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- , ey T v T ‘ '"‘-‘??»'t_-f‘;’.; 2. B RiRsTDY (AR _,. z : : %," ,—/': 7 " : ‘ ra;‘ ) T 47 1) S(ARLET A 5 1 S ' (kg P . ~ BY-A. CONAN DOYLE. - ‘ PART 11. e CHAPTER VI.—CONTINUED. “The moment for which I had waited .80 long had at last come. I had my ‘eneiuies within my power. Together they could protect each other, but _singly they were at my mercy. I did not act, however, with aandue. precipitation. My plans were already formed. There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why ‘retribution has come upon him. I had my plans arranged by which F* should have the opportunity of making the man who had wronged me understand that his old sin had found him out. It chanced that some| days before a gentleman who had been engaged-in looking over some houses in the Brixton road had dropped the key of one of them in my carriage. It was claimed that same evening and returned; but in the interval I had taken g moulding of it, and had a duplicate constructed.” By means of this I had access to at least.one spot in this great «city where I could rely upon being free from interruption. How to get Drebber to that house was the difficult problem which I had now to solve. “*He walked down the road and went into one or two liquor-shops, staying for nearly half an hour in the last of them. When he came out he staggered in his walk, and was evidently pretty well on. There was,a hansom just in front of me, and he hailed it. -I_'}fqilowed it so close that the nose of my horse was within a yard of his driver the whole way. We rattled across Waterloo bridge and through miles of streets, until, to my astonishment, we found ourselves back in the terrace in “svhich+-he had boarded. I could not imagine what his intention was in returning there; but I went on and pulled up my cab a hundred yards or so from the house. He entered it and his hansom drove away. Give me a glass of water, if you please. My mouth gets dry with the talking.” - . I handed him the glass and he drank it down. “That’'s better,” he said. “Well, I waited for a quarter of an hour or more, when. suddenly there came-a noise like people struggling inside the house. Next moment the door was flung open and two men appeared, one of whom was Drebber, and the other was a young chap whom I had never seen before. This fellow had Drebber by the collar, and when they came to the head of the steps he gave him'a shove and a kick which sent him half dcross the road. ‘Yon hound!” he eried, shaking his sticlkkat him- ‘l'll teach you to insult an honest girl” He was so hot that I think he would have thrashed Drebber with hiscudgel, only that the cur staggered away down the road as fast as his legs would carry him. He ran as far as the corner, and then, seeing my cab, he hailed me and jumped in. ‘Drive me to lialliday’s private hotel,” said he. .

~ “When I had him fairly inside my cab my heart jumped so with joy that I feared Idst at this last moment my aneurism might go wrong. 1 droke #long slowly, weighing in my own mind what it was best to do. I might take him right .out into the country, and there in some deserted lane have my last interview with him. .I had almost decided upon this, when he solved the problem for me. The craze for drink had seized him again. and he ordeted me to pull up outside a gin palace. He went in, leaving word that I should wait.for him. There he remained until closing-time, and avhen he came out he was so far gone that I knew the game was in my own hands. | = “Don’t imagine that I intended to kill him in cold blood. It would only have been rigid justice if I had done sO, but I could not bring myself to do it.” I had long determined that he should have a show' for his life if he chose to take advantage of it. . Among the many .billets which I have filled in America during my wandering life, I was once a janitor and sweep-out of the laboratory at York college. One day the professor was lecturing on poisons, and he showed his students some aliraloid, as he called it, which he had extracted from some South American arrow poison, and which was so powerful that the least grain meant instant death. I spotted thé bottle in ‘which this preparation was kept, and when they were all gone I helped myself to a little of it. I wasa fairly good dispenser, so I worked this alkaloid into small, 'soluble pills, and each pill I put ina box with a similar pill made without poison. I determined at the time that, swhen I had my chance, my gentlemen should each have a draw out of one of these boxes, while T ate the pill that remained. It would be quite as deadly, and a good <deal less noisy than firing ‘across a handkerchief. Tl'rom that day I had always my pill-boxes about with me, and the time had now come when I was to use them.

*lt was nearer one than twelve, and a wild, bleak night, blowing hard and raining in torrents. Dismal as it W%s outside, T swas -glad within—so' glad that 1 ‘could have shouted out from pure exultation. If any of you gentlemen have ever pined for a thing and longed for it during twenty long years, and then suddenly found it svithin your reach, you would understand my feelings. I lit a cigar and puffed at it to steady my nerves, but my hands were -trembling and my temples throbbing with excitement. As I drove, I could see old John Ferrier and sweet “Lucy looking at me out of the dark‘ness and smiling-at me, just as plain as 1 see you all in thisroom. Allthe way they were ahead of me; one on each side of the horse, until 1 pulled up at the house in the Brixton rcad. | * “There was not a soul to be seen, nor a sound to be heard except the dripping of the rain.. When I looked in at the window I found Drebber all huddled together in a drunken sleep. I shook him by thearm. ‘lt's timetogo out,’ I said." ; : T ¢« <All right, ‘eabby! taid Ke. “] -suppose he thought we had come to the hotel that he had mentioned. for he got out without another word and followed me down ‘the garden. [ had to walk beside him tokecp him steady, for he was still a littlé top-heavy. When we came to the door I opened it and ,’ed’ him into the front room: I give [you my word that, all the way, the father and daughter were walking fafraatotus "t on Samm

“‘lt’s infernally dark,” said he, stamping about. ’ ““We’ll soon have a light, I said, striking a match and putting ittoa wax candle which I had brought with me. .‘Now, Enoech Drebber,”” I continued, turning to him,'and holding the light to my own face: ‘Who am I?’ “He gazed at me with bleared, drunken eyes for a moment, and then I saw a horror spring up in them and convulse his whole features, which showed me that he knew me. He staggered badk with a livid face, and I saw the perspiration break out upon his brow, while his teeth chattered. At the sight I leaned my back against the door and laughed loud and long. I had always known that vengeance would be sweet, but had never hoped for the contentment of soul which now possessed me. ' : C““You dog! I said; ‘I have hunted you from Salt Lake City to St. Petersburg, and you have always escaped me. Now at last your wanderings have come to an end, for either you or I shall never see to-morrow’s sun rise.’ He shrank still farther away as I spoke, and I could see on his face that he thought I was mad. So I'was for the time. The pulses in my temples beat like sledge-hammers, and I believe I would have had a fit of some sort if the blood had not gushed from my nose and relieved me. *“ “‘What' do you think of Lucy Ferrier now?’ I cried, locking the door and shaking the key inhis face. “Punishment has been slow in- coming, but

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it has overtaken you at last.” Isaw his coward :lips tremble as I spoke. Ile would have begged for his life, but he knew well it was useless. *“ ‘Would you murder me? he stammered. ' P k

“+ *There is no murder,’ I answered. ‘WWho talks of murdering a mad deg? What mercy had you upon my poor, darling whén yofi dragged her from her slaughtered Father and bore her away to your accursed and shameless harem?’ . .

“ ‘lt was not I'who killed her father,’ he cried. :

‘* ‘But it was you who broke her innocent heart,” I shrieked, thrusting the hox before him. ‘Let the high God judge between us. Choose and eat. There is déath in one and life in the other. I shall take what you leave. Let us see if there is justice upon the earth, or.if we are ruled by chance.” I

“He cowered away with wild cries and prayers for mercy, but I drew my knife and held it to his throat until he had obeyed me. Then I swallowed the other, and we stood facing each other in silence for a minute or more. waiting to see which was to live and which was to die. Shall I ever forget the look which came over his face when the first'warning pangs told him that the poison was in .his system? I laughed as I sawjt, and héld Lucy's marriage ring in front of his eyes. It was but for a moment, for the action of the alkaloid is rapid. A spasm of pain contorted his featiures; he threw his hands out in front of him, staggered, and then, with a hoarse ery, fell heavily upon the floor. I turned him over with my foot and placed my hand upon his heart. There was no movement. Jle was dead! - :

“*Theiblood had been streaming from my nosg¢, but I had taken no notice of it. I don’t know what it was that put. it into my head to write upon the wall %vith it. Perhaps it was some mischievous,idea of setting the pslice upon a wrong- track, for I fe]t light-hearted and ‘cheerful. I remembered a German being found in New York with ‘rache’ written up above him, and it was argued at the time in the newspapers that the secret societies must have done it. I guessed that what puzzled the New Yorkers would puzzle the Londoners, so I dipped my finger in my own blood and printed it on a convenient place on the wall. Then I walked down to my cab and found that there was nobody about, and that the night was still very wild. I had driven some distance, when I put my hand into the pocket in which I usually kept Lucy’s ring and found that it was not there. I was thunderstruck

; Ay 5 { ,/ﬁ///é/vx" {7 Uil N ! ,// / s . /////,/’l/l ‘r ~ 7”} % : R W T AL o . /&g]jﬂ'b ’_; N" b 7/ /'."i g ‘ {,/ 8 4 | T !{ b il MN \ f}l;‘ I { \l \b, x@\ . i PRI AN A, EA A W Sing . = %%ﬁ \ & A= 7 'ffi‘ =N\(=2 g g i e “HE COWERED AWAY WITH WILD-CRIES 8 AND PRAYERS FOR MERCY.” | at this, for it was the only meme’z’iéo that 1 had of her. Thinking that I might have dropped it when I stooped over Drebber’s body, I drove back, and, leaving my cab in a side street, 1 went boldly up to the house—for I wasready to dare anything rather than lose the ring! Whenl arrived there I walked right into the arms of a police officer who was coming out, and only managed to disarm his suspicions by pretending to be hopelessly drunk. = *That was how Enoch Drebber came to his end. : All I had to do then was to do as much for Stangerson, and so pay off John Ferrier’s debt. I knew that he was staying at Halliday's private hotel, and I'hung about all day, but he never came out. I fancy that he suspected something when Drebber failed to put in an appearance. He was cunning, was Stangerson, and al‘ways on his guard. If he thought he

could keep me off by staying indoors he was very much mistaken. I soon found out which was the window of his bedroom, and early next morning I took advantage of some ladders which were " l_y@ng in the lane behind the hotel and so/made iy way into his. room in the gray of the dawn. I woke him up and told him that the hour had come when hé was to answer for the life he had taken so long before. I described Drebber’s death to him, and 1 gave him the same choice of the poisoned pills. Instead of grasping at the chance of safety which that offered him, he sprang from his bed and flew at my throat. ln self-defense I stabbed him to the heart. It would have been the same in any case, for Providence would never have allowed his guilty hand to. pick out anything but the poison. ' : .

“I have little more to say, and it’s as well, for lam about done up. I went on cabbing it for a day or so, intending to keep at it until I could save enough to take me back to America. I was standing in the yard when a ragged youngster asked if there was a cabby there called Jefferson Hope, and said that his cab was wanted by a gentleman at 2218 Baker street. I went round, suspecting no harm, and the next thing I knew, this young man here had the bracelets on my wrists, and as neatly shackled as ever I was in my life. That’s the whole story, gentlemen. You may consider me to be a murderer; but I hold thatl am just as much an officer of justice as you are.” . So thrilling had‘the man’s narrative been, and his mannet was so impressive, that we had sat silent and absorbed. Even the professional detectives, blase as they were in every detail of erime, appeared to be keenly interested in the man’s story. When he finished e sat for some minutes in a stillness which was only broken- by the scratching of Lestrade’s pencil as he gave the finishing touches to his shorthand account. : .

“There is only one point on which I should like a little more information,” Sherlock Holmes said at last. ‘“Who was your accomplice who came for the ring which I advertised?” The prisoner winked at my friend jocosely. *I can tell my own secrets,” he said, ‘“but I don’t get other people into trouble. 1 saw your advertisement, and I thought it might be a plant, or it might be the ring I wanted. My friend volunteered to go and see. I think you’ll own he did it smartly.” “Not a doubt of that,” said Holmes, heartily. “Now, gentlemen,” the inspector remarked gravely, ‘‘the forms of the law must be complied with. On Thursday the prisoner will be brought before the magistrates, and your attendance will be required. Until then I will be responsible for him.” He rang the bell as he spoke, and‘ Jefferson Hope was led off by a couple of warders, while

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“Well, really, it can hardly be described as otherwise,” said Sherlock Holmes, smiling at my surprise. ‘‘The proof of its intrinsic simplicity is that without any help, save a few very ordinary deductions, I was able to lay my hand upon the criminal within three days.” “ = [TO BE CONTINUED.] Inconsistent Creatures: A girl never marries her ideal. One reason is that she seldom finds him, and when she does she doesn’t like him. Another reason is, the material man is soo dreadfully unlike the one of her imagination. A girl is an inconsistent creature, anyway. As sureas she fashions the idol of her mind's eye as a great, fierce, black mustached, brig-andish-lookin} individual, the end'{.will‘ be a promise to love and obey gome meel, freckled, red-haired person jwho cannot forget his affection for chocolate caramels and foothall secrimmages. Most dread{ul is the fate of the little woman who admires the jolly man fwho can laugh at paper-weight biscuitdand boiled beefsteak, for she invaripbly falls head over heels in love with some solemn, stately man whose very photograph makes her dnmb with sjlent awe.—Chicago Reéord. . ' Naturally Enough. “I love to think of the Christmases past,” remarked old Mr. Scadds. “I don’t, papa,” replied his danghter.’ *] am more interested in the Christx present.”—Detroit Free Prass. -

v A CANADIAN'S VIEWS. : Protection Breeds Hate and Selfishness— Free Trade, Love and Sympathy—What Free Trade Did fo ngland—Protection ‘Ridiculed. One of the best tpasts at the banquet of the Manhattan| Single Tax club of New York on Jefferson’s birthday was ‘thdat of Mr. John (rerar, queen's counsellor, of Canada. | Following is a part of his reply to the toast, *‘Free Trade”: “Free traders the world over are sympathetically linked in the bonds of a common creed and purpose. The creed, fundamentally, is very simiple: (1) That in every ¢onstitutionally governed state its citizens should, under the law, stand upon jan equal footing, and (2) that taxation, no matter in what questionable shape it may come, is an evil which cap pnly be justified or defended when levied to meet the legitimate cost of| government. Men who recognize the|truth of these two postulates mnaturally drift into .ome economic common school, where the spirit of self-seekipng, envy, hatred and malice never enters. The supreme purpose of free traders is to have their principles incorporated into the laws of all civilized countries, believing that when that is done armies and navies will dwindle to a nu¢leus reserved as a basis for drill; that the dynamite brand of socialism would disappear;- that peace on earth an ood will amongst men will bégin tojre¢ign, and that the millenium may theén| be looked for at any moment. Turning to the antithetic school of |protection, there is difficulty in discoviering a common creed or community jof thought or purpose. All protectionists would accept a tariff increase upon their own line of goods, even if in jconsequence a corresponding decrease was imposed upon the goods of their protectionist brothers next door. Free|traders wish their principles incorpdrated in the laws of all commercial natjons, whereas ' protectionists would |bg glad to see the principles of protection eliminated from the national pqglicy of every country but their own.| |. ; , : - “Protectionists ywho personally benefit by a high tariff,|are in a certain sense consistent. Convinde them that they would make more money by the abolition of import duties and they are ready to become fre¢ traders forthwith. Many of them d¢ mnot hesitate to fan their heated brows| with contraband handkerchiefs, or to|pace the sidewalks shod in smuggled phioes.” They are not bigots when heresy suits their pockets. But there is anot class, who have no personal gain inviolved, who advocate protection. ; : ,

“For example| [ recently met a learned divine at dlinner and over the walnuts and the wine our conversation drifted to the question of unrestricted reciprocity betweg Canada and the United States. Hp poured into my ear a plaintive wail, that under such a policy the surplus products of American manufacturers wqguld be dumped into Canada at sacrifice prices, and our consumers would be tempted togbuy at such prices, being|léss than the cost of production. I 53({ pathized with my friend, and muttfened that such improvidence would|surely prove fatal to our home indus‘?ri s, that we might sutfer but survive |a flood of foreign goods if compelle§ o buy them at 200 per cent. overcost,| but purchases at less than cost wéo 1d assaredly bring ouyr country intq hankruptey! ‘You ‘deplore,’ 1 said, ‘a flood of goods manufactured in the :jm.%h, would it make any difference to s if they came from the north, the east or the west of us? ‘Certainly not,’ j:e replied. ‘Then,’ I whispered, ‘how would it be if they came from above? ['Oh,’ he answered, ‘that, you knowT is impossible.” ‘By no means,’ I rejoiped, ‘for in the matter of grain and [lc‘n ltry something of the kind did at onhe| time happen, and it might happen pgain. Now, sir, tell me honestly. whait, in your judgment, would be the consequence to our infant industries, ifj a [deluge from heaven set in of boots h4d shoes, household furniture and repdy-made clothing?’ ‘Well,” he said, ‘to stand by my own hypothesis, I musgt fdmit that it would use them up and prove a deplorable occurrence.’r Mr. hérirman, the learned divine was a scho¢lar, educated in our colleges, and in’ ’sa,L{rts’ course political economy taught by the classic masters was his. text |book, and when he got his degrees, hle yvould have avowed his belief in thesq teachers, but because political economy hpd been foresworn by his party, he| was willing to deny that Adam Smith|had ever lived. “*Mr. Chairman| it has always been a mystery to me hoj| the young giant republic came tg pi¢k up the effete, cast-off. protectionisty raiment of the mother country,| and, after stitching and patching it up, to flaunt.it before the world as a J:r#, d new, American garment. Aboutia: year ago I chanced to meet a gentleman from New York at a banquet, wh ‘IL id been chosen to reply to the to stL »f the ‘American Press,” which he|did| with great ability. - Previous ti Fie toast we were, gathered and talked about the trade question. He VF | a believer - .1n a reciprocity df | |tariffs between commercial natipns jand argued that free trade was r practicable unless made ~ universal.| I} ventured to point to 'the example’o England, which over forty yearsihpd survived under a system of lop-sitgle ;| jug-handled free trade, and as a rqultj has become mistress of the comniercial seas and credit-or-general of Cl}ﬁriiténdom. ‘You forget,’ he sgid, ‘that England first of all developed her i:thh'stries for 100 years under the fostering care of a protective tariff, and it waslO ly after that policy had enured in -dolossal riches and in making her thefn ster workman and workshop of the world that she deliberately adopted,jas a new policy, free trade. That argument has been ‘advanced from 10,000 | platforms from the Golden Gate to HE son bay, and within two weeks it has been reiterated by a Canadian states jan on the floor of the house of commonsg at Ottawa. As an argument it is logically absurd and as a matter of histary it is untrue. Itis logically absurd, because no nation would deliberately discard a public policy which had |resulted in wealth, power and commergial supremacy. It is equally rational to contend that a pugilist who ha on the champion’s belt by the scigntific use of his fists voluntarily decidefl to maintain his supremacy in the ring by tying his arms and butting his adversaries with his head. The ¢eptral idea conveyed by this childish| argument is that in 1846, on the assembling of parliament, the prime mini of the day had tabled a resoldtion to the effect that inasmuch as the llic)licy of protection for a century had resulted in boundless national wealth and commercial supremacy, it behooveéd the country to ' discard that policy; that a bill was accordingly rushed through

both houses based upon that resolution, and that John Bull having bad a good thing for a century, at last breathed freely because he had got rid of it. The truth is, that every baby student of history knows that for years before, but culminating in 1845, the social condition of the riassesin England had reached the acute stage which marks thg dividing line between poverty and starvation; that her poor houses had become packed to overflohving; that mobs of her ar‘zisans paraded the streets of her large cities, wrecking the shops, crying for bread, and that her military were called to arms to nip in the bad a civil war. Such was the condition of England in her hay-day of protection, and it was the culmination of that barbarous policy which opened the eyes of her masses to the true source of their poverty. The battle of free trade in England, waged by the masses against the protected classes, raged for ten years, and when the victory of free.trade was won the people rejoiced like the Israelites on their day of jubilee. . ' Ll

“It was in 1892 at the memorable convention in Chicago that the rank and file of the democratic representatives took the bit between their teeth, and ignoring their timid party leaders, inserted into the democratic platform a free trade plank, which I verily believe will be found to be green timber when every .other stick in that structure is worm eaten and decayed. The presidential election of 1892 was watched with vivid interest by the free traders in Canada for they well knew that if free‘trade became your policy protection with us was doomed. L

“In conclusion, sir, permit me to say that the commercial policy of Canada and the United States are vitally interdependent. Were the whole matter lett to the voluntary action of the people of both countries, uninfluenced or controlled by the politicians, they would buy and sell from each other, when and so often as, but no oftener than, it sujted their several personal interests so to do.. The best of the products of both countries—their sons and daughters—are freely exchanged taken and given, without restriction. When-the residue of their produects, animate and inanimate are accorded equally enlightened treatment and consideration, it will be better for the United States, better for Canada, and infinitely better for the commerecial world at large.” | ‘

‘ *. . A 'BUNGLE. L ‘ An Avalanche of Senate Amendments to the | 5 Tariftf Bill. i : | We have already placed before our readers, the four hundred, more or less, ! amendments to the pending tariff bill sybmitted by the senate committee of revision for.the action of that body. : Taking it as a specimen of legislation, : upon a great economic question, the re- ! port can nowhere command any respect. | Taking it in its bearings on industrial I and commercial interests, it is a patch | ‘of mongrel modifications, in seme cases | favoring higher duties than those pro- ' posed in the Wilson bill, in others favoring lower. While differing widely, ! in details‘ from the changes proposed by the finance committee, yet the ad- ! vances and the reductions of duty, on ; that comparison, probably about offset each other as a whole, so that the net result from a protective point of viewis | notmaterially changed from the propos- | als of that committee. 'Large changes ' are made from ad valorem to specific ! rates, which in our view is a misfortune. ! There are many features -in these ! amendments that are calculated to ! rouse strong hostility in the house, and | it is therefore as impossible now as it E has ever been to judge what may be | the final duties upon a wide range of | .important products. As'a contribution l towards a rational adjustment of the tariff to the rapidly developing new: ! conditions in "our national evolution, ’ the bill must still be regarded as an utterly lame and largely impotent con- | clusion. Economic principle has been ; held in abeyance at every point of the | reconstruction to ignorance, prejudice, ! mistaken conceptions of sectional in- . terest and party conveniences.—Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin. e ‘ A Hideous Superstition. - ! In any conceivable form the Wilson bill will have valuable features and be a great improvement over the McKin- ! ley bill. It'will doubtless be thickly | scarred also with weak ‘‘concessions’ | and absurdities. But the passage of even a sadly imperfect bill will have the effect of breaking down the hideous superstition to which the republican ’ party has enslaved itself, and tried to enslave the country, for the past dozen years. Manufactories will not be her‘metically closed. Farmers will con'tinue to cultivate the soil and merchants to buy and sell, and railroads and steamships to go on with the business of transportation. After a brief experience of the fact that the industry | of man and the national resources of the country can produce prosperity and happiness independently of the all-wise fiats of a McKinley or a Harrison, it would be possible to discuss questions of taxation and settle its details like rational beings and not like frightened savages cutting themselves with flints ! before an ugly idol. It isbecause tariff reformers look forward to such a time ! that they are comparatively indifferent - to the imperfections of the bill that , will usher it in.—N. Y. Post. |

Hill Catching It. - “Hill,” says the Atlanta Journal (dem.), speaking of his obstructive policy with regard to the tariff bill, “has been a dead weight on the party, and has done it far more harm than any of the republican leaders. If there is a worse product of recemnt politics than David B. Hill, we do not know where to find it.” o , At a meeting of the Iroquois club, the great democratic organization of Chicago. reéently, to discuss the question whether the nomination of a candidate for United States senator by the state convention is desirable, Vice President Baker made the following allusion to Senator Hill, which was greeted with loud applause: “It is of paramount importance that the man who is elected senator, whether nominated by the convention or not, should not be one who goes about boasting, ‘7] am a democrat,” and then votes against the principles of his party.” Opinion was divided as to the expediency of making the nomination in the convention. - €lear Out the Traitors. The Benedict Arnolds who have sold themselves to the sugar and other trusts have betrayed and perhaps wrecked the democratic party. They deserve the worst fate possible. They have disgraced and besmirched their party. Read them outof it! Scourge them out of it. L -

. FOR YOUNG PEOPLE-. I THE CLEVER PARSON. - ' My children, come tell me now if youhave ever Been told of the parson who was so clever; - 8o clever, so clever, so clever was he ; i That never a cleverer parson could be. e | The ,pérsdn loved children; he also loved walking,. i ; ]. Ane off to the woods he was constantly stalking, il " g | To smell the sweet air, and to .see the green ‘ . trees, g - i And -to do-just exactly whate’er he -might l please. = : n : | Bome children they went with him once to the | wood. S i | (They loved the good parson’ because he was I good.) : T - ' They followed him gayly for many a milé, . i To list to his voice and to look on his smile. |At length the children cried:” “Oh—dear—j - ME!! : oo : " We're tired—as tired as tired can be! = | 'Tis suppéer time, too, while afar thus we | roam— , i » i Oh, pray you, dear parson, do carry us home!" { The ehildren were six, and the parson was i _one; ; S : ; i Now, goodness gracious! what was to be done? He sat himseif down in the shade of a tree, - And pondered the matter most thoughtfully: . ' At length he exclaimed: . My~ dear lttle ! chicks, : e ‘ I might carry one, but I can’t carry six. : : Yet, courage! your parson’s good care will pro- ‘ vide . o : That each of you home on a fine horse shall i . ride.” ; sy He drew out his jackknife, so broad and so | bright, : And fell to work slashing with main and with | - might, : : % 'Tillready there—one, two, three, four, five and P e ; l Lay, stout and smooth-polished, some excellent | sticks. 20 : , ‘* Now mount your good horses, my children!" | he eried; o : ‘* Now, mount. your good horses and merrily { - ridel : s : ! A canter, a trot and a gallop away, = . | And we shall gethome ere the close of the day.” ! : . : . . The children forgot they were dreadfully tired; i They seized on the hobbies, with ardor in- | spired. 5 ! “ Gee, Dobbin! -whoa, Dobbin! come up, Dobi bin, do! ol = ' Oh! parson, dear parsgn, won't: you gallop, l too?” « : ; : S 5 2 ? Away went the children in frolicsome glee, ; Away went the parson, as pleased as could be; ! And when they got back to the village they i cried: - e i **Oh, dear! and oh, dear! what a very short 1 ride!"” . o L : L —Laura E. Richards, in St Nicholas.- ‘} : ___—‘;_'* o e ‘ : CARPENTRY FOR B(_)YS. i How to Make a Neat and (_Zdnvenlent ‘ Kennel for Their Dogs. ; 3 { There are undoubtedly a ' good many | boys who have a dog, but perhaps have "no kennel. Almost' any kind -of a ' kennel will do for a dog. A box with four sides, a bottom and a top, and pro- , vided with-a hole large enough for : him to go through, is better than . nothing, but the drawing shows a - kennel of neat appearance that any - boy can make from an old dry goods . box or from some boards. : | Its size depends, of course, on the ~ size of your dog, but for the average dog of meaium size a kennel thirty ~inches long, eighteen or twenty inches ' wide rand twenty-six inches high to _the top of the peak will be good pro- . portions. L o | First, make the front and. back with a peak top, then the sides. and bottom; ~in the front picce cut a round hole

40 . Fiy" & .ﬁ.;;u:zéi':’ lﬁ I'l\'l‘ ‘,.‘;{-:\:3‘%‘\&% : - <TRnN &; "o k\\&ﬁ o //‘-/ ((h ke 1T N "‘&i ;n\@yq‘;’ . A A DOG KENNEL. 9 ; f large enough for the dog to crawlin end out, and above it bore four holes, and with a kéyhole saw cut the wobd away between the.holes, so as to make a ventilator, for dogs as well as other animals need pure air. = Now nail the sides to the bottom, and the front and back to the bottom and sides. BétweenTthe two peaks.nail a slip of wood to Lform a ridge pole against which the upper ends of the top boards’ are to be nailed, then put on the top, nailing it securely to the ridge pole, the top edges of the front and back, also the sides, and the carpenter work of the kennel will then be completed. . '~ - : Now putty up all the cracks and nail holes, and give tlie outside a few coats of paint of some desirable color to finish the kennel ni«;ely‘ s = A staple with a chain, attached to the end of which may be a snap, can. be driven in at one side of the front, and to this chain the dog can be fastened. ! G

A door might also be arranged to close the hole it the front at night, so as to keep the dog warmer in winter, but you must not forget to open it in the morningj asit would be unpleasant for a dog to be shut up in such a small house when there is daylight and he is awake., i : S

Always place plenty of straw on the bottom of a kennel, so as to makea soft bed for your dog, and he will be more grateful to you in.his canine way for the kindness shown him than you have any idea of.—N. Y. Recorder. ‘

A WRESTLING FROG. It Possesses a Well-Developed Weapon of . Offense. ! Every animal has its own means of delense or escape. Frogs save themselves by jumping—an art in which they probably excel all other forms of vertebrates. But Mr. 'W. H. Hudson once encountered a frog which, as he says, was not like other frogs in that it possesseéd weapons _of offense. He was snipe shooting, and peering into a burrow saw a burly-looking frog sitting in the entrdnce. With the instinet of a naturalist he set about capturing it. The frog watched him, but remained motionless. What followed is thus described by Mr. Hudson. - Before 1 was near enough to make a’ grab, it sprang straight at my hand, and catchiny two of my fingers with its fore legs, administered a hug so sudden and violent as to cause an acute sensation of pain. Then, at the very instant I experienced this = feeling, which made me start back quickly, it released its hold and bounded out and away. - ' G : 1 flew after it, and barely managed to overtake it before it could gain the water. Held firmly pressed behind the shoulders, it was powerless to attack me, and I then noticed the enormous development of the muscles of the fore legs, usually small in frogs, balging »ut in this individual like a mndp:g

of thighs, and giving it a strargzely bold and fo_rmidable,aippearance., : I held my gun within its reach, and ‘it clasped the barrel with such force as ‘to bruise the skin of its breast and legs. After allowing it to exhaust ite self partially in these fruitless huggings, I experimented by letting it seize my hand again, and I noticed that after each squeeze it made a quick, violent effort to free itself. L Believing' that. I had discovered a frog differing in structure from all known frogs, and possessing a strange and unique instinct of self-preserva-tiop, I carried my captive home, intending to show it to the director of the National museum at Buenos Ayres. Unfortunately, it effected its escape by pushing up the glass cover of its box, and T have never met another like ‘it. That this singular frog can’seriously injury an enemy is, of course, out of the question, but its unexpected attaclk must be of great advantage to it. The. effect of the sudden opening of an umbrella in the face of an angry bullgives, I think, only a faint idea of the astonishment and confusion it must cause by its leap, quick as lightning, and the violent hug it, administers; and.in the confusion it finds time to esé¢ape.

AN ZAZOLIAN HARP.

Dlr_ectiohs for Making One with 'l‘ele-;

phone Attachment.

. There are many of our young readers who have heard the sweet tones of an geolian-harp, but when they attempt to make one they find the principal difficulty seems to be that the noise of the wind deadens the music of the harp. There is a solution of this problem. Below we give a draught of an geolian-harp. The sounding-box is constructed of the best-seasoned pine oneeighth of an inch thick, and free from knots and checks. The top and bottom measure 21x6 inches, the sides 2x23% inches, the ends 2x6 inches.: In the center of the upper board saw out a circle 2 inches in diameter. = (This opening allows the vibrations, or sound-waves, to escape from the box.) Now take two pieces of pine, éach measuring 53 x2xlx% inch, shape it s 0 that one side will be perpendicular and two sides horizontal, and one side an angle (see draught interior of head and tail). These form the braces at each end of the sound-box to resist the strain of the strings, .and are placed at the extreme ends of the box on the‘inside. When putting the box together fasten the top on last. Every contact surface should receive a liberal coat of glue, and small brads driven: home when the glue is in a liquid state insure the box being .air-tight, except the two-inch' hole. - Two bridges, tri-, angular in shape, 5 inches in length, and half an inch on each side of the triangle, are fastened half an inch from the tail and 4% inches from the head. Four notches are cut in each to receive the strings. In the head are placed four screws, each screw: being 134 inches long;in the tail end are four strong wire nails (always use a round surface nail, to .prevent the cutting of the strings). Procure a spool of mandolin-wire strings, and a bassstring of 'a banjo (silk body). Loop them on the wire nails at the tail, and "wind the other end around the screws; first passing it through the . slot of the screw by taking a single hitch around the standing part of the wire “insures its not slipping. Three legs on the harp are preferable, as it may stand on an uneven surface. Give ‘ (o e = i ! ] PLAN, ELEVATION AND DETAILS OF THE . HARP. the outside a good sand-papering (finest grade) and two coats of varnish. The telephone attachment can be added in the following manner: Find a good-sized (one-half pound) bakingpowder box, remove the cover, and punch a very small hole in center of bottom. In this hole fasten a long string free from knats. Put a very small hole in-the center of the side of the harp. Hang the harp by strings attached to its legs, apd hold in place by guy strings. - See that the strings of the harp are at right angles with the wind. Stretch the cord tight (allowing it to ecome in contact with nothing but the harp and baking-powder can), and you will hear the sound vibrations thrown out from the harp and transmitted through the cords and magnified by the baking-powder can held close to your ear. Anaeolian harp will not play unless placed in direct contact with a good breeze. If placed on a window sill without telephone attachment the harp can stand on its legs; but if suspended in a tree in the back yard, it could: be bottom side up, and thus in- case of rain or snow the: strings and interior will be protected. - The bass string will not rust, being covered with fine copper wire. The other strings and screws can be coated with machine oil, which will protect them from the weather. . The higher the harp is.tuned the stronger must the breeze be required to make the sound vibrations.—H. Percy Ashley, in Harper’s Young People. 4

.The Lady Got the Dog. 1n a justice’s court in Kansas City, a lady brought a suit for a dog, which was claimed by a man. Several witnesses on either side were positive as to the ownership of the .dog, and the justice was exceedingly puzzled: Finally the lady stated that if she would sing a certain song, the dog, in response to his training, would join in with her in his dog fashion. This she did, and at the first words of the song the dog leaped for joy, and fulfilled his part of the duet to the amazement of the spectators. and the court. No further evidence was taken, and the dog was given to the lady. : ' Better Than Solomon’s. Temple. An exchange reports this dialoguo -betiveen an old colored woman and Uncle Mose, in one of the streets of/ Houston, Tex. ' “Where am your darter Matildy hired now?” asked the woman. ! “She am’ workin’ for de mos’ spectable folks in Houston. Dey am well fixed, shore.” e “H'm! Got silberware and sich, has dey?’,: ,4 .. s 3 : . : ol 3 ‘I should say so. Dey has silber tim pans, an’ de copper am pure gold.”