principal retail shopping street of the city, -forms the dividing line between the French and English portions, -and I may venture to say, on good authority, that some of the old -French Indies have never crossed Canal Street to penetrate into the -English part of the city.</p> - -<p>One of the first things a visitor goes to see is the old French -Market on the river front. This is interesting to a stranger, but -years ago it was even more so. The thing that strikes you most is -the dirt, which is in great abundance; but you will find that most -anywhere in New Orleans, although they are trying to improve it. -Everybody that goes to the French Market gets a cup of coffee and a -doughnut, commonly known as a "sinker," on account of its great -solidity. Frenchmen, Italians or "dagos," old black mammies with -their heads done up in bright bandannas, Indian women with herbs -and bright baskets for sale—these and many others you see in the -old market. A short distance from it are the historic Jackson -Square and St. Louis Cathedral, one of the oldest churches in the -United States. Jackson Square has beautiful flowers in it the year -round, and a fine equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson graces the -centre. I have never been in the cathedral except during service, -but I know there are some beautiful pictures there which time has -not spoiled, but rather increased the interest one always feels for -such things.</p> - -<p>The winters here are what makes New Orleans so attractive to many -people, and they certainly are delightful. It is a customary thing -to see roses in great abundance, beautiful green lawns, and a great -many flowers in bloom the entire year; but they don't do so well in -summer—it is too hot.</p> - -<p>A drive along the principal residence street, St. Charles Avenue, -is very delightful on a bright winter morning, for there are so -many handsome houses, and they all have gardens beautifully kept. -That is a good thing about New Orleans. There is plenty of air; -each house has some yard; they are not close together as in other -cities. In my next morsel I will tell you about Mardi Gras. Shall I -describe a sugar plantation for you?</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Sophie Eleanor Clark</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<p>Yes, please do.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>Grave of a Faithful Itinerant.</h3> - -<blockquote> - -<p>Perhaps <span class="smcap">Round Table</span> readers would like to hear about the grave of -William Watters, the first native American Methodist minister. This -grave is in Fairfax County, Virginia, six miles from Washington, in -an old graveyard. The monument is a simple veined marble shaft -about seven feet high, with these inscriptions:</p></blockquote> - -<p class="center">In Memory of</p> - -<p class="center">Rev. William Watters</p> - -<p class="center">The First Native Itinerant</p> - -<p class="center">Methodist Preacher in</p> - -<p class="center">America</p> - -<p class="center">Born Oct. 16, 1751</p> - -<p class="center">Died Mar. 29, 1827</p> - -<p class="center">He was a pioneer leading</p> - -<p class="center">the way for the vast army of</p> - -<p class="center">American Methodist Itinerants</p> - -<p class="center">having the Everlasting</p> - -<p class="center">Gospel to preach.</p> - -<p class="center">Fervent in spirit, prudent</p> - -<p class="center">in council, abundant in</p> - -<p class="center">labors, skillful in winning</p> - -<p class="center">souls, he was a workman that</p> - -<p class="center">needed not to be ashamed.</p> - -<p class="center">Also His Wife</p> - -<p class="center">Sarah Adams.</p> - -<p class="center">Erected by the Virginia</p> - -<p class="center">Conference of</p> - -<p class="center">The Methodist Episcopal</p> - -<p class="center">Church.</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>This was not the minister's home. He was on his way from North -Carolina to Baltimore when he died. The monument was not erected -until years after.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Dorothea F. Sherman</span>, R.T.L.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Ash Grove, Va</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>Omens Common in Virginia.</h3> - -<blockquote> - -<p>Three white frosts in succession, a sure sign of rain.</p> - -<p>When the crescent is on her back it never rains.</p> - -<p>When there is a small circle around the moon, rain is not far off; -a large circle, no rain.</p> - -<p>When the wild-ducks fly overhead it is a sure sign of cold weather.</p> - -<p>Show your money to the new moon, and it will surely increase.</p> - -<p>Spill salt, lend it out, or give away parsely plants, is very bad -luck.</p> - -<p>Break a looking-glass and you will have seven years of bad luck.</p> - -<p>If you fall up the stairs you will not be married that year.</p> - -<p>Never move on Saturday: "A Saturday's flit is a short sit."</p> - -<p>A strange black cat coming to you will bring luck.</p> - -<p>When the smoke descends, it is sure to rain.</p> - -<p>Never hang a horseshoe this way, (upside down U), as your luck will -run out. It should be put up the other way—U.</p> - -<p>The best one I know is an old Scotch saying:</p> - -<p>"Luck is with the Lord; belief, with the people."</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">John R. Moreland</span>, R.T.F.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Norfolk</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>Cracking Walnuts.</h3> - -<blockquote> - -<p>Select a hard table or flat-iron, placing the nuts near by. If you -look at the nut carefully, you will find a slightly raised ridge -running around the nut. Place the nut on its side, holding it -firmly. Strike upon the ridge with a heavy hammer with short even -blows until cracked. Fresh nuts are the best for both cracking and -eating.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 34em;">H. H. W.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Detroit</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>Questions and Answers.</h3> - -<p>Wilton, Ct., asked about Greek in Barnard College, and Registrar N. W. -Liggett, of Barnard, replies as follows:</p> - -<p>At the present writing Greek is absolutely essential for entrance to the -undergraduate department of Barnard College, and, after entrance, to the -completion of the Freshman year. In and after October, 1897, Greek will -no longer be required for entrance, other subjects being permitted as a -substitute, and it will then no longer be compulsory during the course.</p> - -<p>Arthur L. Flagg, 34 Park Ave., Woonsocket, R. I., is collecting minerals -and wants correspondents.</p> - -<p>"Win" writes to us:</p> - -<p>"Please advise me on seeking a trade. Mention a good one. Is there any -law against canvassing books in this way—if you buy a book for a price, -and you sell it again for a gain of fifty per cent."</p> - -<p>No one can advise you about a trade until such one knows something about -your tastes and your education. What trade do you feel most interested -in? Consider your inclinations, and follow them, unless there is a -reason for not doing so. Plumbing is a good trade. So is bookbinding. So -is carpentry. So are many others. Farming is a good occupation. Printing -is not a bad trade. Many people think its difficulties great, but this -impression is due to the fact that many printers own newspapers, and can -fill them with accounts of their own troubles. Blacksmiths have -troubles, but they own no newspaper in which to publish them. There is -no statute law against buying a book and selling it for a higher price.</p> - -<p>Fred F. Colyer asks how Mr. McKinley will officially know of his -election as President of the United States, and what the recent meetings -of electors were. To answer the last question first, they were the -castings of the ballot of the electors in accordance with the plurality -vote of the State. For example, in Pennsylvania, your own State, the -voters cast their ballots not for Mr. McKinley, but for Presidential -electors equal in number to the number of men in both Houses of Congress -from Pennsylvania. They meet at the State capital. As a majority of the -voters of the State voted for Mr. McKinley and Mr. Hobart, these -official electors cast their ballots for them. This is the vote of -Pennsylvania. The returns of these votes are sent to Washington, one -copy by mail, and the other by special messenger. Both go to the -President of the United States Senate, who, in the presence of both -House and Senate, opens and records the result. This result is the -official declaration, and by it Mr. McKinley and everybody else -officially knows who the next President and Vice-President of the United -States are to be.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_375" id="Page_375">[Pg 375]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"><a name="THE_CAMERA_CLUB" id="THE_CAMERA_CLUB"></a> -<img src="images/ill_024.jpg" width="600" height="190" 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> - -<h3>POOR NEGATIVES AND SOME OF THE CAUSES.</h3> - -<p>One of the most common mistakes of the young amateur is in not carrying -the development of a plate quite far enough. This is shown when the -plate, after removing from the fixing-bath, though full of detail, is so -thin and weak that it is impossible to get a good print from it, the -toning resulting in turning the print to a slaty gray color or an ugly -brown. A plate which has been properly exposed but not sufficiently -developed may be redeveloped by a process called in photography -intensification. Directions for intensifying were given in No. 824, -August 13, 1895, but for the benefit of new members of the club we give -another formula.</p> - -<h4><span class="smcap">Intensifying Solutions</span>.</h4> - -<h4>No. 1.</h4> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left">Chloride of ammonia</td><td align="right">100</td><td align="left">grs.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Bichloride of mercury</td><td align="right">100</td><td align="left">grs.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Water</td><td align="right">10</td><td align="left">oz.</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<h4>No. 2.</h4> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left">Strong ammonia</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="left">drms.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Water</td><td align="right">20</td><td align="left">oz.</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<p>If the negative has been washed and dried, soak it for a few minutes -till the film is thoroughly wet, then place it film side up in a tray -and pour over it enough of solution No. 1 to cover it well. Allow it to -remain, rocking the tray now and then, till the image has turned white. -Wash thoroughly in several changes of water, place it face up in another -tray, and cover it with solution No. 2, leaving it till the image has -turned brown. Wash well, and dry. If the negative is still too weak, -either repeat the process or redevelop in a weak solution of -hydrochinon. Solution No. 1 may be used repeatedly, but solution No. 2 -must be thrown away after once using.</p> - -<p>A plate that has been developed too long will be found dark all over, -and it will take a long time to make a print from it. A print made from -a very dense negative fades out quickly in the toning solution, and must -be printed deeper than one made from a good negative, in order to get a -good picture. An over-developed negative may be reduced so as to make a -fine negative. There are many formulas for reducing solutions, but the -one considered the most reliable is called "Farmer's Reducer," the -formula for which is as follows:</p> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left">Water</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="left">oz.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Hypo</td><td align="right">30</td><td align="left">grs.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Potassium ferridcyanide</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="left">grs.</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<p>This solution must be made up just before using. Place the negative -while wet in the tray and cover it with the solution. Rock the tray all -the time, and look at the negative frequently to see if the reduction -has been carried far enough. A convenient way of handling the plate -during the process is to put it into a plate-lifter, immerse it in the -solution for a minute or two, lift out and rinse, and if the reduction -has not been carried far enough return it again to the solution. Care -must be taken that the picture is not reduced too much.</p> - -<p>When the negative is dense in the high lights and without detail in the -shadows, it indicates that the plate was under-exposed. Where the -subject is one which cannot be obtained again, the negative may be -treated according to directions given recently in one of the papers on -retouching; but if the picture can be repeated, it is not worth while to -spend time on a poor negative.</p> - -<p>A negative which shows clear glass in the corners is due to the lens -being too small for the plate, and does not fully cover it.</p> - -<p>Fogged negatives are caused in several ways. If the edges of the plate -which come under the protector in the plate-holder are clear, and the -rest of the plate is fogged, the fog is caused by light entering the -camera, or by over-exposure of the plate. If there are streaks across -the plate, it is due to a small hole in the camera or to the rays of the -sun striking the lens during exposure. A plate which has been fogged by -the sun may be reduced by drying the plate and then taking a clean piece -of chamois, dipping it in alcohol, and rubbing the fogged spots gently -and evenly. Do this very carefully, touching only the places that are -fogged. Dense high lights may also be reduced by rubbing the places with -alcohol, this process bringing out the details which are lost in the -development.</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p><span class="smcap">Frederick Montgomery</span>, 2421 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D. C.; <span class="smcap">T. -Parker Hall</span>, Taunton, Mass.; <span class="smcap">Hubert Burnham</span>, 232 Dempster St., -Evanston, Ill.; <span class="smcap">John H. Ashum</span>, 1404 State St., Eau Claire, Wis.; -<span class="smcap">Elizur Smith</span>, P. O. Box 436, Lee, Mass.; <span class="smcap">Ralph B. Leonard</span>, 98 Green -St., Cumberland, Md.; <span class="smcap">Floyd W. Giles</span>, 49 Columbia Ave., Cumberland, -Md.; <span class="smcap">T. K. Wellington</span>, 33 Walnut Place, Eighth St., Troy, N. Y.; -<span class="smcap">Stanley Symmes</span>, 630 Harrison St., San Francisco, Cal.; <span class="smcap">Hall M. -Crossman</span>, Steelton, Pa.; <span class="smcap">Roxley F. Weber</span>, Salamanca, N. Y.; <span class="smcap">Bronson -M. Warren</span>, Bridgeport, Conn.; <span class="smcap">Wilbur T. Helm</span>, 15 W. Biddle St., -Baltimore, Md.—wish to become members of the Camera Club.</p></blockquote> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>ADVERTISEMENTS.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>Postage Stamps, &c.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 140px;"> -<img src="images/ill_025.jpg" width="140" height="150" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><b>STAMPS!</b> 300 genuine mixed Victoria, Cape, India Japan, Etc., with Stamp -Album, only 10c. New 96-page price-list FREE. Approval Sheets, 50% com. -Agents Wanted. We buy old U.S. & Conf. Stamps & Collections. <b>STANDARD -STAMP CO., St. Louis, Mo., Est. 1885.</b></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> -<img src="images/ill_026.jpg" width="200" height="121" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>60 dif. U.S. $1, 100 dif. Foreign 8c., 125 dif. Canadian, Natal, etc. -25c., 150 dif. Cape Verde, O. F. States, etc. 50c. Agents wanted. 50 -p.c. com. List free. <b>F. W. Miller, 904 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo.</b></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 150px;"> -<img src="images/ill_027.jpg" width="150" height="107" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><b>ALBUM AND LIST FREE!</b> Also 100 all diff. Venezuela, Bolivia, etc., only -10c. Agts. wanted at 50% Com. <b>C. A. Stegmann</b>, 5941 Cote Brilliant Ave., -St. Louis, Mo.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<p>500 Mixed, Australian, etc., 10c.; <b>105 var.</b> Zululand, etc. and album, -10c.; 12 Africa, 10c.; 15 Asia, 10c. Bargain list free. F. P. VINCENT, -Chatham, N. Y.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<p><b>Stamps</b>, 25 var. U.S. 5c.; 100 Foreign 10c.; 6 unused <span class="smcap">Cuba</span> 5c.; 7 India -3c.; Coin Cat. 5c. All for 20c. F. J. STANTON, L, Norwich, N. Y.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>STAMPS</h2> - -<p class="center">100, all different, 10 cents. Sheets on approval at 50% com. Agents -wanted.</p> - -<h4>B. V. JENKINS, 1224 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Md.</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<p class="center"><b>50</b> foreign stamps, Mexico, Turkey, C. G. Hope, etc. 2c.</p> - -<h4>H. L. ASHFIELD, 707 Prospect Ave., N. Y.</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<p class="center"><b>STAMPS</b>, 25 var. 10c; approval sheets 50% com.</p> - -<h4><span class="smcap">R. W. De HAVEN</span>, Box 4023, Sta. B, Philadelphia, Pa.</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<p class="center"><b>AGENTS WANTED</b>—50% com. Send references. Lists free. <b>J. T. Starr Stamp -Co.</b>, Coldwater, Mich.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>1000</h2> - -<p class="center">Best Stamp Hinges only <b>5</b>c. Agts. w't'd at 50%. List free.</p> - -<h4><b>L. B. DOVER & CO.</b>, 5958 Theodosia, St. Louis, Mo.</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>Arnold</h2> - -<h2>Constable & Co</h2> - -<h3>LACES,</h3> - -<h3>EMBROIDERIES.</h3> - -<p class="center"><i>Veilings, Nets, Chiffons,</i></p> - -<p class="center"><i>Trimming Laces.</i></p> - -<h4>Embroidered Cotton Fabrics,</h4> - -<p class="center"><i>for Ladies' and Children's Underwear.</i></p> - -<h4>Embroidered and Openwork Novelties,</h4> - -<p class="center"><i>Specially designed for Children's Dresses.</i></p> - -<h4>Embroidered All Overs,</h4> - -<p class="center"><i>Bands, Edgings, and Insertings to match.</i></p> - -<h4>Embroidered Handkerchiefs.</h4> - -<h4>Broadway & 19th st.</h4> - -<h4>NEW YORK.</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>EARN A GOLD WATCH!</h2> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 215px;"> -<img src="images/ill_028.jpg" width="215" height="250" alt="" /> -</div> - -<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" /> -<h2>ARE YOU CLEVER?</h2> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 180px;"> -<img src="images/ill_029.jpg" width="180" height="250" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h3>$25.00 $15.00 $10.00</h3> - -<p>In Gold, will be paid to the three purchasers sending in the most -solutions of this novel Egg Puzzle. Interests & amuses young & old. -Requires patience & steady nerves. Send 15 cts. for Puzzle, (2 for -25 cts.) and learn how to secure a <span class="smcap">Prize</span>.</p> - -<h4>Walter S. Coles, Neave Building, Cincinnati, O.</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>HOOPING</h2> - -<h2>COUGH</h2> - -<h2>CROUP</h2> - -<p class="center">Can be cured</p> - -<p class="center">by using</p> - -<h3>ROCHE'S HERBAL</h3> - -<h3>EMBROCATION</h3> - -<p class="center">The celebrated and effectual English cure, without internal medicine. <span class="smcap">W. -Edward & Son</span>, Props., London, Eng. <b>All Druggists.</b></p> - -<h4>E. FOUGERA & CO., <span class="smcap">New York</span>.</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<p class="center">Hold their place in the front rank of the publications to which they -belong.—<i>Boston Journal</i>, Feb. 19, 1896.</p> - -<h2><span class="smcap">Harper's</span></h2> - -<h2><span class="smcap">Periodicals</span></h2> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Magazine, $4.00 a Year</span></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Weekly, $4.00 a Year</span></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Bazar, $4.00 a Year</span></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Round Table, $2.00 a Year</span></td></tr> -</table></div> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>CARDS</h2> - -<p class="center">FOR 1897. 50 Sample Styles AND LIST OF 400 PREMIUM ARTICLES FREE. -HAVERFIELD PUB CO., CADIZ, OHIO</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_376" id="Page_376">[Pg 376]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/ill_030.jpg" width="500" height="364" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">THE GOSSIPS.<br /><br /> -"<span class="smcap">The trained dog in the next cage says he's going to move</span>!"<br /> -"<span class="smcap">What for</span>?"<br /> -"<span class="smcap">He says there's too much red ape about this menagerie</span>."</span> -</div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>FROM ONE BOY TO ANOTHER.</h3> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">I'm sorry for you, King of Spain—</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">You're just a boy like me—</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">But even though you are a boy</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">You are not half as free!</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">You're fenced about by etiquette—</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">By lots of little rules</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">Like those we have to mind when we</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">Are in our dancing-schools.</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">Poor little King!—you have no fun</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">Like that of other boys;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">You cannot jump and romp about,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">And try to make a noise.</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">You cannot take a sled and slide</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">Like lightning down a hill;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">To land head-first in snow would make</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">Your little highness ill.</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">You have a tutor come to you</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">Instead, like we boys have,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">Of going to school and romping there,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">With none to domineer!</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">Poor little King!—I weep for you,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">Deprived of all life's joy;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">And when I pray, I pray you'll dream</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">That you're a Yankee boy.</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">For I have found that that which comes</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">By day, for wrong or right,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">Is easier made by fairy dreams</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">Which come to me at night.</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">So, little King, I beg you take</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">From me, a Yankee free,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">The message of a boy who has</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">A deal of sympathy.</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">And while we do not care for kings,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">And look on thrones askance,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">We love you as a fellow-boy,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">And wish you had a chance!</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">John Kendrick Bangs</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>A VALID REASON.</h3> - -<p>Jimmieboy had just moved into town, and he didn't like hotel life.</p> - -<p>"What's the matter, Jimmieboy? Why don't you like it here?" asked a -friend.</p> - -<p>"Oh, it's sort of flat," said Jimmieboy. "Home I can go all over the -house, but here pop's got lots of visitors that seem to own the rooms. I -wish he'd never hired this old hotel!"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>THE AMERICAN BOY.</h3> - -<p>"And where did you come from?" asked the foreigner of Bobbie.</p> - -<p>"Mamma bought me at Tiffany's," replied Bobbie.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>AN UNPLEASANT PLACE.</h3> - -<p>"I'd like to be a policeman for five minutes!" said Jack, after he'd -been punished.</p> - -<p>"What for?" asked his sister.</p> - -<p>"I'd arrest papa for hitting me!" sobbed Jack.</p> - -<p>"Where'd you put him?" asked the little girl.</p> - -<p>"Nowhere," answered Jack. "That's the worst place I know of to be in."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>NOT ALWAYS BEST.</h3> - -<p>"Well, Tommie, how far have you got in arithmetic?"</p> - -<p>"Fractions," said Tommie.</p> - -<p>"And do you like them?"</p> - -<p>"Well—I prefer bananas for dessert," said Tommie.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>FROM THE ARITHMETIC CLASS.</h3> - -<p>"Suppose I take seventeen boys," began the teacher, "and one pie. And I -divide that pie equally among them."</p> - -<p>"Yes," said the class.</p> - -<p>"What, Willie Robinson, will one of those pieces amount to?"</p> - -<p>"One swaller," said Willie.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>A HINT.</h3> - -<p>"Well, Jacky," said Uncle George, "what are you going to be when you -grow up?"</p> - -<p>"An uncle if I can afford it," said Jacky. "Uncles ought always to have -pockets full of nickels to give to their nephews—don't you think?"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>WILLIE'S QUESTIONS.</h3> - -<p>"Pop," said Willie.</p> - -<p>"Well?" replied his father.</p> - -<p>"I want to ask you a question."</p> - -<p>"What is it?"</p> - -<p>"Do you suppose birds sing for nothing, because they know nobody'd ever -pay their bill?"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>THE REASON FOR IT.</h3> - -<p>"How fast you are growing, Tommie."</p> - -<p>"Yes. Too fast, I think. They water me too much. Why, I have to take a -bath every morning."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>NONCOMMITTAL.</h3> - -<p>"Are you fond of your aunts, Polly?" asked one of those dear relatives.</p> - -<p>"Don't collect 'em," said Polly. "I go in for beetles and butterflies."</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. 898.</p></div></div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Round Table, February 9, 1897, by Various - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S ROUND TABLE *** - -***** This file should be named 60681-h.htm or 60681-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/0/6/8/60681/ - -Produced by Annie R. 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