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-Copyright, 1897, by HARPER & BROTHERS. All Rights Reserved.
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-PUBLISHED WEEKLY. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1897. FIVE CENTS A COPY.
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-VOL. XVIII.--NO. 907. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR.
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-
-A BOAT AND A BOY.
-
-BY JOHN HABBERTON.
-
-
-Some boys, like some men, have greatness thrust upon them. Bruce Marvel
-became one of these boys one day to his own great surprise.
-
-Bruce was a good shot with either rifle or shot-gun; he could pitch,
-catch, or strike a ball as well as any other boy of his age, and he
-could handle a horse better than some men who travel with circuses.
-Still, he had spent most of his life in an inland village where the
-largest body of water was a brook about six feet wide. It stands to
-reason, therefore, as boys are very like men in longing most for what
-is farthest from their reach, that Bruce's consuming desire, in the
-line of sport, was for a sail-boat and for water in which to sail it. He
-studied pictures of sailing-craft, which he found in a pictorial
-dictionary, until he could redraw any of them from memory; he learned
-the names of all the sails of a full-rigged ship, and he delighted in
-sea stories of all kinds, while he longed for the day in which he could
-see broad water and such boats as were moved by wind, and when he could
-sit in a boat and manage the sails and rudder.
-
-Fortune finally seemed to favor him, for in his fifteenth year he was
-invited to spend a month at the sea-shore with an aunt of his mother's.
-As the aunt's family contained no men, it had no boats, so Bruce was
-sadly disappointed. But he was not of the kind that gives up when
-disappointment comes; he spent most of his waking hours in walking the
-beach of the little bay about which the town was built, looking at the
-boats, and scraping acquaintance with boys whose fathers owned boats; he
-kept up his spirits by hoping that in the course of time some one would
-invite him out sailing, and perhaps to take part in the management of a
-craft of some sort, Bruce cared not what, so that it had sails.
-
-But sailing was anything but sport to the boys whom Bruce came to know,
-for most of these boys were fishermen's sons, to whom sailing meant
-hard, every-day work, of which they did not care to do more than was
-absolutely necessary for business purposes.
-
-Yet Bruce learned some things about sailing, thanks to sharp eyes. He
-observed the fishing-boats and other small craft until he learned that
-almost anything that sailed would "go over" very far without capsizing.
-He thought he learned a lot about steering, too, although it puzzled him
-greatly that different vessels would sail in different directions while
-the wind blew from but one point of the compass. He determined to clear
-this mystery for himself, for nothing comes harder to a spirited boy
-than the displaying of ignorance by asking questions about matters which
-every one else seems to understand.
-
-One day he climbed into a fishing-boat which a receding tide had left
-lying upon the sand. The little three-cornered sail in front of the
-mast, which Bruce knew was called a jib, had been left loosely flapping,
-as if to dry, while the owner sought refreshment and company near by. As
-many another man has done before him, the owner remained longer than he
-had intended; meanwhile the tide came up until it floated the vessel, so
-Bruce had rare fun at "trimming in" the jib-sheets, first on one side
-and then on the other, and in seeing the boat strain at her anchor,
-which was a big stone with a long rope attached.
-
-Suddenly the wind began to come from the shore in hard puffs. Bruce
-trimmed in the jib very close, upon which the boat tugged furiously at
-her anchor; but she did the same when the sail was hauled close on the
-other side, so the make-believe sailor eased the sheet until the wind
-was directly abaft. Still the boat continued to strain; the anchor rope
-was old, so finally the friction caused by rubbing against the rail made
-the strands part suddenly; then the boat started for sea "on the wings
-of the wind," as Bruce afterward said.
-
-The boy sprang to the rudder. At last he was really sailing! It was
-through no fault of his, either, as he carefully explained to himself,
-for how could he have known of the rottenness of that rope? He had some
-misgivings, for he was sure that he did not know how to turn the boat
-and sail back again against the wind; still, he was resolved to have a
-little fun before asking assistance from some passing boat. He had been
-in the village and along the shore long enough to know that the offing
-was usually alive with fisher-craft coming in or going out, and he had
-frequently seen boats towed by others; so he had no doubt that he would
-be helped back safely to the beach again.
-
-Within a few moments he learned several facts about sailing; one was
-that by "easing" sheets freely while sailing under a jib alone, the sail
-will dispose itself at almost a right angle to the wind, so there need
-be but little work at the rudder. As to the larger sail, he did not
-trouble his mind about it, for not only was he in doubt as to how to use
-it, but his craft was going quite fast enough with such canvas as she
-was already carrying.
-
-The farther he got from shore the stronger the wind seemed to blow--a
-condition which did not impress him favorably, for he was soon out of
-the bay and upon the ocean, and although the water was not rough, the
-sea appeared to be very large, and the few boats in sight were far from
-him; and when he tried to steer toward some of them, his own boat
-behaved quite provokingly, as any boat will when asked to change her
-course much while the only sail she carries is a jib.
-
-Still, the experience as a whole was great fun, and whenever Bruce felt
-a little scare creeping through him, he rallied himself by singing a
-selection from "A Life on the Ocean Wave," beginning,
-
-  We shoot through the ocean foam
-    Like an ocean bird set free.
-
-But the wind continued to increase in strength, and to come in hard
-puffs, which Bruce had heard were dangerous. How was the boy to get back
-to shore? He began to recall some sea stories, which did not now seem as
-interesting as when he first read them--stories of boys who had drifted
-out to sea and never been heard of afterward. It does not require many
-such memories to make a wind-driven boy fearful of what is to come; a
-man would feel quite as uncomfortable in similar circumstances--being
-driven out to sea, in the latter part of the afternoon, with no sign of
-rescue in sight, and he in a boat which he did not know how to manage.
-
-After some hard sailing Bruce determined to let down the jib if it would
-consent to fall, turn the boat's head toward shore with an oar that lay
-in the bottom, and then paddle back to the bay; fortunately he had
-learned paddling on the brook in his native village. Whether he could
-force the boat against such a wind he did not know, but he had strong
-arms; besides, the tide certainly would help him, for it was setting
-shoreward, otherwise it would not have lifted the boat from the beach an
-hour or two before. He succeeded in getting down the jib, although it
-hung loosely and caught much wind. He found paddling, in the
-circumstances, much harder than propelling a narrow raft on the still
-water of a brook; although the sea was not exactly rough, the deck was a
-very unsteady platform for his feet, and the wind caused the craft to
-wildly change direction from time to time; once the rail bore so heavily
-upon the oar that Bruce had to choose between letting go or going
-overboard, so of course he let go, and a moment later the boat was again
-hurrying seaward.
-
-"This," said Bruce, as he went gloomily aft and took the tiller, "must
-be what the stories mean when they tell about scudding under bare poles.
-There can't be any doubt about it, although I greatly wish there could."
-
-Up to this time the wind had been freshening Bruce's appetite, but now
-the boy would have promised to fast a week for the certainty of getting
-ashore. The sun was steadily declining; not a sail was in sight on the
-course over which he was drifting. Steamers and other vessels
-occasionally went up and down the shore, in plain sight of the bay, but
-what chance was there of his sighting one of them before dark; and what
-pitiful stories he had read of shipwrecked men whose signals had been
-unseen or disregarded.
-
-Suddenly he saw, a mile or two out to sea, and in the course he was
-sailing, something which appeared to be a row-boat containing men who
-were waving hats and handkerchiefs.
-
-"Hurrah!" shouted Bruce. "They want to get back without rowing. Perhaps
-some of them will know how to manage this contrary craft. I hope they
-will have sense enough to row towards me, for if I steer a bit wrong
-nothing can keep me from running out to sea and missing them."
-
-He quickly got the jib up, so as to sail faster; he knew he could get it
-down again should he find himself in danger of passing the other boat.
-Under canvas, Bruce got over the water rapidly, but to his surprise and
-consternation the men did not attempt to row toward him. Suddenly he
-exclaimed.
-
-"That isn't a row-boat! It is bigger, and of a different shape. It's a
-sail-boat, and on its side, and the men are sitting on the edge of the
-hull.' They're wrecked! I wonder why their boat doesn't go over
-entirely? Oh, I see!--the mast and sail are lying on the water, and
-keeping it on its edge. Oh, if I were a good sailor! See the poor
-fellows signalling to me! I suppose they're wild with excitement and
-fear, although they can't be more so than I."
-
-In the next few moments Bruce steered very carefully; he also did some
-earnest thinking. How should he stop his own boat entirely when he came
-abreast of the wreck? He knew of no way but that of letting down the
-jib, which had not worked very successfully when already tried, for the
-mast and hull had caught the wind with alarming success. Should he shout
-to the men, explain his ignorance, and ask what he should do? If one of
-the men would swim out to him when he neared them, and take charge of
-his boat, Bruce did not doubt that all would go well; so he assured
-himself that no false pride should prevent him confessing that he knew
-nothing about sailing, should he fail to lay his craft alongside of the
-wreck.
-
-Meanwhile his boat kept exactly the proper course. The shipwrecked men
-began to shout, but the wind was against them, so Bruce could not
-distinguish a word. He hoped that they were hailing him as their
-deliverer; he also hoped that they would be able to deliver him from the
-worst trouble in which he had ever found himself. The shouting
-continued, but Bruce was now too near to pay attention to anything but
-the tiller, which had seemed to become a thing of life and intelligence.
-When he got within about a hundred feet of the wreck he heard:
-
-"Isn't it time to drop your jib? And throw us a line, if you please."
-
-Bruce quickly let go the jib-halyard, but in his excitement he forgot to
-ease the sheet, so the sail declined to fall; the wind kept it in place.
-A few seconds later the young amateur was thrown from his feet by the
-shock of his boat striking and breaking the mast of the capsized boat.
-The force of the collision tumbled the three shipwrecked men into the
-water; but they quickly scrambled out, and one of them shouted,
-
-"Hurrah! Now throw us a line, before we drift apart."
-
-Bruce responded by tossing a coil of the main-sheet, and begging the man
-who caught it to keep tight hold of it.
-
-"Count upon us for that, young man," was the reply. "We know our last
-chance when we see it, and we aren't going to let go of it."
-
-In a moment the line was made fast to a cleat just under the rail of the
-wrecked boat, while Bruce said,
-
-"I'm very sorry that I broke your mast, but my jib wouldn't come down."
-
-"Don't mention it, young man, don't mention it! 'Twas the best thing you
-could have done for us, next to coming out to our rescue, for otherwise
-we never could have got our boat righted. Of course we couldn't get the
-hull on its bottom again without unshipping the mast--a job we've been
-attempting ever since we went over. Although we've cut all the stays,
-the mast sticks in its step as if it was fastened there or at the deck.
-We'd have cut the mast ourselves if we'd had anything to do it with, and
-risked getting back with the oars, which we've kept lashed."
-
-"Let's clear away now," said another. "It's going to take a lot of time
-to right the hull, and get the water out, and get the wreckage aboard,
-so we'll have as little as possible to pay for. We'll have to get our
-young friend to tow us in, if he will, and 'twill be slow work, beating
-all the way."
-
-"Let me help you all I can," Bruce replied, "for you will have to help
-me get my own boat back to the bay."
-
-"I should think so," said one of the men, as he hauled Bruce's boat
-close and sprang into it. "'Twas right enough to run out under a jib,
-but of course you can't get back that way, and no one man can handle
-main-sheet and tiller in a breeze like this. Now, boys, I'll get up sail
-on our friend's boat, and see if we can't get some help from it in
-righting our own. It will be troublesome work, for our ballast
-shifted--the wrong way, of course--as we went over."
-
-"Suppose," Bruce suggested quickly, "that two of you come aboard, if
-you're used to working together in a boat? I don't know much about
-righting capsized hulls."
-
-"Eh? Well, probably not. You every-day sailors on the coast here aren't
-stupid enough to let a boat go over, as we amateurs did when a hard puff
-came to-day. We pass for pretty good sailors, too, in our yacht club at
-home. Here, Grayden, come aboard. I'll take the tiller, you take the
-main-sheet, and if our young friend will 'tend jib--"
-
-"Good!" interrupted Bruce, while a great sense of relief came to him. He
-felt well acquainted with that jib.
-
-The mainsail, in which there already was a reef, was hoisted, the
-main-sheet of the wrecked boat was taken aboard as a hawser, and after
-much shouting and tacking and jerking the capsized hull was righted.
-Then sail was dropped on Bruce's boat, the wreck was hauled alongside,
-and the three men bailed out the water with their hats, adjusted the
-ballast, and dragged the wreckage aboard and stored it. One man was left
-on the hull to steer, a tow-line was put out, sail was made once more on
-Bruce's boat, and the party started for the bay. When fairly on the
-proper course the man who had seemed to take the lead in every thing
-said to Bruce:
-
-"My young friend, we've been working and worrying so hard that I'm
-afraid we've forgotten our manners, but I want to assure you that we're
-the most grateful men in this part of the world to-night, unless three
-others have been rescued from drowning. Eh, boys?"
-
-"Yes, indeed," replied one. "I think, too, for a chap as young as our
-friend to dash out to sea in such a breeze to save some men whom he
-never saw before was a remarkably plucky deed. I'm proud to know you, my
-friend, and I'd like to do something great to prove it."
-
-"So would I," said another.
-
-"You're very kind," Bruce replied, "and you may begin at once, if you
-like. You would be doing a great thing for me if you would teach me
-something about sailing."
-
-"Wha--a--a--at?" drawled one, while the other opened his eyes very wide.
-"Why--you came out in splendid style."
-
-"I'm glad of it, but, really, I couldn't help it; the wind did it all. I
-never before was out in a boat with a sail on it; I wouldn't have been
-out this time if the anchor rope hadn't broken while I sat in the boat
-playing with the jib."
-
-"Whew! And through that accident you've saved our lives!"
-
-"And you've saved mine. Still, won't you please try and teach me
-something about sailing--right now, while we're at it?"
-
-Two teachers took the boy in hand at once; they made many short tacks,
-with Bruce at the tiller, to show how to "put about"; they explained how
-the force of a sudden puff could be lessened by quickly heading a little
-toward the wind, taught him much more about the management of the jib
-than he had yet learned for himself, and had him observe the different
-ways in which the mainsail was treated on differing courses. The lessons
-continued until they reached the bay, where a new anchor rope was
-purchased for the rescuing craft, whose owner, also, had to be reasoned
-with and otherwise pacified.
-
-The next day two of the party returned to the city from which they had
-come for a day's fishing, but one remained, hired a smaller boat, and
-spent half a week afloat with Bruce, doing all in his power to make a
-confident yet cautious sailor of the boy. In the mean time there came
-out from the city some newspapers, in each of which was a marked article
-telling how a brave youth named Bruce Marvel had, at great peril to
-himself, saved three men from death by drowning. There also came to
-Bruce a little gold watch, suitably inscribed; and when the boy finally
-returned to his home, the newspapers and the watch made him the most
-noted person in his county, and his honest admission that he really knew
-next to nothing about sailing boats when he ran out to sea increased his
-fame immensely.
-
-
-
-
-SOME REMINISCENCES OF CHARLES DICKENS.
-
-BY HENRY AUGUSTUS ABRAHAM.
-
-
-The recent death of Mr. Charles Dickens, the eldest son of the great
-author, reminds a schoolfellow of the former, who enjoyed for many years
-the friendship of the family, of a few circumstances connected with the
-author of the _Pickwick Papers_ that, never having found their way to
-paper, may not be without interest at this moment.
-
-It was due probably to Dickens's great regard for the actor Macready
-that he selected Dr. King's preparatory school for his son. Macready,
-who lived not far from King's, and who had heard of his great success as
-a teacher of the classics, informed Dickens of his intention to send his
-two boys to the school, and Dickens at once decided to place Charlie, as
-his son was always called, at the same institution.
-
-King's was situated near the famous Lords cricket-ground on Maida Hill.
-When Douglas Jerrold heard of this he was anxious to know what made her
-ill, and trusted that Charlie would be all right.
-
-What Dickens replied "deponent saith not," but at a later date he
-remarked that his boy was in pretty royal company.
-
-It was here that the schoolfellow and his fortunate companions first set
-eyes on Charles Dickens. Charlie, quite unconscious of the flutter that
-he would create in the breasts of his schoolmates, quietly informed them
-that his father would visit the school on a certain day. Until that
-auspicious time the _Pickwick Papers_ became more bethumbed than ever.
-The writer was on the tiptoe of expectation and not a little nervous.
-What liberties are taken with the names of the great! "Dickens is
-coming!" If Jones the lawyer were expected, or Pills the apothecary, it
-would have been: "Mr. Jones is coming; Mr. Pills will visit his son."
-
-When Dickens did come it was with a rush. He lovingly embraced his boy,
-shook the hands of the fortunate lads who were introduced as Charlie's
-particular chums, slipped some money into his son's hand, and was off,
-without the almost inevitable allusion to the _pons asinorum_ or the
-_hic, haec, hoc_, those _bêtes noire_ of a schoolboy's existence.
-
-But it was while he was talking to Dr. King that an opportunity was
-given to study Dickens from a boy's point of view. He was then
-considerably under forty, but looked--to the boy, remember--a
-comparatively old man. What was young in him were his hair and eyes.
-There were not many wrinkles visible, but lines of thought and care
-marked features that in repose were deceiving in their sternness. As to
-his dress, the writer has since thought that, while it might have been
-quite untidy and loud for a butterman's best, it suited Dickens's rapid
-motions and easy gait. It would be hard to imagine Dickens in prim
-attire. Such apparel would have been out of place.
-
-It was while summering at Broadstairs, a quiet watering-place on the
-Kentish coast, that the writer had perhaps the best opportunity to study
-Dickens's characteristics--the most notable of which most certainly was
-his love for children. Apparently adoring his own, he still had room in
-his great heart for other people's darlings. Had it been more generally
-known that for several seasons Dickens made Broadstairs his
-abiding-place, that pretty little sea-side resort would have been
-crowded with visitors. As it was, several of his intimate friends, among
-them the artists Stone and Egg, made Broadstairs their summer home.
-
-Those twenty-mile rambles, so frequently alluded to, would alone have
-made Dickens interesting to younger people, who were continually
-arranging to meet the author and his frequent companion, Miss Hogarth,
-on the cliffs or sands between Pegwalt Bay and Margate.
-
-Once Dickens came to the rescue of some children who had been overtaken
-by the tide. Miss Hogarth and the writer were of the party. Dickens
-summoned donkey-boys from Margate and sent the youngsters home at a
-gallop. They arrived just as the tide was washing the white cliffs.
-
-Only once in several years did the writer hear Charles Dickens's voice
-in angry tones. This was the occasion, and it was indelibly impressed on
-his memory:
-
-"Mamie" (Miss Mary Dickens) and "Katie" (Catharine, named after her
-mother, whom Dickens always addressed as Kate) were very pretty and
-interesting girls; indeed, they were the little belles of Broadstairs.
-They frequently had juvenile tea parties at "Bleak House," as Dickens's
-Broadstairs home was called. It was situated on a high bluff, and stood
-alone--a very picturesque but mournful and deserted-looking building, as
-peculiar in its style as the author's house in Devonshire Terrace,
-London. Dickens's library had a seaward and an inland view. He was then
-writing _Dombey and Son_, and he had told Miss Hogarth that he must not
-be disturbed. But notwithstanding this injunction, the tea party, rather
-formidable in numbers, tired of cake and bread and butter, scoured the
-house and turned it into a Bedlam, gentle Mamie, however, protesting.
-
-[Illustration: BLEAK HOUSE, BROADSTAIRS.
-
-(From an old print.)]
-
-At a moment when Dickens was evidently very much engrossed, the
-children, with a wild rush, broke in on his quietude. The writer,
-wittingly, or perhaps impelled by force of numbers, found himself within
-a few feet of the desk where Dickens was writing, and was very much
-alarmed as Dickens looked angrily on the crowd. But he loved children
-too well to be angry with them long. Rising from his seat, the frown
-melting into the smile that always endeared him to young people, he
-spread his arms and simply shooed us from the room, like the geese that
-we were, and bade us seek Miss Hogarth, who never seemed to tire of
-entertaining her niece's guests. But on this occasion the abashed
-marauders, deeming "discretion" to be "the better part of valor," crept
-into the garden, where Charlie was engaged in the innocent though
-perhaps dangerous pastime of gathering some very dubious-looking plums
-from a tree that had seen better days. Miss Hogarth, having doubtless
-been interviewed by Dickens, led the young people to understand, later
-in the day, that strangers would not be admitted to Bleak House until
-further notice, thus practically breaking up the tea parties. We
-subsequently learned that Dickens had frequently been disturbed, and it
-was necessary that silence should reign for a season.
-
-Very little has been written, if indeed anything, of this interesting
-summer home of the noted author--Bleak House. It was surrounded by high
-and gloomy brick walls that gave the old place a dreary and forbidding
-appearance. Its very quaintness moved Dickens to make it his temporary
-abiding-place. It may have been interesting, but it seemed to the good
-people of Broadstairs, as they looked on the most exposed spot in all
-the little place, that only courageous hearts could live at Bleak House.
-And during a frightful storm, that sunk fishing-smacks and damaged the
-coast, devastating the esplanade and destroying not a few farm-houses,
-the frightened residents at morning's dawn looked with pale faces in the
-direction of Bleak House, almost expecting to find it in ruins. But in
-spite of its exposed position, the house bravely withstood the gale,
-although chimney-pots and trees were blown down. The family was
-naturally alarmed, and betook themselves to apartments adjoining the
-library on the esplanade. The library and assembly-rooms were the public
-resort of Broadstairs's quality. But Dickens was rarely if ever seen at
-the gatherings.
-
-Dickens remarked a few days later to the writer's father that the gale
-had been an alarming and thrilling experience.
-
-[Illustration: DICKENS'S HOUSE IN DEVONSHIRE TERRACE, LONDON.
-
-(From an old print.)]
-
-Soon after the meeting at Dr. King's school Charlie's schoolfellow
-visited the family in Devonshire Terrace, just off the New Road. _David
-Copperfield_ was then the book of the hour, and because it had been
-suggested that the author had his own boyhood in mind while writing the
-novel, Dickens was more of a lion than ever to the juvenile mind.
-Charlie devoured the pages of the book with avidity. Indeed, all the
-novelist's children were charmingly appreciative of their father's
-writings--a flattering incentive to Dickens, no doubt.
-
-At the moment of this visit, his own little darlings, as well as some
-others, were crawling all over him, reminding one of Gulliver in the
-toils. But he at once turned to the somewhat bashful visitor, and, in
-renewing the acquaintance, with delightful tact made the schoolboy feel
-that he was not _de trop_.
-
-It was at the juvenile birthday parties that Dickens seemed in all his
-glory. At the supper table, in helping some little miss to "trifle," he
-would assure her with all possible gravity that it was no trifle at all.
-When the writer, urged to make a little speech on the occasion of
-Charlie's birthday, came to a full stop at the words "I am sure,"
-Dickens at once came to his assistance, and enabled him to retire from
-the platform, however ungracefully, with the remark, among others,
-"Always be sure, my dear boy, and you'll get along all right."
-
-At the little theatrical entertainments Dickens was the alpha and the
-omega of the proceedings. He was sometimes author, adapter, condenser,
-musical director, manager, prompter, and even stage carpenter. He
-overflowed with energy.
-
-Dickens, doubtless remembering his own acute sensitiveness as a child,
-could not wittingly wound a child's feelings. He made fun _with_, not
-_of_ us. No party ever came off at Dickens's without "Sir Roger de
-Coverley" being introduced. Dickens shouted with laughter as some novice
-got badly mixed up in "all hands down the middle." Off he darted after
-the lost sheep--generally an awkward boy--and turned his blushes to
-smiles by saying, "What a dancer this boy will make when he's tackled a
-little more roast beef!" or, "Isn't Tommy a nice young man for a small
-party?"
-
-There was nothing of the pedagogue about him. No vulgar attempt to pose
-as the brilliant "Boz." He was simply a big boy, and he came down the
-ladder of his fame to meet his fellows on their ordinary platform--to be
-one of them in their own simple way for a time.
-
-
-
-
-A LOYAL TRAITOR.[1]
-
-[1] Begun in HARPER'S ROUND TABLE No. 888.
-
-A STORY OF THE WAR OF 1812 BETWEEN AMERICA AND ENGLAND.
-
-BY JAMES BARNES.
-
-
-CHAPTER XXI.
-
-TAKING A PRIZE.
-
-I had found a little box, that had just room enough for a bunk and a
-narrow cupboard, at the foot of the forecastle ladder, and this I took
-possession of, as, of course, it would not do for me to mess or bunk in
-with the crew. There was a fine ten-knot breeze blowing when I was
-awakened the next morning, and the little cutter was dipping into the
-waves gracefully like a Mother Cary's chicken. Every one was in high
-spirits. All idea of my being a Jonah had faded from the minds of the
-crew. Yet I was filled with a huge disappointment. A bitter, miserable
-sensation had firm hold of me. I saw what an injudicious and, mayhap, an
-unkind thing I had done, and regretted that I had not been more
-strenuous in my efforts to keep Mr. Middleton from carrying out his
-intentions of leaving the _Cæsar_; but I believe that if I should have
-urged strongly against it, the cruise of the _Bat_ would have ended
-there and then.
-
-At eight bells in the morning watch I saw Mr. Middleton come on deck. I
-noted that he held his wig on with one hand as he approached. I lifted
-my hat and bowed politely.
-
-"A word with you," began the old gentleman. "It is evident that you
-never had any intention of touching at Dublin."
-
-"That, sir," I returned, "is the truth; I never had. Would you suppose
-it possible for an American crew to sail into a hostile harbor in a
-captured vessel and get out again?"
-
-"You played the joke well on the Englishmen," he said.
-
-"Yes; but they were Englishmen," I answered. "The Irish might be
-quicker-witted."
-
-I knew that he was an Irishman, for he had a genteel touch of the
-brogue.
-
-"Look here, my young sir," he rejoined; "I am a wealthy man, and my word
-is as good as a written and sworn-to bond. If you will land me on the
-coast of Ireland, anywhere, I will give you a thousand pounds."
-
-"No money could tempt me," I replied, "to place the freedom of my crew
-in jeopardy; but this I have determined; if I meet a vessel bound for
-Europe, and can do so without risk, I intend to place you and your
-granddaughter Mistress Tanner on board of her. More than this it is
-beyond my power to do."
-
-"You just spoke Miss Tanner's name," said the old man, looking at me
-fiercely; "and when we came on board, your forwardness in speaking was
-most noticeable. I pray you, do you claim acquaintance?"
-
-"Sir," I returned, "it is as the lady says."
-
-"She says you are a stranger to her," answered the old man, grimly.
-
-"So be it," I replied, and turned upon my heel.
-
-I did not see anything of Mary that day, but late in the evening she and
-her grandfather came on deck, and, arm in arm, walked up and down the
-weather side of the quarter-deck, I giving over to them, and pacing up
-and down the opposite side of the mainsail; but my heart was big to
-bursting, and I was tempted again and again to step around the mast, and
-standing there face to face with the girl that had given me the rose,
-demand an explanation. Oh, woman! who can account for your strange
-actions or analyze the motives of your inconsistencies?
-
-As they went below, I happened to be standing so close that my presence
-could not be ignored, nor could I, without seeming rudeness, avoid
-speaking.
-
-"I hope you and the young lady are quite comfortable, Mr. Middleton," I
-said, bowing. "If there is anything in my power I can do to add to your
-comfort, I pray you to command me."
-
-Purposely I avoided looking at Mary as I spoke, and yet I was conscious
-that her eyes were full upon my face. She stood a little apart from her
-grandfather, and her little foot was tapping the deck impatiently. Mr.
-Middleton acknowledged my salutation, and replied with a certain
-peevishness that is shared by the very old or the very young.
-
-"The only thing that you can do is to redeem your promise, and set us on
-some vessel bound for Great Britain," he returned.
-
-"I shall endeavor thus to redeem myself," I said. And then the two went
-below, leaving me leaning back against the boom with a leaden heart.
-
-We were carrying a great square topsail, and kicking up a great smother
-forward that showed that we were travelling well. The man at the tiller
-was humming softly to himself, the crew were lolling forward, when I saw
-my First Lieutenant approach. I noticed from his expression that he
-wished to speak to me.
-
-"Well, Mr. Chips," said I, "and what is it?"
-
-"I beg your pardon, sir," he returned, "but hadn't you better take a
-squint at the sun and see where we are? It's near high noon."
-
-I was in a quandary, for, as I have stated previously, I knew nothing of
-navigation--that is, the science of it.
-
-"Well, Mr. Chips," I said, "do you suppose I don't know where I am?"
-
-"The sextant is in the cabin, sir. But there is another thing," he
-added, touching his cap. "Would you mind calling me by my real name?"
-
-"Why, isn't it Chips?" I exclaimed in surprise, not knowing that this
-was the nickname applied to every carpenter afloat.
-
-"My name is Philemon Cutterwaite," he answered, quietly.
-
-As of course I had no intention to hurt his feelings, I repressed a
-smile, merely saying, "Very good, Mr. Cutterwaite; I shall endeavor to
-remember it."
-
-"Thank you, sir," was the reply. "Shall I get the instruments and take
-the time?"
-
-As he spoke he stepped to the head of the companion-ladder and knocked.
-I could think of no excuse for the moment for detaining him, and taking
-my silence for consent, he obeyed the answer from below to enter, and
-disappeared. But in an instant he came on deck.
-
-"Captain Hurdiss," he said, "the chronometer has stopped. We must have
-forgotten to wind it, sir--bad fortune!"
-
-"Then there is no sight for to-day," I said, much relieved.
-
-"I suppose not," was the grumbling answer. And then the good fellow went
-below.
-
-I messed alone, either on deck or in my box of a cabin; and I had just
-finished my evening meal when one of the crew who had been aloft came
-down to the forecastle and reported that there was a sail in sight to
-the westward. When I came on deck I could just make out a faint spot
-against the sunset sky, but what course the vessel was holding I could
-not make out even with the aid of a glass. It was dead calm, and the
-_Bat_ rolled lazily about, fetching up with a jerk of her heavy boom
-that would send an echolike sound rolling up the great mainsail.
-
-In my absence Mr. Cutterwaite, as I shall call him hereafter, had given
-some orders, and I saw that some of the crew were making ready to get
-rolling tackle on her, as a preventive of the danger of carrying
-anything away by the slapping and romping of the vessel. The sea that
-was running must have been the aftermath, so to speak, of a heavy blow,
-for it rolled from the southward, smooth and round, with not a ripple on
-the crest or a dimple to be seen on the sides of the waves.
-
-The sun was going down behind a streaky line of clouds that crossed the
-western sky in such a peculiar manner that, as they caught the red
-sunset color, the whole west resembled nothing so much as a great
-American flag. Even the stars were there, shining in the blue field. I
-was standing looking at it in admiration, when I turned suddenly and saw
-that Mary Tanner had come on deck, and was regarding the sight with
-wide-open eyes. Probably she had not seen me, but I determined to speak
-to her, and so came closer.
-
-"It is our flag yonder," I said, pointing.
-
-She gave a little frown, as if I had interrupted some pleasant thought.
-
-"I see it," she answered, turning her head half away; and with this she
-descended to the cabin again.
-
-Such a starlit night as this was I can never recollect seeing. The calm
-continued, and as it was warm I brought up a blanket to lie on, and
-determined to pass the night on deck. As I lay there watching the
-topmast sway to and fro against the besprinkled heavens, I fell into
-wondering what was going to become of me--what should I do when I
-returned to America. I could not imagine; and it seemed to me that it
-was impossible that Mary Tanner, whom I had grown to think of as the one
-person in the world who might be interested in my life (ah, the beloved
-picture of her waiting for me!) was here within sound of my voice; here
-in my keeping, as it were; and yet affairs were sadly different from
-what I had hoped or supposed they would be.
-
-I was lying with my head almost on the edge of the hatch combing, when I
-thought I heard the sound of something like a sigh or a long-drawn
-breath. I raised myself on my elbow, and there she was standing not
-three feet from me. I could have placed my hand over hers if I had so
-chosen.
-
-"Mary," I said, softly. She gave a little gasp and turned.
-
-"Pray do not go until you have heard a few words that I wish to say," I
-went on, leaning forward. "If my speaking to you is disagreeable, I
-shall not repeat the offence a second time. Listen! I had not thought to
-carry you away, but I had hoped some day to find you. In prison I
-thought of this, and as a free man the hope has been before my eyes.
-Now there is nothing left. I have naught to offer you, but some day
-there may come a time when I can do so." I was urged to speak thus by I
-know not what. "You think that I am but a common sailor. I am--"
-
-"Oh, pray do not explain further, Monsieur le Marquis," she interrupted.
-"I suppose that you were going on to speak of your estates and titles."
-
-I started.
-
-"What do you mean?" I said. "What do you know, anyhow?"
-
-"Only what Gaston informed every one in Stonington," she said. "Poor
-loon! they would have put him in the mad-house. But you were going on to
-say, you are--"
-
-"A plain American seaman," I returned, "who would give his life to serve
-you."
-
-I had risen to my feet and stood there looking at her. I thought for a
-moment that her look had softened as I spoke, but just then Mr.
-Middleton's voice interrupted us from the cabin.
-
-"Mary, child," he called, "where are you?"
-
-"I am here," she answered, and she jumped below, almost into the
-frightened old man's arms. I clinched my teeth, and there was no sleep
-for me that night.
-
-In the early morning hours it clouded a little, and an intermittent
-breeze blew up from the south. At daybreak we discovered the sail that
-had been sighted the evening before, about three miles distant, bearing
-a few points off our weather bow. She was a small ship, and at the first
-glance at her Mr. Cutterwaite pronounced her English. We changed our
-course, and at the same moment the vessel did hers also, and when about
-a mile distant she broke out her flag.
-
-"A Portuguese, by David!" exclaimed Dugan.
-
-"We'd better try the British Jack, sir," suggested the carpenter.
-
-I acquiesced, and soon the _Bat_'s natural colors were flying over us.
-Instantly down went the Portuguese emblem, and up went that of England.
-The ship had come up into the wind, and was waiting for us with her
-maintop-sail aback and her foresheets fluttering. Suddenly I noticed
-that she had dropped four ports, and through the glass I noticed one of
-the guns run in and the toss of a sponge handle. Instantly the risk we
-were running crossed my mind.
-
-"Stand by to cast loose and provide those guns," I said, holding the
-_Bat_ up a few points so as to lessen our speed. "Arm all hands," I
-added.
-
-We were a fair bit less than one-third the size of the vessel we were
-nearing, and I saw that the men cast rather furtive glances at her as
-they set about obeying orders.
-
-"Men," I said, "we do not intend to fight that vessel. I just wish to
-speak to her; but be ready."
-
-"If fight we must, why, fight we will," said Dugan, with a grin.
-
-I called down into the cabin.
-
-"Mr. Middleton," I said, "you can get your baggage, sir. I judge we will
-soon part company."
-
-In ten minutes we were almost within hailing distance, and the old
-gentleman came on deck, followed immediately by Mary. Her eyes were red,
-as if she had been weeping. It required all the strength of will I had
-to keep my lip from quivering as I raised my hat and wished her a polite
-good-morning. There was a strange wistful glance that I could not fathom
-that she threw at me, and then she turned her head aside. I had donned
-the uniform of my unknown namesake, and leaning against the lee shrouds,
-I raised my voice and hallooed,
-
-"What ship is that?"
-
-"The _Lord Lennox_, from Quebec to Liverpool. What cutter is that?"
-
-"His Majesty's sloop _Bat_, from Dublin to Quebec," I answered.
-
-"What do you want of us?" was the inquiry of a short thick-set man in a
-beaver hat, who had mounted the rail.
-
-"Can you take two passengers back with you to England?" I replied.
-
-The man on the rail turned as if he were speaking to some one behind
-him, and giving no answer to this, jumped down out of sight.
-
-"Look out for treachery," cried the carpenter, suddenly. And no sooner
-had he spoken than the forward gun, an 18-pound carronade, roared out,
-and the shot plumped through our mainsail.
-
-"Below with you," I cried, dodging under the boom, and hastening Mr.
-Middleton toward the cabin with a push. "Below for your dear life," I
-cried to Mary as she followed him.
-
-Without orders one of my men had fired the forward 6-pounder into the
-hull of the ship, and seeing that our only hope was to get so close that
-they could not depress their guns enough to hit us, I jammed down the
-tiller, and we shot up close under the vessel's side. Her three other
-guns were discharged over our heads, and away went our topmast, and the
-tip of our gaff with the colors on it. So close were we that a burning
-wad fell on our deck. The other 6-pounder was discharged, and ripped a
-great hole in the ship but a few feet above the water-line. And now we
-were in for it! With a slight jar we grazed along the ship's side, and
-the wounded gaff tangled, in her fore-shrouds.
-
-"There's nothing for it but to board," I cried.
-
-"Boarders away for the spar-deck!" roared Dugan, as he sprang for the
-chains, followed by all hands in a wild scramble.
-
-Perhaps the cheer that we gave sounded as if there were many more of us.
-I saw Dugan's pistol flash as he threw his leg over the bulwark
-overhead. It was answered by a volley, and the poor fellow with a cry
-fell back into the arms of the next man below him. By almost pushing
-those ahead of me out of the way, I had managed to be among the
-foremost. Somebody gave me a leg up from behind, and I shot over the
-ship's rail on to the forecastle. But I was not alone. To a man the crew
-of the _Bat_ were with me, and there before us, gathered in the waist,
-were a score or more of seamen who were scrambling forward to meet our
-onslaught. They outnumbered us, but we were better armed, and (if I say
-it, who should not) we were better fighters. I had felt a sharp twinge
-of pain go through my left shoulder when I had fallen forward, but,
-getting to my feet, I was soon in the midst of the cutting, shouting,
-and firing.
-
-Before me stood a thick-set middle-aged man, who hurled a smoking pistol
-full at me. It grazed my head as I dodged, and my cutlass rang against
-the weapon he carried in his right hand, an old Scottish claymore with a
-basket hilt, and a blade some three inches longer than my own. With an
-oath he made a slash at me that would have brought me to my knees had I
-not turned it. At the same time, with a sidewise stroke I reached him
-beneath the armpit, and almost lifted the limb from his body. He fell
-backward with a howl. I had but noticed this when from the side some one
-caught me a clip over the head that severed my cocked hat like a pumpkin
-and sent my senses flying. I stumbled, for I could not for the life of
-me keep my feet, and down I went.
-
-When I came to I was first conscious of a tremendous throbbing in my
-temples, and opening my eyes I saw that I was below in the little cabin
-with the miniatures on the bulkheads. It was but a glimpse of
-consciousness I had, but in that glimpse I felt a soothing touch laid on
-my brow. Raising my eyes my heart leaped, for it was Mary bathing my
-head with a cold wet cloth. The joy of it may have sent me off again,
-for I remembered no more until I was awakened by the sound of
-whispering. Looking up, I saw that Cutterwaite and Mr. Middleton were
-standing alongside.
-
-"Well," I said, faintly, "how fares it?"
-
-"Another prize, Captain Hurdiss, and a good one," said Chips, bending
-over me. "We took the ship, sir and she's in our wake. We're not five
-hundred miles off Cape Cod. The wind's fair, and all's a-taunt-o."
-
-Oh, I could have cried for the joy of it, but at this instant the
-curtain that had partitioned off the cabin was drawn aside, and I heard
-a soft voice ask,
-
-"Is he speaking?"
-
-"Mary!" I said, tremulously.
-
-Mr. Middleton and the carpenter stepped to the other side of the
-curtain, and the one whom I had always dreamed of as waiting for me came
-near.
-
-There was no pride or anger in her face, and her voice shook as she
-said, softly,
-
-"Sh-h-h--you must not speak!"
-
-[Illustration: I PUT OUT MY HAND AND SHE TOOK IT.]
-
-I put out my hand. She took it and sank down at the side of the bunk.
-
-"John dear, forgive me," was all she said; and then--and then-- Well,
-what is the use of telling more? Women are strange creatures. But
-suffice it. I had, of a truth, taken the fairest prize in all the world.
-How she had won the old gentleman to her way of thinking I do not
-pretend to tell. I have never asked, nor did he inform me. But some
-women have a way with them against which there is no gainsaying. Mr.
-Middleton is a wise man, and this may account for it. But I was not the
-only one under Mary's care. Dugan and three others were wounded lying in
-the forecastle; but I am glad to here record, so far as I know, they are
-at this moment well and hearty. On the fourth day I was on deck when
-land was sighted. It was my own country that lay off to the westward. I,
-the happiest man in all the world, was home again.
-
-Thus ended my adventures. Since then I have made many cruises in my own
-vessels, always knowing that there was waiting for me when I returned
-the dearest little woman in the world, and were I a nobleman with vast
-estates I could be no wit happier, nor could I be so happy as I am at
-this very moment. Of that I am sure.
-
-There is just a half-page left of this old ledger. As my story is done,
-I can but go over it again; and in looking back, what a strange record I
-have made here, for I began as a child without a name and without a
-country, who chose both for himself. I had been a mysterious waif in a
-Connecticut village, an instructor in small-arms on board a privateer,
-an English prisoner of war, a French nobleman among the refugees in
-England, a lieutenant of a fine schooner, and the commander of two
-vessels, all inside of a week; yes, and had I not been a robber also?
-For I robbed an English officer and a scare-crow of their clothes, and
-an old man of his granddaughter. (Of the last I am prouder than I can
-tell in calm words.) And now I am a prosperous ship-owner, with nothing
-in this wide world to wish for, except that I were a better scribe. Oh,
-I might set down that I learned, of course, of the death of my uncle,
-and found out that Gaston had disappeared with the belongings of Belair;
-no one knew whither. I was sorry for this, for there was much that I
-would like to have possessed. As for any other title than that of an
-American citizen, I care not so much as the snap of my finger; nor would
-my sons, I am sure, even if they had but to extend their hands to grasp
-it. They may read in this a great deal that their father has not told
-them, but it could make no difference, I am sure, in our relations
-toward one another.
-
-One thing more--I returned all the personal effects found in the _Bat_'s
-cabin to my namesake who lives in Sussex, England.
-
-THE END.
-
-
-
-
-THE PAINTED DESERT.
-
-A STORY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA.
-
-BY KIRK MUNROE,
-
-AUTHOR OF "RICK DALE," "THE FUR-SEAL'S TOOTH," "SNOW-SHOES AND SLEDGES,"
-"THE MATE SERIES," ETC.
-
-
-CHAPTER VII.
-
-THE LAD WHO HAD NEVER SEEN A GIRL.
-
-While poor Todd was striving to scale the rocky ladder from which he had
-just fallen, another lad of about his own age had bounded up the steep
-pathway behind him with the speed and ease of a mountain-goat. He was
-tall and slender, straight as the lance shaft that he bore in one hand,
-and finely proportioned. The bronze of his skin and his long hair, black
-and glossy as the wing of a crow, showed him to be an Indian, though his
-clear-cut features expressed a lively intelligence, and exhibited none
-of the hopeless apathy so common to the moderns of his race. His body
-was naked to the waist, below which it was covered by a pair of fringed
-buckskin breeches, while his feet were encased in unornamented but
-serviceable moccasins having soles of goat-skin.
-
-This new-comer was so startled by the unexpected sight of a stranger
-that he uttered the shout of amazement which had caused Todd to lose his
-hold. Bitterly regretting his impulsive outcry, and distressed at its
-result, the young Indian knelt beside the unconscious stranger, and
-gently lifting his head from the rocks against which it had struck,
-gazed eagerly into the face of the first white boy he had ever seen.
-
-While he was thus occupied a second figure appeared toiling up the
-rugged path. It was that of a white man, venerable in aspect, but still
-sturdy of limb, and clad from head to foot in buckskin. He was a large
-man, and his massive head was covered with silvery hair, still thick and
-clustering in curls about his temples. He wore a flowing white beard,
-and his kindly face was as serenely placid as though the cares of life
-had touched him but slightly. At the present moment it was flushed from
-the exertion of climbing, and filled with an anxious curiosity at the
-astounding sight of a stranger in that place, and one who was at the
-same time in so sad a plight.
-
-A few words from the Indian lad told all that he knew of what had just
-happened, and while he spoke the old man examined a slight wound in
-Todd's head, from which a stream of blood was trickling.
-
-"It does not appear serious," he said at length, "and I believe that
-with care he will speedily recover. Remain thou here with him while I
-continue on to the castle and notify mother of what has happened. From
-her I will obtain a few things that be needful, and will quickly return.
-Then must we try and carry him down to the hut, for in his present
-condition I doubt if it would be possible for us to get him up to the
-castle."
-
-The old man climbed the rock ladder with marvellous agility, and so
-hastened his movements that in less than five minutes he had returned,
-bringing a flask of water, some strips of cotton cloth, and a healing
-salve. The water did so much toward restoring Todd to consciousness that
-after a little he was able, with help, to regain his feet. Then, with
-many encouraging words, his new-found friends half carried, half led him
-back down the steep trail he had so recently climbed, and along the
-woodland pathway to the very hut in which he had already spent so much
-of that eventful day. Here they laid him on the couch of skins, and
-while the old man looked after his comfort, the Indian lad, taking a
-flint, steel, and bit of tinder from a recess of the chimney quickly
-started a fire with which to light the little apartment. Then he
-disappeared, while his companion tenderly bathed and dressed the wound
-in Todd's head. He uttered a pitying exclamation on discovering that his
-patient's hand was also injured, and bound it up with a soothing
-dressing. While doing these things he talked constantly; but when Todd,
-still dazed and feeling helplessly weak, made an effort to speak, the
-other bade him lie perfectly quiet and not attempt to talk until he
-should be stronger.
-
-"Thy looks are those of one who has suffered much and is even now
-wellnigh starved," he said, "but very shortly thy hunger shall be
-relieved, and then will I commend thee to sleep, the restorer."
-
-As he spoke the Indian lad returned, bringing a basket of food. Among
-its contents was a bowl of broth, which, after it had been warmed at the
-fire, was given to Todd, who eagerly drained it to the last drop. Then
-he sank wearily but contentedly back on his couch, and in another minute
-was fast asleep.
-
-For some time the white man and the young Indian watched him in silence.
-Then the former said, in a low tone:
-
-"The poor lad has evidently undergone a terrible experience, however it
-has happened; but now he is doing well, and will pull through beyond a
-doubt. Whence he came, by what means he was led to this place, and how
-he discovered the locality of Cliff Castle, are questions that I would
-gladly ask him, for in all the years that we have dwelt in this valley
-he is our first visitor. But on no account must he be disturbed until he
-wakes of his own accord, since complete rest is what he needs above all
-else."
-
-"Is he in reality a white boy, such as thee has so often described to
-me?" asked the young Indian. "And will he tarry with us, to be unto me a
-companion and to thee another son?"
-
-"Truly he is a white lad of about thy own age, and that he will tarry
-with us is beyond question, for from this place there is but slight
-chance of escape. For this night I shall leave him in thy charge, while
-I return to mother, who is doubtless impatient to learn of the
-happenings of the past hour. Watch closely for his waking, and give him
-both food and drink if he shall call for them."
-
-In obedience to this command the Indian lad watched his charge all
-night, studying his face closely in the flickering fire-light, and
-speculating concerning trim. Occasionally he dropped asleep, but Todd's
-slightest movement found him wide-awake, for he was too greatly excited
-over this most wonderful happening of his life for much sleep, even
-though he had not been charged with a duty. So the night passed, and it
-was broad daylight when he roused from a slight doze to find the
-stranger lying with wide-open eyes curiously regarding him.
-
-"Do you speak English?" asked Todd, as the young Indian started to his
-feet.
-
-"I speak with the tongue of the Professor," answered the lad, shyly,
-"though I know not if that is what thee means."
-
-"Of course it is, if what you have just said is a sample. At any rate,
-it is good enough English for you to tell me what place this is, and who
-you are. I mean, what is your name? Mine is Todd Chalmers. Is there
-anything to eat that you could let me have, for I'm as hungry as a bear.
-I suppose you know what that is?"
-
-"Oh, yes!" answered the other, brightly. "Bears are the big rabbits,
-bigger even than goats or deer, that ate up the children who mocked at
-Elisha. And here is _piki_ for thee to eat. Also, thee is in the Valley
-of Peace, and thy servant is named Nanahe, though he is also sometimes
-called Ishmael, the son of Hagar, who fled into the wilderness."
-
-"Are your parents Quakers?" asked Todd, greatly puzzled by the other's
-form of speech.
-
-"My father was a Navajo, and my mother was of the Hopi people," answered
-the other, proudly.
-
-"Oh, I see!" responded Todd, vaguely, though still wondering what sort
-of a lad this might be, who was so evidently an Indian, and yet spoke
-English without an accent, though in the manner affected by the Society
-of Friends. "But I say, old man, you won't mind if I call you 'Nana,'
-will you? Nanahe is too long for common use, and 'Nan' would sound too
-much like a girl's name, you know."
-
-"Thee may call me what thee pleases, and I will answer. But has thee
-really seen girls and known them?" asked the other, eagerly.
-
-"Well, I should rather say I had," laughed Todd. "Why, haven't you?"
-
-"No, but I have wanted to so much. Tell me of them, and what they look
-like. Do they resemble mother?"
-
-"Not having seen the lady, I can't say; but if she is the Professor's
-wife, I should think probably not. Girls, you know, are very young, and
-they look like--why, like nothing in the world but girls. As for
-describing them, you just can't, because no two of them are the same,
-and because there is nothing else that I know of to compare them with.
-But, Nana, how about that breakfast you mentioned some time since?
-Aren't you afraid we are letting it get cold?"
-
-"It is ready and waiting for thee," said a pleasant voice behind them;
-and turning quickly, our lad beheld for the first time by daylight the
-white man who had treated him with so much kindness the evening before.
-
-
-CHAPTER VIII.
-
-CLIFF CASTLE AND ITS OCCUPANTS.
-
-"Oh, sir," cried Todd, "I am indeed grateful to you for all your
-kindness to me!"
-
-"And I," replied the old gentleman, "am more than pleased to see thee so
-evidently restored to health. At the same time I sincerely welcome thee
-to the Valley of Peace, which, with all it contains, is at thy service.
-May I introduce myself as Rufus Plant, at one time professor of
-ethnology in Calvert College, but now and for many years resident of
-this valley?"
-
-"Calvert College, did you say, sir? Why, that is the college where my
-brother Mortimer Chalmers is professor of geology, and the one that I am
-to enter next fall. It seems to me, too, that I have heard your name
-before. Wasn't there something strange about your dis-- I mean, I
-thought you were killed by Indians."
-
-"Doubtless that was the report, and it might well be credited," replied
-the Professor. "But tell me, lad, is thy name Chalmers?"
-
-"Yes, sir--Todd Chalmers, of Baltimore."
-
-"Can it be that thee is a relative of my old friend Carey Chalmers?"
-
-"He was my father."
-
-"The Lord be praised for all His mercies!" exclaimed the other. "Why,
-lad, if thee was a messenger from Heaven thy presence could not be more
-welcome to an old man cut off these many years from intercourse with his
-fellows. But thee must be sorely in need of refreshment, and it would be
-wrong to keep thee longer from her who waits anxiously to welcome thee.
-Therefore let us hasten to the castle, if indeed thee is strong enough
-for so arduous a climb."
-
-Todd quickly proved that he was now fully equal to the task that he had
-so nearly accomplished the evening before, and a few minutes later,
-filled with an eager curiosity, he stood with his new friends on a broad
-shelf of rock a hundred feet above the valley. It was bordered along its
-outer edge by a low parapet, and was partially overhung by the cliff
-that still rose above it. At its inner end was a veritable house of
-stone, having a door and windows, just outside of which stood one of the
-dearest of old ladies, clad in Quaker costume.
-
-The boy knew at a glance that she who welcomed him must be the one whom
-his new acquaintances spoke of so lovingly as "mother"; but more than
-ever did he wonder at the strangeness of her surroundings, and long for
-an explanation of the many things that were puzzling him. A thousand
-questions were at his tongue's end; but he could not ask them then, for
-the dear old lady at once led the way into the house, saying:
-
-"Not another moment shall thee be kept from thy breakfast, Todd
-Chalmers; for starvation is one of the things not permitted in Cliff
-Castle, and hunger is written on thy face."
-
-Never had Todd entered so queer an abode, nor one so filled with curious
-objects, as when he passed the doorway of that little dwelling. Its low
-roof was not more than two feet above his head, and its interior walls
-of white clay were covered with rude drawings in color that strongly
-suggested the work of ancient Egyptians. The stone floor was covered
-with rugs of goat and deer skins; several articles of rude furniture,
-besides blocks of jasper and agate used as seats, were conveniently
-placed, while great earthen-ware jars, quaint in shape and beautifully
-decorated in colors, stood on all sides. In one corner was a rude
-fireplace, which was evidently used only to furnish warmth, as Todd had
-already noticed another, provided with appliances for cooking, on the
-outer platform.
-
-Best of all, in our hungry lad's estimation, was a table covered with a
-snowy cloth and laden with food. Nearly all its furnishing--including
-bowls, platters, jugs, and small dishes--was of earthen-ware quaintly
-devised and ornamented. There were also several steel knives and forks,
-half a dozen silver spoons, three white china cups, and as many saucers.
-
-Served on these queer dishes was a breakfast of broiled chicken,
-oatmeal, corn-bread, and another bread made from grass-seeds, eggs, and
-stewed peaches, besides small white cheeses, and a jug of goat's milk,
-all of which combined to make a meal that seemed to Todd better than any
-he had ever before tasted. It made him pity himself to recall how, only
-the day before, he had been very nearly starved actually within sight
-and reach of all this abundance.
-
-When his hunger was at length satisfied, the boy related his adventures
-of the past few days, describing his wanderings on the desert, his
-efforts to reach the blue peaks that ever beckoned him forward, his
-finding of the valley, his perplexity at discerning signs of human
-occupancy but no inhabitants, his joy at seeing the smoke from Cliff
-Castle, his fruitless attempt to reach the place from which it ascended,
-and his doubts as to the kind of reception he might meet from its
-occupants.
-
-To all this the lad's hearers listened with deepest interest, frequently
-interrupting him with questions and exclamations. When he had finished
-he turned to the Professor, saying:
-
-"Now, sir, that you have learned how I happen to be in this place, will
-you not tell me of your own experience in reaching it, and your reason
-for remaining here all these years?"
-
-"Gladly will I gratify thy most natural curiosity," replied the old man,
-"but I must ask thee to wait until evening; for the narrative is of such
-length that it cannot be told until our affairs are ordered for the day.
-Therefore, let us first return thanks to our Heavenly Father for His
-abounding mercies, and then attend to the duties awaiting us."
-
-With this the old man led the way to the outer platform, to which Nanahe
-fetched a small Bible, that was the only book the Indian lad had ever
-seen, and from which he read aloud, without hesitation, the exquisite
-Twenty-third Psalm. While he read, Todd gazed over the underlying
-valley, and wondered that its every feature should appear so familiar to
-him. Suddenly he recalled the mirage that three days before had first
-turned his steps in this direction, and knew that the picture then
-presented was an image of the one upon which he now looked.
-
-After the simple service was ended the Professor and Nanahe descended
-into the valley, carrying with them the fowls that had been brought to
-the castle for safety during their two days' absence. The old lady
-busied herself with domestic duties, and Todd found himself at liberty
-to explore the quaint little house, which, his hostess informed him, was
-only one of many, long since abandoned by their builders, that were to
-be found among the cliffs enclosing the valley.
-
-"Thee must have read of the ancient cliff-dwellers of this region," she
-said, "and so will understand when I tell thee that this place of abode
-and most of its contents were made by their hands, and that we are
-to-day leading the very life of that long-vanished people."
-
-"But what became of them?" asked Todd.
-
-"That is a mystery that many persons have tried in vain to solve. My
-husband is of the opinion that they were forced to migrate, either by
-flood or drouth, but expected to return, since they left their most
-valued possessions behind them, and carefully concealed the only
-entrance to the valley. Had they been destroyed by an enemy, their
-possessions would also have been destroyed or removed, whereas nothing
-had been touched from the day they left, probably hundreds of years ago,
-until that on which we were led to this place, and it was given to us
-for a house."
-
-"It was very wonderful," said Todd; "but the strangest part of all is to
-find you and your husband and a young Indian living here so contentedly
-and comfortably. I can't understand it all, and wish you would tell me
-how it came about."
-
-"Have a little patience and it shall be made clear to thee," replied the
-old lady, with a smile. "It is a tale of strange experiences, and I
-would gladly relate it, but I know the Professor has set his heart on
-telling it himself."
-
-So Todd was forced to wait, and passed the morning in an examination of
-the dwelling and its contents. Later in the day he descended to the
-valley, where at the hut he found Nanahe cutting into thin strips, for
-drying, the meat of a deer that he had just brought in.
-
-"How did you kill it?" asked Todd. "I didn't know you had a rifle."
-
-"I have not, nor did I ever see one," replied the Indian lad. "I killed
-it with my throw-stick."
-
-"Throw-stick?" repeated Todd, with a puzzled air. "What is a
-throw-stick?"
-
-[Illustration: NANAHE EXHIBITS HIS THROW-STICK.]
-
-For answer Nanahe handed him a stick of tough wood two feet long, about
-as many inches in diameter, and fitted at one end with a handle in which
-were two finger-holes. The weapon was completed by a slender lance
-having a barbed head formed from a splinter of obsidian, keen-edged as a
-razor. Nanahe laid this lance on a flattened side of the throw-stick,
-with its butt resting against a bit of bone that was embedded in the
-wood near the upper end of the weapon. The lance was held in position by
-the thumb and one free finger of the thrower's right hand until the act
-of throwing was begun. Then it was released and sent whizzing through
-the air with such force that it fell to the ground more than one hundred
-yards away.
-
-"Now I understand," cried Todd, "for I have often thrown apples from the
-end of a stick in just that way. But surely you can't throw the lance
-with any degree of accuracy."
-
-Without replying, Nanahe smilingly selected half a dozen of the
-stone-headed shafts, and hurling one after another with inconceivable
-quickness at a tree some thirty yards from him, set them quivering in
-its bark so close together that a ring two inches in diameter would have
-encircled them all.
-
-"Good enough!" cried Todd, enthusiastically. "I give in, and acknowledge
-that your throw-stick is a wonderfully effective weapon. But where did
-you pick up the idea?"
-
-"The Professor found some of them in the cliff houses," answered Nanahe.
-"He says that in very ancient times all hunters used them, and that even
-now they are common among people called Eskimos who live in a far-away
-land of ice and snow. He taught me how to use them, and this one I made
-myself."
-
-"Well," said Todd, "I begin to see how people get along and manage to
-live comfortably in a place like this; but it certainly takes genius to
-do it. As for myself, I know I should have starved long before I learned
-to kill a deer or even a rabbit with any such primitive weapon as a
-throw-stick. Now let's get back to the castle, for it must be
-supper-time, and after that I am to hear the Professor's strange story."
-
-[TO BE CONTINUED.]
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration: An Obstinate Collision]
-
-ONE OF THE OLD SAILOR'S YARNS.
-
-BY W. J. HENDERSON.
-
-
-It was a crisp morning in late October. All the land was sere and yellow,
-darkening away into brown shadows. The trees kept their garments of
-leaves, but these were ragged and sombre, as if the heat of summer had
-worn and burned them. The grass at the foot of the trees was brown and
-gray, and the bare branches of the field bushes made naked perches for
-belated birds. The sky was wan and faint near the rigid horizon, but
-deeply blue in the zenith; and the sun, far down the southern vault of
-the heavens, rolled westward in a glory of silver. The sea was of a
-gorgeous ultramarine color, with a dash of royal purple in its shadows,
-and a glitter of cold emerald in its transparent crests. A light
-nor'west wind barely ruffled its surface, yet sufficed to fill the sails
-of a score of schooners which were ploughing a snowy road to the
-southward.
-
-Henry and George felt that it was a good day for yarns, and so they
-hurried out of the house immediately after breakfast and bent their
-steps toward the pier. There they saw their old friend in his familiar
-attitude, with his eyes fixed on two steamers which were rapidly
-approaching each other from opposite directions. He did not turn his
-head as the boys approached him, but said, in a meditative manner,
-
-"It are not no sort o' kind o' use fur to try to git past without
-shiftin' yer helm."
-
-Then he relapsed into silence, while the two boys stood wondering what
-was coming next. Presently the Old Sailor broke out again,
-
-"Do ye see them two steamers?"
-
-"Yes," answered both boys.
-
-"Waal, they are agoin' fur to pass putty close."
-
-At that instant a gush of white steam rose from one of them, and the
-hoarse cry of her whistle rumbled across the water. The other vessel
-answered with a single blast.
-
-"An' wot do that mean?" asked the Old Sailor.
-
-"That means," answered Henry, "that they are going to port their helms
-and keep off to starboard."
-
-"Werry good, too," declared the Old Sailor. "An' ef they didn't, wot'd
-happen?"
-
-"They would bump into each other," answered George, soberly.
-
-"W'ich the same it'd be a colligion," said the Old Sailor, "an' mebbe it
-would be like the colligion o' the _Lord Kindlin'wood_ an' the _Orange
-Mary_, an' mebbe it wouldn't, 'cos w'y, I don't reckon there ever were
-no sich colligion afore, an' I don't reckon as how there ever will be
-agin."
-
-"Will you please tell us about it?" asked Henry.
-
-"In course I will, my son. W'enever I recomembers one o' them picooliar
-misfortins wot has happened to me at sea, I allus tells ye about it,
-don't I?"
-
-The Old Sailor fixed his eyes on the two steamers, which were now
-passing each other very closely, and shook his head.
-
-"It are all werry putty in clear an' calm weather," he said; "but it
-ain't no good wotever in weather wot are dirty. Waal may I never live to
-see a ship's cook at the fore-sheet ag'in ef it weren't jess like I'm
-agoin' fur to tell ye. I were in Liverpool an' didn't have no berth at
-all, so I were more'n half tickled to death w'en I met old Jonas
-Pettigrew, the shippin' agent, an' he sez to me, sez he, 'They 'ain't
-got no mate on the _Lord Kindlin'wood_ yet.' I'd heerd about her. She
-were bound fur Calcutta an' Hong-kong by way o' the Suez Canal, an' her
-Cap'n were a Frenchman, 'cos she'd jess been bought by a French company
-in Canton. So I went down to the dock where she were a-takin' in her
-cargo, an' I sez to the Cap'n, sez I, 'Here are a mate fur ye.' His name
-were Zhan Four--anyhow, that's as near as I can come to wot he called
-hisself. 'Ala bonner,' sez he to me, sez he, w'ich the same it are
-French fur 'Bully fur you.' We soon come to tarms, an' I turned to.
-
-"Waal, we didn't have no incidents or accidents o' no kind at all on the
-run down to Alexandry. Then the wind come in from the south'ard an'
-east'ard an' blowed putty nigh straight up the sea. I don't remember any
-nastier sea than it kicked up. The _Lord Kindlin'wood_ would stand
-straight up on her starn-post, an' then take a pitch forrad and go clean
-into it up to her foremast. We had double lookouts up in the crow-nest,
-an' they was under water so much o' the time that they hollered fur
-divin'-suits.
-
-"Waal, it blowed an' it blowed an' it blowed. It blowed so hard on the
-second day that it cut the tops right off'n the seas, an' sent 'em
-flyin' along like buckets o' rain, an' blow me fur pickled oysters ef ye
-could stand with your face up to wind'ard.
-
-"Howsumever, we got used to it arter a while, an' the cook took to
-singin', so we knowed we was all right. But along about the middle o'
-the fust dog-watch one o' the lookouts yelled, 'Steamer ho!' I jumped
-into the fore-riggin' an' seed the wessel dead ahead o' us. She were a
-steamer about our own size, bound to the north'ard. She were runnin' at
-full speed ahead o' the gale, an' were drivin' along like the werry tops
-o' them seas wot I told ye about. Only she were actin' a little
-different from the _Lord Kindlin'wood_, 'cos w'y, she were a runnin'
-with the seas. So w'en one o' them would roll in under her starn she
-would h'ist her taffrail up into the air, an' plough forrad with her
-head down for all the world like a mad bull. Then the sea would underrun
-her an' git under her bow, an' she'd sit up on her starn-post with her
-bow p'inted away up in the air, an' like the werry tops o' them seas wot
-I told ye about. That were all right, but wot discomforted me w'en I saw
-her were that she were a-headin' right dead on end at us. Now we didn't
-dare fur to shift the _Lord Kindlin'wood_'s helm an inch. We had to keep
-her head to the seas, 'cos w'y, it were the only way she'd lay to an'
-behave herself. The other wessel I sort o' reckoned, bein' about our
-size, would be in danger o' broachin' to ef she shifted her helm. So I
-were somewhat anxious 'bout how the two on 'em was agoin' fur to git
-past each other. I sent a man aft to call the Cap'n, an' he came on the
-bridge an' danced a reg'lar jig. 'Ef she turn not away she will make to
-the bow a bump!'
-
-"'Wot is the orders, Cap'n?' sez I to he, sez I.
-
-"'Blow the wheestle! Blow the wheestle!' sez he to me, sez he. An'
-accordin'ly I blowed it once, signifying accordin' to the rules o' the
-road at sea, that we were puffickly agreeable that both parties should
-keep to the right. The other ship she blowed hers back at us. O' course
-we couldn't hear nothin', but we could see the steam, an' we knowed she
-were agreeable. But she didn't change her course a little bit.
-
-"'Dogs an' cats an' little kittens!' sez Cap'n Zhan Four, in French. 'Ef
-he change not the course, we are collided.'
-
-"'Shall I order the helm to be shifted, Cap'n?' sez I to he, sez I.
-
-"'Non! non! All the time non!' sez he to me, sez he. 'I turn not out of
-my path for such rubbeesh! I hit him in the meeddle, the miserable
-shadow of a dead horse!'
-
-"'Werry good, sir,' sez I to he, sez I.
-
-"An' I sez to the man at the wheel, 'keep 'er steady.' The other wessel,
-seein' we didn't change our course, blowed her whistle several times,
-but o' course that didn't 'nay pa riang,' as the Cap'n sez. Waal, to
-make the story short, this are edzackly wot happened. The _Lord
-Kindlin'wood_ riz up over one o' them flat-topped seas, an' plunged head
-fust down the other side. At the werry same instant the stranger were
-sittin' up on her taffrail gittin' ready to dive down; an'
-consequentially we 'n the two ships come together precisely an' direckly
-head on, the stranger's bow overrun ours, an' she came down with her
-forefoot right on top o' our fo'c's'le deck. There were one grand crash,
-an' fur half a minute ye couldn't see nothin' 'cept flyin' timbers,
-iron, egg-shells, an' ham bones. In the middle of it all ye could hear
-the Cap'n screechin' in French, an' the two whistles a-blowin', an' the
-mates yellin' to clear away the boat-falls, 'cos w'y, it were not to be
-expected that both wessels would do anything 'ceptin' go to Davy Jones's
-locker in about five minutes. But they didn't, an' that are the
-picooliar part o' this 'ere yarn wot I'm a-tellin' ye, an' also the
-werry partikler reason w'y I are not a-feedin' Red Sea fish like
-Pharaoh's army.
-
-"It warn't no sort o' proper behavior fur wessels wot, accordin' to the
-laws o' colligions, ort to gone to the bottom; but sich as it were, this
-were the bloomin' ridiklous way on't. The stranger's bow comin' down
-right on top o' ourn cut through the decks jess like a axe, straight
-down to the k'elson. An' there it stopped, bein' wedged in jess like the
-axe in a log, an' a dozen tugs couldn't 'a' pulled her out. An' wot we
-found out arter a few minutes, w'en we'd all got through bein' crazy,
-were that she were wedged in so tight that there weren't a leak anywhere
-at all, an' them two ships was actooally made into one, 'ceptin' that it
-were a new kind o' wessel with two starns, an' no more bow than a
-bass-drum. The Cap'n o' the stranger he comes forrad on a run an' a
-jump, and w'en he got to the place w'ere our cat-heads was alongside o'
-his he stopped, an' sez he, bawlin' like Feejee Injun in a fit o'
-cholery:
-
-"'Donner unt blitzen! vot kind o' peezness vas dot? Vere ist der
-Gept'n?'
-
-[Illustration: HE JUMPED CLEAN OFF THE BRIDGE AND DANCED ON ONE FOOT.]
-
-"Ye see, we l'arned by his way o' talkin' that he were a bloomin'
-Garman, an' I looked to see some fun w'en Cap'n Zhan Four an' him got
-laid yard-arm to yard-arm. But they couldn't edzackly do that, 'cos w'y,
-'cos they was laid bow to bow, like a couple o' buckin' billy-goats in a
-fight. As soon as ever Cap'n Zhan Four heard the Garman Cap'n talk he
-jumped clean down off'n the bridge to the fo'c's'le deck an' danced on
-one foot, while he yelled:
-
-"'Singe cornay of a Allemand!'--w'ich means dog-eared monkey of a
-Garman, an' are not no perlite way fur one gen'leman to address another
-at sea--'why do you make to knock a hole in my sheep?'
-
-"'Ach, du dummer aysel!' sez the Garman, sez he; 'wot for you ton't ged
-your sheep out der vay?'
-
-"'My sheep makes not to be in the way,' sez Cap'n Zhan Four, sez he; 'it
-is your sheep that comes straight at mine an' runs upon her, unessy pa?'
-
-"'Donnerwetter!' sez the Garman, 'how could I dot help? I vas before der
-seas, unt you vas behint. Das macht nichts aus!'
-
-"'Silonce!' screeched Cap'n Zhan Four. 'Speak not the accursed tongue of
-Garmany at me!'
-
-"'Sprechen sie nicht dot frog talk at me!' howls the Garman. 'I speak
-der lankwitch von my vaterland alvays!'
-
-"'Hoist the French flag!' sez Cap'n Four.
-
-"'Up mit der Garman flag!" sez the Garman.
-
-"An' as soon as the flags was run up them two crazy critters commenced
-fur to dance up an' down their two forrad decks right in each other's
-faces, one on 'em singin' the 'Marseillaise,' an' the other 'Die Wacht
-am Rhein,' like they was fit to bu'st theirselves. An' in the mean time,
-o' course, the two bloomin' ships, jammed together, slewed around
-broadside on to the sea, an' a big wall o' green water broke aboard an'
-putty nigh swept the two on 'em overboard. Anyhow, it put a stop to
-their singin', an' sot 'em a-thinkin' about their 'sheeps,' as they
-called 'em.
-
-"'Back out you!' yelled Cap'n Zhan Four.
-
-"'Nicht!' shouted the Garman. 'Ich back for no Frenchman alretty yet!
-Back you!'
-
-"'Jammy! Jammy!' screeched Cap'n Four, an' 'jammy' it were, only that
-are French fur 'not on yer life!'
-
-"'I go aheat full speet!' sez the Garman.
-
-"'Ay maw,' sez Cap'n Four, w'ich the same that are French fur 'me too.'
-An' then them two wild men o' the sea orders their engines ahead full
-speed, an' the two ships commenced a grand pushin' match, fur all the
-world like one o' them there feet-ball games wot the long-haired
-collidge fellers plays in the mud every autumn. Now this 'ere shovin'
-game were a putty even match atwixt them there two ships, 'ceptin' fur
-one thing, an' that were that the Garman had the wind an' sea with him.
-So he commenced fur to push the _Lord Kindlin'wood_ back'ards up
-north'ard toward the canal agin. Waal, boys, I reckon ye've seed a good
-many mad men, but ye 'ain't never seed none half or quarter as mad as
-that there French Cap'n Zhan Four. He said more funny things in French
-than ever I kin recomember, an' he got so red in the face that he putty
-near busted hisself. Howsumever, it didn't do no good, 'cos w'y, the
-Garman had the best on't in the matter o' the elements, an' he were
-steadily a-shovin' of us back to w'ere we come from, w'en the gale
-broke, an' the sea beginned fur to go down. The barometer riz, an' I
-looked fur a smart shift o' wind, w'ich the same it come along all right
-about three bells in the arternoon watch o' the second day. It dropped
-right around to nor'west, an' in ten minutes were blowin' a brisk
-breeze.
-
-"'Sacred name of St. Michael!' sez Cap'n Zhan Four, sez he, 'now I push
-the Garman to the south pole!'
-
-"'I hope ye ain't agoin' az fur as that,' sez I, ''cos I shipped fur
-Calcutta an' Hong-kong, an' I 'ain't got my seal-skin overcoat along
-with me,' sez I, jess like that, him bein' a crazy French Cap'n and me a
-werry partiklarly sane American mate.
-
-"'I push him anywhere I want to!' sez Cap'n Zhan Four.
-
-"An' he orders more fire an' more steam. An' putty soon we found that
-we'd stopped goin' back'ard an' was a-holdin' the Garman in his place.
-But we couldn't make him go back'ard fast enough fur to suit Cap'n Zhan
-Four. So seein' the wind were putty fresh, I sez to the Cap'n, sez I,
-
-"'Wot's the reason we don't set all our canvas?'
-
-"'Excellentment!' sez he, w'ich are French fur 'bully,' an' I jumps out
-an' gives the orders.
-
-"Waal, boys, jess as soon as we got the canvas on her we commenced fur
-to push the Garman back'ard, an' he commenced fur to do the dancin' an'
-howlin'; but it didn't do him no good. He heaped coal onto his fires an'
-he burnt oil an' ham fat, but he couldn't hold us. We shoved him all the
-way down the Red Sea an' out into the Indian Ocean. Then he got his men
-forrad an' tried to cut his ship out o' ours, but Cap'n Zhan Four
-ordered the hose turned on 'em with hot water, an' that stopped that
-job. Finally, the Garman Cap'n, he come forrad with a flag o' truce, an'
-sez he'd like to make a treaty o' peace atwixt Garmany an' France on the
-high seas. So him an' Cap'n Zhan Four had a long talk, an' finally they
-agreed that they'd make fur the nearest port, each one agreein' to be
-pushed back'ards half-way an' to keep his engines agoin' reversed to
-help things along. An' so we finally reached the island o' Socotra,
-w'ere we contrived to get the ships apart an' patch ours up fur the run
-to Bombay."
-
-
-
-
-TWO LEADERS OF THE GREEK REVOLUTION.
-
-BY V. GRIBAYEDOFF.
-
-
-Greece's active championship of the cause of the Cretan revolutionists,
-in the face of the opposition of the combined powers of Europe, recalls
-that plucky little nation's fierce struggle for her own independence
-from Turkish rule during the early portion of the present century.
-Indeed, as Prince George started for Cretan waters the other day with
-his flotilla of torpedo-boats, almost the last words Prime-Minister
-Delyannis said to him were:
-
-"May the spirit of the great Canaris hover over your Highness and your
-brave men, inspiring you to maintain nobly the traditions of the
-Hellenic navy!"
-
-Here is probably what Delyannis had in mind: The Greece of to-day lacks
-the larger vessels of war fully as much as did the Greece of 1820, but
-at that earlier period she possessed a formidable weapon in the dreaded
-fire-ship, and under Canaris's lead the enemy's naval power was almost
-destroyed by this primitive method of attack. The fire-ship of the past
-has been supplanted by the torpedo-boat of the present, an engine of war
-calling into play almost the same qualities as its predecessor--pluck,
-skill, dash, and rapidity in handling. And Delyannis was therefore
-anticipating that the deeds of the early part of the century would be
-repeated at its close in a mode of warfare for which his countrymen are
-both by nature and temperament eminently fitted.
-
-The story of Greece's struggle for independence both by land and by sea
-has formed the subject of many volumes of prose and verse. But among all
-the heroes of those stirring times there are two whose names will live
-on the roll of fame--Constantine Canaris, the fearless and enterprising
-sailor, and Marco Botzaris, the guerilla chieftain.
-
-Let us begin with Canaris, whose achievements were the greater by reason
-of his surviving all the manifold dangers of this most cruel of wars;
-Botzaris, on the other hand, succumbed to a Turkish bullet long before
-Greece was liberated. Let the reader glance at a map of the Grecian
-Archipelago, and among its numerous islands he will find one named
-Ipsara, about midway between the mainland of Greece and the coast of
-Asia Minor. It was on this barren and desolate stretch of rock that
-Constantine Canaris was born at the close of the last century. Until the
-war of independence broke out in 1821 he pursued the humble calling of
-fisherman, but at the outbreak of the revolution he abandoned everything
-to espouse the cause of his country. His wife, an ardent patriot
-herself, and the mother of three children, whom she had proudly named
-Nicolas, Lycurgus, and Miltiades, in honor of the past glories of
-Greece, urged her husband on in his resolve.
-
-And so Canaris went to the front. He was destined soon to be heard from.
-The fighting at the commencement of the war was confined to the Greek
-mainland, especially the Morea, or ancient Peloponnesus; but the bad
-condition of the roads throughout Rumelia obliged the Sultan to send his
-re-enforcements by water through the historic Dardanelles. The fishermen
-fighters of the archipelago felt that here was their opportunity. The
-inhabitants of the three islands of Samos, Ipsara, and Hydra equipped a
-flotilla, and started out to intercept the oppressor. Now inasmuch as
-the Turks possessed double-deckers and frigates carrying an untold
-weight of metal as against the light and poorly armed craft of the
-Greeks, it was not to be supposed that the latter would venture on a
-struggle at close quarters. The lessons of the past were there to teach
-them that their sole hope of salvation lay in the skilful use of the
-fire-ship, and they adopted this system of warfare with one accord. It
-required a high order of seamanship to carry it on with success and a
-thorough knowledge of the actions of the tide and wind, for a slight
-miscalculation not only involved a failure of the enterprise, but the
-almost certain destruction of the aggressor.
-
-There were various modes of attack. As a usual thing, an ordinary
-fishing sloop or schooner, filled with combustible material--tar, pitch,
-oil, sulphur, etc.--and navigated by half a dozen fearless patriots,
-would be directed at dusk against the enemy's ships lying at anchor.
-When the messenger of destruction arrived within a few hundred yards of
-the intended victim, the temporary crew applied the torch to tapers
-placed at intervals among the combustibles in the hold, and then lowered
-themselves into a small boat to row off to a safe distance. Carried by
-the wind and current, the fire-ship stole on in the darkness, the fire
-having in the mean while taken hold in good earnest. On, on it went into
-the midst of the Mussulman's ships of war, the flames now darting from
-its sides in huge tongues, sparing naught upon its path. Panic-stricken
-and forgetful of all discipline, the Turk became a ready victim to the
-avenger. His first thought was to cut his cables, but this measure made
-matters worse, inasmuch as the big ships, once loose from their
-moorings, usually collided with one another, and rendered their own
-destruction only the more certain.
-
-The scenes that followed the incursion of the flaming avenger beggared
-all description. It became a choice between a fiery and a watery death,
-for the unfortunates who had survived the explosions of the
-powder-magazines, and even those who hoped to reach shore by swimming,
-were doomed to destruction at the hands of the vindictive patriots
-hovering near in small boats. For it must be remembered that this was a
-war to the knife on both sides, in which quarter was neither asked nor
-given.
-
-But to return to Canaris. His first naval success was obtained under the
-orders of a man whose name is venerated as one of the greatest heroes of
-the war of independence, Admiral Andrea Miaulis, after whom one of the
-Greek war-ships now on service in Cretan waters is named--the _Navarchos
-Miaulis_.
-
-The Sultan was sending an army to besiege Missolonghi on the Gulf of
-Corinth, and his mighty fleet had covered about half the journey between
-Constantinople and that stronghold when it sighted a Greek squadron off
-the island of Lesbos. Miaulis had a comparatively strong force at his
-command and was tempted to try conclusions with the foe at close
-quarters, but Canaris, with greater long-sightedness, realized that his
-countrymen could ill afford to assume so great a risk, and although a
-mere subordinate, entreated the Admiral, on his bended knees, to be
-allowed to first attack the Turks with a few fire-ships. Miaulis had
-given the signal to clear the decks for action, and at first resented
-the interference.
-
-"Your Excellency has but one fleet, and the Sultan has a dozen,"
-persisted Canaris. "Our deaths will not atone to our country for the
-consequences of our defeat and destruction!"
-
-The veteran fighter soon caught the drift of the younger man's argument.
-
-"So let it be," he exclaimed. "_Zito Hellas!_" (Long live Greece!) And
-muttering an invocation to his patron saint, he ordered Canaris to
-proceed with his plan.
-
-Within one hour after this interview the hardy Ipsara fisherman
-succeeded in setting fire to the Turkish Admiral's flag-ship, three
-frigates, and five sloops, and forced the rest of the enemy's fleet to
-seek shelter under the guns of the Dardanelles forts. The loss of the
-Turks in men exceeded 1000; that of the Greeks was but fifteen killed
-and wounded.
-
-Victorious at sea, the Greeks were at this period almost uniformly
-defeated on land. Fifteen thousand patriots were massacred at Patras in
-Morea, and many more at Salonica. The second year of the revolution
-witnessed the most terrible events. In order to punish the inhabitants
-of Scio, off the coast of Asia Minor, for sundry acts of rebellion, the
-Sultan sent a powerful armament to that devoted island, and in the
-course of a few days it was entirely depopulated. Of its 85,000
-inhabitants only 15,000 escaped to the mainland; the rest were either
-put to the sword or carried away into captivity. But vengeance for this
-savage act was close at hand. Miaulis, Canaris, and another hero, George
-Pepinis, overtook the Sultan's vessels as they were heading for the
-Dardanelles. Miaulis, who had usually prohibited his men from indulging
-in excesses, issued the watchword "Remember Scio!" which meant no
-quarter under any circumstances. In the battle that followed, every
-known method and weapon of naval warfare was brought into
-play--fire-ships, grappling-irons, carronades, chain-shot, boarding
-assaults, and so forth--and when finally the smoke cleared at dusk, the
-Greeks found that they had destroyed six Turkish ships of the line, ten
-frigates, and twelve brigs, out of a total of fifty sail.
-
-[Illustration: CANARIS DESTROYING THE TURKISH FLEET.]
-
-Canaris himself was wounded, and, indeed, owed his life to a miracle. He
-had selected the Turkish flag-ship as his especial prey, and steered a
-large brigantine filled with pine shavings and sulphur in her direction.
-When within a few hundred yards of the foe he started the conflagration
-below, and then made his way to the stern, intending to jump into a
-small boat behind. But in some way the boat had become detached, and was
-nowhere visible; the sulphurous flames were beginning to shoot up from
-the hold, and the bullets from the Turkish small-arms were whizzing in
-uncomfortable proximity. There was danger indeed, and increasing every
-moment at that, as the wind and current drove the vessel wildly on.
-There was nothing for it but to jump overboard and swim for dear life.
-But, though expert swimmers, Canaris and his five subordinates were not
-proof against leaden balls, and one after the other the poor fellows
-sank, until only the leader remained. Even he was struck after a while,
-and began to lose blood rapidly. Just as he was about abandoning hope,
-none of the Greek ships being near, a terrific explosion rent the air
-and convulsed the waters, and when the sinking man's head arose to the
-surface for the last time, as he thought, there, within arm's-reach, was
-floating the large figure-head of the Turkish Admiral's vessel. The
-fire-ship had done its work. It had blown up 500 Mussulmans, and by this
-very act had saved the life of Greece's naval hero.
-
-Canaris's exploits now became the subject of general attention, and his
-name also grew to be a by-word among the Turks. The very suspicion of
-his being near caused the Turkish Admiral, who had been sent to relieve
-the fortress of Napoli di Romania, besieged by General Kolokotronis, to
-sail away without accomplishing his purpose. Still this act of prudence
-did not save him in the end, for Canaris followed the Turkish fleet to
-the bay of Tenedos, and there made sad havoc among the large
-double-deckers, blowing them one after the other out of the water. The
-Turks on this occasion added to the disaster by cutting their cables and
-running foul of one another.
-
-The following year, 1823, Canaris drove back into the Dardanelles
-another Turkish fleet that had been sent from Constantinople to
-re-enforce the beleaguering army of Missolonghi, a proceeding that
-exasperated the Sultan to the point of vowing vengeance against the
-irrepressible Giaour. The Sultan kept his word. The year 1824 saw the
-accession to Turkey's fighting forces of the entire military and naval
-resources of the vassal state of Egypt. The Khedive placed a large army
-and navy, commanded by his adopted son, Ibrahim Pasha, at the Sultan's
-disposal. The campaign therefore began with an expedition against the
-Greeks, numbering 100,000 men and a fleet of 80 war-vessels. This mighty
-armament was first directed against the islands of Spezzia and Ispara,
-the latter, as stated, being Canaris's home. At the approach of the
-Turks a council of war was summoned at Ispara by the local dignitaries.
-
-"Give me five fire-ships," exclaimed Canaris, "and I will stand for your
-safety, and that of your wives and children!"
-
-But, as in all communities, there were here some politicians and
-wise-acres to be reckoned with who had never fought themselves, but who
-would have been perfectly willing to give Napoleon himself points on
-strategy. Canaris's plan was overruled by these men, and it was decided
-to await the enemy on shore. The result of this decision was the capture
-and devastation of the island, including a massacre of all the males
-above tender age. Canaris escaped by swimming to a boat. He had already
-gotten his family safely out of the way on hearing the announcement of
-the council's absurd plan of campaign.
-
-It is unnecessary to say that the brave Ipsariot fully avenged the cruel
-wrong done to his native isle. A few months later he fell upon an
-Egyptian fleet of forty sail, laden with provisions and munitions of
-war, and destroyed almost half their number. What remained of the
-Turco-Egyptian men-of-war after all these reverses was burned or sent to
-the bottom in February, 1827, by the allied fleets of England, France,
-and Russia at the memorable battle of Navarino. Canaris not only
-experienced the satisfaction of witnessing this event, but he also lived
-to see his country free and independent.
-
-[Illustration: MARCO BOTZARIS AND HIS GAUDY WARRIORS.]
-
-Marco Botzaris, the most picturesque military hero of the Greek war of
-independence, was a native of Souli, a famous mountain stronghold in
-Epirus, which for centuries has produced a race of fighting-men. The
-Souliotes indeed were justly considered the flower of the Greek
-revolutionary army. Attired in a costume resplendent with gold lace,
-gilt buttons, snow-white linen of superior quality, and other finery,
-they made an imposing array on dress parade or on the march. An American
-traveller named Emerson, who visited the theatre of the war in 1821,
-says of them, "I have seen the noble grenadiers of Napoleon, and I have
-known the superb English guards, but the Souliotes appear to me to
-surpass both." He describes their method of fighting to be somewhat
-theatrical, and to resemble that of the Scotch Highlander. Every man
-chooses his post, and like the ancients who covered themselves with
-shields, they seek cover behind a rock or stone, and from there shoot
-down the foe. In order to deceive the latter, the Souliote sometimes
-places his red cap on a pole at some distance away. He seldom makes more
-than three discharges, preferring to finish the fight with the cold
-steel. His weapon is a curved sword, called a _yataghan_, and he wields
-it with terrible effect.
-
-One can imagine that with such material at his command Botzaris was able
-to lead the Mussulman a lively dance, as the saying is. His wild dashes
-on convoys, his surprises by day and night, and his ability to check the
-advance of large bodies of the enemy under all conditions of time and
-place, soon made his name a terror among the followers of the prophet.
-Neither Maurocordatos nor Kolokotronis, with all their science and their
-military training, was able to inspire the same fear in the enemy's
-ranks. Botzaris's name will ever be linked with the story of
-Missolonghi, its vicissitudes and its victories. With 400 men Botzaris
-defended this stronghold against an army of many thousands under Omar
-Vrione, and in repelling six assaults killed 12,000 of the enemy. This
-was but one of many triumphs. It was near this same stronghold of
-Missolonghi that the great hero met his death on August 20, 1823. He had
-received information that a large column of Turks was on its way to that
-place, and he decided to intercept it with his small force of 1200
-Souliotes. It was late at night when the patriots came across the enemy,
-and by superhuman efforts succeeded in crushing him. For the time being
-Missolonghi was saved, but the brave Botzaris received his death-wound
-in the very moment of victory. He died with the words. "Zito Hellas!" on
-his lips.
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration: INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT]
-
-
-The eighth annual interscholastic in-door athletic meeting of the New
-England I.S.A.A., a week ago Saturday, was a remarkable one for several
-reasons. First of all was the surprise at the outcome, which was
-entirely unlooked for; not that the winning school was not thought well
-of and was not a candidate for the honors it reaped, but that the
-victory was so very one-sided.
-
-POINTS SCORED BY THE SCHOOLS.
-
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-                                                      u
-                                               R      t
-                                               u      t
-                                            4  n      i
-                                            5  n      n
-                                3     1  8  -  i      g
-                             4  0  6  0  8  y  n
-                             0  0  0  0  0  a  g      1
-                             -  -  0  0  -  r         6  P
-                             y  y  -  -  y  d  H      -  o
-                             a  a  y  y  a     i      l  l
-                             r  r  a  a  r  H  g      b  e
-                             d  d  r  r  d  u  h      .         T
-                                   d  d     r            V      o
-                             D  D        W  d  J      S  a      t
-                             a  a  R  R  a  l  u      h  u      a
-                             s  s  u  u  l  e  m      o  l      l
-  Schools.                   h  h  n  n  k  s  p      t  t      s
-
-  English High               8           8  5  1-1/2  2         24-1/2
-  Worcester High                5  5                            10
-  Hopkinson's                               3  5         1-1/2   9-1/2
-  Noble's and Greenough's       2                     5          7
-  Worcester Academy                   2        1-1/2  1  1-1/2   6
-  Chauncy Hall                        5                          5
-  Cashing Academy                                        5       5
-  Boston Latin                     2                             2
-  Newton High                      1                             1
-  Phillips Exeter                     1                          1
-  Cambridge High and Latin      1                                1
-
-It was predicted before the games that the contest for points would
-devolve upon certain schools, but it happened in several instances that
-calculations were rudely upset by representatives who failed to come up
-to expectations. This was noticeable especially in the case of Worcester
-Academy, a school that was feared by all, but which turned out a
-disappointment.
-
-English High from the outset began to gather the points, and 16 in the
-40-yard dash and half-mile walk added materially in swelling the total
-of 24-1/2. Worcester High was satisfied to beat out its rivals the
-Academy. Hopkinson's gave a better exhibition than it has for several
-years, and came third in the competition for points. The customary
-record-breaking performances were forthcoming, and the 40-yard dash,
-1000-yard run, and the running high jump were affected, while the
-hurdles were done in the same time as last year.
-
-The list of entries was considerably smaller than last year, because of
-the requirements of the new registration law, which prevents many from
-competing. A rumor spread around before the games began that some of
-those entered had not registered with the Secretary of the A.A.U., which
-was confirmed by Manager John Graham of the meet. A conference of the
-Athletic Committee of the B.A.A., under whose auspices the games were
-given, was held to decide what should be done. They decided that if a
-sanction could be obtained from the president of the I.S.A.A. for such
-schools not registered but members of the I.S.A.A., the men should be
-allowed to compete and assume all of the responsibility. This was also
-done to act as a test case for the A.A.U's decision.
-
-[Illustration: H. C. KENNINGTON.]
-
-An unparalleled surprise was developed in the first event on the
-programme, when the existing record in the 40-yard dash was broken,
-three runners doing the trick, and equalling the world's mark for the
-distance. It was an unusually speedy lot that was entered in this event,
-and when the trial heats began to be caught in the old record the final
-figure was awaited with suspense. In the trial heats the first and
-second place winners were eligible for the semi-finals. In the first
-line-up was Butler of Worcester High, the best runner that school has,
-and Kennington of English High, who eventually became the winner.
-
-[Illustration: W. J. DUFFY.]
-
-The next two heats were captured by English High-School sprinters, Kane
-getting the first and Duffy the second, in 4-3/5 sec. Eight heats were
-run off in all before the list of entries had been exhausted. Butler,
-Kane, and Duffy were called in the first semi-final, and speculation was
-intense as to whether the Worcester lad would survive the ordeal. Kane
-and Duffy realized that they had a worthy foe to deal with, and knew
-that they would have to strain every bit of energy to shut the Worcester
-man out and make the final round, but they were equal to the occasion.
-
-Kennington, the third English High runner, did not have much trouble in
-claiming the second semi-final heat, and Wight of Brown and Nichols, ran
-second to him. In the third, Archibald of Hyde Park won the heat in a
-canter, though the time was 4-3/5 sec.; Sever of Brown and Nichols was
-able to catch a second. A peculiar thing happened in the final heat. At
-the crack of the pistol five of the six runners were off on a line; the
-sixth, Archibald, was set back a yard, which practically put him out. As
-the tape was reached there was scarcely a wavering of the line, but in
-the last few strides the sprinters shifted somewhat, though a blanket
-would have covered them as the post was passed. The judges deliberated
-long, and finally came to the conclusion that no decision could be
-reached, and the only way to settle the matter was to have four of the
-runners try it over; so Kane, Kennington, Duffy, all of English High,
-and Sever of Brown and Nichols, toed the scratch again. It was almost a
-repetition of the former heat, but Kennington was proclaimed the winner
-by the narrowest of margins, with Duffy second, and Kane third.
-
-Each school was allowed to make one entry in the 1000-yard run, the
-reason being that the narrowness of the track made it necessary to
-reduce numbers so as not to clog up the path. Mills of Chauncy Hall was
-a prime favorite, and nobody disputed his right to be called the winner,
-and most attention turned to his ability to make a new record, which he
-had been heard to say he would attempt. The New York schools had a
-chance last winter to see what kind of stuff Mills is made of when he
-won the mile at the Madison Square Garden, and on March 27 they will be
-given another opportunity. Mills rarely sets the pace, and in this
-instance held back to give the others this work to do. Kinsley of
-Worcester Academy started out at a 440 clip, with the evident intention
-of running some of the athletes off their feet in the first part of the
-race. Sullivan of Worcester High, the national interscholastic miler,
-was not to be lost in such a manner, and sailed after Kinsley as if he
-had wings. On the third lap Sullivan in some unaccountable way missed
-his footing and tumbled, and he was left behind. Meanwhile Mills was
-keeping his eyes open, and seeing his field lagging, made a dash for the
-lead and began to leave a gap between him and his nearest opponent. For
-two laps he ran round the track with a wonderful burst of speed, the
-spectators wildly cheering his efforts to shatter the record. There were
-no exclamations of surprise when it was announced that he had replaced 2
-min. 33 sec. by 2 min. 30-1/5 sec. Kinsley was a quarter of a lap in the
-rear of Mills, and Falls of Phillips Exeter, an unknown runner, close
-upon the former.
-
-The 300-yard run brought out some good running, but the time of last
-year was never in danger of being disturbed. In the very first heat
-Butler of Worcester High and George Hersey, of Worcester Academy, met,
-and the issue was breathlessly awaited. The former had the pole, and
-with this advantage--a big one, too, on the track conditions--swung
-round the corners in the lead. Hersey unfortunately was hedged in
-closely on all sides, and he just saved himself at the last moment by
-breaking his way through and coming in second.
-
-Kennington and Kane of English High counted in the next heat, but the
-latter was disqualified, as on one of the corners he came in contact
-with Baker of Noble's School, and the latter was thrown. Baker was
-permitted to go into the final. Garrett and Winslow, two of Cambridge
-High and Latin's best, won heats, and the latter got a point for his
-school. Butler was the choice in the final heat, but it was expected
-that Kennington and Hersey would make him hustle. Kennington bowed to
-fate by going off his mark and losing a yard at the start. He was making
-up this distance in fine shape when he went down in a heap on a corner.
-Butler was not pushed to do his utmost, as Baker, who was coming after
-him in the stretch, was some yards away.
-
-Worcester High had strong hopes of winning the 600-yard run, basing its
-faith on the presence of Dadmund, Mills, and Moran. Each one qualified
-in his heat to run in the final, and the High-School stock was going
-higher. When the test came Dadmund was found wanting, as his strength
-failed him. Lincoln, captain of the Boston Latin, was conspicuous in
-this event, as he held the lead till the last corner, fifteen yards from
-the worsted. Here Mills caught him, and together they ran shoulder to
-shoulder the remainder of the distance, Mills falling across the line in
-the van. It was a most thrilling finish and a victory richly earned, the
-audience appreciating the struggle.
-
-J. H. Converse, of English High, the national interscholastic hurdler,
-appeared to defend his title, and kept it from being marred, although he
-had a narrow escape, Hallowell and Cole of Hopkinson's pressing closely
-to the last foot.
-
-[Illustration: W. F. MOHAN.]
-
-The half-mile walk was another English High event, as all three places
-went to that school. Mohan, who was credited with a point at the
-out-door games, set the stride, with Riley and Foley, his schoolmates,
-in close proximity. On the last lap Griffin of Worcester High challenged
-Mohan for the lead of the procession, and gained his end, but with
-disastrous results to his aspirations, for in spite of his coming home
-first by five yards, the judge of walking had given him his final
-caution, and Mohan got the prize, with Riley and Foley filling the other
-places.
-
-The field events had a small following, and in only one case was a
-record shattered. Rotch of Hopkinson's cleared 5 feet 8-1/2 inches in
-the high jump, bettering the old figures of 5 feet 8 inches. Converse of
-English High and Howe of Worcester Academy were tied at 5 feet 7-3/4
-inches, the latter getting the second prize on the toss of a coin, but
-the points being divided. A similar distribution of points was necessary
-in the pole vault. C. A. Shorey, the one entry from Cushing Academy, got
-this event with a vault of 9 feet 6 inches. Keene of Hopkinson's and
-Kendall of Worcester Academy tied for second at 9 feet.
-
-[Illustration: W. W. COE.]
-
-W. W. Coe, of Noble's School, was prophesied to win the shot, and he
-pushed the 16-lb. weight 35 feet 7 inches; Eaton of English High was
-over a foot behind him, with 34 feet 1-1/2 inches; and D. F. Spear, of
-Worcester Academy, came third, his put being 31 feet 9-1/2 inches.
-
-[Illustration: W. D. EATON.]
-
-The six relay races aided in increasing the enthusiasm, and school
-feeling reached a high pitch of excitement. Dedham High defeated Hyde
-Park High; Worcester High defeated Noble's and Greenoughs; Newton High
-defeated Boston Latin; Cambridge High and Latin defeated Hopkinson's;
-Chauncy Hall defeated Exeter. The climax came when E.H.-S. ended a
-splendid afternoon by beating Worcester Academy in a race that will be
-remembered for many days.
-
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-$1.25.
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-
-QUESTIONS FOR YOUNG MEN.
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-
-ON SELF-RESPECT.
-
-If you beat a dog he puts his tail between his legs and either skulks
-off, or hangs around to receive a pardon later on. The beating, no
-doubt, frequently does the dog good. He cannot be reasoned with and told
-why certain things are to be done, hence he must be taught a reason
-which he can understand, and he can understand that pain will be
-inflicted on him if he repeats whatever he has just done. You in beating
-him realize this. If you beat a little girl with a stick, you have done
-something that was unnecessary in the first place, because she could be
-taught or reasoned with, but also, having done something you know to be
-unnecessary, you lose a certain faith, confidence, respect in yourself.
-
-If you treat a friend in an unfair way, if you deceive him, if you tell
-him a lie for any reason or for no reason, the same feelings occur to
-you. You have not been found out; no one criticises you; but there is a
-certain consciousness in your mind which signifies that you have done
-something your real self disapproves of absolutely.
-
-In a game of football, for instance, it is easy enough to hit a man
-under a crowd after a scrimmage. Some boys do hit and scratch and claw.
-They are seldom found out. Football is a good example, for there are
-more chances for chivalry and for meanness in the game than in most
-others or in most situations of young manhood. Yet not being found out
-does not seem to be of such great importance in the long-run. The fact
-that you have resorted to such means is known to you, and you cannot
-avoid the feeling that it has really done you rather more harm than it
-has the fellow you injured or tried to injure.
-
-If you treat your mother without much thought, do what she asks as you
-feel inclined, and not if you do not feel so inclined, she is naturally
-grieved, and that may hurt you; but coming afterwards to think it over
-and realizing that she has perhaps in the last fifteen years done a good
-deal more for you than you have for her, there is a suggestion of
-disappointment, to say the least, in yourself that you should so far
-forget yourself as to act so to one whom you not only have the greatest
-affection for, but one whom you know should have the greatest attention
-and regard you can bestow.
-
-If you scoff at some one's religious views, or make fun of the
-"old-fashioned ideas" of others, very likely you are in the right as to
-the idea in mind, but you cannot fail to realize afterwards that perhaps
-it was a bad piece of business when you failed to give the other person
-credit for a little sense, and the general result is a lack of pride in
-the incident.
-
-The feeling resulting from all these situations is much the same, and it
-goes by the name of loss of self-respect. It is a lack of pride in what
-you have done, and no one can be on the road to the formation of a bad
-character who has not begun by failing to call himself to account for
-such matters; no one can really go further on this road so long as he
-maintains this self-respect. When an occasion requires its use it should
-be ready at hand. When there is a chance to hit a man under the crowd,
-if this self-respect gets in its work quickly enough, you are safe; but
-there needs to be constant training to put it into such good condition
-that it can be used on any emergency no matter how sudden that may be.
-And this self-respect is just as easily trained as is your body for its
-coming trial in the hundred-yard race. Train it as you would anything
-else, and it will invariably carry you over difficult places. But it
-gets "out of condition" easily, and you will miss it at the most
-important time.
-
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-
-GLASS TO KEEP HEAT OUT.
-
-Glass of a peculiar quality--that is, non-conductive for heat rays--has
-been invented by Richard Szigmondy, of Vienna, the statement being that
-glass a quarter of an inch thick absorbs 87 to 100 per cent. of the heat
-striking it, in contrast to plate-glass, which absorbs only about 5 per
-cent.
-
-This glass is designed to insure windows which will keep dwellings warm
-in winter and cool in summer, especially adapted, too, for skylights,
-etc., and also for blue-glass spectacles to be used by furnace men.
-
-Remarking upon the invention in question, the _Scientific American_
-calls attention to the peculiar conducting power of ordinary glass,
-which would seem to render Szigmondy's glass an impossibility, in some
-respects at least.
-
-Thus, standing by a window on which the sun shines, the warmth of the
-sun is felt, but, on touching the window, it is found to be cold; then
-if a light of glass be placed between the person and an ordinary open
-fire, it will screen from the heat, but becomes rapidly heated
-itself--that is, in the first case it transmitted most of the heat, and
-in the latter it absorbed.
-
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-
-A SMALL BOY'S NOTION.
-
-The first of March was snowy.
-
-"Humph!" said Jack. "It's going in like a lamb getting sheared. Just
-look at the wool fly!"
-
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-
-A NOVEL BAROMETER.
-
-It has taken a clever Frenchman to discover a kind of barometer, which
-may be safely called unique. An English journal says that it is nothing
-more nor less than the figure of a general made of gingerbread. He buys
-one every year, and takes it home and hangs it by a string on a nail.
-
-Gingerbread, as every one knows, is easily affected by changes in the
-atmosphere. The slightest moisture renders it soft, while in dry weather
-it grows hard and tough.
-
-Every morning, on going out, the Frenchman asks his servant, "What does
-the general say?" and the man applies his thumb to the gingerbread
-figure.
-
-Perhaps he may reply, "The general feels soft. He would advise you
-taking an umbrella." On the other hand, if the gingerbread is hard and
-unyielding to the touch, it is safe to go forth in one's best attire,
-umbrellaless and confident.
-
-The Frenchman declares that the general has never yet proved unworthy of
-the confidence placed in him, and would advise all whose purse will not
-allow them to purchase a barometer or aneroid, to see what the local
-baker can do for them in the gingerbread line.
-
-
-
-
-The
-
-New York State
-
-Analyst Says:
-
-The Royal Baking Powder is superior to any other powder which I have
-examined; a baking powder unequalled for purity, strength, and
-wholesomeness.
-
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-
-     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.
-
-
-The prize-winners in the annual photographic competitions are as
-follows:
-
-     SENIOR PRIZE-WINNERS.
-
-     FIGURE STUDIES.
-
-     First Prize, $20--Mrs. Claud Gatch, Salem, Ore. Second Prize,
-     $15--Mrs. Sara W. Holm, 710 Farwell St., Eau Claire, Wis.
-
-     [Illustration: FIRST PRIZE, SENIOR COMPETITION, FIGURE STUDIES.
-
-     By Mrs. Claud Gatch, Salem, Oregon.]
-
-     [Illustration: SECOND PRIZE, SENIOR COMPETITION, FIGURE STUDIES.
-
-     By Mrs. Sara W. Holm, Eau Claire, Wisconsin.]
-
-     LANDSCAPES.
-
-     First Prize, $15--Mr. Roy Pike, Lake City, Minn. Second Prize,
-     $10--Mrs. George E. Conn, Box 1, Green Lake, Washington.
-
-     JUNIOR PRIZE-WINNERS.
-
-     FIGURE STUDIES.
-
-     First Prize, $20--Samuel J. Castner, 3729 Chestnut St.,
-     Philadelphia, Pa. Second Prize, $10--Edmund C. Stone, Baird, Shasta
-     Co., Cal. Third Prize, $5--Paul G. Warren, Wauwatosa, Wis.
-
-     LANDSCAPES.
-
-     First Prize, $12--Anton H. Schefer, 40 West Thirty-seventh St., New
-     York city, N. Y. Second Prize, $8--Lesley Ashburner, Media, Pa.
-     Third Prize, $5--Howard Cox, 531 Hemlock St., Helena, Mont.
-
-     MARINES.
-
-     First Prize, $12--William D. Bowers, 50 Pleasant St., Hartford,
-     Conn. Second Prize, $8--Harry Chase, 175 Summer St., Nahant, Mass.
-     Third Prize, $5--Susie Brown, Box 306, Keyport, N. J.
-
-     HONORABLE MENTION.
-
-     Myron Eames Davis, Worcester, Mass.; Frederick C. Kelly, Xenia, O.;
-     William R. Durgin, Chicago, Ill.; Kenneth Towner, Asbury Park,
-     N. J.; Manfred Goldschmidt, New York city; Frederick G. Clapp,
-     South Boston, Mass.; Doar Saunders, Indianapolis, Ind.; William
-     Selbie, Deadwood, S. D.; William C. Davids, Rutherford, N. J.;
-     Louise McLean, St Paul, Minn.; Earl Raiguel, Philadelphia, Pa.;
-     Clarence Pratt, 135 Hodge Ave., Buffalo, N. Y.; Willis H. Kerr,
-     Bellevue, Kan.; Bert A. Porter, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Homer C. Gaskins,
-     Baltimore, Md.; W. Brian Hooker, Farmington, Mass.; Walter
-     Raudebush, Lebanon, N. Y.; Foster Hartwell, Lansingburg, N. Y.;
-     Bert Atkinson, Tilton, N. H.; John W. Horr, Worcester, Mass.;
-     Lothair Kohnstam, New York city; Arthur S. Dudley, West Salem,
-     Wis.; Charles Taber, Auburn, N. Y.; M. W. Nourse, Chicago, Ill.;
-     William S. Thomas, Detroit, Mich.; William O. Wichman, Great
-     Barrington, Mass.; Harry R. Patty, Los Angeles, Cal.; Charles J.
-     Bates, Highwood, N. J.; Arthur Inkersley, San Francisco, Cal.;
-     Louisa Pearce, Moreno, Cal.
-
-The pictures sent in for the annual competition show a decided advance
-both in subject and finish over the early efforts of our Camera Club,
-proving that the hints given from time to time in our club column on the
-making of artistic pictures are read and acted upon.
-
-In the Junior competition the first prize for figure studies was awarded
-to a picture entitled "Two Little Neapolitans." Another picture of
-almost equal merit entitled, "A Tarantula Dancer of Sorrento, Italy,"
-was sent by the same artist. "Setting Sail" was the title of the
-second-prize figure study, and was a picture of two children in an old
-punt which was lying half in and half out of the water, one small child
-tugging at the big oar, while the larger one stood in the bow of the
-boat hoisting a stick on which was tied a rag for a sail. The third
-prize was given to a picture of a small boy perched on a stump. This
-picture had no title.
-
-Some of the entries of landscape studies were very good. The first prize
-was given to a picture entitled "In the Orchard"; the second to a
-picture called "Along Lobster Lane"; and the third prize to a picture
-called "Sunset in the Rockies." This title did not fit the picture, as
-there was no sunset effect, and when the picture is reproduced it will
-appear under the title "Now comes still Evening On."
-
-"Surf at Rockaway" won the first prize in marine studies. The whole
-picture--the cloud effect, the breakers on the beach, and the point of
-view from which the picture was made--is very similar to the celebrated
-etching entitled "The Surf-Tormented Shore," by Amos Sangster. William
-D. Bowers, who sent this picture, sent also another marine called "On
-Long Island Sound," but which might more appropriately be called
-"Scudding for Home," for it is a picture of a yacht flying along with
-all sails set. The second prize was awarded to a picture of the sea and
-cliffs at Nahant, while the third was given to a picture of a yacht
-drifting along with the tide.
-
-In the Senior competition the first prize for figure studies was a
-picture illustrating Eugene Field's poem entitled "Shuffle-Shoon and
-Amber-Locks," the first verse of which is as follows:
-
-  Shuffle-Shoon and Amber-Locks
-  Sit together building blocks.
-  Shuffle-Shoon is old and gray,
-    Amber-Locks a little child,
-  Yet, together at their play,
-    Youth and Age are reconciled.
-
-The posing of the figures and the expression on the faces of
-"Shuffle-Shoon and Amber-Locks" show that both artist and subjects have
-caught the very spirit of the poem. The second-prize picture is a genre
-study made out-of-doors just at sunset. A woman with two pails suspended
-from a yoke over her shoulders is crossing a rough bridge, while just
-behind her trudges a little tow-headed urchin tugging a pail. The
-lighting in this picture is excellent, and the whole picture most
-artistic.
-
-The pictures which won prizes in the landscape competition for seniors
-were both of snow scenes, and were far above the average photographs of
-snow scenery, the snow looking like real snow and not like masses of
-white chalk.
-
-The members of the club are to be congratulated on their fine pictures.
-During the next few weeks all of the prize pictures will be printed in
-the ROUND TABLE. All photographs save the prize ones have been mailed to
-their owners.
-
-     MURRAY MARBLE, 55 Pearl St., Worcester, Mass.; HICKOX UTLEY, 517
-     South Walnut St., Springfield, Ill.; BERTRAM R. WHITE, 616
-     Lexington Ave., New York city; WILLIAM S. JOHNSON, 263 School St.,
-     Athol, Mass.; FREDERIC LYTE HARDING, 5940 Overlook Ave.,
-     Philadelphia, Pa.; HERBERT H. PEASE, 28 Court St., New Britain,
-     Conn.; JAMES M. KIMBALL, 16 Montague St., Providence, R. I.--wish
-     to become members of the Camera Club.
-
-     E. L. DEDHAM asks why some negatives are so sticky that the
-     solio-paper sticks to them and ruins them; and if the glycerine
-     used for films must be one special kind. Any pure glycerine will
-     answer for soaking the films to prevent them from curling. One-half
-     ounce of glycerine to sixteen ounces of water is the proportion for
-     the glycerine bath.
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-THE VOYAGE OF THE RATTLETRAP
-
-By HAYDEN CARRUTH, Author of "The Adventures of Jones." Illustrated by
-H. M. WILDER. 16mo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1.25.
-
-     This is the story of three boy chums and of their cruise across the
-     Dakotas in a "prairie-schooner." Mr. Carruth has a genial humor in
-     the telling of ordinary happenings that is irresistible, and he
-     even manages to impart a great deal of useful information as he
-     goes along. The author tells us very pleasantly some things about
-     this big slice of Uncle Sam's territory.
-
-THE LAST RECRUIT OF CLARE'S
-
-Being Passages from the Memoirs of Anthony Dillon, Chevalier of St.
-Louis, and Late Colonel of Clare's Regiment in the Service of France. By
-S. R. KEIGHTLEY, Author of "The Crimson Sign," "The Cavaliers," etc.
-With 4 Illustrations. Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1.50.
-
-     This is a romance not of love, but of daring adventure, and so well
-     worked as to be profoundly interesting.--_Chicago Inter-Ocean._
-
-     Cleverly told, and enchain the reader's attention immediately,
-     holding him captive to the last page.--_Brooklyn Standard-Union._
-
-     A series of vivid pictures of the life of a soldier who was also a
-     gentleman.--_N. Y. Press._
-
-IN THE OLD HERRICK HOUSE
-
-And Other Stories. By ELLEN DOUGLAS DELAND, Author of "Oakleigh."
-Illustrated. Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1.50.
-
-     Made up of tales of girl life, very earnest, pure, and
-     interesting.--_Boston Traveller._
-
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-     little stories.--_Philadelphia Bulletin._
-
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-     wholesome.--_Chicago Inter-Ocean._
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-
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-
-
-The Weight of those Four Weights.
-
-The man who dropped a 40-pound article and broke it into 4 scale-weights
-excited the TABLE's curiosity. It was a singular fall. The 4 pieces
-weighed 1, 3, 9, and 27 pounds respectively. To get 2 pounds he puts the
-3-pound weight on one side, and the 1-pound one on the other, and has a
-2-pound balance on the 3-pound side. If he has occasion to weigh 35
-pounds he puts the 27-pound weight and the 9-pound weight on one side,
-and the 1-pound weight on the other. We have tested these and a few
-other weights. Our correspondent says any number of pounds from 1 to 40
-can be weighed with these weights.
-
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-
-From a Bright British Lad.
-
-     In my last letter I told you about some of the sights of India,
-     where I lived till I was twelve; but now that I am in England, I
-     will tell you something about the town in which I live. Bedford has
-     over 40,000 inhabitants, and is a very clean town. There is a
-     beautifully laid out park containing forty acres, in which there is
-     a pretty lake with two shrub-covered islands on which swans and
-     ducks make their nests.
-
-     It is intersected with paths and carriage-drives, and is resorted
-     to by cyclists of both sexes. There are two very fine statues in
-     Bedford. One is that of John Bunyan, who was born not far from this
-     town, at a place called Elstow, where may be seen the moot-house or
-     church where he used to preach, and also the remains of his house.
-     In a church named after John Bunyan there is an arm-chair supposed
-     to have belonged to him.
-
-     The other statue is that of John Howard, the great philanthropist.
-     It was erected two years ago. The River Ouse runs through this
-     town. In summer it is alive with boats and steam-launches. I am an
-     active collector of stamps, and would like to exchange some Indian
-     and other stamps for those of other countries, with any boy or girl
-     who has any to exchange. I will also exchange crests, coins, and
-     curios for stamps. If any boy or girl would care to correspond
-     about India or England, I would answer every letter, as I love
-     letter-writing. I go to the Bedford Modern School, in which are
-     over 600 boys. Your faithful reader,
-
-  ERNEST C. GROVES.
-  BELHAVEN, 33 FOSTER-HILL ROAD, BEDFORD.
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-From Among Mississippi Pines.
-
-     I was interested in your article on "Working a Turpentine Orchard,"
-     because I live in the Long Leaf Yellow Pine region, with turpentine
-     orchards all about us. All summer we see wagons loaded with "crude"
-     passing. If the TABLE would like to hear more about the process of
-     manufacturing spirits of turpentine and resin, I will write again.
-
-  HERBERT SHEAR.
-  CHICORA, MISS.
-
-Please tell us about the process.
-
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-
-The World of Amateur Journals.
-
-The _Jester_ of recent date has some clever pictures bringing an old
-joke up to the bicycle age. A man elopes with the daughter, the steed
-being not saddle-horses as of old, but a tandem bicycle. The father,
-from an upper window does not shoot or holler, or get down and ride
-after the fleeing couple on his fastest horse. Instead he fires some
-tacks out of his gun. The tires are punctured, and the daughter returns
-humiliated.
-
-The Corresponding Chapter, of which Charles Turnbull, of Hartford,
-Conn., is president, Arthur F. Kraus is vice-president, and Edward F.
-Daas, 1717 Cherry Street, Milwaukee, Wis., is secretary and treasurer,
-expects soon to have an official newspaper organ. The Chapter is
-prospering. It wants members, especially in foreign countries.
-
-F. E. Maynard, 420 Angell Street, Providence, R. I., wants to receive
-sample copies of amateur papers.
-
-Homer C. Bright, treasurer of the Columbine Chapter of Denver, Col.,
-sends word to the TABLE that the old Columbine is doing well after a
-reorganization, and has started the publication of the _Columbine
-Jester_, which is neat and bright. Its editor is Homer C. Bright, and
-his address is 314 West Fourth Avenue. He asks us some questions about
-copyright, and whether he may take anything out of other papers,
-provided he gives credit. In answer to the first: It is scarcely
-necessary to copyright an amateur paper. The cost is $1 each issue. Ask
-the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C., for printed instructions.
-In reply to the question about clipping items: Yes, take extracts from
-anything you find in any other publication, unless there is a notice
-accompanying the article expressly forbidding it. You would not,
-however, take the entire article without first getting consent from the
-publisher. This you can, in the case of an amateur paper, probably
-secure for the asking.
-
-Charles P. Follansbee, 118 South Elliott Place, Brooklyn, N. Y., desires
-to receive sample copies of amateur papers. Henry Feldson asks if the
-TABLE thinks autograph-collecting or amateur journalism the better
-hobby. It is impossible to answer such a question in favor of one or the
-other. Both afford instruction, and few hobbies ought to be ridden that
-do not do that much for the rider. The only advice is, ride the one you
-take the most interest in. Frances Bragdon, 1709 Chicago Avenue,
-Evanston, Ill., also desires sample copies of amateur papers.
-
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-
-Who Can Enlighten Us?
-
-     I enclose a sketch of a button. Can you tell me what it is? The
-     star is blue, set in a little from the white enamelled background.
-     The belt is silver, raised up above the white background. I have
-     quite a large collection of buttons, and would like to hear from
-     other button collectors on the subject of exchanging specimens.
-
-  D. W. HARDIN.
-  1003 COURT STREET, SAGINAW, MICH.
-
-The drawing sent shows a button 5/8 inch across, with a belt surrounding
-a star. The belt is fastened with a buckle.
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-Do You Like a Good Problem?
-
-Here is a good mathematical question, perhaps not wholly new, but handy
-to have when asked to tell, off hand, something to keep up the interest
-and occupy the attention of the company. Frank Smith, of Cumberland,
-Md., says he had a good time working it out, and he hopes others will
-enjoy it as much.
-
-A, B, and C went to market to sell eggs. A took ten dozen, B thirty
-dozen, and C fifty dozen, B and C selling, according to agreement, at
-the same price that A sells his. Each sells all his eggs, and each
-brings home $2.75. What were the eggs sold at per dozen?
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-A Fifteen Problem.
-
-Is there a school in the country in which scholars never play "tic, tac,
-toe"? If so, will not some one who attends it write the TABLE? It would
-be interesting to know if the simple game is not universal. Charles
-Kingenberg suggests the making of the double crossed lines as in the
-game named. Then place the figures one to nine, one in a place, and
-using all places and figures, so that horizontally, perpendicularly, and
-diagonally in both ways, the sum is fifteen.
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-Tact of Disraeli.
-
-A new book has just been published in which are some fresh stories about
-Disraeli the younger. This man was Prime Minister of England, and came
-later to be Earl of Beaconsfield. Beginning life under many adverse
-circumstances, and having racial prejudice against him, he was able not
-only to attain the highest honor in the kingdom open to a man not of
-royal blood, but to do for his sovereign services second to no Prime
-Minister who ever served a British queen or king.
-
-To deal with a sovereign and a woman requires tact. Lord Beaconsfield
-possessed it. To a friend he said one day: "I never contradict. I never
-deny. But I sometimes forget." He had many enemies, and yet he triumphed
-over nearly all of them. "I never trouble to be avenged," he said. "When
-a man injures me I put his name on a slip of paper and lock it in a
-drawer. It is marvellous how men I have thus labelled have the knack of
-disappearing."
-
-
-
-
-[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.
-
-
-New sets of stamps are now being issued with old-time frequency. The
-following are those of most interest:
-
-SALVADOR.--The 1896 set has been reprinted in new colors for 1897.
-
-    1 centavo, vermilion.
-    2 centavos, green.
-    3 centavos, brown.
-    5 centavos, orange.
-   10 centavos, green.
-   12 centavos, blue.
-   15 centavos, black.
-   20 centavos, slate.
-   24 centavos, yellow.
-   30 centavos, rose.
-   50 centavos, violet.
-  100 centavos, brown.
-
-Registration stamps.
-
-  10 centavos, blue.
-  10 centavos, brown.
-
-New return receipt stamp.
-
-  5 centavos, dark green.
-
-Unpaid letter stamps.
-
-   1 centavo, blue.
-   2 centavos, blue.
-   3 centavos, blue.
-   5 centavos, blue.
-  10 centavos, blue.
-  15 centavos, blue.
-  25 centavos, blue.
-  50 centavos, blue.
-
-LIBERIA.--A new set of stamps has just been issued by this country. The
-types of all except the 50c., which has female head in centre, and is
-printed in red-brown and black, are same as the old series. The 1c. is
-similar to the old 6c.; the 2c. to the old $1; the 5c. to the old 4c.;
-the 10c. to the old 8c.; the 15c. to the old 12c.; the 20c. to the old
-16c.; the 25c. to the old 24c., and the 30c. to the old 32c. No higher
-values than 50c. will be issued hereafter. Perforated 15. Water-marked.
-
-   1 cent, violet.
-   2 cents, olive-bistre and black.
-   5 cents, magenta and black.
-  10 cents, yellow and dark blue.
-  15 cents, slate.
-  20 cents, vermilion.
-  25 cents, yellow-green.
-  30 cents, steel-blue.
-  50 cents, red-brown and black.
-
-ZANZIBAR.--The _Philatelic Journal of Great Britain_ chronicles a series
-of adhesives with portrait of the late Sultan, also a new provisional
-made by surcharging the current 1a. 6p. India "Zanzibar" in black and
-"2-1/2" in red, similar to the 2a. India. Water-mark a rose. Perforated
-13-1/2 by 14.
-
-  1/2 anna, green, flags red.
-  1 anna, dark blue, flags red.
-  2 annas, brown-red, flags red.
-  2-1/2 annas, blue, flags red.
-  3 annas, olive-gray, flags red.
-  4 annas, green-black, flags red.
-  4-1/2 annas, orange, flags red.
-  5 annas, bistre, flags red.
-  7-1/2 annas, purple, flags red.
-  8 annas, olive-green, flags red.
-  1 rupee, ultramarine, flags red.
-  2 rupees, deep green, flags red.
-
-CHINA.--The _Post-Office_ has received a set of provisional stamps
-issued on February 2, when China entered the Postal Union. All are
-surcharged, on the current Chinese postage-stamps, in Chinese, with
-value in English, except the $1, which is on the 3c. revenue. It is
-stated that the officials refuse to sell more than one set at a time, as
-but few were issued. All local post-offices closed on February 2.
-
-Provisional stamps. Perforated.
-
-   1/2 cent on 3c., pale yellow, black surcharge.
-   1 cent on 1c., red, black surcharge.
-   2 cents on 2c., light green, black surcharge.
-   4 cents on 4c., rose, black surcharge.
-   5 cents on 5c., yellow, black surcharge.
-   8 cents on 6c., brown, black surcharge.
-  30 cents on 24c., carmine, black surcharge.
-   1 dollar on 3c. revenue, carmine, black surcharge.
-
-NICARAGUA.--The designs for 1897 are similar to the 1896 set with date
-and colors changed.
-
-   1 centavo, lilac.
-   2 centavos, green.
-   5 centavos, rose.
-  10 centavos, light blue.
-  20 centavos, light brown.
-  50 centavos, gray.
-   1 peso, slate.
-   2 pesos, dark carmine.
-   5 pesos, blue.
-
-Unpaid letter stamps.
-
-   1 centavo, lilac.
-   2 centavos, lilac.
-   5 centavos, lilac.
-  10 centavos, lilac.
-  20 centavos, lilac.
-  30 centavos, lilac.
-  50 centavos, lilac.
-
-     J. M. CATTELL.--You can get a catalogue of all postage-stamps, with
-     illustrations of most of the types (except U.S.), for 50c. Anything
-     beyond this is a matter of careful study. Never paste any stamps in
-     the album. You can get one thousand of the best hinges, made of
-     onion-skin, for 15c., from any dealer. The current U.S. stamps from
-     low values are too common to pay for saving. The 50c., $1, $2, and
-     $5 stamps are worth from 25 per cent. to 50 per cent. of their face
-     value, even when used, but they must be without tear or other
-     material blemish.
-
-     F. SEVERN.--Part-perforated U.S. revenue stamps are not scarce, but
-     I advise paying any high price for single stamps in that condition.
-     Too many perforated stamps with large margins have been faked into
-     "part perforated." The advanced collectors, as a rule, pay extra
-     for part-perforated revenues when in unsevered pairs only. As to
-     the "ultramarine," they are in most cases quite scarce in this
-     shade.
-
-     MARIA C. SHATOLA.--I have no record of receiving any letter from
-     you.
-
-     R. F. BOWE.--All the English stamps are water-marked. Take an
-     unused one, or one lightly cancelled, dip it in water, and hold it
-     so that the light shines through, and you will see the water-mark.
-
-     E. BAGG, JUN.--The English government perforates initials, etc., in
-     stamps at the expense of the purchaser. This is done to prevent
-     theft.
-
-     D. MCLAUGHLIN.--In the days of Queen Anne of England (1712) all
-     English newspapers were taxed for revenue. The government put its
-     imprint or tax on each and every paper issued. This tax was
-     abolished June 15, 1855. Specimens are very common. They are
-     collected to a limited degree in England.
-
-     T. A. L.--Your U.S. coins are worth three or four times their face
-     value. The Carolus III. is a Spanish dollar no longer current, and
-     therefore worth bullion only, as it is very common.
-
-  PHILATUS.
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-A QUEER AUDIENCE.
-
-An India correspondent, in writing to the Boston _Golden Rule_, says:
-"The most singular audience that I ever saw gathered to listen to
-preaching was an audience of monkeys. I had noticed that in the back
-yards of the houses on the opposite side of the street there was a row
-of trees, the branches of which stretched out over the flat roofs. Many
-of these branches were beginning to bend downward toward the roofs, and
-the faces of some old jack monkeys peered out through the foliage. Soon
-some of them jumped down and came forward to see what their 'big
-brothers' in the street were about, as they stood gazing so intently at
-these white men standing around. Springing upon a parapet, they seated
-themselves, with their hind feet hanging over in front, and gazed with
-fixedness at the preacher, as they saw the people in the street doing.
-
-"The audience in the street, standing with their backs toward that row
-of houses, did not notice the monkeys, and so their attention was not
-distracted by them.
-
-"I had noticed that many mother monkeys had brought their babies to
-church with them. These little babe monkeys sat upon the knees of their
-mothers, while her hand was placed around them in a very human fashion;
-but the sermon was evidently too high for these little fellows to
-comprehend. Glancing up, I saw one of the little monkeys cautiously
-reach his hand around, and catching hold of another baby monkey's tail,
-give it a pull. The other little monkey struck back; but each mother
-monkey evidently disapproved of this levity in church, and each gave her
-own baby a box on the ears, as though saying: 'Sit still; don't you know
-how to behave in church?' The little monkeys thus reprimanded turned the
-most solemn faces toward the preacher, and seemed to listen intently to
-what he was saying. They sat demurely until the preacher finished his
-sermon and until he had distributed Gospels and tracts among the
-audience.
-
-"Our 'celestial audience,' seeing our 'terrestrial audience' dispersing,
-then, and not until then, left their seats, and demurely walked back and
-sprang upon the branches again. There were no 'monkey capers' as they
-went; they were as serious as a congregation leaving a church, and sat
-upon the branches in a meditative mood, as though thinking over what
-they had heard the preacher say."
-
-
-
-
-ADVERTISEMENTS.
-
-
-
-
-Arnold
-
-Constable & Co.
-
-LADIES'
-
-FURNISHINGS.
-
-_Fancy Trimmed Waists_
-
-_of Organdie and Grenadine._
-
-_Colored Silk and Lawn Slips._
-
-NOVELTIES.
-
-_Silk Matinées, Wrappers._
-
-Bridal Sets and Trousseaux.
-
-CORSETS.
-
-Broadway & 19th st.
-
-NEW YORK.
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration]
-
-Baker's Chocolate
-
-made by
-
-Walter Baker & Co. Ltd.,
-
-ESTABLISHED IN 1780,
-
-at Dorchester, Mass.
-
-Has the well-known
-
-YELLOW
-
-LABEL
-
-on the front of every package,
-
-and the trade-mark
-
-"La Belle Chocolatiere,"
-
-on the back.
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-None other Genuine.
-
-Walter Baker & Co. Ltd.,
-
-DORCHESTER, MASS.
-
-
-
-
-Postage Stamps, &c.
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration]
-
-=STAMPS!= 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. =STANDARD
-STAMP CO., St. Louis, Mo., Established 1885.=
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration]
-
-=ALBUM AND LIST FREE!= Also 100 all diff. Venezuela, Bolivia, etc., only
-10c. Agts. wanted at 50% Com. =C. A. Stegmann=, 5941 Cote Brilliant Ave.,
-St. Louis, Mo.
-
-
-
-
-=SPECIAL EASTER PACKET=, 50 dif. stamps from 25 countries, cat. over $1,
-price 25c. 100 var. fine packet for beginners, 15c. BUCKEYE STAMP CO.,
-115 Sycamore St., Cin., O.
-
-
-
-
-104
-
-all different, Bolivia, &c., 10c. Finest approval sheets at 50%
-discount. Agents wanted. 1897 price-list free. Shaw Stamp & Coin Co.,
-Jackson, Mich.
-
-
-
-
-=FREE!= Sample P'k (250) Stamp Hinges with New Stamp List. DOVER & CO.,
-St. Louis, Mo.
-
-
-
-
-MEFISTO SCARF PIN.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-A brand new joke; Mefisto's bulging eyes, bristling ears and ghastly
-grin invite curiosity every time when worn on scarf or lapel, and it is
-fully satisfied when by pressing the rubber ball concealed in your
-inside pocket you souse your inquiring friend with water. Throws a
-stream 30 feet; hose 16 in. long; 1-1/2 inch ball; handsome
-Silver-oxidized face colored in hard enamel; worth 25c. as a pin and a
-dollar as a joker; sent as a sample of our 300 specialties with 112 page
-catalogue post-paid for ONLY 15c.; 2 for 25c.; $1.40 Doz. AGENTS Wanted.
-
-ROBT. H. INGERSOLL & BRO.,
-
-Dept. No. 62, 65 & 67 Cortlandt Street, New York City.
-
-
-
-
-Hold their place in the front rank of the publications to which they
-belong.
-
-HARPER'S
-
-PERIODICALS
-
-  MAGAZINE, $4.00 a Year
-  WEEKLY, $4.00 a Year
-  BAZAR, $4.00 a Year
-  ROUND TABLE, $2.00 a Year
-
-
-
-
-SOFERTERAMONIGO.
-
-A gentleman stopped to listen to the tune, played on a hand-organ, which
-happened to strike his fancy. When the air was finished, he approached
-the Italian, and asked the name of the music.
-
-"Soferteramonigo!" answered the Italian, showing all his teeth in a
-smile of appreciation at the compliment to his melodies.
-
-The gentleman walked on, and endeavored for many months to obtain the
-piece of music with the unpronounceable name. But he never could find
-it. At last one day he heard it played by an American, and again asked
-the name of the air he admired.
-
-"Oh, that," said the player, "is an old thing--'Silver Threads among the
-Gold!'"
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-IN THE POLO REGIONS.
-
-"I wonder if the little Eskimo boys have any out-of-door games like
-ours?" said Polly.
-
-"Oh, I guess so," replied Jennie. "They have polo-bears up there, you
-know."
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-THE TROUBLE.
-
-"Who ever brought you up, Walter?" demanded his aunt, after some small
-bit of rudeness on his part.
-
-"Never was brought up," said Walter. "I've been being taken down all my
-life."
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-[Illustration]
-
-THE FANCIFUL JAP.
-
-  "The mirror finds all the defects of my face,
-    And in it I'll look all the day
-  To see if it won't with its mystical grace
-    In a little while take them away."
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-A TEN-CENT QUEEN.
-
-Imagine a queen travelling around the world on ten cents! It seems
-preposterous, and yet it is a fact. There is a certain man out West,
-according to the St. Louis _Republic_, who will do this for any one who
-will send him an order, whether it comes from England, China, or any
-other foreign country, and he says:
-
-"I have frequent demands from all parts of the world. You see, I send
-these queens as follows: You will notice that there are two little
-circular compartments in this royal carriage," and he produced a little
-wooden box, "one in which the queen is kept, and the other for her
-suite; the little plug in the centre of the box is solidified, candied
-honey, which will furnish food to the regal party until they arrive at
-their destination.
-
-"The compartments are covered with a fine wire gauze to prevent the
-escape of the insects.
-
-"This large one in the first compartment, the one with the delicately
-shaped long body and beautiful markings, is an Italian queen bee, and
-she is valued at $10. I have queens valued all the way from $2 to $25.
-
-"The others, in the second compartment, are the suite, or worker bees,
-that will accompany her on the trip not only for company, but also for
-the heat they will produce to keep her comfortable on the stormy voyage
-over the great cold seas.
-
-"After we have the bees safely stowed away in their proper compartments,
-we switch the little lid around and fasten it with a tiny screw at the
-ends, and on its top surface the address of the consignee is written,
-the stamp is affixed, and away goes her majesty, a queen sold into
-slavery for the trifling sum of $10, and sent to her destination on a
-ten-cent stamp.
-
-"Bee-culture has grown so rapidly in the United States that there are
-few farmers now who have not a substantial apiary and who do not net a
-handsome income each year from the honey the bees yield, and besides the
-farmer there are thousands of gentlemen and ladies who are apiarists
-purely from the fascination the hobby affords."
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-LIGHTS FOR THE FEET.
-
-Genius has given fashionable folks a new plaything with which to amuse
-themselves. It is in literal obedience to the Biblical injunction
-regarding a lamp unto the feet, for that is exactly where the new light
-is to be worn. The Baltimore _Herald_ says:
-
-"It consists of a tiny lantern with sides of very stout glass, mounted
-upon a stirrup which straddles the foot of the user, a tongue resting on
-the toe of the foot, and acting as part of the support.
-
-"There are several means of furnishing light for this curious lamp.
-Electricity and oil are the most common. The former is likely to be the
-more popular method, as there is no danger of grease leaking out upon
-the shoe.
-
-"A tiny storage battery has been constructed to furnish light. It is
-carried in the pocket, and a flexible wire passes from the battery and
-through the pocket down to the lamp."
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-[Illustration]
-
-"DO YOU KNOW THE LESSON?"
-
-"I GUESS SO."
-
-"WELL, WHAT'S UTOPIA? IS IT A NATION?"
-
-"POSSIBLY; A SORT OF IMAGINARY NATION."
-
-"OH, I SEE; IT'S A NOTION--EH?"
-
-
-
-
-
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-<tr><td align="left"><a href="#A_BOAT_AND_A_BOY">A BOAT AND A BOY.</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left"><a href="#SOME_REMINISCENCES_OF_CHARLES_DICKENS">SOME REMINISCENCES OF CHARLES DICKENS.</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left"><a href="#A_LOYAL_TRAITOR">A LOYAL TRAITOR.</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_PAINTED_DESERT">THE PAINTED DESERT.</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left"><a href="#AN_OBSTINATE_COLLISION">AN OBSTINATE COLLISION.</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left"><a href="#TWO_LEADERS_OF_THE_GREEK_REVOLUTION">TWO LEADERS OF THE GREEK REVOLUTION.</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="#THE_CAMERA_CLUB">THE CAMERA CLUB.</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left"><a href="#STAMPS">STAMPS.</a></td></tr>
-</table></div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_473" id="Page_473">[Pg 473]</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 800px;">
-<img src="images/ill_001.jpg" width="800" height="327" alt="HARPER'S ROUND TABLE" />
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-<p class="center">Copyright, 1897, by <span class="smcap">Harper &amp; Brothers</span>. All Rights Reserved.</p>
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-
-<h2>A BOAT AND A BOY.</h2>
-
-<h3>BY JOHN HABBERTON.</h3>
-
-<p>Some boys, like some men, have greatness thrust upon them. Bruce Marvel
-became one of these boys one day to his own great surprise.</p>
-
-<p>Bruce was a good shot with either rifle or shot-gun; he could pitch,
-catch, or strike a ball as well as any other boy of his age, and he
-could handle a horse better than some men who travel with circuses.
-Still, he had spent most of his life in an inland village where the
-largest body of water was a brook about six feet wide. It stands to
-reason, therefore, as boys are very like men in longing most for what
-is<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_474" id="Page_474">[Pg 474]</a></span> farthest from their reach, that Bruce's consuming desire, in the
-line of sport, was for a sail-boat and for water in which to sail it. He
-studied pictures of sailing-craft, which he found in a pictorial
-dictionary, until he could redraw any of them from memory; he learned
-the names of all the sails of a full-rigged ship, and he delighted in
-sea stories of all kinds, while he longed for the day in which he could
-see broad water and such boats as were moved by wind, and when he could
-sit in a boat and manage the sails and rudder.</p>
-
-<p>Fortune finally seemed to favor him, for in his fifteenth year he was
-invited to spend a month at the sea-shore with an aunt of his mother's.
-As the aunt's family contained no men, it had no boats, so Bruce was
-sadly disappointed. But he was not of the kind that gives up when
-disappointment comes; he spent most of his waking hours in walking the
-beach of the little bay about which the town was built, looking at the
-boats, and scraping acquaintance with boys whose fathers owned boats; he
-kept up his spirits by hoping that in the course of time some one would
-invite him out sailing, and perhaps to take part in the management of a
-craft of some sort, Bruce cared not what, so that it had sails.</p>
-
-<p>But sailing was anything but sport to the boys whom Bruce came to know,
-for most of these boys were fishermen's sons, to whom sailing meant
-hard, every-day work, of which they did not care to do more than was
-absolutely necessary for business purposes.</p>
-
-<p>Yet Bruce learned some things about sailing, thanks to sharp eyes. He
-observed the fishing-boats and other small craft until he learned that
-almost anything that sailed would "go over" very far without capsizing.
-He thought he learned a lot about steering, too, although it puzzled him
-greatly that different vessels would sail in different directions while
-the wind blew from but one point of the compass. He determined to clear
-this mystery for himself, for nothing comes harder to a spirited boy
-than the displaying of ignorance by asking questions about matters which
-every one else seems to understand.</p>
-
-<p>One day he climbed into a fishing-boat which a receding tide had left
-lying upon the sand. The little three-cornered sail in front of the
-mast, which Bruce knew was called a jib, had been left loosely flapping,
-as if to dry, while the owner sought refreshment and company near by. As
-many another man has done before him, the owner remained longer than he
-had intended; meanwhile the tide came up until it floated the vessel, so
-Bruce had rare fun at "trimming in" the jib-sheets, first on one side
-and then on the other, and in seeing the boat strain at her anchor,
-which was a big stone with a long rope attached.</p>
-
-<p>Suddenly the wind began to come from the shore in hard puffs. Bruce
-trimmed in the jib very close, upon which the boat tugged furiously at
-her anchor; but she did the same when the sail was hauled close on the
-other side, so the make-believe sailor eased the sheet until the wind
-was directly abaft. Still the boat continued to strain; the anchor rope
-was old, so finally the friction caused by rubbing against the rail made
-the strands part suddenly; then the boat started for sea "on the wings
-of the wind," as Bruce afterward said.</p>
-
-<p>The boy sprang to the rudder. At last he was really sailing! It was
-through no fault of his, either, as he carefully explained to himself,
-for how could he have known of the rottenness of that rope? He had some
-misgivings, for he was sure that he did not know how to turn the boat
-and sail back again against the wind; still, he was resolved to have a
-little fun before asking assistance from some passing boat. He had been
-in the village and along the shore long enough to know that the offing
-was usually alive with fisher-craft coming in or going out, and he had
-frequently seen boats towed by others; so he had no doubt that he would
-be helped back safely to the beach again.</p>
-
-<p>Within a few moments he learned several facts about sailing; one was
-that by "easing" sheets freely while sailing under a jib alone, the sail
-will dispose itself at almost a right angle to the wind, so there need
-be but little work at the rudder. As to the larger sail, he did not
-trouble his mind about it, for not only was he in doubt as to how to use
-it, but his craft was going quite fast enough with such canvas as she
-was already carrying.</p>
-
-<p>The farther he got from shore the stronger the wind seemed to blow&mdash;a
-condition which did not impress him favorably, for he was soon out of
-the bay and upon the ocean, and although the water was not rough, the
-sea appeared to be very large, and the few boats in sight were far from
-him; and when he tried to steer toward some of them, his own boat
-behaved quite provokingly, as any boat will when asked to change her
-course much while the only sail she carries is a jib.</p>
-
-<p>Still, the experience as a whole was great fun, and whenever Bruce felt
-a little scare creeping through him, he rallied himself by singing a
-selection from "A Life on the Ocean Wave," beginning,</p>
-
-<p>
-<span style="margin-left: 21em;">We shoot through the ocean foam</span><br />
-<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Like an ocean bird set free.</span><br />
-</p>
-
-<p>But the wind continued to increase in strength, and to come in hard
-puffs, which Bruce had heard were dangerous. How was the boy to get back
-to shore? He began to recall some sea stories, which did not now seem as
-interesting as when he first read them&mdash;stories of boys who had drifted
-out to sea and never been heard of afterward. It does not require many
-such memories to make a wind-driven boy fearful of what is to come; a
-man would feel quite as uncomfortable in similar circumstances&mdash;being
-driven out to sea, in the latter part of the afternoon, with no sign of
-rescue in sight, and he in a boat which he did not know how to manage.</p>
-
-<p>After some hard sailing Bruce determined to let down the jib if it would
-consent to fall, turn the boat's head toward shore with an oar that lay
-in the bottom, and then paddle back to the bay; fortunately he had
-learned paddling on the brook in his native village. Whether he could
-force the boat against such a wind he did not know, but he had strong
-arms; besides, the tide certainly would help him, for it was setting
-shoreward, otherwise it would not have lifted the boat from the beach an
-hour or two before. He succeeded in getting down the jib, although it
-hung loosely and caught much wind. He found paddling, in the
-circumstances, much harder than propelling a narrow raft on the still
-water of a brook; although the sea was not exactly rough, the deck was a
-very unsteady platform for his feet, and the wind caused the craft to
-wildly change direction from time to time; once the rail bore so heavily
-upon the oar that Bruce had to choose between letting go or going
-overboard, so of course he let go, and a moment later the boat was again
-hurrying seaward.</p>
-
-<p>"This," said Bruce, as he went gloomily aft and took the tiller, "must
-be what the stories mean when they tell about scudding under bare poles.
-There can't be any doubt about it, although I greatly wish there could."</p>
-
-<p>Up to this time the wind had been freshening Bruce's appetite, but now
-the boy would have promised to fast a week for the certainty of getting
-ashore. The sun was steadily declining; not a sail was in sight on the
-course over which he was drifting. Steamers and other vessels
-occasionally went up and down the shore, in plain sight of the bay, but
-what chance was there of his sighting one of them before dark; and what
-pitiful stories he had read of shipwrecked men whose signals had been
-unseen or disregarded.</p>
-
-<p>Suddenly he saw, a mile or two out to sea, and in the course he was
-sailing, something which appeared to be a row-boat containing men who
-were waving hats and handkerchiefs.</p>
-
-<p>"Hurrah!" shouted Bruce. "They want to get back without rowing. Perhaps
-some of them will know how to manage this contrary craft. I hope they
-will have sense enough to row towards me, for if I steer a bit wrong
-nothing can keep me from running out to sea and missing them."</p>
-
-<p>He quickly got the jib up, so as to sail faster; he knew he could get it
-down again should he find himself in danger of passing the other boat.
-Under canvas, Bruce got over the water rapidly, but to his surprise and
-consternation the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_475" id="Page_475">[Pg 475]</a></span> men did not attempt to row toward him. Suddenly he
-exclaimed.</p>
-
-<p>"That isn't a row-boat! It is bigger, and of a different shape. It's a
-sail-boat, and on its side, and the men are sitting on the edge of the
-hull.' They're wrecked! I wonder why their boat doesn't go over
-entirely? Oh, I see!&mdash;the mast and sail are lying on the water, and
-keeping it on its edge. Oh, if I were a good sailor! See the poor
-fellows signalling to me! I suppose they're wild with excitement and
-fear, although they can't be more so than I."</p>
-
-<p>In the next few moments Bruce steered very carefully; he also did some
-earnest thinking. How should he stop his own boat entirely when he came
-abreast of the wreck? He knew of no way but that of letting down the
-jib, which had not worked very successfully when already tried, for the
-mast and hull had caught the wind with alarming success. Should he shout
-to the men, explain his ignorance, and ask what he should do? If one of
-the men would swim out to him when he neared them, and take charge of
-his boat, Bruce did not doubt that all would go well; so he assured
-himself that no false pride should prevent him confessing that he knew
-nothing about sailing, should he fail to lay his craft alongside of the
-wreck.</p>
-
-<p>Meanwhile his boat kept exactly the proper course. The shipwrecked men
-began to shout, but the wind was against them, so Bruce could not
-distinguish a word. He hoped that they were hailing him as their
-deliverer; he also hoped that they would be able to deliver him from the
-worst trouble in which he had ever found himself. The shouting
-continued, but Bruce was now too near to pay attention to anything but
-the tiller, which had seemed to become a thing of life and intelligence.
-When he got within about a hundred feet of the wreck he heard:</p>
-
-<p>"Isn't it time to drop your jib? And throw us a line, if you please."</p>
-
-<p>Bruce quickly let go the jib-halyard, but in his excitement he forgot to
-ease the sheet, so the sail declined to fall; the wind kept it in place.
-A few seconds later the young amateur was thrown from his feet by the
-shock of his boat striking and breaking the mast of the capsized boat.
-The force of the collision tumbled the three shipwrecked men into the
-water; but they quickly scrambled out, and one of them shouted,</p>
-
-<p>"Hurrah! Now throw us a line, before we drift apart."</p>
-
-<p>Bruce responded by tossing a coil of the main-sheet, and begging the man
-who caught it to keep tight hold of it.</p>
-
-<p>"Count upon us for that, young man," was the reply. "We know our last
-chance when we see it, and we aren't going to let go of it."</p>
-
-<p>In a moment the line was made fast to a cleat just under the rail of the
-wrecked boat, while Bruce said,</p>
-
-<p>"I'm very sorry that I broke your mast, but my jib wouldn't come down."</p>
-
-<p>"Don't mention it, young man, don't mention it! 'Twas the best thing you
-could have done for us, next to coming out to our rescue, for otherwise
-we never could have got our boat righted. Of course we couldn't get the
-hull on its bottom again without unshipping the mast&mdash;a job we've been
-attempting ever since we went over. Although we've cut all the stays,
-the mast sticks in its step as if it was fastened there or at the deck.
-We'd have cut the mast ourselves if we'd had anything to do it with, and
-risked getting back with the oars, which we've kept lashed."</p>
-
-<p>"Let's clear away now," said another. "It's going to take a lot of time
-to right the hull, and get the water out, and get the wreckage aboard,
-so we'll have as little as possible to pay for. We'll have to get our
-young friend to tow us in, if he will, and 'twill be slow work, beating
-all the way."</p>
-
-<p>"Let me help you all I can," Bruce replied, "for you will have to help
-me get my own boat back to the bay."</p>
-
-<p>"I should think so," said one of the men, as he hauled Bruce's boat
-close and sprang into it. "'Twas right enough to run out under a jib,
-but of course you can't get back that way, and no one man can handle
-main-sheet and tiller in a breeze like this. Now, boys, I'll get up sail
-on our friend's boat, and see if we can't get some help from it in
-righting our own. It will be troublesome work, for our ballast
-shifted&mdash;the wrong way, of course&mdash;as we went over."</p>
-
-<p>"Suppose," Bruce suggested quickly, "that two of you come aboard, if
-you're used to working together in a boat? I don't know much about
-righting capsized hulls."</p>
-
-<p>"Eh? Well, probably not. You every-day sailors on the coast here aren't
-stupid enough to let a boat go over, as we amateurs did when a hard puff
-came to-day. We pass for pretty good sailors, too, in our yacht club at
-home. Here, Grayden, come aboard. I'll take the tiller, you take the
-main-sheet, and if our young friend will 'tend jib&mdash;"</p>
-
-<p>"Good!" interrupted Bruce, while a great sense of relief came to him. He
-felt well acquainted with that jib.</p>
-
-<p>The mainsail, in which there already was a reef, was hoisted, the
-main-sheet of the wrecked boat was taken aboard as a hawser, and after
-much shouting and tacking and jerking the capsized hull was righted.
-Then sail was dropped on Bruce's boat, the wreck was hauled alongside,
-and the three men bailed out the water with their hats, adjusted the
-ballast, and dragged the wreckage aboard and stored it. One man was left
-on the hull to steer, a tow-line was put out, sail was made once more on
-Bruce's boat, and the party started for the bay. When fairly on the
-proper course the man who had seemed to take the lead in every thing
-said to Bruce:</p>
-
-<p>"My young friend, we've been working and worrying so hard that I'm
-afraid we've forgotten our manners, but I want to assure you that we're
-the most grateful men in this part of the world to-night, unless three
-others have been rescued from drowning. Eh, boys?"</p>
-
-<p>"Yes, indeed," replied one. "I think, too, for a chap as young as our
-friend to dash out to sea in such a breeze to save some men whom he
-never saw before was a remarkably plucky deed. I'm proud to know you, my
-friend, and I'd like to do something great to prove it."</p>
-
-<p>"So would I," said another.</p>
-
-<p>"You're very kind," Bruce replied, "and you may begin at once, if you
-like. You would be doing a great thing for me if you would teach me
-something about sailing."</p>
-
-<p>"Wha&mdash;a&mdash;a&mdash;at?" drawled one, while the other opened his eyes very wide.
-"Why&mdash;you came out in splendid style."</p>
-
-<p>"I'm glad of it, but, really, I couldn't help it; the wind did it all. I
-never before was out in a boat with a sail on it; I wouldn't have been
-out this time if the anchor rope hadn't broken while I sat in the boat
-playing with the jib."</p>
-
-<p>"Whew! And through that accident you've saved our lives!"</p>
-
-<p>"And you've saved mine. Still, won't you please try and teach me
-something about sailing&mdash;right now, while we're at it?"</p>
-
-<p>Two teachers took the boy in hand at once; they made many short tacks,
-with Bruce at the tiller, to show how to "put about"; they explained how
-the force of a sudden puff could be lessened by quickly heading a little
-toward the wind, taught him much more about the management of the jib
-than he had yet learned for himself, and had him observe the different
-ways in which the mainsail was treated on differing courses. The lessons
-continued until they reached the bay, where a new anchor rope was
-purchased for the rescuing craft, whose owner, also, had to be reasoned
-with and otherwise pacified.</p>
-
-<p>The next day two of the party returned to the city from which they had
-come for a day's fishing, but one remained, hired a smaller boat, and
-spent half a week afloat with Bruce, doing all in his power to make a
-confident yet cautious sailor of the boy. In the mean time there came
-out from the city some newspapers, in each of which was a marked article
-telling how a brave youth named Bruce Marvel had, at great peril to
-himself, saved three men from death by drowning. There also came to
-Bruce a little gold watch, suitably inscribed; and when the boy finally
-returned to his home, the newspapers and the watch made him the most
-noted person in his county, and his honest admission that he really knew
-next to nothing about sailing boats when he ran out to sea increased his
-fame immensely.</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_476" id="Page_476">[Pg 476]</a></span></p>
-
-<h2><a name="SOME_REMINISCENCES_OF_CHARLES_DICKENS" id="SOME_REMINISCENCES_OF_CHARLES_DICKENS">SOME REMINISCENCES OF CHARLES DICKENS.</a></h2>
-
-<h3>BY HENRY AUGUSTUS ABRAHAM.</h3>
-
-<div class="figleft" style="width: 135px;">
-<img src="images/ill_003.jpg" width="135" height="200" alt="Drop Cap T" />
-</div>
-
-<p>he recent death of Mr. Charles Dickens, the eldest son of the great
-author, reminds a schoolfellow of the former, who enjoyed for many years
-the friendship of the family, of a few circumstances connected with the
-author of the <i>Pickwick Papers</i> that, never having found their way to
-paper, may not be without interest at this moment.</p>
-
-<p>It was due probably to Dickens's great regard for the actor Macready
-that he selected Dr. King's preparatory school for his son. Macready,
-who lived not far from King's, and who had heard of his great success as
-a teacher of the classics, informed Dickens of his intention to send his
-two boys to the school, and Dickens at once decided to place Charlie, as
-his son was always called, at the same institution.</p>
-
-<p>King's was situated near the famous Lords cricket-ground on Maida Hill.
-When Douglas Jerrold heard of this he was anxious to know what made her
-ill, and trusted that Charlie would be all right.</p>
-
-<p>What Dickens replied "deponent saith not," but at a later date he
-remarked that his boy was in pretty royal company.</p>
-
-<p>It was here that the schoolfellow and his fortunate companions first set
-eyes on Charles Dickens. Charlie, quite unconscious of the flutter that
-he would create in the breasts of his schoolmates, quietly informed them
-that his father would visit the school on a certain day. Until that
-auspicious time the <i>Pickwick Papers</i> became more bethumbed than ever.
-The writer was on the tiptoe of expectation and not a little nervous.
-What liberties are taken with the names of the great! "Dickens is
-coming!" If Jones the lawyer were expected, or Pills the apothecary, it
-would have been: "Mr. Jones is coming; Mr. Pills will visit his son."</p>
-
-<p>When Dickens did come it was with a rush. He lovingly embraced his boy,
-shook the hands of the fortunate lads who were introduced as Charlie's
-particular chums, slipped some money into his son's hand, and was off,
-without the almost inevitable allusion to the <i>pons asinorum</i> or the
-<i>hic, haec, hoc</i>, those <i>bêtes noire</i> of a schoolboy's existence.</p>
-
-<p>But it was while he was talking to Dr. King that an opportunity was
-given to study Dickens from a boy's point of view. He was then
-considerably under forty, but looked&mdash;to the boy, remember&mdash;a
-comparatively old man. What was young in him were his hair and eyes.
-There were not many wrinkles visible, but lines of thought and care
-marked features that in repose were deceiving in their sternness. As to
-his dress, the writer has since thought that, while it might have been
-quite untidy and loud for a butterman's best, it suited Dickens's rapid
-motions and easy gait. It would be hard to imagine Dickens in prim
-attire. Such apparel would have been out of place.</p>
-
-<p>It was while summering at Broadstairs, a quiet watering-place on the
-Kentish coast, that the writer had perhaps the best opportunity to study
-Dickens's characteristics&mdash;the most notable of which most certainly was
-his love for children. Apparently adoring his own, he still had room in
-his great heart for other people's darlings. Had it been more generally
-known that for several seasons Dickens made Broadstairs his
-abiding-place, that pretty little sea-side resort would have been
-crowded with visitors. As it was, several of his intimate friends, among
-them the artists Stone and Egg, made Broadstairs their summer home.</p>
-
-<p>Those twenty-mile rambles, so frequently alluded to, would alone have
-made Dickens interesting to younger people, who were continually
-arranging to meet the author and his frequent companion, Miss Hogarth,
-on the cliffs or sands between Pegwalt Bay and Margate.</p>
-
-<p>Once Dickens came to the rescue of some children who had been overtaken
-by the tide. Miss Hogarth and the writer were of the party. Dickens
-summoned donkey-boys from Margate and sent the youngsters home at a
-gallop. They arrived just as the tide was washing the white cliffs.</p>
-
-<p>Only once in several years did the writer hear Charles Dickens's voice
-in angry tones. This was the occasion, and it was indelibly impressed on
-his memory:</p>
-
-<p>"Mamie" (Miss Mary Dickens) and "Katie" (Catharine, named after her
-mother, whom Dickens always addressed as Kate) were very pretty and
-interesting girls; indeed, they were the little belles of Broadstairs.
-They frequently had juvenile tea parties at "Bleak House," as Dickens's
-Broadstairs home was called. It was situated on a high bluff, and stood
-alone&mdash;a very picturesque but mournful and deserted-looking building, as
-peculiar in its style as the author's house in Devonshire Terrace,
-London. Dickens's library had a seaward and an inland view. He was then
-writing <i>Dombey and Son</i>, and he had told Miss Hogarth that he must not
-be disturbed. But notwithstanding this injunction, the tea party, rather
-formidable in numbers, tired of cake and bread and butter, scoured the
-house and turned it into a Bedlam, gentle Mamie, however, protesting.</p>
-
-<div class="figright" style="width: 248px;">
-<img src="images/ill_004.jpg" width="248" height="250" alt="" />
-<span class="caption">BLEAK HOUSE, BROADSTAIRS.<br /><br />
-(From an old print.)</span>
-</div>
-
-<p>At a moment when Dickens was evidently very much engrossed, the
-children, with a wild rush, broke in on his quietude. The writer,
-wittingly, or perhaps impelled by force of numbers, found himself within
-a few feet of the desk where Dickens was writing, and was very much
-alarmed as Dickens looked angrily on the crowd. But he loved children
-too well to be angry with them long. Rising from his seat, the frown
-melting into the smile that always endeared him to young people, he
-spread his arms and simply shooed us from the room, like the geese that
-we were, and bade us seek Miss Hogarth, who never seemed to tire of
-entertaining her niece's guests. But on this occasion the abashed
-marauders, deeming "discretion" to be "the better part of valor," crept
-into the garden, where Charlie was engaged in the innocent though
-perhaps dangerous pastime of gathering some very dubious-looking plums
-from a tree that had seen better days. Miss Hogarth, having doubtless
-been interviewed by Dickens, led the young people to understand, later
-in the day, that strangers would not be admitted to Bleak House until
-further notice, thus practically breaking up the tea parties. We
-subsequently learned that Dickens had frequently been disturbed, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_477" id="Page_477">[Pg 477]</a></span> it
-was necessary that silence should reign for a season.</p>
-
-<p>Very little has been written, if indeed anything, of this interesting
-summer home of the noted author&mdash;Bleak House. It was surrounded by high
-and gloomy brick walls that gave the old place a dreary and forbidding
-appearance. Its very quaintness moved Dickens to make it his temporary
-abiding-place. It may have been interesting, but it seemed to the good
-people of Broadstairs, as they looked on the most exposed spot in all
-the little place, that only courageous hearts could live at Bleak House.
-And during a frightful storm, that sunk fishing-smacks and damaged the
-coast, devastating the esplanade and destroying not a few farm-houses,
-the frightened residents at morning's dawn looked with pale faces in the
-direction of Bleak House, almost expecting to find it in ruins. But in
-spite of its exposed position, the house bravely withstood the gale,
-although chimney-pots and trees were blown down. The family was
-naturally alarmed, and betook themselves to apartments adjoining the
-library on the esplanade. The library and assembly-rooms were the public
-resort of Broadstairs's quality. But Dickens was rarely if ever seen at
-the gatherings.</p>
-
-<p>Dickens remarked a few days later to the writer's father that the gale
-had been an alarming and thrilling experience.</p>
-
-<div class="figleft" style="width: 400px;">
-<img src="images/ill_005.jpg" width="400" height="289" alt="" />
-<span class="caption">DICKENS'S HOUSE IN DEVONSHIRE TERRACE, LONDON.<br /><br />
-(From an old print.)</span>
-</div>
-
-<p>Soon after the meeting at Dr. King's school Charlie's schoolfellow
-visited the family in Devonshire Terrace, just off the New Road. <i>David
-Copperfield</i> was then the book of the hour, and because it had been
-suggested that the author had his own boyhood in mind while writing the
-novel, Dickens was more of a lion than ever to the juvenile mind.
-Charlie devoured the pages of the book with avidity. Indeed, all the
-novelist's children were charmingly appreciative of their father's
-writings&mdash;a flattering incentive to Dickens, no doubt.</p>
-
-<p>At the moment of this visit, his own little darlings, as well as some
-others, were crawling all over him, reminding one of Gulliver in the
-toils. But he at once turned to the somewhat bashful visitor, and, in
-renewing the acquaintance, with delightful tact made the schoolboy feel
-that he was not <i>de trop</i>.</p>
-
-<p>It was at the juvenile birthday parties that Dickens seemed in all his
-glory. At the supper table, in helping some little miss to "trifle," he
-would assure her with all possible gravity that it was no trifle at all.
-When the writer, urged to make a little speech on the occasion of
-Charlie's birthday, came to a full stop at the words "I am sure,"
-Dickens at once came to his assistance, and enabled him to retire from
-the platform, however ungracefully, with the remark, among others,
-"Always be sure, my dear boy, and you'll get along all right."</p>
-
-<p>At the little theatrical entertainments Dickens was the alpha and the
-omega of the proceedings. He was sometimes author, adapter, condenser,
-musical director, manager, prompter, and even stage carpenter. He
-overflowed with energy.</p>
-
-<p>Dickens, doubtless remembering his own acute sensitiveness as a child,
-could not wittingly wound a child's feelings. He made fun <i>with</i>, not
-<i>of</i> us. No party ever came off at Dickens's without "Sir Roger de
-Coverley" being introduced. Dickens shouted with laughter as some novice
-got badly mixed up in "all hands down the middle." Off he darted after
-the lost sheep&mdash;generally an awkward boy&mdash;and turned his blushes to
-smiles by saying, "What a dancer this boy will make when he's tackled a
-little more roast beef!" or, "Isn't Tommy a nice young man for a small
-party?"</p>
-
-<p>There was nothing of the pedagogue about him. No vulgar attempt to pose
-as the brilliant "Boz." He was simply a big boy, and he came down the
-ladder of his fame to meet his fellows on their ordinary platform&mdash;to be
-one of them in their own simple way for a time.</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-<h2><a name="A_LOYAL_TRAITOR" id="A_LOYAL_TRAITOR"></a>A LOYAL TRAITOR.<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a></h2>
-
-<h4>A STORY OF THE WAR OF 1812 BETWEEN AMERICA AND ENGLAND.</h4>
-
-<h3>BY JAMES BARNES.</h3>
-
-<h3>CHAPTER XXI.</h3>
-
-<h3>TAKING A PRIZE.</h3>
-
-<div class="figleft" style="width: 200px;">
-<img src="images/ill_006.jpg" width="200" height="200" alt="Drop Cap I" />
-</div>
-
-<p>had found a little box, that had just room enough for a bunk and a
-narrow cupboard, at the foot of the forecastle ladder, and this I took
-possession of, as, of course, it would not do for me to mess or bunk in
-with the crew. There was a fine ten-knot breeze blowing when I was
-awakened the next morning, and the little cutter was dipping into the
-waves gracefully like a Mother Cary's chicken. Every one was in high
-spirits. All idea of my being a Jonah had faded from the minds of the
-crew. Yet I was filled with a huge disappointment. A bitter, miserable
-sensation had firm hold of me. I saw what an injudicious and, mayhap, an
-unkind thing I had done, and regretted that I had not been more
-strenuous in my efforts to keep Mr. Middleton from carrying out his
-intentions of leaving the <i>Cæsar</i>; but I believe that if I should have
-urged strongly against it, the cruise of the <i>Bat</i> would have ended
-there and then.</p>
-
-<p>At eight bells in the morning watch I saw Mr. Middleton come on deck. I
-noted that he held his wig on with one hand as he approached. I lifted
-my hat and bowed politely.</p>
-
-<p>"A word with you," began the old gentleman. "It is evident that you
-never had any intention of touching at Dublin."</p>
-
-<p>"That, sir," I returned, "is the truth; I never had. Would you suppose
-it possible for an American crew to sail<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_478" id="Page_478">[Pg 478]</a></span> into a hostile harbor in a
-captured vessel and get out again?"</p>
-
-<p>"You played the joke well on the Englishmen," he said.</p>
-
-<p>"Yes; but they were Englishmen," I answered. "The Irish might be
-quicker-witted."</p>
-
-<p>I knew that he was an Irishman, for he had a genteel touch of the
-brogue.</p>
-
-<p>"Look here, my young sir," he rejoined; "I am a wealthy man, and my word
-is as good as a written and sworn-to bond. If you will land me on the
-coast of Ireland, anywhere, I will give you a thousand pounds."</p>
-
-<p>"No money could tempt me," I replied, "to place the freedom of my crew
-in jeopardy; but this I have determined; if I meet a vessel bound for
-Europe, and can do so without risk, I intend to place you and your
-granddaughter Mistress Tanner on board of her. More than this it is
-beyond my power to do."</p>
-
-<p>"You just spoke Miss Tanner's name," said the old man, looking at me
-fiercely; "and when we came on board, your forwardness in speaking was
-most noticeable. I pray you, do you claim acquaintance?"</p>
-
-<p>"Sir," I returned, "it is as the lady says."</p>
-
-<p>"She says you are a stranger to her," answered the old man, grimly.</p>
-
-<p>"So be it," I replied, and turned upon my heel.</p>
-
-<p>I did not see anything of Mary that day, but late in the evening she and
-her grandfather came on deck, and, arm in arm, walked up and down the
-weather side of the quarter-deck, I giving over to them, and pacing up
-and down the opposite side of the mainsail; but my heart was big to
-bursting, and I was tempted again and again to step around the mast, and
-standing there face to face with the girl that had given me the rose,
-demand an explanation. Oh, woman! who can account for your strange
-actions or analyze the motives of your inconsistencies?</p>
-
-<p>As they went below, I happened to be standing so close that my presence
-could not be ignored, nor could I, without seeming rudeness, avoid
-speaking.</p>
-
-<p>"I hope you and the young lady are quite comfortable, Mr. Middleton," I
-said, bowing. "If there is anything in my power I can do to add to your
-comfort, I pray you to command me."</p>
-
-<p>Purposely I avoided looking at Mary as I spoke, and yet I was conscious
-that her eyes were full upon my face. She stood a little apart from her
-grandfather, and her little foot was tapping the deck impatiently. Mr.
-Middleton acknowledged my salutation, and replied with a certain
-peevishness that is shared by the very old or the very young.</p>
-
-<p>"The only thing that you can do is to redeem your promise, and set us on
-some vessel bound for Great Britain," he returned.</p>
-
-<p>"I shall endeavor thus to redeem myself," I said. And then the two went
-below, leaving me leaning back against the boom with a leaden heart.</p>
-
-<p>We were carrying a great square topsail, and kicking up a great smother
-forward that showed that we were travelling well. The man at the tiller
-was humming softly to himself, the crew were lolling forward, when I saw
-my First Lieutenant approach. I noticed from his expression that he
-wished to speak to me.</p>
-
-<p>"Well, Mr. Chips," said I, "and what is it?"</p>
-
-<p>"I beg your pardon, sir," he returned, "but hadn't you better take a
-squint at the sun and see where we are? It's near high noon."</p>
-
-<p>I was in a quandary, for, as I have stated previously, I knew nothing of
-navigation&mdash;that is, the science of it.</p>
-
-<p>"Well, Mr. Chips," I said, "do you suppose I don't know where I am?"</p>
-
-<p>"The sextant is in the cabin, sir. But there is another thing," he
-added, touching his cap. "Would you mind calling me by my real name?"</p>
-
-<p>"Why, isn't it Chips?" I exclaimed in surprise, not knowing that this
-was the nickname applied to every carpenter afloat.</p>
-
-<p>"My name is Philemon Cutterwaite," he answered, quietly.</p>
-
-<p>As of course I had no intention to hurt his feelings, I repressed a
-smile, merely saying, "Very good, Mr. Cutterwaite; I shall endeavor to
-remember it."</p>
-
-<p>"Thank you, sir," was the reply. "Shall I get the instruments and take
-the time?"</p>
-
-<p>As he spoke he stepped to the head of the companion-ladder and knocked.
-I could think of no excuse for the moment for detaining him, and taking
-my silence for consent, he obeyed the answer from below to enter, and
-disappeared. But in an instant he came on deck.</p>
-
-<p>"Captain Hurdiss," he said, "the chronometer has stopped. We must have
-forgotten to wind it, sir&mdash;bad fortune!"</p>
-
-<p>"Then there is no sight for to-day," I said, much relieved.</p>
-
-<p>"I suppose not," was the grumbling answer. And then the good fellow went
-below.</p>
-
-<p>I messed alone, either on deck or in my box of a cabin; and I had just
-finished my evening meal when one of the crew who had been aloft came
-down to the forecastle and reported that there was a sail in sight to
-the westward. When I came on deck I could just make out a faint spot
-against the sunset sky, but what course the vessel was holding I could
-not make out even with the aid of a glass. It was dead calm, and the
-<i>Bat</i> rolled lazily about, fetching up with a jerk of her heavy boom
-that would send an echolike sound rolling up the great mainsail.</p>
-
-<p>In my absence Mr. Cutterwaite, as I shall call him hereafter, had given
-some orders, and I saw that some of the crew were making ready to get
-rolling tackle on her, as a preventive of the danger of carrying
-anything away by the slapping and romping of the vessel. The sea that
-was running must have been the aftermath, so to speak, of a heavy blow,
-for it rolled from the southward, smooth and round, with not a ripple on
-the crest or a dimple to be seen on the sides of the waves.</p>
-
-<p>The sun was going down behind a streaky line of clouds that crossed the
-western sky in such a peculiar manner that, as they caught the red
-sunset color, the whole west resembled nothing so much as a great
-American flag. Even the stars were there, shining in the blue field. I
-was standing looking at it in admiration, when I turned suddenly and saw
-that Mary Tanner had come on deck, and was regarding the sight with
-wide-open eyes. Probably she had not seen me, but I determined to speak
-to her, and so came closer.</p>
-
-<p>"It is our flag yonder," I said, pointing.</p>
-
-<p>She gave a little frown, as if I had interrupted some pleasant thought.</p>
-
-<p>"I see it," she answered, turning her head half away; and with this she
-descended to the cabin again.</p>
-
-<p>Such a starlit night as this was I can never recollect seeing. The calm
-continued, and as it was warm I brought up a blanket to lie on, and
-determined to pass the night on deck. As I lay there watching the
-topmast sway to and fro against the besprinkled heavens, I fell into
-wondering what was going to become of me&mdash;what should I do when I
-returned to America. I could not imagine; and it seemed to me that it
-was impossible that Mary Tanner, whom I had grown to think of as the one
-person in the world who might be interested in my life (ah, the beloved
-picture of her waiting for me!) was here within sound of my voice; here
-in my keeping, as it were; and yet affairs were sadly different from
-what I had hoped or supposed they would be.</p>
-
-<p>I was lying with my head almost on the edge of the hatch combing, when I
-thought I heard the sound of something like a sigh or a long-drawn
-breath. I raised myself on my elbow, and there she was standing not
-three feet from me. I could have placed my hand over hers if I had so
-chosen.</p>
-
-<p>"Mary," I said, softly. She gave a little gasp and turned.</p>
-
-<p>"Pray do not go until you have heard a few words that I wish to say," I
-went on, leaning forward. "If my speaking to you is disagreeable, I
-shall not repeat the offence a second time. Listen! I had not thought to
-carry you away, but I had hoped some day to find you. In prison I
-thought of this, and as a free man the hope has been before<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_479" id="Page_479">[Pg 479]</a></span> my eyes.
-Now there is nothing left. I have naught to offer you, but some day
-there may come a time when I can do so." I was urged to speak thus by I
-know not what. "You think that I am but a common sailor. I am&mdash;"</p>
-
-<p>"Oh, pray do not explain further, Monsieur le Marquis," she interrupted.
-"I suppose that you were going on to speak of your estates and titles."</p>
-
-<p>I started.</p>
-
-<p>"What do you mean?" I said. "What do you know, anyhow?"</p>
-
-<p>"Only what Gaston informed every one in Stonington," she said. "Poor
-loon! they would have put him in the mad-house. But you were going on to
-say, you are&mdash;"</p>
-
-<p>"A plain American seaman," I returned, "who would give his life to serve
-you."</p>
-
-<p>I had risen to my feet and stood there looking at her. I thought for a
-moment that her look had softened as I spoke, but just then Mr.
-Middleton's voice interrupted us from the cabin.</p>
-
-<p>"Mary, child," he called, "where are you?"</p>
-
-<p>"I am here," she answered, and she jumped below, almost into the
-frightened old man's arms. I clinched my teeth, and there was no sleep
-for me that night.</p>
-
-<p>In the early morning hours it clouded a little, and an intermittent
-breeze blew up from the south. At daybreak we discovered the sail that
-had been sighted the evening before, about three miles distant, bearing
-a few points off our weather bow. She was a small ship, and at the first
-glance at her Mr. Cutterwaite pronounced her English. We changed our
-course, and at the same moment the vessel did hers also, and when about
-a mile distant she broke out her flag.</p>
-
-<p>"A Portuguese, by David!" exclaimed Dugan.</p>
-
-<p>"We'd better try the British Jack, sir," suggested the carpenter.</p>
-
-<p>I acquiesced, and soon the <i>Bat</i>'s natural colors were flying over us.
-Instantly down went the Portuguese emblem, and up went that of England.
-The ship had come up into the wind, and was waiting for us with her
-maintop-sail aback and her foresheets fluttering. Suddenly I noticed
-that she had dropped four ports, and through the glass I noticed one of
-the guns run in and the toss of a sponge handle. Instantly the risk we
-were running crossed my mind.</p>
-
-<p>"Stand by to cast loose and provide those guns," I said, holding the
-<i>Bat</i> up a few points so as to lessen our speed. "Arm all hands," I
-added.</p>
-
-<p>We were a fair bit less than one-third the size of the vessel we were
-nearing, and I saw that the men cast rather furtive glances at her as
-they set about obeying orders.</p>
-
-<p>"Men," I said, "we do not intend to fight that vessel. I just wish to
-speak to her; but be ready."</p>
-
-<p>"If fight we must, why, fight we will," said Dugan, with a grin.</p>
-
-<p>I called down into the cabin.</p>
-
-<p>"Mr. Middleton," I said, "you can get your baggage, sir. I judge we will
-soon part company."</p>
-
-<p>In ten minutes we were almost within hailing distance, and the old
-gentleman came on deck, followed immediately by Mary. Her eyes were red,
-as if she had been weeping. It required all the strength of will I had
-to keep my lip from quivering as I raised my hat and wished her a polite
-good-morning. There was a strange wistful glance that I could not fathom
-that she threw at me, and then she turned her head aside. I had donned
-the uniform of my unknown namesake, and leaning against the lee shrouds,
-I raised my voice and hallooed,</p>
-
-<p>"What ship is that?"</p>
-
-<p>"The <i>Lord Lennox</i>, from Quebec to Liverpool. What cutter is that?"</p>
-
-<p>"His Majesty's sloop <i>Bat</i>, from Dublin to Quebec," I answered.</p>
-
-<p>"What do you want of us?" was the inquiry of a short thick-set man in a
-beaver hat, who had mounted the rail.</p>
-
-<p>"Can you take two passengers back with you to England?" I replied.</p>
-
-<p>The man on the rail turned as if he were speaking to some one behind
-him, and giving no answer to this, jumped down out of sight.</p>
-
-<p>"Look out for treachery," cried the carpenter, suddenly. And no sooner
-had he spoken than the forward gun, an 18-pound carronade, roared out,
-and the shot plumped through our mainsail.</p>
-
-<p>"Below with you," I cried, dodging under the boom, and hastening Mr.
-Middleton toward the cabin with a push. "Below for your dear life," I
-cried to Mary as she followed him.</p>
-
-<p>Without orders one of my men had fired the forward 6-pounder into the
-hull of the ship, and seeing that our only hope was to get so close that
-they could not depress their guns enough to hit us, I jammed down the
-tiller, and we shot up close under the vessel's side. Her three other
-guns were discharged over our heads, and away went our topmast, and the
-tip of our gaff with the colors on it. So close were we that a burning
-wad fell on our deck. The other 6-pounder was discharged, and ripped a
-great hole in the ship but a few feet above the water-line. And now we
-were in for it! With a slight jar we grazed along the ship's side, and
-the wounded gaff tangled, in her fore-shrouds.</p>
-
-<p>"There's nothing for it but to board," I cried.</p>
-
-<p>"Boarders away for the spar-deck!" roared Dugan, as he sprang for the
-chains, followed by all hands in a wild scramble.</p>
-
-<p>Perhaps the cheer that we gave sounded as if there were many more of us.
-I saw Dugan's pistol flash as he threw his leg over the bulwark
-overhead. It was answered by a volley, and the poor fellow with a cry
-fell back into the arms of the next man below him. By almost pushing
-those ahead of me out of the way, I had managed to be among the
-foremost. Somebody gave me a leg up from behind, and I shot over the
-ship's rail on to the forecastle. But I was not alone. To a man the crew
-of the <i>Bat</i> were with me, and there before us, gathered in the waist,
-were a score or more of seamen who were scrambling forward to meet our
-onslaught. They outnumbered us, but we were better armed, and (if I say
-it, who should not) we were better fighters. I had felt a sharp twinge
-of pain go through my left shoulder when I had fallen forward, but,
-getting to my feet, I was soon in the midst of the cutting, shouting,
-and firing.</p>
-
-<p>Before me stood a thick-set middle-aged man, who hurled a smoking pistol
-full at me. It grazed my head as I dodged, and my cutlass rang against
-the weapon he carried in his right hand, an old Scottish claymore with a
-basket hilt, and a blade some three inches longer than my own. With an
-oath he made a slash at me that would have brought me to my knees had I
-not turned it. At the same time, with a sidewise stroke I reached him
-beneath the armpit, and almost lifted the limb from his body. He fell
-backward with a howl. I had but noticed this when from the side some one
-caught me a clip over the head that severed my cocked hat like a pumpkin
-and sent my senses flying. I stumbled, for I could not for the life of
-me keep my feet, and down I went.</p>
-
-<p>When I came to I was first conscious of a tremendous throbbing in my
-temples, and opening my eyes I saw that I was below in the little cabin
-with the miniatures on the bulkheads. It was but a glimpse of
-consciousness I had, but in that glimpse I felt a soothing touch laid on
-my brow. Raising my eyes my heart leaped, for it was Mary bathing my
-head with a cold wet cloth. The joy of it may have sent me off again,
-for I remembered no more until I was awakened by the sound of
-whispering. Looking up, I saw that Cutterwaite and Mr. Middleton were
-standing alongside.</p>
-
-<p>"Well," I said, faintly, "how fares it?"</p>
-
-<p>"Another prize, Captain Hurdiss, and a good one," said Chips, bending
-over me. "We took the ship, sir and she's in our wake. We're not five
-hundred miles off Cape Cod. The wind's fair, and all's a-taunt-o."</p>
-
-<p>Oh, I could have cried for the joy of it, but at this instant<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_480" id="Page_480">[Pg 480]</a></span> the
-curtain that had partitioned off the cabin was drawn aside, and I heard
-a soft voice ask,</p>
-
-<p>"Is he speaking?"</p>
-
-<p>"Mary!" I said, tremulously.</p>
-
-<p>Mr. Middleton and the carpenter stepped to the other side of the
-curtain, and the one whom I had always dreamed of as waiting for me came
-near.</p>
-
-<p>There was no pride or anger in her face, and her voice shook as she
-said, softly,</p>
-
-<p>"Sh-h-h&mdash;you must not speak!"</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 700px;">
-<img src="images/ill_007.jpg" width="700" height="559" alt="" />
-<span class="caption">I PUT OUT MY HAND AND SHE TOOK IT.</span>
-</div>
-
-<p>I put out my hand. She took it and sank down at the side of the bunk.</p>
-
-<p>"John dear, forgive me," was all she said; and then&mdash;and then&mdash; Well,
-what is the use of telling more? Women are strange creatures. But
-suffice it. I had, of a truth, taken the fairest prize in all the world.
-How she had won the old gentleman to her way of thinking I do not
-pretend to tell. I have never asked, nor did he inform me. But some
-women have a way with them against which there is no gainsaying. Mr.
-Middleton is a wise man, and this may account for it. But I was not the
-only one under Mary's care. Dugan and three others were wounded lying in
-the forecastle; but I am glad to here record, so far as I know, they are
-at this moment well and hearty. On the fourth day I was on deck when
-land was sighted. It was my own country that lay off to the westward. I,
-the happiest man in all the world, was home again.</p>
-
-<p>Thus ended my adventures. Since then I have made many cruises in my own
-vessels, always knowing that there was waiting for me when I returned
-the dearest little woman in the world, and were I a nobleman with vast
-estates I could be no wit happier, nor could I be so happy as I am at
-this very moment. Of that I am sure.</p>
-
-<p>There is just a half-page left of this old ledger. As my story is done,
-I can but go over it again; and in looking back, what a strange record I
-have made here, for I began as a child without a name and without a
-country, who chose both for himself. I had been a mysterious waif in a
-Connecticut village, an instructor in small-arms on board a privateer,
-an English prisoner of war, a French nobleman among the refugees in
-England, a lieutenant of a fine schooner, and the commander of two
-vessels, all inside of a week; yes, and had I not been a robber also?
-For I robbed an English officer and a scare-crow of their clothes, and
-an old man of his granddaughter. (Of the last I am prouder than I can
-tell in calm words.) And now I am a prosperous ship-owner, with nothing
-in this wide world to wish for, except that I were a better scribe. Oh,
-I might set down that I learned, of course, of the death of my uncle,
-and found out that Gaston had disappeared with the belongings of Belair;
-no one knew whither. I was sorry for this, for there was much that I
-would like to have possessed. As for any other title than that of an
-American citizen, I care not so much as the snap of my finger; nor would
-my sons, I am sure, even if they had but to extend their hands to grasp
-it. They may read in this a great deal that their father has not told
-them, but it could make no difference, I am sure, in our relations
-toward one another.</p>
-
-<p>One thing more&mdash;I returned all the personal effects found in the <i>Bat</i>'s
-cabin to my namesake who lives in Sussex, England.</p>
-
-<h4>THE END.</h4>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_481" id="Page_481">[Pg 481]</a></span></p>
-
-<h2><a name="THE_PAINTED_DESERT" id="THE_PAINTED_DESERT">THE PAINTED DESERT.</a></h2>
-
-<h4>A STORY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA.</h4>
-
-<h3>BY KIRK MUNROE,</h3>
-
-<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Author of "Rick Dale," "The Fur-Seal's Tooth," "Snow-Shoes and Sledges,"
-"The Mate Series," etc</span>.</p>
-
-<h3>CHAPTER VII.</h3>
-
-<h3>THE LAD WHO HAD NEVER SEEN A GIRL.</h3>
-
-<div class="figleft" style="width: 196px;">
-<img src="images/ill_008.jpg" width="196" height="200" alt="Drop Cap W" />
-</div>
-
-<p>hile poor Todd was striving to scale the rocky ladder from which he had
-just fallen, another lad of about his own age had bounded up the steep
-pathway behind him with the speed and ease of a mountain-goat. He was
-tall and slender, straight as the lance shaft that he bore in one hand,
-and finely proportioned. The bronze of his skin and his long hair, black
-and glossy as the wing of a crow, showed him to be an Indian, though his
-clear-cut features expressed a lively intelligence, and exhibited none
-of the hopeless apathy so common to the moderns of his race. His body
-was naked to the waist, below which it was covered by a pair of fringed
-buckskin breeches, while his feet were encased in unornamented but
-serviceable moccasins having soles of goat-skin.</p>
-
-<p>This new-comer was so startled by the unexpected sight of a stranger
-that he uttered the shout of amazement which had caused Todd to lose his
-hold. Bitterly regretting his impulsive outcry, and distressed at its
-result, the young Indian knelt beside the unconscious stranger, and
-gently lifting his head from the rocks against which it had struck,
-gazed eagerly into the face of the first white boy he had ever seen.</p>
-
-<p>While he was thus occupied a second figure appeared toiling up the
-rugged path. It was that of a white man, venerable in aspect, but still
-sturdy of limb, and clad from head to foot in buckskin. He was a large
-man, and his massive head was covered with silvery hair, still thick and
-clustering in curls about his temples. He wore a flowing white beard,
-and his kindly face was as serenely placid as though the cares of life
-had touched him but slightly. At the present moment it was flushed from
-the exertion of climbing, and filled with an anxious curiosity at the
-astounding sight of a stranger in that place, and one who was at the
-same time in so sad a plight.</p>
-
-<p>A few words from the Indian lad told all that he knew of what had just
-happened, and while he spoke the old man examined a slight wound in
-Todd's head, from which a stream of blood was trickling.</p>
-
-<p>"It does not appear serious," he said at length, "and I believe that
-with care he will speedily recover. Remain thou here with him while I
-continue on to the castle and notify mother of what has happened. From
-her I will obtain a few things that be needful, and will quickly return.
-Then must we try and carry him down to the hut, for in his present
-condition I doubt if it would be possible for us to get him up to the
-castle."</p>
-
-<p>The old man climbed the rock ladder with marvellous agility, and so
-hastened his movements that in less than five minutes he had returned,
-bringing a flask of water, some strips of cotton cloth, and a healing
-salve. The water did so much toward restoring Todd to consciousness that
-after a little he was able, with help, to regain his feet. Then, with
-many encouraging words, his new-found friends half carried, half led him
-back down the steep trail he had so recently climbed, and along the
-woodland pathway to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_482" id="Page_482">[Pg 482]</a></span> the very hut in which he had already spent so much
-of that eventful day. Here they laid him on the couch of skins, and
-while the old man looked after his comfort, the Indian lad, taking a
-flint, steel, and bit of tinder from a recess of the chimney quickly
-started a fire with which to light the little apartment. Then he
-disappeared, while his companion tenderly bathed and dressed the wound
-in Todd's head. He uttered a pitying exclamation on discovering that his
-patient's hand was also injured, and bound it up with a soothing
-dressing. While doing these things he talked constantly; but when Todd,
-still dazed and feeling helplessly weak, made an effort to speak, the
-other bade him lie perfectly quiet and not attempt to talk until he
-should be stronger.</p>
-
-<p>"Thy looks are those of one who has suffered much and is even now
-wellnigh starved," he said, "but very shortly thy hunger shall be
-relieved, and then will I commend thee to sleep, the restorer."</p>
-
-<p>As he spoke the Indian lad returned, bringing a basket of food. Among
-its contents was a bowl of broth, which, after it had been warmed at the
-fire, was given to Todd, who eagerly drained it to the last drop. Then
-he sank wearily but contentedly back on his couch, and in another minute
-was fast asleep.</p>
-
-<p>For some time the white man and the young Indian watched him in silence.
-Then the former said, in a low tone:</p>
-
-<p>"The poor lad has evidently undergone a terrible experience, however it
-has happened; but now he is doing well, and will pull through beyond a
-doubt. Whence he came, by what means he was led to this place, and how
-he discovered the locality of Cliff Castle, are questions that I would
-gladly ask him, for in all the years that we have dwelt in this valley
-he is our first visitor. But on no account must he be disturbed until he
-wakes of his own accord, since complete rest is what he needs above all
-else."</p>
-
-<p>"Is he in reality a white boy, such as thee has so often described to
-me?" asked the young Indian. "And will he tarry with us, to be unto me a
-companion and to thee another son?"</p>
-
-<p>"Truly he is a white lad of about thy own age, and that he will tarry
-with us is beyond question, for from this place there is but slight
-chance of escape. For this night I shall leave him in thy charge, while
-I return to mother, who is doubtless impatient to learn of the
-happenings of the past hour. Watch closely for his waking, and give him
-both food and drink if he shall call for them."</p>
-
-<p>In obedience to this command the Indian lad watched his charge all
-night, studying his face closely in the flickering fire-light, and
-speculating concerning trim. Occasionally he dropped asleep, but Todd's
-slightest movement found him wide-awake, for he was too greatly excited
-over this most wonderful happening of his life for much sleep, even
-though he had not been charged with a duty. So the night passed, and it
-was broad daylight when he roused from a slight doze to find the
-stranger lying with wide-open eyes curiously regarding him.</p>
-
-<p>"Do you speak English?" asked Todd, as the young Indian started to his
-feet.</p>
-
-<p>"I speak with the tongue of the Professor," answered the lad, shyly,
-"though I know not if that is what thee means."</p>
-
-<p>"Of course it is, if what you have just said is a sample. At any rate,
-it is good enough English for you to tell me what place this is, and who
-you are. I mean, what is your name? Mine is Todd Chalmers. Is there
-anything to eat that you could let me have, for I'm as hungry as a bear.
-I suppose you know what that is?"</p>
-
-<p>"Oh, yes!" answered the other, brightly. "Bears are the big rabbits,
-bigger even than goats or deer, that ate up the children who mocked at
-Elisha. And here is <i>piki</i> for thee to eat. Also, thee is in the Valley
-of Peace, and thy servant is named Nanahe, though he is also sometimes
-called Ishmael, the son of Hagar, who fled into the wilderness."</p>
-
-<p>"Are your parents Quakers?" asked Todd, greatly puzzled by the other's
-form of speech.</p>
-
-<p>"My father was a Navajo, and my mother was of the Hopi people," answered
-the other, proudly.</p>
-
-<p>"Oh, I see!" responded Todd, vaguely, though still wondering what sort
-of a lad this might be, who was so evidently an Indian, and yet spoke
-English without an accent, though in the manner affected by the Society
-of Friends. "But I say, old man, you won't mind if I call you 'Nana,'
-will you? Nanahe is too long for common use, and 'Nan' would sound too
-much like a girl's name, you know."</p>
-
-<p>"Thee may call me what thee pleases, and I will answer. But has thee
-really seen girls and known them?" asked the other, eagerly.</p>
-
-<p>"Well, I should rather say I had," laughed Todd. "Why, haven't you?"</p>
-
-<p>"No, but I have wanted to so much. Tell me of them, and what they look
-like. Do they resemble mother?"</p>
-
-<p>"Not having seen the lady, I can't say; but if she is the Professor's
-wife, I should think probably not. Girls, you know, are very young, and
-they look like&mdash;why, like nothing in the world but girls. As for
-describing them, you just can't, because no two of them are the same,
-and because there is nothing else that I know of to compare them with.
-But, Nana, how about that breakfast you mentioned some time since?
-Aren't you afraid we are letting it get cold?"</p>
-
-<p>"It is ready and waiting for thee," said a pleasant voice behind them;
-and turning quickly, our lad beheld for the first time by daylight the
-white man who had treated him with so much kindness the evening before.</p>
-
-<h3>CHAPTER VIII.</h3>
-
-<h3>CLIFF CASTLE AND ITS OCCUPANTS.</h3>
-
-<p>"Oh, sir," cried Todd, "I am indeed grateful to you for all your
-kindness to me!"</p>
-
-<p>"And I," replied the old gentleman, "am more than pleased to see thee so
-evidently restored to health. At the same time I sincerely welcome thee
-to the Valley of Peace, which, with all it contains, is at thy service.
-May I introduce myself as Rufus Plant, at one time professor of
-ethnology in Calvert College, but now and for many years resident of
-this valley?"</p>
-
-<p>"Calvert College, did you say, sir? Why, that is the college where my
-brother Mortimer Chalmers is professor of geology, and the one that I am
-to enter next fall. It seems to me, too, that I have heard your name
-before. Wasn't there something strange about your dis&mdash; I mean, I
-thought you were killed by Indians."</p>
-
-<p>"Doubtless that was the report, and it might well be credited," replied
-the Professor. "But tell me, lad, is thy name Chalmers?"</p>
-
-<p>"Yes, sir&mdash;Todd Chalmers, of Baltimore."</p>
-
-<p>"Can it be that thee is a relative of my old friend Carey Chalmers?"</p>
-
-<p>"He was my father."</p>
-
-<p>"The Lord be praised for all His mercies!" exclaimed the other. "Why,
-lad, if thee was a messenger from Heaven thy presence could not be more
-welcome to an old man cut off these many years from intercourse with his
-fellows. But thee must be sorely in need of refreshment, and it would be
-wrong to keep thee longer from her who waits anxiously to welcome thee.
-Therefore let us hasten to the castle, if indeed thee is strong enough
-for so arduous a climb."</p>
-
-<p>Todd quickly proved that he was now fully equal to the task that he had
-so nearly accomplished the evening before, and a few minutes later,
-filled with an eager curiosity, he stood with his new friends on a broad
-shelf of rock a hundred feet above the valley. It was bordered along its
-outer edge by a low parapet, and was partially overhung by the cliff
-that still rose above it. At its inner end was a veritable house of
-stone, having a door and windows, just outside of which stood one of the
-dearest of old ladies, clad in Quaker costume.</p>
-
-<p>The boy knew at a glance that she who welcomed him must be the one whom
-his new acquaintances spoke of so lovingly as "mother"; but more than
-ever did he wonder at the strangeness of her surroundings, and long for
-an explanation of the many things that were puzzling him. A thousand
-questions were at his tongue's end; but he could<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_483" id="Page_483">[Pg 483]</a></span> not ask them then, for
-the dear old lady at once led the way into the house, saying:</p>
-
-<p>"Not another moment shall thee be kept from thy breakfast, Todd
-Chalmers; for starvation is one of the things not permitted in Cliff
-Castle, and hunger is written on thy face."</p>
-
-<p>Never had Todd entered so queer an abode, nor one so filled with curious
-objects, as when he passed the doorway of that little dwelling. Its low
-roof was not more than two feet above his head, and its interior walls
-of white clay were covered with rude drawings in color that strongly
-suggested the work of ancient Egyptians. The stone floor was covered
-with rugs of goat and deer skins; several articles of rude furniture,
-besides blocks of jasper and agate used as seats, were conveniently
-placed, while great earthen-ware jars, quaint in shape and beautifully
-decorated in colors, stood on all sides. In one corner was a rude
-fireplace, which was evidently used only to furnish warmth, as Todd had
-already noticed another, provided with appliances for cooking, on the
-outer platform.</p>
-
-<p>Best of all, in our hungry lad's estimation, was a table covered with a
-snowy cloth and laden with food. Nearly all its furnishing&mdash;including
-bowls, platters, jugs, and small dishes&mdash;was of earthen-ware quaintly
-devised and ornamented. There were also several steel knives and forks,
-half a dozen silver spoons, three white china cups, and as many saucers.</p>
-
-<p>Served on these queer dishes was a breakfast of broiled chicken,
-oatmeal, corn-bread, and another bread made from grass-seeds, eggs, and
-stewed peaches, besides small white cheeses, and a jug of goat's milk,
-all of which combined to make a meal that seemed to Todd better than any
-he had ever before tasted. It made him pity himself to recall how, only
-the day before, he had been very nearly starved actually within sight
-and reach of all this abundance.</p>
-
-<p>When his hunger was at length satisfied, the boy related his adventures
-of the past few days, describing his wanderings on the desert, his
-efforts to reach the blue peaks that ever beckoned him forward, his
-finding of the valley, his perplexity at discerning signs of human
-occupancy but no inhabitants, his joy at seeing the smoke from Cliff
-Castle, his fruitless attempt to reach the place from which it ascended,
-and his doubts as to the kind of reception he might meet from its
-occupants.</p>
-
-<p>To all this the lad's hearers listened with deepest interest, frequently
-interrupting him with questions and exclamations. When he had finished
-he turned to the Professor, saying:</p>
-
-<p>"Now, sir, that you have learned how I happen to be in this place, will
-you not tell me of your own experience in reaching it, and your reason
-for remaining here all these years?"</p>
-
-<p>"Gladly will I gratify thy most natural curiosity," replied the old man,
-"but I must ask thee to wait until evening; for the narrative is of such
-length that it cannot be told until our affairs are ordered for the day.
-Therefore, let us first return thanks to our Heavenly Father for His
-abounding mercies, and then attend to the duties awaiting us."</p>
-
-<p>With this the old man led the way to the outer platform, to which Nanahe
-fetched a small Bible, that was the only book the Indian lad had ever
-seen, and from which he read aloud, without hesitation, the exquisite
-Twenty-third Psalm. While he read, Todd gazed over the underlying
-valley, and wondered that its every feature should appear so familiar to
-him. Suddenly he recalled the mirage that three days before had first
-turned his steps in this direction, and knew that the picture then
-presented was an image of the one upon which he now looked.</p>
-
-<p>After the simple service was ended the Professor and Nanahe descended
-into the valley, carrying with them the fowls that had been brought to
-the castle for safety during their two days' absence. The old lady
-busied herself with domestic duties, and Todd found himself at liberty
-to explore the quaint little house, which, his hostess informed him, was
-only one of many, long since abandoned by their builders, that were to
-be found among the cliffs enclosing the valley.</p>
-
-<p>"Thee must have read of the ancient cliff-dwellers of this region," she
-said, "and so will understand when I tell thee that this place of abode
-and most of its contents were made by their hands, and that we are
-to-day leading the very life of that long-vanished people."</p>
-
-<p>"But what became of them?" asked Todd.</p>
-
-<p>"That is a mystery that many persons have tried in vain to solve. My
-husband is of the opinion that they were forced to migrate, either by
-flood or drouth, but expected to return, since they left their most
-valued possessions behind them, and carefully concealed the only
-entrance to the valley. Had they been destroyed by an enemy, their
-possessions would also have been destroyed or removed, whereas nothing
-had been touched from the day they left, probably hundreds of years ago,
-until that on which we were led to this place, and it was given to us
-for a house."</p>
-
-<p>"It was very wonderful," said Todd; "but the strangest part of all is to
-find you and your husband and a young Indian living here so contentedly
-and comfortably. I can't understand it all, and wish you would tell me
-how it came about."</p>
-
-<p>"Have a little patience and it shall be made clear to thee," replied the
-old lady, with a smile. "It is a tale of strange experiences, and I
-would gladly relate it, but I know the Professor has set his heart on
-telling it himself."</p>
-
-<p>So Todd was forced to wait, and passed the morning in an examination of
-the dwelling and its contents. Later in the day he descended to the
-valley, where at the hut he found Nanahe cutting into thin strips, for
-drying, the meat of a deer that he had just brought in.</p>
-
-<p>"How did you kill it?" asked Todd. "I didn't know you had a rifle."</p>
-
-<p>"I have not, nor did I ever see one," replied the Indian lad. "I killed
-it with my throw-stick."</p>
-
-<p>"Throw-stick?" repeated Todd, with a puzzled air. "What is a
-throw-stick?"</p>
-
-<div class="figright" style="width: 320px;">
-<img src="images/ill_009.jpg" width="320" height="450" alt="" />
-<span class="caption">NANAHE EXHIBITS HIS THROW-STICK.</span>
-</div>
-
-<p>For answer Nanahe handed him a stick of tough wood two feet long, about
-as many inches in diameter, and fitted at one end with a handle in which
-were two finger-holes. The weapon was completed by a slender lance
-having a barbed head formed from a splinter of obsidian, keen-edged as a
-razor. Nanahe laid this lance on a flattened side of the throw-stick,
-with its butt resting against a bit of bone that was embedded in the
-wood near the upper end of the weapon. The lance was held in position by
-the thumb and one free finger of the thrower's right hand until the act
-of throwing was begun. Then it was released and sent whizzing through
-the air with such force that it fell to the ground more than one hundred
-yards away.</p>
-
-<p>"Now I understand," cried Todd, "for I have often thrown apples from the
-end of a stick in just that way. But surely you can't throw the lance
-with any degree of accuracy."</p>
-
-<p>Without replying, Nanahe smilingly selected half a dozen of the
-stone-headed shafts, and hurling one after another with inconceivable
-quickness at a tree some thirty yards from him, set them quivering in
-its bark so close together that a ring two inches in diameter would have
-encircled them all.</p>
-
-<p>"Good enough!" cried Todd, enthusiastically. "I give in, and acknowledge
-that your throw-stick is a wonderfully effective weapon. But where did
-you pick up the idea?"</p>
-
-<p>"The Professor found some of them in the cliff houses," answered Nanahe.
-"He says that in very ancient times all hunters used them, and that even
-now they are common among people called Eskimos who live in a far-away
-land of ice and snow. He taught me how to use them, and this one I made
-myself."</p>
-
-<p>"Well," said Todd, "I begin to see how people get along and manage to
-live comfortably in a place like this; but it certainly takes genius to
-do it. As for myself, I know I should have starved long before I learned
-to kill a deer or even a rabbit with any such primitive weapon as a
-throw-stick. Now let's get back to the castle, for it must be
-supper-time, and after that I am to hear the Professor's strange story."</p>
-
-<h4>[<span class="smcap">to be continued</span>.]</h4>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_484" id="Page_484">[Pg 484]</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 700px;"><a name="AN_OBSTINATE_COLLISION" id="AN_OBSTINATE_COLLISION"></a>
-<img src="images/ill_010.jpg" width="700" height="204" alt="AN OBSTINATE COLLISION" />
-</div>
-
-<h4>ONE OF THE OLD SAILOR'S YARNS.</h4>
-
-<h3>BY W.&nbsp;J. HENDERSON.</h3>
-
-<div class="figleft" style="width: 200px;">
-<img src="images/ill_011.jpg" width="200" height="182" alt="Drop Cap I" />
-</div>
-
-<p>t was a crisp morning in late October. All the land was sere and yellow,
-darkening away into brown shadows. The trees kept their garments of
-leaves, but these were ragged and sombre, as if the heat of summer had
-worn and burned them. The grass at the foot of the trees was brown and
-gray, and the bare branches of the field bushes made naked perches for
-belated birds. The sky was wan and faint near the rigid horizon, but
-deeply blue in the zenith; and the sun, far down the southern vault of
-the heavens, rolled westward in a glory of silver. The sea was of a
-gorgeous ultramarine color, with a dash of royal purple in its shadows,
-and a glitter of cold emerald in its transparent crests. A light
-nor'west wind barely ruffled its surface, yet sufficed to fill the sails
-of a score of schooners which were ploughing a snowy road to the
-southward.</p>
-
-<p>Henry and George felt that it was a good day for yarns, and so they
-hurried out of the house immediately after breakfast and bent their
-steps toward the pier. There they saw their old friend in his familiar
-attitude, with his eyes fixed on two steamers which were rapidly
-approaching each other from opposite directions. He did not turn his
-head as the boys approached him, but said, in a meditative manner,</p>
-
-<p>"It are not no sort o' kind o' use fur to try to git past without
-shiftin' yer helm."</p>
-
-<p>Then he relapsed into silence, while the two boys stood wondering what
-was coming next. Presently the Old Sailor broke out again,</p>
-
-<p>"Do ye see them two steamers?"</p>
-
-<p>"Yes," answered both boys.</p>
-
-<p>"Waal, they are agoin' fur to pass putty close."</p>
-
-<p>At that instant a gush of white steam rose from one of them, and the
-hoarse cry of her whistle rumbled across the water. The other vessel
-answered with a single blast.</p>
-
-<p>"An' wot do that mean?" asked the Old Sailor.</p>
-
-<p>"That means," answered Henry, "that they are going to port their helms
-and keep off to starboard."</p>
-
-<p>"Werry good, too," declared the Old Sailor. "An' ef they didn't, wot'd
-happen?"</p>
-
-<p>"They would bump into each other," answered George, soberly.</p>
-
-<p>"W'ich the same it'd be a colligion," said the Old Sailor, "an' mebbe it
-would be like the colligion o' the <i>Lord Kindlin'wood</i> an' the <i>Orange
-Mary</i>, an' mebbe it wouldn't, 'cos w'y, I don't reckon there ever were
-no sich colligion afore, an' I don't reckon as how there ever will be
-agin."</p>
-
-<p>"Will you please tell us about it?" asked Henry.</p>
-
-<p>"In course I will, my son. W'enever I recomembers one o' them picooliar
-misfortins wot has happened to me at sea, I allus tells ye about it,
-don't I?"</p>
-
-<p>The Old Sailor fixed his eyes on the two steamers, which were now
-passing each other very closely, and shook his head.</p>
-
-<p>"It are all werry putty in clear an' calm weather," he said; "but it
-ain't no good wotever in weather wot are dirty. Waal may I never live to
-see a ship's cook at the fore-sheet ag'in ef it weren't jess like I'm
-agoin' fur to tell ye. I were in Liverpool an' didn't have no berth at
-all, so I were more'n half tickled to death w'en I met old Jonas
-Pettigrew, the shippin' agent, an' he sez to me, sez he, 'They 'ain't
-got no mate on the <i>Lord Kindlin'wood</i> yet.' I'd heerd about her. She
-were bound fur Calcutta an' Hong-kong by way o' the Suez Canal, an' her
-Cap'n were a Frenchman, 'cos she'd jess been bought by a French company
-in Canton. So I went down to the dock where she were a-takin' in her
-cargo, an' I sez to the Cap'n, sez I, 'Here are a mate fur ye.' His name
-were Zhan Four&mdash;anyhow, that's as near as I can come to wot he called
-hisself. 'Ala bonner,' sez he to me, sez he, w'ich the same it are
-French fur 'Bully fur you.' We soon come to tarms, an' I turned to.</p>
-
-<p>"Waal, we didn't have no incidents or accidents o' no kind at all on the
-run down to Alexandry. Then the wind come in from the south'ard an'
-east'ard an' blowed putty nigh straight up the sea. I don't remember any
-nastier sea than it kicked up. The <i>Lord Kindlin'wood</i> would stand
-straight up on her starn-post, an' then take a pitch forrad and go clean
-into it up to her foremast. We had double lookouts up in the crow-nest,
-an' they was under water so much o' the time that they hollered fur
-divin'-suits.</p>
-
-<p>"Waal, it blowed an' it blowed an' it blowed. It blowed so hard on the
-second day that it cut the tops right off'n the seas, an' sent 'em
-flyin' along like buckets o' rain, an' blow me fur pickled oysters ef ye
-could stand with your face up to wind'ard.</p>
-
-<p>"Howsumever, we got used to it arter a while, an' the cook took to
-singin', so we knowed we was all right. But along about the middle o'
-the fust dog-watch one o' the lookouts yelled, 'Steamer ho!' I jumped
-into the fore-riggin' an' seed the wessel dead ahead o' us. She were a
-steamer about our own size, bound to the north'ard. She were runnin' at
-full speed ahead o' the gale, an' were drivin' along like the werry tops
-o' them seas wot I told ye about. Only she were actin' a little
-different from the <i>Lord Kindlin'wood</i>, 'cos w'y, she were a runnin'
-with the seas. So w'en one o' them would roll in under her starn she
-would h'ist her taffrail up into the air, an' plough forrad with her
-head down for all the world like a mad bull. Then the sea would underrun
-her an' git under her bow, an' she'd sit up on her starn-post with her
-bow p'inted away up in the air, an' like the werry tops o' them seas wot
-I told ye about. That were all right, but wot discomforted me w'en I saw
-her were that she were a-headin' right dead on end at us. Now we didn't
-dare fur to shift the <i>Lord Kindlin'wood</i>'s helm an inch. We had to keep
-her head to the seas, 'cos w'y, it were the only way she'd lay to an'
-behave herself. The other wessel I sort o' reckoned, bein' about our
-size, would be in danger o' broachin' to ef she shifted her helm. So I
-were somewhat anxious 'bout how the two on 'em was agoin' fur to git
-past each other. I sent a man aft to call the Cap'n, an' he came on the
-bridge an' danced a reg'lar jig. 'Ef she turn not away she will make to
-the bow a bump!'</p>
-
-<p>"'Wot is the orders, Cap'n?' sez I to he, sez I.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_485" id="Page_485">[Pg 485]</a></span></p>
-
-<p>"'Blow the wheestle! Blow the wheestle!' sez he to me, sez he. An'
-accordin'ly I blowed it once, signifying accordin' to the rules o' the
-road at sea, that we were puffickly agreeable that both parties should
-keep to the right. The other ship she blowed hers back at us. O' course
-we couldn't hear nothin', but we could see the steam, an' we knowed she
-were agreeable. But she didn't change her course a little bit.</p>
-
-<p>"'Dogs an' cats an' little kittens!' sez Cap'n Zhan Four, in French. 'Ef
-he change not the course, we are collided.'</p>
-
-<p>"'Shall I order the helm to be shifted, Cap'n?' sez I to he, sez I.</p>
-
-<p>"'Non! non! All the time non!' sez he to me, sez he. 'I turn not out of
-my path for such rubbeesh! I hit him in the meeddle, the miserable
-shadow of a dead horse!'</p>
-
-<p>"'Werry good, sir,' sez I to he, sez I.</p>
-
-<p>"An' I sez to the man at the wheel, 'keep 'er steady.' The other wessel,
-seein' we didn't change our course, blowed her whistle several times,
-but o' course that didn't 'nay pa riang,' as the Cap'n sez. Waal, to
-make the story short, this are edzackly wot happened. The <i>Lord
-Kindlin'wood</i> riz up over one o' them flat-topped seas, an' plunged head
-fust down the other side. At the werry same instant the stranger were
-sittin' up on her taffrail gittin' ready to dive down; an'
-consequentially we 'n the two ships come together precisely an' direckly
-head on, the stranger's bow overrun ours, an' she came down with her
-forefoot right on top o' our fo'c's'le deck. There were one grand crash,
-an' fur half a minute ye couldn't see nothin' 'cept flyin' timbers,
-iron, egg-shells, an' ham bones. In the middle of it all ye could hear
-the Cap'n screechin' in French, an' the two whistles a-blowin', an' the
-mates yellin' to clear away the boat-falls, 'cos w'y, it were not to be
-expected that both wessels would do anything 'ceptin' go to Davy Jones's
-locker in about five minutes. But they didn't, an' that are the
-picooliar part o' this 'ere yarn wot I'm a-tellin' ye, an' also the
-werry partikler reason w'y I are not a-feedin' Red Sea fish like
-Pharaoh's army.</p>
-
-<p>"It warn't no sort o' proper behavior fur wessels wot, accordin' to the
-laws o' colligions, ort to gone to the bottom; but sich as it were, this
-were the bloomin' ridiklous way on't. The stranger's bow comin' down
-right on top o' ourn cut through the decks jess like a axe, straight
-down to the k'elson. An' there it stopped, bein' wedged in jess like the
-axe in a log, an' a dozen tugs couldn't 'a' pulled her out. An' wot we
-found out arter a few minutes, w'en we'd all got through bein' crazy,
-were that she were wedged in so tight that there weren't a leak anywhere
-at all, an' them two ships was actooally made into one, 'ceptin' that it
-were a new kind o' wessel with two starns, an' no more bow than a
-bass-drum. The Cap'n o' the stranger he comes forrad on a run an' a
-jump, and w'en he got to the place w'ere our cat-heads was alongside o'
-his he stopped, an' sez he, bawlin' like Feejee Injun in a fit o'
-cholery:</p>
-
-<p>"'Donner unt blitzen! vot kind o' peezness vas dot? Vere ist der
-Gept'n?'</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 700px;">
-<img src="images/ill_012.jpg" width="700" height="419" alt="" />
-<span class="caption">HE JUMPED CLEAN OFF THE BRIDGE AND DANCED ON ONE FOOT.</span>
-</div>
-
-<p>"Ye see, we l'arned by his way o' talkin' that he were a bloomin'
-Garman, an' I looked to see some fun w'en Cap'n Zhan Four an' him got
-laid yard-arm to yard-arm. But they couldn't edzackly do that, 'cos w'y,
-'cos they was laid bow to bow, like a couple o' buckin' billy-goats in a
-fight. As soon as ever Cap'n Zhan Four heard the Garman Cap'n talk he
-jumped clean down off'n the bridge to the fo'c's'le deck an' danced on
-one foot, while he yelled:</p>
-
-<p>"'Singe cornay of a Allemand!'&mdash;w'ich means dog-eared monkey of a
-Garman, an' are not no perlite way fur one gen'leman to address another
-at sea&mdash;'why do you make to knock a hole in my sheep?'</p>
-
-<p>"'Ach, du dummer aysel!' sez the Garman, sez he; 'wot for you ton't ged
-your sheep out der vay?'</p>
-
-<p>"'My sheep makes not to be in the way,' sez Cap'n Zhan Four, sez he; 'it
-is your sheep that comes straight at mine an' runs upon her, unessy pa?'</p>
-
-<p>"'Donnerwetter!' sez the Garman, 'how could I dot help? I vas before der
-seas, unt you vas behint. Das macht nichts aus!'</p>
-
-<p>"'Silonce!' screeched Cap'n Zhan Four. 'Speak not the accursed tongue of
-Garmany at me!'</p>
-
-<p>"'Sprechen sie nicht dot frog talk at me!' howls the Garman. 'I speak
-der lankwitch von my vaterland alvays!'</p>
-
-<p>"'Hoist the French flag!' sez Cap'n Four.</p>
-
-<p>"'Up mit der Garman flag!" sez the Garman.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_486" id="Page_486">[Pg 486]</a></span></p>
-
-<p>"An' as soon as the flags was run up them two crazy critters commenced
-fur to dance up an' down their two forrad decks right in each other's
-faces, one on 'em singin' the 'Marseillaise,' an' the other 'Die Wacht
-am Rhein,' like they was fit to bu'st theirselves. An' in the mean time,
-o' course, the two bloomin' ships, jammed together, slewed around
-broadside on to the sea, an' a big wall o' green water broke aboard an'
-putty nigh swept the two on 'em overboard. Anyhow, it put a stop to
-their singin', an' sot 'em a-thinkin' about their 'sheeps,' as they
-called 'em.</p>
-
-<p>"'Back out you!' yelled Cap'n Zhan Four.</p>
-
-<p>"'Nicht!' shouted the Garman. 'Ich back for no Frenchman alretty yet!
-Back you!'</p>
-
-<p>"'Jammy! Jammy!' screeched Cap'n Four, an' 'jammy' it were, only that
-are French fur 'not on yer life!'</p>
-
-<p>"'I go aheat full speet!' sez the Garman.</p>
-
-<p>"'Ay maw,' sez Cap'n Four, w'ich the same that are French fur 'me too.'
-An' then them two wild men o' the sea orders their engines ahead full
-speed, an' the two ships commenced a grand pushin' match, fur all the
-world like one o' them there feet-ball games wot the long-haired
-collidge fellers plays in the mud every autumn. Now this 'ere shovin'
-game were a putty even match atwixt them there two ships, 'ceptin' fur
-one thing, an' that were that the Garman had the wind an' sea with him.
-So he commenced fur to push the <i>Lord Kindlin'wood</i> back'ards up
-north'ard toward the canal agin. Waal, boys, I reckon ye've seed a good
-many mad men, but ye 'ain't never seed none half or quarter as mad as
-that there French Cap'n Zhan Four. He said more funny things in French
-than ever I kin recomember, an' he got so red in the face that he putty
-near busted hisself. Howsumever, it didn't do no good, 'cos w'y, the
-Garman had the best on't in the matter o' the elements, an' he were
-steadily a-shovin' of us back to w'ere we come from, w'en the gale
-broke, an' the sea beginned fur to go down. The barometer riz, an' I
-looked fur a smart shift o' wind, w'ich the same it come along all right
-about three bells in the arternoon watch o' the second day. It dropped
-right around to nor'west, an' in ten minutes were blowin' a brisk
-breeze.</p>
-
-<p>"'Sacred name of St. Michael!' sez Cap'n Zhan Four, sez he, 'now I push
-the Garman to the south pole!'</p>
-
-<p>"'I hope ye ain't agoin' az fur as that,' sez I, ''cos I shipped fur
-Calcutta an' Hong-kong, an' I 'ain't got my seal-skin overcoat along
-with me,' sez I, jess like that, him bein' a crazy French Cap'n and me a
-werry partiklarly sane American mate.</p>
-
-<p>"'I push him anywhere I want to!' sez Cap'n Zhan Four.</p>
-
-<p>"An' he orders more fire an' more steam. An' putty soon we found that
-we'd stopped goin' back'ard an' was a-holdin' the Garman in his place.
-But we couldn't make him go back'ard fast enough fur to suit Cap'n Zhan
-Four. So seein' the wind were putty fresh, I sez to the Cap'n, sez I,</p>
-
-<p>"'Wot's the reason we don't set all our canvas?'</p>
-
-<p>"'Excellentment!' sez he, w'ich are French fur 'bully,' an' I jumps out
-an' gives the orders.</p>
-
-<p>"Waal, boys, jess as soon as we got the canvas on her we commenced fur
-to push the Garman back'ard, an' he commenced fur to do the dancin' an'
-howlin'; but it didn't do him no good. He heaped coal onto his fires an'
-he burnt oil an' ham fat, but he couldn't hold us. We shoved him all the
-way down the Red Sea an' out into the Indian Ocean. Then he got his men
-forrad an' tried to cut his ship out o' ours, but Cap'n Zhan Four
-ordered the hose turned on 'em with hot water, an' that stopped that
-job. Finally, the Garman Cap'n, he come forrad with a flag o' truce, an'
-sez he'd like to make a treaty o' peace atwixt Garmany an' France on the
-high seas. So him an' Cap'n Zhan Four had a long talk, an' finally they
-agreed that they'd make fur the nearest port, each one agreein' to be
-pushed back'ards half-way an' to keep his engines agoin' reversed to
-help things along. An' so we finally reached the island o' Socotra,
-w'ere we contrived to get the ships apart an' patch ours up fur the run
-to Bombay."</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-<h2><a name="TWO_LEADERS_OF_THE_GREEK_REVOLUTION" id="TWO_LEADERS_OF_THE_GREEK_REVOLUTION">TWO LEADERS OF THE GREEK REVOLUTION.</a></h2>
-
-<h3>BY V. GRIBAYEDOFF.</h3>
-
-<div class="figleft" style="width: 163px;">
-<img src="images/ill_013.jpg" width="163" height="200" alt="Drop Cap G" />
-</div>
-
-<p>reece's active championship of the cause of the Cretan revolutionists,
-in the face of the opposition of the combined powers of Europe, recalls
-that plucky little nation's fierce struggle for her own independence
-from Turkish rule during the early portion of the present century.
-Indeed, as Prince George started for Cretan waters the other day with
-his flotilla of torpedo-boats, almost the last words Prime-Minister
-Delyannis said to him were:</p>
-
-<p>"May the spirit of the great Canaris hover over your Highness and your
-brave men, inspiring you to maintain nobly the traditions of the
-Hellenic navy!"</p>
-
-<p>Here is probably what Delyannis had in mind: The Greece of to-day lacks
-the larger vessels of war fully as much as did the Greece of 1820, but
-at that earlier period she possessed a formidable weapon in the dreaded
-fire-ship, and under Canaris's lead the enemy's naval power was almost
-destroyed by this primitive method of attack. The fire-ship of the past
-has been supplanted by the torpedo-boat of the present, an engine of war
-calling into play almost the same qualities as its predecessor&mdash;pluck,
-skill, dash, and rapidity in handling. And Delyannis was therefore
-anticipating that the deeds of the early part of the century would be
-repeated at its close in a mode of warfare for which his countrymen are
-both by nature and temperament eminently fitted.</p>
-
-<p>The story of Greece's struggle for independence both by land and by sea
-has formed the subject of many volumes of prose and verse. But among all
-the heroes of those stirring times there are two whose names will live
-on the roll of fame&mdash;Constantine Canaris, the fearless and enterprising
-sailor, and Marco Botzaris, the guerilla chieftain.</p>
-
-<p>Let us begin with Canaris, whose achievements were the greater by reason
-of his surviving all the manifold dangers of this most cruel of wars;
-Botzaris, on the other hand, succumbed to a Turkish bullet long before
-Greece was liberated. Let the reader glance at a map of the Grecian
-Archipelago, and among its numerous islands he will find one named
-Ipsara, about midway between the mainland of Greece and the coast of
-Asia Minor. It was on this barren and desolate stretch of rock that
-Constantine Canaris was born at the close of the last century. Until the
-war of independence broke out in 1821 he pursued the humble calling of
-fisherman, but at the outbreak of the revolution he abandoned everything
-to espouse the cause of his country. His wife, an ardent patriot
-herself, and the mother of three children, whom she had proudly named
-Nicolas, Lycurgus, and Miltiades, in honor of the past glories of
-Greece, urged her husband on in his resolve.</p>
-
-<p>And so Canaris went to the front. He was destined soon to be heard from.
-The fighting at the commencement of the war was confined to the Greek
-mainland, especially the Morea, or ancient Peloponnesus; but the bad
-condition of the roads throughout Rumelia obliged the Sultan to send his
-re-enforcements by water through the historic Dardanelles. The fishermen
-fighters of the archipelago felt that here was their opportunity. The
-inhabitants of the three islands of Samos, Ipsara, and Hydra equipped<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_487" id="Page_487">[Pg 487]</a></span> a
-flotilla, and started out to intercept the oppressor. Now inasmuch as
-the Turks possessed double-deckers and frigates carrying an untold
-weight of metal as against the light and poorly armed craft of the
-Greeks, it was not to be supposed that the latter would venture on a
-struggle at close quarters. The lessons of the past were there to teach
-them that their sole hope of salvation lay in the skilful use of the
-fire-ship, and they adopted this system of warfare with one accord. It
-required a high order of seamanship to carry it on with success and a
-thorough knowledge of the actions of the tide and wind, for a slight
-miscalculation not only involved a failure of the enterprise, but the
-almost certain destruction of the aggressor.</p>
-
-<p>There were various modes of attack. As a usual thing, an ordinary
-fishing sloop or schooner, filled with combustible material&mdash;tar, pitch,
-oil, sulphur, etc.&mdash;and navigated by half a dozen fearless patriots,
-would be directed at dusk against the enemy's ships lying at anchor.
-When the messenger of destruction arrived within a few hundred yards of
-the intended victim, the temporary crew applied the torch to tapers
-placed at intervals among the combustibles in the hold, and then lowered
-themselves into a small boat to row off to a safe distance. Carried by
-the wind and current, the fire-ship stole on in the darkness, the fire
-having in the mean while taken hold in good earnest. On, on it went into
-the midst of the Mussulman's ships of war, the flames now darting from
-its sides in huge tongues, sparing naught upon its path. Panic-stricken
-and forgetful of all discipline, the Turk became a ready victim to the
-avenger. His first thought was to cut his cables, but this measure made
-matters worse, inasmuch as the big ships, once loose from their
-moorings, usually collided with one another, and rendered their own
-destruction only the more certain.</p>
-
-<p>The scenes that followed the incursion of the flaming avenger beggared
-all description. It became a choice between a fiery and a watery death,
-for the unfortunates who had survived the explosions of the
-powder-magazines, and even those who hoped to reach shore by swimming,
-were doomed to destruction at the hands of the vindictive patriots
-hovering near in small boats. For it must be remembered that this was a
-war to the knife on both sides, in which quarter was neither asked nor
-given.</p>
-
-<p>But to return to Canaris. His first naval success was obtained under the
-orders of a man whose name is venerated as one of the greatest heroes of
-the war of independence, Admiral Andrea Miaulis, after whom one of the
-Greek war-ships now on service in Cretan waters is named&mdash;the <i>Navarchos
-Miaulis</i>.</p>
-
-<p>The Sultan was sending an army to besiege Missolonghi on the Gulf of
-Corinth, and his mighty fleet had covered about half the journey between
-Constantinople and that stronghold when it sighted a Greek squadron off
-the island of Lesbos. Miaulis had a comparatively strong force at his
-command and was tempted to try conclusions with the foe at close
-quarters, but Canaris, with greater long-sightedness, realized that his
-countrymen could ill afford to assume so great a risk, and although a
-mere subordinate, entreated the Admiral, on his bended knees, to be
-allowed to first attack the Turks with a few fire-ships. Miaulis had
-given the signal to clear the decks for action, and at first resented
-the interference.</p>
-
-<p>"Your Excellency has but one fleet, and the Sultan has a dozen,"
-persisted Canaris. "Our deaths will not atone to our country for the
-consequences of our defeat and destruction!"</p>
-
-<p>The veteran fighter soon caught the drift of the younger man's argument.</p>
-
-<p>"So let it be," he exclaimed. "<i>Zito Hellas!</i>" (Long live Greece!) And
-muttering an invocation to his patron saint, he ordered Canaris to
-proceed with his plan.</p>
-
-<p>Within one hour after this interview the hardy Ipsara fisherman
-succeeded in setting fire to the Turkish Admiral's flag-ship, three
-frigates, and five sloops, and forced the rest of the enemy's fleet to
-seek shelter under the guns of the Dardanelles forts. The loss of the
-Turks in men exceeded 1000; that of the Greeks was but fifteen killed
-and wounded.</p>
-
-<p>Victorious at sea, the Greeks were at this period almost uniformly
-defeated on land. Fifteen thousand patriots were massacred at Patras in
-Morea, and many more at Salonica. The second year of the revolution
-witnessed the most terrible events. In order to punish the inhabitants
-of Scio, off the coast of Asia Minor, for sundry acts of rebellion, the
-Sultan sent a powerful armament to that devoted island, and in the
-course of a few days it was entirely depopulated. Of its 85,000
-inhabitants only 15,000 escaped to the mainland; the rest were either
-put to the sword or carried away into captivity. But vengeance for this
-savage act was close at hand. Miaulis, Canaris, and another hero, George
-Pepinis, overtook the Sultan's vessels as they were heading for the
-Dardanelles. Miaulis, who had usually prohibited his men from indulging
-in excesses, issued the watchword "Remember Scio!" which meant no
-quarter under any circumstances. In the battle that followed, every
-known method and weapon of naval warfare was brought into
-play&mdash;fire-ships, grappling-irons, carronades, chain-shot, boarding
-assaults, and so forth&mdash;and when finally the smoke cleared at dusk, the
-Greeks found that they had destroyed six Turkish ships of the line, ten
-frigates, and twelve brigs, out of a total of fifty sail.</p>
-
-<div class="figright" style="width: 500px;">
-<img src="images/ill_014.jpg" width="500" height="391" alt="" />
-<span class="caption">CANARIS DESTROYING THE TURKISH FLEET.</span>
-</div>
-
-<p>Canaris himself was wounded, and, indeed, owed his life to a miracle. He
-had selected the Turkish flag-ship as his especial prey, and steered a
-large brigantine filled with pine shavings and sulphur in her direction.
-When within a few hundred yards of the foe he started the conflagration
-below, and then made his way to the stern, intending to jump into a
-small boat behind. But in some way the boat had become detached, and was
-nowhere visible; the sulphurous flames were beginning to shoot up from
-the hold, and the bullets from the Turkish small-arms were whizzing in
-uncomfortable proximity. There was danger indeed, and increasing every
-moment at that, as the wind and current drove the vessel wildly on.
-There was nothing for it but to jump overboard and swim for dear life.
-But, though expert swimmers, Canaris and his five subordinates were not
-proof against leaden balls, and one after the other the poor fellows
-sank, until only the leader remained. Even he was struck after a while,
-and began to lose blood rapidly. Just as he was about abandoning hope,
-none of the Greek ships being near, a terrific explosion rent the air
-and convulsed the waters, and when the sinking man's head arose to the
-surface for the last time, as he thought, there, within arm's-reach, was
-floating the large figure-head of the Turkish Admiral's vessel. The
-fire-ship had done its work. It had blown up 500 Mussulmans, and by this
-very act had saved the life of Greece's naval hero.</p>
-
-<p>Canaris's exploits now became the subject of general attention, and his
-name also grew to be a by-word among the Turks. The very suspicion of
-his being near caused the Turkish Admiral, who had been sent to relieve
-the fortress of Napoli di Romania, besieged by General Kolokotronis, to
-sail away without accomplishing his purpose. Still this act of prudence
-did not save him in the end, for Canaris followed the Turkish fleet to
-the bay of Tenedos, and there made sad havoc among the large
-double-deckers, blowing them one after the other out of the water. The
-Turks on this occasion added to the disaster by cutting their cables and
-running foul of one another.</p>
-
-<p>The following year, 1823, Canaris drove back into the Dardanelles
-another Turkish fleet that had been sent from Constantinople to
-re-enforce the beleaguering army of Missolonghi, a proceeding that
-exasperated the Sultan to the point of vowing vengeance against the
-irrepressible Giaour. The Sultan kept his word. The year 1824 saw the
-accession to Turkey's fighting forces of the entire military and naval
-resources of the vassal state of Egypt. The Khedive placed a large army
-and navy, commanded by his adopted son, Ibrahim Pasha, at the Sultan's
-disposal. The campaign therefore began with an expedition against the
-Greeks, numbering 100,000 men and a fleet of 80 war-vessels. This mighty
-armament was first directed against the islands of Spezzia and Ispara,
-the latter, as stated, being Canaris's home. At the approach of the
-Turks a council of war was summoned at Ispara by the local dignitaries.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_488" id="Page_488">[Pg 488]</a></span></p>
-
-<p>"Give me five fire-ships," exclaimed Canaris, "and I will stand for your
-safety, and that of your wives and children!"</p>
-
-<p>But, as in all communities, there were here some politicians and
-wise-acres to be reckoned with who had never fought themselves, but who
-would have been perfectly willing to give Napoleon himself points on
-strategy. Canaris's plan was overruled by these men, and it was decided
-to await the enemy on shore. The result of this decision was the capture
-and devastation of the island, including a massacre of all the males
-above tender age. Canaris escaped by swimming to a boat. He had already
-gotten his family safely out of the way on hearing the announcement of
-the council's absurd plan of campaign.</p>
-
-<p>It is unnecessary to say that the brave Ipsariot fully avenged the cruel
-wrong done to his native isle. A few months later he fell upon an
-Egyptian fleet of forty sail, laden with provisions and munitions of
-war, and destroyed almost half their number. What remained of the
-Turco-Egyptian men-of-war after all these reverses was burned or sent to
-the bottom in February, 1827, by the allied fleets of England, France,
-and Russia at the memorable battle of Navarino. Canaris not only
-experienced the satisfaction of witnessing this event, but he also lived
-to see his country free and independent.</p>
-
-<div class="figright" style="width: 500px;">
-<img src="images/ill_015.jpg" width="500" height="379" alt="" />
-<span class="caption">MARCO BOTZARIS AND HIS GAUDY WARRIORS.</span>
-</div>
-
-<p>Marco Botzaris, the most picturesque military hero of the Greek war of
-independence, was a native of Souli, a famous mountain stronghold in
-Epirus, which for centuries has produced a race of fighting-men. The
-Souliotes indeed were justly considered the flower of the Greek
-revolutionary army. Attired in a costume resplendent with gold lace,
-gilt buttons, snow-white linen of superior quality, and other finery,
-they made an imposing array on dress parade or on the march. An American
-traveller named Emerson, who visited the theatre of the war in 1821,
-says of them, "I have seen the noble grenadiers of Napoleon, and I have
-known the superb English guards, but the Souliotes appear to me to
-surpass both." He describes their method of fighting to be somewhat
-theatrical, and to resemble that of the Scotch Highlander. Every man
-chooses his post, and like the ancients who covered themselves with
-shields, they seek cover behind a rock or stone, and from there shoot
-down the foe. In order to deceive the latter, the Souliote sometimes
-places his red cap on a pole at some distance away. He seldom makes more
-than three discharges, preferring to finish the fight with the cold
-steel. His weapon is a curved sword, called a <i>yataghan</i>, and he wields
-it with terrible effect.</p>
-
-<p>One can imagine that with such material at his command Botzaris was able
-to lead the Mussulman a lively dance, as the saying is. His wild dashes
-on convoys, his surprises by day and night, and his ability to check the
-advance of large bodies of the enemy under all conditions of time and
-place, soon made his name a terror among the followers of the prophet.
-Neither Maurocordatos nor Kolokotronis, with all their science and their
-military training, was able to inspire the same fear in the enemy's
-ranks. Botzaris's name will ever be linked with the story of
-Missolonghi, its vicissitudes and its victories. With 400 men Botzaris
-defended this stronghold against an army of many thousands under Omar
-Vrione, and in repelling six assaults killed 12,000 of the enemy. This
-was but one of many triumphs. It was near this same stronghold of
-Missolonghi that the great hero met his death on August 20, 1823. He had
-received information that a large column of Turks was on its way to that
-place, and he decided to intercept it with his small force of 1200
-Souliotes. It was late at night when the patriots came across the enemy,
-and by superhuman efforts succeeded in crushing him. For the time being
-Missolonghi was saved, but the brave Botzaris received his death-wound
-in the very moment of victory. He died with the words. "Zito Hellas!" on
-his lips.</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_489" id="Page_489">[Pg 489]</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"><a name="INTERSCHOLASTIC_SPORT" id="INTERSCHOLASTIC_SPORT"></a>
-<img src="images/ill_016.jpg" width="600" height="123" alt="INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT" />
-</div>
-
-<p>The eighth annual interscholastic in-door athletic meeting of the New
-England I.S.A.A., a week ago Saturday, was a remarkable one for several
-reasons. First of all was the surprise at the outcome, which was
-entirely unlooked for; not that the winning school was not thought well
-of and was not a candidate for the honors it reaped, but that the
-victory was so very one-sided.</p>
-
-<h3>POINTS SCORED BY THE SCHOOLS.</h3>
-
-<div class="center">
-<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="">
-<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center">P</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center">u</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center">R</td><td align="center">t</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center">u</td><td align="center">t</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center">4</td><td align="center">n</td><td align="center">i</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center">5</td><td align="center">n</td><td align="center">n</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center">3</td><td align="center"></td><td align="center">1</td><td align="center">8</td><td align="center">-</td><td align="center">i</td><td align="center">g</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center">4</td><td align="center">0</td><td align="center">6</td><td align="center">0</td><td align="center">8</td><td align="center">y</td><td align="center">n</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center">0</td><td align="center">0</td><td align="center">0</td><td align="center">0</td><td align="center">0</td><td align="center">a</td><td align="center">g</td><td align="center">1</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center">-</td><td align="center">-</td><td align="center">0</td><td align="center">0</td><td align="center">-</td><td align="center">r</td><td align="center"></td><td align="center">6</td><td align="center">P</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center">y</td><td align="center">y</td><td align="center">-</td><td align="center">-</td><td align="center">y</td><td align="center">d</td><td align="center">H</td><td align="center">-</td><td align="center">o</td></tr>
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-<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center">D</td><td align="center">D</td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center">W</td><td align="center">d</td><td align="center">J</td><td align="center">S</td><td align="center">a</td><td align="center">t</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center">a</td><td align="center">a</td><td align="center">R</td><td align="center">R</td><td align="center">a</td><td align="center">l</td><td align="center">u</td><td align="center">h</td><td align="center">u</td><td align="center">a</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center">s</td><td align="center">s</td><td align="center">u</td><td align="center">u</td><td align="center">l</td><td align="center">e</td><td align="center">m</td><td align="center">o</td><td align="center">l</td><td align="center">l</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">Schools.</td><td align="center">h</td><td align="center">h</td><td align="center">n</td><td align="center">n</td><td align="center">k</td><td align="center">s</td><td align="center">p</td><td align="center">t</td><td align="center">t</td><td align="center">s</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">English High</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center">8</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">1&frac12;</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">24&frac12;</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">Worcester High</td><td align="right"></td><td align="center">5</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">10</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">Hopkinson's</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">1&frac12;</td><td align="right">9&frac12;</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">Noble's and Greenough's</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">7</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">Worcester Academy</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">1&frac12;</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1&frac12;</td><td align="right">6</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">Chauncy Hall</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">5</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">Cushing Academy</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">5</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">Boston Latin</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">2</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">Newton High</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">1</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">Phillips Exeter</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">1</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">Cambridge High and Latin</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">1</td></tr>
-</table></div>
-
-<p>It was predicted before the games that the contest for points would
-devolve upon certain schools, but it happened in several instances that
-calculations were rudely upset by representatives who failed to come up
-to expectations. This was noticeable especially in the case of Worcester
-Academy, a school that was feared by all, but which turned out a
-disappointment.</p>
-
-<p>English High from the outset began to gather the points, and 16 in the
-40-yard dash and half-mile walk added materially in swelling the total
-of 24&frac12;. Worcester High was satisfied to beat out its rivals the
-Academy. Hopkinson's gave a better exhibition than it has for several
-years, and came third in the competition for points. The customary
-record-breaking performances were forthcoming, and the 40-yard dash,
-1000-yard run, and the running high jump were affected, while the
-hurdles were done in the same time as last year.</p>
-
-<p>The list of entries was considerably smaller than last year, because of
-the requirements of the new registration law, which prevents many from
-competing. A rumor spread around before the games began that some of
-those entered had not registered with the Secretary of the A.A.U., which
-was confirmed by Manager John Graham of the meet. A conference of the
-Athletic Committee of the B.A.A., under whose auspices the games were
-given, was held to decide what should be done. They decided that if a
-sanction could be obtained from the president of the I.S.A.A. for such
-schools not registered but members of the I.S.A.A., the men should be
-allowed to compete and assume all of the responsibility. This was also
-done to act as a test case for the A.A.U's decision.</p>
-
-<div class="figleft" style="width: 142px;">
-<img src="images/ill_017.jpg" width="142" height="300" alt="" />
-<span class="caption">H.&nbsp;C. KENNINGTON.</span>
-</div>
-
-<p>An unparalleled surprise was developed in the first event on the
-programme, when the existing record in the 40-yard dash was broken,
-three runners doing the trick, and equalling the world's mark for the
-distance. It was an unusually speedy lot that was entered in this event,
-and when the trial heats began to be caught in the old record the final
-figure was awaited with suspense. In the trial heats the first and
-second place winners were eligible for the semi-finals. In the first
-line-up was Butler of Worcester High, the best runner that school has,
-and Kennington of English High, who eventually became the winner.</p>
-
-<div class="figright" style="width: 143px;">
-<img src="images/ill_018.jpg" width="143" height="300" alt="" />
-<span class="caption">W.&nbsp;J. DUFFY.</span>
-</div>
-
-<p>The next two heats were captured by English High-School sprinters, Kane
-getting the first and Duffy the second, in 4-3/5 sec. Eight heats were
-run off in all before the list of entries had been exhausted. Butler,
-Kane, and Duffy were called in the first semi-final, and speculation was
-intense as to whether the Worcester lad would survive the ordeal. Kane
-and Duffy realized that they had a worthy foe to deal with, and knew
-that they would have to strain every bit of energy to shut the Worcester
-man out and make the final round, but they were equal to the occasion.</p>
-
-<p>Kennington, the third English High runner, did not have much trouble in
-claiming the second semi-final heat, and Wight of Brown and Nichols, ran
-second to him. In the third, Archibald of Hyde Park won the heat in a
-canter, though the time was 4-3/5 sec.; Sever of Brown and Nichols was
-able to catch a second. A peculiar thing happened in the final heat. At
-the crack of the pistol five of the six runners were off on a line; the
-sixth, Archibald, was set back a yard, which practically put him out. As
-the tape was reached there was scarcely a wavering of the line, but in
-the last few strides the sprinters<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_490" id="Page_490">[Pg 490]</a></span> shifted somewhat, though a blanket
-would have covered them as the post was passed. The judges deliberated
-long, and finally came to the conclusion that no decision could be
-reached, and the only way to settle the matter was to have four of the
-runners try it over; so Kane, Kennington, Duffy, all of English High,
-and Sever of Brown and Nichols, toed the scratch again. It was almost a
-repetition of the former heat, but Kennington was proclaimed the winner
-by the narrowest of margins, with Duffy second, and Kane third.</p>
-
-<div class="figleft" style="width: 143px;">
-<img src="images/ill_019.jpg" width="143" height="300" alt="" />
-<span class="caption">W.&nbsp;F. MOHAN.</span>
-</div>
-
-<p>Each school was allowed to make one entry in the 1000-yard run, the
-reason being that the narrowness of the track made it necessary to
-reduce numbers so as not to clog up the path. Mills of Chauncy Hall was
-a prime favorite, and nobody disputed his right to be called the winner,
-and most attention turned to his ability to make a new record, which he
-had been heard to say he would attempt. The New York schools had a
-chance last winter to see what kind of stuff Mills is made of when he
-won the mile at the Madison Square Garden, and on March 27 they will be
-given another opportunity. Mills rarely sets the pace, and in this
-instance held back to give the others this work to do. Kinsley of
-Worcester Academy started out at a 440 clip, with the evident intention
-of running some of the athletes off their feet in the first part of the
-race. Sullivan of Worcester High, the national interscholastic miler,
-was not to be lost in such a manner, and sailed after Kinsley as if he
-had wings. On the third lap Sullivan in some unaccountable way missed
-his footing and tumbled, and he was left behind. Meanwhile Mills was
-keeping his eyes open, and seeing his field lagging, made a dash for the
-lead and began to leave a gap between him and his nearest opponent. For
-two laps he ran round the track with a wonderful burst of speed, the
-spectators wildly cheering his efforts to shatter the record. There were
-no exclamations of surprise when it was announced that he had replaced 2
-min. 33 sec. by 2 min. 30-1/5 sec. Kinsley was a quarter of a lap in the
-rear of Mills, and Falls of Phillips Exeter, an unknown runner, close
-upon the former.</p>
-
-<p>The 300-yard run brought out some good running, but the time of last
-year was never in danger of being disturbed. In the very first heat
-Butler of Worcester High and George Hersey, of Worcester Academy, met,
-and the issue was breathlessly awaited. The former had the pole, and
-with this advantage&mdash;a big one, too, on the track conditions&mdash;swung
-round the corners in the lead. Hersey unfortunately was hedged in
-closely on all sides, and he just saved himself at the last moment by
-breaking his way through and coming in second.</p>
-
-<div class="figright" style="width: 200px;">
-<img src="images/ill_020.jpg" width="200" height="300" alt="" />
-<span class="caption">W.&nbsp;W. COE.</span>
-</div>
-
-<p>Kennington and Kane of English High counted in the next heat, but the
-latter was disqualified, as on one of the corners he came in contact
-with Baker of Noble's School, and the latter was thrown. Baker was
-permitted to go into the final. Garrett and Winslow, two of Cambridge
-High and Latin's best, won heats, and the latter got a point for his
-school. Butler was the choice in the final heat, but it was expected
-that Kennington and Hersey would make him hustle. Kennington bowed to
-fate by going off his mark and losing a yard at the start. He was making
-up this distance in fine shape when he went down in a heap on a corner.
-Butler was not pushed to do his utmost, as Baker, who was coming after
-him in the stretch, was some yards away.</p>
-
-<p>Worcester High had strong hopes of winning the 600-yard run, basing its
-faith on the presence of Dadmund, Mills, and Moran. Each one qualified
-in his heat to run in the final, and the High-School stock was going
-higher. When the test came Dadmund was found wanting, as his strength
-failed him. Lincoln, captain of the Boston Latin, was conspicuous in
-this event, as he held the lead till the last corner, fifteen yards from
-the worsted. Here Mills caught him, and together they ran shoulder to
-shoulder the remainder of the distance, Mills falling across the line in
-the van. It was a most thrilling finish and a victory richly earned, the
-audience appreciating the struggle.</p>
-
-<p>J.&nbsp;H. Converse, of English High, the national interscholastic hurdler,
-appeared to defend his title, and kept it from being marred, although he
-had a narrow escape, Hallowell and Cole of Hopkinson's pressing closely
-to the last foot.</p>
-
-<div class="figleft" style="width: 146px;">
-<img src="images/ill_021.jpg" width="146" height="300" alt="" />
-<span class="caption">W.&nbsp;D. EATON.</span>
-</div>
-
-<p>The half-mile walk was another English High event, as all three places
-went to that school. Mohan, who was credited with a point at the
-out-door games, set the stride, with Riley and Foley, his schoolmates,
-in close proximity. On the last lap Griffin of Worcester High challenged
-Mohan for the lead of the procession, and gained his end, but with
-disastrous results to his aspirations, for in spite of his coming home
-first by five yards, the judge of walking had given him his final
-caution, and Mohan got the prize, with Riley and Foley filling the other
-places.</p>
-
-<p>The field events had a small following, and in only one case was a
-record shattered. Rotch of Hopkinson's cleared 5 feet 8&frac12; inches in
-the high jump, bettering the old figures of 5 feet 8 inches. Converse of
-English High and Howe of Worcester Academy were tied at 5 feet 7&frac34;
-inches, the latter getting the second prize on the toss of a coin, but
-the points being divided. A similar distribution of points was necessary
-in the pole vault. C.&nbsp;A. Shorey, the one entry from Cushing Academy, got
-this event with a vault of 9 feet 6 inches. Keene of Hopkinson's and
-Kendall of Worcester Academy tied for second at 9 feet.</p>
-
-<p>W.&nbsp;W. Coe, of Noble's School, was prophesied to win the shot, and he
-pushed the 16-lb. weight 35 feet 7 inches; Eaton of English High was
-over a foot behind him, with 34 feet 1&frac12; inches; and D.&nbsp;F. Spear, of
-Worcester Academy, came third, his put being 31 feet 9&frac12; inches.</p>
-
-<p>The six relay races aided in increasing the enthusiasm, and school
-feeling reached a high pitch of excitement. Dedham High defeated Hyde
-Park High; Worcester High defeated Noble's and Greenoughs; Newton High
-defeated Boston Latin; Cambridge High and Latin defeated Hopkinson's;
-Chauncy Hall defeated Exeter. The climax came when E.H.-S. ended a
-splendid afternoon by beating Worcester Academy in a race that will be
-remembered for many days.</p>
-
-<h4>"TRACK ATHLETICS IN DETAIL."&mdash;<span class="smcap">Illustrated.&mdash;8vo, Cloth, Ornamental</span>,
-$1.25.</h4>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_491" id="Page_491">[Pg 491]</a></span></p>
-
-<h2><a name="QUESTIONS_FOR_YOUNG_MEN" id="QUESTIONS_FOR_YOUNG_MEN">QUESTIONS FOR YOUNG MEN.</a></h2>
-
-<h3>ON SELF-RESPECT.</h3>
-
-<p>If you beat a dog he puts his tail between his legs and either skulks
-off, or hangs around to receive a pardon later on. The beating, no
-doubt, frequently does the dog good. He cannot be reasoned with and told
-why certain things are to be done, hence he must be taught a reason
-which he can understand, and he can understand that pain will be
-inflicted on him if he repeats whatever he has just done. You in beating
-him realize this. If you beat a little girl with a stick, you have done
-something that was unnecessary in the first place, because she could be
-taught or reasoned with, but also, having done something you know to be
-unnecessary, you lose a certain faith, confidence, respect in yourself.</p>
-
-<p>If you treat a friend in an unfair way, if you deceive him, if you tell
-him a lie for any reason or for no reason, the same feelings occur to
-you. You have not been found out; no one criticises you; but there is a
-certain consciousness in your mind which signifies that you have done
-something your real self disapproves of absolutely.</p>
-
-<p>In a game of football, for instance, it is easy enough to hit a man
-under a crowd after a scrimmage. Some boys do hit and scratch and claw.
-They are seldom found out. Football is a good example, for there are
-more chances for chivalry and for meanness in the game than in most
-others or in most situations of young manhood. Yet not being found out
-does not seem to be of such great importance in the long-run. The fact
-that you have resorted to such means is known to you, and you cannot
-avoid the feeling that it has really done you rather more harm than it
-has the fellow you injured or tried to injure.</p>
-
-<p>If you treat your mother without much thought, do what she asks as you
-feel inclined, and not if you do not feel so inclined, she is naturally
-grieved, and that may hurt you; but coming afterwards to think it over
-and realizing that she has perhaps in the last fifteen years done a good
-deal more for you than you have for her, there is a suggestion of
-disappointment, to say the least, in yourself that you should so far
-forget yourself as to act so to one whom you not only have the greatest
-affection for, but one whom you know should have the greatest attention
-and regard you can bestow.</p>
-
-<p>If you scoff at some one's religious views, or make fun of the
-"old-fashioned ideas" of others, very likely you are in the right as to
-the idea in mind, but you cannot fail to realize afterwards that perhaps
-it was a bad piece of business when you failed to give the other person
-credit for a little sense, and the general result is a lack of pride in
-the incident.</p>
-
-<p>The feeling resulting from all these situations is much the same, and it
-goes by the name of loss of self-respect. It is a lack of pride in what
-you have done, and no one can be on the road to the formation of a bad
-character who has not begun by failing to call himself to account for
-such matters; no one can really go further on this road so long as he
-maintains this self-respect. When an occasion requires its use it should
-be ready at hand. When there is a chance to hit a man under the crowd,
-if this self-respect gets in its work quickly enough, you are safe; but
-there needs to be constant training to put it into such good condition
-that it can be used on any emergency no matter how sudden that may be.
-And this self-respect is just as easily trained as is your body for its
-coming trial in the hundred-yard race. Train it as you would anything
-else, and it will invariably carry you over difficult places. But it
-gets "out of condition" easily, and you will miss it at the most
-important time.</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<h3>GLASS TO KEEP HEAT OUT.</h3>
-
-<p>Glass of a peculiar quality&mdash;that is, non-conductive for heat rays&mdash;has
-been invented by Richard Szigmondy, of Vienna, the statement being that
-glass a quarter of an inch thick absorbs 87 to 100 per cent. of the heat
-striking it, in contrast to plate-glass, which absorbs only about 5 per
-cent.</p>
-
-<p>This glass is designed to insure windows which will keep dwellings warm
-in winter and cool in summer, especially adapted, too, for skylights,
-etc., and also for blue-glass spectacles to be used by furnace men.</p>
-
-<p>Remarking upon the invention in question, the <i>Scientific American</i>
-calls attention to the peculiar conducting power of ordinary glass,
-which would seem to render Szigmondy's glass an impossibility, in some
-respects at least.</p>
-
-<p>Thus, standing by a window on which the sun shines, the warmth of the
-sun is felt, but, on touching the window, it is found to be cold; then
-if a light of glass be placed between the person and an ordinary open
-fire, it will screen from the heat, but becomes rapidly heated
-itself&mdash;that is, in the first case it transmitted most of the heat, and
-in the latter it absorbed.</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<h3>A SMALL BOY'S NOTION.</h3>
-
-<p>The first of March was snowy.</p>
-
-<p>"Humph!" said Jack. "It's going in like a lamb getting sheared. Just
-look at the wool fly!"</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<h3>A NOVEL BAROMETER.</h3>
-
-<p>It has taken a clever Frenchman to discover a kind of barometer, which
-may be safely called unique. An English journal says that it is nothing
-more nor less than the figure of a general made of gingerbread. He buys
-one every year, and takes it home and hangs it by a string on a nail.</p>
-
-<p>Gingerbread, as every one knows, is easily affected by changes in the
-atmosphere. The slightest moisture renders it soft, while in dry weather
-it grows hard and tough.</p>
-
-<p>Every morning, on going out, the Frenchman asks his servant, "What does
-the general say?" and the man applies his thumb to the gingerbread
-figure.</p>
-
-<p>Perhaps he may reply, "The general feels soft. He would advise you
-taking an umbrella." On the other hand, if the gingerbread is hard and
-unyielding to the touch, it is safe to go forth in one's best attire,
-umbrellaless and confident.</p>
-
-<p>The Frenchman declares that the general has never yet proved unworthy of
-the confidence placed in him, and would advise all whose purse will not
-allow them to purchase a barometer or aneroid, to see what the local
-baker can do for them in the gingerbread line.</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-<h4>The</h4>
-
-<h2>New York State</h2>
-
-<h2>Analyst Says:</h2>
-
-<p>The Royal Baking Powder is superior to any other powder which I have
-examined; a baking powder unequalled for purity, strength, and
-wholesomeness.</p>
-
-<h4>ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., N.&nbsp;Y.</h4>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-<h3>SIR WALTER BESANT</h3>
-
-<p class="center">contributes an autobiographical sketch,</p>
-
-<h2>"IN OLD</h2>
-
-<h2>PORTSMOUTH"</h2>
-
-<p class="center">to the next number of</p>
-
-<h3><span class="smcap">Harper's Round Table</span></h3>
-
-<h3>Five Cents a Copy. Two Dollars a Year.</h3>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<h4>HARPER &amp; BROTHERS, Publishers, N.&nbsp;Y.</h4>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-<h2>EARN A TRICYCLE.</h2>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;">
-<img src="images/ill_022.jpg" width="300" height="286" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<p>We wish to introduce our Teas. Sell 30 lbs. and we will give you a Fairy
-Tricycle; sell 25 lbs. for a Solid Silver Watch and Chain; 50 lbs. for a
-Gold Watch and Chain; 75 lbs. for a Bicycle; 10 lbs. for a Gold Ring.
-Write for catalog and order sheet Dept. I</p>
-
-<h4>W.&nbsp;G. BAKER,</h4>
-
-<h4>Springfield, Mass.</h4>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-<h2>HARPER'S NEW CATALOGUE</h2>
-
-<p class="center">Thoroughly revised, classified, and indexed, will be sent by mail to any
-address on receipt of ten cents.</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
-<img src="images/ill_023.jpg" width="400" height="135" alt="PISO'S CURE FOR CONSUMPTION" />
-</div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_492" id="Page_492">[Pg 492]</a></span></p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-<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="197" alt="THE CAMERA CLUB" />
-</div>
-
-<blockquote>
-
-<p>Any questions in regard to photograph matters will be willingly
-answered by the Editor of this column, and we should be glad to
-hear from any of our club who can make helpful suggestions.</p></blockquote>
-
-<p>The prize-winners in the annual photographic competitions are as
-follows:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-
-<h3>SENIOR PRIZE-WINNERS.</h3>
-
-<h4><span class="smcap">Figure Studies</span>.</h4>
-
-<p>First Prize, $20&mdash;Mrs. Claud Gatch, Salem, Ore. Second Prize,
-$15&mdash;Mrs. Sara W. Holm, 710 Farwell St., Eau Claire, Wis.</p>
-
-<div class="figright" style="width: 475px;">
-<img src="images/ill_025.jpg" width="475" height="500" alt="" />
-<span class="caption">FIRST PRIZE, SENIOR COMPETITION, FIGURE STUDIES.<br /><br />
-By Mrs. Claud Gatch, Salem, Oregon.</span>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figleft" style="width: 500px;">
-<img src="images/ill_026.jpg" width="500" height="387" alt="" />
-<span class="caption">SECOND PRIZE, SENIOR COMPETITION, FIGURE STUDIES.<br /><br />
-By Mrs. Sara W. Holm, Eau Claire, Wisconsin.</span>
-</div>
-
-<h4><span class="smcap">Landscapes</span>.</h4>
-
-<p>First Prize, $15&mdash;Mr. Roy Pike, Lake City, Minn. Second Prize,
-$10&mdash;Mrs. George E. Conn, Box 1, Green Lake, Washington.</p>
-
-<h3>JUNIOR PRIZE-WINNERS.</h3>
-
-<h4><span class="smcap">Figure Studies</span>.</h4>
-
-<p>First Prize, $20&mdash;Samuel J. Castner, 3729 Chestnut St.,
-Philadelphia, Pa. Second Prize, $10&mdash;Edmund C. Stone, Baird, Shasta
-Co., Cal. Third Prize, $5&mdash;Paul G. Warren, Wauwatosa, Wis.</p>
-
-<h4><span class="smcap">Landscapes</span>.</h4>
-
-<p>First Prize, $12&mdash;Anton H. Schefer, 40 West Thirty-seventh St., New
-York city, N.&nbsp;Y. Second Prize, $8&mdash;Lesley Ashburner, Media, Pa.
-Third Prize, $5&mdash;Howard Cox, 531 Hemlock St., Helena, Mont.</p>
-
-<h4><span class="smcap">Marines</span>.</h4>
-
-<p>First Prize, $12&mdash;William D. Bowers, 50 Pleasant St., Hartford,
-Conn. Second Prize, $8&mdash;Harry Chase, 175 Summer St., Nahant, Mass.
-Third Prize, $5&mdash;Susie Brown, Box 306, Keyport, N.&nbsp;J.</p>
-
-<h3>HONORABLE MENTION.</h3>
-
-<p>Myron Eames Davis, Worcester, Mass.; Frederick C. Kelly, Xenia, O.;
-William R. Durgin, Chicago, Ill.; Kenneth Towner, Asbury Park, N.&nbsp;J.;
-Manfred Goldschmidt, New York city; Frederick G. Clapp, South
-Boston, Mass.; Doar Saunders, Indianapolis, Ind.; William Selbie,
-Deadwood, S.&nbsp;D.; William C. Davids, Rutherford, N.&nbsp;J.; Louise
-McLean, St Paul, Minn.; Earl Raiguel, Philadelphia, Pa.; Clarence
-Pratt, 135 Hodge Ave., Buffalo, N.&nbsp;Y.; Willis H. Kerr, Bellevue,
-Kan.; Bert A. Porter, Brooklyn, N.&nbsp;Y.; Homer C. Gaskins, Baltimore,
-Md.; W. Brian Hooker, Farmington, Mass.; Walter Raudebush, Lebanon,
-N.&nbsp;Y.; Foster Hartwell, Lansingburg, N.&nbsp;Y.; Bert Atkinson, Tilton,
-N.&nbsp;H.; John W. Horr, Worcester, Mass.; Lothair Kohnstam, New York
-city; Arthur S. Dudley, West Salem, Wis.; Charles Taber, Auburn, N.&nbsp;Y.;
-M.&nbsp;W. Nourse, Chicago, Ill.; William S. Thomas, Detroit, Mich.;
-William O. Wichman, Great Barrington, Mass.; Harry R. Patty, Los
-Angeles, Cal.; Charles J. Bates, Highwood, N.&nbsp;J.; Arthur Inkersley,
-San Francisco, Cal.; Louisa Pearce, Moreno, Cal.</p></blockquote>
-
-<p>The pictures sent in for the annual competition show a decided advance
-both in subject and finish over the early efforts of our Camera Club,
-proving that the hints given from time to time in our club column on the
-making of artistic pictures are read and acted upon.</p>
-
-<p>In the Junior competition the first prize for figure studies was awarded
-to a picture entitled "Two Little Neapolitans." Another picture of
-almost equal merit entitled, "A Tarantula Dancer of Sorrento, Italy,"
-was sent by the same artist. "Setting Sail" was the title of the
-second-prize figure study, and was a picture of two children in an old
-punt which was lying half in and half out of the water, one small child
-tugging at the big oar, while the larger one stood in the bow of the
-boat hoisting a stick on which was tied a rag for a sail. The third
-prize was given to a picture of a small boy<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_493" id="Page_493">[Pg 493]</a></span> perched on a stump. This
-picture had no title.</p>
-
-<p>Some of the entries of landscape studies were very good. The first prize
-was given to a picture entitled "In the Orchard"; the second to a
-picture called "Along Lobster Lane"; and the third prize to a picture
-called "Sunset in the Rockies." This title did not fit the picture, as
-there was no sunset effect, and when the picture is reproduced it will
-appear under the title "Now comes still Evening On."</p>
-
-<p>"Surf at Rockaway" won the first prize in marine studies. The whole
-picture&mdash;the cloud effect, the breakers on the beach, and the point of
-view from which the picture was made&mdash;is very similar to the celebrated
-etching entitled "The Surf-Tormented Shore," by Amos Sangster. William
-D. Bowers, who sent this picture, sent also another marine called "On
-Long Island Sound," but which might more appropriately be called
-"Scudding for Home," for it is a picture of a yacht flying along with
-all sails set. The second prize was awarded to a picture of the sea and
-cliffs at Nahant, while the third was given to a picture of a yacht
-drifting along with the tide.</p>
-
-<p>In the Senior competition the first prize for figure studies was a
-picture illustrating Eugene Field's poem entitled "Shuffle-Shoon and
-Amber-Locks," the first verse of which is as follows:</p>
-
-<p>
-<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Shuffle-Shoon and Amber-Locks</span><br />
-<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Sit together building blocks.</span><br />
-<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Shuffle-Shoon is old and gray,</span><br />
-<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Amber-Locks a little child,</span><br />
-<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Yet, together at their play,</span><br />
-<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Youth and Age are reconciled.</span><br />
-</p>
-
-<p>The posing of the figures and the expression on the faces of
-"Shuffle-Shoon and Amber-Locks" show that both artist and subjects have
-caught the very spirit of the poem. The second-prize picture is a genre
-study made out-of-doors just at sunset. A woman with two pails suspended
-from a yoke over her shoulders is crossing a rough bridge, while just
-behind her trudges a little tow-headed urchin tugging a pail. The
-lighting in this picture is excellent, and the whole picture most
-artistic.</p>
-
-<p>The pictures which won prizes in the landscape competition for seniors
-were both of snow scenes, and were far above the average photographs of
-snow scenery, the snow looking like real snow and not like masses of
-white chalk.</p>
-
-<p>The members of the club are to be congratulated on their fine pictures.
-During the next few weeks all of the prize pictures will be printed in
-the <span class="smcap">Round Table</span>. All photographs save the prize ones have been mailed to
-their owners.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Murray Marble</span>, 55 Pearl St., Worcester, Mass.; <span class="smcap">Hickox Utley</span>, 517
-South Walnut St., Springfield, Ill.; <span class="smcap">Bertram R. White</span>, 616
-Lexington Ave., New York city; <span class="smcap">William S. Johnson</span>, 263 School St.,
-Athol, Mass.; <span class="smcap">Frederic Lyte Harding</span>, 5940 Overlook Ave.,
-Philadelphia, Pa.; <span class="smcap">Herbert H. Pease</span>, 28 Court St., New Britain,
-Conn.; <span class="smcap">James M. Kimball</span>, 16 Montague St., Providence, R.&nbsp;I.&mdash;wish
-to become members of the Camera Club.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">E.&nbsp;L. Dedham</span> asks why some negatives are so sticky that the
-solio-paper sticks to them and ruins them; and if the glycerine
-used for films must be one special kind. Any pure glycerine will
-answer for soaking the films to prevent them from curling. One-half
-ounce of glycerine to sixteen ounces of water is the proportion for
-the glycerine bath.</p></blockquote>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
-<img src="images/ill_027.jpg" width="500" height="232" alt="IVORY SOAP" />
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-<h2>CRAWFORD</h2>
-
-<h2>BICYCLES</h2>
-
-<h2>$50</h2>
-
-<p>Are honest and reliable, with beautiful lines and finish. Everybody
-knows Crawford quality. Guaranteed for one year. Small sizes, $45, $40,
-$35; Tandems, $100.</p>
-
-<p class="center">Send for Catalogue.</p>
-
-<h3>THE CRAWFORD MFG. CO.</h3>
-
-<p class="center">Hagerstown, Md.</p>
-
-<h4>NEW YORK. BALTIMORE. ST. LOUIS.</h4>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-<h2>JOSEPH GILLOTT'S</h2>
-
-<h3>STEEL PENS.</h3>
-
-<h4>GOLD MEDAL, <span class="smcap">paris exposition</span>, 1889,</h4>
-
-<h4><span class="smcap">and the chicago exposition award</span>.</h4>
-
-<h3>THE MOST PERFECT OF PENS.</h3>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-<h2>HOOPING-COUGH</h2>
-
-<h2>CROUP.</h2>
-
-<h3>Roche's Herbal Embrocation.</h3>
-
-<p>The celebrated and effectual English Cure without internal medicine.
-Proprietors, <span class="smcap">W. Edward &amp; Son</span>, Queen Victoria St., London, England. All
-Druggists.</p>
-
-<h4>E. Fougera &amp; Co., 30 North William St., N.&nbsp;Y.</h4>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-<h2>SOME NEW FICTION</h2>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<h3>THE VOYAGE OF THE RATTLETRAP</h3>
-
-<p>By <span class="smcap">Hayden Carruth</span>, Author of "The Adventures of Jones." Illustrated by
-<span class="smcap">H.&nbsp;M. Wilder</span>. 16mo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1.25.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-
-<p>This is the story of three boy chums and of their cruise across the
-Dakotas in a "prairie-schooner." Mr. Carruth has a genial humor in
-the telling of ordinary happenings that is irresistible, and he
-even manages to impart a great deal of useful information as he
-goes along. The author tells us very pleasantly some things about
-this big slice of Uncle Sam's territory.</p></blockquote>
-
-<h3>THE LAST RECRUIT OF CLARE'S</h3>
-
-<p>Being Passages from the Memoirs of Anthony Dillon, Chevalier of St.
-Louis, and Late Colonel of Clare's Regiment in the Service of France. By
-<span class="smcap">S.&nbsp;R. Keightley</span>, Author of "The Crimson Sign," "The Cavaliers," etc.
-With 4 Illustrations. Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1.50.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-
-<p>This is a romance not of love, but of daring adventure, and so well
-worked as to be profoundly interesting.&mdash;<i>Chicago Inter-Ocean.</i></p>
-
-<p>Cleverly told, and enchain the reader's attention immediately,
-holding him captive to the last page.&mdash;<i>Brooklyn Standard-Union.</i></p>
-
-<p>A series of vivid pictures of the life of a soldier who was also a
-gentleman.&mdash;<i>N.&nbsp;Y. Press.</i></p></blockquote>
-
-<h3>IN THE OLD HERRICK HOUSE</h3>
-
-<p>And Other Stories. By <span class="smcap">Ellen Douglas Deland</span>, Author of "Oakleigh."
-Illustrated. Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1.50.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-
-<p>Made up of tales of girl life, very earnest, pure, and
-interesting.&mdash;<i>Boston Traveller.</i></p>
-
-<p>Delightful in their naturalness.... These amusing and simply-told
-little stories.&mdash;<i>Philadelphia Bulletin.</i></p>
-
-<p>Will especially interest girl readers. They are pure, fresh, and
-wholesome.&mdash;<i>Chicago Inter-Ocean.</i></p></blockquote>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<h4>HARPER &amp; BROTHERS, Publishers, New York</h4>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_494" id="Page_494">[Pg 494]</a></span></p>
-
-<h3>The Weight of those Four Weights.</h3>
-
-<p>The man who dropped a 40-pound article and broke it into 4 scale-weights
-excited the <span class="smcap">Table</span>'s curiosity. It was a singular fall. The 4 pieces
-weighed 1, 3, 9, and 27 pounds respectively. To get 2 pounds he puts the
-3-pound weight on one side, and the 1-pound one on the other, and has a
-2-pound balance on the 3-pound side. If he has occasion to weigh 35
-pounds he puts the 27-pound weight and the 9-pound weight on one side,
-and the 1-pound weight on the other. We have tested these and a few
-other weights. Our correspondent says any number of pounds from 1 to 40
-can be weighed with these weights.</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<h3>From a Bright British Lad.</h3>
-
-<blockquote>
-
-<p>In my last letter I told you about some of the sights of India,
-where I lived till I was twelve; but now that I am in England, I
-will tell you something about the town in which I live. Bedford has
-over 40,000 inhabitants, and is a very clean town. There is a
-beautifully laid out park containing forty acres, in which there is
-a pretty lake with two shrub-covered islands on which swans and
-ducks make their nests.</p>
-
-<p>It is intersected with paths and carriage-drives, and is resorted
-to by cyclists of both sexes. There are two very fine statues in
-Bedford. One is that of John Bunyan, who was born not far from this
-town, at a place called Elstow, where may be seen the moot-house or
-church where he used to preach, and also the remains of his house.
-In a church named after John Bunyan there is an arm-chair supposed
-to have belonged to him.</p>
-
-<p>The other statue is that of John Howard, the great philanthropist.
-It was erected two years ago. The River Ouse runs through this
-town. In summer it is alive with boats and steam-launches. I am an
-active collector of stamps, and would like to exchange some Indian
-and other stamps for those of other countries, with any boy or girl
-who has any to exchange. I will also exchange crests, coins, and
-curios for stamps. If any boy or girl would care to correspond
-about India or England, I would answer every letter, as I love
-letter-writing. I go to the Bedford Modern School, in which are
-over 600 boys. Your faithful reader,</p></blockquote>
-
-<p>
-<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Ernest C. Groves</span>.</span><br />
-<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Belhaven, 33 Foster-Hill Road, Bedford</span>.</span><br />
-</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<h3>From Among Mississippi Pines.</h3>
-
-<blockquote>
-
-<p>I was interested in your article on "Working a Turpentine Orchard,"
-because I live in the Long Leaf Yellow Pine region, with turpentine
-orchards all about us. All summer we see wagons loaded with "crude"
-passing. If the <span class="smcap">Table</span> would like to hear more about the process of
-manufacturing spirits of turpentine and resin, I will write again.</p></blockquote>
-
-<p>
-<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Herbert Shear</span>.</span><br />
-<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Chicora, Miss</span>.</span><br />
-</p>
-
-<p>Please tell us about the process.</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<h3>The World of Amateur Journals.</h3>
-
-<p>The <i>Jester</i> of recent date has some clever pictures bringing an old
-joke up to the bicycle age. A man elopes with the daughter, the steed
-being not saddle-horses as of old, but a tandem bicycle. The father,
-from an upper window does not shoot or holler, or get down and ride
-after the fleeing couple on his fastest horse. Instead he fires some
-tacks out of his gun. The tires are punctured, and the daughter returns
-humiliated.</p>
-
-<p>The Corresponding Chapter, of which Charles Turnbull, of Hartford,
-Conn., is president, Arthur F. Kraus is vice-president, and Edward F.
-Daas, 1717 Cherry Street, Milwaukee, Wis., is secretary and treasurer,
-expects soon to have an official newspaper organ. The Chapter is
-prospering. It wants members, especially in foreign countries.</p>
-
-<p>F.&nbsp;E. Maynard, 420 Angell Street, Providence, R.&nbsp;I., wants to receive
-sample copies of amateur papers.</p>
-
-<p>Homer C. Bright, treasurer of the Columbine Chapter of Denver, Col.,
-sends word to the <span class="smcap">Table</span> that the old Columbine is doing well after a
-reorganization, and has started the publication of the <i>Columbine
-Jester</i>, which is neat and bright. Its editor is Homer C. Bright, and
-his address is 314 West Fourth Avenue. He asks us some questions about
-copyright, and whether he may take anything out of other papers,
-provided he gives credit. In answer to the first: It is scarcely
-necessary to copyright an amateur paper. The cost is $1 each issue. Ask
-the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D.&nbsp;C., for printed instructions.
-In reply to the question about clipping items: Yes, take extracts from
-anything you find in any other publication, unless there is a notice
-accompanying the article expressly forbidding it. You would not,
-however, take the entire article without first getting consent from the
-publisher. This you can, in the case of an amateur paper, probably
-secure for the asking.</p>
-
-<p>Charles P. Follansbee, 118 South Elliott Place, Brooklyn, N.&nbsp;Y., desires
-to receive sample copies of amateur papers. Henry Feldson asks if the
-<span class="smcap">Table</span> thinks autograph-collecting or amateur journalism the better
-hobby. It is impossible to answer such a question in favor of one or the
-other. Both afford instruction, and few hobbies ought to be ridden that
-do not do that much for the rider. The only advice is, ride the one you
-take the most interest in. Frances Bragdon, 1709 Chicago Avenue,
-Evanston, Ill., also desires sample copies of amateur papers.</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<h3>Who Can Enlighten Us?</h3>
-
-<blockquote>
-
-<p>I enclose a sketch of a button. Can you tell me what it is? The
-star is blue, set in a little from the white enamelled background.
-The belt is silver, raised up above the white background. I have
-quite a large collection of buttons, and would like to hear from
-other button collectors on the subject of exchanging specimens.</p></blockquote>
-
-<p>
-<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">D.&nbsp;W. Hardin</span>.</span><br />
-<span style="margin-left: 34em;">1003 <span class="smcap">Court Street, Saginaw, Mich</span>.</span><br />
-</p>
-
-<p>The drawing sent shows a button 5/8 inch across, with a belt surrounding
-a star. The belt is fastened with a buckle.</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<h3>Do You Like a Good Problem?</h3>
-
-<p>Here is a good mathematical question, perhaps not wholly new, but handy
-to have when asked to tell, off hand, something to keep up the interest
-and occupy the attention of the company. Frank Smith, of Cumberland,
-Md., says he had a good time working it out, and he hopes others will
-enjoy it as much.</p>
-
-<p>A, B, and C went to market to sell eggs. A took ten dozen, B thirty
-dozen, and C fifty dozen, B and C selling, according to agreement, at
-the same price that A sells his. Each sells all his eggs, and each
-brings home $2.75. What were the eggs sold at per dozen?</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<h3>A Fifteen Problem.</h3>
-
-<p>Is there a school in the country in which scholars never play "tic, tac,
-toe"? If so, will not some one who attends it write the <span class="smcap">Table</span>? It would
-be interesting to know if the simple game is not universal. Charles
-Kingenberg suggests the making of the double crossed lines as in the
-game named. Then place the figures one to nine, one in a place, and
-using all places and figures, so that horizontally, perpendicularly, and
-diagonally in both ways, the sum is fifteen.</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<h3>Tact of Disraeli.</h3>
-
-<p>A new book has just been published in which are some fresh stories about
-Disraeli the younger. This man was Prime Minister of England, and came
-later to be Earl of Beaconsfield. Beginning life under many adverse
-circumstances, and having racial prejudice against him, he was able not
-only to attain the highest honor in the kingdom open to a man not of
-royal blood, but to do for his sovereign services second to no Prime
-Minister who ever served a British queen or king.</p>
-
-<p>To deal with a sovereign and a woman requires tact. Lord Beaconsfield
-possessed it. To a friend he said one day: "I never contradict. I never
-deny. But I sometimes forget." He had many enemies, and yet he triumphed
-over nearly all of them. "I never trouble to be avenged," he said. "When
-a man injures me I put his name on a slip of paper and lock it in a
-drawer. It is marvellous how men I have thus labelled have the knack of
-disappearing."</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"><a name="STAMPS" id="STAMPS"></a>
-<img src="images/ill_028.jpg" width="600" height="199" 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>New sets of stamps are now being issued with old-time frequency. The
-following are those of most interest:</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Salvador</span>.&mdash;The 1896 set has been reprinted in new colors for 1897.</p>
-
-<div class="center">
-<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="">
-<tr><td align="left">1 centavo, vermilion.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">2 centavos, green.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">3 centavos, brown.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">5 centavos, orange.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">10 centavos, green.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">12 centavos, blue.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">15 centavos, black.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">20 centavos, slate.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">24 centavos, yellow.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">30 centavos, rose.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">50 centavos, violet.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">100 centavos, brown.</td></tr>
-</table></div>
-
-<p>Registration stamps.</p>
-
-<div class="center">
-<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="">
-<tr><td align="left">10 centavos, blue.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">10 centavos, brown.</td></tr>
-</table></div>
-
-<p>New return receipt stamp.</p>
-
-<div class="center">
-<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="">
-<tr><td align="left">5 centavos, dark green.</td></tr>
-</table></div>
-
-<p>Unpaid letter stamps.</p>
-
-<div class="center">
-<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="">
-<tr><td align="left">1 centavo, blue.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">2 centavos, blue.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">3 centavos, blue.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">5 centavos, blue.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">10 centavos, blue.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">15 centavos, blue.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">25 centavos, blue.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">50 centavos, blue.</td></tr>
-</table></div>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Liberia</span>.&mdash;A new set of stamps has just been issued by this country. The
-types of all except the 50c., which has female head in centre, and is
-printed in red-brown and black, are same as the old series. The 1c. is
-similar to the old 6c.; the 2c. to the old $1; the 5c. to the old 4c.;
-the 10c. to the old 8c.; the 15c. to the old 12c.; the 20c. to the old
-16c.; the 25c. to the old 24c., and the 30c. to the old 32c. No higher
-values than 50c. will be issued hereafter. Perforated 15. Water-marked.</p>
-
-<div class="center">
-<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="">
-<tr><td align="left">1 cent, violet.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">2 cents, olive-bistre and black.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">5 cents, magenta and black.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">10 cents, yellow and dark blue.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">15 cents, slate.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">20 cents, vermilion.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">25 cents, yellow-green.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">30 cents, steel-blue.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">50 cents, red-brown and black.</td></tr>
-</table></div>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Zanzibar</span>.&mdash;The <i>Philatelic Journal of Great Britain</i> chronicles a series
-of adhesives with portrait of the late Sultan, also a new provisional
-made by surcharging the current 1a. 6p. India "Zanzibar" in black and
-"2&frac12;" in red, similar to the 2a. India. Water-mark a rose. Perforated
-13&frac12; by 14.</p>
-
-<div class="center">
-<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="">
-<tr><td align="left">&frac12; anna, green, flags red.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">1 anna, dark blue, flags red.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">2 annas, brown-red, flags red.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">2&frac12; annas, blue, flags red.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">3 annas, olive-gray, flags red.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">4 annas, green-black, flags red.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">4&frac12; annas, orange, flags red.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">5 annas, bistre, flags red.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">7&frac12; annas, purple, flags red.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">8 annas, olive-green, flags red.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">1 rupee, ultramarine, flags red.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">2 rupees, deep green, flags red.</td></tr>
-</table></div>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">China</span>.&mdash;The <i>Post-Office</i> has received a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_495" id="Page_495">[Pg 495]</a></span> set of provisional stamps
-issued on February 2, when China entered the Postal Union. All are
-surcharged, on the current Chinese postage-stamps, in Chinese, with
-value in English, except the $1, which is on the 3c. revenue. It is
-stated that the officials refuse to sell more than one set at a time, as
-but few were issued. All local post-offices closed on February 2.</p>
-
-<p>Provisional stamps. Perforated.</p>
-
-<div class="center">
-<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="">
-<tr><td align="left">&frac12; cent on 3c., pale yellow, black surcharge.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">1 cent on 1c., red, black surcharge.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">2 cents on 2c., light green, black surcharge.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">4 cents on 4c., rose, black surcharge.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">5 cents on 5c., yellow, black surcharge.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">8 cents on 6c., brown, black surcharge.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">30 cents on 24c., carmine, black surcharge.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">1 dollar on 3c. revenue, carmine, black surcharge.</td></tr>
-</table></div>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Nicaragua</span>.&mdash;The designs for 1897 are similar to the 1896 set with date
-and colors changed.</p>
-
-<div class="center">
-<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="">
-<tr><td align="left">1 centavo, lilac.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">2 centavos, green.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">5 centavos, rose.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">10 centavos, light blue.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">20 centavos, light brown.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">50 centavos, gray.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">1 peso, slate.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">2 pesos, dark carmine.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">5 pesos, blue.</td></tr>
-</table></div>
-
-<p>Unpaid letter stamps.</p>
-
-<div class="center">
-<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="">
-<tr><td align="left">1 centavo, lilac.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">2 centavos, lilac.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">5 centavos, lilac.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">10 centavos, lilac.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">20 centavos, lilac.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">30 centavos, lilac.</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">50 centavos, lilac.</td></tr>
-</table></div>
-
-<blockquote>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">J.&nbsp;M. Cattell</span>.&mdash;You can get a catalogue of all postage-stamps, with
-illustrations of most of the types (except U.S.), for 50c. Anything
-beyond this is a matter of careful study. Never paste any stamps in
-the album. You can get one thousand of the best hinges, made of
-onion-skin, for 15c., from any dealer. The current U.S. stamps from
-low values are too common to pay for saving. The 50c., $1, $2, and
-$5 stamps are worth from 25 per cent. to 50 per cent. of their face
-value, even when used, but they must be without tear or other
-material blemish.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">F. Severn</span>.&mdash;Part-perforated U.S. revenue stamps are not scarce, but
-I advise paying any high price for single stamps in that condition.
-Too many perforated stamps with large margins have been faked into
-"part perforated." The advanced collectors, as a rule, pay extra
-for part-perforated revenues when in unsevered pairs only. As to
-the "ultramarine," they are in most cases quite scarce in this
-shade.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Maria C. Shatola</span>.&mdash;I have no record of receiving any letter from
-you.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">R.&nbsp;F. Bowe</span>.&mdash;All the English stamps are water-marked. Take an
-unused one, or one lightly cancelled, dip it in water, and hold it
-so that the light shines through, and you will see the water-mark.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">E. Bagg, Jun</span>.&mdash;The English government perforates initials, etc., in
-stamps at the expense of the purchaser. This is done to prevent
-theft.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">D. McLaughlin</span>.&mdash;In the days of Queen Anne of England (1712) all
-English newspapers were taxed for revenue. The government put its
-imprint or tax on each and every paper issued. This tax was
-abolished June 15, 1855. Specimens are very common. They are
-collected to a limited degree in England.</p>
-
-<p>T.&nbsp;A.&nbsp;L.&mdash;Your U.S. coins are worth three or four times their face
-value. The Carolus III. is a Spanish dollar no longer current, and
-therefore worth bullion only, as it is very common.</p></blockquote>
-
-<p>
-<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Philatus</span>.</span><br />
-</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<h3>A QUEER AUDIENCE.</h3>
-
-<p>An India correspondent, in writing to the Boston <i>Golden Rule</i>, says:
-"The most singular audience that I ever saw gathered to listen to
-preaching was an audience of monkeys. I had noticed that in the back
-yards of the houses on the opposite side of the street there was a row
-of trees, the branches of which stretched out over the flat roofs. Many
-of these branches were beginning to bend downward toward the roofs, and
-the faces of some old jack monkeys peered out through the foliage. Soon
-some of them jumped down and came forward to see what their 'big
-brothers' in the street were about, as they stood gazing so intently at
-these white men standing around. Springing upon a parapet, they seated
-themselves, with their hind feet hanging over in front, and gazed with
-fixedness at the preacher, as they saw the people in the street doing.</p>
-
-<p>"The audience in the street, standing with their backs toward that row
-of houses, did not notice the monkeys, and so their attention was not
-distracted by them.</p>
-
-<p>"I had noticed that many mother monkeys had brought their babies to
-church with them. These little babe monkeys sat upon the knees of their
-mothers, while her hand was placed around them in a very human fashion;
-but the sermon was evidently too high for these little fellows to
-comprehend. Glancing up, I saw one of the little monkeys cautiously
-reach his hand around, and catching hold of another baby monkey's tail,
-give it a pull. The other little monkey struck back; but each mother
-monkey evidently disapproved of this levity in church, and each gave her
-own baby a box on the ears, as though saying: 'Sit still; don't you know
-how to behave in church?' The little monkeys thus reprimanded turned the
-most solemn faces toward the preacher, and seemed to listen intently to
-what he was saying. They sat demurely until the preacher finished his
-sermon and until he had distributed Gospels and tracts among the
-audience.</p>
-
-<p>"Our 'celestial audience,' seeing our 'terrestrial audience' dispersing,
-then, and not until then, left their seats, and demurely walked back and
-sprang upon the branches again. There were no 'monkey capers' as they
-went; they were as serious as a congregation leaving a church, and sat
-upon the branches in a meditative mood, as though thinking over what
-they had heard the preacher say."</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-<h2>ADVERTISEMENTS.</h2>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-<h2>Arnold</h2>
-
-<h2>Constable &amp; Co.</h2>
-
-<h2>LADIES'</h2>
-
-<h2>FURNISHINGS.</h2>
-
-<p class="center"><i>Fancy Trimmed Waists</i></p>
-
-<p class="center"><i>of Organdie and Grenadine.</i></p>
-
-<p class="center"><i>Colored Silk and Lawn Slips.</i></p>
-
-<h3>NOVELTIES.</h3>
-
-<p class="center"><i>Silk Matinées, Wrappers.</i></p>
-
-<h3>Bridal Sets and Trousseaux.</h3>
-
-<h3>CORSETS.</h3>
-
-<h4>Broadway &amp; 19th st.</h4>
-
-<h4>NEW YORK.</h4>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 142px;">
-<img src="images/ill_029.jpg" width="142" height="300" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<h2>Baker's Chocolate</h2>
-
-<p class="center">made by</p>
-
-<h3>Walter Baker &amp; Co. Ltd.,</h3>
-
-<h4>ESTABLISHED IN 1780,</h4>
-
-<h4>at Dorchester, Mass.</h4>
-
-<p class="center">Has the well-known</p>
-
-<h3>YELLOW</h3>
-
-<h3>LABEL</h3>
-
-<p class="center">on the front of every package,</p>
-
-<p class="center">and the trade-mark</p>
-
-<h4>"La Belle Chocolatiere,"</h4>
-
-<p class="center">on the back.</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<h4>None other Genuine.</h4>
-
-<h3>Walter Baker &amp; Co. Ltd.,</h3>
-
-<h4>DORCHESTER, MASS.</h4>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-<h2>Postage Stamps, &amp;c.</h2>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 124px;">
-<img src="images/ill_030.jpg" width="124" 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. &amp; Conf. Stamps &amp; Collections. <b>STANDARD
-STAMP CO., St. Louis, Mo., Established 1885.</b></p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 150px;">
-<img src="images/ill_031.jpg" width="150" height="104" 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.&nbsp;A. Stegmann</b>, 5941 Cote Brilliant Ave.,
-St. Louis, Mo.</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-<p><b>SPECIAL EASTER PACKET</b>, 50 dif. stamps from 25 countries, cat. over $1,
-price 25c. 100 var. fine packet for beginners, 15c. <span class="smcap">Buckeye Stamp Co</span>.,
-115 Sycamore St., Cin., O.</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-<h2>104</h2>
-
-<p>all different, Bolivia, &amp;c., 10c. Finest approval sheets at 50%
-discount. Agents wanted. 1897 price-list free. Shaw Stamp &amp; Coin Co.,
-Jackson, Mich.</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-<p class="center"><b>FREE!</b> Sample P'k (250) Stamp Hinges with New Stamp List. <span class="smcap">Dover &amp; Co</span>.,
-St. Louis, Mo.</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-<h2>MEFISTO SCARF PIN.</h2>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
-<img src="images/ill_032.jpg" width="400" height="119" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<p>A brand new joke; Mefisto's bulging eyes, bristling ears and ghastly
-grin invite curiosity every time when worn on scarf or lapel, and it is
-fully satisfied when by pressing the rubber ball concealed in your
-inside pocket you souse your inquiring friend with water. Throws a
-stream 30 feet; hose 16 in. long; 1&frac12; inch ball; handsome
-Silver-oxidized face colored in hard enamel; worth 25c. as a pin and a
-dollar as a joker; sent as a sample of our 300 specialties with 112 page
-catalogue post-paid for ONLY 15c.; 2 for 25c.; $1.40 Doz. AGENTS Wanted.</p>
-
-<h4>ROBT. H. INGERSOLL &amp; BRO.,</h4>
-
-<h4>Dept. No. 62, 65 &amp; 67 Cortlandt Street, New York City.</h4>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-<p class="center">Hold their place in the front rank of the publications to which they
-belong.</p>
-
-<h2>HARPER'S</h2>
-
-<h2>PERIODICALS</h2>
-
-<div class="center">
-<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="">
-<tr><td align="left">MAGAZINE, $4.00 a Year</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">WEEKLY, $4.00 a Year</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">BAZAR, $4.00 a Year</td></tr>
-<tr><td align="left">ROUND TABLE, $2.00 a Year</td></tr>
-</table></div>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_496" id="Page_496">[Pg 496]</a></span></p>
-
-<h3>SOFERTERAMONIGO.</h3>
-
-<div class="figleft" style="width: 150px;">
-<img src="images/ill_033.jpg" width="150" height="141" alt="Drop Cap A" />
-</div>
-
-<p>gentleman stopped to listen to the tune, played on a hand-organ, which
-happened to strike his fancy. When the air was finished, he approached
-the Italian, and asked the name of the music.</p>
-
-<p>"Soferteramonigo!" answered the Italian, showing all his teeth in a
-smile of appreciation at the compliment to his melodies.</p>
-
-<p>The gentleman walked on, and endeavored for many months to obtain the
-piece of music with the unpronounceable name. But he never could find
-it. At last one day he heard it played by an American, and again asked
-the name of the air he admired.</p>
-
-<p>"Oh, that," said the player, "is an old thing&mdash;'Silver Threads among the
-Gold!'"</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<h3>IN THE POLO REGIONS.</h3>
-
-<p>"I wonder if the little Eskimo boys have any out-of-door games like
-ours?" said Polly.</p>
-
-<p>"Oh, I guess so," replied Jennie. "They have polo-bears up there, you
-know."</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<h3>THE TROUBLE.</h3>
-
-<p>"Who ever brought you up, Walter?" demanded his aunt, after some small
-bit of rudeness on his part.</p>
-
-<p>"Never was brought up," said Walter. "I've been being taken down all my
-life."</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;">
-<img src="images/ill_034.jpg" width="243" height="300" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<h3>THE FANCIFUL JAP.</h3>
-
-<p>
-<span style="margin-left: 19em;">"The mirror finds all the defects of my face,</span><br />
-<span style="margin-left: 20em;">And in it I'll look all the day</span><br />
-<span style="margin-left: 19em;">To see if it won't with its mystical grace</span><br />
-<span style="margin-left: 20em;">In a little while take them away."</span><br />
-</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<h3>A TEN-CENT QUEEN.</h3>
-
-<p>Imagine a queen travelling around the world on ten cents! It seems
-preposterous, and yet it is a fact. There is a certain man out West,
-according to the St. Louis <i>Republic</i>, who will do this for any one who
-will send him an order, whether it comes from England, China, or any
-other foreign country, and he says:</p>
-
-<p>"I have frequent demands from all parts of the world. You see, I send
-these queens as follows: You will notice that there are two little
-circular compartments in this royal carriage," and he produced a little
-wooden box, "one in which the queen is kept, and the other for her
-suite; the little plug in the centre of the box is solidified, candied
-honey, which will furnish food to the regal party until they arrive at
-their destination.</p>
-
-<p>"The compartments are covered with a fine wire gauze to prevent the
-escape of the insects.</p>
-
-<p>"This large one in the first compartment, the one with the delicately
-shaped long body and beautiful markings, is an Italian queen bee, and
-she is valued at $10. I have queens valued all the way from $2 to $25.</p>
-
-<p>"The others, in the second compartment, are the suite, or worker bees,
-that will accompany her on the trip not only for company, but also for
-the heat they will produce to keep her comfortable on the stormy voyage
-over the great cold seas.</p>
-
-<p>"After we have the bees safely stowed away in their proper compartments,
-we switch the little lid around and fasten it with a tiny screw at the
-ends, and on its top surface the address of the consignee is written,
-the stamp is affixed, and away goes her majesty, a queen sold into
-slavery for the trifling sum of $10, and sent to her destination on a
-ten-cent stamp.</p>
-
-<p>"Bee-culture has grown so rapidly in the United States that there are
-few farmers now who have not a substantial apiary and who do not net a
-handsome income each year from the honey the bees yield, and besides the
-farmer there are thousands of gentlemen and ladies who are apiarists
-purely from the fascination the hobby affords."</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<h3>LIGHTS FOR THE FEET.</h3>
-
-<p>Genius has given fashionable folks a new plaything with which to amuse
-themselves. It is in literal obedience to the Biblical injunction
-regarding a lamp unto the feet, for that is exactly where the new light
-is to be worn. The Baltimore <i>Herald</i> says:</p>
-
-<p>"It consists of a tiny lantern with sides of very stout glass, mounted
-upon a stirrup which straddles the foot of the user, a tongue resting on
-the toe of the foot, and acting as part of the support.</p>
-
-<p>"There are several means of furnishing light for this curious lamp.
-Electricity and oil are the most common. The former is likely to be the
-more popular method, as there is no danger of grease leaking out upon
-the shoe.</p>
-
-<p>"A tiny storage battery has been constructed to furnish light. It is
-carried in the pocket, and a flexible wire passes from the battery and
-through the pocket down to the lamp."</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 318px;">
-<img src="images/ill_035.jpg" width="318" height="450" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<p class="center">"<span class="smcap">Do you know the lesson</span>?"</p>
-
-<p class="center">"<span class="smcap">I guess so</span>."</p>
-
-<p class="center">"<span class="smcap">Well, what's Utopia? Is it a nation</span>?"</p>
-
-<p class="center">"<span class="smcap">Possibly; a sort of imaginary nation</span>."</p>
-
-<p class="center">"<span class="smcap">Oh, I see; it's a notion&mdash;eh</span>?"</p>
-
-<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3>
-
-<div class="footnote">
-
-<p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> Begun in <span class="smcap">Harper's Round Table</span> No. 888.</p></div></div>
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-<pre>
-
-
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