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McCLURE'S CONTENTS I. II.

MAGAZINE

FOR AUGUST,

1900:

C o v e r D e s i g n e d by L o u i s L o e b . T h e E n d of the B o a t - B a t t l e

Frontispiece

D r a w n by W . R . L e i g h .

III.

A Prisoner A m o n g F i l i p i n o s

. . . .

James C. Gillmore.

. . .

291

W i t h illustrations by W . R . L e i g h , from sketches and plans by the author, and d r a w n under his personal supervision. IV.

C a v a l l e r i a Rusticana.

George Beardsley

Nebraska Story.

303

W i t h pictures by L u c i u s H i t c h c o c k . V.

Thirty Years Ago. lips

Academy,

June, VI.

Poem

Andover,

Read

Phil-

E. S. Martin

Commencement,

1900

Pointers

309

)

from

a Porcupine

Quill.

The

H i s t o r y of

a Michigan

Porcupine

W i t h illustrations from photographs of wild porcupines taken expressly for this article by A . Radclyffe Dugmore. VII.

Grit of W o m e n .

VIII.

Conductor P a t F r a n c i s .

Jack London

Story How

the

Yellow-

Frank

324

Spearman

330

stone Excursion Escaped its Pursuer With a picture by Jay Hambidge. IX.

A W h i t e Sheep.

S t o r y of O r p h a n

School

Life

Turner

339

W i t h pictures by Charles L . H i n t o n . X.

A Pirate and A Princess.

Story

Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey

349

356

W i t h pictures by H e n r y N u t t .

XI.

True

Stories from

I.—In

the

M a t t e r of

the

Under-World.

" H i s

Nibs"

Josiah Flynt Walton

J. D. Whelpley

and

Francis

W i t h portraits after W i l l Grefe and W . B . K e r r .

XII.

A n International W h e a t Corner

XIII.

T h e F i s h e r m e n ' s Prayer.

XIV.

T h e Life of the Master. Warning

the

Rich.

Poem

Part

— T h e

V I I L

. . . .

363

William Hale

368

The Rev. John Watson, D.D.

369

Home

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Bethany W i t h pictures by C o r w i n K n a p p L i n s o n .

XV.

A C h a n c e Shot

Henry Wallace Phillips

. 380

W i t h pictures by A r t h u r H e m i n g .

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R U D Y A R D KIPLING'S N E W

NOVEL

Just before g o i n g to the B o e r W a r , K i p l i n g completed his revision of the longest story he has yet written. It w i l l appear serially i n M C C L I J R E ' S M A G A Z I N E , c o m m e n c Â ing this fall. It is a tale of life i n I n d i a , the l a n d where the author spent his early youth, which he knows so thoroughly, and where his earliest literary efforts were made. T h e story w i l l be fully illustrated, and w i l l be found to be of extraordinary interest.

COLONIAL FIGHTS AND

FIGHTERS

In this number w i l l be found the second of a series of stories of early A m e r i c a n history, by the

Rev.

Cyrus

Townsend

Brady

the most popular historical writer of the present day. M r . B r a d y was educated at A n n a p o l i s and served some years i n the navy, and was c h a p l a i n of a volunteer regiment in the Spanish war, so that he writes of the strenuous life w i t h authority as well as w i t h charm. T h e present series deals with famous fighters i n C o l o n i a l days, a n d besides Wolfe, includes Frontenac, D e Soto, and S i r H e n r y M o r g a n . M r . B r a d y has had access to new historical material and writes of the almost forgotten heroes i n a v i v i d and e n t e r t a i n i n g style.

STORIES OF CHICAGO In the next issue w i l l be found the first of a series of stories of C h i c a g o life w r i t t e n by

Miss Edith W y a t t of that city, and illustrated from life b y F r e d e r i c R . G r u g e r , who spent some time in C h i c a g o for the purpose, w o r k i n g under the author's direction. These are not fiction of the o r d i n a r y sort. The author does not tell her stories merely as creative w o r k s of the i m a g i n a t i o n . She strives to g i v e exact impressions of the various phases of life in that wonderful city, and uses the story form o n l y as the best m ; d i u m for her purpose. She paints her portraits sometimes i n delicate tints, sometimes i n the impressionistic method, and sometimes in a b o l d , vigorous c o l o r i n g . These w i l l form a new c o n t r i b u Â tion to W e s t e r n literature and w i l l attract unusual attention.

POLITICIANS AS T H E Y

ARE

P r o b a b l y no article about a p o l i t i c i a n , w r i t t e n from a non-partisan standpoint, ever created such widespread attention as that on B r y a n i n the J u l y issue of MCCLURE'S

M A G A Z I N E , written

William

Allen

White

the vigorous y o u n g editor of the E m p o r i a ( K a n s a s ) Gazette. I n the next issue w i l l be found the second of the series, a n d others are to f o l l o w . M r . W h i t e is a man of views, but not of prejudices. M i s candor is complete, his style g r a p h i c and his sympathies hroad. I n that refreshing manner of his he makes his subjects l i v i n g beings to those who have thought of them as mere abstractions. T h e reader can c l a i m almost personal i n t i m a c y w i t h the men he describes. A number of other pen portraits are to follow.

McCLURE'S

GAZINEâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;ANNOUNCEMENT.

M E R R Y T A L E S OF

SCOTLAND

W h e n J a m e s V . r u l e d over Scotia there was fun galore. T h e gallant y o u n g K i n g was canny a n d kept his subjects g u e s s i n g m u c h of the time. Some of his experiences under the general title of " T h e J i m m y S t o r i e s , " w r i t t e n by

Robert B a r r w i l l appear i n f o r t h c o m i n g numbers. H e r e we have the author at his best. T h e r e is h u m o r , v i v i d d e s c r i p t i o n , sage counsel, and continuous interest. While the stories are not told as history, they are historically correct i n time, place and atmosphere. T h e y w i l l add to the author's fame.

NORTHWESTERN

TALES

O f recent authors w h o have suddenly leaped i n t o fame w i t h p r o m i s e of a more famous future, none is more noteworthy than

Jack London whose stories of A l a s k a are remarkable for o r i g i n a l i t y i n conception and v i g o r i n treatment. M r . L o n d o n is well under thirty, and by no means confines his stories to the K l o n d i k e . H i s name is connected w i t h that region because his first fame came from tales of it. W e have secured a n u m b e r of stories from his pen w h i c h w i l l be p u b l i s h e d in the next few months. H e is looked u p o n as one of the c o m i n g men i n literature.

A N I M A L S OF T H E F O R E S T I n this n u m b e r w i l l be found the first of a remarkable series of a n i m a l stories from the pen of

W i l l i a m Davenport

Hulbert

who writes of his friends from l o n g and close i n t i m a c y . Circumstances led the author to live for m a n y years in the deep woods of M i c h i g a n , not as a hunter, nor even as a naturalist. T h e a n i m a l s became his associates, and he writes of them not as a m a n of science, but as one w h o has entered as far as may be into their life and habits. T h e r e is a vein of s y m p a t h y and perfection of comprehension i n his stories that d i s t i n g u i s h them from other literature of their k i n d .

O u r readers w i l l learn from them to k n o w animals as never before.

UNPUBLISHED AMERICAN

HISTORY

M u c h that is of most importance as history is of necessity kept from the p u b l i c for a l o n g time. The State D e p a r t m e n t ' s rule is to keep its files of i m p o r t a n t negotiations secret for at least thirty years. W e have secured a n u m b e r of articles b y w e l l - k n o w n men about matters of the highest interest never before p u b l i s h e d . O n e of these is :

Russia's A t t e m p t to C o r n e r W h e a t T h i s article w i l l be found i n this issue and is of unusual interest. F o r t h c o m i n g articles are:

The

F a l l of the

By S T E P H E N R.

Confederacy MALLORY

Secretary of the N a v y i n the Confederate C a b i n e t . T h i s narrative was written i n F o r t Lafayette while M r . M a l l o r y was a prisoner of war. It is the most graphic description ever written of the fall of R i c h m o n d , the flight of the C a b i n e t , the surrender of J o h n s t o n , and the capture of Jefferson D a v i s . It throws entirely new light on this momentous page in our history.

McCLURE'S

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Refunding Six P e r Cent. By Ex-Secretary G E O R G E

Bonds

B O U T W E L L

A remarkable story of our financial operations abroad after the war, involving; a t r a g i c o - h u m o r o u s situation.

THE

F A R E A S T IN 1900-1901

A l l eyes are now turned toward C h i n a , whose future is fraught w i t h grave c o n sequences to the E a s t e r n w o r l d . In order to give our re.aders the exact situation in A s i a ,

Frederick Palmer w e l l k n o w n as a journalist and war correspondent, is s p e n d i n g some m o n t h s i n that part of the w o r l d , and w i l l furnish a series of articles of unusual interest. H e w i l l deal w i t h C h i n a and the s u r r o u n d i n g powers, their relations to each other, and w i t h the rest of the w o r l d . N o subject is of more interest to the A m e r i c a n people at this time.

THE

POWERS T H A T

PREY

A series of remarkable stories of c r i m i n a l life begins i n this issue. T h e y are written by one who knows the " U n d e r - W o r l d " from l o n g association w i t h the lawless classes. These stories are by

Josiah F l y n t in collaboration w i t h F r a n c i s W a l t o n . T h e y are fictitious o n l y i n the sense that the characters are fanciful. T h e incidents are true a n d the characters are actual types of criminals k n o w n to the authors. I n these stories the public learns the exact attitude of c r i m i n a l s toward society, and their relations w i t h the official classes. T h i s is the first time such an important w o r k has been undertaken i n so serious a manner. M r . F l y n t has trave! led w i t h social outcasts for fifteen years and is an expert in this branch of sociologv. H i s effort is to paint the " p o w e r s that p r e y " just as they are. H e writes w i t h knowledge a n d w i t h rare p o w e r . T h e s e stories are not only of surpassing interest but of real ethical value.

SHORT STORIES MCCLURE'S

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most distinguished lights.

has the distinction of h a v i n g introduced to the literary w o r l d some of its Its constant a i m is to discover talent.

T h e editors desire the best literature, whether by k n o w n or u n k n o w n authors.

S o m e authors already

k n o w n to our readers, whose stories w i l l appear i n f o r t h c o m i n g numbers, are:— FRANK

H . S P E A R M A N , whose stories of railroad life have g i v e n h i m deserved celebrity.

G . K . T U R N E R , a newspaper man whose stories are w e l l k n o w n to our readers. ELMORE

ELLIOTT

PEAKE,

a p r o m i s i n g y o u n g W i s c o n s i n author, w h o has w r i t t e n m a n y

short stories, and w i l l this fall p u b l i s h a novel of extraordinary interest.

E . Kelley

Mary M . Mears

Sarah C . Bryant

Paschal

H . Coggins

Alvah M . Kerr

W i l l i a m M . Raine

Marion

Hill

Lillian

And

Gertrude

Roscoe

Bryant

Chauncey

Others

Thomas

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Perhaps there i s no better criterion of the real value of a magazine than the use made o f its articles editors of leading newspapers. T h e J u l y n u m b e r of M C C L U R E ' S was especially remarkable i n this respect. W e have received several hundred newspapers c o n t a i n i n g either important quotations from articles i n the J u l y n u m b e r o r editorial comments o n them. W e give extracts from some o f the latter: by

F r o m the N e w Y o r k S u n All

f a i t h i n m o d e r n e d u c a t i o n m u s t g o if m a n y m o r e i n q u i s i t i v e i n v e s t i g a t o r s

deeply the there

education

has s u n k i n .

a m a z i n g lack of

Not

long

knowledge

ago

s c r a t c h t h e s u r f a c e to find o u t h o w

D r . C h a r l e s F . T h w i n g of W e s t e r n

a m o n g college students

about

the

Reserve University showed

simplest

facts c o n c e r n i n g

the

that

Bible, and

n o w , i n t h e J u l y n u m b e r o f M C C L U R E ' S MAGAZINE, M r . M a r i o n H i l l , i n a n a r t i c l e e n t i t l e d " T h e S t a r - S p a n g l e d B a n n e r , D o e s I t G e t W e i g h e d o r Y e t W a d e , " p u t s o u r p o w e r s o f b e l i e f to a s e v e r e test i n r e l a t i n g t h e i m p r e s s i o n s h e h a s f o u n d . It w i l l b e r e m e m b e r e d t h a t M r . H i l l ' s g r o w n - u p c a s t e r o f s t o n e s i n t o t h e e d u c a t i o n a l h o t h o u s e w a s to g i v e t h e l i n e s o f " A m e r i c a ' ' c o r r e c t l y . instruction.

himself unable

H e seems to h a v e d e m o n s t r a t e d , h o w e v e r , that there are d a n g e r s

B o t h M r . H i l l ' s a n d P r e s i d e n t T h w i n g ' s a r t i c l e s s u g g e s t the u n p l e a s a n t

thought

in a u r i c u l a r

t h a t m o d e r n e d u c a t i o n is

m i r e r e a d y to s u p p l y y o u t h w i t h e m p t y w o r d s t h a n w i t h the substance of the t h i n g s t h e y s h o u l d e x p r e s s .

F r o m the N e w Y o r k E v e n i n g T e l e g r a m T h e r e is a n i n t e r e s t i n g a r t i c l e i n t h e c u r r e n t n u m b e r o f MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE, o n e t h a t c o u l d b e m a d e a c a m p a i g n document with

advantage.

It c o n c e r n s W i l l i a m J . B r y a n , a n d i n v i e w

of the way in w h i c h

s e l v e s at K a n s a s C i t y , t a k e s o n a n u n u s u a l s i g n i f i c a n c e , as m a g a z i n e a r t i c l e s g o . e x t e n t f r o m t h e f a c t t h a t t h e a r t i c l e is f r o m t h e p e n of W i l l i a m pered, could consequently be more than that.

things are s h a p i n g

them

T h e p h e n o m e n o n is a c c o u n t e d f o r to s o m e

Allen White, a newspaper

c o u n t e d u p o n t o k e e p at least w i t h i n h a i l i n g d i s t a n c e

H e has i l l u m i n a t e d the p r o s a i c g o d of p o p u l i s m a n d presented

m a n , a n d one w h o ,

of realities.

if u n h a m

B u t M r . W h i t e has d o n e

h i m in his true light, as a n

interesting

social a r d political s u r v i v a l .

F r o m the W a s h i n g t o n T i m e s A

h e a r t l e s s p e r s o n w r i t i n g i n M C C L U R E ' S MAGAZINE has b e e n

school] w i t h parrot.

the

view

discovering how

m u c h of

the

investigating

these c u s t o m s [patriotic e x e r c i s e s i n

c h i l d r e n ' s t o u c h i n g b e h a v i o r is p a t r i o t i s m a n d h o w m u c h

T h e r e s u l t s a r e n o t e d i f y i n g , b u t p e r h a p s , i f t h e s e t h i n g s r e a l l y e x i s t , it is as w e l l t o h a v e t h e m k n o w n .

Two

things are m a d e evident

b y this a s t o n i s h i n g r e v e l a t i o n of the

t a u g h t c h i l d r e n in o u r public schools. r o o m are of the s a m e age.

T h e old-fashioned

in droves, especially w h e r e a l l those in one

u n g r a d e d school h a d this great a d v a n t a g e , that the y o u n g e r c h i l d r e n w e r e

associated w i t h those older, a n d l e a r n e d f r o m t h e m , w h i l e sibility of

r e d n a t u r e o f t h e " p a t r i o t i s m " w h i c h is b e i n g

O n e is t h a t c h i l d r e n c a n n o t b e t a u g h t

the o l d e r c h i l d r e n , e n t r u s t e d n o w a n d t h e n w i t h the

" h e a r i n g a class" or " k e e p i n g order," learned self-control

a n d the p o w e r of c o n t r o l l i n g others.

respon

Someway

m u s t b e d i s c o v e r e d w h e r e b y , i n t h e s c h o o l o f t h e f u t u r e , the t e a c h e r w i l l b e a b l e to d o i n d i v i d u a l w o r k , w h i c h she

cannot

d o w i t h m o r e t h a n a d o z e n c h i l d r e n at a t i m e .

F r o m the N e w Y o r k E v e n i n g S u n C o n s i d e r i n g the

figure

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-r*f C i . , , , 1 C _ t - „ _ t FOR YOUNG LADIES AND GIRLS. All X l i e O l U a X l O C l l O O i departments. Elective courses. Fine location. Chaperonage and social advantages for special pupils. 15 teachers. A cultured home. Boarding pupils represent many States— N . Y . , Ala., Va., Mo., Ky., O h i o , Iowa, Texas, Pa., Fla., S. C , Mont., N. C , etc.

Boys

can be a c c o m m o d a t e d at the h o m e o f the P r i n c i p a l o f G r e e n w i c h Academy. T h e y s h a r e f u l l y i n t h e h o m e life o f t h e P r i n c i p a l ' s f a m i l y a n d three resident teachers, a n d are sur rounded b y refining a n d elevating influences. The curriculum of

GREENWICH ACADEMY

M i s s CLAUDIA STUART, Principal.

i n c l u d e s a l l g r a d e s from P r i m a r y to P r e p a r a t o r y , a n d is n o t e d for its s u c c e s s f u l p r e p a r a t i o n for business or college. Special * c o a c h i n g for y o u n g m e n ,

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J . II. R O O T , P r l i i . , Greenwich, C t .

Washington College

„ ng Ladies.

Miss Baird's Home School for 6irf^

3d and T Sts.,N.E.,Washington,D.C. Located within j the National Capital; charming park of ten acres;< enlarged building; elegantly furnished rooms; college .physician. Preparatory, certificate, college courses; music, art, elocution. Buildings and grounds valued at $250,000. Catalogue and application for entrance .sent on request. F. M E N E F E E , President. Connecticut,

The

Brookfield

T h e same care, w a t c h f u l n e s s a n d s y m pathetic attention that a m o t h e r w o u l d give h e r c h i l d is e x t e n d e d t o every p n p i l in Miss Baird's School for Girls. The \ s t u d e n t is i m p r e s s e d w i t h t h e ] i m p o r t a n c e of f o r m i n g h a b i t s of p r o m p t i t u d e , a n d d e v e l o p i n g t h e power of a t t e n t i o n a n d concentration. Special atten t i o n is given t o morals, m a n ners, a n d health—to e v e r y t h i n g t h a t m a k e s for t h e d e v e l o p m e n t of a w e l l r o u n d e d womanhood— j mentally and physically. Illus trated catalogue on application. ;

Center.

Curtis School for Y o u n g Boys.

Our book will make a felicitous revelation about the possibilities open to your boy in the life of a successful school. No new boy taken older than 13. $500. FREDERICK S. CURTIS. Connecticut,

Windsor.

Hayden H a l l .

Miss CORNELIA F. BA1RD, florwalk, Ct.

A h o m e s c h o o l f o r g i r l s of a l l a g e s . Its certificate admits to t h e leading colleges. A n i d e a l l o c a t i o n — a s u b u r b of H a r t f o r d , midway between N e w Y o r k a n d Boston. T e r m s $ 4 0 0 t o S^50F o r circulars address M i s s J . S. WILLIAMS, P r i n c i p a l .

^K-^PARES J Exceptional opportunities for those desiring to save time in preparation. Each student taught C O W r r f how to prepare lessons; how to study. New building, modern conveniences. Large, beautiml OO RR :I ^rounds g r o u n d s for athletics of every kin \, and out-door sports of a l l seasons. WM.

BETTS, M . A . ( Y n l e ) ,

Principal.

AND T H E

INDIVIDUAL! BASIS-WORK!

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MAGAZINE. Illinois, Rockford. Fall term opens Fri1 4 , 1900. Classical and Scientific Courses. Music and Art. VWell-equipped ^hysiciau. Library, Laboratories and Gymnasium. Resident P Address 1 ' U F . I I E T . S U T I . I F F . A.M.. Pres.. Lock liox ,45, Rockford.

Rockford College for Women, day, Sept. St

oxuiood

lqth Year Opens September 2 6 t h , IQOO. Prepares for all colleges admitting women. 1 wenty-two in structors. Special courses, M nsic. Art. Physical Laboratory, Gymna sium. Household Science. Accom modations unexcelled. Send for catalogue, T H E O D O R E L. S E W A I . L , Founder, MAY W R I G H T SEW A L L . Principal, Endianapolis, End.

girls' Classical I behoof

at Old Lyme, is an ideally located girl's school, with sea air, a quiet neighborhood, healthful surroundings and every comfort. Two courses, Col lege Preparatory and Elective. Grounds of twenty acres devoted to cricket, golf, tennis, basket ball and other open air Karnes, and a new gymnasium. For catatgue, address

The University of Maine

MRS. RICHARD SILL GRISWOLO, P. 0. Box E, Old Lyme, Connecticut.

ORONO, M E .

The Catharine Aiken S C H O O L FOR

A public institution, maintained by the State and genera] Government. Under-graduate Courses are : Classical, Latin-Scientific, Scientific; Chem ical, Agricultural, Preparatory Medical ; Civil, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineering; Pharmacy (4 years), Pharmacy (2 years) ; Short and Special Courses in Agriculture. The annual tuition charge for these courses is $ 3 0 . Total expenses, including the cost of living, is very low. The School of Law, located in Bangor, maintains a course of three years. The tuition charge is $60 a year. 1 be diploma fee is the only other charge. For catalogue or circular address . _. . r . , , ~ . . . A. W . H A R R I S , President.

GIRLS

S T A M F O R D , CONN. Near N e w York. F o r t y - s i x t h y e a r opens O c t . 2 n d . Academic, college p r e p a r a t o r y a n d s p e c i a l courses. Certificate a d m i t s to l e a d i n g colleges. S p e c i a l a d v a n t a g e s i n M u s i c , both i n s t r u m e n t a l a n d v o c a l , i n A r t . and i n M o d e r n I a n g u a g e s . Short d a i l y d r i l l i n M i s s A i k e n ' s m e t h o d of c o n c e n t r a t i n g the a t t e n t i o n . O u t - o f - d o o r classes i n n a t u r e s t u d y t h r o u g h o u t the year. For

catalogue a n d further i n f o r m a t i o n address the

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Principal.

Mrs. HARRIET BEECHER SCOVILLE D E V A N , A. B. (Wellesley). Massach usetts, Easthampton.

Williston Seminary. MISS ANNA MORGAN'S Studio of E x p r e s s i o n for Y o u n g

Prepares boys for any college or scientific school. Library. Physical, chemical, biological laboratories; gymnasium, etc. New athletic field with % mile track. Opens Septernber, IQOO.

Ladies

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Literature

Studio in methods, artistic other in A m e r i c a . and

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instructors.

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Chicago.

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Monticello Seminary \ 63d Year Opens September 27th.

For the h i g h e r e d u c a t i o n of w o m e n , w i t h p r e s c r i b e d c u r r i c u l u . n for g r a d u a t i o n . I n d e pendent instructors in each department; new buildings especially prepared and equipped for e d u c a t i o n a l w o r k . D e p a r t m e n t s f o r E n g l i s h , Latin, Greek, G e r m a n , French, Science, Music, Art and Physical Culture. For illustrated catalogue address

5 : \ J . 2 4 5

MISS H . N . H A S K E L L , Principal.

Inspiration, beauty a n d health are c o m b i n e d i n t h e l o c a tion of Lasell Semi nary. W i t h i n ten miles of Boston, and convenient to its m u seums, lectures, a n d literary influences. It a i m s t o fit its stu dents for a w o m a n ' s life a n d has every Norumbcga Totue? facility for accom p l i s h i n g its p u r p o s e s , w h i l e a d d i n g to t h e p h y s i c a l w e l l b e i n g of i t s s t u d e n t s .

Lasell Seminary

Illinois, Highland Park (23 miles North of Chicago).

Northwestern Military Academy Thorough preparation for College, Government, Academic or Business. Limited number. Home surroundings. COL. H. P . D A V I D S O N , A . M . , Supt. Illinois, Lake T T

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Vocal and Instrumental Music" Art, EIocu tion, Physical Training. Situated in picturesque, healthful natural park. Certificate admits to Smith, Vassar, Wellesley, Alt. I/olyoke, Lake Forest Colleges. Box 103; Miss S A U R A L. S A R G E N T , ge.

YOUNG

W O M E N

In addition to the usual courses, unusual attention is given music, painting, religious culture, cooking and household economics, dress cutting, millinery—finding these latter conducive to the highest womanly culture. Places are now being taken for the year beginning Sep tember, 1900. For catalogue, address

Forest.

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On Historic Ground

Beautiful

G O D F R E Y , ILLINOIS

Principal.

The

Private

S e n d for b o o k l e t o f i n f o r m a t i o n .

MISS ANNA HOKGAN, F i n e A r t s B l d g . , 205 M i c h i g a n B l v d . ,

M A ,

career.

a r r a n g e m e n t a n d n t m o s p h e r e is u n l i k e a n y

E s p e c i a l l y d e s i g n e d w i t h fine g y m n a s i u m .

l o c a t i o n on the L a k e

H . SAWYER.

C u l t u r e , Aesthetic T e c h n i c a l T r a i n i n g for

accomplishment, social

Elective Courses.

C. C. BRAGDON, Principal, Auburndale, Mass.

P l e a s e m e n t i o n M c C l u r e ' s w h e n y o u w r i t e to a d v e r t i s e r s .

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WORCESTER ACADEMY

67th Year Begins S e p t . 11, 1900 ^

Represents the highest development of the preparatory school. N o t o n l y prepares boys for admission to the l e a d i n g colleges a n d scientific schools, but fits them for business and for life. E y e , hand and brain are trained together by laboratory w o r k , m a n u a l t r a i n i n g a n d the usual class studies and recitations. B u i l d i n g s a d m i r a b l y located and c o m p l e t e l y equipped. K i n g s l e y L a b o r a tories contain twenty-four rooms devoted entirely to science and m a n u a l t r a i n i n g . E v e r y improvement essential to h e a l t h , helpful to s t u d y , c o n d u c i v e to comfort. G y m n a s i u m a n d athletic grounds, w i t h o v a l and fine five-lap cinder track. C a t a l o g u e i l l u s t r a t e d from photographic v i e w s , sent on request. A B E R C R O M B I E , L L . D . , Principal, Worcester, Mass. D

DEAN ACADEMY

The Society of

FRANKLIN, MASS. 1

Y o u n g m e n a n d y o u n g w o m e n find h e r e a h o m e - l i k e atmos p h e r e , t h o r o u g h a n d efficient t r a i n i n g i n e v e r y d e p a r t m e n t of a b r o a d c u l t u r e , a l o y a l a n d h e l p f u l s c h o o l s p i r i t . L i b e r a l e n d o w m e n t permits liberal terms, $ 2 2 5 per year. F o r catalogue and information, address

B r a d f o r d A c a d e m y is s u c h as a m o t h e r w o u l d h e r s e l f choose f o r h e r d a u g h ter. T h e A c a d e m y l i a s for g e n e r a t i o n s d r a w n to itself-the d a u g h t e r s o f l e a d i n g f a m i l i e s o f m a n y states. I t s u r r o u n d s its p u p i l s w i t h i n f l u e n c e s o f r e f i n e m e n t a n d c u l t u r e , t jealously guards each girl's wel fare, m o r a l l y , m e n t a l l y a n d physically

ARTHUR W . PEIRCE, Principal, Franklin,

T h e e q u i p m e n t o f t r i e A c a d e m y is p e r fect; t h e s i t u a t i o n , h e a l t h f u l a n d p i c t u r e s q u e ; t h e s c h o o l life p l e a s a n t a n d enjoyable. F»t catalogue, address Miss IDA C . A L L E N , P r i u . Bradford,

Mass.

Prospect Hill School For

Girls

The

33d year. G r a d u a t e , e l e c t i v e a n d college p r e p a r a t o r y courses. Certificate a d m i t s to l e a d i n g colleges. I n d i v i d u a l a t t e n t i o n . H e a l t h i u l s i t u a t i o n a m i d m o s t beautiful s c e n e r y , at t b e j u n c t i o n of d i r e c t routes f r o m C h i c a g o to B o s t o n , a n d f r o m N e w Y o r k to the W h i t e M o u n t a i n s . E x t e n s i v e g r o u n d s , out-of-door s p o r t s , g y m n a s i u m . T h o r o u g h m e n t a l a n d p h y s i c a l t r a i n i n g . I l l u s t r a t e d c i r c u l a r sent o n request. Miss I D A F. F O S T E R , \ Prinr-inals M i s s C A R O L I N E R. C L A R K , / " Greenfield, M a s s a c h u s e t t s .

Norwood School N o r w o o d ,

M a s s .

Fifteen miles from Boston, midway between the towns of Norwood and Canton. Number limited. Individual method in instruction and character moulding" by personal influence the special feature of the school. A noble situation, pleasant home, rural surroundings, yet within 25 minutes of Boston. Reference to all our present and past patrons. Circulars on application. W I L L I A M C H A U N C Y L A N Q D O N , A . M . , Headmaster P. O . , C l i n t o n .1 m i c t i o n . M : i « .

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Fits for College, Technic School, and

M i s s ANNIE COOLIDGE RUST.

Walnut H i l l School for Girls.

D r . G . R . W H I T E , Principal, Wellesley H i l l s , Mass.

M a s s a c h u s e t t s , W o r c e s t e r , 80 W e s t S t .

Preparation

ROCK RIDGE HALL a school FOR BOYS

Froebel School and Kindergarten N o r m a l Class paratory and

Miss lilGELOW,

Mrs. E . P. U N D E R H I L L , M . A., P r i a . , L O W E L L , MASS.

Principals.

Please mention M c C l u r e ' s when y o u w r i t e to advertisers.

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Pennington Seminary

84th y e a r b e g ' n s S e p t . 12, iqoo.

eptlonal educa tional opportunities arc offered you up m e n a n d w o m e n at

yv.Ht • I V E Y A N 9 0 £ & ©

A C A D E M Y

T h e m a n y e n d o w 111 j u t s p e r m i t o f t h e l o w a n n u a l fee o f f a s o . Special advantages in Music, Art. a n d Hlfifh s c h o l a s t i c s t a t ul a r d . extensive grounds; $45,000 G y t n Science. Unexcelled Library; Personal attention p a i d to p h y s i c a l a n d nasium ; Scholarships m o r a l training*. D r . S a r g e n t ' s C h a r t s used b y m e d i c a l e x a m i n e r . F o r circular, address

PENNINGTON, N. J .

Boarding School

ItKV. W .11. K. \ n u u M i , Prineipnl, W i l b r n h n m , Mnss.

FOR

^HJoWard Seminary F a m o u s for the e x c e l l e n t results it I has a c h i e v e d , for the earnest s p i r i t o f ' its staff o f teachers a n d the h o m e l i k e ! a t m o s p h e r e o f i i s s c h o o l life. L a r g e e n d o w m e n t s h a v e m a d e l o w terms possible—§350 to ?10D n year. A c a d e m i c , College P r e p a r a t o r y a n d S p e c i a l Courses. F o r a n n u a l a n n o u n c e m e n t , address M i s s SARA II E . L A U Q H T O N , > Principal, West Bridgewater, MASS.

For Qirls and Young Ladies.

BOTH

SEXES

I X J T X X T f 4 I I T

B e a u t i f u l l y situated o n B o u n d B r o o k R . R . , m i d w a y between N e w Y o r k a n d P h i l a d e l p h i a . E s t a b l i s h e d 6 2 years. I m p r o v e m e n t s this year c o s t i n g $ 6 5 , 0 0 0 . S i n g l e a n d suites o f rooms n e w l y f u r n i s h e d . Several courses of instruction. F i n e l y e q u i p p e d d e p a r t m e n t for n a t u r a l sciences a n d c h e m i s t r y . F u l l lecture course. Able a n d e x p e r i e n c e d teachers. M a n l y and womanly Christian character our constant a i m . Sanitary arrangements, pure s p r i n g water, electric l i g h t s . B a t h i n g facilities a n d toilet rooms i n every h a l l . T w o fully equipped gymnasiums. G o o d and wholesome table board. $ 2 7 5 . 0 0 to $ 3 2 5 . 0 0 per year, a c c o r d i n g to size a n d l o c a t i o n o f r o o m s . F o r c a t a l o g u e , address

THOS. O'HANLON, D.D., L L . D . , Pres. Missouri,

The Highland Military Academy

Lexington.

Wentworih Military Academy Oldest and largest military school in Central West. Gov't supervision. State commissions to "graduates. Col. S A N D F O R D S E L L E R S , M.A.. Superintendent.

45th Y e a r Sept. 18, li>00. M i l i t a r y d r i l l a t t h i s s c h o o l i s u s e d o n l y a s it h e l p s t o i n spire manliness, promote health, a n d encourage sturdy character. M e n t a l d e v e l o p m e n t i s a t i t s b e s t w h e n it k e e p s pace with physical growth. E v e r y e f f o r t is m a d e t o m a k e each hour a period of improvement. T h e standard of study is h i g h . T h e r e s u l t s a c h i e v e d h a v e b e e n h i g h l y s u c c e s s f u l . " H e r e I feel that m y b o y is s a f e . "

H A R D I N

FOR

C O L L E G E

LADIES.

C O N S E R V A T O R Y .

28th Year. Unprecedented prosperity.

23 Professurs from S Universities and 5 European Conservator ies. A $1,000 Piano to best music pupil. German-American Conservatory. X A V E R S C H A K W E K K A , Director-General, present during S e p t . Largest, Cheapest. Best. Address :

J u l i n W . M i l l i o n . Pres., 1249 College 1*1., Mexico. Mo.

Joseph Alden Shaw, A . M . , Head Master, Worcester, Mass.

New Jersey, B l a i r s t o w n .

Blair Presbyterial Academy*

Foundation. Co-educational. 53d year. Prepares for any college. Music, Art. Campus, 4 0 acres. New buildings. Large endowment jus tifies low rates. Board and tuition $ 2 5 0 . JOHN C. S H A R P K , Prin.

Massachusetts, Worcester.

T h e Worcester Polytechnic Institute* Courses of study in Mechanical, Civil and Electrical Engineering and Chemistry. 200-page catalogue, showing appointments secured by grad uates, mailed free. Expenses low. jjdyear. J . K . MARSHALL, Registrar.

Boys Will Be-

Maryland, Frederick.

belter m e n for h a v i n g m i l i tary t r a i n i n g w h i c h ..de velops m a n l y traits, gives p h y s i c a l h e a l t h , mental clearness a n d moral ear nestness. N o compro mise o n liquor, tobacco, or h a z i n g . O u r class room methods c u l t i v a t e observa tion, concentration^ a n d grasp.

Confers decrees. ConservI h e W o m a n S College, atory of Music and Art. School of Expression. Library, Laboratories, Gymnasium, In firmary. Enlarged accommodations. Unrivalled climate. En dowment. J . H . A P P L E , A . M . , President. t-rij

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Michigan College of Mines

B O R D E N T O W N M I L I T A R Y

An Engineering School with unique location, giving it unusual facili ties. Distinctive methods of instruction. Special courses given. All work in charge of widely experienced men. Catalogue giving list of graduates a n d their occupations on application Addr " i U c N A I K , f»r« * I,

Missouri,

Houghton.

Write

Rev. T . II. L A N D O N , A . M . , Principal. > _ ., , Major T . D . L A N D O N , Commandant \ B o r d e n t o w n , N . J .

Mich.

Kirkwood.

Kirkwood Military Academy.

INSTITUTE

Rives three courses. Scientific, C l a s s i c a l a n d A c a d e m i c . for illustrated catalogue.

New

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Jersey, Mount Holly.

Mount H o l l y Academy A home school for twenty-three boys. The pupil and not the class ,s the unit. G o o d corps of teachers. L a n g u a g e s \y n a t i v e s . Careful college preparation. A t t e n t i o n to athlet cs. Location exerntinnallv S E Ithful. S ii n ng g ll ee rr o oo om m ss .. Ex x cc ee ll ll ee n n tt ttaabbllee.. J. C . P T A ' P r i n c i p a l

young men. Prepares for college or for business. Large, beau tiful grounds. Nineteenth school year begins September• 12th, Send for catalogue. Col. 1£L>WAI<I> A . HAIGHT. 14

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A bigh-gradecollege preparatory school for both sexes. Also prepares for Law and Medical Schools. Classical, Scientific, and English Courses. Excep tional advantages in Music and A r t . A separate business course, with stenog raphy and. typewriting. Large endowment provides for teachers of highest grade. Graduates enter all codeges without conditions. Magnificent build ings, chemical and physical laboratories, gymnasium, athletic field, and cinder oval. 33d year opens Sept. 12th. Send for Catalogue. R. W . S W E T L A N D , A . B . , Principal, Hightstown, N . J .

PEDDIE INSTITUTE

New York, Canandaigua.

MRS. DORR'S SCHOOL FOR GIRLS

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 Preparatory Courses. Send for illustrated circular. S A M U E L C O L E F A I R L E Y , Principal.

Mountain Station, Orange, N. J . 50

minutes from New York.

Send for circular.

Fort Edward Collegiate Institute

Princeton Preparatory S c h P R I N C E T O N ,

N- J.

Individual attention to a limited number of pupils in preparing them to enter Princeton University or any American college or scientific school. Endorsed by the President and Dean of Princeton. Managed by a board cf directors composed of graduates of the University. Healthful surroundings and well directed athletic training. Systematic habits of life and study acquired by the pupils under careful super vision. F o r catalogue address

FOR YOUNG W O M E N AND GIRLS. Five Courses with Preparatory. Departments of Music, Art and Elocution. 43d year Sept. 25. Illustrated Catalogue. Jos. E . K I N G , D . D . . President, Fort Edward, N . Y .

New York Military Academy,

Cornwall-on-Hudson.

J O H N B . F I N E , Head Master, Princeton, N . J ^i. (Si £i^Z&£ iSi^t tSl t£i £l

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is a quiet residence village free from saloons or

other evil resorts.

T h e A c a d e m y , since its founda

tion, has been entirely free from malignant disease and

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, docking the historic Hudson, and surrounded by olutelv proper hygienic conditions. It. Rev. W M . C R O S W E I . L D O A N E , D . D . , L L . D . , President board of Trustees. Send for prospectus.

has never had an epidemic of any k i n d .

The

officers of the A c a d e m y believe they have

demonstrated that a thorough military organization is conducive to the highest grade of scholastic w o r k . The

habits of promptness, neatness and obedience

formed

the

cadets under such a system, and

their magnificent physical condition, lead to a mental activity

and discipline

quite

extraordinary.

The

work of instruction, under the direction of an able and

experienced faculty, is unusually thorough and

successful.

T h e A c a d e m y is n o w represented by its

New York, Aurora. VVT ft ft _ _ Wells College aims to be thorough in graduates i n the a r m y , n a v y and twenty-four of our W C H S V-*OHCg[C* the efficiency and cultural value of its best colleges. T h e department for young boys has instruction. It was founded in 1868 by Henry Wells, Esq. (origi nator of Wells-Fargo Express Co.), and subsequently the recipient its o w n buildings and faculty. E v e r y provision is of gifts from him and from M r . Edwin B." Morgan. T h e spirit of made for proper exercise and amusement, including Wells College is progressive ; its courses of study have been broadened, and its standard for entrance and graduation raised a beautiful athletic field, tennis courts, cinder track, until now it is among the foremost in its educational facilities. Young women who intend taking a college course are invited to golf links and boat house. send for prospectus; or, if possible, make a personal inspection. For illustrated catalogue apply to the Superintendent. Address W E L L S C O L L E G E . Please mention McCIure's when you write to advertisers.

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St. Paul's School

An endowed school for boys. Eighteen miles from New-York, midway between the Sound and the Sea. Its object is the thorough preparation of boys for college. The school is unsurpassed in all essentials. It is heated by steam and lighted by electricity. It has an efficient corps of teachers, well equipped laboratories, new gymnasium with swimming tank 20 by 50 ft., bowling alleys, gallery track, and latest appliances, a large athletic field with new quartermile cinder track, and golf links. Visitors always welcome. Apply for catalogue to F R E D ' K L . G A M A G E , D . C . L . , Head Master.

New York, Cornwall-on-Hudson. J T~fat1 A military school built, equipped and maintained ^ for boys under fourteen years of age. Beauti fully located in the Hudson River Highlands, and completely equipped for its work. For catalogue, apply to the Superintendent. D .

Wilson School for Boys

New York, Elmira.

Elmira College for Women

A home school for twenty boys. Thorough preparation for Eastern universities and Government schools. Special attention given to young boys. Newly equipped throughout. B E N J . L E E "WILSON, H e a d m a s t e r , F i s h k i l l - o n - H u d s o n , N . Y .

Its new life and new work. Next session opens September 19, 1900. Number of freshmen registered in September, 1898, twice, and in September, 1899, three times greater than the average class since 1855. Ample accommodation is being provided for increased number in September, 1900. Intellectual training thor ough. Social life delightful. Wholesome recreation emphasized. Write for a catalogue. A . C A M E R O N M A C K E N Z I E , D . D . , President.

ITHACA, N. Y., HIGH SCHOOL, (Cornell's largest f i t t i n g school.) The records of this office prove that the Ithaca High School is one 0/our best preparatory schools"—D. F. Hoy Registrar Cornell Uniz>ersity. Has won 54 State and 9 University scholarships in 6 years. Sends 40 to 60 students annually to Cornell. Tuition $60 for 40 weeks. Free text-books. Gymnasium. 7-acre athletic field. Both sexes. Registration 6;o. Fall term begins Sept. 4. For catalog, address F . D . B O Y N T O N , M . A . , Principal. 11

New York, Irvington-on-Hudson. (45 min. from N . Y . ) T ' L _ T> 11 C^-t^«.«.1 i H receive, for 1000-1901, a limited 1 H e . D e n n e t t O C n O O i number of girls wisTing fine work in Science, Music, Art, French, German, English, Literature, History, Psychology, Ethics, and Preparation for Foreign Travel. Special tutoring in other branches. For catalogue address Miss M A Y F. B E N N E T T . y

<? Recitation Building and Upper House

Cascadilla School I T H A C A , New Prepares

Boys

York.

for all

Colleges.

I believe the Cascadilla School to be one of the best preparatory schools in the country. J. G . S C H U R M A N , President of Cornell University. The great success of the school has been fully earned by the excellence of its organization and the superior character of the instruction afforded. C . K . A D A M S , President of the University of Wisconsin. Separate home for the younger boys. Address C . V . P \ K S E L L ,

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A. M . , Principal.

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MOUNT PLEASANT MILITARY ACADEMY SING 86th year.

SING-ON-HUDSON

$10,000 worth of improvements

summer including new

gymnasium.

this

O u r sixth

form, with senior cottage and club house,

under

the direction of teachers, bridges the gap between the restrictions of school life and the freedom of college or business. We

refer to H o n . Joseph H . Choate, Ambassador

to E n g l a n d ;

Hamilton W . Mabie,

L.H.D..

and

Mr. Chas. B . Hubbell, formerly President Board of Education, New York City. CHARLES F. BRUSIE, ARTHUR T. EMORY, Principals.

Hudson River Academy Sz

[

The aim of the teach ing at Riverview is not mere memorizing, but to mal<e each boy understand the relation of rules to mental and moral development. Strength of brain and brawn is the combina tion secured by those who receive their training at Riverview. Extensive grounds, ideally located, overlooking Hudson River. Prepares for all Colleges and the Government Acad emies. 65th year. Send for illustrated catalogue. Address J . B. B I S B E E , A . M . , Principal. Poughkeepsie, N . Y .

25 miles from New Y o r k . Finest appointed, com pletely equipped, most beautiful plant on the river. A strong faculty. F o u r courses. Dept. for youngest cadets. O n l y school with horses and ponies for all branches of service, with grounds to river banks, dock, boating and bathing. Capt. J . W I L S O N , V. 8. V . , A . M . , Supt., Nyack-on-the.lludson, !N. Y .

N e w Y o r k , S i n g Sing .

University Preparatory School

Dr. H o l b r o o k ' s S c h o o l will re-open W e d n e s d a y , Sept.26,6 p . m . New York, Sing-Sing-on-the-Hudson.

Ossining School for Girls*

ITHACA, N. Y.

Miss C . C . F U L L E R , Principal.

Special preparation for Cornell University. Certificate accepted. Boarding and Day departments. COMPLETE HOME. Regents certificates in L a w and Medicine. Summer term from July 19th to September 18th. F a l l term opens September 27th. Of the school, PRES. SCHURMAN says: "I give most cheerful testimony of the high quality of work done in your school. The excellent management and complete curriculum render it a most desirable preparatory school for the University." Send for illustrated catalogue. CHAS. A. STILES, B. S., Headmaster, Avenue B, ITHACA, N . Y.

New

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THE BINGHAM SCHOOL The leading'preparatory school of the South, ideally located at A sliev i 11c, the beautiful " Land of the Sky." The school" has behind it the history of a well rounded c e n t u r y in the training of boys to be men in the best sense. If you would know more of this famous school, send for the catalogue.

Poughkeepsie.

Rhineland School for Girls. General college preparation. Music and A r t .

Vassar requirements a specialty. C H A R L E S E . F I S H , Principal.

PEEKSKIIX

MILITARY ACADEMY

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6 7 t h Year. Prepares for Colleges and Government Schools. Thorough business course. U . S. Army Officer detailed by War Department. New and fully equipped Gymnasium. Begins Sept. 19th. Illustrated catalogue. Applv to THE PRINCIPALS.

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B i n g h a m , Sup't,

A S H E V I L L E , N. C .

Pennsylvania, Concordville. ATT t r\r\A $ 5 ° ' Successful school. One of the best to l V i a , p i C W O O d » infuse with energy, to wake up boys to duties of life. Prepared for business or college. New gymnasium. Under 13 years $230. Location beautiful, elevated, healthy. No tobacco. Jos. S H O R T L I D G E , (Yale), A . M . , Prin, 2

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MAGAZINE. Pennsylvania, Germantown, Philadelphia. W a l n t t t L a n e S c h o o l and Wellesley Preparatory. Prepares for all Colleges. 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 K A L O U I S E T R A C Y , Associate.

P i

LINDEN HALL -SEMINARY.

One hundred years of development have given many things to the equipment of Linden H a l l Seminary that m a k e it diBtinct and happily peculiar. There are com forts in its quarters that most schools lack. Modern i morovementa give every advantage of modern bu i l d i ngs. Cheerful rooms and halls make indoor life healthy and happy. Spacious balconies, bowling alley, tennis courts, etc., make outdoor life ideal. T h e school is a home school, founded on a Christian but non-sectarian basis. T h e intellectual training conforms to the lines of advanced ideas. F o r particulars, address

The Castle M I S S

C. E .

School

Rev. C H A R L E S

D. KREIDER, Prim, Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa.

M A S O N ' S

for

M e r c e r s b u r g

Girls

Crowning one of the most beautiful heights of the Hudson with a thirtymile v i e w of the river, T h e Castle represents an i d e a l union of ^ ' school and h o m e . Perfect in equipment, thorough in method, '? affording all the advantages of close prox imity to the academies of Science of N e w ity, and yet environed the most beneficial influ nces. E v e r y requisite con ducive to healthful comfort, and to the highest attain ments of true woman hood, is utilized to the best advantage at T h e Castle.The curriculum is broad and compre hensive ; the method of instruction is based on the most approved ideas of modern education; the re sults are attested by prominent patrons in all sections of the United States.

A c a d e m y A school for boys, healthfully located 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 William M a n n

P h D., President, PA.

Pennsylvania, Ogontz.

Cheltenham Military Academy

ZcU^ul

near Philadelphia. Pennsylvania's leading preparatory boarding school. under the military system, Rates—Lower School, $500; Upper School, $600. Rev. JOHN D. SKILTON, A . M . , Principal. • Illustrated Catalogue. Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Woman's Medical College of Pa* 51st Annual Session. Four years' curriculum. Sessions seven and a half months. Especial attention to Laboratory courses in all depart ments. Clinical Instruction and Quizzes. CLARA M A R S H A L L , M . D . , Dean, North College Ave. and 21st Sis. Pennsylvania, W a y n e .

Armitage Preparatory School.

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$550, no extras. Healthful location. % hour from Philadelphia. Highest standards maintained. Individual attention. Prepares for leading colleges. Miss H A R R I E T C . A R M I T A G E , Principal,

If you would like to know how The Castle looks inside and out, who are its students, how they live, and what they study, an illustrated brink of descrip tion will be sent upon request. Write for circu-

Miss C . E . M A S O N ,

Irvine.

MERCERSBURG,

Pennsylvania, W e s t Chester. Y

Darlington Seminary ™ | ™ %™

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New York, Phila., Bait, and Wash'n. Good buildings, beautiful grounds, healthful location. English Branches, Languages, I\l usic, Painting, etc. Catalogues. F . P. BYF. or R . D A R L I N G T O N . P h . l \

LL.M.,

Tarrytown-on-Hudson, N . Y .

WILLIAMSPORT DICKINSON SEMINARY A Christian home school, where the highest culture may he secured at the lowest cost by both sexes. Regular and elect ive courses. Rare advantages in Music, A r t and Elocution. For catalogue address Iter. Kdw. J. ftriiy, !>.!>., Prest., WllM.nivpnri. |»,|.

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Off for Ashcvillc College marks the making of a new era in a girl's life. Situated on a plateau that is unequalled in healthfulness, breathing air that is a constant tonic, looking out from room and recitation hall on magnificent mountains, and constantly surrounded by elevating influences, a girl can't help but be happy at Asheville, It is the ideal

College for Girls. The life approaches as near as possible that of the cultured and refined home. Personal liberty is allowed as faras feasible. Char acter m a k i n g is given equal place with mental training. The Year Hook of Asheville College describes thecollege courses in detail. They include the Collegiate, with courses of B . A . , B.S., and , A . M . ; the Seminary courses, with diploma; and the College-Prepar atory course. F o r Ye r Book and further particulars, address ARCHIBALD A. JONES, A. M . , President, Asheville, N. C.

W a r d

Seminary

Virginia, Roanoke.

For Young Ladies, Nashville, Tenn.

Virginia College for Y o u n g Ladies. Opens Sept. 18, 1900. Magnificent Buildings. Grand Mountain Scenery. 25 European and American Teachers, Music, Art and Elocution. Students from 30 States. A beautiful and attractive College. For catalogues, address M A T T I E P. HARRIS, President.

Full JLit. C o u r s e with M u s i c , A r t , E l o c u t i o n , $350 to $500. Certification to Wellesley and Baltimore Woman's College. C a t a l o g u e . 35th yr. opens Sept. 20. J . D . B L A N T O N , Prest.

Virginia, Staunton. For Young Ladies. Term begins Sept. 6, 1900! Located in Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Unsurpassed climate. 220 students past session from 27 States. Send for catalogue. Miss E . C. W E I M A R , Principal.

Pennsylvania, Kingston.

W y o m i n g

M a r y Baldwin Seminary

Seminary

Founded in 1844. A large and thoroughly equipped school for young men and women. Students received from thirteen years of age upward. Buildings and grounds worth $300,000. Prepares for all the great universities and best class of colleges . for women. Courses also in Literature, A r t , Music, Oratory and Business. Importance attached to high spiritual and social tone. For catalogue address L . L . S P R A G U E , D . D . , President.

V i r g i n i a , Staunton.

Virginia Female Institute.

Hollins Institute

( H o i iHns, ir V i r g i n i a ) will open its 58th session on the 19th of September, with its accommodations increased from 175 to 225 boarders. This is a school for girls and young ladies in which all the solicitude, watch-care, super vision and inspiration of a Virginia family prevail. Literature, Languages, Histories, Sciences, Music, Art, Elocution, etc., are taught under high standards. The Faculty and management is composed of 10 gentlemen and 20 ladies. The Eclectic system is used. Diplomas are issued in all departments, each of which is presided over by a University graduate. The school is located on the N . & W . R y . , 7 miles north of Roanoke City—a region abounding in scenery beautiful beyond description, and redolent of health. There are six main buildings, all of brick, with extensive verandas, all connected by covered ways. It owns 500 acres of land and valuable Sulphur and Chalybeate springs, which conduce largely to the health and vigor of growing girls. A delightful home for girls during period of development. Write for catalogue. C . L . C O C K E , Superintendent.

InhrT^

MILITARY

O l . • J U l l l l 5> A C A D E M Y . (Episcopal) situated in the famous lake region of Wisconsin 100 miles from Chicago, 25 miles west of Milwaukee on the C , M . & St. P. R y . Prepares for college or business. Diploma admits to many colleges. Athletics and rowing under trained instructors. Number of students limited. School opens Sept. 18. Write for catalogue, etc., to Col. S. T . Smythe, Pres., Delafield, Wis.

American Academy of Dramatic Arts F R A N K L I N H . SARGENT, President. A practical training school in conjunction with Mr. Chas. F roll man's Empire Theatre and travelling companies. Apply to E. P. S T E P H E N S O N , Carnegie Hall, New York.

V i r g i n i a , near C h a r l o t t e s v i l l e .

Pantops Academy

for Boys*

The

Fully equipped Equable climate. Tract of 373 acres, formerly owned by Thomas Jefferson and named by him from two Greek words—"All-seeing." Also Summer School. Catalogue. J O H N R. SAMPSON, A . M .

Misses Ely's School for Girls.

Riverside D r i v e , 85th and 86th

Streets, N e w Y o r k .

N A S H V I L L E , TENNT "Beautiful for situation." "Possessing advantages o f 'near remote ness a n d accessible seclusion.'" " T h e l o c a t i o n c a n n o t fail to p r o v e v a l u a b l e t o t h o s e w h o w i s h to r e c u p e r a t e a n d at t h e s a m e t i m e p u r s u e t h e i r s t u d i e s . " "A national patronage." " Matchless g r o u n d s , elegant buildings, scholarly faculty a n dalmost perfect m a n a g e m e n t . " "Mature a n d respons ible, s c h o l a r l y a n d skillful, B e l m o n t ' s t e a c h i n g force is, also, closely h a r m o n i o u s . " " T h e c r o w n i n g g l o r y o f B e l m o n t is t h e e x c e l l e n c e o f i t s m o r a l t r a i n i n g a n d t h e t h o r o u g h n e s s o f i t s i n t e l l e c t u a l d i s c i p l i n e . " Send for handsomely illustrated catalogue. REV. R. A. YOUNG, D. D., L L . D., Regent, M i s s H O O D , M I S S H E R O N , P r i n c i p a l s .

FOR

Y O U N G

of \ irginia. Preparatory and elective courses. Buildings modern and complete. 57th session begins Sept. 19. Write for catalogue. Miss MARIA P E N D L E T O N D U V A L , Principal. Successor to Mrs. Gen. J . E . B. Stuart.

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STAMIYIERBNG

N e w Y o r k C i t y , 13 and 15 W . 8 6 t h St.. C e n t r a l P a r k .

Mrs, Leslie Morgan's Boarding and Day School for Girls. Thorough ugh instruction in English, Foreign Languages, Art, including e. Prepares for colleges. spei 141 college

Classical School

For Girls. -|

i8lh year opens Oct. 3d. Resident a n d day pupils, Gymna sium, A rt and M usic studios. Thorough w o r k , special and graduate. Home care, social recrea tion. Advantages of New York. College certificate privilege. Mrs.

The celebrated German proved by the suggeslionsof a cure is to be had so easil illustrated pamphlet, giving

IMrn W. ScovlhV,

permanently cured by a physician—a speech specialist for over eighteen years Pupils may live in the institution and receive the doctor's constant personal treatment and care. Our new location, adjoining Central Park and Hudson River, is one of the coolest, healthiest and most interesting sections in New York. "It is reasonable that a medical man who has prepared himself for the proper treatment or the nervous disorders of speech, and especially one who has eradicated an impediment from his own speech, is the proper person to success fully treat these distressing habits, which are such a drawback to usefulness and happiness. Each pupil receives Dr. Bryant's best personal attention." (See illustration.) and French methods are utilized and inv a progressive American physician. When it is a pit*' to go on stammering. Send for outline of treatment and references.

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Comprehends seven schools. Day

The L A W S C H O O L

and E v e n i n g Classes*, M E D I C A L C O L L E G E ,

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GRAD l a L o o k i n g f o r bright young and middle aged ' ,' men to work for him in 5 every State. Nearly 1 0 , 0 1 ) 0 , ; appointments were made | 5 last year by C i v i l S e r - L_ •. v i c e E x a m i n a t i o n s . • ^ • • U - l v l M ^ M ^ ^ B ; • Postal Service examinations in all large post-offices in ; .•the Fall. Custom House examinations in June. Exam-; • inations soon in even' State. Full particulars of gov- v j ernment positions, where they are, how to get them, •' salaries paid, etc.—free.

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N e w Y o r k , N e w Y o r k . 312 a n d 315 R i v e r s i d e D r i v e . t 4 c* 4 1 r * 1 Limited classes for OChOOl IOr resident students. College certificates. Advanced elective courses. Special French, German, Music and A r t , with preparation for travel. Summer classes in E u r o p e Miss E D I T H L . C O O P F . R .

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B r o o k l y n H e i g h t s , N e w Y o r k C i t y , 160 J o r a l e m o n St.

LIP-READING AT HOME

The Katherine L. Maltby Home and School Highest city advantages. Academic, Collegiate and special courses of study. Regular resident students 5500. Twelfth year.

in six weeks. Easy, practical, interesting- lessons by M a i l . One hour ,-i day f.jr study and practice. Results uniformly satisfactory. 30th year. Terms moderate. Send for circular. 1>AVII> G R E K X E . 1182 l i rood way. New Y o r k . X . V .

August address, S A G A M O R E H O T E L , L O N G L A K E , N. V.

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

Slanlifipe Whcalcnift Dramatic School

LEARN TO DRAW OH DESIGN

Summer Monthly Classes and Private Lessons from May 1st. Practical Thorough Dramatic Instruction. Prospectus on ap plication. A D E L I N E STANHOPE-WHEATCROFT, Director.

College of Law

LAW Department Lake

Forest University.

Both D A Y and E V E N I N G courses with complete curriculum in each. Large faculty. Prepares for admission to the Bar in all the States. For information address the Secretary E L M E K JE. I S A l t l C E T T , L L . IS., 1 0 0 Wa*kIn toii St., Chicago.

methods.

A field as large as science, less well filled and as highly paid. If you have the artistic spirit learn to do something be sides the drudgery of routine work. Practical instruction by well-known illustrators and de signers, either in our day and evening classes or by mail. Illustrating, Lettering, WallPaper Design, etc., taught. Successful students by our Catalog sent free to any address.

N. Y. SCHOOL OF ILLUSTRATING, 114 West 34th Street. N. If.

LEARN

THE ART SCIENCE or^ PHOTOGRAPHY

ILLUSTRATING

Taught according to the {r*^ most approved methods, in the shortest possible time and at smallest expense. For full par-fa. ticulars and finely illustrated catalogue I^J I

ILLINOIS COLLEGE O F P H O T O G R A P H \ rt

EFFINGHAM, ILLINOIS.

HUH CHADS PHOTOGRAPHY TAUGHT. GOOD POSITIONS

TAUGHT B Y MAIL All higher illustrating' and newspaper sketching successfully taught by correspond ence. Our students are enthusiastic over our copyrighted system and their success. Best lethods; prepares quickly for profitable work. Largest school in America. Incorporated. Easy terms. Absolutely responsible. Particulars free. \ \ T I O N A L S C H O O L O F I I X l S T R A.TINC-, 1U'I>1 1. 27 N o r t h Pit. St., InAtunnpoIU, I ml.

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We give the most by correspondence offered and guarantee to qualify for all bar examinations. Give degree. Four courses. Work new and original. Highest endorsements. Easy terms. Begin now. International patronage. Grad uates in successful practice. Incorporated. Full infor mation free. NATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL OF LAW, Suite 94, 27 Penn Street* Indianapolis, Ind.

STAMMER

°SOT

HflH V H

U CAN BE C U R E D

The summer session of the Philadelphia Institute for the cure of stammering is held at Atlantic City, N . J . , the most popular health resort on the Atlantic coast. Superior accommodations for more than one hundred pupils. See page 33 of our new 67-page book. Address the PHILADELPHIA INSTITUTE, 1033 Spring Garden St., Phila., Pa. E D W I N S. JOHNSTON, Pounder and President. Established 1KH1 20

McCLURE'S

Chicago

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College*

DR. F . ZIEGFELD, PRESIDENT.

(EstablishecU867.) College B l d g . ,

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Start Your Career in a Salaried Position

III.

Music School of Acting, Elocution, K T a g e s BOARD OF MUSICAL DIRECTORS: Dr. P. Ziegfeld, Dr. Louis Falk, Hans Von Schiller, William Castle, Berahard Listcmann, S. E. Jacobsohn.

•'Young' men and w o m e n l o o k i n g for e m p l o y ment s h o u l d send for our new c i r c u l a r — ' ' S u p port Y o u r s e l f W h i l e L e a r n i n g a P r o f e s s i o n . " It is free. It tells how you can secure a p o s i t i o n at g-ood pay, and w h i l e s u p p o r t i n g yourself prepare for a professional career. Y o u can become a

Mechaaiiced Engineer Electrician Architect New College

200,000 students and graduates i n Mechanical, Electrical, Steam, Civil and Mining Engineer ing; Architecture; Drawing and Designing; Chemistry; Telegraphy; Telephony; Stenogra phy; Book-keeping; English Branches.

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W h e n w r i t i n g , state subject i n w h i c h interested. INTERNATIONAL C O R R E S P O N D E N C E

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M c C l u r e ' s Magazine. VOL.

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AUGUST,

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1900.

No.

PRISONER AMONG FILIPINOS.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER

JAMES

GILLMORE,

W I T H ILLUSTRATIONS B Y W . R . L E I G H , FROM SKETCHES A N D P L A N S B Y T H E AUTHOR, A N D DRAWN UNDER

HIS PERSONAL SUPERVISION.

EDITOR'S NOTE.—In the following paper, and in another to be published in the September number of MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE, Lieutenant Gillmore tells the story of his boat-battle with Filipinos on the east coast of Luzon, his capture and narrow escape from execution, his extraordinary experiences during eight months of captivity, his journeys for hundreds of miles through the interior of Luzon, and his rescue by American troops just after he and his six comrades had been abandoned by their guards in the mountains and when their murder by the savage tribes seemed imminent.

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more than eight months a little band of fifty Span ish officers and men had held out against 500 F i l i pinos. The Span iards were in a church at Baler, a straggling town on the east coast of Luzon. They had barricaded doors and win dows, and trans formed the sham bling old church into a rude for tress, stocked with provisions and am munition. Night and day, by unceasing vig ilance they had fought off the persistent besiegers. Admiration for human bravery is as wide as the world, and stops at no fron tiers of race or nation. Admiral Dewey and General Otis, the American naval and mili tary commanders at Manila, though not with out troubles of their own, felt deep sympathy for the handful of Spaniards engaged in that long, desperate struggle against heavy odds. A t length a rescuing expedition was decided pn. and the " Y o r k t o w n " was assigned to

the difficult task of relieving the besieged men. I had just arrived in the Philippines, and right glad was I when ordered aboard the " Y o r k t o w n " as navigating officer. The adventure was quite to my liking. We steamed from Manila round the southern coast of Luzon and arrived at Baler Bay A p r i l 11th. A wooded shore spread out before us. We could smell the fragrance of the forest. A t the southern side of the bay was a small cove, where luxuriant plants and underbrush ran almost to the water's edge, and the shadows of the forest fell invitingly upon sandy beach and rippling shoals. Just north of this was the mouth of the Baler River, and along the shore upon the far side we could see a number of sentry boxes, and Filipino soldiers running about among them, apparently in a state of great excitement. The town of Baler was not to be seen, even from the masthead of the ' ' Y o r k t o w n , ' ' for i t lay two miles up the river, and was screened by the tropical forest which grew all round i t . Before plans could be laid for the relief of the garrison it was necessary to locate the church and the enemy's defenses, if any existed. Accordingly Ensign Standley was sent ashore under a flag of truce. His instructions were to communicate with the Spaniards, i f the insurgents would permit him to do so, and i f he thought it prudent

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to make the effort. To his surprise the na tive officers promptly agreed to permit him to visit the church, accompanied by an in terpreter and two of his men. There was something suspicious about the alacrity with which the natives assented to this proposal. Filipino treachery was not by any means an unknown thing among our American troops, and Ensign Standley decided not to place himself within the power of the uncertain foe. He returned to the ship and offered to lead a scouting party ashore. The commanding o f f i c e r of the " Yorktown " at once sent for me. He had a little job for me to do, one which would proba bly keep me away from the ship for an hour or two. I was to take a boat and crew next morning, and under cover of darkness land Ensign Standley and Quarter master Lysac, who were to make a reconnoissance. I was not to go ashore myself, but having landed the two men was to sound at the river's mouth and s u r v e y the coast. If necessary I was to make a demonstration, which might serve to divert attention from the two scouts. THE

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER

Drawn from life, June,

LANDING.

It was still dark when we left the ship in the second cutter a little after four o'clock the morning of the 12th. There were sev enteen of us in the boat, all told—Standley and Lysac, the scouts; myself and boat crew composed of Chief Quartermaster Walton, Sailmaker's Mate Voudoit, Coxwain Ells worth, Gunner's Mate Nygard, Seamen R y n ders, Woodbury, Brisolese, and McDonald, Landsmen Dillon, Morrissey, Edwards, and Anderson, and Apprentices Venville and Pe terson. W i t h muffled oars, and every man

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forbidden to speak above a whisper, we pulled for the cove. In the thickest of the shore line shadows we landed the two scouts, who quickly disappeared in the woods. N o t a sound had we made, and we were flattering ourselves that the stupid Filipinos had been completely outwitted; but at the critical moment, as we were pulling out of the cove, the day came down upon us. L i k e a flash the tropical dawn spread over sea and coast, first lifting the " Y o r k t o w n " out of dark ness, then dissolv ing the shadows round about our boat, and finally blotting out the blackness of the wooded shore-line, and streaking and dotting it with expanding lights. The men rowed silently and swiftly toward the ship, while I swept the s h o r e w i t h my glass. I saw a pa trol pacing to and fro upon the beach. He walked sleepily. His gun was held at a lazy angle over his shoulder. Suddenly he paused. The butt of his rifle was plumped down into the sand. His right hand came up to shield his eyes from the fastrising eastern light. Then he started running and waving J . C . G I L L M O R E , U . S. N . his arms, and out 1900, Washington, D . C. over the waters I could hear the echoes of his shouts of alarm. Nothing would have been easier for us than to finish rowing our way back to the "Yorktown." But the two shipmates hid ing over there in the woods were first to be thought of. Fearing the sentry might sus pect we had landed men i n the cove, and wishing to do all I could to deceive him and thus avert pursuit of our scouts, I had the boat pulled round to the mouth of the river, as i f we had been seeking the river all the time, but had gone into the cove by mistake. To promote the deception, I stopped at the bar to make soundings and to sketch the

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coast, as ostentatiously as I could, as i f that were the only errand which had called us forth so early in the morning. Then we continued up the river for about a thousand yards, sounding and sketching as we went along. I knew that we should have to sus足 tain the fire of the enemy as we came out of

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emy's country with their guns and their lives in their hands. Our ruse worked success足 fully so far as the scouts were concerned, for they got back to the ship that afternoon. We were not so lucky. When we had pulled up the river as far as I thought i t prudent to go, we found the

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" The natives lined us up in a row on the sand-bar. . . . they were going to shoot us."

the river, but we were not afraid of that. F i 足 lipino marksmanship is never good; besides, we had a Colt gun in the bow of our boat, and most of our crew were armed with Lee rifles, which they knew how to use, and their am足 munition belts were well filled. To tell the truth, we were more than willing to have a little brush with the foe, especially i f that would help to avert suspicion and danger from brave Standley and Lysac, who had a few moments before jumped into the en-

right bank high, steep, and thickly wooded. We had no reason to fear attack from that quarter, but cautiously kept well over to the other side of the channel. There the shore was low and marshy, deep with mud, covered with high swamp grass; clearly the enemy could not get at us from this bank. THE

AMBUSH.

I had just given the order to return, and the men were in the act of swinging the cut-

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ter round, when before our astonished eyes the low mud shore lifted into a bit of high, wooded ground. It was not more than fifty or sixty yards from us. There stood a sen try, and he saw us the very moment we saw him. He fired his rifle as a signal, and dis appeared in the woods. S t i l l , we did not fully realize our danger. W e thought we should be attacked, but we could reply. If the range was short for the foe, it was no longer for us. If worst came to worst, we could pull farther off; and then there was the rapid-firing Colt. Trouble was com ing—that seemed clear enough—but on the whole we were rather glad, and we had not the slightest doubt the other fellows were going to get at least their fair share of i t . Trouble came more quickly than we had bargained for. W i t h i n a minute after the disappearance of the sentry a volley burst out of the thick brush which covered the bit of high ground. Bullets hissed all round us. Some of them took effect. Morrissey was shot through the head and instantly killed. His brains flew over the boat and the crew. He fell heavily, like a tree struck by light ning, and carried another man down with him. Dillon was pulling at his oar. A ball caught him in the eye, and he never knew what had hit him. He, too, toppled over and plowed down through the sailors sitting, oars in hand, upon the thwarts, knocking one or two of them into the bot tom of the boat. Rynders, the starboard stroke oar, felt something go wrong with his left hand. A chance shot, running along the oar and taking advantage of the tense muscles and taut joints, had cut off all the fingers as a surgeon's knife might have done it. The man held the bleeding stumps up for me to see. " Y o u are fearfully wounded, R y n d e r s , " said I ; " you may drop your o a r s . " " Oh, no, it is not m u c h , " he replied; " I am used to this sort of thing. I used to be in the Dutch n a v y . " That he had once served in the Java fleet was one of Rynders' little hobbies, and as he returned to his work I had just time to think something about the ruling passion. Then I looked at the other men. They, too, were calm. They did not speak to one an other or cry out. They were trying their best to obey my order to back oars so as to work the boat farther out. Some of the landsmen were firing their Lees. Walton and Voudoit were in the bow, trying to get the Colt into action again. They had fired a few rounds from it, but i t had been dis

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abled by the enemy's second volley, the am munition box being shattered and the load ing tape cut. The two men were cool and deliberate, but they were not able to repair the gun. Walton had the visor of his cap shot away. Voudoit found several holes in his jacket. THE

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More volleys came cracking and hissing at us from out of the brush. I was standing in the stern of the boat. By my side were McDonald and Nygard. They fell, both mor tally wounded, adding their bodies to the heap which was fast accumulating in the cutter's bottom. A t this moment i t seemed to me my boat-crew had almost disappeared. As a matter of fact, two men were lying in the bottom of the boat, dead. Two were mortally wounded—Dillon was just then dying. Two more were seriously wounded, and two or three, who had been toppled over by the fall of their comrades, were strug gling out from under the mass of bleeding flesh. The wounded were begging us to shoot them, that they might not fall into the hands of the savages. Their cries were heart-rending. There was blood everywhere —on men, oars, thwarts, guns. Still, those of us who survived—and who were able to handle a rifle—managed to return the enemy's fire. The worst was, we could not see any one to shoot at. W e could not even see the smoke from the insurgents' rifles, so warily did they cling to their ambush in the thick undergrowth. I remember most vividly the fierce desire I had at that moment to get back at the foe—to see some of them fall and bite the dust and writhe in pain as our men were doing. F o r a short time the fight ing instinct crowded out of my mind pity and fear. Having no other weapon than a revolver, useless at that range, I reached for the rifle dropped by one of the dead. It had been hit in the lock, and the clip was jammed i n . Venville, one of our apprentice boys, at tempted to fix i t . A bullet went through the flesh of his neck. " M r . Gillmore, I'm h i t , " he said. But he continued working at the rifle. A second shot plowed through the boy's breast and came out in his arm-pit. " I'm hit again, M r . Gillmore! " He was still t r y i n g to pull out the jammed clip when a ball cut a furrow in the left side of his head. " M r . Gillmore, they've hit me again! "

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He wiped the blood from his brow and eyes with his coat-sleeve, and then returned to his task as calmly as i f i t were only a mosquito that had stung him. It was not three minutes t i l l a ball crashed into his ankle, inflicting a painful hurt. There was just a slight quiver i n the lad's voice as he looked up to me and s a i d : " M r . Gillmore, I ' m hit once more. But I've fixed the gun, s i r ! " This beardless boy of seventeen had never been under fire before.* I heard bullets singing past me. One cut the loose folds of my blouse. Others passed so near to my face that I could feel little whirrs of air brushing cool against the skin. Obviously the insurgents were con centrating their fire upon me. F i r s t M c Donald and Nyberg, and then little Venville, had stopped the bullets which just missed the man at whom they were aimed. I fired at the brush again and again, but it was mad dening to hear the incessant whistle of bullets and see one's men dropping round him and not be able to draw sight upon a single one of the foe. I had been under fire be fore, but never like this. I remember when I stood upon the deck of the " St. Paul " as we attacked the " T e r r o r " off San Juan. Heavy shot were flying, and there was dan ger, but I did not mind i t at a l l . There every man had as good a chance as every other man—it was only a few shot against a big ship. Here I felt that I was the target, the hunted man, and this made it all the more bitter to be compelled to endure a galling fire which could not be effectively returned. Would the cowards never show themselves ? Now the boat was drifting with the strong tide nearer and nearer the enemy. The men at the oars worked nobly—and it required nerve to sit there and keep stroke with one's back turned to a rain of lead—but no head way was made. Several of the starboard oars had been shattered by the heavy .45 Remington balls, and that side of the cutter was pierced with many bullet-holes. Ells worth, the coxswain, who also occupied an exposed position, flinched not a hair's breadth under the hot fire, but coolly directed and encouraged his men. Seeing that i t was useless to struggle further with the oars, Ellsworth, Woodbury, and Edwards jumped * The fate of the boy Venville is unknown. Lieutenant Gillmore has done his best to learn what became of the lad, and in his inquiry has had the assistance of Admiral Watson. The wounded apprentice was left at Baler, and no tidings of him have since been received.

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overboard on the port side and tried to swim the boat out. Despite their efforts, we drifted slowly toward a bank of sand. Soon we struck. More bullets whistling round our heads, and still not an enemy to be seen! Do the wretches never intend to show them selves in the open ? THE

CAPTURE.

Here they come, after a l l — a motley crew, like savages, half-nude, some in shirts, some with only trousers, a few with nothing more than breech-clouts, armed with bolos, spears, and a rifle here and there, ail mad with joy, yelling and brandishing their weapons—run ning down the spit of sand from the right bank of the river. They were Tagals, P r i n cipes, and other tribesmen. By my order the white flag was hoisted at this moment. The man who held i t aloft received a ball in the wrist, and the banner came fluttering down to the bottom of the boat. If the tide would not let us get away, i f the foe would not permit us to make surrender, there was one thing we could do with what strength we had left, and that was to go on fighting. We resumed our fire. From the left bank we had heard nothing up to this time but the crack of unseen rifles. Now a voice rang out from the thicket. It announced to us in Spanish that unless we ceased firing and surrendered we should all be murdered in our tracks. The tones were those of an officer—a voice ac-. customed to command—and realizing that the threat might quickly be made good, I threw up my arms in token of submission. There were no more shots. In an instant the savage band were upon us. They were wild with excitement. They jabbered incessantly, and threatened us with their bolos and spears. But they did us no harm. One. by one, those of us who were living they took out of the boat. They were not rough or cruel. They treated the wounded carefully. More than our lives they appeared to covet our personal belong ings. In a twinkling we were stripped of our coats, hats, shoes. They rifled our pockets for money, watches. They even pulled the rings from our fingers. A l l this time my men were calm and silent. They did not resist.

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our backs with bamboo thongs. We thought they were merely making ready to carry us away as prisoners. But soon we perceived it was worse than that—they were going to shoot us. By signs I objected to having my arms bound. 1 tried to show that it was my right as an officer to die with my hands free. This brought on a difference of opin ion, a noisy discussion, among our captors, who, though soldiers in the Filipino army, appeared to be without officers and without discipline. The delay thus secured, short as it was, served a good purpose. The natives who carried guns stepped out in front of us. They lowered their rifles and cocked them. They were taking aim. I was just t h i n k i n g : " Well, it will all be over in a few seconds —why did I not take out more life insurance before I left h o m e ? " when we heard a shout from the right bank. We all looked that way, Tagals and Americans. A native officer came running toward us along the sand-spit. He was shouting and brandish ing a sword. We did not understand him, but the Filipinos did. They dropped their rifles and crowded about us. We were not to be shot, so it didn't make any difference about that life insurance, after a l l . This Tagal officer sent us aboard our boat and ordered us to row over to the left bank of the river. We started to obey, but had to stop and bale out the cutter and plug up the bullet holes in its side. When we reached the opposite bank, an officer and forty men were drawn up to receive us. The officer was a Spaniard. W e were al lowed to take the two mortally wounded men out of the boat, and make them as com fortable as we could in the shade of trees. A l l we could do was to place tourniquets on their wounds and leave water beside them. The natives would not permit us to bury our dead comrades, and their bodies were left lying in the boat. I asked the officer to have a surgeon sent down to look after the wounded, but I could never ascertain whether this was done or not. Leaving our dead and dying behind and carrying our wounded with us, we were marched under guard to the commandante's office, a mile or so away. We passed within sight of the church where the Spanish gar rison were still besieged. The outer walls had been battered down, but the natives were careful not to go within gunshot, and by this we knew the Spaniards were still on guard within. Besides, a Spanish ensign was flying from the top of the fortress, and I confess it did me good to see it there. On

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our way to the commandante's Woodbury said to m e : " M r . Gillmore, I think I am wounded." " Pull up your shirt and let me see." Sure enough, in the fleshy part of his back I found a gaping wound. In it was a .45 Remington brass ball from a Filipino rifle, and this ball was embedded in a brass car tridge case torn out of Woodbury's ammuni tion belt. The piece of brass was bent V-shaped in the sailor's body; it had checked the force of the bullet and saved his life. Woodbury said he had received the wound at the first volley, before he jumped over board and tried to help swim the boat out. The commandante asked us many ques tions. He was particularly eager to learn what we had been doing in the river. He evidently suspected we had landed scouts, but I told him I had been making a survey. He permitted me to write a letter to the commander of the " Y o r k t o w n , " and he promised to have it delivered under a flag of truce. He never did so. THE GOOD SAMARITAN. Next we were marched a mile and a half to a bamboo church in the outskirts of Baler. We saw the town as we passed—a mere hud dle of native huts; the women and children, most of them half nude, ran excitedly after us. On the way our wounded suffered severely. It was only with great difficulty some of them could drag themselves along. Others we had to carry. A t the church a good Samaritan came to their assistance. He was an old man, poorly attired, but he had fine eyes and a kindly, almost fatherly, manner. He ran out into the woods and hastily gathered some large leaves. From these he squeezed a white liquid and let it run i n the wounds. F o r a few moments the agony was so great the sufferers thought they could not endure i t . They cried out that they were being burned to death, that the old man had poisoned them. Perspira tion poured from their bodies. The old man smiled and tenderly stroked the head of the boy Venville, and muttered in Spanish that they would all feel better by and by. He was right. In ten or twelve minutes the men were free from pain. The inflammation was gone and their fever had subsided. V e n ville's foot, which had been frightfully swol len, resumed nearly its natural size. The succored men seized the old man's hand and shook it in gratitude. If we had had any thing left we should have made him pres-

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ents. W e a l l felt better for this one touch of nature there i n the jungle. I could never learn anything more about the old man or his healing herb, though I made many i n quiries then and afterward. Some day, per haps, the world may get a new balm out of Luzon. That day and night we passed i n this rude church, a mere shed of bamboo i n the midst of the forest. The unwounded men and my self lay on one side, the wounded on the other. The guards were kind enough, but very careful that we should have no oppor tunity to escape. A l l through the night they kept a bright fire just without the door. The unwounded men were bound together by a long rope. F o r some reason I was not bound. The Filipinos are great respecters of military rank, and perhaps my protest against the bamboo thongs down on the sand-bar had produced some effect upon them. So greatly were we fatigued that we all slept well. Now and then i n the night a

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wounded man cried out for water, and a guard carried him drink. ON THE M A R C H .

Next day a runner brought orders from Aguinaldo to march us to St. Isidro, the insurgent capital. In the afternoon eight of us, a l l who were able to travel, set out upon a journey through the interior of the enemy's country—a journey so long and at times so hopeless that we often despaired of ever reaching the end of i t . A sorry-look ing lot we were. A l l of us were bareheaded and barefooted, save that I had managed to se cure the return of my coat and shoes, the lat ter mere slippers which I had worn from the ship because i t would be easy to kick them off i n case I were forced to take to the water. Our clothing was so scanty that it barely sufficed to cover our nakedness. F o r two days the route led us through tortuous river-beds. W e had to wade the swift

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streams, in water from our knees to our matters worse, a heavy rain came on, and necks, twenty, thirty times in a day. Our we were without shelter save that each man feet were cut by the sharp stones of the was given two b i g leaves of the bamboo

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" A mere path trodden in the thick undergrowth. . . . monkeys jabbered angrily and threw nuts and twigsat us as we passed."

path. Our hands and shins were bruised clambering over great boulders and up and down steep, stony banks. The heat was opÂ pressive, and the fierce rays of the sun blisÂ tered our unprotected faces and gave us frightful pains in the head. Our guard, a straggling band of semi-savages, carrying bows and arrows and spears and bolos, and commanded by a Tagal corporal, urged us unceasingly on. The first night out we were well up in the mountains. It was cold there. To make

palm. These we arranged over our heads in the vain hope that they might serve to keep off some of the rain. A few of the men managed to sleep a bit, but my eyes did not close through the whole night. I sat on a boulder i n a pool of water t i l l daybreak. We had but little to eat, though there was consolation in the fact that our guards had no more than we. A t this camp old man Voudoit came near dying. He had suffered a sort of sunstroke while on the march in the broiling sun.

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We set out early the next morning with only a few mouthfuls of rice for breakfast, and all chilled and soaked to the marrow. A g a i n the intense heat of the sun. Once more the rocky river-bed with the great boulders to clamber over, the banks to crawl up and down, the waters to wade. A t this time some of the men thought of attempting an escape, which could mean only a shot in the back and a quick way out of their troubles. Finally we struck a trail through the primeval forest—a mere path trodden in the thick undergrowth beneath the branches of mighty trees. So steep was the way that our weakened, foot sore men made prog ress only at the cost of constant suffering. There were monkeys in the trees, and they jabbered angrily and threw nuts and twigs at us as we passed. They afforded us some amusement, these monkeys, and we were interested in the bril liant plumage of the birds. Under proper conditions we should have enjoyed this novel journey from two to three thousand feet up the wild moun tain-side. N o w i t was like a long nightmare. THE

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and the people, bursting with curiosity, nearly mobbed us as we passed along the roads. They were not vindictive or rude, except in spots; in fact they were, for the most part, rather kindly. It was easy to see that curi osity was their predominant emotion. They not only wanted to see us but to touch us, to see how strong we were, what kind of teeth we had, i f we were built like other men. We learned that strange tales as to the physical characteristics of Americans had run all through these gossiping provinces, and this was the first opportunity the natives had had to see for themselves what the won derful strangers were like.

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After traveling forty miles or more along this winding, painful path we at last reached the level table-land and the town of Puntabanca. Here, as everywhere along our route, the news that the " Ame ricanos " were coming had attracted crowds of natives from all the surrounding re gion. It was like a circus in the country districts of America. We were the show,

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We were well received by the commandante of Puntabanca. His name was Maria, and he had been a captain in the Spanish army. But he had married Aguinaldo's niece —a love-match it was, so they told us—and had then taken an important command in the Filipino ranks. He made the men as com fortable as he could in the convent—at that time almost every church or convent in L u zon was a j a i l , a fortress, an arsenal, or a hospital—and he took me to his own house and gave me a good dinner. He appeared rather weary of his native associates, and glad of the chance to talk once more to a civilized and traveled man. This eastern part of Luzon was a rather poor sort of country. F o r miles and miles upon the table-land there was no cultivation. The hard, beaten road led across a barren waste baked in the sun of centuries. In other sections there were bamboo huts scat tered about in the woods, surrounded by lit tle patches of tilled ground devoted to vege tables and tobacco. There were no fences, no marking of the dividing line between one plantation and another. Off the main road, which had been built by the Spanish military officers, there were only trails through the brush. These farmers had but few live stock ; here and there a caraboo might be seen dragging a great cart staggering along on its clumsy wooden wheels, or patiently pulling a primitive wooden plow through the black soil. Round every farm-house s w a r m e d c h i c k e n s and o t h e r fowl. Rice, vege tables, and chick ens are almost the only articles of food the natives know. The people came out of the brush and lined the trail to see us pass. They were docile enough, almost like children. Nearly all of them were wretchedly clothed, many being almost naked. Y e t we could not fairly call them an uncivilized people—only their civilization, like that of all peoples under Spanish rule, was a couple of centuries behind the times. In every little bamboo hut there was a book or two. The people spoke to us in Spanish or Tagal. A l l were eager to learn English. One native, wearing not much

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more than a breech-clout and a smile of child-like pride, sang out to me, " Hello! " as I passed him, and his comrades looked up to him with increased respect because of his mastery of that one English word. Now and then we came upon a little village—a few score bamboo huts clustered about a brick or wooden church with its convent annex. The priests or friars in charge of these buildings received us in a kindly way and gave us food. It was easy to see they were the civil as well as the spiritual leaders, the dominating force of their communities. One good thing they did—they kept school in every village, and the native children were compelled to attend. We were nearly as naked as the poorest of the natives, though our skin had not been hardened through generations of exposure to the rays of the sun, and we were soon covered with blisters. Worse than all, our heads and feet were still bare. A t Puntabangua we were placed in charge of Captain Pading y G i l l , another former Spanish officer who had cast in his lot with the Filipinos. This officer, like all the Spaniards we met, treated us with consideration. He tried to procure clothing and shoes for us, but the best he could do in this little mountain ham let was to provide us with hats of native construction, and second-hand at that—enormous contrivances which looked like inverted wash basins. Wretched as we were, we laughed at one another and cracked our jokes as we set out upon our journey, so grotesque was our appearance. The captain, taking pity upon our bleeding feet, had procured us transportation, too. He meant it as a kindness, and so we could not well complain, but hard as it was to go on walki n g with bruised and blistered bare feet, most of us preferred it to riding a caraboo. These native oxen of the Filipinos are not easily managed. They are guided by a rope through their nostrils—three jerks for a turn to the left, one jerk for a turn to the right. Their sliding, reeling gait is something dreadful to the man sitting upon their back, and the saddle was never invented that could save him from being jolted and pounded into

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perpetual misery. If the caraboo is not watered every other hour he goes " waterm a d , " making the lot of his rider infinitely worse. A wonderful journey we had one night i n

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dense crowd of natives who fought with the guards for the privilege of getting close to the " A m e r i c a n o s . " Here the Spanish priests had told the people we were red In dians, who wore feathers in our hair and

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the soft moonlight—over precipitate moun tain spurs, down into gloomy, broken canons, crawling around immense boulders, fording swift streams, forcing our way through dense brushwood. So rough was the trail that even the caraboo could not keep their feet, and we had many tumbles. The scenery was most beautiful, and i f the caraboo had been a little surer-footed, if they had not jolted us till we were black and blue all over our bodies, i f the brush had not torn our scanty clothing and lacerated our poor flesh, we might have enjoyed the picturesque sur roundings. A t Bongabong we ran into a

scalped our victims in war. I think the priests got the notion from some old schoolbooks and really believed it themselves. One native woman followed me persistently, and finally, after much trouble, succeeded in getting close enough to pinch my arm and to ask in Spanish what I had done with my feathers. This childlike curiosity followed us wher ever we went. It really formed one of the most objectionable features of our captiv ity. When we arrived at Aguinaldo's cap ital, St. Isidro, several thousand people met us and hooted and jeered and called us all

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manner of vile names in Tagal and Spanish. Our sailormen, after the manner of their kind, hurled back at them as good as they sent, or perhaps I should say worse. This was one of the peculiarities of our little band—they did not appear to be afraid of anything in the island of Luzon. They ordered the guards about like servants, " sassed " the natives all along the road, blarneyed prison keepers and minor officials, and laughed in the faces of Filipino bravos who brandished bolos in their faces and threatened to disembowel them. I think this intrepidity of our men earned for us the respect of our captors. A t any rate, we were treated much better than the Spanish prisoners who at times formed part of our caravan. N o r were any of us ever flogged, as many of the Spanish prisoners were. In many ways we could see that the Filipinos had kindlier feelings toward Americans than for Spaniards, and they may have had a secret fear, too, that i n the end our people were going to get the upper hand of them, and punish them for all transgressions of military law. In the case of the Spaniards the Tagals were merely paying off old scores. A t St. Isidro the governor asked me the same questions which all the petty presidentes had asked in the villages along our route: " W h e r e were you captured?" " What were you doing there ? " " Why are the Americans, our former friends, now fighting us ? " This governor was a man of superior education. He had living with him as interpreter, David Brown, an EnglishCanadian prisoner, and was himself learning English. After cross-questioning me half an hour, and giving me a suit of undercloth ing, he sent me off to jail, where my men and many other American prisoners were confined. It was a crowded, filthy prison— why is it that Spanish jails the world over are so vile ?—and I was confined i n a room about fifteen by twenty-six feet along with a dozen native prisoners. Some of them were murderers, others thieves; but they treated me very well, spending most of their time gambling. The only complaint I had to make of them was their curiosity, the national weakness. Though I tried my best to secure a little privacy by rigging up a curtain in my corner of the room, my fellow-prisoners, male and female, were always spying upon me, particularly when I bathed. This curiosity was not confined to

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prisoners. After bathing a few days in a trough at the well in the prison court-yard, used by men and women together, I secured permission to go once a day to the river. The hour of our bathing was known to the townspeople, and it appeared to be quite an event in their daily lives, for they had a habit of gathering upon the river bank, men, women, and children, all smoking cigars, patiently waiting for a close view of the half-stripped " A m e r i c a n o s . " While we were at this j a i l about fifty Ne gritos were brought in from the front. They were all that remained of a regiment which had been forced to face our American troops, though armed only with bows and arrows, spears and bolos. It was simple murder to send these unwilling wretches to fight against modern magazine rifles, and this little band had refused to remain longer under fire. Then they were arrested and treated as com mon criminals. In prison they were miser ably fed, and their captors often forced them to show their games and war dances for our amusement. These Negritos were under sized, nearly naked, and remarkably ugly. They had all had their teeth filed down sharp, like the teeth of a saw. However, they were good-humored fellows, and we got along quite well with them. A l l they wanted was tobacco and something to gam ble with. Aguinaldo's capital was a well-built town with regular streets and many brick build ings, not unlike a European town of 8,000 or 10,000 population. The house occupied by the family of the insurgent chief was pointed out to us, but we did not see him; and as we were locked up all the time, of course we had no opportunity to ascertain what sort of a government organization he maintained there. In a few days there were rumors of a near approach of the American troops, and great excitement prevailed among the people. From our prison we could see them running to and fro. The streets were filled with caratons, or native carts, laden with all manner of household effects, and surrounded by panic-stricken, jabbering men, women, and children, breaking for the mountains. Once we thought we could hear the distant rumble of our artillery, and then it was our turn to become excited. Per haps rescue was at hand.

But no. Orders soon came to march, and in a few hours we were again on our weary way over the hills, through the mud, across the the rivers, from j a i l to jail in Luzon.

(To be concluded next month.)

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Fusionist county chairman, a little one-eyed ' W H Y certainly I'll dubate w i t h him of course why not, do you see? W h y old Mormon, w i t h a quaver i n G, and a stout looky here blank blankit i f he wants to du cane. " I admire your nerve, Bobbie, and all bate w i t h me why i n blank blank shouldn't I t h a t ; but Port Ricker's a lawyer, you want give him the chance, do you see ?" to remember, and a skilled debater ; and, on The speaker was Bobbie Grant, Populist top of that, he's unscrupulous, as everybody candidate for the Legislature. He spoke knows." very fast, i n the high-keyed voice common to " ' A w , skillt your left eye-winker! A n d a class of rural Nebraskans, without punc as for unscroopolous what the divvel has tuation until the end, where he turned the that got to do with it when I've got the right interrogation point upside down after his i n on my side, do you see ? "—the farmer smote evitable " d o you s e e ? " the a i r — " and most of the brains and the "That's a l l right, Bob," said Smith, the substance and the hard work of Nebraska at

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deed, I'll meet him, and so help me Bryan I'll not make any mistake, do you see ?" The emphatic Scotchman's primitive trust in the strength of his cause had convinced more pertinacious minds than that of the county chairman. " W e l l , well—as you will, Bobbie," said that official. "It's yourself that's running, to be sure ; and, i f you choose to accept the challenge, why, I say go i n and wipe up the Platte Valley w i t h him. How's your folks, now, Bob ? " The reply came i n an altered, lower tone, with a note of anxiety. " O n l y toler'ble, no more'n toler'ble, I might say, Joe, thank you. A s you know, the woman's ailin' consider'ble this fall— rheumatiz and such; and here lately it's 'fected her lungs. It was her account, as you know, I missed the meetin' at the Crick last week." " W e l l , don't worry on that score; our fences are a l l r i g h t out that way." The husband paid no attention to the po litical remark. " She ought to have let up on the work long 'go," he said, " but my g-goodness, she's that sot she just couldn't stop workin'. But good-day to you, Joe. Y o u can arrange the deetails of that dubate—any way suits me, only, say, put i t the last day 'fore e l e c t i o n grand climax, you know ; make i t a sort o' picnic for the folks—they mostly need it, workin' as they are night and day with the corn and the stock, do you see ? " The candidate hurried off before the manager had time to object to this most dangerous of a l l dates for what he considered a dangerous joint debate. But he reflected that a l l his efforts to make the farmer candidate see the wisdom of tactical politics had been breath wasted, and so he went forthwith and accepted the challenge officially. Y o u may be sure the challenger made no objection to the date so in nocently suggested by his adversary. The debate was fixed for the very last afternoon before the election, at Platteville, and out of doors i f the weather should permit. Ricker, the lawyer candidate, hugged him self with surprised delight when he learned that his loaded gauntlet was taken up so unsuspectingly. " Why, I'll make such a monkey of unscroopolous what the divvel has that got to do with it when I've got the right on my side . . ." Bob," he chuckled at headquarters,

me back, do you see ? Never you worry, old man, I reckon I'll have to do more or less of the give and take kind o' spoutin' up at L i n coln when I'm elected, and it's as well i f 1 get some practice this side the Roobicon, which is the N o r t h Platte, do you see ? " " But you're as good as elected now, Bob bie, my man. You've everything to lose and nothing to gain." " Well blank blankit I don't stand on that for a minute, blank blanked i f I do. If our side's right, blank blankit, i t ' l l win, spite o' dubates, grasshoppers, the divvel and the long drouth itself, do you see ? A n d what's more"—the candidate riveted the watery glance of the politician with his own honest eyes—" and what's more, me friend, Bobbie the Populist, blank blankit, is not the man to be afeared to stand up for what he repre sents, do you see ? W h y of course, yes in-

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Then the campaign waxed warm. Ricker, the lawyer, spoke twice a day—afternoon meetings at outlying crossroads (your simonpure farmer will not come to an evening meeting, as every political manager knows) —evenings i n the towns. The prospect of a tongue-to-tongue set-to with his inexperi enced antagonist at the critical moment put him in fine fettle. He went about with the air of confidence and good cheer of a man who expects to w i n . Sometimes, when his audience was one-sidedly cordial to his speech, he would throw out little daring prognostications of how he would carry the enemy's works by storm on the next to the last day. " Come and see the f u n ! " he shouted, and the good-natured rustics grinned and cheered and led him on. If his spirits were extremely high, perhaps he would throw reserve to the winds and troll out jauntily— Went to the animal fair, A l l the Pops were there ;

" The lawyer launched into his set campaign speech."

" there won't be a jack-rabbit in the county but w i l l be ashamed to vote for him next day." A l l the particulars were arranged, and Platteville and the country round billed ac cordingly. Half-sheet posters in gorgeous red and green types announced : UNPRECEDENTED

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and he and everybody laughed boisterously over the conjured scene of Bobbie's rhetori cal discomfiting, and the exposé of his A r cadian unfitness for the office of legislator to the mighty interests of Nebraska. Bobbie, meanwhile, pursued the even tenor of his own campaign. A s the weeks sped and the days before the " big dubate," as he called it, became few, and he heard of Rick e t s boasts, he was not disconcerted. He was the same emphatic, profane, genial Bob. " A r e you shiverin', Bob ? " a member of his audience called up to him once. " Pshaw ! don't be silly," said G r a n t ; " w h y i n — " he checked himself—"why should a fellow shiver ? There's nought but one side to this thing, as it happens, and that's the side we happen to stand on, do you see ? " He had trained himself to leave off the blankityblanks in his public speeches ; but the " do you s e e ? " i f he was momentarily off his guard, stuck, and, I think, lost him no votes. He, like Ricker, as epilogue to his speech these last days and nights, invited his hear ers to come to the " b i g dubate," but he never permitted himself to be drawn into any boast that he would have the advantage. Some one asked from the crowd : " What you goin' do to him, Bobbie ?" and the hirsute Bobbie looked bland and replied, " Why, haven't you heard ? it's a joint dubate— stand up and knock down argufying, halfhour rounds, do you see?—come, and bring the women and the babies ! " A n d the

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women agreed that Robbie Grant did have a " way with him." But these final days, those close to Grant when the meetings adjourned marked the disappearance of the confident look, and the coming in its place of a worried expression and a glance less stout-hearted. " H o w is the woman to-day, Bob ?" they would ask sympathetically, and the big fellow answered only by a slow, solemn shake of the head. " F i r s t time I ever seen Bob when he wasn't cock-sure, dead certain, and blankityblank blank about a thing, do you see ?" said Somerville, the wag, aside. The afternoon of Monday, the fifth, the day before election, was crystalline. The November sun seeped through the rifts of the cottonwood trees, warming the air to a sparkling tonic, so that i t was like a per fectly mellowed wine. The farmers and small merchants and their families assembled in holiday spirits. Old men were seen arguing the issue earnestly with their brawny sons ; wives sought to convince other wives; sweet hearts in self-conscious white shoes bandied the ball of debate, and opposition babes cooed and crowed at one another over their mothers' shoulders. Two o'clock came, and the meeting was not called to order. The minutes slipped by, and the murmur was passed round that one of the speakers was late. A t 2.30 the party managers and the vice-presidents of the meeting, the chairman, and one of the candi dates climbed the flag-crowned creaking platform gingerly. Voices everywhere de manded, " Where is Bobbie Grant ? " Somer ville, the wag, cried, " Bobbie's turned up missin'," and there was a laugh. Populist faces grew long and those of the opposition triumphant. " Backed down !" hazarded a fellow nobody knew, evidently from the marches. HalfRome frowned, the other Half-Rome cheered at first, and then thought better of i t and smothered the cheer. The chairman of the meeting used his gavel. " So far," said he, " Mr. Grant has not put in an appearance. He is doubtless detained unavoidably. A s for backing down, I think I may say that no one who has even so much as a bowing acquaintance with a single hair of Bobbie Grant's whiskers would dream of hinting at such a thing." The entire audience cheered. The chair man was the Platteville patriarch, beloved of all, and was known as a pronounced enemy of what he called the Don Quixote school of bewhiskered politics ; so that his defense of

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the absent candidate was especially gratify ing as a piece of fair play. Ricker, the lawyer, who sat on the stage complacently twirling his black mustache, cheered with the loudest of them. ' One of his trump cards was the admission of his opponent's solid human traits ; he was content to argue that these alone could not make a statesman. His friends now called him to his feet. He re sponded gracefully, beginning by saying that he would be the most disappointed man on the ground " if Bobbie didn't show up." A voice : " What were you goin' to do to him, P o r t ? " " O h , nothing much," came the ready answer from the speaker. The crowd applauded, and he added rather importu nately : " In fact, I didn't intend to do a thing to him." A t this went up a howl of delight, which, however, was not general. Bobbie's friends began to drop away from the edges of the gathering, then rapidly the meeting passed into the hands of the other side. The lawyer candidate launched into his set campaign speech. Smith, the Fusionist county chair man, tried to interrupt him to say that a messenger had been dispatched on horseback to M r . Grant's house, but the audience jeered and yelled, " S i t down, Smith !" The next thirty minutes were about the longest one-half of that multitude had ever waited out. D r i f t i n g from the crowd, they met in knots of eight and ten about the grove to discuss in low, serious voices the surpris ing turn affairs had taken. " It will kill him at the polls," said many. " It w i l l , " others assented, " unless he ex plains mighty handily, mighty soon." " I bet his woman's worse," guessed one man. " I e x p e c t ; she's been right poorly here lately." Here and there a man speculated that per haps, after all, i t was best for Bobbie that he had stayed away. " Port's a powerful sharp 'un." B u t the farmer's backers would hear no apology for their favorite ; they were as sure he would have come off with glory i f he had met the appointment as they were that he was staunch to the last and that his absence would be well accounted for. A t length the messenger was descried re turning down the road full gallop. While they waited impatiently the countrymen made small wagers on the character of Bob's ex planation. " Bet a heifer it's his woman." The odds were four to one that Bob's " w o m a n " had

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An uncertainsilencefollowed the sensational announcement."

had a " sudden turn." They gathered about the messenger as he rode up, demanding to know his news. B u t this the young man re fused to disclose to any but his chief, Chair man Smith of the Fusion organization. To that little man on the platform he elbowed his way w i t h some difficulty, and there was a whispered report lasting some seconds. The audience fidgeted and coughed through the awkward suspense. R i c k e r had politely left off speaking when the courier arrived, and he, too, looked around quizzically to Smith for the expected explanation. When the ex-Mormon arose y o u could have heard a pin drop. Smith was no hand at public

speaking, and wisely made short shrift of the intelligence he had to impart. " The simple fact is, ladies and gentlemen," said he, coming forward, " M r . Grant is staying at home w i t h his wife. . . . . No, she is not worse—at least, he doesn't say she is worse—but she is poorly, very poorly, as we know, and i t turns out that this is her birthday. Bob says he never once thought about the day before election being the fifth of November, or of course he would not have agreed to this date for the debate, much less suggested it himself. He further says that to-day, w i t h all their talk and thought i n connection w i t h the an-

". .

. He forgot

all about the debate."

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niversary, he forgot a l l about the debate until the messenger arrived. He says that he has always made it a rule to spend this anniversary by his wife's side, and could not think of leaving her now, especially as she is very sick. I may suggest that it will be hard for us to blame him when we con sider that he probably feels this may be the last time they w i l l celebrate her birthday together. Bob sends his apologies for dis appointing the audience, his opponent, and the officers of this meeting." A n uncertain silence followed the sensa tional announcement. The situation was un usual, and not what had been expected. When at length the stillness was broken, i t was broken by none other than Ricker, the Re publican candidate, and what he did was to nod his head in decided approval and set up a vigorous hand-clapping. The audience took the cue instantly, and cheer upon cheer went up for the devoted Bobbie, making an ovation such as few men are ever honored with in our matter-of-fact political life. Pop ulists forgot they were Populists, and Repub licans that they were Republicans ; all joined together i n unfeigned homage to the chivalry of the absent candidate. A f t e r the demonstration the meeting

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quickly dissolved. The people appeared quite to have transcended political matters. Neighbors who had begun the afternoon with bandying the thread-worn arguments of the campaign now exchanged kindly greet ings in modulated voices. Pairs of sweet hearts drove away with subdued glances to be by themselves. Good wives had tender words and inquiries for good wives, and the children nestled sleepily amid the straw in the wagons. The " b i g dubate" was a thing of the past. The teams rattled off along the road, separated at the forks, and scattered homeward over the prairie. The following winter, in the halls of legis lation at the State Capitol, one of the notable figures among the new members was a very tall, broad-shouldered, Scotchy man w i t h at tenuated whiskers, who wore a wide black band around his hat. His fellow members listened respectfully when he addressed the House—which, however, was not often—and, when they approached, spoke to him with awed voices, remembering the story that had gone the rounds in the lobby and the committee rooms of the member from Vista's joint-debate.

THIRTY Y E A R S AGO. B Y E . S. M A R T I N . READ

AT PHILLIPS ACADEMY, ANDOVER,

COMMENCEMENT,

JUNE

W E learned some L a t i n thirty years ago, Some G r e e k ; some other things—geometry; Baseball; great store of rules by which to know When thus was so, and i f it was so, why. And every day due share of pie we ate, A n d Sunday under hour-long sermons sate, A n d thrived on both ; a sound New England diet, And orthodox.

L e t him who will decry i t .

We spoke our L a t i n i n the plain old way. Tully was Cicero to Uncle Sam, A n d Caesar, Caesar.

Footballs in our day

Were spheres of rubber s t i l l .

When Autumn came

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We kicked them, chasing after; but the sport Was a mere pastime, not at all the sort Of combat,—strenuous, Homeric,

fateful,—

Whence heroes now wrest glory by the plateful.

The higher criticism was an infant then. Curved pitching had not come, nor yellow shoes, Nor bikes, nor telephones, nor golf, nor men In knickerbockers.

No one thought to use

Electric force to haul folks up a h i l l . We walked, or rode on Concord coaches s t i l l ; Expansion's quirks stirred then no fiercer tussles Than such as vexed the growing vogue of bustles.

Girls then, as now, to seminaries went, But not so much as now to colleges. The female understanding's scope and bent Was thought to crave a round of 'ologies Less full than man's.

W e ' v e learned, i t seems, since then

That women need whatever's good for men, And that, though boys are tough and girls more tender, Knowledge is power, without regard to gender.

The shade austere of Puritan restraint Showed sharper outlines, may be, then than now. But not to hurt.

F o r now the old complaint

Of joys curtailed, gives place to wonder how, 'Twixt stress of sports and pleasant things to do, And waxing claims of growing knowledge too, The modern lad gets time to feel the joy It was, and still must be, to be a boy.

A checkered j o y !

Progress is man's desire.

And boys progress with swifter strides than men To greater changes.

L i t t l e boys aspire

To bigness, and it comes; nor turn again Regretful eyes toward childhood.

To grow strong,

And apt, and swift; to l e a r n ; to press along Up life's first steeps and glory in each r i s e , — That's boyhood, as i t seems to older eyes.

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Time dwarfs the bulk of most material things. The giants of our youth less monstrous seem, Its wonders shrink when wider knowledge brings The great world's standards to amend our dream. But youth itself to backward glances looms Up bigger than i t is.

The boy assumes,

To eyes that comprehend, the form and place That gathering years may summon him to grace.

A n d what place is it he should strive to gain ? What ends achieve, to what his powers apply ? The same old simple precepts still obtain That served for all men fit to pattern by. Dear lads, we say, the greatest thing on earth Is service: that's what justifies our birth. Life can't be made worth living to a shirk. Y o u can't have even fun, unless you work.

Go make your bodies strong, your minds alert; Train both to do for you the most they can. L i f e ' s goal no runner reaches by a spurt; Doing the daily stint's what makes the man. A n d making men is Nature's chief concern; F o r right men bring things right, each in its turn. Strive then to help yourselves, and that much learned, Help others; nowise else contentment's

earned.

Oh, money's good to have, and fame is sweet, And leisure has its use, and sport its joys. Go win them, i f you may, and speed your feet! But this r e g a r d : that even splendid toys Are only toys : the important thing's not play, But work.

Who shun the burden of the day

Shall miss as well the strength they gain who bear i t ; The fellowship they only feel who share i t .

"SHE

DREW

HERSELF

INTO

A BALL,

WITH

HER HEAD

NEEDLES

ON A

DOWN

A N D H E R QUILLS

STANDING OUT

PIN-CUSHION."

At the slightest prospect of being attacked, the porcupine immediately turns tail to his would-be assailant, for therein is his one and only method of defense, one that is quite effective with most of his enemies. His tail, which is wonderfully quick to strike at anything within its reach, is hard and heavy, and is well supplied with quills. Another reason for not facing his enemies is that while a stroke from a stick on the back will seldom injure the "fretful porcupine," it requires but a slight blow on the head to either stun or kill him. Thus it is that instinct leads even the young animal to protect its head and let other parts take care of themselvesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; ARTIST'S NOTE.

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The climbing ability shown by porcupines seems entirely foreign to their somewhat clumsy build. A tree with fairly rough bark is climbed, with the greatest ease and considerable speed. About a minute is occupied in reach ing a height of sixty or eighty feet.—ARTIST'S

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HISTORY

DAVENPORT

OF WILD

PORCUPINES

RADCLYFFE

OP A

HULBERT. TAKEN

MICHIGAN

THE original owner of this quill was born i n a hollow hemlock log that lay beside the Glimmerglass, on a wild A p r i l morning when the north wind was whip ping the lake with snow, and when the winter seemed to have come back for a season. The G l i m m e r g l a s s was neither glimmering nor glassy that morning, but he and his mother were snug and warm in their wooden nest, and they cared little for the storm that was raging outside. It has been said that porcupines lay eggs, the hard, smooth shells of which are furnished by a kind and thoughtful providence for the pur pose of protecting the

EXPRESSLY

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DUGMORE.

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mothers from their prickly offspring until the latter have fairly begun their independent existence. Other people say that two babies arrive at once, and that one of them is always dead before i t is born. But when my Por cupine discovered America, he had neither a shell on his back nor a dead twin brother by his side. Neither was he prickly. He was covered all over w i t h soft, furry, dark-brown hair. I f you had searched carefully along the middle of his back you might possibly have found the points of the first quills, just peep ing through the skin ; but as yet the thick fur hid them from sight and touch, unless you knew just where and how to look for them. He was a very large baby, larger even than a new-born bear cub, and he grew rapidly, as porcupine babies always do. L o n g hairs, tipped with yellowish-white, came out through the dense f u r ; and by and by the quills began to show. His teeth were lengthening, also, as his mother very well knew ; and, between the sharp things i n his mouth and those on his back and sides, he was fast becoming a very formidable nurs ling. Before he was two months old she was forced to wean him, but by that time he

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was quite able to travel down to the beach and feast on the tender lily-pads and arrow head leaves that grew in the shallow water, within easy reach from fallen and half-sub merged tree-trunks. One June day, as he and his mother were fishing for lily-pads, each of them out on the end of a big log, a boy came down the steep bank that rose almost from the water's edge. He was a strange-looking boy, not the kind that you would enjoy meeting. His clothes were dirty and torn, and his face was in much the same condition. His hat was gone, and his hair had not seen a comb for weeks. The mosquitoes and black flies and " no-seeem's" had bitten him until his skin was covered with blotches and his eye-lids were so swollen that he could hardly see. But worst of all was his look of hunger, of utter famine and starvation. There was almost nothing left of him but skin and bones, and his clothing hung upon him as it would on a framework of sticks. His face brightened a very little when he saw the old she-porcupine, and he picked up a heavy stick and waded out beside her log. She clacked her teeth together angrily as he approached, but he paid no attention. Then she drew herself into a ball, with her head down and her nose covered by her fore-paws. Across her back and down each side was a belt or girdle of quills, the longest and heaviest on her whole body, which could be erected at will ; and now they stood as erect as young spruce-trees. Their tips were dark brown, but the rest of their length was nearly white, and looking at her from behind she seemed to have a pointed white ruffle, edged with black, tied around her body. But the boy wasn't thinking about ruffles. He gave her such a thrust with his stick that she had to grab at the log with both forepaws to keep from being shoved into the water, and he lifted his weapon and brought it down across her unprotected nose, once, twice, three times. Then he picked her up by one foot, very gingerly, and carried her off; and that was the last that our Porcu pine ever saw of his mother. Perhaps we had best follow her up and see what finally became of her. Half a mile from the scene of the murder the boy came upon a woman and a little g i r l . I sha'n't try to describe them, except to say that they were even worse off than he. Perhaps you read in the papers, some years ago, about the woman and the two children who were lost for several weeks in the woods of northern Michigan.

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" I've killed a porky," said the boy. He dropped his burden on the ground, and they all stood around and looked at i t . They were hungry—oh, so hungry !—but for some reason they did not seem very eager to begin. A n old porcupine with her clothes on is not the most attractive of feasts, and they had no knife with which to skin the animal, no salt to season the meat, no fire to cook it, and no matches with which to start one. Rubbing two sticks together is a very good way of making a fire when you are in a book, but it doesn't work very well i n the Great Tahquamenon Swamp. A n d yet, somehow or other—I don't know how, and I don't want to—they ate that porcupine, and it did them good. When the searchers found them, a week or two later, the woman and boy were dead, but the g i r l was alive, and for a l l I know she is living to this day. L e t us return to the Glimmerglass. The young Porcupine ought to have mourned deeply for his mother, but I grieve to say that he did nothing of the kind. I doubt if he was even very lonesome. He certainly managed very well without her, and dis pensed with her much more easily than the woman and the boy and g i r l could have. He watched stolidly while the boy killed her and carried her off, and a little later he was eating lily-pads again. In truth, he had some very good reasons for being satisfied with his prospects in life. He knew pretty well how to take care of himself, for that is a kind of knowledge which comes early to young porcupines. His quills would protect him from most of his enemies, perhaps from all of them. And, best of all, he need never suffer from a scar city of food. Of a l l the animals in the woods, the porcupine is probably the safest from starvation, for he can eat anything, from the soft green leaves of the waterplants to the bark and the small twigs of the tallest hemlock. Summer and winter, his storehouse is always full. The young lions may lack, and suffer hunger, and seek their meat from God ; but the young porky has only to climb a tree and set his teeth at work. And, by the way, the Porcupine's front teeth were a great institution, and were quite worth talking about. They were long and yellow and sharp, and there were two in the upper jaw and two i n the lower, with a wide gap on each side between them and the molars. L i k e a beaver's, they were formed of thin shells of hard enamel in front, backed up by softer pulp behind ; and of course the

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softer parts wore away first and left the enamel projecting i n sharp, chisel-like edges that could gnaw crumbs from a hickory axehandle. The next few months were pleasant ones, w i t h plenty to eat, and nothing to do but keep his jaws going. B y and by the leaves began to fall, and whenever the P o r k y walked abroad they rustled around him like a silk skirt going down the aisle of a church. A little later the beechnuts came down from the sky, and the P o r k y feasted on them t i l l his short legs could hardly hold his fat little belly off the ground. Then came the first light snow, and his feet left tracks which bore a faint resem blance to a baby's—that is, i f your imagina tion was sufficiently vigorous. It grew deeper and deeper, and after a while he had to fairly plow his way from the hollow log to the trees where he took his meals. It was hard work, for his clumsy legs were not made for wading, and at every, step he had

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to lift and drag himself forward, and then let his body drop while he shifted his feet. A porcupine's feet will not go of themselves, as other animals' do. They have to be picked up one at a time and lifted forward as far as they can reach—not very far, at the best, for they are situated at the ends of very short legs. It almost seems as i f he could run faster i f he could drop them off and leave them behind. But no matter how dif ficult the walk might be, there was always a good square meal at the end of it, and he pushed valiantly on till he reached his dinnertable. Sometimes he stayed in the same tree for several days at a time, quenching his thirst with snow, and sleeping in a crotch. He was not by any means the only porcu pine in the woods around the Glimmerglass, although weeks sometimes passed without his seeing any of his relatives. A t other times there were from one to half a dozen porkies i n the trees close by, and when they happened to feel like i t they would call back

AND MIGHT

CHEWED

HAVE

AND

GNAWED

IT W I T H

RELISH

ENVIED."

The porcupine's love of salt, and in fact of anything that has been used by human beings, leads him, often at cost of his life, to visit camps, not only those that are deserted, but also those in use. Everything, even old clothes, is eaten with a relish. One animal even went so far in his fearless explorations as to smell my man's face as he lay asleep on the ground. Luckily the fellow realized the situation and refrained from striking the " hedgehog" with his hand.—ARTIST'S NOTE.

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and forth to each other in queer, harsh, and often querulous voices. One afternoon, when he and another por cupine were occupying trees next each other, two land-lookers came along and camped for the night between them. Earlier in the day the men had crossed the trail of a pack of wolves, and they talked of it as they cut their firewood, and, with all the skill of the voyageurs of old, cooked their scanty supper, and made their bed of balsam boughs. The half-breed was much afraid that they would have visitors before morning, but the white man only laughed at the idea. The meal was hardly finished when they lay down be tween the blankets, the white man to sleep, and the half-breed to lie awake and listen, listen, listen, for the coming of the wolves. Beyond the camp-fire's little circle of ruddy light the vague shadows were moving mys teriously, as i f living things were prowling about among the trees and only waiting for him to fall asleep. Y e t there was no wolfhowl to be heard, nothing at all to break the dead silence of the winter night, save per haps the causeless dropping of a dead branch, or the splitting open of a tree-trunk torn apart by the frost. A n d by and by, in spite of himself, the half-breed's eyelids began to droop. But somebody else was awake—awake, and tempted with a great temptation. One of the porcupines—not ours, but the other —had caught the fragrance of coffee and frying bacon. Here were new odors, differ

ent from anything that had ever before tickled his nose, strange, but indescribably delicious. He waited t i l l the land-lookers were snoring, and then he started down the tree. Half-way to the ground he encoun tered the cloud of smoke that rose from the camp-fire. Here was another new odor, but with nothing pleasant about it. It stung his nostrils and made his eyes smart, and he scrambled up again as fast as he could go, his claws and quills r a t t l i n g on the bark. The half-breed woke w i t h a start. He had heard something. He was sure he had ; the wolves were coming, and he gave the white man a punch i n the ribs. " Wake up, wake up, m'shoor ! " he whis pered excitedly. " The wolves are coming. I can hear them on the snow." The white man was up in a twinkling, but by that time the porcupine had settled him self in a crotch out of reach of the smoke, and the woods were silent again. The two men listened w i t h all their ears, but there was not a sound to be heard. " Y o u must have been dreaming, Louis." The half-breed insisted that he had really heard the patter of the wolves' feet on the snow-crust, but the timber-cruiser laughed at him and lay down to sleep again. A n hour later the performance was repeated, and this time the white man was angry. " D o n ' t you wake me up again, Louis. You're so rattled you don't know what you're doing." Louis was silenced, but not convinced, and

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R A P I D L Y M A D E HIS W A Y TO T H E B E A C H . "

Only when forced to it does the porcupine take to the water, and then only with an expression of utter disgust. In the above photograph the characteristic swimming position is correctly shown. The tail being very heavy, sinks, and cannot of course be seen in the pic ture. The tuft of hair on the back and the quills are elevated just as when the animal fears attack.—ARTIST'S NOTE.

now he did not let himself go to sleep. The fire was dying down, and little by little the smoke-cloud grew thinner and thinner until it disappeared entirely. Then the half-breed heard the same sound again, and his wide awake ears told him that it came from the tree overhead, and not from across the snow. He waited and watched, and presently a dark brown animal, two or three feet in length, and about the shape of an egg, came scrambling cautiously down the trunk. The visitor reached the ground i n safety, and searched among the t i n plates and the knives and forks until he found a piece of bacon rind ; but he got just one taste of the tidbit for which he was giving his life, and then Louis hit him on the head with a club. N e x t morning the land-lookers had porcupine soup for breakfast, and they afterward told me that i t was very good indeed. Our P o r k y had seen i t a l l . He waited t i l l the men had tramped away through the woods, with their packs on their shoulders and their snow-shoes on their feet, and then he too came down from his tree on a tour of investigation. H i s friend's skin lay on the snow not very far away, but he paid no attention to it. The bacon rind was what interested him most, and he chewed and gnawed at i t with a relish that an epicure might have envied. It was the first time i n all his gluttonous little life that he had ever

tasted salt or the flavor of wood-smoke ; and neither lily-pads, nor beechnuts, nor berries, nor anything else i n all the woods, could compare with it. Life was worth living, if only for this one meal ; and, perhaps—I don't say positively, but perhaps—he stowed a dim memory of it away i n some dark cor ner of his brain, and hoped that fortune would some day be good to him and send him another bacon rind. The long, long winter dragged slowly on ward, the snow piled up higher and deeper, and the cold grew sharper and keener. Night after night the pitiless stars seemed sucking every last bit of warmth out of the old earth, and leaving it cold and dead for ever. A n d famine, too, came stalking through the woods. The buck and the doe had to live on hemlock twigs t i l l they grew thin and poor, and their flesh came to have the flavor of resin. The partridges, huddled together to keep warm during some driving storm, were buried i n a drift ; the hard, icy crust closed over them, and they starved to death. The lynxes and the wild cats hunted and hunted, and hunted, and found no prey ; and it was well for the bears and the woodchucks that they could sleep all winter and did not need food. Only the Porcupine had plenty and to spare. Starvation had no terrors for him.

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QUILL. wriggled its way nearer and nearer to where the jugular vein was waiting to be tapped. The fisher must have under stood his business, for he had chosen the one and only way by which a porcupine may be successfully attacked. Another inch and he would have won the game, but he was in such a hurry that he grew careless and reckless, and did not no tice that he had wheeled part way round, and that his hind quarters were alongside the Porcupine's.

Now, sluggish and slow though a porcupine may be, there is one of his members that is as quick as a steel trap, and that is his tail. Something hit the fisher a whack on his flank, and he gave a cry of pain and fury, and jumped back with half a dozen spears sticking in his flesh. He must have been so badly rattled that he did not know what he was doing, for before he knew i t his face also had come within range of that terrible tail and its quick, vicious jerks. That ended the battle, and he fled away across " HIGH U P IN T H E TOP O F A T A L L T R E E . " the snow, almost mad with the During the month of May (perhaps also at other times), the porcupines are heard agony in his nose, his eyes, his at night and during the early hours of the morning calling to each other from the trees. forehead, and his left flank. The note is a very peculiar harsh low squeak or grunt, and from what I could observe is used not only as a call to mates but to offspring. One old mother, I noticed, called repeatedly to her partly grown youngster that had climbed into an adjoining tree.— ARTIST'S NOTE.

Yet the hunger of another may seem dan ger for us, as the Porcupine discovered. In ordinary times most of the animals let him severely alone. They knew better than to attack such a living pin-cushion as he ; or, if they did try it, one touch was generally enough. But when you are ready to perish with hunger you will take risks which at other times you would not even think about, and so it happened that one afternoon a fierce-looking animal, with dark fur, bushy tail, and pointed nose, sprang at the Porcu pine from behind a tree and tried to catch him by the throat, where there were no quills; nothing but soft, warm fur. The Porky promptly made himself into a prickly ball, very much as his mother had done seven or eight months before, his head to the ground and his fore-paws clasped over his face ; but the sharp little nose dug into the snow and

The bay lynx fared still worse, for he did not know the very first thing about the proper way to hunt porcupines. He ought not to have tried it at all, but he was liter ally starving, and the temptation was too much for him. Here was something alive, something that had warm red blood in its veins and a good thick layer of flesh over its bones, and that was too slow to get away from him; and so he sailed right in, tooth and claw, re gardless of the consequences. The next second he had forgot all about the Porcu pine, his own hunger, and everthing else but the terrible pain in his face and his forepaws. He made the woods fairly r i n g with his howls, and he jumped up and down on the snow-crust, rubbing his head with his paws, and driving the little barbed spears deeper and deeper into the flesh. A n d then, all of a sudden, he ceased his leaping and bounding and howling, and dropped on the snow i n a limp, lifeless heap, dead as last summer's

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lily-pads. One of the quills had driven straight through his left eye and into his brain. Was it any wonder if the Porcupine came to think himself invulner able ? Even a northern Michigan winter has its ending, and at last there came an evening when all the porcupines in the woods around the Glimmerglass were calling to each other, from one tree to another. They couldn't help it. There was something in the air that stirred even their sluggish blood to a vague restlessness and uneasi ness, and our own particular Porky sat up in the top of a tall hemlock and sang. Not like Jenny Lind, nor yet like a thrush or a bluebird; but his harsh voice went squealing up and down the scale in a way that was all his own, without time or rhythm or melody, in the wildest, strangest music that ever woke the silent woods. I don't believe that he himself quite knew what he meant or why he did it. Cer tainly no one else could have ASLEEP. told, unless it was some wander ing Indian or trapper who may All the porcupines observed during my trip in the woods slept thus on the have heard the queer voices branch of a tree, with their weight resting on the hind feet, while the fore feet clasped part of the branch. One I noticed sat on a branch while his fore feet held on and prophesied that a thaw ato higher a branch of an adjoining tree. The animal remained in this position during the was coming. entire morning, stretching and contracting as the two trees swayed back and forth in The thaw arrived next day, and it proved to be the begin ning of spring. The summer followed as fast while they were pushing and shoving and as it could, and again the lily-pads were green growling and snarling with all their might; and succulent in the shallow water along the each doing his best to drive the other off edge of the Glimmerglass, and again the the log and into the water. They did not Porcupine wandered down to the beach to bite—perhaps they had agreed that teeth feed upon them, discarding for a time his like theirs were too cruel to be used in civ winter diet of bark and twigs. Why should ilized warfare—but they struggled and chat one live on rye bread when one can have tered and swore at each other, and made all sorts of queer noises while they fought their cake and ice-cream ? And there among the bulrushes, one bright funny little battle. It did not last long. June morning, he had a fight with one of his Our Porky was the stronger, and his rival own kind. Just as he was approaching his was driven backward little by little till he favorite log, two other porcupines appeared, lost his hold completely and slipped into the coming from different directions, one a male lake. He came to the surface at once, and and the other a female. They all scrambled quickly swam to the shore, where he chat out upon the log, one after another, but it tered angrily for a few minutes, and then, soon became evident that three was a crowd. like the sensible bachelor that he was, wan Our Porky and the other bachelor could not dered off up the beach in search of other agree at all. They both wanted the same worlds more easily conquered. There was place and the same lily-pads, and in a little peace on our Porky's log, and the lily-pads the

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that grew beside it had never been as fresh dropped, but not into the water. He landed in the bow of the canoe, and the horrified and juicy as they were that morning. Two months later, on a hot August after look on my friend's face was a delight to noon, I was paddling along the edge of the see. The Porky was wide awake by this Glimmerglass in company with a friend of time, for I could hear his teeth clacking mine, each of us in a small dug-out canoe, as he advanced to the attack. when we found the Porky asleep in the " Great Scott ! He's coming straight at sunshine. Pie was lying on the nearly hor m e ! " izontal trunk of a tree whose roots had The Porcupine was certainly game. I been undermined by the waves till it leaned saw the paddle rise in the air and come down far out over the lake, hardly more than a foot with a tremendous whack, but it seemed to from the water. have little effect. The animal's coat of My friend, by the way, is the foreman of quills and bristles and fur was so thick that a lumber camp. He has served in the Brit a blow on the back did not trouble him much. ish army, has hunted whales off the coast of If my friend could have struck him across Greenland, married a wife in Grand Rapids, the nose it would have ended the matter and run a street-car in Chicago; and now then and there, but the canoe was too nar he is snaking logs out of the Michigan row and its sides too high for a crosswise woods. He is quite a chunk of a man, tall stroke. He tried thrusting, but that was and decidedly well set up, and it would take no better. When a good-sized porcupine a pretty good prize-fighter to whip him ; has really made up his mind to go some but one must remember that a porcupine at where, it takes more than a punch with the close quarters is worse than a trained pugil end of a stick to stop him ; and this porky had fully determined to go aft and get ac ist. "Look at that Porky," he called to me. quainted with the foreman. My friend "I'm going to run my canoe against the couldn't even kick, for he was kneeling on tree and knock him off into the water. Just the bottom of the dug-out, and his feet were behind him. If he tried to stand up he you watch and you'll see some fun." I was somewhat uncertain whether the would probably capsize. joke would ultimately be on the Porcupine "Say, Hulbert, what am I going to do ?" or the man, but it was pretty sure to be a I didn't give him any advice, for my sym joke worth seeing, one way or the other, pathies were largely with the Porcupine. so I laid my paddle down and awaited devel Besides, I hadn't any advice to give, and I opments. Bang! went the nose of the am not sure that I could have spoken if I dug-out against the tree, and the Porcupine had tried. Just then the canoe drifted

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around so that I could look into i t ; and I beheld the Porcupine bearing down on my helpless friend like Birnam Wood on its way to Dunsinane, his ruffle of quills erect, fire in his little black eyes, and a thirst for ven geance in his whole aspect. My friend made one or two final and ineffectual jabs at him, and then gave up. " It's no use," he called, " I'll have to tip over" ; and the next second the canoe was upside down and both belligerents were in the water. The Porcupine floated high—I suppose his hollow quills helped to keep him up—and he proved a much better swimmer than I had expected, for he quickly made his way to the beach and disappeared in the woods, still chattering disrespectfully. My friend waded ashore, righted his canoe, and we resumed our journey. I don't think I'll tell you what he said. He got over it after a while, and in the end he probably enjoyed his joke more than if it had turned out as he had intended.

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same speed, stopped again, and began a third time. And so it kept on, chewing and paus ing, chewing and pausing, with always just so many chews to the second, and just so many seconds to each rest. The mossback was wide awake now, and he muttered some thing about " another of those pesky porcu pines." He had killed the last one that had come around the house, and had wanted his wife to cook it for dinner and see how it tasted, but she wouldn't. She said that the very sight of it was enough for her, and more than enough ; and that it was all she could do to eat pork and potatoes after looking at it. He turned over and tried to go to sleep again, but without success. That steady " chew-chew-chew ' ' was enough to keep a woodchuck awake, and at last he got up and went to the door. The moonlight on the snow was almost as bright as day, and there was the Porcupine, leaning against the side of the barn and busily rasping the wood from around the head of a rusty nail. The mossback threw a stick of stove-wood at The summer followed the winter into the him, and he lumbered clumsily away across past, and the Moon of Falling Leaves came the snow. Twenty minutes later he was round again. The Porcupine was not alone. back again, and this time he marched Another Porky was with him, and the two straight into the open shed at the back of seemed very good friends. In fact, his the house and began operations on a washcompanion was the same lady porcupine who tub, whose mingled flavor of soap and hu had stood by while he fought the battle of manity was quite irresistible. Again the the log and the lily-pads, though I do not mossback appeared in the doorway, shiver suppose that they had been keeping company ing a little in his night-shirt. all those months, and I am by no means The Porcupine was at the foot of the certain that they remembered that eventful steps. He had stopped chewing when the morning. Let us hope that they did, for the door opened, and now he lifted his forepaws . sake of the story. Who knows how much and sat half-erect, his yellow teeth showing or how little of love was stirring the slow between his parted lips, and his little eyes currents of their sluggish natures—of the staring at the lamp which the mossback car love that keeps the buck beside the doe in ried. The quills slanted backward from all the hour of danger, and that binds the dove around his diminutive face, and even from or the eagle to his mate ? Not much, per between his eyes—short at first, but grow haps ; yet they climbed the same tree, ate ing longer toward his shoulders and back. from the same branch, and drank at the Long whitish bristles mingled with them, same spring ; and the next April there was and he made the mossback think of a little another arrival in the old hollow log— old, old man, with hair that was grizzly twins, this time, and both of them alive. gray, and a face that wore a look half stupid and half sad and wistful. He was not yet But the Porcupine never saw his children, for a wandering fit seized him, and he left two years of age, but I believe a porcupine the Glimmerglass before they were born. is born old. Some of the Indians say that Two or three miles away was a little clear he is ashamed of his homeliness, and that ing where a mossback lived ; and one night, that is the reason why, by day, he walks so as that mossback lay half asleep, he heard slowly, with hanging head and downcast something that said "chew-chew-chew-chew-eyes; but at night, they say, when the chew-chew-chew," about as fast as a locomofriendly darkness hides his ugliness, he lifts tive that has its train fairly moving and is his head and runs like a dog. just beginning to get up speed. Suddenly the In spite of the hour and the cheering in sound stopped short, and after a pause of a fluence of the washtub, our Porky seemed few seconds it began again at exactly the even more low-spirited than usual. Perhaps

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the lamp-light had suddenly reminded him of his personal appearance. A t any rate, he looked so lonesome and forlorn that the mossback felt a little thrill of pity for him, and decided not to kill him, after all, but to drive him away again. He started down the steps with his lamp in one hand and a stick of wood in the other, and then—he never knew quite how it happened—but in some way or other he stumbled and fell. Never in all his life, not even when his wildest nightmare came and sat upon him in the wee small hours, had he ever come quite as near screaming out in his terror as he did at that moment. He thought he was going to sit down on the Porcupine. Fortunately for both of them, and especially for the man, he missed him by barely half an inch, and the Porky scuttled away as fast as his legs could carry him, thoroughly frightened for once. Yet in spite of his scare he hung around the edges of the clearing for several months, and enjoyed many a meal such as seldom falls to the lot of the average porky. Once he found a bacon rind among some scraps that the mossback's wife had thrown away. Later on he invaded the sugar-bush by night, gnawing deep notches in the edges of the sap-buckets and barrels, and helping himself to the syrup in the big boiling-pan. Life was not all feasting, however. There was a dog who attacked him two or three times, but who finally learned to keep away and mind his own business. Once, when he had ventured a little too close to the house, and was making an unusual racket with his teeth, the mossback came to the door and fired a shot-gun at him, cutting off several of his quills. And still another night, late in the spring, when he was prowling around the barn, a bull calf came and smelled him. Next morning the mossback and his boys threw that calf down on the ground and tied his feet to a stump, and then three of them sat on him while the fourth pulled the quills from his nose with a pair of pincers. You should have heard him grunt.

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too often, for one summer evening, as he was gnawing away at the site of an ancient puddle of molasses, the accommodation train rolled in and came to a halt. He tried to hide behind a stump, but the trainmen caught sight of him, and before he knew it they had shoved him into an empty box and hoisted him into the baggage-car. They turned him loose among the passengers on the sta tion platform at Sault Ste. Marie, and his arrival created a sensation. When the first excitement had subsided, all the girls in the crowd declared that they wanted porcupine quills for souvenirs, and all the young men set to work to procure them, hoping to distinguish themselves by proving their superiority in strength and courage over this poor, little, twenty-pound beast just out of the woods. Most of them succeeded in getting some quills, and also in acquiring some painful experience, espe cially the one who attempted to lift the Por cupine by the tail, and who learned that that interesting member is the very hottest and liveliest portion of the animal's anatomy. They finally discovered that the proper way to get quills from a live porcupine is to hit him with a piece of board. The sharp points penetrate the wood and stick there, the other ends come loose from his skin, and there you have them. The Porky lost most of his armor that day, and it was a good thing for him that departed quills, like clipped hair, will renew themselves in the course of time. One of the brakemen carried him home, and he spent the next few months in the enjoyment of city life. Whether he found much pleasure in it is perhaps a question, but I am rather inclined to think that he did. He had plenty to eat, and he learned that apples are very good indeed, and that the best way to partake of them is to sit up on your haunches and hold them between your forepaws. He also learned that men are not always to be regarded as enemies, for his owner and his owner's children were good to him and soon won his confidence. But, after all, the city was not home, and the woods were, and so he employed some of his spare time in gnawing a hole through the wall in a dark corner of the shed where he was confined, and one night he scrambled out and hid himself in an empty barn. A day or two later he was in the forest again.

Then came the greatest adventure of all. A railway crossed one edge of the clearing, and beside it was a small platform on which supplies for the lumbermen were sometimes unloaded from the trains. Brine and mo lasses and various other delectable things had leaked out upon the platform from bar The remaining years of his life were spent rels and kegs and boxes, and the Porcupine on the bank of St. Mary's River, and for the discovered that its planks were very nicely most part they were years of quietness and seasoned and flavored. He visited it once contentment. He was far from his early

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home; but the bark of a birch or a maple or a hemlock is much the same on St. Mary's as by the Glimmerglass. He grew bigger and fatter as time went on, and some weeks before he died he must have weighed thirty or forty pounds. Once in a while there was a little dash of excitement to keep life from becoming too monotonous—if too much monotony is possi ble in a porcupine's existence. One night he scrambled up the steps of a little sum mer cottage close to the edge of the river; and, finding the door unlatched, he pushed it open and walked in. A girl in the next room heard him tramping around, and she gob up and struck a light. It so happened that the Porcupine himself was the only gen tleman in the house, and his reception was a remarkable one, to say the least, for his hostesses stood around on chairs and the tops of washstands, and bombarded him with curling-irons, poked feebly with bed-slats, and shrieked with laughter till the farmers over on the Canadian shore turned in their beds and wondered what could be happen ing on Uncle Sam's side of the river. The worst of it was that in his travels around the room he had come up behind the door and pushed it shut; and it was some time before even the red-haired girl could muster up sufficient courage to come down from her perch and open it again. At another time an Indian robbed him of the longest and best of his quills—nearly five inches in length, some of them—and carried them off to be used in making orna ments for birch-bark baskets. And on still another occasion he narrowly escaped death at the hands of an irate canoeman, in the side of whose Rob Roy he had gnawed a great hole. The end came at last, and it was the sad dest, hardest, strangest fate that can ever come to a wild creature of the woods. He —who had never known hunger in all his life, who was almost the only animal in the forest who had never looked famine in the eye, whose table was spread with good things from January to December, and whose store house was full from Lake Huron to the Pic tured Rocks—he, of all others, was con demned to die of starvation in the midst of plenty. The Ancient Mariner, with water all around and not a drop to drink, was no worse off than our Porcupine; and the Mariner finally escaped, but the Porky didn't. One of the summer tourists who wandered

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up into the north woods that year had car ried with him a little rifle, more of a toy than a weapon, a thing that a sportsman would hardly have condescended to laugh at. And one afternoon, by ill luck, he caught sight of the Porcupine high up in the top of a tall tree. It was his first chance at a gen uine wild beast, and he fired away all his cartridges as fast as he could load them into his gun. He thought that every shot missed, and he was much ashamed of his marksman ship, but—he was mistaken. The very last bullet broke one of the Porcupine's lower front teeth, and oh, how it hurt! It jarred him to the very end of his tail, his head felt as if it was being smashed to bits, and for a minute or two the strength all went out of him, and if he had not been lying in a safe, comfortable crotch he would have fallen to the ground. The pain and the shock passed away after a while, but when supper-time came—and it was almost always supper-time with the Porcupine—his left lower incisor was miss ing. The right one was uninjured, however, and for a little while he got on very well, merely having to spend a little more time than usual over his meals. But that was only the beginning of trouble. The stump of the broken tooth was still there and still growing, and it was soon as long as ever, but in the meantime its fellow in the upper jaw had grown beyond its normal length, and the two did not meet properly. Instead of growing together edge to edge, as they should have done, each wearing the other down and keeping its growth in check, each one now pushed the other aside, and still they kept on growing, growing, growing. Worst of all, in a short time they had begun to crowd his jaws apart so that he could hardly use his right-hand teeth, and they, too, were soon out of shape. The evil days had come, and the sound of the grinding was low. Little by little his mouth was forced open wider and wider, and the food that passed his lips grew less and less. His teeth, that had all his life been his best tools and most faithful servants, had turned against him in his old age, and were killing him by inches. Let us not linger over those days. He was spared the very last and worst pangs; for that, at least, we may be thank ful. On the last day of his life he sat under a beech-tree, weak and weary and faint. He could not remember when he had eaten. His coat of hair and quills was as thick and bushy as ever, and outwardly he had hardly

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changed at all, but under his skin there was little left but bones. And as he sat there and wished that he was dead—if such a wish can ever come to a wild animal—the Angel of Mercy came by in the shape of a man with a revolver in his pistol-pocket. And the man liked to kill things. " A porky! " he said. " Guess I ' l l shoot him, just for fun." The Porcupine saw him coming, and knew the danger; and for a moment the old love of life came back as strong as ever, and he

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A WOLFISH head, wistful-eyed and frostrimed, thrust aside the tent-flaps. " H i ! Chook! Siwash! Chook, you limb of Satan! " chorused the protesting inmates. Bettles rapped the dog sharply with a tin plate, and it withdrew hastily. Louis Savoy refastened the flaps, kicked a frying-pan over against the bottom, and warmed his hands. It was very cold without. Forty-eight hours gone, the spirit thermometer had burst at sixty-eight below, and since that time it had grown steadily and bitterly colder. There was no telling when the snap would end. And it is poor policy, unless the gods will it, to venture far from a stove at such times, or to increase the quantity of cold atmos phere one must breathe. Men sometimes do it, and sometimes they chill their lungs. This leads up to a dry, hacking cough, no ticeably irritable when bacon is being fried. After that, somewhere along in the spring or summer, a hole is burned in the frozen muck. Into this a man's carcass is dumped, covered over with moss, and left with the assurance that it will rise on the crack of Doom, wholly and frigidly intact. For those of little faith, skeptical of material integra tion on that fateful day, no fitter country than the Klondike can be recommended to die in. But it is not to be inferred from this that it is a fit country for living pur poses. It was very cold without, but it was not over-warm within. The only article which might be designated furniture was the stove, and for this the men were frank in display ing their preference. Upon half of the floor pine boughs had been cast; above this were spread the sleeping-furs, beneath lay the

winter's snowfall. The remainder of the floor was moccasin-packed snow, littered with pots and pans and the general impedi menta of an Arctic camp. The stove was red and roaring hot, but only a bare three feet away lay a block of ice, as sharp-edged and dry as when first quarried from the creek bottom. The pressure of the outside cold forced the inner heat upward. Just above the stove, where the pipe penetrated the roof, was a tiny circle of dry canvas; next, with the pipe always as center, a circle of steaming canvas; next a damp and moistureexuding ring; and finally, the rest of the tent, sidewalls and top, coated with a halfinch of dry, white, crystal-encrusted frost. " Oh! O H ! O H ! " A young fellow, lying asleep in the furs, bearded and wan and weary, raised a moan of pain, and with out waking, increased the pitch and inten sity of his anguish. His body half-lifted from the blankets, and quivered and shrank spasmodically, as though drawing away from a bed of nettles. " Roll'm over! " ordered Bettles. " He's crampin'." And thereat, with pitiless altruism, he was pitched upon and rolled and thumped and pounded by half a dozen willing com rades. " D—n the t r a i l , " he muttered softly, as he threw off the robes and sat up. " I ' v e run across country, played quarter three seasons hand-running, and hardened myself in all manner of ways; and then I pilgrim it into this God-forsaken land and find myself an effeminate Athenian without the simplest rudiments of manhood!" He hunched up to the fire and rolled a cigarette. " O h ,

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I'm not whining. I can take my medicine all right, all right; but I'm just decently ashamed of myself, that's all. Here I am, on top of a dirty thirty miles, as knocked up and stiff and sore as a pink-tea degenerate after a five-mile walk on a country turnpike. Bah! It makes me sick! Got a match ? " " D o n ' t git the tantrums, youngster." Bettles passed over the required fire-stick and waxed patriarchal. " Ye've gotter 'low some for the breakin'-in. Sufferin' cracky! don't I recollect the first time I hit the trail! Stiff ? I've seen the time it'd take me ten minutes to git my mouth from the waterhole an' come to my feet—every jint crackin' an' kickin' fit to kill. Cramp ? In sech knots it'd take the camp half a day to un tangle me. You're all right, for a cub, an' ye've the true sperrit. Come this day year, you'll walk all us old bucks into the ground any time. A n ' best in your favor, you hain't got that streak of fat in your make-up which has sent many a husky man to the bosom of Abraham afore his right and proper time." " Streak of fat ? " " Yep. Comes along of bulk. 'Tain't the big men as is the best when it comes to the t r a i l . " " Never heard of i t . " " N e v e r heered of it, eh? Well, it's a dead straight, open-an'-shut fact, an' no gittin' round. Bulk's all well enough for a mighty big effort, but 'thout stayin' powers it ain't worth a continental whoop; an' stayin' powers an' bulk ain't runnin' mates. Takes the small, wiry fellows when it comes to git tin' right down an' hangin' on like a leanjowled dog to a bone. Why, hell's fire, the big men they ain't in i t ! " ' ' By g a r ! ' ' broke in Louis Savoy, ' ' dat is no, vot you call, josh! I know one mans, so vaire beeg like ze buffalo, but no fat 'tall. Wit him, on ze Sulphur Creek stampede, go one small mans, Lon McFane. You know dat Lon McFane, dat leetle Irisher wit ze red hair and ze grin. A n ' dey walk an' walk an' walk, all ze day long an' ze night long. And beeg mans, him become vaire tired, an' lay down mooch in ze snow. And leetle mans keek beeg mans, an' him cry like, vot you call—ah! vot you call ze kid. And leetle mans keek an' keek an' keek, an' bime by, long time, long way, keek beeg mans into my cabin. Tree days 'fore him crawl out my blankets. Nevaire I see beeg squaw like him. No nevaire. Him haf vot you call ze streak of fat. You bet." " But there was Axel Gunderson," Prince spoke up. The great Scandinavian, with the

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tragic events which shadowed his passing, had made a deep mark on the mining engi neer. " He lies up there, somewhere." He swept his hand in the vague direction of the mysterious east. " Biggest man that ever turned his heels to Salt Water or run a moose down with sheer g r i t , " supplemented Bettles; " b u t he's the prove-the-rule exception. Look at his woman, Unga—tip the scales at a hun dred an' ten, clean meat an' nary ounce to spare. She'd bank grit 'gainst his for all there was in him, an' see him, an' go him better if it was possible. Nothing over the earth, or in it, or under it, she wouldn't 'a' done." " But she loved h i m , " objected the engi neer. " ' T a i n ' t that. It " " L o o k you, brothers," broke in Sitka Charley from his seat on the grub-box. ' ' Ye have spoken of the streak of fat that runs in big men's muscles, of the grit of women and the love, and ye have spoken fair; but I have in mind things which hap pened when the land was young and the fires of men apart as the stars. It was then I had concern with a big man, and a streak of fat, and a woman. And the woman was small; but her heart was greater than the beef-heart of the man, and she had grit. And we traveled a weary trail, even to the Salt Water, and the cold was bitter, the snow deep, the hunger great. And the woman's love was a mighty love—no more can man say than this." He paused, and with the hatchet broke pieces of ice from the the large chunk be side him. These he threw into the gold pan on the stove, where the drinking-water thawed. The men drew up closer, and he of the cramps sought greater comfort vainly for his stiffened body. " Brothers, my blood is red with Siwash, but my heart is white. To the faults of my fathers I owe the one, to the virtues of my friends the other. A great truth came to me when I was yet a boy. I learned that to your kind and you was given the earth; that the Siwash could not withstand you, and like the caribou and the bear, must per ish in the cold. So I came into the warm and sat among you, by your fires, and be hold, I became one of you. I have seen much in my time. I have known strange things, and bucked big, on big trails, with men of many breeds. And because of these things, I measure deeds after your manner, and judge men, and think thoughts. Where-

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fore, when I speak harshly of one of your own kind, I know you will not take it amiss; and when I speak high of one of my father's people, you will not take it upon you to say, ' Sitka Charley is Siwash, and there is a crooked light in his eyes and small honor to his tongue.' Is it not so ? " Deep down in throat, the circle vouchsafed its assent. " The woman was Passuk. I got her in fair trade from her people, who were of the Coast and whose Chilcat totem stood at the head of a salt arm of the sea. My heart did not go out to the woman, nor did I take stock of her looks. For she scarce took her eyes from the ground, and she was timid and afraid, as girls will be when cast into a stranger's arms whom they have never seen before. As I say, there was no place in my heart for her to creep, for I had a great journey in mind, and stood in need of one to feed my dogs and to lift a paddle with me through the long river days. One blanket would cover the twain; so I chose Passuk. " Have I not said I was a servant to the Government ? If not, it is well that ye know. So I was taken on a warship, sleds and dogs and evaporated foods, and with me came Passuk. And we went north, to the winter ice-rim of Bering Sea, where we were landed—myself, and Passuk, and the dogs. I was also given moneys of the Government, for I was its servant, and charts of lands which the eyes of man had never dwelt upon, and messages. These messages were sealed, and protected shrewdly from the weather, and I was to deliver them to the whale-ships of the Arctic, ice-bound by the great Mac kenzie. Never was there so great a river, forgetting only our own Yukon, the Mother of all Rivers. " A l l of which is neither here nor there, for my story deals not with the whale-ships, nor the berg-bound winter I spent by the Mackenzie. Afterward, in the spring, when the days lengthened and there was a crust to the snow, we came south, Passuk and I, to the Country of the Yukon. A weary journey, but the sun pointed out the way of our feet. It was a naked land, then, as I have said, and we worked up the current, with pole and paddle, till we came to Forty Mile. Good it was to see white faces once again, so we put into the bank. And that winter was a hard winter. The darkness and the cold drew down upon us, and with them the famine. To each man the agent of the Company gave forty pounds of flour

WOMEN. and twenty of bacon. There were no beans. And the dogs howled always, and there were flat bellies and deep-lined faces, and strong men became weak, and weak men died. There was also much scurvy. ' ' Then came we together in the store one night, and the empty shelves made us feel our own emptiness the more. We talked low, by the light of the fire, for the candles had been set aside for those who might yet gasp in the spring. Discussion was held, and it was said that a man must go forth to the Salt Water and tell to the world our misery. A t this all eyes turned to me, for it was understood that I was a great trav eler. ' It is 700 miles,' said I, ' to Haines Mission by the sea, and every inch of it snowshoe work. Give me the pick of your dogs and the best of your grub, and I will go. And with me shall go Passuk.' " To this they were agreed. But there arose one, Long Jeff, a Yankee-man, bigboned and big-muscled. Also his talk was big. He, too, was a mighty traveler, he said, born to the snowshoe and bred up on buffalo milk. He would go with me, in case I fell by the trail, that he might carry the word on to the Mission. I was young, and I knew not Yankee-men. How was I to know that big talk betokened the streak of fat, or that Yankee-men who did great things kept their teeth together ? So we took the pick of the dogs and the best of the grub, and struck the trail, we three— Passuk, Long Jeff, and I. " Well, ye have broken virgin snow, la bored at the gee-pole, and are not unused to the packed river-jams; so I will talk little of the toil, save that on some days we made ten miles, and on others thirty, but more often ten. And the best of the grub was not good, while we went on stint from the start. Likewise the pick of the dogs was poor, and we were hard put to keep them on their legs. A t the White River our three sleds became two sleds, and we had only come 200 miles. But we lost nothing; the dogs that left the traces went into the bel lies of those that remained. " N o t a greeting, not a curl of smoke, till we made Pelly. Here I had counted on grub; and here I had counted on leaving Long Jeff, who was whining and trail-sore. But the factor's lungs were wheezing, his eyes bright, his cache nigh empty; and he showed us the empty cache of the mission ary, also his grave with the rocks piled high to keep off the dogs. There was a bunch of Indians there, but babies and old men there

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sick, this man. He was only trail-sore and tired, and weak with hunger. But Passuk and I were trail-sore and tired, and weak with hunger; and we did all the work and he did none. But he had the streak of fat of which our brother Bettles has spoken. Further, we gave the man always his fair share of grub. ' ' Then one day we met two ghosts jour neying through the Silence. They were a man and a boy, and they were white. The ice had opened on Lake Le Barge, and through it had gone their main outfit. One blanket each carried about his shoulders. At night they built a fire and crouched over it till morning. They had a little flour. This they stirred in warm water and drank. The man showed me eight cups of flour—all they had, and Pelly, stricken with famine, 200 miles away. They said, also, that there was an Indian behind; that they had whacked fair, but that he could not keep up. I did not believe they had whacked fair, else would the Indian have kept up. But I could give them no grub. They strove to steal a dog —the fattest, which was very thin—but I shoved my pistol in their faces and told them begone. And they went away, like drunken men, through the Silence toward Pelly. " I had three dogs now, and one sled, and the dogs were only bones and hair. When there is little wood, the fire burns low and the cabin grows cold. So with us. With little grub the frost bites sharp, and our faces were black and frozen till our own mothers would not have known us. And our feet were very sore. In the morning, when I hit the trail, I sweated to keep down the cry when the pain of the snowshoes smote me. Passuk never opened her lips, but stepped to the fore to break the way. The man howled. ' ' The Thirty Mile was swift, and the cur rent ate away the ice from beneath, and there were many air-holes and cracks, and much open water. One day we came upon the man, resting, for he had gone ahead, as was his wont, in the morning. But between us was open water. This he had passed around by taking to the rim-ice where it was too narrow for a sled. So we found an ice-bridge. Passuk weighed little, and went first, with a long pole crosswise in her hands in chance she broke through. But she was light, and her shoes large, and she passed over. Then she called the dogs. But they had neither poles nor shoes, and they broke through and were swept under by the water. I held tight to the sled from behind, till the

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traces broke and the dogs went on down under the ice. There was little meat to them, but I had counted on them for a week's grub, and they were gone. ' ' The next morning I divided all the grub, which was little, into three portions. And I told Long Jeff that he could keep up with us, or not, as he saw fit; for we were going to travel light and fast. But he raised his voice and cried over his sore feet and his troubles, and said harsh things against com radeship. Passuk's feet were sore, and my feet were sore—ay, sorer than his, for we had worked with the dogs; also, we looked to see. Long Jeff swore he would die be fore he hit the trail again; so Passuk took a fur robe, and I a cooking pot and an axe, and we made ready to go. But she looked on the man's portion, and said, ' It is wrong to waste good food on a baby. He is better dead.' I shook my head and said no—that a comrade once was a comrade always. Then she spoke of the men of Forty Mile; that they were many men and good; and that they looked to me for grub in the spring. But when I still said no, she snatched the pistol from my belt, quick, and as our brother Bettles has spoken, Long Jeff went to the bosom of Abraham before his time. I chided Passuk for this; but she showed no sorrow, nor was she sorrowful. And in my heart I knew she was right." Sitka Charley paused and threw pieces of ice into the gold pan on the stove. The men were silent, and their backs chilled to the sobbing cries of the dogs as they gave tongue to their misery in the outer cold. " And day by day we passed in the snow the sleeping places of the two ghosts—Pas suk and I—and we knew we would be glad for such ere we made Salt Water. Then we came to the Indian, like another ghost, with his face set toward Pelly. They had not whacked up fair, the man and the boy, he said, and he had had no flour for three days. Each night he boiled pieces of his moccasins in a cup, and ate them. He did not have much moccasins left. And he was a Coast Indian, and told us these things through Passuk, who talked his tongue. He was a stranger in the Yukon, and he knew not the way, but his face was set to Pelly. How far was it ? Two sleeps ? ten ? a hundred ? —he did not know, but he was going to Pelly. It was too far to turn back; he could only keep on. " He did not ask for grub, for he could see we, too, were hard put. Passuk looked at the man, and at me, as though she were

WOMEN. of two minds, like a mother partridge whose young are in trouble. So I turned to her and said, ' This man has been dealt unfair. Shall I give him of our grub a portion ?' I saw her eyes light, as with quick pleasure; but she looked long at the man and at me, and her mouth drew close and hard, and she said, ' No. The Salt Water is afar off, and Death lies in wait. Better it is that he take this stranger man and let my man Charley pass.' So the man went away in the Silence toward Pelly. That night she wept. Never had I seen her weep before. Nor was it the smoke of the fire, for the wood was dry wood. So I marveled at her sorrow, and thought her woman's heart had grown soft at the darkness of the trail and the pain. It was not till afterward that I came to under stand. " L i f e is a strange thing. Much have I thought on it, and pondered long, yet daily the strangeness of it grows not less, but more. Why this longing for Life ? It is a game which no man wins. To live is to toil hard, and to suffer sore, till Old Age creeps heavily upon us and we throw down our hands on the cold ashes of dead fires. It is hard to live. In pain the babe sucks his first breath, in pain the old man gasps his last, and all his days are full of trouble and sorrow; yet he goes down to the open arms of Death, stumbling, falling, with head turned backward, fighting to the last. And Death is kind. It is only Life, and the things of Life that hurt. Yet we love Life, and we hate Death. It is very strange. " We spoke little, Passuk and I, in the days which came. In the night we lay in the snow like dead people, and in the morn ing we went on our way, walking like dead people. And all things were dead. There were no ptarmigan, no squirrels, no snowshoe rabbits—nothing. The river made no sound beneath its white robes. The sap was frozen in the forest. And it became cold, as now; and in the night the stars drew near and large, and leaped and danced; and in the day the sun dogs mocked us till we saw many suns, and all the air flashed and sparkled, and the snow was diamond dust. And there was no heat, no sound, only the bitter cold and the Silence. As I say, we walked like dead people, as in a dream, and we kept no count of time. Only our faces were set to Salt Water, our souls strained for Salt Water, and our feet carried us to ward Salt Water. We camped by the Tahkeena, and knew it not. Our eyes looked upon the White Horse, but we saw it not.

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great thaw and a bending, a sound of run ning waters, and a budding and sprouting of green things. And there is drumming of partridges, and songs of robins, and great music, for the winter is broken, Passuk, and I have learned the love of woman.' " She smiled and moved for me to draw her closer. And she said: ' I am glad.' After that she lay quiet for a long time, breathing softly, her head upon my breast. Then she whispered: ' The trail ends here, and I am tired. But first I would speak of other things. In the long ago, when I was a girl on the Chilcat, I played alone among the skin bales of my father's lodge; for the men were away on the hunt, and the women and boys were dragging in the meat. It was in the spring, and I was alone. A great brown bear, just awake from his winter's sleep, hungry, his fur hanging, to the bones in flaps of leanness, shoved his head within the lodge and said, " O o f ! " My brother came running back with the first sled of meat. And he fought the bear with burn ing sticks from the fire, and the dogs in their harnesses, with the sled behind them, fell upon the bear. There was a great bat tle and much noise. They rolled in the fire, the skin bales were scattered, the lodge overthrown. But in the end the bear lay dead, with the fingers of my brother in his mouth and the marks of his claws upon my brother's face. Did you mark the Indian by the Pelly trail, his mitten which had no thumb, his hand which he warmed by our fire ? He was my brother. And I said he should have no grub. And he went away in the Silence without grub.' " This, my brothers, was the love of Pas suk, who died in the snow, by the Caribou Crossing. It was a mighty love, for she denied her brother for the man who led her away on weary trails to a bitter end. And, further, such was this woman's love, she denied herself. Ere her eyes closed for the last time she took my hand and slipped it under her squirrel-skin parka to her waist. I felt there a well-filled pouch, and learned the secret of her lost strength. Day by day we had shared fair, to the last least bit; and day by day but half her share had she eaten. The other half had gone into the well-filled pouch. " And she said: ' This is the end of the trail for Passuk; but your trail, Charley, leads on and on, over the great Chilcoot, down to Haines Mission and the sea. And it leads on and on, by the light of many suns, over unknown lands and strange wa-

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my knees, and my head was dizzy, and in my ears there was a roaring, and a flashing of fire upon my eyes. The forgotten trails of boyhood came back to me. I sat by the full pots of the potlach feast, and raised my voice in song, and danced to the chanting of the men and maidens and the booming of the walrus drums. And Passuk held my hand and walked by my side. When I laid down to sleep, she waked me. When I stumbled and fell, she raised me. When I wandered in the deep snow, she led me back to the trail. And in this wise, like a man bereft of reason, who sees strange visions and whose thoughts are light with wine, I came to Haines Mission by the sea." Sitka Charley threw back the tent-flaps. It was mid-day. To the south, just clearing the bleak Henderson Divide, poised the colddisked sun. On either hand the sun-dogs blazed. The air was a gossamer of glitter ing frost. In the foreground, beside the trail, a wolf-dog, bristling with frost, thrust a long snout heavenward and mourned.

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division. Bucks filed the letter away in the stove. Another communication fared no better. But there were some new people at headquarters ; they had a record to make, and they proposed to write part of it on our backs. Bucks got another letter ; he threw it in the stove. Pat Barlie often and often said he recom mended no man to drink whisky ; he only

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always ready to do anything he asked them to do. There was an esprit, a morale— whatever you call it—and a loyalty to Bucks personally, which made our men take the chances that pay checks don't cover. So, although the Columbian Pacific con nection looked especially doubtful that night, nevertheless there was Bucks, under a slouching Stetson and an Irish frieze that caught all the water coming its way, stand ing at the drivers of the head engine, while Jack Moore, in leather from heel to jaw, went into the slush under her to touch up an eccentric with a reputation for cussedness in a pinch. And a minute later Bucks was walking back to figure with the out con ductor, Pat Francis, how to make schedule across to Wild Hat ; though, as they talked, each man knew the other was not thinking at all of how to make schedule, but thinking— though never a word out loud of it, and hell to face all the way up the gorge on top of it—of how with flesh and blood and steel to beat schedule that night and land the uncertain connection, in spite of wind and weather and the bureau's fears and the de spatchers' growls. And all this for what ? To dump a hundred or two Brooklyn people into the Yellowstone twenty-four hours earlier than they otherwise would have been dumped, though without doubt they would have been just that much better off loafing twenty-four hours longer away from their newspapers and ferries and street cars. Pat Francis listened grimly. A short, stocky fellow, Pat Francis. Not fat, but firm as a Bes semer bar, and with considerably quicker play in his joints. He listened grimly, for he thought he could domino every play Bucks could make when it came to tricks for saving time on the Wild Hat run. Yet it heartened even Pat Francis, uncompromising and grim, to have his superintendent there in the storm helping cut out the work for such a particu larly beastly pull. As Bucks broke away and started for the door of the Wickiup, Morris Barker—the con ductor who had just brought the train in— saluted, walking out. With his coat buttoned snug, in the comfortable insolence of a man going home, Morris stepped to the edge of the platform to exchange confidences with Pat Francis. " Pat, there's a half-fare back in the Port land sleeper. I heard McIntyre say at McCloud that some of Alfabet Smith's men are working up here. Anyway there's a cattle-

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man in a canvas coat in the chair car, smooth face, red tie, to look out for. He got on at Harding and tried a short fare on me. I sized him up for a spotter." " Why didn't you chuck him off? " growled Pat Francis. " He put up after a while—and you bet that fare goes in with an embroidered report. Well, good luck, Patsy." Pat Francis raised his lamp through the fog and rain at the engineers. Jack Moore coughed, suddenly and twice, with his hollow whistle. The hind engine saluted hoarsely ; from the rear the pusher piped shrill, and Bucks in the doorway watched the pant ing train pull taut up the Bend into the swirling snow. And he knew as he watched that nothing worth considering would get away from Pat Francis—not a scheme nor a cut-off nor a minute nor a re-vamped coupon ticket. Pat before quitting at Benton, Pat up the gorge and over the Horseback, was pretty sure to catch everything inside the vestibules. He swung up on the platform of the bag gage-car as the train moved out, and shook the snow off his cap as he opened the door. He set his lamp on an up-ended trunk, took off his overcoat and hung it up. In the front end of the car a pack of hunting dogs yelped a dismal chorus. Old John Parker, the bag gageman, was checking up a pile of trunks that rose tier on tier to the roof of the car. John Parker wore a pair of disreputable iron spectacles. His hair, scant where it wasn't extinct, tumbled about his head loose at both ends. His gray beard was a good bit stronger in the fly than in the hoist, and it blew in the wind thin as a coach whip ; but old John had behind his dirty spectacles a pair of eyes just as fine as steel. Francis opened his train box and asked the baggage man why he didn't kill those dogs, and getting no answer—for John Parker was checking hard and stopped only to shift his whiskers off the clip—the conductor got out his blue pencil and his black pencil and filed them away, took up his punch and his trip checks and put them in their proper pockets, shifted his time-table from the box to still another pocket, and picked up his lantern. The head end brakeman coming in just then with a sash puller, Francis asked him to clean up the globe. While the brakeman fished for a piece of waste, the conductor moved his wet overcoat a peg nearer the stove and spread it out bet ter, and listened to a wild rumor old John Parker had picked up about Number One's

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the hate and the curiosity are all concealed ; off at the Bend ; and at once the air in the the conductor is strictly on dress parade chair car smelt fresher and cleaner. Into with a sting in his right arm that he would the sleepers then—that was easy. Only to like to land directly under the spotter's ear. take the batch of envelopes from each porter A shabby traveling man—a cigar man— or conductor, and tear off the coupons, and handed up a local ticket. It was for Ante in the Portland sleeper a half-fare which lope Gap. Pat Francis looked at it for a meant only a little row with the tactless minute before he punched it and stuck it in man who had gone into a bitter discussion with a conductor the day before away back his pocket. " We don't stop at Antelope Gap to-night," at the Missouri River, as to whether his boy should pay fare. Instead of gracefully pay said he shortly. " Don't stop ? " echoed the cigar man, wide ing when called on, he had abused the con awake in a fraction of a second. " Vy, since ductor, who, maybe because there was a ven ? Dey tolt me you dit," he cried in the " spotter " sitting by, had felt compelled for self-protection to collect the half rate. But most injured tone on the train. in retaliation for the abuse the conductor " Can't help it." had reported to the next conductor a half" Bud vy-e ? " fare in the Portland sleeper, and thus started "I'm late." " Bud y' god-do !" cried the cigar man, an endless chain of annoyance that would raising a note of absolute terror, as Pat haunt the traveler all the way to the coast. Francis passed calmly on without attempting But sometime travelers will study tact, and to controvert the confidence of the drummer. forswear abuse and its penalties. " Ain't you god-do ? " appealed the latter, Conductor Francis, finishing the string of weakening a bit as he realized he was against loaded Pullmans, sat down in the smoking room of the last car with the bind end brakea quiet man and hard. ' Not on local transportation. Ticket!" man to straighten out his collections. The headlight of the pusher threw in a yellow he continued to the next. But the cigar man happily came of a race dazzle of light on them, and the continuous that does not uncomplainingly submit, and cut of its fire boomed from the stack. Pat he kicked vociferously, as Pat Francis ex Francis, setting down his lamp, began to pected he would. By the time the excited sniff. " Smell anything ?" he asked presently of salesman had woke everybody up in his end of the car and worked himself into a lather, his companion. " No," answered the brakeman, drawing Pat came at him with a proposition. his head from the curtain hood under which " Where you going from Antelope ? " he had been looking out into the storm. " Vild Hat." " Something here don't smell right," said " What's the matter with going up to Wild Hat to-night, and I'll give you a train check Francis shortly, sorting his tickets. " Where back to Antelope on Two to-morrow ; then are we ? " " Getting out of the gorge." you can get back on Seventy-One to the Francis looked at his watch. "Is Jack Bend ? " The injured man considered quickly, ac holding his own ?" ventured the brakeman. "Just about." cepted speedily. Two hundred miles for " Stop at Antelope to-night ? " nothing. " My frient! Haff a cigar, aber " N o t on your life." don for-ged my dransbordation back, vill "Red Cloud?" you ? " The conductor nodded as he took " Not to-night." the cigar stoically and moved on. It was " How about the pusher ? " one stop saved, and the Antelope stop was a " A l l the way over the Horseback to terror any time with a big train like Num night." ber One. "That's the stuff." Francis had reached the rear of the chair " That's Bucks. Bucks is the stuff," said car, when he had an impression he had for gotten something. He stopped to think. Pat Francis, arbitrarily picking up his lamp The cattleman ! Turning, he looked back to go forward. Two minutes later, he was in sharply over the passengers. He even walked the smoker, bending over the Italian and slowly back through the car looking for the shaking him. "Got your ticket, Tony ?" fellow. There was no cattleman in sight, " No gotta ticket." and walking back, Francis dismissed him "Money?" with the conclusion that he must have gotten

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" No gotta d'mun." " Come on, then !" Francis gripped him by the collar. "Whata d o ? " " Throw you off." The Italian drew back to resist. They parleyed a moment longer, only because Francis was bluffing. If he had meant to stop the train at any point he would have said nothing—simply dragged the fellow out by the hair. At last the Italian produced three dollars and a half. It was only enough to check him to Red Cloud. He wanted to go through, and the fare was eleven dollars and twenty cents. The silent conductor stuck the money in his pocket, and drew his cash-fare slips. Just then the pusher whistled a stop signal. Francis started, suddenly furious at the sound. Shoving the slips into his pocket, he hurried to the vestibule and put his head angrily out. Ahead he saw only old John Parker's lamp and streamers. John had slid his door before Francis could open the vesti bule. That was why the conductor loved him, because nobody, not even he himself, ever got ahead of John. When Francis poked his head out to look for trouble, John Parker's head was already in the wind inspecting the trouble, which came this time from the hind end. Looking back, Francis saw a blaze leaping from a journal box. Just as I expected," he muttered, with a freezing word. " That hind-end man couldn't smell a tar bucket if you stuck his head into it. Get your grease, John," he shouted at the old baggageman, " and a pair of brasses. Hustle !" There was hardly time for the crew to slip into their overcoats, when Moore made a sullen stop. But old John Parker was ready, and waiting ahead of the stop with a can of grease, because John didn't have any over coat. He hustled bad nights without an overcoat; for his two girls were at boarding school back in Illinois. John picked up enough every month carrying dogs to buy an overcoat, but the dog money went largely for music and French, which were extras in Illinois ; so the girls parlez-vous'd, and John piled out without any overcoat. Pat Francis stormed worse than the moun tains as he followed him. All the scheming to save a single stop was blazing away in the hot box. Moore, on the head engine, was too angry to leave his cab. It was just a bit too exasperating. The pusher crew stood by, and the second engineer helped just a little.

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But it was Pat Francis and John, with the safeties screaming bedlam in their ears, with the sleet creeping confidingly down their backs, and with the water soaking unawares up their legs—it was Pat and John, silent and stubborn, who dug bitterly at the sizzling box, flung out the blazing waste, set the screw, twisted it, hooked out the smoking brasses, shoved in the new ones, dumped the grease, stuffed the waste, and raised their lamps for Moore before the last of the bad words had blown out of the head cab and down the canon. With a squeaking and groaning and jerking, with a vicious break away and an anxious interval whenever a pair of drivers let go, Moore got his enor mous load rolling up the grade again, and kept her rolling hour after hour along curve and tangent to the Horseback, and across. At the crest day broke, and the long, heavy train, far above the night and the storm, screamed for the summit yard, slowed up, halted, and every man jack of the train crew and engine crews jumped off to shake hands with himself on the plucky run—in spite of it all, schedule and a hair better. " How'd you ever do it, Jack ?" asked Pat Francis at the head engine, as Moore crawled out of her undersides. " How late are we ? " returned the engin eer, stowing his can and calling for a wrench. " Three hours." " Beat the time a little, didn't we?" laughed Moore, with a face like a lobster. " Couldn't done it, Pat, if you'd stopped me any where. I wouldn't done it—not for any body. Burdick is knocked clean out, too. Are you all ready back there ? " The pusher, disconnected, galloped by with a jubilant kick for the round-house ; and the doubleheader, watered and coaled afresh, started with Number One down the mountain side. A different start that—a running past the wind instead of into it ; a sluing that brought excursionists up in a tumble as the sleepers swung lariat-like around the canon corners. It was only a case of hanging on after that, hanging on all the way to Wild Hat ; and then, just as the Columbian Pacific train passengers left their breakfasts at Benton, Number One, gray and grimy, rolled into the junction thirty-five minutes late— and the agony was over. The connection was safe, but nobody noticed who made it. Everybody was too much occupied with the sunshine and the scenery to observe a pair of disreputable, haggard, streaked, holloweyed tramps who made their way modestly

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along the edge of the crowd that thronged enjoyment of the run up to the clouds. the platform. It was only Francis and Moore, Everybody was going home, and going home conductor and engineer of Number One. happy. From the Pullmans—it was warm and sunny in the mountains—came nothing The agony was over for everybody but but rag time and Brooklyn yells. To de Pat Francis. Ten days later, Bucks, super scribe our scenery might be invidious, but the intendent of the mountain division, sat in grade where Number Two was then climbing his den at the Wickiup, reading a letter from would alone make the fortune of an ordinary eastern scenic line. the general manager. The Overland Freight, Number Sixty-six, Sir : On Thursday, June 28th, Conductor P. Francis, east-bound with a long train of tea, was leaving M . B . on Number One, collected a cash fare of three dollars and fifty cents from one of our special pulling out of Toltec station as Number Two service men. He failed to issue a cash-fare slip for stuck its head into the foot of the Noose. this as required ; furthermore, he carried this passenger At Toltec, on the day run, we take a man's all the way to Benton. Kindly effect his discharge. breath and give him large value for his Let it be distinctly understood that all delinquencies of money in a bit of the prettiest engineering this nature will be summarily dealt with. anywhere on earth. A . W . BANNERMAN, Toltec lies in the Powder Range, near the General Manager. foot of a great curve called the Noose, be It wasn't a letter to go to the stove—not cause every time an engineer slips the head that kind of a letter ; but Bucks fingered it of his train into it he is glad to hold his much as Pat Francis ought to have fingered breath till he gets it out. the clever detective who turned from the The Toltec Noose is engineering magnifi chair car to the " smoker " on him and from cent ; but it is railroading without words— a cattleman to a " dago." unless one counts the wicked words. Eagle Bucks called the trainmaster. Francis Pass station, the head of the Noose, looks was west, due to leave Benton that afternoon across an unspeakable gulf directly down on Two, and, as luck would have it, to bring into Toltec, 500 feet below, and barely a back the Brooklyn party from the Yellowstone. mile away. But by the rail we count seven And the passenger department in Chicago miles around that curve, and without any was again heating the wires with injunctions land-grant perquisites, either. to take care of them, and good care of them, Every train that runs the Noose is doublebecause the excursion business on a new line headed both ways, and now—this was before is not only profitable, but it is hard to work —they add, to keep trainmen off the relief up, and trouble with an excursion in the scrap, a pusher. beginning means a hoodoo for months, and That day there was no pusher behind the maybe for years to come. Overland Freight, and Number Two's crew, Bucks felt especially gratified to know as they pulled out of Toltec to climb the that Pat Francis had the precious load, but loop, could plainly see, above and across, the what about the cash fare from Medicine storming, struggling, choking engines of Bend to Red Cloud ? Bucks knew these the tea train as they neared with their load things couldn't be trifled with—not on his the summit of Eagle Pass. line—and he faced the pleasant prospect The wind bore down to them in breaking of next morning greeting his right bower waves the sucking, roaring cut of the quiver in the passenger service with an accusation ing furnaces. Pat Francis stood in the of theft and a summary discharge. If he open door of the baggage-car, old John had only asked me for three dollars and a Parker and the head brakeman beside him, half, thought Bucks sorely. He would rather looking together at the freight with the have given his own pay check than to have absorbed air of men at the bottom of a well had Pat Francis hold up one dollar. who watch the loaded bucket near the top. Through the thin, clear mountain air they And Pat Francis, taciturn, sphinx-like, was punching transportation at that particular could almost read the numbers on the engine moment on Number Two on the run east from tenders. They could see the freight con Benton. Checking passengers, keeping one ductor start over his train for the head-end, eye on the ventilators and the other on the and as they looked they saw his train break date limits, working both pencils, both hands, in two behind him and the rear end, parting both ears, both ends of the punch, and both like a snake's tail, slough off," lose headway, and roll back down the hill. The hind-end sides of the car at the same time. There wasn't a cinder to break the even brakeman, darting from the caboose, ran up

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the ladder like a cat, and began setting brakes. The passenger crew saw the brakeshoes clutch in a flame at the slipping trucks, but the drawbars couldn't stand it. From one of the big tea cars a drawhead parted like a tooth. The tea train again broke in two, this time behind the rear brakeman, and the caboose with five 60,000-pound cars shot down the grade; and Number Two was now climbing above Toltec. A volley of danger signals curled white from the freight engine across the gulf. Pat Francis sprang for the bell cord, but it was needless; his engineers at the very mo ment threw double chambers of air on the wheels. It caught cards off the whist tables, and swept baked potatoes into the bosoms of astonished diners, it spoiled the point of pretty jokes and broke the tedium of stupid stories, it upset roysterers and staggered sober men, it basted the cooks with gravy and the waiters with fruit, it sent the blood to the hearts and a chill to the brains, it was an emergency stop and a severe one— Number Two was against it. Before the frightened porters could open the vestibules the passenger engines were working in the back motion, and Number Two was scuttling down the Noose to get away from impending disaster. The trainmen huddled again in the baggage-car door, with their eyes glued on the runaways; the Noose is so perfect a curve that every foot of their flight could be seen. It was a race backwards to save the passenger train ; but for every mile they could crowd into its wheels the runaways were making two. Pat Francis saw it first —saw it before they had covered half the distance back to Toltec. They could never make the hill west of the Noose; it wasn't in steam to beat gravity; moreover, if they crowded Number Two too hard she might fly an elevation, and go into the gulf. It is one thing to run down hill, and another thing to fall down hill. The tea train was falling down hill. Francis turned to bareheaded John Parker, and handed him his watch and his money. "What do you mean?" John Parker choked the words out, because he knew what he meant. "Turn this stuff in to Bucks, John, if I don't make it. It's all company money." The brakeman, greenish and dazed, steadied himself with a hand on the jamb; the bag gageman stared wild-eyed through his rusty lenses. "Pat," he faltered, "what do you mean ? "

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" I'll drop off at the Toltec switch and may be I can open it to catch that string—we'll never make it this way, John, in God's world." " You might a'most as well jump out into the canon ; you'll never live to use a switch key, Pat—we're crowding a mile a min ute—" Francis looked at him steadily as he pulled his ring and took a switch key off the bunch. " They're crowding Two, John." The car slued under them. John Parker tore off his spectacles. " Pat, I'm a lighter man than you—give me the switch key!" he cried, gripping the con ductor's shoulder as he followed him out the door to the platform. " No." " Y o u r children are younger than mine, Pat. Give me the key." "This is my train, John. Ask Bucks to look after my insurance." With these words, Francis tore the old man's hand roughly away. When a minute is a mile, action is quick. Sixty, seventy seconds more meant the Toltec switch, and the con ductor already hung from the bottom step of the baggage-car. Pat Francis was built like a gorilla. He swung with his long arms in and out from the reeling train into a rhythm, one foot dangling in the suck of dust and cinders, the other bracing lightly against the step tread. Then, with the switch key in his mouth; with Parker's thin hair streaming over him, and a whirlwind sucking to the wheels under him ; with Number Two's drivers racing above him and a hundred passengers staring below him, Pat Francis let go. Men in the sleepers, only half understand ing, saw as he disappeared a burst of alkali along the track. Only old John Parker's gray eye could see that his conductor, though losing his feet, had rolled clear of the trucks and drivers, and was tumbling in the storm center like a porcupine. Above him the tea cars were lurching down the grade. Old John, straining, saw Francis stagger to his feet and double back like a jack-knife on the ballast. A lump jumped into the baggage man's throat, but Francis' head rose again out of the dust; he raised again on his hands, and dragging after him one leg like a dead thing, crawled heavily towards the switch. He reached the stand and caught at it. He pulled himself up on one leg, and fumbled an instant at the lock, then he jerked the target. As it fell, clutched in both his hands, the caboose of the tea train leaped on the tongue

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but he spoke again and again before the blood shot eyes reluctantly opened. And then Pat Francis, choking, spitting, gasping, clutching at John Parker's bony arm, raised his head. It fell back into the cinders. But he doggedly raised it again—and shook the broken teeth from between his lips—and lived. His face was like a section of beefsteak, and the iron leg that struck the ballast last had snapped twice under him. A few minutes afterward he lay in the stateroom of the forward sleeper, and tried with his burning, swollen tongue to talk to Brooklyn men who feelingly stared at him, and to Brooklyn women who prettily cried at him, and to old John Parker who unsteadily swore at him as he fanned his own whiskers and Pat Francis' head with the baggage clip. When Number Two rolled into Medicine Bend next morning, Bucks climbed aboard, and without ceremony elbowed his way

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through the excursionists dressing in the traveled faster than hot rolls. When the aisles to the injured conductor's stateroom. paper" was drawn, the signing began; but He was in there a good bit. When he came they so crowded the upper floor that Bucks out, the chief priests of Brooklyn crowded was afraid of a collapse, and the testimonial around to say fast things to the superintend was excitedly carried down to the waitingent about his conductor and their conductor. room. Then the women wanted to sign. As they talked, Bucks looked in a minute When they began, it looked serious, for no over their heads ; he did that way when woman could be hurried, and those who were thinking. Then he singled out the Depew of creatures of sentiment dropped a tear on the party and put his hand on his shoulder. their signatures, thinking the paper was to "Look here," said Bucks, and his words hang in Pat Francis' parlor. snapped like firecrackers, " I want you In the end Bucks had to hold Number Two gentlemen to do something for your con thirty minutes, and to lay out the remains ductor." of the tea train, which was still waiting to " We've made up a purse of $300 for him, get out of the yard. my friend," announced the spokesman gladly. After the last yell from the departing ex " I don't mean that; not that. He's in cursionists, Bucks went back to his office, trouble. You needn't waste any breath on and dictated for the general manager a me. I know that man as well as if I'd made report of the Toltec wreck. Then he wrote him. I'll tell you what I want. I want you this letter to him : to come upstairs and dictate your account of the accident to my stenographer. While Replying to yours of the eighth, relative to the you're eating breakfast, he'll copy it and you charges against conductor P. J . Francis. I have his statement in the matter. The detective who paid the can all sign it afterward. Will you ? " cash fare to Red Cloud was not put off there because " W i l l we? Get your slave!" no stop was made, the train being that night under my " I ' l l tell you why," continued Bucks, ad orders to make no stops below Wild Hat. It was the dressing the Brooklyn man impressively. first of the Brooklyn Yellowstone excursions, and Chi " You look like a man who, maybe, knows cago was anxious to make the Columbian Pacific con nection. This was done in spite of Number One's what trouble is—" coming into this division three hours late and against a hard storm. A t Wild Hat the detective, rigged as " I do." " I thought so," exclaimed Bucks, warm an Italian, was overlooked in the hurry and carried by. no cash-fare slip was issued, the fare was turned ing. " If that's so, we belong to the same While in by Conductor Francis to the auditor in the regular lodge—same degree. You see, there's way, and investigation of his trip report will, he tells charges against him. They've had spotters me, confirm his statement of fact. If so, I think after him," added Bucks, lowering his voice you will agree with me that he is relieved of any sus picion of dishonesty in the matter. I have neverthe to the few gentlemen who crowded about. less cautioned him on his failure to hand the passenger "There's plenty of Brooklyn men here for a fare-voucher, and have informed him that his expla nation was entirely satisfactory ; in fact, after the a lynching !" Bucks smiled a far-off smile. " The boys affair at Toltec he deserves a great deal more from the By request of the Brooklyn excursionists, I wouldn't trouble you to help if they could company. inclose an expression of their opinion of Conductor catch them. I want your statement to send Francis' jump from Number Two to set the Toltec in to headquarters with Francis' answer to switch. A l l of which is respectfully submitted. the charges. They tried to make him out a J . F . BUCKS, Superintendent. thief, but I've just found out they haven't touched him. His explanation is perfectly straight." Pat Francis is still running passenger. The men of Brooklyn tumbled up the But Alfabet Smith's men work more now on Wickiup stairs. A t breakfast, the news the East End.

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THE colored youth was not strikingly i n telligent, but he was deeply and impressively dramatic. He was the chance ac quaintance of a summer afternoon—a great, still, empty Sunday afternoon i n the country, when chance acquaintances are at a pre mium. He was a more than ordinarily accomplished story-teller. H i s fixed and distant eye, his great, glistening, crescent smile, and his enormous hands, gave vivid emphasis to his primitive but intense emo tions. A l l that afternoon this grotesque being—but three removes from the African jungle—sat beside me i n that bare New England pasture and told me the story of his short and unenviable career. Below us, beyond the stone wall at the foot of the slope, the clumsy Sunday vehicles of the countryside rattled slowly by, and disap peared up the winding road i n a trailing cloud of thick brown dust. A n d i n the maple trees the vireos wound out their intermina ble sultry song His case was not unusual. The last two

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generations of his race had been seeing life in the slums of a great city. His parents, when he was but two years old, had suc cumbed almost simultaneously to delirium tremens, or some similar refinement of civi lization, and left him in the great, cold lap of the mother State. A t a tender age she had sent him out to bear the bitter bondage of a small New England farmer. Since then he had remained in this country place —a fix ture, apparently, upon the soil. "Where were you," I asked, " before they sent you here?" " A t the State primary school, Boss—the one in Munster." I knew the place. It is a big white, cold, old-fashioned barn of a building, set at the summit of a barren hill. I remembered all I had seen there—the long lines of squirming, shuffling, bullet-headed small boys, looking for all the world like gray rats, i n their dull State u n i f o r m s ; the hulking, vicious b i g boys—half-fledged, callow criminals, hunger ing and thirsting after wickedness ; the un-

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feminine little girls, with their sharp fea tures and straight hair ; the sickening smell of coarse boiled food in the empty kitchens ; the rows of iron beds, the keepers, and, over all, the tall, lank, sallow superintendent, with his cold, fishy gray eyes and black sidewhiskers, cut well up toward his cheekbones— a model for an immortal statue of the insti tution autocrat. It was no picture of happy childhood to treasure in a sentimental mem ory. " Yes, sah," he continued. " I was there foh a long time—from when I was jest a baby till I was most fo'teen." " How'd you like to go back, George," said I, " and finish your education ? " The question excited him. He started up quickly from his lounging position. "I wouldn't do it. No, sah. I don't want none of them educationin' me no more. I wouldn't go back there. No, s a h ; I'd die fust, I would. I'd die right hyar." " W h y not ?" said I. " Why not. 'Cause I wouldn't—that's why. Look hyar, Boss," he said, lowering his voice to a vast confidential whisper," you don' know 'bout that there primary school. That was a bad place, it was. Yes, sah. They didn't act as i f you had no feelin's there ; they treat you jest lake you was sheeps or cows or dogs. The fellers there, too, they was mighty bad ones. Oh, they despret—fightin' all the time, jest lake lions and tigers. Yes, sah, and steal and lie and do every thin'. Oh, they was dangerous. Y o u know that E d Fitts that killed a woman in Manchester las' spring. He's one of 'em. Yes, sah, I knows him ; he was there. And there's lots more of 'em there, too—jest such as him—in prison now, hundreds of 'em." "Weren't there any good ones?" I asked. " No, sah, nothin' to speak of. They was most all jest the same as that." " Say, George," said I, remembering the famous investigation, " you must have been there when that Pierpont boy was there." " Who's that ? " said the youth ; " that lit tle fellow. Yes, sah, I remember him ; I recollect him mighty well." " W h a t kind of a fellow was he ?" said I. "Oh, he was awful smart little feller, and a mighty good feller, too. He was different, he was ; yes, sah." " H o w ' d he get along there ?" said I. "Say, Boss, I'll tell you all 'bout that little feller i f you wants me to," said the youth. " Go ahead," said I. This was his story:

SHEEP. Yes, sah, that little feller, I recollect the very fust day he come there. I was wukkin' on the house job, and I was in the supintenant's office when they took him in. He was a little white, puny feller. His legs weren't no bigger'n little pieces of grass. But his eyes kept lookin', lookin' right straight ahead—jest lake a lion's. Yes, sah, he had terrible bright eyes, he did. " W h a t ' s you name ?" says ol' supintenant. " I dunno." " Y o u dunno ? " says supintenant, kind o' mad lake. Then the feller that brings him in says, " Cornelius Sullivan, that's his name." " No 'tain't, neither," says little feller. " That's what his mother says befoh she dies," says the man. " S h e ain't my mother," says the little feller, starin' at the man, with them eyes ablazin'. " What's you name then ?" says ol' sup intenant. " I dunno," says little feller, lookin' down. " I don' remember ; I was sick ; I forgot." " Guess he sick all right," says the man, rappin' on his head. " You liar," says little feller. " You lemme go ; you ain't got no right to take me hyar." " T h a t ' l l do ; that'll do," says ol' supinten ant. " Y o u march inside there pretty mighty quick." So little feller march in ; he couldn' do nothin' else. They puts him in the L i t t l e Y a r d , 'long with the other little boys. Fust other fellers don' know whether they likes this little feller or not. Fust time new fellers come, they all jest the same. Fust week they cry, cry all the time. This little feller different; he don' cry much—only a little, way round back where they don' see him. Then the fellers goes up to him : " Say, what's you name ?" He don' answer. " Oh, never min', you all r i g h t ; you'll lake it here. What's you name ? " He don' answer one word. " I know what's his name," I says. "I heard it in supintenant's office. H i s name's Cornelius Sullivan." " Y o u liar," says little feller, " I ain't no Irish feller." The other fellers, they all laugh when they hears that. There's all kinds of boys there —Irish, Italians, Germans, colored fellers— everythin', exceptin' only Chinamens. They ain't no Chinamens there. I guess n o t ! No, sah ; they'd kill them. Then one feller hollers o u t : " I ' l l tell you what' we'll d o ;

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they won't fight; they don' dare to for fear what they'll get when they gets back to school. But Irish starts i t ; he ain't 'fraid. Then pretty soon they all fightin'—throwin' rocks, too. One Munster feller gets his head cut mighty bad. Then they all runs ; they ain't hollerin' " J a i l - b i r d " no more. School fellers foller 'em, throwin' stones and rocks. They don' care now ; they started, they despret ; chase Munster fellers all over, and break winders and holler. Then right away Munster cop comes along, and they runs back to school. He can't catch 'em ; he ain't no good—big fat feller, different from city cop. He's nothin' only one of them kind of farmer policemens. He comes up to school right away, puffin' and blowin', and goes to ol' supintenant. He say : " Them boys been down breakin' winders and chasin' our boys. They most k i l l one feller." He don' say nothin' 'bout them Munster fellers beginnin' it. Then ol' supintenant calls fellers all i n and gets 'em all up in a row. He say : " W h o ' s that hit that Munster boy ? " " I dunno." " I dunno." Nobody knows. " S i t on the bench foh eight days," he say. Yes, sah, eight days. Jest lake, say, to-day's Monday ; well, way round by Mon day again. Jest set there ; can't go out 'tall. When supintenant say that, Irish he jump right up. " Don't keep 'em i n , " he say, " I ' m the feller ; I started it." " Oh, you did, did yer ? " " Yes, sah. They hollerin' : ' Jail-birds, jail-birds,' all the time. They ain't got no right to holler at us lake that. I ain't no jail-bird." " Oh, you ain't, ain't yer ? I'll show yer. I'm goin' to jail-bird you." Then ol' supintenant takes him right out before rest of 'em, and lambastes him awful. Irish he don' holler or nothin', Only he jest kind of white and ol' lookin'. Ol' supin tenant can't make him cry. A n d it don' make no difference after all. We all sets on the bench eight days jest the same. After that, fellers all lake Irish—all only Mike Finnegan, he don' lake him; he's 'busin' him all the time. Irish he wants to fight him. He goin' to the Boss all the time and say in' " I wants to fight that feller." Out there to school you fights—they don' mind i t 'tall—providin' you goes and gets permission. Then they makes a ring, lake that, and they all stan' round and the Boss he say : " Ready—go." Then they fights.

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They don' h o l ' their hands up lake t h a t ; they holds 'em down, this a way. Oh, they fighters down there ; they know how—little fellers, no bigger'n that. When Irish asks the Boss, he jest laugh and say : " Y o u don' want to fight him ; you ain't big enough." But all the time Irish keeps at him. He's gettin' stronger lookin' then, all the time. The ol' woman who had him before didn't give him enough to eat, so he's better off at school. Pretty soon Boss he say : " A l l r i g h t ; go ahead." Then they makes the ring, and they goes at it. Golly, how they fights. They never see no fightin' lake that there before. Mike Finnegan, he's biggest feller i n the Yard, and mighty good fighter too. Irish, he's only a little feller, but you never see such a fighter. He went foh him, and smashed him and hammered him, jest sayin' nothin' 'tall, only fightin'. Mike he couldn't stan' it. He had to quit. L i t t l e feller had him licked all to pieces. Then how they hollered ; and the Boss, he jest laugh and laugh. " What's matter with you, Mike ? " he say. " Sick ? " Mike he don' say nothin'. " L o o k hyar," says Boss to Mike. " Don' you try none of you dirty tricks on that fel ler. If you do, you goin' to be mighty sorry." That Mike, he mighty mean feller ; he do anythin'. After that, Irish, he's head rooster of that Y a r d . A l l the fellers lake him too, mighty well. L i t t l e while after that our Boss, he leaves. He's got another job. Fellers hates to have him go They lakes him, better'n teachers, or anybody. They makes him a mighty fine box out of wood in the wuk-shop, wukkin' playtimes to get it done. And they buys him a gran' necktie down to Munster—one of them red velvet ones, with gold spots in it. The next Boss he's mighty different. He's kind of relation to the supintenant, and he don' care. He's big fat feller, with great big neck, and awful red face. Fellers don' lake him 'tall. He's all time hollerin' and interferin'. He don' call us by our name, neither—only jest by number. He s a y : " You all got numbers, ain't you, where you sleeps and eats ? " " Yes, sah." " W e l l , then, I'm goin' to call you by num ber, understan' ? I ain't got no time to learn all you names." He's all time sayin', " H y a r , Hyar. Look hyar, you stop that." And " g o get my coat," and "black my shoes." And " y o u do t h a t " and " you do this." He don' do nothin'

SHEEP. himself. Then he's smashin' us all the time. F o r nothin', too ; he can't stop it. Every body's 'fraid ; he's strong jest lake a giant. Irish, he's l u c k y ; he keeps out of his way long time. B y and by one day, Boss he hol lers " N u m b e r 14"—that's his number— " you come hyar." Irish he don' budge. Then he holler again. Irish he don' stir. He say : " Oh, you won't, won't yer ?" and he goes over and gets him. Boys all mighty solemn. " W h a t you mean not comin' when I calls yer ? " " Y o u didn't call me." " Didn't I call you number ? " " I dunno, and I don' care; I ain't no num ber, I'se a boy. I got a name jest same you has." Then Boss he starts to smash him. But he don' smash him much. Foh all of a sud den the fellers they can' stan' it no longer. They all breaks loose and comes for him, more'n about fifty of 'em. Oh, they despret. They climbs all over that Boss ; they knocks him down, and poun's him, and kicks him fearful—yes, sah—and breaks his watch. He hollers loud's he can holler. A l l the rest comes rushin' in ; ol' supintenant and all. Supintenant, he say : " What's this ? What's this ? " He terrible mad. New Boss he can't hardly speak." " This goin' to stop," says ol' supintenant. " Who's the fellers started it ? " "That's the feller," says the new Boss, puffin' and blowin', pointin' his finger at Irish. " S o , it's you again, is it ?" says ol' supin tenant, jest glarin' at him fearful. " T a i n ' t my fault," says Irish. "He's smashin' us all the time, and callin' us num bers. He ain't got no right to. Look-a there, where he's been smashin' me." " Y o u keep still," says ol' supintenant. " I don' want to hear nothin' from you." New Boss, he comes round a l l right, only he's got a mighty black eye. Ol' supintenant s a y : " W e goin' to stop this, we goin' to stop it right away. I don' care i f you kill half of 'em doin' it." Then he takes Irish over to the Boss, and he wallops him right there ; he wallops him fearful. Irish he jest stands it. He don' holler or nothin'. Ol' supintenant say : " He's bad one." " Never mind, I ' l l take care of him," says the Boss, lookin' dangerous. After that he smashes us more'n ever. We don' do nothin' no more. It ain't no use. Only Mike Finnegan ; he don't smash him.

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thin, and his back is all over long white marks. He shows 'em to us at night. Bye and bye fellers find out somebody's tellin' — tellin'—mostly on Irish. He can' do nothin'. We dunno who 'tis, but we guess mighty near. It's Mike Finnegan ; he's gettin' back at Irish. Fellers don' lake it. Irish he ain't sayin' nothin', but he's actin' mighty queer. He's earnin' pennies and savin' 'em all the time. Oh, he's a regular miser feller. The other fellers don' know what it means. He don' want 'em to ; he's gettin' ready to run away. Pretty soon the Boss gets mad at Mike Finnegan. He catches him lyin' to him. Then he smashes him ; he smashes him good. Mike he don' say nothin'; he waitin', waitin'. Right after that, Irish he wake up in the night, and see Mike Finnegan crawlin' out of bed. He goes creepin', creepin' over into the corner, and lights a match—careful, careful, so they won't hear him. Irish he follows him soft in his bare feet. Right there's a lot of shavin's and oil he's stole from the lamps, stuffed into a hole in the floor. Everybody sleepin' and snorin'; all dark. Irish grabs him. " Look hyar, what you doin' ? " He jumps ; he thinks he's caught. Then he don' care ; he' sees it's Irish, " I'm goin' to burn up this place. Then we'll all get away." " Y o u stop that business mighty quick. You'd burn all the girls up, and most of the fellers too, pretty likely. If I catches you out again I'll k i l l you." So he goes back, swearin' and cussin'. Some of the fellers wake up then, though they whisperin' all the time. " We've got to keep watchin' him," says Irish. " Maybe he'll do it again. We'll all get burned to death sleepin'." So they keep watchin', all night long, but he don' get up again. Next mornin' they throw all the stuff away, and nobody knows nothin' about it. Oh, that's a bad place; lots of things they never know about just such as that. Next day, Irish he says to fellers : " Y o u know what he's goin' to do, i f that fire'd gone ? He's goin' tell 'em I done it. They'd believe it, too." That's right, too. That Mike Finnegan, he's a mean one—if we all burned up, he don' care ; then he'd say Irish done it. After that Irish he still savin', savin'. He ain't goin' off without no money. The fellers that does that they don' get nowhere. They always get caught. He's goin' to get one dollar—jest one dollar—and then he's goin'.

SHEEP. One old feller in the big yard, who's run away a lot, tells him he's jest got to have a dollar. Then he'll run and get a freight train, and by and by he'll get off at a little small station, and buy a ticket, and they won't never see him again. The brakemens on a freight train, they mighty good to a feller. They feeds you and helps you, too. But when you gets to the c i t y , the policemens always lookin' for you on freight trains. They don' never look on passenger trains ; they don' think you'd be there. So Irish he's wukkin' and slavin' to earn his dollar—jest one little dollar. It don' seem so little there, though ; it's mighty big. They ain't scarcely no way to get it. But Irish he's makin' boxes for fellers who's got some money, to send home to their folks, and he's holdin' hosses and all such as that. Everybody that comes drivin' up, Irish he says : " Won't you please lemme hold your hoss. Oh, go on, lemme, please." Pretty often they let him. He's so pleadin' and peaked lookin'. Irish he ain't lookin' good—he's jest like a sick feller. They looks at him and they says : " Poh boy, poh boy, what's the matter with you ? " Irish say, " Oh, nothing much. I jest ain't feelin' good." He knows i f he says what's the matter with him, he won't get a chance to hold no more. Then they used to be some fellers come out there from the city—awful rich fellers. They stops and throws out pennies on the ground, and the school fellers, they jumps over the picket fence and fights for 'em. Irish he used to set there waitin' for 'em. When those rich fellers come along, he say: " Ain't you goin' to feed the chickens to-day ?" (That's what they called it—feedin' the chickens.) " Oh, please, Mister, go on. Please do." Then the rich fellers they laughs, and throws 'em out some pennies, and the fellers all scratch foh 'em—fightin' jest like cats and dogs. Irish, he always gets some. Yes, sah, he always does. A l l the time Irish he's savin', savin'. And all the time he's lookin' sicker and sicker. That Boss, he's breakin' him all right, he certainly is. He's cussin' him all the time, and he's smashin' him and he's puttin' him onto bread and water, sometimes foh two or three days—punishin' him foh things he ain't never done. When he comes out, sometimes he's kind of tottery on his legs. That Boss he laugh. He say: " A i n ' t feelin' so funny as you was, is y e r ? " Irish he ain't sayin' a word ; he ain't al-

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lowin' he's broke yet. But he ain't feel- and by and by he find a little hard bunch. in' very strong. Sometimes when Boss hits Oh, he always finds i t ; I dunno how 'tis—he him, he falls right over. The Boss he's hit- always does. But this time when they all tin' other fellers, too. Only not lake he is stan's up, he don't have to do it. Mike F i n him. negan, he s a y : " I know who stole that By and by—after long time—Irish he's money?" got sixty-seven cents. Don' seem lake he " W h o did?" ever can get as much's he wants. He's " T h a t f e l l e r " — pointin' at Irish — " I feelin' mighty blue. It's considerable trou wakes up i n the night and sees him." (He ble keepin' money there, too. Oh, they stealin' knows Irish has got some money.) all the time out Then Boss he there. There's say, "Come hyar." one feller, named Then he look all Hen' Vestry—he's through him, and regular thief— he f i n d s h i s get's up at night money. "Look and goes feelin', hyar, you, how'd feelin' round you you get that clothes. You money?" can't keep nothin'. " I earned it." 'Tain't no good to " Y o u lie, you him, neither. H e stole it." ain't in fust or Boss say to second grade—he feller that lost can't go outside his money: " Hyar the yard to spend you, come get it. He jest can't you quarter." help it. By and by Then he give it one feller comes to him. to Irish : " Say, " I r i s h " he say: make me a box; "You stealin' I'll give you twen from me." He's ty-five cents." awful pale and Irish tickled to white. death ; he makes " Y o u shut up," the box right Boss says, smashaway. Then he in' him. gets his money. Then he say : He never was so " Anybody else glad. He's whishad his money tlin' and singin' stole?" to himself. He's " N o , sah." goin' next evenin'. " N o , sah." The fellers is Then Boss say: sniggin' bread and "Guess I'll keep meat from dinner this here till I so's he can have "AND HE'S HOLDIN' HOSSES AND ALL SUCH AS THAT." finds where it somethin' to eat. come from. Got Then Mike Finnegan gets back at him. anythin' more?" he say. Then he looks That very next mornin' a feller wakes up. through the linin' of his coat. " Who's stole my quarter ?" Yes, sah, some "What's that?" body's been stealin' from him. " 'Tain't nothin'." Then the Boss takes i t out. " What's Then the Boss he say: " W h o stole that t h i s ? " It's a little round thing—one of feller's money ? " these little lockets—all gold—and inside " I dunno." there's a piece of kind of yeller hair. " I dunno." "That's my locket," says Irish. " Y o u Then he always stan' 'em up i n a row and he look through 'em—through all their pock give me t h a t ; you ain't got no right to i t . ets and the linin' of their coats—lake that— Give it back to me."

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" W h e r e ' d you get t h a t ? " " I always had it." " Y o u liar; you stole it before you come here. I'm goin' to keep it till I finds out who it belongs to." Then Irish he fights for it, and the Boss smashes him. He smashes him awful with his fist. Irish he falls right over—he's fainted away. Boss s a y : " Get up, there," and he kicks him with his foot. Irish he don't move. " He's dead," says one feller. The Boss he's scared. He say: " S h u t up. Go get some water. Hurry up." But Irish he ain't dead. B y and by he comes to, and they puts him to bed. Hen' Vestry—that thievin' feller—he's so tickled, he 'most bust laughin'. The fellers say : " What you laughin' a t ? " " Oh, I dunno. I was 'fraid he'd come and take my quarter away from me." " Where'd you get any quarter ? " " I had it given to me." " Aw, go on." They knows better. Only 'tain't no use to say nothin'. I sleeps right close up to Irish that time. A l l that night he's kind of cryin' to himself. "Say, Irish," I says, "what's m a t t e r ? What's matter ?" " He's gone stole my locket. Now I can' find my folks, never. Oh, what'll I do ? What'll I do?" Next day he say: " I ' m goin', anyhow. I can' stan' it. I jest got to go, he's killin' me." The fellers they're runnin' away all the time them days ; they can' stand i t . L o n g toward night time, when the fellers go in from the yard, they jest slips behind the door and stays outside. Then the Boss calls the names. "Where's that feller ?" " I dunno." " I dunno." Um-hum, he's gone. Yes, sah, that evenin' Irish he run away. A l l that night they looks foh him. There's a feller there named Mr. F o x don't do nothin' else only look foh boys. Oh, he's suah. They don't get away from him. Fust he telegraph all round. Then sometimes he goes after 'em; and sometimes all day long he jest stan' there by the gate with his spy-glass—jest lake that—lookin', lookin'. B y and by he sees a little thing 'way off—jest lake a little pin walkin'. Then they goes and catches the feller and brings him back. M r . Fox, he gets five dollars for every boy he catches—say,

.SHEEP. ten boys he gets ten five dollars. Oh, he's rich. It don't take him long to find Irish. Next day he comes bringin' him back. They catch him on a freight train. He's lookin' worse'n ever. Y o u wouldn' know him, he looks so bad. He's all mud and dirt and his clothes is all torn. He's sick. Boss he don' lick him much. He don' dare to. But Irish he don' care. He jest sets around with his head down, mopin', mopin'. He's most broke this time. Out there to school fellers gets that way sometimes— nothin' ails 'em m u c h ; they jest mopin', mopin' all the time. Then after a while they don' never get w e l l ; they dies. Irish he's that way 'most a week. He don' care; he's done for anyhow. But one day he's standin' out i n the yard, and a big carriage drives up and a gran' lady gets out—all dressed i n black. Irish he wants to hol' the hosses. He's got used to holdin' 'em ; he likes it. Lady say : " Poor boy, poor boy, how sick you lookin'. What's the matter ?" " Oh, nothin'. I'm all right." Then she kisses him. Yes, sah, right there. She's got tears in her eyes. She say: " Poh boy, ain't you got no home but t h i s ? " "No'm." She's holding his hand a minute and he's looking at her. Jest a minute. Then he runs away in back where nobody's goin' to see him, and cries some up against side of building. Nobody ain't never kissed out there to school. Probably it makes Irish feel mighty queer. He ain't very strong anyhow. Some fellow sees him out there. " Hey, fellers, come hyar and look at I r i s h . " Irish he turns roun' mighty quick. " You lemme alone. I ' l l break you back i f you don'." Lady she's gone inside and seen o l ' su pintenant. " I los' my little boy last year. He died. My husband, he's died too. Peoples in city say maybe they'd be a good boy here I could take home with m e . " Ol' supintenant smile and say: " Yes'm, yes'm, yes'm. I ' l l have 'em brought i n ; then you can see 'em foh yourself." Then he brings 'em all in and stands 'em all up in a row. The lady she's there. Oh, she's beautiful—white, jest lake a lily, with black cloth hangin' down by her face. A n ' she's dressed gran', jest lake some of the ladies in the play. A n y feller's mighty lucky that goes with her, I tell yer.

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Ol' supintenant he says to her: " T h i s here's our little flock "—he always talks lake that when they's visitors. " Pretty lively boys, but pretty good boys, too. A i n ' t you, boys ? " " Yes, s a h . " " Y e s , sah." Then he laughs silly. " They lake it here. They gets good food, and they's treated first-class. We never strike our boys. It's 'gainst the r u l e s . " He always talks lake that—kind of sweetlake. Then the lady, she's lookin' all round at all the boys. She don' seem to find what she wants. Then she say: " W h e r e ' s that

little boy I saw out in the yard. I don' see him h y a r . " " W h o ' s that, b o y s ? " says o l ' supin tenant. " I r i s h , " says two or three fellers. Irish was 'way in back. They makes a hole so they can see him, and he comes out. " That's the little b o y , " lady says. " I don' believe you want that b o y , " says o l ' supintenant. " He's been a pretty bad one since he come h e r e . " " T h a t ain't so. I don' never have no show h y a r , " says Irish. The lady's lookin' at him. She seems to kind o' lake him. She don' take no notice

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of what o l ' supintenant says—jes' lake she don' hyar him. " He's got a nice face," she says, kind of under her breath lake. " C o m e hyar, little boy. W h a t ' s yoh name ? " " I dunno." " Y o h dunno ? " " N o ' m ; I was sick. Ol' Irish woman had me. I remember her, but I don' remember no more. I wasn't her boy, t h o u g h , " he say, tryin' to stan' up straight. Lady she's lookin' at him—lookin', lookin'. ' ' Don' you remember anything more — not jest a little teenty bit ? " " I dunno. Seems i f I kind o' remember somethin'—a kind o' big house—and a big clock, higher'n my head—and—a great big yeller dog—and a lady—seems i f — a lady, with big eyes, kind o' smilin'—somethin' lake you, she looks—and—and—I guess that's a l l . " " Poh boy, poh b o y , " lady says, " prob'ly that's you' mother. Couldn't you never find her?" " N o ' m , maybe she's dead." " A i n ' t you got nothin' to remember by?" " N o ' m , not now. I did have my locket befoh they took it away from m e . " " W h e r e is i t ? Who took i t ? " " He did, that man there. He's got it now, wearin' it on his watch-chain." " Sah, bring that boy's locket h y a r . " He brings it over mighty quick. Lady she looks at it and looks at it. " Poh b o y , " she say, " p o h boy. Jest nothin' but a common gold locket, with nothin' in it but some hair. I'm 'fraid you won't never find your mother with t h a t . " Then foh a moment they didn't say n o t h i n ' ; she was thinkin'. Then Irish says, kind of soft lake, lookin' at her: " I wish you'd been my mother." Then all at once he can't stan' i t ; he's cryin' to her and catching hold of her hand. " O h , don' leave me; please don' leave me. Take me with you, please do. I ' l l do anything foh you, I w i l l . I ' l l work and slave and die for you i f you wants me to. Only don' leave me. Jest try me—only once. You don' have to keep me i f you don' want to. You can sen' me b a c k . "

SHEEP. The lady, she's down on her knees in front of him, sort of crying. " Y o u poh little motherless boy!" she says, " I will take you. It will be better foh both of u s . " Then Irish, he's jes' hanging onto her and c r y i n ' , and they sends us all out of the room. When we was goin' out Hen' Vestry, he try to steal that gol' locket she's dropped there on the floor. Every feller round kicks him and punches him and makes him throw it down again. Jest right after that they drives out of there in their gran' carriage. They don' stop at all. The beautiful lady's in the back seat, and Irish's sittin' right up close to her and kind of smilin'. The old supintenant's standin' i n the door-way, and bowin', and tryin' to look sweet; and all the boys jest hollerin' their heads off. Irish, he's got through. Sometimes he comes back after that and sees us. He's drivin' in a team with the lady ; or he's ridin' on his hoss. He's got a hoss of his own. Oh, he's awful rich feller. He's good feller, too. He don' forget. He's done an awful lot for other fellers. Yes, sah, he has—that's right. The colored youth's tongue had run down. His story was done. " He started the big investigation, didn't he ? " said I. " Yes, sah, that's r i g h t ; he was the feller. Right after that they began investigationin.' Ol' supintenant and Boss, I guess they're mighty sorry they licked that feller. They don' lick no other fellers, they don' ; they gets right out of there after they've investigationed 'em. 'Tain't lake it was over ther' ; no, sah. " It's mighty different. They got a new supintenant and new Boss and everythin'." " I guess you boys were mighty glad that fellow was sent to school," said I. " Y e s , sah, we was. It's the best thing ever happened to that school. They ain't no doubt 'bout that. Y o u ought to been there the last time ol' supintenant and Boss went away." " D i d the boys h o l l e r ? " " Did they holler. Oh, no, I guess not. You could hear 'em most a mile, I bet yer. Yes, sah—more'n that—ten times more."

" He . . . saw, peacefully at anchor, the beautiful craft seemingly sleeping upon the waters of the bay."

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T H E R E can be nothing more pleasing to the eye than the spectacle of a modern steam yacht lying at anchor off a wooded shore, lazily rising and falling upon the gen tle swell that finds its way in from the end less stretch of ocean beyond. About such a vessel there is a touch of romance, and an individuality which, in one aspect at least, is overawing. It is as though the men

grouped upon her decks were mere incidents in her career, as i f the yacht were the thing of life, the mental process, the power and the intelligence, and her crew the mechan ism which she directs. Even a landsman feels the indefinable influence which she ex erts, but to a man who loves the sea, and who has passed all the years of his life be neath the scepter of Neptune, it is at once

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seductive, inspiring, and overwhelming. U n less your life has been passed upon the sur face of the deep, unless you have battled with the elements which have their lair in mid-ocean, and have struggled, sometimes vainly, against a " s i x " or " e i g h t " gale mercilessly forcing you upon the rocky bat tlements of a lee shore, you can never feel this indescribable thrill. How it quickens the pulse and warms the cockles of the heart to look down upon such a scene, suddenly and unexpectedly presented to view, after deliberately having forsworn all participa tion in the life of a sailor, and having volun tarily adopted a new career! Craddock drew a deep breath and muttered something very much like an oath when he appeared upon the top of the rocky promon tory and saw, peacefully at anchor, the beau tiful craft seemingly sleeping upon the waters of the bay. The sun, just risen, smiled complacently upon the scene; and from where Craddock stood there was not visible another sign of life than the yacht itself. She might have dropped from the clouds or have risen out of the depths of the ocean, for when the sun went down she was not there; with the birth of a new day she appeared to have been there always. While he looked, shading his eyes with his hands, a white-clad figure issued from the companionway, and after sweeping the face of the bluff with a glass, waved a cap to the man on the shore. The greeting was returned with manifest eagerness; and a moment later, as i f invoked by some un known magic, other forms appeared upon the deck of the vessel, the port davits were swung away, a boat was lowered, and the man with the binoculars, having taken his place in the stern, was propelled rapidly to ward the base of the bluff, upon the summit of which stood the motionless figure shading his eyes with his hand. As the small boat came nearer, he turned and gazed backward along the path by which he had approached the bluff, until his eyes rested upon the outlines of a house half-hid den among the trees, where the noise of the surf could only reach it in murmurs. He sighed deeply, hesitated a moment more, and then turned again and plunged down the precipitous path which led to the shore of the bay at the point where the boat must touch. They arrived at the spot simultane ously. The man with the binoculars leaped ashore—a Hercules in physique, a moun tain lion in litheness and grace of action,

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a tawny-haired, tawny-bearded Thor in as pect, and stretching out both arms, seized Craddock's hands in a strong, relentless grasp. F o r a moment neither man uttered a word. They looked into each other's eyes, shook hands again and again, and then stepped away from each other silently. ' ' Y o u received my letter, Craddock ? ' ' asked the yachtsman presently. " Y e s ; more than a week a g o . " " I may count upon you ? " Craddock shrugged his shoulders, but made no reply. " Shall we go to your house, or " " N o ; not t h e r e , " interrupted Craddock with a quick gesture of dissent. " T o the yacht, then. Y o u shall break fast with m e . " " I have sworn " " D — n your swearing, Craddock! It is not going to sea to board the ' Carlotta.' " " Y o u have named her that ? " ' ' Yes—but she bears a false name for the present. That you shall hear when we are alone in the cabin. Vamonos, amigo! A l l aboard! Ready, lads! Away with you! Egad, old fellow, doesn't this reanimate the dead corpuscles i n your sluggish blood ? What is there i n that solitary life of yours to compare with this ? There is a flush upon your cheeks already; there is a new light in your eyes; your nostrils dilate, even now; the war-horse hears the bugle sound the charge; the son of Neptune listens to the wind whistling in the shrouds and feels the breathing of the ocean's lungs. Here we are! Up with you, Craddock—up and i n ; but stop! Look forward, and then look aft. Experience once more the sensation of being a king, a monarch, an emperor, a god. Rest your nautical eye upon those sticks. Aren't they beauties ? Did you ever see a rake like that, even in the old days of wind-jamming ? Could a battle-ship or a cruiser be more perfectly appointed ? Is there a shroud or a stay or a thing that you can criti cise ? Look at that low, wide funnel. Com pound, triple-expansion engines, Crad. Twin screws, everything the best; nothing that floats can catch her. Come! " He seized his friend by one arm and led him to the cabin, and a moment later they sat facing each other, half buried in huge leather chairs, with a steaming pot of fra grant coffee between them. F o r several moments the yachtsman silently regarded his friend, who was feasting his

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eyes upon a vision that he loved more dearly than all else in the world—the luxurious cabin of a perfectly appointed yacht. " Do you like the picture ? " he inquired presently. " Is there anything that can im prove it ? M y fortune is here. M y home is here. I shall never live ashore again. This yacht is my sweetheart, my wife, my world, unless—! If she goes to the bottom, I go with her, with everything I possess.

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" I t is piracy, Ralph, no more, no less. Besides, I cannot go, anyhow." The handsome face of the yachtsman be came sullen, and he pulled at his tawny beard with a savage energy that threatened its destruction. " Y o u did not read all my l e t t e r , " he said, finally. " I read it through to the end, many times."

"IT IS PIRACY, RALPH, NO MORE, NO LESS.

Now, Craddock, tell me—you are going with me on this cruise ? " " No." "Crad!" " I cannot g o . " "Why?" " It is p i r a c y . " " L e g a l l y , you are c o r r e c t , " replied the yachtsman, after a pause, and his voice was low and c a l m ; " b u t by every moral law, human and divine, the cause is just, and honorable, and r i g h t . "

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" T h e n you know the fate of Carlotta i f I do not carry out my purpose." "Yes." " A n d you still refuse to go, even though, against her w i l l , they will wed her to an other ? " " I still refuse to g o . " " L e t me repeat the story in words. L e t ters are cold things at their b e s t . " " I t is useless, Ralph. Was I not with you when you met this woman for whom you would now sacrifice so much ? I warned you

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then, I have warned you since, I warn you again, now. If i n making this sacrifice there existed one chance of success, heaven knows I would not hold you back from the enterprise, even i f the lifting of one little finger would accomplish i t . But there is no chance of success—not one. There is noth ing but death—dishonorable death, presum ably at the end of a rope dangling from a yard-arm for you, and eternal disgrace for her." Craddock rose from his chair and with his hands behind him strode several times the length of the cabin. Then he resumed his seat and continued: " Can nothing deter you from this step, old friend ? L e t us review it for a moment. W e were boys together. We went to sea together. Together we made our fortunes at the very moment when the world seemed darkest. D u r i n g twentyseven years we were never apart, except for a few hours at a time. W e were ten when we met, thirty-seven when we separated four years ago. Twenty years of toil, seven years of adventure, and four years of con templative quiet surely should have brought us wisdom. I f you saw me about to embark in an enterprise which you knew would end in my undoing, would you not endeavor to hold me back from i t ? Would you not re fuse to enter upon it w i t h me, even i f you were differently situated from the way that I am now ? Because it was your ill-fortune to save the life of a princess—the daughter of a king—is it logical that you should de liberately sacrifice your life and honor, and hers also, to the love that was born to both of you by that event ? Where, i f this U t o pian scheme of yours should succeed to the point of capturing this vessel upon which she is to be a passenger—where, pray, do you propose to hide ? Where, i n all the wide world, will you find a haven where you dare even hope to escape capture ? Aboard this yacht ? The combined navies of the world will pursue you. There is no far cor ner of land or sea where you will be s e c u r e . " " Y o u forget " " I do not forget—Empire Island—our island, where we were wrecked, and where we lived i n solitude nearly three years—is 12,000 miles away. Y o u could not sail onetenth part of the distance without capture —and, besides, you cannot go there. Your oath to me binds you not to do so. W e mutually agreed never to return to that spot, unless i n company, or w i t h the ex press permission of the absent one. I will not go with you, and I refuse the permis

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sion. Y o u will not break your word to me; therefore you cannot go there, even i f it were otherwise possible. H u s h ! Y o u need not speak! I know that you are angry. Do not utter now words which you will regret later; but I would rather live the remainder of my life under the ban of your undimin ished rage, than to relax one single effort that I can make to turn you aside from this awful venture that you contemplate. Y o u are a madman to undertake i t ; you were mad when you conceived i t ; you will be hanged as a felon before you can half con summate i t . " A n d for what, and for whom do you undertake i t ? " Craddock continued, with more excitement than he had shown hith erto, rising from his chair and again pacing the cabin deck. " F o r a woman whom you never saw but once in your life, in whose company you have passed less than five hours out of the forty-one years of your existence. For a woman who is related to every crowned head i n Europe, whose portrait is familiar to every reader in the world, whose disap pearance would arouse every human energy on earth and sea to effect her recapture and your destruction. Y o u tell me in your letter that you have been planning this enterprise three years; i f you had consumed 300 years in the work, i t could offer no hope of suc cess. She sails on the royal yacht on such a date, bound so-and-so; well, all the world knows that. Y o u will pursue, and i f per chance there is a storm, or an accident, or i f God or the Devil intervenes in some in conceivable way, you will attack the yacht in the open sea, seize your prize, and sail away, confident that nothing that floats can outsail you. What, in heaven's name, will the two cruisers which accompany the yacht be doing while this piratical outrage is going on ? E i g h t and ten-inch shells travel faster than this floating palace of yours. " Again, i f neither God nor the Devil in terferes to assist you in this plan, you believe that you will find your opportunity in the Mediterranean when the yacht is at anchor and the royal party is resting. B a h ! D o n ' t you know that the cruiser-consorts will lie either side of her, and aren't you sailor enough to know that you will have no more chance of getting within hail of the vessel you would attack, without being fired upon, than you would have of capturing the ' Ore gon ' in an open fight with this puny craft ? Are you mad, Ralph ? I know you are i n earnest, but have you lost all reason ? " " H a v e you quite finished, C r a d d o c k ? "

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had just struck in the house where Craddock lived, when he heard a summons at the door. He sprang toward it quickly, believing that his friend had thought better of his mad venture. He threw it open. A dozen forms leaped into the wide hallway. He was seized, and i n a moment bound; and all the while Thor stood, with folded arms, idly leaning against one of the pillars of the portico. " I cannot force permission from you, C r a d d o c k , " he said, when the deed was done, " b u t I can compel you to accompany me. Is there anything that you would have me do before we go aboard ? ' ' ' ' Y e s . My motherless child and the nurse must accompany m e . " Two hours later the yacht had sailed. Craddock imperturbably resigned himself to the inevitable. During the days which followed, while the yacht was coursing like a meteor toward the European coast, he gave no outward sign of the indignation he felt, other than totally to ignore the exist ence of T h o r ; and Thor chose not to see that he was ignored. H i s high spirits and boundless enthusiasm were unquenchable, and he seemed not to notice that his run ning fire of talk was never commented upon nor answered. The voyage across the ocean was unevent ful. The yacht slipped through the English Channel into the N o r t h Sea, and glided rap idly onward toward her first anchorage, which must not be named; and there came a day, approximately two weeks after the American coast was lost to view, when she glided to her moorings not three cablelengths from the royal craft upon which the princess was soon to embark. Thor's great stature seemed taller than ever then. His eyes—colored like the water i n the Gulf of Salerno with the sun at meridian—shone brighter and with greater steadfastness. There was a constant smile about his mouth, and his brows wore the half-frown of con centrated thought. He placed no guard whatever upon the actions of his friend, but two sailors were ever at the side of Craddock's child and nurse when they loitered upon the deck. Craddock, watching him furtively, wondered i f he contemplated mak ing the assault there, in the presence of the fleet and with the narrow neck of water be tween two forts bristling w i t h guns as the The night was cloudy, with here and there only avenue of escape. Such an attempt on a star peeping out, and there was a number the part of Thor would not have surprised two breeze jostling among the leaves of the him. trees above the bluff. Two bells had just But the Titan made no sign. Calmness sounded on board the yacht, and nine o'clock and complacency seemed adjuncts of his or-

asked the yachtsman calmly. There was not a trace of anger left upon his face; in deed, he was smiling now. " Y e s , " was the short reply. " Shall I order breakfast served ? " "No. Send me ashore." " Very good. But another question, first. Do you still refuse me permission to visit Empire Island without you ? " "Yes. I still refuse; now, and forever, unless you give up this enterprise." " What was the promise we made each other ? W i l l you state it for me ? I may have forgotten the exact w o r d i n g . " " The agreement was that neither of us should ever visit the island again, during the life of the other, except in each other's company, or with the express permission of the absent one. It is clear enough." " Quite so. Thank you. W i l l you not breakfast with me now ? ' ' "No. I will go ashore. Y o u need not accompany me to the deck. Shake hands, and let us part here." " I t is my turn to refuse, Craddock. When we meet again, if we ever do, I will offer you my hand. Y o u may not feel dis posed to take i t . It is better, therefore, that you should leave it untouched now. I will go with you to the deck. I will not sail t i l l some time i n the night. If you change your mind, come off to me. To morrow morning I will have g o n e . " Thor—we will call him so, after the Nor wegian god he so greatly resembled, for he must be nameless here—leaned idly against the taffrail and watched the figure of his de parting friend until he had scaled the cliff and, with a last wave of his hand, disap peared beyond i t . There was a strange smile, half sad, half mocking, upon his de termined features, which in every line gave evidence of unfaltering courage and relent less purpose. " Too bad, Craddock," he murmured, still with his eyes fixed upon the point where his friend had disappeared. " I cannot visit Empire Island without y o u ; therefore I must take you with me. There is nothing in the promise which says that either may not take the other by force; ergo, you must accom pany me. Craddock, my friend, we sail to night—and we sail together."

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ganism. He always smiled; he perpetually frowned. H i s deep voice, like the mellow tone of an organ, was never unsteady; and on the fifth day after their arrival they put to sea again. " We are bound out, C r a d d o c k , " he said, in one of those one-sided conferences often held, wherein the American listened without comment, and the Norwegian talked without compensation. " The royal party sails at dawn to-morrow. W e will precede them through the channel and down the coast; and then—what then, amigo ? Quien sabe ? Shall I put you ashore, my friend, or will you see it out, now that you are embarked ? ' ' ' ' Did you see her, Crad ? " he asked later. " D i d you see her when she went aboard with her suite ? H i g h heaven, what beauty! W h a t majesty! W h a t infinite ten derness and love! A h ! I f you had been with me on the quay! I f you could have seen the start of surprise that she gave when she saw me—the roses that bloomed all i n an instant upon her cheeks. The flush, the smile, the frown, the pathetic entreaty, the defiance, the undying love, the unalter able resolve. I made no sign. She made none; but her heart is beating now just as mine beats—like the piston i n the highpressure cylinder below, w i t h terrific force, but steady and true—steady and true, C r a d ; never quickening or lessening a beat, never increasing or diminishing its f o r c e ; steady and true, C r a d ; steady and t r u e ! Y o u saw her from the deck, Craddock, with her eyes shining like the stars i n heaven, with her head eating into the wind like the forefoot of a clipper ship. Y o u saw her, did you not ? The daughter of a hundred k i n g s ; the progeny of forgotten rulers of m e n ; the acme of every promise of heaven and of earth! Crad, can you keep silent now! " Two hundred and t h i r t y knots, or there abouts, off that part of earth where the Bay of Biscay eats into the coast of France, with the wind on a hitch between four and five, combing the tops of the waves into seething flakes of foam, like goat's milk i n the whey, coursed Thor's masterpiece of mechanism. Off to starboard, thirteen miles away, the sun dipped moodily, half veiled i n cloud. On the port quarter, six miles astern, was a white line surmounted by a column of somber smoke, and beyond and behind it were three lesser columns issuing from the funnels of the cruiser-consorts. W h e n the sun dipped out of sight the wind freshened, and then, with a puff, went out. Craddock played

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with his little daughter. Thor rested his bulk against the port davits and struggled with his beard—the only evidence of impa tience he manifested. ' ' Neither God nor the Devil will inter v e n e , " he said at last, approaching Crad dock. " I quote you, my friend, not my own thought. In the Mediterranean it will be different." Then he sought his cabin. There is something uncanny in the dead calm of a Mediterranean night, when the elements are asleep, and earth and sky and ocean are i n repose; when even the billows cease their restless undulations, and an chored craft lie inanimate. The royal yacht was one of these. There was life upon her decks, however. Here and there a sailor leaned idly against the bulwark and gazed abstractedly off into the night. The watch paced its restless tread fore and aft and athwartships; but the watch was sleepy-eyed, and yawned as he walked, for the duty was one simply of routine. Abeam, on either side, floated two of the cruiser-consorts; dead astern rested the t h i r d ; sluggish, yawning, half sleeping, all of them. Beneath the awning, half in repose, yet keenly alert to every beauty of the night, flanked by maids and guarded by marines, though in utter solitude, reclined the Princess whom we have called Carlotta. Of the royal party she alone remained upon the yacht. W h y , she could not have explained, except that the night appealed to her i n a new w a y ; and for some unaccount able reason her mind was upon the Titan form and tawny-bearded face of her rescuer of long ago. Her glance swung lazily to seaward, where a green light hung motion less over the waters of the bay, and then turned shoreward again toward the point where her friends had disappeared. A haze, unlike mist but still a haze, mellowed the softness of the night. Repose, solitude, peace, memory, were i n the air she breathed. Then, out of the haze, at the point upon which her eyes were fixed, leaped a shape, and the heart of the Princess bounded, paused, fluttered, and again began its cease less counting of the periods i n her life, for with the looming of the shape out of the haze had come a yodel-song, sharp and clear and strong. A cry heard once, never to be forgotten; a cry which she had heard but once, never to forget. She did not move. Her maids still whispered together. The marines remained deaf. The shape was the launch that had con veyed her friends ashore. It flew the pen-

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nant of its royal owner. It approached unchallenged. There was a sharp command from amidships on the yacht. The deck swarmed with men. The boom was manned, the steps were lowered. Officers stood at attention. Marines lined up, presented arms, and fixed their eyes upon nothing. The launch had returned; what mattered it whom it brought ? One form only leapt to the deck; lèse majesté was in his demeanor. It was Thor, grand in his daring, and smiling with that half-frown of definite purpose. The Princess rose from her chair calmly and with deliberation. A quiet word, spoken in an undertone, relegated her attendants to a distance. Half-way along the promenade she encountered her guest, and there she paused with extended hand, while he dropped upon one knee, and tenderly clasping the hand in both his own, pressed it to his lips. He would have spoken, but she silenced him by a gesture, and so they remained for seconds which seemed hours to both. Then she spoke. ' ' Y o u have dared to come to me, past all b a r r i e r s , " she said, tremulously. " I cannot say that I am not glad. Do not speak. I must not hear the sound of your voice. My destiny was shaped when the world was young; defiance cannot alter i t . Y o u have dared all things for the sake of seeing me again—that I might see you once more. I must ask even greater courage of you now. Leave me, my friend, with everything that you would say unspoken. I must not listen —but I know. We may not mention love—

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but afterward, afterward, when this earthly destiny is fulfilled, then, my friend, I will seek you as you have sought me now. Rise. Rise and go, lest my strength should fail me in this supreme moment. God be with you! R i s e ; do not speak; by your love for me, by my love for you, leave me! Do not look back. I beseech—no, I command! Leave me! M y spirit will accompany you. My body—it is nothing—it must remain here. Afterward—yonder—in the life to come—I will seek for y o u ! F o r the love of God, leave m e ! " Upon the palm of her hand he pressed his lips, and then, without a word, he left the deck, dropped into the launch, and disappeared i n the haze. The Pillars of Hercules were dipping into the ocean far astern when Thor sought his friend on the after deck of the yacht " Carl o t t a . " It was during the middle watch of the succeeding day. Outwardly he was unchanged, except that his smile was deeper and the half-frown had disappeared. " The enterprise is abandoned, Craddock," he said, calmly; " w i l l you take my hand now ? " " Gladly, R a l p h ; in full forgiveness, t o o . " Thor seemed not to hear, but continued, dreamily: ' ' There is little that I can tell you. With my men I seized the launch and boarded the yacht. She was there. I saw her. She gave me her commands and a promise. I obeyed, and I wait. That is a l l . Shall we go to Empire Island now, and rest ? " " If you wish it, y e s . "

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EDITOR'S N O T E — T h e following story is the first of a series by J o s i a h F l y n t and F r a n c i s W a l t o n , men who have spent many years studying the c r i m i n a l classes. T h e i r methods are o r i g i n a l . They live among the criminals and are known amongst the " profession " as men of their own class. I t is needless to say that their life amongst them is not to break the laws, but to understand as thoroughly as possible the motives and methods of that great p a r t of the community which they describe as " T h e U n d e r - W o r l d . " These stories are not fiction in the ordinary sense ; they are e n t e r t a i n i n g stories, but more t h a n this they are philosophical studies, about a class concerning which the great mass of people knows nothing, except t h a t they are lawbreakers. A l l the names in these stories are fictitious, but the characters are real and the incidents have a l l occurred at various times and places. The stories are intended to point a moral as w e l l as adorn a tale.

THERE were two James Disons, one a New Y o r k ; the other was "one of the boys "

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tity with each other and an alternate ex istence. When James Dison of the small city went to the metropolis to purchase goods, James Dison of the naughty city re ceived his letters and answered them, i n particular letters from M r s . Dison, i n reply to which he insisted, very properly, on his eagerness to return to the delights of her society, which demonstrated that, even dur ing his absence, his thoughts were w i t h the community at home. In return for these courtesies i n the metropolis, when James Dison of the small city returned to his ac customed office, i t was his practice to sign and forward to the naughty city certain checks in payment of bills which his meta physical double had contracted; some of them for ponderable goods to be delivered in the small city, others for imponderable goods such as the naughty city notoriously affords. One evening i n A p r i l , 1 8 9 - , James Dison of the naughty city found himself possessed of a roll of bank-notes, and of a handsome watch which bore a s t r i k i n g resemblance to a gift officially and oratorically presented i n February, 1 8 9 - , by the Chamber of Com merce and the Bankers' Association of the small city to their " eminent and universally honored and esteemed fellow-citizen, James Dison, who by a timely exhibition of public spirit and self-sacrifice, lamentably rare i n these times of pecuniary ambition and short sighted greed, had saved the prosperous city from a local p a n i c . " The roll of bank notes, James Dison of the naughty city d i minished from time to time i n the course of the evening, with the manner and gesture of never-mind-the-change; the watch he con sulted toward six o'clock in the morning w i t h an intellectual intensity, and decided, in a moment of lucidity remarkable under the circumstances, that he had made ' ' a night of i t " and would take a Turkish bath. When he had emerged from the bath and had breakfasted, he remembered that he had an appointment i n Newark at the hour of ten, and that the ideal way to go to Newark, at which it is inconceivable a man should wish to arrive, is to take the " t r o l l e y . " The conductor, who was an artist i n words, politely requested the motorman to be good enough to " turn on that j u i c e . " Burke Ryan was a gentleman who took his fun where he found it, and to whom the universe owed a l i v i n g . A certain portion of his fun he found i n the naughtier delights of the naughty city, but he had received a good education and read Tacitus and L i v y i n the " a b o r i g i n a l , " and was a connoisseur i n

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scarf-pins. In the intervals of his pleasures he collected what the universe owed h i m ; and i f he discovered it in the pockets of other people, so much the worse—for the other people: a man has a right to his own. A t the time when James Dison was mak ing a night of it, Burke Ryan saw his watchchain and surmised his watch, and took stock of his roll of bills and of his manner and ges ture of never-mind-the-change. He also rec ognized that by a singular exhibition of astute ness he had himself that day at the races lost the largest odds it was mathematically pos sible to lose, and that it was " u p to him " to cut and cash with all possible promptitude a number of the coupons on the securities to which his creditor, the universe, had given him a right. One of the coupons that was obviously due lay for safe-keeping at the end of Dison's watch-chain in Dison's waist coat pocket. He had discovered this fact at the moment when Dison had returned his watch to its resting-place after having consulted it with an intellectual intensity. Dison's manner of handing out his bills Burke had looked upon with a near approach to moral indignation; there was an offensive lack of principle in throwing away money that the universe owed to some one else. When Dison entered the bath-house Burke also entered i t . He had not wanted a Turk ish bath, but he took one out of complaisance : what he wanted really was to ' ' t o u c h ' ' the little sum which was coming to him, and to go to bed. When Dison lingered at break fast, he also lingered at breakfast, though with a growing impatience at the prolix etiquette of modern times. Not so many hun dreds of years ago a baron of the UnderWorld i n his position would have taken shame to himself: he would have advanced upon Dison openly, and tapping him famil iarly on the breast, would have explained that he had taken a fancy to certain insig nificant trinkets, of which he doubted not their actual possessor, whose attention as a man of taste he claimed for a glance at the elegance of his stiletto, would be delighted to make him a present. When Dison en tered the trolley-car in Jersey City, Burke also entered it and took a place beside him. He had been seemingly much chagrined at not having found it possible to obtain a place beside him on the " e l e v a t e d " or the f e r r y ; for his own part, he had no business in New ark whatever. When Dison slept, his watch transferred itself to B u r k e ' s waistcoat; when Dison woke he discovered i n his trou sers pocket the two longest and deftest

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fingers of Burke's right hand. Burke was at once so obliging as to withdraw the fingers and with them the remnant of Dison's roll of bills. Then the etiquette of modern times ceased to be prolix, and the scene was as mediaeval as Burke could have wished. Dison seized Burke by the shoulder and spoke his mind with a mediaeval vigor and idiom which it would be an anachronism to record. There were two women and twenty men in the c a r ; the two women expressed the judgment of their sex upon the situation inarticulately at the top of their voices; the twenty men with one impulse lurched to ward Burke. Burke possessed no stiletto to the elegance of which he could call Dison's attention as a connoisseur, but he produced a re markably handsome razor, to the ele gance of which he called Dison's atten tion and the atten tion of every one i n the car. Every one, Dison in par ticular, evinced a sudden interest in reaching the street. They fell over them selves in their eager ness, the women f o r g o t even to scream, and one of them forgot the way to the door and used the window. The facetious conductor said the reason he got off was that he wanted to see what B u r k e ' s razor would look like from a distance. The last to desert his place was the motorman, whom B u r k e ' s approach seemed to afflict with acute insanity. A s a preliminary to jumping off he turned on the full current, and when the car bounded for ward at full speed he leaped. He did not wait to hold by the handles and steady him self before his feet touched the ground; he just naturally got off and did gymnastics. When he was picked up afterward he ex plained that he had been in a hurry. " Stop t h i e f , " yelled the chorus in the road. " Go t o — " grinned Burke. " Find a telephone," said one of the crowd, while another called on a man on a

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bicycle to " catch that c a r , " and explained that there was a thief on i t . When they explained also the nature of the thief and of his company, the bicyclist guessed he was tired, and that they might catch the car themselves. " If any of you gentlemen wants the loan of my wheel, he can have i t , " he said generously; " b u t for me, to day's F r i d a y : i t ' s always bad luck for me to catch stolen trolleys on F r i d a y . " None of the gentlemen wanted the loan of his wheel. None of them wanted to risk a pistol-shot by riding forward and attempting to keep Burke within hailing distance. The car was speeding along a stretch of deserted road, with the first house by the wayside a halfmile away. Every one preferred to as sure every one else t h a t B u r k e must leave the t r o l l e y soon, for he would overtake the car ahead of h i m ; though what difference it made, when once he was out of sight, whether he left the trolley soon or not, nobody could sug gest. He did leave the trolley soon. In front of the one house vis ible stood a horse and buggy, which he halted the car to borrow, saying that he needed them i n his business. A minute afterward he had disappeared. In the meantime James Dison discovered that he had lost his w a t c h . James Dison.

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well-to-do on his savings from a small sal ary, and he had achieved this seeming mir acle by exercising the virtues of judicious discrimination and friendship. H e had never soiled his hands w i t h bribes—he had " never done nothing not morally right, savvy ? " — but it was undeniable that he had discre tionary powers and undeniable that he used them. A s nobody w i l l suppose that he used them to comfort his enemies and to discomfit his friends, it must be found natural that he received a just return for benefits bestowed. When James Dison of the naughty city discovered that he had lost his watch, the first step he took in regard to i t was admirable. The first step, to be Irish, was to stand still and meditate on what his metaphysical double should say to M r s . Dison; i n particular if the affair should reach the news papers, and the om niscient reporter should employ his i n alienable r i g h t of pertinent scandal. H e could see the head lines as he stood there. H e had an ex quisitely tender sen sibility for w h a t concerned his double; he felt for him as for himself. H e es caped w i t h a l l pos sible haste from the witnesses of his mis Burke Ryan. chance and declined to give his name. H i s second step was to seek out the " F r o n t Office " and obtain a private interview w i t h the chief; and here for a moment he made a blunder. H e had the temerity to demand a favor before he had founded its indispensable basis i n friendship. The chief paused in the midst of his scrutiny of a pile of documents, and official business was suspended every where within earshot, and M r . Dison listened to the voice of authority. The chief was a man of wrath, and his speech was rude and his figures of rhetoric unconventional. ' ' N o , I will not. Y o u w i l l take your chances like anybody else. I w i l l keep nothing quiet. Every dashed up-State son of a hay-rick

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thinks he can come down here an' play the goat and go back home and forgit i t . If my town's tough, i t ' s you hoosiers that come down here an' turn yourselves loose an' make it so; and i t ' s me the newspapers r o a s t . " A t this point James Dison of the naughty city was inspired to remember that James Dison of the small city owned a block of delegates at the State capital, and was high in the good graces of a Great Personage. He recited his titles to respect and men tioned the Great Personage. " I don't care who you are, or who you k n o w , ' ' thundered the Olympian, i n a passion of rectitude that made him superior to gram mar. " I don't owe you money nor any body else. Y o u can go tell him so. I'm not put here to do favors; I ' m put here to execute the law, and you bet your life I ' l l do i t ! " T h i s was diplo m a c y . There are forms of speech i n the Great Republic which it needs a long initiation to interpret, and James Dison was initiated. The chief had the most exalted f r i e n d s h i p for the Great Personage whom M r . Dison had named. It was the custom of that Great Personage from time to time, when he suf fered with the spleen, to speak his mind to the chief with an unreserve which made the chief's eyes water—with affection. When M r . Dison had withdrawn from the Front Office, the chief made the telephone wires hum w i t h hurry-up summonses to trusted lieutenants whose names suggested that gifted people that can govern every country except their own. When M r . Dison returned with his credentials, his reception reminded him that M r . Dison of the small city was not the only man i n the naughty city who is blessed with a metaphysical double. " Have already moved i n that matter of yours, M r . Dison. A n accident that might happen to any gentleman."

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The interview took place i n the chief's " Even to an up-State son of a h a y - r i c k , " private office. said the facetious Dison. " C u r l y , " he asked in confidential tones, " I will have your property delivered to you at nine in the morning at your h o t e l , " addressing the man from 'Frisco, " what do said the chief; " a n d in the meantime, i f you know 'bout that touch that came off there are any little corners of the city that over i n Jersey this morning on the trolley ? you would like to look into, I shall be glad Somebody got a gold thimble [watch] and a to place a competent guide at your dis roll o' d o u g h . " posal." " F i r s t I've heard of it, Chief. I don't " A pleasure to have made your acquaint know n o t h i n ' . " " It's up to you, M e K l o w d . " a n c e , " said M r . Dison, accepting the glad " I ' m dead about i t too, Chief. Just got out hand. This also was diplomacy: the rest was a-bed a little while before Curry found me." " How about you, Billy ? " business. The chief's face and bearing when ''Dead too. he met his lieuten Keeps me busy keepants were a hurry-up i n ' track o' touches order personified. this side the r i v e r . " He named a dozen " W e l l , a touch powers and poten came off, an' I want tates by their noms the thing cleared up. de guerre, and indi I ' l l give it to you cated their custo fellows straight — m a r y p l a c e s of t h e t o u c h never resort. His instruc should ' a ' come off, tions were figurative : an' i t ' s up to me " Rake this town to get the gun an' with a fine - tooth the things. I've got comb. I want 'em you up here to read here by one o'clock. the riot act to you, If they don't under an' you'd better read stand kindness, pinch it to the rest o' the 'em." gang. I've been There is a wireless easy on some o' you telegraphy in the men, 'cause I know Under-World which 't you've got fam is quite as effective ilies here an' want as Marconi's, and it to stay with them, was soon noised but I ' l l tell you on The Chief. about among the the level that if you " guns " that there was to be a round-up at the F r o n t Office. don't cough up that gun I ' l l put a dead line A number of gentlemen who felt a delicacy around this whole town. N o w , you can take about intruding upon the chief, even in the your choice. That's all I've got to say to way of friendship, incontinently made them you, but I want you, M e K l o w d , to wait a selves invisible; but the majority of those s h a k e . " that he had mentioned were " copped o u t . " The consultation with M e K l o w d was short The detectives were as much in the dark but significant. as to what ' ' was d o i n g ' ' as were the guns, " Ruderick, I might as well give you the and the latter consoled themselves with truth as a steer. The sucker that was facetious remarks as to the object of the touched is a friend o' his Nibs—you know approaching interview. ' ' The chief wants t' who I mean—an' his Nibs is hostile. It's ask us to break a bottle o' sham, or to notify the second t i m e ' t he's had a grouch on, an' us that he has shifted the dead line further I've got to put up a good front. If the down town, so's to give the likes o' us a thing don't go right, I ' l l be in a of chanst to turn an 'onest penny," said Billy the a hole, an' I want to know i f y o u ' l l pull Bruiser; and MeKlowd remarked: " P ' r a p s it through. I can't get that gun inside he is goin' to let us rubber over the recov of a month i f you blokes don't help me, ered ' stolen goods' museum to see i f we an' I've kept the sucker here i n town recognize any little trinkets o' our o w n . " on the plea that i t ' l l all be over in a

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day or so. "Will you get the push to cough up?" " A n y t h i n ' doin' afterward ? " " I can't make no deal with you, Ruderick —you know well enough I been pretty square with you an' the push, ain't I ? W e l l , it stands to reason 't I ain't going to get a grouch on i f you an' the push do me a favor, don't i t ? " " A ' r i g h t . Forty-eight hours you said, didn't you ? I f i t ' s only twenty-four you won't object, I suppose." " I t ' l l make my rep' all the better i f i t ' s only t w e l v e . " " A ' right. So long." " So long, Ruder ick." Ruderick M e K l o w d was a product of the city of tall buildings and tall talk — the " Western Metrolo p i s " he sometimes called it, and some times " C h i . " His passion for the town was only less pro nounced than his pas sion for his profession, and he had arrived at that stage in his devel opment when the name of his birthplace had been incorporated i n his personal appella Ruderick tion, after the manner of powers and poten tates and nobility in general. He was known to the initiated as the " Slick C h i G u n . " His business engagements were so farreaching that it was but infrequently that he was to be met in the city of his name, and there were periods when, on account of another community's interest i n him and de mand upon his time, he was compelled to deny the town the honor of his presence for years at a s t r e t c h ; but he always spoke affectionately of the place, and it was a wellunderstood ambition of his to be b u r i e d " on de L a k e F r o n t . " In appearance he would not necessarily have been picked out for an inhabitant of Chicago. He had, to be sure, the Chicago business man's plunging walk. He was always in a hurry, and his ability to in terest other people and other people's money in his enterprises may possibly also be char acterized as a Chicago t r a i t ; but in other re

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spects he fitted into the life of New Y o r k or any other great city, with as few rough edges to be polished off as probably any man of his temperament and training. A n inno cent little histrionic gift that he possessed —and exercised—commonly enabled him to pass with a casual acquaintance for almost anything, from a successful lawyer to a sea captain. But there were those i n whose presence he frankly admitted that he was "Ruderick MeKlowd, and what are you going to do about it ? " He was some fiveand-forty years old, tall, well built, clean shaven, with a look in his face which was de scribed by knowing ones as the obvious " mug of a c r o o k . " By those who did not know, it might easily have seemed the in tense look of a preoc cupied and rather hard man of affairs. When on the loaf, he saun tered through the streets unobtrusively, sometimes greeting his friends and some times not taking i n the sights. Certain wiseacres claimed that he was " r u b b e r i n g , " and attention was sometimes called to " that greedy look of his e y e s " ; but this could not have been MeKlowd. proved in a court of law. I f he passed a friend whom he found it convenient not to recognize after the ordinary forms of greeting, he gave a peculiar guttu ral cough, sometimes called the thief's cough, or made a noise with his lips such as goes with a kiss, and it was frequently his misfortune to have these signs misinterpreted by denizens of the Front Office; but he had very convincing explanatory powers, and seldom found it diffi cult to square misunderstandings to the sat isfaction of all concerned. On occasions, particularly i f he had been " hitting it u p , " he made no attempt to explain or to excuse, and suggested that the Front Office " come out an' get its face put i n . " He was almost as popular at the Front Office as he was in his " p u s h . " F r o m the strict Sabbatarian's point of view his record there was bad, but there were some things esoterically to his credit, which the Sabbatarian does not under-

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stand. The chief himself had more than once declared that " i f Ruderick had only had an ' eddication,' he would have ranked among the salubrious men of h i s t o r y . " It was the opinion of Ruderick's intimates that he had made a mark enviably high without taking his Doctor's degree, but, of course, they judged him by a standard of their own. The chief's liking for Ruderick was appre ciated and respected. In the days when the chief had been struggling for honor and pro motion " in the s t r e e t , " it fell to his lot to arrest certain " gentlemen of fortune " who protested vi et armis, which is hieroglyphic for with knife and fist. The chief might never have come out of the scrimmage alive if Ruderick hadn't " h a p p e n e d a r o u n d " about that time. The chief, to his credit be it said, never forgot this coinci dence. It has been stated on very good authority that i f the thieves of a town could be per suaded to become its policemen and would act " o n the l e v e l , " the appropriations for municipal defense might be very greatly re duced. Certain it is that they have a sense of the thing necessary to be done, a theft having been committed, which our municipal and private detective organizations have failed to improve upon. " H o w much time we got, R u d e r i c k ? " asked Billy the Bruiser. " Twenty-four h o u r s . " " He jus' wants the thimble an' the r o l l , ain't that i t ? " " N o , he wants the gun, too. H i s Nibs is hostile, you see, an' this yap from the country's got pull, an' i t ' s up to the chief to make a s p l u r g e . " " W i l l he let the bloke g o ? " " D i d n ' t say nothin' 'bout that. P'raps he will after he's let the yap rubber at h i m . I don't give a whether he does or not. It was a bunglin' job, an' the fellow deserves a stretcher. Besides, see all the trouble he's givin' us. H e ' l l queer the whole of us if we don't get h i m . " " That's r i g h t , " commented B i l l y . " N o one man's got any business queerin' the push. If he has got to take a stretcher, then he has, an' that's all there is about i t . Same thing happened out in Chi once. Old 'Frisco Slim touched up one o' the b i g joolry places, not knowin' that it was in the E y e ' s dead line. W e had to cough him up—it 'ud been a case o' drill i f we hadn't. Well, I tell you, Ruderick, I ' l l screw my nut down town an' rubber around, l e t t i n ' the boys know what's doin'. Y o u ' l l put the people

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up here next, will you ? A ' r i g h t . Where'll we report ? " " Up in my r o o m s . " The two men separated, and began " put ting the boys n e x t . " Ruderick dropped into saloon after saloon, t a l k i n g quietly with men sitting at tables or standing at the bar, and pretty soon these men were to be seen coming out on to the street and taking dif ferent directions. He talked to them in a language unique for its abbreviations and directness. There were no long explana tions. The simple statement, backed up by Ruderick's presence, " that the Front Office wanted to know who pulled off that touch in Jersey, and wanted the swag and the g u n , " sufficed to set going an unequaled detective agency. There were no silly trips to Jersey to in spect " the scene of the c r i m e , " no long interviews with reporters about suggested clews, and no " k e e p i n g the wires hot." " Guns " of all ages and conditions strolled quietly up and down Manhattan, " rubber i n g , " passing the time o' day, and putting p e o p l e ' ' n e x t . ' ' One would enter a ' ' joint,'' give a cough, and pass on to a rear room, where he was joined by those whom his cough had attracted. " F i n d out who got that thimble an' the roll, on the trolley over in Jersey. The chief is hostile, an' wants to know. Ruderick MeKlowd is on the c a s e , " and another half dozen recruits were enlisted for the honor of the chief. A " touch " is to the Under-World what an Associated Press news item, or " the flimsy," is to the newspaper world. Knowledge of it is common property to those who are in the guild. There are a hundred " touches" and more every day of which the police hear nothing, but the Under-World knows all about them, who made them, what was real ized on them, and where the " get a w a y " took place. Gossip about " t o u c h e s " is as essential to the Under-World as is gossip about marriages and births to the UpperW o r l d . Burke Ryan could no more forego the pleasure of telling his pals about the " touch " on the trolley in Jersey than he could resist the temptation to " pull it off." He had ' ' h o c k e d ' ' the watch and invested the greater part of the r o l l i n a quiet little game of poker by the time Ruderick MeKlowd and the push were on his t r a i l , and he had also published widely the details of the theft, only Ruderick and his companions had not yet reached the " j o i n t s " where the story had been told. A t the very moment that Ruderick and Billy the Bruiser were agree-

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" Do you mean to say that they're goin' to turn me over to the chief ? " " That's what they are, an' you'll be set tled, too. H i s Nibs is on his ear, they say, an' the chief's got to square t h i n g s . " " W e l l , they can go plump to I ain't no sucker to help out that chief. L e t him help hisself out. I'm goin' to flit r i g h t — " His speech was cut short by the entrance into the saloon of Ruderick and two " p a l s . " It was a chase which is talked about still when chases come up for discussion. It be gan below Twenty-third Street, and ended in a vacant lot near the E i g h t h Avenue ele vated railroad terminal, and is probably the only pursuit of a criminal in whose arrest criminals alone were interested. Trolley cars, cabs, and the " e l e v a t e d " were all used by both the pursued and the pursuers, and a fierce struggle ended the flight. A s a last resort Burke took his stand in a fence corner of the vacant lot, drew his razor, and dared Ruderick and his two companions to touch him. " I t ' s a case o' knock o u t , " said Ruderick, and poor Burke was made the target for stones swiftly thrown and care fully aimed. He stood it as long as he could, his face and hands being cut and bruised and smeared all over with blood, and then cried out, " I cave—I c a v e . " " Couldn't help it, Burke, old m a n , " said Ruderick soothingly. . " Three to one ain't fair, but i t ' s business. The chief needs you, and we need the chief. See! "

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EDITOR'S N O T E . — T h e facts stated i n the f o l l o w i n g a r t i c l e constitute a heretofore secret chapter i n the diplomatic h i s t o r y o f the U n i t e d States. November 4, 1896, the Russian government proposed to the U n i t e d States t h a t an alliance of the two countries be formed to benefit the A m e r i c a n and R u s s i a n fanners at the expense of the w o r l d . This proposition was made w i t h i n a few hours of the election day of 1896, after the country had been for months i n the throes of a discussion of the silver question, i n which the argument for free coinage bore a remarkable resemblance to t h a t advanced by Russia i n favor of her proposed a g r a r i a n treaty. The advances of R u s s i a were treated as a diplomatic secret, and the w r i t t e n communications were i m mediately buried i n the files of the State Department. It transpired in W a s h i n g t o n several weeks later that Russia had sought such a conference, and i t was c a p i t a l gossip that her advances had been met almost rudely by the A m e r i c a n government, but no h i n t o f the magnitude of the proposal or its definite character escaped the government officials. F o r four years the details of the plan w h i c h could have been proposed by Russia, had her advances been received i n a friendly manner, have been accurately k n o w n to less than a score of persons, a l l of w h o m were concerned i n k e e p i n g the matter quiet for v a r y i n g reasons. The documents here given are exact copies of those on file i n the Department at W a s h i n g t o n , and the details of the proposed agree ment were secured by the w r i t e r from the R u s s i a n officials who conceived the plan and who s t i l l hope the time w i l l come when the people of the U n i t e d States w i l l give i t favorable consideration.

ON the morning of November 4, 1896, the Russian minister to the United States, M r . Kotzebue, a c t i n g under instructions from his government, proposed to the Hon. Richard

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Cheap prices for cereals in the last decade have been brought about by cheaper and improved methods of production and distribution. L a b o r - s a v i n g farm ma chinery and implements, together with reduced cost of transportation by water and by r a i l , are the principal contributors to the cheapening of breadstuffs. It is true that agriculture is a source of livelihood and surplus revenue to a very large proportion of the earth's inhabitants, but the rapidly declining prices of a g r i c u l t u r a l products, i f only equal to the rapidly de c l i n i n g prices of other commodities, cannot affect either the l i v i n g or the revenue of the farmer. It has always been the aim of philanthropic civiliza tion to make food and raiment and the comforts of life i n general cheaper and more generally obtainable all the world over. International g r a i n markets cannot be a r b i t r a r i l y furnished w i t h permanent prices by any sort of an international agreement, although I confess that an international congress to fix the price of wheat would be equally as efficacious and conclusive as an in ternational monetary conference called for the pur pose of fixing the price of silver. The relation of supply and demand is the sole regu lator of value. The supply of wheat has been largely increased by modern methods providing cheaper pro duction of that cereal, while the cost of distributing this crop among the populational centres of the globe has been very much diminished and the demand has not grown w i t h the same c e l e r i t y as has the supply. Therefore the decline i n price is l o g i c a l and unavoid able. The fact that this general decline makes foods ob tainable by less effort among laborers and others all the world over is, i t seems to me, cause for congratu lation rather than for despondency among enlightened statesmen. In my judgment, i t is not the business of govern ment to attempt, by statutes or international agree ments, to override the fixed laws of economics, nor can D E P A R T M E N T OF S T A T E , government repeal, amend, or mitigate the operation of WASHINGTON, D . C , November 4 , 1 8 9 6 . those laws, chief among w h i c h is that which declares that the r e l a t i o n of supply to demand is the sole regu THE HONORABLE THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE. Sir: The enclosed memorandum from the Russian l a t o r of value. H o l d i n g these opinions, I cannot believe for a mo minister at this capital relates to a subject upon w h i c h you probably have definite views, and as to which, ment that a conference of the representative countries therefore, I am very desirous of obtaining your opinion w h i c h export cereals would throw l i g h t upon the nature of the crisis to which the memorandum alludes. Nor before m a k i n g a reply to M r . Kotzebue. He gives me to understand that the proposed inter do I believe that the wheat-exporting countries can, by national conference w i l l not be held, unless the United u n i t i n g i n any way, become a permanent power i n the international markets so as to fix the price of wheat States thinks well of the project. B e g g i n g you to return the enclosed memorandum and other cereals therein. N o amount of discussion or deliberation i n an inter when i t has served your purpose, I am, national conference can repeal the laws of gainful Respectfully yours, trade, which are based upon an enlightened selfishness, (Signed) RICHARD OLNEY. and adjust themselves to foreign as well as to domestic exchanges. The price of wheat w i l l continue to be The following day, in compliance w i t h the regulated by the relation of the world's supply of request of the Secretary of State, the Secretary wheat to the world's demand for wheat i n a l l the markets of the globe.

of raising the price of that cereal 100 per cent. A s explained by the Russian minister, this government trust was to be created primarily for the benefit of the farmers of Russia and the United States, but it was be lieved that it would result in time to be of equal benefit to the wheat producers of the entire world. The Russian minister's communications were oral and confidential. Accompanying them was a diplomatic letter or "memo randum," i n which attention was called to the financial crisis at that time confronting the wheat-growers, owing to the low prices prevailing for wheat at the farms, and setting forth in detail the theory of the Russian gov ernment as to the origin of this depression, and explaining why it was believed that con tinuously prosperous conditions would result to the agriculturalists from concerted action on the part of the two greatest wheat-pro ducing countries. Secretary Olney, according to the custom prevailing in the State Department when communications are received concerning the affairs of other departments, referred the proposition of the Russian minister and the written memorandum to the Hon. J . Sterling Morton, then Secretary of Agriculture, with the following letter of t r a n s m i t t a l :

of Agriculture returned the memorandum of the Russian minister, w i t h the following let ter of comment:

V e r y respectfully yours, (Signed)

J . STERLING MORTON, Secretary.

U N I T E D STATES D E P A R T M E N T OF AGRICULTURE. WASHINGTON, D . C , November 5, 1896. THE HONORABLE THE SECRETARY OP STATE. Sir: I acknowledge the receipt of your communica tion of yesterday which enclosed a memorandum from the Russian minister at this c a p i t a l relative to an i n ternational agreement between wheat-growing coun tries to fix the price of that cereal in the markets of the w o r l d .

F r o m the point of view taken by the Rus sian government, Secretary Morton's reply was unsatisfactory and his reasoning founded upon incomplete information and erroneous deductions. F o r twenty-five years the Rus sian Department of Finance had studied the wheat market and collected data as to pop ulation, wheat acreage, wheat supply, de-

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mand, and prices, and from these data had reached the conclusion that the laws of sup ply and demand had little to do with regu lating the prices realized for their wheat by the Russian farmers. It had been proved to the Russian mind that the price of wheat was manipulated by speculators, and that nearly every year the farmer was the v i c t i m of their operations. The spirit shown in the reply of the United States government to the advances of Russia was so entirely unfriendly to the proposed conference that the matter was at once dropped by Russia, for the time, at least, so far as the United States was concerned. The idea was not entirely aban doned, however, for the Russian government, believing fully i n the justice and practicabil ity of the wheat corner proposed, at once set to work i n a more indirect manner to bring about i n time a more friendly consideration of the matter by the United States. The first step taken was to authorize the financial agent of the Russian government i n the United States, M . de Routkowsky, to urge the organization of an international bureau which should gather and compile for purposes of deduction all statistics relating to agri culture, Russia believing that i n time the people of the United States would therefrom inevitably and logically reach the same con clusions upon which had been based Russia's proposition for the respective governments to act as middlemen for the benefit of the farmers. Russia and the United States furnish nearly ninety per cent, of all the breadstuffs w h i c h enter into international trade, the resources of each country being about equal for this purpose. In Russia, the agricultural popu lation buys ninety per cent, of everything that is sold i n the empire. In the United States, the agricultural population buys be tween fifty and sixty per cent. of all domestic purchases, owing to the greater manufactur ing element. In Russia, more than i n any other great nation, hard times w i t h the farmers means distress for all, from the i m perial treasury to the humblest peasant. This was brought home to the Russian govern ment in 1893, when wheat dropped to fifty cents a bushel, and, i n consequence, distress prevailed throughout the empire. Hampered by no constitutional restrictions or need of congressional action, the Russian government set to work, at once and by direct means, to raise the price of wheat. Three measures were instituted. The government bought all supplies of breadstuffs for the army directly from the farmers, thus giving the middle

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man's or speculator's profit to the producer. In eleven provinces where famines of previous years had exhausted the government grain warehouses of their contents, these stores were replenished. The government then offered to loan money to the farmers at four per cent., t a k i n g wheat as security, thus enabling the growers to hold their product for a better market. A s a result of these steps, the price of wheat increased from ten to twenty per cent. Twenty-seven million dollars was bor rowed by the farmers from the government on grain. In all this vast loan, there was a loss of but $700,000, or about half of the interest due on the whole amount. The two first-named measures were temporary. The system of loans proved so successful that i t was continued, and is still in force, to the profit of the government and the advantage of the farmers. It was by these means that speculation in wheat was rendered by govern ment interference practically impossible in a country of a population of 130,000,000, which raises nearly 400,000,000 bushels of wheat, of which twenty per cent. is surplus over and above the needs for domestic con sumption. Russia has had i n her own experience another instance of the possibility of govern ment control of a great food product. Each year, the Minister of Finance fixes the amount of sugar which shall be produced in the em pire, and sets the price at which it shall be sold. The average domestic consumption is about one billion pounds. This is announced as the legal limit of production which shall be put upon the market during the year. In addition, the empire is allowed to manu facture 180,000,000 pounds more, which is placed i n storage. The one billion pounds, as i t is sold, pays an excise tax of two and one-half cents a pound. If at any time, through increased demand, sugar becomes worth more than the price fixed by the government, the 180,000,000 pounds i n re serve is allowed to reach the market free of excise duty. If this does not supply the market at the legal price, the government itself will buy from foreign countries enough sugar to supply the need for a bear influence upon the price. This has been done by Russia twice during the past ten years. This system of course precludes any export business i n sugar, but the Russian govern ment does not believe that the exporting of sugar from Russia can be made profitable or advisable, so it does not encourage i t . W i t h this domestic experience

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government control of the prices of great agricultural products, the Russian govern ment naturally turned its attention to the possible control of the wheat prices of the world. It was established to the satisfaction of the Department of Finance that the price of wheat was not entirely governed by the law of supply and demand at all times. F o r twenty-five years, the fluctuations in the price of wheat had been noted, and their relations to the world's supply and the world's demand. F r o m these figures certain facts were deduced. It was shown that from 1860 to 1883 the construction of railroads brought new wheat fields nearer to distant markets, thereby supplying these markets with grain at cheaper prices than could be done from Europe, where the high value of land, combined with the exhausted condition of the soil and necessity for fertilizers, did not allow the farmers to produce breadstuffs profitably at prevailing prices. L o w prices for wheat came in the latter part of the decade mentioned as a result of these changes in the channels of the world's trade and the development of new bread-producing area. F r o m 1882 to 1893, the area of the cul tivated land in the world increased only five per cent. The amount of crops gathered increased at about the same ratio. A t the same time the population of the countries which are the consumers of wheat increased about eleven per cent., and the rate of per capita consumption of wheat rose steadily during the same period. The Russian gov ernment claimed that these figures could mean but one thing ; not that there was over-production, but that artificial causes were responsible for the low price. The number of consumers had increased, the amount consumed by each one was greater, and the production of grain had not kept pace with this growth in demand by at least one-half. To the mind of the Russian gov ernment official, it appeared logical to con clude, under these circumstances, that i f the law of supply and demand governed prices, they should have been higher i n 1893 than they were i n 1883, but their Department of Statistics assured them that this was not so, and that the Russian farmer received in 1893 only half as much for his wheat as he re ceived i n 1883. The Russian government was thoroughly satisfied that the prosperity of all agricul tural countries depended upon the farmer receiving good prices for his wheat, that the prevailing prices to the producer were

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governed to a large extent by manipulations of the market by speculators, who were in terested in the farmer getting as little as pos sible for his wheat and the consumer paying the highest price he could be made to pay; that it was practicable for a government to attempt to control the price of wheat for the benefit of the farmers ; and that, as Rus sia and the United States produced ninety per cent. of the breadstuffs entering into international trade, by effecting a combine these two countries could fix the price of wheat in all the markets of the world. Russia also believed that while the pros perity of the farmer meant prosperity to the agricultural nations, it also meant pros perity to the whole world. When the farmer had money he bought goods, when a nation was prosperous it bought more of other na tions. Therefore, while the prosperity which resulted from a high price for wheat would primarily benefit the United States, Russia, Roumania, and other wheat-growing coun tries, it would also benefit countries like England, the Netherlands, and Belgium, which had no wheat for sale, but which de pended for their prosperity upon the sale of other goods to prosperous nations able to buy them. In brief, the contention of Rus sia was that no considerable part of the civilized world could remain prosperous long without bringing prosperity to all of it in the workings of the laws of compensation. Thus naturally came to pass the proposition made to the United States of America by the Russian Empire. Neither the memorandum of the Russian minister nor the reply of the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States conveys any intimation of the details of this proposed in ternational wheat corner, but upon the best Russian authority i t can be stated that these details had been fully considered by the Russian Minister of Finance, and were ready for submission to the government of the United States as soon as the latter country should signify its willingness to discuss them. The reply of the United States to the first overtures made by Russia was so conclusive, even to brusqueness, that it left no opening for more discussion. Hence the diplomatic record goes no further. The plan favored by Russia would have applied to the two countries first entering into the agreement, and subsequently to all of the other wheatexporting countries which, i n self-defense, would soon have been forced to join the proposed great international wheat trust. The scheme devised by the Russian Minister

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of Finance, which would have been presented to the United States for consideration, had the suggested international conference been held, was bold but simple in its provisions. The two governments were to enter the market as buyers of wheat at the stated price of one dollar per bushel. They were also to agree to sell this wheat at a price which would cover the original outlay, interest on the money invested, and the cost of doing the business. F r o m the Rus sian point of view, this would have been i n cluded in a charge of a dollar and eight cents a bushel for all wheat sold. If the supply of wheat was such that foreign buy ers could not pay the price, the two govern ments were to absorb the surplus grain through banks or other agencies, and store it against a time when it might be needed to supply a deficiency i n the crop. The theory underlying the scheme was that all the wheat of the world is now needed for food. W i t h a guaranteed market at one dollar a bushel, no one could buy it anywhere for less, and a l l the wheat would still be sold to the consumers as now, except that the price could never go below the standing offer of the United States and Russian gov ernments. It is not believed by Russia that dollar wheat would mean any decrease i n consumption anywhere, as the difference in price for the small quantity used by the i n dividual consumer would not be appreciable, and wheat has many times before reached and exceeded the dollar point without de creasing the amount consumed. It is not believed, therefore, that under this plan either government would ever need to be come an actual purchaser, to maintain the price agreed upon ; and on the theory that the higher the price of wheat the better it is for the wheat-producing countries, no con cern would be felt for any fluctuations above the dollar mark. As Russia and the United States produce such a large percentage of the wheat of the world, the export wheat of all other coun tries would also keep the same level, vary ing only according to differences i n cost of transportation to competitive markets. W i t h the export price at least a dollar, domestic prices would be the same, and thus the action of Russia and the United States would raise the price of all the wheat i n every wheat-growing country on the face of the earth. M r . Morton has admitted that such a course might temporarily increase the price of wheat, but that i n the end produc tion would be so stimulated as to cause a

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vast overproduction and consequent inability of the wheat-producing countries to control the product. The Russians answer this by saying that even i f such overproduction was possible, which they do not admit, i t would be some time before it would be felt, and that i f the time arrived when it was actually imminent, the government price could be lowered so as to discourage further expan sion of the wheat area. They also agree with those economists who contend that the possible wheat area of the world has nearly reached its final limits, and that at the most the expansion of this area is a slow process, producing hardly perceptible effect upon the supply in relation to the demand, owing to the steady increase in population and the consuming power of the people of the earth. The Russians also instance the control of the oil supply of the world by a private trust, as an example of what could be done with wheat by two great countries furnishing nearly all of the product and with unlimited financial and other resources. It is unlikely that the United States, within the life of the present generation at least, will seriously consider such a plan. It is contrary to the recognized principles of a republic which, theoretically at least, does not interfere with the business of the indi vidual, fights shy of paternalism, and as a government of the people by all the people, denies that any one industry can hope for such specialized effort on its behalf. The possibilities of such a government wheat trust as is proposed by Russia are startling. The wheat crop of the world i n 1898 was 2,879,000,000 bushels. The price realized by the farmer is about fifty cents a bushel under ordinary conditions. Russia proposes to add nearly a billion and a half of dollars to the value of this wheat crop of the world. To the United States, producing nearly 700,000,000 bushels, this would mean a gain of about $350,000,000 to the agricultural districts. To the Russian farmers, producing about 400,000,000 bushels, it would mean a yearly gain of $200,000,000, which would be nearly all net profit, as the consumption of wheat by the farmer bears small propor tion to his production. On the other hand, to England, importing 125,000,000 bushels of wheat, it would mean an increase of over $60,000,000 a year i n her bread bill. The farmers of the United Kingdom would be benefited to the extent of $30,000,000 by the increased price for their wheat, but the Russian-American wheat trust would deal the English people the hardest blow of a l l .

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Upon France and Germany it would also fall heavily. So serious in fact would i t be to the wheat-importing countries, that it would soon constitute a bond of international sym pathy which would ally the great wheat-im porting countries as against those exporting. In the first group would come England, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Switzer land, the Netherlands, and many other smaller countries. In the opposing group would be Russia, Austria, Roumania and all of N o r t h and South America. It is hardly probable that Russia and the United States could enter into such an alli ance without a protest from England, France, and Germany. How far such a protest would be carried, i f made, i t is difficult to say, but such a great danger, common to a l l the importing countries, would bring them together for self-protection. It would end many international friendships and make new ones. It would disturb present trade balances. It would give tremendous impetus

PRAYER. to domestic expansion i n the wheat-growing countries, especially in Russia and South America. It would cause the wheat-eaters to hate the wheat-growers, and make good cause for war. The United States government has refused to consider the proposition. Russia ex presses mild wonder at this lack of percep tion of what she considers a great opportu nity, and still hopes for the conversion of her great agricultural rival into an ally. The agrarian party in the United States has already demanded government aid for the farmers as some compensation for the pro tective tariff levied for the benefit of manu facturers. B y no one measure could an agrarian party in power do more to appeal to the imagination of its supporters than by turning a friendly ear towards the advances of Russia for the formation of such a wheat corner, beside which the most extensive op erations in " t h e s t r e e t " to-day are but child's play.

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L o r d God, our boats are small; But Thy heart's open haven Shall save us, each and a l l . God of the meek and lowly, God of the tempest-tried, Be with us when we struggle, A n d stand our wheel beside. The grit and grace, oh, give us, U n t i l life's cruise shall close, To batten down the hatches And ride out all the blows. And when the toil is ended, A n d when the fishing's done, Grant us in Thee to anchor, A f t e r a voyage well r u n !

JESUS A N D T H E RICH Y O U N G M A N . One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and aire to the poor, and thou shall have treasure in heaven; and come, take vp the cross, and follow m e . - M A R K , X . 21.

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IT is inevitable that any prophet who sets tone of moral bitterness and just resentment himself to regenerate society shall face had crept into Jesus' speech as He consid the problem of riches, and various circum ered how differently Providence had treated stances made i t very acute for Jesus. He a heartless ingrate like Simon the Pharisee came Himself of the working class, and had and a faithful saint like his own mother ? a keen sympathy with their life. Poverty Surely i f there be any anomaly i n practical in Jesus' day was grinding and helpless, affairs, i t is that people full of pride and when wages were not always paid and judges blind to spiritual beauty should be dowered could be always bought. H i s duty led H i m with goods, while some of the noblest souls into the houses of rich people which were i n should be harassed by narrow means and painful contrast to the home of H i s youth, petty struggles. A n d at this sight wise men and He was made to feel i n many ways that have lost their heads and used wild words. an invitation to a r i c h man's house was an N o cross providence, however, affected honor to be thankfully and humbly used. the sweetness of the Master's soul or biassed Would i t have been wonderful i f a certain the impartiality of H i s teaching. Jesus'

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sayings gave no hint that He ever regretted His own poverty, or that He envied the cir cumstances of Simon, or that He thought such persons had been favorably treated by His Father. What rather strikes one is the constant suggestion that rich men were to be pitied and that their possessions were a drawback to their life. Jesus moves in and out of the great houses with a fine detach ment and gracious condescension, as one

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spiritual ideas and unworldly instincts. There was also in him a fine vein of enthusiasm and a habit of self-forgetfulness which were very taking. Born heir to dangerous advantages and competing temptations, he was neither a profligate nor a prig, but a well-living, cultured, high-spirited, reverent gentleman; one to whom Providence may well give riches, and who may be rich with safety. It was certain that this young ruler should

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having a more splendid and lasting heritage. He laments the slender and sordid ambitions of the rich who have no understanding and do not grasp at great things, and it was to Him a fact full of meaning that the king dom which was for the most part rejected by the respectables as a devout imagination, was received with great joy in the dwellings of the poor. It is laid on His heart to speak to the rich as no prophet has done since—not with reproaches and invective, as i f they had wronged their brethren and were licensed robbers, but with anxiety, as to persons who, through a misfortune of great possessions, were apt to make the chief loss of life. A s He delivers His message, although sometimes for the sake of courtesy it takes the shape of a parable, one rich man after another stands out in his place and can be identified. The first is given without disguise because he was an acquaintance of Jesus and the fig ure in a romantic incident. He was a young man residing somewhere in the country, and belonged to the higher class in society. His father had been wealthy, and the son had succeeded to a large inheritance. Unlike the son of another squire, who had despised the quiet country life and had played the prodigal in a Gentile country, this man had more respect for himself and his name. He had other tastes than meat and drink, and had carried himself with such intelligence and honor that he was raised to the rank of ruler in the nation. His character of good principle and solid worth was quickened by

be profoundly interested in Jesus, and in him the Master had a likely disciple. He would be weary unto death of the religion of the day and the insincerity of religious people; he would have an ear quick to catch the note of reality, and a sense to appreciate the ap peals of the new Teacher. It would, of course, matter nothing to him that Jesus was poor, any more than that many of the Pharisees were r i c h . It was only a vulgar person like the man of the barns who would have estimated Jesus by his garments; at the young ruler's Jesus would have had water for his feet, and every courtesy. From time to time he had heard Jesus, and had been charmed by the elevation and delicacy of His sentiments. One day, as he sat alone in his library, thinking on the great est things, news came that Jesus was pass ing, and might never again return. The enthusiasm which was in the air fired the young ruler, and under a heavenly impulse —that breath from above of which Jesus spoke—he rushed into the way and knelt in devotion at Jesus' feet. " T h o u hast the secret of life. I think, and I feel, and I work, but I have not yet tasted the fullness of living. What must I do to inherit ever lasting life ? " A s Jesus looked at this man in his nobility, and heard his ingenuous prayer, the Master's soul went out to him, and He loved the young ruler. When Jesus answered that, for him, the entrance into the larger life of the soul must

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be poverty, the Master laid down a hard con dition, and yet one would have expected i t to be fulfilled. I f Peter left his fishingboat and Matthew his custom-house at the bidding of Jesus, neither having souls of special refinement, then this man of finer clay will go out to welcome the invitation of the Master. This surely is the very man to follow Jesus, i n whom the Master will find another J o h n ; and when he makes the great refusal, Jesus cannot conceal His disappoint ment nor H i s regret over the subtle power of riches and their unexpected fascination. For riches are not to be judged as simply so much gold i n a treasure chest, which its

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dom from petty cares. H e was asked to reduce himself to poverty, and to become the companion of fishermen, whose ways were not his ways, and to wander about the country who had lived i n his home; and even although he would have had Jesus for his friend, he shrank from the sacrifice. And thus a man so hopeful and attractive that Jesus loved him, denied himself the fullness of everlasting life, because he was rich. The second rich man appears in a story, although he is evidently a close study from life, and he is a very unlovely character. A s one gathers from his increase i n wealth

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must o f necessity keep h i s eye constantly upon h i s furrow, f o r the small point o f the plough, unless held a n d directed b y the p l o u g h m a n , i s at t h e m e r c y o f e v e r y i n t e r f e r i n g s t o n e .

T h e r e f o r e a p l o u g h m a n " l o o k i n g b a c k " is v a l u e l e s s as a w o r k m a n .

W i t h one h a n d u p o n the plough, the peasant holds i n the other a l o n g iron-pointed stick, the goad, with w h i c h he urges his beasts t o m o r e s t r e n u o u s efforts.

A t t h e o t h e r e n d o f t h e g o a d i s a b r o a d e r i r o n , l i k e a s c r a p e r , w i t h w h i c h t h e soft e a r t h i s

cleaned f r o m the p l o u g h . — A R T I S T ' S N O T E .

owner can count i n his leisure hours. They are, in the hands of such a one as this young ruler, the means of a cultured life, and one of the conditions of an assured position. H e would be indifferent to meat and drink, and he would rather despise purple and fine linen; but he did value the company of his social equals—men o f the same habits as himself —and an atmosphere of refinement and free

and his coarseness of tone, he has not been the heir to riches and position, as was the young ruler, and he had not therefore his fine instincts and graciousness. H i s had been the stern, hard struggle from poverty to affluence—a progress not from knowledge to knowledge, nor from character to charac ter, but from barn to barn. His was not a bright intellect engaging itself with spiritual

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soul. But he is not to make any rash excur sion into religion. " Soul, thou hast much goods "—wheat, that is, and barley, and oil, and w i n e s — " laid up "—that is, in the new barns which are the admiration of the coun t r y s i d e — " f o r many years"—perhaps ten, not very long as a soul's life goes, yet every man must speak in the only terms he under stands. " Take thine ease "—he is speak ing to the spiritual part of h i m — " eat"— to his s o u l — " drink " — h i s s o u l — " and be m e r r y " — h i s immortal soul. Nothing so scathing, so contemptuous, so unanswerable ever fell from the lips of Jesus. " F o o l , " said G o d ; for that night the man died, and an heir emptied the barns, while the soul of The man of the barns did not give any con sideration to Jesus—a penniless fellow who the man entered, a friendless pauper, into had unsound ideas on property, and might the spiritual world. ask for money—but Jesus gave some thought The third man of riches is a stronger fig to him. The Master catches him in an hour ure and a more complicated character; he of his success, when he is swollen and bla has taken his place in history and made for tant with prosperity, and etches him with the himself a name, because he has been used to keenest irony. It has been a very success throw into relief the contrast between pov ful harvest that year; his ground has brought erty and riches. He is not a sordid, igno forth plentifully; and, as is usual with his rant wretch like the man of the barns, nor a omnivorous class, he garners all gain from student like the young ruler, but rather the soil and the sunshine, from the shower stands for the luxury and magnificence of and the wind of God, as from other men's riches. His house was the castle of the dis labor and other men's brains, as his just and trict. His feasts were known far and wide; sole possession. He is quite overcome and he was a patron of the arts, and had an eye perplexed by his affluence—as such men, for beautiful things. H i s days were so oc they tell us, often are—and really does not cupied with large affairs, and his evenings know what to do with what he calls " m y with splendid hospitality, that he had no f r u i t s . " One day he had a sudden inspi leisure for private c h a r i t y ; but there was in ration, which for days, i f he had been able, him a generous heart, and he would have he would have mentioned as an instance of done kindly things i f he had only thought. originality: he would pull down the barns As it was, in the greatness of his way he did which were bursting with plenty—he could not notice the beggar, whose place was by make sacrifices on occasion—and erect larger his gate, and who, w i t h others of his kind, barns, and therein he would store " my fruits depended on the largesse from the rich man's and my goods," for the sense of his posses overflowing table. Without was Lazarus in sions is growing. his sores and misery, within was Dives in his When that is done, he will have a confer purple and fine linen, and so occupied was ence with his soul; and i f you be allowed to Dives with his affairs and his feasts that he hear a man and his soul speak together, you passed Lazarus every day without a thought. understand the man. Jesus takes us to the Amid his easy environment his imagination door of the room (or was it a barn ?), and had died, and he could not put himself in his we overhear one of the choicest of conver brother's place, nor did the contrast between sations—that between this kind of rich man the two lots affect his comfort. The afterand his soul. It could only by courtesy be look and the discipline of remorse awoke called a conversation, as the soul of such a what, unspoiled by riches, had been a kindly, man has been so browbeaten and reduced brotherly heart. In spite of the years of and ignored that it has nothing to say, and thoughtless luxury and unconscious selfish ness, the heart of Dives still remained, and hardly exists. in his hour of sore trouble he bethought " S o u l , " said he—and then it occurs to himself of his brethren; but it needed fire one how strange he should, with his fruits to shake this victim of prosperity out of and his barns, remember that he has such self and set him free from the grip of a thing as a soul; and, next, one wonders riches and their insidious, deadening power. what he can have to speak about with his affairs, but his was the capacity for gather ing money, which seems to be consistent with the coarsest stupidity. H i s was no ambition to learn the secret of life; his one passion was to be the richest man in the dis t r i c t . A simple character which any one may read—this big farmer and self-made man—grasping at every profit, crushing the weaker merchants in corn, making huge profits out of the needs of the poor, jingling his money in the hearing of a l l , and ever bragging how little he began with, how much he now possessed, how cleverly he had farmed, bargained, invested, accumulated, till the district was weary of him.

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Pictorial map, looking northwest from Bethany along the highway to Jerusalem, and showing the Mount of Olives in the middle distance.

So three men are ruined by riches: one by fastidious refinement, one by coarse greed, one by unrestrained luxury; and Jesus was terrified, lest His disciples should share their doom, and declared with emphasis that for a rich man to enter God's kingdom would be as great a marvel as that a camel should pass through the eye of a needle. The Gospels show us the Master in public, in the Temple of Jerusalem, in the H i g h Priest's palace, i n Pilate's Judgment H a l l , on the green hill outside the gate, or on that other hill where He delivered His sermon, or in the meadow where He fed 5,000, or in the synagogue of Capernaum, or on the lake where the eager people crowd the shore. We see Him as a Prophet, Reformer, Teacher, Martyr, as the Messiah and Redeemer. But the same Gospels lift the veil from Jesus' private life, so that we know some of the houses where He found a home in the hard years of His ministry, and some of the friends who comforted His heart. There was one house in Cana where there would ever be a welcome for H i m , because on the chief day of life He had turned the water of marriage joy into wine; another in Capernaum, be cause there He had changed sorrow into gladness, and given a young girl back to her father from the gates of death. He had stayed in John's modest lodging at Jerusa lem, as well as used the " upper room " of a wealthier friend. There was a room in a publican's house in Capernaum which was

sacred because Jesus had feasted there, and sealed as in a sacrament the salvation of L e v i ; and Zaccheus, to the last day of his life, saw the Master crossing his threshold that night He slept in Jericho. The family of St. Peter could have told many things of Jesus—a fifth gospel of what He said and did at His ease—but the home of the Gos pels dearest to the Christian heart is that of Bethany, where the Master found a refuge from labor and persecution, and constant sympathy with Mary and Martha and their brother Lazarus. So brief and tantalizing are the allusions in the Gospels, and so keen and ingenious is our interest in personal details, that various incidents have been woven together into what may be called the romance of Bethany. This family first met Jesus, as is suggested, when He dined in their house in Capernaum, at the invitation of Simon the Pharisee, who was afterward to appear as Simon the leper. He was then a hard and formal Pharisee, of clean life and orthodox faith, who had his suspicions of Jesus, and desired to examine H i m quietly at his own table. His only son was present, Lazarus, a quiet and thought ful young man, who, on his father being laid aside by the most hopeless and loathsome of diseases, became head of his family, and, it is suggested, is known as the young ruler. Watching the feast that day, and noting what happened, were Simon's two daughters, Mar tha and Mary. One was unsentimental and

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practical, like himself, with a strong sense of the legal side of religion, and an impa tience of its mystical spirit. The other was spiritual and imaginative, i n whom a mother now departed was living, and to her rarer soul the Pharisaic side of religion was un satisfying and repellent. I f Jesus' presence and bearing deepened Simon's suspicions and dislike, the Master made converts of his family. Martha repented of the inhospital-

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H i m with neglect; but one visitor asks no man's leave and takes no man's insolence, even though he be Simon the Pharisee. W a s it not a judgment on his exclusiveness and hardness that this superstitious Pharisee was stricken with the symbol of sin, the awful scourge of leprosy ? He would not allow this woman to touch him, but now not only his Pharisaic friends, but the very outcasts of the streets shunned his presence. H e loathed

A T T H E HOME O F MARY A N D M A R T H A . Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things.—LUKE,

ity of her father's house, and was to repay with usury the lack of service to Jesus that day. Mary was much affected by the lowly devotion of the woman who was a sinner and will love to anoint Jesus also, but this time His head as well as H i s feet. A n d Lazarus assures himself of what he has dimly imag ined, that the secret of everlasting life was not within the Ten Commandments. Poor Simon, so high and mighty, so hard and self-sufficient, so unmerciful to sinners, and so bitter against Jesus—a sad thing was to befall him. He might treat Jesus as he pleased, with rudeness or with courtesy, bid ding H i m come w i t h condescension, treating

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the sight of this miserable in his house; but Simon has to leave his house, his city, his associates, his children, and pass into seclu sion. D i d the unfortunate father of our friends repent of his treatment of Jesus and seek H i s help ? A n d was Simon the leper, healed now of his disease as well as of his pride, present at the second anointing of Jesus i n his home of Bethany ? W e dare to hope that He who saved the children failed not with the father, and that the woman who was a sinner, and the man who was a Phari see, met in the kingdom of God. Whether we can be certain i n identifying Simon the Pharisee with Simon the leper,

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and the young ruler with Lazarus, the Gos in an atmosphere of emotion and sympathy. pels at least give us three scenes in the fam The sisters were of different types, although ily life of the two sisters and their brother, one in kindness and loyalty, and their separate in each of which Jesus is the central figure. individualities stand out i n relief from the The first is a picture of quiet life, and shows story. Martha was chiefly concerned that us that the Master was not always working their Guest should be served, and her desire at the highest pressure, but had His hours was to compass H i m with every observance of rest. Weary of hospitality. She was full of plans for His with the discus comfort and rest, so that for once He should sions of Jerusalem, have no care or burden. H e r energy and which He had been ingenuity, all inspired by love, were unceas visiting at a feast, ing, and showed the traces of the religious Jesus, who had no spirit which knows no quietness, and expends l o v e f o r c i t i e s , itself i n the works of charity. It was in escaped to Bethany evitable that Martha should be impatient at for rest. The com times with Mary, to whom this bustle of p a n y o f g o o d goodness was altogether foreign. The joy w o m e n w a s t o of Mary was to sit at the Master's feet and Jesus, as to many drink i n every word which fell from His lips, other delicate and for hers was the religion which hides truth spiritual natures, within the heart as great treasure. Martha a relief and re was concerned with what is external, Mary freshment, because with what is spiritual; and i f the Master He found Himself gently chided Martha, He was not indifferent to her solicitude for H i m ; and i f He praised Mary, i t was not for inaction, but for in wardness. It is a grateful thought that Jesus, who was homeless and a wanderer, who was often hungry and thirsty, who was soon to be shamefully used and tortured, had Bethany with its two hostesses. One o f them cared for His body, and this is good woman's L e p e r Types w o r k , so that The lepers are the saddest of many unhappy sights M a r t h a i s the to meet one's eyes in Palestine. J have refrained from il patron saint of lustrating the worst types. Into Jerusalem itself they do all good house not enter, but the wretched creatures throng the eastern, or Mount of Olives, approach, and the road from the south wives and care leading to the Jaffa gale. They have houses near Siloam, ful mothers and built by the government. s k i l l f u l nurses; Leprosy is not, ordinarily, contagious, and the and t h e other passer-by is in no danger, only one is careful to brush entered into His away the persistent fly, that industrious carrier of mi crobes. t h o u g h t s and Along the line of travel, lepers are met with fre p l a n s , so that quently. The morning after my arrival at Nablus, Mary is the chief awakened by a low murmur like a suppressed plaint, 1 type of the ventured forth to see what might be the cause. I was women who see accustomed to the talking of the men and the sounds from the horses, but this was unlike either. At once, upon visions and un the parting of the tent flap, several uncanny forms sepa d e r s t a n d deep rated themselves from the shadows of the knotted olive things, and show trunks, and the murmur became a weird chanting. They us the example were lepers, awaiting my appearance, in all stages of the loathsome disease, and, exhibiting their maimed and dis of saintship. torted bodies, besought charity in wailing chorus. They Within this haunt of Jesus were found the two crouched, they hobbled, they crawled, they sat in clumps people who make the complement of religion with upstretched hands, they supplicated with discordant —Martha, the type of action; and Mary, of voices. I sat depressed for many minutes as I watched meditation. They stand together in the their painful departure.—ARTIST'S NOTE.

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T h i s p i c t u r e is seen f r o m the r u i n s o f the s o - c a l l e d h o u s e o f M a r y a n d M a r t h a .

T h e h o u s e is m e d i a e v a l , p o s s i b l y o l d e r ;

b u t w h a t e v e r its h i s t o r y it s t a n d s a l a n d m a r k , o v e r l o o k i n g the v i l l a g e a n d the w h o l e s t r e t c h o f c o u n t r y to the

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great affairs of the C h u r c h : St. Peter and St. John, St. Francis and St. Dominic, Eras mus and L u t h e r ; they are in our homes the eager, strenuous, industrious people on whom the work falls, and the gentle, gracious, thoughtful souls who are the consolation and quietness of life. Between the two kinds no comparison must be made, upon neither must any judgment be passed; both are the friends of Jesus, and the helpers of the world. The second visit of Jesus to Bethany is associated with one of those swift and un expected family calamities which affect the imagination by their poignant contrast, and invest life with a profound seriousness. The light does not shine so fully on Laza rus in his home as on his sisters; but it is easy to understand his position. The father of the family was either dead or in seclu sion; the mother must have been dead, and was a pious memory. In such circumstances a brother takes a father's part to his sis ters, and they do their best to mother him. The charge of their common possessions and the care of his sisters would fall on Lazarus, and they could not have had a more honorable or affectionate guardian. Jesus' attachment to this man was so marked and warm that the family took note of it,

and spake of it with jealous pride. Jesus loved them a l l ; but it was with emphasis Martha said, " H i m whom Thou l o v e s t " ; and Jesus said to the disciples who had caught the same affection, " Our friend Laza r u s . " These words of the sisters and the Master are the portrait and biography and judgment of Lazarus. What crystal purity of soul, what silent understanding of spir itual mysteries, what rare perfection of char acter must have been his! What longed-for meetings these two must have had when Lazarus would be watching in the garden for the Master, and Jesus would kiss his friend and say, " Peace be unto thee, Laza r u s ! " What long conferences, when the hours were too short, and Jesus told to this quiet man all He hoped to do and suffer! What longing, regretful partings when Jesus left the garden to return to Galilee! " A l l the commandments have I kept from my youth u p , " said the young ruler to Jesus. " Y e are my friends," said Jesus once to His disciples, " i f ye do whatsoever I com mand you " ; and now He said, " Our friend Lazarus sleepeth." Within the home of Bethany some rapid and deadly sickness had run its familiar course. There would be the first stage, when Lazarus did not seem to be himself,

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but knew not what ailed him—Mary imag ing this time Lazarus would speak asifthe ining some secret care for which she re sickness was a thing of a day, and the sis proached herself, Martha insisting on over ters would cheer one another with fancies of W i t h the next stage all work, which she had long prophesied would his betterness. some day lay him aside. There would come hopeful, kindly make-believe would be at an

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I am the resurrection, and the life.—JOHN, x i . 25.

O F JESUS

A N D MARTHA.

J e s u s has b e e n i n r e t i r e m e n t , i n t h a t u n d e f i n e d r e g i o n " b e y o n d J o r d a n , "

k n o w n as P e r e a , a n d l i v i n g i n t h a t s t i l l m o r e u n c e r t a i n p l a c e c a l l e d B e t h a b a r a , w h e r e J o h n h a d b a p t i z e d .

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by t h e s o r r o w i n g f a m i l y m u s t h a v e h a d a t w o o r t h r e e d a y s ' j o u r n e y t o m a k e , t o find J e s u s , a n d i t c o u l d h a v e b e e n n e a r l y eight days ( " H e abode t w o days still i n the place where H e w a s " )

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d i e d w h i l e J e s u s s t i l l t a r r i e d i n P e r e a , w h i c h , i n d e e d , is e v i n c e d b y C h r i s t ' s o w n s t a t e m e n t t o h i s d i s c i p l e s , s o t h a t J e s u s f o u n d that L a z a r u s " had lain i n the grave four d a y s already."

A n d then it w a s that M a r t h a , the active, nervous, anxious M a r t h a ,

w e n t o u t to m e e t H i m , " b u t M a r y sat s t i l l i n t h e h o u s e . "

A n d it was M a r t h a ' s privilege to hear, directly, the remarkable

words, " I a m the resurrection, a n d the l i f e . "

the second stage, when Lazarus, after much protesting, would be obliged to yield before the rising fever and the sisters would give all their strength and love to his service — Mary with delicate, grateful attentions, Mar tha with many ingenious expedients. Dur

end, and they would know that it was already a fight with death for Lazarus, when phy sicians and remedies and love itself seemed poor opponents to the dread, confusing power. And then the end came, when two broken hearted, clinging women, praying, watching,

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weeping, saw their brother slip from their hands and fall asleep. It was the tragedy which is acted sooner or later in every hu man home, but which never grows common place, which ever retains its austere and awful grandeur. When Jesus came at last to the help of his friends, it was characteristic of Martha that on the first rumor of H i m she should rush to meet H i m ; and on His comforting her with the assurance that Lazarus would yet live, should declare her faith in terms of the Pharisaic doctrine of the Resurrection. It was also characteristic of Mary, who did not love public scenes, that she should re main in the house. A s soon as Jesus began to unfold H i s idea of everlasting life, which was something Death could not touch, Mar tha, without any further word, sent for Mary. When Jesus touched on deep things, it was the same as calling for M a r y . A s He came to the place where we lay so often our love, our life, our hope, Jesus was stirred in the depths of H i s soul. He had sympathized with others, fathers and mothers, in their losses. N o w death had rifted His own heart; and as He thought of Lazarus lying uncon scious, cold, corrupting, the tragedy of hu man life overcame Jesus, and He, who rather concealed than paraded emotion, and had Himself rebuked the wailing over Jairus' daughter, wept aloud i n that garden after such a lamentable fashion that the Pharisees, friends of the family who were present, said: " Behold, how He loved h i m ! " " L a z a r u s , " said Jesus i n full, as He stood before the barred prison of death, " this is the first time I have visited Bethany and that thou hast not come to meet M e . It is not Bethany without thee; I wait and weary for My friend. I have not many friends, and I cannot spare thee, Lazarus. Thou hast gone on a long journey, and hast seen strange sights; but thou hast not gone so far but My voice will reach thee, and there will be no sight so welcome as thy face. His is a strong hand which holds thee, and no man dare disobey his w o r d ; but the key of Death's stronghold is at my girdle, and I am his L o r d . Before I go to my agony and the cross I must see thee, Lazarus. It is thy Friend who calls —Lazarus, come f o r t h ! " A n d Death had no power to prevent the meeting of Jesus and His friend. Once more we see Jesus with His friends, and now the circumstances are less harrow ing, and still more beautiful. A s Jesus has arrived for the Passover—His last feast be fore all things should be fulfilled—He goes

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to stay with them during Passion Week, so that, whatever may be the controversy and dispeace of the day in Jerusalem, He might cross the Mount of Olives, and rest in Beth any. To celebrate H i s coming, and as a sacrifice of thanksgiving for a great deliver ance, the family give a feast, and each mem ber thereof fills a natural place. Lazarus, the modest head of the household, and now surrounded with a mysterious awe, sits with Jesus at the table; Martha, as was her wont, was superintending the feast with an access of zeal; and Mary was inspired of the Spirit of Grace, and did a thing so lovely and so spiritual that it will be told unto all time, and will remain the picture of ideal devo tion. W i t h a wealthy family it was custom ary to have in store a treasure of fragrant ointment for the honoring of the dead; but there came into Mary's mind a more pious use for it. Why pay the homage for a dead body, and render it when the person can re ceive no satisfaction ? F a r better that in their lifetime our friends should know that they are loved, and should be braced for suffering by the devotion of loyal hearts. Before His enemies have crowned H i m with thorns Mary will pour the spikenard on His head, and before they have pierced His feet with nails she will anoint them with her love, so that the fragrance of the precious oint ment will be still on His hair when He hung upon the cross. The odor of the ointment filled the room, and four people passed judgment. One un derstood and condemned—Judas, who was arranging the betrayal of Jesus, and had lost an increase for his bag. One did not understand, but condemned—a Pharisee of Jerusalem, who did not know that the plot was so ripe, but hated to see Jesus honored. One did not understand, but approved, and that was an apostle—say, St. Peter— who could not believe that Jesus would be cruci fied, but who rejoiced that He should receive any honor. One understood and approved, and that was the Master, who, with the shadow of the cross falling on His soul, was comforted by a woman's insight and a woman's love. Her own heart taught her the secret of sacrifice; her heart anticipated the longing for sympathy; and so beautiful in its grace and spiritual delicacy was her act that Jesus declared it would be told to her praise wherever the Gospels were read. The family of Bethany will ever have a place in the heart of Jesus' disciples because they made a home for Jesus in the days of His ministry, and because they compassed

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Him with tender offices of friendship during the strain of Passion Week. Very soon He would be done with earthly homes and the land in which He had lived as a wayfaring man, but forever this Friend of man, hun gering for love and fellowship, passes down

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R E D D Y and I were alone at the L a k e beds. He sat outside the cabin, braiding a leather hat band—eight strands, and the "repeat " figure—an art that I never could master. I sat inside, with a onepound package of smoking tobacco beside me, and newspapers within reach, rolling the day's supply of cigarettes. Reddy stopped his story long enough to s a y : " Don't use the ' Princess's Slipper,' K i d —that paper burns my tongue—take the ' G r a n g e r ' ; there's plenty of it." Well, as I was saying, I'd met a lot of the boys up in town this day, and they threw as many as two drinks into m e ; I know that for certain, because when we took the parting dose, I had a glass of whiskey in both my right hands, and had just twice as many friends as when I started. When I pulled out for home, I felt mighty good for myself—not exactly looking for trouble, but not a-going to dodge it any, either. I was warbling " I d a h o " for all I was worth—you know how pretty I can sing? Cock-eyed Peterson used to say it made him forget all his troubles. " Because," says he,

" y o u don't notice trifles when a man bats you over the head with a two-by-four." Well, I was enjoying everything in sight, even a little drizzle of rain that was driving by i n rags of wetness, when a flat-faced swatty at F o r t Johnson halted me. Now it's a dreadful thing to be butted to death by a nanny-goat, but for a full-sized cowpuncher to be held up by a soldier is worse yet. To say that I was hot under the collar don't give you the right idea of the way I felt. " Why, you cross between the Last Rose of Summer and a bob-tailed flush ! " says I, " what d'yer mean ? W h a t ' s got into you ? Get out of my daylight, you dog-robber, or I'll walk the little horse around your neck like a three-ringed circus. Come, pull your freight!" It seems that this swatty had been chucked out of the third story of Frenchy's dance emporium by Bronc. Thompson, which threw a great respect for our profesh into him. Consequently he wasn't fresh like most soldiers, but answers me as polite as a tin horn gambler on pay-day. Says h e : " I just wanted to tell you that old Frosthead and forty braves are some'ers between here and your outfit, with their war paint on and blood in their eyes, cayoodling and whoopin' fit to beat hell with the blower

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on, and i f you get tangled up with them, I reckon they'll give you a hair-cut and sham poo, to say nothing of other trimmings. They say they're after the crows, but it's a ten-dollar bill against a last year's bird's-nest that they'll take on any kind of trouble that comes along. Their hearts is mighty bad, they state, and when an Injun's heart gets spoiled, the disease is d—d catching. You'd better stop a while." " Now, cuss old Frosthead, and you too !" says I. " I f he comes crow-hopping on my reservation, I'll kick his pan talettes on top of his scalplock." " A l l right, pardner!" says he. "It's your own funeral. My orders was to halt every one going t h r o u g h ; but I ain't a whole company, so you can have it your way. Only, i f your friends have to take you home in a coal-scuttle, don't blame me. Pass, friend !" So I went through the officers' quarters forty miles an hour, letting out a string of yells you might have heard to the coast, just to show my respect for the United States army. Now this has always been my luck : When ever I make a band-wagon play, somebody's sure to strike me for my license. Or else the team goes into the ditch a mile further on, and I come out about as happy as a small yaller dog at a bob - cat's cau cus. Some fellers can run in a rhinecaboo that 'ud make the hair stand up on a buffeler robe, and get away with it just like a mice ; but that ain't me. If I sing a little mite too high i n the cel lar, down comes the roof a-top of me. So it was this day. Old Johnny Hardluck socked it to me, same as usual. Gosh a'mighty ! The liquor died in me

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after a while, and I went sound asleep i n the saddle, and woke up with a jar—to find my self right in the middle of old Frosthead's gang ; the drums " boom-blipping," and those forty-odd red tigers " hyah-hayahing" in a style that made my skin get up and walk all over me with cold feet. How in blazes I'd managed to slip through those Injuns I don't know. 'Twould have been a wonderful piece of scouting i f I'd meant it. Y o u can 'most always do any darn thing you don't want to do. Well, there I was, and, oh D o c t o r ! but wasn't I in a lovely mess ! That war-song put a crimp into me that Jack Frost himself couldn't take out. It was as dark as dark by this time. The moon just stuck one eye over the edge of the prairie, and the rest of the sky was covered w i t h cloud. A little light came from the Injuns' campfire, but not enough to ride by, and, be sides, I didn't know which way I ought to go. Says I to myself, " Billy Sanders, you are the champion all-around, old-fashioned fool of the district. Y o u are a jackass from the country where ears less'n three foot long are curiosities. Y o u sassed that poor swatty that wanted to keep you out of this, toot ing your bazoo like a man peddling soap ; but now it's up to you. What are you going to do about it ? " — and I didn't get any answer, neither. W e l l , it was no use asking myself conun drums out there in the dark when time was so scarce. So I wraps my hankercher around Laddy's nose to keep him from talking horse to the Injun ponies, and prepared to sneak to where I'd rather be. Laddy was the quickest thing on legs i n that part of the country—out of a mighty

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spry little Pinto mare by our thoroughbred Kentucky horse—and I knew i f I could get to the open them Injuns wouldn't have much of a chance to take out my stopper and ex amine my works—not much. A half-mile start, and I could show the whole Sioux na tion how I wore my back hair. I cut for the place where the Injuns seemed thinnest, lifting myself up till I didn't weigh fifteen pound, and breathing only when nec essary. W e got along first-rate until we reached the edge of 'em, and then Laddy had to stick his foot in a gopher-hole, and wal loped around there like a whale trying to climb a tree. Some darn cuss of an Injun threw a hand ful of hay on the fire, and, as it blazed up, the whole gang spotted me. I unlimbered my gun, sent the irons into Laddy, and we began to walk. I didn't like to make for the ranch, as I knew the boys were short-handed, so I pointed north, praying to the good L o r d that I'd hit some kind of settlement before I struck the North Pole. Well, we left those Injuns so far behind that there wasn't any fun in it. I slacked up, patting myself on the back ; and, as the trouble seemed all over, I was just about to turn for the ranch, when I heard horses gal loping, and as the moon came out a little I saw a whole raft of redskins a-boiling up a draw not half a mile away. That knocked me slab-sided. It looked like I got the wrong ticket every time the wheel turned. I whooped it up again, swearing I wouldn't stop this deal short of a dead sure thing. We flew through space—Laddy pushing a hole in the air like a scart kiyote making for home and mother. A ways down the valley I spotted a little shack sitting all alone by itself out in the moonlight. I headed for it, hollering murder. A man came to the door in his underrigging.

SHOT. " H i , t h e r e ! What's eating y o u ? " he yells. " Injuns coming, pardner ! The country's just oozing Injuns ! Better get a wiggle on you ! " " A l l right—slide along, I'll ketch up to you," says he. I looked back and saw him hustling out with his saddle on his arm. " He's a particular kind of cuss," I t h o u g h t ; " bareback would suit most people." Taking it a little easier for the next couple of miles, I gave him a chance to pull up. We pounded along without saying any thing for a spell, when I happened to notice that his teeth were chattering. " Keep your nerve up, pardner ! " says I. " D o n ' t you get scared—we've got a good start on 'em." He looked at me kind of reproachful. " Scared be derned !" says he. " I reckon if you was riding around this nice cool night in your drawers, your teeth 'ud rattle some, too." I took a look at him, and saw, sure enough, while he had hat, coat, and boots on, the pants was missing. Well, i f it had been the last act, I'd have had to laugh. "Couldn't find 'em nohow," says he; "hunted high and low, jick, Jack, and the game— just comes to my mind now that I had 'em rolled up and was sleeping on 'em. I don't like to go around this way—I feel as i f I was two men, and one of 'em hardly respectable." " D i d you bring a gun with you ? " He gave me another stare. " Why, pardner, you must think I've got a light and frivolous disposition," says he, and with that he heaves up the great-grand-uncle of all the sixshooters I ever did see. It made my fortyfive-long look like something for a kid to cut its teeth on. " That's the best gun in this country," he went on. " Looks as i f it might be," says I. " Has the foundry that cast it gone out of business? I'd like to have one like it, i f it's as dangerous as it looks." " When I have any trouble with a man," says he, " I don't want to go pecking at him with a putty-blower, just irritating him, and giving him a little skin complaint here and there ; I want something that'll touch his conscience." He had it, for a broadside from that battery would scatter an elephant over a township. We loped along quiet and easy until sun up. The Grindstone Buttes lay about a mile ahead of us. Looking back, we saw the

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Injuns coming over a rise of ground 'way i n the distance. " Now," says my friend, " I know a short cut through those hills that'll bring us out at Johnson's. They've got enough punchers there to do the United States army up— starched and blued. Shall we take it ? " " Sure ! " says I. " I'm only wandering around this part of the country because this part of the country is here—if it was any wheres else I'd be just as glad." So in we went. It was the steepest and narrowest kind of canon, looking as i f i t had been cut out of the rock with one crack of the axe. I was just thinking : " Gee whiz !

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but this would be a poor place to get snagged in," when bang ! says a rifle right in front of us, and m-e-arr ! goes the bullet over our heads. We were off them horses and behind a couple of chunks of rock sooner than we hoped for, and that's saying a good deal. " Cussed poor shot, whoever he is," says my friend. " Some Injun holding us here t i l l the rest come up, I presume." " That's about the size of it—and I'd l i k e to make you a bet that he does it, too, i f I thought I'd have a chance to collect." " Oh, you can't always tell—you might lose your money," says he, kind of thoughtful.

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" I wouldn't mind that half as much as winning," says I. " But on the square, do you think we can get out ? I'll jump him with you i f you say so, although I ain't got what you might call a passion for suicide." " Now you hold on a bit," says he. " I don't know but what we'd have done better to stick to the horses, and run for it, but it's too late to think of that. Jumping him is all foolishness ; he'd sit behind his little rock and pump lead into us till we wouldn't float in brine—and we can't back out now." He talked so calm it made me kind of mad. " W e l l , " says I, " i n that case, let's play ' Simon says thumbs u p ' till the rest of the crowd comes." " There you go !" says he. " Just like all young fellers—gettin' hosstyle right away i f you don't fall in with their plans. Now, Sonny, you keep your temper, and watch me play cushion carroms with our friend there." " M e a n i n g how ?" " Y o u see that block of stone just this side of him with the square face towards us ? Well, he's only covered i n front, and I'm a-going to shoot against that face and ketch him on the glance." " Great, i f you could work i t ! " says I. " But Lord ! " " Well, watch ! " says he. Then he squinched down behind his cover, so as not to give the Injun an opening, trained his cannon and pulled the trigger. The old gun opened her mouth and roared like an earth quake, but I didn't see any dead Injun. Then twice more she spit fire, and still there weren't any desirable corpses to be had.

SHOT. "Say, pardner," says I, " y o u wouldn't make many cigars at this game !" " N o w , don't you get oneasy," says he. " J u s t watch ! " " Biff!" says the old gun, and this time, sure enough, the Injun was knocked clear off the rock. I felt all along that he wouldn't be much of a comfort to his friends after wards, i f that gun did land on him. Still, he wasn't so awful dead, for as we jumped for the horses he kind of hitched himself to the rock, and laying the rifle across it, and working the lever w i t h his left hand, he sent a hole plumb through my hat. " B u l l y b o y ! " says I. I snapped at him, and smashed the lock of his rifle to flinders. Then, of course, he was our meat. A s we rode up to him, my pard held dead on him. The Injun stood up straight and tall, and looked us square in the eye—say, he was a man, I tell you, red-skin or no red skin. The courage just stuck out on him as he stood there, waiting to pass in his checks. My pardner threw the muzzle of bis gun up. " D — n i t ! " says he, " I can't do it— he's game from the heart o u t ! But the Lord have mercy on his sinful soul i f he and I run foul of each other on the prairie again!" Then we shacked along down to Johnson's and had breakfast. " W h a t became of Frosthead and his gang ?" Oh, they sent out a regiment or two, and gathered him in—'bout twenty-five soldiers to an Injun. N o , no harm was done. Me and my pard were the only ones that bucked up against them. Chuck out a cigarette, K i d ; my lungs ache for want of a smoke.

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SPECIAL ADVANTAGES It is so simple in mechanism that a child can manipulate it. Plays scores o f operas, symphonies, etc., without abbreviation. It is virtually two organs in one. C a n be played by hand in the usual manner and, in addition, by the perforated m u s i c - r o l l ; the player being relieved from the necessity for technical execution, may give his whole time and mind to regulating the expression. T h e introduction of the Aeolian principle into organ-building has modified the c o n struction of the instrument and its mission. Whereas the ordinary pipe-organ is limited to devotional music, the A e o l i a n Pipe-organ throws open at once the whole world o f secular music as an addition. Operatic and ballet music, as well as symphonies, overtures, etc., impossible and inappropriate in c h u r c h , are at the command o f the Aeolian-player. E v e r y part of the instrument is built w i t h the most scrupulous care, like the finest watch. Aeolian Pipe-organs specially built for location designed. Aeolian Orchestrelles and Aeolians carried regularly i n stock. Architects designing residences, and those about to build, w i l l do well to visit our warerooms or correspond w i t h us. Estimates carefully and cheerfully made upon request. A e o l i a n P i p e - o r g a n s , $3,000 to $10,000 a n d u p w a r d . A e o l i a n O r c h e s t r e l l e s , $1,500 t o $2,500. A e o l i a n s , $ 7 5 t o $750. T h e cheapest A e o l i a n plays nearly seven thousand pieces, and plays them well too. Visitors

always

instruments the

merely

intending

are

curious

purchasers.

t o c a l l at o u r catalogue

welcome. gladly

well If

full

to to

unable

warerooms, write

giving

T h e Orchestrelle Co., L o n d o n T h e M . Steinert & Sons C o . , Boston C. J . Heppe & Son, Philadelphia L y o n & Healy, Chicago Win, Knabe & Co., Washington W m . Knabe & Co., Baltimore The B. Dreher's Sons C o . , Cleve land K o h l e r & Chase, San Francisco Lauter Company, Newark Grinnell Bros., Detroit M . B. Wells Co., T h e Aeolian Music Co., Portland L . E . N . Pratte& Co., Montreal H . T r a c y B a l c o m , Buffalo Cluett & Sons, A l b a n y Cluett Sons, T r o y C. C . Mcllor Co., Pittsburg T h e M a s o n & Risli Piano Co., T o ronto J. W . Jenkins' Sons Music C o . , Kansas City Metropolitan Music Co., Minneapolis W . J . D y e r & B r o . , St. P a u l W h i t n e y Si C u r r i e r C o . , T o l e d o Denver Music Co., Denver Walter D. Moses & Co., Richmond D a y n e s Music C o . , Salt L a k e C i t y

Our

shown

for

description.

The A e o l i a n Company I 8 W . Twenty-third St., New York City

500 Fulton St., Brooklyn,

N. Y . 124 E. Fourth St., C i n cinnati, O .

Aeolian

Pipe-organ

New

York

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City

residence

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"Ju*rt as Good"

Hood's Tooth

means taking chances. take n o c h a n c e

" B e i f e l d " suit, waist, skirt, cape

o r jacket.

free

from

grit, but

has

sub

stance e n o u g l i t h o r o u g h l y to c l e a n the

teeth.

SATIN TRIMMED,

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spuns,

Its

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ium

the

fine all-wool

home

black, oxford, med

gray,

blue

a n d brown.

teeth

Beautifully White And

the

mouth

WANTED,

absolutely

from acids that cause dental decay. I t h a r d e n s a n d r e d d e n s the g u m s and

t o u s e it is a l w a y s a d e l i g h t .

Free Sample. C. I. H O O D

& C O . , Lowell,

veritable

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25 o r 5 0 cts.

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IN EVERY T O W N TO HANDLE THE LINE

free

r a i n b o w o f at

styles

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the F e l l s e a s o n — s t y l e s to

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argue

s t r o n g e r than w o r d s .

Mass.

" B e i f e l d " garments sell

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Full

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and

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Sample.

LEADAM'S SHOE TREES

C . I. H O O D & C O . Lowell,

MICH.

keeps

Beautifies the Complexion T r i a l s i z e 10c.

n o t s e n d f o r B o o k l e t t o t h e makers.

HAY & T O D D M F C . C O . ,

strong or sour p e r s p i r a t i o n . Its

Chicago

keep your slioes in perfect shape. wrinkling, toeing up a n d curling. a n d easy to use.

Mass.

Prevent Light

Shoes d a m p e n e d b y perspiration or w a t e r do n o t s h r i v e l u p in drying w h e n L e a d a m ' s T r e e s are used. A H sizes a n d styles f o r m e n a n d women. T o b e h a d o f y o u r s h o e d e a l e r o r s e n t pre

p a i d o n r e c e i p t o f 8*1.-.So* S e n d s i z e and style o f shoe. Sendfnr W O N E l i II. I - E A D A M . Pamphlets. / 9 W a l l St., N e w York. Please

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The R e g a l Shoe RUGBY.

(Style Illustrated.)

Photographed from E n a m e l Shoe (Oxford S t y l e ) . Imported E n a m e l , Oxford Russet K i n g Calf, blucher Black K i n g Calf, blucher Russet K i n g Calf, lace Black K i n g Calf, lace Russet K i n g Calf, golf . .

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Delivered, prepaid, to any address in the United States upon receipt of $3.75 per pair.

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The picture shown here is our latest Oxford shoe. It ^ " * is made of English enameled leather, the best enameled leather that can be bought at any price. In material and making it is all that a good shoe can be. It n o t only looks as well as a shoe for which you would pay $5 or $6 but it will last as long a n d l o o k as well until it is worn out. Regal Shoes are the most comfortable shoes made. They are made in 147 styles and I 21 sizes—there is sure to be a perfect fit for every foot. Imperfectly fitting shoes are responsible for corns, enlarged joints and other foot troubles. If y o u get the right width, length and right shape of shoe your feet will be comfortable and you will have n o trouble of any kind with them. There is a Regal Shoe that will exactly fit your foot a n d as y o u spend two-thirds of your life in shoes you ought to have the right shoes. If y o u want to make your shoe money go farther than in any other way buy a pair of Regals for business, one for dress, one for sports and one for bad weather. Keep those not in use o n Regal Boot Trees and they will preserve their original shape and always look well. They will last at least twice as long as they otherwise would. The Boot Trees cost 75 cents in Regal Stores or $ i . c o , sent prepaid from our Boston office. If o n e of our stores is n o t convenient to you w e can give you a perfect fit by mail. n p r

S E N D F O R C A T A L O G U E T , and B O O K L E T " T H E C A R E O F S H O E S . "

L . C. BLISS & CO., W e s t e r n B r a n c h , M a i l O r d e r Department, 103 D e a r b o r n St., C H I C A G O , I L L .

M a i l Order Department, 109 S u m m e r St., B O S T O N , M A S S .

S T O R E S . — B o s t o n , 109 S u m m e r S t . ; P r o v i d e n c e , 2 2 0 W e s t m i n s t e r S t . ; N e w Y o r k , 115 N a s s a u S t . , 1347 B r o a d w a y , 291 B r o a d w a y ; B r o o k l y n , 357 F u l t o n S t . , 1 1 1 B r o a d w a y ; B a l t i m o r e . 219 E a s t B a l t i m o r e S t . ; P h i l a d e l p h i a , 1218 M a r k e t S t . , 8th a n d C h e s t n u t S t s . ; W a s h i n g t o n , D . C , 1003 P e n n A v e . ; P i t t s b u r g , 309 F i f t h A v e . ; B u f f a l o , 362 M a i n S t . ; C i n c i n n a t i , 13-15 F o u n t a i n S q . ; S t . L o u i s , 6 1 8 O l i v e S t . ; C h i c a g o , 103 D e a r b o r n S t . , 215 D e a r b o r n S t . ; D e t r o i t , 122 W o o d w a r d A v e . ; C l e v e l a n d , 17 E u c l i d A v e . ; D e n v e r , 4 2 3 S i x t e e n t h St.; A l b a n y , N . Y . , 34 M a i d e n L a n e ; A t l a n t a , G a . , 6 W h i t e h a l l S t . ; M i l w a u k e e , W i s . , 212 G r a n d A v e . Factory, W h i t m a n , Mass.

R e g a l S h o e s s h o u l d be p o l i s h e d with R e g a l Dressing. W e have s p a r e d no expense or trouble to m a k e a p e r f e c t l y p u r e a n d h a r m less d r e s s i n g of the best refined oils, w h i c h w i l l preserve the leather a n d keep it soft a n d pliable. O u r T r a v e l e r ' s P a c k a g e of R e g a l D r e s s i n g w i l l be sent b y m a i l , p o s t p a i d , or w i t h R e g a l S h o e s , o n receipt of 15 cents. Large size, 30 cents.

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Collar and Cuff E c o n o m y . ^ ^ ' i S S £

C p n C f * C o l l a r a m i Cuff' l i u y l n g means R C t t l n ; O t l l O t (do iMInt pcrfcot collars a n d cuffli a t T h e r e is no g r r a t r r c o l U r value o r cuff itatlsth .11 i n tbfl 1 ' f t U M U UHA.ND

COLLARS

ani 1 cuff economy t h a n wo offer. A saving as high as 50 per on j o u r l i n e n b i l l o u g h t to interest you. Our

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DOUBLE

TKIAN«LE

T w o for 25c.

COLLARS,

i' i . . . . T w o Cuffs Tor 25o, Thi'T an? p r r f i c t i nfit,style a n d flnl of t h e heat l i n e n , o f n o d heavy sto« give best service a n d loncrcst w r u o f c o l l a r a n d cuff made. Y o u r A w l M them. I f not, write to u s a n d wa w i l l tell y o u where to go.

They 1

YAH

are two for

25c.

Coirs, . . two Cuffs for Mic. give t h e same satisfaction as collars 'uffs o f d o u b l e the money, and prater ue t h a n a n y other brand at (he same p r i c e . T h e y arc made right, look right and wear right.

ZANBY, D I R E C T

The

BRAND

4 4

F R O M

O U R

F A C T O R Y

Graeme" Wardrobe

Lounge

P R A C T I C A L - U S E F U L — A R T I S T I C (Open, showing drawer.

O F

T O P T O

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L I F T I N G

P I L L O W S

freight prepaid,

iuys this artistic W a r d r o b e L o u n g e , d i r e c t f r o m o u r f a c t o r y , to be e t u r n e d a t o u r e x p e n s e i f n o t p o s i t i v e l y t h e b e s t w a r d r o b e l o u n g e s o l d a t s o l o w a price. A t r e t a i l i t w o u l d c o s t $ 2 7 . 5 0 t o $30.00. I t i s b r a s s - t r i m m e d , c a s t e r e d , a n d t a s t i l y boxpleated o na l l four sides. C u s h i o n isreversible, filled w i t h finest m o s s , a n d has 28 d i a m o n d tufts a n d s t i t c h e d e d g e . D r a w e r i s i n v i s i b l e , r u n s s m o o t h l y o n c a s t e r s , a n d i s l i n e d w i t h pretty contrasting color. Size 6 2 x 2 4 x 9 % i n . deep. U P H O L S T E R E D i nbest quality G o b e l i i Art Ticking, in t h e s e p l a i n c o l o r s : — D e l f t b l u e , s t e e l b l u e , o r i e n t a l r e d , d u l l r e d , o l i v e g r ^ e n , a n d m y r t l e g r e e n tlic p l a i n c o l o r s g i v i n g the m o s t p l e a s i n g effect w i t h p i l l o w s . t o p o i n t s east of the Mississippi and north o f South Carolina—points b e y o n d proportionally.

$14.85

We prepay freight

GRAEME MFG.

CO., 62 N . LONIA S T . ,

AGENTS ircC I

ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE

Triumph Ironing Board. For a l lkinds of pressing. Sells at e v e r y house. W e a r et h e m a n u f a c t u r e r s Local and general agents w a n t e d . R e t a i l s 7oc. O n e (only) s a m p l e , f u l l size, t ocanvass w i t h , b yexpress delivery i ngood condition guaranteed, for t e n cts F u l l L i n e o f Agents' IJnnrU. R * f e r t^> a n y R n n k H t T N T E R C O . , 521 S i x t h S t r e e t , R a c i n e , W i s

A Powder for the Feet. Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot=Ease, a p o w d e r f o r the j f e e t . It cures p a i n f u l , swollen, s m a r t i n g , , n e r v o u s t' e e t , a n d i n s t a n t l y t a k e s t h e s t i n g ' o u t of c o r n s a n d b u n i o n s . 1 t's t h e g r e a t

est

comfort discovery o l the age.

Bright

A l l e n ' s F o o t s Ease makes tight-fitting or< new s h o e s f e e l ensy. I t i s a c e r t a i n curefor^ i n g r o w i n g nails, sweating, c a l l o u s a n d hot, 1 t i r e d , a c h i n g " eet. W e h a v e o v e r 3(1,000 t e s t i - • moninls. T K YI T T O - D A Y . S o l d by , a l l D r u g g i s t t a n d S h o e S t o r e s . 25c. D o not . accept an imitation. S e n t by m a i l f o r 25c. i n s t a m p s .

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G R A N D R A P I D S , MICHIGAN

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TRIATJ P A C K A G E

sent

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by mail.

Shoes.

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Knitted Table by

Padding and

M a t t r e s s P a d s are r e c o g n i z e d

t i d y h o u s e k e e p e r s as n e c e s s i t i e s a n d n o t l u x u r i e s . M A D E

O F S O F T ,

S P E C I A L Our and

Table

noise.

clean

W H I T E ,

C O T T O N ,

P R O C E S S —C O M P A C T

K N I T T E D

B YO U R

A N D D U R A B L E

P a d d i n g prevents scorching, b r e a k i n g of c h i n a ,

E a s i l y washed.

a n d free

from

wear

O u r Mattress Pads k e e p mattress a n d stains.

When

washed

will

r e m a i n soft a n d r e t a i n t h e i r s h a p e . Our booklet for a post card — tells more about our K n i t t e d Table Paddings and Mattress Pads. KNITTED MATTRESS CO.,

Glean

Fingers*

G i l b e r t ' s " D a u b e r T o p " P o l i s h Box does a w a y with the unpleasant part o f polish er s h o e s , t h e P a t e n t D a u b e r , clean nd h a n d y , takes the place of both u'led fingers a n d s o i l e d c l o t h s . C o s t s n o m o r e t h a n the ordi nary b o x . I f y o u r d e a l e r hasn't i t , a s k h i m "to s e n d for i t , o r send yourself. P r i c e , 10c. postpaid.

3 Chapman St., Canton Junction, Mass.

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THE PRACTICAL" TR0U5ER5 HANGER * ™ PRESS O u r G u a r a n t e e to refund m o n e y any time within 60 d a y s (goods b e i n g r e t u r n a b l e at o u r e x p e n s e ) p r o t e c t s p u r c h a s e r s f r o m l o s s . T h i s d e v i c e k e e p s t r o u s e r s " s m o o t h a s if i r o n e d ; " i n c r e a s e s c l o s e t c a p a c i t y ; greatly adds to the user's c o m f o r t a n d convenience, s a v i n g c l o t h i n g , t i m e a n d p a t i e n c e . It i s the o n l y d e v i c e that a b s o l u t e l y t a k e s o u t t h e m a r k s a n d creases c a u s e d w h e n t r o u s e r s are t u r n e d u p i n wet weather. T h e c o n s t r u c t i o n a n d finish is s u b s t a n t i a l a n d elegant. T h e parts that engage the c l o t h are o f quartered oak, therefore the gar ment w i l l not be rust-stained. U s u a l l y sold in $ 5 . 0 0 s e t s w h i c h contain 6 trousers hnngers and 3 c l o s e t r o d s — s i n g l e h a n g e r s 7 5 c ; s i n g l e r o d s 25c. F o r $ 1 . 0 0 w e w i l l s e n d one trousers h a n g e r a n d one closet r o d , a n d afterward the balance of t h e $5.00 set f o r $4.00. G o o d s delivered express prepaid. O u r 100=page d e s c r i p t i v e b o o k w i t h o v e r 3,000 endorsements free o n request. R e a d e r s w i l l do themselves an injustice if they do not send forit.

PRACTICAL NOVELTY CO.,435 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.

AN INDISPENSABLE ADJUNCT TO EVERY

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is the only perfect

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G O F F ' S BRAIDS are the B E S T

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OMO

them, to

BRAID

MFG. CO.

Middletown, C o n n . D . G O F F & SONS, Pawtucket, R . I.

This

BUST FORMS 50 c/i

8 m.

16?

BUSTLES AND FORMS Make the form symmetrical, graceful, stylish. T h e y are the o n l y k i n d t h a t a d j ust to the figure a n d a p p e a r natural. H r a i d e r t W i r e H a i r R o l l s a r e c o o l a n d clean ly. M a t c h any hair. S O L D IN A L L S T O R E S .

The l o w price of this little gar ment shows how inexpensively, yet p r e t t i l y babies m a y be dress ed if t h e i r c l o t h i n g is p u r c h a s e d at t h e C h i l d r e n ' s S t o r e . But while w e have the widest and most c o m p l e t e line of d a i n t y , machine-made articles, we have also e v e r y t h i n g the most fastidious m o t h e r can desire in elaborate a n d costly h a n d - m a d e g a r m e n t s .

Insist on h a v i n g " B r a i d e d W i r e . " I f y o u d o n ' t f l n d t h e m , we w i l l s e n d , p o s t p a i d , o n r e c e i p t o f p r i c e . Writt /or our Booklet, "Hidden Helps."

The WESTON & W E L L S M F G . CO. Noble

St.,

Philadelphia,

cts.

M a d e of nainsook ; pointed y o k e of fine r u c k s , w i t h r o w s o f h e m s t i t c h i n g and feather-stitching between. Yoke, neck and sleeves finished with hem s t i t c h e d ruffle, s k i r t w i t h h e m s t i t c h e d hem. S i z e s , 6 m o n t h s , to i , 2 a n d 3 years.

12 i n . 1 5 * , 15iru20£_

Braided Wire

HI2

Tacstef\jl Little Dress

Pa.

P 35l e a s e m e n t i o n M c C l u r e ' s w h e n y o u

T h i s l i t t l e d r e s s is t a k e n f r o m o u r c a t a l o g u e , w h i c h h a s besides over 1 0,00 other i l l u s t r a t i o n s o f u s e f u l t h i n g s f o r children. S e n t for 4 cts. p o s t a g e .

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Up Hill with the President Supported by the President I m p r o v e d Suspenders, the bicyclist bids g o o d b y e to d i s c o m f o r t . H e can c l i m b a bill a n d hardly r e a l i z e it. H e can turn tbo circle of a century r u n without extra fatigue. T h e r e a s o n is e a s i l y s e e n i f y o u e x a m i n e its r e m a r k a b l e features: Adjust front a n d back. G i v e s w i t h every b e n d of the body. C o m b i n e s , as no other suspender d o e s , ease, comfort, convenience.

President Suspender 1

IMPROVED

m a k e s w o r k i n g easy a n d w a l k i n g easy. F o r r i d i n g , g o l f , t e n n i s , i n office d r e s s o r e v e n i n g d r e s s , t h e r e is n o s u s p e n d e r i n t h e w o r l d t h a t e q u a l s it. l n s i s t o n getting t h e o r i g i n a l — t h e only suspender on w h i c h t r i m m i n g s will not rust.

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Ten Days Trial W e ship our wheels anywhere on ap p r o v a l without a cer:t depoeit and allow 10 days 1 ree 1 "ial. You take absoluter/ 110 risk In ordering from us. 1900 M O D E L S * f / S . . t f f O best makes I p l U t o & l i S '9f>*'98 M O D E L S t t O . & * Q h i c h urade iJ><2tO$>l** 1000 8 cond Hand Wheels, all makes and models, good as row, $3 to « 1 0 . Great factory clearing sale at hi If factory cost. AGENTS WANTED in every town. We furnish wheel and start you. Y< u can make $10 to $ 5 © a week 0 ^ our arrert. v. rite at one© for catalogues and o u r speeial offer. MEAO CYCLE CO. Dept. m N Chicago.

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Did You Ever see

bald-headed

INDIAN? No,

made

Oxydonor

are

If tried

you

are

f r o m the

you

These

large

claims

themselves of One family

all

stage

that c o m

q u a n t i t i e s of

good

reinforced persons

forms

i n our

who

Oxygen

rightly

health.

s t r u c t i o n s w i t h each

and

letters

have

disease,

b o o k , w h i c h we

Oxydonor, in

reasonable

result.

are

thousands

w h i c h are

have Oxy

T h u s disease is c o n q u e r e d

r o b u s t health is the

from

any

body in a c o n d i t i o n

absorb air.

and

d o c t o r s w i t h o u t effect,

cure

p l a c i n g the

p e l s it to

doctors

failed.

a sufferer from disease, a n d

d r u g s and

donor will

after

ANTISEPTIC HAT

some

IDEAL

Broadway, New

York City

Steam Cooker

O o o k s a w h . . l e m e a l o v e r one b u r n e r , on gaso~ line, oil, gar, or common cook stove.

Oxydonor.

Reduces Fuel Bills One-half. H a k e s tough meats tender. Prevent! s t e a m ano odora. W h i s t l e b l o w s when cooker needs m o r o w a t e r . D i n n e r S e t s , B i c y c l e m , Watehe**, a n d o i l i e r V a l u a b l e P r e m i u m * given w i t h o r d e r f o r C o o k e r s . S e n d lor i l l u s t r a t e d cata logue. We. pay ezprcst. A f i E N T S W A N T E D . ' T O X E I M ) C O O K E K C O . , B o x ? » , T o l e d o , 0.

BR IGUT'S DISEASE. T i n i i . A u s t i n B ! a U e y » l,<*a<lville, C o l . , writes D e c e m b e r 15, 1899: " I have been a sufferer from Blight's Disease ancl C h r o n i c Catarrh of the Stomach for years. A f t e r doctoring a great deal and getting worse, on Jan.iary 1, 1898, I ordered an Oxydonor. It helped me at once, and in six months from the time I commenced using it I con sidered myself a well man. If I could not get another I would not part with my O x y d o n o r for a warranty deed of the State of C o l o r a d o . " HAY

CO., 853

keep

btxk

PAD

cured

i n a i l free.

used, wi'l Large

hat.

N i n e cases of b a l d n e s s out of ten are the result of i n j u r y to the scalp by wearing a hat,.. The hat confines t h e a i r a r o u n d the headf u n t i l it becomes f o u l a n d i m p u r e , and how can h a i r live a n d be h e a l t h y in foul air? E l d r e d ' s A n t i s e p t i c H a t P a d o v e r c o m e s a l l this. It is a little pad a b o u t the size of a s i l v e r d o l l a r w h i c h is p l a c e d inconspicuously in the c r o w n of the h a : It c o n t a i n s a tablet o, a c t i v e a n t i s e p t i c s a n d disinfectants, which are v o l a t i l i z e d by the w a r m t h from the h e a d , p u r i f y i n g a n d removing the foul a i r w h i c h the hat c o l l e c t s . M o r e o v e r , it s w e e t e n s t h e s c a l p , s t r e n g t h e n s the muscles of the h a i r , p r e v e n t s b a l d n e s s a n d m a k e s the h a i r l u x u r i a n t . It C u r e s D a n d r u f f . A c u r e of the worst case is guaranteed in 30 days. W e a r it ten d a y s , a n d if y o u are not c o n v i n c e d of its merits r e t i r n it a n d y o u r m o n e y w i l l be c h e e r f u l l y refunded—proof of our f a i t h in it. K v e r y m a n w h o w e a r s a h a t s h o u l d h a v e one—hair lotions, tonics, w a s h e s , a n d o t h e r d o u b t f u l p r e p a r a t i o n s , w i l l never be needed. E l d r e d ' s A n t i s e p t i c H a t P a d s are sold by first class hatters o n l y for 50 c e n t s a n d w i l l last 3 m o n t h s in c o n t i n u o u s use. If your h a t t e r does not k e e p t h e m , s e n d us h i s n a m e , a n d we will mail you a p a d p o s t p a i d for 50 cents. W r i t e for rv.r i n t e r e s t i n g b o o k l e t , w h i c h c o n t a i n s endorsements from prominent physicians and others—mailed F R E E .

Most of the Cures drugs have completely

because he doesn't wear a

Gilbert's Heel Cushions,

F E V E R .

•worn i n s i d e the shoe ' for E a s y W a l k i n g . A r c h the Instep, Increase H e i g h t , M a k e Better F i t t g i Shoes, Remove J a r in W a l k i n g . Indorsed by physicians. Simply placed in the heel, felt down. D o not require larger shoes. % in., 25c; % in., 3^c* 1 in., t;oc. per pair. A t shoe a n d department stores. REA D ! Send name, size shoe, height desired, and 2-cent stamp for pair on ten days' trial. G I L B E R T M F G . C O . , 63 E l m S t r e e t , R o c h e s t e r , N . Y .

Dr.

H . Sanche. A u g u s t a , 111., Oct. 30, 1899. D e a r Sir:—I bought one of your O x y d o n o r s N o . 2, for my son for H a y Fever, last fall. It stopped it in two nights. It was the last of the season, so I d i d not feel quite satisfied. T h i s fall he used it for three days and nights, and the H a y Fever left him. I firmly believe it will do all you claim. Respectfully yours, C. H .

MORHELL.

C A U T I O N . — I m i t a t i o n s of O x y d o n o r are dangerous to use. Refuse to accept them. D r . II. Sanche is t'.e Inventor and O r i g i n a i o r , and has obtained final decision in Supreme C o u r t , in W a s h i n g t o n , D.C., against imitators. A l s o on Oct. 16, 1899, the U n i t e d States Court granted i:s an injunction restraining A g e n t s from selling an imitation of Oxydonor. W r i t e us a full statement of your case. A l l letters care fully read and answered. W e will send you full p a r t i c u l a r s of Oxydonor, a n d how to use it. A d d r e s s either of our offices.

Dr.

H. SANCHE & CO., A NEW AND EFFECTIVE CURE

l>cpt. A 61 F I F T H S T . , D E T R O I T , 261 Fifth Ave., NEW YORK. CANADA

MICH.

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This instrument is l%xi inches in size and consists of a Steel Cylinder on which is placed an abrasive cloth, held hy nickel plated steel caps. A bottle of lotion fur ccring the soft corn, together with an extra cloth, packed inside each cylinder. P o l i s h i n g with till* Instrument ciislly remove* corns ant I prevents nccuiniiliilloii of o u l l o u e cuticle, keeping the skin clean and healthy. Satisfaction guaranteed. Mailed on receipt of 85 cents and 4 cents in stamps to cover postage. J. K AT.. L I R O N , Miff. T o i l e t Articles, REFERENCE, America 84 A WubusU A v e n u e , Chicago, 111. National Bank.

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Columbia Grand Graphophone A W o n d e r t u l t a l k i n g m a c h i n e 01 t h e G e n u i n e G r a n d T y p e , m a d e to m e e t t h e d e m a n d for a G r a p h o p h o n e of less e x p e n sive c o n s t r u c t i o n t h a n the G r a p h o p h o n e G r a n d and Home G r a n d , but e m b o d y i n g the s a m e p r i n c i p l e s .

Former Price $75.00

Reduced to

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New Price $50.00 Grand Records reduced to $1 each.

The Columbia Grand is handsome and durable i n

construction and s i m p l e Grand Blanks reduced to 75c. each. i n operation. Reproduces music, song or speech as l o u d and louder t h a n the o r i g i n a l , w i t h all the o r i g i n a l sweetness and melody. Graphophones of other types, from $1.50 COLUMBIA

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"The Camera that Never Fails"

(YCLONE AH

is what those who use the " Premo " say of it. When on vacation you seldom have the opportunity of making good your failures, so take the "Premo," a camera that will secure you the greatest number of pictures. Many Premos have long focus extension, a necessity to every up-to-date amateur.

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"It works of itself"

" It is t i m e w a s t e d to m a k e a g o o d n e g a t i v e a n d lose i t a l l i n a p o o r print."

Aristo Self-Toning

AMERICAN ARISTO PAPERS p r o d u c e the negative, are able. T h a t ' s the w o r l d professional

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For sale iy

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T H E TOURIST HAWK-EYES C o m b i n e the c o m p a c t n e s s of the d a y l i g h t l o a d i n g film s y s t e m w i t h m e c h a n i c a l a c c u r a c y and perfection. O u r perforated s y s t e m S u n light films register the e x p o s u r e s a u t o m a t i c a l l y and do away w i t h a l l danger of c u t t i n g t h r o u g h the negatives when p r e p a r i n g for development.

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Every boy and girl under sixteen years of age should join the B R O W N I E C A M E R A C L U B . Fifty Kodaks, valued at over $500.00, will be given to the members of the club as prizes for the best pictures made with the Brownie Cameras and every member of the club will be given a S e n d a d o l l a r to y o u r l o c a l copy of our Photographic Art Brochure. No initiation fees or dues if K o d a k dealer for a B r o w n i e you own a Brownie. Ask your dealer or write us for a Brownie C a m e r a . If t h e r e i s n o K o d a k Camera Club Constitution, dealer in your town, send us a d o l l a r a n d we w i l l s h i p the camera promptly.

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If it i s n ' t a n E a s t m a n

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KOZY

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o o

D i s c o u n t o n O u r $10.00 K o z y

A f t e r four years of successful

i n t r o d u c t i o n , w e are enabled

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neatest a n d h a n d i e s t

T h e K o z y has a l w a y s offering

been

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the p u b l i c a share o f o u r success, a n d at t h e n e w p r i c e w e b e l i e v e

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that

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I f y o u r d e a l e r does n o t c a r r y t h e K o z y

w r i t e d i r e c t to u s .

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T A K E TO THE

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which occupies but lit 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 i s h e s h o t w a t e r instantly for. bathing, shaving, sickness and all domes tic purposes w h e n h o t w a t e r is r e q u i r e d . U s e s G a s or Gasoline. A s k your dealer for it, orsendfor free catalogue.

Dealers' price $40.00. M a n t e l is 85 in. high—00 in. wide— 40x18 Beveled F r e n c h M i r r o r . Includes T i l e F a c i n g and 60x18 hearth. Brass Plated F r a m e and C l u b H o u s e (irate. Send for Catalogue illustratlng" the most desirable de signs at the most remarkable pr< ces, \Vp pay frriirht to all points east of the Mississippi River and north of South Carolina. ALCOTT, ROSS & S C U L L Y C O . . 2913 N. Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa.

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Diamond Condensed Soups Are the Best Sotips. They are scientifically made from choice meats and vegetables condensed and put up i n paper cartons. A package may be carried i n the vest pocket, yet one package makes two quarts of light soup or one of puree as delicious and wholesome as may be made b y the best cook from fresh materials. NO T I N T O FEAR—NO W A T E R T O P A Y FOR—NO T R O U B L E T O PREPARE. Keep perfectly i n any climate, Retail at 10 cents per package, but if your grocer does not have them send a two'cent stamp and his address for a F R E E S A M P L E making a half pint puree of any one of these varieties! Cream of Celery, Green Pea, Beef and Onion, Tomato, Bean, German Vegetable. Beware of imitations. There are no other p r e pared soups "just as good." THE MAX/MUM

OF EXCELLENCE;

THE MINIMUM

Ready-toServeJ

OF COST.

It is another purity product from the Libby Kitchens, fully up to the high standard of all the Libby Canned Meats.

D I A M O N D S O U P CO., 36 Wabash Ave., Chicago, J.

L A T E S T P E R F E C T I O N IN M E A T COOKING.

H O W A R D J O N E S & S O X , Sole Sales Agents.

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Ask your grocer for Libby's new meat dainty, "Luncheon Loaf." It is a deliciously seasoned and appetizingly pre pared meat food put up in convenient sized key-opening cans.

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C R E A M OF WHEAT IS T H E I D E A L S U M M E R FOOD For old and young. It builds bone and sinew and repairs waste. It is easily digested and assimilated.

W'th it are also made many dainty desserts

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M e l l i n ' s F o o d is a soluble, d r y extract of cereals. During" the process of manufacture a l l the starch of the grains is converted into maltose and dextrine, while at the same time, the nutritious and soluble portions of the grains are retained, as are the phosphatic salts, the necessary builders of the infant's bones and teeth. T h i s extract, containing a l l the nutritious portions of the grains and entirely free from starch, is evaporated to dryness. T h i s extract is M e l l i n ' s F o o d . W h e n prepared with fresh m i l k and water it gives a true Liebigs food, as o r i g i n a l l y prepared b y L i e b i g h i m s e l f ; it makes an infant's 'food containing a l l the necessary nutritive elements combined in proportions proper for complete and sufficient nutrition. M e l l i n ' s F o o d is a modifier of fresh, natural cow's milk. Send us a postal for a free sample of Mellin's

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There are many white soaps, each represented to be just as good as the Ivory; they are not, but like all imitations, they lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities of the genuine. A s k for Ivory Soap and insist upon getting it.

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Walter'Baker & Co.

Limited

E s t a b l i s h e d 1780.

DORCHESTER

MASS.

Wool Soap Is t h e s o a p f o r t h e e v e r y day soap tray. than

I t is c h e a p e r

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Hall's Vegetable Sicilian

Hair Jxcnewcr always restores color to gray hair, the dark, rich color it used to have. The hair gro\vs»rapidly, stops coming 6ut, and dandruff disappears. If your druggist cannot supply you, send $1.00 to K , P , H a l l & C o , N w b o * , JX. I L

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