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T o m e Institute Port Deposit, Md. Incorporated under the taws of Maryland with an endowment of $3,000,000. Rev. J A M E S C . M A C K E N Z I E , P h . D . , Director. P e n d i n g further and fuller publication of plans for the advanced secondary education of boys a n d y o u n g m e n for College and U n i v e r s i t y , as w e l l as for business careers and professional schools, at the Tome Institute, announcement is now made that a l i m i t e d number of selected boys w i l l be accepted for its boarding department i n the first group of new b u i l d i n g s at the opening of the F a l l T e r m , September 26, 1900. T h e annual charge for board, tuition and l a u n d r y is $400 ; for residents of M a r y l a n d , $300. There are no extras. E a r l y application for admission is advisable. The site, on the Palisades of the Susquehanna River and Chesapeake Bay, reached b y the two great t r u n k lines between N e w E n g l a n d and the S o u t h ( B . & O. and P e n n a . Railroads), is believed to be one of the most beautiful and accessible i n the country—four hours from N e w Y o r k , one and a half hours from P h i l a d e l p h i a , one hour from Baltimore, two hours from W a s h i n g t o n . Unusual facilities for outdoor exercise a n d p h y s i c a l culture under the direction of M r . Charles E . H a m m e t t . W e l l equipped G y m n a s i u m , w i t h S w i m m i n g P o o l . S k a t i n g , Boating, Golf, Baseball, Foot b a l l . A n e x c e p t i o n a l l y competent staff of Masters has been secured, i n c l u d i n g two H e a d Masters of l e a d i n g A m e r i c a n schools. F o r information address the Registrar.

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Confers decrees. Conservatory of M u s i c and A r t . School of E x p r e s s i o n . L i b r a r y , L a b o r a t o r i e s , G y m n a s i u m , I n firmary. E n l a r g e d a c c o m m o d a t i o n s . U n r i v a l l e d climate. E n dowment. J . H . A P P L E , A . M . , President.

Ine

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WOmanS College,

Massachusetts,

Natick.

W a l n u t H i l l School for Girls.

N e a a n

Exceptional educa tional opportunities are offered young men and women at

Ziltt

Certificate admits to seven l e a d i n g colleges. A d v a n c e d courses offered. A m p l e grounds for golf, tennis, basket ball. C a t a l o g u e and V i e w s sent on a p p l i c a t i o n . M i s s C O N A N T and M i s s B I G E L O W , P r i n c i p a l s .

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Bridgewater.

RLS AND Y O U N G H o w a r d Seminary Fyear £O R G Iopens Sept. 19,

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WOMEN.

18th

1900. T e r m s $350 to $400 per year. A c a d e m i c , C o l l e g e - P r e p a r a t o r y a n d S p e c i a l courses. A r t , M u s i c and E l o c u t i o n . W e l l - e q u i p p e d L i b r a r y a n d Laboratories, G y m n a s i u m . Miss S A R A H E . L A U G H T O N , Prin. Massachusetts,

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Worcester.

'The Worcester Polytechnic Institute* Courses of study in M e c h a n i c a l , C i v i l and E l e c t r i c a l E n g i n e e r i n g and C h e m i s t r y . 200-page catalogue, s h o w i n g a p p o i n t m e n t s secured by grad uates, mailed free. Expenses low. 33d year. J . K . M A R S H A L L , Registrar.

45th year. Sept. 12, 1900. T h e best academic i n s t r u c t i o n , physical culture, military training. Visitor: T h e R t . R e v . W i l l i a m Lawrence, D . D .

84th year b e g i n s Sept. 12, 1900.

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Michigan College of Mines Summer Practice Courses in Surveying, Shop Practice and Ore Dressing begin June n t h ; in Mine Surveying and Mining begin May 7th ; in Field Geology begin July 23rd. Booklet of half tones illustrating the work, ready May 1st. Booklet and catalogue describing all courses sent on application. Addr " . W . M c N A I l t , Vres't, Iloiierhton, M i c h . 1 P

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HIGHTSTOWN, N . J .

A high-grade college preparatory school for both sexes. A l s o prepares for L a w and M e d i c a l Schools. Classical, Scientific, and E n g l i s h Courses. E x c e p t i o n a l advantages i n M u s i c a n d A r t . A separate business course, w i t h stenography a n d t y p e w r i t i n g . Large endowment provides for teachers of highest grade. Graduates enter a l l colleges without conditions. Magnificent buildings, chemical and physical laboratories, g y m n a s i u m , ath letic field, and cinder oval. 33d year opens Sept. 12th. Send for Catalogue.

Ashevillc College for Girls is one reason for its great success and popularity. T h e refined and cultured home life, where students actually begin the full duties of womanhood, the charming social environment, the unequalled equipment, are others. Catalogue describes these in detail, also courses—College with degrees of B . A . , U.S., and A . M . ; Seminary course witb diploma, and Preparatory course. Address

ARCHIBALD A. JONES, A. ML, President, Asheville, N. C.

Qerlach Academy BR1ELLE, N. J.

R. W . S W E T L A N D , A . B . , P r i n c i p a l .

Princeton reparatory Schoo

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The First A i m of school life here is the building of character. We are endeavoring to make

Bordentown Military Institute

St Agnes School

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Albany, N. V. For the physical, moral, intellectual, domestic and relig ious training of girls. College- preparatory and special courses. Advantages in art and music. School '* is ideally situated, overlooking the historic Hudson, and surrounded by absolutely proper hygienic conditions.

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New York, Aurora. \X7^>lfa C*Ci\\c><y£> C o l l e g e alms to be thorough i n VV Cll^> V - t U l l t g C » the efficiency and c u l t u r a l value of its i n s t r u c t i o n . I t was founded i n 1868 by H e n r y W e l l s , E s q . (origi nator of W e l l s - F a r g o E x p r e s s C o . ) , and subsequently the recipient of gifts from h i m a n d from M r . E d w i n B . M o r g a n . T h e spirit of W e l l s C o l l e g e i s p r o g r e s s i v e ; its courses of study have been broadened, a n d its standard for entrance a n d g r a d u a t i o n raised u n t i l n o w i t is a m o n g the foremost i n i t s educational facilities. Y o u n g w o m e n w h o i n t e n d t a k i n g a college course are i n v i t e d to send for p r o s p e c t u s ; or, i f possible, make a personal inspection. A d d r e s s W I L L I A M E . W A T E R S , P h . D . , President. W

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York, Canandaigua.

Granger Place School for Girls In beautiful lake region of Western New York. 25th year begins September 19th. Certificate admits to leading Colleges. Strong Music Department. Academic and College Preparatorv Courses. Send for illustrated c i r c u l a r .

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S A M U E L C O L E FAIRLEY, Principal.

York, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

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^ m i l i t a r y school b u i l t , equipped and maintained for boys under fourteen years of age. B e a u t i fully located i n the H u d s o n R i v e r H i g h l a n d s , a n d completely e q u i p p e d for its w o r k . For catalogue, a p p l y to the Superintendent. New

NEW

New Y o r k , I r v i n g t o n - o n - H u d s o n . (45 m i n . from N . Y . ) T*f_ ^ T 5 * _ _ _ + 4 . C _L _ _f will receive, for IQOO-IQOT, a limited 1 ne XjenneXI OCnOOl number of girls wishing fine work i n Science, Music, Art, French, German, English, Literature, History, Psychology, Ethics, and Preparation for Foreign Travel. Special tutoring in other branches. F o r catalogue address Miss M A Y F . B E N N E T T .

York, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

Y O R K MILITARY ACADEMY

I n the H u d s o n R i v e r H i g h l a n d s near W e s t P o i n t . T h e beautiful a n d h e a l t h f u l s u r r o u n d i n g s , strong a n d able faculty, g o o d d i s c i p l i n e a n d complete e q u i p m e n t , have a l l aided i n the success of this academy, w h i c h is n o w rep resented b y its graduates i n the a r m y , n a v y , and twentyfour colleges. Separate b u i l d i n g for y o u n g boys. F o r catalogues address the S u p e r i n t e n d e n t . New

York, Elmira. i

Its new life a n d new w o r k . N e x t session opens September 19, 1900. N u m b e r of F r e s h m e n registered i n September, 1898, twice, a n d i n September, 1899, three times greater than the average class since 1855. A m p l e accommodation is being provided for increased n u m b e r i n September, 1900. Intellectual t r a i n i n g thor o u g h . Social life d e l i g h t f u l . W h o l e s o m e recreation emphasized. • W r i t e for a catalogue. A.

New

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Elmira College for Women

T h e a i m o f the teach ing at R i v e r v i e w is not mere m e m o r i z i n g , but to make each boy understand the relation o f rules to m e n t a l a n d m o r a l development. Strength of b r a i n and b r a w n is the combina tion secured by those who receive their t r a i n i n g at R i v e r v i e w . E x t e n s i v e grounds, i d e a l l y located, o v e r l o o k i n g H u d s o n R i v e r . Prepares for a l l C o l l e g e s and the G o v e r n m e n t A c a d emies. 65th year. Send for illustrated catalogue. A d d r e s s J . B. B I S B E E , A . M . , Principal, Poughkeepsie, N. Y .

C A M E R O N M A C K E N Z I E , D . D . , President.

York, Fort Edward.

Fort Edward Collegiate Institute* F O R Y O U N G W O M E N A N D G I R L S . P'ive Courses w i t h Preparatory. D e p a r t m e n t s o f M u s i c , A r t a n d E l o c u t i o n . 43d year Sept. 25. Illustrated Catalogue. J o s . E . K I N G , D . D . , President.

New Y o r k , S i n g S i n g .

Dr. Holbrook's School will re-open W e d n e s d a y , Sept. 26,6

Cascadilla School

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New York, Sing-Sing-on-Hudson.

ITHACA, New York.

Mt. Pleasant Military Academy 84th year. References: H o n . Joseph H . Choate, H a m i l t o n \ V . Mabie, L . H . D . , Charles B . Hubbell, formerly President Board Education, New Y o r k City. F o r beautifully illustrated year book address

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New York, Sing-Sing-on-the-Hudson.

for all colleges. L e a d i n g fit t i n g school for Cornell. Splendidlyequipped. Unique recreation building. 13-acre athletic field. N e w cottage for younger boys. . v. PARSELL, A.M., Principal.

Ossining School for Girls. Miss C . C . F U L L E R , Principal.

Miss C. E . Mason's School for Girls.

PEEKSKILL MILITARY ACADEMY

P e e k

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Colleges a n d G o v e r n m e n t Schools. T h o r o u g h business course. U . S. A r m y Officer detailed by W a r D e p a r t m e n t . New a n d fully equipped Gymnasium. B e g i n s Sept. i g t h . Illustrated catalogue. A p p l v to

THE

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THE

C A S T L E , Tarrytown-on-Hudson, N . Y .

A beautiful school. Advantages of New York City. A l l departj ments. Endorsed by R t . Rev. H . C . Potter, H o n . Chauncey M . • Depew. F o r illustrated circular E address Miss C . E . M A S O N , L I . . M . $

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St. Paul's School Garden City, L. I., New-York.

A n e n d o w e d s c h o o l for b o y s . Eighteen miles from N e w - Y o r k , m i d w a y between the S o u n d a n d the S e a . Its o b j e c t i s t h e t h o r o u g h p r e p a r a t i o n o f b o y s f o r c o l l e g e , ojmauium j h e school is unsurpassed i n all essentials. It i s h e a t e d Bowiim by steam a n d lighted by electricity. I t h a s a n e f .-ient c o r p s o f teachers, w e l l equipped laboratories, n e w g y m n a s i u m w i t h s w i m n i n g tank 2 0 b y 5 0 ft., b o w l i n g a l l e y s , g a l l e r y track, a n d latest a p p l i a n c e s , a large a t h l e t i c ; teld w i t h n e w q u a r t e r m i l e c i n d e r track, a n d golf l i n k s . Visitors always welcome.

A p p l y for catalogue to FRED'K L . GAMAGE, D. C. L., Head Master. Pennsylvania, Germantown, Philadelphia.

N e w York, Utica.

WalllUt Lane School and

C O N S E R V A T O R Y O F MUSIC,

Prepares for all Colleges.

D U D L E Y B U C K , Examiner. Music in all its branches, Elocution, Languages, English, Literature, Drawing, Painting, Physical Culture, Dancing, etc. Faculty, 22 distinguished specialists. Unsurpassed advantages. FIVE F R E E SCHOLARSHIPS. Send for new catalogue. G E O . S. B E E C H W O O D , Director. Pennsylvania,

Wellesley Preparatory.

Academic and special courses.

Address Mrs. T H E O D O R A B . R I C H A K D S , Principal. Miss S A R A L O U I S E T R A C V , Associate.

Mercersburg Academy

Birmingham.

Mountain Seminary and College Preparatory School for Girls. A l l that a school ought to be, yet more than a school. A school and home—with the advantages, facilities, good influences, and comforts of each, for sixty girls. Three graduate courses. Certificate admits to Wellesley, etc. Six buildings with 100 acres of grounds, in a situation noted for healthfulness. Write for illustrated catalogue. A . R. G K I E R , Business Manager.

A school for boys, healthfully Iorated in one of the most picturesque sections of Pennsylvania. Thorough instruction; college preparatory work being especially successful. Personal interest is taken in each boy, the aim being to inspire in every pupil the lofty ideals of thorough scholarship, broad attain ments, sound judgment and Christian manliness. New dining hall and new athletic field. F o r catalogue and further information address

Misses N . J . D A V I S and S. M . G A L L A H E K , Principals.

LINDEN HALL -.SEMINARY^

W i l l i a m Mann Irvine, P h . D . , President, MERCERSBURG,

PA.

Pennsylvania, Ogontz.

Cheltenham Military Academy & 8 U E M £ near Philadelphia. Pennsylvania's leading preparatory boarding school, under the military system. Rates—Lower School. $500; Upper School. $600. Illustrated Catalogue. R e v . J O H N D . S K I L T O N , A . M . . Principal.

One hundred years of development have given many things t o the equipment of L i n d e n H a l l Seminary that make it dis tinct and happily peculiar. T h e r e are comforts in its quarters that most schools lack. M o d e r n improvements give every advantage of modern buildings. Cheerful rooms a n d halls make indoor life healthy ana happy. Spacious balconies, roof garden, bowling alley, tennis courts, etc., make outdoor life ideal. T h e school is a home school, founded on a religious basis, but unsectarian. T h e intellectual t r a i n i n g conforms t o t h e lines of advanced ideas. F o r particulars, address

Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Woman's Medical College of P a . 51st A n n u a l Session. F o u r years' c u r r i c u l u m . Sessions seven and a half months. E s p e c i a l attention to L a b o r a t o r y courses in all depart ments. C l i n i c a l Instruction and Quizzes. C L A R A M A R S H A L L , M . D . , Dean, North College A v e . and 21st Sts.

Pennsylvania, W e s t Chester. T\^«fJ—

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WILLIAMSPORT DICKINSON SEMINARY A Christian home school, w h e r e the h i g h e s t c u l t u r e m a y be s e c u r e d at the lowest cost b y b o t h sexes. R e g u l a r a n d elect i v e courses. Rare advantages in M u s i c , A r t a n d E l o c u t i o n . For catalogue address Rev.

Roanoke.

Virginia College for Y o u n g Ladies* Magnificent Buildings. G r a n d M o u n t a i n Scenery. 25 E u r o p e a n and A m e r i c a n T e a c h e r s , M u s i c a n d A r t unexcelled Students from 2 7 States. A beautiful a n d attractive C o l l e g e . F o r catalogues, address M A T T I E P . H A R R I S , President. Virginia,

Staunton.

Young Ladies. T e r m begins Sept. 6, IQOO. L o c a t e d in Shenandoah V a l l e y o f V i r g i n i a . Unsurpassed climate, beautiful grounds and modern appointments. Students from 27 States. T e r m s moderate. Send for catalogue. Miss E . C . W E I M A R , Principal.

St O l .

After a Century of Success

John's • J U 1 I I I

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( E p i s c o p a l ) s i t u a t e d i n the f a m o u s l a k e r e g i o n of W i s c o n s i n 100 m i l e s from C h i c a g o , 25 m i l e s west o f M i l w a u k e e o n the C . , M . & St. P . R y . P r e p a r e s for c o l l e g e o r business. D i p l o m a a d m i t s to m a n y colleges. Athletics and rowing under trained instructors. Number of s t u d e n t s l i m i t e d . S c h o o l opens Sept. 18. W r i t e for c a t a l o g u e , etc., to C o l . S. T. S m y t h e , Pres., Delafield, W i s .

T h e Misses Ely's School for Girls* Riverside

D r i v e , 85th a n d 86th S t r e e t s ,

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T h o r o u g h instruction in h, F o r e i g n Languages, A r t , i n c l u d i n g in E n g l i s h special college course. Prepares for colleges.

ProTidence, R. I.

N e w York,

N e w Y o r k , 1440 B r o a d w a y .

Stanhope=Wheatcroft Dramatic School

N o w i n its B e c o n d c e n t u r y o f s e r v i c e a n d m o r e s u c c e s s ful t h a n e v e r . "With its f a c u l t y o f e x p e r i e n c e d u n d progressive instructors, e v e r y e n e r g y is d e v o t e d to w a r d s t h e d e v e l o p m e n t o f a l l t h a t is n o b l e i n t h e c h a r acter o f studenta T h e atmosphere of the school ap p r o a c h e s , as n e a r l y as possible, t h a t o f the h o m e . A t t e n d e d by s t u d e n t s o f a l l d e n o m i n a t i o n s a n d e i g h t e e n States. C u r r i c u l u m includes t h o r o u g h courses i n E n g l i s h , Science, Classics, M u s i c , a n d A r t . A m p l e e n d o w m e n t s m a k e l o w t e r m s possible. B u i l d i n g s large a n d convenient, with all m o d e r n i m provements. F o r catalogue, address AUGUSTINE JONES, LL.B.,

Summer Monthly Classes and Private Lessons from M a y 1st. Practical Thorough Dramatic Instruction. Prospectus on ap plication. A D E L I N E S T A N H O P E - W H E A T C R O F T . Director.

American Academy of Dramatic Arts F R A N K L I N H . S A R G E N T , President. A practical training school in conjunction with M r . C h a s . F r o h m a n ' s E m p i r e T h e a t r e and travelling companies. A p p l y to E . P. S T E P H E N S O N , Carnegie H a l l , N e w Y o r k .

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Our 200-page book, The Origin of Stammering, with —~ _ _ ^ full particulars regarding treatment, sent 1 n •• to any f j M E7 ^ £ I J address. Enclose 6 cents to pay postage. Address, • * • • • mm T H E L E W I S S C H O O L , 21 A d e l a i d e Street. D e t r o i t , M i c h .

1900

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Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water.—LUKE, viii. 24. Jesus and His disciples, desiring to reach the other side of the Sea of Galilee, " went into a ship ; " and as they sailed, " He fell asleep : and there came down a storm of wind." Such storms are common to the region, especially in the autumn, when this event probably took place. During the night I spent by the Sea of Galilee a hard east wind came up, and sleep was out of the question. M y tent swayed and flapped ; the thrumming of the stays mingled with the sound of the men pounding in the tent-pegs, their whacking blows accenting the noise of the tempest, while theirvoices were blown about most oddly, now reaching my ears in full volume, and now seeming to come faint from various far-away quarters. I breakfasted early in the morning, three hours before sunrise, the waning moon shining in a cloudless, starry sky. From the cooking-tent I could hear heated argument, fierce outbursts, sounding in that wild turmoil like the quarreling of goblins. It was well in harmony with the moment. By dawn, the tempest sub sided into a z e p h y r . — A R T I S T ' S N O T E .

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A D A C H I KINNOSUKÉ,

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FAR away on the horizon, from beneath the purple and dream-like bed-quilts, it woke and opened its large, blue eyes, the 17th of September, 1894. A h ! I see the very mention of it affects you. True, i t ' s a darling of History now, but

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The upper part of the " Ting Yuen's " largest mast was gone. The 32-centimeter from the " Matsushima " had paid a very j a r r i n g visit to i t . Time, 12:58. The Chinese fleet looked for signals at the flag-ship, the " Ting Y u e n . " In place of commands, the sad stump of the mast was weeping in ashes. How could the Chinese act in concert and keep their formation when no chicken with its head chopped off is expected to walk straight ? " What, the head gone ? So early! " remarked he, solemn and dry as a commencement sermon, my friend Yamaji. The Wakamatsu Castle was proud of Y a m aji's father now of old. His Majesty, the Ten-no, in those days, was courting flowers and poetry behind the purple curtain in the quiet of the Kyoto palace, far away from the markets and war. The shogun, the military regent, was the captain and helm of the country. Eighteen hundred and sixty-eight came, and with it one of the most radical of revolutions. We, sitting cross-legged in the lap of the New Japan, look back at the year, and call it O-ji-shin, " g r e a t earthquake." The feudalism in Japan was a pale mirage of a dream; the Tokugawa shogunate was a straw pagoda caught in a storm all of a sudden. Those were sad days for some of the clansmen. They fought under the same flag, Yamaji's father and mine, under the flag of the sho gun. They died in the same castle, in the same twilight of that same unkindly day, which fell upon them in benediction from the patriarchal pines. They were samurai, and samurai-like they committed hara-kiri and paid their last debt of gratitude. Sang a Chinese poet, once long ago: " When the snow is heavy on the boughs, then, for the first time, we know the color of the p i n e . " The Wakamatsu Castle was one of the evergreens. The imperial arms, under the royal " brocade banners," turned northward. Castle after castle fell. " T h e wind was on the rice-field," wrote the historian of the time. The thirst for conquest is a sort of fire, and no amount of oil poured upon it will quench i t . A n d the imperial victories were the most combustible of oil. Many said: " W h a t is the u s e ? Resist that avalanche of the imperial army ? Y o u are joking. Shed the blood of so many noble samurai for nothing ? What nonsense! Does not His Majesty offer the most liberal and honorable of terms ? Those who sur-

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render—mark the words of his august edict! —shall go unmolested and without penalty of any kind. More than that, does not His Majesty decree that the officers of his new government shall be chosen irrespective of their past fidelity to the Tokugawa Bakufu, and solely on the basis of merit ? " A l l of which was true. A n d yet, there were samurai who, like a faithful wife, were too truly wedded to the course of the shogunate to see two paths where duty led them. Call them misguided, and you may be right. Foolish, i f you please, and many other names, my clever friends ; but one thing was cert a i n : ingrates they never were. Neither did they perjure themselves. Had not the Tokugawa shogun clothed, fed, trained, dignified, honored them; and for over two hundred and fifty years, them and their ancestors ? They did not, could not, forget that. Did they not swear at the altar of samurai's honor that they would spell out their gratitude to their daimyo and shogun with letters, not of ink, but of their best blood, ruddy and warm with their life ? Japanese history had been proud to record many a name of samurai who had sacrificed his wife, his children, his own life, and all for the cause of loyalty. A n d they, the samurai of 1868, bore the same proud names. Remember also, however much they might be in error, they had a firm conviction—and sincere as truth in it, too—that right was on their side. They never lifted their swords —that is to say, as they looked at it—against His Majesty, the Ten-nō. They were fighting against the foul advisers who ' ' tacked His Majesty under their arms and dictated to the world " in his august name; that was a l l . " I offer this to y o u , " said the last breath of my father, as he handed me his sword; " draw and honorably look at i t . Are there any stains ? None ? A n d so is my soul and my conscience and my h o n o r . " The sword was as pure as the heart of a god! The Wakamatsu Castle fell. A n d in that chamber of Karasu where his father committed hara-kiri Yamaji was present—a witness of the scene of tears and blood, even an actor in i t — i n his mother's arms. He was three months old. The act was committed. His blood was on the snow-white of his ceremonial robe. A perfect stoic, calm, and as much above pain and death as the F u j i ' s snow is above the stains of the sewer! That, then, was the last and the greatest conquest of a sa-

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murai, victory over death and pain. A n d am I placed under the necessity of defending this flower-act of a brave soul, who scorned death and rewards alike and was mindful only of duty and of the honor of a samurai — o f defending such an act—a " barbarous " act ? There are some, so they tell me, who, when they are butchered like dogs under the sabers of their enemies, shriek, groan, and cry, as i f death were the most unexpected thing on a battlefield. A n d , moreover, I am told that they wear the soldier's uniform. There are some also, I have heard it said, who congratulate themselves—aye, receive the congratulations from their friends with beaming faces, too—on their lucky escape. " L u c k y ! " Just think of it—and strut about through the streets the rest of their lives doing nothing but write " Colonel " o r " Gen eral " bigger and bigger, and sound it louder and louder still on top of their names. A n d if my ears deceive me not badly, there are a lot of people who call these gentlemen the heroes of the battle of so and so! A n d cer tainly they may be right. But I digress. " N e a r e r — n e a r e r , " whispered the dying samurai to his wife. " T a r o , " he said, as she approached him closely and presented their child to the dyinghusband. " T a r o " is the given name of Yamaji. The father placed his blood-stained finger on the baby's forehead. " I die for and with Bakufu—in order to answer for its gracious favors. The debt is

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Yuen's' largest

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paid. A n d now I dedicate my child to the Heaven-emperor, H i s Majesty. M a y " His breath failed h i m ; his heart was silent. The silent tears from his mother's eyes • did not erase the blood seal on the baby's forehead. When he was about five years of age his mother took him to the shrine of the Ujigami (local deity), and within hearing of the sol emn hymns of the sacred cataract dedicated him anew, in the presence of the god, to the cause of His Majesty. Ten years later, on a moonlit, silver night, the metal mirror peeping through the open work of the shrine of the local deity saw a young man near where the mother had dedi cated her five-year-old Yamaji. The mother discovered—and it must have been about that time—that her son held a daily converse with the mortuary tablet of her husband, as i f he were talking with the living. When she happened to catch him as he came out of the family shrine, she noted plain traces on his face and i n his eyes of tears, which he could not wipe away. The Japanese F l y i n g Squadron had steamed past the Chinese right flank. They were re spectful enough to all the Chinese ships, the polite Japanese that they were, but espe cially so to the " Chao Y u n g " and the " Y a n g W e i . " The Japanese compliment was a little too warm for the poor " Y a n g W e i . " A n d yet it is not i n the nature of some Chinese—so they, the naughty-tongued, tell me—to refuse anything when i t is given them. She was i n flames. W e could see her—a picture hung against the wall, of some

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misty hue—over the sea. The smoke veiled i t . The smoke framed i t . She was a beau tiful, appetizing sight, was that ship. That was the finest bonfire I have seen in all my life, and I have seen a few thousands of them, more or less. They were already porting, those four ves sels of the F l y i n g Squadron—thundering, lightening, smoking like volcanoes, under the huge black umbrellas stretched from their smoke-stacks, and the graceful mass of

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teen knots) except the " A k a g i , " a gunboat of 615 tons. We had engaged the " Chen Y u e n " and other ships of the Chinese left. We were just ahead of the Chinese flag-ship, the " T i n g Y u e n . " The distance between us and the rest of the line was increasing. Kather than invite the fire of the two iron clads, the " T i n g Y u e n " and the " C h e n Y u e n , " and of the " K i n g Y u e n " and the " Ching Yuen " ; rather than, after all that, risk failing to join the squadron, as she

and poop, genie fashion.

lace-like smoke t r a i l i n g court-lady fashion at their heels. The " Matsushima," at the head of the Principal Squadron, reached the Chinese right, and was just flanking i t . A n d a gay treat of a heavy cross-fire that was to which she was treating the " Chao Y u n g . " It was, i n all conscience, too much. Had not the F l y i n g Squadron treated her politely enough ? She appreciated the attentions rather warmly, and her enthusiasm burst out in blazing, towering smoke—on fire! Our ship, " H i y e i , " was the last in the Principal Squadron, the slowest in speed (thir-

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surely must, for there was no tempering .the speed of the rest of the ships in line ahead; rather than be sunk i n an ignoble running-away fight; rather than Pierce the Chinese line—and why not ?— save the ship, i f possible, and join the Prin cipal Squadron on the other side! Captain Sakura Kikunosuke stood on the bridge. Off to the starboard quarter the two Chinese ironclads were bearing down upon us. He pointed at them. " Between them! " he cried. The din of the few hundred cannon, so demonstrative of their affection; the dense

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be blown to powder, or sunk outright! Does not the captain know well enough the solici tude of Vice-Admiral Ito, the commander-inchief of the squadrons, for the preservation of all the ships ? Oh, i f things come to the worst, of course he, for one, would not live to see the disgrace and suffer the pang of the loss. B u t then, what of the national dignity, the luster of the Sun-flag, which are, by great odds, more important than his life ? A n d in a l l the black list of crimes none, surely, is darker for soldiers than dis obeying an order, or (which amounts to the same thing) acting independently on a course so critical as that! Few, very few oth ers had done anything of the kind be fore him . N e l s o n was one of them. Captain Sakura's name will enter the catalogue of the names of the few. When Y a maji noted the change i n the course of the " H i yei" and understood what i t meant, he said, " Sons of samurai!" I was called below

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smoke, in volume enough to make a decent pall for a good-sized genie ; the frequent, and so often sudden, shower-baths of shot and shell which you had to take whether you would or no—these and the ghastly sight of the human butcher-shop all around are not the most suitable things to keep a man's head clear. To run the gauntlet of the Chinese line between those ironclads! That, at least, was not a coward's programme. To follow the chord of the arc, and join the Principal Squadron—the only way of salvation for the " H i y e i " — o n the other side! That, say what you please, was no vision which a slowwitted muddle-head would see. Did the flag-ship signal the " H i y e i " to follow any such course ? Suppose she should

We steamed in at full speed, letting loose the very fury from our broadsides as we went, by way of an applause to the memory of the good old chop-me-up-and-I-will-splityou-open, gallant days when the line of bat tle was a series of duels of ships battering away at each other t i l l one of them struck its flag. What a melee that w a s ! That beautiful sheet of water, which scarce an hour before was as smooth and transparent as the brow of my lady, how i t was churned, dug, whipped, and scarred! W e could hardly believe our own eyes. There never was a worse small-pox than the hailstorm of pro jectiles. I acknowledge those Chinese knew how to pay respects that were due from them and return the compliments paid them. They fired at us point-blank. A n d as the commander of the " C h e n Y u e n " writes, " It was utterly impossible to m i s s . " ' ' Eleven hundred yards . . . eleven hun-

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dred . . . nine hundred and ninety yards! " The voice was resonant, deep, and rose above the din, and was clear as the wedding-bell. Yamaji was shouting down from the top. Much depended on him, on the correctness of his mathematics, on the clearness of his head. L e t his calculation run off at a tan gent, and a pretty mad riot there would have been among the shot and shell! " E i g h t hundred and eighty yards . . . seven hundred and seventy . . . five hun dred and fifty . . . five hundred and fifty! " Then it was that we entered into the queer place over the gateway of which, Dante tells us, is the warning to leave hope behind. The beautiful autumn day, dreamy on the historic Yellow Sea' of the poets, was sud denly hurled into the primordial chaos where the sun had not yet been born. I came upon a bugler. He was pulling out a jagged piece of an exploded shell from his body. H i s uni form was dyed, and it did not take a doctor to tell how painful and dangerous was the wound. " B e l o w ! Go down below! " said I, pointing to the surgeon. Judge my surprise when he, ignoring my orders altogether, raised his bugle to his lips and blew, actually blew, signal after signal. I was speechless. The blood gushed out with every breath. A minute later, as I passed him, I saw a surgeon's assistant by his side. " Come this w a y , " the man was saying. ' ' Thanks,'' said the bugler in answer to the invitation, ' ' but my duty is to stand right here at my post, and therefore " He had no time to say more. A shell struck his head from behind, and flung it into the sea. A curling smoke of spray, a tiny whirlpool, and then expansive circles of eddies on the slope of a swelling billow— they were a l l , the only monument left of the memory of the heroic unknown. A n d even these, a few seconds afterward, as the line shots kicked up a stupendous wall of spray and foam—even these very transitory me mentoes which, i f one might call them such, marked, tomb-like, the last spot whence the bugler took his leap into the infinite beyond— even these eddies, I say, were stormed out of sight. I thought that my arms, both of them, were pretty well occupied, especially just at that time. But a steel shot thought other wise, and, kindly and thoughtfully enough, it came and relieved me of one of them. A shell burst just then on the other side of the mainmast from where we stood. A piece

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struck my comrade on the back. I caught him as he fell i n my remaining arm. A n d with him and with the bleeding stump of my left arm, I dashed down into an officer's mess-room, which, for the time being, was converted into a surgeon's ward. A s 1 almost tumbled down into the room, I jerked myself into a dead halt. What a sight that was! A shell had entered. There was a good-sized lake in the center of the room that had red water in i t . A n d the whole medical staff (yes, to a man) lying there with the wounded who had been car ried in, all heaped in piles, made an embank ment for the ruddy lake of respectable thick ness and height. I forgot to unburden myself of the almost lifeless body of my comrade, and stood there, stone-like, for a few seconds. I heard a sound which was not exactly a groan. It came from a heap in a corner, a monstrosity of mutilation. The fire had stripped his head and eyebrows clean naked, and one could by no means tell where his nose might have been. What an appalling rag of flesh did he wear for his face! " There is the medicine you want—there." That thing could speak! But that hand of his which he raised to point out the place of the medicine! The unhappy man thought, it was very evident, that he was the only survivor of the entire medical staff. He must serve his fel low-comrades. He alone could direct, none else. So he tottered to his feet. Why, i n the name of all good sense, didn't he lie quiet and make himself as comfortable as possible, in a dream, at least, i f not i n solid expectation, of getting hauled safely out of that hades and healed by and by, and of sit ting comfortably there on the green sod un der the shades of a pine on Maiko Beach, or some other kindly place, and of spending his remaining days in affluence on his pension and under the glorious gold-corded uniform of a captain ? W h y get up i n that horrid condition? D i d n ' t he have sense enough to know that his veins would be all empty of blood within five minutes at most ? Just then Lieutenant-Commander Saka moto Toshiatsu stepped into the room. The officer recognized the man, by his uniform, of course, not by his face, to be the medical attendant of the first class, Miyashita Sukejiro. " S u k e j i r o , " the commander called out to him, " your words and deeds show that you are truly a valiant man. I see what a loyal subject of the Emperor you are. If you die, your name shall never die. Be assured, I will take care of t h a t . "

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officers below on the bridge, was a mere translation of that little sentence, spoken some twenty-four years before, within a doomed castle, under the shadow of defeat and by a man bowing down on his sword and committing hara-kiri: " I dedicate my child to the Heaven-emperor, H i s M a j e s t y . " I said that his mother's tears did not erase Out of the surgeon's ward and scarcely three steps on the starboard quarter, I was the blood seal upon the baby brow ; neither rushing back to my post, when something did those twenty-four years. like a bloody moon burst right over my head, " Six hundred and sixty yards . . . six a thunder roared, and chaos followed. A n other shell! That was all—and who can hundred and sixty yards . . . seven hun spare time to notice such a trifling matter ? dred and seventy yards . . . eight hundred Then I heard the commander exclaim: and e i g h t y ! " Slow and old as the ship was, she was run " Look, look at h i m ! He acts as i f the eyes of the eight million gods were upon h i m ! ning at her topmost speed. She had passed Would that all Japan were witnessing h i m ! " and was astern the Chinese line. She was un Eyes were turned to the military top. A der a heavy cloak of smoke. A thick column shell struck a corner of it, and my friend rose from the quarter-deck and poop, genie Yamaji was hoisted out of it as i f the top fashion. It rolled clear up to the mizzenwere a petard. He was a terrible sight—his top, swelling, belching, fatter and fatter. hair singed, his coat smoking. He alighted The ship was on fire! on the shroud just below the top. Well, you The Chinese wanted to know whether we ought to have seen him then! Agile as the were done for or not; and, by way of ascer professional monkey of a juggler, he leaped taining it, they sent a deadly messenger. back again into the top. The shot crashed through our upper works. I was fighting the flames instead of the " F i v e hundred and fifty yards!" he shouted down. Oh, nothing had happened to h i m ; Chinese at that time. A n d down, right in that is to say, to his way of thinking. Some front of me, rained a heap of flesh, appar thing robbed him of his signal flags and a ently out of the clear sky. A n unsightly mass of jelly—and that was all that was left of a lump of flesh from his left shoulder. " B l a z e a w a y ! " he shouted to the gun gallant gunner. The shot tore almost half ners still remaining i n the top. One might of the top away, and carried it into the have thought from the strength of his voice sea. that he was waking from the dead. There was no occasion, really, for me to There was a hearty laugh below, on the get irritated. Surely 1 have lived in this bridge. A n d how utterly ill-timed did it funny world long enough to find out that sound amid that tremendous concert of shots, smoke is the most contrary-souled nuisance in that pandemonium of fire and blood. in the world. But I wanted to see the re Yamaji did look mirth-provoking. But with maining part of the military top. How about that steadiness of nerve, that presence of mind, Yamaji ? Was he there, that miracle of luck that utter indifference to the hot-breathed who flew in the face of Providence every threats of the whizzing shells passing and re chance he had ? I was anxious; I wanted passing an inch ahead of his nose and through to see; but the smoke said no. A n d there the bodies of his comrades—ah, what a upon, how furiously mad I got. sublime sight he was, i f you could but stop A t last I spied the ruin of the top. Not long enough to think of i t ! a shadow of anything living or dead. Nat L e t the truth be told. The commander urally enough my eyes shot at the spot where was right when he remarked that the boy the half of the top jumped into the sea and was acting to spectators: only it was not so foolishly drowned itself. There rose out the eyes of the eight million gods. The eyes of the water, a little beyond the spot, a he felt burning on every action of his were head, then the shoulder, of a man. It was those of a man—then dead a long time, Y a m a j i ! whose name even was being forgotten by Frantic, forgetful even of my duty, of the some of his own clansmen—his father. What fire I was fighting, of the battle, of my life, seemed to observers intrepidity and daring of everything, I rushed to a life-buoy. I cut gone mad, was nothing but a prayer in Yama- it, and with all my might I threw it toward j i ' s heart. What seemed a miracle to the him. But the ship was passing fast. " A r e you the staff commander ? A s the Honorable Presence sees, that shell almost finished me. I regret that my hands and feet obey my bidding no longer. I truly re gret that I can do no more for the Sun-flag and His M a j e s t y . "

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In a corner of Aoyama Cemetery, on a plot where the sod is ever green, fenced i n with a rail of iron taken from the wreck of a Chinese man-of-war, there stands a marble shaft. No one sleeps under i t . Cut into the sheen of that stone, white as a samurai's

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honor, is the name of one of my friends. Beneath the name you can read (whenever you would like to go there, I will show it to you) t h i s : " D e d i c a t e d by his father to H i s Majesty, the Emperor of J a p a n . "

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T H E O D O R E R O O S E V E L T ' S career is a practical experiment in politics. He is aiming at success. I f he were content to be good, he would not stand out as he does among the honest men who are known in political life, but who for the most part maintain their personal purity by holding aloof and exerting only so much influence as is possible by arousing or directing public opinion. M r . Roosevelt always has recog nized that he had not only to keep clean him self, but to get things done. He hesitated once when he was an assem blyman. He became a leader i n the House during his first term, and he put through several reform laws by forcing or persuad i n g the party to take them up. In a subse quent term he was so influenced by his many Mugwump friends that he stood out alone, with a few followers to fight; just to fight. This lasted only a few weeks, however. He saw that he could accomplish nothing by per sonifying a universal protest ; so in he went again to get things done, to put through all that it was possible to force upon his party, and his record in this legislature was a good one. When he returned from Cuba, the old ques tion arose in no very new form. Should he stand out with the comparatively few socalled independents and fight everything, or should he join with the machine and as Gov ernor do things ? I told that story in the May, 1899, number of this magazine ; and the decision to accept the regular Republi can nomination and make his fight within the party was recounted there with some of the differences which were bound to come between such a man and an organization. The ques tion raised then was, " Would M r . Roosevelt succeed in doing the r i g h t thing always and carrying the organization with him ? " The experiment was going on. It is still going

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on. The first term of his governorship is about over. What is the result ? To tell what laws were passed would not signify, from my point of v i e w ; that is a matter of mere local interest. It is the success or failure of the man that is significant, be cause, not alone that he is honest and prac tical, but because people believe he is hon est ; and especially the politicians know this. The only man I ever heard question it was a notorious Tammany legislator; this is the way he put i t : " Say, do you know the Governor's got the best lay I ever seen i n politics ? I don't see why nobody thought of it before. It's dead easy. He just plays the honesty game, and see how it w o r k s ! " Thus even he did not really doubt M r . Roosevelt's honesty. He simply could not rise to a point where he could grasp the idea of sincerity. Life was a game, and hon esty was a pretty good t r i c k to play; that was a l l . The two years at Albany have been a severe t r i a l . There were no great pieces of legislation up to attract popular enthusiasm and help the Governor carry his will over the machine's. Neither was there any important executive act to give his position the force of public feeling. It was a commonplace term, and the fights were all quiet contests. A l l the better for the present purpose. They were within the organization, practical poli tics. F o r there were fights. The Governor and the organization clashed with dangerous fre quency ; and two or three times M r . Roosevelt and the leaders looked red into one another's faces, lips tight and jaws set, separating as if for good and a l l . But each time the Gov ernor won, the party leaders submitted, and cooperation was resumed without any un pleasant recollections. Two of these dis-

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agreements, or " s p l i t s , " as they were called, will do here to tell the whole story. Louis F . Payn was Superintendent of In surance when M r . Roosevelt was elected. He was a Republican grown old in the party ; a friend of Senator Platt, the State leader, from the days when the Senator was a novice in politics; and he had been appointed by Governor Black, M r . Roosevelt's Republican predecessor. M r . Payn had been a lobbyist who did business on a grand scale, but his friends said for him (he never speaks for himself), that no matter what his past had been, his administration of the Department of Insurance was above reproach. He wanted to stay. His term in office expired on January 1, 1900, and he was glad the end came in the middle of M r . Roosevelt's term, because he would like to have had the stamp of approval which an honest man could put upon the honest end of his life. The man with a past seemed to be really proud of his virtuous present. The Governor laughed in a merry way he has, and said that M r . Payn would have to go. M r . Payn declared he meant to stay. He didn't laugh, and the Governor didn't laugh so much after that. It is known that Roosevelt is a fighter. So is L o u Payn. He is a surly, vindictive man, who knows no limitations. There is a story that Senator Piatt tried once to persuade Payn to " let up" on an enemy of theirs. M r . Platt showed that it was good politics in this case to forgive; the enemy was a man of power in his district. " N o , s i r , " said Payn, " I won't quit on that cuss while he stands above ground." The Senator looked i n the angry face, and saw that this was true. " T h a t , " he said, " is the reason you are the leader of only a small section of the country, L o u . " Payn fought at first very fairly. A flood of petitions from the insurance companies poured in asking the Governor to retain the superintendent. They all endorsed his offi cial conduct. This did no good. The Gov ernor began to ask men to take Payn's place. Payn saw the leaders. The leaders remon strated with the Governor, who answered simply that Payn had to go. The Senate would not confirm any successor, was the answer. Payn had the Tammany senators, and he had had personal relations with enough Republican senators to make them stand by him. V e r y well. The Governor answered that he would name a man whom the Senate could not fail to confirm, an ex-senator or some good party man. This would have been hard on the Senate, but he was told to go ahead.

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He asked an ex-senator, and the Payn men hustled around for a day; they laughed in their sleeves. The ex-senator declined the nomination. The party was squarely with Payn, who felt safe enough to say to the Governor that, i f he would renominate him, " old L o u P a y n " would stand by the Gov ernor when, when—well, when Tom P l a t t had thrown Teddy Roosevelt over into the ditch. The Governor sounded the Senate. The Senate was sound for Payn. He spoke plainly to the leaders. They were plainly for Payn. It was a solid front the enemy was showing, but there was one weak place. A l l right. The Governor said that i f the Senate wouldn't confirm a man in Payn's place, he would wait till the Senate ad journed ; then he would bring charges against Payn, and put him on t r i a l . W h a t could he charge? What did he k n o w — " k n o w " mean ing prove ? Well, for example,—about that time two big Wall Street men were quarreling, and one of them in a huff got some information about a trust company his r i v a l had a remote interest i n . The facts had been laid before the Governor. Among the items was a very large loan to L o u Payn by a prominent cor poration officer. It appeared that i f charges were made against L o u Payn quite a large lot of miscellaneous trouble would be kicked up for many more beside the Superintendent of Insurance. That was enough. The leaders asked for that list of names the Governor had. He brought it out again, unchanged, and the first man on it was chosen, nominated, con firmed, installed. M r . Payn said things pri vately about interminable war, but this fight was won. The next was less personal and far more important. It brought the Governor into conflict with the corporations, and only very wise men can foresee the end; some of them say it is the end of Roosevelt. The Governor has a notion that the way to deal with " c a p i t a l " is to be fair. That was the way also to deal with " l a b o r . " That was the best policy w i t h all the big things, as it was with the little things. " If there should be disaster at the Croton Dam s t r i k e , " he said one day, when that diffi culty was beginning to disturb New York, " I ' d order out the militia i n a minute. But I'd sign an employer's liability law, t o o . " Half an hour later Major-General Roe tele graphed for troops, and he got leave in stantly to call out all he needed. There is i n the man contempt for the

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demagogic cry against capital, and there is in him also a fierce contempt for the dishon esty and grasping selfishness of capitalists. So with labor. He would shoot into a mur derous mob w i t h g r i m satisfaction, just as he stood up for fair play for strikers i n New Y o r k when he was a police commissioner. When he was elected Governor, he said pri vately that no corporation should get a priv ilege without paying the State for it, and pretty soon he went on to the logical conclu sion that all corporations should pay for the privileges they already had. They were not paying their share of the taxes. They paid on their buildings, real estate, cars, track age, etc., but not for their franchises. M r . Roosevelt broached the subject of a fran chise tax. Objections were raised, but not much was said till the idea appeared in the first draft of the message to the legislature of 1899. Then the organization opposed it strenuously. Most of the corporations contribute largely to the campaign funds of both political par ties i n N e w Y o r k . Republicans never offer any anti-capital legislation; the Democrats offer a great deal, and intend none. The Democratic position in the State is well un derstood. Most of the big Tammany men are interested heavily i n the local corpora tions, and their private secretaries sometimes write the anti-trust, anti-capital planks. This is all part of what our Tammany legislator above quoted would call " the g a m e . " The Republican organization presented some good arguments against the franchise tax paragraph in the Governor's message: the difficulty of finding honest, expert assessors; the lack of standards by which to determine the value of such intangible property; the danger i n the future of hateful taxation which would be confiscation. The Governor said these were all matters of skill. He meant to be only just, and he would consult w i t h the corporations about drawing up the bill. But the leaders urged that there was no public demand for such a t a x ; and that the party had promised nothing of the kind in the platform. To these the Governor replied that it would be all the wiser to legislate in these matters quietly, without arousing any popu lar excitement like that which had been turn ing the West upside down, and he thought that a piece of legislation against the abuses of corporations, put through decently in a " c a p i t a l i s t S t a t e " of New Y o r k ' s wealth by the Republican party, would be a good example to set to the " c r a n k " States, which, like Tammany, shouted mightily and did noth

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ing, or wanted to hit " money " out of spite, envy, and ignorance. The difference of opinion grew to a " s p l i t . " The period of reason was past, and the state of war was declared. For a while it looked as i f all legislation and all appointments would be involved. But the organization chose another course. The Governor might present his message i f he would, but the legislature should not heed that part of it which advised a franchise-tax law. The mes sage was sent in, and the corporations began to move. They were told by M r . Roosevelt that they might have a voice, i f they wished, in the drawing of the bill. This invitation was public, and it was perfectly understood. " Yes, I saw it in the paper," said one corporation officer, " but I guess we won't have to see the G o v e r n o r . " They saw the organization. They had a man at Albany, the regular man, to watch the bill, and it was said that he had a quar ter of a million dollars to beat it with. He saw it introduced, referred, " put to sleep." He reported it dead, killed by the organiza tion, so that he did not have to spend a cent. " I haven't drawn a contract on i t , " he said, meaning that he had not even promised to pay anything to legislators to vote against it. " I t ' s a dead duck. I listened to the heart of it, and there wasn't a flutter." The Governor worried a little. He talked a great deal to legislators one by one, two by two. Pretty soon he was cheerful. He talked to the organization about i t . Then he was angry. He saw the leaders of the party in the House and Senate. " Orders were orders," they said, and they could do nothing. One day, toward the end of the session, soon after the watchman in the lobby had given his expert opinion on the state of the bill, the Governor, finding he could not get it out of committee otherwise, sent in a special message. The " steering commit tee " would have to report it out i f that was read. The word flew about from man to man, the message was there at the Speaker's desk; there, too, were the orders. What could be done ? Somebody seemed to recall the exact phrasing of the orders. This somebody tore the message up—an unprecedented piece of audacity; it was worse: it was a political mistake. The cool heads were shocked. Suppose the Gov ernor should appeal to public opinion with his torn message in his hand! The Speaker became i l l , and went home for a day. The watchman out in the lobby was in a fine

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frenzy. Perhaps he was sorry then that he had no contracts drawn. He ran to telephone to New Y o r k ; he flew back, and began sending page boys to legislators. The sweat rolled off his face and head. The Governor drew down his upper lip to bite at his mustache, as he does when he is in a rage. Then he saw, as the Assembly leaders had seen, and he laughed. He dictated another message, and had that delivered at the Speaker's desk. The Speaker received i t ; it was read; it was heeded. The steering committee reported the bill, and both houses passed it ; the sweating watchman with his contracts had come to the rescue too late. This woke up the corporations, and they began to respond to the Governor's invitation to see him. They had suggestions to offer, amendments, but it was too late. The bill was before the Governor, and the legislature had adjourned. It was a ridiculous situation. The usual hearing was given. Some of the corporations had their lawyers on hand to argue their side. Even this was not in vain. They did succeed in persuading the Governor that the bill was imperfect, and should not be signed as it stood. Would he let it drop and have another bill introduced next year ? N o , he said, with some humor; he could not very well do that. Would he call an extra session ? He would consider that. He decided that it would be fair and worth while. Then he need not sign this bill ? Well, he thought that, all things considered, he had better sign this bill, so that he would be sure of having something to show when all was over. Moreover, with a franchise law on the books, the amendments to be suggested would probably be more acceptable to him. The extra session was called, a few amendments were

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adopted; but these changes were so unsatisfactory to the corporations that they are going to fight the law i n the highest courts. What is the result ? The organization doesn't like M r . Roosevelt as Governor, neither does " L o u " Payn, neither do the corporations. The corporations cannot come out openly to fight h i m ; they have simply served notice on the organization that i f he is renominated they will not contribute to campaign funds. But the organization cannot refuse to renominate him, for he has said openly that he wants to finish up his work: levy the franchise tax, see to the amendment, keep i n a fair board of assessors, etc. And besides, he has marked the administration as his, so that for the party to fail to honor him again would be to repudiate its own work. F o r the politicians the obvious solution of the problem would be to promote him to a place where there would be nothing for him to do but be good. The Vice-Presidency is just the thing. But M r . Roosevelt wants work, not a soft place; and he would refuse the nomination. But inasmuch as the organizations of all the States are equally interested in getting r i d of such a man, the policy would be to work up a wave of popular enthusiasm which should roll up from the West and Southwest a nomination by acclamation in the convention of his party. This he could not refuse, and thus it might seem that the people had shelved the colonel of the Rough Riders i n the most dignified and harmless position in the gift of his country. Then everybody could say, " W e told you s o , " for both the theorists and the politicians have said that it is impossible in practical politics to be honest and successful too.

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W H E N you have a nice new home in the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one with a porte cochĂ¨re, an outside chimney, and a fireplace in the reception hallâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;you develop a desire to have your friends come to see you. The Dovelys did. It was a question of who next. " No more cooing young people for a

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w h i l e , " said Dovely. " They make me feel old." " I rather like that k i n d , " said Mrs. Dovely ; " but it shall be as you say. You ask a man, and I ' l l find a g i r l . " " Yes, and t h e y ' l l be flirting in two hours." " Not i f you get the right k i n d . " ' ' Well, I ' l l hunt up Brackett Marsh, then."

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" Is he nice ? " " He has kept out of j a i l ever since I've known h i m . " " O h , F r e d , you know what I m e a n . " " I suppose I do. Then he isn't. He sometimes forgets to tell the young woman he meets for the first time that she has the profile of a Gibson g i r l . He dances badly. He doesn't do t r i c k s with cards. He never wants to cook things i n a chafing-dish. He hasn't sense enough to know that he ought to be playing golf instead of visiting charity patients and attending clinics. But he is a mighty good fellow, and we used to be chums." ' ' That means that you'll spend the day smoking and talking of old times. W e l l , ask him out for over Sunday. I ' l l write to Calla W i n t h r o p . " " To what class does Calla belong ? Is she a good fellow ? " " She is not. She is a young woman with an aim in life. Y o u mustn't tease her, F r e d . Her bump of humor is in her chin—and i t ' s a dimple." ' ' I suppose she wears glasses and has the grace of a broom-stick." " The idea! She was the prettiest girl in our class. If you rave over her hair I shall be j e a l o u s . " So it was arranged. M r . Dovely hunted up Marsh in the city, and made him promise. Mrs. Dovely's letter to Calla was urgent, and brought an acceptance. The Dovelys were to meet them at the 6.53 on Saturday night. But when the be lated commuters dropped by Number Eleven at Willowbank had scuttled off into the dark ness of the suburb, two persons were left on the station platform. One was a broadshouldered young man. This was Marsh. The other was a tall young woman in a tailor suit and a fur boa—Miss Winthrop. They seemed to be looking for some one. Twice they had paced past each other, carrying their dress-suit cases, when the station agent came out. He had turned out the lights, and he locked the waiting-room door behind him. He was going home. Both started for h i m . The young woman, being nearer, won. Marsh fell back, waiting and alert. He saw the agent wave some directions. The young woman started off. Then his turn came. Would the gentleman direct him to the home of M r . Dovely ? " J u s t follow the lady, sir. She's going t h e r e , " and off went the hungry ticket-man. Marsh took the advice. It was a brisk pace she was setting, but he was soon in

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close pursuit and reviewing a most interest ing compound fracture that had come in that morning. The house surgeon had some hopes that amputation might be necessary. If so, he had promised to make Marsh his first as sistant i n the work. He would be back in time. What, another turning ? He wished he could get hold of a tibia and relocate the exact spot at which " Young man, are you following me ? " E h ? W h a t was this ? Here was a young woman under a street lamp. She was look ing sharply at him. Oh, yes! The one who was going to the Dovelys'. " See here, are you following me ? " " W h y , y e s , " said Marsh simply. " Then you'd better stop i t . " " O f course; certainly. N o , n o ! I don't mean that. The man at the station, you know; he told me t o . " " Indeed ? " " Y e s , he said you were going to the Dovelys'. So am I. I hope I did not frighten you ? I beg your p a r d o n . " " It isn't necessary; I am not timid. Do I understand that you are to be a guest there ? " "Iam; and you ? ' ' "Also. I am Miss W i n t h r o p . " Marsh raised his hat and told his name. " N o w , " said Miss Winthrop, " I think it will look better i f we walk together the rest of the way—unless you prefer shadowing m e . " " I waive all preferences," he said. " May I carry your bag ? ' ' Miss Winthrop felt quite able to carry it herself. She added that the Dovelys' house was the third on the right from the corner. They walked on i n silence. It was awkward, Marsh searched his mind in vain for a safe topic. Being taken for a highwayman had scattered his wits. Besides, there was little in the manner of the young woman to invite friendly talk. The third house on the right shone vividly against the background of night. Streaming out over the snow came the glow from many gas-jets and several big lamps. " It appears that we are not to be the only guests," suggested Miss Winthrop. " Looks like a house party or something of the s o r t . " Marsh scented a social even ing. " W i l l you please wait a moment ? " Marsh stopped under the street light, and fished a time-table from his pocket. He saw a chance of escape. " It's no use," said Miss Winthrop. " The next train down is at 11.13, and stops only on signal: I looked that u p . "

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" But 1 might wait on the p l a t f o r m . " " A n d freeze. Besides, I should tell M r . Dovely, and he would go after y o u . " " And bring me back like a bashful school boy; you're r i g h t . " Marsh picked up his bag. " I think we should have an understanding first," said Miss Winthrop. Marsh dropped the bag. " Were you told anything about the other guests ? " " N o . I imagined I was to be the only one." " So did I. This is K i t t i e ' s work. Can you guess why we have been asked out here ?." " I ' m afraid n o t . " " Of course you can't. Well, it was prob ably that we might meet each other. We are expected to be entertainingly silly. We are supposed to begin by being very distant and formal, and end by giggling together in a corner, behind a book. L e t me tell you now that I do not propose to do anything so ridiculous. I hope you will not expect it of me." " I ' m sure I shall n o t . " " Very well, then, let us go on. I'm cold and h u n g r y . " Dovely himself came to the door. He wore an ulster, a cap, and overshoes. To Marsh, who was in the van, he said: " W e l l , you've come at last. It's about— Oh, Brackett, it's y o u ! I thought it was the plumber. I had forgotten. A h , somebody with you ? " " This is Miss W i n t h r o p . " " G r e a t Scott! I mean—delighted. Come in and—and keep your things on. W e ' r e in trouble." Mrs. Dovely they found shivering over a gas-log in the drawing-room. She was wrapped in a floor rug, and was wearing her furs. She had been crying, too. Dovely summed up the situation: " Hotwater heating pipes burst in three places, cold-water pipes frozen solid, waterback i n the range a wreck, and every plumber in town with more work than he can do in a month. How did it happen ? We went into the city for a few days and let the servants off. Got back this morning, and have been freezing ever since. Gas-jets, I find, give out heat only in summer." " Then the illumination was not in our honor ? " put in Marsh. " My dear fellow, we hadn't thought about you once. Our miseries have kept us too busy. But I'm going to ask you to stay and share them Y o u don't have to accept, though." Marsh had quickly taken stock of the im

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Then Miss Winthrop, who had learned all sorts of domestic science at college and who had practised housekeeping in her home mis sion work, began to make things move. She showed the men how to disconnect the waterback so that a fire might be built in the range; she discovered that the fancy fire place i n the dining-room was really practi cal, and under her direction Marsh soon had a cheerful fire blazing behind the shiny tiling. By this time she had some water boiling, and she superintended the thawing of the coldwater pipes. By nine o'clock the diningroom table was set, and there were nicely broiled chops, baked potatoes, tea, and pre serves ready. " Calla, where did you learn to do such t h i n g s ? " asked M r s . Dovely But Miss Winthrop only smiled in her calm way. It was a jolly meal. Afterward the men said they would help with the dishes. Then M r . Dovely thought he might catch his plumber, and went out. M r s . Dovely offered to help, but confessed her ignorance. She was told to stay by the fireplace and thaw. So Miss Winthrop and Marsh undertook the task. " D i d you ever wipe dishes, M r . Marsh ? " demanded Miss Winthrop. " I ' m an e x p e r t , " said Marsh. ' ' Where did you learn ? ' ' " In Poverty R o w ; that is what we called our barracks at college. W e boarded our selves, you see." " O h , " said Miss Winthrop. "There's a towel. N o w what shall I give you first?" " The glasses, please. They polish best when h o t . " " Y o u do know something about it, don't you?" " It is always so pleasant to be believed— after you have proved your statements." " T h a t ' s sarcasm, isn't i t ? There! I haven't rolled up my sleeves." Miss W i n throp looked at her dripping hands and then at her silk waist. " L e t me do i t , " said Marsh. This distinctly disagreeable young woman, he allowed himself to note, had arms which were rather plump and graceful. In trying not to notice them he looked into her eyes. She met the glance steadily. " Now, don't be silly, M r . M a r s h , " she said. It was his turn to flush, and he did i t . However, he rallied quickly. " I couldn't help i t . Y o u shouldn't en courage m e . " " Why. M r . M a r s h ! "

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" I t ' s the way you look at me. Surely I saw you wink t h e n . " "I? I wink?" " O h , that's the way they all t a l k ; the bigger the flirt the greater the saint she pretends to be. There, you almost broke a glass." " Y o u are t r y i n g to tease me n o w . " " N o t for the world. M y one desire is to wipe these dishes as soon as possible and get away before you lead me into any further nonsense. I shall be calling you ' D e a r i e ' next." " M r . Marsh, don't you think this is very light talk ? " " Deplorably so, Miss Winthrop. But as long as you lead, I must follow. I am so easily influenced. Now for the silver. D i d you mean for me to take your hand then ? " Miss Winthrop was just boxing M r . Marsh's ears when M r s . Dovely entered the kitchen. "Hity-tity! What is t h i s ? " she ex claimed. " I guess a chaperon is needed here." " Y o u ' r e right, M r s . D o v e l y , " said Marsh, wiping away the traces left by Miss W i n throp's wet fingers. " We've been flirting again." " K i t t i e , " said Miss Winthrop, " he's just dreadful." M r s . Dovely was evidently highly amused. " I have always understood," she said, " that it took two to get up a flirtation or a quar rel." " B u t this has been neither one nor the o t h e r , " protested Miss Winthrop. " It looked like b o t h , " said M r s . Dovely. W e l l , that is the way it began. Y o u can imagine the progression. It is not neces sary to tell how, during the next two days— for Sunday it snowed and Monday they were blizzard-bound—the affair developed. That which had been at first mere word fencing between two stranger natures took the form of a mutual jest. Now a mutual sorrow is always a bond be tween people. It bridges many chasms. So does a mutual j e s t ; only in the latter case the bond is much stronger. Y o u may weep alone, but you need some one to help you when you laugh. Calla Winthrop saw at last the humor of Marsh's attitude, and came to appreciate it keenly. He had developed her latent sense of the absurd. In his turn, Brackett Marsh enjoyed the unusual role of jester. He had often envied in others the knack of relaxing tight-shut lips by m i r t h . So M r s . Dovely caught them smiling at each other, and wisely

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put it down as a case of what she called " love at first s i g h t . " Tuesday the blockade was lifted. They were wading through the banked snow to the station when Marsh stopped at the first corner. " It was here, Dovely, right under this lamp, that she began flirting with m e , " he said. " Oh, n o , " said Miss Winthrop, " it was before that. It was when I pretended to

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think you were a highwayman, but you didn't see it t h e n . " " Do you know, F r e d , I feel proud of that m a t c h , " said M r s . Dovely when she handed her husband the cards six months later. " K i t t i e , " said Dovely, " y o u ' r e a won der." " N o w , " mused M r s . Dovely afterward, " what do you suppose he meant by that ? "

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Author of " Miss Cullender's L a m b , " " A Tale of a T u b , " " A s It Fell Out," etc.

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THE chaplain was a rather noisy preacher, with a habit of sudden pauses where no pause was ex pected. Prisoners ad dicted to talking in chapel watched nervously for the stopping of the " croak er's" voice, and the warders kept their own lookout, for reasons connected with disci pline. The oldest and cleverest lags, men who could jabber glibly with jaws almost

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rigid, were very apt to be caught, for the warders' seats were raised some two feet above the convicts' ; and by the quick, in stinctive closing of a pair of lips beneath you, it was easily guessed that their owner had been breaking the rules. The governor, Captain L a m b e r t — " old C i n g e r t a i l " to the convicts, from the end of red bandana that hung from his tail pocket the week r o u n d occupied the one pew i n the gallery, which was as good as a conning tower, and the chief warder had a tall perch i n the corner facing

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the pulpit, so that, observed from every point, felonry lacked no excuse for minding its devotions. Of course, mistakes were made, but official mistakes are bad to rectify in prison, and the man who was accused, r i g h t l y or wrongly, of talking in church generally got the worst of it. In some cases it was a moderately safe charge to lay, and most warders had a fixed idea that you couldn't go wrong with Benja min Cudd. Cudd was t a l k i n g i n church again ; i f he wasn't talking, he had just left off ; i f he hadn't just left off, he was just going to b e g i n ; put him down for report. So, when Cudd was brought up as usual on Monday morning, the governor, as usual, was nasty to him. " One of these days, pretty soon," said the governor, " I shall be putting you back for an interview w i t h the visiting jus tice." The governors of her Majesty's prisons have no power to inflict the " cat," that being the exclusive privilege of the visiting jus tice, who comes once a month. A n interview w i t h him is generally good for two or three dozen at the triangles. The prisoner, standing at attention, his arms close to his sides, and the palms of his hands outwards, rolled his big, dull -eyes, and made no reply. Perhaps he thought i t hardly worth while to state that he had not been talking. " F i n e of forty-eight marks," continued the governor, " and N o . 3 diet for a week." Forty-eight marks represent the total of six days' earnings at what government calls "steady hard labor," and the loss of them at a stroke meant, in effect, one week longer of penal servitude. If you think that a week more or less is unimportant in a sentence of seven years, wait until you come to notch the days off one by one in a cell seven feet by four, w i t h six inches of the sky of liberty mocking you through the slit above. Cudd stayed a moment to see i f the gov ernor were g i v i n g away anything else that morning ; then one of his grotesquely long arms went slowly up to the salute, and his warder marched him off to cells. Cudd said nothing, and the warder said nothing, eti quette being strictly observed on occasions of punishment. If Cudd had sworn, the warder would have been pleased, though he would probably not have reported it. N o t a word was said at the door of Cudd's cell, where Monday's dinner of beef and onions

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was waiting for him. He left the tin at the door, and passed in. The dinner-hour was half over, but N o . 3 diet—a pint and a half of stirabout—which was handed i n to him five minutes later—is easily wolfed. Then the victim of discipline planted his stool against the wall, and sat down to consider things. Almost as long as he could remember, Benjamin had been in trouble. Though he yearned for freedom, which was four bitter years behind and three in front of him, he had not made much better weather of it out of prison than he usually did as a lag. His extraordinary appearance when he stood with his party on parade (between handsome B i r mingham A l f , the prince of thieves, and long Dicky the Dean, whose line was preaching at street corners while his g i r l lifted the "poges," or purses, of the congregation) proclaimed him a man whom nature had condemned to fail in crime. He was the smallest creature in the prison, with a head many sizes too large for him, great staring eyes, ears like sails, and such a reach of arm that, standing erect, he could almost touch his knees with his finger tips. Benjamin was a "hook," that is to say, he got his living by the com moner kinds of filching ; and race-courses, fairs, and all uncanopied green marts were his peculiar lay. But in every place where " h o o k s " do congregate, that figure of ridi cule inevitably drew the scrutiny of " c o p pers," "tecs," and " n a r k s , " * and Benjamin was smugged—which is nabbed—where " h o o k s " less cruelly defeatured roamed unmolested. Besides his luck, which was generally awful, he was not what the gang call a " wide," or smart, man, and they were rather shy of working w i t h him. He had palled at one time or another with busters and screws,# toygetters, # broadsmen, § snidepitchers, || men at the duff,!# d skittle sharps — a pretty wide crew, who " used to use a t " a public in the Lane **—but his partnerships had rarely survived a job or two ; and for years Benjamin had padded the hoof alone, the forlornest " hook" i n England. Then, in an hour of inexcusable conceit, he aspired to burglary—Benjamin, the plain " hook " — which was his undoing. The chat f t was an easy one to empty, and Benjamin was walking off at dawn with the wedge ## i n the kipsy §§ on his back, so pleased with his cleverness that, when he piped the reeler round the double,###he forgot that he was trudgingwitha n

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out his daisy-roots, * and that the James # was sticking out of one pocket and the screws # bulging in another. He was so much ashamed of himself that he declined to plead " not g u i l t y " at his trial. Two years would have met the case, six months would have shown that the judge was disposed to reform by kindness ; but the Recorder was a believer in cumulative sentences for old offenders, and Benjamin, whose record in the Criminal Register filled a quarter of a page in small type, was lagged for seven. It was his ninth sentence, and his second of penal servitude. He was just thirty-nine. Meanwhile, Benjamin was still with his back to the wall of his cell, his little legs stretched out in front of him, trying in his stupid way to set the account right between the governor and himself. He was puzzleheaded over it. The warder who had laid the illusory charge he took no account of. He had lied against the warder on occasion, and this might be a fair move in the game. But the governor was a kind of Pope to the de formed and half-witted hook, and it seemed to him that this high authority should detect a warder's lie on the instant. The ugly sal low of his skin burned to purple, and began to change from purple into black. He was coming slowly to think that i f the governor failed him, there was nothing to keep on for. He had badgered the warders till he was will ing to accept any reprisals at their hands ; and being reckoned among the convicts as a man with no luck, he was as shunned and lonely in the prison as he had been out of it. He had half reckoned that i f he had held his tongue when he was charged, the governor would see through it, and set him right. He heard the warder coming down the hall, unlocking the cells to turn the men out for afternoon labor. His own door was switched open. " Now, then ! " said the warder. Cudd's misshapen face was black to the ears ; he rose with a scream, picked up his stool and smashed it against the wall of his cell. Then, before he could be held, he ripped his jacket at the throat and tore it into shreds. The warder blew his whistle, and rushed on him, but Cudd fell inert, crying like a child. It is written in the Rules that a prisoner who breaks the furniture or makes ribbons of his clothing may be punished with the " cat." Benjamin had committed both these crimes at once, and of all forms of retribu* Boots.

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tion, in or out of prison, the " c a t " was the one he dreaded most. Just at that time there walked, or shuffled, at the rear of Ben jamin's work party a man whose ankles were hampered by cross-irons, and who wore a par ticolored dress of black and drab ; he had come under the whip for pitching a brick at a warder, and Benjamin was sure that the whites of the man's eyes had turned yellow since his punishment. So he sat and quaked in a dark cell not his own, and wondered when the visiting justice would come. Since his tantrum on the pre vious day he was decorated in quite a new style. The ridiculous little figure looked more than ever ridiculous muffled in the suit of No. 1 navy canvas, which is the particular badge of the destroyer of clothing. Then, since he had done wanton violence to the furniture of his cell, it was reasonably urged that in another fit he might turn hi i hands against himself (and in the darkness of the punishment cell sudden crises of madness will sometimes come), so the body belt had been added to the canvas suit. The body belt, weighing about four pounds, is of double leather sewn together, and fastened by a lock round the waist, with steel wristlets at the sides, in which Benjamin's wrists were se cured. Belted and handcuffed, and cased in canvas, he sat in the dark, terrified, wailing for the coming of the man who had power over the " cat." But the man came on this very day, and held his court and went away, and Benjamin was not set before him. A l l night he lay on a plank on the broad of his back, still held by the wrists, wide awake, saying to himself, " I wonder i f he'll come to morrer?" No light came with the day, but Benjamin knew it was breakfast time when a loaf of brown bread was pushed in through the trap in the door. He thought of the other pris oners turning out for the day, putting their tells to rights, and being mustered for chapel. Oh, what happiness to be rolling out of one's hammock, hands free, and nothing worse to expect than the day's routine on the works ! Those other chaps had nothing to complain of ; no one had anything to complain of who was not waiting to be brought before the vis iting justice. By and by the door was un locked, but he knew it was too early yet for the summons that was always singing in his ear. " L i k e a stroll, my boy ? " said the warder. " Come along o' me." Benjamin understood that he was to be

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exercised, and he went after the warder, blinking i n the daylight, into a small, highwalled yard, empty and perfectly bare. Here prisoners undergoing special punishment were brought for an hour's exercise i n the morning, one at a time ; and here Benjamin trudged to and fro under the eye of the warder, who stood stiffly against the iron wicket. It was a stinging forenoon of midOctober, not a gleam from the ashen sky. The warder had his top coat on, but Benja min's N o . 1 canvas let the cold in, and his pinioned wrists felt numb. Every time he passed the warder he looked at him furtively ; he wanted to ask i f the visiting justice were coming that day, but he had never had to do with this warder, and was afraid to speak. He had not slept, he had not tasted his bread, he was dull and weak and cold, and the fear almost paralyzed him. The rules being what they are, an officer of the prison can do little for a prisoner under special punishment ; but Benjamin's warder—a married man, with children whom he doted on—observed the color of his wrists. He had bought his youngest a pair of wool len mittens the night before. " Hold on," he said. Benjamin stood dumbly, and the warder went up to him. " Cold at the wrists, ain't you ? " said he, and Benjamin looked and nodded. " It wouldn't be much harm i f you answered c i v i l , " jerked the warder, " but you're i n for a dose of it this time"—Benjamin quaked a g a i n — " and I can make allowances." While speaking he had been unlocking the wristlets, and Benjamin's arms were sud denly free. " There !" said the warder, " now clap your hands to your sides and do a trot. Y o u ' l l be warm all right soon. L a w , man, you ain't so bad ! Y o u might be i n the leg-irons. Now do a bit of a double round the yard." Benjamin was s t i l l voiceless, but his gog gle eyes held a kind of gratitude. " Time's up ! " called the warder presently. " Slip your dukes i n again, my lad," and Ben jamin, strangely and wonderfully obedient, thrust his hands and wrists through the steel circlets. " Take my advice and stow that toke," said the warder, pointing to the loaf of bread that had tumbled from the trap-door to the floor of the cell. " W a n t to see the doctor ? " " Don't send the doctor ! Don't send me the doctor, sir !" said Benjamin very quick. " I ' m all right, sir, an' thenk you, sir."

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" Law, man ! The doctor ain't the visit ing justice," said the warder. No, he wasn't; but he came just before him, when the " c a t " was threatening. The doctor had to sound you, and punch you, and probe you, and feel your pulse and heart, to make sure that you were fit for it. Benja min had often sent for the doctor, when he wanted to try a fake on him and fetch the farm ; * but he didn't wish for him now. The doctor came, however. " Medical orf'cer !" said the warder, as he threw the door open ; and Benjamin scram bled up to attention, frightened almost to sickness. " Let's have a look at you ! " said the doc tor. " C o m e out here into the corridor. Take his wrists out of the bracelets. Now, stand up square, and no k i d . " Among the lags, the doctor was the most popular officer i n prison, but he had never been known to let a man off who was sound for the " cat." He jerked up Benjamin's chin, felt his pulse, and sounded him over the heart. Ben jamin could almost hear the chief warder's " One ! " for the first stroke of the " cat," governor and doctor standing by, and the man with the whip measuring his distance. " Sleep last night ?" said the doctor. " No, sir." " Eaten your bread ? " " N o , sir." " What's your game ? " Except for his terror, Benjamin would have whimpered something, but the terror kept him dumb. The doctor knew that he was expecting to be flogged, and saw that he was silly from ex cess of fright. " T a k e the belt off," he said to the warder. Benjamin thought they were getting him ready for the triangles, and his great head wagged foolishly on his little body as he said : " ' A s 'e come, sir ? " " Who ?" said the doctor. " Y o u know, sir—the visitin' justice." " Y e s ; he's come and gone." Benjamin's knees knocked. " O h , s i r ! " he cried. " Don't play with me. A i n ' t I goin' to get bashed ? " " Y o u ' r e in luck again, Benjy !" said the doctor, as he turned out of the cell. Benjamin glimmered at the warder. Was prison such a heaven as this ? " Y o u 'eard 'im say it, sir, didn't you ? " he said. * Get i n t o h o s p i t a l , the c o n v i c t ' s paradise.

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But now that the tension was over, the warder was on duty. " Sit down, my lad, and eat your bread," said he. When the door was locked again, Benja min groped on the floor for his loaf of bread, and carried it to his plank bed, and mumbled it greedily. He had never felt so happy in his life. In the evening a mattress and a bolster were thrown in to him, and then came a cup of hot cocoa, good fat stuff, and Ben jamin wished, in the black stone cell, that he might never get out of prison. Perhaps no one had ever (mite such a nar row squeak of it. But the governor had well and truly pondered that dark and stunted case, and had decided not to put Benjamin back for the visiting justice. Benjamin had given " old G i n g e r t a i l " (a shocking name for one of the smartest and best-looking men in the service) a great deal of trouble ; but he thought there was probably something at the back of that moment's fury, for in his right senses—as far as his senses were ever right —this lag had always been very wary in offence. The governor could seldom be cer tain that he got the naked truth from a warder who reported a troublesome prisoner, and when the prisoner rebelled under a sen tence which was not excessive as the penal ties of the prison went, the governor had his private mind upon the matter. He knew that nearly any warder who had had charge of Benjamin would report him for almost any thing, but he remembered also that Benjamin had generally taken his punishment, i f not like a lamb, at least unlike a tiger. So it was that, the case being weightily consid ered of the governor, Benjamin was not set before the visiting justice, in which event, h i d the doctor passed him, he would certainly have got the order to strip. But the bark of Benjamin the lucky was yet a long, long way from shore. If he had been a day and a night in hell, he was now to be translated to purgatory. They took him out of chokey, but only to immure him in a " s p e c i a l , " which is just one remove in quality from the den he had spent that night of terror i n . But Benjamin had been in the specials before, and entered briskly, without giving cheek. He was in love with the prison just then, and only thought what a good, kind man the governor was. " I can do speshuls all right enough," he said to himself. Specials, nevertheless, want a good deal

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of " d o i n g , " as Benjamin might have remem bered, i f he had not been in such a sweet state of mind. They don't let you speak ever such a little word in the specials, and woe betide i f you are caught t r y i n g to tele graph through the wall. Then the graft* in specials is very unlovely. In your own cell, i f you have a bit of oakum-picking to do, they give you a little thing called a fid dle to ravel it out w i t h ; in the specials you get oakum varied with crank most of the time, and the picking is done with the un assisted dukes. Exercise is not much bet ter than graft, for in the penal class—which was Benjamin's at present—there's never a creature to look at in the yard except the screw,# and he is not often a " soft " one. For a long sentence in the specials, the diet is generally N o . 2 : eight ounces of bread for breakfast, a pint of stirabout for dinner, and eight ounces of bread for supper. A l l this is very chastening after a time, but Benjamin sat over his oakum day by day through hard October, and still said to himself that he could " do speshuls right enough." The world of felonry wagged on all round him, but not an echo of it found his ear; they give you in the specials the very fullest benefit of your own society. When Benjamin stated, quite politely, and not at all as a grievance, that his fingers were getting raw with the oakum, they put him on the crank. He had been deprived of his book from the library, and that was something of a loss, for he had chanced on a work called the " Popular E d u c a t o r , " which had a lot of lovely pictures, including a cut of Barnet F a i r , where he had spent some glorious hours. He had his books of devotion, to be sure ; but Benjamin was not a pious man, and his reading, when there were no pictures, was principally an exercise in spelling. He had, moreover, been disappointed in the Bible. L o n g Dicky the Dean had whispered him on the works some remarkable stories which purported to be Sacred W r i t , and in his cell one night, before lights were turned out, Benjamin had spelled over some passages of Scripture, regarding it as an improper book. But his curiosity was defeated, and as he re turned the volume to the shelf he thought what a slap-up wide man the Dean must be to find such nuggets in the Bible. Perhaps —and this seemed likely—the Dean had made a private Bible for himself. * Labor.

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F r o m time to time the doctor came, but Benjamin said he was " workin' through it all right, sir, thenk you, s i r , " and he kept on. He knew that, out of the twelve hun dred lags in the prison, there must be a dozen or two doing their turn in the spe cials, and he thought he was getting on very well. During twenty days he did his graft stead ily, and i n those twenty days he had scarcely spoken twenty words. Then he began to feel that he was losing himself a little. He caught himself chewing his oakum when he ought to have been picking i t . It had a nasty taste, but it gave the palate some thing to do during the six hours from bread to stirabout, and the next six hours from stirabout to bread. A t night he had odd fancies that they were going to let him out of prison on what the Queen is made to call a free pardon. He thought the neighbor hood of Barnet would be a nice place to set tle in, because of the fair. He had a notion that he was going to be well-to-do, and that he wouldn't have to be a hook any more. It was the first time in his life that he had imagined any better existence than a hook's. The twenty days straddled out into fortytwo, and Benjamin, though he did not know it, had dwindled a good deal. He had taken to sucking his sleeve instead of chewing his oakum, though he had left off being very hungry. He fancied he was no longer doing a full day's graft, and was surprised to see, when he returned to cell after his hour's ex ercise, that he was always credited with six marks on the card outside his cell, which are the most that can be earned in the penal class. Then, without expecting it, he found him self back one night in his own cell. It seemed like getting into a hotel. The tins, and the stool, and the tiny deal table looked wonderfully smart, and there was the ham mock to unsling and fix up—a hammock with sheets and a pillow—and the gas was burn ing i n the wire guard, just as i f you'd or dered i t . He had a pint of cocoa for supper that night, and felt almost as good as he had done the day they let him off his flogging. He thought it was want of use, and not weakness, that made it a kind of effort to nip into the hammock at the signal for lights out. " I knew I ' d work them s p e s h u l s ! " he said. " They've got a noo reseep for skilly. I ' l l finish this three year on me 'ead'!"

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The last sentence was in the nature of a flourish, for Benjamin was still possessed by the notion that they were going to let him out. The change of scene was more pantomimic than ever the next day, for instead of being taken in a thick slop coat to the works, he was marched into the nice warm room of the stocking-knitters. In the prison they call the stocking-knitters' party the Old Women, but nobody minds that, for it is a very slack and cozy berth. Benjamin took his place in a row of prisoners—most of the rows were old and white-headed—who sat on their haunches and knitted silently, under the eye of a warder at a desk. He chuckled over his work. " This here's graft, this i s , " he said to himself. His face was as gray as the November sky, the skin drawn over the bones; and the big goggle eyes, more prominent than ever in their shrunken frame, had as much specu lation as the eyes of a mask. But Benjamin looked so pleased with himself. The stocking-knitters had a superstition that no one who joined on Friday would stay long with them. If he went in as a conva lescent from hospital, he got well soon, and was put on hard graft again, or he had a relapse and died. If he were passed in as the result of a clever fake, he was sure to be in trouble by and by, and turned out. But Benjamin, who had become an Old Woman on a Friday, sat in his row with the other shorn heads; and from the odd little airs that he gave himself it might have been thought that his friend, the governor, had put him there in charge of the party, and that the warder was merely Benjamin's deputy. As an artist at the craft over which the warder presided, his success, it must be con fessed, was slow and indifferent. The needles —four to keep going at once—performed wonderfully; Benjamin, whose waking dreams were still with Barnet F a i r , called them a ' ' bloomin' merry-go-round.'' F o r a secondrate hook, he bad a pretty light touch; but four years on the works take the wit out of the digits, and when it came to " stockingk n i t t i n g " he found that his fingers were all thumbs. But he toiled over his task as a play, with the steadfastness of a child learn ing a new game. F r o m time to time he won dered how long they would let him stay there, but he had a steady belief that he should never go back to the works. Then he thought about his release, but the idea of

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an escape never entered his mind. Neither did it enter his mind that he had still three years to serve; he wae quite possessed by the notion that a way to freedom was to be found for him—all of which may serve to show that Benjamin's terror, and his season of penance in the " speshuls," had produced effects. The Old Women, seeing him so perky and good-humored, and knowing some thing of his character in the prison, con cluded that he was coming his tricks again; but they thought it mattered little, as he would soon be leaving them, for had he not joined on a Friday ? Few of them were known to Benjamin, who, in the course of his laggings, had not often found himself in such select criminal society. Whether his stay in prison were long or short, it was rare indeed for him to rise to the first class, and these were nearly all first-class men, with the elegant blue fac ings to their jackets. They never gave cheek or trouble to the warder; many of them being indeed old, sorry creatures, doing their last lagging, knitting themselves, with tired fingers and bent, shaven heads, into a grave within the prison walls. There were plenty of middle-aged and some young men, but they did not represent the able-bodied popu lation of the place, which works all day in the open, and may on necessity be starved and whipped into obedience. The big head of Benjamin wagged sol emnly over his needles amid these ghosts, scarecrows, and wastrels of the ' ' college of iniquity." He was quite unconscious of the concern he aroused. He did not know that the warder watched him often, and wished him elsewhere, expecting sorrow from him; or that the Old Women were half afraid of him, and half inclined to stir him up to something. Toward the end of November the sky one morning broke into sudden sunshine, and there came a rush of mild sweet air through the stone yard where the stocking-knitters were tramping round at exercise. Heads' were lifted to the pale blue and gold above, and even the very old men quivered at the smell of the gentle air. The walls of the yard were too high for any glimpse beyond, but it seemed as if the shades of the prisonhouse had scattered for a moment, owing to some beautiful change in the world without. The sun and the pleasant air lasted through the hour of exercise. One prisoner, a thin, pallid man, whose legs in the red and black stockings were a jest among the party, was seen to be crying on the way back to the

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knitting-room. Benjamin, going in a kind of amble at the tail of the gang, looked ut terly blissful, staring wide-eyed at the sky, as if he did greatly desire it. Work was given out, and in a few min utes the needles were clicking as usual. It wanted about an hour of dinner, when Benjamin, the end man of his row, laid down his needles and ball of worsted, passed a hand over his eyes, and stood up. A foolish happiness illumined his dull, pinched face, and he chuckled audibly, the big head on the dwarfed body moving slowly from side to side. Then he spoke. " I knowed it was a-comin'," he said. " Chaps, I've got that free p a r d ' n . " The room tittered. This was the hour expected of the Old Women; Benjamin had not disappointed them—he was coming a new game. He began to walk down the room toward the warder's desk, which was just against the door. " S i t d o w n ! " said the warder sternly. " Where do you think you're going ? " " D o n ' t stop me, s i r , " answered Benja min, pleasantly. " I've got me pard'n all right. I'm a-goin' where it's three shies a penny, an' I bet you knows where that is, sir." The warder sprang to his feet, and in the silence of the room the toppling over of his stool sounded like a crash. But Benjamin was quick, too. For a moment he had halted, evidently not quite understanding the check he had received; then, as the warder rose, Benja min's features underwent the horrid trans formation they had done in the cell, and with the same demoniacal scream his wasted hands—nerved for the instant—went like a flash at the officer's throat. It was the supreme effort of madness, but it suf ficed. A dozen prisoners threw themselves upon the pair; but Benjamin, who had got his prey to earth, his knees planted, and both hands riveted on the throat, was not to be loosened. The warder's frame was convulsed from head to foot, and then he lay still. " Lemme go! " said Benjamin, and he got up quietly. " There 'e is! " he continued, pointing down at the dead warder. " You don't know 'im, mates, but I does. It's the reeler what got me this laggin'. I see 'im d'rec'ly 'e got orf the stool. That's all right, pals. You don't need ter bodder. I got me p a r d ' n . "

TH E L IT T L E B O Y A N D H IS PA. One o f the con victs dashed at the door, pulled it open, and shouted “ M urder! ” The sun stream ed in through the d oor way, and Benjam in stared up at the blue. “ Time I was m ovin ', p a ls,” he said. “ They starts the fun about tw el’ o ’ clock , an’ it ’ s a step from ’ ere to B arn et.”

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Benjamin is very well tended in the Crim inal Lunatic Aslyum, that celebrated place, and if you were ever allowed there as a vis itor he would spot you at once, ask if you had any m essage fo r him from his friend Cap’ en Lam bert, and insist on showing you round the fair. It’ s always fair day to B enjy when a visitor com es.

THE LITTLE BOY AND HIS PA. T HE STORY OF HOW TH EY GOT ACQUAINTED WITH EACH OTHER. By

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T H E little b oy and his pa lived on a ranch where the short grass ran down the slope to m eet the elm and the hack-berry trees along the river. He was the only little boy in the fa m ily ; the only child, fo r that m atter. His m other thought him the only little b oy in the world, fo r she knew him w ell. The little b oy and his pa did not have an extended a c quaintance. His pa was a very busy man, whose cattle business took him here and there and everyw here a great deal o f the tim e. So the little boy did not see him every day, and when he did see him it was usually at meal tim e. W hen at home, sometimes his pa would s a y : “ Come, little boy, wake up if you want to eat b reakfast with your pa and m a .” And the little boy would answer, “ I ’ m g e ttin g dressed, p a .” A t noon his pa would say : “ Come, little boy, wash your fa c e , and com b your hair, and be sure you act nice at the ta ble.” The little boy would re p ly : “ Yes, s ir .” A t night when the clock struck nine his pa would sa y : “ N ow, little boy, it ’ s bed time fo r folks o f your siz e .” Then the little boy would kiss his ma, and call “ G ood-night, p a ! ” as he went upstairs to bed. So their acquaintance stood till one Sep tem ber day when the little boy was ten years old. That day his pa took the little boy with him to the cou n ty-seat. That day the little boy and his pa g o t acquainted with each oth er. It was a Kansas Septem ber morning. This sentence will sufficiently describe it to

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all who have passed a Septem ber in the short-grass country. W ords cannot convey an adequate description to others. They rode along in silence fo r a while. The little b oy had never been to the county-seat, and his imagination was busy with the farther end o f the jou rney. By and by he fell to counting the herds o f cattle grazing on the short-grass. He enjoyed the changing land scape. The quails whistled from the brown corn-fields. Somewhere back on the uplands the prairie chickens were drumming their sunrise m arch. He viewed with intense en joym en t the ta g game o f a village o f prairie dogs. He watched a coy ote in pursuit o f a ja ck -ra bb it. But even upon the soul o f a child impressions o f sound and sight will sometimes pall. Then the little boy, all un conscious o f what he was doing, began to let his pa get acquainted with him. “ Pa, do you rem ember when you were a little boy — a ten-year-old b oy— like m e ? ” The vision o f a barefoot boy with trousers rolled up to his knees, fishing fo r chubs and g og g le-e y e s in the old Spring branch - s o many years a g o — flitted before the fa th er’ s mental vision as he replied: “ W ell, yes, my son, I remember quite w ell.” “ W hat was your name when you were a little boy ? Y our boy name, you know, that the other fellows called you by ? ” “ Tommy. Y our grandma called me ‘ Tom my T a ylor.’ But the boys I used to run with called me ‘ P o n y ’ — ‘ Pony T a ylor.’ Some times they’ d turn my name around, and call me ‘ T aylor’ s P on y .’ ” “ W hat did they call you ‘ Pony ’ fo r ? ” “ Oh, I guess it was because I was a great, b ig, overgrow n b o y .” The little boy caught the spirit o f the

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irony, and l a u g h e d outright. He was silent for a while, and then he began putting his father through a little boy's catechism. " Pa, did you ever play ' scrub ' ? " " S c r u b ? What's t h a t ? " " Oh, it's a game something like base-ball that you play when there isn't enough fel lows there to make nine on a s i d e . " " When I was a boy—when I was Pony Taylor—we played town ball, and i f we hadn't enough on one side, why, we gave that side a ' blind eye.' " " Blind eye! W h a t ' s a blind eye ? " " Oh, i t ' s just letting the first fellow out on a side play a g a i n . " " I see now. That made the sides even, didn't it ? But did you ever play humperdown or foot-an'-a-half or high jump or put the shot ? " " Well, not by those names. W e used to play hop-step-and-a-jump, bull-pen, and old three-cornered c a t . " " Do you know what an alley or taw is ? " " S u r e ! I ' l l never forget t h e m . " Another short silence. The little boy was thinking. " Pa, can't you tell me something —something funny—that happened—when you were a little boy ? ' ' " L e t me see! W e l l , I remember some thing that I thought was pretty funny when it happened, and it got still funnier as I thought about it in school t i m e . " " What was i t ? " " It wasn't anything m u c h . " His pa hesi tated a moment before telling it, for he did not know the little boy well enough to be certain that he would be able to appreciate what, to him, was the ludicrous feature of the story. Then he began: " There was a little boy in our school that called himself the ' Boss.' He was a great big hulk of a fel low, and most of the boys were small, for it was a summer term. If we played war, he was the captain. If we played horse, he was the driver. W e l l , one day he had a whole lot of us fellows pulling a sled of rocks from one part of the yard to the other. We had a hedge pole tied to the sled for a tongue, and each of us took hold of the pole with one hand and pulled. A l l at once he took a no tion that he would be a horse, and he took my place and made me be driver. " I soon saw what he was about. He was going to be the meanest horse ever hitched up. He reared and pranced and plunged and knocked the rest of the horses right and left. I cracked him one with the whip, and he kicked; and when he kicked, he struck his bare foot on a hedge thorn and tore it pretty

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badly, and then that unmanageable horse just sat down and howled ! A f t e r school took up, I got to thinking about it, and I laughed right out. The teacher brought me out on the floor, and when she asked what I was laugh ing at, 1 told her I had thought of something funny. She said that she thought of some thing funny, too, and she took me over and set me between two girls. Then I cried." The little boy laughed delightedly and said, " I've never had to sit with g i r l s . " There was another mile sped over before the little boy spoke again. " P a , when you went fishing, what did you use for bait— good bait, you know ? " " Angle-worms to catch goggle-eyes, and minnows for bass. 1 fished for goggle-eyes mostly." " Pa, do you think it does any good to spit on bait ? ' ' His pa considered carefully before answer ing ; then he said that, when he was a boy, it was so believed by all fishermen. " W e l l , that's what I think, though I don't exactly see why. But Billy Mullins catches more fish than any of us fellows, and he says the reason is because he always spits on his bait. Say, pa, did you ever go swimming the whole afternoon ? Just swim and swim ' t i l supper-time came, and then feel sorry because it was time to go home ? " " Did I ? I used to be i n the long hole of Spring branch so much that your grandma pretended that she could see scales and fins starting to grow on my b o d y . " " Could you dive, and turn handsprings off the spring-board, and tread water, and lay your hair ? ' ' " Better than any other boy in the c r o w d . " Then the little boy moved close over to his father, and said: " So can I . " By and by they came in sight of the countyseat. The little boy was surprised at its size. He expected it to be larger than Taylor's Cor ners, which had a school-house, a blacksmith shop, and a store where they got the mail. But he had not dreamed of such a picture as burst upon his sight when they reached the hill top that overlooked the county-seat. Street after street walled in with high houses! Seven church steeples! A great two-story school building! Whole blocks of two and three story business houses! It seemed to him like a scene out of his pictorial Aladdin which he found by his plate on Christmas morning. It was after reaching the city that the little boy began getting acquainted with his pa.

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" W e l l , well, T a y l o r ! I'm glad to see you. I am indeed. I was just telling my wife this morning that I would rather see Tom Taylor than any man likely to attend the convention. Y o u see, Taylor, 1 haven't forgotten those three years we spent in the mounted infantry, nor how you pulled me out of the Johnnies' hands when I got that bullet in my arm at Okolona. Say, those Johnnie Rebs were the hot stuff that day, weren't they ? A n d how are you getting along, Taylor, and how is the wife; and—is this your boy ? " " Y e s — a l l I've got—and he's a namesake of yours, J u d g e — W i l l i a m Strong T a y l o r . " " Y o u don't say! W e l l , well, w e l l ! Your boy and my namesake! A fine boy, sir, a tine b o y . " A n d the judge shook the little boy's awkward right hand—for it was not much used to handshaking and worked very much indeed like a pump-handle—and pat ted the little boy on the head. " Y o u and the little boy will take dinner with me to-day, Taylor. W e don't get a chance to visit very often, so w e ' l l just go right along down to the house, and talk over old times until dinner; " and the judge took his pa by the arm, and, holding the little boy's hand, together the three walked down the street to the home of the judge. So walking, the little boy was face to face w i t h the greatest episode of his short life. He had known that he was named for the great Judge Strong. He had occasionally heard his father speak of the judge in terms of the highest respect, and the little boy, in his boyish way, had grown to think him a •very great man, only surpassed in greatness by the governor himself; and now the judge had actually patted him on the head, and called him a fine boy; and now they were to take dinner with h i m ! Again he thought of Aladdin. While his pa and the judge were talking on the veranda, the little boy sat like some little old man, listening to the tales of camp life and army hardships; listening until he felt that he would have given anything in the world—which meant his Aladdin and his pony, Topsy—to have been old enough to have carried a saber and ridden a cavalry horse, and to have had a Spencer carbine slung across his back. A t dinner he behaved very well, and said " Y e s , s i r , " and " N o , m a ' a m , " and " I f you p l e a s e " in just the right places, and the judge beamed on him with smiles of ap proval. He really would have enjoyed an other piece of the custard pie, and one more

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spoonful of grape j e l l y ; but he remembered his manners, and resolutely declined when motherly M r s . Strong insisted on a second helping. A s they went back down town after din ner was over, the little boy was surprised to notice how many men knew his pa. They all acted as i f they were glad to see him, and shook hands w i t h him very heartily, and called him ' ' C a p t a i n . " Finally they reached the Opera House, where the convention was to be held. The little boy gazed curiously on the noisy, surging, good-natured crowd of delegates and politicians that filled the room. By and by a big man on the stage hammered with a mallet on a table, and called the house to order. The committee on organization made its report, and named Captain Thomas Taylor for chairman. The crowd cheered, and adopted the report unani mously. Then there were cries of " Taylor! Taylor! Speech from T a y l o r ! ' ' The little boy felt proud and sorry all at once—proud of the honor that had come to his pa, sorry because he was sure his pa could not make a speech. He had read something of Patrick Henry, and Webster, and Henry Clay, and knew that they were speech-makers. But he knew that they were dead, and he had a vague idea that nobody living, certainly nobody in that country, could make speeches unless it might be preachers and lawyers, or the schoolmaster on the last day of school. So when his pa stood up be fore the crowd and bowed, and said: " F e l low-citizens and gentlemen of the conven t i o n , " the little boy grew very pale, and could hear his own heart beat. But his pa went right off into a speech about the grand old party and the spirit of liberty, and about the platform. The little boy wondered i f he meant the platform upon which he was standing. Then his pa told a humorous story, and the crowd laughed and cheered. He spoke of prison-pens and dead heroes, and the little boy saw a man draw his coat sleeve across his eyes. When his pa had finished his speech, the little boy thought the cheering never would cease, and he men tally placed his pa in the list of men who could make speeches, and wondered if some time that speech would be placed in a F i f t h Reader for boys to study in school, along with the speeches of Henry and Webster and Clay. The convention then proceeded to nomi nate the ticket. Finally Judge Strong was on his feet making a speech. He was plac ing a name before the convention for repre-

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sentative. He said he wished to name a representative citizen, a man well known and held in esteem by all who knew h i m ; a man who had marched and fought by the judge's side through the years of the war; who now carried in his body the bullets, of battle and bore upon his breast the scars of conflict. He drew a vivid picture of this man leading his company in a desperate charge at Mission ary Ridge, and concluded by saying, " Gen tlemen, I have the honor to place before this convention the name of Captain Thomas Tay lor, of Summit Township." There were more cheers, and some one moved to suspend the rules and make the nomi nation unanimous. Motion carried. Cap tain Thomas Taylor was declared the nomi nee by unanimous vote. The little boy could not remember anything like it in his story of Aladdin. The convention was over, the congratula tions of the delegates and others showered upon the captain, and then the little boy and his pa were on the homeward journey. They did not talk much for many miles. H i s pa was busy thinking over the events of the day. So was the little boy. The sun had gone down. Suddenly the quiet of the twi light hour—the great, impressive silence of the plains—was broken by a fusillade some where off in the gathering darkness. Some belated hunters were taking a parting shot at a scurrying jack-rabbit. A correlation of ideas inspired the little boy to ask: " P a , when you were a soldier i n the war with Judge Strong, did you ever kill any one ? " His pa did not answer at once. In an in stant there flashed before his eyes the events of a September day i n a year long gone. Clouds of smoke hung over a battle-field. The pungent, nauseous odor of sulphurous smoke was in his nostrils. Again he looked down a line of blue-coated horsemen sitting like statues, each holding a drawn saber. The men had grimy faces and tense, set jaws. He heard Jack Stevens jest about what pretty corpses they would make. Another man was softly whistling " The Girl I Left Behind

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M e . " Dick Saunders cursed the whistler, and some of the boys laughed. A blast of the bugle cut through the smoke-laden air. A shell screamed overhead. A minie ball wailed and shrieked the length of the line. Each man leaned forward in his saddle, and hitched his belt a notch tighter. " Ta-ta. Ta-ta-ra. Ta-ta-ra-a-a-a!" In ten seconds the company was making a saber charge now historic. It was a cum brous whirlwind of horse and rider, and above, the sheet lightning of flashing sa bers. The lightning faded, and the sabers were dripping, but not with rain. A graysleeved arm was swinging a saber at his throat. L i k e a machine moving at higher speed, his own saber met and drove back that of the gray arm, and rested upon the cheek of the wielder. When his own saber swung to position its mark was upon the face. The face wavered for an instant, and then pitched forward. Was it a dead face ? He never knew. ' ' Pa, did you ever kill a man when you was in the war ? ' ' His pa, like one waking from a deep sleep, answered slowly, " Not that I know of, my son." " W e l l , I'm awful glad you d i d n ' t , " said the little boy, as he again moved closer to the side of his pa. The little boy was sleepy and quite tired out when he reached the farm-house on the hill-slope. H i s ma heard them coming, and opened the b i g gate for them to drive into the barnyard. A s the little boy climbed out of the buggy and into the arms of his mother, he put his arms around her neck, kissed her, and exclaimed: " Oh, ma, I've had the best time! A n d I saw Judge Strong, and we ate dinner at his house, and pa knows nearly everybody, and he made a speech, and they nominated him for something, and his boy name was ' P o n y , ' and he could swim and tread water and lay his hair same as I can." His ma kissed him for reply, and knew that the little boy and his pa had entered the Land of Companionship together.

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CHANUTE.

T H E AUTHOR'S

OWN INVENTIONS

AND

ADVENTURES. IT is considerably over forty years since I first became in terested in the problem of flight. This presented the attraction of an unsolved problem which did not seem as visionary as that of per petual motion. Birds gave daily proof that flying could be done, and the reasons advanced by scientists why the performance was inaccessible to man did not seem to be entirely conclusive, i f suffi ciently light motors were eventually to be ob tained. There was, to be sure, a record of several thousand years of constant failures, often resulting in personal injuries; but it did not seem useless for engineers to inves tigate the causes of such failures, with a view to a remedy. I, therefore, gathered from time to time such information as was to be found on the subject, and added thereto such speculations as suggested themselves. After a while this grew absorbing, and inter fered with regular duties, so that in 1874 all the accumulated material was rolled up into a bundle and red tape tied around it, a resolution being taken that it should not be undone until the subject could be taken up again without detriment to any duty. It was fourteen years before the knot was untied.

the principal cause of failure would be that lack of stability in the air which rendered all man-ridden flying-machines most hazard ous; but that, i f this difficulty were over come, further progress would be rapid. Experiments were, therefore, begun to investigate this question of stability and safety, and, i f possible, to render the former automatic. These experiments were hun dreds in number, and were, at first, very mod est. They consisted in liberating weighted paper models of various shapes, either an cient or new, with gravity as a motive power, and observing their glides downward. This was done in still air. After a while, resort was had to larger models, with muslin wings and wooden frameworks, carrying bricks as passengers; and these were dropped from the house-top i n the early morning when only the milkman was about. V e r y much was learned as to the effect of the w i n d ; and then tailless kites of all sorts of shapes were flown, to the great admiration of small boys. During the seven or eight years within which this work was carried on, some glimmerings were obtained of the principles involved, and some definite conclusions were reached. But it was only after Lilienthal had shown that such an adventure was feasible that courage was gathered to experiment with full-sized machines carrying a man through the air.

Meantime a considerable change had taken place i n the public attitude on the question. It was no longer considered proof of lunacy to investigate it, and great progress had been made in producing artificial motors ap proximating those of the birds in relative lightness. The problem was, therefore, taken up again under more favorable circumstances. A study was begun of the history of past fail ures, and the endeavor was made to account for them. In point of fact, this produced a series of technical articles which swelled into a book,* and also led to the conclusion that, when a sufficiently light motor was evolved,

Otto Lilienthal was a very able German engineer and physicist. He demonstrated that concave wings afforded, at very acute angles, from three to seven times as much support as flat wings in the air. He made, from 1891 to 1896, more than 2,000 suc cessful glides, the longest being about 1,200 feet, upon machines of his own design, launching himself into the air from a hill top and gliding down against the wind. In 1895, he endeavored to add a motor, but found that this complicated the handling so much that he went back to his gliding-de vice. It was while experimenting with a double-decked machine of this character, which probably was in bad order, that he

* " Progress in Flying-Machines," New York, publisher.

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fell and was killed, in August, 1896. Thus perished the man who will probably be cred ited by posterity with having pointed out the best way to preliminary experiments in human flight through the air. Just before this dismal accident, I had been testing a full-sized Lilienthal machine. I discarded it as hazardous, and then tested the value of an idea of my own. This was to follow the same general method, but to reverse the principle upon which Lilienthal had depended for maintaining his equilibrium in the air. He shifted the weight of his body, under immovable wings, as fast and as far as the sustaining pressure varied under his surfaces. This shifting was mainly done by moving the feet, as the actions required were small except when alighting. M y no tion was to have the operator remain seated in the machine in the air, and to intervene only to steer or to a l i g h t ; moving mechan ism being provided to shift the wings auto matically, so as to restore the balance when endangered. There are several ways in which this can be done. Two of them have been worked out to a probable success in my experiments, and there is still a third which I intend to test in due course. To make such experiments truly instruc tive, they should be made with a full-sized machine and with an operator riding therein. Models seldom fly twice alike in the open air (where there is almost always some wind), and they cannot relate the vicissitudes which they have encountered. A flying-machine would be of little future use i f it could not operate in a moderate w i n d ; hence the neces sity for an operator to report upon what oc curs in flight, and to acquire the art of the birds. M y own operations were conducted from that point of view, with the great dis advantage, however, that being over three score years of age, I was no longer sufficiently young and active to perform any but short and insignificant glides in such tentative ex periments ; the latter being directed solely to evolving the conditions of stability, and without any expectation of advancing to the invention of a commercial flying-machine. I simply tested various automatic devices to secure equilibrium, and, with great anxiety, employed young and active assistants. The best way to carry on such adventures is first to select a soft place on which to alight. This is well secured on a dry and loose sand-hill, and there ought to be no bushes or trees to run into. Our party found such sand-hills, almost a desert, i n which we pitched our tent, on the shore of Lake Michi

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gan, about thirty miles east of Chicago. The main hill selected was ninety-five feet h i g h ; but the highest point started from was sixty-one feet above the beach, as the best instruction was to be obtained from short glides at low speeds. W i t h parties of from four to six persons, five full-sized gliding-machines * (one rebuilt) were experimented with in 1896, and one in 1897. Out of these, two types were evolved, the " M u l t i p l e - W i n g " and the "Two-Sur f a c e d , " which are believed to be safer than any heretofore produced, and to work out fairly well the problem of automatic equili brium. The photographs herewith repro duced, many of them heretofore unpublished, are from snap-shots taken of these two types. In 1896, very few photographs were taken, all the attention being devoted to studying the action of the machines, and the one pic ture shown is the sixth permutation of the " Multiple-Wing " machine, so-called. In 1897, there was more leisure to take snap shots, as the machine used was a duplication of the " T w o - S u r f a c e d " of 1896, supplied with a regulating mechanism designed by Mr. A . M . H e r r i n g , my assistant. Each photo graph was taken from a different experiment (there were about 1,000 glides); but the point of view was varied, so as to exhibit the consecutive phases of a single flight. The frog-like appearance of some of the legs is due to the speed. The first thing which we discovered prac tically was that the wind flowing up a hill side is not a steadily flowing current like that of a river. It comes as a rolling mass, full of tumultuous whirls and eddies, like those issuing from a chimney; and they strike the apparatus with constantly varying force and direction, sometimes withdrawing support when most needed. It has long been known, through instrumental observa tions, that the wind is constantly changing in force and direction; but i t needed the ex perience of an operator afloat on a glidingmachine to realize that this all proceeded from cyclonic action; so that more was learned in this respect i n a week than had previously been acquired by several years of experiments with models. There was a pair of eagles, living i n the top of a dead tree about two miles from our tent, that came almost daily to show us how such wind effects are overcome and utilized. The birds swept in circles overhead on pulseless wings, and rose high up i n air. Occasionally there was a * So termed to distinguish them from true flying-machines, in which propulsion would be implied.

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side-rocking motion, as of a ship rolling at tried it with misgivings, but found it per sea, and then the birds rocked back to an fectly effective. The soft sand was a great even k e e l ; but although we thought the ac advantage, and even when the experts were tion was clearly automatic, and were willing racing there was not a single sprained ankle. to learn, our teachers were too far off to show The rebuilt ' ' Multiple-wings ' ' were piv us just how it was done, and we had to ex oted at their roots, and vibrated backward periment for ourselves. and forward on ball-bearings, restrained by The operator stands on the hill-side. He rubber springs. A s the wind varied, they raises up the apparatus, which is steadied adjusted themselves thereto, and brought by a companion, and quickly slips under and back the supporting air pressure over the within the machine. He faces the wind. operator, thus reestablishing the threatened This wind buffets the wings from side to side, balance. This was done automatically. But and up or down, so that he has much diffi in consequence of various defects in construc culty i n ob tion and ad taining a justment, the poise. This is operator still finally accom had to move plished by one or two b r a c i n g the inches, as cross-piece of against the the machine's from seven to frame against fifteen inches his back, and of movement depressing the r e q u i r e d by front edge of the Lilienthal the wings so apparatus. that they w i l l Some two or be struck from three hundred above by the glides were wind. His made with the arm-pits rest "Multipleon a pair of w i n g " with horizontal out any acci bars, and he dent to man or MR. CHANUTE'S MULTIPLE-WING GLIDING-MACHINE. grasps a pair machine, and of v e r t i c a l the action was bars with his hands. He is in no way at deemed so effective, the principle so sound, tached to the machine, so that he may dis that the full plans were published in the engage himself instantly should anything go " A e r o n a u t i c a l A n n u a l " for 1897, for the wrong. Then, still facing dead into the benefit of experimenters desiring to improve wind, he takes one or two, never more than on this apparatus. four, running steps forward, raising up the There is no more delightful sensation than front edge of the apparatus at the last mo that of gliding through the air. A l l the ment, and the air claims him. Then he sails faculties are on the alert, and the motion is forward into the wind on a generally descend astonishingly smooth and elastic. The ma ing course. The " Multiple-wing " machine chine responds instantly to the slightest was provided with a seat, but, goodness! there movement of the operator; the air rushes by was no time to sit down, as each glide of one's ears; the trees and bushes flit away two to three hundred feet took but eight underneath, and the landing comes all too to twelve seconds, and then it was time to quickly. Skating, sliding, and bicycling are alight. This latter phase of the problem had not to be compared for a moment to aerial been the subject of meditation for months, conveyance, in which, perhaps, zest is added and the conclusion had been reached to imi by the spice of danger. F o r it must be dis tate the sparrow. When the latter ap tinctly understood that there is constant dan proaches the street, he throws his body ger in such preliminary experiments. When back, tilts his outspread wings nearly square this hazard has been eliminated by further to the course, and on the cushion of air thus evolution, gliding will become a most popular encountered he stops his speed and drops sport. lightly to the ground. So do all birds. We The " T w o - s u r f a c e d " machine, so-called,

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produced longer and more numerous glides. There were perhaps 700 or 800, at a rate of descent of about one foot i n s i x ; so that while the longest distance traversed was 360 feet, we could have sailed 1,200 feet, had we started from a hill 200 feet high. In consequence of the speed gained by running, the initial stage of the flight is nearly hori zontal, and i t is thrilling to see the operator pass from thirty to forty feet overhead, steering his machine, undulating his course, and struggling with-the wind gusts which whistle through the guy wires. The auto matic mechanism restores the angle of ad vance when compromised by variations of the breeze; but when these come from one side and tilt the apparatus, the weight has to be shifted to right up the machine. This is generally done by thrusting out the feet toward the side which has been raised, a movement which is just the reverse of what would be instinctively made on the ground, but which becomes second nature to an ex pert. These gusts sometimes raise the ma chine from ten.to twenty feet vertically, and sometimes they strike the apparatus from above, causing it to descend suddenly. When sailing near the ground, these vicissitudes can be counteracted by movements of the body of three or four inches; but this has to be done instantly, for neither wind nor gravity will wait on meditation. A t a height of 300 or 400 feet the regulating mechanism would probably take care of these wind gusts, as it does, i n fact, for their minor variations. The speed of the machine is generally about seventeen miles an hour over the ground, and from twenty-two to thirty miles an hour relative to the air. Constant effort was di rected to keep down the velocity, which was at times fifty-two miles an hour. This is the purpose of the starting and gliding against the wind, which thus furnishes an initial velocity without there being undue speed at the landing. The highest wind we dared to experiment i n blew at thirty-one miles an hour; when the wind was stronger, we waited and watched the birds.

There was a gull came fishing over the lake, and took up his station over its very edge, about 100 feet high i n air. The wind was blowing a steady gale from the north at sixty-one measured miles an hour. The bird breasted it squarely, and without beat of wing maintained for five minutes his position of observation. Occasionally there was a Right again. short rocking motion fore and aft, or from A t times he was raised sev WITH MACHINES INVENTED BY MR. side to side. eral feet and drifted backward; at others he FROM PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY HIM.

AROUSING

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drooped down; but he never flapped once. It was evident that he derived from the wind alone all the power required to remain afloat and to perforate the blast without drifting back. Whether man will ever be able to perform this feat, which has been termed " aspiration," is perhaps doubtful, but there is no mistake about the observation. The only thing we could not ascertain was whether our practice hill, 350 feet to his leeward, pro足 duced an ascending trend in the wind about the bird, who was level with its summit. Another day a curious thing occurred. We had taken one of the machines to the top of the hill, and loaded its lower wings with sand to hold it while we went to lunch. A gull came strolling inland, and flapped full-winged to inspect. He swept several circles above the machine, stretched his neck, gave a squawk, and went off. Presently he re足 turned with eleven other gulls, and they seemed to hold a conclave, about 100 feet above the b i g new white bird which they had discovered on the sand. They circled round after round, and once in a while there was a series of loud peeps, like those of a rusty gate, as i f in conference, with sudden flutterings, as i f a terrifying suggestion had been made. The bolder birds occasionally swooped downward to inspect the monster more closely; they twisted their heads around to bring first one eye and then the other to bear, and then they rose again. After some seven or eight minutes of this performance, they evidently concluded either that the stranger was too formidable to tackle, i f alive, or that he was not good to eat, i f dead, and they flew off to resume fishing, for the weak point about a bird is his stomach. We did not have the slightest accident to lament during all our experiments. These were chiefly performed by two young, active men, who took turns, and who became ex足 pert in a week; but then, we attempted no feats and took no chances. Toward the last, we gained such confidence in the machines that we allowed amateurs to try them under guidance. Half a dozen performed fairly well, but awkwardly of course. One of them was our cook, who was by profession a sur足 geon, and one was a newspaper reporter who had succeeded i n finding his way to the camp. Another was a novice ; he was picked up by a wind gust, raised forty feet vertically, and gently set down again. A n y young, quick, and handy man can master a glidingmachine almost as soon as a bicycle, but the penalties for mistakes are much more severe. A f t e r all, i t will be by the cautious, observant

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man—the man who accepts no risks which he can avoid, perhaps the ultra-timid m a n that this hazardous investigation of an art now known only to the birds will be most advanced. Not even the birds could have operated more safely than w e ; but they would have made longer and flatter glides, and they would have soared up into the blue. In my judgment, neither of the machines above described is as yet perfected, and I believe it is still premature to apply an arti ficial motor. This is sure to bring about complications which it is preferable to avoid until the equilibrium has been thoroughly evolved. I, therefore, advise that every plausible method of securing stability and safety shall be tested, that many such ex periments shall be made, first with models, and then with full-sized machines, and that their designers shall practice, practice, prac tice ; to make sure of the action, to propor tion and adjust the parts, and to eliminate hidden defects. If any feat is attempted, it should be over water, in order to break the fall, should any occur. A l l this once ac complished, it will be time enough to apply a motor; and it seems not improbable that the gliding-machine will furnish the proto type. This step-by-step process is doubt less slow and costly, but it greatly diminishes the chance of those accidents which bring a whole line of investigation into contempt. We have no reason to believe that, contrary to past experience, a practical flying-ma chine will be the result of the happy thought of one or of two persons. It will come rather by a process of evolution: one man accomplishing some promising results, but stopping short of success; the next carrying the investigation somewhat further, and thus on, until a machine is produced which will be as practical as the " safety " bicycle, which

took some eighty years for its development from the original despised velocipede. Since the above described experiments were tried, another deplorable accident has come to re-inculcate the necessity for ex treme caution. M r . Percy S. Pilcher, a young, accomplished, and enthusiastic Eng lish engineer, lost his life September 30, 1899, while making experiments i n soaring with a machine of his own design upon the Lilienthal principle. He had already per formed hundreds of glides since 1894, and had introduced a method of towing the machine with horses, by means of a long cord with multiplying tackle, so that he could rise from level ground. On this occasion, a first successful flight was made; but on the sec ond trial, after a height of some thirty feet had been gained, a snap was heard, the tail was seen to collapse, and the apparatus dived forward, and fell to the ground, M r . Pilcher receiving injuries from which he died two days later. He doubtless was the victim of his own amiability, for his apparatus had been wet by a shower, so that the canvas of the tail had shrunk, thus producing undue strains upon the bamboo stretcher, the wind was gusty, and the weather very unfavor able; but as many persons had come from a distance to witness the experiments, M r . Pilcher did not like to disappoint them, and accepted the undue risks which cost him his life. He was less than thirty-four years of age, a skilful and earnest mechanician, who had already built the oil-engine and screw which he meant to apply to his machine. Notably enough, he had written to me some eighteen months before for leave to copy and test one of my machines, which leave, with instructions, had, of course, been gladly given. The machine had been built, and was to have been tried on the fol lowing day. It is a curious coincidence that

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Lilienthal is said to have also built a machine, quite original with him, upon the same prin ciple as that above alluded to, and that this also was to have been tested within a day or two of the owner's death. It is idle to speculate on what would have been the re s u l t ; but then accidents might have hap pened in my own work, and I am profoundly thankful that we were spared such anguish. H a v i n g been compelled, for the last two years, to give all my time and attention to a practical business, I have been unable to experiment; but I have had an expert test ing models of a third method of securing automatic stability, which I hope to experi ment full-sized. Aside from the more imaginative and ec centric inventors, there are now a number of scientific investigators who are working to bring about the solution of this difficult problem; and it is not at all improbable that some experimenter will succeed, within a year or so, i n making a flight of something like a mile with a motor. This is now fairly feasible, and there are several inventors who are preparing to attempt i t . But between this achievement and its extension to a jour ney, or even to its indefinite repetition, there will intervene many accidents. N o r is there a fortune to be made by the first successful man. Experimenters who wish to advance the final solution of the quest surely and safely must work without expectation of other reward than that of being remembered hereafter; for, in the usual course of such things, it will be the manufacturers who will reap the pecuniary benefits when commercial

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flying-machines are finally evolved. There will -probably be two types of these, one of them a machine for sport, with a very light and simple motor, i f any, carrying but a single operator, and deriving most of its power from wind and gravity, as do the soar ing birds. This will be used in competitions of skill and speed, and there will be no finer or more exciting sport. The other future machine will probably be of a journeying type. It will be provided with a powerful, but light, motor and with fuel for one or two days' travel. It will preferably carry but a single man, and will be utilized i n explora tion and in war. Its speed will be from thirty to sixty miles an hour at the begin ning, and eventually much greater, for it is a singular fact that the higher speeds re quire less power i n the air, within certain limits, than low speeds. A t high velocities, the surfaces may be smaller, lie at flatter angles, and offer less resistance, but the pressure then increases on the framework, and the ultimate speed may not be more than 80 or 100 miles an hour. Neither of these machines seems likely to compete with existing modes of transporta tion. But be this as it may, every improve ment in transportation, whether in cheapness, in comfort, or i n speed, soon develops new and sometimes unexpected uses of its own; so, even with sober anticipation of the bene fits to be realized, investigators and publicspirited men may well afford to advance the solution of a problem which has so warmly appealed to the imagination of men for the past forty or fifty centuries.

NOME

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C o p y r i g h t , 1899. by P i l l s b u r y P a n o r a m i c View Co., Seattle.

C A P E N O M E GOLD

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W I L L I A M J . LAMPTON.

THE last ships coming down to Pacific ports from the Bering Sea in November, 1899, brought hundreds of passen gers who asserted that in the marvelous tales already abroad the half had not been told of the richness of the Cape Nome gold fields ; and who, moreover, brought hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold dust in proof of their assertions. Their reports at once spread eastward, stirring the spirit of acquisi tion everywhere between the seas, and now from East, West, North, and South thousands, eager with the thirst for gold, are hurrying toward the A r c t i c Eldorado. Before Christ mas nearly every available vessel on the P a cific Coast had been chartered to start for Cape Nome as soon as the present season opened ; and it is expected that from 25,000 to 30,000 people will make the journey from

one or another of the Pacific ports, while thousands will go i n overland by way of the Yukon valley. Although Cape Nome had had its name upon the maps of Alaska for twenty years, it possessed small interest until gold was dis covered in its vicinity two years ago. Ob serving a time-honored custom, the first comers secured every claim that they could lay their hands on. B y June, 1899, several hundred men had entered the district, and consequently claims that could be had for the mere staking and payment of the govern ment entry fees were by that time becoming exceedingly scarce. Under these circum stances, disappointment to the late comers was inevitable. A territory twenty-five miles square, extending along the shore and back into the mountains, was covered by stakes ; and many men who had thought that life was hard enough in the Klondike and Yukon

E D I T O R ' S N O T E . — M r . Lampton visited Alaska last fall under circumstances especially favorable for getting the best in formation regarding the new gold fields. His article is a summary of the present knowledge of that new Eldorado which has aroused almost unparalleled interest and excitement.

THE LARGEST CITY OF ITS AGE IN THE WORLD. Bering S e a .

country, began to think, and to say, that Cape Nome was no better. Hundreds were " stranded," and they circulated reports that Cape Nome was a " f a k e " foisted on the public by the transportation companies, in order to make business for themselves re gardless of consequences to the miners. So many reports of this kind went out, that for a short time Nome became a name for every thing nefarious. Many of the disappointed prospectors returned to St. Michael, and there waited again, as they had been waiting before, for a steamer or a revenue cutter that would carry them back to the States. But many remained because they were un able to pay for their passage to St. Michael, though it is only 130 miles away, to the southeast across Norton Sound. Then came the beach diggings, the easiest gold-mining in the world, and free to every man who had a pick and shovel and pan, and the energy to use them. Of this dis covery, as of the earlier one, there are con flicting accounts ; but it is generally accepted that a soldier was really the first man to find gold i n the beach sands. Almost on the in stant the name of Nome was on every tongue. The discovery was made the latter part of June or the first of July, 1899, when the sea-way was open ; and every ship that went out carried the news, and hurried to bring a load of passengers back. There was an im mediate rush from the near-by mining regions, and hundreds came by steamers from St.

Michael and from all points along the Y u k o n as far up as Dawson. Before a month had elapsed, it was estimated that over two thou sand persons were at work on the beach— in a strip extending along the sea for five or six miles—and were taking out as much as $30,000 of " dust " a day. The excitement affected a l l classes ; and although the pre vailing rate of wages at other work was $10 a day and board, every man who could secure tools gave up his employment, and went to digging on the beach. Even the women worked in the sand, and at one time a mother and her twelve-year-old boy plod ded away with the others. There was no mining like this in all the world ; i t was super latively the " poor man's diggings," and the poor men went thither in droves by every means of transportation at their command. W i t h them came their invariable attendants ; and by September, 1899, Cape Nome, or Nome City, as the new town and postoffice were called, had a population of from four to five thousand persons of both sexes, with the full complement of eating and lodging places— not houses, for they were chiefly tents and shacks—gambling dens, dance halls, saloons, and stores, a l l of them doing a rushing busi ness, and many of them getting the miners' gold almost as soon as they had washed it from the sand. Beach deposits of gold were not entirely unknown before the Cape Nome discoveries, such deposits having been found on Unga Isl-

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Norton Sound is extremely shallow, and in front of Nome City it shoals off, so that ships cannot approach nearer than half a mile. At present all goods and passengers are brought ashore in lighters, but money has already been subscribed to build a floating pier. From a photograph. Copyright, 1809, by Pillsbury Panoramic View Co., Seattle.

and in the North Pacific and at several places along the coast of California. But the Cape Nome deposits so far exceed all others in richness that they quite deserve the promiÂ nence to which they have so suddenly attained. The beach at Nome, as most of the beach line of northwest Alaska, varies in width from seventy-five to a hundred and fifty feet, extending from low-water mark to what is called the "tundra." This " t u n d r a " ends at the sand in an almost perpendicular bluff from fifteen to twenty feet high, and thence slopes gently back for three or four miles to the foot hills. It is a level morass of black, boggy soil, almost peat in places, and is covered with coarse grass or moss, pleasantly green to the eye in summer, but at all times difficult and tiresome to travel over. L i t t l e pools and ponds, sometimes increasing to the size of small lakes, are scattered over it, connected by streams which grow into creeks and empty, sooner or later, either into the rivers that come down to the sea from the mountains or else directly into the sea itself. The streams are upon the surface, and do not cut down into the sand that lies below. In the winter the entire " tundra " field is a sheet of ice and snow ; and at no time of the

year does it thaw deeper than from a foot to eighteen inches below the surface. The " t u n d r a " rests upon a bed of sand, supposed to have constituted the beach when the sea extended back to the foot hills, a hundred thousand years or more ago. Both the " t u n d r a " and its underlying sand are goldbearing, but are difficult to work because of the frozen earth, and very little has as yet been done to determine their value. The richest returns are expected from them, however, as soon as they can be subjected to modern mining appliances. The gold-bearing beach, which is but an extension of the sand under the " tundra," begins at Cape Nome, to the east of Nome City, and continues along the coast to the westward as far as prospected, say 120 miles. The portion near Nome City seems to be richer than that farther away, and the territory mined over here covers a length of six or eight miles and a width of 150 feet or more. As a rule, the face of the "tunÂ dra " bluff and back for sixty feet is worked, as the law allows a sixty-foot roadway at high-water mark. The entire beach between high and low water mark is technically " tide lands," which is set aside by the gen-

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In construction, Nome City began the season of 1809 with a few Indian huts, which were soon supplanted by hundreds of tents. Before winter came, wooden houses had displaced most of the tents ; a hospital and several churches had been erected, and some wooden sidewalks had been laid. From a photograph. Copyright, 1899, by Pillsbury Panoramic View Co., Seattle.

eral government in territorial possession for the benefit of the future State and is not subject to the general land laws. In addi tion to the " t i d e lands" is the sixty-foot roadway allowance for the use of the public ; and as claims may not be granted upon this territory, a large area of free land is left to be taken, at least for the present, by as many as may " s q u a t " upon it. It is upon such claims as these that the famous beach diggings are conducted. No man holds save by priority of possession. This right, how ever, is very generally recognized by the miners, and when once a man has taken a claim, he is not disturbed in it so long as he remains and works it. Efforts have been made by owners of claims on the " t u n d r a " to extend their boundaries to the exclusion of the " squatters," but thus far without success. A legal settlement of all " t i d e land " questions is promised during this sea son, as well as a number of others which are of more importance as affecting more per manent and valuable properties than the beach diggings. It was stated on good au thority, at the close of last season, that every one of the thousand claims recorded up to September 1st—claims covering 20,

000 acres, or about thirty square miles— represented a suit at law, so hasty and hap hazard had been the procedure in securing claims. The value of the properties already in litigation was estimated by Judge John ston, United States District Judge for the District of Alaska, who held his first court in Nome early last September, at $10,000,000. Practically nothing was done toward the settlement of these cases in the brief time at the disposal of the court, and the number awaiting determination by the time the court next sits will necessarily be very large. The diggings along the beach vary i n depth from a foot to fifteen feet; and the gold, which is always in the " d u s t " form here, is found through the ruby sand and gravel which lie upon a silty clay, there be ing no bed rock proper as far as yet known. The appliances in use are of the simplest kind, the pick and shovel and pan and rocker being found equal to the requirements of the work. In a few instances, sluiceboxes have been employed, but not with as much advantage as they would have been had there been a greater water supply from the " t u n d r a " with a greater fall. While most of the beach mining is well

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From the edge of the sand the black, peaty soil of the " tundra " slopes back to the foot hills. Never thawing deeper than a foot or two below the surface, it is most difficult ground to work ; but with improved appliances, it is expected that the product will be marvelously rich.

back from the water, several holes have been sunk below low-water mark, and it is reported that the farther into the sea the mine can be worked, the richer is the pay streak. The difficulty of operating in the water, with the very primitive appliances thus far in use, has kept the work from get ting far beyond the experimental stage. Some dredging has been done from boats at short distances from the shore, but thus far with no great success, although enough gold has been raised in this way to warrant further effort. A novel project, the result of which cannot be known until communication is once more resumed with the winter-beleaguered city, is to go to the bottom of the sea through shafts sunk in the ice. For all the notoriety at present enjoyed by the beach diggings, it is upon the not less rich diggings along the creeks and gulches tributary to the Nome, Snake, and other rivers that the future prosperity and permanence of Nome City must depend. The limited area of the beach and its free dom to thousands of workers must of neces sity soon exhaust it, at least in the immedi ate vicinity of the city. On the other hand, the territory along the creeks covers hun dreds of square miles, and years will be required for its full development. There is always a degree of uncertainty in the con

tinuance of placer mining, which is by nature superficial ; but i f quartz is discovered in the mountains that stretch along the entire coast, as many authorities assert that it will be, Nome City, despite all physical and climatic hindrances, will be as permanent an the everlasting hills. A reference to the map will show the great number of streams draining the territory between the mountains and the sea, and as gold in varying quantities has been found upon all of them, an estimate may be readily made as to the richness of the section. While the mining on the beach is done by individual workers largely with pick and shovel and pan or rocker, that on the creeks is carried on by gangs of men who take the " d i r t " from the shafts and wash it in sluiceboxes similar in principle to the pan or rocker, but of much greater capacity. Large quantities of water are required for these boxes, and there is a scarcity at present; but with more capital and further develop ment this want w i l l be supplied, and later will come the powerful hydraulic machines which eat the earth away as fire eats grass. The great bulk of the Nome gold has come from these creeks, and claims along them are worth from $1,000 to $100,000 each, according to their showing. Some are not for sale at any price—especially such a claim

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This is the easiest gold mining in the world, and is free to any man who has a pick and shovel and pan and the energy to use them. F r o m a photograph. Copyright, 1899, by Pillsbury Panoramic View Co., Seattle.

as N o . 1 A n v i l , which is reported to have cleared up as much as $25,000 in twentyfour hours, and $200,000 in sixty days. A t present Nome is preeminently a city of doubt, and all its fair promise may be blighted within a very few years. But i f it loses its prominence as a center of goldmining, some other place or places i n the same general locality will gain all that Nome loses ; for through all of northwest Alaska rich deposits of the yellow metal are re ported by prospectors, and miners are mi gratory creatures whose persistence ends only with death. Already a movement to ward Cape Y o r k , a hundred or more miles to the westward, has begun ; and pioneers have blazed the way to Cape Prince of Wales, the last point to the west, and only seventy miles from the Siberian coast, on which, also, gold is reported to exist. The Nome gold regions, while entirely in accessible during the winter—that is, from November to June—are the most accessible known during the open season of navigation, for they lie immediately along the shores of Norton Sound, and the miner steps from the ship which has brought him from the " States" almost into the mine where he is to work. There are no steep, snow-clad mountains to cross, nor long trails and dan gerous rivers to traverse through hundreds of miles of inhospitable country, as there were

at first in getting to the Klondike. The farthest claims are not more than a dozen miles from the shore, and the trails to them are easy, except for the mud. The most serious difficulty of the entire journey is i n making the landing from the ship. Norton Sound is extremely shallow i n all parts, and in front of Nome City it shoals off to a depth of only four or five feet, so that ships draw ing more than that cannot approach nearer than half a mile ; and not so near when the wind is blowing at all strong, for the winds, coming up from the wide sweep of the Ber ing Sea, make the surf difficult and dangerous. A t present all goods and passengers are brought ashore in lighters ; but i n view of the much greater business during the season of 1900, when it is believed that as many as 30,000 persons and thousands of tons of machinery and supplies will be carried to Nome, it has been proposed, and money has been subscribed, to build a breakwater of piles, and, with boats between, form a float ing pier which will extend out into the sea to a point at which ships may land and dis charge their cargoes. The matter of tide, fortunately, does not enter much into the problem, as the tide variation is often less and seldom more than a foot. Of Nome City it may be said that it is the largest city of its age in the world. It is located on the north shore of Norton Sound,

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useful on more than one occasion in the earlier stages of the city's development. But it is only fair to say that although Nome was, as the phrase is, " wide open," and devoted to gambling and all the kindred wild diversions, yet the public order was far superior to that prevailing in the Rocky Mountain mining towns of twenty years ago. Two newspapers, selling at fifty cents a copy or twentyfour dollars a year, were in existence at last accounts ; and water-works, fire department, an electric-light plant, an electric street-car line, and a tele phone line are all projected, to be put into operation as early in 1900 as practicable. A s there is more of money in Nome than of any other of the modern con veniences, it is safe to predict that From a photograph. Copyright, 1890, by Pillsbury Panoramic an exchange will soon be effected, View Co., Seattle. giving the city what is needed to , west of Cape Nome, from which it takes its make it a city in fact as well as i n name. name, and stretches in a straggling string for The climate and latitude will, however, always three or four miles eastward from the mouth remain the same. A temperature of from of Nome River toward the cape. It is esti zero to sixty degrees below may be expected mated that 2,500 people have been shut up from November to June, with winds and fogs; there in complete isolation from the world and a hundred miles of ice spread southward since last November. No such number of before the town shuts off all communication people ever before passed a winter under such with the outside world for six months or There is no night in conditions. Before the winter exodus, which more every year. ended with the departure of the last steamer June, and no day in December; and never a for the south last November, the population tree breaks the monotony of moss-grown was about 5,000 ; and by next August it will, mountain and " t u n d r a " for hundreds of no doubt, reach 25,000. In construction, the miles along the coast. There are no trees, city began at the opening of the season of indeed, until you get a hundred or more 1899 with a few Indian huts, which were miles back in the country to the northeast. quickly overwhelmed by hundreds of tents. Yet the beach at Nome is, or was, strewn with The necessity of better structures soon be driftwood, and this was practically the only came imperative for business purposes, and supply of fuel for the entire community. Coal lumber and other materials were brought at $100 or more per ton from Seattle was over from St. Michael for the construction of out of the question. A t first the driftwood huge storehouses for the use of the big trad cost only the labor of bringing it in and cut ing companies. Other buildings followed as ting it up ; but the near-by supply was soon fast as the limited supply of labor and material exhausted, and as the wood had to be brought would allow; and when the cold weather farther the price rose until at last reports it came, wooden houses had displaced most was between fifty and sixty dollars a cord. of the tents—not all of them as substantial While other commodities command higher and comfortable as the rigors of the climate prices at Nome than elsewhere, Nome gold, would seem to require, but much better than when it comes abroad, commands higher walls and roofs of canvas. Two or three prices than other gold. A t the United States churches and a hospital had been erected, assay offices or mints, Klondike gold is streets had been surveyed, and some wooden worth but sixteen dollars and fifty cents an sidewalks had been laid. A city government ounce, while Nome gold is worth eighteen had been organized, officials elected, and dollars and fifty cents an ounce. Nome gold police appointed. is considerably darker in color than the A

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of the Y u k o n metal. " D u s t " is the cur rency of the realm of Nome, and every busi ness house has its gold scales as a matter of necessity. A s sixteen dollars an ounce is the accepted exchange value of the dust by all dealers, i t w i l l be seen that they make a very fair profit on the money in which they are paid, i n addition to the profit on the goods they sell, which varies from 100 to 1,000 per cent. or more. F o r example, cigars that cost four cents each i n the States, were sold last fall at fifty cents each ; cham pagne that cost from fifty cents to one dollar and fifty cents a pint was selling at fifteen dollars the p i n t ; a breakfast of two eggs, coffee, and bread sold for one dollar and fifty cents; flour sold at fifty dollars a sack; candles were a dollar each ; shoes, ten to fifteen dollars a p a i r ; and meat, from fifty to seventy-five cents a pound. One does not realize the full remoteness of Nome until he stands upon its shore and looks backward over the path he has come. Start ing, let us say, from New Y o r k City, Monday afternoon, he reaches Chicago the next day ; the next, he is i n St. Paul ; during the next two days he is flying over the plains of Dakota and Montana and through the gorges and passes of the mountains of Idaho ; the next, he is spinning down beside the crystal rivers of the Cascade Range, and on Satur day afternoon he reaches Seattle, descend ing from the train a short distance from the dock where his steamer waits to carry him still onward. N e x t he is on Puget Sound for one day ; then passing out by Cape Flattery, he sails for an entire week westward over the N o r t h Pacific, seeing no ship but his own. Thus he sails for 1,700 miles. Then pushing through either the Akutan or the Unimak Pass, between the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands, he coasts along for miles at the base of cliffs and crags rising straight out of the sea and covered with millions of water-fowl, slips i n between the lofty moun tains to the west, and finally drops anchor in D u t c h Harbor. Here he stops to c o a l ; then sets forward again for a further sail of 800 miles, almost straight to the north, over the Bering Sea, requiring four or five days, according to the weather. This brings him at last to Nome City. He has come in all nearly one-quarter of the way around the world ; and nowhere in all the journey, as it thrills him to reflect, have his feet touched other than the sacred soil of Uncle Sam. But along with the thrill at the vastness of his country, he is apt to experience, as he looks back, a decided feeling that i f there is any

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better way of getting home again than by traversing that waste of waters, with its fogs and winds and waves, its sea-sickness and its other dire discomforts, he should like to take it. There is another way—one through the interior from St. Michael, up the Yukon, over the White Pass, and down by boat from Skagway—but it requires twice as much time and costs three or four times as much money. Some idea of the tremendous Alaskan dis tances may be derived from the following figures : from Nome to St. Michael i t is 130 miles ; to Siberia, 315 miles ; to the A r c t i c Circle, 150 miles ; to Seattle, by water, 2,500 miles, and by land, by way of the Yukon, 3,500 miles ; to San Francisco, by water, 2,800 miles, and by way of the Yukon, 4,300 miles; to Dawson, 1,900 miles ; to Skagway, by sea, 2,300 miles ; to Tacoma, 2,550 miles ; to Portland, 2,700 miles ; to New York, 5,600 miles. The points of departure for Cape Nome on the Pacific Coast are San Francisco, Portland, Tacoma, and Seattle, with a preference for Seattle, as the farthest north. The rail routes to reach these points are the South ern, Union, and Central Pacific to San Fran cisco ; the Northern Pacific to Seattle and Tacoma ; the Great Northern to Seattle, and the Northern Pacific from the north, and the Southern Pacific from the south, to Portland. The fare to Nome was the same from all Pa cific ports last season—$75 first-class, $60 second. This season it has been advanced by all the regular lines and better class of irregu lars to $100 first-class and $75 second-class, with freight at $40 per ton. It is quite impossible to forecast with any exactness the outcome for the people who will try their fortunes in the new fields this season. That great hardships await many of them,with, perhaps, complete disappointment to their hopes, is quite certain. But, on the other hand, returns unparalleled i n all the history of gold-digging may come to others. Here are some of the wonderful stories told of those who fared well in the new fields last season, when, as it is believed, only the merest beginning toward getting at the treasure there was made. One miner, who had formerly been an engineer, tending a sta tionary engine at $75 a month, was able to send 200 pounds of gold to his wife in Den ver as a birthday gift, a present worth in the neighborhood of $45,000. A medical student, lately graduated, went to seek his fortune in the Klondike, and lost nearly all that he had. He finally went on to Cape Nome, where he rendered some service to

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two miners who afterwards died, leaving hours with a rocker. A l l the good fortune him claims from which he took $24,000, and has not been in mining, however. The man for one of which he refused an offer of $60, who owns all the horses at Nome, eight in 000. A Swede who, under the exposure of number (as might be guessed, he is from his prospectings, had lost part of one foot Kentucky), made $500 a day w i t h them_ dur and an entire ear by freezing, took up a ing the mining season; and when the mining claim, and before the season was over he stopped, he set about hauling the driftwood sent 750 pounds of gold to the mint at San which is the only available fuel, up from the Francisco. A New Jersey man landed at beach and storing i t for the winter demand, Cape Nome with $400. He took up one at from fifty to sixty dollars a cord. A law yer, who went to Nome claim, and bought two at expecting to work as a $100 each. Sixty days miner, found a demand for later, he refused $35,000 legal t a l e n t ; and he and his for one of the claims ; still partner made by their legal later, he sent $47,000 to services over $100,000 in the mint at San Francisco, dust, not to mention numer and his property is now ous interests i n claims on valued at $400,000. A contingents. One woman Lutheran missionary, re became independently rich ceiving a salary of $600 on the profits of a hotel and a year, took up a claim restaurant. Gamblers, of from which he sent 400 course, do a brisk business, pounds of gold to the mint and it is estimated that the in August, and his claims eight or ten in the town are now worth $250,000. clear $100,000 a month. He promises to give twenty per cent. of his earnings Of course, many of these to the church. A young stories must, in their pro man from San Francisco, gress and repetition, get a still in the twenties, cleared good ways from the original up $80,000 from three fact. But there is not want months' work. One miner ing something like official on the beach washed $8,200 proof of the extraordinary out of a space forty-five yield of the Cape Nome gold feet square. A newspaper fields last season. For in man, "flat broke," suc stance, the report of United ceeded in getting hold of a States Assayer W i n g at bit of ground thirty by Seattle—and Seattle is only twenty-four feet, and with one of the points at which the help of two men took gold is received from Cape out $5,200 in eight days. Nome—shows that since A miner near him took out the discovery of gold at C A P E NOME INDIAN MOTHER A N D CHILD. $1,700 in one day. Two Cape Nome the receipts of men took advantage of a From a photograph. Copyright, 1899, by his office have almost dou Pillsbury Panoramic View Co., Seattle. very low tide, and going out bled, being $11,855,993.50 almost into the sea, secured $2,200 in two for the six months from June, 1899, to Janu days' time. C. D . Lane of California, now ary, 1900, and only $6,881,540.98 for the six one of the richest men of Nome City, had in months from January to June, 1899. What his safe i n October, awaiting shipment, 1,400 percentage of this increase is Cape Nome pounds of gold, worth over $400,000. Four gold cannot be determined exactly ; but cer men on the beach seven miles from Nome tainly a large part. The estimated output for City took out $3,000 in four days. On the coming season by the most conservative August 29th, $6,400 was sluiced out of No. is over two millions of dollars ; many claim 8 A n v i l in seven hours by six men. On A u that it will reach ten millions of dollars. gust 14th, Linderberg mine under the work And even the larger estimate scarcely seems of six men yielded $18,000 in eighteen hours. extravagant, when one considers that 25,000 No. 3 Snow Gulch yielded $1,000 an hour for or 30,000 persons may be putting forth their twelve hours. A man named Loss—there's whole energy in getting out the gold already nothing i n a name—took out $240 in two discovered and in making new discoveries.

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IT snowed. The switch-lamps at Valley Junction twinkled faintly through the swirling flakes. A broad band of light from the night-oper ator's room shot out into the gloom, and it, too,was thick ly powdered. Aside from this, the scattered houses of the little hamlet slept in darkness —all save one. Through the drawn curtains of a cottage which squatted in the right angle formed by the intersecting tracks, a hundred yards or more from the station, a light shone dully. Inside, a young woman with a book in her lap sat beside a sick-bed. On the bed lay a young man of perhaps thirty. They were not an ordinary couple, nor of

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the type which prevailed in Valley Junction. The rugged strength of the man, which shone through even the pallor of sickness, was touched and softened by an unmistakable gentleness of birth; and the dark eyes, which rested motionless upon the further wall, were thoughtful and liquid with intelligence. The young woman was yet more striking. Her loose gown, girdled at the waist with a tas seled cord, only half concealed the sturdy, sweeping lines of the form beneath. Her placid, womanly face was crowned with a glorious mass of burnished auburn hair. Her blue eyes, now fixed solicitously upon her husband's face, were dark with what seemed an habitual earnestness of purpose, and her sweet mouth drooped seriously. After a moment, though, she shook off her pensive

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mood. " What are you thinking of, dear ? " she asked, with a brightening face. " Of y o u , " answered her husband gravely, tightening his grasp upon the hand she had slipped into his. " Comparing your life in this wretched place, Sylvia, with what it was before I married you; and thinking of that wonderful thing called' love,' which can make you content with the change." The young woman bent forward with a lit tle spasmodic movement, and laid her beauti ful hair upon the pillow beside her husband's dark strands. For a little she held herself in a kind of breathless tension, her hand upon his further temple, her full, passionate lips pressed tight against his cheek. " Not content, my heart's husband, but happy! " she whispered, ecstatically. After a moment she lifted herself and quietly smoothed her ruffled hair. " I mustn't do that again," she said, demurely. "The doctor said you were not to be excited. I guess I won't allow you to think any more on that subject, either," she added, with pretty tyranny. ' ' Only this, Ben—papa will forgive us someday. He's good. Just give him time. Some day you'll put away your dear, foolish pride, and let me write to him, and tell him where we are—no matter if he did forbid it. And he'll write back, take my word for it, and say, ' Come home, chil dren, and be forgiven.' But whether he does or not, I tell you, sweetheart, I would sooner flutter about this little dovecote of ours, and ride on the engine with you on bright days, than be mistress of the finest palace papa's money can build." For a moment the pair looked the love they could not speak. Then the spell was broken by the distant scream of a locomo tive, half-drowned in the howling wind. Syl via glanced at the clock. " There's the ' Overland,' " she murmured. ' ' She's three minutes late. The wind is dead against her. Some day, dear," she added, fondly, " y o u will hold the throttle of that engine, if you want to, and I shall be the proudest girl in the land." With a fine unconscious loyalty to the cor poration which gave them bread and butter, they listened in silence to the dull roar of the on-coming train. But instead, a moment later, of the usual thunderous burst as the train swept by, and the trembling of earth, they heard the grinding of brake-shoes, the whistle of the air, and then, in the lull which followed, the thumping of the pump, like some great, excited heart. At this unexam pled occurrence, the sick man threw his wife

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a startled glance, and she sprang to the front window and drew back the curtain. She was just turning away again, still unsatisfied, when there came a quick, imperative rap at the door. Instantly connecting this rap with the delayed train, Sylvia flung the door wide open, revealing three men, the foremost of whom she recognized as the night-operator at the Junction. " M r s . F o x , " he began with nervous haste, " this is the general superintendent, Mr." " My name is Howard, madam," said the official for himself, unceremoniously pushing forward. " We are in trouble. Our engi neer had a stroke of apoplexy fifteen miles back, and I want your husband to take this train. I know he's sick, but " " But he's too sick, sir, to hold his head u p ! " Sylvia exclaimed, aghast. " What's the trouble ? " called Fox sharply, from his bed. An instant's hush fell over the little group at the door, and then they all, as if moved by one impulse, filed quickly back to the sick-room. " Mr. Fox, I hate to ask a sick man to get out of bed and pull a train," began the gen eral superintendent hurriedly, before Sylvia could speak. " But we're tied up here hard and fast, with not another engineer in sight; and every minute that train stands there the company loses a thousand dollars. If you can pull her through to Stockton, and will, it will be the best two hours' work that you ever did. I will give you five hundred dollars." Fox had at first risen to his elbow, but he now sank back, dizzy and trembling from weakness. In a moment, though, he was up again. " I can't do it, Mr. Howard! I'm too s i c k ! " he exclaimed, bitterly. "If it weren't a physical impossibility—if I weren't too dizzy to hold my head up " He broke off abruptly, and pressed his hand in a dazed way to his brow. Then he fixed his excited eyes upon his wife. The other men followed his gaze, plainly regarding him as out of his head. But Sylvia turned pale, and leaned against the wall for support. She had caught her husband's meaning. " S h e ' l l take the train, s i r ! " exclaimed Fox, eagerly; " a n d she'll take it through safe. She knows an engine as well as I, and every inch of the road. Sylvia, you must go. It is your duty." The superintendent, staggered at this amazing proposition, gasped, and stared at the young woman. She stood with her di

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lated eyes fastened upon her husband, her chest rising and falling, and blood-red tongues of returning color shooting through her cheeks. Yet even in that crucial moment, when her little heart was fluttering like a wounded bird, something in Sylvia's eye— something hard and stubborn—fixed the skep tical superintendent's attention, and he drew a step nearer. Sylvia, with twitching nos trils and swelling throat, turned upon him almost desperately. " I will g o , " she said, in a low, resigned voice. " But some one must stay here with him." ' ' This young man will attend to all that, never f r e t , " cried Howard gaily, in his re lief, turning to the night-operator. Whatever doubts the superintendent may have harbored yet of the fair engineer's nerve and skill were plainly removed when Sylvia returned from an inner room, after an absence of scarcely sixty seconds. An indomitable courage was stamped upon her handsome features, and she bore herself with the firm, subdued mien of one who knows the gravity of her task, yet has faith in herself for its performance. One of her husband's caps was drawn down tightly over her thick hair. She had slipped into a short walkingskirt, and as she advanced she calmly but swiftly buttoned her jacket. Without hesi tation, she stepped to the bedside and kissed her husband good-by. ' ' Be brave, girl! " he said encouragingly, though his own voice shook. " You have got to make seventy-five miles an hour, or better; but you've got the machine to do it with. Give her her head on all the grades except Four Mile Creek—don't be afraid!— and give her a little sand on Beechtree Hill. Good-by—and God keep you! " As Sylvia stood beneath the great black hulk of iron and steel which drew the " Over land "—compared with which her husband's little local engine was but a toy—and glanced down the long line of mail, express, and sleeping-cars, laden with human freight, her heart almost failed her again. The mighty boiler towered high above her in the dark ness like the body of some horrible antedilu vian monster, and the steam rushed angrily from the dome, as though the great animal were fretting under the unaccountable delay, and longed again to be off on the wings of the wind, rending the tempest with its iron snout, and awakening the sleeping hills and hollows with its hoarse shriek. ' ' You are a brave little woman,'' she heard

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the superintendent saying at the cab-step. " Don't lose your nerve—but make time whatever else you do. Every minute you make up is money in the company's pocket, and they won't forget it. Besides," he added, familiarly, " we've got a big gun aboard, and I want to show him that a little thing like this don't frustrate us any. If you draw into Stockton on time, I'll add five hun dred dollars to that check! Remember that." And he lifted her up to the cab. The fireman, a young Irishman, stared at Sylvia as she stepped into the cab as though she were a banshee; but she made no expla nations, and, after a glance at the steam and the water gages, climbed up to the engi neer's high seat. The hand she laid upon the throttle-lever trembled slightly—as well it might; the huge iron horse quivered and stiffened, as if bracing itself for its task; noiselessly and imperceptibly it moved ahead, expelled one mighty breath, then another and another, quicker and quicker, shorter and shorter, until its respirations were lost in one continuous flow of steam. The ' ' Over land " was once more under way. The locomotive responded to Sylvia's touch with an alacrity which seemed almost human, and which, familiar though she was with the work, thrilled her through and through. She glanced at the time-table. They were twelve minutes behind time. The twenty miles be tween the Junction and Grafton lay in a straight, level line. Sylvia determined to use it to good purpose, and to harden her self at once—as, indeed, she must—to the dizzy speed required by the inexorable sched ule. She threw the throttle wide open, and pushed the reverse-lever into the last notch. The great machine seemed suddenly animated with a demoniac energy, and soon they were shooting through the black, storm-beaten night like an avenging bolt from the hand of a colossal god. The headlight—so dazzling from in front, so insufficient from behind— danced feebly ahead upon the driving cloud of snow. But that was all. The track was illuminated for scarcely fifty feet, and the night yawned beyond like some engulfing abyss. Sylvia momentarily closed her eyes and prayed that no unfortunate creature— human or brute—might wander that night between the rails. The fireman danced attendance on the fire, watching his heat and water as jealously as a doctor might watch the pulse of a fevered patient. Now the furnace-door was closed, now it hung on its latch; now it was closed again, and now, when the ravenous maw

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within cried for more coal, it was flung wide open, lighting the driving cloud of steam and smoke above with a spectral glare. Sylvia worked with the fireman with a fine intelligence which only the initiated could understand; for an engine is a steed whose speed depends upon its driver. She opened or closed the injector, to economize heat and water, and eased the steam when it could he spared. Thus together they coaxed, cajoled, threatened, and goaded the wheeled monster until, like a veritable thing of life, it seemed to strain every nerve to do their bidding, and whirled them faster and faster. Yet, as they flashed through Grafton—scarcely dis tinguishable in the darkness and the storm —they were still ten minutes behind time. Sylvia shut her lips tightly. If it was nec essary to defy death on the curves and grades ahead, defy death she would. The sticky snow on her glass now cut off Sylvia's vision ahead. It mattered little, for her life and the lives of the sleeping passen gers behind were in higher hands than hers, and only the All-seeing Eye could see that night. Another train ahead, an open switch, a fallen rock or tree—one awful crash, and the engine would become a gridiron for her tender flesh, while the palatial cars behind, now so full of warmth and light and comfort, would suddenly be turned into mere shapeless heaps of death. Yet Sylvia cautiously opened her door a little, and held it firmly against the hurricane while she brushed off the snow. At the same time she noticed that the head light was burning dim. " T h e headlight is covered with s n o w ! " she called to the fireman. The young fellow instantly drew his cap tighter, braced himself, and swung open his door. At the first cruel blast, the speed of which was that of the gale added to that of the train, he closed his eyes and held his breath; then, taking his life in his hands, he slipped out upon the wet, treacherous run ning-board of the pitching locomotive, made his way forward, and cleared the glass. Syl via waited with bated breath until his head appeared in the door again. " F i r e up, p l e a s e ! " she exclaimed, ner vously, for the steam had fallen off a pound. As the twinkling street-lamps of Nancy ville came into view, Sylvia blew a long blast. But there was no tuneful reverberation among the hills that night, for the wind, like some ferocious beast of prey, pounced upon the sound and throttled it in the teeth of the whistle. The Foxes shopped in Nancyville —they could shop fifty miles from home as

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easily as fifty rods—and the town, by com parison with Valley Junction, was beginning to seem like a little city to Sylvia. But to night, sitting at the helm of that transcon tinental train, which burst upon the town like a cyclone, with a shriek and a roar, and then was gone again all in a breath, she scarcely recognized the place; and it seemed little and rural and mean to her, a mere eddy in the world's great current. One-third of the one hundred and forty-nine miles was now gone, and still the "Overland " was ten minutes behind, and it seemed as if no human power could make up the time. They were winding through the Tallahula Hills, where the road was as crooked as a serpent's trail. The engine jerked viciously from side to side, as if angrily resenting the pitiless goading from behind, and twice Sylvia was nearly thrown from her seat. The wheels sav agely ground the rails at every curve, and made them shriek in agony. One side of the engine first mounted upward, like a ship upon a wave, then suddenly sank, as if engulfed. One instant Sylvia was lifted high above her fireman, the next dropped far below him. Yet she dared not slacken speed. The cry of " Time! Time! Time!" was dinned into her ears with every stroke of the piston. Her train was but one wheel—nay, but one cog on one wheel —in the vast and compli cated machine of transportation. Yet one slip of that cog would rudely jar the whole delicate mechanism from coast to coast. In deed, in Sylvia's excited fancy, the spirit of world-wide commercialism seemed riding on the gale above her, like Odin of old in the Wildhunt, urging her on and on. Something of all this was in the mind of the fireman, too, in a simpler way; and when he glanced at his gentle superior from time to time, as she clung desperately to the arm rest with one hand and clutched the reverselever with the other, with white, set face, but firm mouth and fearless eye, his blue eyes flashed with a chivalric fire. The train dashed into Carbondale, and Syl via made out ahead the glowing headlight of the east-bound train, side-tracked and wait ing for the belated " Overland," her engi neer and conductor doubtless fuming and fret ting. For the first time during the run Sylvia allowed a morbid, nervous fear to take hold of her. Suppose the switch were open! She knew that it must be closed, but the sicken ing possibility presented itself over and over again, with its train of horrors, in the brief space of a few seconds. She held her breath and half closed her eves as they thundered

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down upon the other train; and when the engine lurched a little as it struck the switch, her heart leaped into her mouth. The sus pense was mercifully short, though, for in an instant, as it were, they were past the danger, past the town, and once more scour ing the open country. In spite of the half-pipe of sand which she let run as they climbed Beechtree Hill—the last of the Tallahulas—it seemed to Sylvia as if they would never reach the summit and as if the locomotive had lost all its vim. Yet the speed was slow only by contrast, and in reality was terrific; and the tireless steed upon whose high haunch Sylvia was perched was doing the noblest work of the night. At last, though, the high level of the Barren Plains was gained, and for forty miles—which were reeled off in less than thirty minutes—they swept along like an albatross on the crest of a gale, smoothly and almost noiselessly in the deadening snow.

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have been likened to some winged dragon flying low to earth, so appallingly flightlike was the motion. It seemed to Sylvia as though they dropped down the grade as an aerolite drops from heaven—silent, irresisti ble, awful, touched only by the circumam bient air. All Sylvia's familiar methods of gaging speed were now at fault, but she believed that for the moment they were running two miles to every minute. The thought that a puny human hand—a woman's hand, more over, contrived for the soft offices of love— could stay that grand momentum, seemed wildly absurd; and as Sylvia, under the strange lassitude born of her deadly peril, relaxed her tense muscles and drowsily closed her eyes, she smiled, with a ghastly humor, at the trust of the sleeping passengers in her! She was rudely shaken out of her lethargy as the train struck a slight curve half way down the grade. The locomotive shied like a frightened steed, and shook in every iron muscle. The flanges shrieked against the rails, the cab swayed and cracked, and the very earth seemed to tremble. For a mo ment the startled girl was sure they were upon the ties, or at least had lost a wheel. But it was only the terrible momentum lift ing them momentarily from the track, and in a few seconds—though every second meant 150 feet—the fire-eating behemoth righted itself. Yet its beautiful equilibrium was gone; and, as if abandoning itself to its driver's mad mood, the engine rolled and pitched, and rose and fell, like a water-logged vessel in a storm. The bell, catching the mo tion, began to toll; and the dolorous sound, twisted into weird discord by the gale, fell upon the ears of the pallid engineer and fire man like the notes of a storm-tossed bellbuoy sounding the knell of the doomed.

Sylvia suspected that the engine was doing no better right here than it did every night of the year, and that when on time. Yet when she glanced from the time-table to the clock, as they clicked over the switch-points of Melrose with a force which seemed suffi cient to snap them off like icicles, she was chagrined to discover that they were still eight minutes behind. They were now ap proaching the long twelve-mile descent of Four Mile Creek, with a beautiful level stretch at the bottom through the Spirit River Val ley. Sylvia came to a grim determination. Half a dozen times previously she had won dered, in her unfamiliarity with heavy trains and their magnificent speed, if she were fall ing short of or exceeding the safety limit; and half a dozen times she had been on the point of appealing to the fireman. But her pride, even in that momentous crisis, had re strained her; and, moreover, the time-table, The young fireman, who up to this time had mutely urging her faster and faster, seemed maintained a stoical calm, suddenly sprang answer enough. But just before they struck to the floor of the cab, with a face torn by the grade, the responsibility of her determi superstitious fear. nation—contrary, too, to her husband's ad " What if she leaves the rails! " he cried. vice—seemed too much to bear alone. But instantly recovering himself, he sprang " I am going to let her have her head! " back to his seat, with the blood of shame on his cheeks. she cried out, in her distress. " Am I running too fast ? " shouted Sylvia. The fireman did not answer—perhaps he " Not when we're behind time! " he dog did not hear—and, setting her teeth, Sylvia assumed the grim burden alone. The pon gedly shouted back. derous locomotive fell over the brow of the As the track became smoother, the engine hill, with her throttle agape, and the fire grew calmer; but its barred tongue licked seething in her vitals with volcanic fury. up the flying space for many a mile before Then she lowered her head like a maddened the momentum of that perilous descent was bull in its charge. The long, heavy train, lost. As the roar of their passage over the sweeping down the sharp descent, might fitly long bridge spanning, the Mattetunk, twenty

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miles from Stockton, died away, the fireman called out cheerily: " On time, madam! " His voice reached Sylvia's swimming ears faint and distant as she nodded dizzily on her seat, bracing herself against the reverselever. Meanwhile, in the general superintendent's private car, at the extreme rear of the train, a party of men still sat up, smoking their Havanas and sipping their wine. One mem ber of this party was the " big g u n " men tioned to Sylvia by the general superinten dent—the president of the Mississippi Valley, Omaha, and Western Railway. He was a large man, with luxuriant, snow-white hair; and, though his face was benevolent, even paternal, every line of it betrayed the inflex ible will which had lifted its owner from the roof of a freight car to the presidential chair of a great road. Mr. Howard, the general superintendent, was regaling the party with an account of his experience in securing a substitute en gineer at Valley Junction. For reasons after ward divulged, he suppressed, though, the most startling feature of his story; namely, the sex of the engine-runner he had secured. But he compensated his hearers for this omis sion with a most dramatic account of the heroism of the sick man, whom he unblush ingly represented as having risen from his bed and taken charge of the engine. Mr. Staniford, the distinguished guest, listened quietly until Howard was done. " Charlie, you are a heartless wretch," he observed, smiling; and when Howard pro tested, with a twinkle in his eye, that there was no other way, the president added: " If it had been on my road, I should have held the train all night rather than drag a sick man from his b e d . " " We all know how many trains are held all night on your road, Staniford," answered Howard, laughing. " Do you happen to re member the story of an ambitious young en gineer who picked himself up out of a wreck with a broken arm, and stepped into a new engine, and pulled his train through to the end of the run ? " he asked significantly. " I was young then and working for glory, and no superintendent ordered me to do it, or I should probably have refused," said Stani ford, good-naturedly. He added soberly: " These engineers are a heroic set, and, Charlie, sometimes I think we don't always do them justice." " I ' l l do this one justice," answered How ard, warmly.

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The party dropped off to bed, one by one. The general superintendent himself finally rose and looked at his watch. As he turned and made his way forward, his careless ex pression gave way to one of concern. His mind was evidently on the gentle engine-run ner. Possibly he had recurring doubts of her skill and courage ; but perhaps the fact that he had daughters of his own gave his thoughts, as much as anything else, a graver turn. Three cars ahead he met the con ductor, who also seemed a little nervous, and they talked together for some moments. The train, at the time, was snapping around the choppy curves in the Tallahula Hills like the lash of a whip, and the two men had diffi culty in keeping their feet. " F a s t , but not too fast, Dackins," ob served the superintendent, half inquiringly. " What I call a high safety," answered the conductor. " But fearful in the cab, eh ? " " Nothing equal to it, sir," rejoined Dack ins, dryly. Howard started back toward the private car about the time the train struck Beechtree Hill. He paused in a vestibule, opened the door, and laid his practised ear to the din outside. Then he gently closed the door, as if to slam it might break the spell, and complacently smiled. When the train reached the level of Barren Plains, and the sleepers ceased their swaying and settled down to a smooth, straightaway motion—that sure an nunciator of high speed—the superintendent rubbed his palms together very much like a man shaking hands with himself. When he got back to his car, he found Mr. Staniford still up, smoking, and leaning back in the luxurious seat with half-closed eyes. Stani ford motioned Howard to sit down beside him, and laid his hand familiarly on the lat ter's knee. " Confound you, Charlie, you've got that sick engineer on my heart, with your inflam matory descriptions, for which you probably drew largely on your imagination. I have been sitting here thinking about him. Con fess, now, that you exaggerated matters a little." The superintendent chuckled like a man who knows a thing or two, if he only chose to tell. " Well, I did, in one respect; but in another I fell short." He paused for ef fect, and then continued exultingly: " Stani ford, I've got the best railroad story to give the papers that has been brought out in years, and if I don't get several thousand dollars' worth of free advertising out of it, my name

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isn't C. W . Howard. The best of it is, it's the gospel truth." " Let's have i t , " said Staniford, smiling. " Well, between you and me, that man Fox was a mighty sick man—too sick to hold his head up, in f a c t . " Howard paused inquir ingly as Staniford turned sharply, and gave him a glance. " F o x , did you s a y ? " asked Staniford. " What's his first name ? " " I don't know. He's a tall, smooth-faced man, with dark hair and eyes. Rather in telligent-looking. What do you know about him ? He's a comparatively new man with us." The old man's fingers trembled slightly as he flicked the ashes from his cigar. ' ' I don't know that I know him," he answered, in a constrained tone. " If he's the man I have in mind, he's all right. Go o n . " ' ' Ever run on your road ? ' ' inquired How ard, deliberately. " Yes, yes. But that has nothing to do with i t , " returned Staniford, with strange impatience. " Go o n . " " W e l l , " continued the superintendent, with a mildly curious glance at his compan ion, " he was altogether too sick to pull a plug. But it seems that his wife has been in the habit of riding with him, and knows the road and an engine as well as he does. To come to the point—and this is my story, which I didn't tell the boys for the sake of their nerves,' he added, with sparkling eyes — " the ' Overland ' at this moment is in the hands of a girl, sir—Fox's wife! " It seemed a long time before either man spoke again. Howard stared in blank amaze ment at the pallid face of the president, un able to understand the old railroader's agita tion, and unwilling to attribute it to fear from being in the hands of an engineer who might lose her head. Then Staniford took the other's hand, and held it in an iron grip. " Charlie, it's my own little baby girl! " he said, huskily. Howard was familiar with the story of the elopement of Stamford's daughter with one

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of the M. V . , O., and W . engineers, and the situation flashed over him in an instant. After a moment—during which, as he after ward confessed, he could not keep his mind off the added sensation this new fact would give his advertising story—he said enthusi astically: " S h e ' s a heroine, Staniford, and worthy of her father! " During the perilous descent of Four Mile Creek, the private car rocked like a cradle, and cracked and snapped in every joint. Staniford clung helplessly to Howard's hand, with the tears trickling down his cheeks. When the bottom was at last reached and the danger was over—the danger at the front —the president drew his handkerchief and wiped the great drops of sweat from his brow. The ex-engineer knew the agony through which his child had passed. The operator at Valley Junction had flashed the news along the wire, and when the " Over land " steamed up to the union depot in Stock ton, at 1:07, twenty seconds ahead of time, a curious and enthusiastic throng of lay-over passengers and railroad men pressed around the engine. When Sylvia appeared in the gangway, her glorious sun-kissed hair glis tening with melted snow, and her pale face streaked with soot, the generous crowd burst into yells of applause. The husky old vet eran runner who was to take the girl's place stepped forward, by virtue of his office, as it were, and lifted Sylvia down. For a mo ment she reeled, partly from faintness, partly from the sickness caused by the pitching of the locomotive. Then she saw pushing unceremoniously through the throng the general superintendent and—she started and looked again—her father! When President Staniford, struggling to control his emotion, clasped his daughter to his bosom, her overstrained nerves gave way under the double excitement; and, laying her head wearily upon his shoulder, and with her hands upon his neck, she began to cry in a choked, pitiful little way. " Oh, papa, call me your dear little red-head once m o r e ! " she sobbed.

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THE contract man of the Asphalt a little moment of uncomprehending silence. Company had already been " It's me Mike they're afther, though; that twice to the house to confer I k n o w . " " And well ye may. He's a great lad in with Michael, and now, even while Michael lay ill, he had the ward annyhow," said Mrs. Monahan, come again. It was a matter " and it's me that hopes to see him mayor to be mentioned with much some day. Will ye not come over and luk pride to Mrs. Monahan as at me pigs, Mrs. Conry ? " Nora did her Monday's wash Within the house Michael lay ill and fever ing on the back stoop; and ish. It was against the doctor's orders, but Mrs. Monahan's trans-rail- the contract man of the Tonsor Asphalt Com inged propitiation, born of her landlord's pany was with him. rising importance in the community of Shan The councilman was but one of a hundred. ty Hill, was deeply gratifying. To know a Born in the County of Kerry, he had set his member of the Select Council, however that face and ambitions toward America some five organization may belie its adjective, is some years before the visit of the contract man thing. " I s n ' t he the b ' y n o w ! " ejacu above mentioned. He had left Ireland and lated Mrs. Monahan, admiringly raising two the shackles of its bogs and evictions, chiefly red and soapy hands. for the sake of Nora's gray eyes; but the To which Nora, not even trying to repress pungent odor of his native peat was scarcely her honest pride, rejoined: " I ' m thinkin' free from his nostrils before that had become me Mike is as good as anny of thim. It a secondary matter. His calculating heart isn't ivery man has min like that a-followin' and soaring ambition permitted nothing else. The sorrow of their parting vanished; he flung him around." " An' to think of hims havin' a saloon and himself body and soul into the game and won. ownin' this house at his a g e , " continued Mrs. After the first inevitable struggle in New Monahan. " Dear, dear, and my man's old York, he had drifted westward, and finally enough to be his father—widout a c e n t . " reaching Pennsylvania and the manufactur " There wor three carriages came yister- ing city of Dalton, his bark had become During the first day," said Nora joyously, while her soft wedged in the current. cheeks bloomed. "Squires, wid silk hats year he ran a " speak-easy," until it brought him enough profits to embark legitimately in and illigant clothes, I think they w a s . " Mrs. Monahan laughed indulgently. Nora's a small saloon. Then, under the protecting gray eyes and open Irish face bid strongly scroll of a license, he had made his venture. for indulgence—even from her own sex. From this vantage ground his eyes first looked " S u r e , we have no squires here," she re on ward politics with their wondrous possi plied. " Y e should know that be now wid bilities. They attracted him, and his native the three years ye're over. 'Tis the street shrewdness, coupled with a certain quickness car and telephone companies' managers more in reading his fellow-men, soon gained him his footing. His energy and the success of like," she added shrewdly. " And why ? " asked Nora blankly. She his saloon increased it. At the end of the was too used to her mistakes to trouble over second year, he had become a captain on the city's police force, and the right-hand man them. " 'Tis his infloonce they want," said Mrs. of the mighty Coogan, who held the Ninth Monahan meditatively. " I donno—but I've in the hollow of his palm. seen thim big wans before, and ye can make Incidentally, the office was not without up your mind, Mrs. Conry, that they're afther profit. He bought a lot next his saloon, bor it." rowed money from Coogan, built a double" Maybe," answered Nora sedately, after house, and, after much cogitation, sent for 150

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Nora. She had come; fresh, comely above all other women in the Ninth, quaint in her never-failing wonder at the great new world, and admirable in her unswerving, trusting adoration of Michael. The hills and dales of Kerry were in her gentle gray eyes, and her soft brogue, falling gratefully upon the ears of the ward, sent many a warped IrishAmerican memory wandering back to an all but buried past. The hearts of men and women instinctively went out to her in pro tecting tenderness. Even Coogan, the thinfaced, far-sighted " b o s s , " with all his un scrupulous schemes of plunder, found his heart beating a faster measure in her pres ence.

replied saucily: " N o r do I care, Coogan. Sure ye can't make me believe me Mike needs help of anny o n e . " Through all the visits of the mysterious silk-hatted men who came in carriages, and through all of Michael's increase in girth and riches, she remained in contented igno rance of ways and means. Her pride and simple belief in his success and integrity grew stronger daily. Even Coogan's calls, which grew more frequent with the passing of time, and which, though made on the plea of business with Michael, generally occurred when he was away, left no trace upon her clear-eyed, wholesome innocence.

But because Michael loved her and knew that she loved him, trusting in his honor and strictest integrity with the implicit faith that a woman gives to her husband before he sways from the pedestal on which she has placed him, Nora lived happily upon the proceeds of steals and the candid filchings of ward money, unknowing and uncor rupted. Knowing that these things which had become almost second nature to him would be to her not less than heart-break ing, he guarded her ignorance sedulous ly. To himself he often said, " Sure, she'd raise fury if she knew. 'Twon't d o . " To her he growled in response to timid in quiries regarding certain inexplicable trans actions, " I t ' s not for you to know. Wud I tell ye and ye Mrs. Monahan, and lave me be the laugh of the ward ? " It was never necessary to further protect the star ses sions of the ring which met in the rear room of " Conry's," next door, for Nora's softer brogue was never raised in protest. Her faith in Michael suffered no doubts. The king could do no wrong.

The contract man sat on a chair and watched him lazily through a cloud of cigar smoke. His polished shoes rested flatly upon the red and green jute rug, and his open coat afforded glimpses of a heavily embroidered waistcoat and a fob, with which he played absently. " It ought to go through," he said slowly. " 'Tis r-robbin' the city," replied the sick man cautiously. " It's the same pave you people put down five years ago, and luk at th' condition av it n o w . " " Well—it's all getting mighty h o t , " said the contract man, yawning until his eyes dis appeared in the rolls of his fat face. ' ' You, being sick, don't know. Just thought I'd drop up and try to show you our position, you know. Half the boys want us to repair, and half favor a city plant with a brick pave. Neidlinger and Hawkes, of course, want the city to run it. They're not selling bricks and cement for nothing. It's a bad fight, though, and your vote for us would clinch it. Both sides are firm as rocks, and we want one man for our majority. We'll put in a good pave, if we're let, too. A fair contract, and a ten-year guarantee." " What's your bid ? " asked the sick man indifferently. ' ' A hundred and seventy-five thousand for resurfacing and keeping every mile of pave in town in repair for ten years." " Ye'll make a lot o ' money," said Michael. " If we get the contract," said the con tract man smoothly. " And I can assure you, Conry, that our friends won't regret it," he added significantly. ' ' W e l l - - I donno,'' said Michael. " I ain't been down in some time. I cud go down Thursday, I suppose, but I guess now I won't. I'm too s i c k . " The contract man cleared his throat. He felt that the councilman's speech was tenta

In two years' time Michael had risen to greater successes, riding into the Select Coun cil on the crest of the usual wave of doubtful reform. Prosperity poured in an unending stream upon the Conrys. The cabbages spread magnificently; the ducks waddled fatly, and the two children throve through lusty babyhood. Coogan only was discon tented, and growing to like Nora more than a peaceful mind permitted, frowned darkly. His position and intimacy gave him priv ileges. " I made 'im, Nora; y' should be thankin' me, g i r l , " he said, devouring her with hungry eyes. " A y e ! And d'ye know Why, N o r a ? D'ye know why ? " he added tenderly. And Nora with innocent coquetry, albeit startled a little deep in her heart at his tone,

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tive, for these were not their first dealings together. Nevertheless, some things re quire diplomatic handling. " It ought to go through," he said again, persuasively. " Yes, it ought! The city'll be disgraced if this keeps on. Besides—I'd like to see you on the right side. If—if there is any friendly arrangement we can make " Michael thought of his mortgages, certain notes held by indefinite corporations, and lastly of Neidlinger and Hawkes's offer of the day before. " I mighty near broke my leg over that steam-roller of yours on Linden Street last year," he said moodily, staring at the ceil ing, " and I donno about me helpin' you. What have you iver done for me ? I owe you nothin'. It's no help but a damage suit of fifteen hundred I'll bring, I'm thinkin'— and that as soon as I get o u t . " The man smiled sleepily again. He was used to the work; but this seemed unusually easy. " That can be settled out of c o u r t , " he said easily, rising and smoothing his hat. " We don't want any trouble with you. If you really think you're damaged that badly, I'll see that you get it—unless the mayor vetoes. It's a good deal, though." " It's that or nothin'," said Michael grimly. " There's other claims I have of the kind against other people," he added. " Sind me wife in as ye go out. I think me head is goin' to break. Fifteen hundred, mind ye. No cint less." • ' ' I'll take care of it," said the contract man, " if that's the least." " I t i s , " said Michael. " M e feelings were hurted by your r-roller." The Select Branch of the Dalton City Coun cil, that august, deliberative body which, with its companion organization, the Com mon Council, holds the fortunes of so many corporations and contractors balanced upon its giant thumb, had convened for its regu lar Thursday evening's session. The grayhaired president sat on his platform gazing abstractedly at the crowds which thronged the pillared galleries. On the floor the mu nicipal fathers lounged in awesome and obese ease in their semi-circle of armchairs, or strolled here and there, gathering in knots and small oases of twos and threes, bandy ing persiflage of a dignity commensurate with their station. The biggest fight of the year was on. That " ten-tentacled octopus," as the Congress man's daily had dubbed the Tonsor Asphalt Company, was in the field to try conclusions

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with the virtuous Neidlinger and Hawkes, leaders of the city-plant faction. The cor poration was again at war with the individual. Yet the question of repairing the streets had risen to such a position of burning im portance in the city's welfare that every land-owner was bound up in its interests. Five large manufactories had already been lost by the Board of Trade because of the high rate of taxation and the poor streets. The immediate mitigation of the latter evil, at least, meant much to that short-sighted and narrow-minded citizen who was foolish enough to demand stridently—as if he could be answered—" where the money was going to ? " As the first dull routine of business dragged on stragglers drifted in. The galleries be came more crowded. It had become noised abroad that on this night the famous dead lock would at last be broken, and that the Asphalt Company had a card up its sleeve. An air of general expectancy and tense ex citement was manifest as the hour for bring ing up the resolution drew near. A buzz of subdued conversation hummed through the anxious balconies. But in the gallery the contract man smiled sleepily—albeit a little anxiously, for Michael had not yet arrived. In a few moments he rose, elbowed his way through the crowd, and disappeared. Five minutes later he imperturbably pushed back to his seat. Ten minutes afterward the venerable pre siding officer placidly declared Mr. Hawkes, who moved to refer the asphalt question to a committee, of which he suggested the names, to be out of order, and in the midst of a painful silence the clerk wearily rose to read the resolution and to call the roll. As he had done both on this question for six con secutive meetings, and as he dealt not in bricks, cement, or asphalt, he was somewhat tired. The crowd in the gallery craned their necks. Those who were nearest the rail leaned far over, straining their ears to catch every word. Almost to a man they would have voted for the city plant, for they feared with the fear of poverty-stricken propertyowners the awarding of the contract to the Tonsor Asphalt Company. It meant ten more years of corruption; it meant the retirement in disgust and discouragement of those few sterling men in the councils who held the honor of the city and the welfare of its citi zens at heart. The question as to whether the government of Dalton's 100,000 souls lay in the hollow of one corporation's hand

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hung upon the flimsiest of threads. The cor poration's victory would be the last glaring proof that the councils were, body and soul, its property. And all the crowd left Michael Conry out of their reckonings. It was known that he lay bound down by typhoid fever; the con tract man had been cunning enough for that, so they were justified. But in the gallery the contract man yawned. He felt that it was his party. " Ferber," droned the clerk. " Aye." " O'Malley." " No." " McCarthy." "No." " Getstall." " Aye." Evenly the votes broke, ward by ward, first, second, third, fourth—there was no wavering in the ranks. It was a fight to the death. Fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth; still even. The anxious galleries held their breath. " Conry—ninth," called the clerk as usual. There was no answer. The president be gan slowly and stiffly to worm into his over coat. " Conry." Still the silence of absence. No answer. The asphalt man smiled as though bored. For the last time the clerk's voice droned the name. " Conry." " Aye!" The clerk wheeled, looked up in the gal lery savagely—and the contract man looked back at him. He leaned forward, his pudgy hands hooked viciously around the railing; and his eyes, now far from sleepy, glared a malevolent, tiger green. He was smil ing snarlingly, like a wolf in a corner. The president stopped with his arm half in his sleeve; the members gasped; the people craned their necks; and five seconds later, in the midst of the hush, the chamber door swung open, and Michael Conry, brighteved and flushed, strode dizzily to his seat. ' " A y e ! " he cried. " T h a t ' s me vote! Yis! 'Tis the steam r-roller I like! Take that to yourself, Hawkes! 'Tis a blow f'r old Ireland! 'Tis— 'tis—'' Then while some one led him babbling and staggering away, many others, even in the midst of the up roar, saw that the vote was properly re corded.

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dragged him from his bed to the Council Chamber availed him nothing, and he tossed in wildest delirium. Nora, watching by his bedside, grew haggard and thin with sleep less anxiety. The soft bloom left her cheeks, dispossessed by hollows of deepest w o e ; her voice lost all its happiness, and her gray eyes dulled with anguish and bitter pain, for as the days dragged monotonously on, deep in her heart there sank the knowledge that Michael—her Michael, her dear lord and master—was going to die. Coogan and Mrs. Monahan came daily. The doctor did not count for comfort, for despite Nora's clasped fingers and white, ap pealing face, his science could do no good. At night she watched and kept her vigils alone. When the baby cried fretfully in the still, dark hours, she walked with her in the next room, singing her to sleep with choking lullabies of Ireland. When the day came again, though the child still slept, the drowsy sun found her sitting fully clothed, eyes hag gard with the dumbness of their pathos, be side Michael's bed. Bravely and with the whole devotion of her love, she sat watching and ready to move at the slightest flutter of his eyelid. Her worn cheeks grew to rival his as he lay slipping away from her, and the enduring little figure drooped lower and lower as the strain began to tell. But not even the vigorous Mrs. Monahan could shake her resolution. " I ' l l stay till I die," she said to her protests, " or till he dies. 'Tis all the same. Me place is here."

As the hot June days slipped smoking by, Michael grew worse more rapidly. Some times he raged in fits of blasphemous deli rium, and sometimes he babbled meaninglessly of every one in his past, from his old father in Kerry down to his wife and Coogan. Nora, though she understood nothing of ward money and protection, felt another of the few re maining chords of her heart being wrenched and torn to pieces when, his emaciated hand beating unceasingly upon the spread, he moaned and muttered bits of Irish phrases or spoke in a weird, far-off voice of little Michael, the baby, and herself. In one hour he would be in his father's shanty deep in talk with him and with his mother; in the next he would fiercely contradict a statement made by an imaginary Coogan in the rear room o f " Conry's." As arule, Nora's touch and gentle " Whisht now, Mike, dear," would soothe him; but Coogan he could not suffer near. For some occult reason, though he did not recognize him, Coogan's presence For the next month Michael Conry lay made him rage like a madman. ill beyond the skill of man. The will that

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Then at last there came a period when, free from the chains of delirium or the un consciousness of stupor, he looked around the room, and saw death waiting in its far corner. He awoke to consciousness only to realize that he was in a deal with one far mightier than himself, and more inexorable than Coogan in his insistence upon his share. He was conscious of a slight surprise, as his mind grew clear, that no horror of death possessed him, and he even found the con templation of non-existence slightly interest ing. Later he began to think. Nora's strained white face and the droop ing lines of her young figure as she moved about the room inspired within him a strange new tenderness. It was with an odd feeling —a feeling almost as if he were planning again for their after-life together—that he gradually arranged his business affairs into mental orderliness. At last he called her, and as she came obediently and sat down upon the plush-covered chair beside the bed, he caught his breath, conscious of a sharp stab of pain. " Nora, dear," he said, taking one of her hands nervously, " ye've been a good woman to me, and it's sorry I am I've been no betther a man; if I'd known—but now my time's most up. 'Tis too late." The tears that Nora had so long and so courageously held back welled out, and the dreadful finality in his voice and words broke down her courage at last. She threw her self upon her knees beside the bed. " Oh, Mike! Mike, me darlint," she wailed in an guish, " don't g o ! Don't—I can't do widout ye. Ye're all I have. All I have, Mike, dear. Don't be lavin' m e — " and she broke off in a torrent of sobs. Michael watched her. He was too weak to comfort her, and the knowledge was bit ter. " Don't, dear," he whispered after a little. " I'm not gone yet. Time an' a-plinty to cry thin. Besides—there's something I must tell ye, and—and it's bad enough I feel already." Nora straightened herself bravely. " I don't know what I'll do widout y e , " she said simply. " It's that I want to talk about," said Mike weakly. " I didn't think I'd have to tell ye. 'Twould have been all right, but now—well, I'm in debt, Nora, and the house and saloon'll have to g o . " " They can all g o , " replied Nora, " all of thim—if you'll only stay. Wid you I don't need thim. Widout you what would I do with thim ? "

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" The house and saloon," replied the sick man, pressing close upon his single thought. " All you'll have will be the fifteen hundred the Asphalt Company owes me. Now see. Pay my funeral an' a good wake an' all the bills if y ' can out of little Mike's bank ac count. 'Twill be enough, I think. Thin, after the property is sold out, get that fif teen hundred an' go home with the childer to ye're father. 'Twill be a-plinty to keep you over there as long as you live, if ye're careful. God knows it's sorry I am to be lavin' ye so short, but if I'd lived ye'd been a rich man's wife. Ask Coogan—he'll tell ye 'tis true. Somehow, I never thought of me dyin'. I was makin' money, y ' see, and I thought I couldn't die, I guess. But prom ise me ye'll get the asphalt money. They'll pay y e ; they brought me here—thim an' me own foolishness, so they'll pay ye. 'Twas for— Do ye promise ? Fifteen hundred they owe me, Nora acushla—for damages. Promise me. God knows I'll die easier knowin'." And Nora, seeing through her tears noth ing but the dying eyes of the man who stood for her all in life; hearing nothing but his ever-weakening voice; knowing nothing ex cept that she thought her heart was break ing, stretched out her arms and promised. The wake and funeral had been befitting the dead man's station. The priest had spoken very comfortingly of his integrity and virtues; six pall-bearers from the coun cils, two lodges, and fully one-quarter of the " Hill's " adult population attended the ob sequies. The hearse carried eight black plumes, and there were thirty-five carriages in the procession. Yet as Nora sat a week later in the room where he had died, the room which, though no stick of furniture had been moved, was still so subtly, so unalterably changed, her sorrow, her loneliness, and the fear of the world weighed down upon her like an intangible, invisible dread, frighten ing and stifling her. She could not bring herself to the realization of her loss. It was not credible that Michael—her Michael —upright and honest, universally loved and honored, was gone—to never again return. She could not believe that he might not enter alone or with Coogan, any moment, through the door at the end of the hall. But grad ually the acceptance of his death forced itself upon her, and now, brooding, she let the con sciousness of her lack of power to bring him back sink with all its hopelessness deep into

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her soul. There rose a certain exaltation with it as she remembered what he had been, and to herself she made a vow. In life she had looked up to him and loved him; in death she would protect his name—a sacred thing hallowed by that love and doubly hallowed by its own spotlessness. Her eyes shone softly with the glow of her resolve. Coogan came—and Nora remembered her husband's last words proudly. He sat down upon the chair by the door and cleared his throat. " Ye've been kind to me, Coogan, and I'll see ye paid." she said greeting him. " Paid ? " replied Coogan, uncomprehend ingly. " Ye're not after ye're money t h i n ? " asked Nora, smiling wanly. " Niver mind, for ye'll get i t . " ' ' Money! N o r a ! ' ' cried the boss, upset ting the chair and striding across the room. " D'ye think I've been watching me money this while ? D'ye think I've been comin' here because of me money ? '' Nora looked up at him A look in his eyes frightened her, and his thin, spare fig ure seemed to lengthen as he bent forward. Instinctively she put up one hand as if to ward a coming blow. " It's you I want," blazed Coogan. Then with a sudden change: " A h , Nora, dear, me heart is gone entirely. Ever since the day Mike brought ye here I've loved ye. Will ye not come ? It's a lone woman ye are now, wid two children, and ye'll all be wanting a home soon." Nora rose, unsteadily. To her tightly strung nerves, worn by all she had suffered, and breaking rudely upon the sanctity of her reveries, the shock of Coogan's passion came at first like some numbing blow, and made her feel as though she were standing face to face with an awful, revolting crime. For a moment she stood robbed of speech. Swift was her recovery. " Dennis Coogan, shame be to y e , " she cried, with a white face and beating heart. " Me husband not dead tin days, an' spakin' of such! I thought ye were me friend. I thought ye're heart was good to me. You —lovin' ?—ah no, Coogan. Ye mean well perhaps. I didn't mean to speak illy. But I loved Mike whin he was alive, and 'tis God that knows I can't stop lovin' him just be cause he's dead. I'll always love him, and niver will I take another man."

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this sort of love. There broke upon his mind a glimmering—like the first few night lights of a distant city. " But he's dead, Nora," he said, uncomprehendingly. " A y e , " said Nora, steadfastly, " but he's my man." " The house and saloon will g o , " said Coogan. " I have some money c o m i n ' , " replied Nora. Coogan looked at her sharply. He knew about the money. " W h i s h t ! Ye'll see the time," he said hopefully.

A month went by. In that month all of Michael's outstanding accounts were paid in full; the saloon was sold under foreclosure by the Hawkes Cement Works; all of Nora's furniture had been bought by a second-hand dealer for about one-tenth of what it had cost, and little Michael's bank account was balanced to zero. Even the house Nora no longer regarded as her own ; it was Coogan's. She might have held it, and certainly Coogan would never have taken it; but the zeal of a fanatic had seized her; Michael's name was to be cleared. Not a dollar should be un paid. He had lived honestly; he should rest honestly. Coogan called again, and Nora delivered unto him the keys. " 'Tis yours, Coogan," she said bravely, " and now Mike's name is clear." " T a k e them back and stay here," said the boss, flushing a dark red. " D'ye think me a man or a blood-sucker ? " But Nora brooked no opposition, and in the end Coogan stood in the deserted side of the house, staring at the keys thrown down before him. Through the wall came the sound of stifled sobs, for the last parting from her home had wrenched the sorrow be yond silent bearing, and she had fled with both the children to the sympathetic Mrs. Monahan. Coogan heard, and the lines in his face settled into an interesting grimness —the kind of grimness that means a man has resolved to get a certain thing or die. The flaggings were hard, and the baby was heavy, and little Michael dragged at her arm laggingly; Nora had not remembered that the walk to town was so long. Yet some how she had not been able to leave the chil dren long enough to come alone. Since Michael's death she could not bear to be separated from them; they were all she had Coogan dropped the hand he had seized. left of him. She found, too, that her widow's There was a chill in the words that checked veil—lent for the occasion by Mrs. Monahan's even his ardent nature. He did not know deceased brother's wife--blew awkwardly at

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the street corners. Everything was very strange and confusing. She shrank timidly from the business-like lack of sympathy of the elevators; and the huge, humming bee hive of a building which she entered made her heart beat with a little fear. The contract man emerged from his inner sanctuary as the office boy announced her. He had been expecting her, but he did not say so. Nor did he offer his hand—an omis sion of which he had never been guilty in his visits to Michael's home—and Nora sat down in the chair to which he sleekly waved her feeling vaguely hurt at the neglect. Little Michael stood shyly at her knee; the baby crowed, and reached gladly for the contract man's watch charm, and within the inner office a man rose and crept to convenient hearing distance. " Misther Dale," said Nora, after waiting for the first word, " I—it's a nice day." " A charming day, Mrs. Conry," acqui esced the contract man, blandly. Nora took heart at his tone. ' ' I—I came, sir, about the money," she continued. " Oh," said the contract man with a rising inflection, but with apparent mystification. " The money you're owin' Mike," explained Nora. " The fifteen hundred." " I'm afraid I don't understand," said the contract man, clearing his throat. " Did he send you here ? ' ' " Before he died," replied Nora with a little choke, " h e says you owed him, an' fer me to get it. I'm goin' back to Ireland wid it." " But we don't owe him anything n o w , " said the contract man, slowly. Nora's heart dropped. There was a mis take. Mike had never lied to her. But there was something dreadful in the con tract man's smooth voice as he went on talking. " We couldn't pay it, you see, Mrs. Conry," he was saying. " We've too many live peo ple to bother with now. Besides, we didn't really need his v o t e . " " His v o t e , " cried Nora, sickening with a sudden fear. " W h y , y e s , " said the contract man, wearily, " that's the fourth vote of his we've bought. I don't see why you need money, Forty-five hundred from one concern is good, isn't it ? That's better money than most of them make." Nora rose, trembling like a leaf. " Ye bought me Mike's vote, ye say ? Ye bought it ? Oh, Misther Dale, it isn't thrue, is it ? Say it isn't! Oh, say it isn't! " The

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rising wail of a breaking heart spoke in her cry. The contract man was silent. His little eyes looked into hers with a steady, selfish cruelty. His sleek face shone with satis faction. Nora gasped. " Thin that money —that fifteen hundred dollars." " Bribe money, madam. Sorry—but a man must live, you know, if he wants to collect bills like that. If you care for fur ther proof than my words, I think I can ac commodate you with the testimony of a wit ness," and the contract man, who had feasted on the vision of this dénouement for a month, leaned back in his chair, and waved his hand blandly toward the door of the inner office. Then while the room still whirled before Nora's eyes the door swung outward, and Coogan stood upon the threshold. His lean face and deep-set eyes shone with a malig nant fire ; yet strangely enough, after one swift glance at Nora, he turned the anger of his gaze upon the astonished contract man. " Ye blackguard, Dale," he said slowly, " besides robbin' a poor woman, ye'd lie her man's character away, wud ye ? 'Twas straight money, and you know it. Small thanks to you that Mike Conry was as hon est a man as ever was! Say again that ye bribed him if ye dare! " The contract man gasped, and tried to grasp things. There seemed to be some thing wrong with his carefully arranged finale. Coogan had been cast as the cat's paw in the melodrama—not as the hero. The subtle Ulysses who was to save the Tonsor Company $1,500 was to have played that part. There was some mistake. Then, as the enormity of the insult swept away all other considerations, his gorge rose mightily, and his self-control and craftiness slipped away like running water. Nora shrank back into the recess of the window as he rose to his feet, for there was so cold, so Satanic a look of concentrated hate in his eyes that her heart grew faint. Coogan eyed him as a cat eyes a mouse. " In the first p l a c e , " he said slowly, his voice shaking with passion, " you had bet ter wash your own hands; what did you come here for this afternoon ? In the second place —get out of this office and stay out! In the third, though it is absolutely none of your business, I'm not in the least afraid of you, and I repeat that I bribed Conry to vote our way!'' ' ' For all that ye wrote your manager that Mike Conry was honest and that you'd have to buy some one else ? Read t h a t ! "

PAUL KRUGER. And the con tract man stared stupidly at the letter which Coogan thrust into his hands. It was a queerly folded, legal-look in g letter, and began oddly with the words “ State o f Pennsylvania, County o f Luzawanna, s s : ” a fter which, in language m ore or less tech nical, it set forth a certain statute o f 31st March, 1860, and an averm ent that one Arthur L. Dale had been guilty o f offending against said sta tu te ; that he had bribed and unduly influenced one Michael Conry, councilman, and that the peace and dignity o f the Commonwealth had been thereby offended. “ I have ju st been to the D isthrict A ttor ney’ s o ffice ,” said C oogan, softly . “ He thinks that wid the help o f the witnesses prisent ye will g e t a year, at least. He drew th ’ indictm ent h im self.” For a moment the tw o men looked each other fairly in the fa c e . N ora uncom prehendingly stared from one to the other. Then the con tra ct man, reading in C oogan’ s eyes the hopelessness o f the stru ggle, half surrendered. “ Y o u ’ ll g o with me if I d o ,” he said, weakly. “ I w ill— g la d ly ,” said C oogan, “ wid the hope, however, that i t ’ ll be solitary confine m en t.”

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“ I — I had fo rg o tte n that le tt e r ,” the con tra ct man said, lamely, hauling down his colors. “ I thou gh t ye h a d ,” answered Coogan grim ly. “ And now, as soon as ye have apologized to Mrs. Conry fo r insultin’ her man, and as soon as ye have written that ch eck, w e ’ ll be a ccep tin ’ o f your kind invi tation to le a v e .” On the street he turned to N ora. “ The lyin’ , sm ooth -face r o g u e ! ” he cried angrily. And N ora, whose idol had tottered and in the nick o f time been thrust back on the shelf in safety, m erely said, with a shining fa ce, “ Oh, C o o g a n ! ” A w eek later a steamer sailing fo r Queens town churned panting out o f New Y ork har bor. A tall, thin man stood on the dock until it vanished in the network o f shipping on the river. His fa ce was a little drawn, and his lips pressed tightly together, as he w atched the yellow tops o f the steam er’ s stacks blur in the haze o f low -hanging smoke. Then he walked away. Coogan was goin g back to the Ninth to rule undisputed, to wax fa t and influential, and to gather much rich plunder, but— he was goin g alone.

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SOME SCENES AND TRAITS. B y F. E d m u n d G a r r e t t . PLEA SA N T, millionaire, rebel, au tocra t, lay-preacher, filibus ter, visionary, and statesman, Paul K ru ger is easily the m ost interesting figure o f a president now living. Some have gon e back from the gen eration o f M cKinley and Loubet to com pare him with the great dead, and have likened Oom Paul to Old A be. That is very superficial. In so fa r as the issues o f se cession and slavery have tou ched South A frica — and they are both there— K ruger figures not on L in coln ’ s side, but on the other. He is an arch “ S ecesh er,” and the farth est possible from an A bolitionist. He has the piety and the humor, though both grim m er and less sunny than L in coln ’ s ; he has the shrewdness, only shading rather into cu n n in g ; he has the earn

estness o f ch aracter, the sense o f a call, the unquailing fortitu de, past all c a v il; but a la s ! he has not the moral fastidiousness, the rig orously clean hands, the unbreathed-on name o f Abraham Lincoln. In K ruger, as in his rival Cecil Rhodes, there are flaws that must make a thoughtful contem porary hesitate to canonize either am ong the really great. Pos terity may or may not stop fo r such flaws. Her verdict will depend, perhaps, more on the relative perm anence o f the tw o m en’ s life-w ork , which to contem poraries it is not given to know. But whether or not we dub K ruger great, we must allow him, no whit less than his rival, many qualities o f great ness. H uge self-confidence, contem pt fo r ease, unflagging devotion to an aim, tyran nous command over men, and that rem orse less persistence that goes fa r to command even ts— these are qualities o f greatness, and

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features, have had it all their own way in the scion who has made the German name famous. Paul Kruger, who has been once in his life a British official, was born a British subject. That was in 1825—ten years after Waterloo and nine after the final cession of the Cape to England. His father was a frontier graz ier. On the frontiers, it was a question of the usual frontier incidents between whites and tribal savages, with cattle-stealing, free shooting, and mutual charges of atrocities. The frontier grazier, who had been allowed to call a tract of country his farm, was used to receiving no proper protection from gov ernment, and it was too much when finally government hampered him in the reprisals which were his way of protecting himself. The result was that curious migration into the regions beyond, where no writ ran, which is known as the Great Trek. It cost the British Government, first to last, the seces sion of over a thousand families; and among I have had the good fortune to enjoy more than one talk with President Kruger on mat them, the Krugers. And so it came to pass that about the ters near his heart. The frame of the old athlete was already bowed and unknit by time that Queen Victoria came to the throne these later sedentary years, which told their as a girl of eighteen, Paul Kruger, a boy of tale in sallow face and the flaccid droop un eleven, was tramping beside his father's der the eyes. Charm of manner or dignity wagon across the uplands of what is now the there was none. The little gross peasant Free State, pushing ever slowly northward. ways which have been described, and over- As the parties gradually spread into what described, at first distracted attention. The are now the Free State, Natal, and the Trans voice, down in some growling depths, was vaal, some settling here, some there, as a grudging, almost morose, till a vein of feel tract of country might take their fancy, they ing was struck, when it became voluble and again and again had to fight for their lives. explosive. But I never doubted that in this Once some hundreds of men, women, and hard, shrewd old gentleman in rusty broad children were surprised and massacred. It cloth, fiercely gesticulating with his pipe, I may seem a wonder that this was not the had before me one of the few really signifi ultimate fate of all. What saved them was cant and forceful personalities of our time, hitting upon the laagers, a word now familiar and that I should look back to these reminis to all the world; and the battle of Vechtkop, cences one day, if I lived, much as I look where this device won its first great triumph, back to conversations I was fortunate enough was a scene in which the Kruger family, in to have with Gladstone or with Parnell. It cluding the boy Paul, took part. It must be one of the most memorable in his life. was a privilege. The Kruger family in South Africa was In a square made by lashing some fifty founded by a German from Berlin, who was wagons end to end, as many farmers, with shipped out by the Dutch East India Com their wives and families, awaited the attack pany early in the eighteenth century to grow (they say) of 5,000 Matabele warriors. The cabbages for its ships at the Cape house of Boer wagon, in which the families lived and call. Illiberal laws and a stubborn breed carried all that they had, was massively enabled the Cape Dutch to digest their for built, such as only a long span of oxen could eign immigrants very thoroughly. The lan draw, and covered with a great tent, or tilt. guage of even the large batch of Huguenot There was good shelter in the square against French, whose names and handsome looks are assegais, which, though hurled in clouds, stamped all over South Africa, was crushed could only fall in the middle, and the in in one generation. Krugers have married terstices were well strengthened against a Dutchwomen; and the long Dutch fiddle- charge of naked men by bushes of the thorny face, the uncompromisingly prosaic Dutch mimosa. The men and boys manned the these are common to Rhodes and Kruger. The Boer adds a half-religious, half-racial fanaticism, which fits him to die for a dream as the Khalifa and his Emirs died on their sheep-skins. His patriotism is as genuine as his piety; but it is as narrow. A Conti nental writer described the armed Transvaal as the Prussia of South Africa, and, indeed, Kruger has many traits in common with Bis marck. He is much more like Bismarck than like Lincoln. Bismarck made Prussia head of a United Germany. It is not possible that Kruger's experiment in blood and iron can succeed in making the Transvaal head of a united anti-English South Africa. But at least it must be allowed that what we should have scouted a few months ago as an idle dream proves to have had more preparation and consistency behind it than was thought for. We have all had to reread and recon struct our Kruger in the light of that dis covery.

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wagons, and fired, not as soldiers fire, but as hunters; the women, close behind, kept re loading for them. Again and again the en veloping mass of black warriors flung itself on the laager only to be choked off by its own dead. The Boer marksmanship had been learned in a good, because a hard, school. Ammunition was precious. Young Kruger, for instance, was accustomed to herd his father's sheep in a land of wild beasts, and had always been expected to bring home game in proportion to any powder he had burned. After terrible loss, the Matabele army drew off, and the farmers, who declare that they lost in the laager but two men, sang psalms of thanksgiving, as well they might. Paul Kruger was twelve years old at Vechtkop. At thirteen, he was present at a slaugh ter grim and great, which gave the name to the Bloed River, where the emigrants wreaked vengeance for treachery upon thousands of Zulus. At fourteen, Paul, now considered a man and properly in the fighting line, took part in a punitive invasion of the Matabele, which chased them headlong out of the Trans vaal to find new homes farther north. Such experiences in his teens were sure to leave their mark on the man. The Great Trek was a school for heroes, but hardly for phi lanthropists. There is no doubt that the dealings of the Boers with native races whom they found in their Land of Promise were but too faith fully modeled on the Old Testament prece dent of the chosen people's dealings with Midianites or Gibeonites. The more fero cious passages of Exodus were ever on their lips, and were applied with fidelity. Paul Kruger had part responsibility in the most notorious of all these scenes—the terrible affair of the extermination of the tribe of Makapan. A Boer against whom the natives had a long grudge, and by some accounts a just one, fell at last into Makapan's hands; his family were butchered, and he, horrible to tell, was flayed alive. In retribution, a command of Boers contrived to seal Makapan and all his people up in some large caves to which they fled. The Boers gradu ally built up almost every outlet, and for three weeks kept watch at the few holes that remained unstopped. Within, the men, women, and children had no water; and as one after another was driven out by thirst, the watching Boers shot them down to a man. Of the fate of the women and chil dren the story says only that they died after lapping water. When at last the Boers

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forced their way in, they were driven back by the stench of the corpses of those whom thirst had killed; those who fell at the cave mouth by Boer bullets numbered 900. Com mandant Paul Kruger showed distinguished courage in rescuing under fire the body of a wounded comrade. In all the troubles of those times, Paul Kruger is found pushing to the front. His name crops up in the record, like a stormy petrel, wherever the tale is of turbulent and high-handed action, whether against natives, missionaries, or fellow-emigrants. At six teen, he was already Field Cornet of Potchefstroom, which shows that by the rough standards of the place and time the lad was already judged a man among men. Not many years later he became a commandant. By an irony of fate, the characters in which history first shows us the future president are those of a "uitlander," a reformer, and a raid-maker. In a sense, all the " voortrekkers " began as " uitlanders," newcomers from outside, for they had to supplant and dispossess the blacks. But Paul Kruger was for some time a " uitlander " in the Trans vaal in a closer meaning. His family was not of the earliest batch, and those who came in before and managed affairs through a volksraad held at Lydenburg were not dis posed to share power or authority with later arrivals. The sequel was two, at one time practi cally three, republican establishments, each with its own president and officers, and each freely proclaiming the other " rebel." Pres ently the faction of Marthinus Pretorius, whose right-hand officer was Commandant Paul Kruger, now a man of thirty, attempted a bold stroke. This was nothing short of annexing the Free State. The Free State government declined the proposed " union." Thereupon Pretorius, with a strong com mand, made an armed raid across the Vaal, and prepared to march on Bloemfontein. President Boshoff called out his burghers, and marched to repel the raiders. He en countered them at a stream called the Rhe noster; and at this Rubicon, destined never to be crossed, the two forces sat down on opposite banks and for three hours thought things over. Meanwhile one Schoeman, com mandant of one of the districts in the Trans vaal impartially proclaimed " r e b e l s " by the arch-rebel Pretorius, tried to organize a joint attack on Pretorius in the rear. The game was up. From the ranks of the raiders issued a stalwart, grave young man bearing a white flag, and crossed the river to parley.

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It was Paul Kruger. And after peace was made, it was Kruger again who did much to secure amnesty for such Free Staters as Pre torius had induced to join him—the Johannes burgers of his Jameson Raid, so to speak. The sentences for " treason," one of them a capital sentence, were reduced at Mr. Kruger's pleading to petty fines; for in those days he had a firm grip of the truth that sedition is sometimes the duty of a good citizen. It would take too long to detail how, soon after the Free State raid, the Transvaal came to be given over for some years to civil war between Paul Kruger and Schoeman, with whom that affair left the Pretorius party a score to settle. Kruger and Schoe man were both commandants and raised forces of burghers, and marched and coun ter-marched and chased each other in and out of the villages which served as semicapitals, in a very free and buccaneering manner. Kruger was oftener the chaser than the chased; but not always. Once his force was surrounded by a body calling itself " The Army of the People," and Kruger, escaping by the skin of his teeth, fled into the Free State. Broadly we may say that the Transvaal, from soon after Kruger's thir tieth year to about his fortieth, was an ad ministrative chaos, with revolts, arrests, res cues, faction rampant, and recurrent civil war; that Kruger took almost from the first a bold and commanding part; and that he emerged at the end as commandant-general. In this capacity, a few years later, he was sent to put down a native revolt in the large northern district of Zoutpansberg. But years of disorder had sapped the civic sense in the Transvaal burghers. They declined to an swer the call; there was lawless action among the whites who were in the disturbed district; and Commandant-General Kruger, refusing to attack with an inadequate force, aban doned the prosperous little settlement of Schoemansdal, with its district, to the na tives. The prestige of the Republic was hard hit; but the fact is, the period of un licensed turbulence was now yielding to one of a curious apathy and national paralysis, during which even the strong man Kruger was rather under a cloud. Pretorius was now supposed to be President of a united Transvaal; but he fell, over an arbitration in which the Republic had the bad luck to lose. The burghers decided to repudiate the award. To do so, they had to repudiate the President who had submitted the case. Kruger, then not quite fifty, was passed over for the presi

KRUGER. dency. The factions agreed that there was something rotten in the state of Denmark, and they must import some educated, clever man from outside. They took (heaven knows why!) a Dutch clergyman who was being heresy-hunted by the Cape Synod; and so began the presidency of the unlucky T. F. Burgers, who soon found all his enlightened schemes and dreams of a great modern re public checkmated by the opposition of a party of which Paul Kruger—supplanting Piet Joubert,* once Acting President, who thereupon left public life for two years and sulked on his farm—came more and more to be the representative. Kruger was made Vice-President; and no contrast could be sharper or more typical than that which he and his chief presented. Burgers handled the pen, Kruger the gun. Burgers was profuse and quixotic, Kruger acquisitive and practical. Burgers was an agnostic; Kruger was a " Dopper." Burgers had imbibed culture and modernity at Utrecht University; Kruger could painfully write his name. The republicanism of Burgers was as ambitious, patriotic, and independent as anybody's; at first it was as anti-English; but it was a republicanism of railways, of education, of national solvency, and of immi gration and development. Kruger's concep tion of the state, then as ever, envisaged one race only and one class only—his own. Burgers was full of ardors and enthusiastic impulse, but he craved for sympathy; he lacked staying power; he easily despaired, Kruger, once aroused, knew an even deeper ardor, a more flaming passion; but he had also the callous nerves of the camp, the power to wait and tire men out, and a will that closed upon its object with a grip of steel. Burgers, with all his gifts, was not the right man to rouse the demoralized Boers to their duty. With a Kruger on the other side, his failure was pitiably certain. So the draft toward bankruptcy and helplessness went on till the Transvaal became the by-word and danger of South Africa. The loans gave out. The President's private means were thrown into the state chest and spent. Salaries went unpaid. Railway material rotted on the dis tant coast. The burghers would not pay their taxes—many of them have never learnt to do so since, but their ideal of a state without taxes has been realized by having the uitlanders to pay them for them. Sick of twenty-five T h i s is the same J o u b e r t w h o organized and led the Boer army with such distinction in the present war, and whose death after a brief illness is announced just as this article goes to press.— E D I T O R .

PAUL KRUGER IN HIS EARLIER DAYS. F r o m an old silver plate taken some time prior to 1865. T h e portrait has an added interest f r o m the fact that it is the o n l y obtainable one that clearly shows that the thumb is missing from one o f the hands. Later portraits give a hint o f this in the peculiar posture o f one o f the hands. In these it is the left hand that seems to be m a i m e d ; and this accords with the fact â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Mr. Kruger lost his left thumb in a fight with a lion. But in the above portrait, apparently, it is the right t h u m b that is missing. This is explained by the fact that the old silver plates were positives, in distinction from the negatives from w h i c h prints are n o w made ; and in them the left side comes out as the right, as it does in a reflection from a mirror.

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years' chronic war, they would not even fight; their failure in the field against the petty chief Sikokuni, more humiliating even than Kruger's Schoemansdal affair, led the more sensitive Burgers (who was there in person) to beg the Boers to shoot him rather than let him survive the disgrace. Encouraged by the Sikokuni fiasco, the Zulu tribe, now again ag gressive under a military chief, threatened to o v e r r u n the country, and did overrun forty square miles of it, burning every home stead. British annexation seemed to many patriotic men the only way to avert both dis grace and ruin. It was peti tioned for by nearly half the burghers, and when it was pro claimed in 1877, it was greeted with public re joicings by the townsmen and gloomily acqui esced in by the country. In the light of after events, it seems strange to think of Paul Kruger as a British annexa tionist. Yet it MRS. KRUGER, THE WIFE OP THE is Paul Kruger, more than anybody, that Burgers bitterly blames for the collapse. Kruger was deter mined to oust Burgers from the presidency; and he embodied in himself every prejudice of the ignorant and turbulent back-country Boers against Burgers's progressive notions. The educated Hollanders whom Burgers had imported for the civil service were hor rified, on their part, at the idea of the state falling into the control of Kruger. But Kruger had with him the men away on the veld. His party encouraged the starving

KRUGER. out of the Burgers government, by refusal to pay taxes, which made the state insolvent; and it even, according to Burgers's explicit charges, intrigued with the English annex ation party until the government fell—and the Republic with it. Thus " British interfer ence got a strong support from the Boers themselves," wrote the broken - hearted Burgers, "and of their chief leader, P. Kru ger, who had b e t r a y e d me, after promising me his and his p a r t y ' s sup port." It is told that sons of Kruger's were conspicu ous among those who gave the British commis sioner an effu sive public welcome. It is certain that the Kruger who was sent to England to protest a month after the annexation was a half-hearted figure, com pared to the resolute patriot of two later missions, and left an impres sion of gradual acquiescence. Poor Burgers, who had spent his all, accepted PRESIDENT OP THE TRANSVAAL. a pension from the British administration. Kruger, yielding to a temptation which Joubert was proof against, accepted office under the British ad ministration, and ultimately resigned because he was refused an increase of salary. Had he got the increase, would Mr. Kruger have been drawing a modest competence to-day as a Royal British official in an unrevolted Trans vaal, instead of $40,000 a year as President of the South African Republic ? If so, the re fusal of Mr. Kruger's " rise " was one of the dearest economies ever practised. But no;

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history looks deeper than that. Forces were at the adherents of Joubert would get a Raad work, blunders and mischances which need not majority. But Mr. Kruger did not forget be gone over again here, to change the sulky the advantage of being in possession, and so, acquiescence of the men on the veld into act in the French phrase, " making the elec ive discontent. Revolt and war were brewing; tions." He had the polling officers and local and revolt and war were bound to bring to the officials, and he had the existing Raad. Un front Paul Kruger. The Dopper party looked der the looseness of Transvaal administrative to him, and not machinery, ir in vain. He regularities and threw himself objections are into the gather discoverable ing movement; everywhere was again a when once of member of a ficialdom choos mission of pro es to become test to England; v i g i l a n t , and and when at then the ulti last the storm mate decision of burst, though these nice points personal jeal r e s t s by law ousies were with the Raad. appeased by In other words, naming a trium if Mr. Kruger's virate, which in officials did cluded Joubert, their part, Jou as the Provi bert's candi sional Govern dates would be ment, Kruger's thrown on the will soon domi judicial mercy nated the oth of Mr. Kruger's ers. In the brief Raad ; and, and b r i l l i a n t pending the set c a m p a i g n of t l e m e n t , Jou 1881 Joubert bert's own elec commanded, but tion would be Kruger held the " scrutineered " reins of govern by the same safe ment ; and when body. the fruits of The p o i n t success were was everywhere garnered, Kru seized with a ger naturally be zeal and har came President, mony which tes and Joubert had tified to the preto satisfy him siding will. PAUL KRUGER, PRESIDENT OF THE TRANSVAAL REPUBLIC. self with the of Where a Jou fice of Comman F r o m a recent photograph b y Duffus Brothers, Johannesburg. bert and a Kru dant-General. ger candidate Mr. Kruger became President of the re ran each other close, the Krugerite local stored Republic in 1883, and he is still firm official would see that the dead walked and in the saddle. Once only did Joubert suc polled, rather than let (in Samuel Johnson's ceed in shaking him seriously. This was at phrase) " the Whig dogs get the best of the election of 1893, and the means by which i t . " Where the Joubert man's majority Mr. Kruger met and crushed the danger are was too heavy to be got over, some flimsy more creditable to his strength of character objection could still be lodged by his oppo than to his scrupulousness. It was known nent, the defeated Krugerite sitting mem that the contest would be close. At the ber ; and then the latter continued to sit till same time elections for the Raad were in the Krugerite Raad should have dealt with progress; and here, too, it was known that the objection. That is the law, " and," said

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Mr. Kruger solemnly, " before all things we must respect the l a w . " By this means the chief Joubertites were excluded, or kept waiting till the Raad had " scrutineered " as between Mr. Kruger himself and his rival for the presidency. According to the Joubert party; Joubert was really elected quite easily. But the votes were examined and reexamined with scrupulous care; three or four announce ments were made; and with each, poor Jou bert's vote dwindled. Mr. Kruger was at last declared elected by a respectable ma jority. Joubert's party in the country was furious, and proposed to take up arms. Al ready once in Transvaal history had the same charge of cheating at a presidential election led to civil war. But Joubert lost heart. In a conversation which I had with the old Commandant-General, two years later, he used these words: " It was a wrong, an un righteousness. But I would not commit an other wrong and unrighteousness on my part by shedding blood." Would Mr. Kruger, if the positions had been reversed, have stopped for that scru ple ? To judge by his past, certainly not. It was idle for Joubert to stand up to him, and he has never done so seriously since. Mr. Kruger forthwith strengthened his po sition by a favorite expedient which is flat against the constitution, and has more than once embroiled him with the generally sub missive Raad—that of creating new offices in the executive and appointing henchmen thereto. In this case, the new office was that of minute-keeper to the Council, with a handsome salary and a vote which just secured an anti-Joubert majority in that au gust body. The man for the new office was the local magistrate who had jockeyed out of his election the leader of the Joubert party in the Raad. In illustration of Mr. Kruger's working of the class system, it may be added that it was this same henchman's son who was recently thrust upon the bench in the teeth of a general protest from the bar, and who presided in what is known as the Edgar case. The events of Mr. Kruger's continuous terms of presidency from 1883 till now are well enough known. The attempts to play off Germany against England, to get a sea port, to block British expansion northward, to shut off the Cape from Transvaal trade— these have been failures. But there have been notable successes: the securing of the watered-down Convention of 1884, the ex pansion of the Republic frontiers, in defiance of that Convention, by the agency of filibus

KRUGER. ters, and Mr. Kruger's admirable handling of the crisis of 1895-96, when once the cards were placed in his hands by Jameson's ab surd attempt to apply the filibustering method on the other side. As for the subsequent use or abuse of the vantage thus gained, and the plans for absorbing the Free State and for setting up as an " independent sovereign s t a t e " the African Power—these are now on their trial, and will not be discussed here. I confine myself to impressing Mr. Kruger's personal responsibility for two much-criti cised features of the period: its corruption, and its anti-uitlander policy. Of the concession system, in which centers half the corruption of the Transvaal, Mr. Kruger has been the main pillar. He is him self, as we have seen, practically the execu tive, which chooses the lucky concessionnaires. To secure the Raad without securing him is, for a concessionnaire, useless; in the opposite case he has often used his executive position to commit and coerce the Raad. Some of his strongest speeches have been devoted to screening and prolonging the worst of the concessions—those in which the concession naires rob the revenue as much as they rob the miner or consumer. His own son-in-law, and for some time secretary, was allowed to share in these good things, and apparently sell the decisions which Mr. Kruger controls; and once when the Raad objected to this young man's acquisition, by use of a departmental secret, of a Johannesburg site where some technical flaw had made the tenure doubtful, the President saw to it that the government should require that site for a coolie location, and expropriated his son-in-law at $125,000 compensation. When it came out about cer tain presents accepted by legislators from concessionnaires, it was the President who spoke in defense of such spoiling of the Egyptians, and said he " saw no harm" in it; so that if men misconstrue the large for tune that the present President is known to have acquired himself, it is only by assuming the private example from the public precept. The secret service funds are another shady corner of the Transvaal; and it is a son of the President's—and an ill-reputed son—who is trusted with disbursing large sums for which " t h e r e c e i p t s " (he explains) " a r e always torn u p , " and who appears in one of the late blue-books as suborning conspiracy evidence in the canteens of Pretoria which should implicate the British officials, " as that will strengthen my father's hand " (at the Con ference). But enough on this subject.

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in the portrait; and a disconcerting one to the painter, for it throws askew an expres sion which would otherwise, on the whole, be grand and rugged. In this Kruger is a Verulam, rather than a Cromwell. A great President might have made a great republic by fusing the older with the newer immigrants. A President who failed to rise to this larger conception might yet long have kept the busy newcomers apathetic about politics by giving them an administration that would be good for business. Mr. Kru ger's government has adopted neither pol icy. It is told of Paul Kruger in the early days that when oxen were scarce on the Reestenburg farm he used to harness natives to his plow. Whether fact or legend, that gives us in a picture his policy toward white " uitlanders." Kruger succeeded for some years in harnessing the Englishman (the American, too) to the plow of the Boer. The Englishman in the Republic, like the Kafir, was an evil, but one which could be turned to account. You must stand over the Kafir with a hide-whip; and over Johannes burg you stand with a fort mounting Krupp quick-firers. The Boer wanted revenue, state aid (which, in one shape or another, one in every three burghers has received), salaries, and pickings for favored clans, and arms of the latest pattern. The problem was, how to give the " u i t l a n d e r " free play enough to get all these desirable things out of his exertions, while yet keeping all governing power in Boer hands. Paul Kruger's key to this problem was simple. It was the Boer rifle. Mr. Kruger has been the strongest and most impassioned advocate of every one of the reactionary laws by which the Volksraad hedged in the franchise, till the door once open to every one-year's resident—"we make no difference so far as burgher rights are concerned," as Mr. Kruger assured the British commissioners at the after-Majuba peace-making—was at last locked against any self-respecting "uitlander," no matter how long he had lived and worked in the land, and even against the sons there born to him. Mr. Kruger has a Bismarckian gift for coining blunt and picturesque phrases. He expresses himself naturally in homely figures taken from animal life and the farm. There are scores of these speeches which etch with vividness his attitude toward the " uitlander " claim. Select persons who were " trusty " —that is, known to his Pretorian guard and guaranteed to vote in a certain way—he has often spoken of admitting. But the com

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munity as a whole—never! In one of the best known debates on the question, he com pared the rising tide of immigrants to dirty water held back by a dam from mixing with the clean—a bold metaphor for Transvaal burghers. If the turbid flood rose higher, why he would build the wall higher. In the same speech he was driving the state coach, and the ' ' uitlanders ' ' clamored to be taken up. " There is no fear of us upsetting the coach," he represented them as pleading, " f o r we should then be overturning our selves and our possessions as well as y o u . " " Y e s , " Kruger makes himself reply, " but you might snatch the reins from me and drive away. I don't want to g o . " " Their r i g h t s ! " he sneered, on the publication of a reform manifesto. ' ' Yes, they'll get them —over my dead body! " And to a deputa tion from Johannesburg: " Go back, and tell your people, never, never!—and now let the storm burst." And to another, when the word " p r o t e s t " or " i n s i s t " was used: " Protest! insist! What's the use of that ? I have the guns." " Wait till the tortoise puts out its head," he told some burghers who were alarmed by talk of a revolt brew ing. " We'll soon cut it off then." When an "uitlander " crowd hooted him, he retorted with the humorous comparison to a tame ba boon Which bit him because it burnt its tail in the fire. When they cheered him, his com ment was ' ' Ugh! lickspittles!'' When some of them called to thank him for lenience, after the 1896 fiasco, he playfully observed that " h e had to beat his little dogs when they were naughty, and some went away and snarled, and some came and licked his hand, but he hoped they would not misbehave again." " Friends,'' he began at a meeting of burghers—then, perceiving there were " uitlanders" present, " b u t you are not all friends here; some are thieves and murderers. Well, friends, thieves and murderers"—and so the speech proceeded. In his anxiety to keep up among his burghers the conviction that England and the English were always the enemy, he actually introduced in a public speech an apocryphal story about Englishmen being somehow at the bottom of the massacre of a party of Boers by the Zulu chief Dingaan, a treachery which is one of the best-known pages in the history of the Great Trek. No writer has ever discovered the slightest evi dence for connecting any English person with the fiendish act; the only English settlers who were within reach actually lost lives in an attempt to avenge it. The President's ac ceptance and public use of the calumny is an

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extreme example of the calculated pressing of race hatred into the service of nationalism. Yet from Mr. Kruger's lifelong point of view, all this is consistent and intelligible. What would be inconsistent and unintelligible, and a breach of solemn pledges to his people, would be any consent on his part to swamp that people by a population of other races, as the diplomacy of the Transvaal, preceding its ultimatum, pretended to do.* That was pretense only. The reality is to be read in all Mr. Kruger's past acts, and in his words at the Bloemfontein Conference, when Sir Alfred Milner put forward proposals involv ing, not the immediate, not the certain, but the probable ultimate loss of a monopoly of power by the Dutch-speaking graziers: " It would be worse than annexation." "We might as well throw up the Republic." In dependence shared with the other classes and other white races would be " independence l o s t . " So Mr. Kruger said; and so he has ever genuinely felt. To speak to him of the young Republic being made great and popu lous by wave on wave of new blood from Europe, like the United States, is like prom ising him a future life merged in Nirvana. When he thinks of his fatherland, the inspir ing thought no more embraces the Englishspeakers who have followed the Boers thither than the Kafirs who were there before them. It does not even embrace the South African Dutch generally, as he has bluntly shown his Cape kinsmen by his policy toward their rail ways, their products, and their young men, ousted by more pliant clerks from Holland. Nay, even among the Transvaal Boers them selves, the circle is narrowed when it comes to be a question of the sovereign will of the people and of deciding who the people really are, as the election affairs of 1893 showed. Boers who are not " faithful to the country" —to Dopperdom, to the Kruger clan and policy—do not count. In short, the " land and folk" for which Paul Kruger has lived and for which he would die, means really a few thousands of families of Franco-Dutch * In a message to the American people ( " N e w Y o r k J o u r n a l , " December 24th), Mr. Kruger made the astounding claim that the Franchise L a w lately passed " w o u l d immediately give superiority in numbers to the new p o p u l a t i o n . "

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extraction, speaking a Dutch patois, all either cattle-keepers or officials, or both, and largely interconnected by ties of marriage, of reli gious sectarianism, and of political patron age. The groove of such a patriotism may seem strangely narrow—it is intense in pro portion. Paul Kruger is a visionary: what is his vis ion ? It is of a sort of oligarchic theocracy, with Paul Kruger as its Melchizedek, priest and king in one. He sees the faithful sit ting each under his own gum-tree, on his own stoep, and as far as his eye ranges that is his farm, and his cattle are on a score of hills. The young men are stalwart, great hunters before the Lord, and the young women are grossly built and fruitful. And to each farm there is a made road and a dam, and the stranger in the land pays for the same. The stranger keeps to himself in the city, and is more or less godless, for he is not of the chosen in the Promised Land. But he gives no trouble, for he is " well dis posed," and looks to the Raad for his laws in due season. The burgher has his Kafirs, who do his work, but they are not cruelly used, because they obey. The sons of the soil are not too much educated, because that spoils an Afrikander; but enough so to be able to hold all offices of state, that these maybe purged of the Hollander and the Ger man, no less than the accursed English or "English-hearted Afrikander." And the nations of the earth come vying the one with the other for favors, Germany and France and England, all on the one footing. And above all sits Paul Kruger, father of his people, dwelling in the house that the concessionnaire Nellmapins gave him, wealthy, but thrifty, living as simply as he used to live on the farm, save that sheep's head and trotters comes round somewhat oftener. And the judges come to him to know how they shall judge, and the Raad members to know what laws they shall make; and on Sundays all come to the little chapel near to hear him expound the Word of God and the truth as set forth by the Separatist Reformed Breth ren. And there is peace in the earth. And it is flat, and the sun goes round it.

" . . .

that unsavory

foreign

quarter of San Francisco

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BY MARION HILL.

STORY

THE

ITALIAN

QUARTER

INASMUCH as little Tinto Trevino, in his daily social and commercial dealings with the San Francisco public, was hailed indifferently as a "dago," "greaser," "Eytalian," or " Portugee " kid, it is evident to any intelligence that the child was a foreigner. It is not so evident, however, why the grubby and solemn-eyed infant should have been considered of enough importance to engage the attention of the municipal government; but he was. Tinto, five-year-old, reticent, hungry Tinto, was arrested for being a public nuisance. This to the Trevinos was more than a family grief; it was also a financial horror, for Tinto contributed appreciably to an income already miserably insufficient for a family that was outrageous as to numbers. In addition to Tinto and Tinto's father, Luis, and Tinto's mother, Tessa, there were brothers and sisters as follows: Stefano, Senta, Catalina, Rafael, Tonio, Anita, Marta, Jose, Doretta, and Mariaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all undersized, underfed, greasy, scowling, garlicky, and clannish.

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Tessa once, when called upon to reconcile her youth with her indisputable motherhood of the brood, explained that she had had " T'ree-a to one time, two-a to one time, and one-a, oh, ever so many time." This sentence was given with the villainous scowl of suffering which English brought to every Trevino countenance. They were so ignorant of the language that they dreaded it like a scourge; the scowl, though purely a linguistic manĹ&#x201C;uver, prejudiced observers against the Trevino character. Besides the English language (and luck), another foe to the Trevino peace of mind was an ill-disposed countryman of theirs whose last name was Zanardi. His first names are too holy to write, being those of the Divine Son and the blessed Mother; but Zanardi had them emblazoned in full in red letters on his yellow vegetable cart, and made the offense greater by his own daily life, which was of a nature calculated to bring reproach even upon the name of the Prince of Evil. Zanardi, who had caused the arrest of baby Tinto, had harassed the Trevinos ever since

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that frightened bunch first set emigrant foot upon Californian soil, led by some ill fate to rent a shanty next to his in that unsavory foreign quarter of San Francisco known loosely as " Spanish Town." His only rea足 son for persecution lay in the fact that he was a born bully, and the cowering inoffen足

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punishing the unoffender. A garden-hose can be turned upon a weak and thirsty plant so as to wash it into the dirt. For instance, when the Trevinos had gathered together a few sticks of furniture, Zanardi set the tax-collector upon them, and the ignorant wretches assented to so much English that

. and the officer shot the dog before

siveness of the Trevinos was an irresistible temptation to him; then, too, they were try足 ing to buy their shanty, and such thriftiness offended Zanardi's sense of what was proper in a Trevino. He was really clever in his enmity, and kept safely out of the reach of the law by making the law itself perform his dirty work for him. The law has peculiar facilities for

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they did not understand that they were as足 sessed five times too much, and were fined for delinquency besides. Then two little Trevinos, the two-a-to-onetimers, broke out in pimples due to lack of nutrition, and Zanardi promptly herded the whole flock of Trevinos to the new City Hall, and had the Board of Health vaccinate them, resulting from which their arms swelled out

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and hurt them and kept them helpless for weeks, thus stopping the final payments upon the cottage. Luckless Rafael's arm communicated pim ples to the rest of his body, so Zanardi once more strenuously raised the cry of small pox, in consequence of which the mortgaged Trevino shanty was quarantined, and then fumigated to the total destruction of all be longings that had escaped being condemned and burned. Next, when Zanardi thought that Luis had become enough of an American citizen to vote, he had him vote industriously three or four times at the one election, and upon his information there followed an elegant séance about illegal registration, and Luis was rep rimanded and imprisoned and fined and kept in so much hot water that a whole cargo of bananas went bad on his hands, not being sold in time. To ripen those bananas, Tessa and brood had nightly taken the bunches to bed with them, as is the custom of fruit ped dlers ; and when Tessa was worried into brain fever by Luis's difficulties with the ballot, Zanardi confided to the public the trick of trade in fruit-ripening, had Trevino's stock condemned as infected, and thereby killed the Trevino banana industry forever. Then the School Board was induced to in vestigate why the Trevino children were not kept at school, with the result that they were taken from lucrative trades and put into infant classes, where they twined their long legs around desks too small for them, sat all day making queer marks upon slates, scowled darkly at an uncomprehended, un comprehending teacher, and never by any chance learned anything. When Stefano took a day off to nurse his wrath, and sought the water-front to do it privately, not to worry his parents with his own cares, the truant officer was sent after him; and there followed another dismal seance in still an other department of the City Hall. Tinto was too young to suffer at the hands of any School Board, so Zanardi exercised special ingenuity and hurt him in a child's most vulnerable feelings—through a pet ani mal. The very rich and the very poor have one blessed privilege in common—both can afford to keep a d o g : those in merely com fortable circumstances cannot stand the ex pense. Tinto had a puppy, a big, rollicking slob, so good-tempered that he got fat on a diet visibly consisting only of sunshine and the affectionate mouthings he gave the chil dren. The puppy made a friendly run at Zanardi one day, catching playfully at his

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moving boot, and the Italian (after some personal treatment in his own room) came out lacerated around the ankle, showed the " wounds " to the police, and the officer shot the dog before Tinto's eyes. The moan of the pup and the shriek of the child made music acceptable to J. M. Zanardi. So much cannot be said of the music which came from Tinto's violin. That music was a source of annoyance to the enemy, for from it came many nickels to the small player. Could the law hold out no remedy ? It could. Tinto could be arrested for dis turbing the peace, and being a nuisance— which brings us back to where we started. When, in answer to the charge, they all filed into a court-room of the New City Hall on that foggy December morning, the Tre vinos presented anything but an engaging appearance. They all came—Luis and Tessa, Senta, Catalina, Anita, Marta, Doretta, Ma ria, Jose, Stefano, Rafael, Tonio, and, of course, Tinto—and they came shivering and scowling, the skirted members darkly muffled in greasy head-shawls, whence their eyes gleamed like those of cats; the trousered portion with dirty hands deep in frayed pockets, and still greasier collars pulled high up around swarthy necks; and they looked like an assassins' chorus in a Tivoli opera. Zanardi, on the contrary, sleek as a panther, was the embodiment of Italian grace. His face was as open as day, and when he smiled it was like sunshine, and his teeth gleamed like pearls. It is no wonder that the desperate Tre vinos had not enough interest in life even to wash. Ruin is ruin, whether the money in volved be reckoned in millions of dollars or in a handful of dimes. In losing their shanty and banana trade, the Trevinos were more destitute than the word " bankruptcy " has any power to suggest: they might as well all cut their throats and leave the rest to the cor oner. It is beyond the power of onlookers to estimate the horror of tragedy hourly going on in our imported population. Out of the droves of ignorantly hopeful people who come herding over to us, their souls glowing not only with impossible fancies of wealth and power to come, but with equally preposterous expectation of present welcome, only a rare few gain independence, while the rest slave and suffer, sicken, die, and rot to form an awful human fertilizer for the land they came to share. The animal hunger and desperation shining from their eyes appeal to us merely as an unpleasant, but inalien able, attribute of the " lower classes," not

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at all as the signs of the death struggle of a lonely brother man. Loneliness fills as many graves as whisky. The loneliness of Italians in California is pitiful: they come with notions of placer mining in their back yards and cultivating grapes in their front yards, with the presidency always hopefully within reach. In San Francisco, the situ ation is worse on account of the climate. Few people understand how emphatically San Francisco is not California. The confirmed San Franciscan knows less about the Golden State than any Pueblo Indian baby. San

" The Trevinos

presented

anything

but an engaging

appearance

Francisco, within an hour's journey of a tor rid belt, is never hot; San Francisco, within sight of snow-clad peaks, is seldom frigid; San Francisco is cool, breezy, and foggy. To an Eskimo it is Hades; to an Italian it is perpetual winter. The Trevinos, as they shivered in court on that gray December morning, bore in their gloomy eyes a history of pain—grief for their lost South, suffering for their present predicament, and fear for the hungry, dis graced, and homeless to-morrow. Small won der that the history expressed itself in scowls and slinking ferocity. The Trevinos hated everything they saw. They especially abom inated a eucalyptus tree which grew outside the City Hall and clashed its cruel leaves against the court-room window. An abom

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inable tree is the eucalyptus. Its dark, sickle-shaped leaves saw against each other with the rasping of knives. Moreover, they have the power of condensing mist into rain. On a foggy day every eucalyptus drips an incessant downpour. The tree outside the court-room window was behaving with more than usual nastiness, contorting itself, wring ing its arms, clashing its noisy leaves, and weeping with vulgar abandon, throwing the mist from it in a steady shower of cold tears. Not the Trevinos alone suffered from its depressing influence : all the court clientele,

they looked like an assassins' chorus

in a

Tivoli

opera."

Christmas not a fortnight off, was in an espe cially holiday humor—this with adults means, of course, discontent, a sneering remembrance of (and sorrowing for) childish dead joys, contempt for the empty present, and disgust for the coming ordeal of taking and giving gifts. God pity the wretches who come be fore a judge when he is in a holiday humor. Next to the advent of Christmas, what most soured his Honor was the presence in the court-room of a large number of medical students: young men of prevailing pallor of complexion, most of them gone wildly to beard, and all smelling of antiseptic soap, which, though cleanly enough in itself, has unpleasant suggestions in the background. These young men had just come from an ex amination of some disease corpuscles, beauti

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fully mounted on glass slides and kindly on microscopic view in the rooms of the Board of Health, and they had obtained permission to use the court-room as a means of study足 ing how the exhalations of crime vitiate the atmosphere, or something of the sort. At any rate, there they were, and their obtru足

the court-room

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much-a hate they have of m e ; but all those things is nothings to me, so long as they leave to me my quiet to sleep so that I get strong to work next day. But no, n o ! Me and my wife and all in my house have our heads distracted with fiddle, fiddle, all-a time fiddle, until we no know nothings no more.

tenderness and strength performer."

sion was another prejudicial factor in the Trevino case. Indeed, as Zanardi cited his wrongs, no sane judge could do anything but believe him to be an injured party. " All-a time, ever since Trevinos they come next-a door, they have injure my prop足 erty, and be evil-minded to me, and set on their dog to m e , " wailed J. M., his hand足 some eyes flashing eloquently. " From how they look darkly on me, you can see how

that it seemed absurd

to connect it with so small a

My poor wife, my poor Nella, she much-a too sick to come to-day " " H e l i e ! " called Tessa, desperately. " Nella, she home iron out a shu't waist. I see her." " S i l e n c e ! " thundered his Honor, not more to Tessa than to the medicos, who had enjoyed immensely the feminine outburst. " No l i e , " softly denied the long-suffering Zanardi, in patient dignity. " Every day Nella grow weak' and weak'. Fiddle next

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door all day and all night. Never to sleep makes a very nervous woman, and Nella she so much unsettle she can no longer take in wash, and can only go around hold on to her head, and moan—oh, how she moan for rest! Me myself find it a big burden to have that sound of fiddle all-a time within my head. Many peoples can tell how much that small Tinto can fiddle even in one day and a night." Which " many peoples " immediately pro ceeded to do. There was no lack of wit nesses to prove how undesirable were the Trevinos as neighbors; how uncleanly, given to accumulating l o a t h s o m e dis eases ; how unpa triotic and unedu cational, but especially incon siderate in the persistency with which they incited Tinto to untimely practice of noi some tunes upon a discordant fiddle. They prayed not only for abate ment, but for ab solute prohibition of the baneful scraping. " T h e wonder is, why Luis has this hate of me, who but wish him well," mourned Zanardi, " who " The judge leaned back and seemed have been his to disregard it. . . . friend from the first, but it is a true proverb that who smears himself with honey will be pestered by the flies. I can stand no more, and I pray that Luis will be made not to set Tinto to scrape that fiddle when most Luis thinks I am sick and in need of sleep." ' ' Have you anything to say ? ' ' demanded the judge of Luis. Knowing well what he had to say, and say ing it, Luis did for himself. He expressed a wish that some Jew might spit on the grave of Zanardi's grandmother, and promised that he, Luis, would ere long smash in Zanardi's face. There is an excuse for him. Igno rant as he was of English, he yet divined in tuitively that the whole case, against him from the first, was settled irrevocably in the mind of the judge, and would come shortly

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to a conviction and costs. It was equiva lent to a death sentence: and a dying man does not quibble with words. What Luis said he meant. His whole family meant it, too, for, with the same intuition, they divined the situation as well as he, and every Trevino face was one malignant scowl. No, not every face. Tinto, bored long ago with proceedings which seemed to have nothing to do with him in spite of the fre quent occurrence of his name, was examin ing with placid interest a glass paper-weight upon the judge's desk. The better to do it, he had wandered into the center of the room, where he stood in un conscious promi nence, hugging his violin under his arm as a girl might hug a doll. This unvexed vision gave the judge an idea. ' ' Here, you Tin t o , play some thing! Show us what sort of a nuisance you are. Understand ? Fid dle ! Scrape ! Give us a tune. Sabe?" Tinto t u r n e d immense eyes from the judge to his father, much less to listen to the music than utterly as he would ap Dreaming, dreaming!" peal from an idiot to an interpreter, and Luis said something in Italian. The child, looking more like a wee mahog any god than anything human, turned his assenting orbs again upon the judge, and commenced to tune his violin, doing it with what looked like unembarrassed leisure, but was in reality infinite love and patience. The embryo doctors leaned back with the complacency of those who have front seats at the minstrels. The judge had an angry expectation of being assailed with the strains of a popular song, with a chorus demanding that all who heard should " Bone dat tur key, brudders, bone dat turkey!" Tinto let his slow gaze wander around the court-room for inspiration. He rejected the sad picture of his kinspeople, the smiling doctors, a curious throng of outsiders at

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the doors, the unfriendly court, the lonely tree that wept against the window-pane and writhed against a background of sullen sky, and fixing his yearning eyes finally upon the crystal bauble which had chained his fancy— the beautiful, ever-unattainable iridescence of that fairy-like plaything—he sighed deeply, and then took route for fairyland itself upon the bridge-like, golden, vibrating notes of Schumann's "Traumerei," the dream song of dream songs. Perhaps he looked further than the bit of glass, and saw in his pathetic day-dream those other glittering shams for which, in the coming years, he would barter the music of his man's soul—the woman's smile, the crown of fame, the shine of gold, the hearts of his friends. Whatever it was, it spoke with a moving sweetness, and the court room was filled with music of such awful ten derness and strength that it seemed absurd to connect it with so small a performer, who guided a tiny bow with the grimy fingers of a baby. Like the flight of a bird that reaches high places; like the unexpectedness of an earth quake shock which reveals God to us; like the fragrance of a flower that steals unbid

" A young doctor, especially

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den upon our senses; like a baby's velvet touch which thrills our beings with divine tenderness, the music of the Dream Song floated through the court-room and held the listeners spellbound. Sweet as it was, yet hand in hand it went with pain; for what is there for us but sorrow when we dream dreams of what might be and know we must waken to the things which are ? After a first shiver, as from an icy clutch at his heart, the judge leaned back and seemed less to listen to the music than ut terly to disregard it. But he too had crossed on that golden bridge, not to the future where Tinto went, but back into a past that he had fancied was forgotten. Dreaming, dreaming! Ah, dear God, had not all the ambitions of his youth been dreams! And she—his wife, not the stately woman who now bore his name and showed off his wealth, but that little dead girl who used to bring her violin and play to him when the twilight came and the firelight danced over the bare room that was home to them—had not she in her hopes and prophecies for him been but dreaming, too ? This very tune was what she mostly played, and the time came when she played it with her dreams reaching out

the growth of his first beard, is invariably

a music

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to fold themselves about a little child that was to be theirs, the little boy who stayed but long enough to deliver God's message that wife and child were both to go back to Him. She was in her grave, and this tune, that surely was hers and hers alone, was going on, beautifully insistent, to waken all the laments of his lonely soul. But at last the music stopped, and the

" . . .

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to come. It would never do to have those prim teachers at the doors surprise him at his emotions. The teachers were in the building to col lect back salaries. In San Francisco, when the opening of a street, or a park road, or the leveling of a sand hill empties the sensi tive treasury, the deficit can always be met by docking the school-teachers of a percent

to their womanly

small player looked inquiringly at the judge. Now it is undeniable that, had the judge's previous humor been for " Bone dat Turkey " instead of against it, the " Traumerei " would have proved Tinto a nuisance of virulent type. It is also undeniable, though regret table, that a dead wife has more effective ness as a moral force than a living one. And the judge was touched. So touched was he, that he dared not look up until he had stran gled at their birth the sobs that threatened

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hearts, and this time their money

flowed

freely."

age of salary. Then a new administration sets in, and, as a politic move, pays back a dribble, just enough to insure grateful sup port. One of these celestial reimbursements was being made on the day of Tinto's trial, and his violin had drawn curiously to the court doors a throng of happy spinsters, each with a plethoric chatelaine bag hanging from her belt and further guarded by the clutch of a gloved hand. When fortified to meet the examination of

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these sharp feminine eyes, the judge raised his head, and his gaze was very severe. It softened once when it rested on the up turned face of Tinto, but hardened doubly when directed upon Zanardi. " Is this the music that is driving you d i s t r a c t e d ? " he demanded in disgust. Zanardi misinterpreted the source of dis gust, and further committed himself. " Yes, yes; just like-a that. Music like-a that, at all times Tinto plays." " Then the best thing Tinto can do for you is to keep on playing till you grow able to appreciate it," ordered the judge, and the medical students drowned his further words in a shout of applause. A young doctor, especially during the growth of his first beard, is invariably a music lover. " Here, you shaver," called one, " here's a half-dollar to buy yourself a Christmas gift. Make it a cake of soap if you can." As he tossed the silver, the infection caught his comrades, and all began to search their pockets for small coin. Tinto thought it his professional duty to go around with his hat, court or no court, and stoically did so, winding up by besieging his Honor himself, but giving him a wistful look rather of thanks for past favor than an appeal for alms. " Isn't he cute ? " whispered the teachers. But they did not give him any of their re stored salaries. It had come too hard for that. " For yourself, Tinto," murmured his Honor, dropping a yellow piece among the silver. But the poor do not own themselves. What they have belongs to the head of the family,

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that he may make a better fight against the wolf of poverty. Tinto, without even look ing at it, wearily carried the money to Luis, and gave it all up. It was no concern of his. His duty was just to work and to hand over what he made like any workhouse drudge. His childhood never knew the de light of spending money. " O h , the poor little t h i n g ! " cried a teacher. Her eyes moistened and her hand fumbled in her purse. The " cuteness " of Tinto could not touch the teachers, they being too much the martyrs of " c u t e " in fancy, but his unchildishness went straight to their womanly hearts, and this time their money freely flowed. As the Trevinos eagerly watched the shower of silver, they correctly estimated it as sufficient to pay off the last penny owing upon the house, and figured a residuum for the recommencement of trade. They were shrewd enough to realize also that this pub lic tide-turning would make of them people of genteel distinction to their neighbors, and the Trevino faces were as bright with eyes and teeth as an altar with tapers. Zanardi was sensibly endeavoring to sneak outside, which suggested a finale for the judge. " Get out, everybody!" he ordered. " This is a farce. We have wasted entirely too much time over it. Clear o u t . " Thus ended the case, and if the succeeding cases did not suffer horribly from the sever ity which is the reaction of heart-softening and purse-opening, then is human nature in the city at the Golden Gate beautifully dif ferent from human nature all the rest of the world over.

A GROUP FROM LIFE, ON THE SHORES OF THE SEA OF GALILEE

THE

LIFE

THE

MASTER.

B Y THE REVEREND JOHN WATSON, D . D . , A u t h o r o f " T h e Mind o f the Master," " Beside the Bonnie Brier B u s h , " etc.

ILLUSTRATED FROM PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS BY CORWIN KNAPP LINSON.

PART VI.—JESUS'

SYMPATHY DAY

HIS

WITH

THE

EARTHLY

HAT is called the middle class has usually been regarded as a creation of mod ern times, and certainly no parallel can be drawn between society in our day and, say, the Middle Ages, when a nation was divided between a handful of nobles and a multitude of retainers. One land, however, of the past presented an almost perfect analogy to our social condition—Palestine in the days of our Lord. There was an aristocracy com posed of a priestly caste, with hereditary rank and vast endowments, and an outer cir cle of Herodian courtiers and state officials. With this class Jesus had no contact till the end of His life, when the priests were alarmed for their privileges and protected themselves by the cross. There was the proletariat —the vine-dressers, shepherds, fishermen, farmers of Galilee, who lived hardly and suf fered many wrongs. From this class Jesus sprang, and to them He was always loyal. And there was a class in easy circumstances, of undoubted virtue, good intelligence, and solid influence, which had a standing feud with the aristocracy, and regarded the peo ple with frank contempt. This was the mid

OUTCASTS.—A

TYPICAL

LIFE.

dle class, which was the strength of the na tion and had an undeniable claim on respect, but covered itself with disgrace because its members rejected Jesus with intention and deliberation. Between the middle class of His day and Jesus there seemed to be an inevitable and natural antipathy; and Jesus, who dealt so kindly with the outcasts of society, was in variably severe with the respectables. He laid Himself out to attract and win the prodi gal son in the far country, but the correct elder brother at home He put in the pillory, till we almost forget the vice of the one and the virtue of the other. The lawlessness, the impudence, the evil-living, the corrup tion of the sinners Jesus only once described in the prodigal son, although their manner of life was to Him utterly loathsome and most tragic; but the faults of the Pharisees, down to their very foibles, He exposes with merciless satire. It is, indeed, a social para dox that Jesus should come to confirm the law of Moses, and that the middle class o f His time were the devotees of the Law, and yet that this very Law should rise as a bar

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JESUS HEALING IN THE VILLAGES. And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch, if it were but the border of his garment.—-MARK, vi. 56. T h e disciples, after the night of the storm, when Jesus appeared to them walking upon the sea, brought their boat to shore at the plain o f Gennesaret, and it was in the villages of this plain that Jesus went about healing the sick. T h e villages of Galilee, with their plaster houses of white, blue, pink, and yellow tints, present a variety and gaiety o f color not f o u n d in Judea. It is a feverish country to-day, and must have been so then—low-lying, marshy, dangerous for any but natives to spend a night i n . — A R T I S T ' S N O T E .

rier between the Master and the middle class, so that Jesus used the Ten Words to condemn them, and they prosecuted Him as a law breaker ; that Jesus should come to declare the kingdom, seen afar off by the prophets, and that the respectables had been waiting,

as none others did, for its coming, and yet that the sinners should answer the invitation of the Master and possess its riches, while the Pharisees counted themselves unworthy of everlasting life. The relation between Jesus and this class was strained from the

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beginning, with suspicion on their side, with indignation on His; while now and again there was a hot collision, and at last a lifeand-death wrestle. For one thing, He could not endure their immovable and contented self-righteousness, and this was the point of the parable, at

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once so merciless and so merciful, of the Pharisee and the Publican. It is by a phrase that a man reveals himself, and when the Pharisee stood in the temple of God, the highest and holiest place he could find, and returned thanks that he was not as other men, and especially not as this publican, you

DEMONIACS.

And when he was come . . . into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;MATTHEW, viii. 28. T h e miracle o f the healing o f the demoniacs seems to have occurred in the vicinity o f Gergesa, a city on the eastern shore o f the Sea o f Galilee, k n o w n a m o n g the Arabs as Khersa. T h e site o f the city is in a l o w plain, at the mouth o f a stream, and its crumbling walls cover a large area. A s for the tombs, there are said to be many a m o n g the hills, but the presence o f Bedouins encamped near b y prevented any search for them. Neither could I gather any information. I have s h o w n them like all Jewish tombs, cut in the r o c k s . In order to illustrate the general environments, the t o m b s , the city o f Gergesa below on the plain, the lake, and the northern shore, I have placed the scene in the hills, departing from the letter o f the narrative. T h e slight d r o p In the distant coast marks the in-flowing Jordan. In reality, the demoniac o f Mark and L u k e must have seen Jesus f r o m the heights as he approached the shore, " afar o f f , " and running d o w n , met H i m near the w a t e r . â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A R T I S T ' S N O T E .

THE

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But when he was yet a great way off, his father

RETURN.

saw him, and had compassion,

neck, and kissed him.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;LUKE,

XV. 20.

and ran, and fell on his

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have Pharisaism taken in the act. Surely he might have been satisfied to rehearse the catalogue of his own virtues without the contrast of another's vices; but as a dark curtain is hung behind an orator to fling his figure into relief, so an inattentive or unap preciative audience will be most likely to ap preciate his spiritual excellence set against a foil. It was the life-long habit of this re spectable to exhibit himself as the very type and paragon of religion, and it was his art to keep himself in constant comparison with the miserables. Unto God and men he pre sented an ingenious study in black and white, and for this end he required a publican. Each had his role—the Pharisee religion, and the publican irreligion. " G o d , " says this artist in religious insolence, " I thank Thee that I am not as this publican." Jesus has been hotter and more solemn; never has the Master been keener and more severe. What gave the edge to Jesus' words was not that this respectable had greatly exag gerated his own virtues or his neighbor's vices. Let us grant that he did not. His was certainly an oration rather than a prayer, but it was neither flattery nor slander; it was very much matter of fact. If any class disgraced the Jewish nation in the time of Jesus, it was the men who collected the Ro man taxes and traded on the misery of their own flesh and blood. Their conduct cut the sinews of the national life; their name was a synonym for avarice and cruelty; it was not for nothing that this national traitor was bracketed with the social residuum and his name made a synonym for sinner. If any single class was the backbone of the nation it was the Pharisees, and nothing the Master said against their bigotry and hypocrisy de nied their social value and solidity. They were, in the main, men who feared God and loved their nation, and did righteousness, ac cording to their light; and notwithstanding their exclusiveness and arrogance, they com manded the respect of the people. It was not self-righteous for the Pharisee to hold that he was a more useful member of society than the average publican, for this was simply a fact; but it was inexcusable self-righteousness for him to take credit for this circumstance, as under a show of defer ence to the Almighty he was doing, since, indeed, he had no credit in the matter. His father had been an orthodox, well-living, reputable man, and he had been born with the instincts of religious faith and moral de cency in his blood. In his youth he had been drilled in the law of Moses, and on

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coming to manhood he found himself a mem ber of the Brahmin caste, pledged to the worship of God and to clean living. With the glare of public opinion on him, and hedged round with the habits of his class, the Pharisee might become narrow and cen sorious; it was hardly possible for him to give the reins to passion, or to outrage social order. He was held in the path of formal righteousness, the slave of fortunate circum stances. Compare him with the publican, whom some sudden impulse of repentance had brought to the Temple, and who had been. dragged for scenic purposes into the Pharisee's prayer. A publican's son, he in herited the feelings of an outcast class— a rooted suspicion of society and a sullen hatred of social bonds. One of the vivid recollections of his childhood was his father coming home to describe an insult of the Pharisees and to rail at religion. For him there was no school, and the children hooted him in the street till he felt himself on the level of a dog. As a man he was a pariah, and he came to accept the situation. No good was believed of him, any evil was ex pected of him; he was ostracised by respect able people, he was shut up with reprobates. What could Jewish society expect of the publican but insolence, and rapacity, and shamelessness, and robbery ? So they stood together in the Temple—the man whom so ciety had made, and the man whom society had ruined—and the Pharisee, with an amaz ing audacity, thanked God he was not as this publican. Perhaps the crowning offense of the re spectables in the eyes of Jesus was their cal lousness, and upon one dramatic occasion this gave the Master a shock of strong indigna tion. It was at a feast, where Simon, a chief Pharisee, had invited Him to his house—not for courtesy or hospitality, rather for inso lent patronage and cunning criticism. From the beginning He was made to know His place—an inferior asked to dinner as an act of condescension, who must not expect the attentions given to other guests on a social equality with Simon. As each guest arrived, his sandals were removed by obsequious ser vants and his feet washed with cool, refresh ing water; as he sat down in his appointed place, his head was anointed with fragrant oil. For the Master there was neither water nor oil, but the servants, taking their cue from Simon, allowed Him to pass with a men ial's disdain for the poor. By and by at tention would be given to the Master, when, after Simon and his guests had feasted, they

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would, at their leisure, put ensnaring ques tions to Jesus and gather material for per secutions. As it happened, that day they were anticipated by one who had not been invited by Simon nor come to criticise Jesus, who was ready to repair the neglect of the servants, and to afford to Jesus a feast sweeter than meat and drink. And when Simon sat at the head of his table, full of polite dislike for the Master, and a woman of the town washed His feet with her tears, the extremes of society met, and Jesus marked the inhumanity of Simon, to whom the woman, in her penitence, was only an object of con tempt. The supreme day of Jesus' life was the last; but after that high place of agony and victory, perhaps the best for a disciple's purpose is one day in the Galilean ministry, on which we can follow the Master's work from sunset to sunset. Upon the previous day the Master had been teaching in parables, and had traced the evolution of the kingdom of God from the seed cast into the ground, through its growth and conflict, enlarging also on its beauty and value, to its cleansing and per fection in the drag-net. After the people had reluctantly dispersed, and He was alone with His disciples by the lake-side, Jesus expounded to them the inwardness of those parables, since they were to be the stewards of the Divine mysteries. Nothing, neither physical toil nor bodily pain, is more utterly exhausting than a great spiritual deliver ance ; it strains the mind almost to the breaking, and creates a passionate longing for rest. As the people were still waiting in the distance, in hope of more, and Jesus could not have quiet in Capernaum, He asked Peter to take Him over to the other side of the lake, where He could be alone. The sun had set when the boat put out from the shore, and Jesus fell sound asleep in the afterpart of the boat, where some kindly hand had laid a pillow for His head. After dark there came one of those sudden, con fused storms which lash inland lakes into fury and which make steering almost use less. The water began to fill the undecked boat, and they were in danger of being swamped. They were amazed that the Master should sleep unmoved by the wind and waves, and they awake Him with re proaches, as if they could perish and He be safe. So dependent had those disciples be come on the Master that they now turned to Him in every strait, and even on their own fishing-ground looked to Him for deliverance.

MASTER.

He rose, unamazed and unalarmed, whom no commotion of nature or of man could shake, and commanded peace, and there was a great calm; but it may be that the calm was greater in the terrified souls of the disciples than in the waters of the fickle lake. Through the night they had been tossed and driven; now, as the sun's first rays strike the lake, they come in quiet waters to the eastern shore. The blue water and green slopes were bathed in fresh morning light, but the Mas ter met, on landing, a storm sadder and wilder than any that could ever rage on the Sea of Galilee. Among the rocks on the side of the hill were caves where the dead of Gergesa were laid, and in them a maniac whom none could control nor chains hold. This was the first person Jesus met, and His first act this morning, who last night had caused the windy tempest to cease on the lake, was to call forth the devil from this unhappy man, that he might go in peace to his home, healed and sane. Then Jesus took boat, still early in the day, and, with a favor able wind, sailed back to Capernaum. The effect of yesterday had not departed, and the report of His return brought a mul titude to the shore who received Him gladly, and passed one to another the miracle of Gergesa. Accompanied by the admiring peo ple, with here and there a jealous, wrathful Pharisee, Jesus went to His lodging at Peter's house. He was obliged again to preach, standing in a room, while His hearers filled the house and overflowed into the street. As the Master went through the town with the glory of this new miracle upon Him, four neighbors, speaking together at some corner, were visited with a sudden inspiration. They had a friend who, as was well known in Ca pernaum, had sown his wild oats with prodi gal hand and was now reaping their bitter harvest in his body as well as his soul. Stricken with palsy, this man, once strong and lustful, now lay in his decrepitude an object of contempt to himself, of pity to the town. They carry him to the house, and— on account of the crowd—up to the roof; they remove the slight ceiling of the room, and even while the Master is preaching the sick man is let down before His face, and four eager faces expect the result, while the helplessness of the sufferer is his prayer. " Son," said the Master with much tender ness, as He looked on the wistful face, " be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee." And, behold, at the command of Jesus, the palsied man arose, a man again before God and his brethren.

NET THAT

W A S CAST

INTO

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fishing-net, h a d h a d i n m i n d a scene of to-day, so e x a c t l y d o the G a l i l e e fishermen of the present day adhere to the m e t h o d s described as those o f the fishermen o f t w o t h o u s a n d years ago. T h e d r a w , or d r a g , net is carried s o m e w a y out into the water, stretched f u l l l e n g t h , and then p u l l e d i n i n a s e m i c i r c l e , g r a d u a l l y c l o s i n g as it is b r o u g h t to shore. T h e fishermen w i t h w h o m I spent a m o r n i n g by the Sea of G a l i l e e m a d e a g o o d h a u l ; a n d o n b r i n g i n g their l o a d i n , " sat d o w n , a n d gathered the g o o d i n t o vessels, b u t cast the b a d away."â&#x20AC;&#x201D;ARTIST'S NOTE.

Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;MATT. x i i i . 48. I t is as i f C h r i s t , i n the parable o f the

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Jesus left the house, that He might go to the lake and rest beside its coolness at noon tide of the day; but for H i m that day there could be no rest t i l l the darkness fell. On His way to the shore l i e passes the local cus tom-house, and sees the publican sitting i n his open office. Then He commands Mat thew, with H i s note of spiritual authority, " Follow Me " ; and with dramatic complete

TEACHING

MASTER.

ness, as showing i n a sign his utter obe dience, Matthew leaves everything that hour and casts in his lot with Jesus. As he sees a new, clean, unselfish life opening up before him he has only one desire ungratified, and that is that Jesus should come to his house to celebrate this chief event in his life. From the outside, a group of Pharisees watched the scene and snarled. Jesus, whom

B Y T H E SEASHORE.

The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea-side. And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.—MATT. x i i i . 1, 2.

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nothing escaped, heard the words and under stood. Why did He not go to them ? for that was their suggestion. Because they did not want H i m , and because He did them no good when He went. Was Simon there, or any of the men who had been at Simon's feast ? W h y did He come here ? that was the question. Because He was made welcome, and because He was doing His appointed w o r k : saving men from sin. Did they ever expect to see a reli gious teacher sitting as an honored guest in a publican's house, and that publican leaving his gains to live the religious life ? The Phari sees were silent. One controversy seemed to raise another, and now a few of John Baptist's disciples, encouraged by the pres ence of the Pharisees, asked their question, and it was not without excuse. They had been trained i n the B a p t i s t ' s ascetic school, and had been taught the hardness of the re ligious life. " W h y do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but Thy disciples fast n o t ? " With them and their question Jesus dealt very kindly, for He loved loyalty and He sympathized w i t h their perplexity. " Do not grudge my disciples their brief j o y ; it will soon be over. By and by their bride groom will depart (by the way of Calvary), and then John and Peter will be sad enough. Besides, your master had one message, and faithfully did he discharge i t ; I have another, and M y word also must be ful filled." As He was reassuring John's anxious fol lowers, another Pharisee has something of hot importance to say to H i m . He is a chief man in the Church, and a magnate among reli gious people—Jairus, the ruler of the syna gogue. He falls down, he worships—his friends called Jesus a blasphemer as he passed —and pleads his case. " M y daughter, my only daughter, twelve years of age, is on the point of death. I f Thou wilt come and simply lay Thy hand upon her, she will l i v e . " Jesus had remained in His place through all the criti cism on Himself; now, i n the sorrow of the ruler, He arose at once, and the people accom panied H i m . In the thick of the crowd, as they passed through one of the narrow streets, a woman, grievously afflicted by a wasting dis ease of her sex and overcome by modesty, had courage only to touch the fringe of Jesus' outer garment, as it came for a moment within her reach. When He turned round and asked who touched H i m , His disciples were astonished; they did not understand. A score may press on one by accident, but the touch of a single

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finger will be different. It was with intention; it was individual; it was a prayer; it was a s i g n ; it was a secret between two. This woman could not be h i d ; she was distin guished from the crowd first by her faith, and then by the Divine mercy. The pause could not have been five min utes, to one man it was five hours; and so near are joy and sorrow in human life that when the woman's heart was lightened with joy, a foolish servant told Jairus that his little maid was dead and that it was no use to trouble the Master. W i t h the alertness of one whose heart was beating in sympathy with every human being, Jesus heard the message, and bade Jairus be of good cheer, for the hope of his heart was not to be dis appointed. Already the women had begun the ceremony of wailing. Jesus commanded them to cease—they were celebrating the victory of death too soon; they might be needed for singing. Meanwhile they and the neighbors must leave the room where the maid was lying, for it was a solemn act to call back a soul from the other world. Only the parents and His three intimates among the twelve were present, when Jesus, stooping over the couch, said, in the kindly home-speech in which her father would have s p o k e n , ' ' Y o u are sleeping too long, and we are wearying to see you smile on us all. Dar ling, arise! " Obedient to the command of love, the dear child opened her eyes, and sat up, and the first face she saw was that of Jesus. After this great encounter, which had crowned the labors of the day, Jesus set out for home; but even yet His work was not done, for blind men were waiting for His coming, so that His return journey to Peter's house was marked by miracles. A n d when He had reached its welcome shelter, ex hausted in soul and body, there was brought to H i m one who was afflicted with a dumb devil, and he also must be delivered. A t last Jesus casts Himself on his poor couch and sleeps; but He had driven sleep from other homes for gladness of heart. Across the lake a man in his senses is at home again; Matthew's heart is on fire, for the kingdom of God is come to h i m ; a mother is thanking God because her prodigal son is forgiven and healed; again the light is burn ing i n Jairus' house, where they are still rejoicing, for this day God has visited His people, and Capernaum has seen H i s sal vation.

(To be continued.)

RE ID A N D THE " G E N E R A L

ARMSTRONG."

BY CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY, Author of " For Love of Country," " For the Freedom of the Sea," " The Grip of H o n o r , " etc.

THE

GREATEST

FIGHT

T H E HISTORY

AMERICAN

PRIVATEERS. THE most conspicuous of all the American privateers, for he fought the greatest fight in their records and the most important, was Captain Sam uel Chester Reid. It gives one who has an idea that there has been a great gulf fixed from time immemorial between England and the United States something of a shock to find that Reid was the son of an English naval officer. This officer, while in charge of a boat expedition i n the war of the Revolution, was captured by the rebel lious colonists, and when he had been suf ficiently persuaded of the justice of their cause, he resigned his commission i n the British Navy and entered the American ser vice. It may be that Miss Rebecca Chester, whose people were brave soldiers and stanch supporters of the Revolution, had something to do with the decision at which he arrived ; at any rate, he married her in 1781, and to them in 1783, the year of the peace, was born the great privateer. He came of distinguished ancestry on both sides of the house, his father being a direct descendant of the L o r d High Admiral of Scot land in the great days of B r u c e ; while the Chesters were of old Colonial and English stock, none better, counting lords and earls galore among them. Young Reid was, there fore, brought up like a gentleman to adorn that station in life unto which it had pleased God to call him, and in every way he proved worthy of his sires. His first choice of a profession was the navy—following in the footsteps of the L o r d High Admiral afore said—and he learned some good lessons while still a young boy from that past master of seamanship, discipline, and hard, close fight ing, Thomas Truxtun, in whose squadron he served as a midshipman in the frigate " Bal timore " in the French W a r . F o r various reasons, however, at the close of that little

war, he entered the mercantile marine, and, rising rapidly to command rank, became widely known as a bold and successful navi gator and captain. About the middle of the year 1814 he was given command, by her owners, of the " Gen eral A r m s t r o n g , ' ' a small New Y o r k priva teer, brigantine rigged, and one of the smart est, most noted, and successful of her class. She had already proved, under her other gal lant commanders, that she could not only prey, but fight. She had just returned from her fifth lucky cruise. I suppose her to have been about 200 tons burthen, 120 feet long over all, and about thirty feet in beam. Her armament consisted of seven guns— three long nines in each broadside, and a long twentyfour pounder on a pivot amidships, in sea parlance a " L o n g T o m . " H e r crew and officers numbered ninety men. They had been selected by Reid himself with especial care, and were probably quite up to the high stand ard which obtained on that most gallant frig ate, the United States ship " Constitution," herself. The 26th of September, 1814, found Reid and the " A r m s t r o n g " at the Island of Fayal in the Azores. He had run the blockade off New Y o r k about the middle of the month, distancing all pursuers by his great speed, and had stopped at the island, on his voyage to the English Channel, for food and water. The bay of D a H o r t a , the principal town and seaport in the Island of Fayal, is crescentshaped, and is surrounded by a sea-wall, with the old Castle of Santa Cruz, even then an obsolete fortification, at the base of the cres cent. Opposite to the entrance of the bay, on a neighboring island, boldly rises the splendid mountain called Pico to a height of nearly 8,000 feet, and on all sides are lofty mountains and hills which descend in beetling crags and wild ravines to the water's edge. Having speedily fulfilled his errand, the American skipper had gone ashore to call upon and dine with the United States consul,

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M r . Dabney; and after dinner had brought him, and a party of gentlemen with him, off to inspect his vessel. Just about sunset, the spars of a large brig-of-war flying English colors were discovered making around the rocky headlands which bound the entrance to the harbor. The brig, it was soon discov ered, was followed by two other large ships, still some distance away. It was the first time any English war vessels had been in the harbor for months. The Portuguese pilot

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had told the English commodore of the ar rival of the privateer, and he came into the harbor with his squadron with the deliberate purpose of effecting her capture. In spite of Consul Dabney's assurances, it instantly occurred to the wary and experi enced Reid that the neutrality of the place would not be respected by the English. It seems to be a general practice among na tions to disregard the so-called laws of neu trality with perfect equanimity, provided they

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feel themselves able and willing to abide the consequences. England has done it on sev eral occasions; and the United States have not hesitated to follow her example as late as in the Civil W a r , so we can cast no stones in this case. Reid sent his guests post-haste ashore, and began to warp his vessel closer into the harbor. The English brig, which proved to be the " Carnation," eighteen guns, Commander George Bentham, did not waste any time. She had hardly dropped anchor in the harbor, before she exchanged signals with the other ships, and then put out four boats crowded with about 120 armed men, who, with the usual British intrepidity, made straight for the " A r m s t r o n g . "

ARMSTRONG."

effective force of the enemy to nearly 200 guns and 1,200 men. It was soon evident that Commodore Lloyd intended to take up the frustrated attempt of the " C a r n a t i o n , " for boats were called away from all three ships to the number o f twelve. This statement is made upon the testimony of unimpeachable witnesses, among them Captain Reid and Consul Dabney, a fine old gentleman of the highest reputation, who stood upon shore in full sight of the battle, with many other observers, some of whom go so far as to say there were fourteen boats, though the British allow there were but seven. These boats were loaded with nearly 450 men. They were towed in by the brig, and then rendezvoused in three divisions under the lee of a little reef just beyond gunshot range from the " A r m s t r o n g , " while they matured their plans for the contemplated attack.

Reid left the business of warping i n to a more convenient season, dropped anchor tem porarily, called his men to quarters, and, as the menacing boats rapidly drew near, he re peatedly hailed them to discover their pur Meanwhile Reid and his gallant crew, not pose, warning them to desist from their ap in the least alarmed by this display of over proach or come on at their peril. There whelming force, had completed their prep was not the least doubt as to the character arations to receive and repel the expected of the movement in any rational mind. The onslaught. The " A r m s t r o n g " had been armed men were in plain sight, as the moon warped within a short distance of the shore, now flooded the placid waters of the bay where she lay under the useless and silent with a soft autumnal splendor. The E n g guns of the Portuguese castle. Two of the lish disdaining to make any reply to his hails, guns on the unengaged side of her had been and urging their boats persistently onward, shifted over to face the enemy, through ports Reid opened the fight with a severe, well- cut in the r a i l for them. A l l the small arms directed fire from the great guns of his bat in the brigantine—of which she had a great tery, and his small arms, to which the enemy many, the pistols actually being in bucketreplied with boat guns and an ineffective fuls—had been charged and placed close at musketry fire. hand. Boarding nettings made of heavily A very few minutes were sufficient to de tarred rope had been triced up from one end termine this event. Only one boat touched of the ship to the other. The cutlasses, the American, and most of the persons in boarding axes, and pikes were distributed her were killed or wounded. The other boats to the men, who were all provided with steel stopped rowing, and the officers called for and leather boarding caps. Reid commanded quarter. Then while Reid, who might have upon the quarter-deck, his lieutenants in the sunk all of them without difficulty, mercifully waist and forward. held his fire, the boats turned tail, and, with Pending any movement of the British, the a large number of killed and wounded on men were allowed to rest beside the guns, board, made their way back to the brig. while the officers and a few of the older and They had hoped to carry the " Armstrong " more experienced seamen kept watch. It by a coup-de-main, but had met with a most was a strange picture the stars looked down discouraging and costly repulse instead. The upon that calm September night—that of privateer had only one man killed, and her the little vessel surrounded by her grim and first lieutenant, a brother of the noted Gen threatening antagonists, her little crew men eral Wool of the United States Army, severely aced by a force which outnumbered them five wounded. Two more masterful players en to one. Y e t we are told that the hardy men tered the game at this juncture, however, i n slept on the white deck of the privateer, the shape of His Britannic Majesty's frigate under the shadow of the great peaks and " R o t a , " thirty-eight, Captain Philip Somer- mountains of the island, as soundly and ville, followed by His Britannic Majesty's peacefully as though they had a night at huge ship of the line " Plantagenet," sev home. There was something notable, too, enty-four, Commodore Robert Lloyd, who in the spirit which their quiet slumber be commanded the squadron. This raised the tokened, of their confidence and trust in

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fire. The men of the privateer remained grimly silent, for Reid's command had been: " No cheering, lads, till we have beat them off and gained the v i c t o r y ! ' ' There was no time for either side to load its artillery again before the first boat crashed against the side of the privateer, and the leading man sprang up on her low rail. He clutched the netting which barred his pas sage, and, shortening his sword, hacked fran tically at i t . He was a fair and easy mark to an old man-of-war's-man on the brigantine, who buried a half-pike deep in his bosom. He had scarcely fallen back before others, undaunted by his fate, eagerly sprang to the rail and took his place. Encouraged and led by their officers, the English strove to board on every hand, and the action at once be came general. The boats ranged themselves about the engaged side of the " Armstrong " as hounds surround a wild boar at bay; one division attacked forward, the other in the The shore was fairly crowded with specta tors now, who held their breath while watch waist, and the last and strongest endeavored ing the advance and awaiting the denouement. to gain the quarter. Out in the harbor, the men left upon the F o r a few moments the roar of the great ships swarmed in black clusters in the r i g guns was succeeded by the sharp crackle of ging at eager gaze. The officers of the E n g the small arms, the pistols and muskets of the lish men-of-war were closely grouped on the marines; and the darkness was punctured by different quarter-decks eagerly scanning the vivid flashes of fire, i n lurid contrast to the " A r m s t r o n g " through their night glasses. moon's pale light. But these ringing reports W i t h what apprehension Dabney and his son gradually died away, and, as there was no time and the few Americans on shore watched the to recharge the guns, the conflict resolved it British draw near! It was a moment fraught self into an old-fashioned hand-to-hand encoun with the most intense anxiety. Would the ter. The cheers, shouts, curses, and groans of " Armstrong " never fire ? Was Reid asleep the desperate men, mad with the blood lust or dead ? Had she been abandoned by her of the fight; the ringing of steel on steel, as crew ? A h ! What was that ? sword gritted against sword, or ax crashed A flash of light tore through the gray dark on boarding cap, or bayonet crossed half-pike ness. A cloud of smoke broke out amidships in the dreadful fray, filled the hearts of the on the privateer, and a roar like thunder spectators near by on the shore with horror. echoed and reechoed among the surrounding The English, in overwhelming numbers, though hills. " L o n g Tom " had spoken! The bat at a disadvantage as regards position, striv tle was on. Before the echo had died away, ing determinedly to make good a footing on the other guns in the starboard battery, the deck, fought with the same indomitable which had been trained upon the advancing courage as their American brethren. Most line, spoke i n quick succession, and sent gallantly led, again and again they sprang at their messengers of death out over the dark the r a i l , officer after officer fell, man after waters. The head of the column was smashed man was cut down; the stout arms of the to pieces by the discharge. The first boat privateersmen grew weary with hacking, and was disabled, and the shower of grape did hewing, and slaughtering men. The board great execution all along the line. W i t h the ing netting was at last nearly cut to pieces, courage of their race, the stalwart English and the way was clear for an entrance. Al broke into loud cheers, and, manfully tugging though the slight success came too late to at the oars, swept around the wrecked boat be of much service, a lodgment was finally and dashed into close action at once. The effected forward on the forecastle by way of boat carronades in the bows of the launches the bowsprit; one of the American lieuten now rang out bravely, adding their sharp ants in command there had been killed, the notes to the confusion of the exciting mo other wounded. ment, as they returned the " Armstrong's " A t this moment Reid himself, the only offi the officers, to whom they looked up as the American sailor has ever looked up to those who led him. About twelve o'clock, under the lead of Lieutenant William Matterface, the first lieu tenant of the " Plantagenet," the flotilla of boats moved out around the reef, and in line ahead—that is, in a long single c o l u m n - swept down upon the " A r m s t r o n g . " The midshipmen and other junior officers ran along the decks of the privateer and awak ened the sleeping men, who sprang quietly to their stations. The stillness of the night was broken only by the rustle of the oars in the row-locks, and the splash of the dark water parted by the bows of the boats, or tossed up in the air by the feathering blades of the oars, to sparkle in the moonlight. The men on the " A r m s t r o n g , " so far as the attacking party could see, might have been asleep or dead.

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killed or wounded. In one of the boats all were killed but four. Most of the boats that escaped regained their respective ships with the greatest difficulty, in a sinking con dition, not only from the fire of the American heavy guns, but on account of having been stove in by solid shot hurled into them by the Americans. The total loss was 250 men on the part of the British, nearly half of whom were killed, and the others severely wounded. The Americans had two killed and only seven wounded! It seems incredible, but it is true, though the British admit only about half the losses ascribed to them. The action had lasted forty minutes. Not much damage had been done to the privateer either. The boarding netting had been literally cut to pieces; some of the guns, including the " L o n g T o m , " had been dis mounted by the shots from the boat carronades; but a few hours sufficed to put every thing to rights again. Sending his dead and wounded ashore, and with the remaining men asleep in sheer ex haustion at their quarters again, Reid waited for the next move. A t daybreak the " Carna tion " weighed anchor, sheeted home her top sails, and got under way. When she came within range, she opened a fierce cannonade from her heavy guns upon the privateer, which did much damage to the vessel, though producing no casualties among the crew. Reid and his men met and returned the attack with the splendid spirit they had all along ex hibited, discharging the guns of their smaller battery with a calm deliberation which enabled them to do great execution. After a short and fierce engagement, t h e " C a r n a t i o n ' ' pru dently withdrew from the combat, her foretopmast having been shot away, and her other headgear being much damaged and dis abled; with several more of her crew killed and wounded, mainly by shot from " L o n g T o m , " which, carefully and skilfully served, had again saved the day. This was victory number three. The Portuguese governor meanwhile was protesting against the violation of neutral ity, and requesting Commodore Lloyd to de sist from the fighting. He was informed in reply that the English intended to capture the privateer i f they had to bring the ship of the line i n and bombard the town to do it. Seeing the uselessness of further resist ance, and having maintained the honor of the American flag as few men have been able to do, after fighting a battle which is without parallel in naval annals, and having acquired glory sufficient to satisfy any reasonable man,

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I t b r i n g s w i t h i n these retreats the a d v a n t a g e s o f the m u s i c a l c e n t e r s . It is a n i n v a l u a b l e a l l y to the hostess a n d is a l w a y s a v a i l a b l e , a f f o r d i n g m u s i c to suit a n y m o o d o r to meet a n y r e q u i r e m e n t — s o n g o r d a n c e m u s i c , o p e r a s , s y m p h o n i e s , o r the p o p u l a r airs o f the d a y . I n r e n d e r i n g o r c h e s t r a l m u s i c it gives the f u l l o r c h e s t r a l s c o r e , u n a b r i d g e d , e n a b l i n g the p l a y e r to execute e v e r y n o t e as i n t e n d e d -by the c o m p o s e r . T h u s the A e o l i a n is i n r e a l i t y a solo o r c h e s t r a . T h e v o i c i n g o f t h e v a r i o u s tones i m i t a t e the different i n s t r u m e n t s o f the o r c h e s t r a w i t h w o n d e r f u l f i d e l i t y . T h e p l a y e r is the c o n d u c t o r , d r a w i n g the stops a n d r e g u l a t i n g the e x p r e s s i o n at w i l l . T h e large n u m b e r o f A e o l i a n P i p e - o r g a n s w h i c h h a v e a l r e a d y f o u n d t h e i r w a y i n t o the residences o f those a m p l y able to s u p p l y t h e m s e l v e s w i t h e v e r y t h i n g a f f o r d i n g t h e m e n t e r t a i n m e n t a n d p l e a s u r e , a n d the thousands o f o u r s m a l l e r i n s t r u m e n t s i n the h o m e s o f c u l t u r e e v e r y w h e r e , are m o r e f o r c i b l e c o m m e n t s o n the m e r i t s o f these i n s t r u m e n t s t h a n a n y t h i n g w e m i g h t s a y . P r i c e s r a n g e as f o l l o w s : A e o l i a n s , $ 7 5 to $ 7 5 0 ; A e o l i a n Aeolian Pipe-organs and Pipe-orchestras, from $ 3 , 0 0 0 u p w a r d . Visitors always welcome

T 18

WEST

Orchestrelles, $ 1 , 5 0 0

$2,500;

Oarinstrumcnts are gladly shown to the merely curious as well as to intending purchasers.

A E O L I A N TWENTY-THIRD

C O M P A N Y STREET,

NEW

YORK

Boston Mass • The M Steinert It Sons Co., 162 Boylston Street. Philadelphia. Pa.: C. J. Heppe & Son, 1117 Chestnut Street. Chicago, III.: Lynn It Healv, Wabash Avenue and Adams Street. Washington, D. C: W'm. Knabe & Co., 1422 Pennsylvania Avenue, Buflalu, N. Y.: H. Tracy Balcuni, 694 Main Street. Fleming & Carnrick Press, New York Please mention McCIure's when you write to advertisers. 23

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HENLEY. Photographed from Black K i n g Calf Shoe (button style). Black K i n g Calf, button Single Soles Russet K i n g Calf, button Single Soles Black K i n g Calf, lace L i g h t Double Soles Black K i n g K i d , lace Single Soles Black W a x e d Calf, congress Single Soles Black K i n g Calf, Oxford Single Soles Russet K i n g Calf, Oxford Single Soles One of our newest shapes. The button shoe is correct and stylish for street and business wear.

50 $ J per

Price

pair.

Delivered, carriage charges prepaid, to any address in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Germany upon receipt of {3.75 per pair. Also to any points within the limit of the Parcels Postal Service. When you go into a Regal Store or order Regal Shoes by mail direct you are certain of several things. You are sure that the advertised price is not simply a bait. You know that we have but one price. You know that when you pay that price you get the best shoe that we can make—that you are not paying for a shoe that is inferior to our best. You know that you are getting the finest materials and workmanship that money can buy and hire. You know that you w i l l get a shoe that exactly fits your foot. Regal Shoes are not all made on one last like other shoes. There are 147 styles and 121 sizes. You know that you are getting all the style, comfort, tit and durability that it is possible to put into a shoe. You know that you are saving the money that you would otherwise pay for the profits of useless middlemen for the reason that the Regals come straight from the tannery to you with but one small profit added to the actual cost. These things are important. To learn just how important they are you will have to give the Regal Shoes a trial. After that you will never think of wearing any other shoe. If you cannot conveniently reach one of our stores we can fit you and please you perfectly by mail. Send postal for catalogue T, and booklet on " The Care of Shoes."

BLISS

CO.,

M a i l Order Department, 109 Summer St., BOSTON, MASS. Western B r a n c h , M a i l Order Department, 103 Dearborn St., CHICAGO, ILL. STORES. — Boston, log Summer St.; Providence, 220 Westminster St.; New York, 115 Nassau St., 1347 Broadway, 291 Broadway ; Brooklyn, 357 Fulton St., 111 Broadway ; Baltimore, 219 East Baltimore St.; Phila delphia, 1218 Market St., 8th and Chestnut Sts.; Washington, D. C , 1003 Penn Ave.; Pittsburg, 309 Fifth Ave.; Buffalo, 362 Main St.; Cin cinnati, 13-15 Fountain Sq.; St. Louis, 618 Olive St.; Chicago, 103 Dearborn St., 215 Dearborn St.; Detroit, 122 Woodward Ave.; Cleve land, 17 Euclid Ave.; Denver, 423 Sixteenth St.; Albany, N. Y., 34 Maiden Lane; Atlanta, Ga., 6 Whitehall St.; Milwaukee, Wis., 212 ('•rand Ave. Factory, Whitman, Mass. Regal Shoes should be polished with Regal Dressing. We have spared 110 expense or trouble to make a perfectly pure and harmless dressing of the best refined oils, which will preserve the leather and keep it soft and pliable. Our Traveler's Package of Regal Dressing will be sent by mail, postpaid, or with Regal Shoes, on receipt of 15 cents. Large size, 30 cents. Please mention McClure's when you write to advertisers. 24

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S h e e t s W P i l l o w c a s e s Every article is made on our own premises, and under the most sanitary conditions—no sweat=shop work Our goods are all measured after they are hemmed and

finished—NOT

P r i n c i p a l M a d e

of Defender

BEFORE

b r a n d s

Mills

Sheeting

A popular and well-known brand. T h i s brand of sheets and pillow-cases is i n universal use, and for all ordinary conditions is the most popular and economical.

M a d e

of P a l m a

Mills

Sheeting

A beautiful, fine and soft sheeting—improves with laundering. T h i s sheeting finds favor among people who are sensitive to the touch and desire an article that is soft and smooth. A great favorite.

M a d e

of S e l k i r k Mills

Sheeting

V e r y heavy and durable, resembling linen. In special favor w i t h hotels, steamships, etc., where quality and hard service are required. Has the effect of linen and can be used with advantage i n its place.

M a d e

of W e x f o r d

Mills

Sheeting

The most beautiful sheeting manufactured. This fabric is both strong, durable and fine i n texture. It is considered as the ne-plus-ultra of sheetings.

A l l brands made i n p l a i n h e m m e d and hemstitched, and i n c l u d e a

assortment of F a n c y H e m s t i t c h e d and Insertion-trimmed RP Q n n o > Sheets or Sheets a n d Pillow-Cases. D C O U I C Pillow-Cases to ask for one of the above brands. The brand is on everv package and on every sheet. A booklet about Sheets and Pillow=Cases sent F R E E on application to Cut out the brand you want, put it in your purse, and ask your dealer for it. y o u r dry-goods dealer. W Please mention McClure's when you write to advertisers. w h e n

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If yon have l.*en paying 25 ceots a piece for jour collari, you are the man we »re after. We can give you u good value — Two collars for the same money. This applies as well to cuffs. The Double Triangle Brand Collars are two for 25 cents. Cuffs, two Cuffs for 25 cents. And are the moat perfect collars and cuffs to be had. Made In a factory of unequaled equipment, with the guidance of years of experience, by the beat collar and cuff workmen that money can command. Only the best linen used. They fit, wear and look the best. Come in all styles and sixes. Tour dealer should have them. If not, write ua, and we will tell you where you can get them. r

TROY,

VAN ZAND! JAC0BS*C0. E N N E T T S

N.Y.

talcum

P O W D E R A Positive Belief

for

PRICKLY HEAT, CHAFING, and M M i l ' R.Y, and all

' afflictions of the skin. "A Mile Unher in price, perhaps, than ' worthless substitutes,but a reason for t." l l c m o v e B a l l o d o r o f p c r s p i r a t i o n .

Delightful 'afterShi\rl- . SoldeTerYwb.re. or mailedonreoelptof26c.r tMennen'H.tho orlein.l. Sample free. GERHARD MZNNEN CO.. Nbw.rk, N.J. C

;

T a i l o r M a d e S u i t S5SS

«X ^U^;;^£3 Latent Stylo for Sprln S and Summer of 1900. FlNE ALL WOOL *>v skilled tailors from fcvitn bent all wool ALBERT CLOTH, famous for Its rich liloom and beautiful weave. The .Jacket is made in new single breasted style, beautifully lined with fine imported silk, elegantly silk faced and superbly trimmed with puro satin ribbon. Th*? skiitis cut full width, fs lined and interlined, lias latest style back, nobby welted seams, hangs graceful and stylish. Guaranteed GO, strictly tailor made and worth fully $10.00. Choice of Mack and blue colors. SEND THIS ADV. }° " and well .endfreej. Mitmplc ot the tdotn our hir. catalog containing many other rare bargain* In NiiltH from $b to ifi'O, and of jackSt*, capes and skirts nil at wholesale prices. We make all grades and styles of ladies' garments and sell at lowest wholesale factory prices. Write today. LADIES' SUITS FREE J "five »••«••»« ^_^a^_^^_____ free, and iuriiUn * milt to wear while yon are earning one. Its a great chance to getyoa suit free. Send one SS-cfiit outfit with which Htamp to today. help pay imailing charges cuuiplet* can easily earn aforsuit. Write if THE C. LOUIS VEIIOiy CO., 155 W. Jackson Street, Chicago, III Please mention McClure's when you write to advertisers. T h e Sljit w i U l j c U i a d o

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M i l l i o n s o f feet are made unhappy b y shoes that are s k i m p e d . To

squeeze

a dime out of the cost of

m a k i n g , the soles are narrower than the

feet,—

and

Pingree

the uppers pinch i n a dozen spots.

shoes

are

generous

T h e r e is plenty c f

shoes.

everything,—no more than y o u First-class

stores

need,—but

have

enough/

them.

There are Pingree Shoes for Women, Men and Children. Genuine ones are always stamped "Pingree & Smith." The Men's and the Women s cost from three to five dollars, according to fineness. They come in all shapes, and various leathers. ASK YOUR DF.A1ER !!

" G l o r i a "

" C o m p o s i t e "

$ 3 . 5 0 for W o m e n

" G o v e r n o r "

$ 3 for W o m e n

$ 4 for M e n

are the best shoes on earth for these prices. The

genuine ones always bear the above trade

names.

" P I N G R E E S H O E T A L K " is just off the press and w i l l be sent free together w i t h a clever s o u v e n i r .

Established 1866.

• T ^ r p r p T r ,

Pingree

rrTTTHTPT

Smith,

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g n Z T i Z Z J

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Held

MAGAZINE.

the

P r e s i d e n t To have your trousers held up by the P r e s i d e n t Suspender is to have a service done without realizing it. There's more comfort, ease and convenience in its use than i n any other suspender in the world, and ^ yet you don't feel it. You can't feel it. It is so clev erly c o n s t r u c t e d that it a d j u s t s itself to every bend of tho body. You can work in it, walk in it, ride in it or row in it—It meets every need. Metal parts on the genuine will not rust. Refuse imitations. To stimulate your i n t e r e s t in t h e President Suspcn- 4 der, we make the following offer: s

comfort

SHI r«ADE MARK-

O U will not get " hot under th* collar " if you wear Lion Brand goods this Sum mer. Their perfect unity of pattern makes them set easily, increases their stylish appearance, and prevents that binding which first causes warmth, and then mops up the perspiration, wilting collars, cuffs and shirts alike. A wide variety of design and style affords satisfaction for every fancy. T w o collars or two cuffs cost 25 cents. It doesn't pay to pay more. Shirts cost $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00, according to the kind you want. Ask your furnisher. U N I T E D SHIRT & C O L L A R C O . , MAKERS TROY,

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N. Y.

McC LURE'S

THE P R A C T I C A L It a l l depends u p o n h o w y o u care for your c l o t h i n g . I f y o u simply want to keep y o u r trous ers off the floor a n y m e t h o d will suffice. B u t i f y o u care at all about the appearance of the garment y o u must use the "Practical" Trousers H a n g e r and Press. A n y k i n d of method is perhaps a little better t h a n no system, but the " P r a c t i c a l " Trousers H a n g e r a n d Press hangs the garment perfectly and keeps it " S m o o t h as i f Ironed." A moment's time will suffice to attach o r detach it, and it is so easy to use that, putting it tersely, " i t ' s q u i c k e r than carelessness." It is essentially different i n design, finish a n d c o n s t r u c t i o n from every other article i n tended for the same purpose, being: absolutely perfect. I t is the standard, a n d like a l l other standard merchandise, it is sold close to the cost of p r o duction.

PRACTICAL

MAGAZINE.

TROUSERS HANGER

A N D

PRESS

Our 100=Page illustrated descriptive book (free on request) contains the en dorsements o f o u r device b y more than 3000 well-known gentlemen, every one of w h o m is u s i n g at least one of o u r $5.00 sets.

The Five=Dollar Set,

G U A R A N T E E O F F E R . — U s e i t for s i x t y days; if i t i s n ' t a l l y o u expected or hoped for, r e t u r n i t at our expense and we w i l l i m m e d i a t e l y refund t h e full purchase price. No questions asked.

N O V E L T Y

C D . 4 3 5

w h i c h consists of 6 " P r a c t i cal " T r o u s e r s H a n g e r s a n d 3 " P r a c t i c a l " Closet R o d s , is sent express prepaid o n receipt of price. T h e closet s h o w n is fitted w i t h a $5.00 set. I t meets the average requirements. F o r $1.00 we w i l l send p r e p a i d one hanger a n d one r o d , a n d afterward when wanted the re m a i n d e r of the $5 set for $ 4 . S i n g l e hangers, 75 c t s . ; s i n g l e rods, 25 cts.

W A L N U T

5 T . P H I L A OA . P A .

THE OF

TICK THE

INGERSOLL NO

amount of enterprise in business methods or manufacturing, no amount of advertising, would build up a trade of a m i l l i o n and a half watches y e a r l y / (the present corrected output) if the product itself was not reliable. When you see an article that has gained a world-wide reputation, you may be sure that that article's popularity rests upon the solid basis of true merit. No product in the historv of watch-making has ever enioved the substantial growth that has been awarded the I N G E R S O L L D O L L A R W A T C H . It is the most phe nomenal record ever known, standing as it does without a parallel. 5000 W a t c h e s a day—consider what it means—an army buying this watch daily. It is a lesson in punctuality, economy and liberality, in which all who buy the watch may share. Sold by 10,000 dealers throughout the country or sent postpaid in United States and Canada by the makers.

AddressR0BI

tl, INGERSOLL

&BRO.DepW

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DOLLAR WATCH IS

HEARD

'ROUND THE 7

% Z° E

WORLD

McCLURE'S

f DOLLY! THESE ARE

| C A

| V * 4 *

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T O O .

MAGAZINE.

A MARK OF GOOD TASTE

For

there

are two

Kinds

— " the roses of the rich, and the delightful china table service called An A nterican Beauty, bearing the Laughlin Eagle & Lion hall-mark, and kept by the best dealers of America." There are other Laughlin services of equal beauty—the classic Colonial and the exquisitely modeled Golden Gate, all of a richness and grace in shape and decoration and of a lightness never before attempted by American china makers. Yet they may be had at a small cost— a luxury for a little, and ' 'All that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave."

The Homer Laughlin East Liverpool,

The

FORSYTHE

B a n d of P e a c e

If into the order

'DeLong'

is the

password, And

here is the g r i p :

See that

W A I S T S

WAISTS

Our Genuine Scotch Madras Waist, $3.50 Over 2coo patterns, sizes 32 to 44. 5.00 Mail orders promptly filled. Write for samples, styles, prices, etc. Dept. A .

Wash Silks, j endless variety, n

RICHARDSON & DELONG BROS., Mfrs.,

^Philadelphia,, Pa., U . S. A.

•

in a l l the fashionable a n d serviceable materials for summer w e a r — S c o t c h Z e p h y r s , F r e n c h L a w n s , Irish L i n e n s , O x f o r d s , P i q u e s , E n g l i s h L o n g Cloth, Wash Flannels, W a s h Silks.

The D e L o n g Hook and Eye

WASH

h u m p ?

T h e correct thing- for Steamer, G o l f , O u t i n g , Seaside, Moun tains, M o u r n i n g , Travelling, Sports, Races, Y a c h t i n g , Dress, etc. L a d i e s g o i n g abroad will save disappointment in London and Paris b y l a y i n g in a stock of these waists before sailing. They w i l l find no difficulty in making selections here. O u r stock is the largest and most complete of any m house i n the w o r l d . There is no question as to fit and finish; moreover, we have a l l sizes, 32 to 44. W e manufacture for our customers o n l y .

Y o u ' d secretly slip, The

China Co., Ohio.

John

Fhr<vthf>

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Fancy

MAGAZINE.

Spoons,

Forks, Etc.

for serving bon bons, cake and desserts, are valued foe their beauty i n design and actual worth for practical use. M a n y that are sold may look " pretty," but are of little actual value. In the

" 1 8 4 7

R o g e r s

B r o s .

b r a n d y o u w i l l find F a n c y S p o o n s , F o r k s a n d K n i v e s f o r e v e r y purpose conceivable, that are handsome i n general design a n d c o n v e n i e n t a n d perfectly p r a c t i c a l for every d a y use. T h e y are a t t r a c t i v e l y p u t u p i n s a t i n l i n e d cases, a n d w h e t h e r f o r y o u r o w n use o r for gifts are a sensible a n d desirable purchase. R e m e m b e r " 1 8 4 7 " as t h e r e a r e i m i t a t i o n " R o g e r s . " S o l d b y l e a d i n g dealers everywhere. Send for c a t a l o g u e N o . 53A. t o INTERNATIONAL SILVER CO., Successor to

M E R I D E N BRITANNIA C O M P A N Y , Meriden, Conn. New York. Chicago.

1 2

M o n t h s ' C r e d i t

WE are not i n the W a t c h Trust and we defy it. T h i s is a reason why you can buy reliable time, pieces of us r.t honest prices. W e give a T W E N T Y - F I V E Y E A R G U A R A N T E E w i t h

or The GUARDIAN C A S H THE

R E G I S T E R N E W SYSTEM

FOR S T O R E S , R E S T A U R A N T S , B A R B E R S H O P S A N D SODA F O U N T A I N S . In nine cases out of ten a register from our stock will do the work better than one costing- ten times as much. KeglKterg any sale from one cent to $99.99. Separates depart ments, also each salesman's sales as well as amounts " Paid Out, " Paid on Account," or " Charge Sales " Highly ornamental, beautifully finished, and thoroughly nade Two types, Monitor and Gunrdlun. Nine Styles, #10.00 to $40.00. Descriptive circulars on application to

WHITING

M F G . C O . , Makers,

NORTH BOROUGH, MASS.,

U.S.A.

everywatch andwe have but one quality — T H E EECT, and O N E l ' R I C E — T W E N T Y D O L L A R S .

In style, reliability, workmanship and value our watches w i l l compare w i t h any of the higher-priced watches made by the Trust. So great faith have we in our proposition and the honesty of the readers of this magazine that we are w i l l i n g to test both by sending one of these watches to be paid for within'one year. If at the end of one year you are not satisfied and have not paid the $20.00 send us back the watch.

Write tor our handsome illustrated catalogue showing the dlfferentdeslgns and styles of Ladie and Gentlemen's Watches that we manufactur and full details of our plan Absolutely Free. UNION VUATCH C O . , 835 Washing-ton Street, Boston, Mass.

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IT F E E L S S O F T TO T H E MOST TENDER FEET It, stays soft, through tvear and wet. It, outlasts and oat'Hoohs" any leather that goes into shoes. VICI FRICTION POLISH

J^Ldfeid.'SS

POLISH ftiS? tJgt ~ through damp or use. J handy package COMBINATION ?f dressing and polis

VICI â&#x20AC;¢ VICI

PASTE

NOBODY

ELSE

MAKES

SHOE-OLOGY {free) tells of shoe care

Don't

OR CAN MAKE

ROBERT

Tear

THESE

VICI

H . FOERDERER,

Napkins

%ts\

Wit

PRODUCTS Philadelphia, Pa.

ffortjet

L E T U S G E T U S a M n e m o n i c Calendar A p e r p e t u a l C a l e n d a r a n d a n i n f a l l i b l e Memory- in a s m a l l b o x . F o r c i r c u l a r drop a postal to M N E M O N I C C A L E N D A R , New London, Conn.

S T E W A R T ' S

D u p l e x By fastening them with pins. Neither tuck them in the child's neck to make him uncomfortable and to fall constantly in his plate. Fasten them securely with the NAPKIN

Pins

HOLDER

Made with the Washburne's Improved Patent Fasteners. Holds with afirmgrip. Instantly released by lifting the little lever. Made with a silk cord two inches long. It is easy to substitute a longer cord or an elastic if desired. B Y MAIIj, 20C. Illustrated

S a f e t y

F a s t e n from either side b u t d o not slip through. Effective g u a r d . Imitated but not duplicated b y a n y other maker.

booklet of the Washburne

attachments,

free

on request.

HAVE

" C o n s o l i d a t e d S a f e t y P i n Co." ON

EVERY

CARD

None genuine without our name on card. If dealers cannot s u p p l y y o u , send stamps for sample of 12 assorted sizes.

3 two-cent

C O N S O L I D A T E D S A F E T Y P I N CO. T H E A M E R I C A N RING CO., BOX 18, BLOOMFIELD, N. J. Box K , Waterbury, Conn. Also makers of Holdfast Hairpins Please mention McClure's when you write to advertisers, 32

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T I N E N E "

MAGAZINE.

and C U F F S 0

(Reg. Trade Mark)

A L W A Y S SATISFACTORY Stylish, convenient, economical, made of line cloth and finished alike on both sides. The turn down collars are "reversible and give double service. NO

LAUNDRY

W O R K

When soiled on both sides, discard. Ten Collars or five pairs of Cuffs, 25c; by mail, 30c Send 6c. in stamps for sample collar and pair of cuffs. Name size and style. REVERSIBLE RUBENS

DANTE

5* ®

COLLAR

TASSO

C O . , Dept. 10, Boston

MURiLLO ANGELO RAPHAEL

$J ®

Faultless

depend on the proper' of the figure.

B R A I D E D W I R E BUSTLES AND FORMS detection is impossible, as they adjust to every move ment of the form. The discomforts of heating pads are overcome. Braided Wire Hair Rolls are delight fully cool and clean. Covered to match any hair. SOLD IN ALL STORES Insist on having " Braided Wire." If you don't find them, we will send, prepaid, on receipt o: price. Write for

G a r t e r

our Booklet. "Hidden

Helps."

THE WESTON AND WELLS flFO. CO. 1112 Noble Street, Philadelphia. < >-<W

>-r >••< i- ( >•

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\ i \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ X \ \ \ \ \ \ \ ' . \ \ W \ \ \ \ \ \ \ W \ \ \ \ \ \ \

All

K L E I N E R T S

Wool

ftk M A P \fl UJl U p T l W

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MAN'S SUIT MADE FROM PARKERS BEST BLUE S E R G E CHEVIOT

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The Olympia is the only perfect shield, and the shield that gives more satisfaction, wear and comfort than any other. It is the only shield that can be

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KREMENTZ & CO.,

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SI CHESTNUT ST., NEWARK, N. J .

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For Railway M e n , Etc.

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IN T H E When you go to the country buy a r r i i i N T D V Regina Music Box for the summer Zi n Rii e cottage. It renders the most brillHOME. i n t music with a richness of tone that is a revelation to lovers of fine music. is no greater entertainer ON B O A R D . There o n b o a r d the yacht than a T H E Y A C H T . Regina Music Box. I t never needs tuning and is always ready to play. A T THE" Regina Music Box at a summer . ' " t; _ , , , resort makes it more atS U M M E R H O T E L , tractive for the guests and becomes one of the features of the house. It fur nishes the most beauti ful music at all times. IN A L L A Regina pi m i i r

" M a c e y " Direct freight

U S E S

is the greatest achievement of the age, automatically changing its tune sheets.

Illustrated Catalogue Free.

Catalogue No. " E 4."

REGINA MUSIC BOX CO.

THE FRED MACEY CO. Grand Rapids, Mich.

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ANGELUS Piano Player IT

PLAYS

ANY

Invaluable

PIANO for the

Country

ANY Home,

Yacht,

ONE

Wherever

CAN

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The " A n g e l a s " is the original cabinet piano player, and is the result of contin uous experimenting of three generations of celebrated instrument makers. An original is always valued more than a copy, but in this case the original does what no other piano player can do, for with the original Orchestral " A n g e l u s " you can produce these five effects; there is no other piano player made that will do this:

1. A piano playing alone. 2. An Orchestral Organ playing alone. 3. A piano with violin effect. 4. A piano with flute effect. 5. Piano and full Orchestral Organ combined all at the same time. Instantly applied to any piano—grand, square, or upright, making it a self-playing instrument, and requiring absolutely no knowledge of music on the part of the performer.

Catalogue C Tells All About It.

WILCOX & W H I T E CO. Main Office and Factory: Meriden, Conn.

NEW YORK SALESROOMS :

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DOES ITS O W N T A L K I N G Til E

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The Most Artistic Ring in the World

THE

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ON T H E M A R K E T .

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34 East 14th St., New York City.

Extra fine quality perfect

Knch bell is as load and clear as an ordinary machine ; and both in unison give double the volume or tone.

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No, because he doesn't wear a hat.

Only 35 Cents. R e m i t us $2.10 for book of 5 coupons, e a c h of w h i c h you sell t o friends a t 35 cents e a c h ($1.75', a n d re ceive s k i r t or s h i r t waist, as p r e f e r r e d .

$7 Taffeta

Silk

for Children

Skirt

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25c.

C o u p o n book $1.50. T h e s e offers a r e p e r f e c t l y l e g i t i m a t e a n d we d o e x a c t l y as we say. F u l l infor mation and printed matter on request.

The

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The A r c a d e , 36th S t . & Cottage G r o v e A v . , CHICAGO. ,

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W A I S T S .

The most recent beneficial discovery in the direction of preserving the hair and keeping the scalp healthful ia an antiseptic, disinfect ant pad the size of a silver dollar which is placed inconspicuously in the crown of tbe hat. It dispels the foul air always confined by a hat, sweetens the scalp and strengthens the muscles of the hair, thereby avoiding premature baldness. It is the legitimate successor of hairlotions, tonics, washes, dan druff "cures." shampoos and heretofore failures. Eminent specialists in diseases of the hair recommend it and many of the best known men in this country wear it. That is the truest test of its practical merits. It is guaranteed to cure the worst case of dandruff in 30 days. Wear it ten days and if you are not convinced of its merits return it and your money will be cheerfully refunded. That proves our faith in it. This scientific marvel is called E l d r e d ' s A n t i s e p t i c H a t P a d sells for 50 cents and will last three month in continuous use. Y o u can learn more about it by writing for our elaborate brochure, sent free, which contains endorsements from many prominent physician? and others. Sold by f i r s t - c l a s s H a t t e r s o n l y . If your hatter does not keep them send us his name and we will send you a pad p o s t p a i d for 50 cents..

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"Dearborn" Typewriter Cabinet Sold on approval. Charges prepaid.

U n n e c e s s a r y to describe—the picture shows / „ Z | . its- utility to anyone. Roll-top gives perfect *** • • protection from dust and danger of breaking. Resting (not fastened) o n a sliding bed. the machine fdrawn with ease to most convenient position. ADAPTED

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O F TYPEWRITER

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Saves

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THE

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T h i s swing is w o r t h 5 cents a day to the children a n d 3 cents a day to father a n d m o t h er, or 7 cents a day i n a l l . T h e r e are about 15C1 warm days i n each year. T h e swing w i l l last 10 years and there you are with t h e price of the swing left

FROM T H E

B U Y S THIS EXCELLENT

FACTORY

"MACEY"

Desk, No. IO-H, direct from the f a c t o r y , Freight Pre paid, sent " On Approval," to be returned at our expense if not found positively the best roll top desk ever sold at so low a price. Worth at retail $28.00 to $35.00. T h i s desk is 48 in. long, 30 in. wide, 48 in. high. It has a fine quarter-sawed oak front, closed back, front base mould. 22 pigeonholes, 9 file boxes, 2 arm rests, ball bearing casters, and 3 complete letter files. Beautiful polish finish.

W e are m a n u f a c t u r e r s of h i g h - g r a d e l a w n furniture. W e h a v e no agents. You save middle-men's profits by b u y i n g direct. These swings are b u i l t f o r b e a x i t y , c o m f o r t and w e a r . C a n be p u t t o g e t h e r i n t h r e e minutes. S w i n g s h o w n a b o v e , 8i feet h i g h , f o r two p e o p l e , s h i p p e d o n r e c e i p t o f p r i c e , $4.00. L a r g e r s i z e , 9 feet h i g h , f o r four p e o p l e , $5.00.

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our Complete Catalogue No. E 2.

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Wayne Lawn and Veranda A n o u t d o o r d e l i g h t i n s u m m e r on l a w n or p o r c h — a n i n d o o r pleasure a l l the year W i n d , i n attic, p l a y r o o m or nursery. A p p r e c i a t e d a l i k e by grown-ups a n d l i t t l e ones. Safe, r e s t f u l , strongly made, noiseless, ad justable to any r e c l i n i n g o r u p r i g h t positions. Supercedes the h a m m o c k . Can be o c e n n i e d a n d o p e r a t e d by one to four .Persons. G i v e s the j a m | motion as a ten foot swing, yet it is only 4% feet, high 7 feet long, and 3 M feet wide Takes no more room than a couch. W i l l sustain a ton weight. I tie pressure of the foot gives the motion, as easily operated as a rocking cnuir frice from $10 up. according to finish. F r e e B o o k l e t with descriptions and prices upon request. \

LOUIS

RASTETTER

SONS,

Ft. W a y n e , Ind.

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T r y the

Comfort" Chair The "Comfort" Chair possesses all the advantages of the hammock but acne of its drawbacks. It isn't an awkward or embarrassing thing to get into or out of. It doesn't throw your feet up higher than your head. It doesn't close in around you making you feci cramped and stuffy. It doesn't take up a lot of room and get in other people's way. You don't have to enlist the services of several assistants in order to move it. When you swing in it you swing forward and backward, instead of from side to side, which is much more pleasant. You can sit up in it, or assume a reclining position with the utmost ease. It changes its position at the slightest effort and yields to every movement of the body. It is light but strong and is made of handsome and durable materials. When folded for shipping or storing it makes a package only \ % by 31 inches and weighs but 35 pounds. Ask your furniture dealer for the " C o m f o r t " Chair. If he doesn't handle it send us $4.25 and we will forward you one f.o.b. Chicago, or $4.75, freight prepaid, to all parts of the United States, east of the Rocky Mountains and north of Nor:h Carolina and New Mexico.

HAGGARD & MARCUSSON CO. 410 South Canal St., Chicago, 111.

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W h y keep your valuable papers —Deeds. Bonds, Contracts, Mortgages, Notes, Insurance Policies, Receipts, etc.— in an old tin box or bureau drawer where they will be destroyed in case of fire, when (or $ 8 . 0 0 we will ship you this G U A R A N T E E D

$3.00 *

FIRE-PROOF BOX which will preserve its contents perfectly in fhe very hottest fire? W r i t e for pamphlet and our new 140-page illustrated Safe catalogue.

• H o l d s its full width at all times. H a s adjustable a r m s . A swing* • • ing a r m chair, c o n f o r m i n g to the body a n d rests one a l l over • • M a d e of bright fancy striped D u c k , strong enough for heayi • T people. Size 7 ft. by 31 i n . W e manufacture them a n d pre pa; * • a-M ° * K o c k y mountains. N o . 10, with 4 i n . fringe, * + J & 3 . 0 0 ; N o . 20, with 5 in. fringe, $ 3 - * £ 5 ; N o . 30, with 611 . 4 fringe, $ 3 . 5 0 : N o . 40, w i t h 8 in. fringe, S i 3 . 7 5 ; N oTO,w i t h ic • in. fringe, ^ I . O O . + ) r e s s

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W i t h Adjustable Head Rest

J. Instantly adjusted to any desired + height of seat. S t r o n g enough f o r 4- grown people. F o l d s into space 6 in. . by 2 ft. YYe manufacture t h e m a n d J prepay express charges east of R o c k y , mountains. Size 2 x 3 feet.

Inside Dimensions ro in. long, 6 in. wide, 3 in. deep Approximate weight, 50 lbs. T H E

Instantly «. Convertible *. from Sitting • to Ufi'liri'.n » Position. *

N o . to, witli 4 in. fringe, S i . 5 0 No. 30, with 8 in. fringe, S I . 7 5 N o . 40, witli 8 i n . fringe, $'.2.00

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B a t t e r y H a n g i n g Lamps,$10.00 T e l e p h o n e , complete, . 5.95 E l e c t r i c D o o r B e l l s , . , 1.00 E l e c t r i c C a r r i a g e L i g h t , 8 95 Battery F a n M o t o r , . . 5.95 E l e c t r i c H a n d L a n t e r n s , 2.00 Pocket Flash L i g h t s , . 1.50 M i n i a t u r e E l e c t r i c L a m p s , .40 $8 M e d i c a l Batteries, . . 3.95 G e n u i n e E l e c t r i c Belts, , 1.00 $12 Belt w i t h Suspensory, 2.50 G e n u i n e E l e c t r i c Insoles, .25 T e l e g r a p h Outfits, , . . 2 25 B a t t e r y M o t o r s from $1 to 12.00 B a t t e r y T a b l e L a m p s , . 8 00 N e c k t i e L i g h t s , 75cts. to 8.00 $6 B i c y c l e E l e c t r i c L i g h t s , 2.75 E l e c t r i c C a p L i g h t s , . . 1.75 E l e c t r i c R a i l w a y , . . . 2.95 B a t t e r y Student L a m p , . 4.00 D r y Batteries, p e r d o z e n , 2.25 All E l e c t r i c a l Books at low prices.

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CHORD.

SASH B A L A N C E

I M A D E GOOD A S N E W .

10 Years Success has made it the standard substitute for weights and cords, for balanc. ing window sash. Can be ap plied io old windows which have no weight pockets. Write for catalog and price list.

CALDWELL MFC. CO., Jones St., Rochester, N . Y .

IMPROVED

SHRUNKEN | FLOORS

THE CALDWELL

—

T h e I m p r o v e d H a r t s h o r n i s p e r f e c t i o n itself, I b e i n g t h e r e s u l t o f 50 y e a r s ' e x p e r i e n c e i n the m a n u f a c t u r e of Shade R o l l e r s b y a concern that | m a k e s n o t h i n g else. It requires no tacks, has unbreakable brackets a n d n e w e n d fittings. T h e H a r t s h o r n b e i n g t h e best r o l l e r m a d e , i t i s i m i t a t e d a n d t o p r o t e c t y o u r s e l f f r o m c h e a p i m i t a t i o n s i t is n e c e s s a r y t h a t y o u see t h a t t h e a u t o g r a p h s i g n a t u r e of S t e w a r t H a r t s h o r n is on label of e v e r y roller y o u buy. WOOD ROLLERS. TIN ROLLERS.

C L E V E L A N D . O. Headquarters for Electric Nov elties and Supplies. Agents wanted. Send for New Catalogue just out.

Sold by Hardware Dealers.

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HARTSHORN [SHADE ROLLER

OHIO E L E C T R I C W O R K S

LOST

THE

We undersell a l l on E v e r y t h i n g Electrical.

THE

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GRIPPIN'S < Wood, Crack and Crevice Filler \

A non-shrinkable, tough, elastic filler, that will not c r a c k , and will make old floors air-tight, water and vermin proof.

Y o u C a n A p p l y It Yourself. Booklet t e l l i n g all about it sent free. Q r i p p i n ' s Deck and Seam F i l l e r F O R Y A C H T S .

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I GRIPPIN

M F G . CO., Newark, N e w Y o r k .

more than those people who having sanitary appliances in their houses lind their water supply uncertain. If they had a

R i d e r s Ericsson Hot Air Pumping: Engine certainty would take the place of uncertainty.

Catalogue " O " on application to nearest office.

RlDER=ERICSSON ENGINE CO. 2 2 Cortlandt Street, New York. 8 6 Lake S t . , Chicago. 46 N . 7 t h S t . , P h i l .

2 3 9 and 2 4 1 Franklin S t . , Boston."

2 2 a , Pitt S t . , S y d n e y , N . S. W .

6 9 2 Craig S t . , Montreal, P . Q .

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, > STEAM ' BOILERS RADIATORS

HOT WATER

HEATERS

N o money expended upon y o u r home w i l l c o m m a n d so large a return in comfort satisfaction and e c o n o m y as that invested i n a g o o d h e a t i n g apparatus. Inferior or cheap types of boilers are no p r o t e c t i o n from c o l d weather. 'I'hey are soon out of order, wasteful in fuel a n d l a s t i n g but a feuyears at the most are expensive at any price. W h y not buy boilers of estab lished reputation like " T h e Ourney " ? For

Sale through the Steam and Hot

architect specify the Gurney, and

Water Fitting

Trade.

Have your

insist on your Fitter using the Ourney.

Avoid substitutes. Write for handsome illustrated hook entitled "How Best to Heat O u r Homes."

GURNEY H E A T E R M A N U F A C T U R I N G CO. 74 F R A N K L I N S T R E E T , Corner A r c h Street, B O S T O N , M A S S . New York Office : 1 1 1 Fifth Avenue, cor. 18th Street (Constable Bldg.V New York City. Western Selling Agents: James B . Clow & Sons, 222-224 Lake Street, Chicago. 111.

D o n ' t i m a g i n e that

HARDWOOD FLOORS are all a l i k e . Q u i t e the c o n t r a r y . S o m e never l o o k w e l l . S o m e look w e l l at first, but soon g i v e out be cause not h o n e s t l y m a d e . Others l o o k w e l l at f i r s t ' a n d c o n t i n u e to l o o k w e l l because t h e y are honest ly m a d e . W e guarantee our floors against all defects that m a y ever arise from faulty material or w o r k m a n s h i p , and our guarantee is g o o d . W e c o u l d not afford to d o this u n less w e d i d our w o r k w e l l . We can satisfy y o u on t h i s p o i n t . A l l w e ask is that the floors have reasonable care. W e furnish w a x and brushes for k e e p i n g floors in order. W e w i l l tell y o u all about these t h i n g s if y o u w i l l w r i t e us. C a t a l o g u e free. WOOD-MOSAIC C O . , R o c h e s t e r , N . Y . Please mention M< Clure's when y o u write to advertisers. 62

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\ "Entirely of Tile" \

QXYDOJWR TRADEMARK (

REGISTERED NOV. 24,1396."

liliiuiiuiiiitijiiuejr/ijiu

mm ABSORB NEW LIFE. T>o y o u w a n t the newest and best r e f r i g e r a t o r , made of porcelain outside and inside—doors with tile, n o c h a n c e to w a r p , n o o d o r , a l w a y s c l e a n , a n d w i l l last a l i f e t i m e ? If so, send for descriptive catalogue to

THE

WILKE

M F G . C O . , A n d e r s o n , Ind.

O X Y D O N O R instills n e w . life, t e e m i n g w i t h health and vigor, g e n t l y and unconsciously, into y o u r system w h i l e you rest. Y o u soon feel.as a new per son. L i t e r a l l y , O x y d o n o r forces disease out of y o u r body a n d rejuvenates y o u . O x y d o n o r gives the re q u i r e d v i t a l energy to a l l the organs, to perform the functions for w h i c h t h e y were made b y N a t u r e . N o dangerous drugs are used. N o surgical operations are required to see what is w r o n g , or to remove a n y part. The h e a l i n g and repair a l l take place n a t u r a l l y , t h r o u g h extraordinary ' vis medicatrix naturae,'" i n creased and intensified by O x y d o n o r , by m a x i m u m functional a c t i v i t y of the system. O x y d o n o r begets the p r i m a r y energy, a n d as w h e n fuel is supplied i n food and d r i n k , N a t u r e does the rest. T h e r e is no difficulty, no p a i n , no sensation, no danger in Using O x y d o n o r , and any sane person can use it successfully. K u c k l e the disk at one end of its cord to one ankle, a n d drop the vocor at the other end of its cord into cold water, a n d the r e v i t a l i z i n g process begins. Oxyctonor w i l l last a life time, and serve a whole family. The purchase is the o n l y cost. N o periodical investment is required. Book of directions w i t h each O x y d o n o r . L

C o r . 23rd a n d S t . C h a r l e s S t s .

F R E E

Sample

1 consisting of two

bottles—enough of i ^ ^ ^ ^ < ^ » ^

"OUR F A V O R I T E " H

GOLD

)

1 Washable 1

to gild a small frame, also a brush to apply it with, to any one mentioning this paper and enclosing a two-cent stamp for postage.

# m

A s l i i i l limit und smooth as gold leaf. R e a d y for nse. A child can apply it. Show s 110 brush-marks. Can be washed without tarnishing. M i d * everything, such as

chairs, frames, bric-a-brac, chandeliers, baskets, etc.

;

RHEUMATISM. M r . James Stewart, J r . , President Peekskill Hat M f g .

Also made

Co., Peekskill, New York, writes. Nov. 3, 1809: " O x y d o n o r as a sleep inducer and for Rheumatism is of great value to me."

in A l u m i n u m s i l v e r . Sold by dealers generally, or we will send 25-cent full size box, or large size (three times the quantity), 5 0 c e n t s , express prepaid.

GERSTENDORFER

FEVER. Mr. E . M . Smith,. President Bank'..of, Thomasville; Thomasville, C a . , writes May 26,1809: " I tested Oxydonor thoroughly on myself for fever, and also on my little hoy, with success. I would not be without it for its weight in goId."

INFLAMMATORY

RHEUMATISM.

M r . A . F . A B I J O T T , 42 Bank St., Waterbury, C o n n . , writes May 18, i8og : " M y wife, aged 65, used Oxydonor two years aj^o for Inflammatory Rheumatism (a severe case), and was wonderfully relieved. She has enjoyed remarkably good health since."

BROS.

13 B Park Place, New York City.

WVSPEPSIA. M r . H . S. Goldey. Proprietor Goldey Wilmington Com mercial College, writes March 7, 1900: " I am emphatic in my belief that OxytJonor'has permanently cured me of Dyspepsia of five years standing."

Mr.

* Everybody has Something to Mend.

MENDSALL

Mends Everything c h i n a , glass, m a r b l e , bric-abrac, etc. R e q u i r e s n o b r u s h . Colorless,

Dr. H . S A N C H E & C O . 61 F I F T H S T . , R E T R O I T .

odorless; will stand hot water. S a m p l e bottle

261 Fifth Ave., NEW YORK. CANADA

1 3 c . A i r e n t # w a n t e d i n every

Baltimore, Md.

Dept. A MICn.

57 State St., CHICAGO. ILL. OFFICE:

J268 S T . C A T H E R I N E S T . , M O N T R E A L ,

l o c a l i t y . G o o d agents can m a k e big money. W r i t e us about your locality

GEM CHEMICAL CO.,

Toledo. O.. writes Nov. 16,

We invite full investigation of our claims. Our book con taining Grateful Reports from users of Oxydonor sent frt-e.

sent postpaid o n receipt o f --v

C. W . B A U E R T ,

' 1899 : " Have used Oxydonor for a number of years . in various ; emergencies with jfreat success. Have not found a pain that Oxydonor could not stop." C A U T I O N . — Imitations of Oxydonor are dangerous to use. Refuse to accept them. D r . H . Sanche is the Inventor and Originator, and has obtained final decision in Supreme Court, in Washington, D . C , against imitators. Also on Oct. 16. 1899, the United States Court granted us an injunction restraining Agents from selling an imitation of Oxvdonor.

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S T O R E FIXTURES. 1 If y o u want store,

office

something; o u t o f the o r d i n a r y i n \fr

or bank

send y o u designs.

fixtures,

write

us ; let us

O u r d e s i g n s are o r i g i n a l , a n d y|/

w e s u b m i t t h e m free.

W e compete w i t h anyone W y

o n p r i c e s , yet w e g i v e y o u a s t y l e , a u n i q u e n e s s that

others

cannot

furnish.

now

found

in many

O u r designs

o f the l a r g e s t

and

are \ V

to the s m a l l b u y e r j u s t as c a r e f u l the l a r g e

buyer.

can be used as a blind or awning. Slats can be opened or closed, and blind raised or lowered from inside, without, raising sash. E a s i l y fitted to any window. Also Venetian blinds for piazzas. Orders should be sent at once if required for Summer Season.

finest

stores i n the c o u n t r y . E a s t a n d W e s t ; yet we g i v e

\(>

a t t e n t i o n as to

T e l l us what y o u want.

RACINE FIXTURE CO., Racine, Wis.

Illustrated

Catalogue No. 3 free.

J . Godfrey W i l s o n , ADJUSTABLE

7 4

^ ^ Y O R K . ' "

A BATti FOR 2 CENTS

HAMMOCKCHAIR

Is F u r n i s h e d b y t h e $

Victor Instantaneous Water Heater which occupies but lit

2 . 5 0

A l l t lie comfort of ham mock a n d easy c h a i r ; adjusted to any position by occupant without ris ing. C a n be suspended anywhere; cool, luxuri ous, strong, durable ; easily made into cosy low bed for baby. C o m plete u ith fixtures $2. so. Delivered a n y w h e r e east of R o c k y M o u n tains for $3.50. Send cash w itli order.

tle r o o m ; is r e a d y for use n i g h t o r d a y ; f u r n ishes hot water i n s t a n t l y for b a t h i n g , shav i n g , sickness a n d a l l d o m e s tic p u r p o s e s w h e n h o t water is r e q u i r e d . U s Gas or Gasoline. A s k your dealer for it, or s e n d f o r free catalogue.

Descriptive b o o k l e t on application.

i.\?}t,.

W . J. A D A M . THE

T . W . NOBLE COMPANY, Detroit, Mich.

JOLIET, ILL.

You Won't Know It's Winter if v i u uso the S T . V X 1 > A R I > Boilers or Furna. Th< as n time when winter was feareil; a time of cold houses, cold floors, ami colds and chills, : improper apparatus is used the same state [ affairs exists, but where efficient heaters are km used, winter is delightful as summer. For the purpose of introducing our Furnaces and Boiler they are not known we sell thein at une Furnace or Boiler to the persons rdering from their town, and will

WHOLESALE,;, D O N A T E 2 5 per cent $25 .OO

t O $IOO * I

n et p r i c e

of the net price as a premium on first order. T h i s will save the buyer O O according to size bought. This is a l>Qna>fide olfcr, Our C A T A L O G giving full-detail*) W

eaters

?n111 the t h United J i ^ j !States. ? t l ! £ Ourf ^furnaces J «ami; ^Boilers , are°?h l el l i - i r r n d e U

irni

,REE

w i i l

i v

S « » . delivered at any station h e n t e m ; have been made for til 1 past 15 years ; thousands are 111 use and they are specified by the leading architects and heating en gineers throughout the country. State whether Boiler or Furnace is wanted. Our booklet shows the of tin ise who have accepted this offer.

! i A \ W W V

Ashttmia,ltr;idK(re*ln or Urnt National I til lib, llilra, N. Y. GIBLYN & CO., Utica, N. Y. < wvwwwwwwvww^ w

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T h e R a n g e of a R a n g e T h e D e t r o i t J e w e l G a s R a n g e can do a l l that the best wood or coal range ever built can do. It w i l l roast a fowl or bake a batch of biscuit. It w i l l boil, broil, roast, toast, stew, p o a c h or f r y a n y t h i n g y o u want. A n d it w i l l do more. It w i l l roast, s i m m e r a n d do a half dozen other things at t h e same time, a n d i t w i l l give a slow fire i n one section, a h o t fire i n another, s i m p l y b y the t u r n of a valve.

Detroit Jewel

Ranges

save t i m e , save fuel, save l i t t e r ; no soot, no smoke, no ashes. T h e y represent the highest attainment of k i t c h e n conve nience a n d comfort. M a d e i n m a n y styles. " C o o k i n g b y Gas," a b o o k l e t v a l u a b l e to e v e r y housewife, sent free o n request. M e n t i o n McClure's. D E T R O I T S T O V E W O R K S , Detroit, M i c h .

Chicago, III.

Winslow, Wetherell & Bigelow, Arch'ts, Bostun

Cabot's Creosote Shingle Stains —FOR— HOUSES, BARNS, STABLES, SHEDS, FENCES,

Colonial Designs

and all rough woodwork, especially shingles. They are softer and richer in color, easier and quicker to apply, wear better, look better, and are 50 per cent, cheaper than paint. Creosote, the chief ingredient, is the best wood preservative known.

Mass.

PfflLA. & BOSTON FACE BRICK CO. P. 0. Box 8612, Boston, Mass.

A g e n t s at all C e n t r a l P o i n t s . Sheathing

" Q u i l t "—better t h a n

best and most artistic

FIREPLACE MANTELS are made of ORNAMENTAL BRICK In C o l o n i a l , E l i z a b e t h a n , E m p i r e a n d other styles. / W W W W V W A W V O u r s are c h a r m i n g . Our c u s t o m e r s s a y s o . / \ W W W V \ v \ W ^ V V W V V V W W W V W V V V V V V V V \ T h e y look the best, last the longest, are not too costly. Any capable brick mason can set them up from our plans. Improve the decorative opportunities of the chimney piece. It's money well spent. When you build or remodel, send for Sketch Book of 59 designs of mantels costing from $12 upwards.

Twenty-four samples of Stained W o o d , with Chart of C o l o r C o m b i n a t i o n s , sent o n a p p l i c a t i o n . S A M U E L C A B O T , 6 8 K i l b y St., Boston,

The

back-plaster.

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H A R R Y J . CARLSON, A R C H I T E C T , BOSTON.

D E X T E R

B R O T H E R S '

E N G L I S H

are unequalled for d u r a b i l i t y a n d artistic c o l o r i n g effects.

S H I N G L E

S T A I N S

S e n d for s a m p l e b o a r d s a n d c o l o r plates to

D E X T E R B R O T H E R S , 5 5 a n d 5 7 B r o a d S t r e e t , B O S T O N The following firms act as our Agents: H . M . Hooker Co., 57 W . Randolph St., Chicago, 111.; W . S. Hueston, 45 Cliff St.. New Y o r k ; W W . Lawrence & Co Pittsburgh Pa.; Smith & Young, San Francisco. Cal.; The L . J . Mattison Co.. Cleveland, O h i o ; Henry Sam & C o . , Baltimore M d . ; Gerald Lomer, Montreal Can • Curtis & Bartlett Co.. Lincoln, Neb.; Porter & V i a l l , Rochester, N . Y . ; Samuel Bettle. Jr., 514 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.

"THE LICHT T H A T NEVER F A I L S " I L L be more and more appreciated every day that brings us nearer warm weather. Unless you have used it you cannot appreciate the wonderful luxury of having a light that will not drive you out of the house. It gives so little heat that you are hardly aware of its presence, and, at the same time, it has every desirable feature of illumination and none of its faults. It never smokes, smells, or gets out of order, is lighted and extinguished as easily as gas, may be filled while lighted, and without being moved, ana burns but E I G H T E E N CENTS' Worth of oil a month. It is absolutely safe under all con ditions and from every point of view is the ideal light. T h e unique feature, " NO-TJNDER-SHABOW « Insures all the light falling directly downward and outward. Thousands are in use in homes, stores, offices, churches, halls, factories, etc., and give unqualified satisfaction. Our Cat alogue D shows all styles from J1.80 up. T H E A N G L E L A M P CO., 76 P A R K P L A C E , NEW Y O R K

W h y go to the expense of hardwood floors, and then spoil them with applications of oil, varnish or shellac ?

©lb English floor M a x contains no injurious ingredients. It protects from wear and gives the lustrous polished surface always considered the perfection in finish of hardwood floors. F o r D a n c i n g F l o o r s use B . B . P o w d e r e d W a x . " Waxed Floors," a booklet, tells how to treat hardwood floors—FREB."

t 3 ^ 1

The

B a r r o n , Boyle C o . , Dept. L , C i n c i n n a t i , U . S. A.

H E R E IS B E A U T Y A N D C O M M O N S E N S E combined in this design for S 3 0 0 0 c o m p l e t e . See the R e c e p t i o n H a l l and M I 1 ins.' I t o o n i . N o o k . S t a i r and G r i l l finish, S e a t s , F i r e p l a c e , in fact the g e n e r a l C o n v e n i e n c e , etc., of the entire I'l.m. If i n t e r e s t e d send 2c stamp for l a r g e r l i g 11 r e d floor plans and view ; a n d a n V i d e a you have of :i H o m e S e n d It i n , a n d I w i l l scale it up a n d submit, Riving estimate o f c o s t a n d c o s t of p l a n s . M y Six b o o k s classified are of great help to home builders. Sfclect books a c c o r d i n g to cost house desired. Book No. 12 new and up to date. Book No. 6 has 5 6 designs from *'>.-,<> to # 1 . 5 0 0 67 " •• 1 , 6 0 0 1 8 , 5 0 0 54 a.ooo 1 80 ,, 50 00 00 s 8 0 (12 stables) 8 , « 0 0 ' II 8,000 8 7 (20 one-story) 4 5 0 • 10 5,000 r.o S Colonial ? 1 , 8 0 0 " IS ! New 'so\ Views, plans, descriptions, dimensions, estimates, with nunliiications to each. Price of Books, $ 1 each; any two, • 1 . 5 0 ; any four, # 8 ; any five, # 8 . 5 0 ; all six, #8. Booklet of 30 sample designs. " How to Start Right and Save Money," 25 cents (silver). A l l postpaid. F|R,STi£|°olUPLMI tow

D. S. H O P K I N S , Architect, 74 M o n r o e Street, G r a n d Rapids, Mich. Please mention McClure's when you write to advertisers. 66

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THE UNEXPECTED OlEST Sometimes surprises the most careful housewife with out the perfect dessert she would like to serve. Eggs, milk, flavoring, a little ice and salt, and the

WHITE MOUNTAIN FREEZER will in a few minutes produce a dessert fit for a king. SEND

FOR FROZEN

DAINTIES

FREE.

A handsome book containing fifty receipts of creams and

ices that can be made while the roast is being

eaten.

THE WHITE MOUNTAIN FREEZER CO., Department D, N A S H U A , N . H .

Hot Chocolate Sauce

2 LBS. G I U ' S FAMOUS

Chocolates and Bon Bons P a c k e d in h a n d s o m e m e t a l b o x , i n c l u d i n g E l e g a n t C a p i t o l S o u v e n i r S p o o n , .j, ^ _ s e n t e x p r e s s p r e p a i d , a n y w h e r e Jk 1 .5(J i n t h e U n i t e d States, f o r . . . 1

W . S. G I L L

Steam Cooker

Cooks a whole meal over one burner, on gaso~ line, oily gas, or common cook stove.

Reduces Fuel Bills One-half.

Poured over vanilla ice cream makes a delicious dessert. T h e ice cream can be made in three minutes with a

It is the simplest freezer made. The can revolves around the stationary dasher. Few parts—little friction. It runs easier and lasts longer than a many-motioned freezer. Dasher is cleaned by simply dipping in hot water. A l l gearing enclosed. Thousands who had stopped making ice cream at home because of the trouble, now use the Peerless Iceland. A Four Quart Freezer r ~ ~ and Peerless Ice Chipper I I V C •

M a k e s tough meats tender. Prevents gteam a n d o d o r s . W h i s t l e b l o w s w h e n c o o k e r needs m o r e w a t e r . D i n n e r S e t s , B i c y c l e s , Watches, and other "Valuable P r e m i u m s given with order for Cookers. Send for illustrated cata. loeue. WE PAY EXPREST. A G E N T S W A N T E D . T O L E B O C n O K E R C O . , K o x 7 9 , Toledo. O.

A Lightning Freezer i n the house W i l l stimulate your boy's ability By showing him how pleasure can Be joined to practical utility.

If not on sale i n y o u r town, write for informa t i o n how to obtain the above absolutely free. On request, we w i l l send y o u our booklet, "Ice Cream Secrets," w h i c h tells the secret of mak i n g fine ice cream, l i k e the best confectioners'. D A N A & C O . , Dept. S, Cincinnati, Ohio. W h o also m a k e the " T o y " — f o r 1 p i n t of cream.

A beautiful child's book In three colors free.

Peerless Iceland Freezer (One Motion)

1223 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D. C.

IDEAL

M e l t 34 cake unsweetened chocolate w i t h cup of powdered sugar and y cup b o i l i n g water, stirring, cook i n double boiler to the consistency of molasses a n d serve hot.

dress North Bros. M f g . C o . , Philadelphia, P a . Please mention McClure's when you write to advertisers. 67

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H O M E

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T A B L E S .

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We make Billiard Tables for private home specialty. T h e table as illustrated above $85 our guarantee that it is equal to any of our $200 for playing purposes. A smaller size, $65.00. By

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BICYCLES TP HE

Bevel-Gear Chainless is no longer an experiment; it is a

pronounced success, and is conceded

T Q . C L I P M N F O . CO., Dept. A , Grand Rapids. M i c h .

to be the highest type of bicycle c o n struction.

THE

AUTOMATICCOMBINATION

REEL

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_ F R E E -RUNNING A N D A U T O M A T I C INTERCHANGEABLE The... longest The Little Finger Does It official cast Controls the spring which winds the ever made .ine automatically. was with our No crank to turn. A u t o m a t i c Reel. NEVER ANY O U R 1 9 0 0 SLACK LINE ALUMINUM MODEL Send for Catalogue, Light, Durable and Dept. C . Non-Corrosive. Strong, Simple

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pleasure of c y 足

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neces足

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sary to use the e v e n i n g for At

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returning.

times a n evening ride

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pleasure.

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man's o p p o r t u n i t y a n d h o w often, i n these days, one reads o f some bicycle-rider b e i n g " h e l d - u p , " r o u g h l y handled a n d robbed i n the n i g h t .

| Is t h e Standard Acetylene G a s Cycle L a m p . ! T h e i r great success is due to the patented system of gas generation which secures a steady, bright white light. T o u r dealer sells t h e m for $3.00, or we will send t h e m to vou, express prepaid, for this price. O u r booklet "Solar System" sent free. BADOER BRASS MFG. CO., Kenosha, Wis.

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matic hammer block make

accidental impossibility. iron.

discharge an

M a d e of a l l steel, no malleable

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Reliable as a Steam engine ^ H E L o z i e r M a r i n e G a s E n g i n e if properly Xr/ i n s t a l l e d is as reliable as a steam engine. It has m a n y i m p r o v e d exclusive features. T h e patent oiler for p i s t o n l u b r i c a t i o n sprays the piston at every stroke. T h e hot air jacket surÂ r o u n d i n g muffler, furnished w a r m , dry air for p r o p e r l y v a p o r i z i n g the gasoline. T h e water jacket not o n l y surrounds the cylinder, but the c y l i n d e r head as w e l l , also the exhaust pipe, thereby a s s u r i n g no b u r n e d fingers, as a l l parts are c o o l . T h e patent vaporizer or m i x e r for g e n e r a t i n g gasoline is a n i m p o r t a n t feature. The L o z i e r E n g i n e is h a n d s o m e l y finished and is a n o r n a m e n t for a n y launch, no matter how elaborate. T h e L o z i e r L a u n c h and E n g i n e was selected as the official launch by the U n i t e d States C o m m i s s i o n of the Paris E x p o s i t i o n and w i l l be the o n l y craft flying the stars and stripes on the G r a n d C a n a l . W e b u i l d a l l styles of launches. W r i t e for our L a u n c h and E n g i n e Catalog. Marine Dept.

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Two, four and six passenger pleasure Automobiles our specialty. Buy from the oldest and most ex perienced builders in America.

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KOZY

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BOSTON, M A S S . , U . S . A .

BUCKEYE CAMERA USES

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BEST PHOTOGRAPHY R e q u i r e s BEST LENSES Bausch & Lomb-Zeiss Anastismat ARE The

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delay.

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COLORS

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Makes its own s.as and produces a bril liant 100 candle po^er light at a cost of C e n t s

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N o one with H e r n i a should postpone an operation for a radical cure. A t the H a r t m a n Sanitarium this operation is performed with perfect safety, simply because we have sufficient surgical s k i l l and experience, necessary instruments, a n d perfectly aseptic operating rooms. W e have been performing this operation several years and not a single failure has been experienced. A n y H e r n i a , U m b i l i c a l , Direct, I n g u i n a l , F e m o r a l , or S c r o t a l can be permanently reduced b y the operation for r a d i c a l cure. N o delay, no disappointment. Address, T H E

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For Albuminuria and Bright's Disease, CHRONIC

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ACUTE.

M D . , M . R . C . P . , London, Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, San Francisco, i n h i s h a n d

S a m u e l O . L . Potter, A . M . ,

b o o k of " P H A R M A C Y , M A T E R I A M E D I C A A N D T H E R A P E U T I C S , " a text book; I n m a n y o f t h e l e a d i n g M e d i c a l c o l l e g e s o f t h e c o u n t r y , u n d e r t h e h e a d o f A L B U M I N U R I A , p a g e 600,

B U F F A L O L I T H I A W A T E R recommended." " C H R O N I C B R I G H T ' S D I S E A S E , " page 601, same edition, in the citation of remedies, h e s a y s : "Mineral W a t e r s ,

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Virginia, which has many advocates."

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Druggists generally. w h i c h defy all i m p u t a t i o n s o r questions sent

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SIGNS Can

Hay Fever

O F P A R A L Y S I S Be Discovered in Time

" Numbness of the hands and a r m s , with premonitions of paralysis, kept by me while I was using coffee. I finally discovered i t was caused by coffee; when I quit the coffee and began d r i n k i n g Postuin F o o d Coffee the numbness ceased entirely, a n d I have been very well ever since. A t that time I was unable to sleep, but now 1 sleep perfectly. " H u s b a n d was also troubled from lack of sleep while he was d r i n k i n g coffee, but now he uses Postum F o o d Coffee with me, a n d we both sleep perfectly. O u r little boy had peculiar nervous spells and I stopped the use of coffee with him, and have been g i v i n g him ail the Postum F o o d C o f f e e he cared for. H e is perfectly well now. " M y sister was troubled with nervous headaches while she used coffee. She found how greatly improved we were from discon tinuing it and using Postum F o o d Coffee, so she made the change, and is now r i d of her nervous headaches. W e are naturally strong advocates of P o s t u m . " Mrs. J . Walford, Castalia, E r i e C o Ohio.

Prevented or relieved, and ultimately cured, by the E U T H Y M E N method. We successfully treated by mail over r.ooo cases last season, out of 1,200 taken. You see. we had a few failures. Won't have so many this year. Why? Because of greatly improved methods. E v e r y case under the immediate supervision of our medical directorTreatment furnished by mail, or at our treatment rooms, No. 510 Fifth Avenue. New Y o r k . Write lor examination blank and literature.

N o w is t h e T i m e to begin treatment, to insure success. Don't wait until the attack is on. N o cocaine or morphine used. Prevention of attack guaranteed those who will come in time to our treatment rooms for examination and treatment by our resident physician.

YOU C A N B E L I E V E W H A T H E SAYS After suffering intensely from attacks of hay-fever for several consecutive seasons, I have been entirely free from the disease the past two years as the result of usin*,' the E u thv-nien treatment. L. L . M C C L E L L A N D , Ass't Cashier C o m m e r c i a l N a t i o n a l Bank, Pittsburg, I'a.

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O 1 L I N E S S , and all other facial and bodily blemishes. T h e s e Preparations brighten and beautify the complexion as no other remedies on earth can. Wafers, per hex, 50c. and » l ; 6 large boxes, £5; Soap, 50c.; Arsenaline C r e a m , 50c. Address all orders to H . B. 1 0 U I D , Dept. A , 214 6th A v e . , N e w Y o r k . S O L O B Y D K I U G 1 S T S E V E R Y W H E R E .

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^ C B J I A T e t t e r , S a l t R h e u m , Barber's fc Mm d I Y I#4 Itch, S c a l d H e a d , R i n g Worm, I t c h i n g P i l e s , Sore E y e l i d s , F a c i a l B l e m i s h e s , a n d a l l Skin

PREVENTED. That inde scribable misery and discomfort to which many persons are subject on

Vessel*, Curs and Vehicles is

Diseases promptly cured by Spencer's Ointment. Sent to any a d d r e s s , o n receipt o f 2 5 c e n t s . A . O . P 1 L S O N , Pharmacist,

absolutely prevented by wearing the A nt i-N a usea (Stomach Shield. It never fails to give satisfaction and works equally well on land or water. Mailed, prepaid, on receipt of $2.00. Further information on application.

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specific O l i K S I T l N K re duces fat even after repeated failures with s o - c a l l e d other cures. Respiration improved at^once; safe; ^ • —*• • — no no dietin d i e t i n g ; no purge. 7 3 c e n t s d S I . 5 0 . G O O D R I C H J t C O . , Dept. k , 935 A r c h Street, P h i l a d e l p h i a , P a . Samples and Circulars

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The only hair preparation admitted to the Paris Exposition. S A N J U A N , P U E R T O RICO, M a r c h 15, 1900. A . R . B R E M E R CO., Chicago, 111 Dear Sirs : I purchased a bottle of Coke Dandruff Cure a few m o n t h s ago, but d u r i n g the voyage it was accidentally b r o k e n w h e n I h a d used o n l y about onequarter of the contents, but a l l signs of dandruff h a d entirely disappeared a n d I a m positive i n asserting that it was due solely to C o k e Dandruff Cure. In view of s h o w i n g m y appreciation of this r e m e d y I write this letter a n d w i l l always r e c o m m e n d it. V e r y respectfully, CHAS. E . ROBERTS, Sergeant S i g n a l Corps U . S. A . Druggists sell it. Barbers use it. If yours does not, send one dollar and his name for a bottle, prepaid, by express. M a n y so-called " H a i r Restoratives" contain pois onous m i n e r a l s that cause paralysis. A v o i d t h e m .

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PURIFY before THE

YOUR

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h o t WEATHER

ROBINSON

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CABINET

Positively cures Rheumatism, Kidney and Stomach trouble. It makes you clean and well. The O N L Y patent Screen Folding Cabinet made. Get no other.

$ 2 . 0 0 BOOK FREE

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GOOD FOR LITTLE FOLK CANDY CATHARTIC

ALL DRUGGISTS.

10 25^.50^.

L O S T 4 0 lbs. OF FAT. Are You Too Stout? If so, why not reduce your weight and be comfortable ? Obesity predisposes to Heart Trouble, Paralysis, Liver Dis足 eases, Constipation, Rheuma足 tism, Apoplexy, etc., and is not only dangerous but extremely annoying to people of refined taste. Wedonotcarehowmany R E D U C T I O N remedies you may have taken without success, we have a treatment that will re足 duce weight, as thousands can testify. T h e following are a few who have been reduced in weight and greatly improved i'i health by its use: Mrs. C. Bliss, 50 Hudson B'k, Rochester, N . Y . , reduced lbs. Mrs. L a u r a L . Martin, Buck Creek, Ind., reduced 65 lbs. Mrs. M . M . Cummins, Ottawa, 111., reduced 78 lbs. Miss M . Hoisington, Lake View, Mich., reduced 50 lbs. M r s . Helen W e b e r of Marietta, O . , says: "It reduced my weight 40 lbs. without M r . W . A . Pollock, Harring足 ton, Neb., reduced 50 lbs. sickness or any inconvenience whatever."

Hearing Restored by the use of

?22S? Ear Drums

We are going- to give away barrels and

D ADD

T h e only scientific sound conductors. Invisible, comfortable, efficient. T h e y fit in the ear. Doctors r e c o m m e n d them. T h o u s a n d s testify to their efficiency.

Sample Boxes Free,

just to prove how effective, pleasant and safe this remedy is, to reduce weight. If you want one, send us your name and address and 4 cents to cover postage. E a c h box is mailed in a plain sealed package with no advertising on it to indicate what it contains. Price, large size box, $1,00, postpaid. Correspondence strictly confidential.

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EYE * EAR EXPERT Dr. Oren Oneal Causing the Blind to See ; the Deaf to Hear

Thousands Cured DR.

ONEAL

cores

Cataracts, Scum, Film and "White Spots on the Eye by his...

NEW METHOD TREATMENT Only Mild Medicines Used Granulated L i d s , W e a k , W a t e r y or Sore E v e s quickly cured. D E A F N E S S A N D H E A D N O I S E S yield speedily to D r . Oneal's treatment. " D r . Oneal's patrons a n d friends are numbered among the prominent m e n and women of the n a t i o n . " —North American Review. C a l l or write for Illustrated Book of 48 pages on D I S E A S E S O F E Y E A N D E A R . It is free.

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In Block opposite Tremont House.

Turkish Baths for 3 Cents

HE best of all bath cabinets is n o w sold at maker's prices direct to the user. S o l d even lower t h a n the i n c o n v e n i e n t affairs that are advertised for this s e r v i c e . A t i g h t , d o u b l e - w a l l e d room, rubber coated i n s i d e and outside, and fitted w i t h a door. M a d e so t h a t m e r e l y t i p p i n g folds it into a six i n c h space. H a n d s o m e , c o n v e n i e n t a n d strong. T h e R a c i n e C a b i n e t is g u a r a n t e e d to be the best one on the m a r k e t . W e sell on a p p r o v a l , to be returned at o u r expense i f not s a t i s f a c t o r y . S o l d direct to users at $5. to $12., express or freight prepaid ; a l c o h o l stove, v a p o r i z e r and face steam ing a t t a c h m e n t i n c l u d e d . S e n d to-day for our hand some i l l u s t r a t e d catalogue, and order from t h a t .

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SULPHUME

is pure s u l p h u r in liquid form, — a new chemical discovery. S u l p h u r here tofore was cousidered insoluble. Sulphume when taken internally, and applied as a lotion, will cure any s k i n disease. S U L P H U M E B A T H S can be taken at home, h a v i n g all the advantages (and more) of the most famous S u l p h u r Springs. One bottle of S u l p h u m e makes 12 strong s u l p h u r baths, or 1200 doses. S U L P H U M E S O A P is the only soap in the world made with Liquefied sulphur. That is why it is a Genuine S u l p h u r Soap. It stops i t c h i n g and all skin irritations, softens and whitens the s k i n , and has no equal for the toilet and bath. One cake for trial mailed on receipt of 25 cents. S U L P H U M E

PILLS

act directly on the liver, k i d n e y s and bowels, but do not 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 remedial properties s u l p h u r possesses, but F E W realize what wonder ful cures are effected by liquid 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 cure an o r d i n a r y sore throat.

Drop a postal card and we'll mail you our S U L P H U M E B O O K and S K I N B O O K both F R E E . When you write for our books, if you will mention the particular complaint you are interested in, we will send you a special letter of advice. Correspondence invited. Consultation F R E E , and strictly confidential. SULPHUME COflPANY,

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Lablache Face Powder " Q U E E N OF TOILET P O W D E R S "

Makes

Women

Beautiful\ WITHOUT

Clears the Complexion—Prevents Sunburn Flesh, White, rink. Cream Tints,SO cents Per box. OJ all druggists or by mail. B E N . L E V Y to C O . . F r e n c h P e r f u m e r s 125 K i n g s t o n Street, B o s t o n , MasB., TJ. S. A . Sold by R O B E R T S & C O . . 6 Rue de la Paix, Paris ; 76 New Bond Street. London, and K I N G S F O R D & C O . , 64 Piccadilly, W . , London.

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Nutritious and wholesome. E a s i l y prepared w i t h out the addition of m i l k , the nourishing elements of w h i c h are in the food itself. W e want every Mother to try N E S T L E ' S F O O D , and w i l l send a sample (sufficient for six meals) free upon re quest. Address H e n r i N e s t l e , 73 W a r r e n S t . , N e w Y o r k .

Underwood's

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Deviled

Ikro.

We have been manufacturing this deviled ham for over forty years, and it always has been, as now, the most palatable and delicious article of its kind in the market. Sandwiches and rolls for social events or pleasure trips made of this ham are most deliciously palatable. Be always sure to look on the can for the "Little Red Devil," our copyrighted trade-mark. Should you care to try Underwood's Deviled H a m , we shall be pleased to send you a can free, that you may judge how deli cious and wholesome it is. William Underwood Co., Boston, Mass.,U. S. A.

THIS LITTLE PIG WENT TO MARKET.

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H U B E R T ' S

MALVINA

TOOTH SOAP Beautifies, cleanses, pre serves and whitens the teeth, strengthens t h e gums and sweetens the breath.

Cream and Lotion The One Reliable Beautlfler" We recently ordered a chemical exami nation of many different cosmetics and found one make of exceptional merit, viz : Malvina Cream. It is the ideal applicant for removing freckles, tan, sunt u r n . i>iinpies, liver moles and curing all skin diseases, the most perffct curative our expert! ever analyzed, as it removes the cause instead of merely covering up the imperfections. We extend to Malvina Cream the full endorsement of the U . S. Health Rcporta." A . N. T A L L E Y , Jr., M . D.

The World's Standard Dentifrice for 30 years. Used i n a million homes. Put up in Deat and h a n d y k boxes—the ideal package for j the traveler. N o dust, no powder, no liquid to waste, or to stain or soil garments.

Price 50e. at Druggists or by mail postpaid.

25c

Use Malvina Ichthyol Soap, 23c. a cake. PROF.

I. H U B E R T ,

TOLEDO,

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C. H . STRONG & CO., Proprietors,

OHIO.

Chicago, U. S. A.

G e l a t i n e is d i s t i n g u i s h e d b y a

"Checkered'

Wrapper

(A STERILIZED VEGETABLE FAT FROM THE COCOANUT)

For

For Shortening and Frying

greater profit s o m e dealers substitute

other m a k e s w h e n C O X ' S is ordered. A s Gelatine varies i n strength, the innocent u s e of a s u b s t i t u t e m a y b r i n g d i s a p p o i n t

So pure that it will not go rancid,

ment

i n results.

when

C O X ' S is u s e d .

The r e s u l t

certain

"Desserts, by Oscar, of the Waldorf-Astoria." C o p i e s forwarded without charge on application to J . & Q . C O X , L t d . , E s t a b l i s h e d 1725, '

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Grocer write

for

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to us.

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Imitations. All s u c c e s s f u l c o o k s u s e Lea & Perrins'Sauce to g e t T h e m o s t d e l i c i o u s f l a v o r for soups,fish.meats. gravy,game, s a l a d s etc.

E S KA Y ' S F O O D

\ . J o h n Duncan's 5ons, ASENT5-NEWYDRK. ,

carries baby t h r o u g h his second summer.

The blood of

"Our boy has been t a k i n g Eskay's Food since he was four months old, weighing at that time only 7 ^ lbs. Now at the age of twenty=three months, he weighs nearly 40 lbs. We tried other foods without success. Eskay's was the only one he could retain. During his second summer he cut ten teeth without being sick a day, or h a v i n g a h y of the usual complaints.

the

IB Squeeze a grape i n y o u r fingers—the j u i c e comes out a l i g h t a m b e r c o l o r — p r a c t i c a l l y it is sweeten e d water. Compare ^ with Welch's Grape Juice. Y o u wonder w h e r e the r i c h , red color, a n d the "body" of W e l c h ' s G r a p e J u i c e comes from. ' ' Welch's " has s u c h a n a t u r a l grape flavor, too. T h e difference lies i n the pressure to which the g r a p e is subjected. F o r over a n hour a pressure of 80 tons is sustained to extract f r o m the C o n c o r d G r a p e the r i c h , heavy n u t r i m e n t w h i c h lies n e x t to the s k i n . E m b o d y i n g a l l the f o o d properties o f the G r a p e , W e l c h ' s G r a p e J u i c e is f o o d a n d d r i n k — a healthful, invigorating drink for the well, a t o n i c f o o d f o r the convalescent, a s u s t a i n i n g diet f o r the sick.

(Signed)

Free samples of Eskay's Food upon application to SMITH, KLINE & F R E N C H CO., Philadelphia.'

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Why is an Infants Food Needed? A n infant's f o o d MUST be used because thing the

cow's

which

m i l k , the ONLY

can

used

g r o u n d w o r k i n the c h i l d ' s

artificial f o o d , differs m a t e r i a l l y from its n a t u r a l f o o d â&#x20AC;&#x201D; mother's milk.

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A Mellins Food Baby.

T h e r e is too m u c h casein

or c h e e s y p o r t i o n i n cow's m i l k , and

a li t h nough n

this tnis

casein

CHARLES GRIDLEY HAZEN. A MeZHn's Food Baby.

easily c o a g u l a t e d , s t i l l , w h e n c o a g u l a t e d , it is less e a s i l y d i g e s t e d than is the casein of m o t h e r ' s

milk.

T h e r e is less sugar i n c o w ' s m i l k than mother's m i l k .

If, to reduce

the

amount of c a s e i n , the m i l k is d i l u t e d w i t h water, this s m a l l p r o p o r t i o n of sugar b e c o m e s

still

less.

Some

method

m o d i f i c a t i o n , then,

necessary to a d a p t cow's m i l k to the infant's powers of d i g e s t i o n , a n d to make the c o n s t i t u e n t s ( c a s e i n , sugar, etc.) e x i s t i n the r i g h t p r o p o r t i o n . T h e o n l y s u i t a b l e f o o d for an infant is that f o o d w h i c h modifies the m i l k ,

w h i c h p r o v i d e s the PROPER NUTRITIVE ELEMENTS i n the PROPER PROPO which

s u p p l i e s these n u t r i t i v e elements i n p r o p o r t i o n s a d a p t e d to the

needs of c h i l d r e n o f different strengths, w e i g h t s , ages a n d c o n d i t i o n s . M e l l i n ' s F o o d s u p p l i e s the n u t r i t i v e elements i n their p r o p e r p r o p o r t i o n s a n d meets the r e q u i r e m e n t s o f an infant's f o o d .

Send us a postal for a free sample of Mellin s Food. M E L L I N ' S

F O O D

C O M P A N Y ,

BOSTON,

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It is M y Pleasure to M a i l Free to a l l a p p l i c a n t s m y 3 2 - p a g e b o o k Dainty Desserts for Dainty People, c o n t a i n i n g 70 d e l i c i o u s recipes. It w i l l also t e l l y o u w h y K N O X ' S G E L A T I N E is b e t t e r a n d p u r e r t h a n a n y o t h e r — not " almost a n y o t h e r " not one equals i t . It is t h e only s t r i c t l y c a l v e s ' - s t o c k j e l l y m a d e i n the c o u n t r y . It is g r a n u l a t e d — measure w i t h a spoon l i k e s u g a r . Sets i n one hour — m o s t others t a k e 12 to 24. B e w a r e o f i m i t a t i o n s . For 5 cents in stamps (to cover postage and packing), the book and full pint sample. For 15 cents and the name of your grocer, the book and a full 2-quart package (two for 25 cents). Pink gelatine for fancy desserts in every package.

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Y o u can buy it at your grocers. W e w i l l send y o u a sample can and booklet of valuable recipes for y o u r guidance on receipt of six cents i n stamps.

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White

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breakfast W h i l e the distinctive flavor of R a l s t o n Breakfast Food needs nothing added to its o w n deliciousness, the granular nature of Strawberries and Ralston correspond so a d m i r a b l y and the delicate flavor of each blends so fine, that the standard q u a l i t y of

Ralston Breakfast is brought out in s t r i k i n g contrast to all other

Food cereals.

A s k your grocer for R a l s t o n f i r s t : if he doesn't keep it, send us his name and receive from us a free sample.

T h e same G l u t e r e a n W h e a t w h i c h makes good is also milled into

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F O R T Y

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