Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1894 — Page 10

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•‘Ko,” Mid Mowfli in • whtaptr. for th« Mroft wm 't*iy niirnow B«loo h«d BnithM.

|qiw4i|M,m4, w Mityw* / Alt 4M i» VU kk«M IkBPpwod tom* t!m Ww« ll«Wi ««> out of th* woU BMk, aMT wImb B*1m «m tMebiatr him ««tsv of Hh* jvttsl*. l>is> wrlotM old Worn bo«r vas dotltlktod to bar* to qniok B Bapll, for Cho Toamit vbIom duly loan aa mutsh of tba lavs of tho Jonglo at applito to tbeir ava paok aad tribo. and ran avay u sAOB m tbay aao ropoat tbo haatiag totaat “Pbet that Bi»k« »• ooi<»; df** can sea in tbo dark; oars that can boar tho viads ia Iboir lairs, aad sbarp, whilo tooth; bU Ototo tbiagt aro tbo marks of oar bratboia, oioopt Tabaqal aad tho hyona, whom wo hato." Bat Mowgli, as a man cnb, had to loam a groat deal moro than this, boaoiiraes Baghoora would coma louaging tkroagb tbo Jaagio to ooo bosr hia pot was gotting on and would parr witk bis head against a treo whilo Mowgli roeltod tho day’s losson to Baloo. Tho boy eould rlimb almost as wall as ho ooald swim, and swim almost as woU aa ho oocld run; so Baloo, tho toaehor of tho law, tanght him the wood aad water laws, how to tell a rotten branoh from a sonod one, how to speak to tho wild bees when bo camo upon a hire of them bfty feet above ground, what to sajp to kfaag. tbo bat, when he distnrbod him in tho branchos dt mid-day, and how to warn tho watcr-snakos in the i^ools before he splashed down among them. None of the Joaglo people like being disturbed, and aU art rery ready to fly at an intruder. Then, too, MowgK was taught the strangers' hunting call, which has to be repeated aloud till it is answered every time one of the jangle people bonu outside his own grounds, it means, translaUd; ‘•Give mo leave to bant here, becauoe I am hungry," and the answer is: ‘‘Hunt, then, for food, but not for plcosnro." All this is to show yon how much Mowgli had to learn hr heart, and be grew very tired of saying the same thing over a hnndrod times, but, aa Baloo said to Baghsera one day when Mowgli had been beaten and run oil’ in a temper, *‘A man eub is a man cub, and he must learn all the law of the jungle." “But think now small ho is,” said the black panther, who would have spoiled Mowgli if he had had his own way. “How ean hia iittie head carry all thy long

talk?"

•‘Is there anything in the jungle too little to be killed? No, That is why I teach him these things, and that is why 1 hit him vem softly wKsn he forgets." “Softly! What dost thou know of softness, eld iron feet?" Bagheera grunted. “His face is all bmised to-day by thy—softness.

Ugh!"

“Better he should be bruised from head to foot by me wtio love him than that he should come to harm through ignorance," Baloo answered very earnestly. “I an now teaCbingbim the master words of the lungie that shiul protect him with the birds and the make peoph and all that hunt on four feet—except nis oWn pack. He can now claim protection, if he will only remember • the words, from all in the jungle. Is not

Miat worth a little beating?"

“Wall; look to it, then, that thou dost not -kill the man cub. He is no tree trunk to sharpen thy blunt claws upon. But what are those roaster words? 1 am more likely to give help than to ask it"—Bagheen stretched out one paw and admired the stesl-blns talons at tne and of it—“still, I

should like to know,"

“I will sail Mowgli and he shall say them—it he will. Come, little brother!" “My head Is ringing likeabce-hivc," said a snlleB little voica over their heads, and Mowgli slid down a tree trunk very angry and indiguani, adding, as hs reached the ground: “1 came to Bagheera and not to

thee, fat old Baloo!"

“That is all one to me,” said Baloo. though he was hurt and grieved. “Tell Bagheera, then, the master words of the jle that I have taught thee to-day." laaler words for which people?" said Mowgli, delighted to show ofl'. “The jndgle has many tongntA I know them "A little thou kuowest, but not much. See, O, Bigheera, they never thank their teacher. Not a wolf has come* back to thank old Baloo for bis teaobinn. Bay the word for the bunting peoplea, then, great

scholar.’*

“We be all of one blood—ve and 1,” said Mowgli, giving the words toe bear eooent which all the hunting classes nee.

“Good! Now for the birdaii

Mow^ repeated, with the kite’s whistls

•t tbs end of tbs sentence.

“Now for the snaks people," said Bag-

keera.

The answer was a perfectly indescribable hiu, and Mowgli kicked up his feet behind, nlapped his hands together to applaud himeelf, and jumped onto Bagheera'a back, wbarebe sat, sideways, drumming with his heela on the glossy skin, and making the wont faces he could thiuk of at Baloo. “There—there. That was worth a Ifttla hniiee,” sold the brown bear tenderly. “Some day thou wilt remember me.” Then he turned aside to tell Bagheera how he had begged the matter words from Hathi, tha wild elephant, who knows all about thoae things, and how llathi had taken Mowgli down to a pool to get the snake word from a watenmake, because Baloo could not pronounce it, and bow Mowgli waa now reasonably safe against accidents In tha jangle, because, neither anMrs, bird,

Bor beaat would hurt him.

“No one then is to be feared,” he wound BP, patting hia big furry Stomach with

pride.

“Except bisewa tribe,” sMd Bagheera, Bnder hia breath. “Have a care for my riba, little brother! What ia all thu daao-

iag up and down?”

Mowgli bad been trying to make himself hoard bv nulling at Bagheera'a ahouldar fur and kieking hard. When tha taro littoned to hiiq he was shouting at the top of bla voice: “And to 1 shall have a tribe of Biy own and lead them through the branelfea

all dav long.’’

“What IS this new follyf little dreamer af

4reeme,” said Bagheera.

-“Y«a and throw branches and dirt at eld Baloo,” said Mowgli. “They have promised

me thiA ah!”

“Wkoof!" Baloo’a big paw scooped Mowgli off Baghesra’s back, and. aa ths hoy lay betwsan the big iorepawA aa eo«ld

see Balee waa angry.

“Mowgli,” said Baloo, “thou hast been talking with the baadar-log, the monkey

, people.”

Mowgli leoked at Bagfaeesa to eee if the

panther was angry, too, amd Baghsera's

, eyas wore aa bara as jade stonea “Thou hast bgaB with the monkey people

—the gray ape-i^the people withont a law— the eaters of evmrytning. That is a great

ahame.”

“When Baloo hart my hoad,” said Mowgli (ho was sUU on bis back), “I woat awiv, aad ths gray apse earns down from the trots and had pity oa mA Nooao.slso aarsd.” He sauiSed a little. “The pity of tho ' monkey people!” Baloo snorted. “The itillnees of tho monatsin brook! The tool of tho summer san! And then, moo oahf” “And then, and then, they gave mo note aad pleanant things to eat. and they—they carried mo la their arms ap to the top oti tha trosA aad said X was ihoir blood brothsr Bad shoald hs tbeir leader, eeme dey.” “They have no loader,” said Ba^keaia. “They BA They have always lied.” “They wore very kind, and bade me eeme again. Why have I never been taken ameag ttoi meakey people? They stand on their seat, as I do. Th*f do not hit me with hardpffBt. Tbgy nlayali day. Let me get ■p! Bad Balata lai Aa «pl 1 srill play with thma APia^. . . 1 the bcar.aad his ct tkmader en a hot aigfat

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SSm aa lav. They aio oatoastA They have lafsk ol thatr eva, bat ase the words , aoaiheaf whea th^ listen or ereep i wait mp ahevo ia the iMmeeheA Tbeir aai oar way. They are witooat _ Tlmy have aorsmsmbrance. They laad thattor aad prataed that tb^ ve

ahoat to do great aflairs in

It tlM MUhm of a SMB tarns pto htokhttoH^aS is forfotton.

hsva aa deal lags with drtak ifhere the men-

fereot’ ,

“The jangle people put them out of their mouths ana out of their mind. They are very many, evil, dirty, shsmeleu, and they doeifo, if incy have any fixed desires, to be noticed by the jungle people. But we do not notice them even « hen they throw outs

and braschis on our liends,"

He had hardly spoken when a shower of nuts and twigs soattered down through the branches; and they eould hear coushings and howhnga and angry jumpings high up

in thenir uutnng the thin branches.

“The monkey people are forbidden.’’said Baloo. “forbidden to the junalo people.

Kenierobcr.’'

“Eorbiddeii?” said BagbeerA “but I still think Baloo should have warned thee." “1—I. How waa I to guess he would play with such dirt? Ths monkey people.

Faugh!"

A fresh shower came down on tbeir heads, and the two troyted away, taking Mowgli witii them. What Baloo had said about the monkeys was perfectly true. They belonged to the tree tops and aa beasts very soldom look np there was no occasion for the monkeys aad the jungle people to cross each other's path. But wheneve they found a sick woif or a wounded tiger or bear, the monkeys would torment him, and would tiirow Sticks and nuts at any beast for fun and in the hope of being noticed. Then they would howl and shriek senseless songs ana invite the jungle people to climb up their trees and fight them, or would start turious battles over nothing among tiieniselves aud leave the dead monkeys where the jungle people would tee them. They were always just going to have a leader and laws and customs of tbeir own, but they never did, because their memories would not hold over from day to day, and to they compromised things by making up or sayiui^: “What the bandar-log think now the lungle will think later," and tha comforted them a great deal. None of the ticaats could reach them, but, on the other hand, none of the beasts would notice them, aud that is w hy they were so pleased when Muwgii came to play %rith them and they

heard how angry Baloo was.

They never meant to do any more—the bandar-log never mean anything at aH—but one of tiiem bad what ijeenied to him a brilliant idea, and he told kll the others that Mowgli |rould be a useful person to keep in the tribe because be could weave BticKe together for protection from the wind; so if they caught him they could make him teach them. Of course Mowgli, as a wood-cutter’s child, inherited all sorts of instincts aud used to make little huts of fallen branches without thinking how he came to do it, and the monkey people watching in the trees considered his play most wonderful. This time, ttiey said, they were really going to have a leader and become the wisest people in the jungle—so wise that every one else would notice and envy them. 'J herefore they followed Baloo and Bagheera and Mowgli through the jungle very quietly till it wa.<« time for the midday nap, and Mowgli, who was very much ashamed of liirascdf, slept between the panther and the bear, resolving to have DO more to do with the monkey people. The ne.\t thing he remembered was feeling hands on his legs and arms—bard, strong, little hands—and then a swash of branches in his face, and then he was staring down through the swaying boughs aa Baloo woke the jungle with his deep cries and Bagheera bounded up tbe trunk with every tooth bared. Then there broke out the most awful clamor the jungle ever hcanl. The bandar-log howled with triumph and bounded away to the upper braiiciies, where Bagheera d ired not follow, shoutieg: “He has noticed us! Bagheera has noticed as. All the juuglc people admire us tor our skill and our cupning." Then they began tiicir flight; and the flight of the monkey people thiough treo-land is one of the thiugs nobody can d^cnbA They have their regular roods ana crossroads up hill.s and down hiUs, all laid out at from fitty to veiny, or a hundred feet abote ground, and by these they can travel even in tin nigh: if necessaKy. 'Fwo of the strong“st nioakcys caught Mowgli under tlie arms and sw ung oil w.th him through tHe tree tops, twenty feet at a bound, liad they been alone they could have gone twice as fast. bat the boy’s weight iield them back, i^ick and giddy us Mowgli w.is, he could not help enjoying the wild rush, though the glimpses ot earth far uow n below frightened him. and the terrible check and jerk at the end of the swing over nolhing but empty air hr’iiiglit his henrt between his teeth. His escort wmiid rush him np a tree tiil he felt the thinnest tu(>niost branelies crackle uiid bend under ibciu, and then with a cough and a whoop would lling themselves into 'the air outward and downward, and bring up hanging by tbeir hands or feet to the Jinilm ot tliem xt tree. Sometimes he could tee for miles and iu;l»i over the still gretai jungle, as n man on the top of a mast can see lor miles across' tlie aea, and then the brauches and leaves would lash him across the face, and he and his two guards would be almost dowu on the earth again. 8o, bounding, and crashing, and whooping,find yelling, the whole tribe of bandanlog swept along tlie tree roads, with MowgB their

nrisoner.

For som" time he was afraid of being dropped. Then he grew angry, but knew better than to strugg'c. and men he began to thiuk. The first thing was to send baOk word to BaJoo and Bagheera, for, at the

toVrVI BV AABUIW AAMI^SlVrV AAt. iVl , €*%> tllC puce the monkeys were going, he kqew Ins tnends must be left far oehind. It was no use to look down, for he could onjy see the upper sidet of the branches, so he stared upward aud saw, far away in tho blue, Ilann the Kite, balancing and wbeelingos he kept watch over the woods waiting for things to die, Kann saw the monkeys were carrying something and dropped a few hundred yards to find out whether their load was good to cat. He whisked wiiti surprise when he saw Mowgli being dragged up to n a treetop and heard him give the Kite call for "We be of one blood, thou and 1." The waves of the treetops closed over the boy, Kann balanced away totiie next tree in time to see the little brown face Come up atrain. "Mark iny trail'" Mowgli shouted. “Tell Baloo of the Seeonea Pai^ and Bagheera of

the coancii rock."

“In whose name, brother?” Rann had never seen Mowgli before, though, of course,

he had hctod of him.

“Mowgli, the frog. Mtu-cub, they call

me! Mark «F trail!”

The last words were shrieked at he was being swung thron|h the air, but Rann noUikd and rose up tifl he looked no bigger than a speck of dust, aiH there he hung, watehing with his teieeeope eyes the swaying of the treetops as Mowgli’t escort

whirled along.

“They never go far,” he said, with a ebiiekle. “They neter do what they set out to dm Always pecking at new things are the bandar-log. This time, if I have any eyesight, they have pecked down troohle for

themselves.”

So he rocked on his wingA hia feat gath-

ered up under him. and waited.

Meantime, Baloo and Bagheera were furious with race and grief. Bagheera elimhad as be baa never climbed before, hut the thin branchea broke under his weight, and fac aiippad down with hit claws

full of bark.

“Whydidst thou not warn thaman-cub?” he roared to poor Baloo, who had set oll'ata clumsy trot in the hope of overtaking the moukeys. “What was the use of halfslaying him with blows if thou didst not

warn him?”

“Haste! Oh, haste! We—wa may catch

them yet,” Baloo panted.

“At that speed! It would not tire a wounded cow. Teaclier of the law—cubbeater—a mile ot that rolling to and fro would burst thee open. Sit istil! and think —make a ^lau. This is no tiibe for chasing. They may drop him if wa follow too

close.”

“Arrnla? Wboo! They may have dropped him already, being tired of carrying him. Who can trust the basder-le^ Put dead bats on tuy bead! Give ate bla» bones to eat! Roll me into tbe hives of the wild bMS that I may be sUmg to death, and bury me with tbe byeuA fo?]i the most miserable of bears! Arulala! Wabooa! Oh Mowgli, Mowgli! Why did I not warn thee of the monkey folk instead of breaking thy bead? Now perbapo I may haw knockei the day’s Icteon o«t of bis mind, and be will be uone in the jungle without the maefer words." Baloo elasped his pawa over his ears aad rolled to and fro moaning. “A: leaei he gave me the irords correctly a little time ego," said Bagheera, impatiently. “Baleo, tboB lias •mther memory nor self-resnect. What would tbe Juogle think if I, tbe black panther, curled myself np like Ikki, tbe poronpine, and howled?" ” Wbat de I care wfent «h# jsagki Airnkst H« mar ho dohd jtow.*

“Haleee mid natil they drop him tnm tho brmni^es ia eport, or kill bun oat of idlenees, | bare no fear for tbe man eub. Be is wise Mid well taught, and, above all, be baa the eyes that make the jangle people afraid. But (aud it is a great evil) he is in the power of the bandar-log, and they, because they live ia treeA iiave no fear of any of our aeopie." Bagheera licked his paw tbought-

faily.

“Fool that I am! Ob, fat. brown rootdigging fool that 1 am” said Baloo, uncoiling himself with a jerk. “It is truO what Mathi, the wild elephant, says: 'To each his own fear, aud they, tbe baudar-log, lear Kaa,lfae rock snake. He can cimib as well as they can. He steals the young monkeys in the night. The whisper of his name makes their tails cold. Let ns go to Kaa'.' "What will he do for ut? He is not of our tribe, being footless—with most evil eyes,”

said Bagheera.

•‘He is very old and very wise. Above all, be IS always hungry," said Baloo, hope-

inlly. “Promise him goats."

“Me sleeps for a lull month after he has ODcg^'eaten. He may be asleep now, and even were he awake wbat if he would rather kill his own goats?” BagheerA who did not know utoch about Koa was naturally

auspicious.

"Then in that case, thou and I together, old hunter, might make him tee reason." Here Baloo rubbed bis faded brown shoulder against the panther, and they went ofl to look for Kaa, the rock-python. They found him stretched out on a warm ledge in tbe afternoon sun admiring his beautiful new cost, for he had been in retirement for tbe last ten days changing his ekin, and now he waa verv splendid, darting his big, bhint-uosed head along the ground and twisting the tfairt.v feet of his body into fantastic knots aud curves and licking hia lips aa he thought of his dinner

to come.

“He has not eaten," said Baloo, with a '

grunt of relief, as soon as he saw the <

beautifully-mottled brown aud yellow

jacket, “lie careful, BaalieerA He is al- ,

ways a little blind he bas changed Lis skin, and very quick to strike." Kaa was not a poison snake; in fact, he , rather deioised -the poisou suake as cowards, but his strength lay in bis hug, and

when he had once lapped his huge coils '

round anybody there wm do more to be

said. I

“Good hunting," cried Baloo, sitting op on his haunches. Like all snakes of hu breed, Kaa was deal aud did not hear the call at nrst. Then he curied up, ready for

any accident, bis head lowered. *

“(rood hunting for us all.” he answered. |

“Oh<f, Baloo, what dost thou do here? '

Good hunting, Bagheera. One ot us, at

least, needs lood. Is there any news of ^ game aloot'? A doe, now, or even a young I buck? i am very hungry." {

“We are hunting," said Baloo. “He .

knew that yoli mu'.! not hurry, Kaa. He is ! loo big.” i

“Give me permission to come with you,” >

said Kaa. “A blow more or less is nothing ‘

to thee, Bagheera, or Baloo and 1. 1 have

to wait and wait for days in a w’ood {>utli | and climb half a night on the mere chance i of a young irpc. Bah! The branchea are! not what they were when I was young, i liotton twigs and dry boughs are they all’’ i

“Maybe tliy great weight bas something ,

to do with the matter.” said Baloo. |

“I am a fair length, a fair length,” said ^

Kaa, with a little pride; “but for all that it . IS the fault of this new-grown timber. I \

came very near to falling on my last hunt-

very near, indeed—and tho noise of my j

slipping, for iny tail was not tight wrappi d

round the tree, waked tbe bandar-log and i they called me most evil names.” 1

“Footless, yellow earthworm," said Bag- j hecra, uiiden his whiskers, os tliough he

were trying to remember something. !

“Sssss! Have they ever called me that?” j

■aid Kaa.

' “Something of that kind it was that they I shouted to us last moon, but we never p noticed them. They will say .everything. . I even that thou has lost all thy teeta aud ' dare not face anything bigger than a kid, ' because (they are, indeed, shnmeless. tliese , bandar-log)—because thou art afraid of the , he goats’ horns,” Bagheera went on, sweetly. I Now, a snake, especiallly f waro old ' python like Kaa. very seldom showS that he is angry, but Baloo and Biicheera^uld see tbe big, swallowing muscles on cither side of Kaa's throat ripple aud buigA*. “The bandar-log have shifted rtheir ( grounds," he said, quietly, “When I^came , into the sun to-day I heard them hoping '

among the treetops.

“It—it is the bandar-log that we follow now," said Baioo, but the words stock in j his throat, for that was the first time in Uis memory that one of the jangle people had . owned to be interested in* the doings of the i

monkeys.

“Beyond doubt, then, it is no small thing that takes two such hunters—leaders in ' tbeir own jungle I am certain—on the trail of ilie baudar-log,” Kaa eiiid, courteously. “Indeed." Baloo began," I am no more * than the old and sometimes very foolish ' teaeber of the law to thb 8««ouee wolf | cubs, and Bagheera hjre". ; “Is Bagheera,” said the panther, and his I jawa siiut with a snap, for he did not be- I lieve in being humble. “The trouble is tills, Kaa. Thoae nut-«tealers and pickers ! of palm-leaves have stolen away our man j uub, ol whom thou hast |>erhaps heard." i "1 heard some news fron Ikki (his quills j make him presumptuous) of a man thing that was entered into a wolf pack, but I did not believe. Ikki is full of aioriea half I heard and very badly told. ! “But K 18 true. He is sucli a man cub as | never was." said Baloo. “The best and j wisest and boldest of man cubs—my own pupil, who shall make the name of Baloo fiamous tiirougb all tiie iungles, and besides, 1—we—love him, Koa’’ “Sb! Ts!" said Kaa, shaking his head to and fro. “1 also have know u^hat love is. There are tales that J could tell that—" “That need a clear night when we are all well fed to praise properly,” said Bagheera quickly. “Our man cub is in the bands of the bandar-log now, and we know that of all the jungle people they fear Kaa aioae.” “They fear me alone. They have good reason." said KaA “Chattering, foolish vain— vain, foolish and chattering are the monkeys, hut a man tiling in their huads iatn no good luck. They gr<*w tired of the nuts they pick and throw them dowm They carry a branch half a day, meaning to ao great things, and then they soap it m two. That man thing is not to hs envied. They oalled me yellow fish, was it aot!”’ "Worm—wofm—earth worm." said Bagheerm “As well as otbsr thtags which 1 ean not say for shame." “We must remind them to speak well of their master. Ah I we nast help their waaderiiig memorieA Now, whither went they with the cub?" “The jangle aioae knowA Toward the sunset, 1 hehtve," said Bhloo. “We had thought tiiat thou wouldat know, Koa" “1? How? 1 take them when they come ia tuy way, but 1 do not hhnt ths bandarlog, or frogA Of fnusa mata on a waterfame, for that Matter. Hais!" “Upl up! ap! upl flilio! Hlo! Ilio' Look up! Baloo of the Seeone* wolf-pack." Baloo looked up to see where the voire came front, and there was Rann, the kite, sweeping down with the sun shining on the upturned of his wiacA It was uear Kano’s bed-time, but he hud ranged all over the jungle looking for the bear, and missed him in tbe thick foliage. “What i« it?” said Baloo. “I have seen Mowgli with the bandarlog. He bid me tell you. X watched. The bandarlog have tMen him beyond tbe river, to tho monkey city, to the cold lairs. They may ttaj there lor « night, or ten nights, or an hour. I hove told the bats to watch through the dark tinie.< That is my message. Good hunting, ail you below!" “Fail gorge and a deep sleep to you, Kann," cried BagbeerA “I will remember thee at my next kill, and put aside the bead for thee alone, oh, best of kites!” “It H nothing. It is nothing. The boy held the'master word, 1 eould have done no lass," atid Rann 4^reled up again to his rocH. . • ,! ^ "lie hki notioigotten to ase Mm tongue,” ■a^'Baioo, with a chuckle of pride. To think of .one so yonng rgroembaring the tnagter fi'rd, for tpe birds, too, while he wsS^einlTpUlUd acrou treeA “It was most Jmiy driven into him,” ■aid Baohaeiw. “But 1 nm proud of him, and gow we must go to the old lairs.” Thty all knew where that plane was. but few of ther jnugle people ever went there, because what they cgBed the cold lairs was aa eld, deaarted eity, lost and buried in tbe jungle, and beasts eddoa um a place that men have onee used. The wild boar will, but the hunting tnbes do noL Besides, tbe monkeys lived there M ouch as they oould he said to, live anywherA and no selfrespecting animal would eouM within eyeshot of it exeept in tiasea of dronght, when tbe balf-iwiaM tonka and rwerveirs held a

It’a half a nlght’a ienroey, at fnli speed," said BagbeerA and Baloo looked seriouA “1 Will go as fast as I ean,” he ssud, aax* ionsly. "We derc net well for thsA Come aa swittly es thou ceust We must ge on the quirk foot. Kaa and I.” “Feet or no Jeet. I can keep abreast of ail thy lour,” said Kaa shortly. Bsioo made one etiort to hurry, but had to sit down f iauting, aud so they left him to e me on ater, while Bagheera hurried forward at the quick panther canter. Kaa said nothing, but strive as Bagheera might, the huge rock python held level with him. When they came to a hill stream Bagheera gained, because he bounded across while Kaa swam, fats head aud two feet of his neck clearing ths water, but oii rocky ground Kaa made up the distance. "By the bull that bought me.” said Bagheern when twilight had falleA “thou art no slow goer.” “1 am hungrv "said Koa “BesidcA they calied me specaled frog." “Worm—earthworm, and yellow as well.’’ “.All one. Let ns go on," and he seemed to pour himself along the ground, finding the shortest road with bis steady eyss and keeping to it. In the cold lairs the monkey people were not thinking of Mowgli's tnends at all. '1 hey had brought the boy to the Lost City, and were very pleased with themselves at the time. Mowgli had never seen an In- , dian city before, and though this was almost a lieap ot rums it seemed very woudertul sud splendid. Some king had built It long ago on a little hill. You could still trace tbe stone causeways that led up to ruined gates, where the last splinters of wood hung to the wnin.justed binges. Trees hud grown into aud out ot tbe walls; the battiemeuts were tumbled down and decayed, and wild creepers hung out of tbe windows of the towers on tb« walls m bushy banging clumpA A great»''ofless palace crowned the hill, and the marb.e of tbe courtyards and tbe louutains was split and staiued with red and green, and the very cobblettoces in the courtyard where the king’s elephants used to live had been thrust up and apart 'oy the grasses and young trees. FruM the palace you could see the rows aud rows of roofless houses that made up the city, looking like empty houeycomlis tilled with blackness; the stiapeless block of sPuie that had been an idol in the square wliere four roods met; the pits and dimples at street Corners where the pulilic wells once stood, and the shattered domes of temples with wild figs spioutiug on their sides. The monkeys called ihe place their city, and pretended to despise the jungle people because they lived in the forest .And yet they never knew what the buildings were made for and how to use them. They would sit in circles in the hail of the King’s council chamber aud scratch for fleas and pretend to be mefi; or they would run 111 and out of the roofless houses aud collect picctfc of plaster and old bricks in a corner, and lorget where they had hidden them, and fight and erv m shultling crouds, and then breaa oU to play up and down the terntces of the King’s garden. Tfiey would shake the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see tbe fruit and flowers fall. They expfored all (he passages and dark tunnels in the palace and the hundreds of little dark rooms, but tliey never remembered what they had seen and whut they hud not, and BO drifted about in ones and twos or crowds, telling each other that they were doing as men did. They drank at the tanks and made the water all muddy, and then they fought over it, and then they would all rush (ogethf r in mobs and shout: “There is no one in the jungle so w.se, and so good, and clever, and strong and gentle os the bandarlog ” Then ail would liegin again till they grew tired of the city mid went ; back to the treetops. hoping the jungle people would notice them. Mowgli, who had been trained under the ]a,w of the ,tingle, did not like or understand this kind o| life. The: nionucys dragged him into the city late in the after-, noon, and jn.stead of gouig to sleep, as Mowgli would liav-e done after a leng journey, they joined hands and danced kbuat and sang their toolish songs. One of the monkeys made a spieeh, ajid told his companions that Mowgli’s capture marked anew-thing in the history of the bandarlog, for Mowgli was going to show them bow to wenve sticks and canes together a* a protection against rain and cold. Mowgli picked up some creepers and began to vrork them in and out, and tiie monkeys tried to imitate, but in a very few minutes they lost interest, and I egan to pull their fnend.s’tails, or jump up and dovvn on all fours, coughing. ' “I want to cat,” said Mowgli. "I am a stranger in this {iart of the jungle. Bring me food or give me leave to hunt here.’’ Twenty or thirty monkevs bounded away to bring him nuts aud wild pnwpaws; but they fell to fighting on the roiid, aud it was too much trouble to go hack wiih what was left of their fruit. Mowgli was sore and angry, as well as hungry, and he roamed through the empty city, giving the stranger’s hunting call from time to time, but no one answered him, and Mowgli telt that he had reached a very bad place. “.All that Baloo has said about the bandarlog is true," he thought to himself. “They have no law. no hunting coll, and no leaders—nothing but foolish words aud little picking, thieving hands. I am a very bad mancub, and if I am statved or killed here it will be all uiy own fault. But I must try to return to myowu tuiiglc. Baloo will sorely beat me, but that is bettor than picking siily rose-leaves with the baudar-

log."

No sooner had he walked to the city wall than the monkeys pulled him back, telling him that lie did not know how happy he was and pinching hfm to make him grateful. He set his teeth and said nothing, but went with the shouting monkeys to a terrace ahovethe red sandstone reservoirs, that were always half full. There was a ruined biimmer-honse of white marble in the center of tbe terrace, bnilt for queens dead a hundred years ago. The domed roof had half fallen ia and blocked up the underground passage from the palace bv which the queens nseri to enter, but the walls were made of screens of marble tracery-beauti-ful milk-white fretwork set with agates and cornelians and jasper and lapis laxuli, and as the moon easne np behind the hill it shone through the open work, casting sKndowB on the ground like black velvet embroidery. Sore, sleepy and honj^ us he was, Mowgli coaid no* help laughing wheo the bandarlog began, twenty at a time, to tell him how great aad wise and strong and gentle they were, aad bow foolish he was to wish to leave them. "We are great. We are free. We ^ wonderful. We are the most wonderful people in the world. We all say so, and so it mnst be true," they shouted- “Now, as you are a new iistefier, and can carrv our words back to the jungle peoplA to that they may notice us in the tuUire, we will tell you all about our excellent selves." Mowgli made no objection, and the monkeys gathered hy hundreds and hundreds on tbe terrace to listen to their own speakers singing the praises of the bandarlog, and whenever a speaker stopped for want of breath they vvoolu all shout together: “This 18 true; we ail say «».” Mowgli nodded and blinked, and said yes, when they asked him a question, and his head spun with the noise. “Tahaqui must have bitten ail these psoplA” he aatd to hiniaelf, “and DOW they have tbe madnesA Certainly, thia is dewauee, tbe uiaduesA Do they never go to sleep? Now there Is a cloud coming to cover that moon. If it were only a big enough cloud, 1 might try to roll away in the darkness. I am tired." That same dloud was being watched by two good friends in the mined ditch, for Bagheera, and Kaa. knowing well how dangerous the monkey people were in large numbers, did not wish to mn any risks. The monkeys never fight unless they are a hundred to one. aad no one in tbe jungla cares for those odds. “1 will go to ths west wall," Kaa whispered, “and come dywii swiftly, with the slope of the ground in my favor. They will nut throw themselves npop my back in their hundreds, but ” "I know ia" said Baf(lvpe''<k "Would thatHaloo were here, bnt we must do what wfi san. When tbe cloud covers the moon i riMfil go to th« terrace. They hold some sefft-of conn ril thore over the boy.” ^(lood hunting,” said grimly, and gliMd away to the west vail. Thatbapnbdid to be the least mined pf at^, and the oil^nake was delayed for some timo before he eould find a way np the stoneA Tbs cloud hid tbe moon, and m MevgU wondered vhat would cons nexA he beard Bagheera’a light feet on the terrace. The black panther bad raeed np the slops vithont a sound, and was stiikiuf—he knew better than to waste time in hitinf—right and left among the monksvA who were eeatod around Mowgli in circles fifty and ■txly deep. There vaa t howl«(frightend

raire, tad then, m Bigbeen tripped on the

b^ee

rolling, kieking

ed:

beneath him, monkey shonter

“There la only one here! Kill him. kHL” A A-ufSing mass of moneyA oiting, scratching, tearing and palling, closed over Bagheera, while five or six laid hold of Mowgli, dragged him up the wail of the summer house and pushed him through the hole and the broken dome. A man-trainod bov would have been badly bruised, fur tbe fail was a good fifteen feet, hut Mowgli fell as Baloo had taught him to fall and landed

ua h» teet.

“htay there," shouted the monkeys, “till we have killed thy friends, and later we will play with tbee if the poison people leave thee alive.” “We be of one blood, thou and I,” said Mowgli quickly, giving tbe snake’s call. He could hear the rustling and hissing in the rubbish all around him,tend gave the call a second time. “Even s-s-i-o!" said a half dozen low voices. (Every old ruin in India becomes sooner or later a dwelling place of snakes.) “Stand still, little brother, for thy feet may

do us harm."

Mowgli stood as quietly as he could, peering through the open work and listening to tbe furious dm of tbe fight round tbe black panther—the yeils ana chatterings and scafliiogs, and Bagbeera’s ..deep, hoarse cough as he backed and bucked, and twisted and pluneed under the heaps of h» enemieA For the first time since he was born Bagheera was fighting for his lifA “Baloo must be at band. He could not have come alone," Mowgli thought and then he called aloud: "To the tank. Bagheeru. Koll to the water tanka Roll and plunge. Get to the water.” Bagheera beard and tbe cry that told him Mowgli was sate gave him new courage. He worked his way desperately jnch by inch straight for the reservoirs, hitting in silenee. Then from the ruined wall nearest the’jUDgle rose up the echoing war-shout of Baloo. The old Mar had done Ins best, but he could not come before. ‘‘BagbeerA" ha shouted, "1 am here. 1 climb! 1 haste! Aiiuisura. The stones slip under my feet! Wait uiy coming, O most infamous bandarlog!" He panted up the terrace only to disappear to the head in a wave of monkeys. Wt he threw himself squarely on his haunches, aud spreading out his paws hugged as many as he could hold, and then hegaii to hit with a regular bat—bat—bat— like the flapping strokes of a paddle wheel. A crash and a stdash told Mougli that Bagheera had fought bis any to the tank where the monkeys could not follow. The panther lay gasping lor breath, his head just out ol water, a hile the monkevs stood three deep on the led steps, dancingup and down aiili rage rei;dy to spring upon liini from all sides if he came out to help Baloo. It was then tliat he lifted up his dripping chill and in despair gave the snake’s cafl lor protection—“\N« be of one blood, thou and 1"—for he believed that Kaa had turned tail at the last minute. Even Balo<i. half smothered under the 'oaiidarlog on the edge of the teriaee could not help ehuek1 itg as he liearU the black panther asking

for help.

Kaa nad only just worked his way over the west wall, landing with a wrench that dislodgetl a caving stone into the aitch. He had no intention of losing any advantage of the ground, and coiled and uncoiled himself once or tw ice to be sure that every foot ol his long 'oody wo.'s in working order; and all that timt the fight with Baloo went on, and the monkeys yelled in the tank round Bagheera: and Mang. the bat, Hying to and too, carried the news ol the great battie over the jungle tiJJ even Hntiii. the wud eleiihaiit, trumpeted, aud tar away scattered liHuds ot the monkey folk woke aud came leaping along the troe roads to help their coiiiiuaes in the cojd lairs, and the noise of the figlii woke nil the day birds for iiiiSes around. 'Ihen Kaa cuiwe—suaight, quickly, and au.vious to kill. The fighting strength ofapytipm is in the driving blow ot his head, bucked by all the strength and weight of his body. 1! you can imagine a lance or a battenng-rani, or a hammer weighing half a ton driven by a cool, quiet mind that .lives in tlie handle of it, you can rougtily imagine what Kao was like when he fought. A python four or five feet long can knock a man down if he bits him fairly in the chest, and Kaa wfis tliirty feet long, as you know His first stroke was delivered into the heart ol the crowd round Baloo—was sent home with shut mimtli. in silence, and there was no need of a second. The moukeys senttered with cries of “Kaa! It is Kaa! Kun! Kun!" Generations of bandar-log hod been scared into good behavior by tbe stones their elders told them of Kaa, the night thief, who could slip along the branches os quietly as mua^ grows, aud steal away the strongest monkey that ever lived; of old Kaa, who could make himself look so like a dead branch or a rotten stump that the wisest were deceive!, and then Kaa was eveiythiBg that the monkeys feared in tlie jungle, for none of them knew tbe Jiniits of his power, none of them eould look him in the face, and none had ever come alive out ot his hug. And so they ran on, stammering with terror t<» the walls and tbe roots of the houses, and Baioo drew a deep breuta ot relief. His fur was much thicker thau Bagheera’s, but he had suflered sorely in the fight. Then Kaa opened his mouth for the first time and spoke one long. Iiissing word, and the far-away monkeys hurrying to the delense of tlie Cold Lairs stayeii where thev were, cowering till the loaded blanches bent and crackled under them. Th^' monkeys on the walls unit the empty houses stopped their cries, and in tlie stillness that fell upon the city, Mowgli heard Baglieera shaking his wet sides as became up ironi tiie tank. Then the clamor broke out again. The monkeys leaped higher up the walls, they clung round the necks of the big stone idols, and they shrieked as they skipped along the battlements while Mowgli, dancing >n the suaimcr-house, put his eye to the screen work and hooted between bis front teeth, owl-fashion, to show his derision and contempt “Get the man cub out of that trap. I can do no more,” Bagheera gasped. “Let us take the man cob and go. Ihey may attack again." ‘•They will not move till I order them. Stay you, s-s-s-s-o!” Kaa hissed, and the city was silent once more. “I could not come before, brother.but I think I heard the call.” This was to Bagheera. “I—I may have cried out in tbe battle,” Bagheera answered. •'Baloo, art thou

hurt?"

“1 am not sure that they did nut puli me into a hundred little bearlings," said Baloo, gravelv, shaking one leg after the other. “Wow! I am sore. Kua we owe thee, I think, our jives. Bagheera and 1." “No matter, where is tbe maiiling?" •'Herein a tr^; I can not climb oua” cried Mowgli. The curve of the broken

dome was above his head.

•‘Take him away, lie dances like Mao. He will crush our young," said the snakes

inside.

“Hah!” said KaA with a chuckle. “He baa friends everywhere, this manling. Stand back, mauling, and hide you, O poison people. 1 brei^ down the wall.* Kaa looked carefully till he found a discolored crack in the narble tracery showing a weak spot, made two or three light taps with his head to get the distance, and then lifting up six feet of' his body clear of the ground, sent in half a dozen full-power smashing blows, nose first Tbe screen work broke and fell away In a cloud of dust and rubbish, aad Mowgli leaped throu^ the opening and Sung himself between Baloo aud Bagheera—on arm round each big neck. “Art thou hurt?" said Baloo, hugging him

softly.

“I am sore, hungry aad aot a little bruised, buA 0, they have handled ye grievously, my brotherA Ye bleed." "Others, also," said BaeheerA licking hit lips and looking at the moukeys—dead on the terrace and round ths tank. "It is nothing. It is nothing if thon art safe. Oh my pride of all little frogs!" whim-

pered Baloo.

“Of that we shall judge later," said Bagheera in a dry voice that Mowgli did

not at all like.

“Bat there is KaA to whom we owe the battle and thou owest thy life. Thank him according to our customA Mowgli." Mowgli turned and saw the jpwat python’s head swaying a foot above his own. “So this is the manling," said KaA “Yery ■oft is his skin, and he it not unlike the bandar-lo)?. Have a care, mauling, that 1 do not mistake thee for a monkey some twilight when I have newly changed my

coat*’

“We be one blood, thon and I," Mowgli answered. “I take my life from thee tonighA My kill shall be thy kill if ever thou art hungry, O KaA*’ “All thanks little brother," eaid Kaa,* though his eyee twinkled. “And whst may •o bold a hunter kill? I ask that i may follow when next thou goest abroad.” “I kill oothing. I am toe little, bat 1

drive goat* teverd eosh ae eao see them. When thou art empty come to me ahd see if I speak tbe truth. I have some skill in ay hudA and if gver then art ia a trav I may pay the debt.whicb 1 owe to tfiee, to BagbeerA and to Baloo. Good hunliug to ye ail, my maaters." "Welt said,” growled Baloo, for Moo^i had returned tlianks verv prettily. The python dropped iU head lightly for a minute on Mowgli's shoulder. ‘‘A brave heart and a courteous tongne,” said be. “They ■hall carry thee far through tbe jungie, manling. But now go henCe quickly with thy friends. Go and sleep, for the moon ■CIS, and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst watch." The moon was sinking behind the hillA and the lines of trambhug monkeys huddled together on the walls and battiementa looked like ragged, shaky fringes of thingA Baloo went down to the tank for a drink and Bagheera began to put his fur in order, as Kaa gilded out into the center of ihe terrace and Drought his jaws together with a ringing snap that drew ail the monkeys’ eyes opon him. “The moon setA” he said. “Is thers yst light enough to see?” ^- From the walls came a moan like the wind in the tree tope: “We see, O Kaa.” “Good. Begins now the dance—tbe dance of the hunger of KaA Sit still and watch.” He turned twice or thrice in a big circle, weaviug his head from right to left Then he oegan makiDg loops and figures of eight with his body-^nd soft, cosy triangles that melted into squares and fivesided figures, and coiled mouuds, never resting, never hurVytng, and never stopping a low humming seng. It grew darker and darker, till at last the dragging, shifting coils disappeared, but they could hear the rustle of the scales. Baloo and Bagheera stood still as stone, growling in their throats, their neck hafr bristling, and Mowgli watched and wondered. “Bandar-log," eaid the voice of Kaa at last, “can ye stir foot or hand without any order? Speak!” “Without thy ogder we can not stir foot or hand, O Kaa.’.’ “Good! Come ail one pace nearer to me." , ' 'The lines of the monkeys strayed forward helplessly, and Baiou and Bagheera took one stiti step forward with them. “Nearer,’’ hissed Kaa, and they all moved again. Mowgli laid his hands on Baloo and Bagheera to get them away, and the two great animals sUiried us though they had been waxed fron] a dream. “Keep thy hand on my thoulder," Bagbeera whispered. “Keep it there or I must go back- mfist go back to Kaa-Aaah.” “Bah! It is only old Koa mhking circles on the dust," said Mowgli; “let us go,” and the three slipped off through a gap la the walls to the jungle. “WhoofJ" said Baloo when he stood under tlie still trees agaiu. "Never more will 1 make an ally of KaA” end be shook himself all over. “He knows more than me," said Ragheera, trembling. “In a little tune, had 1 stayed, 1 shoald have walked down his throat.” “Many will walk by that road Before the moon rises again," said Baioo. “He will have good huntiaK“"»ff«*’ own fashion." “But what was the meaning of it all?” s.'iid Mowgli, who did not know anything of a python’s powers of fasciuation. “I saw no more than a big tnoke making foolish circles till the <iark came. And his nose was all sore. Ho! Ho!" "Mowgli," said Bagheera angrily, “his nose was sore on thy account, as my ears, aud sides, aud paws, aud lialoo’s neck and slioulders are bitP n on thy account. Netiier Baioo nor Bagheera will lie able to hunt with pleasure for many days." “It is iiotlihig," said Baloo; ‘‘we have the lURii-cuh ugaifi." “True, but he has cost us heavily in time, which might have been spent lu good hunting, 111 WOU' ds, la hair—I am hqll plucked along my back—and last o! all, in honor. For renienilier. Mowgli, 1 who am the black panther was forced to call u^n Kaa for protection, and Baloo and 1 were both made stupid as little birds by the hunger dance. All this, man-ciib, came of thy playing with tbe bandarlog in tbe first place." “True. It ia true,” said Mowgli sorrowfully. “I am an evil mau-cub, and my stomach IS sad ip me.” "Mf! What says the law of the jungle, Baloo?" Baloo did not wish to bring Mowgli into any more trouble, but be could not tamper with the law, so he mumbled: "Sorrow never stays punishment: but remember, be is very httie." “I will remember, bnt he has done mischief, and blows must be dealt now. Mowgli, bast thou anything to say?’* “Nothing. 1 did wrong, Baloo, and thou art wounded. It is just." Bagheera gave him half a dozen love taps, from ft panther's point of view (they would hardly have waked one of his own childten, but for s seven-year-old boy tliey amounted to as severe a beating os you could wish to avoid). When it was all over, Mowgli sneezed and picked himself up without a word. ••Now.” said BagbeerA "jump on my back, little brother and wa will go home." One of tbe beauties of jungie law ia that piinbhment settles all scores. There it no nagging afterward. Mowgli laid his hand dowu or Bagheera’s back and slept so deeply that he never waked when he was put down by Mother Wolf's side iu the home cave.

SOME WOMEN AS POTTERS.

XXPKRIBIICK AMD OriKIOKfi A PRACTICAL WOKREK.

OW

Orlarlnal DaaiKoa Arw Muoli •ouchk Altor And Brine Good Prfeoo— 1 he Heat War To Befttin—The Rookwood %Taire.

“You want to kuow what chanees thsra are for women (b pottery work? 1 suppoM yon mean in tbe meebanical portion, for, of course, already they'are largely employed in tbe «rt decoration,” Mid Mia Bellamy Storer, of CinoinnatL That wm precisely wbat was wanted, and eepcolally what undeveloped opportunltiM there are for women in that VuiiueeA MrA Bellamy Storer ia a practical potter, I and ia widely known ae tbe founder of the j Rookwood pottery workA m which she j eontributod tiionsands of dollars during tbe yeare while U wm being established on I a firm basis. She had long been interected in decorative chinA and, with a number of Cincinnati women, had been working at it ia a regular pottery, just M artiste go to a large etelier

PSltttONAL. PaRAGUAPHS.

Ex-Senator EdmundA it is the estimate of well-informed persons, derives from his Supreme t^ourt practice an income that equals the salary of the President. Henry Oust, M. B., the editor of Waldorf Aster’s Pall Mall Gazette, is a great society man and counted as one of the most promising young men in the House of Commons. Lord Rosebery at school was so girlish that he was mrknanied “Miss Primrose,” but former schoolmates do not venture to address him now as they then did, “Miss

Prim.”

President Diaz, of Mexico, is low of stature, has a small head, retreating forehead, short, crispshair, high cheek bones and sallow face, ills manner, however, is facination itself. -t The Kussian EmperoFs habit of hunting by moonlight, or at daybreak, is said to have a very simple causa, which is well known in Russia. The Czgr gaffers from iusoraniA^od invites sleep by exercise in tbe ebase. Even so prominent and well-informed a man as Mr. Balfour, Conservative leader of tfic British House of Commons, recently stated that American Cabinet otboers are allowed to speak m either House of Con-

gresA

Henry Scanlan, of Carrollton Pa, bas just been elected to the office of justice of the peace for the tenth time. He is seventyeight years of age, and at the expiration of the present term he will have served fifty years as justice. Arthur Behm, who started in September, 1892, to walk from Buenos Ayres to Chi0^0, bas turned np in Panama in good physical condition, having been detained only in Ecuador, where he was obliged to lay oflf for a few days on account of an attack of

fever.

Belva Loekwood oresentod herself last week before the Circuit Court in Richmond, Ya., to qualify for practice, but the judge denied the application, on the grouna that ail precedent was contrary to the admission of women to practice in Virginia courts. Some of the moneyed operators in Wall street, who are able to sign their names for millions, don’t spend more than a dime for

their noonday lunch.

TMiMii, I know Mg wmrnt vkg hu made a good ftbiag to A# way I aaa gpMk ing of. ■VatinMI AKUTT mMmtAET. “Eve* If a woman ana maka aavolMas slit's got to find iHirchaNrs, alid artistta taloata are soldoni toapltd with a bright eya for bosinesA I remember one woman* however, who worked in tbs pottery where wifdid before Rookwood wm sMrted. Hat idcM of decoration wore novel, and although tbe did not have to work from na> eetsity, she aold about aevea hundred dollars worth of bar work every yoar. 8ha ouiy stent two days weekly at it, so it ana be seen what a talaotod woman who had the spur of necessit.v might earn.” Jlr. Storer u a member of CoogrcM. Ia WMbington tbe houM on Rhode Island avenue. opposite the boms of General Sherv dsn's widow, hss beea rsmodeled for tho BtorerA On the seoond floor is a studio, where Mrs btorer continues bar work and experiments in seareh of new procesMS and efl’ects. On this account vUitora aro rarely admitted to the studio. Thvrs is a gallery ip an upper corner (or the oil paiob> ing. and on tbe main floor arsarrangesgata for casting, and a kiln for firing small pieocA When she is In WMhingtoa MrA btorer goes to Baltiaors to a pottory (or hitter facilities (or work on large tbingA Every summer she apeuds some time is Europe hunting for new tdeaA or for any-..> thing that will suggest a new dteoraUon or mold. Bnt the Storer home Is by someansglyen up to pottery. Tbo interior luw beea ar*

EXAMPLiKS OF MRS. BTORER'g RARLT WORK.

for special facilities, when she had the chance to start the Rookwood works in Ohio in a school-house near her father’s

place.

8ho at once invited all the women who

spec

StoreFs tastes. There is a well proportioned iniisic room where many rare evenings art ■pent, for its owner is a genuine miuis lover and judge of all things musical, and who has been activelv interested in fasli

- woo nas been activelv interested In hslp-

were interested in pottery work to make it ,n^ Cincinnati to its present prominence ia

qnently indulges in

pastries after to<

oas

Russell 8sge frea Dickers worth ol

e bell ia old Trinity’s spire chimed the midday hour.

Lieut John H. Alexander, C. S. A., is desA He wm the first of the colored race to become a eommiasioned officer of tbo army. He was grsdusted from West Point m 1»87, and had beea on doty as a profesaor” of military tactics at a collcgs for young men of his race in WilbcrforcA O. Ths Rev. John Brown, who Lm been f Htor of a Presbyterian church in Fall ,iver, Maaa, lor twenty-five yearA will resign on Jana 1, sell his library, buy a tent, preach the gospel when and how he pleassA preferring to be entirely free of the Presbytery. Hs has been a member of the Lagulature, and ia an aarneet and affactiva labor

agitator. ______ B«u«Tt«i« tw tho Mi7.

y^sB darkness dies and dawn M nigh There’s tumult overhead. As Mother Moow eomee ap ths sky And trats tbe stars to bod. Lovemaa In Southani MagailBA

their work-shop. There they had every facility for decorating in the day and pigfeet finiig conveniences. The crude forms were securable ut cost. There for a time ' Cincinnati women decorated and studied. ! When the establishment branched into a i business concern, instead of remaining a | great studio for dilettanti and amateurs, the | necessities compelled a new rule, and now , Mrs. Storer is the only woman allowed on the place. | Last fall she went into the works and was taught the actual uiechaiiical coustructive | portion of pottery workipg, of which she ! always had more or Jess knowledge. Where other women paiiit plates and vases and china pieces, Mrs. Storer starts with the e ay mixture, easts her own vase, teapot or wliatever she wanu to make, gives it its first firing, decorates it in tbe clay m original desiguB and, by methods on which she IS always experimenting, glszee and firee to

a finieh.

OPPOBTrsmM FOR 'WOMEN. It’s fascinating work, for, as Mrs. Storer said M she took op a dipperful of the clay mixture and poured it into the opening in the top of a vase mold, “Every woman bas within her. wbat might be called the mad

pie instract”

That this might lead to woman’s doing excellent work in the pottery field seems natural. “It really would appear so." assented Mrs. 8torer, “and she might learn the ‘throwing on the wheel,’ and the handling of small pieces. The big things, wbere the lump of clay weighs many pounds, can only be handled by men. The worst of that chance la that pottery-works generally employ only one thrower, and necessarily, in order to baudla big pieces, that thrower

must be a man.

“1 did know one little girl who learned throwing on a wheel," she went on. “Her father was our thrower, and she insisted on playing around tbe works. He finally taught bes so that she became very skillful in handling small pieces. She turned her knowledge to a pecuniary benefit, and traveled and gave exhibitions with the wheel. Then she married, and now, 1 think she is soon to form a class in Cincinnati to teach throwing. Teaching is really the best paying use in a pecuniary sense to which such

knowledge can be put.”

“Do you mean teaching in private olaasea

or in art schools?”

In reply, Mrs. Storer gave me the experience of a yonng china worker in Cincinnati. “She waa a Norwegian, and had learned the art of enameling at great expense at VieuDA She came to this city with an idea of enameling and firing herself. It proyed impossible to earn her living, for there were many breakages in the course of tbe work, as always happens, to increase tbe cost of production end consequent selling price. She had nearly reached the starvation point when the Art School in Cincinnati was persuaded to put her specialties on its list of instruction. But they would not put the classes on the regular sche^le and give her a salary. She received pay for the lessons from her pupils. She proved a delightful instructor, and faefoye long everybody wanted to enter her iriossea. Then the Art School pot her on/the regular corps of

teachers, and now afie’s doing well.” ' FSITATB BTDUIOA

“Do you think it would pay a woman to establish her own sttadio for pottery work?!* “Hardly, unless she was very skilled, although if she did try it she eoald get her prepared clays from a regular yellowware or stoneware worka, and a very good grade •he could get, torn When 1 b^an it waa difficult to get anything in that line exeept the most eoraaioa tuaterialA Now glexes and clays that were great secrets ten years ago can be purchased by any one. I used to work in tbe yellow and red ware before I started the R^okwqod. Now, of course, all my eiay and materiiu come from there. Hera is a way, I do believe, a woman

the musical world. Her strong Individuality makes her a favorite among men and

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■ell her pieces iti tbe ‘bisaiir at a moderate (Book Fnw l operettne honre- 8 a ns. to S a ra coyt and still ntsko'uion in tiiat way than L Dsji readdr^^Bes^toe* on many reUlI finifthed pieces, while she FarkReSsl. UOrsls

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“Of course, where high-grade pottery it made and many experiments are eonstantiy being made, no potter would allow any outsider witiiin the shopA Then she should, I think, have a speciaitjr. The secret of suocess ie tomakesomething people must have and to do It better than any on# clae: to make eomething everybody uaes oontinunliy and smaahea often, and tiiat haa to he

rtplaecd.

“Let her (aka some common article. TeapotA for instance. Every woman hM to have those and nothing breaks oftener. Let her make eeptcini ahapee in teapota and decorate them In original wajA But ean have her osra meldA They don't eoct gMre thanfiS or $4, aad aeldopi braak. Of eonreo, tho yellowware mixtnre and good glaaoe ooald ba had. and witii akiln at noma Mie’d be independent in firing. For a woman ■tarting out the opportunity to do her work la a Kfnlar potteiy YeaidNagnatad-

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