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woods in the darkness, guided only by
the sound of footsteps ahead, it became
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the possibility of recovering tte money
from so large a party, and on this point
his doubts increased each instant.
“What’s the use of keeping on, Mike?”
he whispered. “We shall soon be so far

from the show that there’ll be no chance
of getting back, and it won’t do any
goo

if we do overhaul these men, There

SAID NEAL, AS HE LEAPED FROM THE CARRIAGE.

must be at least ten in the crowd, and! met Sim Thomas’ frinds, an’ have no in-
half that number could polish us off|tintion of runnin’ my nose foreninst a
nicely.” hornet’s nest.”

“I’]l not say but you're spakin’ the| Tnen Mike rela sed into silence, and a
truth, lad. I’m only hopin’ to kape thim | few moments’ reflection convinced Neal
in sight till mornin’, whin, perhaps, we | that it was already too late to retrace
can sind a message to Misther Howe. I’m | their steps.
not spoilin’ for a fight since the night I! They had traveled at full speed for

 
 

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fully half an hour, taking no heed to
the winding of the course, amd, so far as
getting out of the woods was concerned,
it was quite as well to follow those who
knew the way.

Thirty minutes more passéd, andesthe
sound of footsteps suddenly ceased, caus-
ing Mike to halt.

An instant previous the noise made by
the fugitives as they forced their way
through the underbrush had been heard
distinetly. % ;

The pursuers could not have been dis-
tanced so quickly, and they listened in-
tently; but without hearing the slightest
sound,

“There’s a house near-by, an’ all hands
have sneaked into it, or else they’re
waitin’ to see if anybody is on their
trail,” Mike: whispered. “We’ll creep
along aisy for a short bit.”

Neal copied every movement made by
the Irishman in this cautious advance,
and before twenty yards had been tra-
versed a small shanty built of roughly-
hewn logs could be distinguished in the
gloom directly ahead.

The two crept forward until they were
at one side of the building where the nu-
merous interstices admitted of a full
view of the interior, and the hum of con-
versation was distinctly audible.

Eleven men, none of whom Neal re-
membered ever having seen before, were
seated on the floor, in the center of
which was a lighted candle stuck in the
neck of a bottle, and near-by were the
. two bags of money.

More than one of the party bore traces
of the late conflict, yet. all were very
jolly because of their success, and the
copious draughts of liquor with which
each was refreshing himself in turn from
a tin can.

“Don’t swallow too much of that
stuff,” the leader of the gang said sternly,
as one of the party held the vessel to his
lips an unusually long while. “ We’re
not through with this job until the circus
people give up the chase, for there’s no
question but that some of them will be
after us by daylight.”

“Then let’s divide the money and be
off,” the man who had been checked in
his indulgence cried quickly.

“And whoever is caught with it in his
- pocket carries plenty of evidence to con-
vict him,” the leader replied, with a
sneer. “There should be sixty or seventy
dollars apiece here, and in case a con-
stable overhauls you how can you ac-
count for it?”

“TI don’t calculate to give any of them
a chance.”

“What you calculate on, and what may .

happen are two different things. There’s
only one way to finish this job as it
ought to be done. We'll bury the b

here, an’ leave Tim Dacey to his wood-
phopp
In three days the cireus will be so far
from this part of the country that we
need have no fear. It’s only a question
of waiting a few hours in order to make
the thing sure.”

“Hank is right,” another of the party
said, approvingly. “His plans have
worked smooth so far, an’ I in for
lettin’ him manage the whole affair.”

“Then if you take my advice,” the
leader continued, “we'll put these bags
under ground, and get away from here
mighty quick, Jones can bring Tim some
grub to-morrow afternoon, and stay with
him till the rest of us come back.”

One or two appeared eager to receive
their share of the plunder at once; but
the majority overruled them, and the
leader set about digging a hole in the
floor of earth at one corner of the shanty.

At this — in the proceedings Mike
seized Neal’s hand, and began to move
cautiously away from the buildings.

Not until he was beyond sound of the
thieves’ voices did the Irishman halt,
and then he whispered :

“Gettin’ hould av that money is as ais
as rollin’ off a slippery log, me lad,
We've simply to hide here till thim spal-
peens lave, an’ I’ll answer for the one
what's lift behind.”

Neal nodded his head in token of
agreement to any plan the sword-swal-
lower might propose, and the .two
walked on a short distance futther
where a tangle of bushes and vines
afforded a perfect hiding-place.

Here they remained in almost perfect
silence fully an hour, when the ‘ay
light of coming dawn could be seen above
the tops of the trees, and then Mike
made his way once more toward the
building.

Not a sound was heard as he and Neal
tried in vain to peer between the logs,
save the heavy, regular breathing of one
person.

The candle was no longer burning, and
it ‘seemed reasonable to suppose the
grhers had gone on asthe leader sug-
gested.

‘ Make did not propese to wait until day-
ght.

Stepping cautiously back a few pares,
he whispered to Neal:

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“I’m goin’ to make the acquaintance
of that gintleman now. Follow elose at
my heels, an’ _whin I grapple-wid him try
to. find thé candle. ere are. some
matches.” Sf

Then the Irishman went noiselessly to-
ward the door, which, fortunately, was
fastened only with a wooden latch, and,
opening it gently, crept info the hut
guided only by the sense of touch, for
the darkness was so profound that noth-
ing could be distinguished.

Neal was only a few feet in the. rear;
but before he reached the threshold a‘cry
of surprise and alarm told that Mike
had found the sleeper.

Then came the noise of a struggle, and
Neal rushed into the hut, doing his best
to get a view of the: combatants as he
lighted a match.

‘he candle was 0n a rude’shelf~in one
corner, near where the money had been
buried, and in. thirty seconds the. wick
was ignited.

The feeble flame revealed the two men
struggling fiercely, and there was every
indication that the Irishman had met his
equal.

“Hit him over the head wid the spade,
lad!” Mike shouted, as the thief made
one desperate effort to gain the mastery.

Neal grasped the implement with the
intention of obeying; but at that. in-
stant the two whirled around and around
until one could hardly be distinguished
from the other.

To strike a blow then might be to dis-
able the wrong man, and dropping the
spade, he seized the stranger by the legs,
pulling him to the floor after a severe
struggle.

Mike was on his antagonist’s back in
a twinkling, and, grasping him by the
throat. paused for a moment to recover
his breath while he took a hasty glance
around the room.

“Give me the ax, lad,” he said, after
studying the situation a short time, “an’
if the spalpeen so much as moves the lid
of his eye [’ll brain him.”

Neal obeyed, and the Irisbman, hold-
ing the weapon above the prisoner’s
head, warned him of the consequences if
he should make any movement, however
slight.

“Now, lad, we've plinty of time to do
the job nately,” he continued. “Tear
that blanket into» strips till you’ve rope
enough to tie the haythen, an’ whin its
been done we’ll trouble him for the cash
he an’ the other gintlemen took from the
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CHAPTER XXVIIL
REPRISALS,

HE prisoner admitted himself van-
quished instantly Mike was on his
back, and, having a wholesome
dread of the weapon which was
poised threateningly above his head, re-
motionless. '

Neal tore the greasy army-blanket into
strips about three inches wide, and after
the man’s feet were bound securely to-

ether, Mike fastened his hands behind

is back.

“Now, lad, take hould wid me, an”
we'll set him ay in a corner where he’ll
be comfortable like, for he’s got an in-
vitation to stay in this same place till
we get out of the woods.”

“Are you guine: to leave me tied an’
unable to help myself?” the prisoner
asked, reoeaiys as the two placed him
on a log where he could lean against the
side of the building.

“That’s jist what we'll be after doin’.

Your frinds are comin’ to bring grub
some time to-day, an’ you’ll not suffer
as much as we would if the gang had us
in the same box,” Mike replied, and
then, making certain once more that it
would be impossible for the man to re-
lease himself by any amount of squirm-
ing and twisting, he added as he seized
the spade:
- “Now, me lad, hould the candle here
till T can see what we’re doin’, an" it
won't be many miuntes before Jacob
Howe’s money is in our possession.”

The bags had not been buried very
deeply, and but a small amount of labor
was necessary in order to unearth them.

There was every reason why the return
to the circus should be begun without
delay, for some of the thieves might
come earlier than had been decided upon,
therefore Mike took up the heaviest load,
as he said to Neal:

“T’m thinkin’ you can get away wid
that one aisy enough, an’ now let’s start.
It’s along trip we have before us, an’
no one can tell whether we’ll find a team

 

as you an’ June did. We must be at the
show this afternoon in time for , the, per-

'formance, or “the ould man will lose his

head intirely.

Then the two set out on their long
journey, Mike leading the way and trust-
ing to his memory of the previous tramp,

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paces in either direction,

shouted to the prisoner, “for if you had
all that’s belongin’ to yez, your body
would be sore to pay for the tramp
you’ve made honest people. take.”

Until sunrise thestwowtraveled-at their
utmost speed, diampered in movement by
weight of nioney, and ignorant as to
whether théy were proceeding in the
Sr dire¢tion,

When the day -had fully dawned they
were yet in the forest, and, with the sun
as a guide, Mike kept steadily on, heed-
ing not Neal’s frequent requests for a
halt; but bent only on arriving at the
tenting grounds in time forthe after-
noon’s performance, 3

Noon came, and they were yet in the
thicket.

By this time Neal was so thoroughly
exhausted thatit Seemed impossible to
take-another step, and despite the Irish-
man’s protest he threw himself upon the

round, declaring it impossible to go any

urther.

“Perhaps you’re right. It’s too late
for the show this afternoon, an’ we may

) as well spare our poor feet a bit.”

Then Mike lay down beside the boy,
using the bag of money as a pillow, and
in ten minutes both were sleeping
soundly.

It was nearly sunset. when the Irish-
man awakened, and, arousing, Neal, he
insisted on continuing the journey at re-
doubled’ speed.) ~ .

-Both were. hungry and foot-sore; but
the thought of spending another night in
the wo nerved them to put forth every
effort, and not until ten o’clock in the
evening did they arrive within sight of
a building of any kind.

Then, to their great surprise, they
found themelves in the town where the
Royal Amphitheater had last exhibited,
having traveled nearly at right angles
with the course which should have been
pursued,

The distance which separated them
from the circus seemed but a. trifling
matter now a conveyance could be pro-
cured, and, stopping only long enough to
eat a hearty meal, they set out behind a
pair of the landlord’s fastest horses.

In a comfortable carriage, with the
money on the seat beside them, Mike and
Neal yielded to the desire for sleep, and
during the journey both recovered from
the fatigue of the long tramp.

The tents were erected, and the morn-
ing parade had just come to an end when
they drove onthe grounds, a loud, tri-
umphant shout from the giant proclaim-
ing to the remainder of the company
that the..missing ones had finally re-
turned.

The proprietor, looking harrassed and
sad because of his heavy loss, was on
the point of setting out once more in
search of the robbers, and there was an
immediate and decided change in his ap-
pearance when Neal announced the pleas-
ing tidings of their successful chase.

e’ve brought back your money, Mr.
Howe; but couldn’t get here in time for
yesterday’s performances,” the boy said,
as he leaped from the carriage.

It was several seconds before the_pro-
prietor could realize the happy and un-
expected fact, and not until he had
counted the contents of the bags was he
fully convinced.

Then, shaking his two employees by
the hands, he thanked them over and
over again for the service rendered; but
without offering anything further in the
way of reward than to pay for the use of
the carriage they had hired.

“Now is the time to strike for our
wages,” Mike whispered to Neal, as they
went insearch of June and Mrs. Wilson.
“Tt’ll be mighty hard lines if we can’t
get that much after all ourtrouble.” |

The reception which the wanderers met
with in the dressing-room was more than
cordial. ,

It seemed as if June would never cease
congratulating them on their safe return,
and more than a dozen times during the
forenoon were they forcea to relate the

story of their adventure in all its de-

tailse ©

Even Commodore Tiny forgot his ani-
mosity to the giant, and remained some
time in the same tent with that individ-
ual, while, in a pompous manner, he al-
ternately praised the Irishman and Neal
for the zeal displayed in Mr. Howe’s be-
half, and berated them for having so
recklessly ventured in the midst of a
gang of robbers.

The manager of the side show was
forced to send several times for his liv-
ihe Cusiogsaees before they were willing
to bring their visit to a close, and when
finally the little man toddled away in an
almost friendly manner with the giant,
June related the particulars of the pre-
vious day’ siexhibition.

“Lrode twice at each performance in
order to lengthen: the programme, for it
was terribly short.with the. sword-swal-
lowing act omitted. } got along nicely,
peeeree nd Mr. Wilson says it won’t

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son this morning.” Ce
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Wilson asked, as he entered the’
just in=time to hear this last rem
“It'll be rather hardon Neal, afté
his adventures; but if he makes not
“Tm not very tired, "the boy fm
“and I reckon it won't hurt the pel
ance any if I take.a lesson now.” —
Word was given for two horses!
saddled, and June had started to!
the dressing-room to prepare for f
ercise, when Sim Thomas, accomp
by a stranger, made his way in
tent. Bf,
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the sword-swallower leaped to his
with the intention of adminll
summary punishment; but Mr. Wi
seizing him by the wrist, whispered

“Be careful, Mike! ‘This begin
look serious. He never would have @
to come here without some show of 1
rights.” :

In this Mr. Wilson was correct. —

After exchanging a few words
the ex-hostler the stranger stepped
ward, and, taking a formidable |
document from his pocket, said #
opened it: ;

“I am herewith commanded b
judge of ‘this county to bring befo
the child known as June Foss, an
hold a warrant for the arrest of
Howe on the charge of kidnappping.

While the man was speaking *
glared fiercely at Thomas, and nol
save the superior strength of the!
master prevented an encounter.

Sim aiccerec afraid that even the
jesty of the law would not protect”
and edged toward the flap of the
whence he could beat a hasty retreat
should become necessary, j

June stocd for a moment looki
the officer as if not understanding
he said, and then, burying her face
folds of Mrs. Wilson’s dress, er
frantic tones:

“Don’t let him take me away!
let him take me away! He isn’t
ther! I know he isn’t!” .

Mrs. Wilson did her best to soot
frightened girl, while her husband *®
undecided as to whether it would bt
to warn his employer of the w
that he might make his escape, or
the law to take its course.

Before he could decide this qu
Mr. Howe walked into the tent, we
his old, complacent smile now the
money had been recovered, and the

   
  

   
  

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WHY DAYS WERE NAMED

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was anciently dedicated to the s¥
to its worship; Monday, from the
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day, from Tiwesdeg, the day of Tif
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war; the name of Wednesday is d@
from the northern mythology, and®
fies Wodan’s or Odin’s day. The 4
Saxon form was Wodanesdag,
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form. The ancient Romans dea&
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Dies, and at a later day it was@
crated to Thor, the god of thundel,
had much in common with the I®
deity. Friday was so named beca"
was dedicated to Frija or Fria, the
dess of matrimony and the wife of)
or Wodan, and Saturda
termed by the Anglo-Saxons Ct
Saterndag, or Saternesdag, sign!)
Saturn’s day, because it was ded!
to that god.

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| AMONG THE ESQUIMAUK:

OR,

Adventures Under the Arctic Circle.

sietibn

By EDWARD S. ELLIS.
Author of “Ransomed,” “Enola,” “Boy Pioneer
Serles,” “Wyoming Series,” “‘Deerfoot Series,”
“Log Cabin Series,” etc.

(“AMONG THE ESQUIMAUX” was commenced in No. 49.
k numbers can be obtained ef all News Agents.]

CHAPTER XXV.
THE COMING SHADOW.

G OCAK, the Esquimau, had no
~“ wish to affect any mystery as to
the cause of his misgiving. He
had not mentioned it of his own
accord, because he was debating in his
mind which of two courses to adopt; to
Temain longer in the cavern or to set out
at once for his home on the coast. It
may be said that except for the appear-
ance of the wolves he would have in-
Sisted that the start should be made with-
out delay, and pushed with the utmost
vigor until their destination was reached.
: eas this was not to be thought of
sid hee circumstances. To venture out-
atte o cavern was to invite an instant
stats ties a brutes ba es in oe
@ ey possessed a daring for-

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Docak’ ‘explai i
plained that an alarmin
change of weather was at hand. He

iste’ Signs so well that there was no
ised ake on his part. As he had prom-
ae a was not in the nature of a thaw
bain sae of temperature, but may be ex-
Whi in by that expressive word with
acu the reader is familiar—blizzard.
bl rare, has gone through one of those
he as ul visitations will never forget it.
da Sine of afew years ago was so gen-
memory Toughout our ey that the
as Y must remain through life with

Buta blizzard in the Arctic regions is

4 terror, indeed, It i
ins , : meant in the present
for ae & snowstorm that might last
Deratue. @ hurricane of wind, and a tem-
Consun. of Such fearful cold that would
f Gre almost like fire.
face of Several feet of snow on the sur-
that which now covered the
» and too fine to bear the weight
with pghtest animal with the air white
illions of particles, eddying,
So that and flying hither and thither,
Vance. 0°, could not see a step in ad-
emo With the gale careering like a
stronge Shed the mya wastes—the
attens : hunter might well shrink from
which) ‘ng a journey one-tenth of that
ee between them and the coast.
= nifetawe Suggested that Docak might
cisively t} en, he shook his head so de-
ore A lat it sent a chill through the
tenance ° Were watching his dusky coun-
ae and listening to his words. Such
would poke that whereof he knew. He
eatlow nee out hope, if he had any justi-
That the doing so, but he saw none.
Was chee blizzard was at hand, that it
= ady careering from the far north
ust speedily arrive, was as good as
2 The only chance that
Shorter durate> that it might prove of
should | uration than he feared. If it
y twe va no more than twelve or possi-
gle ont y-four hours, they might strug-
quences. | h it, without ‘serious conse-
8, but if beyond that (as he was

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little ooo = it would be), there was

Howey r, gi

th er, Since they must stay where
Srepanene until the following cident,
the ni pieces ,were made for spendin
vein: 58 t; which it will be borne in min
the 289 Means as long as many which
atten at certain seasons in the.high

des,

t was decid i
un .“ecided that Rob should sit u

ath might and then awake Fred,
hours, we, Standing guard for several
until Narouid arouse Jack to take charge
@ Es avlight. Inasmuch as this was
as wi ae 8 own proposition, which,
duty tox © perceived, relieved him of
ux Steet) part of the night, the others
servin he its significance. He was re-
was liken mselt for the time when there
Services, y to be more urgent need of his

the eaomment was made on the fact, and
finished. © Preparations were quickly
friends { Docak added a caution to his
Possible j at they should be as s aring as
already conse tse of the fuel. They had
a ed a moiety of it, and
Pproach of the blizzard would sender'tt

val
to hola beyond estimate. Enough only
Wolves at a safe distance

e
was to be burned.

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aioli ve about that-an hour later

the S the only one awake in
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slowy back and forth over the brief space
within.

“It’s getting colder,” he said to himself
more than once; “I had a hope that Docak
might be wrong, but he isn’t; we shall
catch it within a few hours. This is a
bad place to be snowed ri %

He glanced continually toward the
entrance, for he could not forget the
wolves which were the indirect cause of
their coming peril. They seemed, in
spite of the disgusted remarks of Jack,
to have become satisfied that nothing
was to be gained by hovering about the
refuge. So many of their comrades had
failen, and the fire burned so persist-
ently that the others must have felt a
certain degree of discouragement.

Now and then a _ how! echoed among
the desolate hills, with a strange power,
and was immediately answered by scores
from as many different points, but there
was no such eager crowding as marked
the first appearance of the brutes. Rob
glanced repeatedly at the opening with-
out seeing one of them.

But the youth was too wise to be
caught, off his guard. He allowed the
fire to smolder. until the figures of his
friends were only barely visible in the
gloom, and his own form became shad-
owy, as it slowly moved back and forth
over the floor of the cavern, with his rifle
reatly for instant use.

He heard a soft tip tipping on the
snow, and there was no mistaking its
meaning.

“They’re there,” he said, peering out-
ward in the gloom and listening intently,
“and are as watchful for a chance as
ever.”

Turning toward the crevice which ad-
mitted light, and was too straight to al-
low the smallest wolf to pass through,
he caught the glow of a pair of eyes.
They were motionless, and the wolf evi-
dently was studying the interior, with a
view of learning the prospect for an ex-
cursion within.

The temptation to fire was strong, but
the eyes noiselessly vanished before the
gun could be brought to a level.

Rob stood intently listening. He heard
the stealthy footsteps pass along the side
of the cavern toward the front, and he
moved in that direction, but placed him-
self at one side so as to be out of sight of
any one looking directly into the mouth.
He had not long to wait when the same
keenness of ear told him. that the brute
was cautiously entering. The fire was
smoldering lower than ever, the brand at
the entrance had died out long before,
and no one could be seen on guard. The
brute must have made up his mind that
he had “struck it rich.” In. his selfish-
ness he did not summon. his friends to
the feast, but resolved to devour the four
persons all by himself, and that, too,
after having had his. full share of the
musk ox and his fallen friends!

There was just enough light in the cav-
ern for Rob to note everything. Being
at one side of the entrance he could not
be detected by the sneaking brute, which
also was invisible to him. He must come
further forward before they could discern
each other.

The wolf, one of the largest of his spe-
cies, stood just outside with his ears
pricked, his head raised. and his eyes
roaming over the interior. Everything
looked promising, but he had learned to
be suspicious of those bipeds, whose
hands were always against them.

He stood in this attitude for several
minutes, as stationary as if carved in
stone. Then he lifted one of his fore-
feet, held it suspended, as though he
were pointing game, and then advanced
a couple of steps. This brought him far
enough into the cavern for the lad to
see the end of his nose, but the beast
still failed to detect that shadow at one
side of the entrance that was calmly
awaiting the critical moment.

But he saw the dimly outlined forms
near the smoldering fire, and licked his
chops in anticipation. Nothing could be
ey ne for the grandest feast of

is life.

At that moment a howl rent the air at
no great distance. It must have startled
this prowler, and told him that, if he
delayed his meal any longer he must
share it with an unlimited number,

He started on a silent walk straight
for the forms, heedless of the figure that
had pointed the rifle at him, while he
was yet out of sight. All was like the
tomb until the gun was fired. Then
since the muzzle almost touched. the
brute, why, enough has been said.

 

CHAPTER XXVI.
WALLED IN.

Y daybreak, when all the party
were awake, the blizzard foretold

by the native had fully arrived.
It was a terror, indeed. The cold
was frightful, and the air outside was
white with snow, which was driven

 

horizontally by the hurricane, as though
shot from the mouths of myriad pieces
of ordnance. It shrieked about the cav-
ern, and drove the white particles so
fiercely through the narrow crevice that
Docak hastened to shove his bear-skin
into it. This only partially filled the
opening and the snow spun in around it
clean across the flinty floor.

The regular entrance was partly pro-
tected by its own projection, but, at
times, a blast entered that fairly took
away their breath. The fire was neces-

sary to keep from freezing, but the sup-|

ply of fuel was growing low, and the last
stick must soon be reached. What then
would be the fate of the party if the
blizzard continued?

It was useless to discuss the future and
no one did so; the present was with them,
and the question was how to live from
hour to hour.

On shooting the intruding wolf, Rob |
had flung his carcass away. The report |

awakened the others, and, rising to his
feet, Docak passed far enough outside to
bring it in again. He did not speak, but
all understood the meaning of the ac-
tion; that body might be the means of
saving them-from starvation.

Enough of the previous night’s meal |

remained to afford a nourishing break-
fast, but they partook sparingly, prefer-
ring to use that in preference to the new
supply. Happily thirst was a torture
that need never be apprehended.

Jack Cosgrove braved the blast to that
degree that he forced himself through the
opening and stood several minutes out-
side, shading his eyes and striving to
pierce the blinding turmoil.

Allin vain. The gale almost carried
him off his feet, and his vision could no
more penerate the furious swirl of snow,
than if it were the darkest night that
ever covered the earth. The cold was so

piercing that he was glad to hasten back |

among his friends, and shiver and crouch
over the fire.

“By the _— horned spoon, Docak !
s’pose we had started for home last
night?”

“Wish had,” was the sententious re-
sponse.

“Why, we wouldn’t have been: half-
way there by this time, and we would
have perished all together.”

“We trabel fast—mebbe storm not dere
yet.”

This intimation that the blizzard might
be less terrific at so slight a distance was
incredible, but the Esquimau was _posi-
tive that it would have: been far better
had they set out early inthe evening.
By rapid traveling they might have cov-
ered the greater part of the distance be-
fore morning, and could have fought the

few remaining miles in the teeth of the

gale.

But'it was equally useless to discuss
what might have been. They were im-
prisoned in the cavern, thirty miles from
succor and with no possibility that any
friends would ever take the trouble to
search for their bodies. All they could
do was to rely under Heaven upon their
own exertions.

Without any explanation as to his in-
tentions, and leaving his gun behind
him, the native plunged through the
opening and disappeared in the blizzard
outside.

Born and reared in Greenland, amid
Arctic snows and appalling tempests, the
hardy Esquimau was far better fitted to
undergo such trials of endurance than
could be any native of a temperate clime.

“Where do you suppose he has gone?”
asked Rob, wonderingly.

“T don’t know,” replied Jack; “but if
he goes far he’ll never come back agin.”

“It doesn’t seem to me,” said Fred,
coming to the question of the present for
the first time, “that the outlook is as
bad as he would make us believe.”

“Why not?”

“We have enough food to last a week
or two, or even longer, and the blizzard
certainly won’t keep it up that long.”

“You can’t be sartin about that,” said
Jack; “it may last for several weeks, but
s’pose it’s only for three or four days,
ary, are two big things that we must

ace.”

“What are they?”

“What to do after it stops; the snow
will be several feet deep on top of that
which is now on the ground; it will be
too fine and soft to bear our weight, and
can be traveled over only with snow-
shoes which we haven’t got. How then
are we going to fight our way thirty
miles. through it?”

“It will be a hard job, but no. greater
than that. which many explorers have
undergone. With Docak as our guide, I
think we can pull through.

“But what is the other matter you refer
to?” asked Rob.

“This wood will soon go, and then how
are we going to keep from freezing to
death?”

“If we will huddle together as close]
as we can with the bear-skin wrap’
about us I think we can. stand it.”

 

 

 

“T like the way you chaps talk,” said
the sailor, admiringly, “and if we have
to go down we’ll doso with colors flying.
It’s the downheartedness of Docak that
knocks me askew; if he would show a
braver front I would feel better.”

“Possibly he is more hopeful than he
pretends.” ;

“No, he isn’t that sort of chap; he
knows better than we just what all this
means. Whew!”

The exclamation was caused by a sud-
den outburst that sent the snow whirling
through the opening and the crevice,
from which the bear-skin dropped, as if
struck a blow from the other side. Jack
ran forward, picked it up, and thrust it
back, hardly able to breathe from the
fury of the gale in his face.

The snow shot through the opening,
too, scattering the brands of fire in every
direction. Had the shelter been any-
thing else excepting the solid rock that
it was, it must have been swept like
chaff from its foundations.

The explosion, as it may be calied,
lasted but a minute or so. The boys
hastily gathered up the scattered brands,
and, flinging them together, they were
fanned by the tempest into a vigorous
flame, whose warmth, slight as it was,
was grateful beyond measure to the three
gathered around it.

“Docak is wrong in regretting that we
did not start last night,” said Jack Cos-
grove; “that style of storm is raging at
this moment over hundreds of miles, and
it would have made short work of all of
us.”
acre about the Nautilus, if she is in
it?”

“She can manage it, if she has plent
of sea room, but I hope she is far enoug
off to dodge this blizzard. She ought to
be at any rate.”

The gale did the party an unexpected
favor. It was a substantial one, too,
which they appreciated. It drove the
snow against the troublesome crevice
with such fury that it quickly formed a
solid bank, extending far above it. This
ended the drifting of the particles inside,
and protected them from the cutting
wind.

At the same time it did something of
the same nature with the entrance, where
it soon became banked to that extent that
little blew within, and the gale hardly
disturbed them,

Seeing what had taken place, Jack
withdrew the bear-skin from where it
had been stuffed into the opening, and

|spread it in the farthermost corner of

the cavern.
“Come, my hearties,” said he, cheer-
fully, “we’ve got nothing to do but to

make ourselves comfortable. We won’t
burn any more wood till Docak comes
back.”

They huddled together, and, though
the cold made their teeth chatter and
their bodies shiver, they found consider-
able relief and were willing to hope on.

They could feel no anxiety about the
absent native. It was certain he would
not go far enough from the cavern to en-
danger his safety or to imperil his re-
turn. Some definite object must have
led him forth.

“T wonder if it is for food,” suggested
Fred.

“No; for. there’s no possibility that
the wolves left anything,” replied Rob;
“and then, too, we have enough to last a
good while~”

At that moment. there was a flurry at
the entrance, and the Esquimau, resem-
bling asnow man, stooped and pushed his
way in.

Entering, he flung a_ half-dozen small
sticks upon the tiny pile at the side of
the cavern. He had gone forth in quest of
fuel, and was able to secure only that
miserable supply, really not worth tak-
ing into account.

CHAPTER XXVII.
“COME ON!”

   
  

-\E Esquimau’s depression continued.
2 After flinging down the few bits of
L. wood he looked across the cavern
“7 to where the friends were huddled
together, but did not speak. Then he
lanced at the crevice, now so completely
blocked with snow that they were pro-
boened against any more drifting in upon
them,

The three respected his silence, and
held their peace.. He stood a minute or
two, looking gioomily into the fire,
which he replenished, partly from the
scant supply he had brought. While it
was gaining strength he drew his knife,
deftly cut anumber of pieces from fhe
frozen body of the wolf and proceeded to
cook it over the blaze. .Had he been
alone he would have devoured it raw,
but he knew the sentiments of his come

nions.

“Well, Docak,” said Jack, feeling that
the silence ought not to continue, “it
looks as if we are in for a long stay. We

 
 

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shall have enough to keep usalive a good
while, and, when you’re ready, you can
come and snuggle down beside us.”

“Not now,” he replied, continuing his
culinary work, with what seemed a
wasteful disregard of fuel until he was
through. c

When nothing more remained worth
attention he held up a piece, consider-
ably scorched, and, looking at the others,
asked :

“Eat now?”

“No; we'll wait till morning,” replied
Rob, speaking for the rest.

“All right.’

But he was not disposed to wait if they
were. He made quite a meal, with as
much evident enjoyment as if it had been
upon the choicest part of the musk ox.

e took care, however, to leave a good
supply against the “rainy day,” that he
felt no doubt would come to them all.

The dismal day wore slowly away, and

with a feeling of unutterable loneliness | in

they saw the second night of their en-
forced stay in the cavern close around
them. The cold seemed to intensify
with the approach ot darkness, and the
supply of wood had grown so slight that
the warmth was barely perceptible...

The blizzard raged with unabated fury.
The gale shrieked around the rocks, the
blinding snow whirled and eddied until
it seemed that it must bury them out of
sight, and the outlook was woeful enough
to chill the bravest heart. The three in
the corner adhered to their resolution not
to eat any of the food prepared before the
morrow. They might need it then to aid
their systems in withstanding the terrific
strain, but, as in the case of the bear on
the iceberg, it must be the last resort.

The Esquimau declined their invitation
to join them in the corner. He was
thickly clad, and was so accustomed to
the rigors of the Arctic winter that he
needed no such help. He seated himself
near by, and talked a littie, until, at a
late hour, troubled sleep settled over all.

A gleam of hope came with the break
of day. Docak was the first to awake,
and, without disturbing the others, he
forced his way through the entrance and
took a survey of the weather and his sur-
roundings,

The blizzard was over. The fall of
snow had ceased, little wind was stir-
ring, but the cold was terrible. Toughened
as he was, he shrank when first exposed
to it. The party had been walled in so
tightly that the warmth of their bodies
was of more help than would be sus-
pected,

Quick to note the change in _ the
weather the native studied the sky with
its numerous signs in the effort to learn
what was likely to come in the near fu-
ture. f
Great as was his skill at this it was
now taxed to the utmost. The sun was
not visible, and the difficulty became the
greater; but he tarried until he had per-
fected his theory.

The discouraging feature which the na-
tive saw about the matter was that the
blizzard had ceased fora time only. He
believed it would soon resume its fury,
fully as great, if not greater than before,
and it might continue for days and possi-
bly weeks. If, when that time should
come, it found them inthe cavern they
were doomed beyond the power of mortal
man to save themselves.

But the permepest was equally hopeless,
if the lull lasted only afew hours, for,
when it should break forth again it
would overtake them in the ye plain
(provided they made the start he had in
mind), where no screen against its resist-
less power could be secured.

It should be understood that Docak’s
solicitude was on account of his friends.
Had he been alone he would not have
hesitated to set out for the coast, and
with every reason, too, to believe he
could make it, even if the battle of the
elements were renewed when but a
small oe of the way thither.

‘But he had three others in charge, and
it was hard to decide whether to urge
them to make the attempt now or wait
awhile, in the hope that he could settle
with certainty the extent of the cessation
of the blizzard.

The additional snow was between two
and three feet deep, where it had not
been drifted by the gale. With the help
of snow-shoes it would have been an
easy matter to skim over it, but there
were no snow-shoes to be had, as has

been shown, the new fall was of such fine |'

character that they would sink its full
= when essaying to walk upon it.

hen he turned about and re-entered

the cavern his friends were astir. Their

appetites had assumed that edge that

they eagerly attacked some of the meat

repared the night before. The few em-

: ae had been stirred into a sickly blaze,

but not another stick remained. The
warmth was only perceptible when the
a hands were held almost against

The Esquimau smiled grimly when he
saw what they were doing, but with the

reticence that had marked his course
since refuge was taken in the cavern, he
held his peace. Jack greeted him pleas-
antly, and he nodded in return, and then
again passed outside.

The sailor and lads had peeped after
him, and discovered that the fall of snow
was over, and the wind was not blow-
ing. This gave them considerable hope,
inasmuch as they were unable to read its
full meaning like the native.

“It’s easy enough to see what he has
on his mind,” remarked Jack.

“What is it?” queried Rob.

“He is considering whether we shall
make a start now for the coast or wait
awhile longer.”

“What’s the use of waiting,” asked
Rob; “when it can’t be any better and
may grow worse? .The snow that has fal-
len wiil stay where it is for months, so
we can gain nothing there. I’m in favor
of starting for home while it is yet morn-

That's the way it strikes me, but he’ll
make up his mind, and whatever he ae
we'll do. Heisn’t in the mood to take
any advice from us; I never seed him so
glum before.” :

“We're quite well protected,” added
Fred, who was eager to be off, if that,
should be the decision; “we have the,
thickest kind of clothing, heavy shoes, —
and warm undergarments. Then we
mustn’t forget that when we start through
the snow the labor will help to warm us.
Fact is, Idon’t understand why Docak ,
hesitates.”

The Esquimau used less time than they
supposed in ening his conclusion.
But, with a view of giving him a hint of |
their wishes, Jack and the boys prepared
themselves as if it had been settled that
they should venture at once upon the,

erilous attempt. They carefully ad-|
justed their clothing, tying the lower |
parts of their trousers about their ankles,
so as to keep out the snow, buttoned |
their heavy coats to their chins, pulled |
up the collars more carefully, and fixed |
their caps in place, though all this had
been done to a certain extent before.

When nothing remained they ranged
themselves in a row beside the entrance,
and awaited the appearance of their
guide.

He came in the course of a few min- |
utes. He started slightly when he read
the meaning of it all.
“We're ready,” said Jack, with a
smile. é

“All sight go—foller me—come
on!” and he led the way out, and they
turned their backs on the cavern forever,

(TO BE CONTINUED.)

HARE AND HOUNDS.

BY GEORGE E, 0. HEMING,

 

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upon us, I think a short article
on “Hare and Hounds” or “Paper
Chasing” would not be amiss, for
I believe every young man understands.
something about these field sports, and
for the benefit of those who do not, I |
will give an account of one of the paper
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as warm weather is!

|of which were a farmer and his daughter

This reminds me of a chase I took part
in a few years ago, and I don’t think I
shall soon forget it. It appears that the
hares secured the services of a cab from
which they scattered the scent along the
road, while they lolled lazily about the
seats puffing cigarettes as they rolled
along. On their return they laughed at
the hounds who had followed them for a
couple of hours along a dusty road; sev-
eral of the hounds were very indignant |
at this, and vowed that if they were |
chosen for hares on the next occasion |
they would not be outdone even if they
had to hire a sleeping-car and pay the |
pepe: to scatter the scent, while they |

ay in bed at their ease; but up tothe,
time of this writing they have not car-
ried their threat into execution.

Now for a few words in regard to the
costume usually worn on these occasions.
It should consist of a light peak cap,
woolen jersey, knee pants, stockings, and
ordinary rubber-soled shoes. These I
consider preferable to any other kind of
shoes, for this purpose.

When starting I would advise you not
to run fast, but set an easy pace, which
will preserve your wind and enable you
to come in at the finish feeling compara-
tively fresh, especially if you run flat-
footed where the ground is heavy or un-
even; coming up on the toes when on a
dry field or a road where the running is
good; take it easy when going up hill,
- make up for lost time when descend-

ng.

The paper may be torn to about the size
of ordinary postage stamps, or in strips |
from six to ten inches long. The former
is the most popular size, but if you are
crossin ace country in er weather |
Il would advise the use of the latter, be-
cause it has a tendency to cling to the
tufts of grass and shrubbery, and will
remain visible for a long time. A good
way for the hares to carry the bulk of
their paper is to place it in school-bags,
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has his bag hanging at his side, which
enables him to scatter the scent freely,
relying on the others to replenish his
supply. ;
The chase J am about to refer to took
place at Hamilton, fifty-two members of
the Young Men’s Christian Association
ieee taking part on this occasion.
ree of the best runners were selected
for hares beforehand. The start was
made at 2.30 P. M. from the gymnasium,
the hounds following five minutes latar.
The hares took to the mountain south
of the city, and when they reached the
summit some of the hounds who were
running too fast were almost up to them.
But they had overtaxed their staying
powers, and were compelled to drop out
soon afterward from sheer exhaustion,
while the remainder of the pack were
still comparatively fresh. Then the hares
led the pack alone the brow of the moun-
tain for about half a mile, again turning
south heading directly across the ccun-
try, taking the hounds through pools of
water, over fences and ditches, finally
coming upon a barn-yard surrounded by
a rickety high board fence, on the inside

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will give my young friends a few point-
ers that will no doubt be of service to
them when taking part in these outings.
If any of my readers should ever take
part in any of these chases I would ad-
vise them not to follow a road for any
length of time, but to cross it and enter
fields and go through a bush whenever
practicable; by so doing the hounds are
compélled to follow on foot, whereas if
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the meantime the farmer set to work to
give the hounds a warm perepeeoe be-
cause they had annoyed him before on
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near at hand; first throwing his b Ale
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had left out of him, and in making bhi® thoup
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field, which, however, hed the, effect of} eye of
checking their speed considerably, fF “cy,
they sank at every stride: and some & claim
them had their shoes pulled off by the any m
mud, After they had crossed this fiel® Dan
they turned north-westward for a coup! Grant
of miles, then northward, which broug!® Mp,
them to a ravine, that led down t Quiet)
mountain side. It was while comi! “To
down this ravine that the second ha “Ib

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before he cou

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and thought it would be just a few mo-
ments before he gave out also.

In this we were evidently mistaken,
for off he darted apparently as fresh, as
ever, still retaining his untiring gait,
and when about six miles from home he
seemed to be gradually leaving us in the
rear. We were now just about played
out ourselves, and began to feel rather
indifferent about trying any more; soon
after this we caught sight of him as he
was disappearing over a knoll, but we
never saw him again until we arrived at
the gymnasium at 4.45 P. M., and found
he had arrived there twenty minutes
ahead of us, having covered slightly over
fifteen miles.

Every one of us had wet feet, were
plastered with mud from head to foot,
and felt decidedly uncomfortable. To

Sore went at once to

e bath-rooms, where we enjoyed every
comfort that a first-class bath-room can
afford. At six o’clock we sat down toa
bountiful.supper, after which songs were
Sung and speechmaking indulged in.
aaa ended a never-to-be-forgotten paper

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DAN, THE DETECTIVE

By HORATIO ALGER, Jr.

 

Author of “Abner Holden’s Bound Boy,” “The
Bully of the Village,” “The Western Boy,”
“Bound to Win,” “Grit,” “Only an Irish Boy,”
ene and Fearless,” ‘Ragged Dick Series,”
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5 .” was commenced in No. 55
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That gentleman looked at his

watch as he adinitted our hero.
said. te punctual to the minute,” he
time,” Our watch keeps excellent
“74k tell you ”
8 2 why,” answered Dan
don eject S lways Keep it at Tiffany’s.
Bet out of or deere it for fear it would
ou ou ht to h ”
G ah ave a watch,” said Mr.
“Th bat will come in time.”
be ane a — pam : Rlick I can
men Pp my business a nt-
City Hane’ I have to depend Sa the
an clock. I'd rather look at it
Seat arog,
>’ an, do ou t J is
Prepared Peper ak y See Mr. Gripp is
you are 7 glad to see you. He’ll think
don't think £ to buy some clothes. I
me.” e’ll be very happy to see

“He must see u
s i
any good inne or neither. Has
I

he
es, sir—
his ceGMakeae oe like to patronize

 

CHAPTER VII.
MR. GRIPP IS WORSTED.

UNCTU ALLY at three o’clock Dan
nocked at the door of Mr. Grant’s
room in the Astor House.

don't think era enough for me.

* y the way, Da
Nae og , n, you have given me
S ye | heneae for mone . and I Rats not
ni in o ace you the equivalent.”
Ze “] willen, not get the money, sir.”
a | theres ae the effort at any rate. By
7 J ting no bbe that coat of yours is get-
rm-ya “ =e
a ee busine = best I have, sir Boys in my
lifficull “Phat. som t have to dress much.”
hus el me my ree mean idea. Please hand
m thet The twa i fe tae all start.”
d fro One oe eft the Astor House together.
2a lon they ene wo of Dan’s associates whom
D prised ta untered on the way were sur-
2 hare) apparere — him walking on terms of
and i ell-toy riendly compan onship with a
ort tim? Dan wae © Stranger, but decided that
hound’ They probably acting as his guide.
a wer® usual in od Mr. Gri P standing as
is in th®) ing for pene ast of is shop watch-
earnests| Observe “tomers, e did not at first
to forg® drawn to yn’ out his attention was
is fate “Wari a Grant.
ye take®! “You seas n, sir,” he said, obsequiously.
ffort t Styles fa, hte what you want here
a fene® we defy. omable, and as for prices—
his bag Alexander Guition.”
is nec criticg)} or Grant paused, and looked
hus sue“) Very welt about him, e understood
reath b® was about © © sort of establishment he
ag a4 thought > © enter, and would not have
_| ests, oing so but in Dan’s inter-
maining | He step
; plowed, Dan Wann Over the threshold, and
effect Of eye of Myc ut to follow, when the eagle
bly, £08 “Clean a oe recognized our hero,
some © Claimed, «729% Young rascal!” he ex-
T by th@) any more.» t you come around here
his fiel@ Dan di

 

   

- r,
. Quiet) y:

ie Grant penne answer, for he knew Mr.

° So for him.
turned back, and said,

To who
“7 Mm are you speaking, sir?”
beg your pardon, sir—it's that boy.”

rant

“Then, sir, you will oblige me by
stopping at once. That boy is in my
company and under my protection.”

Nathan Gripp stared as if transfixed.

“Do you know him, sir?” he asked.

ON OS? AT.

“You are mistaken in him, sir. He’s
an artful young rascal. He was here yes-
terday, and acted outrageously. He as-
saulted my clerk and insulted me.”

“TI have nothing to do with that. He
is in my company, and if I enter the
store he will.”

“Oh, of course, if he’s with you he can
come in. Samuel, show the gentleman
what he wants.”

Dan smiled, and nothing but a sense
of his own interest prevented Mr, Gripp
from objecting to his entrance.

“What will I show you, sir?” asked
the callow young man named Samuel,
glaring at Dan in vivid remembrance of
the blow which had doubled him up.
“Have you any coats and vests that will
fit this young gentleman?”

“Young gentleman !” repeated Samuel,
mechanically, glancing at Dan in silent
hatred. :

“That means me, Samuel,” said Dan,
mischievously. . “Samuel is an old friend
of mine, Mr. Grant.”

“I think we can fit him,” said Samuel,
by no means relishing the task of wait-
ing upon his young opponent. “Take off
your coat, young feller.”

“Don't be too familiar, Samuel. You
may call me Mr. Mordaunt,” said Dan.

“T’'ll be —— if I do,” muttered the
young man. :

Dan took off his coat, and tried on
the one submitted to his inspection. He

 

“The work didn’t cost you much, I
presume,”

“We pay the highest prices for work in
this establishment, sir,” said Samuel,
hastily.

He forgot that Dan knew better.

“So they do, Mr. Grant,” said Dan.
“They pay twenty cents apiece for mak-
ing vests.”

“We pay more than that to our best
hands,” said Samuel.

“You told me you never paid more,”
retorted Dan.

Mr. Grant interrupted this discussion.

“Young man,” said he, “I will give
you eight dollars for the clothes.”

“Say nine, sir,”

“Not a cent more.”

As the regular price was eight dollars
—when they couldn’t get any more—
Samuel felt authorized to conclude the
ries without consulting Mr. Gripp.

“Shall I do up the clothes?” he asked.

“No,” said Dan, “I’ll wear ’em. You
may put up my old ones.”

Samuel felt it derogatory to his dignity
to obey the orders of our hero, but there
was no resource. The bundle was placed
in Dan’s hands.

“Now write me a receipt for the price,”
said Mr. Grant.

This was done.

Mr. Grant counted out six dollars and
eighty cents.

“T have an order upon you for the bal-
ance,” he said.

Ps don’t understand,” ejaculated Sam-
uel.
“Your principal owes my young friend,
or his mother, one dollar and twenty

 

 

 

 

 

“oH, DAN!’ SHE GASPED; “‘ARE YOU HURT?”

afterward tried on the vest, and they|cents for work. This you will receive as

proved to be a good fit.

“Do they suit, Dan?” asked Mr. Grant.

“Yes, sir, they fit’ as well as if they
had been made for me.~

“What is the price of these articles,
young man?” asked Mr, Grant.

“Twelve dollars,” answered Samuel.

“He’ll take eight,” suggested Dan, in
a low voice.

Mr. Grant knew well enough the ways
of Chatham street merchants to appreci-
ate the suggestion.

“That is too high,” he said, quietly.

Samuel, who was trained to read cus-
tomers, after a glance at Mr. Grant’s
face, prépared to reduce the price.

“We might say eleven,” he said, medi-
tatively. “Shall I put them up?”

“Not at that price.”

“You don’t want usto give’em away?”
said Samuel, in the tone of one whose
reasonable demands had been objected to.

“There is no fear of that, I appre-
hend,” returned Mr. Grant, dryly.

t “T’ve no objection, I'm sure,” remarked
Dan, on his own account.

“I’d make a few remarks to you,
young feller, if you were alone,” he read
n the eyes of the indignant salesman,
and Dan enjoyed the restraint which he
knew Samuel was putting upon himself.

“You are still asking too much,” said
the customer.

2 at’ll you give, sirr” asked Sam-
uel, diplomasically-

“Right dollars!"

“Eight dollars! Why the cloth cost
more than that!” protested Samuel.

 

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part of the price.”

“TI must see Mr. Gripp,” said Samuel.

Mr. Gripp came forward frowning.

“We can’t take the order, sir,” he said.
“The boy’s money is not yet due.”

“TIsn’t the work done and delivered?”

“Yes, sir; but it is our rule not to pay
till a whole dozen is delivered.”

“Then it is a rule which you must
break,” said Mr, Grant, firmly.

“We can’t.”

“Then J refuse to take the suit.”

Nathan Gripp did not like to lose the
sale on the one hand, or abdicate his po-
sition on the other.”

“Tell your mother,” he said to Dan,
“that when she has finished another
half-dozen vests I will pay her the
whole.”

He reflected that the stranger would
be gone, and Dan would be in his power.

“Thank you, "said Dan, “but mother’s
sem to work for Jackson. He pays

er.”

“Then os have to wait for your
pay,” said Mr. Gripp, sharply.

“Don't you care to sell this suit?”
asked Mr. Grant, quickly.

“Yes, sir, but under the circumstances
we must ask all cash.”

“You won’t get it, sir.”

“Then I don’t think we care to sell,”
said Gripp, allowing his anger to over-
come his interest.

“Very good. I think, Dan, we can
find quite as good a bargain at Jack-
son’s. Mr. Gripp, do I understand that
you decline to pay this bill?”

“T will pay when the other half-dozen
vests are made,” said Gripp, stubbornly.
“T have nothing to do with that. The
bill is mine, and it is with me you have
to deal. The boy has nothing to ao with

“Ts that so?” asked Gripp, in surprise.

“It is. You may take your choice.
Settle the bill now, or I shall immedi-
ately put it in a lawyer’s hands, who
will know how to compel you to pay it.”

A determined will carries the day.

“Take this gentleman’s money, Sam-
uel,” said Gripp, in a tone of annoyance.

There was no further trouble. Dan
walked out of the store better dressed
than he had been since the days of his
prosperity.

“How can I thank you@Mr. Grant?”
he said, gratefully.

“By continuing to care for your mother,
my lad. You are iucky to have a mother
living. Mine is dead, God bless her!
Now, my lad, what do you think of my
success in collecting bills?”

“You were too many for old Gripp, sir.
He won’t sleep to-night.”

“He doesn’t deserve to, for he grows
nigh by defrauding the poor who work for

im.”

Opposite the City Hall Park Dan and
his friend separated.

“T shall not see you again, my boy,”
said Mr. Grant, “for I take the evening
train. If you ever come to St. Louis,
find me out.” :

“T will, sir.”

“That’s a good man,” said Dan, as he
wended his way homeward. “If there
were more such, it would be good for
poor people like motherand me. If I
ever get rich I mean to help along those
that need it.”

 

CHAPTER VIII.
MIKE RAFFERTY'S TRICK.

G AN carefully husbanded_ the
money which Mr. Grant had lent
him, and the result was that for
two months he was comparatively

easy in his circumstances. His mother
earned five cents more daily, on account
of the higher price she received for
work, and, though this was a trifle, it
was by no means to be despised where
the family income was so small as in
the case of the Mordaunts.

Still Dan was not satisfied.

“Mother,” said he, “I suppose I ought
to be contented with earning enough to
pay our expenses, but I should like to be
saving something.”

“Yes, Dan, it would be pleasant. But
we ought to be thankful for what we are
now receiving.” .

“But, mother, suppose I should fall

 

sick! What should we do then?”

| Mrs. Mordaunt shuddered.

| “Don’t mention such a thing, Dan,”
|she said. “The very idea terrifies me.”

) “But it might happen for all that.”

| “Don’t you feel well, Dan? Is any-
gia the matter with you?” asked Mrs.
|Mordaunt, anxiously.

| “Don’t be frightened, mother,” an-
|swered Dan, laughing. “I’m as strong as
'a horse, and can eat almost as much.
Still, you know, we would feel safer to
have a little money in the savings bank.”

“There isn't much chance of that, Dan,
/unless we earn more than we do now.”

“You are right there. Well, I suppose
there is no use thinking of it. By the
way, mother, you’ve got enough money
on hand to pay the rent to-morrow,
haven't you?”

“Yes, Dan, and a dollar over.”

“That’s good.”

The door of the room was partly open,
and the last part of the conversation was
heard by Mike ime BS the son of the
tenant who occupied the room just over
the Mordaunt’s. He was a ne’er do well,
who had passed more than one term of
imprisonment at Blackwell’s Island.
His mother was an honest, hard-work-
ing washerwoman, who toiled early and
late to support herself and her three chil-
dren. Mike might have given her such
assistance that she could have lived
quite comfortably, for her own earnings
were by no means inconsiderable. Her
wash-tub paid her much more than Mrs.
Mordaunt’s needle could possibly win,
and she averaged a dollar a day where
her more refined neighbor made but
twenty-five cents. But Mike, instead of
helping, was an additional burden. He
got his meals regularly at home. but
contributed scarcely a dollar a month to
the common expenses. He was a selfish
rowdy, who was likely to belong per-
manently to the shiftless and dangerous
classes of society.

Mike had from time to time made ap-
proaches to intimacy with Dan, who
was nearly two years younger, but Dan
despised him for his selfishly burdening
his mother with his support, and didn’t
encourage him. Naturally. Mike hated
Dan, and pronounced him “stuck up” and
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miliarly with more than one boy ranking
no higher in the social scale than Mike
Rafferty.

Only the day before Mike, finding him-
self out of funds, encountering Dan on
the stairs, asked for the loan of a quar-
ter.
“T have no money to spare,” answered
Dan. ‘

“You’ve got money, Dan; I saw you
take out some a minute ago.”

“Yes, [’ve got the money, but I won’t
lend it.”

“You’re a mane skinflint,” said Mike,
provoked.

“Why am I?”

“Because you’ve got the money, and
you won’t lemd it.”

“What do you want to do with it?”

“I want to xo to the Old Bowery to-
night, if you must know.”

“If you wanted it for your mother I
might have lent it to you, though I need
all I earn for my own mother,”

“It’s for my mother I want it, thin,”
said Mike. “I guessI won’t go to the
theater to-night.”

“That’s too thin. Your mother would
never see the color of it.”

“Won’t you lend me, thin?”

“No, Ican’t. If you want money why
don’t you earn it as I do?”

“T ain’t lucky.”

“It isn’t luck. If you goto work and
sell papers or- black boots, you will be
able to help your mother and pay your
way to the theater yourself.”

“Kape your advice to yourself,” said
Mike, sullenly. “I don’t want it.”

“You’d rather have my money,” said
Dan, good-humoredly.

“T’ll never see that. You’re too mane.”

“Allright. I’ll be mane, then.”

“TI’d like to put a head on you,” mut-
tered Mike.

“I’ve got one already. I don’t need
another,” said Dan.

“Oh, you think you’re mighty smart
wid your jokes!” said Mike. ;

Dan smiled, and walked off, leaving
Mike more his enemy than ever.

This was the boy who overheard Mrs.
Mordaunt say that she had more than
the rent already saved up.. Mike’s eu-
pidity was excited. He knew that it
must amount to several dollars, and this
he felt would keep him in cigarettes,
and pay for evenings at the theater for
several days.

“I wish [ had it,” he said to himself.
‘en wonder where the ould woman kapes
r ”

The more Mike thought of it the more
he coveted this money, and he set to
work contriving means to get possession
O16... ;

Finally he arranged upon a plan.

About three o'clock in the afternoon
he knocked at Mrs. Mordaunt’s door.
She answered the knock in person, _

“Mike Rafferty!” she said, in surprise,
“Won’t you come in?”

“Oh, no; I can’t. It’s bad news I
bring you about Dan.” F \
“What is it? Tell. me, quick—in

Heaven’s name!” she exclaimed, her
heart giving a great bound,

“He’s been run over, ma’am, by a hoss,
in front of the Astor House, and they
took him into the drug store at the cor-
ner. He wants you to go right over.”

“Is he—badly hurt?” asked the agon-
ized mother. : :

“TI guess he’s broke his leg,” said Mike.

In two minutes Mrs. Mordaunt, tremb-
ling with apprehension, her faltering
limbs almost refusing to bear her weight,
was on her way to the Astor House.

As Dan had calculated, she did not
stop to lock the door.

The young scape-grace entered the de-
serted room, rummaged: about till he
found the scanty hoard reserved for the
landlord, and then went off whistling.

“Now I’ll havea bully time,” he said
to himself. “Didn’t I fool the ould
woman good?” °

CHAPTER IX.
MIKE’S THEFT IS DISCOVERED.

G AN was standing in front of the
]s) Astor House, paSeeee to a. boy
¢ acquaintance, when his mother

“=> tottered up to him in a state of
great nervous agitation.

“Why, mother, what’s the matter?”
asked Dan, in surprise. “What brings
you out this afternoon?”

“Oh, Dan!” she gasped; “are you hurt?”

Dan opened his eyes in wonder. It
occurred to him that his mother must
have lost her mind.

“Hurt # he repeated.

“Yes; they told me you were run over.
and had your leg broken.”

“My leg broken! Who told you so?”

“Mike Rafferty.”

“Then I wish I had him here,” said
Dan, indignantly; “I’d let him know
whether my leg is broken or not. You
bet T would!” —

Haven't you been run over, then?”

Not that I know of, and I guess it

couldn't be done without my knowing
it.”

“Iam so glad; so relieved!” sighed
Mrs. Mordaunt. “I don’t know how I
got here, I was so agitated.”

“When did Mike Rafferty tell you this
cock-and-bull story, mother?” asked Dan.

“Only a few minutes ago. . He said
you had been taken into’a drug store,
and wanted me to come right over.”

“It’s a mean trick he played on you,
mother,” said Dan, indignantly. “I
don’t see what made him do it.”

“Nor I,” said Mrs. Mordaunt. “He
must have meant it as a joke.”

“A pretty poor joke. -I’ll get even with
him for that.”

“TI don’t mind it now, Dan, since I
have you safe. I am ready to forgive
him. He didn’t know how much he was
distressing me.”

“Then he ought to have known, You

may forgive him if you want to; I
sha’n’t.”
“T will. go home now, Dan. I feela

good deal happier than I did when I
was hurrying over here.”

“aL will go with you, mother, I have
sold my papers, and sha'n’t work any
more this afternoon. Where did you
leave Mike? I hope I can come across
him soon,” :

“T left him at the door of our room.” .

“Did you lock the door when you came
away, mother?” asked Dan.

“No; I believe not.”

“Then let us go home at once.
one might get in.”

“There isn’t much to take, Dan,” said
Mrs. Mordaunt, with a faint smile.

“There is our rent money, mother.”

“T didn’t think of that.’

“We shall be in a pretty pickle if that
is lost.”

“You don’t think Mike would take it,
do you, Dan?”

“I think he would if he knew where to
find it.”

“T wisi I had brought it with me,”
said Mrs. Mordaunt, in a tone of anx-
iety.

“Don’t fret, mother; I guess it’s all
right.”

“Perhaps you had better
once without waiting for me,
can go quicker.”

“Al right; ’ll do it. Where is the
money?”

“In my pocket-book, in the drawer of
the work-table.” r

, or the drawers locked?”

“ } oO. ”

“Then hereafter you'd better lock them. J
Well, I’ll be off, and will meet you at
the room,”

(T0 BE CONTINUED.)
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(This Story will not be Published in Book-Form.],

TEDDY'S: VENTURE;

The Adyentures of a Country Boy
at a Country Fair.

————

Some

o home at
an. You

By JAMES OTIS.

bdeitnn =

{(“Treppy’s VENTURE” was commenced in No. 48.
Back numbers can be obtained of all News Agents.)

——-«

CHAPTER XIX.
THE ARREST,

EDDY was dazed by the tidings

2 and apparent proof of Sam’s death.

Without being able to explain

why, it seemed to himas if the

amateur detective was not the sort of a

boy who might be expected to depart this

life suddenly, and the news saddened
him wonderfully.

“Just think,” he said, “the poor fellow
wouldn’t try to save the women because
of the danger of rere a drowning
person, and in such a short time he him-
self is at the bottom of the creek.”

“If he has got any folks some word
ought to be sent to them.”

“T never heard him say whether he had
or not. Will any one search for the
body?”

“The man who yreadihe the Davis
Company says he will have men. out in
the morning, if it is possible to hire any
one; if not, there will be plenty wanting
a job by Saturday, and he can then get
all he wants. It’s bound to be along
task, for there’s no telling where the
boat capsized.”

Nothing save Sam’s untimely fate was
spoken of during the time they were
packing up the yo and carrying them
to the tent, and then Mr. Sweet, after
having been told the sad news, said,
without commenting upon it:

“You boys had better go to supper
now, an’ get back before dark, for there's:
no knowin’ but that some of those fel-
lows who called on me may. be waiting
to take their revenge out on you.”
‘“How did you get rid of them?” Dan
asked,

 

 

“That part of it was as easy as rollin’
off a log, after you boys were out o
sight. I let ’em in one ata time, an’
the chumps never tumbled to the fact
that you had gone under the canvas.
They come to the conclusion you must
have climbed over the fence, an’ we
didn’t take the trouble to show them
the mistake, It was a close shave,
though. At one time, when I was
talkin’ so loud about stealing, I thought
we'd have the toughest kind of a row.”

“Ts the money all right?”

“It’s jest where I left it, an’ won’t be
touched till he comes to claim it, unless
you boys want to take charge of the
property.”

“Indeed we don’t,” Teddy replied,
quickly. “I’ve had all I want of such
care-taking.”

“Then go to supper, an’ hurry back.”

The boys waited only long enough to
stow their goods in the wagon, and then
Mr. Sweet’s advice was acted upon.

As a matter of course Tim wanted to
know what the proprietor of the museum
had been talking about, and as_ they
were walking across the grounds Teddy
told the whole story, concluding by say-

ing:

Pit was a little the worst scrape I ever
got into; but after the money had _ been

laced in our hands, and the man who

eft it went off, we couldn’t do different
from what we did.”

“That Hazelton had no business to get
you into such a row,” Tim teplied, indig-
nantly, “Why didn’t he hang on to the
stuff, an’ take his lickin’ like a man?”

“IT don’t think he knew it was to be
given to us. The fellow who did it had
seen him leave the satchel with us once,
most likely, an’ when there was danger
of being robbed, believed we could look
out for it again. It’s the last time such
a thing wil ep ee for I’m going to tell
Hazelton that I don’t want to be mixed
up in his business.”

At this point Dan changed the subject
of conversation by speculating upon the
way in which Sam met his death, and
this topic was such a mournful one that
nothing else was thought of until the
party returned to the tent,once more.

Then came the question of how much
money had been taken in during the day,
and after figuring up the amount he had
spent, Teddy reckoned the cash on hand,
announcing the result as follows:

“Countin’ what I paid out, we’ve
taken sixty-one dollars an’ seventy cents
since morning. It don’t seem reason-
able; but a feller has to believe it after
seein’ the money.”

“You'll have a much better trade to-
morrow, if it is fair, and you’re not
recognized as one of the boys who helped
to get Hazelton’s money away,” Mr.
Sweet said, cheerily. “I predict that the
receipts will figure up hard on to an hun-
dred dollars.”

Teddy gasped like a person who is sud-
denly submerged in cold water, at the
thought of earning so much, and he real-
ized that if such should be the case he
would be able to assist his mother very
materially.

“I'll pay you, Tim, before I get so daz-
zled as to forget it,” he said, with a
laugh, and the clerk felt. almost as rich
as his employer when he received six dol-
lars and seventeen cents for a day’s labor
which came very near being sport.

“T only wish the fair held on for six
months,” he said, gleefully. “It seems
too bad that there are only two days
more, for Saturday never counts.”

“You can go to the Holtown fair, and
try it for yourself, I'll aye you what

,

stock we have left on han
“Then I'll do it,” Tim replied, emphati-
cally, and straightway he began to

speculate as to the enormous amount of
money he would earn.

Teddy tied his money in as compact a
package as possible, intending to give it
to his mother when she should arrive on
the morrow, and Mr. Sweet had advised
that all hands “turn in” early, when the
flap was raised tat a man who ap-
peared to be covered with adhesive plas-
ter and bandages.

Not until the new-comer had approached
within the circle of light cast by the
lantern did the occupants of the tent
recognize him as the jewelry fakir, and
Teddy cried in surprise:

“Why, Mr. Hazelton! We didn’t ex-
pect to see you to-night !”

“Did you think I was dead?”

“Tt looked as if you would be killed for
a certainty, and you did get pretty well
done up.”

“Yes: as the reports of the prize fights
nye it, I'm badly disfigured, but still in

he ring. Was the money taken away
all right.”

“Mr. Sweet has hidden it.”

“And how did you come out of the

scrape?”

“Tf it hadn’t been for the folks here
we should have fared about the same as
you did.”

“I’m sorry, my boy, that you were
dragged into the matter, and it wouldn’t

 

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have happened if I’d understood what
was going to do. He knew you
coutd be trusted, and so turned it over;
but it was a mean situation to put you:

“It wasn’t pleasant for any of us,” Mr. 7.
Sweet said; “but you can thank the boys
for hanging on to the bag as if it had talk
been their own. Most fellows of their
age would have dropped it long before ©
reaching here. How did you get oft?”

“When the cry was raised that the ©
money had gone, the greater portion of ©
the crowd started in pursuit, an’ my |
partners and I managed to hold our own ~
until a couple of constables came up. ,
They took charge of the team, and gave
us a chance to slip through the gates.” ,

“What are you going to do now? Try
it to-morrow?” yt]

“With this face? Well, I should say ge ¢)

  

   

not. There is a fellow here who has ¢ of
bought my right to the privilege, and I mak,
shall leave Peach Bottom early in the (dr, ¢

morning.” ;
“That’s about the best thing you can § ag
do, and I’d advise that you don’t spend gums
much time out of doors until then.” "
“I’m not intending to. It was neces- |
sary to come here, and, unless you ob- }
jeet, I'll stay a while so’s they will have 3
time to sober up a bit.” (
“You're welcome to. what we've got,
even if I don’t like your way of doing h
business.” i]
“I want to straighten matters with 1
the boys, and if they——” Nn ex
Hazelton did not finish the sentence, h’s ]j
for at that moment the canvas flap was jon t
pushed aside, and a man entered with an 4
unmistakable air of authority. Tr,
“Hold on there, friend,” Mr. Sweet ik n
shouted. “We.don’t allow visitors at’
this time of night.” is
“T understand. that; but reckon you W
won’t make any very big kick when I Pe fo}
tell you that I’m one of the deputy |
sheriffs of this county, and have come to |}
serve a warrant.”
“On whom?”
“Frank Hazelton, who claims to be an f&ch ,
agent fora firm of jewelry manufactur- Ount
ers. I believe you're the man,” he added, Ult ;
approaching the disfigured fakir. hwit
“You've got that part of it straight”
enough; but what am I to be arrested)
for?” “that |
“You are suspected of being concerned onl
in the burglary which was committed in 2) Sw
this town last night.” z cea
Hazelton did not express nearly as |
much surprise as the boys, who were Now
really dazed by the announcement, + Swe
“So Hargreaves has finally succeeded,” Ieil f
the fakir said half to himself, and the Idy q
officer replied quickly : ount,
“This has nothing to do with old Na-t
than’s affair, although it does look as if Mm wi

    
   
  
   
  

 
  
 
  
 
  
  
 
 

the two burglaries were committed by the ,
the same person.” ral ¢
Hazelton remained silent several sec- lful
onds, during which time the sheriff 0m f
waited patiently for him to say he was ided {

ready to go, and then he asked: By:
“Can I speak to one of these boys it Wha
private. It has nothing to do with the josing
charge; but I want him to aid me in that
getting a good lawyer.” e. FF
“I am sorry to say I must hear all that ¥, an’
is talked about, however trifling it may 7 whe
be.” ty the
“Well, I. don’t suppose it can make iStan
much difference,” and without rising ly |
from his seat Hazelton continued, Rey a)
“Teddy, you believe I had nothing to doit y
with this thing?” ,
“T can tell what I heard those——” t
“Don’t tell anrthing yet a while; at
least, not now. want you to do this”
for me: After the fair closes go to that
merchant who was so kind to you, and edd
explain to him the the whole affair, in- othe,
cluding your suspicions. Ask him to dix eyes .
rect you to the best attorney in the Jimely
county; get all the money from Meth y
Sweet that may be needed, and pay thé dirs, 9
lawyer's fee. Send him to meas soo? jil neg
afterward as possible. It is nothing ep g
more serious than lying in jail a feWtit yw
days, and that won’t be such a greal] see,
hardship now I’ve got this face on me.” 8cions
“Shall I-—” _ a with
“There is no need of saying anythin& | of th
more,” Hazelton interrupted, fearing urn
the boy was about to speak of the money ® sunr
the proprietor of the museum had hid: 4 wi]
den, “The merchant will understan@§ lazy
and advise if you tell him everything 8t ma
that is, I think he will; but in case h@ @ddy ,
refuses, talk with some one else whom? half
you can trust.” ’ fas :
As he finished speaking the fakir aros@ * an,
to his feet, motioned to the officer, an@ Assist
walked directly out of the tent withou 8 shoy
so much as bidding the others good-by. _ a Pre
No one spoke until after he had bee® #d hin
absent several miuntes, and then Tedd¥* knif

asked with a long drawn sigh: ke efor
“D> you think he will come out al) 7 in¢
right, Mr. Sweet?” Sw

“That’s hard to say, forI don’t kno Y r to
how much proof they may have agains’ 8" Da,
him. It’s his business that has done ®® 80 gx

great deal toward inducing a magistralv’ —
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at 2 can readily be believed of him.”

ki - _ what about his money?” Dan
’ ° :

ou’ That is to be handed over to Teddy.”

What have T got to do with it?” the

Ir. 7.asked, in aniazement.
»y8 “He told us that as plainly as he dared
ad talk before the officer, and we’ll count
eir Out, after which his stock in trade
ore . pe buried, for I want nothing to do
the F in ssh

of
my CHAPTER XxX,
wh

A PROPOSITION,

ave FREDDY had the most decided objec-
tions to taking charge of Hazelton’s

cry +), Money, and for several reasons, In
avi se first place he did not want to
has Ht of he responsibility, and, again, the
di Baal its being in his possession seemed
i = him a partner in the business.

} weet was determined, however.
ani inalesad that Hazelton had stated
a roe ainly as was possible under the
> c eee and, despite the boy’s
enn ~ immediately began the transfer.
ue i Shall be done in such a way that he
ra accuse you of having taken any,”
+ pro rietor said, as he pulled the
ot, A ie ae its hiding-place and broke
ind a CK Open with a hatchet. “We'll
. aa in the presence of all hands, and
ithnt ne shall give Teddy a written state-
S of how much was found.”
ce. + Kclamation of surprise burst from
i be he easel ae was spread
h » for i
an a crammed with Yio 2 Dest
ect aoe Separated the silver from the
atiibre theyroneid ee both on the ground
Trent, ena yt vee by every person

P L counted the
jog pe taking care that the spertators
ate } 0 cote his every movement.

to ht di’, tt, three hundred an’ forty-

ne dollars,” he announced, “Tf there’s

. ao ere who ain’t sure that’s right,

an ch member of the

   
 
  
   
  
     
  
  
   
   
  
   
      
  
  
     
   
         
   

fore | party had seen the
a punt counted, and agreed with the
’ eae declared b r. Sweet, who
ntl wrote the following: F
gm, We, the unde
ted” tng to F rab have seen a valise be-
hat three -h lton broken open, and cer-
neapuly mony undred and forty-eight dollars,
1 in BD Sweet ae found therein, was handed by
@ With the orders, aye argreaves in conform-
ase id ‘Hazelton understood them, from

rere Now I want

every one to gi that,”
. Sw gn _ that,
4,” Aci] a Said, ashe handed his lead-

 

Tst_to the b .
the Ady a arker, “and then
Bont I will have some proof of the
New tee quite a while for all to con-
ae | he. oe © wishes of the proprietor
eral Ghithes owing to the fact that
sec- ful pen © party were far from being
riffle plished, ae ms pa was finally
agilad ’ e
wae ty. 10. Leddy, the latter pir ruse

| in What shall
chien sO mu
e im *hat’s) a risk Hazelton is bound to

ane with it? I’m afraid

»”
.

hati, an nen, tt in your clothes some-
may rere it can bee sicher i get into any
ake stance c of many pins, and with the
sing tly iidseen te co and Tim, Teddy
red, I mi disposing of the

Mey about his
; 1s person in such
te aie an unusual burden, dian
ld tr Sete insisted that all hands
; abBh for fee Some rest in order to be
this Sunt o osedly enormous
that ‘day, t work to be done on the follow-
and | ddy

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laid d

in- ot 4 own on the grou i
yd evar we but it was many Bint bate
the time] Si Closed by slumber. Sam’s
Mreh mocath; the guardianship of so
thé dirs, al} ¥y, and his own business

    
 
   
  
     
 
  
   
  

cota Served to keep hi
onal near] midni ht, when he fell tote
few. Si led by frightful dreams
reat Seemed rom being restful.-
” ciousness if he had but just lost
a with when Mr. Sweet’ aroused
ind Mot the ¢ information that the “big”
ringture oat was breaking, %
ne¥@ sunrice Ban get your breakfast be-
hid: d tlt ’ Sete this morhing the early
andl lazy oF ©K up many a penny while
ng— Bt make 1. te, Yet _in bed, an’ fakirs
nee eddy a when the sun shines,”
nom t half ay, hou “tenet if an instant,
Pi Yr, i
wall ast, he w ae » having broken

the booth with hi
an w ‘
an essistanses the latter volanteering
houb Should be ope ihe exhibition build-

al a proPrietor of the museum had ad-

ady tk poaraen receipts of the cane

3 before me re nearly five dol-
allie i re than half of

7 5 Condition for trade, ce the

& unusually early in

an fel, modate the eiiiiie. ay

Oe i liged to leave, business

at the proprietor, clerk,

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and assistant, were all working indus-
triously.

“Tf i can get off I’ll see you about
noon,” Dan said, as he walked away,
and Teddy replied:

“Be sure to come, for mother will be
here, and I want you to meet her.” .

From that time until nine o’clock the
crowd increased in numbers, and, as
Teddy said during a lullin business, “it
seemed as if the grounds were so full that
no more could get in.”

When Mrs. Hargreaves arrived her son
could pay little attention to her; but he

roposed that she should amuse herself
by ooking at the different exhibits until
nearly noon, when he stated that he
would take an hour off, no matter how
great a rush of customers might be
around his booth.

“J earned sixty dollars yesterday, an’
before night I'll have a hundred more,
so there’s little doubt but that this
week’s work as a fakir will enable me to
pay all you owe on the house,” he whis-
pered, pa ae and his mother
walked away hardly daring to believe
what Teddy had told her. E

During the next hour it seemed as if a
steady stream of money was flowing into
the box, and Teddy was feeling confident
that Mr. Sweet’s prediction would prove
to be correct, when the one especial man
he wanted to see came up with a folded
paper in his hand. :

It was the merchant from Waterville,
and he said as he handed the document
to the boy: .

“Here is the receipted bill, and Iam
more than glad to see you doing so
well.”

“Can I talk with you for five minutes?”
Teddy asked, hardly noticing the paper
as he put it in his pocket. 7

“As long as you want to. What is the
matter? Running out of stock?”

“Oh, no, your clerk made such a good
selection for me that I’ve got all I shall
need. This is something more important.”

Then Teddy hurriedly told the mer-
chant how and where he had first met
Hazelton; explained fully what the lat-
ter’s business was; of the accusations
made by Uncle Nathan; what he and
Dan had heard and seen, and concluded
by repeating the request made by the
fakir ashe was led away to jail. —

“Are you willing to do anything for
him?” the boy asked, as his story was
finished. ;

“T can’t say itis a matter which ap.
—_ very strongly to my sympathies,

ecause of the swindles he perpetrated;
but if it is an unjust accusation some-
thing should be done to help him. The
one lawyer above all others who can be
of assistance came over with me this
morning. I will see him, and later in
the day you shall have a call from us.”

“Before you gol wish you would take
this money,” Teddy said, earnestly. “It
is too large an amount for me to carry
around, and it will be safe with you.”

The merchant consented to take cha
of Hazelton’s ill-gotten gains, and Ted
felt eee relieved when the cash
was in another’s keeping, and he had
nothing of more value than an acknowl-
edgment of the same to look after.

“In this matter I shall recognize no
other order than yours,” the merchant
said, when the transaction was  con-
cluded, “and if the fakir should succeed
in pews ining his liberty he must come
to you for the necessary document.

“T don’t care how it is fixed so long as
the money is not in my hands,” Teddy
replied, in a tone of satisfaction, and
then he was called upon to attend to
anotherrush of customers, every one of
whom was eager to be waited upon first.

Another hour passed, and it was more
evident than before that Mr. Sweet had
been correct when he stated the sum
which should be taken at the caneboard.

Teddy, having breakfasted early, was
80 hungry that he was on the point of
oing out to buy a supply of sandwiches,
when another visitor arrived.

This was no less a personage than
Uncle Nathan, and he greeted his nephew
with the utmost cordiality, as-he said:

It looks to me as if you was makin’ a
power of money here, Teddy. I had no
idea these triflin’ games would so attract
the people.”

Glad to be on pleasant terms with the
old man once more, Teddy stated that
they had been at work very hard since
the first train arrived, and concluded by
wT took ixty doll

ook over sixty dollars yesterday,
and Mr. Sweet says it’ll enat? nekt mn
hundred to-day.”
- “Sixty dollars!” the old ‘man cried;

Are you telling me the truth, Teddy
Hargreaves?”

“Of course I am, an’ I’ve
money in my pocket to prove it.’

“Why, at this rate you'll soon bea
rich man, for you don’t seem to lose
much of the stock.”

“We buy a good many canes or ‘knives
back. When a man puts a ring over one
that he don’t want we take it in, and

got the

 

give him five more chances. _In that way
there is very little goes out’ compared to
the amount of money received.”

Uncle Nathan looked around at the
players for a moment, and then in a very
confidential tone, he whispered:

“see here, Teddy, don’t you want a

artner? [ll pay for the stock you

ought, an’——”

“I’ve already done that out of yester-
day’s receipts,” Teddy cried. “Ail the
bills are settled, an’ what comes in now
is clear profit.”

“But suppose I stood here an’ called up
the. people I know, don’t you think it
would make business better?”

“And if it should, do you think we
could attend to more customers? Every
minute I talk with you is so much money
lost, for the other fellers can’t pick up
rings an’ make change fast enough.”

“Dees that mean you don’t want to go
into business with me?” the old man
asked, angrily.

“No; but it means that there would
be no reason for doing such athing. I've
got no debts, an’ there are more custom-
ers than can be attended to on so small a
board. If you’d made the proposition
last Monday it would have been differ-
ent; but now you can’t expect me, after
taking all the risk, to divide after the
work has been done.”

“Who lent you the money to start,
Teddy Hargreaves?” Uncle Nathan cried,
his face growing purple with rage.

“You did?”

“And how have you paid such generos-
ity? How——”

“T gave you three dollars for the use of
fifteen two days,” was the prompt reply.

“But how have you repaid me for re-
maining inactive after my money was
stolen?’

“That was something which did not
concern me, therefore I had nothing to
repay.”

“Tt has a great deal to do with you, as
shali be shown before this .day is ended,
unless you consent to take me as an
equal partner in this enterprise. Your
friend in crime has been arrested, and I
can swear that he turned over to you his
ill-gotten gains. One word from me at
this time, and you will be in the same

rison.”

. The fact of his having been threatened
before made Teddy bold, and _ he said,
quietly:

“T won’t pay
tongue, Uncle
you choose.”

“J will inform the authorities of all I
have Jearned this morning, and we shall
see what the result will be,” the old
man cried, in a fury as he walked away,
and, despite the bold bearing he had
assumed, Teddy firmly believed that if
the magistrate who issued the warrant
fcr Hazelton’s arrest should know he
was in possession of the fakir’s money,
he would be brought before a bar of jus-
tice to explain matters,

(TO BE CONTINUED.)
—_—__~>- ee ___
A SHALLOW man never says, “Iam a
fool.” His natural timidity makes him
fear he may be right.

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tures, and cigarette certificates, to exchange for press
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Contents of this Number.

“Dan the Detective,” by Horatio Alger,

 

Jr.

“Boys Will be Boys,” by J. T. Trow-
bridge.

“Among the Esquimaux,” by Edward S.
Ellis.

“Teddy's Venture,” by James Otis.
“Slaves of the Circus,” by Walter Morris.
“Peter Potter’s Pilgrimage,” by **Jack.”
‘Romance of Battles in '76,” by Unele Ned.
“My First Voyage at Sea,” by Bob Stay.
‘Johnny, the Arab of the Regiment,’ by
James Franklin Fitts.
‘Hare and Hounds,” by George E. 0.
Heming.
‘Short Talks With the Boys,” by Arthur
Sewall.
“Pillsbury’s Boy,” by Max Adeler.
‘Interesting Facts,” by John R. Coryell.
And the usual interesting departments.
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5) ASE-BALL CERTIFICATES will ap-
pear in Nos. 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61,
and 62, and guesses can be sent
every week, or as many times as you have
certificates. In cases where more than one
make the same guess, the prizes will be
awarded to the guess first mailed. It will,
therefore, be advisable to send your guesses
as early as possible. Everyone can compete.
The only condition is that you send the
base-ball certificate found on the first page
with every guess.

"GOOD NEWS” HUMANE SOCIETY.

For the benefit of some people who im-
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is a Government affair, we will state that it
was organized by Srreet & Smiru, pub-
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therefore the society is intended for the
patrons of Goop News only. Any reader of

  

 

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send us a statement of the deed, witnessed
by three responsible citizens, and signed by
& notary public. ’
8 ee
A new Canoe and Camp-Fire story will

BASE-BALL CONTEST.

THIRTY-ONE PRIZES 70 REs"®™ 44x

IN JULY.

As mostly all our young readers are
troubled with the base-ball fever this year
we propose to increase the excitement by
giving away thirty-one useful prizes to those
who come the nearest to guessing the stand-
ing and the percentage of the National
League Base-Ball Clubs on the evening of
July 4th.

Last year on the evening of July 4th. the
standing and percentage of the National
League clubs were as follows:

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Cincinnati 41 | 19 | 680 Chicago aie 517
Brooklyn 36 4 | 600 New York 26 | 36 | 419
Philadelphia aie 597 | Cleveland {38 39 | 316
Boston 36 | 26| 581 | Pittsburgh 16 | 43 | 271
To show how simple and interesting it is

to find the percentage ofa club we will work
one for you. Take New York for an ex-
ample, with a percentage of 419, Games
won, 26. Games lost, 36. Affix three
ciphers to the number of games won, thus,
26000, Thenadd the number of games won,
26, to the number of games lost, 36, making
a total of 62. Divide the 26000 by the 62,
and the result will be 419’and a fraction, or
in round numbers, 419.

Write the numes of the clubs in the order
in which you think they will stand on the
4th of July, also the percentage, and send it
to us accompanied by the certificate which
you will find printed on the first page of
this paper every week until the contest
closes, June 27th.

The prizes are intended for the readers of
Goop News only, and those sending guesses
unaccompanied by the certificate cannot be
recognized as competitors. The prizes will
be divided as follows:

The first to send us the nearest correct
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Second Horse Timer, guaranteed fifteen
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of the first prize will receive a handsome
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ten nearest guesses to the winners of the
second-class prizes a Bottle of Perfumery; to
the next ten nearest guesses a Rubber Type
Printing Outfit will be given.

This makes a total of thirty-one
be given away to those who are the most
clever, and use the greatest care. We offer
all our readers a remarkable opportunity to
win handsome prizes.

The only condition of entry for the prizes
is that you send the base-ball certificate
found on the first page with every guess.
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INTERESTING FACTS.

BY JOHN R. CORYELL,

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Ramble Among the Stars.

OP, E are so great to ourselves that
WAY it is no easy matter for us to
a comprehend what atoms we
are in the universe. Nor is it
at all flattering to our self-love to con-
template the spectacle of our own insig-
nificance, Nevertheless such a contem-
plation may be wholesome medicine,
and we of this self-glorifying nineteenth
century may do well to take liberal
doses,
We talk of enaicleting time and space
with our EelAgraph and railroads, and
yet with all our big words we are utterly
unable to give more than the faintest
conception of all time and all space,
eternity, and infinity.
Let us fence off a small—very small
corner of space, and make an effort to
comprehend what it contains. For con-

rizes to |

which this earth of ours is spinning.
And now if this be the first time you
have taken a starry ramble, accept my
advice and keep a firm hold of your
senses, for they may go off in the univer-
sal whirl before you know it.

Stand away from the earth and look
at Tone solitary moon. How it spins!
And how it swings around the earth.
And there is the earth spinning, too;
and there it swings around the sun,
dragging the mad little moon with it.
And a pretty circle it makes! A circle,
or more properly an ellipse about one
hundred and eighty millions of miles in
diameter. Make a little circle on your
thumb-nail, That circle is larger in your
comprehension than the circle the earth
makes in space when compared with all
space.

Besides the earth, there are Mercury,
Venus, Jupiter, and the rest of the plan-
ets with all their moons, all spinning
and swinging around the sun just as the
wooden horses in the merry-go-round,
and making just about as much commo-
tion among themselves and just as little
in the realm of space as the merry-go-
round at Coney Island does on our globe,
And then there is the sun actually spin-
ning, too! More than that, it is tearing
along like a wild horse at the end of a
rope. Whiz it goes, dragging the earth
and all the rest of the little balls with
all their moons afterit. It is making
its circle, and such a circle!

Man annihilates time and_ space!
What then does the sun do? Look at its
circle—it is all in the little corner we
fenced off—and I will give you some
figure by which you can calculate its
size. It is not large. A silver ten-cent
piece is larger to us than the sun’s circle
compared to all space. The sun is whirl-
ing along with his whirling worlds at
the rate of thirty-four million miles a
year, and if he keeps on at the same
pace he will have made one complete
revolution in a little over eighteen mil-
lion years.

Aer if you can, not onl
with all its revolving worlds,
less other suns with vastly
bers of satellite worlds and comets all
whirling around the grand central sun,
and you will have some idea of the little
corner we fenced off, and which we may
call our universe.

If. you care to see the central sun, look
in the Eastern sky about this time fora
little group of stars formed into a shape
not unlike a ladle. That group is called
the Pleiades, and at about the central
point of the cluster shines Alcyone.
Aleyone is the far-off, mysterious sun
apur which we are all chasing each

er.

And now, if you care to climb over the
fence, you may see that Alcyone, too, is
no better than we are. It, too, obeys the
call and spins and whirls like the mean-
est moon among the dey throng behind.
But you are a trifle giddy yourself, no
doubt, so we will not fellow Alcyone.

What a poor idea we must have of dis-
tance and time even now that we have
been walk OE among the stars and talk-
ing so glibly of millions of miles and
miliions of years. We judge of things
we do not know by those we do. We
are, after all, not much in advance of
Cetywayo, the Zulu king, who, when
asked how far off he thought the sun
was, replied:

“ About ten days’ journey.”

That was very far to the savage.
stupid he was, was he not?
ow much better are we? We say
ninety-five million miles, and are satis-
fied because we have put it in a
but in reality we have-no more idea of
the distance from the figures than Cety-
wayo himself. But there is a way to
gain some idea of the distance. We

now that we could not dodge a ball
from a rifle a quarter of a mileaway. At
any rate I would not care to take the
chances. Yet that same rifle ball, going
at the same rate of speed, would take
about twelve years to reach the sun.
How we do annihilate space in our
express trains! Suppose a train were to
move at the rate of fifty miles: an hour,
it would take it about two hundred years
to reach the sun. To gain even the very
faintest idea of the distance of some of
the stars from us, however, we must give
up rifle bullets and express trains as too
slow,-or we shall be omamend in figures.

We must use the speed of light to
reckon with. Light travels about one
hundred and eighty-five thousand miles
asecond. Grasp that if you can. Now
take alpha centauri, the nearest of the
fixed stars, and how long do you suppose
it would take such a nimble mover as
light to come here from there? Three
years! But that is nothing. There are
some stars so far away that it would
take light five hundred thousand years
to make the journey to us.

There! If you do not feel insignificant
now, you must, indeed. be the grandest

our sun
ut count-
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soon be commenced.

venience we will take the little corner in

Ticklets.

BY CHARLES W. FOSTER.
Two Sick Boys.
Little Dick—“Mamma, I'm awtul sick.
I stay home from school ?” /
Manima—‘‘Certainly. Lie down on the ~
Little Dick (by the window half an hour J#
“Mamma, may! go out and play hopscotell
Billy Bunce. He isn’t at school to-day.” #3
Mamma—"You are sick.” a y,
Little Dick—‘‘So is Billy,”

Brother and Sister.
George—“‘Who is that pretty girl you st
to talk to?” t
Jack—She’s nobody. Just my sister.” 4
George—*‘I wish you would introduce me tle
Jack—‘‘No use. She wouldn’t consider
to associate with.” /
George—‘‘Eh? Why not?”
Jack—‘‘She’s seen you with me.”

A Bright Boy. i
Mr. Ketchem—‘How is your boy getting
at school ?” j
Mr. Cheatem—‘‘Splendidly! splendidly! ie
tell you, my old friend, that boy of mine wilh,
his way in the world, don’t you tear. Duril
eight years he’s been going to school they
had thirty-two examinations, and he’s man
dodge every one of ’em.”

A Linguistic Dog. 4
Fair Customer—"'You say you trained th
yourself. Can he understand me if ] call
English ?” B
Dealer—“Yah. Off you whistle to him.” *©€

A Day’s Outing. j

First Sportsman—‘‘See here, old boy, that

basket is ten times too big. We'll never
that full in the world.” :

Second Sportsman-—‘‘This is to carry the Df

in. I have the fish-basket in my pocket.” _

He Got It Off.

Mr. Saphead (to himself)—‘Here’s a good
Tll read it again, so I can remember it. I
see. Where isit? Ah, here itis. ‘General
says he has often been called a rascal, DF
thanks Heaven no one ever called him a fool.
rate. Tl get that off at the De Beautevé

a iP
r. Saphead (at dinner at the De Beauté
“Aw, Miss De Beautee, do you know I'm lik
eral Butler in one thing ?”
Miss De Beautee—‘‘Yes, I’ve noticed you

a little.”
A Church Pillar.
Farmer Hayrick—‘‘Deacon Skinflint seems
all-fired happy to-day.” 8
Farmer Strawrake—‘Yaas, I
ceeded in doin’ somethin’ ter m
feel miserable.”

Reason Knocked Endways. 4° ‘
Mr. Borem (buying a railway ticket)—‘).
became of the ticket-seller who used to be!
window ?” 7:
Ticket Agent—“He’s in a lunatic asylum.”
**You don’t say 80. What drove him crs
“A shock .”
“Shock, eh ?”
“Yes. One day a man came to. his
bought a ticket, paid for it, and walked of
out stopping to ask a string of foolish ques#

Proof of Acquaintanceship. —

Office Boy—‘Stranger at the door; says.
newspaper man, and knows you, and wa.
borrow some money of you.” i

Great Editor—‘Pretty story! Some
course. How much does he want to borro

“Ten cents.”

“Oh! He does know me, I guess. Give b
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A Terrible Disappointment.
Mother— Why, my dear, what's the D
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Iknow. Tell me all about it, my child.”
Daughter—‘‘Boo-hoo! Mrs. De Music ask
to play, and—-and when 1 ‘told her I was,
practice, she said she was ‘sosorry,’ and did e
me again, boo-hoo-hoo!”

Knew What Was Coming.
Mr. Tiptop—‘‘As you are a fluent lingu®
would probably enjoy the French comedy
French company at the theater. Will yous,
me as an escort ?” di
Miss Westend—‘‘Er—] am not feeling vely
this afternoon, You understand French”
pose, Mr. Tiptop ?” p
“Dear me, no. I don’t know a word of if.
“Oh! Thank you, Mr. Tiptop, I will accOts
you with pleasure.” d
Sticking to Business. —~
Little Boy at toy store window)—“M@_

fvon’t you buy me a top ?”
Mamma (meditatively)—“It is too cold ©

ps,
“Well, then, buy me a double ripper an)
some new skates, and we'll let the top gO —

Theater Properties.

Jerseyman—‘‘I see you're going to play “9.”
called ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream.’” -

Theater Manager—“Yes, Would you ke?
9 a

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oe

“No. J s’rose it's mostly moonlight any
derstorm, and sich. I know all about Uae
but T thought maybe you might want toD™ 9,
chickens.” a

“We have no farm scene in it.” an.
“Oh! Well, they’re young an Jively, @%9*
wings ain’t clipped yet. You might use Ws

musquitoes.” a
Overloaded. ;
Boy—‘‘Say, mister, shall I carry yer
Do it for a dime.” i j
Dude—‘My satchel ts not heavy.” W
Boy—‘‘Well, let me carry your cane theB

In Bad Humor.
Editor's Child—‘‘What’s the matter

to-day? He's in an awful bad humor.”
Editor's Wife—Yes, my dear. The regula

 

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ury.

man of the paper ts sick, and your father 8”
to keep the department going.” a

  

 
 

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JOHNNY,

‘HE ARAB UP THE REGIMENT.

By JAMES FRANKLIN FITTS,
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1e
yur

Y the army regulations each offi-
vovell

cer is entitled to a servant; and
during the Rebellion the super-
fluity of “contrabands” was so
reat that these places were generally
led by them. One of the few exceptions
at I knew was the illustrious person
hose name heads this sketch, and
r.” lose merits certainly entitle him to a
metemoir among the celebrities of the
der Yemy.
He wandered into our camp at Balti-
oe in the fall of 1862, and presently
tached himself to the fortunes of Lieu-
Mant P——, for whom he did excellent
ting @vice in the next two years. His per
4 ss appearance, always odd in the ex-
Dae a was strikingly so that morning.

ou

puri’ 4S arrayed in a great battered hat,
they! *4arge that it was continually extin-
panaf Shing him, and kept him busy lifting
‘UP; 4 worn-out jacket, several sizes

{0 large, anda baggy pair

a thal rousers, turned up at
val a ottom in numerous
#cs to dispose of their
m.” *€Ssive length. His feet
fre stockingless and un-

_ thatithe and he was alto-
, “her a most forlorn lit-
; object to behold. But
ponny himself was never
»any other than the besa
Spirits; and on this oc-
‘on of his advent among
© was full of his quaint
mor, and soon had a
Cle of soldiers about
k ne ee his rollick-
un. He had little ac-
nt to give of himself,
ept that his name was

good
it.
eral
cal, Me
fool.
aut

m It ew the balance of it
you Sa <new nothing about—
; td that he had come over

ocean in aship, His
som a8 wellas his "s eech
icp ayed his Geltic

s he$lgin, and he had prob-
h’ pry been cast on the wide
orld by those who should

We cared fo i
VS- * r him.
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ed off any correctness ioe
que & prematurely old

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» 4 May have b ‘i
sume Older,
aster, however, had hi
iy rraihnved In a suit of matt
orrow® Dlue, cut down to his
nieecttions ; and Johnny
ive ; Onee began to present a
} SS creditable appear-
nt. fal | © made hmiself
he m on ma hundred ways
a ass attending faith.
a O the care of the
was Og ae accoutrements ;
Bea cistine time he de-

j running a

y, and

1g TMation eine oe
ier ; soon
ing eee all the calls so

© could whi
1 yOU"Burately: stle them
familiy. € struck u

   

ng ve acquai

ench aa every oMicer’ ants
| of te early ot he seemed to
1 accOPMs to 'quitons, for he

be seen
Vv

7 ng us, and “Lieute
ercury” "the

oii Meao Y soon becme one of
t edged institutions of the eae

aS very amusing and very en-
ut it was in active
8 genius shone out in

He had i
f a little Yate oP eepined the

 

ng almost unheeded
insignifien Pickets on account of
d some thas i his appearance. He
time j thie © #bsent a whole day

his manner and never was

red or a skirmish

»™pt} & you would seé

thes. s yon hand, ready for Ie gooey
a of a co

| era] Nversation i

, with Tal Sher; an Shieh eet aaot he

lory, ere was a story
2 Dut i ?
wh I give it as it was told.

  
  
  
  
  
    
     
  

 

 

It was said that the general was out at
the front with his staff, escort and sev-
eral companies of cavalry, when an ob-
ject was seen moving through the woods
in advance which looked like a_ horse-
man. A detachment was sent out, and
in afew moments Johnny was brought
in, mounted 1s usualon his pony. |

“Who in the duse are you?” Sheridan
asked, not a little puzzled by the extra-
ordinary appearance before him. | ;

“Oh, I’m Johnny, General Sheridan.’

“How do you know that Iam General
Sheridan?” : ‘ .

“Why, I know everybody in thisarmy.

“What army?”

“Your army, of course.”

“You don’t mean. to say that you be-
long to us?” ,

“Of course I do—411th New York.’

“What do you do with them?”

“T take care of Lieutenant P——.

“And what were you doing out there
in front?” the general asked, when the
laugh caused by the boy’s droll answer
and irresistible way of delivering it had
subsided.

“Foraging, general.”

“Who for?”

“Oh, for my lieutenant. It takes 2
dreadful sight of chickens to keep him.

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sages, tothe disgust of more practical
souls. Tosuch a careless, improvident
creature as this, it may be easily con-
ceived what a godsend Johnny must have
been. P—— was a gourmand, as I be-
lieve most lazy people are, and nothing
in the army had so troubled him as the
necessity of living on hard bread and salt
pork. But the advent of Johnny changed
all this; he had only to remark in the
morning, “Chickens for dinner to-day,
John,” and they were sure to be forth-
coming. P—— arose wonderfully in
popurarisy with the acquisition of such
a helper, and even the field and staff
were not above soliciting an invitation
to his bountiful table.

“How on earth does that little imp of
yours get all this provender, P——?” the
major inquired, one day as he regaled
himself over a roasted fowl in the lieu-
tenant’s “Sibley.”

“I’m sure I don’t know,” P—— lazily
responded. “I never asked him, but
we'll find out now. John!”

“Yes, sir!” And the familiar thrust
his little unkempt bullet head inside.

“John, the major wants to -know how
you manage to get me chickens and such
fixings.”

“Buy ’em, sir.”

“Always?”

“Yes, sir.”

“But you don’t always have money?”
“No,” said John, standing on one foot
and scratching his head, “I
don'‘t always have money.
When I don't, I take ’em
oncredit. Some of these
e- people don’t want to

 

Johnny’s mischievous love of fun was
exemplified one day by the shock he’ ad-
ministered to the nerves of the chaplain,
The latter was a staid solemn divine,
whose solemnity and dignity had suffered
no abatement by his introduction into
camp. He had no idea at all of coming
down to the free and easy manners of
army life, but in his speech, dress and
manners he carefully maintained his
character as a stiff uncompromising or-
thodox shepherd. Johnn biaitt for some
time had his eye on the dominie, watch-
ing for a good chance to shock his keen
sense of propriety; and he found it one
day when the parson and some others
were breakfasting with P— on some fresh
eggs which the little guerilla had gob-
bled”* the night before. It was the

* The words ‘‘gobbled” and “‘accumulated” were
indiscriminately used in the army to designate an
unauthorized appropriation of property. 1t is hard
to say which was most frequently used.

hour for guard-mounting, and the drums
and fifes on the parade suddenly struck
up a rattling lively tune, which the
reader has often heard, possibly without
knowing its name. The sound seemed
to make a pleasing impression on the
chaplain; he smiled, put down his cup,
and said, with great precision, and em-
phasis:

“That air appears quite familiar to
me; methinks I must have heard that
strain before. Lieutenant, please inform
me how that piece is styled.”

“Why, chaplain,” broke in Johnny,
who stood behind his stool, “don’t you
know? I thought everybody knew what
that was. It is ‘Go to the devil and
shake yourself.’ ”

 

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Having enjoyed these and a few more
of the same odd replies, the general or-
dered Johnny to return to camp at once,
and not be caught prowling about out-
side the lines again.

“No, general, I won’t be caught next
time,” was his parting remark.

This boy’s abilities as a forager were of
the highest order, and excited the env
of the officers, whose servants were muc
less proficient. What he did not know on
the subject of “accumulating” turkeys,
chickens and eggs, was not worth any
body's while to find out. He always re-
turned to camp with a good supply of
one or the other of these articles, so dear
to the stomach of the campaigner; and
not only these, but the milk, the bread,
and the pies of the country were laid
under contribution, to supply the table
of “my lieutenant.” P—— was himself
rather lazy in habit, always needing the
spur of an emergency to arouse his ener-
gies and abilities, which were really of
no mean order. His idea of perfect hap-
piness on earth was to lie on his back
all day and read Shakespeare, and then
sally out at night and spout choice pas-

 

trust, and the way I manage them is to| military experience in the

take the chickens right along anda say
nothing about it.”

“Of course you mean to pay?”

“ Certainly, sir.”

“When?”

“Five hundred years after the recog-
nition of the Southern Confederacy by
the United States,” promptly responded
the little seamp, and ee amid a
chorus of “bravo, Johnny!” and uproari-
ous laughter from the appreciative com-

any.
. To tell the whole truth. the boy was
quite reckless in his piracies. On several
occasions he brought into camp valuable
books and articles of ornament which he
had plundered from some neighboring
mansion. P—— tacitly approved of these
peculations, easing his conscience with
the plea of “this is the enemy’s country,
you know,” and enjoyed the books when
off duty; but a severe intimation from
higher authority caused him to give his
Mercury some private instructions, and
his foraging propensities were thence-
oath confined to live stock and their pro-
ucts,

 
   

 

‘The chaplain dropped
his cup aghast, and looked
around in horror upon the
tittering company. John
was dismissed from the
tent with a reproof, but it
was a favorite amusement
after that to get him to re-
hearse the scene, imitating
the parson’s look and
speech to the life.

The interview of this

amin with General

anks, as well as the cir-
cumstances that led. to it,
should be related. It was
in Western Louisiana, on
our first campaign, in
April, 1863. The enemy
yy: had been driven from their

y g, works at Bisland, Bayou
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_ Teche, and our army fol-
lowed, horse, foot, and
artillery, in hot pursuit.
The intention of the com-
manding general was to
cut off the retreat of the
enemy by a division which
had made a detour before
the battJe, and by bringing
them between two fires, to
compel them to surrender.
The plan was defeated by
the superior knowledge of
the Confederate general of
the roads, which enabled
him to escape by one that
was unknown to us. But
the march of the succeed-
ing two days, while there
was a prospect of termi-
nating the campaign by
the capture of the entire
force of the enemy, is a re-
collection that will never
pass from the memory of
any man who partici-
pated in it. The weather
was as sultry as we ever
find it at the North in
July, the roads were thick
with dust, water was
scarce, the sun blazed
fiercely down. upon us—it
was the very outset of our
eld, so that we
were unused to marching—and with all
this, we were put through at the terrible
rate of twenty-five miles per day. Our suf-
ferings were most acute, trudging along
with blistered feet, hot, thirsty, hungry,
in continual bodily torment, and sus-
tained only by the stern spirit of the sol-
dier. Even this became relaxed on the
second day. Hundreds there were who
had too much pride to fall out, but who
felt that they could not endure to march
any further that day, and they looked
about for a substitute. It was not hard
to find a means of transportation in that
country and along that road. Many of
the inhabitants had fled at our approach,
and hosts of their negroes had joined us,
bringing with them other hosts of live
stock and vehicles; and what was lack-
ing here was readily made up from the
plantations that we passed. By two
o’clock in the afternoon the road on
both sides of the marching column was
filled with the most grotesque jumble of
animals and conveyances that was ever
seen in time of war, or any other time.
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on a donkey, one facing each way; next
was a sorry-looking gig, drawn by a
little stub of a pony, carrying a demora-
lized captain; then a family carriage,
with two mules and two horses hitched
in pairs before it, a soldier bestriding
each animal, and the vehicle containing
somewhere near half a company. In one
case I actually saw acow fastened to a
cart, and compelled much against her
will to transport a soldier. So the comi-
cal procession went, an incongruous
mass of animals, vehicles, officers, sol-
diers, and negroes, all sandwiched. to-
gether, and moving along through the

ust at the rate of five miles per hour, in
pursuit of the enemy. It was every-
where greeted with laughter, cheers, and
jokes, and its ridiculous appearance did
much to raise the flagging spirits of the
better soldiers who kept their places in
the colamn. But this condition of things
was looked upon by General Banks with

grave apprehension. He rode down the|t

column, taking in all the details of the
extraordinary movement, and then de-
clared to his staff that the army was
then little better than disorganized;
that a sharp attack at that moment
would probably cause a panicand a rout;
and that all those men must forthwith
quit their animals and their conveyances,
and retake their) places in the column.
For this purpose he took his position at
the head of the march, opposite the gate
of a great sugar-mill enclosure, and the
motley procession, including every man
who was not entitled to be mounted, was
turned into the yard by the provost-mar-
shal and his men, until the road was
cleared of all thisunmilitary array. And
then such a scene was presented by the
confusion of that enclosure, when horses,
mules, donkeys, and cows _ kicked,
neighed, and brayed among the over-
turned vehicles, and “officers and _ gen-
tlemen,” together with privates and ne-
grees, st about sheepishly, with their

ands in their pockets, waiting for fur-
ther developments! It was a sight to
which no pen can do justice.

It was no part of the intention of the
general to punish these men for what
was a venial breach of discipline, and a
very natural one, considering their con-
dition, and that this was their first cam-

aign; but considerable time elapsed be-

ore all the soldiers could be disentangled
from the confusion of carts and other
conveyances, and assembled in a military
body, in which to march after the column
now half a mile in advance. All exit
from the enclosure was closely guarded
against by a detail from thé cavalry that
attended the general; and it began to be
seen that the inmates would be prisoners
for some time. This was particularly dis-
tressing to Johnny, who had ridden in
a glory during the afternoon on the
k of a gigantic horse, lame of one leg,
on which the boy was perched like a
pigmy.. Ignominiously driven into the
yord by the sabres of the cavalry, and
ismounted. with the rest, John took his
poe as near the fence as he could get,
eeping an anxious eye on the move-
ments of the general outside. Watching
his opportunity when the attention of
the nearest cavalryman was diverted to
another direction, he mounted the fence,
and swinging the roll of blankets and
the frying-pan that he carried above his
ehad, he sang out, in his shrill treble:

“I say you, General Banks! I want to
be let out of this right off! I’ve got my
lieutenant’s blankets here, dae he’ll

want ’em; and if [ ain’t on hand to cook |.

his supper, there’ll be —— to pay, you’d
better believe. I don’t care astraw for
that poor old hoss, forI can get a better
one any day; but I do want to get out of
this, so 1 can get back to the regiment.
Please let me out.” 4

“What regiment is it?” the general
inquired, evidently amused at this ap-

al.
ee The 411th New. York, general; just
the bulliest——”

“Let him pass,” the general inter-
rupted; and the little vagabond went on
his way rejoicing, and was on hand
promptly at the bivouac that night.

At the battle of Cedar Creek Johnny
at first independently refused to accept
the necessity imposed upon our army 0
reteating before the successful attack of
the Confederates in the morning. I ver-
ily believe that he was the last person
connected with our army, and not a
prisoner, who left our camp on that dis-
astrous morning. He managed to keep
himself out of the fire, while still Keep
ing near enough the advancing enemy to
sa oe his curiosity in regard to them.
He rejoined us when the tide of battle
tarned in the afternoon, and advance
with the army, full of triumph of the
Do Fe that hill

“Do you see tha over yonder?” he
asked, as we passed in the pursuit one
of the positions of our artillery in the
morning. “Well, when I left that hill,
about sunrise, the gunners had all gone,
and the gray-coats were coming up. one
side, about a thousand of ’em, T fom

set one of the gun-earriages going down
t’other side, and lickity switch she
went till she struck a stump, and that
threw the gun off into the bushes. Then
I scampered. I’ll bet you ten cents toa
rotten apple you'll find that gun right
there in those bushes now.”

He was right; there it was; and I was
certain the Confederates had not used
that piece of artillery against us in the
morning.
’ Johnny was on one occasion taken pris-
oner by Mosby’s guerillas. He was out
at the time near Winchester with an in-
cautious party of soldiers, on some un-
military expedition, and a detachment
of these watchful troopers swooped down
on them, and quickly carried them into
the enemy’s lines. The soldiers of the
party were immediately put‘en route for

ichmond and Libbey Prison; but when
it was proposed to put John also in this
unfortunate class, he very strongly pro-

ested.

“What’ll you send me down to Libbe
for, I’d like to know?” he exclaimed,
“T’m not a soldier, and never was. I’m
Johnny; allI dois to take care of my

lieutenant. You can’t get anybody in
exchange for me; the Secretary of ar

wouldn’t give youanold brass button,
and Colonel Per Lee wouldn’t thank you
for taking me. You don’t want me; I
ain’t a soldier.”

Such faith was put in the protestations
of the boy, which were confirmed by the
men in whose company he was taken,
that he was confined at ‘Winchester, in
stead of being sent South. The victory
of September 19th liberated him, and he
returned to the regiment, as irrepressible
as ever. .

Johnny played his pegutiss part with
us till the close of the war, and then,
like all of us, retired to some less con-
spicuous theatre of operations. I should
very much like to know what has become
of him, as would also hundreds of my
comrades of old, who wMl have no diffi-
culty in recognizing the subject of this

sketch, or in attesting its truthfulness. |

He had the making of a very useful
man, anda moderate degree of mental
and moral training would have made
that result certain. We may ‘cs hear
that our little Arab of the 411th has
gained a considerable height of wealth
or distinction in that great army whose
battle-field is the world, and in which
every man is something of a guerilla.

 

BOYS WILL BE BOYS,

OR,
A.Harvest of Wild Oats.

_e
By J. T. TROWBRIDGE.
Author of “Cubjo’s Cave,” ‘Neighbor Jackwood,’
“Morton Merrivale, His X Mark.” “The Drum-
mer Boy,” ‘The Three Scouts,” “The Young
Surveyor,” ‘Jack Hazard Series,” etc.

{Boys Witt BE Boys” was commenced in No. 53
Back numbers can be obtained of ail News Agents.]

CHAPTER XII.

OUR HERO HELPS A WHOLE FAMILY TO
RIDE WHILE HE GOES AFOOT,

™ OY had walked about two miles
farther, when on the outskirts of
a small village he saw a group of

men and boys gathered around
some object by the road-side. There
seemed to be a wagon loaded with house-
hold goods; and on joining the group of
idlers he saw a dead horse lying before
the shafts on the snow.

It was an old, rickety one-horse
wagon; the household goods were of
the queerest, and the animal appeared to
have been constructed by stretching an
old horsehide over a hollow frame-work
of bones. How so miserable a quadruped
had even drawn that wagon to that spot
was a marvel and amystery. It seemed
no wonder at all that the poor beast had
fallen dead after he got there.

“Them chairs and that.clumsy bedstead

f| was never made in-this country,” Roy

heard one of the bystanders remark.
“They came from Canady,” said another;
“and look as if they was brought over
from Payris afore the French an’ Ingin
war. ight: know sich a team as that
belonged to one o’ them Canucks,” —a
nickname by which French Canadians
are known in the United States.
“Every durned_ Canuck thinks he
must have his old crow-bait,” said a

d|third. “No family is complete without
one. Here comes the boss of this job
now.

A short, swarthy, black-eyed man,
with a troubled countenance, was ap-

proaching from the village. Roy ap-
proached him, and cried out: 5
“Hallo, Lizard! This your horse?

The Canadian’s name was Lassard,

 

which had easily become transformed to

NEWS.

Lizard in the mouths of the uncouth na-
tives of Bayfield, where Roy had known
him for some yéars.

“TI s’pose he belongs to me. I lef’ your
town; I movin’ my family ; I git so fur
w’en my ’oss up an’ dies.’

“Where are ine going?” Roy inquired.

“I got a place on some brick-yards,
t’irty mile from’ here. I been dere all
las’ summer. Good many my people

dere; we works brick-makin’ summer,
an’ winter we specs big oe cuttin’ ice.
So I tink I move my family, an’ I git so
fur w’en my ’oss up an’ dies.”

“When did this happen?”

“Las’ night, ’bout nine o’clock. I
t’ought I could git t’rough to dis place
in one day; I know family here, w’ere
we could stop over night; it is no more
twelve t’irteen mile from your town—
not much more; but dat ’oss—I don’ o’
what matter dat ’oss; he wouldn’t draw;
an’ w’en I git so fur, he ups an’ die.”

“Why, Lizard, you're in a bad fix!”

“T never been so bad fix all my life. I
trade a good ’oss for dis ’oss; I take
my family to ride Sundays, all fall, an’
he work more; an’ I tink I make him
work on ice, an’ drawin’ clay in brick-
yards nex’ summer. He is all my prop-
erty I got, on’y w’at you see here, jes’
my family goods. I been goin’ make
somet’in’ out dat ’oss, but w’en we got
so fur, he gave out; I try to w’ip him
some furder, an’ he ups an’ die.”

“Where’s your family now?”

“Dem two boys mine [ lef’ ’em to watch
w’ile I go see w’at I shall do. My wife
an’ some more children stop now w’ere I
took ’em las’ night, some our own peo-
a poor people like us; leetle small
house, much too small. We stop one
night ver’ well. An’ I mus’ go on, begin
cuttin’ ice, or I lose my job. It was all
right—I reckon I make journey in t’ree
four days—but w'en I got so far dot ’oss
he oo an’ die.”

“How many children have you, Liz-
ard?”

“Dem two boys an’ five more.”

“Seven children, your wife, and your-
self, and those goods. I should think
that a preety ood load for a much better
horse,” sai Soy “And isn’t it bad
wheeling?”

“W’eeling is not good; but I bave got
no sleigh; an’ I mus’ take all my fam’ly
one load; leetle small shavers, all but
dem boys; an’ we go foot w’en we fin’
dat ’oss won’t draw; but it was no use;
we got so fur, w’en he ups an——”

“Yes, Lizard, so I heard yousay. And
what are you going to do now?”

“Dat’s w’at I[do’no. I am poor man.
I git not’n’ do in dis place, an’ no ’ouse
for my fam’ly; ’ere is wagon-load stuff;
I git rs short; have jes’ "bout t’1ree
four dollar; I cannot go back, an’ I can-
not go on; itis twenty mile yet; an’ I
git so fur w’en dat ’oss——”

“Don’t talk about the dead horse any

»| more,” exclaimed Roy. “Isn’t there any-

body in this place who will help you?”

op do’no; my frien’s ’ere poor folks
like me; I ask some people; an’ dey say
we mus’ go to poor-’ouse till we can be
send back to some town w’ere we come
from; but dere is not’n’ for poor man do
dis ’ard winter. I ’ave find nudder ’oss
my frien’s show me; he is ver’, good
’oss; if l’ave him I can go on; but he
cos’ some money, no ver’ much.”

The crowd had by this time left the
dead horse and gathered around Roy and
the Canadian. ’ r

“We'll take up a contribution for you
and help you buy the horse, if he doesn’t
cost too much.”

And Roy, forgetting his own hard for-
tune in his sympathy for poor Lassard,
addressed the bystanders.

“T know this man,” he said, “and I
know him to be a hard-working, honest.
fellow. You see the scrape he is in.
Now, by ciubbing together, and each
giving a trifle, we can help him out, I’ll
start the contribution with one dollar.
You, Iam sure, will give another,” turn-
ing to a respectable-looking citizen
whose influence he thought it wise to
secure,

The man smiled, and, as the other by-
standers were watching his face, they
smiled, too. :

“T don’t know as I’ve got a dollar to
invest in horse-flesh for one of these
vagabond Canucks,” he said; and this
view of the case was immediately adopted
by the crowd,

In vain Roy assured them that_Las-
sard was no vagabond. Not a dollar
was forthcoming to help the poor man,

“If gen’lemen won't give dollar
apiece, let some give half, some quarter,
some few cents, dat will do,” said the
Canadian. “I git dat odder ’oss for five
dollars.”

“Five dollars!” exclaimed Roy. “And
are you sure the horse you can buy for
five dollars will take you through?”

Lassard was sure,

Again Roy appealed to the crowd. One
man contributed ten cents, a boy gave

 

five, a few others gave one or two cents

 

    

od not out of benevolence, but h
the joke of the thing. po
Roy was indignant. He took out RS
pocket-book, and said, sarcastically : p,8!
“After getting such a heavy contri. AC
tion from the rest, I am ashamed of bh at
ing given only one dollar, I’m“ noh he
man of means, like some of these m eed
nificent gentlemen. You shall have y ee
horse, though, Lizard.” oe
And he gave five dollars in pla nen
one. eeu
The Canadian’s black eyes glistene i
“Bless you, Roy. Now I can git fh
You save my family. I take de mot the
but I shall pay it back.” ee
Roy smiled rather ruefully. tak

 

  

“Very well. I suppose the timet nile
come when I shall need it more thj;.,*
you. But just now you need it mt Sta
than I. Luck to you, my friend!” ig 2

“Oh, I shall ’ave luck now. I was med
right before, you see. I ’ave my oh ©
engage; I ’ave big job onice; I mG in
my family, but when I git so far, 4

Poa ups an’ die. If it wasn’t been de Ot
a esi ot to
“Well, good-by!” said Roy, interrhay@
ing him. “I hope your new horse w@, ¥
die before you get to your journey’s é King
My respects to Mrs. Lizard and the lifer, 8
Lizards.” Roc
And he walked off, with a cheerful
He was now little more than tel
eleven miles from home, and the 2
dollars with which he* had set out

 

  

 

become reduced to three dollars a Tg
half, you |
hile |

CHAPTER XIII. inky

lin.”

ROY SETS UP AS A CLOCKMAKER: lo,
ei ‘foor

T was Roy’s habit to act. impuls here
fF ans to reflect afterward. . A8S%,

walked on it occurred to him #m'S &
he had possibly done two fo0 and

 

things. is j
He had acted in. such a way as t0jge! i
tract attention in a village where it Athor
progty certain that he would be inqu fan
after, 5
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had shown very little consideration ™y,
poor horse. He had also been sadly n&
gent of the interests of another unf%), 1;
nate, named Roydon Rockwood. Be lin

“Suppose Lizard’s second horse sh, 4"
ups and die?” thought he; and for 4 uld d
ment Roy wished he had back fow oked.
his five dollars. 1

One of the saddest things in life™hat
have cause to regret a kind actioN- joy, hi
regret a bad action is a wholesome | dear
ter; but to feel that you have beeP i, k 4
ee good, to learn to suU%y;
and chide your own generous impu
this is a bitter which is not wholesk jg.
and this is what Roy tasted now. hour. -

His one great fault, as we see, wa Noon

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m

her

rudence. That is sometimes a Med to
ault—the rich soil from which spe old’
the glorious flower of heroic condulé
we shall also see before we are thlWVo
with this story. Occasions ther’s decig
when it is well to forget every conS"3 oy hi
tion of personal safety and comfd dit
the performance of supreme duty)
imprudence becomes the higher pru@. Joo,
ut unfortunately this indiscre@P wo),

pulsiveness governed too much all of ®M the |
actions, good as well as bad. tly {
this which had caused him to @ ® look:
wild companions and present pleas 3in

stead of serious studies and futu frank)
fulness. It was this which had le@fag ive
to countenance a foolish and cri By t
act; and then, rather than give eY™M. yy
against the culprits, to run awa,
a good home and the best of friet
mid-winter. And now it had bet
him into giving the larger share ©
money to a man better fitted that,

self-to get over the rough places © a gt,.,
without it. a, Une ¢
“The worst that could have hapt Youn,

to. the Lizards,” thought he, (%
robably have been a few weeks of
er weather in a comfortable poor-hMe
But how much worse things mel é
en to himself. And it was vexing .%
fect that he had given the mont)
simply because he was more tf)
than most people, but because ™
more rash, : {
In this he did himself injustie
there is danger lest we do him inJig @
too. Had he possessed merely T
without generosity, his story wow
be worth telling. We are trying a
him as he was—a youth not altoret
good, not wholly bad, but havin8,
fine Sones and some weak ©
mixed, B don:
There were plenty of dullards n't
crowd around the dead horse wit &m wo
never have been guilty of one ©, Roy h
follies; and for a moment he “@ "Med,
envied them their commonplace helid
ence. yt ha.
“But, no!” he suddenly
within himself, his depressed ;
ing again as he thought of their fg
faces and unfeeling hearts, “Ig.
not live at all than be able to

 
 

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ae frothing but amusement in any
ut F'Stortune. Whatever pera to
ly:) glad I’m not so bad as that.”

ntrig® 206 stop at the tavern, thinking
of b at he must husband his means,

of Re was still too near home to
5 jeedless delay.
ve ya Seven miles farther to the rail-
'Ption, where he had planned to
lace ®lm, and have as much of a ride
tle money would buy. He would
snedy Crcester, he thought, and thence
it lS way to Boston, or possibly to
mone k, unless Fortune should meet
4d traveled about five of these
me I piles, when his strength failed,
re thy; it his resolution to walk the
‘4 meStance without stopping.
: WO nights now he had not had his
was (ued rest; he had not had his usual
"OE either, and he was not trained
I 1 eps His limbs grew heavy,
i. ht ; me, felt faint, almost, to
F"» De co
he other: uld hardly drag one foot
PUldn’t wonder if I am famished,”

    
   
       
   
  
  
      

witha
a ed With himself. “Perhaps that’s
y'8 Oi Matter. Yonder’s a benevo-
he dil re farm-house. I'll try my

rful @oKed at a side door, and a feeble
ter y Appeared, She looked down
he 1 nd Curiously at the youthful
sut fp, U the door-step.

~s al Tre aking to the railroad,” he

ott be so good as to let me rest a

hile b your fire?”
Ainly," replied the old lady.
KER: Lloor 0

pened into a cozy sitting-

ule ere two young women were
ah
rim HnyS Biven a seat by an air-tight
fae and old lady insisted on taking
is if i puta fresh stick into the
ide honor of his arrival. She
e it) Athen me friendly remarks about
inqv’9 far’ and asked him if he had

! Jasm ” ° °
may yn,” he replied, naming the
ion ® ten he had encountered the Cana-
mi not bound to tell her how
Fou he he thought.
We lip) 2 Jasmyn?”
7 le ed there a littie while.”
or imself:
fou one think about half an hour.”
at the clock, and appeared

life? na

tion out {Xe correct: time?” he asked,

ome | dean Watch,

beeMBlock jon?” said the old lady.
sud with it We: Something is the

npUFE paste te What is your time?”

oles it avas n,” Roy replied, sighin

. hour, «Still so far from the rura

we MOOnstrain,» “raid I shall miss

h sPle ojq *iscussion of the trains,
na Id Nady asked where he was
Vo 7

hereys dette said Roy, boldly.

ons! oy that he had» missed the
dige’ to ha

oral tot were taken, and that
ty ; Ot get along until two
prue. lo a0
creel womted,” said one of the
Te the lounger Wouldn't you lie
to CMe loowsese g00d people rather
easing woula ne young stranger.
tare frankly, Suit me Batter, he an-
crifle ee 4 cushion for a pillow
evil. “He th women spread a shaw
LwayD two mined her and closed his
TrieMEDt abou tes he was fast aslee
pel! ened, half an hour, when he
re Phonse, myc Joungs man comin
han Gea) mo © young man eppeured
es OB & stray Surprised than pleased
a One of th in possession of the
hapf Young © women explained,
, of kK Man growled and went
Ss aM
or- he ething etteshed, and wished to
ight js, Pass a Stract his anxious
ing od wom. 2Y the time, and repay
none, you alle or their kindness.
| BONNE askeg %. me to look at that
se ME ay ; erhaps lean make
WA} LO
rstictthen "ethan Once taken to pieces
inj’ and ck at home when th d
py rattle whi it in running order s
wourne it w le another man came in
ng Heshment t old man. He looked
altoPefore af See a stranger at a
ving) Clock, “nt window, tinkering
eak * 4nd he f Rain the woman ex.
4 ‘ ih » *°9; growled and went
who yhem rer if he'll be able ever
, of » Roy heard ether again in this
he med, im mutter as the
Jace
1m per hastn 8s if the woman had
ext@ hands op’ 2 putting her clock
apit mere boy, who did

h ker, and who
f pincers, but a pocket-

Owever, to prevent

 

),°S farther than I thought, and |s

 

any mischief he might do. The empty
case was on the floor, the weights on one
side and ‘the pendulum on the other,
and his little table was already strewn
with pins and cogwheels.

Roy smiled, and asked himself if this | h

was not another of his rash undertak-
ings? Suppose he couldn’t get all these
scattered pieces in place again?

“Those two men will do something be-
sides Secaal’s thought he. “I shall
just get kicked out of doors, that’s all.”

“Are you sure you ain’t attempting
too much?” the old lady now’ asked,
looking over his shoulder. “We should
hate
clock.’

“No danger of that,” replied Roy, con-
fidently. “It’s perfectly simple. I think
I’ve discovered the trouble. The solder
here has gummed the oil on this pinion.
The clock needs a thorough cleaning, but
if you can give me a feather, and a rag,
and some sweet oil I’ll see what I can
Oo »”

Though the clock was of a different
make from the one he was used to, its
machinery was not very complicated, and
he felt sure he could master it, provided
he was let alone. Meanwhile, greatly
to his delight, he heard sounds of frying,
and perceived savory odors that came
from an adjoining kitchen; and soon on
a large table behind him, which had been
pulled out from the wall, fell heavy din-
ner plates with a clatter cheering to his

oul,
Suddenly the woman who was setting
the table, paused and gazed from the
window.
“Do look at that wagon load of goods
and children, and that poor old horse!”
Roy raised his eyes, and beheld a sight
which made him flush all over, and
started the perspiration from every pore
of his skin.

 

CHAPTER XIV.
A STARTLING SIGHT.

ONSIEUR LASSARD had met
with some delays at. Jasmyn
village. —

After the new horse had been
purchased, if so old an animal could in
any sense be called new, it was discovered
that he had no shoes. He slipped and
fell as his new owner was leading him
across an icy bit of sidewalk, and poor
Lassard had hard work getting him on
his feet again. Jf this happened before
he was given a load to draw what might
be expected afterward? The late owner,
who, [ am sorry to say, was a Yankee,
kept his hand in the pocket where Ray’s
five dollars had found a comfortable lodg-
ing, smiled, and warned the little man
that he must be careful.

“You sell me. de ’oss widout shoes!”
said the Canadian, furiously.

“Exactly,” replied the Yankee, coolly.
“JT sold the horse pure and simple; I
don’t deal in shoes.”

“But every ’oss should be shod,” said
the Canadian.

“So I think,” said the Yankee, “I. ad-
vise you to shoe him.”

And this was all the satisfaction Las-
sard could get.

Now .it chanced that he had a set of
horse shoes; only they were onthe wrong

Ord

horse, They were on the feet of the dead
horse Py the roadside. Hence another
little difficulty. :

One of the selectmen had met. the

Canadian. and told him sternly that he

mustn’t leave his dead horse there; he
would .be prosecuted if he didn’t take
the carcass away. To have his steed
“ups and die” was not, it seemed, the
end of his misfortunes. What was he to
do with him now? He could not, cer-
tainly, be expected to load him up into
his wagon and convey him away with his
goods and children.

“I mus’ not leaf him, an’ I cannot take
him, an’ w’at shall.I do?” he asked, de-
spairingly.

At last another Yankee had been
found, who agreed to take the horse as

a gift, and be responsible for him. He
would use the hide for some. purpose,
an

a the rest in his field for the
benefit of his crops. :

So now when Lassard returned witha
blacksmith, who set about pulling. off
the old horse’s shoes for the new horse’s
feet, up stepped the last-named Yankee,
and exclaimed:

“Hands off!”

“W’at you mean?” said Lassard.

“I mean, it is my horse; let him alone.”

“Yes, I gif you de ’oss, but I not gif
ye de shoes.”

“Shoes go with the horse,” said the
acess ‘They're a part of my perquis-

es,”

“But de udder man sel! me ’oss widout
shoes!” argued Lassard.

“The more fool you,” was the answer.

Lassard thought it a poor rule that
wouldn’t work both ways; but it seemed
that it wouldn’t.

At last the matter was compromised

ae

lreadfully to have you spile the|y

 

by his paying the owner of the old horse
the sum of thirty cents for permission to
remove the shoes. It cost him I know
not how much more to get them set and
transformed to the hoofs of the living
orse.

Finally, however, these obstacles over-
come at an expense he could’ ill-afford,
the little Canadian got steed number two
into the harness, and then into the
shafts, took his family aboard, and set
off cheerily on his journey, amid the mer-
riment of an uncivil populace. Jasmyn
was a dull place, and it did not have an
incident to entertain it every day in the

ear.

And laughter, tempered by some little
human feeling for a poor family, and a
horse that stood sadly in need of protec-
tion from the daigit animal’s society,
was certainly excusable under the cir-
cumstances. 7

A wagon always looxs odd in the coun-
try, in. winter, when sleighs are in
vogue; but Lassard’s wagon would have
looked odd at any time, it was so high,
so queer-fashioned, and it carried so gro-
tesque a load.

Madame Lassard and six children sat
amid the antique household furniture,
wrapped in bed-clothing; while Monsieur
Lassard and the oldest boy went afoot.
Now and then when the road was a little
steep, Lassard would leave the reins with
the boy, and push behind. Fortunately
the snow in the middle of the tracks was
well worn and hard, fox if the wheels
had sunk in, not all the man’s pushing,
and all the boy’s shouting to the horse,
would have served to keep the vehicle in
motion.

Such was the sight which sent the
streaks of heat and moisture shooting
over Roy’s shoulders and down to his
heels. e laughed, nevertheless—there
was something so ludicrous in it all.
Lassard was pushing at the time, proba-
bly having taken a lesson from the fate
of the other horse.

“They look asif they had just come out
of the ark,” said one of the women.

Roy did not mention the fact that his
own money was invested in the horse;
he wasn’t proud of it. And yet the feel-
ing that he had done what he could to
help a poor man out of trouble, was a se-
cret comfort; and the anxious hope that
Lassard might finish his journey without
another catastrophe, made him forget
for a while his own misfortunes,

At length one of the women said:

“T guess ye better set by, now, and take
some dinner with us.”

Roy did not require much urging. He
was on his feet ina moment. His eyes
beamed.

“Better let him wash ’fore they come
in,” said the old lady, in a low voice.

Roy was given a basin of water at the
kitchen sink, a clean side of a roller
towel, and a place at the table. It
seemed to be a point with the women of
the house to get him securely seated be-
fore the two men appeared.

They came in together this time. Roy
heard their heavy boots and gruff voices.
and felt their black looks, as they paused
and gazed at him in even greater aston-
ishment than before. His back was to-
ward them, and he did not turn his
head.

“Now, if I don’t get that clock together
all right,” thought he, “I shall catch it.”

The men used the basin and the towel,
and then, with a clattering of chairs,
and a few muttered words, took their
seats at the table. The old man growled
out a blessing on the repast. In his peti-
tion he did not except the food about to
be eaten by the unwelcome stranger, as
he shoula have done, Roy fancied, to be
consistent.

“I believe women are always a great
deal better than men,” was the young fel-
low’s hasty conclusion.

The principal dish was tripe. Roy had
never tasted tripe. The old man poised
his knife over the platter, and asked,
with an ungracious grimace:

“Have some?”

Roy, who would have heen glad of any-
thing, even salt pork, answered, with a
polite smile:

“If you please.”

The old man helped him liberally—with
a sinister motive, Roy thought afterward,
when he found how hard it was to worry
the tripe down. Not even hunger gave
it a relish. Poor, pampered, dainty
Roy! how was he ever going to adapt
himself to the habits and diet of a vaga-
bond?

As the old man now and then looked
savagely at his guest’s plate, Roy would
pluck up courage, and make a great
show of attacking the tripe with hearti-
ness and vigor, only to fall back upon
bread and potatoes the moment the jeal-
ous eyes were withdrawn. There were
also boiled turnips on the table, which
Roy (who hated boiled turnips) thanked
Heaven that he had had the moral cour-
age to refuse. The tripe was misfortune
enough for one day.

Well, for him, the bread and potatoes

 

were good, and with them—supplemented
by a large piece of mince pie, for dessert
—he managed to get a pretty good meal.

The women made a little talk, but the
men not much. The old man, having
got out of him the fact that he knew
nothing of clock-making, had answered
with a dissatisfied grunt, and then gone
on with his dinner in moody silence. The
ae man all the while showed, even

y the way he slashed and swallowed his
tripe, a sullen discontent.

Roy was sorry he had brought such a
cloud upon the family. He saw, however,
by the tranquil demeanor of the women
that it was probably no new thing, and
that they were not much disturbed by it.

He was more than ever anxious about
the clock, and got back to it as soon as

possible. He had now only to put the
thing together. It did not help him at
all to hear, over his shoulder, the

younger man picking his teeth noisily
with a quill, and to know what un-
friendly eyes were watching his work.

Roy grew nervous. He stopped trying
to think what he was to do with a cer-
tain pin, and, beginning to whistle,
looked from the window.

He did not gain much by that, and he
did not whistle long.

A sleigh was coming along the road,
drawn by a tawny-colored horse. The
driver—a stout, broad-faced man—was
using his whip pretty freely. The horse’s
side and flank were mottled with stripes
of a darker hue and irregular shape, as if
nature had intended to finish him off in
the zebra style, but had afterward
changed her mind about it.

Roy knew those spots. He knew the
horse. He knewthe driver. It was Con-
stable Drollers.

His heart gave an excited leap.

“He’s on my track! He has a warrant
for me in his pocket!”

Not a very cheering thought.

Drollers seemed bent on driving
quite rapidly, too; but suddenly he
rein, an
big gate.

“He has seen my face through the win-
dow !” thought Bay.

Rising quickly, he gave his table a lit-
tle knock, and away went the two t
clock weights, Ba ec he had just eset
apreht at the edge, thundering to the

oor,

t.
rew
pulled up sharply before the

(TO BE CONTINUED.)

A Tardy Inquiry.
Wee in times of excitement

 

or danger may be a very good
thing, but it sometimes results
less from real presence of. mind
than from natural sluggishness of tem-
perament. A case of this sort was that
of Jerry Ball, who owned a great three-
bratiey colt, that had never yet been
itched to a carriage, though it had sev-
eral times worn harness. One fine win-
ter’s day Jerry decided to give the colt
an advanced lesson. So he harnessed it
to an old sleigh, invited his neighbor,
Abner Tilly, to ride with him, and started
out on a trial trip.

At first they went along beautifully;
the colt behaved like a well-trained horse,

“He's a good one, isn’t he, Abner?”
said the delighted Daas “goes as stiddy
’z 'n old hoss, doesn’t he?”

“Yes, he’s doing well now,” admitted
Abner, “but don’t you crow too soon,
Colts are freaky critters.”

As if to prove the truth of this state-
ment, the colt, that very instant, came
to a standstill.

“Come, g’ ‘long,” cried Jerry, coax-
ingly. But the colt did not budge, and
$0. erry touched him gently with the
whip.

The effect was magical. Within ten
seconds the colt had kicked both his
hind feet through the fender of the sleigh
no less than three times. Then came a
very short pause, followed by an earnest
attempt to sit down, which succeeded
only so far as to break one of the shafts.

The colt next stood erect on his hind
legs for a moment, and then tried bravely
to stand on his head... When tired of this
performance he made a most resolute
struggle to turn entirely around in the
shafts, so as to face his driver. Failing
in this, he again began to kick with all
his might, and was fast reducing the
front part of the sleigh to firewood.

Abner had long since jumped out of
the sleigh, and was now at the head of
the struggling brute, using every effort
to soothe and quiet him. Jerry sat
calmly in what was left of the sleigh
apparently amused, but not at ali
alarmed, as the splinters whizzed past
his head. ‘

At last it evidently occurred to him
that he might take some part in the con-
test, and he ape, inadrawling tone;

“D’ye think I’d better git out?” ,

“No, don’t!” thundered the indignant
Abner ;, stay there, and let the colt kick
ye out,
 

S08

GOOD

NEwWwsS.

 

THE FOOLISH CHICKEN.

A little chick one day
Asked leave to go on the water,

Where she saw a duck with her brood at play,
Swimming and splashing about her.

“Indeed,” she began to peep and cry,
When her mother wouldn’t let her,

“Tf the ducks can swim there, why can’t I?
Are they any bigger or better ?”

Then the old hen answered: ‘‘Listen to me,
And hush your foolish talking ;

Just look at your feet and you will see
They were only made for walking.”

But chicky wistfully eyed the brook,
And didn’t half believe her,

For she seemed to say by a knowing look
Such stories couldn’t deceive her.”

And as her mother was scratching the ground,
She muttered lower and lower ;

“7 know I can go there and not be drowned,
And so I think I’ll show her.”

Then she made a plunge where the stream was
deep,
And saw too late her blunder,
For she had barely time to peep,
When her foolish head went under.

And now I hope her fate will show
The child my story reading,

That those who are older sometimes know
What you will do well for heeding.

That each content in his place should dwell,
Andenvy not his brother ;

And any part that is acted well
Is just as good as another.

For we all have our proper spheres below,
And this is a truth worth knowing:

You will come to grief if you try to go
Where you were never made for going.

op gg

Romance of Battles in "76.

BY UNCLE NED,

——¢————

No. 3.—Mud Island.

_——e————

 

FTER his navai force was driven
back, two of his finest ships
burned, his mercenary force of
Hessians half destroyed, it would

have been supposed that Lord Howe
who held the lower Delaware and coul

have had supplies landed within two or
three hours’ wagoning from his head-
quarters, would not. have risked more
loss of life and royal munitions for so
small an advantage.

But with bull-dog obstinacy he was
determined to gain his point, no matter
at what cost, Receiving reinforcements
from New ‘York, he occupied Province
Island, at the mouth of the Schuylkili
River, and commencing his labors in the
night, erected works which covered and
held five formidable batteries bearing on
Fort Mifflin, within five hundred yards
distance.

Inside of Hog Island they had a float-
ing battery of twenty-two 24-pound
guns close to an angle of the fort. Added
to this the British admiral brought four
64-gun ships and two of forty guns each
with their broadsides to bear within
nine hundred yards of Fort Mifflin.

Altogether, on the morning of Novem-
ber 10th, they opened fire from fourteen
strong redoubts, besides their shipping,
on the American defenses and iittle filo-
tilla. It was a terrible shock for the
patriots to meet and withstand, but for
six days and nights Colonel Sinith and
his heroes in iflin answered gun for
gun in proud defiance. Wounded at last,

olonel Smith was carried over to Red
Bank, which was still in our hands,

The command then devolved upon Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Russell, of the Connecti-
cut troops. He bravely continued the de-
fense until disabled, and then Major
Thayer, of Rhode Island, took command.
Now, night and day, with round shot,
bombs, and with ape and canister
whenever they could be used, the British
kept up the terrible siege. When the
heavy floating battery, before-mentioned,
opened on the 14th within forty yards of
an angle of the fort, the little garrison of
only three hundred men silenced it before
noon, though it was supported by thirty
armed boats from the men-of-war. Never
even in the days of Spartan heroism at
Thermopyle did such courage shine forth
as now within the mud walls of Mifflin.
More than two-thirds of the resisting
garrison were wounded. Their battle-
ground was covered with the dead,

Finally the British fleet forced its way
up the east channel, and opened fire on
the rearof the fort. Then every gun in
Mifflin but two was dismounted or dis-
abled. Completely surrounded on all
sides but one, the garrison still fought
on until night gave them cover for re-
treat, and then the heroic Thayer, with
his last two guns disabled, sent off his
wounded to Red Bank. . *

With only forty men ne yet held the
works defended now alone by musketry,
until midnight, and then after setting
fire to everything that would burn, he
made good his reteat to Red Bank.

tion, in truth, take all the wars that his-
tory records, and you will find no more
obstinate or glorious defense. Out of
four hundred men when the siege com-
menced, over two hundred and fifty were
killed or disabled by wounds.

The British concealed their losses
through chagrin at the greatness thereof,
but it is safe to say they lost at least five
to one on land and water, for our Ameri-
can marksmen had then, and still have
an Sati TeLne to wasting lead, and gen-
erally sent their bullets to the right spot.

Fort Mercer was soon after evacuated,
and now the British held the Delaware
to Philadelphia.

8

T [ALKS
SHOR BOYS

BY ARTHUR SEWALL, /

L. B. N., Minneapolis, Minn., writes: “I am six-
teen years of age, and would like to know which is
the best trade to learn. If you can advise me, I
would be very much obliged to you.”

In reply to your communication we
can or say ina very general way that
a knowledge of what is called mechani-

 

 

 

 

During the entire war of the Revolu-

cal engineering, or, perhaps, the trade of
a machinist, seems to afford the best
outlook for the future. Much depends
upon the individual temperament of the
person, and, of course, not knowing your
disposition, we cannot say in what
branch you will b2 likely to succeed. We
would recommend you to attend the
technical or trade school that exists in
your city. We assume that there is such
an institution, and from your experience
there you will then be able to determine,
with the advice of your teacher, just what
trade it will be best for you to follow.
In case you have any Gifficulty in ascer-
taining where the technical schools are,
a letter with stamp inclosed to any of the
leading dailies should meet with a prompt

reply.

if you devote the next four or five years
of your life to the acquirement of knowl-
edge in some special branch you will not
regret it in the future, for from the ex-
oe that you will acquire you will

e better equipped. to take a leading
place among your associates, tending
toward an appointment of superintendent
or manager of works or a factory. It is
the ability to properly direct those who
hold subordinate places that commands
the best income.

We have in mind the superintendent of
a large manufactory of electric instru-
ments, who simply through his capabil-
ity for suitably telling the workmen
under him what to do, was able to hold
a place that secured for him a large sal-
ary as well as a pecuniary imterest in
the corporation.

Get an education while you are young.
There are always opportunities at night
schools for those who are willing to
learn. We have repeatedly discussed
the New York Trades Schools in this col-
umn, and such institutions are on the in-
crease throughout the country. It is
from the graduates of similar schools
that the better class of workmen are to
be S greneyper in the future: you are young,
and the opportunity for such instruction
is before you. Seize it and make the
most of it. You will never — it
and it may, yes, and probably will, lead
to a successful career for you, from
which not oe money, but also a worth
reputation will result, which you will
be proud to hand down to your children,
The coming mechanic is going to have
much to say about the manipulation of
public interests, and so we say, study as
worthily as you know how.

J. H.J., Buffalo, N. Y., writes: ‘Iam eighteen
years of age. My father owns a large grocery store,
and wants me to follow in his footsteps. Ilike the
business well enough, but I have a large paper
route and make five dollars a week, besides working
home for my board and clothes. Ihave got enough
money to buy an established news stand. and an-
other young fellow who is a candymaker, wants
me to go into the confectionery business with him.
Thave also partly learned the barbers’ trade. I have
agrammar school education; now what do you
think I ought to do, and what is the most money
in at the end ?” ;

If your father has an established busi-
ness, in which there is an opportunity
for you to secure an interest, it will be
well for you to take advantage of it. Do
not waste your time upon side issues
that simply afford a comparatively larger
return for the time being. Look ahead
and consider whether in ten years from
now you will be able to do as well in the
news business or in the candy business
as you would if you remained in your
father’s concern. We do not like the
idea of partnership with young men, as

compared with the sole ownership of a
well-established trade.

Your father will do more toward help-
ing you on than any one else, and if
there is any possibility of extending his
trade you had better remain with him.
We cannot judge of the peculiar local cir-
cumstances that may surround his in-
erest, of which you are the better one to
decide. But all things being equal, it in-
evitably follows that a well-established
and profitable business will tend under
good management to succeed more
rapidly than a new venture without ex-
perience and capital.

A young man must invariably make
his own way, and if, after several years
with your father, you find that things
are not progressing as rapidly as you
think they should, then it will be well
for you to consider the advisability of a
change, but hardly at present.

The barber’s trade is very rapidly being
absorbed by the Italian element in this
country, and we do not think that it
offers any great inducement to any one
unless the person starting such a busi-
ness can afford to work for next to noth-
ing and live on macaroni and cheese.
You had hetter stick to the grocery busi:
ness for some years, at all events.

Ponto, Philadelphia, Pa., writes: ‘After Sep-
tember I expect to live in New York. 1 want to
know in what department of the public schools I
am likely to be put. In this city I will have had
by September, one year of Latin, one year of alge-
bra, will have finished grammar and arithmetic.
a one year’s course of botany and physical geog-
raphy, history of Greece, Persia, Egypt, Babylonia,
Assyria finished, and Rome half done. 1 will have
had one year of perspective drawing also. Next

ear I would like to take up Greek, together with

Jatin, and later on French and German. I wish
to have a thorough course in the languages, both
ancient and modern. I will be, next September, in
the Sophomore Class of the Central High School,
if I stay in this city.

In New York you would probably be
sufficiently far advanced to enter the
College of the City of New York, and we
would recommend you to send to that
institution for its prospectus, from which

ou will be able oA tg exactly of what

8 taught there, and to what extent you
are capable of following the studies in
that college. General A. S. Webb is the

resident, and a note to him will result

n exactly defining your status after you
have carefully perused the prospectus.

The schools in New York city have a
high reputation for their excellence, but
it is not always possible to make com-
parisons with the institutions of other
cities. Each board of education has its
individual features, and they differ natu-
rally one from another to that extent.

Any one earnestly devoted to study
will succeed under any system, and you
can do as well in New York as in Phila-
delphia. The course at the New York
on ee leads to the degrees of A. B.
or B. S., and extends over four years.

There is also a mechanical department
with well equipped workshops, a fine
chemical laboratory. in which the stu-
dents can acquire a good knowledge of
analytical chemistry, and finally a course
in civil engineering, under the direction
of competent instructors. These special
courses are well worthy of consideration,
and you are advised to look into them
very thoroughly. Among the alumni are
many of the distinguished citizens of
New York city, who are proud of their
records. Finally, the instruction is free,
and open to all who can pass a satisfac-
tory entrance examination. We think
that you should be able to enter the soph-
omore class there,

M. 8. H., New York, writes: <f ani a poor boy
and wish to become a lawyer. What would you
advise me todo? Where can I study to become
one? Do you think if I worked in a lawyer's office
I could have an opportunity to study ?”

The onl thing that you can do is to
enter a lawyer’s office, and by industry
and attention so perfect yourself in the
rudiments of law as to gain your em-
ployer’s attention and interest, where-
upon means.will be afforded you to enter
a law school. We have in previous is-
sues of the Goop News described very
fully the different law schools in this
city, and from these articles you will
obtain a knowledge of the proper course
to pursue.

There is a prevalent opinion that it. is
easy to become a lawyer, and this is
true. It is very easy to become a poor
lawyer, but long years of study are nec-
essary, as well as extensive reading, with
severe application, to make one’s way
in a profession, which is necessarily very
crowded with the sons of rich men who
desire a profession in which they only
desire to hold a merely nominal place.

V.M., Omaha, Neb., writes: “I am seventeen
years of age, and can safely say, withont any at-
tempt at self-praise, that Iam very good-looking.
T have taken part.in many amateur theatricals and
have a strong desire to go on the stage, and have
an excellent opportunity to do so. Would you
advise me to become an actress? Are actresses, as
a class, respectable, and what are first-class
actresses paid ?” ‘

J. 3. G. C., New York, writes: “Ttook the honors
of a class of forty boys at Rugby Academy tn Phila-

 

delphia, Pa., in the year 1888. I go to see all the

good actors that come to this city.
told that I have talent. I have a very
ory, a strong voice, and am fifteen yé

I want to be an actor, and would like) —

it would be better to go to a dramatic

or to join an amateur club. AmIM —

join a club ?” bts tr
We have so anes dise ae

ways of entering the dramati at

 

in these columns that it is no

to do so again. The prope

pursue, as we have frequet
cated, is either to enter some!
school in one of the larger ¢l
as New York or Chicago, or elst
asan amateur. The careers 0]
great actors have been written Rhow
form, and you need only to come
lives of such men as Edwin Folfp ic
ter Wallack, or the more rech ~~

something of the trials and }
through which these artists hae
their way in order to achieve

tion that ultimately came to t

There is too much of an idea
that it is only necessary t0;
dramatic profession in order to
success. Far from it. Sue
only to those who have great
even so distinguished an acto
Booth has sunk more than
in his efforts to gain the p
that he has among American
Irving’s career has in previous
been referred to. The best y
life were spent in subordinate fl
and it is only recently that he)
able by dint of hard work, excel
management, and a wonderll)

company, to achieve the high
that he now possesses. Walk %
way some summer.afternoon, a) —
the dramatic agencies in the N
the theaters, and ascertain f0!} pp,
what are the prospects fora "
unknown person to succeed as

G. B. D., Nevada, 0., writes: ‘J ally, oh
join some military band, and be drille®s Yi;
professor, with a view to improve my #22 the
cation. What can I do?”

The Government post at Da
in the vicinity of New Roche? a
is the only place that we know j, ©

a young man, desirous of joinlRy,. 3
tary band, can gratify his desl}o,. |
to the commanding officer thely, *
of the instructions, and from ~*~
will gain some knowledge of Wk ept
be expected of you. 4 an,

Our impression is that you "ie Don
to agree to serve the United S# han,
ernment for a term of five or Men», -
have some musical ability, an@’ Te
will receive your board and ™ em
free, with possibly .a very sligh® the |

sation to cover your personal [Pr o¢
The Government is not liberal Jon

who enter its services, but it rs
less gives an excellent educatl?

one who is willing to join "ito };
and comply with the regulatio® Pon
‘ mn
j a . Py
A Mother's Advict. fs
HE following incident 150)
to the writer by his moVy.” ¢
seventy-five years ago fh, ¥
brought up in Provide?! rep
and was a cousin and neighb str
thanie] Greene. Soon after 4% ice
on the residents of Boston by ip gi?
troops, a post-rider started for in? ™
on horseback, with tin horn sll rae
his neck. As he approached £ m
and sounded his horn, Nathat™y — i
was at work in his blacks! yt]
He stepped to the door, and in@ ok
“What is the news?” oH
The rider replied that the BN w,.
fired on the citizens of Bosto™ io, ;,
on, 4 at
Greene immediately untied Pigiis y
apron, laid it on the anvil, Patt,
hammer on the apron, and )"} fea;
his house, which was+a sholving
from the shop. As he entered: ® bra
his mother:

“Get me my clothes.” ico
His mother said: “Nath@ig?
does thee want thy clothes fori, aint
He said: “I am going to BO® 4,38 |
“What is thee going to Bos ‘ago
“IT am going to fight the Bri¥gp, o
“Nathaniel.” she said, “ tet

know that we being Friends '
it is not right to shed blood B

“I don’t care, mother!” he * Wits
me my clothes.” Ang
His mother tied up his & t

in a bandanna handkerchi@ iis,
was used in those days, and ; ag

— to him. He stuck the (ils ti
is gun through the bundle, Qui
the weapon, and started to teq
the house, when his mother 5 he

“Nathaniel, if thee thinks,
0, don’t let them shoot ™ tth¢?
ack.” ahem
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he _ NUMBER THREE.

raj@. ON Wits THE GRAND MocULs.
| a8 “heas had not gone far when he
“J 7 00 Some one shouting, and
aries. thee back saw a man standing

oe in middle of the road wildly

8 and beckoning him to come

Da Daly.
rchellis a, 8S the man gesticulating

noW4in ~S; but he was brandishing a
join ty. thetteatening manner, and
des coy, 2% he was one of the Yang-
thet. ag in. lords.

oa % ‘a quandary as to what to
of Wke

Ai, bt on he would undoubtedly be
y OU MIE Don if he returned to the lord
d Si} rg would be likely to be
or Mera 24, if not killed outright
and Mean oeleman.
nd Mike mattime he had stopped to
31igh'? the feet over, feeling tolerably
onal "Br of Me being, as he was nearly
ne ony, * thile away from the owner
icati? iq hit Upon a plan.
in Mito pj, 4t™ the pony loose and let
atiO™uno,® Master,

__> Reag dismounted; turned the
. Had wit itd his master, and gave
ee. Oy gait his hand.

“2 teoPed a short distance to-
rt WH to ale and then suddenly ap-
motlind dash, r his mind, wheeled
zo. AS With ed down the mountain
depth? Wy, —e eSPeaty, of the wind.
ighb? sntested med He certainly
pe ¢ t Was for an instant consider-
eh lance to be done, he hap-

g]uie* Com, Up the hill, and saw the
nS pm. | 0n the keen run toward
rani ™
oe oe Was instantly made up
d ie Dok it to be done was to run,
e BY eels down the steep

Dy” ay
sto a » but* Sharp race for half a
oii hit thepod runner as Peter was
ied at mas ono was gaining upon
vil, ter’s | ND account of the length
nd Pe gs. He came down the

ed, feet,
shorty tne like ‘ btride, his loose gar.
reer gs on St. Patrick’s
“te “dishing his sword wildly

that g ° Bact the bottom of the hill

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fort, ten and saw the frantic
"Bost! fras isn: hind him, and so
Bost Neary spect that Peter was
Brits ’s on} m death. He knew
«doen the fey matter of a few min-
ds oF | ‘lt om tai, must overtake him,
142 te 7 1 that death would be
e @F yy
he Wits “I be resorted to, and he
ex! One to eg vork trying to devise
chit aCe it came (one irate lord.
nd (4 mr m.
he Pills fouble gi tpuaht of it before?
e, ® pursuer,
7 pe Rick ghey Were both on level
or SMith. in ¢ thought Peter turned
rks ine stride Opposite direction.
rt tT tne And ®S and the lord had
“bbe Minn} &reat was his mo-
of Hily, SOuld ng down the steep
» OFF Ot check himself im-
Wa 0) eS v4 thi
jo the’ e ty at transported on
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for this purpose, because it would de-
prive these men of work. The loads
these carriers get along with are some-
thing remarkable; no mule could stand
up under them.

Scarcely had the lord passed Peter
when the latter heard a terrific clatter
mingled with. angry voices, and looking
back beheld a sight that surprised him.

A carrier had turned into the main road
froma byway just in time for a, collis-
ion with the flying Yangban. :

The carrier had a basket slung to his
back that extended from a few inches
above the g ound to four feet above his
head, and the basket was filled with

eggs.

By some mysterious accident when the
two men came together, his lordship,
probably from being the taller of the
two, shot over the carrier’s head and
dived into the basket of eggs.

When Peter looked back the two men
were down, the carrier having fallen
backward on account of the shock he had
received and the extra weight, and was
lying on his back on top of the basket
which being strapped to him he could
not get up; while his lordship was inside
the basket, struggling manfully to get
out.

Peter paused to see the result to the:
accident, and was gratified in a little
while to see the lord wriggle out of his |
prison with omelets enough in his hair.
and on his clothes to last him a month. |

To Peter’s surprise, instead of putting
back after him as he had expected, the
lord turned his attention to the poor
innocent carrier and kicked him unmer-
cifully.

Peter then continued his course up the

 

kicking the party on the next mat.

flags, with a roller of the same material
and as hard as a rock, for a pillow.

Peter entered the hut, and as his eyes
grew used to the darkness he could see
that there were six people in two rows,
and all fast asleep. —

He noticed that the nearest one to him
was on the extreme edge of his mat on the
side farthest from Peter. A wicked
thought came into his head.

Acting upon this wicked thought, he
sraapes the edge of the mat and raised it
gently a few inches from the floor.

The sleeper rolled off, and Peter
snatched the mat away,

All might have been we}], and the
sleeper might have finished his sleep on
the tiled floor, only for the fact that in
rolling off his head came down upon the
tiles with such a thump as to wake him
up.

The fellow got up and rubbed his eyes
in a bewildered manner for a moment,
and then began to kick about in the dark
for his mat.

Peter shrank back into the corner as
far as he could get, drawing the mat
with him.

The fellow kicked along ortthe floor as
far as he thought. his mat ought to be,
and then suddenly an idea seemed to
strike him, for he turned and es

is
party simply groaned and rolled off his
mat, and the first pa laid down.
Hearing a noise outside he arose a mo-
ment after, however, and went out of
doors. As soon as he was gone Peter
snatched the mat he had been lying on
and stood it up in the corner with the
other one.

Pretty soon the fellow came in again,

 

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HIS LORDSHIP SHOT OVER THE CARKIER’S HEAD, AND DIVED INTO THE BASKET OF EGGS!

mountain, as he saw the sun was get-
ting low and he knew that the gates of
the city would close at sundown.

He was pretty tired by the time he had
reached the summit of the hill, but he
did not pause to rest. Not a moment
was to be lost, if he wanted to get into
the city that night; so he dashed down
the steep hill with all his speed. But
when within a hundred feet of the gate
the bell in the palace tower rang out and
the gate closed.

Peter’s heart stood still. The prospect
of staying outside of the city walls was
not pleasant, even if he had had any

lace to go; but as he hadn’t, and as he
had heard a great many stories about
travelers being robbed and murdered out-
side the walls, he felt a trifle nervous.

However, there was no use of thinking
of getting in now, and the only thing to
be fone was to find some place to stay.

In the narrow space between the wall
and the mountain were a few scattering
huts, but most of them were so filthy
that he could not think of stopping at
them. But as he trudged on he came to
one a litle cleaner than the rest, and con-
cluded to apply for entertainment.

No lights were visible, and when he
ot near the house he found the one door
eading into it open, by which he under-

stood that the family had retired, al-
though it was barely dark.

Peter peered in at the door, and, by the
faint starlight coming in at the opening,
could see several people lying about on
mats on the floor.

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made a bee-line for the spot where his
mat had been, and walked on top of the
party he had rolled off the mat.

The party woke and sprang to his feet,
and then ensued a wordy warfare, which
Peter did not understand, but sapeoret
to be the most approved brand of Corean
profanity. Their noise soon had the
effect of waking the rest of the family,
and then there was a general hubbub.

It soon became evident that they
missed the two mats, and
later, Peter saw to his horror that they
were preparing to strike a light. If they
did he was gone, and he felt that his
life depended upon getting out before
the light was made. But how was he to
do it? He was in the corner, several
feet from the door, and the members of
the family were swarming about be-
tween him and the exit. *

All at once an idea occurred to him.
Taking one of the mats, he sailed it into
the air so that it fell upon the heads of
two or three who were standing nearest
the door. The effect was magical.

They instantly retreated to the back of
the hut, where the whole family huddled
into a corner, in frightened silence.

Peter then took the other mat, and
holding it in front of him made his way
to the door. Having reached the open-
ing he sailed the mat toward the panic-
stricken group, and skipped out.

“Here's a go,” he said to himself, when
he was clear of the house. “Here’s a
chance to walk about all night. If it
hadn’t been for that chap bumping his
head when he rolled off the mat I might

a moment’

 

have had lodgings there; but it seems as
though luck is against me.”

By this time he had come to another
rather neat looking hut, the door of
which was open, and he went in. As
luck would have it there was one vacant
mat. Several people were asleep on
mats, and they were all at one end of
the room; so Peter drew the vacant one
to the opposite end of the room and laid
down.

In a very short time a big man came
in, and walkng over to the end of the
room where the others were asleep, be-
gan kicking about for his mat. Not
finding it he first began to grumble, and,
as Peter imagined, to swear, and finally
to kick the other sleepers.

In another minute there was a riot.

The whole family, consisting of seven
or eight people, supposably men and
women, although they all looked alike
to Peter, were on their feet, shuffling
and crowding about, and each talking at
the top of his voice.

Peter had learned enough of the lan-
guage to catch a faint idea of what the
were talking about, and he pare or
that the big man was accusing each in
turn of stealing his bed, and each in turn
as vehemently denied it.

Finally, it seemed, the big man pro-
posed to prove that somebody had stolen
it; for he drew them all to one side and
counted them; after which he counted
the mats.

The first time he made out that there
was one mat short or one person too
many; but as all the others insisted that
he must have made a mistake, he counted
over again. This time, owing to the con-
fusion or his own excitement he brought
them out even,

Now the big man was mad.

He counted a third time, and made out
that there were two mats short, and a
terrible wrangle ensued.

Finally the big man got disgusted and
told some of the rest to count. One of
them did so, and he brought the number
out even.

This seemed to satisfy all hands, and
they laid down, all but one.

The big man took good care that he
didn’t get left, but one of the others
did. And that one began to kick. But
apparently to no purpose, for storm and
rave as he would, the others quietly kept
their places and pretended tosleep. Peter
could not see how they could sleep, how-
ever, for he couldn’t in the midst of such
a noise. :

It seemed strange to Peter that the
dispossessed party never thought of look-
ing at his end of the room for his mat,
and he thanked his stars that he did not.

At length the fellow appeared to de-
spair of on ae bed, and growin
tired of howling about it, finally curiot
up on the floor and became quiet.

Peter did not sleep for some time. The
strange adventures of the day, and es-
pecially of the evening, coupled with a
natural nervousness at being in such a
position, rendered sleep out of the ques-

ion.

After some time, however, tired nature
asserted itself, and he fell asleep.

Peter did not wake till broad daylight,
and possibly he would not have woke
then if it had been quiet.

But it wasn’t quiet. On the contrary,
when he woke up he thought for a mo-
ment he was back in the United States
House of Representatives or some other

ae Such a wrangling and jang-
Pe he had never heard outside of the
ouse,.

When Peter opened his eyes he saw
the whole crowd of eight standing about
him, glaring at him, wildly gesticulating
and all talking at once.

“Well, Peter,” he thought, “here is
where you die.”

He was decidedly nervous, but after
the first shock of surprise he managed to
pull himself together, and concluded to
pst on a bold face; so sitting up and rub-

ing his eyes in a matter-of-fact way
he asked in the best Corean he could
command:

“Well, what’s the matter?”

They sprang back in astonishment.

They seemed not so much surprised
that he spoke their language as they did
that he should speak at all.

This is what Peter thought from the
expressions of their faces, and he was
convinced of its truth a moment later
when one of them said:

“Why, it’s alive! It talks!”

“You can bet your straw boots it’s
alive,” said Peter, getting up. “It’s the
liveliest. animal (barring the native flea)
ever you set eyes upon.”

But this being said in English, was all
Greek to them, and they were more as-
topished than ever, and stared at him as
though he had been some dime-muserm
oa:

“Well, what do you think of me, upon
the whole?” he asked.

They stared more than ever, and one
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“Tt looks like a human, and it must be
as it talks; but how came its skin so
white? And look at its hair!”

They had evidently never seen a white
man before.

One of them said:

“Maybe he’s painted.”

This amused Peter greatly, and he con-
cluded to humor their delusion; so’ he
began to dance, throw his arms about in
the wildest manner, and go through all
the grotesque gyrations that he could
think of.

Their faces were a study.

. With distended eyes and mouths they
watched him as though he had been the
greatest of living curiosities, ;

Finally, tiring of this exercise, he
stopped, andina matter-of-fact manner
asked if they had anything to eat.

They nodded in the affirmative, and
soon all were busy preparing him a
breakfast.

(T0 BE CONTINUED.)

MY FIRST VOYAGE AT SEA.

—---——

By BOB STAY.

 

CHAPTER II.

A HAPPY ENDING OF UNHAPPY EX-
PERIENCES,

OR the benefit of my readers who
i do not understand nautical phrases,

I will explain to them what a bob-

stay is. It is a chain from the|
bowsprit to the stem of a vessel; and |
when you consider how singularly well
my name is adapted for such an abbre-
viation, you cannot help seeing how ready
the mate was to avail himself of the
transition with felicitous ease, and how
quickly the sailors appreciated his wit.

That nickname was not confined to the

Pegasus, for I never afterward was ina
forecastle twenty-four hours after my
name was known that some one did not
avail himself of its capabilities and fas-
ten it upon me,

Nearly all greenies are seasick, but I
was fortunately as exempt from that dis-
ease as though I had been raised in the
cradle of the deep; so had nothing to do
but learn my duties as quickly as I
could, and avoid the end of a rope as
well as I was able.

The first was rather hard, for I was
called upon for everything of a light na-
ture, especially if it were a dirty job;
and the last was infinitely harder, for
the mate was after me with a piece of
inch rope all the time.

That man used-to delight in punning
atrociously on my name, and whacking
me over the shoulders.

I had run away because Il knew my
step-mother disliked me, and that my
claim against my step-father was small;
but I had not run away from thrashings,
for they were an every-day affair.

The men tried it on for some time, but
I got vicious in the forecastle after a
time, and found that the only way was
to give as good as I got; and after
throwing bone fids and iron marline.
spikes at the heads of a number, and
nett. killing two or three, I was let
alone.

We cruised in the vicinity of the West-
ern Islands for nearly five months, and
at last made Fayal with three hundred
and ay barrels of oil, which our captain
promptly shipped home.

The first time he came on board from
Fayal, he called for Bobstay, and when
I appeared, put the New Bedford Truth-
teller in my hand, and said:

“There is an article in that, Bobstay,
that I think will interest you; sit down
and.read it.”

With a quaking spirit I read an ac-
_count of my theft and flight, as well as
that my present quarters were known;
and with the assurance from the captain
that I would be arrested on my return, I
begged leave to cut the item from the
paper, and having done so, I tore it up,
and retreated forward in great anxiety.

There was one thing didn’t know
about Captain Easton, and that was, that
he had a way of using the men pretty
fairly until he had got a good voyage,
and then, by ill-treatment, he always
managed to lose more or less by deser-
tions, and so let their share of oil fall to
the owners; while I heard it stated,
afterward, that he had a private agree-
ment with the sents to that effect.

a weyer I did not know of these
facts, and I was bound to desert the first
chance that offered, where I had a reason-
able Hyospect a escaping. (

y interest in the voyage was over, for

I knew that when the Desens arrived
home again she would be visited by an
officer of the law bent upon my arrest; so
I vowed I would avoid any such little

attentions on my behalf by staying “the

 

 

other side of land,” as ports in the Pacific
are called by sailors.

I had made a chum of an old sailor
named Ned Trusty, and as I had told
him my escapade, excepting the matter
about the money, which I had prudence
enough to conceal, I now went to him
with a list of my new woes, and asked
his advice.

“Cut and run the first chance you have,
and if there’s half a chance to make our
escape successful, [’ll go with you,” he
advised; “for I am about tired of this
spouter anyhow, and I'd like to see you
get even with your persecutors.”

His advice tallied with my ideas, and
we clasped hands on it, and promised to
leave as soon as we got to our next port
of entry, either Talcahuano or Paita.

We had our run on shore at Fayal,
flirted with the Portuguese girls, homely
and pretty, got lots of fruit, and then
went on board for our trip to the Pacific
Ocean.

We found that our next port of entry
would be Talcahuano, so my chum and [
decided to desert the ship there, if it
were a possible thing; and wishing to
take our clothes with us, we both made
a donkey to hold them, or, in other
words, a ser@iceable bag of canvas, the
duck being borrowed without leave from
the ship’s stores; it was the wicked bor-
row and never return, and we realized
the fact when we appropriated it.

“Now, Bobstay,” began my chum, as
we began to discuss plans for our escape,
“all sailors make a mistake in desertions
by stealing a boat, or stowing away in
some pulperia, in the first case suffering
everything if they accomplish their pur-
pose, and in the second being sold by
the sharks that run the rum-holes, for
the old man will offer a reward for our
recovery, sure’s you’re born; so I’m
goin’ infor a discharge with clean pa-
pers for me, and a return ticket for you;
and after the.old Pegasus is hull down
we’ll vamose the ranch for newer fields
and greener pasters.”

“How’ll you do it?” I ventured to ask.

“You play off you are crazy, and I’ll
be sick. The cap’n will swaller your
dodge ’cause 1 cut up rough, fore you
sailed, and I'll tend to my own case.”

“How will I act?” was my next ques-
tion.

“Act! act like the devil and all his
imps, only stick to the p’int that you
have aa got to go to New Bedford to
be a little angel—one of them little fat
naked boys with wings on ’em, such as
I’ve seen in the old National Theater in
Boston.”

“When shall I begin?”

“You begin now; none too soon. I’ll
sail in after you hev got fairly started on
your v’yage.”

On the impulse of the moment I rushed
out of the forecastle, made a dive for the
quarter-deck, bustled against the officer
in charge, gave several dismal howls of
agony, and executed an impromptu war-
dance that would have satisfied old Lo!
the poor Indian, himself. In a second the
third mate, whose watch it happened to
be, seized me by the collar, nearly shook
my head off, and asked, in savage tones:

“What you making such a devil of a
rumpus for?”

I believe that I told him I was a High-
land chief in disguise, and that my father
was mayor of New Bedford, while my
mother run a gin mill on Purchase street;
and if he did not let gol would have him
transported to the Province of Fairhaven
as soon as he returned; and that I was
going home that night as soon as the
stage started.

The officer was so thunderstruck by my
statements that he let go his hold, and
I, taking advantage of my release, made
a bolt for the cabin, which I reached
safely, and repeated my rhodomontade
in a highly impressive manner.

My dodge was successful, for I had the
captain and officers around me in a mo-
ment; so I was soon tied hand and foot
and carried to my bunk, protesting all
the time against the treatment, and
vowing vengeance deep and dire as soon
as I completed the journey on which I
ee starting then and there,

I talked nonsense whenever I was
awake, keeping the one fact of my im:
mediate return before my hearers, how-
ever, and in thfee days had established
my insanity beyond a doubt.

The fourth night after the develop-
ment of my mania, Ned Trusty appar-
ently took a fearful cold while furling
some sails; the cold soon developing it-
self into an asthma that was fearful to
behold; and whenever he made the least
exertion it seemed as though he would
die at once.

The captain immediately gave orders
for him to watch me, and this he did
faithfully, keeping in my neighborhood
all the time.

I_grew worse instead of better, and |

1 hea for

 

long-winded yarns about me; and I think
all hands breathed freer when Talcahuano
was reported in sight, and I had not
burned the ship or killed any one, as was
momentarily expected.

The captain sent me on shore as soon
as possible with all my dunnage, and
Ned accompanied me, sick, both “con-
sul’s' men,” being delivered into © the
hands of the representative of our coun-
try, with the intention of sending us
home at the first opportunity.

I was ee: into the calaboose, so as to
be found when wanted, while Ned went
to the hospital. .

The Pegasus had been gone a week
from port, and then Ned felt able to
crawl around, so he came down to see
me, and after a short consultation, re-
ported to the consul that he believed I
was better.

That functionary visited me at once,
found to his astonishment that I had no
mania, and heard me praise the Pegasus
in the highest terms, and declare that I
was bound to finish the voyage in her. I
was removed to the hospital at once,
kept under surveillance a month, and
then, being pronounced as sane as the
doctor, I was given leave to wander
around until my ship came in, when
something definite could be done about
myself and shipmate, who was getting
over his lung difficulty rapidly.

As we made no trouble at all, by the
end of another. month all watch over us
was suspended, and we now purposed to
make our exit; for the Pegasus had only
sailed to cruise three. months, until the
end of the season, and if we were found
there and well we would soon be treading
her deck again.

“All we want is a little money now,
and we can clear,” said Ned, as we sat
in the square near the Church of the An-
nunciation one bright afternoon, filling
ourselves with the beautiful chere moyers,
the fruit of the country.

“T have got nearly a couple of hundred
in gold,” I whispered.

Ned looked in astonishment, but said
quickly, “Let’s see it.”

Unbuttoning my shirt, I took out alit-
tle bag that hung from my neck, and
showed him nine twenty-dollar_ gold-
pieces, and one ten-dollar coin, havin
spent the balance of the two hundred
had taken from the desk for my hotel
bill in New Bedford, and for fruit in Fa-
yal and at our present stopp Pigee

“Bully! I thought you had the dosh,
for you have never stuck at buying
things whenever we wanted them; now,
boy, I won’t ask you how you came by
this, and I’ll help you get away from
here, for I won’t go back on a chum that
I've helped off; but when we are all
clear you must makea clean thing of
your troubles, or we’ll have to break
mateships.”

I promised to do so, for he refused to
listen to me then, or in fact until we
were clear, and, assured that we were in
funds, began to look around for a way to
get off.

Ned soon found a vessel that was going
to sail for Honolulu, and he made a bar-
gain with the captain of it to take us
there for one hundred and forty dollars;
and as he was to sail early the next
faorniO®) he agreed to help us leave the
hospital, by standing ready when we
dropped our bags of clothes out of the
window that night.

According to agreement, we passed the
bags out into the hands of a couple of
sailors, and then followed suit by going
ourselyes, and in less than an hour we
were beyond all vigilantes, and snugly
stowed away in the vessel’s boat, boards
being laid across the thwarts, while we
were under them, vegetables being filled
in over the boards, making the boat ap-

ear full of truck after it was. hoisted
into position on the cranes.

Our disappearance caused some com-
motion on shore in the morning, and our
vessel was visited in turn with all of
the rest in the harbor; but as no one
knew anything of us, we were. not dis-
covered, and by ten in the forenoon we
were dropping out by the fort that com-
mands the harbor of Taleahuano, without
molestation or fear of capture.

s soon as we were fairly out at sea, the
boat was unloaded of its vegetables, the
boards raised, and we crawled out of our
confined quarters as stiff as pokers, but
happy at our release.

e were not. passengers, for Ned had
bargained for the privilege of our work-
ing our passage, and we were to pay the

rice fixed on for the accommodation of
anding in another country, and as soon
as our limbs got a little relaxed we went
into the cabin, where we paid the stipu-
lated amount, and then signed the ar-
ticles to go to Honolulu for one dollar 2
he run, and glad to know that

e captain would take a couple of sail-
ors from the hands of the consul witha
risk of fines if we were discovered before

Ned reported all manner of stories about. he sailed,

my doings, until he kept all hands in a
fever, listening to his short.breathed but

 

During the trip I told Ned my whole
story without a single misstatement,

 

 
 
  
 
 
 
 
    
  
  
   
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
 
    
 
  
 
 

and produced the packet of papioy
had stolen from the desk, and 0 d t
read them to him. “EH
Running them over hastily, hf«y
“Have you ever read them?” - hake
“T have not, but will go throl you
old things if you want to learm,.-
means, for I can read,” I said, larlie
thinking Ned, from his being ay ca
sailor, was lacking that accompp

“I can read, also, and I %& r
these,” he replied. hip ]

“All right; they are worthle oy
Roach wouldn't have had thelhay,
around so long,” I remarked; ! ngqu
noticed the bundle in the desk gre
I could remember. ble ¢,

“We'll see,” said Ned, putlit, |
the package until he had plenthye)_
tunity to look it over. @ as

During our whole trip to jy] pr
Ned was busy studying the pafjiq i
ever he had an opportunity, reé ture
re-reading them carefully, and bwed
to take much delight in their hyigg;
they lasted him until we arriv@Th,
lulu. de ‘mi

Our voyage had been wholly th,
interest, and when we were di#nt 9
was with some regret that ween j,
of our shipmates, and Ned cov@yin
thank our captain enough for? be
ness which he had shown to wUaigh
great risk to himself. dn dy

“Where now?” I asked, as ®4 gy
up King street. 7 se,

“To the American minister’s!Mself
the grave reply. Offic,

I was as willing to be convéj/Hig
there as anywhere, for in my ardia
norance I thought he meatiurt ;
who was settled over a churclaow
as our parson in Squaw Betty. Rular’

Ned had been in HonolulMy. I
he led the way directly thid Was
streets until he came to Saw
office, over the door of which Idow
sign with letters in gilt: “Mfe, a)
the United States of Americ@Pge ,),

“What can we do for youMr, R
polite, gentlemaly man, as Wen jp,

“We wish to see the minisMereg ¢
dignified oe } Was

“Very well, he is before you8s of
gentleman, with some curiosi@lly },
what would induce a sailor ®®n cay,
call on him. 20, anc

“Can I beg your attention Bde, a),
hour?” continued Ned. K to ]

“You can, if there is anyt?Rd qo)

  
   
  
 

    

     
  
  
     
   
  
  
   
  
 
  
 
  
 

portance.” 2ach ha

Without any further prem and
went into my history, statin a de
case succinctly, giving my ¢l% |°Y in
tail, greatly to my horrot ast a.
indignation, and then contim, et

“T have examined this Fake
papers, find there is consideMa ; are
tate and some mortgages th® ,/mbi)
to his father, most of thé) “Ure, |
being on property used BD, rin:
who became his step-fathet h ian
dition there are two wills; Pr he
father, giving nearly all of © > (2 n
to his mother, and the othé righ ior
mother’s will, which make Ung 1
house Mr. Roach lived in at), “YS set
their marriage being subjé nte
rie by him, and he sifp,.-* m
jointly with her, thus acqui@,, 28 1
disposal of this property. arti nl

“Have you alwa ign icul

ys en ion,
inquired the minister, a8 Bted Or
speaking, 8, fo So
“No, sir; I was a lawy@ip,, rtit
threatened by a judge in B? to. We
Iagain appeared in court), 7° Vou

  
  
  
  
  
   
 
    
   
  
  
  
   
   

tion I then was in, that l Ba, MeO
me dismissed—for I was ¥© oug fe i
then, and very drunk at. entree
quitted the bar, and have "6n moes
common sailor nearly twel"ite Pa Ww.
the explanation, greatly t® seo,
of both of us. By ©

“May I inquire your na? ang 92
minister. athe }, bo

“Certainly, it is George * ing

“I knew it! You weré
more class when I gradu@
lege, and I think we were ge
of the Alpha Delta Kapp,
same year,” said the min
my chum's hand with a cO”
he spoke. °

It was so, but my frien¢
making himself known

      
    
    
   

out whether the minister THR a
nize him or not. . Al
The friendly relations thy "Te arg .
lished were greatly to MY Fanno,
was then asked to go to Men 41, Te
Hotel and wait while ® h ey
being discussed. 4. us
In a short time my bites },
will for the future call thes ,.
peared, and said: ie clous ¢
“We have been examit And =
together, Robert, and from arwin P
look to us, we believe tha’@” obser.
defrauded, and that Milne ¢

needed the assistance of
set you adrift in the worl” .)
auproye of the course you «
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ne “hd then arrange your affairs.”

ly. I How will Mr. Roach treat me?”

ve Li will settle that by getting appointed
rol ardian over you during your minority,

art you can trust me after hearing my con-
‘d 7°S10n about my drunkenness in my
10s sPrlier life.”

mk. "48 only too glad to have him as-
ropuame charge of me, and a week later we
76 direct for Boston in the American
Bellerophon,
€ will hail this as a good omen; we
. fetted in the Pegasus, and Bellerophon
ie Wered the winged horse and: rose
? reat eminence; so I trust you will be
uttee® to control your passions in future
ae 4s I hope to mine, and shall sin-
rely try to do,” said my new friend, as
tor Toviled from Honolulu.
5s aa qd promised I would try as hard as he

Pa t to lead a perfectly blameless life in
rom gure, and again we vowed with re-
neir hve’ Promises to live as gentlemen and

sve mm stians should.
aa A quinister had loaned my friend all

Loney we required, he promising to

whol Hy she whole if” my claim raaa fraudu-
re di#nt or erroneous, and if it was good,
L We ot it was to come from my estate, I
1 com yng for both, as Mr. Kent’s time was
1 for? 08 at my service in getting me
to = tightened ‘out.
41 due time we were back in America,
Shugly domiciled in a comfortable
4 » While Mr. Kent re-established

ter 9 ofa. a legal practitioner and opened

onvelHis fp

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as

  

itst step was to be appointed
call iiian Over me, I petitioning the
ue duis’ that effect, in absence of any
Jetty: Milanondes o> which was granted’ in
noluiMr. Kent, |

'y thd was et visited Squaw Betty,

by’ my step-father that. I
ae doy orthless boy, the son of a poor
t: “Hite, » Whom he married for his first
orice ge nd that I had absconded, taking a

fy Um of money with me.

. Wee Osh was’ droadfull
oth , y surprised
fiat Bae learned that the wills had been

ag cu Probate, and that everything
e youss of [euPying was seized by due pro-
riosi@lly haa” for my behoof; and as he
lor On came intended to defraud me, he
dn, aa 0a realizing sense of his situa-
lade, cea Satisfactory settlement was
k to B my guardian eventually came
anytbind doj] ston with nearly thirty thou-
a havc that belonged to me; Mr.
bY an, hg paid that to take the prop-
’ y Pur debt released.
tatty ney hes Were soon paid, and the
me, ang 7 in safe stocks and bonds
tint. 2S to wh then it was argued between
W that ag I should do; for Mr. Kent,
T share hy Was sober, commanded a
2 business at once, and as I
& taste for travel by my ad-
dusted on continuing to go
finally prevailed on my

; Pe oO asl Sere
Mts in me ypemMe very remarkable inci-
4 autions gute for one so young, and
s¥ ising me re much about my future,
Pays set tat the many snares that are
y Viet raP the young and un-
Hed me iar and degradation, and
eas ple at I should probably never
‘Wd mine 222t companions as I had

jon

 
   
  
     
    
 
  
   
   

  

     
     
   
   

y+ Parti ie to be Zenerall far, and
een "Fig cularly avoid the asok of dissi-

" n Oo
a@Bted go which he had drifted and
awyet 8, fortified 1. .,ycars of his life; and

      

Zain w, Y Zood and wise coun: el,
out 1 to wore Sigs with the determina.
hat bf na 17 oPted. 0 the head of the profes-
vas Y fous 5, > ® Peculiarly hard :
k at entures’ 224 though | ken ark
uve 22 me whip as IT had had thrust

Te more threieoy I had others that
$8ome of ling, and [I purpose tell-
I Would” yarns at no distant day;
and boys Strictly advise all young
he thing who go to sea for the fun
rge wil] only, and with the idea that
: trary thing pleasant, and
tet? 10 it, for tha to play pranks upon,
Bay 82d discov) Will surely come to
fe fa the a bed of thorns where
or boys ah ‘tesa enn and roses;
. 7 ed as
: ted on my first aie as I
lend (THE END.)
ster “LAR
a tiibers. CACITY OF A HORSE,
» m ty 8 . Meet Parts of a horse which
to ben thy a. with his teeth to scratch
a, he sualis €n these parts do
ny bites tien y ee to another horse
. ane spot where he
compan, hed himself; the
ee eenerally takes the
“eS oe the office for him.
: Suny server of 12% 4n attentive and
t. Me peel bite narure, once observed
ote ing {Sratche = Sr a indicate its
rage ig glove monet hy Mare: Nt
ym J” ae 2 the aot swing,

of chewing,

 

merely rubbed the place on the foal’s
neck with her nose; sothat there can
be little doubt but it was from reflection
that she rubbed where she was bitten.

PILLSBURY’S BOY.

BY MAX ADELER.

——¢———

FAMILY named Pillsbury, havy-
ing moved into our neighborhood,
Cooley’s boy leaned over the fence
between his yard and mine and
ave me his impressions of Pillsbury’s
oy, Bill, a lad about fourteen years old:

“Yes, me and him are right well ac-

uainted now. Bin skeetin’ together

own on the dam, and havin’ fun snow-
ballin’ old Belcher. It makes him mad
as fury. I kin beat Bill skeetin’, but he
knows more’n I do, and he’s had more
experience. Bill says his father used to
be a robber (Mr. Pillsbury, by the way,
is a deacon in the Presbyterian Church,
and a very excellent lawyer), and that he
has ten million dollars in gold buried in
his cellar, along with a whole Ict of hu-
man bones, people he’s killed. And he
says his father is a conjurer, and that he
makes all the earthquakes that happen
anywheres in the world. The old man’ll
come home at night after there’s been an
earthquake all covered with sweat, and
so tired he kin hardly stand, Bill says,
it’s such hard work.

“And Bill tole me that once when a
man came around there trying to sell
lightning-rods, his father got mad and eat
him, eat him right up, and he takes bites
out of everyboily he comes acrost.

“That’s what Bill tells me. That’s all
I know about it. And he tole me that
once he used to have a dog, one of these
little kind of dogs, and he was flying his
kite, and just for fun he tied the kite-
string to his dog's tail. And then
the wind struck her and his dog went a
boomin’ down the street, with his hind
legs in the air for about a mile, when the
kite all of a sudden begun to go up, and
in about a minute the dog was fifteen
miles high, and commanding a view of
California and Egypt, and Oshkosh, I
think Bill said. He came down anyhow,
I know, in Brazil, and Bill said he swum
home all the way in the Atlantic’ Ocean,
and when he landed his legs was all
nibbled off by sharks.

“TI wish father’d buy me a dog, so’s I
could send him up that way.” But I
never have no luck. ' Bill said that where
they used to live he went out on the roof
one day to fly his kite, and he sat-on top
of the chimbly to give her plenty of room,
and while he was sitting there thinking
about nothing, the old man put a kag of
powder down below in the fire-place to
clean the soot out of. the chimbly. . And
when he*touched her off Bill was blowed
over agin the Ra phlab Church steeple,
and he landed on the weather-cock, with
his pants torn, and they couldn’t git
him down for three days, so he hung
there, going around and around with the
wind, and he lived by eating the crows
that came and sat on him, because they
thought he was made of sheet-iron, and
put up there on purpose.

“He’s had more fun than enough. He
was telling me the other day about a
sausage-stuffer his brother jnvented. It
was a kinder machine that worked with
a treadle; and Bill said the way they did
in the fall was to fix it on the hog’s back,
and connect the treadle with a string,
and then the hog’d work the treadle, and
keep on running it up and down until
the machine cut_ the hog all up fine_and
shoved the meat into the skins, Bill said
his brother called it ‘Every Hog His
Own Stuffer,’ and it worked splendid.
But I do’ know. Bill may a bin blowing.
*Pears to me’s if there couldn't be no ma-
chine like that. But anyway Bill said so.

“And he tole me about an uncle of his
out in Australia who was et by a big
oyster once, and when he» got inside he
staid there until he’d et the oyster. Then
he split the shells ee and took half a
one for a boat, and he sailed along until
he met a sea-serpent, and he killed it
and drawed off its skin, and when he got
home he sold it to an engine company for
a hose, for forty thousand dollars, to put
out fires with. Bill said that was ac-
tually so, because he could show me a
man who used to belong to the engine
company. I wish father’d let me go out
to find a sea-serpent like that; but he
don"t let me have no chance to distin-
guish myself.

“Bill was saying only yesterday that
the Indians caught him once and drove
eleven railroad spikes through his stom:
ach, and cut off his scalp, and it never
hurt him a bit. He said he got away by
the daughter of the chief sneaking him
out of the wigwam and lending him a
horse. Bill says she was in love with
him, and when I asked him to let me see
the holes where they drove in those
spikes, he said he darean’t take off his

 

 

 

clothes or he’d bleed to death. He said
his own father didn’t know it, because
Bill was afraid it might worry the old
man.

“And Bill tole me they wasn’t going to
get him to go to Sunday-school. Hesays
his father has a brass idol that he keeps
in the garret, and Bill says he’s made
up his mind to be a pagan, and to begin
to go naked, and carry a tomahawk, and
a bow and arrow, as soon as the warm
weather comes. And to prove it to me

he says his father has this town all |

underlaid with nitro-glycerine, and as
soon as he gets ready he’s going to blow
the old thing out, and bust her up,
and let her rip, and demolish her. e
said so down on the dam, and tole me
not to tell anybody, but I thought they’d
be no harm in mentioning it to you.

“And now I believe I must be going. I
hear Bill a whistling. Maybe he’s got
comet ne else to tell me.”

The Pillsbury family, I think, will be
profitable to the youth of this commu-
nity.

 

Our Majl Bag.

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early party of this rap A He produced the arc-light
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however, until 1844, when improvements in its manner
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Character in the Thomb,

ETERMINATION is shown by the
thumb, which is a study in itself,
its three joints representing the
three powers which rule the world

—Love, Logic, and Will. The third
joint, surmounted by the Mount of

enus, is, as its name states, dedicated
to Love; the second, rising from the
mount tothe first joint, shows Logic,
or its absence; and the first phalange,
ending in the nail, declares the force
forthcoming to shape success or fortune.

Want of length between the nail and the

first joint of the thumb tells of weakness,

which often explains how brilliant
chances marked by lines on the palm
have been allowed to slip through feeble
fingers. Only ina clever hand, where
finger-tips are pointed, and their first
phalanges (that is, joints) long, is this
short-topped thumb desirable. In this
combination its weakness is but that of
all imaginative genius—inability to co

with the rough realities of daily life,

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lange tells of inspiration and creative
faculty, and in such cases a long second

phalange to the thumb denotes a ten-
dency tosee things from all points of

view, which makes life difficult, but
composition easy; for such people can
put themselves in sympathy with all
sorts and conditions of men that the
will paint them to the life, whether wit
pen or pencil. Persons whose thumbs
show along, broad, thick, and coarse-
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to pig-headedness; but when both pha-
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man qui ira loin, his determination be-
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and carried out by an unfaltering will.

 

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. In screw, not in staple,

. In hot, not in mild.

. In youth, not in child.

, In Rob, not in Ed,

. In white, not in red,

My whole is a State of the Union.
EDWIN W. LEE.

ONotnonr-

No. 2—WorpbD SQUARE.
A lovely isle my first will show ;
What’s not to fall in next will glow;
A German river third will bring,
And last will name a Roman king.
HERACLES,

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In golden moments as they fly,

In good reports that’s passing by,
In some weeklies that we read,

In Goov News, that takes the lead,
The first die young, ’tis often said,
The second flies on wings,

The whole is welcomed everywhere,
And we'll its praises sing.

No. 4—INVERTED TRIANGLE.

. A ball used in voting.
. In return.

. Placed in order.

A cover.

. Not off.

. A letter.

ELISon,

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. Cain hit Able and killed him.
. Which airis the best—hot or cold ?
. Caleb enchanted the people,
. The last oven is finished.
. Here are the remnants of a book,
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} Deh ens CHARLES, King of Roumania, is 51 years old, with
3. E-ART—H. a reign of ten years.
4. C-APE—R. Tue Kansas Legislature has 115 farmers and
5. C-HAM—P. only three lawyers.
6. C—HINT—Z, ALEXANDER III., of Russia,is 46 years old, with
x a reign of 10 years.
PUZZLE SOLVERS. GEORGE, King ot Greece, is 49 years old, with a
reign of 28 years.
Minnie Martens, Frank S. Fiske, Lillian B. West, TuE flute, in its primitive form, may- rightly
claim to be the oldest of musical instruments.

Donham, R. E. Fleet.

“ARE the Sultan's wives afraid of him ?” aské
lady ot a Turkish missionary.

«Yes ; he’s a harem-scare em sort of a fello

A Paris milliner has made a ten-strike by t@@
ing her parrot to say every time a fair cliel
ters, “Oh, ain't you just lovely !” ;

Tne total number of clerksin the railway
service is 5,448. The number of casualities if
was 183. 4

CHOLLIE (singing)—-‘‘How can I] leave thee

Ethél (coldly)—‘‘The front door is still
business at the old stand. Try that.”

Funspy—‘‘Is Dr. Koch a German by birth

Punsby—‘‘’m not sure; but be’s a Geri
by profession,”

In order that we may succeed in life if nol
requires a purpose, will, and oneness of ail
an invincible determination.

THE man who will complain that a twenty
ute sermon is too long will sit half a day
ing a couple of cless-players making two m0

“IT pon’r see how people who make aru
teeth ae out of the poor-house,”

ow y?

“They have 80 many mouths to fill.”

“HuLLo, Mike, I hear you're on strike ?”

“Solam, I struck for fewer hours,”

“Did you succeed ?”

“J did. I’m not working at all now.”

RECRIMINATIONS.—She—‘“If I hadn’t been

Py
I never would have married you.”
He—‘And if | had only known what a fod ol
were, I never would have married you.” °
WILD horses are numerous in the mous...

near Antelope Valley, Nevada. It is aiff
keep tame horses in that section, as they 8
come discontented and wander off to join thé
tangs.

Jaaas—‘‘Since Jones used Dr. Killorcure’s
of life, he has not been troubled with rf
tism.”

Baggs—“Do you think it’s a permanent

seraest Ob, yes; he’s dead !’

HIGH-TONED MISTRESS(to untidy servant)?
don’t you think you'd better lave your face
tle water ?”

Mary (borrified)—‘‘Lave me face in water!
a bit, ma’am. I’d be drownthed if I did,” —

JONES, calling on a young lady up to
rather hurriedly, under the impression
old man took him for some part of a bridal?
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can’t make a man tell her where he has beé

“No,” she answered, when he asked whet
would go to evening service with him, ‘14
church belle.”

Mrs. DE Sour (angrily)—‘“I want you 4%
your dog out of my house, Mrs. De Smé
full of fleas.” j

Mrs. De Smart—‘‘Mercy on me! Fido!
here, sir! Don’t you go into that housé
It’s full of fleas.”

GRIEVED CLARA—‘‘You pretend to love Wak
yet you will not take me to the theater, a5 ™
Smith did Lucy Hooper last night.” ly

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