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chapter XVII. M hsrtfw May morning, and Selwyn Castata unusually gay and beautiful in Years bare passed Lord Selwyn returned, dressed in (Morning, bringing with him his ■HtiMieso-cixild. He had sorrowed as one wtta hope. His face had altered; ■t ta grown grave with a gravity and Mttawse- that never died away. 'Wfr. Mdy comfort he ever enjoyed was wrthi hie son Rupert—Rupert who had Eta- (oather’s- eyes and golden hair. Mrs. ■WlsilTT and Beatrice Leigh spent the ytrr part of their time with him, and tastme devoted herself to his boy. To ■gy riw her lore for this handsome, mel■wMf master of Selwyn Castle increas■iliin ij day is to speak mildly. He was thv» now and she might love him as she ZZhL But he never seemed to know srorbiog- .ilwnt it He was kind to her, ■» ha had always been; affectionate as ttakgh he were her brother; attentive and rfiiinirrmr. as he had ever been. But ttar was no love. ■a- accident brought about that which Mterword happened —his marriage with WawluMgh. Why are you looking so grave, mothm?*- wted. Lord Vivian of Mrs. Selwyn •MF- evening. Sfe- worn sitting alone in the drawing ■mm with am expression of deep thought ■nd? t<naiety on her placid, comely face. “■ me thinking of Beatrice,” she re“E ww not happy over her. I am tar gnwrdian, yet 1 cannot help thinking ItaC B hasw somehow failed in my trust.” “Why?” he asked. “G do not know.” she replied. “I am atmemd that she has refused Lord Eyrttnr. there i» not a truer, better man in tagiand. He is very wealthy, and Beattne- would have made an admirable mistww ftw Breton Court. She has refused Bm. :*nd be is very unhappy.” Wiry did she do it?’ he asked. “She says she does not love him.” regta*:®s> Selwyn, “and that she will only ■anyanan she does love.” “fi married fbr love/’ said Lord Vivian, MMUgiyt as his mother looked quickly throtns face, fearing she hud pained him. “But why need you reproach yourself, masher? B>u cannot force Beatrice eith•erto love or to marry.” “B fear E have been remiss,” said Mrs. Ss+wyn. “E believe Beatrice does love ■mm owe. and has loved him for years. E ww afraid she will never care for any ((■wetee. and E ought to have foreseen it.” “Who i» he mother?” asked Lord Viv>'m. wondering who had touched the heart igrrtat brilliant, beautiful girl. “B cannot answer the question,” said ■ts. Selwyn; and there was something M-.dgaiiirant in the tone of her voice that tar sew looked up at her in wondering Like lightning the thought flashed over hxin. «ouid it be himself ? Was it possiUe that Beatrice had loved him all these wwTß—thwt she had refused such excellent (ftts for his sake? He was but a mortal man, and his vanity was flattered at the thought.

lie said, gently, “you should Rasm been less- or more explicit. Tell me trnly. <to you mean that Beatrice cares ftwtw in that kind of way—you know?” •*E should not have spoken,” she said. ‘De not be angry with me. Vivian. I believe she lias loved and eared for you all ttrnr life.”" "B wwr dreamed of such a thing,” he ■aid simply, and the conversation ended. But he thought again and again of hia nmrther’s-words. Beatrice loved him, and hr-thought to himself that he might just well make her happy as not. Every owe was telling him that he ought to marry. iwyrin. that a mistress was wanted for Seiwyn elastic, and a mother for his young Brar. He was flattered to think that she laved: him. It would make her happy, it wmdd make his mother happy; as for him-■r+ft-Lord Vivian shrugged his shoulders —lmppmese and sorrow were much alike tt> him.

Two or-titre*- days afterward Lord Selwyn. anted Mists Leigh if she could spare tain is few minutes, he had something imgtwtaut to say. and -fee who had long oemwdto hope that the desire of her heart would he given to her, thought it was MMrttnng about Rupert, or the domestic adfinn-of the household, and told him she was-going. down toj;the lodge, and he might walls, with her. Siw they went together down the fresh, <iewy ghtdes of the park; there was a tender green on the young larch buds, imdiiunk May shone bright on the hedges, aod then Cord Selwyn, without any show passion or great affection, naked Beatrice Leigh if she would be his wife. 'WMii was- one dash of startled joy in Haar ftae. one gleam of love that for a nsMmmt made her beauty almost divine, ttetk. she answered iptietly as he had aated; and Lent Selwyn half-wondered if Nte mother I tad been mistaken. ’■toy were married very quietly; and if Lady Beatrice Selwyn, remembering what ate had called Lord Vivian’s '.'“in? fhtuntiotf*' for the young wife, felt any iMiiiHßßiiirTai Ht that he showed no infatimttawfor her, she made no sign. She had samredter heart’s desire; she had driven tte-fair,, loving young wife, her rival, bj woen and insult, by continual petty peraaetdiasia, by woman’s wit and woman’s anstee. from home—she reigned in her dwm and she was content. "Bte only thorn in her crown was that Wotantest ama must one day be lord of Seteffra and she began to hate the etei® with a jealous hatredthat exceeded, if? aaaaabte the envious dislike she had tertea beautiful but hapless mother. tteemumy afternoon in June Lady Beatetefihtegm*. tired and languid, has ordtead£ rte biteds to be lowered, and the ■ team light that ttlla the room is soft . rtrirf ta trod. too languid to think, woagß Bentri ee lies upon the couch, w ish--Mtodiateie to mnaasaaar test broods ri-

WOMAN'S ERROR.

By Marion V. Hollis.

found the master of the Halt at home, tired, like his lady, by the intense warmth. She, like her husband, reproached him that he had walked through- the park on this warm June day; and to her also Dr, Hearne answered, with a courteous salutation, that his business could not wait the weather. “What is it?” asked my lady, with a languid smile; and on the words that answered her turned the current of her life. “Mrs. Browne, the schoolmistress of Thornleigh, has this morning received a summons to go to her brother, who is dangerously ill at Newcastle, and whether he recovers or not she will not return to her duties at Thornleigh.” Lord Vivian looked slightly interested—my lady slightly bored. “Is that the important business that has brought Dr. Hearne out in the noontide heat?’ she asked indifferently; and he replied that it was so. Not one of the three had the faintest, the most remote idea of all that was to follow from this interview. The thought uppermost in the mind of each was the heat and the oppressive day. “I thought,” continued Dr Hearne, looking at Lady Beatrice, “that you, Lady Selwyn, ought to be the first informed of Mrs. Browne’s departure.” The fact being that Lady Selwyn, immediately after her marriage, had built and endowed a school at Thornleigh. She had spared neither trouble nor expense. There were two large, cheerful, airy rooms—lofty, well built, well furnished and well ventilated—one for girls and the other for boys; and near the girls’ school stood a pretty, picturesque cottage, embowered in roses and woodbines, and that was the residence of the schoolmistress. Now that the schoolmistress, who had been very happy at Thornleigh, was leaving, Dr. Hearne thought the mistress of Creighton Hall ought to be the first consulted.

“I should certainly say' ‘advertise,’ ” was the advice of Lady Beatrice; “advertise, and select from the applicants yourself. If the weather were more propitious, I would examine any number of candidates, but in the present state of things, Dr. Hearne, I shall be grateful if you will do it yourself.” And those few words altered the destinies of many lives. CHAPTER XVIII. “I hear,” said Lord Vivian to Lady Beatrice, as they sat after dinner in the golden gleam of the June sunset, “I hear that your new governess is something wonderful.” “Indeed, I am sorry to hear it. I do not like wonders myself.” Suddenly Lord Vivian remembered that if he wished to do good for the newcomer he must propitiate, and not offend his wife. He made some laughing, coniplimentary reply, at which her eyes brightened and her face glowed. “I was thinking,” he continued, “that if this Mrs. Rivers is what they say, a refined gentlewoman, we might make some few additions to the comfort of the cottage.” < “If you wish it,” replied his wife, still under the influence of that compliment. “You might send a good selection of books,” he continued; “we have such a superabundance; a picture or two, and a stand of flowers; two or three nice pieces of furniture, and anything else that you think of. Teaching must be a tiresome occupation; let her have plenty of brightness in her life out of school.” “Those kind of people—teachers, governesses and tutors—are not like us,” said Lady Beatrice, with supreme hauteur; “they make what you call brightness out of such materials as we pass over altogether.” “Very probabl/. You will do as I Suggest, Beatrice?” said Lord Vivian. “You might occasionally send fruit and game down to the cottage.” “I will," she replied.

Lady Beatrice did everything well. She sent for workmen on the following day. and ordered pretty, gay papers for the little rooms; she ordered nice carpets for the floors, a cozy easy chair and a couch; she ordered a bookcase for the bright, pleasant parlor, and then went over the rooms to make a selection of books. She found several in the library bearing the name of Violante Temple. She did not care to take them all, but one, a very beautiful edition of Wordsworth’s poems, especially attracted her. It was nicely bound, and the illustrations were magnificent. On the title page was written: “To my dearest Violante, from her devoted husband, Vivian Selwyn." She flung the book far from her; she was jealous of the dead, as she had been of the living. “I believe,” she said, in her anger, “that he values everything that woman ever owned.” Then she took the book from the floor, and placed it with the others. “It shall go to the schoolmistress." she said. “I only wish ‘my dearest Violante’ knew its destination." And when the little cottage was arranged there was no more pretty or cozy home in all England. The rooms were all so cheerful and bright, with flowers peeping in at the windows. Mrs. Rivers thought, when she entered it. that she had never seep a prettier little home. * “You see, Mrs. Rivers,” said Dr. Hearne, “that we are fortunate in securing the services of a lady like yourself; you, also, are fortunate in being under the epee of people so kind and considerate aa Lord and Lady Selwyn.” He did not see the shiver that passed over her—the passionate grief and anguiah that for one moment completely ehanged her face. “Lady Selwyn has sent you books and flowers,” he continued; “she will probably drive over to see that you have everything as you wish it. to be.” She thanked him j* a few faint words—he did not observe how faint they were. The gentle face, the sweet eyes and sweet lipa so charmed the rector that

’v”‘ ' * * * he always felt some difficulty knowing when to stop. "Dr. Hearne,” she asked, “are there any children at the Hall?" "No,” he replied; and for one moment the of death overspread her face. "There are no children,” he continued; “but there is one boy; the finest little fellow in England.” A light, like the golden gleam of a June sunset, came into her eyes. "Lord Vivian’s heir, I presume?” she said. "Yes, Lord Vivian’s heir; and a nobler child I have never seen. He is aa good as he is handsome, and that is saying something.” “His own mother ” she faltered, then stopped. “His own mother is dead,” said the rector. “Rupert is like her. I knew the late Lady Selwyn, but not intimately. She was very lovely, and the boy has his mother’s hair and eyes.” “I should imagine the young heir of Selwyn to be terribly spoiled,” she said; and in her clear voice there was an inflection of proud, sad tenderness that might have struck him. “Lord Selwyn worships him,” was the reply; “but,” he continued, laughing, “Lady Selwyn seems sometimes half jealous of him.” A bright color came into the pale face. "That must be nonsense,” she said; “who could be jealous of a child? I love children go much, Dr. Hearne. I should like to see this young heir of the Selwyns.” “You will see plenty of him, if he teases yon as much as he did poor Mrs. Browne,” laughed the rector again. “He used to ride down to the cottage several times in the week, and completely destroy her flowers by making furious efforts to increase their growth.” Again the tender light shone in the shadowed eyes, and the good rector, thinking he had stayed long enough with the schoolmistress,, went away with Mrs. Tatton. On the morrow Mrs. Rivers opened the school, and the children's hearts warmed to the sad, gentle face. The sweet voice had a charm for them, as it had for others. “I shall be happy in my duty, at least,” said the lady, when school hours were over, and she sat among the flowers with her book. Then down the high road came a footman in livery. He opened the little gate, and stood before her. “My lady's compliments, and she had sent Mrs. Rivers a basket of fruit. She would call with some friends to see the school on the morrow.” (To be continued.)

AMERICAN INDIANS’ CHILDREN.

They Have Good Times Until They Are 15 Years Old. From the time he is born until his fifteenth year the Indian baby lives the perfect life. He knows no care and has not a want. He fares as well as the best in the tribe; his days are spent in play and the enjoyment, like the little animal that he is, of eating and sleeping; his thoughts are not for Ixioks or work; he knows that he has a place to sleep,, and that if any family has anything to eat he can share it. His clothing is sufficient for his needs, which are brought within the limits of the supply. His toys are home-made and his games are traditional. What then could afford a better target for the camera than this perfect human animal? He has an Individuality, it Is true, and a name, but his animal instincts are predominant from the beginning. His mother gives him his name at birth—a name that is never told, but is kept as secret as the sacred name of the Almighty. The boy gets his name from the skies and the girl from the earth, rather paradoxical, to be sure, but I have tried in vain to convince the Indian mothers that it should be the other way. When it is known that the boy is the delight of the father, and the girl looked upon only as a chattel which will bring value later in life, it is not so paradoxical after all. It is not an easy matter to photograph an Indian baby. They are hedged about with superstition in most cases, and avarice in others. The mothers, until they learn the ways of the whites, are much afraid that some harm will come to their little ones if they are shot with a camera, and after they (find out that It does no harm, they place an extraordinary value on the privilege. The little ones themselves learn this money idea early, and it is not an uncommon thing to see a whole squad of them fleeing at the top of their speed just because they were not paid as much as they thought they were worth for the few minutes of posing. There is one kind of game which I have never been able to photograph among the Indian children, and that is the kind where kissing comes in as part of the pleasure. The Indians do not kiss. Story telling is a favorite amusement among the Indian children, and if you see a group of them gathered about some old crone and listening with rapt attention, you may be sure that they are hearing a ghost story or that she is telling them of the “Kitchi Manitou,” or bad spirit, who carries off and eats bad Indian boys, just as the mythical “bad man” that our nurses used to terrorize us with was supposed to put bad little white boys in his sack and carry them off. The difference between the two races is, however, that while the white boys soon learn to disbelieve the stories, the Indian believes in the “Kitchi Manitou” until his dying day.—San Francisco Call. <

The Wrong Town.

A farmer forwarded a letter to a town, inscribed, “To any respectable attorney.” The postmaster returned It, indorsed, “None here.”—Tit-Bita Mary Anderson-Navarro’s youngest half-sister, the daughter of Df. Hamilton Griffin, ‘is with the Navarros in Germany this summer, training her yoke for the ooncert stage. She is jukt at the age when her sister imffie her first success on the stage, and is said to bear a striking resemblance to tM !

Tellow Jack’s Tentacles Spread Over Mississippi. Without the intervention of frost the spread of yellow fever over the entire State of Mississippi seems a certainty. Each night’s report indicates how surely and rapidly the disease is getting the whole State into its clutches. The continuance of the present warm weather will guarantee a further spread, which the resources of the State Board seem unable to stop. The disease is firmly rooted in all the different sections of Mississippi and its appearance in counties adjoining those already in the grasp of the fever is only a question of a short time. The State Board of Health has, of course, long ago despaired of confining the infection, and is now devoting itself more to the general work of relief and securing of nurses for the places that are stricken. It is still waging a stubborn but hopeless fight against the rapid advance and whenever a new place is reported & State inspector is sent at once with orders to isolate and cordon the town. As a general thing, however, the exposure has usually been too widespread to render this inspection of any great value. The appeal of the Governor of the State to the Federal (jovernment for relief had the effect of arousing neighboring States to the necessities of the situation. About $2,000 was raised in Memphis in one day for general distribution in the shape of food and supplies. The helpless destitution of negro reconcentradoes continues in Jackson and other towns without material alleviation. They crowd as close to the guard line as possible when anyone goes down near the cordoned district and beg eagerly for money and supplies. Many without families have managed to get out and away. Helpless, ignorant creatures, they cannot understand why they should be sacrificed for the general good. The executive department of the State government is located at Brandon, Miss., a small station on the Queen and Crescent road twelve miles from Jackson. Jackson is the city most affected, and the virulence of the disease among negroes has demonstrated that they are no more immune than white people. The mortality remains small, only five deaths having been recorded so far at the State capital. In the smaller towns, however, new cases are reported daily in totally unexpected quarters, and in some places have caused a panic. Realizing that its efforts were unavailing, the Mississippi State Board of Health has appealed for aid to the Federal Government. Since the cordoning of the yellow fever Infected districts and even towns with a Strict guard the condition of affairs has rapidly grown worse. More than G.OOO people, according to official figures, are in absolute need of food, not to mention the necessity for nurses. The acute stage that the situation has reached is proved by the official appeal for aid to the President of the United States issued by the State Board of Health.

The panic continues. A grewsome illustration of the state, of public feeling was reported by Dr. Harrison. health officer of Le Flore County. A tramp entered the neighborhood of Phillips, a small inland town in that county, three days ago. He was taken sick, and sought refuge in a negro church, where he remained two days before he was discovered, and his sickness diagnosed by Dr. Harrison as yellow fever. ■>. The whole neighborhood was in a panic. Jackson was wired for an expert to come and confirm the diagnosis. None of the citizens would go near the patient, who was in a dying condition. Dr. Harrison's practice compelled him to leave him for several hours alone. When he returned the church was in ashes, and the tramp consumed in the flames. The yellow fever reports show a total of 465 cases in Louisiana this summer, and thirty deaths and 351 cases in Mississqipi and thirty-five deaths.

NAVY'S SMALL RECORD OF LOST

Seventeen Men Killed and Sixty-seven Wounded in Spanish War. A tabulated statement of the casualties Of the war with Spain has been sent to Secretary Long by the surgeon general of the navy* The statement begins with the action at Manila, May 1,- and includes the actions off Cienfuegos, Cardenas, San Juan, Porto Rico, Guantanamo, Santiago, June 22 and July 3; the fight of the Engie, July 12; the Bancroft, Aug. 2; the Amphitrite, Aug. 6, and the Yankee, Aug. 11. Altogether there were seventeen kiMed and sixty-seven wounded. Only one man died subsequently, as a result of his wounds; fifty-four men were discharged and returned to duty; six were invalided from the service, and six continue under treatment. It is remarkable that of the ten men wounded in the battle of July 3 eight had ear drums burst This is explained by the fact that in all other actions the men put eottqp in their ears, but when Cerveia’a fleet came out they did not have time to take thia precaution. The greatest number of casualties in a single engagement was at Guantanamo,

Wood Takes Lawton's Place.

Gen. Leonard Wood has been officially assigned to the command of the Department of Santiago by a special order of the War Department. He will retain the commission during the absence of Gen. Lawton, who has been given two months' sic* leave. ' I

Fighting in the Viscayas.

A dispatch received at Madrid from the Viscayas Islands says the Tagales have toM b, tt. A.tiy.

ITINERARY OF PRESIDENT M’KINLEY’S WESTERN TRIP.

Old-Mah-Quad.

This old Indian, captured by Gen. Bacon’s force, has a reputation of the worst kind, even among his own people. He has often boasted of the whites he would kill if opportunity offered. The picture shows him seated on an old barrel, with the pipe of peace in one hand and his Indian war dub in the other.

DATE NOW FIXED.

Spaniard* Must Give Up AU the Caban Custom House* on Dec. 1. The situation over the failure of the Spanish Government to agree to withdraw its forces quickly from Cuba has become serious, and it may be necessary for the United States to adopt stringent measures to compel the Spaniards to adhere to the condition* of the peace protocol. The administration is determined not to grant the Spanish beyond Dec. 1 in which to surrender authority to the American representatives. That decision has been communicated to the American members of the Havana evacuation commission, and the Spanish commissioners will be informed that further delay will not be tolerated. The United States will not insist on evacuation of the island by all the Spanish forces by the date fixed, but on Dec. 1 the American military commanders in Cub* will take possession of all custom house and other public buildings in their several districts. If it shall be necessary to use force to accomplish this, force will, be used. The administration is hopeful that the Spanish authorities will bow to the inevitable when they have learned what the United States Government proposes to do, and all trouble will be averted. From reports of the American commissioners it is evident to the President and his cabinet that the Spanish commissioners are pursuing dilatory tactics for the sole purpose of bolding on to the revenues of Cuba as long as possible. With the exception of Santiago, the principal ports of Cuba are still in the possession of the Spaniards, who hold the custom houses and collect duties.

The present attitude of the Spanish members of the evacuation commission is such, however, that they may attempt to make trouble if American troops are landed at Havana and other important ports. Although the administration is confident that this defiant disposition will change when the Spaniards realize how determined this Government is, every preparation will be made to meet any emergency that may be presented. Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee’s Seventh army corps will be in possession of the city of Havana long before the date on which the custom house there must be surrendered. His troops will go into camp on the outskirts of the city, but will practically assume authority over the capital when they arrive.

FROM FOREIGN LANDS

Eight feet is the usual width of a street in China. Chimney-pot bats were worn in France nearly SOO years ago. Greece has a population of 2.433.806 L26R316 males and 1,166,990 females. Marigolds and camomiles in North Africa reach a height of four or five feet. Switzerland has 1.693 hotels for tourists, with 88,000 beds and 24,000 employes. In the Bank of England there are silver bars that have lain there untouched for 200 years. Quebec, with a population of 70,000, bar aix daily newspapers, four of which are : n the French language. The Riesengebirge, or Giant mountains of Germany, are to be covered with a network of electric railways. A Chinese paper estimates that the victims of the plague in Foochow this year will not fall far short of 40,000. China has an arsenal at Tsinanfn at which 300 workmen are employed making arms and. ammunition, besides repairing.

GEN. GRANVILLE M. DODGE.

President of the* Commission Which Is Investigating Army Scandals. Gen. Granville M. Dodge, president of the commission that is inquiring into the management of the war, is one of the most distinguished of the soldiers produced by the United States. So highly did his old comrades rate his military and manly character that they gave him the position of president of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee in succession to Gen. Sherman. Gen. Dodge was born at Danvers, Mass,, in 1831. His youth was spent on a farm in the pure air and in that physical labor which gives men strdng constitutions. In 1846 he entered Norwich University, and was graduated four years later as a civil engineer. In 1857 he entered the service of the Illinois Central, and later that of the Rock Island, and was afterward employed by the Government in the surveys of the Pacific Railroad. About this time Gen. Dodge established the banking and trading house of Baldwin & Dodge at Council Bluffs, lowa, and he has never given up his residence in that city, although he speeds much of his time in New York. Gen. Dodge went to the civil war as colonel of the Fourth lowa infantry, and was severely wounded in the Missouri campaign. When he recovered he was made a brigadier general and placed in command of the Second division in Kentucky. After the war Gen. Dodge was

GEN. GRANVILLE M. DODGE.

made chief engineer of the Union Pacific Railroad. As engineer, as Congressman, as director of the grand railroad construction across the continent, he evinced as much genius and vim as he had when a soldier.

AFTER THE SCALPERS.

Crusade Inaugurated Against Men Who Sell Cut-Rate Ticket*. A concerted movement against the entire system of ticket scalping was inaugurated at Chicago Wednesday. The National Association of Merchants and Travelers tendered a banqnet to representative railroad men, at which the subject of ticket scalping was gone over in all its details. Over 250 guests were present, and John V. Farwell, Jr., presided. Both railroad and business men dwelt upon the menace to the commerce and trade of the country from the business of ticket brokerage, and resolutions were adopted authorizing the organization of a central anti-ticket scalping committee with subcommittees and representation from all the States. The coming session of Congress will be the objective point, and energies will be bent in the direction of securing drastic legislation against the scalping trade.

FEVER SCARE HURTS RAILROADS

Illinois Central Losing $15,000 a Day by the Quarantine. It is estimated that the Illinois Central Railroad is losing $15,000 a day on its Southern business as a result of the stringent yellow fever quarantine. It hps completely tied up the Yazoo and Mississippi Vqtlev division and Jias bmjiy hampered ajj traffic on the Ifaain line, rnlp ing off all the passenger trains except The' double through vestibule service. The effect upon the railroads is a more serious question than the fever itself, which is of a very mild type." Other railroads running into New Orleans are hampered in much the same way. Passenger coaches on all the roads are locked tight after leaving the New Orleans depot until they get through the States of Alabama. Mississippi and parts of Tennessee and Texas.

Chinese Become Hilarious.

During the celebration in Pekin of the festival of the moon the drunken crowds which had gathered upon the streets threw mud upon all Europeans who made their appearance. As a precautionary measure the Russian legation ordered an. escort of Cossacks from Port Arthii 1 The British minister also ordered a guara of twenty-five marines from Wei-Hai- j Wei.

Movements tn the Soudan.

Re-enforcements have been ordered from Omdurman to Ghedaref, where the force under Col. Parsons has repulsed another dervish attack with alight loss. There is no news from Faahoda, but in all probability Maj. Marchand will shortly evacuate his position there. In imitation of the feats of the cowboys of the Wild West shows, small boys