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T h e M i n d of the Master,"' " Beside the B o n n i e B r i e r B u s h , " etc.

T H E BAPTIST,.—The E OF

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JESUS.

IT were true to say that Jesus appeared without expectation, since none knew whence He would come; it were also true to say that He came with expectation, since a nation waited for H i m . None could have

guessed His birth—the child of a village maiden, or His position—a workman of Naz areth; but every pious Jew was persuaded He would appear, and had seen His signs. For eight centuries heralds had been going

T H E T E M P T A T I O N (opposite page).—It w a s not ray pur pose to p r e s e n t the t r a d i t i o n a l T e m p t a t i o n , n o r to f o l l o w l i t e r a l l y the s t o r y o f the v i s i t s o f the S p i r i t o f E v i l as a v i s i b l e b e i n g . J e s u s is i n the w i l d e r n e s s . H e is Hearing the e n d o f H i s f o r t v d a y s ' fast, a n d , w a n a n d w o r n out, H e is absorbed i n H i s m e d i t a t i o n s , h e e d i n g n e i t h e r the descent of n i g h t , n o r

the beasts t h a t s n a r l at H i m , b u t dare Hot a p p r o a c h . The bare, red h i l l s are l o s i n g t h e last of the d a y at t h e i r t i p s ; b u t J e s u s is j u s t w i n n i n g H i s battle, a n d , perhaps, t o - m o r r o w H e w i l l go d o w n f r o m the desert s o l i t u d e , to reveal to H i s first d i s c i p l e s t h a t w h i c h w i l l b i n d their souls i r r e v o c a b l y to t h e Messiah.—ARTIST'S N O T E .

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N a z a r e t h lies o n the edge o f a b r o a d h o l l o w , c l i m b i n g the h i g h h i l l to the n o r t h w e s t . S i n c e the t i m e of C h r i s t it has h a d a v a r i e d h i s t o r y . I t has felt the h a n d i n t u r n of the M o h a m m e d a n s , the C r u s a d e r s , the M o h a m m e d a n s a g a i n , a n d a g a i n the C r u s a d e r s , a n d then yet a g a i n the M o h a m m e d a n s , w i t h w h o m i t n o w r e m a i n s , b e i n g i n possession o f the T u r k s . I n 1B20 came the F r a n c i s c a n m o n k s , a n d to-day t h e f a i t h o f I s l a m is a c k n o w l e d g e d b y less t h a n one-quarter o f the p o p u l a t i o n , a n d not a J e w is to be seen there. F o r a l l t h i s ap parent c h a n g e a n d m o v e m e n t , N a z a r e t h has r e m a i n e d the o b s c u r e , retired place of the G o s p e l s . I t is not easy to reach, a n d does not offer m u c h w o r t h s t r u g g l i n g for w h e n r e a c h e d . I t is capable o f fine gardens, i n the b o t t o m of the b a s i n , where are real shade, green grass, fig a n d o l i v e g r o v e s — d e l i c i o u s refuge f r o m the heat of the d a y . E l s e w h e r e are glare a n d unrest. F r o m the o u t s i d e , the t o w n l o o k s a t t r a c t i v e i n its w h i t e dress w i t h e d g i n g o f green, b u t w i t h i n i t is d i r t y , u n s a n i t a r y , p r i m i t i v e . B u t J e s u s c o u l d have h a d a m o s t h a p p y c h i l d h o o d here. N o matter w h a t the t o w n was, H e h a d the h i l l s , the great s k y over H i s h e a d , a n d H i s w o r l d spread out before H i m u n t i l b o t h w o r l d a n d s k y m e r g e d into one i m p a l p a b l e d i s t a n c e . N e a r l y a l l o f P a l e s t i n e , w i t h its f a m i l i a r h i s t o r y , w o u l d be u n d e r H i s eye. T h e life o f Greece a n d R o m e was w i t h i n sight, a n d f r o m H i s v a n tage p o i n t w h a t c o u l d H e not see to i n c i t e H i s m i n d to a c t i v i t y a l o n g the l i n e s o f a l l h u m a n t h o u g h t o f that d a y ? H e , a h i g h l a n d e r , w e n t to the l o w c o u n t r y to l i v e as a m a n ; b u t w h a t m e m o r i e s H e m u s t a l w a y s have car r i e d w i t h H i m o f those d r e a m y heights o f H i s c h i l d h o o d . T h e l o w e r p i c t u r e represents A W O M A N O P N A Z A RETH. T h e N a z a r e t h w o m e n have the u s u a l n a t i v e grace o f c a r r i a g e f r o m t h e i r h a b i t o f c a r r y i n g burdens on t h e i r heads. T h e y are g o o d - n a t u r e d , a m i a b l e , a l l t h a t is k i n d l y ; b u t I c o u l d never c a l l t h e m l o v e l y as to f e a t u r e . — A R T I S T ' S

NOTE.

THE C A L L I N G O F F O U R D I S C I P L E S (opposite page).—And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.—MARK, i . 16-20. F o r a b o u t t w o m o n t h s J e s u s h a d been alone, i n retirement, H i s d i s c i p l e s h a v i n g left H i m to go b a c k to their affairs. But now, J o h n the'Baptist being imprisoned, H e must b e g i n H i s a c t i v e labors, a n d needs H i s d i s c i p l e s . P a s s ing a l o n g the shore o f the l a k e , at the p l a i n o f G e n n e s a r e t h , H e sees P e t e r a n d A n d r e w fishing. H e c a l l s to t h e m ; they f o l l o w . A l i t t l e further o n , i n a boat w i t h Zebedee, t h e i r father, he finds J a m e s a n d J o h n . T h e y , too, f o l l o w at o n c e ; a n d t h i s readiness to leave a l l , f a m i l y a n d business, at the c a l l o f the M a s t e r , i n d i c a t e s if n o t a p r e v i o u s u n d e r s t a n d i n g ( w h i c h is p r o b a b l e ) , then a present r e a l i z i n g o f H i s need o f t h e m , a n d the m a g netism of a powerful personality.—ARTIST'S N O T E .

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before H i m and making a pathway in the faith of the Hebrew Church. A s often as their hearts sickened at the failure of human goodness, the Prophets beheld in the future the ideal figure of the Messiah; as often as they were reenforced by the spectacle of conspicuous virtue, they imagined its unrevealed perfection. When the heritage of God was spoiled and laid waste, they saw the Messiah gird His sword upon His t h i g h ; and when the sun shone on Israel, it way the promise of the coming glory. From gener ation to generation the most spiritual and heroic patriots ever granted to a people fed the imagination of their brethren with the coming of a holy K i n g and the establishment of a universal kingdom. This noble succession seemed to cease, and the voice of the prophet was no longer heard in the land; but the Messianic hope still lived in the national heart, and found new forms of expression. When some despaired of God's commonwealth, and others saw nothing for it but to die sword i n hand, unknown writers hid themselves behind great names of the past—saints, prophets, sages—and poured out their souls, some in pessimistic satires, some in apocalyptic imaginations. The au thor of Ecclesiastes bewails the weariness of human life and the corruption of society with a bitterness of regret which is an un conscious cry for Christ, and the author of Daniel declares in a cryptogram the fall of foreign tyrannies and the victory of the Son of man. A nation, beaten and crushed by overwhelming force, yet unconquerable in spirit and immovable in faith, had an i n ward conviction, begotten by the word of the Prophets and born of the hostility of circum stances, that the promise given to the fathers must be near fulfilment. The people began to look for the sudden redness in the east, and the forerunner of the dawn was John Baptist. John Baptist was a commanding personal ity, who could not be ignored in his own day or any other, for he was distinguished from other men first of all by his calling. A s the poet differs from other men of letters be cause, while they may have ability and cul ture, he has the fire which cometh from JESUS I X T H E S Y N A G O G U E A T N A Z A R E T H (opposite page).— This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears. And all wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. -LUKE IV. 21-22. B o t h the t a l l i l h and the c i s s i t h , s h o w n in the picture, a m i the m y s t i c i s m e n s h r o u d i n g their use, have g r o w n out of the s i m p l e verse i n D E U T . x x i i . 12 : Thou Shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy resture, wherewith thou coverest thyself. T h e t a l l i l h is the c l o t h w o r n over the bead d u r i n g p r a y e r : the c i s s i t h is the s m a l l fringed garment of the same device, for the hack and for the front of the body. W h e n a J e w i s h boy arrives ill the age o f thirteen (or i f he has lust his father, at twelve), he becomes a " m a n

MASTER.

heaven, so the prophet is raised above other teachers of religion because, while they may have knowledge and devotion, he has the divine fire. No voice of man can call a prophet, no machinery can make him fit. The Spirit of God descends upon and sets him apart; a prophet he must be now, and, in spite of all hindrances, a prophet he w i l l be. He is himself helpless in this matter, and his fellow-men are also helpless. A prophet is an unanswerable evidence of the sovereignty of God, and this is the meaning of the story of John. He was promised unto his parents when they had despaired of chil dren, and his father was stricken dumb be cause he believed not the word. He was named according to the angelic intimation, and the mouth of Zacharias was opened that he might call him John. Before he was born he did homage to his mighty Kinsman, before whose face he was to run. Signs and wonders attended the child, and marked him off from the herd of men as one on whom the hand of the Eternal was surely resting. His father was one of the lower order of priests, and John was born into a quiet, con ventional home; his birth provided for his future, and he could have served in his turn at the Temple. But there is no caging an eagle nor compelling him into ordinary ways, and while still a lad, John forsook his father's house and hid himself in the wilderness of Judea. There was i n him an instinct of his vocation, which made a commonplace environ ment impossible for him, which drove him forth into a wider sphere. So early did this prophet hear the Divine voice, so early was he separated from his fellows. When art represents the Baptist a man old before his time, austere, careworn, wasted, as i n the fresco of Angelico, the figure is true and commanding; when he stands out a lad i n the freshness of youth, strong, fresh, enthu siastic, as in the John Baptist of del Sarto, one has the necessary complement of the other picture. The Baptist was also the subject of a com plete prophetical training, for when he came forth and witnessed unto his generation he was the result of three forces, and the first was asceticism. It is not needful that every of the c o v e n a n t , " at w h i c h t i m e the s p i r i t u a l r e s p o n s i b i l i t y o f his parents for h i m erases, l i e then may wear the p h y l a c t e r i e s and with great j o y is vested w i t h the c i s s i t h . w h i c h he m u s t never thereafter be w i t h o u t . T h e phylacteries are w o r n every tune the J e w s say their prayers on week d a y s , in the s y n a g o g u e or at home. T h e t a l l i t h is w o r n over these at m o r n i n g p r a y e r s and only at m o r n i n g prayers, except o n A t o n e m e n t "Day w h e n it is w o r n also at e v e n i n g prayers. A n y J e w m i g h t be a s k e d to c o m m e n t o n toe sacred w r i t i n g s . H e stood w h i l e r e a d i n g from the s c r o l l . Then, after h a n d i n g it h a c k to h i m w h o s e d u t y i t was to care f o r it, he w o u l d seat h i m s e l f to teach — ARTIST'S

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politics, that it be ready for the possession of the Messiah. By an instinct of his office John chose his solitude in the wilderness of Judea, whose awful desolation of barren hills and waterless valleys stretches along the val ley of the Dead Sea and thrusts itself to within a few miles of Jerusalem. His library in his retreat was chiefly to be found with i n h i s own soul and in the picture of that forsaken des ert, but he was not without his teacher of the ancient time. If he was to be the real Elijah in his coming and office, he was to be the echo of the two Isaiahs in his thought and preaching. A s the former took up the L o r d ' s contro versy against His people and rated Jerusa lem soundly for her hollow ritualism and this end he refused the priesthood, and aban elaborate hy doned his home and lived as a hermit, and pocrisy, which preached repentance in the wilderness of made " many Judea, and watched for the Messiah as they who watch for the morning. prayers," but her hands were " f u l l of b l o o d , " John was also formed by solitude, and could so the Baptist laid his indictment against his not have been the prophet we know nor have generation for their vain show of religion and shaken Jerusalem with terror had he spent their hardness of heart. F r o m that heroic his early days amid the gossip of the village witness of the eighth century John learned his and the little affairs of his home. His ear self-abnegation, his single-heartedness, his must be trained to catch the first sound of spiritual patriotism, and his unshaken cour Jesus' feet, and the babel of earth's mixed age. F r o m the second Isaiah, the most Evan noises must be hushed into stillness. Amid gelical of the whole succession, John received the coming and going of priests at their a more gracious and yet more effective mes empty ritual, and the gabble of Pharisees at sage, f r r it is evident that John knew not their theology, he had been deaf to the high only the beginning of the Book of Isaiah, est things. His heart must be cleansed from but also its fifty-third chapter. A f t e r a day the likeness of other faces, however dear and of sad reflection on the ungodliness of his good, that from its clear, unpossessed sur people and of righteous indignation he would face the countenance of the Messiah might sit down, and in the fading light, when the one day look at him. His mind must be fierce glare of the day was over, content emptied of present-day religion and earthly himself with the thought of the Servant of

servant of God should be an ascetic, and for some work this discipline would be a hin drance ; but in every age some are called to the last sacrifices. For the brief awful min istry of the Baptist, the breaking up of the iron soil for Jesus, he only was sufficient who had been cut off from all human ties and had denied himself all law ful ease. Clad in the coarsest of garments, e a t i n g the meanest of foods, devoted to poverty and chastity, this man was a fig ure and sign of religious in tensity. Be hind the cam els' hair and the l o c u s t s ' food, and the wasted face, and the strong, fierce words, was one un quenchable de sire—to obtain the Kingdom of God for him self and his nation. For

THE REVEREND God on whom the L o r d would lay the ini quities of Israel, and who would be led as a lamb to the slaughter. A s he meditated w i t h softening heart on the Holy V i c t i m and the L o r d ' s mercy, then the bare and stony land would change before his eyes, and, be hold, green grass and fountains of water, and the promise regarding the Kingdom of

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Any day and, for that matter, any hour the romance of faith might culminate, and the Hope of Israel appear. Every morning the hermit would rise and leave his home hewn out of the rock, which tradition gives him for a dwelling-place, to wait for the break ing of the day, since the rising of the sun might be the shining of H i s face, and he

A JERUSALEM

SYNAGOGUE.

The synagogue dates from the captivity. In the absence of their Temple, it grew to be the custom of the Jews to assemble in small companies to worship. The first synagogues were but square rooms, plain, with flat roofs. The Holy of Holies was reduced to a niche in the wall in which was kept the roll of the Laic, behind a curtain. There was a raised platfoi-m in the center for the elders; and a high desk between this and the curtained niche, for the reader's use. The rest of the space was taken up by seats. These arc still the main features of the synagogues in Palestine. The women are shut off by wooden lattice-work from the rest of the congregation.—ARTIST'S NOTE.

God was fulfilled: "The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the rose." The meeting of Jesus and John, and the recognition of the Messiah by His forerun ner, is one of the picturesque situations i n the Gospel history, and i t is perfect i n its spontaneity. A s the Baptist brooded i n the wilderness over the prophecies of the ancient time, and as he declared unto the multitude with strong conviction that the ' ' kingdom of G o d " was at hand, the one passion of his life rose to white heat, and his eager heart was eaten up with expectation. The atmos phere of the day was charged with the sense of the Messiah, and the lonely prophet strained his ears to catch the first sound of H i s feet.

would lie down with sad reluctance, and hardly dare to sleep lest the darkness be the shadow of his L o r d . Was the Christ already in the land, hidden and unknown, or would He come from afar with sudden glory ? Would He show Himself by infallible signs, so that all men should be compelled to own H i m , or would He appear secretly, putting all men to the test by His presence, and already, before He was recognized, doing the part of a hus bandman, with His fan separating the wheat from the chaff ? It is certain that the Bap tist had been saved from one vain delusion by his study of Isaiah: he did not expect the Imperial Messiah of the gross Jewish imag ination, but as little was he prepared to rec ognize his L o r d , before whom he had run, and whose voice he had been among the crowd

T h e absolutely- authenticated Route from J e r u s a l e m to N a z a r e t h . There i s nothing definite about t h e e x a c t r o u t e of t h e s e v a r i o u s j o u r n e y i n g o f C h r i s t , but t h e routes so indicated are over the o l d highways of t r a v e l -which have hardly changed to t h i s date. MAP

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who heard his message of repentance and submitted to the sacrament of peni tence. Y e t it was in these circumstances that the Baptist one day iden tified Jesus of Nazareth as the Christ, and knew that his work had not been in vain. It may be suggested, w i t h some reason, that John had surely known for years the b i r t h and calling of Jesus, and ought not to have waited as in a mystery. Was he not the kinsman of Jesus ? and had not a tender confidence passed between Elizabeth his mother and Mary the mother of Jesus ? When John separated himself from his home and his peo ple, and gave himself in his youth to be the herald of the Messiah, and Jesus declared to His mother that He had come to do the work of His Father in heaven, would not other confidences pass between the holy women, and Elizabeth rejoice that as she had done homage to Mary her son was prepar ing the way for Jesus ? A s we weave this romance of the Holy Family we set it in the light of after TYPE OF MAN—NAZARETH. A STUDY FROM LIFE. wards, and forget how the most sacred and vivid spiri tual experiences fade and lose their meaning that He was the Lamb of God, he proved at even with saintly souls, so that Jesus once once his own fine spiritual perception and the gently chided His mother because she forgot inherent glory of Jesus. A s he lived alone the mystery of His annunciation and nativity, in the wilderness and studied the outlines of s a y i n g , ' ' W i s t ye not ? ' ' A n d John had evi the Messiah's likeness in the mirror of Isaiah, dently learned nothing of his august Kinsman it had grown real and living before his eyes, from Elizabeth, for he once declared unto the and the very face was printed on his soul. One day that which he had imagined flashed Pharisees, " I knew H i m n o t . " The Baptist had never, so far as we know, on him in all its spiritual loveliness, and the seen Jesus before, and it was a gain, and not Baptist did the Messiah instant homage. When the day of H i s discovering to Israel a loss, that he did not know the Messiah after the flesh, for i n that moment of revelation he had fully come, just as i n a lower world birds knew H i m , with the vision of the soul, after know the seasons of their coming and going, the spirit. When John was arrested by the Jesus, moved by the infallible instinct of the visible holiness of Jesus, and identified H i m Messiahship, left His home, where from child as the Christ on whose head rested the mys hood to manhood He had done the w i l l of tical Dove, and afterwards declared boldly God in quietness; took His way by the road

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which crosses the plain of Jezreel and fol back with pious horror. Unto the Baptist, lows the mountains of Samaria and Judea, the Savonarola of his day, came the ignorant and came at last to the place where John was people, sordid and greedy through the strug baptizing i n the Jordan. It could not have gle for l i f e ; the publicans swollen with the gains of oppres been by chance sion ; the rough that the prophet soldiers, w h o chose this font w rought their for the sacra unchecked will ment of peni on the helpless; tence, for i t was the m i s e r a b l e s a n c t i o n e d by w omen, who ancient history, were the open full of instruc ulcer of society; tion and inspira and even the tion. Here, as Pharisees, shak the Catholic his en out of their torian of the pride for a space. Master points A great wave of out, the children religious emo of Israel crossed tion had swept with Joshua into this mixed mass the promised of evil-doers to land, and here the feet of the Elijah, the pio prophet and the neer of proph laver of the Jor ecy, smote the dan. W h a t had waters with his brought H i m mantle. To-day who was holy, the ford is called harmless, and the " P l a c e of undefiled? Noth Passage," and ing less than the the western bank sacred waters of is g r e e n , a n d the Jordan could covered with w i l avail for this lows and tam mass of rascal arisks. Whole A NAZARETH HOME OF TO-DAY. dom and hypoc flocks of woodrisy. W h a t could By good fortune, I was permitted to make the study for this picture when the pigeons find here room was in its ordinary state—not set in special order for the stranger. The any water do for a home. So here raised stonen'ork is a feature of every Syrian house. It is the place set apart or H i s are a l l the signs for the family bedroom ; the donkey, chickens, and, perhaps, goats occupying H i m the ground. It is the only sign of the elevation of the human above the brute. of the great af It seems to be a distinguishing trait of the so.called half-civilized jieoples, that whiteness ? F o r the hands, they maintain the brotherhood of the animal kingdom, with the exclusion of fair of regenera dogs. The roll of matting in the corner is the bed. " Take u]) thy bed and walk," tion — the pure is not so difficult an injunction in the East as with us. The mother is picking themselves sinf u1 , w h i c h water, the pas over the wheat for the grinding. The grain is stored in the box-like structure on the right, which is made of baked nitid and straw ; and it is drawn out from the publi sage from old plugged holes at the bottom. These granaries rary in size, sometimes being plunged cans and harlots things to new, nearly as high as the room. The houses arc often damp,always dirty, blackened into the flowing ivith the daily smoke from the little fires, never of a sn'eet savor, A variety of and the gentle garments, the donkey's bedding, cooking utensils, vegetables, implements, ashes, water, to touch white dove, water-jars, and skins littered the earthen floor, while amongst it all half a dozen the holiness of chickens scratched and scrambled. Only the platform in the corner (lit by a w h i c h is the window that was ever being darkened by the spiders) offered acceptable accom Jesus was an i m symbol of the modation.—ARTIST'S N O T E . possible sacri Holy Ghost. lege, and the dismay of the Baptist was so It was most fitting, like everything else in manifest that Jesus could only ask h i m to Jesus' life, that where sinful men had gath suffer His desire. ered i n contrition and were waiting for God's kingdom, the Anointed of God should ap When Jesus gave H i s reason to H i s ser pear ; but when Jesus not only was a hearer vant and declared that H i s baptism would of the new Gospel, but also desired to have f u l f i l " all righteousness," i t was i n the very the sinner's baptism, one is not astonished sound a s t r i k i n g utterance; but i t is not that the Baptist was staggered and shrank quite clear on first sight what the Master i n -

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H i m . He was to dine at publicans' tables, and live i n their houses; to talk at well-sides with disreputable women, and to have harlots following H i m into respectable houses; to be classed with illiterate folk and despised provincials; to be cast out of the Church as a heretic, and to be counted a blasphemer. He was to be mixed up with the dregs of the people, and it was to be suggested that He was Himself no better than the worst. The waters of H i s baptism were ever to be on His head, so that the Pharisees standing on their high bank could condemn H i m , and the mis erable below would claim H i m . He would be condemned that He might save, and stoop ing He would conquer. Between the hand ful of righteous and the mass of sinners He cast in H i s lot with the sinner; so He lost the righteous, who needed no Saviour, and He found the sinners, who did. Baptized into shame and suffering that day by John's austere hands, our Master was also baptized unto power and glory, and the drops of Jor dan water glistening i n the sun were the diadems of an eternal crown. When we read i n the Gospels that after Jesus was baptized of John He was led into the wilderness to be tempted, the order of events is not merely temporal; it is also spir itual. I f any one be moved to dedicate him self without reserve to the cause of God and the service of his fellow-men, it is an act of immense significance, and it must needs be followed by a retreat. It had not been fit ting that as soon as Jesus had come up from the Jordan, with the water still on His head, He should begin to preach the Kingdom. He would have been without any plan of work

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and without possession of Himself for the Messianic enterprise. Before Jesus pre sented Himself to the people or called H i s first disciples, He must realize within H i s consciousness not only that He is the Hope of the Prophets, but also must determine the appointed lines of the Messiah's career, as One i n whom is stored unused and unknown resources. F o r forty days—a number of sacred tradition—Jesus secluded Himself i n the wilderness, that H i s soul, being freed from the hindrance of the body and the tur moil of life, might enter into the will of God. No man can come through a spiritual crisis without physical reaction, and according to the intensity of the soul will be the exhaus tion of the body. On such occasions i t seems as i f the blood had been drained through a wound, as i f the nerves had been stretched unto the breaking. Never is the strongest soul more depressed, never does i t lie more open to attack. A n d i t was at the close of the forty days that Jesus, who may have been lightly tried before i n Nazareth, passed through His first great temptation. A s the Kingdom of God, with its hopes and visions,

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had in those days been opened unto H i m , and His eyes had seen its unclouded brightness, with its hosts of angels, its redeemed souls, its victories of holiness, i t s morning song of joy, so now H e must, with H i s human eyes, behold the kingdom of evil, hardly suspected as He lived with Mary i n Nazareth, w i t h its suggestions of evil, its hatred of goodness, its pitiful persecution of the soul, its hideous shapes of sin, its black despair. F o r the Son of man must know good and evil, that being thoroughly prepared H e may be the Saviour of His brethren. Three times was Jesus attacked i n this classical battle—on each occasion through a different avenue—and the first approach was laid through the body. F o r t y days had this man, i n the fullness of H i s strength, de nied Himself ordinary food, and lived i n a state of high spiritual tension, and now H i s body—the body not of an ascetic, but of a strong workman—asserted itself, and H e was an hungered. N o appetite is more i m perious than hunger, for from its stimulus has sprung the first energy of the race. None is more innocent, since to deny i t s satisfaction, i n ordinary circumstances, were suicide. Round Jesus, as He came out from His spiritual trance and became conscious of physical things, lay the white stones of the desert, mocking H i m by their color and shape with the suggestion of the homely bread H i s mother baked i n Nazareth, and which H e ate with honest zest at the close of a hard day's work. If indeed He were endowed with the power of God, so that whatsoever He pleased He could do, and whatsoever He desired H e could have, why should H e not change the unprofitable stones into loaves of bread, as the Baptist declared God could make them into sons of Abraham, and eat and go on to His work i n the strength thereof ? It was the most reasonable and practical of temp tations. The days were near at hand when Jesus would use His Divine power to feed a hungry multitude, to heal the loathsome dis ease of leprosy, to raise a man three days dead. W h y not to revive His own strength ? Because i n this case He had used H i s power to relieve Himself from one of the conditions of human life, and to secure His own ease; and because, had He made this concession to Himself, why should He not afterwards have employed the same power to clothe Himself in purple and fine linen ? to escape the weari ness of a poor man's travel ? to shield H i m self from the cruelties of H i s enemies ? After a l l , as Jesus answered, the chief good of life is not meat—to satisfy one's self, but

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The town is situated on the eastern limit of a ridge that lies east and west, about a mile long. This ridge overlooks a deep valley on the south, and another one on the north, and commands a view that reaches to the hills of Moab, over the Judean wilderness, Jericho, and the Dead Sea. The peculiarly shaped hill in the middle distance is the so-called Frank Mountain, the burial place of Herod the Great, the upper part of the hill being artificial. Mt. Nebo is seen from Bethlehem as a slight prominence on the Moab horizon. The ancient Bethle hem probably was not nearly as large as the modern town. It suffered much with every other sacred place during Crusading times, being destroyed and rebuilt again and again. Some writers have inaccurately mentioned the " Jews of Bethlehem.' As a matter of fact, Jews do not now exist here any more than at Nazareth. Bethlehem is almost entirely Christian in population, of the different sects of the Latin and Eastern churches; there are less than tivo hundred Moslems in eight thousand inhabitants. The town has Latin and Greek monas teries and hospices, boys' and girls' schools, and a number of churches; and there are also an English school for girls ami a German Protestant school for both sexes.—ARTIST'S NOTE. 1

the words which come from the mouth of God—to fulfill spiritual ends; not to live for the senses, but for the soul. Jesus' next temptation shifted the field from the body to the soul, and had a fair show of religion, as the last had of reason. Is not the very heart of religion faith in God, a faith so unreserved and unquestioning, so trustful and loving, that i t will leave the per son absolutely i n the hands of God ? Ought not such faith to vindicate itself at a trial, and put God to the test by some daring act of confidence ? Suppose that Jesus should cast Himself from the highest point of the Father's House i n face of all the people, and allow God to bear H i m up on angels' wings —would not this be a fitting evidence of His faith on the threshold of the Master's public c a r e e r ? Apparently it was an appeal to Jesus' filial s p i r i t ; really i t was an invitation to spiritual pride and unholy presumption upon the favor of God—the very sin which by its arrogance and self-complacency had

created Pharisaism and devastated the re ligious life of Israel. What was represented as a loyal acceptance of one of the most gracious of the Divine promises Jesus de clared to be sheer blasphemy, and a straining of the Divine patience unto the breaking. W i t h this new rebuff to the E v i l One, Jesus added to His abnegation a humility of faith which was never to fail t i l l from the tragic height of the Cross, Avhere God's will had placed H i m , into the depths of the grave, whither He was willing to go, He committed His soul to H i s Father, and H i s Father did not put H i m to confusion. Once more at this time Satan tried the Master, and now it is neither through H i s body, nor His soul, but through His work he makes his attempt. F r o m a high mountain the Tempter shows unto this young Man all the kingdoms of the world of which i n the seclusion of Nazareth Jesus may have heard, and their glory, which He could not have imagined. This is the world—not that world

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of sin, and shame, and sorrow, and pain, in its immense pathos, which God loved and Jesus was to save; but that world of luxury, and pageantry, and cruelty, and unbelief, i n its proud insolence, which would flout God and crucify Jesus. W i t h the same outlook the Master saw His task and His hindrance, and i n this meeting was begotten the Temp tation. How altogether noble was the task! Was the hindrance inevitable ? If Jesus would only do one act of homage to the prince of this world, then he would lay all those kingdoms at Jesus' feet, who then might do His will without suffering or oppo sition. One imagines that Jesus may have been tempted again and again after this fashion i n H i s life—to come to terms with the world, and the more quickly accomplish His work. Suppose that by courteous con cession the world, in its priests and Phari sees and rulers, could be disarmed and con ciliated, would i t be wrong, and would it not be worth the making ? What enmity and bloodshed, what martyrdoms and controver sies, what sins against light and goodness, (To be

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would be averted! How swiftly and how smoothly the Kingdom of God might come! Had Jesus only been more careful about the Sabbath rules, had H e only been silent on certain occasions, had H e only paid some heed to prejudices, had He kept at a dis tance from sinners! A few compromises, a handful of incense on the altar of the world, and neither He nor any of H i s disciples need have suffered. H i s Church has not turned a deaf ear to this insidious advice, or been disinclined to take an evil road to a good end. She has gratefully received tainted gold, and therewith established missions; she has made alliances with kings, and trafficked with her own freedom; she has condescended to cunning and violence to advance her sphere of influence. These things have the servants done, but not the Master. Where the choice was to hold the world from H i s Father on condition of the Cross, or to receive a show of power from Satan on condition of an act of homage, Jesus made a swift, final de cision. A n d Satan, thrice defeated, de parted for a season.

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BETHLEHEM FROM MAR ELIAS, IN WINTER. Snow in southern Palestine is a rare enough sight to be remarkable. In all my experience, I saw it but once—for a short week. I seized the opportunity to make studies, from which this picture of Bethlehem at Christmas time was painted. It is a view of the village from the ridge of Mar Ellas, halfway between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, from the top of which both towns can be seen three miles away on either side. It shows the road winding southward,the vineyard terraces icith light snow, the olive trees, and Bethlehem in the distance in a sunlit space.—ARTIST'S NOTE.

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the mysteries of the mines quite overcomes me when ever I sits down to think of them, as I often does, or standing up either, for that matter. Our mines is the kind where all of the cars are moved i n and out by ropes—miles of them, count ing them all up, inside and outside; and when a car of coal starts from a breast and finally stops at the tip-up alongside of the railroad, i t ' s been pulled and yanked around so that some times it runs off the track from sheer ex haustion; and then some one hooks another rope onto i t , and i t ' s hauled along over the ties t i l l i t jumps on again for peace' sake. A n d the ropes is just as bad as the cars. Seems like there is a grudge between them; and i f a rope gets slack, along comes, a trip of cars, and runs over it, and cuts it i n two or gets it all tangled up. So it takes me most of my time keeping the ropes up, and they looks after the cars. I often wonders that the ropes and cars don't get lost somewhere inside after they have left daylight behind, and never show up a g a i n ; but they don't, for I often sits by the track at the tunnel entrance watching them and the two ropes running over the pulleys, and about every ten or fifteen min utes I sees a splice or so coming out that went i n that long ago, and them moving all the time i n the dark, and the darkest kind of dark that is known to man's eyes—the kind that you can see, but can't penetrate. Then, sometimes, when everything is goinggood, I watches the cable tram, or, to put it in good catalogue style, the aerial rope rail way. Y o u see, after we has got through yanking the cars into the mines and out again, we hangs them up on a big steel ca ble, and runs them on it through the air to the tip-up, pretty near two miles away, along side of the railroad, as I said before. They're helpless enough then, swinging around; but away they goes, up hill and down, over a

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mountain, and across Tularosa valley, as soon as the transmission rope grips them. Daggert, our superintender, says it is a caution, and I says so too, whenever I watches them. H e ' s the head man out here in New Mexico. Came from Pennsylvania, same as I did. I looks after the ropes, and he looks after the whole t h i n g ; and between us the Alama Gorda Tunnel and Mining Company has a good thing of it, staying at home back East and drawing their dividends regular like. Our office is at the tip-up. To get back and forth between the mines and office there is two routes—in a car in the air, or on the ground, walking. I prefers to ride, and so does Daggert, especially when he's in a hurry to rip some one up the back for what he's done or hasn't done, like it says in the prayer-book, and he's most always in a hurry. I usually takes the car following his. Com panionship is a nice thing under some con ditions, and there are some when it isn't. When he's in good humor, we rides together. And that ain't oftener than once a month, around pay-days. The Alama Gorda Tunnel is a regular gashouse, too, which accounts for some of Daggert's unpleasant moods. When the ropes hauls a trip of cars through a door that ought to have been opened and wasn't, there's a regular generator set going inside in the breasteses, and he curses me and my ropes till he finds some one more directly respon sible. Y o u see smashing a door on the i n take or return checks ventilation t i l l i t ' s re paired, which don't take l o n g ; but the gas is always ready, and new doors ain't. W e has a big fan and engine to draw good air in, and bad air, gas, and dust out; but they don't give us any trouble. It's mostly men's carelessness—and then we has an explosion, like enough, and maybe a fire, and some one is burned that hadn't ought to be, and the one that ought to be gets the run. Daggert is a good superintender, though, and looks after the men close; but they do forget once in a while, and then, " Where's Tom ? " F o r you see I looks after the pipe-

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lines that carries water to all the breasteses, too. I'm afraid to go to bed till the m'ght shift's out, because if I does, I'm most sure to be called, and it ain't pleasant to ride over the rope tram in the dark with Daggert and a car full of company men. We has to do this, as all of us lives at the tip-up end of the line, being the only place we can live; and at " all-over " time every day there's a regular excursion of men coming home on the rope, a hundred feet in the air. The day that I performed my exploit, as Daggert calls it, though I don't, I didn't start out with the intention of doing any thing more than I ordinarily does, such as splicing ropes, repairing electric signal lines and bells, or putting some of the telephones in order. I was working at a pocket trans mitter up-stairs in my shop, over the com pany's office, while Daggert was laying some one out cold down-stairs, as I could plainly tell by the words that came up through the floor, when his voice stops sudden; I lifts up my head and listens. Some one is at the door talking, talking fast and excited. " T o m — w h e r e ' s T o m ? " Daggert yells, stamping to the stairs in a hurry. I expected it. " H e r e , " I hollers back, and goes down two steps at a time. " Come o n , " he says, without waiting for me, and starts for the tip-up trestle on a run. I follows, and reaches the top out of breath, and dodges cars and swallows dust to keep up to him. The first empty that comes along he jumps into, and I after him. It runs to the cable tram, the gripman hooks us on, and with a jerk we slams off into the air. Ahead of us is the long perspective of ropes, cars, and towers, roasting in the scin tillating landscape, disappearing out there in the midair toward the mountains. Daggert stands in the front end, looking that way and working his hands nervously. " Thunderat i o n ! " he growls. I looks ahead, too; but all I can see is a string of loads swinging toward us, and an other string of empties, which we are fol lowing. Then it occurs to me that we're going too slow to suit him. Speed's the one object to Daggert when he is in a hurry. The more of it the better. I looks at the ground passing rapidly away beneath us, and knows we are going a good gait, plenty fast enough for safety, with him tramping around and keeping the car swinging like she would jump off the rope and drop us to the hard-baked earth.

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"Five." I sees the number, automatically, I might say. It's painted on the tower we just passed on the dead run. " Six." That's another one. Tularosa valley's right ahead. The next tower stands like a sentinel at its edge. The outstretched arms supporting the cable are in relief against the sky. From it the ropes dips into space, disappearing from sight below the crest. A s we climb the cable, the valley opens. The far bank unfolds foot by foot until I sees the bottom, like an abyss, below us, with the slender-looking ropes spanning. We passes the tower, and takes the nine teen hundred feet dip. Down, down, we goes, hanging above the depths like birds— like eagles. It's a great span at a great height. A loaded car as it passes drops a chunk of coal. It falls over the edge with a clang, and I peers over the edge of mine and watches its flight downward. I holds my breath. M y ! It's a long ways down. W e starts up the ascent. Daggert has a firm grip on the frame-work, and is looking side ways into the valley. F o r the time he has forgotten everything but the terrible height. As the earth approaches, he relaxes his tense grasp, and so does I. " T o m , " he asks sud den, ' ' is there any water in number four level, west ? " " Yes." That question answers mine—there's been an explosion, and Alama Gorda Tunnel is afire. The car carries us swiftly up and over the mountain, and we sees the entrance to the workings and the power-houses and build ings on the down slope. Croups of men are moving around, and more men coming out from the tunnel. W o r k is at a standstill, with steam flying in the air, and smoke as cending from the stacks. D a g g e r t ' s face sets. It's been a bad one when the men all comes out. Two mine stretchers, and men carrying them, tells part c f the tale. - " How many burned ? " Daggert asks of the first man he meets. " F o u r ; two of them seriously." This from the miner, who is too excited to know that his lamp's still burning. " A r e they out ? " " A l l that can get o u t . " Daggert eyes him sternly. " W h a t do you mean ? ' ' " T h e y says as I come out that number four lift's closed up, and the men on it are behind the fire." " Where's W e i r ? "

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off my belt and lights i t . It glows like, a fire-bug, and lights up the car and a square patch of roof above us. W e have gone 500 yards, perhaps, when the fire sends out a messenger to meet us. It comes i n a cloud of dust, an oppressive concussion, and the car goes on clanging through choking air. I looks at the halo of coal particles around my lamp, " Not a bad one," says Daggert, through the noise and dirt.

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The car stops, too, about this time, and jerks back and forth as i f asking a question. That's the engineer's way of asking i f we are still in it and alive, and I reaches up and bells him that we are, and on we goes again. It's a mad rush through the dark, with more noises than we can 'hear at once; and lights appears ahead when we go around a curve. Daggert cries, " Stop! " " D a g g e r t ? " some one asks. It's Weir, the foreman. " Don't go any farther. The damp's driven us back to here." " H o w far ahead is number four lift ? " Daggert asks, climbing out. " T w o hundred yards. The fire's in num ber seven breast, under a gob. Everything inside of us is choked u p . " " B u r n i n g much ? " " Y e s . Wet your handkerchief and tie it over your face, and come in the counter. You can see it through an old wall that's blown o u t . " W e i r ' s the only one in Alama Gorda that tells Daggert what to do. We waits there as quiet as the mine itself, and watches their lights disappear. In about two minutes they comes back, coughing and choking. ' ' They can't be alive,'' Daggert says when he can speak. " I think they are. I've been following the air-currents since the explosion, and they are in good air. They are safe for four or five hours." Weir speaks with conviction. " Got a t r a c i n g ? " Weir pulls one out of his pocket, and un folds i t . I holds my lamp to show light on it and see for myself, too. " T h e r e , " Weir says, with his pencil showing where, as it moves around the labyrinth of workings, " is where she was lit, and the air is now mov i n g — " and the pencil seems to wander aim lessly over the cloth in showing the present course of the air. Daggert is a man of quick decision. " I must get nearer the fire and see for myself," he says. " Weir, you and Tom come with me. Y o u men stop here. W e ' l l ride in op posite lift four, enter the lift, and return as we go. If in five minutes after the rope stops it doesn't start back, one of you—you, Sandy —start outside for help, and you others start in for us. W e ' l l need h e l p . " And he climbs into the car. We wets our handkerchiefs while he is talking, big red bandanas, and ties them over our mouths and noses. This makes the damp less noxious. I gives the signal, after a preliminary cautionary one, and the car moves ahead. Well, I thinks, here's three

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men smothered, for I feels and tastes the stuff I ' m breathing, and i t ' s rank—takes you in the legs, sudden-like, when it gets y o u ; that's the acid and the oxide mixed, W e i r says—and after that we says nothing and breathes as little as we can. If we could have stopped breathing altogether, w e ' d a-been better off. Even our Davys blinks hard. Daggert coughs, and looks at us. No re treat in his eyes. So thinking my lungs as good as his, I fills them with the mixture that sieves through the wet bandana. A t the branch opposite number four lift I bells the engineer to stop. I also tells him with the wires that he's to hold the car there. W e could never get back alive now without i t . Number four opens on our right, a square block of black cut out of the coal. Daggert leads, holding his lamp waist high. I being in the rear, tries mine to see where it will burn the best; no difference, high or low, that I can see. Y o u ' d never believe the noise our feet be gins to make once we enters the lift. They throb, throb, throb in my ears as they goes along the road, and there's a clinking ring goes with their steps. I never feels my neck so big nor my heart so strong. I'm all pulse, but the worst is at my windpipe and temples. It doesn't beat; it clangs like an anvil under a hammer along w i t h my foot steps. Then along comes another noise to pound into my ears. I realize instantly that i t ' s the fire I hears. It's roaring and moan ing fit to make you tremble. Daggert stops, and holds his lamp up. He has heard it, too, and is t r y i n g for gas. And he finds i t . H i s light burns dim, and the gas " caps " the flame and fills the in side of the gauze with its blue blaze. What a compound we are breathing! A n d what a generator we are i n ! W h a t ain't one kind of gas is another kind, just as dangerous, and all kills i n , t h e i r own ways, given the chance. One is taking its t u r n now. The other kind—one of them—may take next turn, and w e ' l l be blowed out on the main road and into the car perhaps. There's the fire. W e comes on it while climbing up a heap of fallen rock, and sits down on top of the pile and looks at it in helpless wonder, too exhausted to stand up. A n d it continues to spoil what l i t t l e air reaches it, and passes the poorer article on to us. W e gasps there like fishes. It's right in the road at the entrance to abreast, which it clogs up effectually, as it does the heading. There's a pile of rock on it bigger than what's under us, and the " b l o w e r s "

TOM TAIL-ROPE'S feeding it roars loud and low, and stops, and roars again in a different key. Its flames a r e blue, and shoots up and dies down, but through the interstices the mass is incandes cent. It is no regular conflagration. It's a blast furnace underground, going slow on account of bad air, and its dull glow sheds an evil-looking glare on us. Daggert sits there ten seconds, trying the air, and then gives a nod. H e ' s seen enough. It's a retreat now. When I tries to move my legs, I finds that they're heavier than they was and don't be long to me. Leastwise I can't move them, but crawls down on my hands and drags them after me, the same as Daggert and W e i r ' s a-doing. A n d thus we goes down the lift called number four, w i t h the bells of eter nity ringing i n our ears and eternity itself looming up ahead, vast and incomprehensible. Blue stars shoots from its blue horizon to its

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blue zenith. Its blue is deep and unknown, and I fears to look upon i t . I dreads what it hides. I encounters something suspended in this heaven, and dimly recognizes Weir, prone. I crawls over him, and forgets all about him lying there. This same eternity is closing down upon him. He grasps my leg as I passes, and it closes down upon me. It crushes me into the dirt between the rails. Weir crawls over me. I grasps him. The sky and stars are crowding nearer. One shoots up from the horizon, and bursts over head with a crash, filling the heavens with flames. Its breath is hot, and licks down close to us. W e lie there i n the intense dark ness that succeeds, three suffocated, singed men, without motion. I hears a shout: " H u r r y up, boys; here they a r e . " " How do you feel, Tom ? " " Oh, first r a t e . "

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I looks around. I am just aware that I feels at a l l . Alama Gorda's sun is shining down on us, and we are surrounded by anx ious, inquiring faces. I tries to sit up, and finds that I do not feel so good as I thought. My head throbs, and every joint and muscle is sore. " Close call, T o m , " Daggert says. He's lying near me. His hands and neck are bound in cotton. A n d then I discovers that I'm tied up, too. " Where's W e i r ? " I asks. " Here." Sure enough; and they have him swaddled. " D i d she go off ? " ' " Just as we reached y o u , " Allen, the fireboss, answers. " We got there just in time. L u c k y you was down with the damp, or you'd all have been burned." He holds out his hands. " It barely touched us—scorched." I feels and smarts like a chicken getting his pin-feathers singed, but the excitement in the air sets me quivering. The women of Tularosa are there, and them that has their men safe are trying to comfort the few that has their husbands in the tunnel. " Boys," Daggert says, sitting up, " there's ten men in there as good as we a r e . " "Goodness alive, that's s o ! " I hollers, and stands right up. M y neck and hands smart, and my head rolls independent on my shoulders, but I comes up fast, and feels ready for anything. Weir struggles to his feet, and feels of his head. Being bald-headed, he has a couple of red spots on top that hurts, and one of the men steps up with a can of carron-oil, and pours a little on them and a good deal down his neck. " That's enough," he says, wiping it out of his whiskers. Daggert starts for the office, calling out the names of those he wants to see. Mine being one, I follows. There's a good deal of talking going on among the groups of men, women, and children, and the trammen stands on the trestle looking down at us with curiosity. What takes me, though, is the women. I never could stand to see them cry, and three of them is going on awful. " I t ' s a c a u t i o n , " Daggert says, on the office porch, same as he always does when he is worried or pleased. We all goes in and shuts the door, and the crowd outside moves up close, and looks in at the windows. They knows there is a de cision to be made for or against the impris oned men. Daggert starts out by saying that the fire

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will keep a large force busy several weeks to put it out, because all of the rock and coal must be loaded out to quench i t . Y o u see we has all got beyond the point, in our experience at Alama Corda, of t r y i n g to ex tinguish a mine fire like a house fire, by squirting water on i t . It simply won't do; no matter now why. That's a plain state ment. A n d what about the men in the mean while ? Daggert asks this, and looks us all in the eyes. That's a poser for him and for us, too, and the women outside waiting. ' ' There were ten men in there before the fire," he says, quiet like, " and there's ten men in there now. They may be dead— smothered—'but the chances are that they're alive. Before the sun sets they will be dead if something ain't done. W h a t ' s the best thing to do ? Is there anything we can do in time to save them ? " There's a deep silence. One, two, three minutes passes, and I shoves my hands in my coat pockets, and goes to the window and looks up across the hills above Alama Gorda Tunnel. There's a derrick standing there, outlined against the afternoon sky. " I t ' s a cau t i o n , " I thinks .to myself; and stops thinking right there. " D a g g e r t , " I says, turning around, and letting out each word slow and careful, and trying to keep the quiver out of my voice, " the bore-hole's on number four l i f t . " " B o r e - h o l e ? " he says, as i f i t hadn't given him enough trouble driving i t . " Yes, an eighteen-inch one for a pump column—to pump water up through from the new slope and Wilkinson's d i p . " " T o m ' s got i t , " W e i r shouts, jumping up. Daggert looks at us both, perplexed. " Tom's hit the only means at our command. He means to go down through the bore-hole and hoist the men up through i t , don't you, Tom ? " I nods. Daggert appears to be turning the idea over in his mind, and looks me hard i n the eyes, and me looking at him just as hard. Then he heaves a long breath, and says, " Come on ; w e ' l l t r y i t . " The derrick, built up there before the hole was driven and used to drive it, stands wait ing for us. Every one of us looks up at it as we passes out. Daggert and W e i r leads, talking earnestly; we follows; and the crowd watches us, wondering, and then starts after us. We finds everything as the drillers last left it, with the windlass, rone, and sheave they

TOM TAIL-ROPE'S had used for pulling the bit. These I i n spects carefully. Then I goes into the shed built under the derrick, and looks at the hole. It shows the projection of a huge iron pipe which had been driven through the soil to the rock strata as a casing. I holds my hand over this, and feels the air draw ing down. Daggert orders the rope reeved through the sheave at the top of the derrick,

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blackness closes around me. I hears a deep sigh from the crowd as I disappears. It's tight on all sides. Even the air I breathe seems cramped. I descends stead ily, and feels the smooth rock rubbing against my body. Down—down—down—slowly, a patch of light leading my sight and showing the bit-marks in the sandstone. I hears W e i r ' s words of command to the men at the

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choosing four men to man the crab. I rigs up a sling, and fastens it to the rope when it comes dangling down, and am more con fused by the scrutiny of the peoples than by the task before me. " I t ' s a little over 300 feet d o w n , " W e i r says in my ear; " 3 1 7 , exact, to the vein. I ' l l listen at the top. If you shout I can hear y o u . A r e you ready ? " "Yes." The sling hangs above the pipe. I runs my arms through it, and hangs full length, arms and legs free. M y lamp I hooks in my belt in front. " Lower a w a y , " I says, and my feet, body, head, enters the hole, and its

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crab. His voice comes to me muffled and hollow, but I understands what he says. This reassures me somewhat, for as I descends far ther into the hole a nervous feeling comes over me. I imagines all sorts of probable and improbable things; and then the dreads cease, and I feels my legs hanging free, and my body drops into the heading, and I stands on the gangway floor of number four lift, west, back of the fire. I draws a long breath—I am down. I looks up, and sees a small disk of daylight far above. That's the top of the hole. I slips my arms out of the sling, and unfastens my lamp from my belt. The dull, dead silence

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of the mine is about me. I peers around in the darkness, and sees nothing. I have walked past this exact spot before. Now, it seems, I have entered a strange mine. The air is good, with but a slight current. Yonder is the fire—I faces toward it. The men,, I reasons, will be away from i t . I turns and starts toward the faces of the breasteses. I follows the track, and notes every branch turning off from i t . I hears a sound ahead, and holds up my lamp. A mule team stands there, hooked to a trip of loaded cars, where the driver had left them when the explosion took place. They cocks their ears, and turns their heads as I walks past them and the cars. Here's panic, I thinks, picking up a whip and lamp dropped by the driver and his " patcher." And here's two that were not accounted for. " It's a c a u t i o n , " I says aloud, look ing around. " Where be they now ? " My eyes are getting used to the dark, and the rays from my Davy lights up more on that account, but I sees no indication of the men. So I keeps on up the heading. Once in a while I stops to listen, and when the hollow echoes of my own footsteps dies away, profound silence succeeds. A t the face of the gangway I takes a look around. The tools are lying just where the miners dropped them —two picks, a shovel, a twist-drill, and a powder cartridge. " He's been going to fire a h o l e , " I thinks, backing away from the paper sausage, " and when she went off, he just drops and runs. I wishes I knew which way, and I ' d run after h i m ; " and I does, unbeknowingly, for I starts straight back toward the fire, passes the cars and mules, and peeps up the bore hole once more. " I t ain't likely they're gone down the rock slope," I says, facing toward it and the electric hoist at the top. " T o o wet down there. I ' l l have a look at the fire first, any how, and then go through the breasteses." As near as I can reckon, it ain't more than 300 yards to number seven chamber. On my way there I comes to a wrecked door. " M y , she ripped it when she went off," I exclaims; " and some one's closed it again after it was blowed open." This appears strange. " Maybe " My mouth drops open, and I ' m rigid, lis tening. Some one is singing. I recognizes " Bethany." They starts out, more voices than one, on the second verse: " Though like the wanderer, D a y l i g h t a l l gone,

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A shiver runs down my back. I pulls the door open, and stands looking down at the group seated there, outlined against the livid fire further on. There's a shout, and then a scramble toward me. "Tom! T o m ! Bliss me, i t ' s Tom Tailr o p e , " Duggan, the foremost, cries in his Irish brogue. " I t ' s a first-class prayermeeting ye've interrupted, me b ' y . " " Du, d u , " Reese puffs, staring hard. The others crowds up close. " Y e ' v e come in time to save me from em barrassment," Duggan continues, jovially. " It was me next turn, and nary a hair did I know phat to say. Where did ye come from, Tom ? " " Down the bore-hole." " Down the bore-hole ? Bless me, but ye're famous. A n d do ye return by the same route ? " " After you have gone up ahead of i n ( . " " D o ye hear him, f e l l o w s ? " Duggan shouts, looking around. " H e ' s come down the bore-hole, and up it we g o ! W e l l , it's better than toastin' our shins at the fire beyant." " Is it true what you're sayin', Thomas ? " Wilkinson, the gangway-man, asks seriously. " Just as I says it, W i l k i n s o n , " I answers. " Come and see." They follows through the door and up the road to the bore-hole, where I stops by the dangling rope. " God bless you, l a d , " Wilkinson ejacu lates, grasping my hands. " I told them an hour sin' that nothing but the Almighty could save us, and asked them to prepare to meet Him. I've faced death before, but never till now looked him in the eye; and after biddin' my wife and bairns farewell and com mending them to H i s care, through His inter ference I ' l l see them again. W h o ' s first ? " " Y o u , " Duggan answers for us. " I ' m the oldest," he says simply. " Show me how, Thomas." I slips myself into the sling and out again, and then helps him adjust it across his broad shoulders. " Draw yessel in, W i l k i n s o n , " Duggan sug gests. " I t ' s the smallest shaft ye iver rode up. Hist away, Tom. How de ye start ? " I bears my weight on the slack rope. The signal is quickly answered by its t a k i n g W i l kinson up and out of our sight.

TOM TAIL-ROPE'S " D o ye moind that n o w , " says Duggan, standing under and looking up. " I never gave a Welsher credit for knowin' enough for that. There's Irish blood in Tom, Reese." " N o t a drop, not a d r o p , " Reese asserts stoutly. " Then he must be a b a r d , " with a broad grin. " I t ' s all right, Tom. I ' l l say no more against the Welsh, so help me. I've heard them sing and pray this night, and in me own foolish heart I wished I could. I wonder can I go up it ? " " Y o u ' r e the last but one, D u g g a n , " I answers. " I ' m l a s t . " " A l l r i g h t , " he says cheerfully. " A n d to-morrow Daggert and W e i r ' l l have us the other side of the fire, loadin' it out. H o w ' s the air over beyant, Tom ? " " B a d . It draws that way. We was in there a couple of hours a g o . " " What did I tell ye ? I heard ye, and says to mesel', ' N o t yet, Duggan; they're after y e . ' " " W e thought it was some of his foolishÂ ness, ' ' Reese says apologetically; ' ' maybe he was r i g h t . " " A v course, I was. Here, Reese, yer wind's bad. Hook him in, T o m . " Reese enters the sling, and as he disappears Duggan calls out a-laughing, " Good-by. Don't get stuck, moind, and kape us down here to smother. H e ' s a good old sowl, Tom. H i m an' Wilkinson's all that kep' us from goin' where we'd niver got out. I was for climbin' over the foire and bein' done wid it, but Reese says to wait, and I waited. Gildea, here, drops and runs, and foinds me an' Wilkinson an' Reese in the gangway, havi n ' a discusshion over our chances for escape or rescue, an' we come to the conclusion that there was nothin' for, art' everythin' against, us. L e t the b ' y go up next, Tom. His mom's waitin' for him above. Here, Gildea,

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and tell her we're all right. Up ye go like a swallow to its nest. A h , but i t ' s g r e a t ! " turning to me with a broad grin of approval when Gildea's hob-nails disappears. " It's a great day for Alama Gorda this, and a greater wan for ye, Tom. Whin we came to that conclusion, we s'arched the lift to find out how many had drawn the lucky number, and then marched in a procession to the foire. Wilkinson, ould experience, said there'd be no more explosions. There'd been three, two light wans after the first, which was to the quane's taste. Because, said he, the damp from the fire kapes the gas from that same. We made oursel's comfortable and waited; nary a hair do I know what for, but we waited. Faith, our frien's are workin' up there," grasping the rope as it comes clumpÂ ing down. " Listen to that now. They're cheerin'. H u r r y now, Bainbridge, so I can get up and cheer wid them. Look at h i m ; he takes to the rope like a sailor. A h , but i t ' s great! " A n d thus Duggan talks them all into the rope and up the bore-hole, and finally himself. " I ' l l be waitin' for ye above, T o m , " he then says, slipping the sling over his broad shoulders; and giving a parting kick at me with his feet, he too disappears. A muffled, unintelligible sound comes down from him, and then silence. That's all there is to it, except that after I got up the hole there was a great fuss made, the men and women crowding around me that close that I was glad when Daggert comes pushing through, actually smiling, and says, " C o m e , T o m ; W e i r and I are going inside again. If you're able, I'd like to have you come with u s . " He'd like to have me come, when he don't generally consider your feelings when he wants you to do anything or go anywhere; and I, feeling more used up by that than by the noise and cheering, follows him through the crowd.

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and in a week met the pack-ice at the sev enty-seventh parallel of latitude. Our first onslaught upon the frigid bulwarks with which the well-nigh impregnable Pole is sur rounded was not encouraging. We found no opening, but did soon discover that our bunkers were running low of coal, and so we steamed back to Norway for reinforce ments. Then north again, and soon we were once more struggling with the pack-ice. A week o f ramming, shoving, crowding, shiver ing through leads and openings, forcing them often where they did not exist, varied by fre quent fogs in which it was necessary to lie to because we could not see a ship's length ahead, brought us at last near the shores of Franz Josef Land. Happy indeed were we all when, on July 27th, we first beheld the glaciercapped mountains of this remote region. To our imaginations it presented itself as a para dise of opportunity. N e x t day, w i t h anxious hearts, we anchored at Cape F l o r a , which for three years had been the headquarters of the From Archangel we steamed northward Jackson-Harmsworth (English) expedition. through the White Sea to the A r c t i c Ocean, Here it was that Nansen and Jackson had

THE Wellman Polar Expedition of 1898-9 was characterized by one of the most remark able tragedies and one of the finest deeds of human cour age ever recorded. The hero who did this rare deed lives in the little town of Tromso, N o r w a y ; and it was at this far northern port that the mem bers of the expedition, four Americans and five Norwegians, assembled in June, 1898. On the 26th day of that month we sailed in the expedition steamer " F r i t h j o f , " a stanch ship specially built for hard work in heavy ice. A t Archangel, Russia, we took on board eighty-three draught dogs which Alexander Trontheim, of Tobolsk, had procured for us in sub-Arctic Siberia, among the Ostiaks, who live near the mouth of the River Ob. A two-thousand-mile journey across mountains, tundras, steppes, and rivers had the faithful Trontheim brought his pack, assisted by others and a caravan of reindeer.

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had their dramatic meeting two years before —a chance encounter which doubtless saved the lives of Nansen and his faithful comrade, Lieutenant Johansen. Here, too, we had hoped for another meeting. When last heard from, Andree's balloon was drifting in this direction from Spitzbergen, and as he knew of the existence at this point of a good house amply stocked with provisions, i t was not i m possible he had been able to make his way hither the previous autumn. Grievous was our disappointment when we saw the doors and windows of Jackson's house all boarded and barred, for we realized that thus ended all reasonable expectation that the brave Swedes were to be seen again among the living. F r o m Cape F l o r a we vainly endeavored to

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push our ship northward through a strait, and later tried to steam round the southeast ern islands where the Austro-Hungarian ship " Tegetthoff " was lost in 1874, and thus to the north. But finding the way everywhere blocked with heavy ice, we finally decided to establish our headquarters at Cape Teget thoff, H a l l Island, latitude 8 0 . 0 5 ; and there we set up our little hut, and landed our stores, equipment, and dogs. This was the last of July. In three days the ship sailed for Norway, and we were left alone for at least a year in the wilderness of ice. W e were the only human inhabitants of that vast region, and our nearest neighbors were Russians and Samoyedes in Nova Zembla, 500 miles to the southward. A month or two of working weather remained before the win-

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ter should come down upon us, and we lost no winter of 1895-6 in a little hut or cave. Our time in setting our column in motion. Two men at once set to work to establish a post. days after the ship left us, a party under the The first thing was to build a hut. F o r this command of the meteorologist, M r . E . B . Bald work they had better tools than Nansen and win, of the United States Weather Bureau, set his comrade, but no better materials—only out to establish an outpost farther north, the such as the country afforded. They gathered farther the better. They started with sledges, rocks and piled up the rough walls of a house. two small boats, dogs, and provisions, travers Two pieces of drift-wood, brought from Si ing a solid sheet of comparatively smooth ice berian rivers by current and tide, formed upon bay and strait. The outlook was prom the ridge-pole. The dried skins of walrus ising. But conditions often change with sur which were killed i n the bay served for a prising rapidity in the A r c t i c , and in less roof. A chimney was built at one side, and than forty-eight hours this party found the upon a hearth of flat rocks small bits of apparently sound dried drift-wood and safe ice a n d h u n k s of breaking up un w a l r u s blubber der their feet and were burned, not drifting rapidly for purposes of out to sea i n heating, but to strong off-shore boil the coffee and winds. They had soup and fry the to leap from one savory steaks of floating floe to polar bear. Tons another, now and of walrus meat then hurriedly were cut in small launching their squares out of small boats, only the huge car to pull them up casses of fifteen again as quickly of the sea-horses, as p o s s i b l e t o and stored away save them from in an ice-house being crushed in (good refrigera the ice. Nothing tor) for the sus but d e s p e r a t e , tenance of the even heroic, work forty dogs during enabled them to the long winter. escape with their A t o n of con lives and outfit densed food for and r e a c h the human use was solid land. Along accumulated WALTER WELLMAN. the shore, over here, most of it rough s t o n e s F r o m a p h o t o g r a p h hy L . S z a c i n s k i , t a k e n i n J u n e , 1898, before the designed for the departure o f the W e l l m a n E x p e d i t i o n . and precipitous sledging parties glacier-debris, now moving a part of their the next spring. W i t h blocks of snow and loads short distances by boat in open water, ice the men built huge walls around the hut, again taking to the ice-covered mountain side for a hazardous journey over fissures to afford some protection from the winter's and crevasses, they struggled for fully a storms, making the camp look very much in month. Then the on-coming winter and the deed like a fort ; and so they named it Fort broken, drifting ice which filled the channel McKinley. In getting our supplies our men had some before them compelled a halt for good. lively adventures hunting walrus i n the bay This was at Cape Heller, a little south of near F o r t M c K i n l e y . A s a rule the walrus the eighty-first parallel of latitude. Only is a harmless brute. H i s attentions to the hu once had human feet trod these shores, and man beings who invade his realm are usually that was a quarter of a century before, when confined to swimming about the boat for Payer, the discoverer of Franz Josef Land, half an hour or longer, alternately diving passed near by on a sledge trip. A few miles and coming to the surface again. When to the westward, on the other side of the ever his ugly head appears above the water, sound, Nansen and Johansen had spent the curiosity and good-nature are seen bulging

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from his little round eyes. He acts as i f this visitation of human beings, with their boat and oars and things, was a sort of circus got up for his special amusement. But wound a cow or calf, and you may have a different story to t e l l . That is what our men did one day. They shot a mother walrus that had a calf under her flippers, and they were- trying their best to secure the two carcasses before they should sink i n the bay. Suddenly they were surrounded by five or six b i g bulls, roaring and snorting in their anger at this

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with the oars, and sent the boat flying so that the enemy might not all be able to board at the same instant. Paul Bjoervig, who knows walrus as well as he knows his own children, told M r . Baldwin, who had the one gun in the party, when and where to shoot, that not an instant or a bullet might be wasted; and he, good shot, quick as a cat, emptied the chamber of his Winchester with telling effect. Bull after bull retreated with a ball in his eye, the only spot worth hitting in a walrus, for his skin is an armor-plate of

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murderous attack upon their tribe. One bull walrus, with his weight of from twelve hundred to fifteen hundred pounds, which he is able to throw half out of water, and with his huge tusks, a foot and a half in length, which may r i p the boat and capÂ size it, is a dangerous foe when you are out in a craft only fifteen feet long. But here were half a dozen, all ferociously angry, and all making for the one small boat in which our three men sat. The lives of those men depended upon the manner in which they met the onslaught. Fortunately they were experienced walrus-hunters, and not a man of them lost his nerve. Bernt Bentzen, he of the mighty shoulders, gave a few strokes

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gristle and blubber four inches in thickness. The bay was red with blood, the waters were lashed into foam, and the bellowing of the bulls filled the air with a horrid din. They came finally faster than M r . Baldwin could take care of them. Then Bernt and Paul rose up, each with an oar in his hands, and beat the beasts over the head. Every time one of the ugly snouts rose by the side of the boat, with the wicked tusks gleaming white, there was an oar to meet it, or perchance a leaden ball. F o r fully a quarter of an hour the battle raged, and then, to the great relief of our weary men, the enemy sudÂ denly withdrew, one by one, leaving two of their number floating lifeless upon the bay.

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summer for twenty years, and with the Wellman expedition of 1894 and other parties had earned reputation as a daring, faithful ice-pilot. Bentzen had already passed three years in the white north as a member of Dr. Nansen's crew on the " F r a m . " On the last day of October, M r . Baldwin and his three men arrived at headquarters, and the seven of us settled down for the winter in a little canvas-covered, decagonal house about fifteen feet i n diameter. Our beds were reindeer-skin sleeping-bags spread out upon the floor. Our dining table was the top of a biscuit box, and our dishes a plate and mug for each man. Plenty of good food we had, including American flapjacks and oatmeal every morning, and fresh bear-meat in stews or steaks every evening. Finally the darkness came on and many storms and the great cold. For 126 days and nights the sun was below the horizon. Throughout December it was just possible to distinguish midday from mid night. Our hut was drifted over with snow. Seen from the outside, there were just two things about it which indicated a human habitation—a diminutive black stove-pipe protruding from the apex of the rounded,snow-heaped roof, and a black, y a w n i n g hole in " the front y a r d . " Through this hole we crawled like foxes to their burrow, in order to m a k e o u r w a y through two sheds, or storehouses, and f o u r d o o r s t o the living-room within. How cheery were the sparks flying from that bit of a stove pipe through the long night ! A n d right comfortable were we in our lair, though at times the tiny stove in the center of it A ROUGH HUMAN FIGURE EMERGED FROM THE MOUTH OF A T U N had to struggle NEL LEADING. DOWN INTO THE, SNOW-BANK." against a zero tem-

Late in October, pursuant to his instruc tions, M r . Baldwin prepared to return to Harmsworth House, our headquarters at Cape Tegetthoff. He called for two volunteers to remain at the outpost during the winter to care for the dogs and guard the stores and equipment. A l l the men offered themselves. Paul Bjoervig and Bernt Bentzen were chosen, whereat Emil and Olaf Ellefsen and Daniel Johansen were grievously disappointed. A s for Bjoervig and Bentzen, they were de lighted. Neighbors and comrades at home, adventurous spirits both, this chance of spend ing an A r c t i c winter together in a snug little hut, well stocked with things to eat and plenty of tobacco to smoke, was to them the realiza tion of a dream. Nor was their ardor the out growth of any callow inexperience. Bjoer vig had been in the A r c t i c almost every

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perature at the outer edges of the apart ment. The much-dreaded A r c t i c night passed quickly. If any one suffered in spirits, he managed to conceal his misfortune. There was plenty to do. W e had both work and sport. Many bears fell before our rifles. In the bright moonlight it was fine to strap on a pair of ski and take a run over the crisp snow or coast down the glaciers on the moun tain slopes near by. The scientific work demanded attention—meteorology, observa tions in magnetism, studies of the brilliant aurora borealis. There was the housekeep ing to be attended to, and the dogs to look

after. Above a l l , the sledge journeys were to be prepared for. To make ready for a sledge t r i p seems a, simple thing, but it is like organizing an army corps for campaigns far from base in an enemy's country. Day or night the leader of the expedition had but one thought, one dream, and that was to arrange the count less details for the field work with the fewest possible mistakes and the greatest possible number of things that made for strength and security. A thousand pictu resque or interesting incidents of this win ter in the darkness were almost forgotten in the concentration of mind and effort upon

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the arrangements for the sleigh trips. One journey was to be made to F o r t McKinley and beyond, straight northward, as far as we could go before diminution of supplies and advancing summer commanded return. This was " the dash for the North P o l e " which formed one part of our general expedition ary plan. The other journey, subsequently successfully carried out, compassed the sec ond part of our general plan, which was to explore the then unknown eastern part of the Franz Josef Land archipelago. Acutely did we realize that, i f we were to beat all records in our approach to the Pole and have our chance actually to reach it in case we found unusually favorable conditions, we must get up right early in the A r c t i c morning. The records of the past had been established by trips from bases much farther north. Thus Lockwood and Brainard, of the Greely party, who had carried the stars and stripes to 83.24, had set out from head quarters at 81.40. D r . Nansen and Lieu tenant Johansen, who had reached 86.14, had started from the ' ' Fram " at 84.04. To eclipse the latter achievement, we should have to travel 440 miles. But this much at least we all believed we should do, barring acci dent, i f only we could get an early start. Consequently, on the morning of February 18th, while I was standing i n the hut for a last flash-light photograph, one of my Nor wegians stuck his head i n at the door and called out : " Everything is ready, s i r . " " And so am I . " Saying good-by to my American comrades, not quite sure that I should ever see them again, I went out, and took my place at the head of the little caravan. Each of the three Norwegians had a sledge and team of dogs in charge. A snowstorm was raging, but we were ready to start, and could not stop for a little storm. I led the way, " tracking " for the dogs as best I could in the semidarkness and snow-laden air. The sun had not yet risen, but in the middle of the day was near enough to the horizon to give us a gray, hazy dawn-light. The snow was soft, and we sank into it to the ankles and often to the knees. Underneath there were fre quent ridges and protuberances of rough ice to trip the weary feet. A strange experience it was, this stumbling along like drunken men in the gloom, unable much of the time to see far enough ahead to make course by land mark, and compelled, therefore, to pick our way with compass constantly in hand. Where it was smooth enough we used Norwegian ski with advantage, but in the rougher spots

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snowshoes were of no avail. Upon our feet we had finsko, or moccasins of reindeer skin; and though these are the best of all foot wear for A r c t i c use, their soles are so slip pery that, traveling such a road as ours, one was lucky if he did not fall sprawling oftener than once in ten minutes. Still, we made progress. A n d though we had set out in the midst of the A r c t i c winter, fully a month earlier than the earliest sledging start hith erto made in high latitudes (that of D r . Nan sen from t h e ' ' F r a m " ) , and though we had all sorts of weather, from blinding snowstorms to drifting blizzards, the sun finally showed his smiling face above the horizon, the hours of light lengthened, and we struggled pa tiently on. F o r t M c K i n l e y was our first goal. There we were to take on more sledges and dogs, and increase our load of provisions. How had our men there passed the winter of their exile ? Was all well with them ? These were important questions, for upon the dogs and stores at the outpost we depended for an increase of our sledging strength in the race against time and distance to the North. The plan was to send Bjoervig and Bentzen back to headquarters, and i n the early days of March to set out with four teams and sledges, and my present party, toward the Pole. Bjoervig and Bentzen had been promised that we would raise their siege in February, and eager were we a l l to keep our word. The storms delayed us, and at one or two camps the wind blew so hard that pitching our tent was out of the question, and we had to be content with pegging down its corners and crawling under—any place to escape the fury of the icy blasts. When better weather came, we made hard marches, and on the afternoon of the 27th we had the satisfaction of seeing the ridge behind the F o r t loom up in the white distance. Soon the dogs at the F o r t set up a shout of welcome to their approaching brethren, and the latter, just to show what they could do when they had a personal object i n view, started off at a rapid run, dragging sledges, men, and a l l after them, although hitherto they had crawled at a snail's pace and had made progress at a l l only when,helped by their drivers. A t the foot of the hill the men stopped and held the excited teams, that I might walk on before and be the first to greet the two exiles. But aside from an overturned boat, half-buried in the snow, a collection of empty biscuit and provision tins, and a group of dogs chained to the top of a

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bank of ice, I could see nothing whatever ing. The mother dog licked B j o e r v i g ' s hand, indicating a human habitation. and growled at me. N o w we went down " T h e hut is just before you, sir, r i g h t be upon our hands and knees, and crawled through an opening i n the rock wall of the hind the d o g s , " said E m i l Ellefsen. There is not an atom of superstition in my hut. A bearskin was hung there for a door. mental composition. I never had a presenti Once inside, I tried to stand erect, and ment or anything of that sort. But it is the bumped my head against the ice with which plain t r u t h that, as I picked my way up the the ceiling was covered. It was so dark i n there I could see nothing, and rough snow-bank and through an Bjoervig led me to a seat, array of shaggy dogs a l l howl N O R T H POLE ing and leaping and straining at "Sit down, sir, sit down and their leashes, I knew something rest yourself, and I ' l l have the had gone wrong at the hut. coffee ready i n a moment." A t one side of the hut, in a That instant a rough human niche in the rocky wall, a bit of figure emerged from the mouth fire was smoldering. Bjoervig of a tunnel leading down into the put on a few pieces of dried drift snow-bank. The man held a rifle wood and a big hunk in his hand. H e was of walrus blubber, dressed in furs. H i s and the flames burst face was as black as out. V e r y cheerful a stoker's. and bright the fire " B j o e r v i g , how looked, but not a par are you ? ' ' ticle of heat did we " I am well, sir, get from i t . What but—but poor Bentwas not used in boil zen is d e a d . " ing the coffee went We stood silent up the c h i m n e y . for a moment, hands Three feet from the grasped, and looking flames the rocks were into one another's white with a thick eyes. A tear t r i c k l e d coat of frost, and all down upon Bjoer the walls and the roof v i g ' s black cheek and glittered like a bed froze there. Then of diamonds. It was his countrymen came a strange little den, up, and when he told and to me it seemed them the news, colder than out of these simple-hearted doors. The brilliant fellows were as dumb fire was but mockery. as I had been. It F a i r l y well illumined was B j o e r v i g who did was the end of the the t a l k i n g . We hut where we sat, only l i s t e n e d and but beyond was a watched him, being but dimly conscious M A P S H O W I N G T H E R O U T E O P T H E W E L L M A N E X P E gloomy recess from which the light of D I T I O N O F 1898-99, F R O M T R O M S O , N O R W A Y , TO of the true nature the flames was cut FRANZ JOSEF LAND A N D RETURN. of the tragedy within off by a pier of rocks the shadow of which we stood. B j o e r v i g talked and laughed and which served as a support for the roof. cried by turns. But he did not forget his There was no window. hospitality. " C o m e i n , sir, come i n and Bjoervig told me about Bentzen. The poor have some hot coffee. Y o u must be tired fellow had been taken i l l early in November. from your j o u r n e y . " A l l through that month and December he had He dived down into the mouth of the tun been unable to get out of the house, and Occa nel, pulling me after him. F i r s t we entered most of the time he lay in his bag. a little cavern where a mother dog lay nurs sionally he was delirious. Death came the ing a hairy, squeaking brood. Hardy puppies day after New Y e a r ' s . Paul paused, and for these, opening their eyes and gulping milk i n lack of something else to say I asked him a temperature seventy degrees below freez- where he had buried the body.

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" ' I have not buried him, s i r , " was the re ply. " H e lies i n t h e r e , " pointing to the dark end of the hut. " W h y did you not bury him, Paul ? " " Because, sir, I promised him I w o u l d n ' t . " I shall never forget that moment. A t first the words did not appear to me to mean very much—only that a dead man had not been buried. Gradually the full proportions of the tragedy dawned upon my conscious ness. This man with the black face who was cutting up walrus meat and feeding the fire had been compelled to pass two months of the A r c t i c night in this cavern with no other companion than the body of his friend. I lit a little oil-lamp—a bicycle lamp it was— and made my way into the dark end of the hut. On the floor at my feet lay a one-man sleeping-bag, empty, with a blanket tumbled over it, and showing signs of occupancy the night before. Just beyond, within arm's reach, lay a similar bag. This one was occupied. The flap at the top had been pulled carefully over the face of the sleeper within. B a g and contents were frozen as hard as a rock. There, side by side, the quick and the dead had slept for eight weeks. A s I looked at this weird scene amid the shadows under the scintillating roof of hoar frost, and thought of the long days that were as nights and the long nights that were no darker than the days, and of the ordeal it is for any one of us when compelled at home to sit even for a single night with com panions in a brilliantly lighted apartment by the side of a dead friend, and of this living man who had for months lain there abso lutely alone by the dead, I marveled that Paul Bjoervig was still sane. Just then the men came in from giving the dogs their supper, and I heard Bjoervig talk ing to them. He had not known what was the matter with Bentzen. In his delirium the sick man had talked of his home and wife in Norway, of the green hills there, of D r . Nansen and Captain Sverdrup and the cruise of the " F r a m " ; at times he was once more in the ward-room of that famous ship ; again he was after bear or walrus with Bjoervig and the boys i n our little Lapp boat ; now he was on a sledge trip to the Pole ' ' with Mr. Wellman." ' ' That was the hardest of all for m e , " said Bjoervig, " when poor Bentzen was out of his head and I couldn't do anything for him. Once he caught me crying, though I tried not to let him see, and he brightened up and s a i d : ' P a u l , what's the matter w i t h you? I ' m all r i g h t . I ' l l be well in a week

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or two. See what an appetite I have.' And he got up and boiled some coffee and cooked some bacon, and sat here eating and laugh ing, just to cheer me up, and then he fell over in a faint. I dragged him to his bag, and—and he's there y e t . " ' ' A n d how did you happen to promise him not to bury him ? ' ' " Oh, he was low-spirited one day, and he called to me. ' Say, Paul, I ' m not going to die up here, but i f I do, old fellow, promise me you won't try to bury me out in the snow.' ' I'll promise you that on one condition, Bernt,' said I, ' and that is that, i n case I die first, and my chances are just as good as yours, y o u ' l l not bury m e , either.' Bernt smilingly agreed, and so we made our bargain. He was silent for a few minutes, and then he looked over at me and said : ' Paul, I don't want the bears and foxes to get me.' " ' ' A n d what could induce you to go through such an experience again, P a u l ? " asked Olaf. " W e l l , i f i t ' s money you're talking about, there isn't enough in the Bank of England. But i f I had to do it over as a matter of duty, why, I ' d just do i t , that's a l l . " My heart went out to this brave fellow who had kept his promise through such an unpre cedented ordeal. I felt as i f it were my duty to say something to him, to give some ex pression to the homage that was deep i n my soul. B u t I could not put my thoughts into words, and so I took his hand in mine there before his comrades, and said nothing. A n d one after another we all shook his hand, with out speaking, and we felt rather queer, and the silence was becoming painful, when Bjoervig himself spoke up : " The coffee is ready, s i r . " A f t e r supper we brought i n our sleepingbags and spread them on the floor, crawled in, and were soon asleep. D u r i n g the night I chanced to get awake, and looking out of the corner of the bag I saw B j o e r v i g sitting by the niche in the wall, now and then put t i n g a piece of blubber on the fire, smoking his l i t t l e pipe, and his eyes fixed on the flames. H e did not sleep any that night, and the next night I gave him morphine. N e x t day we found a spot by the side of a b i g rock where the wind had scooped out a pocket. In it we laid the body of Bernt Bentzen. We built a cairn of rocks over it, t a k i n g care to make the wall t h i c k and heavy. A s I took my place at the head of the grave to speak a few words of tribute to the bravery and faithfulness of the dead man, who had met his fate and was now to

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find eternal rest i n the A r c t i c which he so well loved, the men stood round w i t h bared heads and two or three of our dogs nestled against the black grave set i n the all-white landscape. The mercury fell to forty-four below zero that day, and a strong wind was blowing from off the mountain. The weather was too bitter to work outdoors, and so we kept i n shelter. M i s s i n g Bjoervig and feel i n g a little anxious about him, I went out to the grave, and found him there, hard at w o r k . H e had put up a neat cross and marked i t , " B . Bentzen—Dod 2 / 1 , ' 9 9 . " F o r hours he kept at his self-appointed task, patiently chinking up a l l the little interstices between the rocks which covered the grave, " Because I want to make sure the bears and foxes d o n ' t get h i m , " he said. Though only a sailorman, Paul Bjoervig has a great love for poetry. There are few good bits of verse i n the Scandinavian lan guages w i t h which he is not familiar. He has an extraordinary memory, too, and he told us that i n his long v i g i l through those two dark and dreadful months he had calmed and comforted himself by r e c i t i n g aloud, over and over, a l l the poetry he could remember. He did not admit, but nevertheless we a l l be lieved, that but for this solace of poesy, this vent for an overwrought consciousness, we should have found upon our arrival at F o r t M c K i n l e y one dead man and one mad one. W e took Paul w i t h us when, on M a r c h 7th, we set out on our northern sledge journey. It was a hard life, this sledge-traveling in the far n o r t h . F o r eleven successive days we had continuous temperatures ranging from forty to forty-eight below zero. The winds were worse than the cold. One needs all his vitality, a l l his endurance and resolution, to work w i t h might and main in the rough ice throughout the day and then sleep at night i n a frost-filled bag, which in an hour or two becomes puddly and soggy from the thawing produced by the heat of the body. B u t for myself, I felt better day by day, hardier, bet ter able to cope w i t h the work and the ex posure. It was glorious thus to feel one's strength, to fear nothing in the way of hard ship or exertion, to carry a consciousness of superiority to a l l the obstacles which nature had placed i n our path. I was never happier than i n these hard days. March 20th had come, and we were neari n g the eighty-second parallel on the east coast of Crown Prince Rudolph L a n d . From this on we should have plenty of light, and everything was going w e l l . We had made the expected rate of travel. Our loads were

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getting lighter and more easily handled. The dogs were better trained and much more ser viceable than at the beginning of the journey. Better s t i l l , ahead of us, glistening i n the sun, we could plainly see the outlines of islands hitherto unexplored and unknown. Eager in deed were we to get to them, and beyond them out upon the great A r c t i c Sea, to 84°, 87°, 88°,—and even ninety did not seem wholly impossible i n case we were willing to take a little risk about ever getting back again. But pride goeth before a f a l l . On this very morning which marked the end of the A r c t i c night and the dawn of the brighter day, a little accident happened. It was a trivial thing i n itself, tremendous i n its conse quences. M y sledge, c a r r y i n g 500 pounds of weight, had stuck i n a rough place. A s usual, I called to the dogs and threw my weight into the harness. A lunge forward, and down into a little crack i n the ice—a tiny little crack such as we had crossed every day by the scores—went my right l e g . The momentum threw me forward upon my face, and my shin-bone received the full force of the thrust. A t first I thought the leg was broken i n two or three places, so great was the pain. F o r a few moments I felt faint. But when I had picked myself up and found that I had nothing worse than a bruise and sprain, I counted myself very lucky, and went on my way as contented as i f nothing had hap pened. N e x t morning of course I was sore and lame, and the prudent thing would have been to stop for a week or ten days and get all r i g h t again. But I kept going, the leg getting worse and worse, and I suppose I should have been rash enough to go so far that I never could have gotten back had not something else happened. Fortunately, this other thing did happen, and i t came down upon us like a thief i n the night, in the shape of an ice-pressure which acted just like an earthquake under our camp and destroyed sledges, dogs, stores, and instruments in the twinkling of an eye, and came within an ell of getting all of us. It is easy to fight. It is glorious to strug gle. The hardest thing i n the world to do is to surrender. B u t there was just one course left open for us, and that was a re treat to headquarters as speedily as possible. By heroic work, rapid progress was made; and though delayed by a three days' storm at F o r t M c K i n l e y , we arrived at Harmsworth House on A p r i l 9th, and to at least one of our party the little hovel seemed a palace. A f t e r a fortnight's rest, the Norwegians took to the field again, i n charge of M r . Bald-

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win, the meteorologist. Up to this time the eastward frontiers of the archipelago were unknown, and their extent was a moot ques tion among geographers. A s a result of M r . Baldwin's trip the map is complete. Upon the new lands found by my party in the ex treme north, upon those found by M r . Bald win in the east, and also upon a number of islands surveyed the following July in our steamer, we had the pleasure of placing the names of a few American scientists and public men who had in one way or another displayed a friendly interest in the expedi tion. Another important part of our work was the correction of the maps made by Payer and Jackson. The former had ex tended Wilczek Land much too far north, and was unaware of the separate existence of Whitney Island. Running far northward from Wilczek Land, Payer thought he saw an enormous glacier—Dove glacier—indicating

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a land of continental dimensions to the east ward. D r . Nansen had in part disproved this conjecture; we disproved i t wholly, and completed the map of that region with approximate accuracy. In the southwest, where Frederick Jackson thought he saw from a distance two islands, named Brady and Royal Societies, we found nine islands. From A p r i l 9th to July 27th was a long and dreary wait, especially for the man who was compelled to lie a l l the time upon the floor and who could get out-doors only when on rare good days he was carried out to bask in the sunshine while lying upon the roof of the storehouse. But everything save the universe itself comes to an end, and one bright, happy morning the good steamer " C a p e l l a , " chartered by my brother Arthur, steamed up to Harmsworth House. In a few hours we were aboard, reading letters from home, and on the way thither ourselves.

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E D I T O R ' S N O T E . — T h i s is the first of a very remarkable series of stories by Mr. Tighe Hopkins, presenting with verisimilitude and with sympathy, yet without sentimentality, some aspects of English prison life. While the stories are drawn from real life, they have all the dramatic and picturesque interest of the pure romance. They get at the human impulses—the good and the bad—the mastering desires, and the ideas of the men who spend years within prison walls, and depict a life that is full of thrilling incidents and of the most elemental types of human character. They also have that remarkable quality of presenting prison life from the point of view of prison officials, as well as of convicts. While they have the successive interest of being one and all about prison life, yet each story is complete in itself.

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London sounded the name of D r . Ashmole. A man so gifted, and so d a r i n g ; what would become of him ? In a week, half of what was known of him was in the newspapers, and the other half was the tabletalk of the clubs. H i m self invisible, he focussed the gaze of the town. N o one could get speech of him, and whispers returned upon the whisperer; for D r . Ashmole, in his cell in Newgate, was " a t h o m e " only to his solicitor. He had been committed for t r i a l , bail refused; and, in the quiet of the prison, he sat upon the croup of ugly expectation. H i s solicitor ex cepted, he was the only person in London who doubted that the jurv would acquit him.

He stood within the danger of the gallows; evading the gallows, he could not, i f con victed, escape a sentence of penal servitude; and conviction seemed to him a certainty. A t thirty-five years of age—successful, handsome, envied, and admired—he had sunk to this sordid pass. Acquitted even, what were his hereafter ? So fastidious and vain he was, he had already in resolve broken with his world, though there were women who, were he doubly and trebly dishonored, would have broken with theirs to have him to friend again. W i t h his solicitor he was cool, precise, and calculating; but his grati tude for the care with which his case was being elaborated was not unmingled with con tempt. The day came when the solicitor said the case was complete, and he need trouble his client no further; and Ashmole,

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left alone, dwelt for a time in the darkest places of the human spirit. The silence of the prison began to be ap palling. Ashmole had read of life in prison, but this did not tally with the books. He "knew that, as an unconvicted prisoner, he would not be associated with felons; that he would have no task to perform, and that, while restrained by the lock, his time would be principally his own. But was there no life around him ? He had read of a host of warders perpetually coming and g o i n g ; of the turning out of prisoners for inspection; of periods of exercise in crowded yards ; of summonses to chapel; of the ceaseless clash ing of doors; of the turning of keys in locks — a l l that monotonous, dull, unvaried bustle which is the outward life of prison. B u t here were no sights nor sounds like these. The only human footfall Ashmole-ever heard was that of the man who tended him, and this man's was the only human face he saw. It was upon inquiry of him that Ashmole learned how extraordinary was the situation he lay i n . He was the last prisoner in Newgate.

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tions of some intimacy. Alone with him in that uncanny solitude—the pair being iso lated utterly, locked and walled in within a few yards of the ceaseless marts of London —the old man felt a more human interest in his prisoner than he would have done in cir cumstances nearer to the normal. He did his j a i l e r ' s offices with a tact, and even with a kind of softness, hinted at this and that for dinner, rapped often to know i f Ashmole needed him, and made him understand that he was ready for a call at any hour.

It was September, and very sultry; he showed Ashmole how to keep his cell as cool as possible, and insisted on having him out for exercise three or four times in the day. There are two deep well-like yards in New gate, one of which, leading directly into the gallows-shed (a fact, however, which no pris oner would have cognizance of), is the usual place of exercise for prisoners under sen tence of death. Here, for the reason that the sun scarcely touched it, Catlin most often brought his prisoner; i n this also showing a kindly feeling, for the old fellow himself The Newgate of this date had passed out loved to bask i n the rays. Ashmole gave of the category of prisons; a place of exe him rarely a thought. cution, as i t is to-day, but otherwise no more Old Catlin had paced this yard with men than a horrid shell, teeming with horrid mem who would enter i t again only on their path ories. The old castle at Holloway, the j a i l to the scaffold, but who had gossiped with set apart for persons awaiting trial, was him of things cheerful or indifferent, had being patched anew, and the rest of it was even passed a joke. Ashmole, for whom no full to the gates; so Ashmole, rejected of doom had sounded, who had life's incalcula Holloway, went into the shades of Newgate, ble chances still to dally with, was dark, and one live prisoner among the ghosts of count fierce-eyed, and heavy-worded. Y e t , despite less dead ones. He and his warder were a few days' beard, black as his glossy hair, alone in Newgate. he kept a fine appearance. If the eyes were The warder was an old man, Catlin by a little too close set in the oval face, the name, enfeebled by years of exposure in the outline of the profile was almost perfect; quarries of a convict prison, and expecting and he was as graceful i n action as in form. without eagerness the pension which had be He wore the frock coat in which he had been come his due. The service, he told Ashmole, arrested, fastidiously buttoned. had taken too much out of h i m ; he was, His mind had begun to dwell almost inces moreover, a widower and childless, and when santly upon one fact, that Catlin and he were his release came he hardly knew where he alone in Newgate. Brooding over this, he should go. The prison was patrolled at night grew curious to know more of his surround by a second warder, who relieved Catlin at ings ; and one day he asked i f there were, no ten o'clock. Of this other man Ashmole saw other place of exercise than the sunless wellnothing. He had brought breakfast to him yard. Catlin, eager for the sun, took him on the morning after his a r r i v a l ; and A s h into a more open place, a square yard beyond mole, offended by his manner, had refused which could be seen one of the boundary to be served by him again. He told Catlin walls of the prison. F r o m this spot Ash he would wait for his first meal until ten, mole was able to estimate precisely the enor when the old man himself came on duty; and mous strength of N e w g a t e ; but he perceived, thereafter he saw the second warder once also, that its dimensions were by no means so and once only. great as he had supposed. He remembered The strange position they shared—a posi the wonderful escape of Jack Sheppard, and tion without parallel in Newgate's history— asked a question about i t ; but C a t l i n , reti brought Ashmole and his keeper into rela cent on all dangerous topics, said merely that

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Sheppard's dungeon had been destroyed years ago. The stillness that might be felt was as absolute here as i n every other spot within the p r i s o n ; and very strange i t was, under that golden sky, and so near to men, to hear no single sound. B u t to Ashmole the oppres sion of it was less than it had been; or rather, the silence of the empty prison had a new meaning for h i m . Suppose a thing should hap pen there—the hour well found ? W h a t voice would reach the w o r l d — w h i c h sent no voice into the prison ? A t first, he tried an argument of sophis t r y . A n old man, childless and poor, is of little use to society; and this old man had scarcely any zest of life, and would doubt less leave i t w i t h very scant regret. B u t he put that argument behind him, realizing that he cared no jot for C a t l i n ' s fate. He saw himself, past and to come, i n a flash. H i s brilliant, gross, and selfish life had reached on a sudden its worst and highest c r i s i s ; and in his extremity—for he never swerved from the conviction that the j u r y would condemn him—his mind accepted murder readily as the easiest way to freedom. W i t h the gal lows threatening him, the mere animal seek i n g escape became the monster, willing and eager to inflict the death it would avoid. He settled that point quite coolly with him self, and then considered only how best to do i t . Remembering his own strength, for his sensualism was merely of the fancy, and he was always finely nerved, he took a plea sure i n considering himself not too great a match for Catlin, who, i f a veteran, was a stout one. The old man had told him how he had throttled a convict who had attacked him with a p i c k a x . A skeptic i n word, Ashmole was a man who lived much i n his subjective self; who saw things that the eye is not aware of, and heard things spoken which do not enter by the ear. F o r good or evil, he had been guided a l l his life from a scene invisible, and at a crisis he waited always for the sign. Sometimes it was an instantaneous quicken ing of the eye; sometimes i t was a hand which impelled him this way or that. Turning his plan over in mind, his glance was caught by the shed i n the corner of the y a r d . H e had passed i t twenty times without observing i t . H i s mind fastened on it for a day. H e asked Catlin, knowing what his answer would be. Catlin lied consider a t e l y : it was a lumber shed, he replied. " Y o u are m i s t a k e n , ' ' said Ashmole. " The gallows is i n there; I have seen it p l a i n l y . " It was, i n effect, the shelter of boards

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which kept the gallows out of sight. In the well-yard on the other side, he had passed again and again—the voice not hav ing reached him yet—the door which sealed the shed. This vision of the gallows was his warning. While Catlin led his prisoner up the stairs that evening to the cell on the first landing, which he had fitted for him i n the afternoon as an ease from the heat below, Ashmole measured his distance step by step. Two feet from the landing, he caught the warder around the waist, and swung him down. Cat l i n fell with a crash, but not a groan escaped him. Ashmole peered down at him quietly. The lantern, not extinguished, was turned upon the face; and Ashmole waited t i l l the skin had whitened. Then he went down to the foot of the stairs, and bent over the body. " C o n c u s s i o n of the b r a i n , " he said. " The old man has had a bad f a l l . " Safe at last, it amused him that he could carry out his part of murderer with so l i t t l e feeling. Cat lin lay i n a heap, as i f he had pitched head long from the landing. H e was cold already. Ashmole stooped over him again, and took off his belt. To the steel chain suspended from it were attached the keys of Newgate. Then, with the keys i n one hand and the dead man's lantern i n the other, he stepped from the ward into the first yard. It struck seven from the great clock of St. P a u l ' s . D u r i n g fifteen days that intermittent voice of the cathedral clock had been the only sig nal which had reached him from the outer world. It had grown a torment to him (there are few pains i n prison equal to the striking of a clock at the quarter; fifteen minutes gone from the sentence which may be for l i f e ! ) ; but now, as he stood and listened to the beats, his heart throbbed wildly with a sense of j o y : the clock awoke him from the tomb, and called him to a new existence. It was a delicious n i g h t ; a star or two twinkling down upon the prison; and A s h mole, a few paces from the huddled heap at the stair's foot, was utterly content. H e had three hours of perfect safety, but his plan was to escape at eight, when the streets immediately around the prison would be quiet. Setting the lantern inside the door of the ward, he walked from the well-yard to the one he had but just quitted in Catlin's company. The drab-colored execution-shed looked immense i n the surrounding blackness; and the murderer crossed over to where i t stood, and examined it curiously. He could see that a wide shutter was let into it at one side, just beneath the sloping roof; and he

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F o r a moment he stood motionless as a statue, then began again to struggle madly with the door. He wrenched at the key as a panther at the bars of a cage, beat with his hands upon the door, and dashed himself against i t ; t i l l at last, witless under stress of horror, a scream broke from him which ended i n a w a i l , and he sank upon the floor in an agony of suffocation. H i s hour of freedom chimed from the cathedral, but he did not hear. The c r y with which hope, yield He surveyed his dress, which was neat ing the ghost, had fled from him, reverberated enough—nothing there to betray h i m ; and through the prison, and died unanswered. Had i t found response, and had the prison he thought how difficult i t must be for an es caping convict to fly i n the livery of prison. been forced at that moment, the murderer, A quarter to eight; freedom i n fifteen crouched against the door, would have seemed, minutes. He went leisurely back in the dark like Catlin, to be the victim of a crime; for to where he had left the lantern, threw the he lay just as Catlin lay, and in the same flame for an instant upon the huddle of white guise of death. The prostration which clothes on the mat, and set forth. He had succeeds to the paroxysm of terror had over barely twenty yards to go, and he was pretty taken h i m . H o w long he lay against the door, inert and sweating coldly, he did not clear as to the path. Here was a door which was locked; he re k n o w ; but his extremity of peril was such membered standing at it, while Catlin fumbled that instinct dared not slumber, and once with his keys, on the day that he was brought more he was bidden from within to take into Newgate. It yielded to the second key action of some sort.

imagined that this would be thrown open when a man was to be hanged, for the bene fit of the sheriff and the officers of the j a i l . He wondered how many men Catlin had helped to lead pinioned into the shed. The timbers of justice were invisible behind the shutter, and Ashmole turned from the shed and paced to and fro i n the yard, swinging the keys at the end of the chain. The quarter and the half struck from St. P a u l ' s ; i n t h i r t y minutes he would walk quietly out of Newgate.

that Ashmole tried, and he knew that he was now very near the prison gate. Unbutton ing his coat, he hid the lantern underneath it, allowing himself just a glimmer. One other short passage, and he stood i n the small square entrance-room, with the gate of Newgate facing him. He took his keys up softly, and crossed the room on tip toe. Footsteps were half audible in the Old Bailey, and Ashmole turned the lantern down until the light dwindled to a pencil-point. He selected a key at random, and as he thrust i t into the lock, i t gave to his hand. He held it there a moment with a pricking pulse, re volving his future as they say a drowning man revolves his past; then drew i t towards him. Twice and three times he pulled, and at the fourth essay he put his strength into the t u g ; but the door held. G o o d : i t was double-locked; there was a second key to find. He felt above and beneath the central lock, until he touched a tiny hole an inch or two to the left. A tremor seized him, but he ran his hand again over the keys. There was no key upon the chain which would match that pigmy l o c k ; and with a gasp which milked the breath out of his lungs, Ashmole recoiled from the door, defeated. The first quickening sense of terror revealed a situa tion lost beyond retrieve. Behind him the murdered warder, and the gate of Newgate immovable in front. He had flung open for himself the shutters of the gallows.

He crawled from the entrance-room, trail ing the lantern w i t h him, and reaching the corridor he rose up feebly, and tried to nerve his w i l l again. H i s teeth were chattering, and from head to foot he trembled and shook with cold. H e had lost count of time; but he knew that i t was barely eight when he started from the ward, and he listened fear fully for the next admonition of the clock. It came, s t r i k i n g three-quarters. Three-quarters from what ? After eight— after nine ? H a d he more than an hour left, or but a single quarter ? He felt the approach of another of those transports of mad, uncon trollable fear, and dug his nails into his flesh to prevent himself from screaming again. The hour began to s t r i k e : One—two— three—O, the pause that followed Nine! Ashmole clung to the wall, his head fallen forward; gasping, choking. B u t the stroke of death—ten—was stayed; i t was but nine o ' c l o c k ; and with that certainty came back the exquisite rush of life. H e arose from out of the sepulcher. One whole hour was enough to reshape a universe. After that ecstasy of anguish, his strength of body was now indeed s m a l l ; but the hurri cane had swept the inmost places of his mind, and left i t clear. The night might yet be his. He found the warder's room, and searched it desperately; but the master-key, i f it lay there, refused the l i g h t . H a d i t , perchance, detached itself from the rest i n some way

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when Catlin f e l l ? Ashmole's heart was not so high now that he could think without a shudder of the spot where he had let out life and let the ghostly i n , but he did not dare to spare himself that final scrutiny. W i t h the lantern i n his hand, he set out to r e t u r n to the w a r d . The black prison seemed more than ever dream-like i n its stillness; his footfall frightened him, and he crept stealthily along the wall. He began to face himself with the thought that complete escape was now at best a pros pect quite equivocal. F a i l i n g to accomplish flight, did any way remain of screening him self from complicity i n Catlin's murder ? Y e s ! Y e s ! The voice that had lured him to the act awoke again, whispering him he need not die for Catlin. Escape from that doom—why, what simpler ? Ashmole car ried upon him no mark of murder; his hands were bloodless, his clothes were whole. This was the first point. The second was, that his cell on the upper landing stood open; and there was no key i n the door; it would lock i f he closed it sharply behind him. H e had but to enter, fasten himself i n , un dress and go to b e d ; he could be released only from without. The t h i r d point, which was not less i n his favor, was that Catlin when discovered would present the appear ance of having fallen from the head of the stairs. L o c k e d i n his cell, nothing but sur mise could connect Ashmole w i t h the deed: suspicion there might be, proof there could be none. A n d now, for the last time, to the quest of the master-key. Since nine he had lost but a quarter of an hour. The ward opened from one end of the long well-yard, and Ashmole quaked and his feet were heavy as lie passed into the yard again. H e remembered how coolly he had looked upon his work two hours before. But for the instinct of preservation which goaded him, he would still have .hung back. He crept on, f o r c i n g himself to think only how the minutes were running out, and that sal vation lay i n a l i t t l e key, which might be hidden just inside the w a r d . H e got quite close to the door, an uncertain sense of dan ger to come impeding him and yet thrusting him onward; and then, at a pace or two from the threshold, he was caught, as it were, by the feet and stood stock s t i l l . The sound issued from the ward. It was so faint that i t dissolved almost before i t reached his ear, but i t was human. The murderer i n Ashmole whispered him of noth i n g but the key, the key which must be almost within reach, the key which would pass him

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in an instant into the street; but the man in him, newly quickened by suffering, gathered the cry into his wretched heart. He went forward, and held the light up at the door. Catlin lay there, but not quite as Ashmole had abandoned him. He had come back to some feeble pulse of life, but his eyes were closed, and his face ashen and cold. With the seconds of his own life rushing past, Ashmole stood beside his v i c t i m , t i l l what was better in him gained the mastery, and pity for the other rose above his own pas sionate longing to escape. W i t h this, his surgeon's science, the desire to win back the life he had so nearly ended, took sudden pos session of him. He thrust his hand into the warder's tunic, and distinguished an infini tesimal throbbing of the heart. Y e s , but that was not all his hand discovered. Just over the warder's heart lay the master-key, and Ashmole quivered as he touched i t . A n impulse to see and handle the passport to salvation overbore him, and he drew it out. It was the key beyond a doubt, and as he beheld it shining i n his hand, Ashmole felt all his finer purposes turning into water. There was still time for flight; he was sure that now at last he held the easy means; and Catlin scarcely l i v e d : the ward already smelled of death. Then once again his inner ear drew in the labor of the old man's heart, treading feebly to the infinite; and letting fall the key, he took the almost lifeless head upon his knees, and gazed into the face, over which the mask of death—so terrible, so beautiful—was even then beginning to be molded. It held him fascinated. He laid his hand gently again upon the heart; its beats responded fainter than before, and Ashmole felt his own heart ebbing with i t . What ransom would he pay could he be l y i n g there in Catlin's place! The key shone in the lantern's light where it had fallen at the murderer's foot, but he never looked at i t ; his eyes did not move from Catlin. A legion of black thoughts came about him—avengers of the spirit of a wasted life—and he sat quiet, stroking Catlin's face, and let the stings assail h i m . Less w i t h his lips than with his heart, he tried to pray for Catlin. The clock called him once and once again, but it sounded very far away; its summons could not be for him. In the warm night an infinite coldness came upon the w a r d ; and after the cold, the dark. Footsteps drew near, and the second warder, entering to relieve his friend, found a dead man sleeping on a dead man's knees.

VALUE PER ANNUM OF THE IMPORTS OF ENGLAND, FRANCE AND GERMANY FROM THEIR RESPECTIVE COLONIES . A F E W F A C T S A B O U T T H E C O L O N I E S O F T H E GREAT POWERS. BY ALLEYNE Author of "Tropical

A L T H O U G H the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland —referred to throughout this article as England, for the sake of brevity—is not the oldest of the colonial powers, being outclassed i n that re spect by Spain, France, H o l land, and Portugal, her colo nies are to-day by far the most important, both i n re gard to their extent and population, whilst the commerce of the British colonies is greater in volume than that of all the col onies of all other powers put together. If we include India, the colonies of E n g land cover an area of 9,000,000 square miles; and i f to this we add the area of British pro tectorates and spheres of influence, the total area subject to British rule is 11,000,000 square miles. The smaller area, that of the colonies and India alone, supports a popula tion of 367,000,000; the larger area about 420,000,000, or, roughly speaking, six times the population of the United States. A s a colonial power France comes next to E n g land, but at a great distance behind. The French colonies, including Algeria, Tunis, and all protectorates and spheres of influ ence, have an area of 3,500,000 square miles and a population of 53,000,000. N e x t comes Germany, whose colonies and protectorates have an area of 1,000,000 square miles and a population of 11,000,000. The Dutch col onies have an area of 800,000 square miles and a population of 33,000,000. 334

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pared with these, the colonies of the United States cover an area of 125,000 square miles, and have a population of 9,000,000. The details a r e : Hawaii Puerto Rico Philippines

Area. 6,640 square miles. 3,668 " 115,000 "

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A most interesting point i n connection with the colonies of the European powers is whether they are a source of profit or of loss to the sovereign state. This may be looked at i n two w a y s : first, whether they are di rectly a source of profit or loss, or, in other words, whether they pay revenue into the treasury of the sovereign state or are a cause of actual expense to the mother country; second, whether the home country succeeds in securing such a proportion of trade from her colonies as to amount to a real national advantage.

In regard to this point we may compare the colonies of England, France, and Ger many. The British colonies receive nothing from the imperial treasury and contribute nothing to i t . This does not, of course, im ply that under special circumstances, such as those created by the disastrous hurricane in the West Indies last year, no financial aid is given by England to her colonies, but merely that each colony raises i t s own rev enue without depending on England i n any way. Both Germany and France, however, pay out annually large sums of money for the administrative expenses of their colonies, A s com- scarcely any of which are self-supporting.

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VALUE PER ANNUM OF THE EXPORTS OF ENGLAND, FRANCE AND GERMANY TO THEIR RESPECTIVE COLONIES France pays yearly about $14,000,000, and her colonies goods to the value of $70,000,Germany about $5,000,000. It has been 000, her total imports being valued at about stated that, although England's colonies are $750,000,000. That is to say, she received not a source of direct expense to the mother less than one-tenth of her imports from her country, they are so indirectly, for it is the colonies. Germany received, i n 1896, i m possession of colonies which necessitates such ports from her colonies to the value of enormous expenditures for the British N a v y . $2,000,000, her total imports being worth $1,000,000,000. This is a mistaken That is, she received idea. E v e n i f E n g about one-five-hun land owned no colo dredth part of her nies, she would still imports from her have to keep her colonies. navy at its present strength, for two reaTurning now to ex sons—because it is ports, we find that in her first line of de 1897 England export fense, and because ed British and Irish prod her c a r r y i n g trade, uce to the total value of which forms about sixty $1,170,000,000, of which per cent, of the c a r r y i n g $400,000,000 worth went trade of the world, must to the British colonies— be protected. roughly, one-third of her total exports. In 1896, It is seen, then, that the value of exports of so far from colonies being French merchandise a source of direct rev amounted to $680,000,enue to the sovereign 000, of which $68,000,state, they are i n the case 000, or one-tenth, went of both France and Ger to the French colonies. many a source of great Germany exported, in expense. 1896, home merchandise But what of trade ? to the value of $700,000,Does not the possession 000, of which $2,000,000 of colonies imply a very worth, or one-three-hun important commercial COST OF COLONIES dred and fiftieth part, went development i n which P E R A N N U M to the German colonies. the m o t h e r country If we consider these reaps great profit? figures for a moment, we shall perceive sev Here again we w i l l compare France, Germany, eral curious facts. England exported to the and E n g l a n d . F i r s t , in regard to imports British colonies goods to a value six times as from colonies. In 1897, England imported great as that of the exports from France and from her colonies goods to the value of $470,- Germany to their respective colonies; and 000,000, her total imports from all countries, she also imported from her colonies six including her colonies, being valued at $2,- times more goods than France and Germany 250,000,000. In other words, she received put together imported from their colonies. more than one-fifth of her imports from her Now, both France and Germany strive to own colonies. In 1896, France imported from

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secure a monopoly of the trade of their own child in England's non-tropical colonies sends colonies by erecting formidable tariffs against annually to England about $23.18 worth of the goods'of other nations. England, on the goods, whilst each man, woman, and child in the tropical colonies other hand, throws sends only $0.66 open the trade of her worth. Similarly in colonies to the whole regard to exports of world, and any one British goods. Each can thus compete person i n the non with her for the t r o p i c a l colonies trade of her own pos consumes $12.32 sessions ; yet it is w o r t h of British seen that England se goods, whilst each cures an immense person in the tropi trade with her colo cal colonies con nies. This is not sumes only $0.71 because the colonies worth. In other are under the British words, taking im flag (since there is ports and exports to no preferential treat gether, it pays Eng ment of British goods land better that one in the British colo child should be born nies), but because in Canada than that she is highly efficient twenty-five children commercially. E n g should be born in land's commercial Ceylon. e f f i c i e n c y is w e l l shown by the follow L e t me put this in ing table: yet another way. England . . United States France . . . Germany . .

Population. Exports. 40,000,000 $1,170,000,000 70,000,000 1,210,000,000 39,000,000 680,000,000 53,000,000 700,000,000

Taking V i c t o r i a i n Australia as a t y p i c a l non-tropical colony, and comparing it with the aver age of twelve tropical colonies — B r i t i s h Guiana, Mauritius, Trinidad, Jamaica, Barbados, St. K i t t s - N e v i s , Antigua, Gre nada, St. L u c i a , St. Vincent, Montserrat, and Dominica— we get the following results, the figures being based on the average returns of ten years : V i c t o r i a , the non tropical colony, exports yearly per head of her pop ulation goods to the value of $70, whilst the tropical colonies export only $25.80 worth per head of their population.

Roughly speaking, England produces for export a little less than twice as much per head of her population as the United States, France, or Germany. But to return to colonies. Colonies may be divided into two great classes, tropical and non-tropical. The dif ference between tropical and non-tropical colonies from the commercial standpoint is most striking. During the five-year period, 1893-1897, England imported from her non-tropical colonies annu But the tropical colonies ally goods to the value of themselves vary very $230,000,000, and from TERRITORIAL AREA AND POPULATION greatly i n their produc her tropical colonies OF THE COLONIES OF SEVERAL NATIONS tive efficiency, as meas goods to the value of ured by their exports, $239,000,000. What this means will be seen some exporting as much as $45 per head, when it is remembered that the population of whilst others export only $13 per head, an the non-tropical colonies during the five nually. This wide difference is easily ex years was about 9,500,000, whilst that of the plained. The value of exports from these tropical colonies was 346,500,000. To put colonies is regulated by the efficiency of it i n another w a y : each man, woman, and their labor supply—a good labor supply

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means b i g exports, a poor labor supply small he does not work. Where there is a pres exports. In r e g a r d to their labor supply, we sure of population, things are different. Take can divide tropical colonies into three classes: Barbados as an example. There every inch 1. Those i n which imported contract labor is of soil is occupied. There are no forests in used. 2. Those i n which there is such a which the negro can build his hut, and no spare lands on which he can cul dense population that the natives must ei tivate his patch of corn or plan ther work or starve. 3. Those in which there tains. A n d there are about is no pressure of population and in which im 1,200 souls to the square mile. ported contract labor is Under these circumstances i t is not used. easy to understand that there is In order to compare the a moderately good labor supply. productive efficiency of Lastly, there are the col these three classes of colo onies employing imported nies, I select three of each contract labor. Their c l a s s : Mauritius, B r i t i s h high productive efficiency Guiana, and Trinidad, which is due to the presence of employ imported contract a large body of laborers l a b o r ; Barbados, A n t i g u a , who are under contract to V A L U E PER CAPITA O F T H E Y E A R L Y and Grenada, i n which work five days a week and there is a pressure of pop E X P O R T S O F B R I T I S H NONTROPI seven hours a day for five u l a t i o n ; and St. Vincent, C A L A N D T R O P I C A L C O L O N I E S years. Montserrat, and Dominica, T O T H E M O T H E R C O U N T R Y . I may close this article i n which there is no pres sure of population and in which there is no with a very brief description of the manner imported contract labor. If I take the av in which the system of imported contract erage value of the annual exports of these labor is worked i n the British colonies. I colonies during the ten-year period 1 8 8 2 - select British Guiana as an example. The 1891, I get the following results: The colo laborers are recruited in India by voluntary nies of the first class export yearly $45.51 enlistment. The agent of British Guiana worth of goods per head of their population; resides in Calcutta, and sends out recruiting the colonies of the second class, $26.40 agents who make known to the people the terms offered by the British Guiana w o r t h ; and the colonies of the third planters. Those men and women class, only $11.66 w o r t h . who express their willingness to go It is not difficult to understand why to the colony are called before a this should be so. In the colonies magistrate, and the terms of where there is no the contract are read over pressure of popu to them i n their own lan lation, there is no guage. If any wish to with need for the na draw at the last tives to work, for moment, they are they can supply a l l allowed to do so, their wants from and are then sent the bounty of na b a c k to t h e i r ture. The forest homes at the ex furnishes them pense of the B r i t with excellent ish Guiana gov material for a ernment. Those V A L U E P E R C A P I T A O F BRITISH PRODUCT house and food i n who sign the con C O N S U M E D Y E A R L Y BY H E R NON-TROPICAL abundance, whilst tract are then put A N D TROPICAL COLONIES . a little desultory on board a sailinglabor w i l l soon vessel for the voyage. E a c h vessel carrying establish a small garden which w i l l grow a few laborers is provided with a medical man, who bananas or plantains to be sold i n the near has to see that a l l the regulations in regard est town, thus supplying what little money to sanitation and food are observed during is necessary for clothing. Under these cir the passage. The laborers get the passage cumstances the ordinary dweller in the tropics free of cost, as also food and clothing. Those is content to live. H i s wants are few and who wish to carry young children w i t h them simple, and he can gratify them without the are allowed to do so. wages which the white man offers him. So

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On arrival in British Guiana, the laborers provision, 38,000 immigrants returned to In are allotted to the different estates. The dia during the past twenty-five years, carry terms of the contract are as follows: The ing with them money and jewelry to the value laborer contracts to reside on the estate and of about $2,800,000. The interests of the contract laborers are to work five days a week for seven hours a day for five years, at the end of which time under the care of a special department of he becomes absolutely free to go where he the government—the Immigration Depart A l l employees of this department pleases. The planter contracts to supply ment. each laborer with a well-built, well-venti must pass examinations in the native dia lated house, with a good water-supply. He lects of the immigrants. Inspectors from must also provide on his estate a hospital for this department visit the estates frequently, the use of sick laborers, and must employ a and examine the pay-lists in order to see if medical man to visit the estate at least once the laborers are getting their fair wages. every forty-eight hours and examine and pre These officers also hear and investigate any scribe for all laborers presenting themselves. complaints that may be made to them, and He must also build a school on his estate for if i t is necessary, they may issue all process the education of the children of the laborers. of law free to the laborers. A l l the above are provided free of cost to the The Immigration Department can always laborers. In addition to this, he must pay enforce any demands it may make, for if a each man not less than twenty-four cents a planter refuses to remedy any defect in his day and each arrangements, woman not less or declines to than sixteen perform any cents a day. act suggested AVhen it is reby the Immi membered gration Agent that the ordi General, that nary laborer official has the can buy all the power to re food he can eat fuse further for eight cents supplies of la PRODUCTIVE EFFICIENCY O F T H R E E C L A S S E S a day, the b o r e r s , and O F T R O P I C A L C O L O N I E S — P E R C A P I T A V A L U E may also take wages seem very fair. A s OF EXPORTS PER A N N U M . away from the a m a t t e r of estate what la fact, the laborers save considerable sums of borers it has. A s this would mean ruin to money, and frequently after their term of i n the planter, he cannot disregard the orders denture is over they set up small shops on the he gets from the Immigration Department. estates, and eventually in many cases become Should any planter be convicted of an offense prosperous citizens. It should be noted that against a laborer, the Immigration Depart the planters are not allowed to sell goods of any ment demands his dismissal from the estate, kind to their laborers, under a very heavy pen and warns a l l other estates that i f they em alty. In 1897, there were 4,444 East Indian ploy him they w i l l not be furnished with any depositors in the British Guiana Government more laborers. A s no punishment of any kind Savings Bank, with a total sum of $413,351 can be inflicted on a laborer except by the le to their credit. A t the end of the five years' gal authorities of the colony, it will be readily contract the laborer becomes free and can perceived that the lot of the indentured not be engaged under contract again, a pro laborer in B r i t i s h Guiana is not a hard one. vision intended to protect the immigrant from Of course there are systems of indentured any influence which might be brought to bear labor which, when not under proper govern on him to forgo his rights to entire freedom after his contract is out. If an immigrant ment supervision, give rise to great abuses, remains five years in the colony after his i n but this need not necessarily be so, and if denture expires, even though he does no work the United States finds i t expedient to sanc during that time, he becomes entitled to a tion the employment of imported contract free grant of land from the government. U n labor i n its new possessions, i t w i l l undoubt til quite recently, he was entitled to a passage edly establish the system on lines similar to back to India on paying one-half of the ac those adopted in the B r i t i s h colonies, which tual cost of transport. Under this latter insure strict government control and high protection for the interests of the laborers.

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hour after midnight a yawl, rigged with self, at the same time washing the face and a square sail and containing seven or soaking the shirt-front-of the smoker. The eight dark figures, moved slowly and silently latter neither moved nor spoke. He quietly out of the har tossed the bor of Bruns drenched c i wick, Georgia. garette over N o t a word his shoulder was spoken or into the water, scarcely a drew a gleam movement ing revolver made until one from his pock of the figures, et, and laid it leaning lazily across his against the knees ; after side of the which he took boat, w i t h his out a fresh c i knees drawn garette and up i n front, leisurely deliberately lighted it. lit a cigarette. The big man at The yellow his side again flame of the chuckled. match momen "What's tarily revealed the use of a young, re sneakin' out fined face, of the harbor touched with at midnight, daring and if you are fearlessness. goin' to run Then a l l was fireworks ?" dark again. demanded the " Heave that skipper, i n a young fool voice of impo overboard i f tent passion. he makes another break " When I bargained to haul like that, and pinch the you two fellows out o' this coal off that coffinfever-hole and land you safe tack ! ' ' angrily com and sound i n Savannah, I manded a coarse, sup thought you had some respect pressed voice from the for my rights. When every A C O U P L E O F STOUT SAILORS SEIZED tiller i n the stern. railroad train was tied up out HIM A N D QUICKLY ENCIRCLED HIS o' Brunswick, and you found WRISTS WITH A PAIR OP COLD IRONS." A heavy man that sat out that every cow-path into next to the ' ' young Savannah was shot-gun quarantined, you was f o o l , " and seemed not amenable to the skip glad enough to have me take y o u . " per's orders, merely chuckled. None of the others made any move either, while the young ' ' Y o u are getting your p r i c e , ' ' answered smoker calmly puffed away. Thereupon the the young man, in a low, musical voice, and skipper dipped up a quart cup of salt water one could have wagered, from the tone, that and deftly quenched the glowing coal him he was smiling. 330

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" M y price didn't cover g e t t i n ' hauled up with a shot across my bows from a revenoo cutter and landed in a pesthouse for ten days, for runnin' in fever refugees," growled the skipper. " N o t refugees, D a g g e t t , " said the other pleasantly. "Refugee implies haste and fright. We leave Brunswick at the command of our chief, quietly and decorously, in the ' Pedro N o . 2 . ' But that is a much more reasonable, a much more gentlemanly, protest than you made before, with that quart cup. If this cigarette jeopardizes our safety, or yours, I will forego the pleasure, though I am dead for a s m o k e . " " W e l l , it does," said Daggett, gruff but mollified. The next moment the cigarette disappeared in the dark water with a faint, instantaneous hiss. The boat crept along under the light night breeze, taking what is known as the ' ' inland" course, which lies between the low, marshy mainland on the left, and the long, narrow " s e a - i s l a n d s " on the right, beyond which lies the broad Atlantic. After about an hour it grew darker, the wind freshened, and a misty rain began to powder the boat and its occupants. The skipper, who seemed still in a savage mood, uttered a low, vehement curse at this turn of the weather, and then returned to his dogged silence. The thick ening gloom soon blotted out the low head lands by which he was steering; the wind continued to strengthen until the water was sharply slapping the yawl's broad sides; and in less than twenty minutes they were driving furiously along through pitchy blackness, their sail reduced to a mere ribbon. " A bottle of ink would be lucidity itself compared with this, M a r k l e y , " said the young fellow to the heavy man next to him. " I don't see how he steers," returned Markley, who had not chuckled for some time. " I don't do i t with my e y e s , " said Dag gett, with a touch of rough pride. For half an hour there was silence again, at the end of which time the waves, on which the boat was dancing like a nutshell, had perceptibly increased in violence. So much water was shipped that one man had to bail continuously. " I didn't suppose i t ever got as rough as this on these shallow sounds," observed the young passenger, as an extra heavy wave drenched him to the skin. " There's lots of things that some people never supposes," commented Daggett, un graciously.

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" Is i t often as rough ? " asked the other, significantly. " N o t o f t e n , " growled the skipper. " I s i t ever as r o u g h ? " he demanded, with distinct suspicion now. The skipper was silent a moment, and then he answered, with something like a grin in his tones: ' ' Seein' as you seem to know so much about i t , M r . Hutchinson, I don't mind tellin' you that i t ain't." " W h i c h means that we've been blown out to sea ? ' ' " W e a i n ' t been blowed in to l a n d . " A l l night long they tossed on the troubled bosom of the deep, wet and chilled. If a watery grave stared them i n the face, no one was unkind enough to speak of the fact. The wind fell about four o'clock, and when the day broke, bright and clear, they were surrounded by a hummocky desert of water, with no land i n sight. B u t less than five miles away lay a long white hull, glistening in the sunlight like a shaft of polished steel. A long t r a i l of smoke lay behind it. A l l eyes were turned in that direction, and then Dag gett ordered the sail hoisted again, that they might be more easily seen. " She'll see us soon enough, though, I guess," he grumbled. " F o r i f my eyes hain't as useless as two bungholes in one end of a b a r ' l , that's the revenoo cutter. Still I don't know what i n tar she's doin' out here, when she's supposed to be guardin' Savannah agen fever refugees. She sees us a l r e a d y , " he added. " S h e ' s puttin' about." " Revenue cutter or no revenue cutter," said Hutchinson, " not a word about Bruns wick, or back t h e y ' l l dump us into this mudscow. W e are working down the coast from Savannah, fishing. Remember t h a t . " " A likely enough yarn, t o o , " said Dag gett, with an ironical g r i n . " We got so much tackle with u s . " " W e threw i t overboard to lighten the b o a t , " retorted Hutchinson. A s the stranger bore swiftly and grace fully down upon them, i t soon became ap parent, i n spite of D a g g e t t ' s reference to his eyes, that she was not the revenue cut ter. She had the appearance, rather, of a private y a c h t ; and when she came to a stop within ten yards of them, this opinion was further strengthened by the trimness and completeness everywhere in evidence. After a short parley between Hutchinson and a uni formed officer who leaned over the polished brass r a i l — i n which Hutchinson accounted for their predicament so adroitly that Mark-

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ley winked at Daggett - p e r m i s s i o n was given them to come aboard. Hutchinson, the first man up, was barely over the rail when, to his amazement, a couple of stout sailors seized him and quickly encircled his wrists w i t h a pair of cold irons.

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breakfast, which I am in hopes they w i l l . M r . M a t e , ' ' turning to the officer with a hu morous grin, " i f it is not asking too much of a host, would you kindly explain the drift of these hospitalities ? " " I don't think they need much explana tion, ' ' answered the mate. " I f they do, the c a p t a i n w i l l make i t . " He led the way below at once, into a warm, richly fur nished saloon, the luxuriousness of which did more, ap p a r e n t l y , to awe D a g g e t t and h i s rough crew than the irons on their wrists, which they wore w i t h considerable equanimity, i f not familiarity. "Send the captain in, t h e n , " said Hut chinson, dropping into a comfortable chair. ' ' The captain is not up y e t , " quietly answered the mate, who was a grave man of forty or thereabouts. "Don't disturb him on our account then," said Hutchin son, with mock hu mility. " But after he has breakfasted — and smoked — I s h o u l d l i k e the favor of a short interview. That r e m i n d s me t h a t our cook on the yawl got up rather " ' M A Y B E Y O U A R E N O T M Y COUSIN, A F T E R A L L ? ' " late this morning, too, and he was just The rest of the party, as they ascended one skinning our quail when we received your by one, met w i t h a similar reception. F o r invitation to come aboard." " Y o u will be fed s h o r t l y , " said the mate, a moment even Hutchinson's presence of mind failed h i m ; then, catching sight of obstinately refusing to smile, though every Markley's woebegone face, he burst into body else was in a broad g r i n . A t breakfast the handcuffs were removed a ringing laugh. " C h e e r up, old m a n ! " he said. " O u r from the prisoners, and their office was taken throats are safe, I guess, unless they should up by five natty sailors, armed with carbines. attempt to choke us with a double-sized After the meal, which was ridiculously sump-

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tuous for prisoners and to which everybody did ample justice, especially Daggett's men, they returned to the saloon, where they re sumed their irons and were left alone. Hut chinson, who suspected that the arrest might not be entirely unjust, sharply questioned Daggett; but the old man most solemnly de clared that i t was a " cussed, high-handed, piratin' o u t r a g e " on innocent men. In about an hour the mate appeared again, and announced that the captain would see the leader, whoever he was. " T h a t ' s either you or I, D a g g e t t , " said Hutchinson, drolly. " You g o , " said Daggett, a little uneasily. " You got the gift o' gab in a higher degree than m e . " Hutchinson arose, and followed the mate out. In the main saloon, through which they passed, sat half a dozen stylish young women—society girls beyond a doubt—and as many young men. From their curious, expectant faces, they had evidently been awaiting the prisoner's appearance; and a little ripple of excitement swept over them at his gentlemanly and refined aspect. Hutchin son flushed momentarily at their unexpected

"HE D I S C O V E R E D , F U R T H E R , WELL

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presence; then, gaining possession of him self immediately, he passed them with an open, half-mischievous smile, looking them squarely in the eyes. One little woman in an exquisite yachting costume so far forgot herself as to give him back a coquettish glance. A t the captain's room, the mate threw open the polished walnut door, stood aside while Hutchinson entered, and then shut himself outside. A t a little roller-top desk sat a wellbuilt, fresh-faced, independent-looking young woman of probably twenty-two, with a most glorious head of dark auburn hair. Over her shirt-waist she wore a tight-fitting jacket of navy blue, of which material her skirt was also made. A cap denoting her rank i n gold letters lay on the top of the desk. F o r a moment she made a pretense of writing, though Hut chinson saw well enough that her steady blue eyes were slightly dilated with excitement.

" I beg your p a r d o n , " he began, " but I am looking for the captain. Or, rather, he is looking " " I am the captain,'' interrupted the young woman haughtily, as i f rebuking his easy manner. The tone nettled him. "Without attempt ing to hide the indignation that kindled in his eyes, he looked at her gravely and steadily, until she stirred uneasily in her chair, and, to hide her embarrassment, pressed back the hair from her brow with a hand very small and white. " What have you to say ? " she asked, forced at last to speak first. Her voice was considerably gentler. " N o t h i n g , " answered he, with dignity. " I am not in the habit of responding to such a contemptuous tone as you have just seen fit to use. If your excuse for i t was these," holding aloft his i r o n s , . " I would call your attention to the fact that they were put there un lawfully and by force, presumably at your o r d e r . " Her soft, beautiful eyes filled with surprise, and an added color that might have been the blood of shame crept into her cheeks. " I cannot discuss a point of etiquette with y o u , " she said politely, but with a proper reserve. " I don't ask t h a t , " he returned. " I merely insist on the courtesy IN FACT AS due me from a woman of your evi dent breeding."

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A g a i n she looked at him with curious, puz zled eyes. Her humiliation was so evident that he pressed the question no further. " Would you be kind enough to tell me what you intend to do with us ? " he asked. " I intend to deliver you to the police at Savannah," she said, without flinching. " On what charge ? " " D o n ' t you know ? " she asked, earnestly, looking w i t h something like pain into his clear, ingenuous eyes. Perhaps the depravity that she fancied lurked behind that innocent veil shocked her sensitive woman's nature. " N o more than the man in the m o o n , " he declared. She lifted a telegram from her desk. " T w o days ago, at Cumberland Island, a tender and some hunting and fishing traps were stolen from this yacht. This telegram is from the chief of police at Fernandina. ' Your boat and goods undoubtedly stolen by Seaweed Daggett and gang. They own sloop " Pedro " and yawl " Pedro N o . 2 . " Have gone back to Georgia waters, out of my jur isdiction. Run them down i f you can. If they resist, shoot them. Well-dressed young crook, stranger to us, offered some of your goods for sale here. Is probably with gang now.' " She folded the telegram, and looked at Hutchinson for an answer. After a moment's thought he asked quietly: " W h a t may I call y o u ? " " M y name is V i r g i n i a P o w e r s , " she an swered. A t the answer he started so perceptibly that she asked curiously: " I s there any thing strange about it ? " " N o , " said he; " b u t , Miss Powers, I should like to ask you i f I look like a ' welldressed young crook ' ? " He looked her so boldly and confidently in the eyes that she drew back a little with maidenly reserve as she answered: " Y o u don't look like a liar, either; yet you told my mate you left Savannah yesterday morning i n that yawl, when I know, by my own eyes, that it lay at Fernandina at eight o'clock yesterday m o r n i n g . " Hutchinson flushed, yet not exactly like a guilty man. A f t e r studying the carpet a moment—or possibly the toe of the fair captain's little tan shoe—he s a i d : " M i s s Powers, this is a strange coincidence. I know your uncle, Jonathan West. I have heard something of his unwillingness for you to go cruising around in a yacht, in this i n dependent manner. I am well acquainted with your cousin, Bartley Hutchinson. I worked with him on the ' San Francisco E x

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aminer.' I saw him off at the station when he came East, ostensibly to visit you. I, perhaps, am the only man who knew that he, from certain reports he had received, re garded you as a coquette; and that his in tention, in spite of your uncle's kind invita tion to come on to Newport, was to stop off at New,York, and secure a position on a paper there—which intention he carried out. He was almost immediately sent South to handle the yellow-fever epidemic at B r u n s w i c k . " Miss Powers at first flushed scarlet, but when he finished she was pale. "Believe m e , " said she, in a voice trembling with in dignation, ' ' that I was no party to my uncle's invitation to Bartley Hutchinson. A n d at the very hour when he was to arrive at our home in Newport I was a hundred miles away, i n this yacht. But I do not see how this concerns y o u , ' ' said she, catching her self. " However much I may admire M r . Hutchinson's bravery in exposing himself to fever, i f he would make public such a story as that, about his own cousin, I cannot im agine him a man who is very choice about his associates. I cannot see how this story clears you." " Only this—I am Bartley H u t c h i n s o n , " said he, laughing. " I t is i m p o s s i b l e ! " she exclaimed, stiffening. " No—simply strange," he said, enjoying her discomfiture. " Then why are you with this band of thieves—for thieves I am confident they are. And why—oh, why did you lie about Savan nah ? ' ' she asked reproachfully, blushing for him. " Before I tell you wouldn't it be a little more—cousinly, say, to remove these ? " he asked, holding up his manacled hands. She lifted a key from the desk, and in serted it in the lock of one of the bracelets. " B u t maybe you are not my cousin, after all? " said she, pausing prudently, but halfashamed of her doubts. " I should be sorry to think n o t , " said he; and she, flushing a little, set him free. Briefly, he told her that he and his fellowcorrespondent had been ordered home by their superiors, on the almost complete depopula tion of Brunswick by flight from the fever. He explained the necessity of leaving clan destinely, in order to escape detention at the first line of quarantine, and pointed out the superiority of the water route over any other. " I knew Daggett's unsavory reputation," he concluded, " and haven't a doubt that he

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stole your tender. But it was Daggett or nobody to take us o u t . " " Then you may be inoculated with yellowfever germs n o w , " said she, with wide-open eyes. " Yes." " A r e n ' t you afraid ? " " A r e n ' t you?" he asked. ' ' I nursed papa until he died with the small-pox," said she, simply. A n d Bartley, as he gazed musingly at her modestly averted eyes and the sweet, firm lips, wondered i f he had made such a brilliant move, after a l l , when he stoppped short of Newport. " But I forget that you fled from m e , " said she, with sudden reserve. ' ' I shall land you at Savannah as soon as possible, but we have to go to Port Royal first. Two of our party go North by rail from there. It won't take much l o n g e r , " she added, with much dignity. ' ' Y o u also forget that you fled from me,'' said Bartley, smiling. ' ' You are a man,'' said she, as though that ended i t . •" There was no excuse for y o u . " " Why ? " he asked, amused. " Because i f you didn't—if you didn't like me, you could have left m e . " " And i f you didn't like me, couldn't you have left ? " he asked. " My own home—and you a guest ? " she asked, arching her smooth, glossy brows in surprise. " N o — I can never forgive you for t h a t , " she added, tragically. ' ' This is ridiculous, Cousin V i r g i n i a , ' ' said he. " I had never seen you then, not even your picture. I didn't know whether you were tall or short, blonde or brune. I came South simply as the result of a foolish desire to get into a fever camp, more than to escape you. I am vastly sorry now that I did it, I can tell y o u . " " I accept your apology, of course," said Virginia demurely, quietly overlooking his little compliment. " But you mustn't ex pect me to treat you just as I should have done, otherwise—not y e t . " She paused, while Bartley, fearful of hurting her pride, repressed a smile. " I don't know how to introduce you here," said she in perplexity. " Y o u r being my cousin, and coming with these dreadful men, is nothing. But they— some of them—know something about that —other t h i n g . " " A r e you a woman who would make such a story public about your own cousin ? " he demanded severely, and she, in her perturba tion, did not see that he was only mimicking her.

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" I—I—they found i t o u t , " she faltered No one would have suspected such weak ness in her, though, when, her cheek as cool and white as the petal of a lily, she intro duced Hutchinson to the party, without men tioning their cousinship, as they had agreed. A l l day she stood more or less on her dig nity with him, while he quietly studied her and abided his time. He feared once—when she ordered scrubbed a portion of the deck that seemed scarcely to need it—that she was mannish. But when a young sailor smashed his finger under the holystone, and she, in stantly forgetting her rank, gave a little cry of sympathy and wrapped the wounded mem ber in her own handkerchief, with her own hands, he took it all back. He discovered, further, that she was cap tain in fact as well as in name. The mate clearly respected her seamanship, and cheer fully looked to her for orders. Bartley se cretly held him in contempt for this, but that was nothing against V i r g i n i a . That she was a little puffed up with her nautical knowledge was undeniable; but she carried i t off in such a pretty way—being a woman—that Markley did little else all day but breathe foolish, old-bachelor remarks about her into Bartley's ear. The wind, which had veered around sharply to the northeast about ten o'clock, strength ened all day long. B y four o'clock i t was blowing furiously, and the " A p h r o d i t e , " whose course held her squarely in the trough of the sea, rose and .fell under the foamcrested ridges of water like a porpoise at play. Every square inch of her deck and upper works had been wet thrice over by the flying salt spray, which cut the flesh like whip-lashes. The sailors, in their oilskins and sou'westers, fighting their way forward in the teeth of the gale, streamed with water. Below, everything was snug and warm. The motion, though, was too violent for the comfort of most of the guests. Captain Powers sat apart from them, with the mate, in her owm room, from which she could see what went on outside. She was a little pale from the tension, but perfectly composed. The mate, however, was decidedly nervous— at least so Bartley Hutchinson decided as he entered the room. " Miss Powers, far be it from me to inter fere with the handling of this y a c h t , " said he, " but Daggett, who was born and raised in these waters, says this is their annual Gulf storm, and that i t will continue until twelve or one o'clock to-night, by which time the wind may attain a velocity of eighty miles an

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hour. If all goes well, we'll be safe at Port Royal long before that; but in this heavy sea the derangement of machinery or steeringgear is more than a possibility. Daggett suggests that you steer for shore, which will give you the wind over your quarter and ease the boat. Y o u can then make P o r t Royal by the inland course." " A n d get aground in those s h a l l o w s ? " asked the mate, sarcastically. ' ' Daggett says he can put you into the inland course without difficulty, and take you through i t , " continued Bartley, without vouchsafing the mate a glance, " and, thief that he is, I believe h i m . " The captain hesitated, and after some talk asked of the mate: " What do you think, M r . Kennedy ? ' ' " I think that i f we always counted on a shaft breaking, we should never put to sea at a l l . " " Brave talk, M r . Kennedy," said Hutchin son sharply, " but i f a shaft does break, how many of these helpless lives will you agree to save ? Miss Powers, I most earnestly pro test against any foolhardiness in this matter. You have no right to risk either your own life or those of your guests in order to show your courage or the seaworthiness of your craft. Certainly you have no excuse for re maining out here, forty miles from shore, in a blow that is likely to reach a fatal velocity." " Put about! " said Virginia to the mate. After he had left to execute her order, she said to Bartley: " He thinks you are a cow ard." " I know he's o n e , " said Bartley stoutly. " He's afraid to be prudent." And he turned on his heel. Six miles from shore, where the mud from the shallow bottom began to discolor the water, Daggett, after being unironed, took the wheel. Darkness had already set in, and the rain was falling in driving sheets. Re luctant as Hutchinson was to leave his cozy quarters, where he and Markley were smoking and spinning yarns, he called for an oil-skin and made his way to the wheel-house, after shoving his revolver in an outside pocket. Daggett's loyalty would bear watching. To his surprise, he found his cousin in the wheel-house, wrapped to the throat, the heavy, moist coils of her hair glistening with drops of rain. She glanced at him inquir ingly as he entered, but said nothing; and for some time they stood in silence, listening to the wild roar of the storm. " Is it necessary for you to stay here and

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get wet ? " he asked finally, in a low tone that Daggett could not overhear. " Some one has to stay here—he does not understand the signals to the engine-room," said she, i n the same guarded tone. "I couldn't be content inside, anyway," she added, less stiffly. " W h y are you here ? " Bartley nodded toward Daggett's big bulk. " I have decided to go N o r t h from Port R o y a l , " he added after a moment. " You will have to take your prisoners to Savan nah, though, to deliver them to the Georgia authorities. I don't know when we shall meet again, and I may not see you alone again, here on the yacht. I should like to know that I am forgiven before I go. We are cousins, you k n o w . " He spoke gravely enough, though there was a whimsical twinkle in his eyes. ' ' Y o u are making fun of m e , ' ' said she, with sober prettiness. ' ' A n d I should like you to say that you are sorry you ran away from m e , " he con tinued, not heeding her complaint, " as I say now I am sorry that I ran away from y o u . " ' ' Do you suppose I would wait to see a man who boasts that no woman ever yet stirred his pulse ? " she asked, indignantly. He laughed softly, for that had been his idle boast, but only asked: " Do you suppose I would cross a continent to see a woman who boasts that no man has ever been in her presence over fifteen minutes without mak ing something of a fool of himself ? " She flushed a little, and then laughed mus ingly. ' ' Was that the reason ? ' ' she asked, in a softer tone, coyly turning her eyes up to his. ' ' N o other,'' said he. " I can never make my boast a g a i n , " he added, subtly. " Take care that I can't make m i n e , " she returned warningly, turning her head to glance out on to the tumultuous bosom of the enraged deep. A f t e r a moment she went on in a subdued tone: ' ' Cousin Bart ley, i f you are jesting with me, there is some thing sacrilegious in i t at this moment, when God is displaying H i s awful majesty in this storm, yet holding us secure, as in the hol low of H i s h a n d . " She sank down upon the seat, and pulled her wrap a little closer. The act left her white, damp hand exposed, and Bartley laid his own upon i t . " Just to show that I am not jesting, V i r g i n i a , " said he, seriously. She let him have his way, and when, after a little, he slipped his fingers under the soft palm and gently tightened his hold, she gave him a little pressure in return. Meanwhile Daggett was bending at the

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wheel and straining his eyes out over the to the bottom; consequently, the terrors of black, watery waste. The occasional flashes a wreck at sea were not present. With of lightning, which simply blinded Bartley, i t a l l , though, there was danger, and no were as welcome to him as beacon lights. time to be lost. Quickly, but coolly, the Finally, without warning, he threw the wheel boats were lowered; the passengers, with heavily to p o r t ; and just as the anxious cap what light valuables they could readily pick tain sprang to her feet i n alarm, he an up, were handed down. The two large boats nounced, " Inside! " in a tone that betrayed of the " Aphrodite " were thus loaded, and considerable pride i n the fact. vanished in the darkness. Then Daggett's The low island behind which they now crept yawl was brought alongside. Daggett and along at one-third speed effectually shielded four of his men, three of the " Aphrodite's " them from the mighty in-rolling billows of crew, and the mate, Bartley, and V i r g i n i a — the ocean; but the wind still roared over all that were left aboard—made ready to de them like the hoarse bellowing of a thousand scend. Daggett, with a grotesque bow to angry sea-monsters, and the shallow water the captain, requested that his men be unof the passage was whipped into a foam. ironed, in view of the possibility of their The rain had ceased to fall, and the sky was having yet to swim; and the captain ordered the mate to release them. The smugglers growing l i g h t e r . Their troubles seemed to be at an end, and at once tumbled down, followed by the sailors V i r g i n i a had just drawn a long breath of re- and the mate. Bartley had just taken hold ' lief, when a most terrific shock spread over the of V i r g i n i a ' s hand to help her down, when vessel, throwing both her and Bartley with he found himself looking into the muzzle of great violence against the wheel and Daggett. Daggett's heavy revolver. The mate and " S n a p p i n ' Turtle R o o s t ! ' ' cried Dag gett, aghast, drop ping the wheel and turning to them. " D a g g e t t , " said Hutchinson quickly, his hand i n his outside pocket and his eyes gleaming dangerous ly, " i f I thought this was intentional, I ' d make a snapping tur tle roost out of your skull." " I ' v e been a-watchin' for i t , " protested Daggett. "It ought to be more'n four feet above water at this tide, but this wind has drove the water in so i t fooled m e . " There was no time for dispensing jus tice. The yacht was rapidly filling from the great hole in her bow. Still the water was scarcely deep enough, Daggett said, to more than wash her hurricane deck when she TWENTY MINUTES LATER THEY WERE STEAMING BEFORE A BLAZING FIRE." should have settled

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the sailors, at the same instant, found them selves similarly situated. " Fall on your faces in the bottom of the boat, and don't move t i l l you're o r d e r e d ! " commanded Dagget, with a triumphant grin, and his victims discreetly obeyed. " A r e you going to leave us here to drown ? " demanded Bartley, as Daggett cut the painter and pushed off. " You won't drown," said Daggett. " You'll have standing-room until the mate here can get back to you with one o' your boats. If you don't want to wait, there's your tender." The pair stood still until the night and the storm had swallowed the yawl. If the yacht settled evenly, they would be safe. Y e t i t might be hours before they were taken off. The island on their right was only a few rods distant; but it was destitute of any shelter, and the boats had made for the mainland, a mile away. " A r e you afraid to go with me in the tender ? " asked Bartley. " N o , " said she steadily. Five minutes later the little tender, with its two souls aboard, was dancing over the choppy water. Bartley pulled a fair oar, but in spite of his efforts the frail craft took on water at both bow and stern, and Virginia steadily bailed. " Can you swim, Virginia? " he asked. " Y e s , " said she, without looking up. She had need of her accomplishment. Three successive waves came combing over the stern, drenching her through and through, and then they found themsel ves in water to their waists. Following Bartley's example, Virginia threw herself over the side, and for a moment they supported themselves by a hand on the gun wale. " They can never hear us call in this w i n d , " gasped Bartley, " and we may chill to death before they find us. The shore can't be very far now. Can you swim for it ? " She bravely answered yes, and they struck off side by side. He soon saw, though, that her skirts were proving a fatal drag to her. Swimming a little closer, he commanded her to put her arms around h i m ; and she, too weary to think for herself, blindly obeyed. He swam slowly, depending in part upon the wind and waves for propulsion, and reserv ing his strength for any emergency. With every stroke of his left hand, which was made over her shoulder, as he swam on his side, V i r g i n i a ' s long, wet hair wrapped itself around his hand in clinging strands. But he made no effort to put it out of the way. A t last he felt the tops of rushes. With a good bottom, he could have waded thence, but he felt too tired to " let down " to ascer tain whether mud or sand was under them.

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The chances were it was mud, so he swam on. When dry land was finally reachedthough it was far from dry—he was almost too exhausted to lift himself out, and an in tense desire to sleep came over him, but he resolutely shook it off. " V i r g i n i a ! " said he, for she, too, seemed stricken with the unnatural stupor. " Y e s , " she murmured sleepily. " Wake up, Virginia, wake u p ! " he called. She quickly opened her eyes at this, and stared up into his face, startled and bewil dered. Then, seeming partly to compre hend their situation, she asked, plaintively: " Where are we, Bartley ? " " Safe and sound, on shore," he answered, blithely. ' ' A n d the ' A p h r o d i t e ' is g o n e ! ' ' she mur mured, with tears in her eyes. " N o t a bit of i t ! Once she is pumped out and raised, she'll be as good as ever." " How wicked of me to think of a boat when we are s a f e ! ' ' she exclaimed, peni tently. " B a r t l e y , you are a noble b o y ! " she added, fervently. " Y o u saved m e . " " What less could a cousin do, Virginia ? " he asked smiling, but with glistening eyes. " A n d being my cousin, I love you for it, and want to show my g r a t i t u d e . " A n d she showed i t by wrapping her round arms about his neck, and softly kissing him. " I for give you e v e r y t h i n g . " Twenty minutes later they were steaming before a blazing fire i n the little cabin of a negro truck-gardener, while the worthy black himself and his two boys were traversing the sedgy shore with lanterns, to find the other boatloads. In less than an hour they were all in, wet and cold, but happy. A s V i r g i n i a and Bartley sat side by side in the luxurious seat of a sleeping-car the next day, flying N o r t h as fast as steam could carry them, she s a i d : " Bartley Hutchinson, if you were to receive another invitation to come and visit your cousin, do you think you would succeed in seeing her ? " " Yes, I think I should—seeing that her yacht is lying in the mud off Snapping Tur tle R o o s t , " he answered, laughing. " T r y me." " I ' m afraid you wouldn't feel free to leave me now, i n case you didn't like m e . " " N o , I'm afraid I shan't feel free to leave you, V i r g i n i a d e a r . " V i r g i n i a was very, very quiet for several minutes, and then she said softly: " A t school I used to write in my copy-book, ' Never trouble trouble, till trouble troubles you.' "

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E D I T O R ' S N O T E . — I N THE OCTOBER NUMBER OF M C C L U R E ' S M A G A Z I N E WAS PUBLISHED A SHORT STORY, "THE KILLING OF THE MAMMOTH," BY " H. TUKEMAN," WHICH, TO THE AMAZEMENT OF THE EDITORS, WAS TAKEN BY MANY READ ERS NOT AS FICTION, BUT AS A CONTRIBUTION TO NATURAL HISTORY. EVER SINCE THE APPEARANCE OF THAT NUMBER OF THE MAGAZINE, THE AUTHORITIES OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, IN WHICH THE AUTHOR HAD LOCATED THE REMAINS OF THE BEAST OF HIS FANCY, HAVE BEEN BESET WITH VISITORS TO SEE THE STUFFED MAMMOTH, AND OUR DAILY MAIL, AS WELL AS THAT OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, HAS BEENFILLEDWITH INQUIRIES FOR MORE INFORMATION AND FOR REQUESTS TO SETTLE WAGERS AS TO WHETHER IT WAS A TRUE STORY OR NOT. THE CONTRIBUTION IN QUESTION WAS PRINTED PURELY AS FIC TION, WITH NO IDEA OF MISLEADING THE PUBLIC, AND WAS ENTITLED A STORY IN OUR TABLE OF CONTENTS. WE DOUBT IF ANY WRITER OF REALISTICFICTIONEVER HAD A MORE GENERAL AND CONVINCING PROOF OF SUCCESS. THE VERY GENERAL INTER EST THAT HAS BEEN SHOWN IN THE SUBJECT HAS CONVINCED US THAT OUR READERS WOULD BE GLAD TO KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THE MAMMOTH, AND, ACCORDINGLY, WE HAVE ASKED MR. F. A . LUCAS, OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, TO PREPARE THE FOLLOW ING ARTICLE. IF THE MAMMOTH AS MR. LUCAS KNOWS HIM IS LESS IN SIZE AND BELONGS TO AN EARLIER DATE THAN THE MAMMOTH AS MR. TUKEMAN PAINTED HIM, WE BELIEVE OUR READERS WILLFINDHIM NO LESS INTERESTING.

A B O U Tthree centuries ago, in 1696, a Russian, one Ludloff by name, de scribed some bones belonging to what the Tartars called a " Mamantu " ; later on, Blumenbach pressed the common name into scientific use as " M a m m u t , " and Cuvier gallicized this into " M a m m o u t h , " whence by an easy transition we get our familiar mammoth. W e are so accustomed to use the word to describe anything of remarkable size that it would be only natural to suppose that the name Mammoth was given to the

extinct elephant because of its extraordinary bulk. E x a c t l y the reverse of this is true, however, for the word came to have its pres ent meaning because the original possessor of the name was a huge animal. The Sibe rian peasants called the creature " Mamantu," or " ground-dweller," because they believed it to be a gigantic mole, passing its life be neath the ground and perishing when by any accident it saw the light. The reasoning that led to this belief was very simple and the logic very good; no one had ever seen

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a live Mamantu, but there were plenty of its bones lying at or near the surface; conse quently, i f the animal did not live above the ground, it must dwell below. To-day, nearly every one knows that the mammoth was a sort of big, hairy elephant, now extinct, and nearly every one has a gen eral idea that it lived in the N o r t h . There is some uncertainty as to whether the mam moth was a mastodon, or the mastodon a mammoth, and there is a great deal of miscon ception as to the size and abundance of this big beast. It may be said in passing that the mastodon is only a second or third cousin of the mammoth, but that the existing elephant of A s i a is a very near relative, certainly as near as a first cousin, possibly a very great grandson. Popularly, the mammoth is sup posed to have been a colossus somewhere from twelve to twenty feet i n height, beside whom modern elephants would seem insig nificant; but as " trout lose much in dress i n g , " so mammoths shrink in measuring, and while there were doubtless Jumbos among them in the way of individuals of exceptional magnitude, the majority were decidedly under Jumbo's size. The only mounted mammoth skeleton in this country, that i n the Chicago Academy of Sciences, is one of the largest, the thigh-bone measur ing five feet, one inch in length, or a foot more than that of Jumbo; and as Jumbo stood eleven feet high, the rule of three ap plied to this thigh-bone would give the living animal a height of thirteen feet, eight inches. The height of this specimen is given as thir teen feet in its bones, with an estimate of fourteen feet in its clothes; but as the skele ton is obviously mounted altogether too high, it is pretty safe to say that thirteen feet is a good, fair allowance for the height of this animal when alive. A s for the majority of mammoths, they would not average more than nine or ten feet high. Sir Samuel Baker tells us that he has seen plenty of wild A f r i can elephants that would exceed Jumbo by a foot or more, and while this must be ac cepted with caution, since unfortunately he neglected to put a tape line on them, yet M r . Thomas Baines did measure a specimen twelve feet high. This, coupled with Sir Samuel's statement, indicates that there is not so much difference between the mammoth and the elephant as there might be. This ap plies to the mammoth par excellence, the species known scientifically as Elephas primigenius, whose remains are found in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere and occur abun dantly in Siberia and Alaska. There were

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other elephants than the mammoth, and some that exceeded him in size;* but even the largest cannot positively be asserted to have exceeded a height of thirteen feet, and it is to be greatly doubted i f any one of them could have tossed a twenty-five foot log over his shoulder. Tusks offer convenient terms of comparison, and those of an average fully grown mammoth are from eight to ten feet in l e n g t h ; those of the famous St. Peters burg specimen and those of the huge speci men in Chicago measuring respectively nine feet, three inches, and nine feet, eight inches. So far as the writer is aware, the largest tusks actually measured are two from Alaska, one twelve feet, ten inches long, weight unknown, reported by M r . Jay Beach; and another eleven feet long, weighing 200 pounds, noted by M r . T. L . Brevig. Com pared with these we have the big tusk that used to stand on Fulton Street, New York, just an inch under nine feet long, and weigh ing 184 pounds, or the largest shown at Chicago in 1893, which was seven feet, six inches long, and weighed 176 pounds. For our knowledge of the external appear ance of the mammoth we are indebted to the more or less entire examples which have been found at various times i n Siberia, but mainly to the noted specimen found in 1799 near the Lena, embedded in the ice, where it had been reposing, so geologists tell us, anywhere from 10,000 to 50,000 years. How the crea ture gradually thawed out of its icy tomb, and the tusks were taken by the discoverer and sold for i v o r y ; how the dogs fed upon the flesh in summer, while bears and wolves feasted upon it i n w i n t e r ; how the animal was within an ace of being utterly lost to science when, at the last moment, the muti lated remains were rescued by M r . Adams, is an old story, often told and retold. Suf fice it to say that, besides the bones, enough of the beast was preserved to tell us exactly what was the covering of this ancient ele phant, and to show that i t was a creature adapted to withstand the northern cold and fitted for living on the branches of the birch and hemlock. The exact birthplace of the mammoth is as uncertain as that of many other great characters; but his earliest known restingplace is in the Cromer Forest Beds of Eng land, a country inhabited by him at a time when the German Ocean was dry land and * Notably Elephas meridionalis of Southern Europe and Elephas columbi of the southern United States and Mexico. It is extremely probable that the Chicago skeleton belongs to this latter species, which ranged northwesterly almost to Alaska.

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Great Britain part of a peninsula. Here his remains are found to-day, while from the depths of the North Sea the hardy trawlers have dredged hundreds, aye thousands, of mammoth teeth in company with soles and turbot. If, then, the mammoth originated in Western Europe, and not in that great grave yard of fossil elephants, northern India, east ward he went spreading over all Europe north of the Pyrenees and Alps, save only Scandi navia, whose glaciers offered no attractions, scattering his bones abundantly by the way side to serve as marvels for future ages. Strange indeed have been some of the tales to which these and other elephantine remains have given rise when they came to light in the good old days when knowledge of anat omy was small and credulity was great. The least absurd theory concerning them was that they were the bones of the elephants which Hannibal brought from A f r i c a . Occasionally they were brought forward as irrefutable evi

grew in oure regioun afore they were effeminat with lust and intemperance of mouth." More than this, these bones have been ven erated in Greece and Rome as the' remains of pagan heroes, and later on worshipped as relics of Christian saints. Did not the church of Valencia possess an elephant tooth which did duty as that of St. Christopher, and, so late as 1789, was not a thigh-bone, figuring as the arm-bone of a saint, carried in pro cession through the streets in order to bring rain ?

dences of the deluge; but usually they fig ured as the bones of giants, the most famous of them being known as Teutobochus, K i n g of the Cimbri, a lusty warrior said to have had a height of nineteen feet. Somewhat smaller, but still of respectable height, four teen feet, was " L i t t e l l Johne " of Scotland, whereof Hector Boece wrote, concluding in a moralizing tone, " Be quilk (which) it ap pears how extravegant and squaire pepill

of years ago, while remains so situated that they have been subjected to varying conditions of dryness and moisture are al ways in a fragmentary state. A s pre viously noted, several more or less entire carcasses of the mammoth have been dis-

Out of Europe eastward into Asia the mammoth took his way, and having peopled that vast region, took advantage of a land connection then existing between Asia and N o r t h America and walked over into Alaska, in company with the forerunners of the bison and the ancestors of the mountain sheep and Alaskan brown bear. Still eastward and southward he went, until he came to the Atlantic coast, the latitude of southern New Y o r k roughly marking the southern boundary of the broad domain over which the mam moth roamed undis turbed.* Not that of necessity all this vast area was occupied at one t i m e ; but this was the range of the mam moth during Pleisto cene time, for over all this region his bones and teeth are found in greater or less abun dance and i n varying conditions of preserva tion. In regions like parts of Siberia and Alaska, where the bones are entombed in a wet and cold, often icy, soil, the bones and Parts of a skeleton of A MAMMOTH T H A T W E R E F O U N D I N 1897 I N T H E tusks are almost as U R A L MOUNTAINS. perfectly preserved as N o w preserved in the museum at E k a t e r i n b u r g , R u s s i a . T h e p h o t o g r a p h was taken in the though they had been yard o f one o f the peasants w h o made the find, a n d it is lie w h o appears in the picture. deposited but a. score

* This must tie taken as a very general statement, as the distinction between and habitats of Elenhas primiqeniw and Klephat eolumbi, the southern mammoth, are not satisfactorily determined ; moreover the two species overlap through a wide area of the West and Northwest.

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covered i n Siberia, only to be lost; and while no entire animal has so far been found in Alaska, some day one may yet come to light. That there is some possibility of this is shown by the discovery, recorded by M r . Dall, of the partial skeleton of a mammoth in the bank of the Y u k o n with some of the fat still present, and although this had been partially converted into adipocere, it was fresh enough to be used by the natives for greasing, not their boots, but their boats. A n d up to the present time this is the nearest approach to finding a live mammoth in A l a s k a ; and a small piece of fat, obtained by M r . Dall, is the nearest the United States National M u seum has come to securing a stuffed mam moth. A s to why the mammoth became extinct, we know absolutely nothing, although vari ous theories, some much more ingenious than plausible, have been advanced to account for their extermination—they perished of starva t i o n ; they were overtaken by floods on their supposed migrations and drowned in detach ments ; they fell through the ice, equally i n

detachments, and were swept out to sea. But all we can safely say is that long ages ago the last one perished off the face of the earth. Strange i t is, too, that these mighty beasts, whose bulk was ample to protect them against four-footed foes and whose woolly coat was proof against the cold, should have utterly vanished. They ranged from England eastward to New Y o r k , almost around the w o r l d ; from the Alps to the A r c t i c Ocean; and in such numbers that to-day their tusks are articles of commerce and fossil ivory has its price current as well as wheat. That many were swept out to sea by the flooded rivers of Siberia is certain, for some of the low islands off the coast are said to be formed of sand, ice, and bones of the mammoth, and thence, for hundreds of years, have come the tusks which are sold in the market beside those of the African and Indian elephants. That man was contemporary with the mam moth in Southern Europe is fairly certain, for not only are the remains of the mammoth and man's flint weapons found together, but in a few instances some primeval Landseer

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graved on slate, ivory, or reindeer antler a sketchy outline of the beast, somewhat i m pressionistic perhaps, but still, like the work of a true artist, preserving the salient fea tures. We see the curved tusks, the snaky trunk, and the shaggy coat that we know belonged to the mammoth, and we may feel assured that i f early man did not conquer the clumsy creature with fire and flint, he yet gazed upon him from the safe vantage point of some lofty tree or inaccessible rock, and then went home to tell his wife and neighbors how the animal escaped because his bow missed fire. That man and mammoth lived together in North America is uncertain; so far there is no evidence to show that they did, although the absence of such evidence is no proof that they did not. That any live mammoth has for centuries been seen on the Alaskan tundras is utterly improbable, and on M r . C. H . Townsend seems to rest the responsibility of having, though quite un intentionally, introduced the Alaskan Live Mammoth into the columns of the daily press. It befell in this wise: Among the varied du ties of our revenue marine is that of patrol ling and exploring the shores of arctic Alaska and the waters of the adjoining sea, and it is not so many years ago that the cutter " Corw i n , " i f memory serves aright, held the rec ord of farthest north on the Pacific side. On one of these northern trips, to the Kotzebue Sound region, famous for the abundance of its deposits of mammoth bones,* the ' ' Corw i n " carried M r . Townsend, then naturalist to the United States Fish Commission. A t Cape Prince of Wales some natives came on board bringing a few bones and tusks of the mammoth, and upon being questioned as to whether or not any of the animals to which they pertained were living, promptly replied that all were dead, inquiring in turn i f the white men had ever seen any and i f they knew how these animals, so vastly larger than a reindeer, looked. Fortunately, or unfortunately, there was on board a text-book of geology containing the well-known cut of the St. Petersburg mammoth, and this was brought forth, greatly to the edification of the natives, who were delighted at recognizing the curved tusks and the bones they knew so well. N e x t the natives wished to know what the outside of the creature looked like, and as M r . Townsend had been at W a r d ' s establishment in Rochester when the first copy of the Stutt* Elephant Point, at the mouth of the B u c k l a n d R i v e r , is so named from the numbers o f m a m m o t h bones w h i c h have accumulated there.

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gart restoration was made, he rose to the emergency, and made a sketch. This was taken ashore, together with a copy of the cut of the skeleton that was laboriously made by an Innuit sprawled out at full length on the deck. Now the Innuits, as M r . Townsend tells us, are great gadabouts, making long sledge journeys in winter and equally long trips by boat in summer, while each season they hold a regular fair on Kotzebue Sound, where a thousand or two natives gather to barter and gossip. On these jour neys and at these gatherings the sketches were no doubt passed about, copied, and recopied, until a large number of Innuits had become well acquainted with the appearance of the mammoth, a knowledge that naturally they were well-pleased to display to any white visitors. Also, like the Celt, the Alaskan native delights to give a " soft answer," and is always ready to furnish the kind of information desired. Thus in due time the newspaper man learned that the Alaskans could make pictures of the mammoth, and that they had some knowledge of its size and habits; so with inference and logic quite as good as that of the Tungusian peasant, the reporter came to the conclusion that some where in the frozen wilderness the last sur vivor of the mammoths must still be at large. A n d so, starting on the Pacific coast, the Live Mammoth story wandered from paper to paper, until it had spread throughout the length and breadth of the United States, when it was captured by M r . Tukeman, who, with much artistic color and some realistic touches, transferred it to M C C L U R E ' S M A G A Z I N E , and—unfortunately for the offi cials thereof—to the Smithsonian Institu tion. A n d now, once for a l l , i t may be said that there is no mounted mammoth to awe the vis itor to the national collections; and yet there seems no good and conclusive reason why there should not be. True, there are no live mammoths to be had at any p r i c e ; neither are their carcasses to be had on demand; still there is good reason to believe that a much smaller sum than that said to have been paid by M r . Conradi for the mammoth which is not i n the Smithsonian Institution, would place one there. It probably could not be done in one year; it might not be possible in five years; but should any man of means wish to secure enduring fame by showing the world the mammoth as i t stood i n life, a hundred centuries ago, before the dawn cf even tradition, he could probably accomplish the result by the expenditure of a far less

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sum than i t would cost to participate i n an international yacht race. Who will be the PRIMITIVE

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first to despatch an expedition to seek a frozen mammoth ?

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OF MAMMOTH'S

TUSK.

The picture is so well done that one must believe that the artist, a cave-dweller in Southern France, had seen the animal, if he did not make the drawing from real life. The original engraving, which is about three times the size of the reproduction, is in the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.

GENERAL F R O M

T H E

GRANT'S

S T A N D P O I N T

O F

GEORGE

M A Y say with some degree of truth that my acquaintance with General Grant antedates our meeting by nearly three years. In the early summer of 18621 received an appoint ment from President L i n c o l n as a member of a military commission constituted for the purpose of auditing the claims that had arisen in the Department of Missouri, then under the com mand of General Fremont. The sessions of the commission were held at Cairo, Illinois, which place had been the headquarters of General Grant during the preceding winter. In the intervening time General Grant had become the hero of the war by the capture of Forts Henry and Donelson, and by his let ter of February 16th to General Buckner, i n which he demanded " an immediate and un conditional surrender" of the Confederate forces. In after years I received from Gen eral Grant the statement that the peculiar and emphatic character of that letter was due to his knowledge of General Buckner, gained from their fellowship at West Point. Our quarters were with General Strong, who was i n command, and who had come from Cairo, E g y p t , to serve as a volunteer in the army of the United States. Our thoughts

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and our conversations were directed quite constantly to General Grant, to his services, his career, and his prospects for the future. Upon my return to Washington, and in the first five minutes of my interview with Presi dent Lincoln, he said : " What did you hear about General Grant's h a b i t s ? " I said at once : " I did not hear the subject men tioned."

COMMISSION

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CHARLES

DANA.

Charles A . Dana, who afterward was A s sistant Secretary of War, was the chairman of the commission. W e were called to ex amine about sixteen hundred claims due to Fremont's operations in the States of Mis souri, Kentucky, Illinois, Ohio, and Indiana. The investigations diminished my respect for Fremont as a business man. There were no indications of wrong-doing, but there was much evidence of lack of system in plan and of care in execution. Upon the death of General Fremont, the preparation of a memoir was exacted of me by the American Academy of A r t s and Sciences, of which he was an honorary member. The researches which I then made led my mind to two important conclusions. H i s expeditions over the Rocky Mountains are free from cause for criticism, on the one hand, and they give

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evidence of the possession of talents of a high order. His care of his men, his negotiations with the Indians by which he secured peace for the most part, and his contests with them when his efforts for peace were ineffectual, and, finally, his position in the controversy over the command of our forces in California, including his trial by court-martial and his resignation from the army, are acts and pro ceedings worthy of high praise. In singular and disagreeable contrast is the fact that he failed to attain marked success i n any other public undertaking. My work at Cairo and my association with Mr. Dana gave me a high opinion of his in tegrity and of his capacity in business affairs, the consequences of which were felt in Gen eral Grant's administration. When the selec tion of a Collector of Customs at the port of New Y o r k was under consideration, I advised the appointment of Mr. Dana. The merchants and others in the city had commended Moses H . Grinnell. Beyond this fact, I found that the President did not look with favor upon M r . Dana. He had been in the South during the war as the representative of the W a r De partment, and in some way his doings or his reports had displeased General Grant. W i t h the authority of the President, I offered M r . Dana the place of Chief Appraiser. That office he declined, and when he obtained the control of " The Sun," which he did not then own, he attacked General Grant in a manner not justified by any accepted code of personal or political warfare. That conduct separated me from M r . Dana, and there was no renewal of our acquaintance, except for one interview, which took place after the death of General Grant. On a time there appeared an editorial in "The S u n " upon the degeneracy of leader ship in the Republican party, and a compari son was instituted between the men of the then present time and the men of the Civil War. M y name appeared among those who had led in the better days of the Republican party. The article led me to write a personal letter to M r . Dana, in which 1 congratulated him on his ability to recognize either good ness or greatness in the men of "the Grant dynasty," as it had been called. In return, I received from M r . Dana a letter marked by expressions of kindness such as I might not have anticipated from my best friend. He urged me to advise him of my coming to New York, when he would call upon me.

ADMINISTRATION. best friend upon his return after an absence of twenty years in foreign parts. General Grant's name was not mentioned at our in terview, and it has been a satisfaction to me to notice the absence of words of dis paragement of General Grant in M r . Dana's Memoirs." The greatness of General Grant in war, in civil affairs, and in personal qualities which at once excite our admiration and deserve our commendation, was not fully appreciated by the generation to which he belonged, nor can it be appreciated by the generations that can know of him only as his life and char acter may appear upon the written record. He had weaknesses, and of some of them I may speak ; but they do not qualify in any essen tial manner his claim to greatness in the particulars named. He was not fortunate in the circumstances incident to the organiza tion of his cabinet. The appointment of Mr. Washburne as Secretary of State for the brief period of one or two weeks was not a wise opening of the administration, if the arrangement was designed, and was a mis fortune, i f the brief term was due to events not anticipated. The selection of M r . Fish compensated, and more than compensated, for the errors which preceded his appoint ment. The country can never expect an administration of the affairs of the Depart ment of State more worthy of approval and eulogy than the administration of M r . Fish. Apparently we were then on the verge of war with Great Britain, and demands were made in very responsible quarters which of fered no alternative but war. The treaty of 1871, which was the outcome of M r . Fish's diplomacy, reestablished our relations of friendship with Great Britain, and the treaty was then accepted as a step in the direction of general peace.

In the month of February, 1869,1 received an invitation from General Grant to call upon him on an evening named and at an hour specified. A t the interview General Grant asked me to take the office of Secretary of the Interior. As reasons for declining the place, I said that my duties and position in the House were agreeable to me and that my services there might be as valuable to the Administration as my services in the cabinet. General Grant then said that he intended to give a place to Massachusetts, and it might be the Secretary of the Interior or the Attorney-Generalship. He then asked for my advice as to persons, and said that if When I was in New York, I called at the office of " T h e Sun," where I was received he named an Attorney-General from Massa by M r . Dana as he might have received his chusetts, he had in mind Governor Clifford,

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whom he had met. Governor Clifford was my personal friend, he had been the AttorneyGeneral of the State during my term as Gov ernor, he was a gentleman of great urbanity of manner, a well-equipped lawyer, and as an advocate he had secured and maintained a good standing i n the profession and through many years. He had come into the Repub lican party from the Webster w i n g of the W h i g party. To me he was a conservative, and I was apprehensive that his views upon questions arising, or that might arise, from our plan of reconstruction might not be i n harmony w i t h the policy of the party. Upon this ground, which I stated to General Grant, I advised against his appointment. I named Judge Hoar for Attorney-General and Gov ernor Claflin for the Interior Department. I wrote the full address of Judge Hoar upon a card, which I gave to General Grant. Judge Hoar was nominated and confirmed. A.

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RELATIONS

WITH

GRANT.

A t the same time, Alexander T. Stewart, of New Y o r k , was nominated and confirmed as Secretary of the Treasury. It was soon discovered that M r . Stewart, being an im porter, was ineligible to the office. Mr. Conkling said there were nine statutes i n his way. A more effectual bar was i n the reason on which the statutes rested, namely, that no man should be put in a situation to be a judge i n his own cause. The President made a vain effort to secure legislation for the removal of the bar. N e x t , Judge Hilton, then M r . Stewart's attorney, submitted a deed of trust by which M r . Stewart relinquished his interest in the business during his term of office. The President submitted that paper to Chief Justice Cartter of the Supreme Court of the D i s t r i c t of Columbia. The Chief Jus tice gave a brief, adverse, oral opinion, and in language not quotable upon a printed page. We have no means of forming an opinion of M r . Stewart's capacity for administrative work, and I do not indulge i n any conjec tures. His nomination was acceptable to the leading business interests of the country, and in the city of N e w Y o r k it was supported generally. He was a successful man of busi ness and an accumulator of wealth, and at that time General Grant placed a high esti mate upon the presence of talents by which men acquire wealth. F o l l o w i n g these events, there were early indications that M r . Stewart's interest i n the President had been diminished, and gradually he took on a dislike to me. W h e n I knew of

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his nomination, or when I knew that i t was to be made, I met him in Washington and assured him of my disposition to give my support to his administration. On two oc casions when I was in New Y o r k I made calls of civility upon him, but, as he made no rec ognition i n return, my efforts i n that direc tion came to an end. A t a dinner given by merchants and bank ers in the early part of September, 1869, at which I was a guest, M r . Stewart made a speech i n which he criticised my administra tion of the Treasury. In the canvass of 1872 the rumor went abroad that M r . Stew art had given $25,000 to the Greeley cam paign fund. In the month of October of that year, the twenty-eighth day, perhaps, I spoke at the Cooper Union. Upon my arri val i n New Y o r k , I received a call from a friend who came with a message from M r . Stewart. M r . Stewart would not be at the meeting, although except for the false rumor i n regard to his subscription to the Greeley fund, he should have taken pleasure in being present. A s General Grant was to be elected, his attendance at the meeting might be treated by the public as an at tempt to curry favor with General Grant and the incoming Administration. As I was passing to the hall, a paper was placed i n my hands by a person who gave no other means of recognizing his presence. When I reached the hall and opened the paper, I found that it was a summons to ap pear as defendant in an action brought by a man named Galvin, who claimed damages in the sum of $3,000,000. A t the close of the meeting and when the fact became known, one gentleman said to me: " I do not see how you could have spoken after such a sum mons." I said i n reply : " I f the suit had been for $3,000 only, i t might have given me some uneasiness, as a recovery would have i n volved payment. A judgment of $3,000,000 implies impossibility of payment." I had no knowledge of Galvin, but his let ters of advice were found on the files of the Treasury. Even after the suit, I did not ex amine them for the purpose of forming an opinion of their value or want of value. Galvin alleged in his declaration that he had furnished the financial policy that I had adopted, that it had benefited the country to the amount of $300,000,000 and more, and that a claim of $3,000,000 was a moderate claim. Under the statute, the Department of Justice assumed the defense. The case l i n gered, Galvin died, and the case followed.

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A t the election of 1872, I voted at Groton in the morning, and i n the afternoon I went to New Y o r k , to find that General Grant had been reelected by a sufficient majority. On the morning of the next day, I left the hotel with time for a call upon General D i x , who had been elected Governor, and for a call upon Thurlow Weed. General D i x was not at home. Notwithstanding the criticisms of Thurlow Weed as a manager of political affairs in the State of New Y o r k and in the country, I had reasons for regarding him with favor, although I had never favored the aspirations of M r . Seward, his chief. When I was organizing the Internal Revenue Office i n 1862-3, M r . Weed gave me infor mation in regard to candidates for office i n the State of New Y o r k , including their rela tions to the factions that existed—usually Seward and anti-Seward—and with as much fairness as he could have commanded i f he had had no relation to either faction.

say that President Grant was attached to Judge Hoar, and, as far as I know, his at tachment never underwent any abatement. Whatever bond there may be i n the smoking habit, i t was formed without delay at the beginning of their acquaintance. While General Grant was not a teller of stories, he enjoyed listening to good ones, and of these Judge H o a r had a large stock, and always at command. General Grant enjoyed the society of intellectual men, and Judge Hoar was far up i n that class. General Grant had regrets for the retirement of Judge Hoar from his cabinet, and for the circumstances which led to his retirement. H i s appoint ment of Judge Hoar upon the Joint High Commission and the nomination of Judge Hoar to a seat upon the bench of the Su preme Court may be accepted as evidence of General Grant's continuing friendship, and of his disposition to recognize it, notwith standing the break in official relations.

A s I had time remaining at the end of my call upon M r . Weed, and as I had in mind M r . Stewart's message at the Cooper Union meeting, I drove to his down-town store, where I found him. He received me with cordiality, but i n respect to his health he seemed to be already a doomed man. He was anxious chiefly to give me an opportunity to comprehend the nature and magnitude of his business. A s I was about to leave, he took hold of my coat button and said: " When you see the President, you give my love to him, and say to him that I am for him and that I always have been for him." Still holding me by the button, he said : " Who buys the car pets for the Treasury ?" I said : " Mr. Saville is the chief clerk, and he buys the carpets." M r . Stewart s a i d : " Tell him to come to me ; I will sell him carpets as cheap as any body." When I repeated M r . Stewart's message to the President he made no reply, and he gave no indication that he was hearing what I was saying.

Judge Hoar's professional life had been passed i n Massachusetts, and he had no per sonal acquaintance with the lawyers of the circuit from which Justices Strong and Brad ley were appointed. Strong and Bradley were at the head of the profession in the States of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and in truth there was no debate as to the fitness of their appointment. Judge Hoar was not responsible for their appointment, and I am of the opinion that the nominations would have been made even against his advice, which assuredly was not so given. Judge Strong, as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, had sustained the constitutionality of the L e g a l Tender act, and i t was understood that Bradley was of the same opinion. A s the President and cabinet were of a like opinion, i t may be said that there could have been no " packing " of the Supreme Court except by the exclusion of the two most prominent lawyers in the circuit and the appointment of men whose opinions upon a vital question were not in harmony w i t h the opinion of the persons making the appointment.

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HOAR.

The public has been invited to accept sev eral errors in regard to Judge Hoar's rela tions to President Grant, the appointment to the bench of the Supreme Court of Jus tices Bradley and Strong, by whose votes the first decision of the court in the L e g a l Tender cases was overruled, and the circum stances which led to the retirement of Judge Hoar from the cabinet. F i r s t of a l l I may

A s to myself, I had never accepted the original decision as sound law under the Constitution, nor as a wise public policy, if there had been no constitution. B y the de cision the government was shorn of a part of its financial means of defense in an exigency. When the Supreme Court had reached a conclusion, Chief Justice Chase called upon me and informed me of that fact, about two weeks in advance of the delivery of the opinion. He gave as a reason his

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apprehension of serious financial difficulties due to a demand for gold by the creditor class. Not sharing i n that apprehension, I said : " The business men are a l l debtors as well as creditors, and they cannot engage i n a strug gle over gold payments, and the small class of creditors who are not also debtors w i l l not venture upon a policy i n which they must suffer ultimately." The decision did not cause a ripple i n the finances of the country. Pursuing the conversation, I asked the Chief Justice where he found authority i n the Constitution for the issue of non-legaltender currency. He answered i n the power to borrow money and i n the power given to Congress to provide for the " g e n e r a l wel fare of the United States." I then said, having i n mind the opinion i n the case of MacCulloch and Maryland, i n which the court held that where a power was given to Con gress, its exercise was a matter of discretion unless a limitation could be found i n the Constitution : " Where do you find a limita tion to the power to borrow money by any means that to Congress may appear wise ?" The Chief Justice was unable to specify a limitation, and the question remains unan swered to this day. When the case of Hepburn and Griswold was overruled i n the L e g a l Tender cases, the Chief Justice was very much disturbed, and w i t h the exhibition of considerable feeling, he said : " W h y did you consent to the ap pointment of judges to overrule m e ? " I assured him that there was no personal feel ing on the part of the President, and that as to my own unimportant part i n the busi ness, he had known from the time of our interview i n regard to the former action of the court that I entertained the opinion that the decision operated as a limitation of the constitutional powers of Congress and that its full and final recognition might prove injurious to the country whenever all its resources should be required. A t the time of the reversal, the Chief Justice did not conceal his dissatisfaction w i t h his life and labors on the bench, and at the interview last mentioned he said that he should be glad to exchange positions with me, i f i t were possible to make the exchange. Various reasons have been assigned for the step which was taken by President Grant in asking Judge H o a r to retire from the cabinet. Some have assumed that the Presi dent was no longer w i l l i n g to tolerate the presence of two members from the same State. That consideration had been passed

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upon by the President at the outset, and he had overruled it or set i t aside. In my in terview with M r . Washburne the Sunday be fore my nomination, I had said to him that Judge H o a r and I were not only from the same State, but that we were residents of the same county, and within twenty miles of each other. Moreover, any public dis satisfaction which had existed at the begin ning had disappeared. In the meantime the President had become attached to Judge Hoar. N o r is there any justifying founda tion for the conjecture that a vacancy was created for the purpose of giving a place in the cabinet to another person, or to an other section of the country. General Grant's attachment to his friends was near to a weakness, and the suggestion that he sacri ficed Judge H o a r to the low purpose of giv ing a place to some other person is far away from any true view of his character. Judge Hoar had had no administrative experience on the political side of the gov ernment, and he underestimated the claims, and he undervalued the rights, of members of Congress. A s individuals the members of Congress are of the government, and in a final test the two Houses may become the government. More than elsewhere the seat of power is i n the Senate, and the Senate and Senators are careful to exact a recog nition of their rights. They claim, what from the beginning they have enjoyed, the r i g h t to be heard by the President and the heads of department in regard to appoint ments i n their respective States. They do not claim to speak authoritatively, but as members of the government having a right to advise, and under a certain responsibility to the people for what may be done. It was claimed by Senators that the A t torney-General seemed not to admit their r i g h t to speak in regard to appointments, and that appointments were made of which they had no knowledge, and of which neither they nor their constituents could approve. These differences reached a crisis when Sena tors (I use the word in the plural) notified the President that they should not visit the Department of Justice while Judge Hoar was Attorney-General. Thus was a disagreeable alternative presented to the President, and a first impression would lead to the conclu sion that he ought to have sustained the Attorney-General. Assuming that the com plaints were well founded, i t followed that the A t t o r ley-General was denying to Sena tors the c onsideration which the President himself was recognizing daily.

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OF CHARLES

GRANT'S SUMNER.

M r . Sumner's removal from the chairman ship of the Committee on Foreign Relations was due to the fact that a time came when he did not recognize the President, and when he declined to have any intercourse w i t h the Secretary of State outside of official business. Such a condition of affairs is always a hindrance in the way of good gov ernment, and it may become an obstacle to success. Good government can be secured only through conferences with those who are responsible, by conciliation, and not infre quently by concessions to the holders of ad verse opinions. The time came when such a condition was no longer possible between Mr. Sumner and the Secretary of State. The President and his cabinet were i n ac cord in regard to the controversy with Great Britain as to the Alabama Claims. M r . Sum ner advocated a more exacting policy. M r . Motley appeared to be following M r . Sumner's lead, and the opposition to M r . Sumner ex tended to Mr. Motley. It had happened that the President had taken on a prejudice to M r . Motley at their first interview. This I learned when I said something to the Presi dent in the line of conciliation. The Presi dent said : " Such was my impression of Mot ley when I saw him that I should have withheld his appointment i f I had not made a promise to Sumner." M y acquaintance with Mr. Motley began i n the year 1849, when we were members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and I had a high regard for him, although it h a i been charged that I had had some part in driving him from politics into literature. When we consider the natures and the training of the two men, it is not easy to imagine agreeable cooperation in public af fairs by Mr. Sumner and General Grant. M r . Sumner never believed i n General Grant's fitness for the office of President, and General Grant did not recognize i n M r . Sumner a wise and safe leader in the business of gov ernment. General Grant's notion of M r . Sumner, on one side of his character, may be inferred from his answer when, being asked if he had heard M r . Sumner converse, he said : " No, but I have heard him lecture." As I am to speak of M r . Sumner in our personal relations, which for thirteen years before his death were intimate, I shall use some words of preface. Never on more than two occasions did we have differ uces that caused any feeling on either side. M r . Sum ner was chairman i n the Senate of the Com

ADMINISTRATION mittee on the Freedmen's Bureau, and Mr. E l i o t was chairman of the Committee of the House. A report was made i n each House, and each bill contained not less than twenty sections. E a c h House passed its own bill. A committee of conference was appointed. Its report was rejected. I was appointed a member of the second committee. I examined the bills, and I marked out every section that was not essential to the working of the measure. F o u r sections re mained. I then added a section which pro vided for the lease and ultimate sale of the confiscated lands to the freedmen and refu gees. President Johnson's restoration of those lands made that section non-operative. The committee, upon the motion of General Schenck, transferred the jurisdiction of the Bureau from the Treasury to the W a r De partment. The bill was accepted by the committee, and passed by the two Houses. When within a few days I was in the Sen ate Chamber, M r . Sumner came to me, and said i n substance : " T h e F r e e d m e n ' s Bureau B i l l as it passed is of no value. I have spent six months upon the bill, and my work has gone for nothing. Y o u and General Schenck cannot pretend to know as much as I know about the measure." W i t h some feeling, which was not justifi able, I said : " I have not spent six hours upon the measure, but after what you have said I w i l l say that the fifth Section is of more value than a l l the sections which you have written." I did not wait for a reply. The subject was not again mentioned ; our friendly relations were not disturbed, and it is to M r . Sumner's credit on the score of toleration that he passed over my rough re marks, even though he had given some rea son for a retort. My next difference with M r . Sumner was a more serious difference, but i t passed with out any break in our relations. He had not acquired the church-going habit, or he had renounced it, and my church-going was spas modic rather than systematic. Thus it be came possible and agreeable for me to spend some small portion of each Sunday in his rooms. The controversy over M r . Motley and his removal from the post of minister to Great B r i t a i n excited M r . Sumner to a point far beyond any excitement to which he yielded, arising from his own troubles or from the misfortunes of the country. To him i t was the topic of conversation at a l l times and in all places. That habit I accepted at his house w i t h as much complacency as I could command. Indeed, I was not much disturbed

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by what he said to me i n private, and cer tainly not by what he said i n his own house, where I went from choice, and without any obligation to remain resting upon me. In all his conversations he made General Grant responsible for the removal of Motley, ac companied, usually, w i t h language of censure and condemnation. On two occasions that were i n a measure public, one of which was a dinner given to me by M r . F r a n k l i n Haven, a personal friend of twenty years' standing, he insisted upon holding the Motley incident as the topic of conversation. On one of these occasions, and i n excitement, he turned to me and said : " Boutwell, you ought to have resigned when Motley was removed." I said only in reply : " I am the custodian of my own duty." This was the only personal remark that I ever made to M r . Sumner i n connection with the removal of Motley. The removal was the only reasonable solution of the difficulty in which Motley was involved ; but I sympa thized w i t h him i n the disaster which had overtaken him, and I was not disposed to discuss the subject. The incident at the din ner led me to make a resolution. I called upon M r . Sumner, and without accepting a seat, I said : " Senator, i f you ever mention General Grant's name in my presence, I w i l l never again cross your threshold." W i t h o u t the delay of a half minute he said : " A g r e e d . " There the matter ended, and the promise was kept. In 1872, and not many days be fore he left for Europe, he said : " I want to ask you a question about General G r a n t . " I said : " Y o u know that that is a forbid den topic." " Yes, but I am not going to speak con troversially." I said : " Say on." He said : " W h a t do you think of Grant's election ?" I said : " I think he w i l l be elected." He held up his hands, and in a tone of grief said : " Y o u and Wilson are the only ones who tell me that he has any chance." Upon his return from Europe i t was ap parent that his feelings in regard to the Republican party, and especially i n regard to General Grant, had undergone a great change. Our conversations concerning Gen eral Grant were resumed free from a l l restric tions and without any disturbance of feeling on my part. N o t many months before his death M r . Sumner made a speech i n executive session that was conciliatory and just i n a marked degree. I urged him to repeat i t i n

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public session. H e seemed to regard the suggestion with favor, but the speech was not made. For many years M r . Sumner had been borne down under the resolutions of censure passed by the State of Massachusetts in dis approval of his position i n regard to the return of Confederate flags. That resolu tion was rescinded at the winter session of 1874. The act brought to M r . Sumner the highest degree of satisfaction that it was possible for him to realize. Above all things else of a public nature, he cherished the good name of the commonwealth, and for himself there was nothing more precious than her approval. The blow was unex pected, its weight was great, and its weight was never lessened until i t was wholly re moved. The rescinding resolutions came to me the Saturday next preceding the Wed nesday when M r . Sumner died. I was then in i l l health, so i l l that my attendance at the Senate did not exceed one half of each day's session through many weeks. M r . Sumner called upon me to inquire, and anxious to know, whether I could attend the session of Monday and present the resolutions. I gave him the best assurance that my condition permitted. When the resolutions had been presented, and when I was leaving the cham ber, M r . Sumner came to me, and, putting his arm over my shoulder, he walked with me into the lobby, where, after many thanks by him, and with good wishes for my health, we parted, without a thought by me that he had not before him many years of rugged life. For several years previous to 1874, M r . Sum ner had been accustomed to speak of himself as an old man, and on more than one occasion he spoke of life as a burden. To these ut terances I gave but little heed. The chief assurance for any considerable well-doing in the world is to be found in good purposes and i n fixedness of purpose when a purpose has been formed. These character istics were M r . Sumner's possessions, but in him they were subject to very important limitations as powers i n practical affairs. He did not exhibit respect or deference for the opinions of others even when the parties were upon a plane of equality, as is the usual situation in legislative bodies. He could not concede small points for the sake of a great result. Hence i t was that measures in which he had an interest took on a form at the end that was not agreeable to him. Hence it is that he has left only one piece of legislation that is distinctly the work of his hand. When the bill was under consideration which

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denied to colored persons the privilege of naturalization in the United States, he secured an amendment by which the exclusion was limited to the Mongolian race. H i s declara tion as to the status of the States that had been i n rebellion was not far away from the policy that was adopted finally, but he did not accept as wise and necessary measures the amendments to the Constitution which were designed to make that policy permanent. Indeed, it was his opinion, at one period of the controversy over the question of negro suffrage, that a legislative declaration would be sufficient. The field of his success is to be found in the argumentative power that he possessed and in its use for the overthrow of slavery. Of the anti-slavery advocates who entered the Senate previous to the opening of the war, he was the best equipped in learn ing, and his influence i n the country was not surpassed by the influence of any one of his associates. In his knowledge of diplomacy, he had the first rank i n the Senate for the larger part of his career. H i s influence i n the Senate was measured, however, by his influence i n the country. His speeches, es pecially in the period of national controversy, were addressed to the country. He relied upon authorities and precedents. H i s powers as a debater were limited, and it followed inevitably that in purely parliamentary con tests he was not a match for such masters as Fessenden and Conkling, who in learning were his inferiors. My means for information are so limited that I do not express an opinion upon the question whether M r . Sumner's ambitions i n public life were or were not gratified. On one or two occasions he let fall remarks which indicated a willingness to be trans ferred to the Department of State. Major Ben : Perley Poore had received the impression that there was a time when M r . Sumner looked to the Presidency as a possibility. A t an accidental meeting with Major Poore, he said to me : " I have dined with Sumner, and he gave me an account of the conversation he had with you this morning, in which you consoled him for not gaining the Presidency." I recalled the conversation. It was a Sunday-morning talk, and there was no special purpose on my part, however my remarks may have been received by M r . Sumner. He spoke of the opportunity furnished to M r . Jefferson for the exposition of his views in his first inaugural address. I then proceeded to say that, omitting the incumbent of the

ADMINISTRATION. office, of whom nothing could then be said, not more than three or four men had gained in standing by their elevation to the Presi dency, beyond the fact that their names were upon the r o l l . The exceptions were, first of all, L i n c o l n , who had gained most. Then Jackson, who had gained something—indeed, a good deal by his defense of the Union when compared w i t h what he might have lost by neglect of duty in the days of nullification. Washington had gained much by demonstrat i n g his capacity for civil affairs, by the legacy of his farewell address, and by the shaping of the new government under the Constitu tion i n a manner calculated to strengthen the quality of perpetuity. A t the end, I claimed that the other occupants of the Presi dential office had not gained appreciably by their promotion. In two important particulars, Samuel Adams and Charles Sumner are parallel characters i n American history. M r . Adams was a leader i n the contest that the colonies carried on against Great B r i t a i n . Our legal standing i n the controversy with the mother country has never elsewhere been presented as forcibly and logically as it was stated by M r . Adams in his letters to the royal gover nors in the name of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, between the years 1764 and 1775. When the contest of words and of arms was over he was not only not an aid in the organization of the new government, but he was an obstacle to its success. He ac cepted the Constitution w i t h hesitation and under constraint. A f t e r the overthrow of slavery and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, M r . Sumner gave no wise aid to the work of reconstruct ing the government upon the basis of the new conditions that had been created by the war and by the abolition of slavery. A s every guarantee for freedom contains some ele ment of enslavement over or against some who are not within the guarantee, men some times hesitate as to the wisdom of accepting guarantees of rights i n one direction which work a limitation of rights or privileges in other directions. The Constitution of the United States, while it gave power to the body of States and guaranteed- security to each, yet deprived the individual States of many of the privileges and powers that they had enjoyed as colonies. E v e r y amendment to the Constitution, from the first to the last, has limited the application of the doctrine of home rule i n the government.

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IT was at the Shide Observatory, Isle of W i g h t , i n Professor Milne's study, booklined, paper-strewn, fragrant with odors of Japan. On a shelf at one side an electric watch ticked patiently (perhaps the only elec tric watch i n the world), its long forefinger sending off hourly signals to the instruments outside, as it does a l l day long and all night long, year after year. F o r hours now I had been listening for the automatic bell-call to announce some earthquake in Iceland or South A m e r i c a or off the tortured coast of New foundland, but the bell kept silent. No news through the earth this day of Borneo's crust caving i n or of the West Pacific bottom shift ing. The old ground of seismology was pretty well talked over by now; so we shifted to new ground—to that region which lies under a l l ground—the interior of the earth. Was there anything to say about it ? Could anything be known about i t ?

p i e ; the thicker the crust the slower the loss of heat. With several hundred miles of crust you might get almost no c o o l i n g . " " But the law of regular increase i n tem perature ? " " One degree Fahrenheit for every fiftyone feet you go down ? I know But that law applies only a certain distance. Figure it out for yourself. One mile down gives an increase of 100 degrees, ten miles down 1,000 degrees, t h i r t y miles down 3,000 de grees—that's about the highest temperature we know anything about. It's the temper ature of the oxy-hydrogen flame. Platinum melts there, wrought iron melts there, gold evaporates there; all our surface rocks would melt there. Go down forty miles, and you get a temperature of 4,000 degrees; go down fifty miles, and you get 5,000 degrees; and so on until at a depth of 1,000 miles you might expect to reach a temperature of 100,000 degrees— which is absurd. It is a generally accepted view that the earth's temper ature decreases more and more slowly as you go deeper and deeper into it, and, after a cer tain point, say 200 miles, SHOWING T H E COURSES OF E A R T H the rate of increase is QUAKE TREMORS. hardly appreciable."

The Professor smiled. " W e know i t ' s h o t , " he said. " H o w hot ? " " Perhaps as hot as the sun, when you get well inside. Y o u know i t was flung off from the sun, since which DIAGRAM time it has been con densing and c o o l i n g . " A n earthquake occurs at J . The first tremors travel " A n d beyond that " A n d how long has from J to S, C, B , A , through the earth. Later waves travel on the surface from A , B , C, to S. point you come to a the cooling taken ? " great molten sea ? ' ' ' ' L o r d K e l v i n says ' ' On the contrary, you leave a small molten twenty million years, but geologists and paleontologists ask for at least a hundred sea behind you, and come to a great rigid core." million." I stared at this. " To a great rigid core ? ' ' " A n d you think it may have kept its orig ' ' Y e s ; my experiments and those of others inal heat a l l these years ? " " W h y not ? W e find molten lava to-day in recording earthquake tremors indicate that inside rocks that have been cooling fifty years our earth is at least twice as r i g i d as steel. on a volcano's side. I t ' s the same princi- F o r instance, seismic waves through the body 7

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of the world starting, say, from Japan, reach the Isle of W i g h t in sixteen minutes, which is nearly twice as fast as they would come the same distance through solid steel. The greater the rigidity, you know, the faster the rate of wave transmission." ' ' Do these seismic waves travel through the earth in straight lines, or do they follow around its surface ? ' ' " I am inclined to think that they radiate from their point of origin in all directions through our earth and over its surface. I will show you some seismograms that lead to this conclusion, and also throw light on the condition of the earth's i n t e r i o r . " The Professor produced a book pasted full of seismogram tapes, each bearing its straight blank line, broken into loops and jagged points where the earthquake tremors had set the needle swinging. It has been explained in a previous a r t i c l e * how the quiverings and swayings of these seismic pendulums are registered photographically on moving bands of paper. ' ' N o w , ' ' continued the Professor, ' ' here is a seismogram from the South Indian Ocean which shows what I may call seismic echoes; but before going into that let me tell you that waves through our earth reach Shide eighteen minutes after they leave Borneo, which is not very much i n excess of the time required for similar waves to travel from the West Indies, though Borneo is more than 2,000 miles farther away. A n d the reason of this is that the Borneo waves come through the earth at a greater depth than the West In dian waves, and therefore travel more quickly, which leads to the conclusion that the earth becomes more elastic as you approach the center. F r o m such observations as are at our disposal D r . C . G . Knott infers that the elas ticity which governs the propagation of a certain class of vibrations increases at the rate of 1.2 per cent, for each mile of descent. It is difficult to explain this greater speed of transmission on any other theory. W e a l ways find that seismic waves from points on the globe nearly opposite us travel much faster than any other waves, simply because they pass nearer to the earth's center or re gion of maximum rigidity. On the other hand, we find that waves from points on our own side of the globe travel to us more slowly, since they come along shallow chords in a less rigid region. These phenomena, invari ably noted at all our seismic observatories, entirely upset the old theory that the earth's * " J o h n Milne, Observer of Earthquakes," by Cleveland Moffett, M C C L U K E ' S M A G A Z I N E for May,

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interior is a freely moving liquid, and dem onstrate apparently that the earth-orange, under its peel of crust, is a mass very much more rigid than the crust i t s e l f . " " Y e t extremely hot ? " " Of c o u r s e . " " So hot that everything melts ? " " So hot that everything would melt if it could. A n d everything does melt in a cer tain limited region, a sort of viscous layer, pasty i n its upper parts and solid down below." " W h y not molten a l l the way down ? " " Because of the pressure above. A t a depth of 200 miles this would amount to about 600 tons to the square inch, probably enough to squeeze the molten rock and metal back into a solid state. A t any rate, a depth must soon be reached where the pressure is great enough to effect that result. You know the general l a w : that heat expands and cold contracts. W e l l , there are strong reasons for believing that most metals and rocks can be prevented from melting under heat i f you prevent them from expanding. Or, i f you have a quantity of molten metal which has already expanded i n melting, you can bring i t back to the solid state by great pressure, just as you can solidify liquid air by putting it under great pressure. The interior of the earth—the ball of the orange under neath the peel—though potentially liquid, is actually solid and extremely dense. It would immediately become liquid i f the pressure were removed. It is hot enough to become liquid, but by the laws of matter cannot do so without expanding, and it cannot expand so long as i t is squeezed down under the great weight upon i t . Y o u must understand that the earth, originally liquid, became solid under two influences: i t began to solidify at the surface by cooling, the crust growing thicker and t h i c k e r ; and i t began to solidify at the center by pressure, the core growing larger and larger. This double phenomenon of solidifying continued until a solid outer shell and a solid inner core came close to gether i n what may be called the critical region of the earth, a region that feeds lava to volcanoes." Professor Milne went on to consider what takes place in this c r i t i c a l region, this sub terranean and intermittently collapsing bat tlefield, where pressure and heat are ever fighting with changing fortune to make solid liquid and liquid solid. A s the crust cools it shrinks into countless wrinkles, just as an orange withers, these wrinkles being moun tain ranges and deep-cut valleys; for a con-

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tracting sphere must somehow squeeze to足 gether and readjust its superficial covering. A n d when an insufficiently supported area caves i n , when one of the girders of a conti足 nental frontier crashes into the sub-viscous layer beneath, like a Switzerland sliding into the Pacific Ocean, the shock goes v i b r a t i n g through the earth (we call it an earthquake), and it lifts the crust up i n long waves, like portions of a raft upon an ocean swell. These

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earth-waves, after traveling great distances, so Professor Milne has calculated, measure between crests from twenty to forty miles, and the crowns of their swells lift two or three feet above the level, so that a whole mountain range or a whole plain or a whole city heaves up two or three feet, then settles down as m u c h ; but a l l together and so evenly that only the seismic instruments can feel i t . London, N e w Y o r k , and all the cities i n the world are i n this way raised and lowered many times a year. A n d after a severe shock, these l o n g earth-swells persist for many hours before subsiding, about ten or twenty seconds being occupied by the lifting of one of them and ten or twenty seconds by the sinking.

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" Then the surface of our earth is really quite elastic ? " I remarked. " The surface rocks are as you say. But the assumption of a liquid interior and a solid shell leads to the absolute absurdity that there are no tides in the ocean, for it is a matter of mathematical demonstration that even a shell of solid steel 500 kilometers (312 miles) thick would yield under the enormous pull of sun and moon (this is L o r d K e l v i n ' s cal-

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culation) as i f it were India rubber, while a crust of any thickness assumed by those who hold the shell theory would buckle up under the moon's attraction i n a great land-wave that would accompany the moon around, car足 r y i n g the water up and down so that it would be apparently undisturbed. W e should have land-tides, but none of w a t e r . " " A s a matter of fact, is there no buck足 ling up of the earth under the moon's pull ? " " None that our instruments have as yet revealed with any certainty. It is likely, however, that more delicate instruments will show that there is a regularly recurring moonwave through the land with a lift of about one inch in 300 miles. But that, although

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of interest in itself, is insignificant compared to the seismic pulsations we are considering." Coming back now to our book of seismograms, Professor Milne pointed out a further indication that the earth's interior is more r i g i d than its surface. " If you look clearly at these tapes," he said, ' ' you w i l l be struck by a repetition of the same figure or pattern in the needle trac ings. The seismograms of nearly all impor-

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page 363], and here is the Shide observatory at S. N o w let us suppose an earthquake in Japan at J . Then the first seismic record will come to us on a path that is nearly straight, deep through the line of densest and most r i g i d medium, J S. But other seismic waves go forth from J by many paths, as J A , J B , J C ; and these, reaching the surface succes sively, may be carried along after emergence on the surface at a slower rate of transmission

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tant earthquakes contain such repetitions, or, as I styled them just now, seismic echoes. For several minutes the pendulum will oscil late through a certain number of loops and zigzags, recording, as it were, an earthquake signature—and many earthquakes carry with them what might be called the post-mark of their origin—and then presently it will re peat the very same loops and zigzags on a smaller scale, a miniature copy. A n d often there will follow one or two more repetitions, the record running off finally so far in dimin uendo that a magnifying glass is needed to show the resemblance between the last tiny autograph and the original. N o w I think we have here several seismic records of the same disturbance, these having traveled through the earth to different stations by different paths. I will show you what I mean by a dia gram. Here is the earth [see diagram on

and come to S one after another, each in its turn affecting the instruments. These are the precursors of the initial movement or shock of the earthquake, the main portion of which travels from the place of origin to the observ ing station as surface undulations. Following the shock are the echoes, reverberations, or earthquake followers, but whence these rhythmical repetitions are reflected we do not know. W e cannot say that there is music within our world, but perhaps, i n consequence of surgings at its point of origin, as an earth quake dies, music-like groupings of vibra tions are recorded at stations distant from the point of o r i g i n . " " Do a l l seismic disturbances originate," I asked, " in what you call the earth's criti cal region ? ' ' " B y no means. Earthquakes are dis tinctly of two kinds. There are those due

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to collapse i n the critical region, which cause the surface of our earth to heave and throb deeply; and there are those which originate by fracture due to excessive bending of the crust. These latter, which comprise at least ninety-five per cent, of the earthquakes felt, merely cause an elastic shiver, and are never propagated to great distances." " A r e there none that start at the center of the earth or near the center ? ' ' " None that we have detected. Were there any such, it is evident that they would reach a l l our seismic stations at precisely the same or nearly the same moment, hav ing equal distances to t r a v e l ; but that has never happened. There are always marked differences i n time for a given lot of seismograms, corresponding to the varying dis tances of our twenty-five stations from the point of disturbance. It is by comparing these different seismograms that we get the pre cise location of any particular earthquake." " Then you conclude that the interior of the earth below the critical region is in a state of rest; is just a silent, solid ball intensely hot. Does i t glow w i t h the heat red or white ?" " It can't show a glow so long as i t is cov ered up by a layer of gross material that does not transmit l i g h t ; but had we the means of seeing into the earth's interior at the time when any readjustment took place i n the critical region, its luminosity might flicker, and although we cannot see through a brick wall, it is not impossible that a something accompanying the phenomena of light on one side of the same may be rendered evident on the o t h e r . " " Would i t show a glow i f the crust were stripped off ? " " U n d o u b t e d l y ; only i f the crust were stripped off, it would cease to be a silent, solid ball. It would become a ball spread over with an ocean of molten fires. Y o u see, i f the crust were stripped off, the pressure would be relieved that keeps the inner ball solid, and what had been potentially liquid would at once become really liquid—to a depth where the weight of liquid ocean would give sufficient pressure to maintain the solid state. Then would begin again the process of surfacecooling and crust-wrinkling, and gradually there would form another earth like our pres ent one, only smaller by the thickness of the old shell. Y o u must know that we get our volcanoes through the buckling of the outer crust. In the shrinking of the earth's surface as it cools, there is a tendency to create cav ernous spaces in the crust above some c r i t i cal region. These spaces may remain quiet

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for centuries; but so soon as water filters into one of them from the earth above or gets into i t by capillary action from the ocean alongside, conditions are reached which cul minate i n explosions of steam, and the ordi nary phenomena of violent convulsions and eruptions as we know them i n volcanoes." " Then i t does not follow that a l l the vol canoes in a certain region are fed from the same molten sea ? ' ' " Not at a l l , although there might be sev eral vents to one steam-driven lava lake. W e have an example in the Hawaiian Islands of two volcanoes close together, Kilauea and Mauna L o a , the former on the flanks of the l a t t e r ; yet the lava column in Kilauea stands 10,000 feet lower than i t stands in Mauna L o a . Here, plainly, each volcano is fed from its individual reservoir of lava, w i t h no com munication between the two, and each one represents a distinct pocket of liquid formed in the earth's crust by release of pressure." Passing down now below the region of earthquakes and volcano pools, we talked about the steadily increasing density of the inner ball and the significance of this. The conclusions drawn from seismogram records are supported by calculations and deductions of geologists and astronomers, the general opinion being that the earth's whole mass has a specific gravityof about 5.5 against a specific gravity in the crust of 2 . 5 ; i n other words, that the earth as we know i t is like a can non-ball covered with wood or leather, the outer part being light and flimsy compared to what is within. Furthermore, it is cal culated that the earth's central core must' have a specific gravity of at least 10 to bring the average up to 5.5. I asked Professor Milne for the explanation of this. " There are two w a y s , " he said, " of ac counting for the great density and weight of the earth's central core. If we assume that it is made up of elements as we have them on the surface and in the same proportions, we must conclude that these elements are so packed together at the center that a given bulk of surface earth weighs only one-fourth as much as the same bulk of center earth. But since solids as we know them are only very slightly compressible, the idea that the density at the center of the earth is due to mere packing of the components together has to be abandoned. Pressure has some effect in increasing the density of solids, but comparatively l i t t l e . A more reasonable hy pothesis is that the earth's core has great weight and density because the densest and heaviest elements arranged themselves there

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in the planet's earliest period of formation. It is a rational assumption that when the earth was liquid, metals with great specific gravity, like platinum (21), gold (19), silver (10), lead (11), iron (7), sank below such lighter ele ments as silicon (2.4), aluminium (2.5), so dium (.97), carbon (3.3), and others which form the chief constituents of our surface rocks, clays, and sands. This arrangement corresponds with what the spectroscope shows to exist in other heavenly bodies—that is, heavier layers toward the center—and corre sponds with what geologists have actually found to be true of our earth so far as their researches go. The black basalt rocks in Utah and Nevada, for instance, are among the heaviest we have, and are known to have been thrown up from a great d e p t h . " " T h e n , " said I, " there may be great de posits of the heavier metals at the earth's center ? " " That is the view of many scientists, and there is nothing improbable in i t . W e should account then for the comparative scarcity of gold, platinum, and the more precious metals on the surface by assuming that the light crust contains only such occasional deposits of them as have leaked up somehow out of their proper lower layer, to be precipitated in the rock-scum of the surface. B y the same reasoning, it is likely that the lighter

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elements of the crust are very rare in the central core. A n d i f we could imagine people living there, we should probably find them making wedding-rings out of alumi nium, and building barns w i t h gold alloy. By the way, you may not know what an enormous quantity of aluminium there is on the earth's crust. It is by far the most abundant of all our metals, since it is the basis of all our earth and clay. In an ordinary brick there is over a pound of pure aluminium, and in every workman's back yard there is enough of it to build a battleship. It is merely a question of getting it out c h e a p l y . " " Is it l i k e l y , " I asked, " that the various metals and elements i n the earth's interior are arranged evenly in layers as you go down according to specific gravity ? " " N o ; there is probably only a general ten dency toward such an arrangement, for we must assume that there were internal dis turbances, just as there were disturbances in the crust. Besides, there is no more likelihood that a l l the metals and elements are distinctly themselves at the earth's center than at the surface. They must be blended together in a great number of alloys and chemical unions." Here our talk turned to more general con siderations regarding the constitution of the earth, considerations of the highest interest, but into which I cannot go now.

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TO one who has seen General Leonard Wood at his work i n Santiago the popular esti mate of the man seems curi ously inadequate. H i s fame in the United States has rested almost wholly on what he has accomplished i n the material rehabilitation of a war-worn and turbulent prov ince, and yet this work reveals only one side of General Wood's character, and i n no wise explains the extraordinary personal ascendancy which he has attained in eastern Cuba. There are not many men in this or i n any other country who could have gone into the Santiago of August, 1898, with its thousands of dead and d j i n g , its reeking

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filth, its starvation, its utter prostration, and made of i t i n four months' time a clean, healthy, orderly city. Another soldier might have been chosen who could have preserved order as well as did General Wood, a lawyer might have reorganized the judicial system, and a physician reestablished the hospitals; but it would not have been easy to find an other man w i t h the varied mental equipment and the requisite physical endurance to serve in a tropical country as lawmaker, judge, and governor all in one; to build roads and sewers; to establish hospitals; to organize a school system and devise a scheme of finance; to deal amicably with a powerful church influence, and yet to remain, i n spite of such autoc racy, the most popular man i n the province. Y e t one cannot stay long i n Cuba without

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being convinced that i t was not so much what General W o o d did i n Santiago as what he was. He stood f o r Americanism. F o r years the Cubans had been looking to the great nation of the N o r t h for succor i n their struggle. They had at last been rescued, and the Spaniards had been driven from the island. Their ideal of the bravery, the hon esty, the power, the wisdom of the A m e r i c a n was high. H e must be everything that the Spanish oppressor was not. A n d here they had General Wood, the A m e r i c a n . H e was calm, firm, simple, accessible to poor as well as to r i c h . H e was direct and absolutely truthful i n what he said. He had none of the airs of the Spanish governors—a sturdy man in a k h a k i suit, who went everywhere, saw everything, and could be neither flattered, nor cajoled, nor deceived; a man who quelled riots w i t h his riding-whip. That was the American they knew. To this day the visitor at Santiago won ders at the apathy of the Cubans over the marvelous improvements i n their c i t y — i t s beautiful pavements, its clean alleys, its en larged water system, and its reorganized hospitals. These things make an acute i m pression on the cleanly A m e r i c a n ; but the average Cuban, who has never known any thing but dirt and disease, simply does not understand such conditions. He himself never suffers from yellow fever—then why all this fuss about quarantine, this fumigat ing and burning—thousands of dollars of Cuban money spent to protect the foreigner from disease? " Y e s , the pavements are good," a Cuban said to me g r u d g i n g l y ; but most of our people are just as well off without them. The asphalt hurts their heels." Some day, indeed, the splendid rock roads which General W o o d has been driving east and west and north and south, through jun gles and over mountains, w i l l earn their ap preciation; but to-day, when the four-wheeled wagon is unknown, when the burro-train is the accepted means of c a r r y i n g freight, the average Cuban cannot see the utility of such improvements, except as a means of provid ing work for the unemployed. He is merely vaguely jealous, feeling somehow that the American is repairing Cuba so that it w i l l be habitable for himself. These really wonderful public works, prosecuted i n spite of many difficulties, have made General Wood famous wherever English is spoken ; but they have not added appreciably to his glory among the Cubans. It is Wood the man and the Amer ican whom they love and respect; and it is

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Wood who has won their confidence more fully, perhaps, than any other American. It sometimes happens that a man of extra ordinary activity stands in the shadow of his own achievements. In a measure that is what General Wood has been doing, so far as his own countrymen are concerned. He is known in America mainly for the roads he has built, but in Santiago he is respected for the man he is. Those who know him best—and it is fortunate for the country that some of them are i n high places—know that it is the im mense personal force of the man, the rare ability to win the absolute confidence of every one w i t h whom he comes i n contact, that has won him his successes and has so per sistently suggested his name for still higher places. General Wood comes early to his fame. H e is now only thirty-nine years old. Eighteen months ago he was unknown outside of the limited circle of his personal acquaintance. A t the beginning of May, 1898, he was an army surgeon w i t h the rank of captain. Two months later he was commanding a brigade at San Juan, and his name was known in every hamlet in the United States. Before the year was out he had risen to the rank of major-general, and he held what was then one of the most im portant foreign commands i n the gift of the government. Because of this quick pro motion he has been called a man of oppor tunity ; but he is rather the man always ready for the opportunity. W i t h i n eight months after he received his army commis sion, back i n the middle '80's, he had earned a Congressional medal for gallant and haz ardous service, and he was then only a con tract surgeon, green from the schools. A n d it was not mere chance that made him colo nel of the Rough Riders and led his regiment first of a l l the troops into the jungle at L a s Guasimas. There is a glitter of brilliancy about such sudden rises i n fortune that frequently blinds a careless public to the generations of high breeding and the unremitting self-develop ment and self-preparation which have made such a career a possibility. General Wood's success dates back to the " Mayflower " ; for he is a direct descendant of Susanna White, whose son, Peregrine White, was the first white child born in New England. Nine years after the coming of the " Mayflower," the first of the Wood family, W i l l i a m Wood, landed in Massachusetts, and there, within a day's journey from Plymouth Rock, the family has grown and developed, although General Wood himself was born at Winchester, N e w Hamp-

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shire (October 9, 1860), where his parents temporarily resided. H i s mother, who is still living, comes of the old Massachusetts fami lies Hager, Cutler, and N i x o n . H i s immedi ate ancestors were nearly all farmers, of the stiff, stern stock that wrung a hard l i v i n g from the rocky farms of Wayland, Sudbury, and Weston. H i s father was D r . Charles Jewett Wood, a man of brilliant attainments, sturdy individuality, great physical energy, and, although strangely taciturn, a man who attracted and won the confidence of every one he met. F o r years he drove by day and night over the hills between Buzzard's Bay and Cape Cod, following the rigorous, under paid practice of a country doctor, and many are the little homes of the fisher folk where he called and forgot to leave his bill. The old Wood homestead at Barlow Landing, i n Pocasset, where the boy Leonard lived be tween the years of six and eighteen, has now been swept away to make room for a summer cottage. It stood only a stone's throw from the waters of Buzzard's B a y — a plain little two-story house sided with shingles and looking out at the old wharf where generations of Barlows have tied their vessels. It was young Wood's first ambition to follow the sea; the longing for adventure burned in his blood and drove him into a l most recklessly venturesome voyages down the coast. A little later he was planning for a voyage in the A r c t i c ; and he even went so far as to pack his clothing, ready for i n stant departure. D u r i n g the winter he at tended the district school, where he fared only moderately in his studies, but won a reputation for strength and daring. A n old schoolmate describes him as a square-built, stocky boy, with blue eyes and hair like caulking-tow. He was shy, sensitive, and s i l e n t ; and persevering rather than ready. For three years he attended an old-fashioned academy at Middleboro. He was fond of the languages and of history ; mathematics did not appeal to him. H i s reading was mostly of books of travel, history, and adventure, with an occasional novel. After the death of his father, in August, 1880, Wood entered the Harvard Medical School. He was almost without means ; but by earning what he could in tutoring and with the money from a hard-won scholarship he managed to pay his way, and came out third in his class at the examination for admission to the city hospital. D r . E . G . Brackett, of Boston, who was a classmate of his at the Medical School, describes him as " a boy of

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fine clean countenance." " A t that time," Dr. Brackett told me further, " Wood gave one the impression of being shy and back ward, just as any country boy might be on coming to the city to college. He seemed self-distrustful, for he had not learned his own strength ; but i t was self-distrust in assertion rather than i n action. He talked then as he does to-day, i n a low, steady voice, saying very little, but that little always direct and frank." Dr. E . H . Bradford, who was superinten dent of the Boston City Hospital while Wood was there as an intern, says of him : " He was one of the most satisfactory assistants I ever had—if not the most satisfactory. He was indefatigable i n his work, and when he was told to do a thing, he could be counted upon absolutely to do it, and do i t immediately. And he knew how to hold his tongue." D u r i n g his last year i n the medical school his shyness wore off somewhat—although to this day he gives a marked impression of re serve, i f not of diffidence—and he became immensely popular among those who knew him. It was not the homage paid to a bril liant student, although Wood was always near the top of his class ; but i t came to him because he was W o o d — a broad-minded, cool-headed, generous, unpretentious fellow. One of his classmates told me that Wood was more sought after than any other intern, notwithstanding a bold directness of speech (when he spoke at all) that never minced an opinion of things or of men. This directness remains w i t h him. He has the rare gift of looking a man i n the eye, telling him a dis agreeable truth, and being better friends w i t h him afterwards than he was before. He made i t a rule throughout his course to keep himself in perfect physical t r i m . He ran and walked hundreds of miles a month, and he boxed i n the amphitheater of the hospital until his muscles were like steel. A t twenty-four, Wood began the practice of medicine i n a l i t t l e office in Staniford Street, Boston, where the people were poor and pay was slow. There he spent nearly a year in a bitter struggle to get a start. By the aid of dispensary work and tutoring, he managed to pay expenses ; but that was all. The old longing for greater activity— the fever of the seaman and fighter in his blood—again took possession of him, and in A p r i l , 1885, he packed his satchel, and with out informing any of his friends, he went to New Y o r k to take an examination for ad mission as a surgeon i n the army. To his surprise, he passed second i n a competitive

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class of fifty-nine ; and there being no va cancies, he accepted a contract position, which he held until he was commissioned, January 5, 1886. H i s first service was on an assignment for two days at F o r t Warren, Massachusetts. IN

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In June, 1885, he was ordered to Arizona. He determined even before he left Boston that, i f an opportunity should ever present itself, he would enter the active branch of the service. He did not then know how soon his desire i n this regard was to be gratified. On the night of J u l y 4, 1885, he arrived at F o r t Huachuca, i n Arizona. There he met Captain H . W . L a w t o n of the Fourth Cavalry, now Major-General L a w t o n . Lawton had been at Harvard, and the two at once became friends. L a w t o n was leaving at four o'clock the next morning on what was to become one of the most famous of Indian campaigns—the pursuit of Geronimo, and Wood was ordered to report to him for duty. There was only one unassigned horse in the troop—a vicious, unreliable animal— and Wood knew next to nothing of riding. The instant he was mounted, the horse rushed into some heavy trees, to the damage of the young surgeon's clothing, but the rider never let go. That day he rode t h i r t y miles, through some of the roughest country i n Arizona, in the heat and dust of midsummer, and for five days afterward he was i n the saddle eighteen hours a day. It was what a cavalryman calls " healing i n the saddle," and a man who can do i t and live to ride any further has the mettle of a soldier i n him. F r o m July, 1885, u n t i l March, 1887, the young surgeon was almost continuously in the field, chasing Apaches through A r i zona, New Mexico, and 400 miles into old Mexico. Before he had been commissioned three months, and even then he was not a line officer, he was assigned to command a l l the i n fantry of the expedition, and sometimes the Indian scouts. B u t that was the way of the man—he went up by sheer personal force. I t w a s Wood's opinion that a well-trained white man could endure more than any In dian, and he set about deliberately to prove it. Governor Theodore Roosevelt, who knows him as well, perhaps, as any one, recently said of him : " No soldier could outwalk him, could live w i t h greater indifference on hard and scanty fare, could endure hardship better, or do better without sleep." Perhaps there never was an expedition so

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remarkable for its hardships and the extra ordinary endurance and fortitude of the men who took part i n i t as this chase for Geronimo and his Apaches among the cactus and chap arral of their own burning hills. Of t h i r t y picked frontiersmen who started out, only fourteen lasted to the end, and only two of these were officers—Lawton and Wood. B u t they brought i n Geronimo. The spirit of the wildest of a l l the Indian tribes had been broken by the relentless determination of a handful of white men. A t another time Wood was detailed with a force of twenty-seven Indian scouts to follow a straggling minor t r a i l . A l l they carried with them was little sacks of coffee and salt. There were only six tin cups i n the party. B u t they killed and ate deer, and these, with prickly pears and roots that the Indians dug, sufficed them for food. A s for water, they found it when they could, on those parched hills. A n d Wood slept and ate and marched with the Indians ; managed them, too, as he has since managed the Cubans ; and so severe was the expedition that two of these hardy scouts died from the effects of it, after they returned. Once, sleep ing half-clad on the ground, Wood was stung by a tarantula, and yet marched on foot, though suffering exquisitely, for two days, when finally he fell delirious. A t another time, arriving at a stockaded ranch, he bought a large steer, and such was the hun ger of the party that the twenty-eight men ate the animal to the bones i n two meals. " In this remarkable pursuit," writes Gen eral Miles, i n his report, " he [Captain L a w ton, w i t h his command] pursued them from one range of mountains to another, over the highest peaks, often 9,000 and 10,000 feet above the level of the sea and frequently in the depths of the canons, where the heat i n July and August was of tropical intensity. A portion of the command leading on the t r a i l were without rations for five days, three days being the longest continuous period. They subsisted on two or three deer killed by the scouts and mule meat without salt. These men made marches where i t was impossible to move cavalry or pack-trains ; but their la borious and painful efforts were crippled by the miserable shoes made at and furnished by the military prison at F o r t Leavenworth. The worthless material fell to pieces i n three or four days' marching. The troops suffered somewhat from fever, but fortunately they were very strong men and endured their hard ships with commendable fortitude. When on the Y a q u i River and i n the district of Moctezuma, the hostile camp was surprised and

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attacked by Captain Lawton's command. The Indians escaped among the rocks, but their entire property, with the exception of what they could carry, was captured, including a l l their horses. They scattered i n every direc tion ; but whenever this occurred the troops followed the t r a i l of a single Indian until they came together again. . . . I enclose herewith the report of Assistant Surgeon Leonard Wood, who accompanied Lawton's command from the beginning to the end. He not only fulfilled the duties of his profession in his skillful attention to disabled officers and sol diers, but at times performed satisfactorily the duties of a line officer, and, during the whole extraordinary march, by his example of physical endurance, greatly encouraged others, having voluntarily made many of the longest and most difficult marches on foot." After Geronimo, finding himself cornered, had consented to go back and surrender to General Miles, Lawton's party and the Apaches marched northward, i t being the understand ing that there should be a truce between them. Wood and two officers were detailed to march with Geronimo's warriors as hos tages, and this they did for several days, sleep i n g and eating with the murderous Apaches, often miles away from their companions. In his report of the campaign, Captain L a w t o n said : " I desire to invite the attention of the department commander to Assistant Surgeon Leonard Wood, the only officer who has been with me through the whole campaign. H i s courage, energy, and loyal support during the whole time, his encouraging example to the command when work was the hardest and prospects darkest, his thorough confidence and belief in the final success of the expedi tion, and his untiring efforts to make i t so, have placed me under obligations so great that I cannot express them." The young surgeon had improved his first opportunity. He was recommended to Con gress for a medal of honor, and he received it—ten years later. But the people of the Southwest who had lived next to the Apaches and knew better of what they were r i d gave a three weeks' celebration at Albuquerque in honor of the men who had brought Geronimo to terms. Before these festivities were well over, General Miles despatched Wood, with eight picked men, into Mexico, to run down a band of Indians that had escaped the first expedition. A t one time i n this remarkable expedition, which covered more than 2,000 miles of the wildest regions of Mexico, Wood and his men traveled for forty-seven days without seeing a human habitation or a trail.

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While the trip did not result i n the capture of the missing Apaches, i t served as stern train i n g for the service of later years. In spite of the hardships of these expeditions, to a man of General Wood's magnificent physique, love of adventure, and intense activity they were full of the keenest enjoyment. To this day he cannot speak of his frontier campaign i n g without a note of regret in his voice. " There is no life like i t , " I once heard him say. In the spring of 1887, Wood went to Los Angeles, the headquarters of the department of Arizona, as one of the staff surgeons—a reward for his service i n Mexico—and here he found a new opportunity awaiting him which should prove his unusual capacity in another line, that of his profession. Gen eral Miles had been thrown from his horse, and his leg had been badly broken. The surgeons who examined him feared the probability of amputation or permanent dis a b i l i t y — a catastrophe which would close his career i n the army. Then the General sent for Wood. N o man would feel the responsibility of deciding the fate of his commanding officer more keenly than Wood ; but young as he was, and knowing the judg ment of the senior surgeons, he gave the opinion that the leg could be saved. Miles unhesitatingly placed himself in the hands of the young surgeon, and the leg was saved, so that the commanding general of the armies of America walks to-day without a limp. A year later, in 1888, Wood was serving with the Tenth Cavalry i n the K i d outbreak in New Mexico, and later he was engaged in the exacting and difficult work of the heliographic survey of Arizona, i n which General Miles was then deeply engrossed. There are probably few men i n the army who know every valley and mountain of that rugged wilderness better than does General Wood. A f t e r this service, there was a year at F o r t McDowell, and then a return to Cali fornia, where, i n 1889, he met Louise A . Condet Smith, a niece of IT. S. Justice Field, whom he married a year later, at Washington. It was during his service at the California posts, and at F o r t McPherson, near Atlanta, Georgia, that he became an expert foot-ball player. Foot-ball appealed to him strongly as furnishing the strenuously active element of his life which had dropped out of i t when he quit the Indian service of the Southwest. The team of which he was captain at Fort McPherson lost only one game i n two years. He continued to play foot-ball actively until

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WOOD,

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On December 1 3 , 1 8 9 9 , General Wood was promoted from the Principe to the command of the entire military division of Cuba, At the time of his promotion he was in this country on a brief by Miss Ben-Yusuf, taken especially for M C C L U R E ' S M A G A Z I N E , December ICth.

he was past thirty-seven years old, a few months before the outbreak of the Spanish war. A n incident of a game played at F o r t McPherson throws a l i g h t on the sterner side of his character. He came home one afterÂ noon w i t h a deep cut over one eye. It was bleeding profusely; but he calmly changed his clothes, and went to his office, where he laid out his surgical instruments, and, standing

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office of governor of the provinces of Santiago and Puerto and to the office of military governor of the whole island. official visit, and the above portrait is from a photograph the morning General W o o d sailed on his return to Cuba,

before a mirror, quietly took four stitches in the wound, afterwards dressing i t properly. To an army surgeon, Washington is a place full of the possibilities of honor, but also a place of much hard work. He must attend as medical adviser all active and reÂ tired officers of the army and their families ; he is official physician to the Secretary of War, and he shares with a navy surgeon the

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responsibility of attending the President. General Wood was ordered to duty in Wash ington in September, 1895, and it was not long before he became a frequent visitor to President Cleveland and his family. A n d here in the White House, as on the plains, he won friends. WOOD'S

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When the administration changed and President McKinley came into power, D r . Bates of the navy was, until his death, attend ing surgeon at the White House. One night in the fall of 1897, Wood received a summons from the President, and from that time for ward he was the regular medical adviser to M r . and M r s . McKinley, as he was already attendant on General Alger, the Secretary of War. It was about this time that he met Theodore Roosevelt, then Assistant Secre tary of the Navy. They were guests at din ner of the Lowndes family, and they walked home together in the evening. Their friend ship was instant. Both were men of ex traordinary vitality and activity. Both loved hunting and fishing, sailing, and all the vigorous out-door sports which do so much toward making good men. Both knew the wild W e s t ; both were born with the blood of fighters hot within them. In each of them was bred the best of American tradi tions—for Roosevelt had come from the ancient Dutch stock of Manhattan and Wood was from the oldest blood of New England. And, more than anything else, both were men of high ideals and splendid ambitions. Straightway the two young Americans, not so famous then as they were soon to be, were tramping together in the country, each walk ing at a gait to outdo the other and each pretending that he was doing nothing at all unusual. They also ran foot races, and dur ing the winter, on many a blustery afternoon, they went to the hills in their sweaters and coasted on Norwegian ski. Occasionally they persuaded Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, or some army officer to go with them ; but there were not many men who could stand the pace they set. On pleasant Sunday after noons they would walk out Georgetown way with their children. In these excursions, they led in scaling steep hills, crossing l o g bridges, exploring ravines, and climbing trees. Sometimes the children pretended to be sol diers tracking Indians, and sometimes to be the Indians who were tracked—all of which was not only a jolly pastime, but a vigorous training in fearlessness and endurance.

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In the spring of 1898 came the talk of war with Spain. Both Wood and Roosevelt were fired at once with the prospect. Wood's keenest ambition had always been to get into the line of the army and see active service. He was a tried and experienced soldier, a man of acknowledged judgment and personal force. The President believed in him and in Roosevelt; they were, indeed, his personal friends. He called them the " w a r party," and when Wood came i n of a morning he would ask, " Have you and Theodore declared war yet ?" It was inevitable that they should go into the fight. They first planned to raise regiments in their respective States, Roosevelt i n New Y o r k and Wood i n Mass achusetts. This, however, was likely to be attended by much red tape and not a little delay—things that neither of the men could brook. It was perfectly natural, therefore, that they should seize upon the idea of a regiment such as the Rough Riders—an idea suggested by Senator Warren. Wood had himself been a rough rider ; he knew inti mately every phase of the service, and he felt that it was the dash and boldness of attack of an Indian campaign that would avail most in the jungles of Cuba. Roosevelt w as offered the colonelcy, with authority to recruit such a regiment, but declined it, and said that he would accept the lieutenant-colonelcy if Wood was appointed colonel. The Secretary of W a r approved, and Wood was commis sioned to raise the regiment. General Alger, indeed, gave Wood a desk in the corner of his office. " N o w don't let me hear from you again," he said, " u n t i l your regiment is raised.". r

It is not necessary here to repeat the fa miliar story of the Rough Riders. Within twenty-one days from the time permission was given to begin the recruiting, the famous regiment was ready to march. A n d not the least of the task which confronted Wood and Roosevelt was the selection of 1,200 rough riders from 23,000 applicants, from every part of the Union. Never before had there been such a record i n military organization. In the battle of L a s Guasimas Wood was the same steady, low-voiced man that he was in the drawing-rooms of Washington, abso lutely fearless in a hail of bullets, now calling up a nervous captain and asking him to re peat his orders, now walking along the line, up and down, where every soldier was hugging the ground, and now calmly cautioning his men : " Don't swear, men ; shoot." A lieu-

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tenant of the Rough Riders said to m e : " I f there was any prevailing spirit of courage in that march from Daiquiri and i n the battle that followed, that spirit and inspiration was Colonel Leonard Wood." " N o officer," writes Governor Roosevelt, " ever showed more ceaseless energy i n pro viding for his soldiers, i n reconnoitering, i n overseeing, personally, a l l the countless de tails of life in camp, in patrolling the trenches at night, i n seeing by personal inspection that the outposts were doing their duty, i n attending personally to a l l the thousand and one things to which a commander should attend, and to which only those commanders of marked and exceptional mental and bodily vigor are able to attend." General Wood told me that he felt from the first the pressing necessity of haste i n conquering the Spaniards. " I t was a race between malaria and the constitution of our men," he said, and that was the principle on which the rush of the army was made. It is the accepted opinion that the extraordinary attack at L a s Guasimas, of which the Span iards said, " They tried to catch us with their hands," had more to do w i t h demoraliz ing the enemy and making possible the sub sequent victories than any other one thing. The Rough Riders paid dearly for their vic tories ; of 500 men who landed at Daiquiri one hundred and forty-two were killed or wounded. GOVERNOR OF SANTIAGO.

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was black with buzzards. Of government and police there were none, or of courts or schools. The jails were choked with pris oners, the hospitals were full, and, to cap the sum of woe, yellow fever was raging. There were a thousand difficult problems, and every problem was acute. In the ab sence of any laws or precedents, the gov ernor must answer every one of countless clamorers and decide unnumbered questions. It was the first time that an American had been delegated to reconstruct a captured foreign city, and yet General Wood was not flurried for a moment, nor did he hesitate or waver. Here, as never before, he had need for steadiness, judgment, force; but even in those t r y i n g early days he never seemed to use more than half of his strength, nor to exert half of his rightful authority. When he moved, men and things moved irresistibly before him—because they must. A n d the governor himself worked night and day, be cause he could. He gathered up the first hundred men he met i n the streets and set them to work i n spite of themselves ; he opened stations to feed the s t a r v i n g ; he impressed every suitable vehicle in the city to carry away the filth ; he started a police force, established a yellow fever h o s p i t a l ; he put down the looters and robbers with an iron hand, and he started the doctors on a house-to-house visitation to relieve the sick. A n d while he worked, a black cloud of smoke rose for days above the city to the eastward, where thousands of dead were being piled and burned because there were not helpers to bury them fast enough. S i t t i n g personally as the judge of a summary court, he cleared the jails ; he made the laws, and then he ex^etttt^ themi<cS^hen the butchers charged

Two months from the day on which W o o d received his commission as colonel o l the Rough Riders he was appointed a brigadfie^ general of volunteers (July 8, 189SWatfd eleven days later he was governor of tVk ®sty of Santiago. H i s appointment as getffernofr came naturally to him ; he was the mafi°#f ajb ? t e O p r ^ w ^ b f c n ^ / t v % e J p j X fflht. others who had made an extraordinary " r ^ e o ^ in the field, and he was one of the Jpw^mejji who were as vigorous, physically, at-rafe | M of that terrible tropical campaign as^#4hej$|-" fadprn^^Mrffifetoti of fim%r^*alting ginning. He went at the task of t,'en%iljb^fcg ing the stricken city with cool juJgm^nti/glucomconquerable energy, and a real j o V g O T P f t i q ^ ^ ' te»njOÎfeefeaxfirifcjsd % « e ? g y i r e city fi^WWne^he orSantiago was thronged w i t h stffflfci^fiw: W&tfMm t®M destitute people ; i t was a g i t a t e o j W t f e ^ f s - | ^ g | d " a § a p 3 ^ e ^ ^ t e s t a W i s i ^ 4 school banding Spanish army, and s u r r r t U m i e t i ^ t y ^ s y s t o u « ^ s © d ^ e ^ i n a S ^ 4 ^ ( ? f / t a x ^ i o n , forand out by undisciplined hordes of C u ' ^ a n s t f M e r e fi^û*-%hîn| ^d^(^|teîîins, were 15,000 sick i n a population, o f - ^ , G M / w ^ l ^ ^ . % i ^ e ^ t h ^ ) W Q n ( f e ^ 9 Q l J p to the ym&W the e x and people were dying at the raê ci!fcqpQâ« fir^rl^m^^pS^^^m day. The streets were k n e e - d ^ e p ^ ^ m i i p 9&$se|i 6 ¥ % i ^ Q ^ T O r ^ f t 3 ) e B t o Q i f t M i ^ i e ordinary had acand filth, and thousands of dead vMl&fpleSP e e f ^ u f e ^ a ^ h ^ tered in the areaways, so that tlntf-Si© aftovg Ûs^kiM^^^rQ^^Vim he appro£

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priated for public improvements, and under his direct supervision, there were constructed five miles of asphalt pavement, fifteen miles of country pike, and six miles of macadam ; and 200 miles of country road were opened up. A quarter of a mile of macadam pavement which the Spaniards had laid along the water front a year before had cost $180,000 ; Wood's engineers paved a large proportion of the city's streets with asphalt, five miles in all, for less than $175,000. General Wood's methods of dealing with affairs were as characteristic as tb^" were suggestive. Early one mn*-' 'anted to see the chief e r ^ ' orks, and he r p " mein-

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actly like the other men of the party, in a brown khaki suit. He wore a peaked cavalry hat and buff leather riding-leggings and spurs. His only distinguishing mark was the star on his shoulder, the insignia of a briga dier-general, and that was too high up for any of the little Cubans to see. Guantanamo is a typical east Cuban town of some 10,000 inhabitants. On this Sunday morning i t was swimming in clay mud, and wore an indescribable air of apathy and disheartenment. The faces at the doors were tired and lusterless, and even the clinking of the spurred heels of the Americans on the narrow flag walks failed to arouse any marked interest. Perhaps they didn't know that it was the governor who passed. In a big, bare, dilapidated room with barred windows a con ference was held with the mayor and the city council. The mayor was a small, dry, brown Id man, very smugly clad in a black suit. i his curl-brim straw hat he wore the lored cockade of a Cuban general—the 7 bit of color about him—and he carried arious tortoise-shell cane, on which he ed with both hands. He sat next the •ican governor, and, oddly enough, exbeneath a picture of Admiral Dewey, olemnly watched each speaker. The city •oil was made up very like an American ige board—of the apothecary, the wheel"•ht, the doctor, and so on ; but the memvaried in color from the pure olive of Spaniard to the shiny black of the full ed negro. , governor rose and greeted each man came i n with serious politeness, for 3ss. is the bread of existence to the MtPr they were all seated and the uga i w 4 frgps, i n walked that typical nstitution, Wi agitating editor. H e .th an indescribable bustle of imporj i d opposition, a dramatic effect unate by any Anglo-Saxofl. His note-book .cil were clearly i n evidence, and he the chair which was offered him. old mayor looked at him w i t h a k of interest; the American goverim not at a l l . The chief of the 1 was also there, a big, handsome straight and lithe as a bamboo, stol tipped up the skirts of his; 'ore black patent-leather leggings,. i, and a white linen uniform with inga, which set him off w i t h jaunty se. the talk (through an interpreter) Oney. They had not yet received wance from the customs fund, and

GENERAL WOOD AS A FOOT-BALL PLAYER. The picture shows General Wood in the uniform of the Olympic Foot-ball Team of San Francisco, of which he was a member during his service in California.

Later, in 1893 and 1894, he was a famous guard and half-back

and the captain of a team at Fort McPherson, near Atlanta, Georgia. team lost but one game.

During the two years of his captaincy his

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General Wood explained why it was delayed. The apothecary then reported that they had decided to build a fine yellow-fever hospital of stone ; but General Wood advised a wooden structure, with a wide veranda, and he ex plained with the ready knowledge of a skilled physician how difficult it was to disinfect a stone building. The grave old mayor nodded his head ; the American governor was wise. " T e l l them," said General Wood, " that they should get together and build a good schoolhouse. They would have the honor of con structing the first one in Cuba." But the mayor and council were silent— school-houses did not interest them. They discussed the new water-works system, on which the Americans were spending $100,000 ; and they wanted a stable for the horses of the rural guard, a subject which the gov ernor referred to the local American com mandant for investigation. " T e l l them," said General Wood, " t h a t I haven't heard any complaints from here," at which compliment the council nodded in deep appreciation, and the mayor even smiled. " They wish to thank you," said the inter preter, " f o r the interest which you take i n the town," and then it was the governor's turn to bow graciously. The immediate busi ness being now completed, the governor shook hands all around, addressing those about him readily in Spanish. A n d with this the con ference ended. When General Wood left Santiago for his first visit to the United States, in the spring of 1899, all Santiago came down to see him off and cheered him lustily. They presented him with a diploma of regard, a beautiful hand-work scroll written in Spanish—" The People of the city of Santiago de Cuba to General Leonard Wood. . . . The great est of all your successes is to have won the confidence and esteem of a people in trouble." He went N o r t h in the heat of the year for rest and relief, and to his astonishment and acute discomfort the country tried to receive him as a returned hero. He was feasted and interviewed and called upon for ad dresses, and his alma mater, Harvard Univer sity, made him the lion of her commence ment and conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws. But he had hardly begun to rest when news came that Santiago was down again with yellow fever and that the American soldiers were dying like sheep. Without a moment's delay or a thought of the danger involved, Wood set sail for Cuba, but not before he had purchased a ton of cor rosive sublimate and other disinfecting mate

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rial to take with him. He arrived at Santiago on July 9th, with his plan of campaign clearly marked out. The next day every American in Santiago was on his way to the mountains whether he wanted to go or not. Indeed, the entire American garrison left in the city consisted of just six soldiers, and they were all sick in the hospital. Y e t so much con fidence did General Wood place i n his Cuban guards, that he felt not the slightest fear of trouble. Santiago was given such a clean ing as no other city, perhaps, ever had. The streets were sprinkled with corrosive subli mate, chlorate of lime was sprayed even un der the tiles of the roofs, infected furniture and buildings were ruthlessly burned, and the whole city was washed as i f it were a toy town. Three months later, when I stepped on the wharf at Santiago, the first smell that greeted my nostrils was that of chlorate of lime, and the yellow flags were still flying. The measures were the measures of a strong man, and there was grumbling among those who were removed from their business; but six days after Wood landed, the epidemic was conquered—a victory as remarkable in its way for the governor-surgeon as that of Las Guasimas. General Wood's home is at The Guao, the country seat formerly occupied by the British Consul, Ramsden. It is a large and airy, though unpretentious, building w i t h a tall thatched roof. The view from amidst the tropical verdure of the grounds in front, across the bay of Santiago and to the mag nificent blue mountains beyond, is one to be long remembered. It w as here that Mrs. Wood and her two boys, one seven and one a baby two years old, spent last winter. Since then General Wood has had with him Major J . E . Runcie, his legal adviser and friend, and part of the time Lieutenant Hanna of his personal staff. H e lives very simply, usually riding into town, a distance of a mile, with a single orderly. He is out early i n the morning, and often reaches the palace at eight o'clock, and that after having visited the jail or the market or some one of half a dozen hospitals and homes i n which he takes especial interest. H i s office is in a little bare room at the back of the palace, facing San Tomas Street. Over him two American flags are draped. Two huge paint ings of Spanish subjects linger to represent a regime that is past, and a portrait of Gov ernor Roosevelt represents the new. It is typical of the rule of the Spaniards, that these old paintings, together w i t h all the others in the palace, were once beautir

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fully framed i n gilt and g o l d ; but some covetous official, needing money, disposed of the frames and left the bare canvases to ornament the walls. Swinging shutters lead into General Wood's office, and more than once I saw wan-looking Cuban women push ing through them w i t h their children. Wood surrounds himself w i t h Cubans, and trusts them absolutely—perhaps that is why they all trust him. H i s private secretary, through whom go all his official despatches and reports, is a Cuban who was once secre tary to General Gomez, and many of the clerks i n the palace are Cubans. He gives, also, great credit for his successes to his staff, and especially to Lieut. E . C. Brooks and Lieut. M . E . Hanna, who have been w i t h him from the first. Personally, General Wood gives the im pression of being a large man, although he lacks at least an inch of being six feet tall. He is what an athlete would call " well put up"—powerful of shoulders and arms, w i t h a large head and short neck. He stoops slightly, and steps w i t h a long, swift stride, rolling somewhat, seamanlike, in his walk. His face is one of great strength—large featured, calm, studious, and now lean and

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bronzed from serving in the tropics. He rarely smiles, and ordinarily has very little to say, and that in a low, even voice ; and yet, when i n the mood, he tells a story with great spirit and with a certain fine direct ness. He enjoys keenly a quiet social gath ering ; but a function i n which he must appear as the guest of honor is an undis guised terror to him. He dresses always, whether i n khaki or i n army blue, with trim neatness, and he makes a strikingly powerful figure in the saddle. A t thirty-nine General Wood is i n the prime of a vigorous manhood and at the beginning of a notable career. If he remains i n the army—and his ambitions are all military— he has twenty-five years of active service still before him. H i s countrymen may rest assured that whatever may be the task to which he is assigned, whether the governor ship of a foreign people or the command of a great army, that task will be performed with the fidelity and distinction becoming a tried American soldier. [Since the foregoing article was made ready for the press, Gen eral Wood has been appointed by the Presi dent to be governor of the whole island of Cuba.—Editor.]

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J . Curtis Gilmore.

Capt. W . S. Scott.

Lieut. E . C. Brooks.

General W o o d . GENERAL

WOOD,

GOVERNOR

OF SANTIAGO,

A N D HIS O F F I C I A L

STAFF.

'Bartholomew stuck to his levers like a m a n . '

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B Y F R A N K H . SPEARMAN, Author of " B u c k s " and other stories.

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IT was the second month of the strike, and not a pound of freight had been moved. Things did look smoky on the West E n d . The General Superintendent happened to be with us when the news came. " Y o u can't handle

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it, b o y s , " said he nervously. " What you'd better do is to turn i t over to the Columbian Pacific." Our contracting freight agent on the Coast at that time was a fellow so erratic that he

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was nicknamed " Crazy-horse." R i g h t in the midst of the strike Crazy-horse wired that he had secured a b i g silk shipment for New Y o r k . W e were paralyzed. W e had no engineers, no firemen, and no motive power to speak of. The strikers were pounding our men, w r e c k i n g our trains, and giving us the worst of it generally; that is, when we couldn't give i t to them. W h y the fellow displayed his activity at that par ticular juncture still remains a mystery. Perhaps he had a grudge against the r o a d ; if so, he took an artful revenge. Everybody on the system w i t h ordinary railroad sense knew that our struggle was to keep clean of freight business until we got r i d of our strike. Anything valuable or perishable was especially unwelcome. But the stuff was docked, and loaded, and consigned in our care before we knew i t . After that, a re fusal to carry it would be like hoisting the white flag; and that is something which never yet flew over the West E n d . " Turn it over to the C o l u m b i a n , " said the General Superintendent; but the General Su perintendent was not looked up to on our division. He hadn't enough sand. Our head was a fighter, and he gave tone to every man under him. " N o , " he thundered, bringing down his fist. " N o t in a thousand years. W e ' l l move it ourselves. W i r e Montgomery [the General Manager] that we will take care of i t . A n d wire him to fire Crazy-horse— and to do it right off." A n d before the silk was turned over to us Crazy-horse was look ing for another job. It is the only case on record where a freight hustler was discharged for getting business. There were twelve carloads; it was in sured for $85,000 a c a r ; you can figure how far the title is wrong, but you never can estimate the worry the stuff gave us. It looked as b i g as twelve million dollars' worth. In fact, one scrub car-tink, with the glory of the West E n d at heart, had a fight over the amount w i t h a skeptical hostler. He maintained that the actual money value was a hundred and twenty millions; but I give you the figures just as they went over the wire, and they are right. What bothered us most was that the strikers had the tip almost as soon as we had i t . Having friends on every road i n the country, they knew as much about our busi ness as we ourselves. The minute it was announced that we should move the silk, they were after us. It was a defiance; a last one. I f we could move freight—for we were already moving passengers after a

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fashion—the strike might be well accounted beaten. Stewart, the leader of the local contin gent, together with his followers, got after me at once. " Y o u don't show much sense, R e e d , " said he. " Y o u fellows here are breaking your necks to get things moving, and when this strike's over, i f our boys ask for your discharge, t h e y ' l l get i t . This road can't run without our engineers. We're going to beat you. If you dare try to move this silk, w e ' l l have your scalp when i t ' s over. Y o u ' l l never get your silk to Zanesville, I ' l l promise you that. A n d i f you ditch it and make a million-dollar loss, y o u ' l l get let out anyway, my b u c k . " " I ' m here to obey orders, S t e w a r t , " said I. What was the use of more ? I felt un comfortable ; but we had determined to move the silk; there was no more to be said. When I went over to the round-house and told Neighbor the decision, he said never a w o r d ; but he looked a great deal. Neigh bor's task was to supply the motive power. A l l that we had, uncrippled, was in the pas senger service, because passengers should be taken care of first of a l l . In order to win a strike, you must have public opinion on your side. "Nevertheless, N e i g h b o r , " said I, after we had talked a while, " we must move the silk a l s o . " Neighbor studied; then he roared at his foreman. ' ' Send Bartholomew Mullen here.'' He spoke with a decision that made me think the business was done. I had never hap pened, it is true, to hear of Bartholomew Mullen i n the department of motive power; but the impression the name gave me was of a monstrous fellow, big as Neighbor, or old man Sankey, or Dad Hamilton. " I ' l l put Bartholomew ahead of i t , " said Neighbor tightly. I saw a boy walk into the office. " M r . Garten said you wanted me, s i r , " said he, addressing the Master Mechanic. " I do, Bartholomew," responded Neigh bor. The figure in my mind's eye shrunk i n a twinkling. Then it occurred to me that it must be this boy's father who was wanted. " Y o u have been begging for a chance to take out an engine, Bartholomew," began Neighbor coldly; and I knew it was on. " Yes, s i r . " " Y o u want to get killed, Bartholomew." Bartholomew smiled as i f the idea was not altogether displeasing. " How would you like to go pilot to-mor-

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row for McCurdy ? Y o u to take the 44 and run as first Seventy-eight. McCurdy will run as second Seventy-eight." " I know I could run an engine all r i g h t , " ventured Bartholomew, as i f Neighbor were the only one taking the chances i n giving him an engine. " I know the track from here to Zanesville. I helped McNeff fire one week." " Then go home, and go to bed; and be over here at six o'clock to-morrow morning. And sleep sound, for it may be your last chance." It was plain that the Master Mechanic hated to do i t : it was simply sheer neces sity. " H e ' s a w i p e r , " mused Neighbor as Bartholomew walked springily away. " I took him in here sweeping two years ago. He ought to be firing now, but the union held him back; that's why he don't like them. He knows more about an engine now than half the lodge. They'd better have let him i n , " said the Master Mechanic grimly. ' ' He may be the means of breaking their backs yet. If I give him an engine and he runs it, I ' l l never take him off, union or no union, strike or no s t r i k e . " " How old is that boy ? " I asked. ' ' Eighteen; and never a k i t h or a kin that I know of. Bartholomew M u l l e n , " mused Neighbor, as the slight figure moved across the flat, " big name—small boy. W e l l , Bar tholomew, you'll know something more by to-morrow night about running an engine, or a whole lot less: that's as it happens. If he gets killed, it's your fault, R e e d . " He meant that I was calling on him for men when he couldn't supply them. " I heard once," he went on, " about a fellow named Bartholomew being mixed up in a massacree. But I take it he must have been an older man than our Bartholomew— nor his other name wasn't Mullen, neither. I disremember just what it was; but it wasn't Mullen." " Well, don't say I want to get the boy killed, N e i g h b o r , " I protested. " I've got plenty to answer for. I'm here to run trains —when there are any to r u n ; that's murder enough for me. Y o u needn't send Bartholo mew out on my account." " Give him a slow schedule, and I ' l l give him orders to jump early; that's all we can do. If the. strikers don't ditch him, he'll get through somehow." It stuck in my crop—the idea of put ting that boy on a pilot engine to take all the dangers ahead of that particular t r a i n ; but I had a good deal else to think of be

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sides. F r o m the minute the silk got into the McCloud yards, we posted double guards around. About twelve o'clock that night we held a council of war, which ended in our running the train into the out freight-house. The result was that by morning we had a new train made up. It consisted of fourteen refrigerator cars loaded with oranges which had come i n mysteriously the night before. It was announced that the silk would be held for the present and the oranges rushed through at once. Bright and early the re frigerator train was run down to the ice houses, and twenty men were put to work icing the oranges. A t seven o'clock, McCurdy pulled i n the local passenger with engine 105. Our plan was to cancel the local and run him right out with the oranges. When he got in, he reported that the 105 had sprung a t i r e ; this threw us out entirely. There was a hurried conference in the round-house. ' ' What can you do ? " asked the Super intendent i n desperation. " There's only one thing I can do. Put Bartholomew Mullen on it with the 44, and put McCurdy to bed for Number Two to n i g h t , " responded Neighbor. We were running first in first out; but we took care always to have somebody for One and Two who at least knew an injector from an air-pump. It was eight o'clock. I looked into the locomotive stalls. The first—the only—man in sight was Bartholomew Mullen. He was very busy polishing the 44. He had good steam on her, and the old tub was wheezing away as i f she had the asthma. The 44 was o l d ; she was homely; she was r i c k e t y ; but Bartholomew Mullen wiped her battered nose as deferentially as i f she had been a spickspan, spider-driver, tail-truck mail-racer. She wasn't much—the 44. But in those days Bartholomew wasn't much: and the 44 was Bartholomew's. " How is she steaming, B a r t h o l o m e w ? " I sang out; he was right in the middle of her. Looking up, he fingered his waste mod estly and blushed through a dab of crud? petroleum over his eye. " H u n d r e d and thirty pounds, sir. She's a terrible free steamer, the old 44. I ' m all ready to run her o u t . " " Who's marked up to fire for you, Bar tholomew ? ' ' Bartholomew Mullen looked at me frater nally. ' ' Neighbor couldn't give me anybody but a wiper, s i r , ' ' said Bartholomew, in a sort of a wouldn't-tbat-kill-you tone. The unconscious arrogance of the boy quite

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knocked me: so soon had honors changed his point of view. L a s t night a de spised w i p e r ; at daybreak, an engineer; and his nose i n the air at the idea of taking on a wiper for fireman. A n d all so innocent. " Would you object, Bartholomew," I suggested gently, " t o a train-master for fireman ? ' ' " I don't—think so, s i r . " ' ' Thank y o u ; because I am going down to Zanesville this morning myself, and I thought I'd ride w i t h you. Is it all right ? " " Oh, yes, s i r — i f Neighbor doesn't c a r e . " I smiled: he didn't know whom Neighbor took orders f r o m ; but he thought, evidently, not from me.

" Then run her down to the oranges, Bar tholomew, and couple on, and w e ' l l order ourselves out. See ? " The 44 looked like a baby-carriage when we got her in front of the refrigerators. How ever, after the necessary preliminaries, we gave a very sporty toot, and pulled out. In a few minutes we were sailing down the valley. F o r fifty miles we bobbed along with our cargo of iced silk as easy as old shoes; for I need hardly explain that we had packed the silk into the refrigerators to confuse the strikers. The great risk was that they would try to ditch us.

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I was watching the track as a mouse would a cat, looking every minute for trouble. W e cleared the gumbo cut west of the Beaver at a pretty good clip, in order to make the grade on the other side. The bridge there is hidden in summer by a grove of hackberries. I had just pulled open to cool her a bit when I noticed how high the back-water was on each side of the track. Suddenly I felt the fill going soft under the drivers; felt the 44 wobble and slew. Bartholomew shut off hard, and threw the air as I sprang to the window. The peaceful little creek ahead looked as angry as the Platte in A p r i l water, and the bottoms were a lake. Somewhere up the valley there had been a cloudburst, for overhead the sun was bright. The Beaver was roaring over its banks, and the bridge was out. Bartholo mew screamed for brakes; it looked as i f we were against it—and hard. A soft track to stop on; a torrent of storm-water ahead, and ten hundred thousand dollars' worth of silk behind, not to mention equipment. I yelled at Bartholomew, and motioned for him to jump; my conscience is clear on that point. The 44 was stumbling along, trying like a drunken man to hang to the rotten track. " B a r t h o l o m e w ! " I yelled; but he was head out and looking back at his train while he jerked frantically at the air-lever. I un derstood: the air wouldn't w o r k ; it never will on those old tubs when you need i t . The sweat pushed out on me. I was thinking of how much the silk would bring us after the bath in the Beaver. Bartholomew stuck to his levers like a man in a signal-tower, but every second brought us closer to open water. Watching him intent only on saving his first train—heedless of his life—I was actually ashamed to jump. While I hesitated he somehow got the brakes to set; the old 44 bucked like a bronco. It wasn't too soon. She checked her train nobly at the last, but I saw nothing could keep her from the drink. I gave Bartholo mew a terrific slap, and again I yelled; then turning to the gangway, I dropped into the soft mud on my side: the 44 hung low, and it was easy lighting. Bartholomew sprang from his seat a second later; but his blouse caught in the teeth of the quadrant. He stooped quick as thought, and peeled the thing over his head. Then he was caught fast by the wristbands, and the ponies of the 44 tipped over the broken abutment. Pull as he would he couldn't get free. The pilot dipped into the torrent slowly.

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But losing her balance, the 44 kicked her heels into the air like lightning, and shot with a frightened wheeze plump into the creek, dragging her engineer with her. The head car stopped on the brink. Run ning across the track, I looked for Bartholo mew. He wasn't there; I knew he must have gone down with his engine. Throwing off my gloves, I dived, just as I stood, close to the tender, which hung half submerged. I am a good bit of a fish under water, but no self-respecting fish would be caught in that yellow mud. I realized, too, the instant I struck the water, that I should have dived on the upstream side. The current took me away w h i r l i n g ; when I came up for air, I was fifty feet below the pier. I scrambled out, feeling it was all up with Bartholomew; but to my amazement, as I shook my eyes open the train crew were running forward, and there stood Bartholomew on the track above me, looking at the refrigerators.' When I got to him, he explained how he was dragged under and had to tear the sleeves out of his blouse under water to get free. The surprise is how little fuss men make about such things when they are busy. It took only five minutes for the conductor to hunt up a coil of wire and a sounder for me, and by the time he got forward with it, Bar tholomew was half-way up a telegraph pole to help me cut i n on a live wire. Fast as I could, I rigged a pony, and began calling the McCloud despatches It was rocky sending, but after no end of pounding, I got him and gave orders for the wrecking gang, and for one more of Neighbor's rapidly decreasing supply of locomotives. Bartholomew, sitting on a strip of fence which still rose above water, looked forlorn. To lose in the Beaver the first engine he ever handled w as tough, and he was evidently speculating on his chances of ever getting another. If there weren't tears in his eyes, there was storm-water certainly. But after the relief engine had pulled what was left of us back six miles to a siding, I made it my first business to explain to Neighbor, who was nearly beside himself, that Bartholomew not only was not at fault, but that by his nerve he had actually saved the train. r

" I ' l l tell you, N e i g h b o r , " I suggested, when we got straightened around. " G i v e us the 109 to go ahead as pilot, and run her around the river division with Foley and the 2 1 6 . " "What'11 you do with Number S i x ? " growled Neighbor. Six was the local pas senger west.

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" A n n u l i t west of M c C l o u d , " said I i n stantly. " W e ' v e got this silk on our hands now, and I ' d move it i f i t tied up every pas senger train on the division. If we can get the stuff through, it w i l l practically beat the strike. I f we fail, i t w i l l beat the com pany." By the time we had backed to Newhall Junction, Neighbor had made up his mind my way. Mullen and I climbed into the 109, and Foley, with the 216, and none too good a grace, coupled on to the silk, and flying red signals, we started again for Zanesville over the river division. Foley was always full of mischief. He had a better engine than ours, and he took great satisfaction the rest of the afternoon in crowding us. E v e r y mile of the way he was on our heels. I was throwing the coal, and have reason to re member. It was after dark when we reached the Beverly H i l l , and we took i t at a lively pace. The strikers were not on our minds then; i t was Foley who bothered. When the long parallel steel lines of the upper yards spread before us, flashing under the arc lights, -we were away above yard speed. Running a locomotive into one of those big yards is like shoot ing a rapid i n a canoe. There is a bewildering maze of tracks, lighted by red and green lamps, which must be watched the closest to keep out of trouble. The hazards are multiplied the minute you pass the throat, and a yard wreck is a dreadful tan gle; i t makes everybo dy from roadmaster to flag man furious, and not even Bartholomew wanted to face an inquiry on a yard wreck. On the other hand, he c o u l d n ' t af f o r d to be

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caught by Foley, who was chasing him out of pure caprice. I saw the boy holding the throttle at a half and fingering the air anxiously as we jumped over the frogs; but the roughest riding on track so far beats the ties as a cushion, that when the 109 suddenly stuck her paws through an open switch we bounced against the roof of the cab like foot-balls. I grabbed a brace with one hand, and with the other reached instinctively across to Bar tholomew's side to seize the throttle. But as I tried to shut him off, he jerked i t wide open i n spite of me, and turned with light ning i n his eye. " N o ! " he cried, and his

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voice rang hard. The 109 took the tremen dous shove at her back, and leaped like a frightened horse. Away we went across the yard, through the cinders, and over the ties; my teeth have never been the same since. I don't belong on an engine, anyway, and since then I have kept off. A t the moment, I was convinced that the strain had been too much, that Bartholomew was stark crazy. He sat clinging like a lobster to his levers and bouncing clear to the roof. But his strategy was dawning on me; in fact, he was pounding it into me. Even the shock and scare of leaving the track and tearing up the yard had not driven from Bartholomew's noddle the most important feature of our situation, which was, above everything, to keep out of the way of the silk train.

I felt every moment more mortified at my attempt to shut him off. I had done the trick of the woman who grabs the reins. It was even better to tear up the yard than to stop for Foley to smash into and scatter the silk over the coal chutes. Bartholomew's decision was one of the traits which make the runner: instant perception coupled to instant resolve. The ordinary dub thinks what he should have done to avoid disaster after it is all over; Bartholomew thought before. On we bumped, across frogs, through switches, over splits, and into target rods, when—and this is the miracle of it all—the 109 got her forefeet on a split switch, made a contact, and after a slew or two, like a bogged horse, she swung up sweet on the rails again, tender and a l l . Bartholomew shut off with an under cut that brought us up stuttering, and nailed her feet with the air right where she stood. We had left the track and plowed a hundred feet across the yards and jumped on to another track. It is the only time I ever heard of its happen ing anywhere, but I was on the engine with Bartholomew Mullen when it was done. Foley choked his train the instant he saw our hind lights bobbing. W e climbed down,

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and ran back. He had stopped just where we should have stood i f I had shut off. Bartholomew ran to the switch to examine it. The contact light (green) still burned like a false beacon; and lucky it did, for it showed that the switch had been tampered with and exonerated Bartholomew Mullen completely. The attempt of the strikers to spill the silk i n the yards had only made the reputation of a new engineer. Thirty min utes later, the million-dollar train was turned over to the East E n d to wrestle with, and we breathed, all of us, a good bit easier. Bartholomew Mullen, now a passenger run ner who ranks with Kennedy and Jack Moore and Foley and George Sinclair himself, got a personal letter from the General Manager complimenting him on his pretty w i t ; and he was good enough to say nothing whatever about mine. We registered that night and went to sup per together: Foley, Jackson, Bartholomew, and I. Afterwards we dropped into the despatcher's office. Something was coming from McCloud, but the operator to save his life couldn't catch i t . I listened a minute; it was Neighbor. Now, Neighbor isn't great on despatching trains. He can make himself understood over the poles, but his sending is like a boy's sawing wood—sort of uneven. However, though I am not much on running yards, I claim to be able to take the wildest ball that was ever thrown along the wire, and the chair was tendered me at once to catch Neighbor's extraordinary passes at the McCloud key. They came something like this: " T o Opr. Tell Massacree "—that was the word that stuck them all, and I could per ceive that Neighbor was talking emphatically. He had apparently forgotten Bartholomew's last name, and was t r y i n g to connect with the one he had ' ' disremembered'' the night before. " T e l l Massacree," repeated Neigh bor, " that he is al-1-1 right. Tell hi-m I give him double mileage for to-day all the way through. A n d to-morrow he gets the 109 to k e e p . — N e i g h b - b - o r . "

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This is, indeed, the first wholly satisfactory example of that process which has been perfecting slowly during the last decade. GENEROUS A P P R O V A L FOR " T H E L I F E A s a sample of the appreciation shown for OF T H E M A S T E R . " the first installment of these pictures, we quote from the Chicago " Times-Herald " : We are deeply appreciative of the con There is no doubt that illustrations made after a study stantly growing friendship accorded to the of the Holy Land as it exists to-day will give a very Magazine, a striking proof of which we have perfect conception of what it was in the time of Christ. just had. Only a brief introductory chapter Rightly has the East been named " the unchangeable." While the West is forging ahead and seething with of D r . Watson's " Life of the Master " ap restless activity and the spirit of change, the Orient is peared in the December number of the Maga building and thinking as it did 2,000 years ago, and is zine, the beginning of the Life proper being still cooling its water in porous bottles. And Mr. Lin reserved for the January number. Y e t no son has found hints for his costumes and types of faces have lingered on in Palestine from the time of sooner was this preliminary installment pub that Christ. He has made use of his observation in this lished than we began to receive a tide of first installment in the beautiful color plate, " The Visit letters commending the work. It was im of Mary to Elizabeth," and in the study of the head of mediately recognized as an achievement in the boy John. . . . But the picture of which we wish particularly to magazine editing of the widest significance. From the day of its first issue, M c C l u r e ' s speak, the one which will open the eyes of many who were hitherto ignorant of the real quality of Mr. LinMagazine has never lacked for hearty ap son's genius, is the colored plate entitled " The Vision proval of its larger features. But to nothing of the Shepherds." It is a sublime poem in form and else that we have offered has there been so color, the best possible illustration of Keats's famous immediate and enthusiastic response as to dictum, " Beauty is Truth." For the first and last effect produced on the mind is its extraordinarily convincing D r . Watson's reverent, humane " Life of the quality. You feel that the artist must have had an Master,'' with its unequalled illustrations by apocalyptic vision or an inspiration. " If it ever was M r . Linson. One subscriber writes, " I feel at all," you say, " so it must have been." 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We will let the eight full-page color pic tures by M r . Linson in the January number, and the five color pictures in the present

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;

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The Woman's Century. 1800-1900. N no c o u n t r y i n the w o r l d is the diffusion of w e l l b e i n g so general as a m o n g the w o m e n of the U n i t e d S t a t e s ; this is large ly due to their ready u s e of m e c h a n i c a l , labor-saving

Recreation of 1900.

Recreation of 1800.

ultimate perfection s e e m s to have been attained. T h e r e are now three distinct types of S i n g e r machines for f a m i l y sewing, t w o m a k i n g the double thread lock stitch a n d one the " A u t o m a t i c " single t h r e a d chain-stitch. T h e p r i n c i p a l differ e n c e b e t w e e n the l o c k - s t i t c h ma c h i n e s lies in the form of shuttle used a n d its m o v e m e n t ;

c o n t r i v a n c e s . It is In the i n v e n t i o n of such m a c h i n e r y that A m e r i c a n i n genuity excels; a n d che S i n g e r s e w i n g m a c h i n e is one of its most c o n s p i c uous e x a m p l e s . For half-a-cen tury it has b e e n a most potent factor in p r o m o t i n g the happiness of w o men. D u r i n g this time its m a n u facture has been improved until .iiillllSlillliSliltoll:!,,,

The Singer of Today

(Lock-Stitch.)

both are d i s t i n g u i s h e d for s i m p l i c i t y a n d good c o n s t r u c t i o n . E a c h costs the s a m e b e c a u s e only one quality is made, a n d that is the best. Sold on Instalments. Old Machines Exchanged. Made and S o l d only by

The Singer Manufacturing C o . The B u s y Woman of 1800.

S A L E S R O O M S IN E V E R Y CITY. The B u s y Woman of 1900. (Copyright, 18^9, by The Singer Mfg. Co.) Please m e n t i o n M e C l u r e ' s w h e n y o u write to advertisers.

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Pettijohn's Breakfast Food All the wheat but A GO Othe D overcoat B R E A K F A S T BRINGS A GOOD D A Y . P e t t i j o h n ' s Breakfast F o o d is steadily c r o w d i n g meat o f f the A m e r i c a n breakfast table because it is healthier, cheaper and better t h a n meat. It s h o u l d be eaten freely as it contains a l l o f the n o u r i s h i n g qualities o f the best w h e a t w i t h no indigestible matter. I t stimulates the organs o f digestion a n d e l i m i n a t i o n . B e s i d e s b e i n g a n easily a n d q u i c k l y p r e p a r e d breakfast dish, delicate, a p p e t i z i n g a n d n o u r i s h i n g , P e t t i j o h n ' s B r e a k f a s t P o o d makes u n e q u a l l e d G r i d d l e C a k e s , G e m s , M u f f i n s and Puddings. A l s o a n e x c e l l e n t t h i c k e n i n g for S o u p s . C o l d Pettijohn's P o r r i d g e is delicious w h e n f r i e d l i k e c o r n m e a l m u s h W r i t e for o u r C e r e a l C o o k B o o k , edited b y Mrs. Rorrr. It tells a l l about c o o k i n g a l l k i n d s of cereals a l l sorts of ways. F r e e , postpaid.

T h e American Cereal Co.,

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Alfred Peats Wall Paper

Our New Designs are Now Ready

T h e leather is so soft and tough that it has no tendency to crack. A n d it is the dressiest leather that ever went into shoes. N o one else makes it or can make it. V i c i is the Standard K i d of the world.

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THE PRACTICAL

TROUSERS HANGERANDPRESS. is absolute;!)' indispensable It saves c l o t h i n g , patience and time, keeping the trousers "smooth as if ironed," a n d , while d o u b l i n g the capacity nt the closets, it also g i v i s m a x i m u m convenience, r e n d e r i n g each garment separately "get-atable." It is an absolutely perfect device i n d e s i g n , c o n s t r u c t i o n a n d finish. Its merits are u n u s u a l , a n d its s u p e r i o r i t y u n q u e s t i o n e d . It has been o;i the market O v e r seven years. It has u n i v e r s a l l y satisfied the most exacting-; meets every requirement a n d is e q u a l l y valuable whether the wardrobe be moderate or extensive.

Black Cat Stockings for Boys Warranted to Out-wear Two Pairs of Ordinary Stockings A s k y o u r d e a l e r f o r B l a c k C a t S t o c k i n g s . I f y o u c a n ' t get t h e m , s a m p l e s s e n t f o r 2 5 cents a p a i r . G i v e s i z e a n d state if f o r b o y , g i r l , l a d y o r g e n t l e m a n . Address

Chicago-Rockford Hosiery Co. K E N O S H A , WIS.

RALSTON HEALTH SHOES f I

H a v e y o u already tried a p a i r of these h y g i e n i c shoes ? If y o u h a v e , y o u a r e o u r friend and c u s t o m e r . T h e w o n d e r f u l success of these shoes surpasses o u r m o s t cenguine expectation. These goods are ju3t as advertised, h e a l t h p r e s e r v i n g , c o m f o r t - g i v i n g shoes.

OUR 1 0 0 P A O E illustrated descriptive b o o k (free o n request) contains the endorsements of our device by more than 3000 w e l l - k n o w n gentlemen, every one of w h o m is u s i n g at least one of o u r $ 5 . 0 0 sets.

X.aCe o n n e w - f o r m e d lasts, upon new principles, yet stylish and up t o date. M a d e i n three classes, w a t e r p r o o f f o r w e t weather, w a l k i n g shoes for street wear, W drees shoes for dress occasions. If y o u r dealer does n o t c a r r y t h e m i n stock, send direct to the f a c t o r y for t h e m . HEALTH CHOES F O R

T h e Five»Dollar Set, w h i c h c o n s i s t s o f 6 " P r a c t i c a l " 1 rousers H a n g e r s a n d 3 " P r a c t i c a l " C l o s e t R o d s , is sent express p r e p a i d o n receipt of price. T h e closet s h o w n is fitted w i t h a $ 5 . o o s e t . It m e e t s t h e a v e r a g e r e q u i r e m e n t s . F o r $1.00 w e w i l l s e n d p r e p a i d o n e h a n g e r a n d o n e r o d a n d a f t e r w a r d w h e n w a n t e d t h e r e m a i n d e r o f t h e $y=;.oo s e t f o r S4.00. S i n g l e h a n g e r s . 7 5 e l s . : s i n g l e r o d s , 25 c t s .

MEN,

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BINDING D R E S S E S T H E R E IS N O T H I N G EQUAL, T O A GOOD B R A I D .

GOFF'S BRAIDS are the BEST MADE Ask For a n d Insist o n Having

Goff's angora Braid

D. Goff and Sons, Pawtucket, R. I.

Feder's Pompadour SKIRT

Keep Your Shoes Where Yon Can F i n d Them. K e e p y o u r shoes free of dust, m o i s t ure, abrasions,keep yourshoes i n their p r o p e r shape, i n c l e a n l y c o n d i t i o n . G e t a n Kveready Shoe a n d Slipper Holder. It h o l d s a n y size shoe; tits a n y size closet d o o r ; u t i l i z e s waste space; k e e p s I closet floors c l e a n , does not deface d o o r s . Price (1.3U prepaid ; money b-.ck if you're not pleased. WM.

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GILBERT'S HEEL CUSHIONS

Patents)

Soars h i g h above a l l other skirt b i n d i n g s . Is u n a p p r o a c h a b l e in quality a n d d u r a b i l i t y . Is guaranteed to last as l o n g as the S k i r t .

w o r n inside the shoe for E a s y W a l k i n g . A r c h e d Instep, Increased H e i g h t . Better F i t t i n g Shoes, E a s e and Comtort. Simply placed in the heel, felt down. D o not require larger shoes. % in. 25c; % in. 3*c; 1 in. 50c per pair. L a d i e s ' or Men's. R E A D . Send name, size of shoe, height desired, and 2C stamp for pair on 10 days' trial.

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as it is also the Best, a n d it

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Collar Button Insurance GIVEN WITH

One-Piece Collar Button M a d e of O n e P i e c e of Metal W i t h o u t S e a m or J o i n t Best for Ladies' Shirt Waists and Children's Dresses

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The

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for it.

Postal us

A l l jewelers sell K r e m e n t z buttons

K R E M E N T Z & C O . , 51 Chestnut St., Newark, N. J .

"Spun-Glass" Suspender each p a i r of

Rusil Finish

T r o u s e r s w i t h the G e n uine

Dress Linings

Guyots.

They

combine H e a l t h , C o m

More Brilliant than 5ilk in (olor<m<i lustre

«iso

Stronger

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fort

and

receipt of 5 0 cents.

Ostheimer

ftlDNIGHT FAST B L A C K J. W. GoddardandSons New York

Durability.

S a m p l e pair mailed o n

621

Brothers

Broadway

New

Y o r k City

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H.andI.Co

Correct M o r n i n g Collar T h i s p i c t u r e represents the latest a n d most fashionable H . k I . collar for m o r n i n g wear. It is not o n l y the a b s o l u t e l y proper c o l l a r i n style, b u t l i k e a l l the H . & I . c o l l a r s , it represents fine m a t e r i a l , careful w o r k m a n s h i p , c o m f o r t a n d d u r a b i l i t y . It is not o n l y made to look w e l l a n d wear w e l l , but to feel perfectly easy and c o m f o r t a b l e . O f course it is o n l y one of o u r m a n y a n d v a r i e d styles representing e v e r y t h i n g i n c o l l a r s that m a y p r o p e r l y be w o r n . A s k y o u r dealer for H . & I . c o l l a r s . I f he does not sell them send us 2 5 cents, g i v i n g the style, size a n d height y o u prefer, and we w i l l send y o u t w o of the most perfectly satisfactory collars y o u ever wore. I f y o u d o not l i k e them y o u are w e l c o m e to y o u r money back. A s k us for o u r free " S t y l e B o o k for M e n " w h i c h tells all about collars and shows pictures of a l l the latest c o l l a r creations.

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Wide W e b fancy frilled. black, white, ^ c a r d i n a l , blu«r'7C« or pink

To O E T and keep a PERFECT F I G U R E you

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is admitted to be the best paper devoted to Fancy Work, A r t Needlework, Lace Making, C r o c h e t i n g and K n i t t i n g . It is p u b l i s h e d in J a n u a r y , A p r i l , J u l y and O c t o b e r . Fine Illus trations, S p l e n d i d C o l o r e d Plates, Instructions a n d E m b r o i d e r y Lessons by expert teachers. Subscribers have the p r i v i l e g e of a s k i n g any questions desired of the editors. D e s i g n s are g i v e n for beginners as well as experienced workers. It w i l l keep y o u posted o n the latest ideas and the newest style of work. The J u l y '99 number treats Renaissance and B a t t e n b e r g L a c e s , besides E m b r o i d e r y . T e l l s how to make a l l the different stitches. The October '99 number has nine S p l e n d i d C o l o r e d Plates a n d gives designs for center pieces, doilies, pincushions, s h o p p i n g bags, photo frames, sofa p i l l o w s , c h i l d ' s crocheted cap, D r a w n W o r k and M o r r i s E m b r o i d e r y . D o n ' t miss this number. The January 1900 number, just out. besides the latest designs contains a valuable article o n " S h a d i n g , " illustrated by C o l o r e d Plates. Read M r s . L . Barton Wilson's " Les son in E m b r o i d e r y . " Subjects this month : "Double Rose' and "Morning Glory." F i n e l y Illustrated. Decore and C r a v a t C a s e designs A l s o R u l e s for N e w Crocheted Silk Purses and Chatelaine B a g . A splendid n u m ber. S i n g l e copies cost 10 cents each. S P E C I A L O F F E R : Send us twenty-five cents, stamps o r silver, before A p r i l 1, 1900, and we w i l l send y o u the J u l y , O c t o b e r and J a n u a r y numbers as above by return m a i l and the A p r i l n u m b e r when it comes out. Your money back if you don't like them. T h i s offer good o n l y to A p r i l 1st. rooo. A f t e r that date the price w i l l be 35 cents per year. Subscribe now at the l o w rate. Address

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the

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THE

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M a d e w i t h a silk cord t w o inches long.

h i

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BOSTON GARTER The Standard for Gentlemen.

This Dress 50c Shows h o w econom ically a n d tastefully children can be cloth ed at the " children's store." Mothers a l l over the United States find

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Our New Catalogue f o r igjo is p r o n o u n c e d the b r i g h t e s t a n d best Seed B o o k of the y e a r . It c o n t a i n s h u n d r e d s o f i l l u s t r a t i o n s , f o u r c o l o r e d p l a t e s , up-to-date c u l t u r a l d i r e c t i o n s , a n d ^2,500.00 i n c a s h p r i z e s . I f y o u w a n t the finest g a r d e n i n y o u r n e i g h b o r h o o d i n 1900 y o u m u s t p l a n t

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HENDERSON'S SEEDS " EVERTHING FOR THE GARDEN " Is the title of our Catalogue for 1900, and it is really a book of one hundred a n d ninety (190) pages, weighing a pound, containing over seven hundred (700) engravings and six superb colored plates of seeds and plants, and as each was d r a w n from nature, they show "as in a looking-glass," the best of the old and the latest of the new. M u c h valuable information is also contained i n " E v e r y t h i n g for the Garden," such as " H o w to grow flower a n d vegetable seeds," "Cold-frames and hot-beds, their construction and management," " H o w to grow large crops of smooth potatoes," " H o w to make fruit trees bear every year," "Injurious insects and diseases of plants and trees, the remedies and h o w to use them," etc., etc. To trace advertising, and give our Catalogue the largest possible we make the following unusually liberal offer:

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of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Roses, Plants, Bulbs, Seeds. Choicest new and old. Mall size post paid, safe arrival and satisfaction guaranteed, larger by express or freight. T h e best are cheapest, try us. Elegant Catalog free. 46th year. 1000 acres. 41 greenhouses.

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TREES F r u i t Trees—standards for orchards; dwarfs for gardens. S m a l l F r u i t s — a l l k i n d s , i n c l u d i n g grapes. Ornamental Trees, E v e r g r e e n s a n d S h r u b s — f o r the e m b e l l i s h m e n t o f pub l i c a n d private grounds, o f l a r g e a n d s m a l l extent, parks, ceme teries, etc. S h a d e Trees—for avenues a n d streets. Hardy Roses—the finest collection i n t h i s c o u n t r y o f l a r g e two-year-old plants for i m m e d i a t e effect, H a r d y P l a n t s , C l i m b e r s , etc. O u r new catalogue, carefully revised, beautifully Illustrated w i t h half-tone engravings, w i t h cover o f e x q u i s i t e design, c o n t a i n s accurate a n d trustworthy descriptions of the m o s t v a l u a b l e v a r i e t i e s i n c u l t i v a t i o n , a n d is r e p l e t e w i t h p r a c t i c a l h i n t s i n d i s p e n s a b l e to p l a n t e r s . A l t h o u g h p r e p a r e d at g r e a t e x p e n s e , i t w i l l be sent free t o o u r r e g u l a r c u s t o m e r s ; to o t h e r s , o n receipt of ten cents.

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Farming on. business principles! simply means lhat the farmer shall get all that it is possible to get out of every acre of land. It means that when he has har vested a good crop he shall take such care of it that none of it shall be wa.sted. It means that he shall apply to his farm the principles that have made manufacturers successful, viz.: The proper use of power, the concentration of energy under proper direction and an appreciation of the fact that much that has been thrown away can be made a source of profit. W e H i - i i d f r e e Information how our poodh best All

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Stark Trees Bear Fruit Stark Trademark Best by Test—74 YEARS. Largest annual sale. H i g h quality—not h i g h price. Finest sorts. W e b u d 4 m i l l i o n A p p l e trees, whole-root graft 5 million—now 1- a n d 2-yr. Other Trees, V i n e s , etc., i n proportion. 1400 acres Nursery ' f l l l l ^ U l II I It I 11 I

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D i d y o u e v e r see 7 s t r a i g h t o r c i r c u l a r r o w s o f P a n s i e s , side b y side, each a different color? I f s o , y o u k n o w t h a t t h e e f f e c t is charming beyond conception. D i dy o u ever see Childs* G i a n t Pansies, m a r v e l s i n beauty a n d true to c o l o r ? I f not, y o u have not seen t h e beautv a n d perfection n o w attained.

SENDFOR V i c k ' s seeds i f you want real satisfaction from your sowing. It will pay you whether you set out a few flowers for pleasure or "plant a garden for profit. V i c k ' s vigorous varieties include many of the most re markable and successful growers for flower or vegetable garden ever offered.

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Wheel Always Under Control

The D u n l o p T i r e is not made that way. By our " hand-made " process we preserve the cotton in a l l its original strength a n d elasticity, producing a comfortable and resilient tire, and not a dead a n d flabby one.

T h o u s a n d s in use in all parts o f the world. I s no experiment. A Cyclist using the Morrow for a few weeks would give up cycling rather than give up the Coaster-brake. Ladies' skirts keep down when coasting. Feet always on pedals. When ordering your new wheel be S U R E to specify the M o r r o w Coaster-Brake. F o r sale by alt dealers. Our Acetylene Bicycle L u m p is superior to any yet offered. Illia*rated regarding

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Constant adaptation ot the best means to the best ends, has earned for our machines their recognized superiority. But we have never allowed success to act as a bar to progress. Our machines for 1900 are an exemplification of this policy. New Frames, new Hubs and Spokes, new Seat Post Binder, reduction in weight are improvements common to both Chainless and Chain models. Our new Coaster Brake permits the cyclist to enjoy the pleasure of coasting while retaining full control of the wheel. It does not require reÂ moval of the feet from the pedals and the speed of the bicycle can be regulated no matter how steep the grade. The brake is applicable to both Chainless and Chain models, and is furnished for $5.00. The C O L U M B I A CHAINLESS, reduced in weight and otherÂ wise greatly improved, is the ideal mount for road or track. CALENJ2AR. C o l u m b i a , H a r t f o r d , Stormer and Pennant B i c y c l e s .

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WAKEFIELD'S Golden O i n t m e n t W h e r e an external a p p l i c a t i o n of a

SOOTHING, ^

Has For

CLEANSING, —

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HEALING,

—

o r softening; nature '= needed

no Superior

Cuts, Burns, Scalds, Bruises, Boils, Felons, Chapped Hands, Old Sores,

or a n y k i n d o f a s o r e c o n t a i n i n g e i t h e r i n f l a m m a t i o n o r a s o f t o r flabby c o n d i t i o n of the skin. C o n t a i n s n o p o i s o n o u s s u b s t a n c e s , a n d c a n be t a k e n i n w a r d l y w i t h g o o d effect. An excellent r e m e d y for Sore T h r o a t , Cold in the H e a d , C a t a r r h , Q u i n s y , a n d Erysipelas.

W A K E F I E L D ' S G O L D E N O I N T M E N T is put up in a neat jar, and will be sent, prepaid, to any address on receipt of $ 1 . 0 0 . . A Small Bottle will be sent, prepaid,

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WAKEFIELD'S LIVER PILLS do not gripe, but act p r o m p t l y o n the L i v e r , K i d n e y s , S t o m a c h , a n d B o w e l s . Costiveness, Jaundice, Sick Headache, Indigestion, a n d Biliousness. If

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State whether

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BALSAM

is a positive cure for Cholera M o r b u s , Diarrhoea, D y s e n t e r y , o r Cholera Infantum. Pleasant to the taste. H i g h l y r e c o m m e n d e d b y P h y s i c i a n s , Professional N u r s e s , a n d First-class Drug gists for more than half a century. N o t excelled i n c u r i n g a l l relaxed c o n d i t i o n s of the bowels. It is cleansing, r e g u l a t i n g , q u i e t i n g , a n d h e a l i n g . F.qually good for adults or c h i l d r e n . not on sale by your druggist, a full-size bottle will be sent, prepaid, on receipt of 35 Cents.

Wakefield's Cough Syrup

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Measles,

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L a Grippe,

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HALF

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Cutircura Soa

For the Complexion

For Red Rough Hands

To p u r i f y and beautify the s k i n and prevent S o a k the hands, on r e t i r i n g , i n a strong, hot p i m p l e s , blotches, blackheads, lather of C u t i c u r a redness, roughness, c h a p p i n g , Soap. D r y , and anoint y e l l o w , o i l y , m o t h y s k i n , no w i t h C u t i c u r a , the other soap is to be compared s k i n cure. W e a r d u r i n g w i t h C u t i c u r a Soap, because ght old,loose k i d gloves. no other soap reaches the cause, v i z . , the clogged, I r r i F o r red, r o u g h , chapped hands, d r y , cracked, i t c h t a t e d , or I n f l a m e d c o n d i ing, feverish palms, shapeless nails w i t h painful t i o n of the P o r e s . finger ends, this one n i g h t cure is w o n d e r f u l .

For Hair and Scalp

For Sanative Uses

Shampoo w i t h C u t i c u r a S o a p and w a r m w a ter, d r y , a n d a p p l y a l i g h t dressing of C u t i c u r a , pur est of emollients, g e n t l y rubbed into the scalp. T h i s treatment w i l l at once stop f a l l i n g h a i r , clear the scalp of crusts, scales, and dan druff, s u p p l y the roots w i t h e n e r g y and nourishment, soothe i r r i t a t e d and i t c h i n g surfaces, a n d m a k e the hair g r o w w h e n a l l else fails

Its remarkable emollient, cleansing, and p u r i f y i n g properties, derived from C u t i CURA, w a r r a n t the use of C u t i c u r a Soap i n the f o r m of baths for annoy i n g irritations, inflammations, and chafings, for too free or offensive perspirations, and i n the form of i n t e r n a l washes for ulcerative weak nesses, and for m a n y sanative antiseptic purposes w h i c h r e a d i l y suggest themselves to women, and especially to mothers. T h e use of C u t i c u r a O i n t m e n t w i l l be of advantage i n the severer cases.

For Tender Faces

For Baby Humors

S h a v e w i t h C u t i c u r a Soap. After shaving, and before b a t h i n g the face, gently rub on a little C u t i c u r a O i n t m e n t , and then w a s h a l l off w i t h H o t W a t e r a n d C u t i c u r a Soap. G e n t l e m e n w i t h tender, easily i r r i t a t e d skins w i l l find this treatment removes a l l r o u g h ness, dryness, i r r i t a t i o n , and prevents barber's h u m o r s . Complete

External

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Internal

A h o t bath w i t h C u t i c u r a Soap and a single application of C u t i c u r a , the great i s k i n cure, w i l l afford instant relief i n the most distressing forms of i t c h i n g , b u r n i n g , scaly and crusted humors, rashes, and irritations of infancy and c h i l d h o o d , permit rest and sleep to both parent and c h i l d , and point to a speedy cure i n the severest cases, w h e n a l l other remedies f a i l .

Treatment

f o r E v e r y H u m o r , consisting of c u t i c u r a

, 1 Cuticura

S o a p P ' o c ) to cleanse the s k i n of crusts a n d scales a n d soften the thickened cuticle, C u t i c u r a O i n t m e n t (SOc), to instantly allay itching, inflammation, and irritation, and soothe and heal, I it a n d C u t i c u r a . R e s o l v e n t (50c), to cool a n d cleanse the blood. A S i n g l e S e t is often \14HVM**« Riiffioient to cure the most torturing, disfiguring, a n d humiliating skin, scalp, and blood •rn£ nrr tft or humors, with loss of hair, w h e n all else tails P o t t e r D r u g a n d C h e m . C o r p . , Sole THE SET $125 P r o p s , Boston. S e n d for " A l l about S k i n , Scalp, H a i r , a n d H a n d s , " free. Please mention M c C l u r e ' s when y o u write to advertisers, 43

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Piles Cured

Free to the Ruptured no Operation necessary

Dr. W . S. Rice, the Well-known Author ity, Sends a T r i a l of H i s Famous

urgtcal o p e r a t i o n s for relief f r o m piles are not o n l y u n n e c e s s a r y but d a n g e r o u s . H e a l i n g H e m o r r h o n e s will give i m m e d i a t e relief from the pain a n d s p a s m , and i n a short time work a permanent cure. T h e y enable the patient to treat h i m s e l f , a n d c a n be a p p l i e d w i t h o u t the s l i g h t e s t difficulty, pain or danger. T h e y are little soluble, m e d i c a t e d suppositories. As t h e v c o n t a i n a s u r e s p e c i f i c f o r p i l e s , a n d as t h e y a r e a p p l i e d j u s t w h e r e t h e m e d i c i n e is n e e d e d , t h e y n e v e r fail to cure. D o not suffer from the torments of piles w h e n y o u c a n be c u r e d so q u i c k l y a n d e a s i l y .

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THE

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D R . EGGLESTON The Blood of the Grape

Method of C u r i n g

RUPTURE

T h a t ' s what Welch's Grape Juice is —"The pure

IMPROVED

ELASTIC

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Just

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you

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A greater number of cures has been effected by DR. EGGLESTON

Blood

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THE

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There's no other beverage like it—

TRUSS

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food and drink in one.

Hundreds of stories of cures like the following are on file in our office:

" run d o w n " people.

people, it's

It's

for

tired

for thirsty people, it's

for

Welch's Grape Juice is recommended J U D G E

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The truss that I obtained from you last year has effected a complete cure. As I was in my eighty-seventh year when I first applied the truss, it seems as if it was a pretty severe test of its capabilities, and I would recommend it to any one afflicted as I was. R O B E R T O ' B R I E N , 604 E . Capitol St., Washington, D . C .

Dr.

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WHEN

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Health

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ice a n d of

s n o w

leafage

i n the

a n d

N o r t h

its

period

bloom.

T h e r e is no more delicious climate under heaven than that of California in F e b r u a r y . It heals the sick, refuges the delicate, restores the over-worked, and entrances the

T h e

Santa

F e

R o u t e

California,

the

shortest

line

the best

service

a n d affords

every

class o f General

pleasure-seeker.

Passenger

travelers. Office

The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway C H I C A G O

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Train Loads of People go

into

them

California

there

every day in

the

stay.

t h e y ' d t u r n n o r t h at S a c r a m e n t o Sacramento —with

railways

t h r o u g h its

entire

and

where

s o i l is

soil ; land don't

losses

the

fruit

districts

from

the

and

choose

the

statement blows ?

A l m o n d

T r e e

wide

running

Valley for

the

there

the

i r r i g a t i o n is

not and

reports

but

are

district.

their

don't

come

several

other

they're

all

different

Sen.

immense

Stanford

orchards

Valley

straw—do

about

the

for

you

and

fact, a b o u t

center,

and

way

This

the

wind

unquestionably is located

all

state,

fruit raising.

see w h i c h

best part of the S a c r a m e n t o V a l l e y , F i v e - Y e a r - O l d

miles

line

familiar with all sections of that

Sacramento is

great

fruit-crop failures,

Sacramento Valley.

Californians,

money,

There

Valley

planted

v i n e y a r d s i n the the

Valley.

California,

Hearst

and

cost m u c h , a n d

Sacramento

Sen.

make

business, such

Sacramento

and

steamboat

y o u hear about

fruit

from

most

waulti s t a y

a n d see the

Sacramento

fruit-growers

W h e n in

length.

place

needed.

City,

Valley—120 miles long

two

year, them

the

M a y w o o d

M a y w o o d Colony of

18,000 acres,

1800

ten-acre

fruit trees planted ; w i t h tween

1000

bought

and

land

living there

1100

residents.

M a y w o o d

yet.

farms ; with

154 miles of

1200

Colony,

360,000

avenues,

but

and

they're

have

not

all

they were, with their families,

the

population of the settlement w o u l d be about 6000. the n u m b e r of buyers g r o w s

every week.

where

acres

it w i l l

stop.

13,000

passed to colonists.

T h e other

sell this w i n t e r at

$50

and

acres.

Terms

H a r d

the

feature

our

acres we're

going 2-J, 5,

easy—so

easy that

proposition

selling

This and

the

phase

crops,

makes

for

our

non-resident

M a y w o o d

as c a n

of big oaks on

g r o w in poor soil. and

T h e age of

100

the crop, a n d $28

Maywood,

are not

It's

$107

T h e r e are

the

profit

cost

trees for per

acre.

orchard.

so, w e

Our

know.

sold

such

harvest

the

season,

& Eastern

1135

can

get out,

y o u if you're

twice a

in stamps,

you

money. F R E E .

W O O D S O N . NEW month,

interested

YORK. paper

that

will

tells

California.

everything that's worth k n o w i n g about 24 cents

you'd

help

Office,

BROADWAY,

N . B . — W e interest

about

M a y b e

p r o s p e c t u s is interesting, instructive, a n d

F O S T E R

years,

that

Just

p e r cent, o n the cost of the o r c h a r d . an

but

S u c h trees could

a n d the

for

hoe."

feet, there

get it b y a w a y t h a t w e ' l l b o t h m a k e

women orchard

the oak we don't

or $1.50.

caring

per acre.

like to o w n s u c h

Big Oak at Maywooa

i n S e p t e m b e r i t y i e l d e d 12 p o u n d s o f n u t s

trees to the acre at was

age o f the a l m o n d tree w e d o k n o w .

at 1 2 \ cents a p o u n d , ing

owners.

M a y w o o d

several that he can't reach across. The

land

" the m a n w i t h the reach

for

harvesting

colony in which

D E D U C T I O N S . — W o o d s o n ' s a m o n g the h u n d r e d s

The

plan

professional people can o w n and operate an

to as g o o d a d v a n t a g e

any

earth.

p l a n t i n g a n d d e v e l o p i n g o r c h a r d s , as w e l l as and

tell have

acre, a n d i n lots of

are

5000

A n d to

Colony

b o d y w h o w a n t s to c a n o w n a piece o f the strongest

people

that state.

y o u c a n h a v e it for o n e

year.

For

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In p r e s e n t i n g the B u c k e y e F o l d i n g B a t h C a b i n e t to o u r p a t r o n s w e offer t h e m o s t c o m p l e t e a n d p e r e c t b a t h cabinet made. W e w e r e the first to p l a c e u p o n the m a r k e t a first-class b a t h c a b i n e t at a p o p u l a r price, a n d the testimony of m a n y t h o u s a n d s of purchasers w a r r a n t s us i n c l a i m i n g for our b a t h cabinet the highest standard of excellence. T h e B u c k e y e Folding B a t h Cabinet is m a n u f a c t u r e d at our o w n factory under personal supervision. O w i n g to its p e c u l i a r c o n struction it is the most e c o n o m i c a l a n d the q u i c k e s t to heat. T h e c a b i n e t is supplied w i t h a door a n d a n o p e n i n g for the a r m has been added, c o n v e n i e n t for the bather i n r e m o v i n g perspiration f r o m the face or otherwise a d d i n g to the c o m f o r t of the occupant. T h e cabinet is e l o n g a t e d i n s h a p e w h i c h g i v e s c o m f o r t a n d ease to the l i m b s . T h e g a l v a n ized steel f r a m e supports the C a b i n e t i n s u c h a m a n n e r as to p r e v e n t c o n t a c t w i t h the b o d y at a n y point. It is a b s o l u t e l y g e r m p r o o f a n d needs n o care further t h a n p l a c i n g it b e h i n d a door w h e n not i n use.

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FILTER A T T A C H E D . Patented

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It is used in the hospital; it is used in the home; it is the STANDARD throughout the world. SCOTT'S EMULSION is FIRST IN WAR, because as a food it gives more strength, flesh and vitality than any other known preparation; and because as a medicine It heals and cures quicker than anything else. SCOTT'S EMULSION is FIRST IN PEACE, because it F A T H E R OF HIS COUNTRY. brings health and happiness when all else has fatted. It is the one STANDARD remedy i n the treatment of CONSUMPTION, BRONCHITIS, GRIPPE, PNEUMONIA, and all wasting diseases. It is the best remedy for COUGHS and COLDS, whether simple or of long standing. Thousands of delicate babies, feeble mothers and anemic boys and girls have grown fat, strong and rosy under its.use; thousands of rapidly growing, overworked school chil dren and tired brain-workers have received from it vigor and vitality. That is why it is "FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF ITS COUNTRYMEN."

, At all Druggists; 50c. and $1.00. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York.

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Y O U C A N ADD A L I B E R A L P R O F I T T O YOTJR C O N F I D E N T I A L P R I C E .

N E A R L Y A L LO U R M E N M A K E $ 4 0 . 0 0 E V E R Y W E E K I N T H E Y E A R . T U F O lI T I T I T I C A D C H I I I T a C I V C D r P W e make n o e h n i ^ Tor o u r complete A g e n t ' s Sample Book • n & V W i r i l l w * \ P v V • 1—1- • r n c t i Outfit, b u t i n o r d e r t o p r o t e c t o u r s e l v e s a g a i n s t m a n y w h o m i g h t i m p o s e o n u s b y s e n d i n g f o r t h e o u t f i t ( w h i c h c o s t s u s b e t w e e n 85.00 a n d 86.00), w i t h n o i n t e n t i o n o f w o r k i n g , b u t m e r e l y o u t o f i d l e c u r i o s i t y , w e r e q u i r e e a c h a p p l i c a n t to c u t t h i s a d o u t a n d m a l l t o n s , g i v i n g t h e names o f a t least t w o p a r t i e s as reference, a c d further a g r e e t o p a y a t e m p o r a r y d e p o s i t o r One D o l l a r a n d express charges for the outfit when received, i f round e x a c t l y as repre sented a o d r e a l l y a M a ; m o n e y m a k e r . W h i l e t h i s n o m i n a l deposit o f $ 1 . 0 0 f o r t h e outfit Is not one-fifth o f Its cost It insures the good faith o f a p p l i c a n t s , a n d we p r o m p t l y refund y o u r $ 1 . 0 0 as soon a s y o u r s a l e s a m o u n t t o $ 2 5 . 0 0 , w h i c h amount y o n c a n t a k e the first d a y o n t . IF YOU W I S H T O M A K E $ 5 . 0 0 T O S 2 0 . 0 0 E V E R Y D A Y c u t t h i s n o t i c e o u t a n d m a i l t o u s a t o n c e , g i v i n g u s t h e n a m e s of t w o o r m o r e m e nas reference. Address, fcnd

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A n E X A M P L E of

Spoon

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Fork

PROGRESSION The spoons and forks of the X V I Century were not fashioned for anything except use. Now-a-days great care is taken to make them of proper shape, weight and stiffness for practical use, with an outline convenient to handle and of a design of artistic merit and genuine worth. A l l these features, together with great wearing qualities, are found in the brand stamped with the trade-mark

which has for half a century been the standard of quality. Remember as there are other "Rogers." The "Berkshire" is one \ \ of our recent designs; others are w \ shown in our catalogue No. 53 A V,\ Sent Free.

"1847^"

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T e l e p h o n e

Bonds

issued under proper restrictions by Licensee Companies of the

American Bell Telephone Company are desirable investments for trust funds.

We make a specialty of the bonds of such companies as have been

first

subjected on our behalf to a thorough

lost of the C u r e s

made by Oxydonor are after doctors and drugs have completely failed. If you are a sufferer from disease, and have tried drugs and doctors without effect, Oxydonor will cure you at any reasonable stage by placing the body in a condition that compels it to absorb large quantities of Oxygen from the air. Thus disease is conquered and robust health is the result. These claims are re-enforced by letters from thou sands of persons who have cured themselves of all forms of disease, some of which are in our book which we mail free. One Oxydonor,rightlyused, will keep a family in good health. Large book of instructions with each Oxydonor. HON.

•RIGHT'S DISEASE. Austin Blakey, Leadville, Col., writes December

1899: " I have been a sufferer from Bright's Disease and ronic Catarrh of the Stomach for years. After doctoring a great deal and getting worse, on January 1st, 1898, I ordered an Oxydonor. It helped me at once and in six months from the time I commenced using it, I considered myself a well man. If I could not get another I would not part with my Oxydonor for a warranty deed of the State of Colorado."

FIBROID TUMOR.

legal, physical, and

financial

nation

experts

exami

established

reputation, and we are prepared to furnish full data regarding the prop erties of several prominent companies whose bonds we have purchased and offer

for

sale

prices

yield

an attractive income upon the invest ment. M a n y million's of telephone bonds are owned by

financial

trustees of estates, and throughout

the

United

institutions, individuals States

and

D o m i n i o n of Canada.

Mrs. Frank M. Brewster, Westfield, Mass., writes Nov.

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have prepared a brief history

of the " Growth of the Telephone in the U n i t e d

States, 1880-1899," con

taining statistics relative to the vast sums of money invested in this indus try as a basis of security for bond issues, and shall be pleased to mail copies to any address upon request.

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F u l l details and cuts of this beautiful revolver, also of our other revolvers a n d g u n s , m a y be found i n our catalogue w h i c h is n o w ready. If y o u want it let us k n o w a n d y o u w i l l receive it

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T h e highest degree o f excellence is achieved only by effort and experience. F o r fifteen years we have made gas and gasoline engines, always improving, until n o w we present the most reliable, economical, durable, simple and safe engines on the market adapted to all uses. I n 1880 we used a few feet o f floor space. I n 1900 we use four and one half acres o f floor space, filled w i t h improved machinery. O l d s Motors are made only by the Olds people, under the O l d s patents. W e have the largest capacity o f any manufactory o f motors using gasoline or gas. O u r motor vehicles, i n constant use since 1 8 9 6 , prove so satisfactory that we believe our model the most practical yet produced. Send for catalogue w h i c h explains every detail o f construction and carries conviction.

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H E R A C I N E CABINET i s a s t r o n g double-walled room, rubbercoated inside a n d outside and fitted w i t h a door. W h e n r e a d y for use, the w a l l s are r i g i d , yet b y m e r e l y tipping the cabinet y o u fold i t i n a second i n t o a 6-incli space.

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A patent alcohol stove heats the cab i n e t t o 150 d e g r e e s i n t h r e e m i n u t e s . F o r a vapor bath, pour a pint of water into t h e v a p o r i z e r . F o r m e d i c a t e d "baths, p u t the proper drugs i n the water. W e send 35 f o r m u l a s w i t h t h e c a b i n e t . T h e R a c i n e cabinet places i n y o u r h o m e a l l the benefits of the best T u r k i s h bath rooms. N o t a n essent i a l f e a t u r e is lacking. Y o u save breathing hot air, save the r i s k of exposure a f t e r w a r d , save time a n d expense. T h e cost is b u t 3 cents per bath. F o r the c u r e of r h e u m a t i s m , k i d n e y a n d b l o o d diseases, n o other t r e a t m e n t c a n a p p r o a c h it. T h e hot a i r b a t h forces the i m p u r i t i e s that cause the disease out f r o m five m i l l i o n pores at once. In all s a n i t a r i u m s the T u r k i s h b a t h is the m o s t important treatment. All who value cleanliness, complexion a n d health w i l l e v e n t u a l l y o w n one of these cabinets. T h e quieting, refreshing, invigorating effects o f t h e b a t h a r e t h e p l e a s a n t e s t sensations possible. One bath w i l l al w a y s stop a cold. The Eaclne Cabinet is guaranteed to be the best one on the market. Not in any way sim ilar to tue worthless affairs now advertised for this purpose. We sell on approval, to be returned at our expense if not satisfactory. Sold direct to users at from $5 to $12, express or freight prepaid; alcohol stove, vaporizer and face steaming attachment Included. Send to-day for our handsome illustrated catalogue, and order from that.

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P I L L S act directly o n the liver, k i d n e y s a n d bowels, b u t do n o t g r i p e o r nauseate.

P r i c e 25 cents.

A L L intelligent people k n o w what valuable r e m e d i a l properties s u l p h u r possesses, b u t F E W realize what wonder ful cures are effected by l i q u i d s u l p h u r , S u l p h u m e . G a r g l i n g once w i l l c u r e a n o r d i n a r y sore throat.

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NOT A PILL but a That puts you to sleep. THE SLEEPWELL PILLOW charged with extract from the green boughs of BALSAM FIR.

THE

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are so strong that one drop will perfume a whole room, and yet so mild that they will not irritate the most delicate mucous surfaces. T h e y con stitute T h e H n U u i i i F i r T i - e n t i n e n r f o r H A V F E V E R , A S T H M A , C A T A R R H and CONSUMPTION. H a s any remedy other than pitch, in some form, ever cured C o n s u m p tion or healed the mucous membranes ? Pitch is harmless. T h e S l e e p w e l l G n r g l e cures throat difficulties.

Sleepwell Pillow, with medicines Sleepwell

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WITHOUT T H E U S E O F T H E KNIFE. T I I E L A R G E S T ANI> B E S T F O F I P P E D P R I V A T E I N S T I T U T I O N I NTI3E WORLD. For the exclusive treatment o f cancer, tumors and all other forms of malignant a n d benign new growths, exrept cant er and tumors with in the abdominal cavity T h e Berkshire Mills Sinatoriurn is conducted by a graduate of the regular school o f medicine. Remedies are not withheld as secret from physicians ofstanding. A s k your family phys ician to make a personal investigation. H e will be given every oppor tunity to gain a knowledge of our method and its success. When writ ing fur information please describe the case as clearly as is possible and state its situation. Address l > r * . Y ¥ . K . B R O W N &, S O N , N o r t h A d a m * . M a s t *

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M a n y so-called ' ' H a i r Restoratives" contain pois onous minerals that cause paralysis. A v o i d them. A. R. Bremer Co., 23 L a Salle Street, Chicago

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Is a peculiar a n d d e l i g h t f u l toilet article i n w h i c h the mysterious q u a l i t y of the l e m o n as a skin tonic is f u l l y developed. It w i l l quickly cure chapping, frost bite a n d roughness of the s k i n . I t soothes w h i l e it heals, a n d is both CM. a cleanser a n d beautifier. If y o u r dealer does not keep i t , write today for a tube of the w o n d e r f u l C a l i fornia C r e a m of L e m o n . 3-oz. Tubes, 15c. 6-oz. Tubes. 25c. Sent prepaid on receipt of price. Agents Wanted. CALIFORNIA CREAM OF LEMON COMPANY Wilcox Building, L o b Angeles, Col.

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This Baby's Mother writes: A f t e r trying; other Infant F o o d s a n d f a i l i n g , the baby suffering terribly, u p o n advice of our family p h y s i c i a n we put her o n E S K A Y ' S F O O D . She was then thin a n d sallow, but from that time on she commenced to thrive. She is n o w 20 months o l d , perfectly healthy, a n d has hac'. no other F o o d but E S K A Y ' S . [ have not d u r i n g the second summer lost one night's rest, though she was teething. I advise a l l mothers to use E S K A Y ' S , as it saved m y baby's life. M r s . M . S m i l e r , Philadelphia. Nourishes from Infancy to Old Age Send for a Free Sample 0/ Eskay's Food. SMITH, KLINE & FRENCH CO. P H I L A D E L P H I A , PA.

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DURKEE'S SALAD DRESSING

While invaluable for all Salads, try on the left over odds and ends i n your refrigerator; you w i l l be surprised to see what palatable dishes m a y be made. <M^vl* D i d you ever try it as a Sauce foundation i n the making of " T A R T A R S A U C E , " " C O L D S A U C E R O B E R T , " and other Sauces, or i n " D e v i l e d " Dishes? Jtjtjtjtjtjt Send for free booklet on "Salads; H o w to M a k e and Dress T h e m , " giving m a n y valuable and novel recipes for Salads, Sandwiches, Sauces, Luncheon F R E E Dishes, etc.= S A M P L E JOc.

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Breakfast Ralston Breakfast Food possesses an appetizing flavor which gives it a warm welcome to the best tables of the land. Gluterean Wheat, from which Ralston is scientifically milled, is grown in only one section of the world, and that's the reason Ralston Breakfast Food possesses a pleasant flavor peculiarly its own. If you have any difficulty in obtaining Ralston Breakfast Food from your grocer, send us his name and a 2c. stamp for a sample, enough for a breakfast.

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A S a v i n g of O n e - F i f t h F l o u r . Pillsbury's Best Flour is the cheapest flour also with which to make Pies and Cakes. Pastry recipes usually are made for flour containing much less gluten than does Pillsbury's Best Flour. In following recipes, except such as are made especially for Pillsbury's Best Flour, use one-fifth less flour than such recipes call for. Think for a moment what it means to save one-fifth of a barrel of flour and yet get as much food out of it 1 P I L L S B U R Y - W A S H B U R N F L O U R M I L L S Co., L T D . , M I N N E A P O L I S , M A K E R S OF P I L L S B U R Y ' S V I T O S . Please mention McClure's when you write to advertisers. 108

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Prominent Hostelries Of the United States. (No.

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Battery Park B A T T E R Y

P A R K

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Asheville, N . C , is the most famous mountain resort for summer or winter on this c o n t i n e n t highest peaks east of the Rockies, made accessible by excellent roads. T h e principal hostelry of Asheville, and one of the famous ones of the U n i t e d States, is the Battery Park, 2500feet above sea level, situated where a Confederate battery during the c i v i l war commanded the city and sur rounding country. T h e most equable temperature i n the country, m a k i n g possible a l l out-door sports. Golf a l l the year on fine links, fine livery, tennis, billiards, pool, bowling alley—every equipment for out door or in-door sport in connection with the hotel. Its cuisine is one of the famous ones of the U n i t e d States, and on their tables they serve exclusively

BLANK'S

FAUST BLEND

COFFEE

Precisely the same coffee, i n air-tight cans of a l l sizes, is on sale generally throughout the U n i t e d States, i f your dealer hasn't it i n stock, and w i l l not get it for you, send us his name and $1.30 (the regular price) for a 3-lb. can by express prepaid. (Mention whether you desire it whole, ground or pulverized.) If your family is small, S E N D 50c. F O R 1 lb. S A M P L E C A N B Y MAIL PREPAID.

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A simple illustration of the reason Blanke's coffees are always uniform is t h i s : — M r . C . F . B l a n k e can make a cup of coffee from any blend and d r i n k it, and i n 12 hours produce a cup from his own stock identical i n strength—identical i n flavor—identical i n aroma. In the greater part this is nicety of taste ; i n part it is skill in blending , i n part available coffees i n quantity and variety. W h e n any one of his seventy-five brands of high-grade coffees r u n low, he makes up a cup of coffee from it, and by the time the brand is exhausted he has produced its d r i n k i n g qualities with another blend.

Faust Blend is also served exclusively at

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Booklet, giving Blanke's recipe, listing: Blanke's coffee pots, and telling how to economize the cof fee, how to care for the coffee pot, and other valu able information for coffee users, sent free on request.

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The above illustrati07i is a reproduction of a photograph of the Quaker Oats exhibit at the National Export Exposition held recently in Philadelphia. It is designed to illustrate the world-wide popularity of Quaker Oats, presenting at the same time a careful ethnological study by means of four life-size groups of colored statuary representing the four great divisions of mankind. As usual Quaker Oats received the highest award at the Exposition.

Quaker Oats, wherever introduced, leaps at once into public favor. ThoughtÂ ful people are coming more and more to realize that less meat and more Quaker Oats means better breakfasts, better health and better economy. Physicians and food specialists have long recommended it, and the popularity of Quaker Oats to-day among millions of the most intelligent people in this and foreign countries, is a guarantee of its manifest superiority. Q U A K E R O A T S makes not only the best breakfast porridge in the world, but alsodelicious.wholesome b r e a d , m u t r i i i s . c a k e s , s o u p s a n d p u d d i n g s . Write for ourCereat Cook Book,editedby Mrs.Rorer. Sent Free,postpaid. THE

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| T is significant that in homes of wealth where the very best is demanded, Ivory Soap is used in the nursery. A t the same time, in hundreds of families where economy decides the choice, Ivory Soap is selected. Thus its purity attracts the rich; its economy attracts the poor. High quality and low cost: is there any better combination? COPYRIGHT 1899 BY T H E PROCTER & GAMBLE CO. CINCINNATI

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The New 3500-ton Steamers "

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our country's new colony. T h e round trip can be done in about twenty days, and tourists can use steamers as a hotel while visiting the various ports.

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BAKER S' "j BREAKFAST COCOA 1 " It i s at once a d e l i g h t f u l f o o d a n d n o u r i s h i n g d r i n k , a n d it w o u l d be w e l l f o r h u m a n i t y i f there were m o r e o f i t c o n s u m e d a n d less t e a o r coffee."— The Homn-opatkic Recorder.

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You'll look old enough soon enough. Why keep 1 your gray hair and ij add twenty years to your looks? And why hate such short, thin hair ?

Halls Wool Soap is the best soap for washing fine underwear. Garments washed with Wool Soap will feel soft and comfortable, and wear twice as long as garments washed with cheap laundry soap. Wool Soap is made of the purest soap-making materials, and is just as good for the toilet and bath as any high-priced toilet soap. A l l grocer:; sell it. M a d e by S w i f t a n d C o m p a n y , C h i c a g o

Vegetable Sicilian

Hair Renewer

always restores color to gray hair, all the dark, rich color you used to have. Your hair grows rapidly, stops coming out, and all dandruff disappears. If your druggist cannot supply you, send S1.00 to K . P . H a l l & Co., Nashua, N H .