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CHAPTERI “#Henry M. Stevens, Manila (via HongXong): . “Business suspended. Cancel unshipped «prders. Draw Larrinaga & Co. balance te date, $2OO. LANTINE & COMPANY.” I remember as if it happened but _yesterday the queer feeling which c¢ame over me when I read the foregoing cable. It hud been an unuselly warm day for March, and I was trying 4o keep cool in the lounging-room of the European club, on the river bank, @ short distance from the city. - My business in Mamla was practically finfished, and I was anticipating a few days of recreation before the HongKong steamer left, upon the following TTuesday, when the message was hand«d me by one of the native boys emtployed by the club. :

~ It was such a thorough surprise that +#or several moments I did not realize the position in which it placed me. I ‘had been the eaxtern representative of T.antine & Company for over two years, dand, although my savings had disap‘peared through a series of ill-advised finvestments, my position seemed such @ secure one that money matters sel«dom troubled me. Now, however, after drawing from the Manila banking and shipping house the amount tnentioned in the dispatch, my entire .capital consisted of something less fthan three hundred )iollars, and 1 had mo idea which way to look for employment.

i Two of theleading Manilamerchants thappened to be in the clubat the time, iand, after canceling the purchases I Thad made from them on behalf of my thouse, I cabled to Hong-Kong and Shanghai in the hope of heading off ghipments ordered there during the previous month. Then, driving to my hotel in Binondo—the Oriente—l setftled matters as far as lay in my power, and was ready for dinner before eight p’clock. : :

{ The Oriente, being new and progressive, sets one of the best tables in rihe east, and, as experience with orienstal life brings the conviction that meither hurry nor worry is con«ducive to good hea'th, I took my time pver the meal. Then, lighting a cheroot, I walked down the Escolta as #far as the Puenie d’Espana. which con-mects-Binondo with the old walled citadel of Manila. and, leaning against ithe hand-rail under a solitary electric light, watched the canoes dand bancos «n the Pasig waile I tried to do alittle figuring as to my immediate prospects. Three hundred doliars would land me jin New York by careful management, fbut there was no certainty of employmment when I reached there; and the wother foreign houses were so well repwesented between Yokohama and Singapore that an immediate opening fin the east seemed unlikely. ¢ At first I could think of nothing but my uncomfortable predicament. But after awhile the influence of a good winner and the soothing qualities of ithe climate began to make themselves #elt. . I found inyself watching the motley crowd of all nationalities which passed and repassed across the Joridge, the crowds of laughing Mestiza ‘and Visaya girls strolling along fthrough the Paseo to hear the military band at Luneta, groups of Chinamen wauntering about after the day’s busimess, and Spanish officers driving in wcarromatas with the ladies of their #families. Down the river were rows of ismall coasting steamers and brigs, reach spar and funnel outlined distinctIy by electric lights on the quays; benwond them, a red spark from the lighthouse upon the northern mole, and scattered lights from larger vessels twhich lay at anchor two or three miles wut in the bay.

! While watching these, T noticed a government launch coming up the xiver. The landing steps of the aday were but a few paces below the bridge, and I could easily see the faces of two ‘men as they stepped ashore from her.

*They were both strange to me, but there was something about the walk of one which seemed familiar. I presume my own face must have been dis- / #inct, as I leaned over the rail, for the mnan glanced searchingly at me as he climbed to the street level. At first he turned and walked away several steps, wevidently under the impression that he

thad made a mistake, then came back, as if to cross the bridge in front of me.

"We looked each other in the eye for a gecond; then he stopped, and said: ' “If you're not Harry Stevens, of New York, I'vé made the biggest mistake of mny life.” : : . I grasped the outstretched hand and’ Ifbegan to see something familiar bethind the brown beard. #Yes, I'm Harry Stevens, but—hold jon a minute, WWeren’t you with the -®ceanic Steamship company, several

iyears ago? ByJove! Itcan’tbeDick Halstead? What? Well, I'm blessed! "Where on earth did you drop from? Tou have changed, and no mistake.” .~ “Possibly. DBut you haven’t, old 4chap; I'd know you anywhere. Say, Jook here, we’ve got a heap to talk mbout; come up to the club. Ne, never mnind the carromata; it’s cooler on the wiver. We'll go upin thelaunch.,” | “But—how the deuce? I thought

4#he belonged to the government?” | “That’s right. So do I, for the pres4ent.” We had taken our seats in the -stern, and were gliding up the motionYess stream. “I’ve been in command of

“that tramp, the Countess of Devon, for .over a year—you see her lights out ithere, two miles from the mole—and ‘the biggest stockholder in the company that owns her is old Leon Ramirez, of Liverpool and this place. B 0 when the Isla de Ponape, that used 40 carry mail to the Carolines and TLadrones, ran ashore on Espiritu

Santo, Ramirez chartered the Countess fo the government here until the compania could spare another of their own Poats with big enough coal capacity to make the trip. That was last Septem- . per, and they manage things so slowly #hat I'm still running supplies out to

those islanders, once in three months, with a Scotch engineer and a Spanish crew, connecting with the Messageries boats at Saigon the rest of the time. Now tell me under what the canopy brings you out here.” “Business, of course; jyou didn’t think I was traveling on my money, did you? I've® been buying China goods, assorted devils, and Manila matting for Lantine & Co. about two years. Up to three o’clock this afternoon I expected to keep on buying them until my liver refused to stand the climate, but about that time this cable changed my plans for me.” Halstead looked thoughtful as he read the message which I handed him. We had reached the club quay, and were climbing to the balcony, where the boy presently brought us cigars and coffee. “M-m-m-m—how long will it take you to close matters up for the company?” “They’re settled now, as far as anything I can do. It will be a month before they can get letters out here, but the orders already shipped will have to be paid for. Larrinaga’s people told me this evening that they knew old man Lantine to be individually good for all the house bought. This cable, however, winds up my connection with them for the present.” -“And you haven’t decided what you're going to do next?” *“Not yet. I'll probably go to HongKong on Tuesday and see how-things look there.” :

“Why not take a little vacation? You've been working hard, and a rest would do you good. Run cut to the Ladrones with me. It's a fine voyage at this time of year, and I’m so sick of talking mixed languages that it’ll be a perfect godsend to have an old friend along. Lome now, what do you say?” “Why, I don’t know. I'dlike nothing better, if—m-m-m-m—there’s really no reason why I shouldn’t. When do you sail?” “About midnight.” . “What, to-night?” “Sure. lonly came ashore to getmy papers from the custom house, and should be getting down there as soon as I finish this cigar. The mail’'s on board now, I guess. You're stopping : . @ 2l e ‘ "' ’} )”i ' L . : l ; /iS Y j o - ' . ). - = LJ/' } Q¢ g!" TH o ity L e mems . 98], SENOR!"” at the Oriente, of course; how long willit take toget your duds together?” “Fifteen minutes. But how about a passport? The commandante’s office closed at noon.” “That’s all right. No one’ll stop you }n a government Jaunch, and I'll take ‘care of the rest. Come along.” ~ In three-quarters of an hour Halstead and 1 reached the quay with my luggage, and 20 minutes later we were climbing the Countess of Devon’s accommodation ladder, out in the bay. The Spanish mate stood at the top and touched his cap. Halstead looked along the gangway and said:

» “All the passengers aboard, Mr Diaz?” ;

“Si, senor.” : “Pilot come off with Mr. McPherson?”

s#si, senor.” *“All right. Get your anchor up and find how much she’s drawing. Tell Mr. Moreno to be careful that iron buoy doesn’t foul the screw this time, and have the quartermaster bring Mr. Stevens’ luggage up to my room. The steward can give the passengers biscuits and coffee if they want it before turning in—there are only a dozen, I think—and seat the ladies’ party at my table in the morning. Now, old chap” (turning to me), “I'm going to give you the extra berth in my cabin, and you can do as you please on board. Go to sleep now, if you like, or bring a stool up on the bridge and smoke. 1 shan’t turn in until after breakfast.” “If that’s the case, I'll stay with you. Just to humor my fool curiosity, 1 wish yow’d explain why you start at such an ungodly hour. There’s no bar to cross, so the tides can’t make any difference.”

“No; there’s plenty of water, but after passing Cape Santiago there isn’t another light in the strait. There are two dim ones on the no’theas’ corner of Burias island, but they’re not visible to west’ard, and I want to see where I’'m navigating between Burias and Ticao. We’'ll get there about five o’clock to-morrow morning,—ought to pass Santiago at breakfast time today,—so that during the night we’ll have plenty of elbow room.” _“Suppose you strike rain or fog?” “We won’t. This is the morning of March 29, isn't it? Well, two weeks from to-morrow it'll be sultry, and still, and hot as Tophet. After that the air’ll smell like a furnace until April 24. Then there’ll be a hurricane in this bay that will send a pile of ships ashore and spread corrugated iron roofs all over the landscape, and from that time to about the first of October the weather’ll be simply hellish—rain, ‘hurricanes, fever and mud. In other words, the southwest monsoon will have set in for six months. You ought to know when the monsoon changes, if you've been out here two years,”

“Well, I suppose I should, but I've spent the summers in Yokohama and SLanghai, and they don’t make so much difference up there.” It was a perfect night., The wind had died down until there was scarceIy a ripple cn the water and each particular star was reflected in it. The lights of Cavite, on our left, were fast dropping astern; and, approaching Corregidor island at the entrance of the bay, about three o’clock, the mountains of the Piquito on the south head with the Sierra de Mariveles on the porth rose like dark blue ghosts 4,000 feet in the air. Corregidor itself stood over 600 feet above high water, the light on its summit filling the rocks with grotesque shadows as we passed c!ose underit. . ~ Halstead occasionally called my attention to some prominent point, but he was too closely occupied in watching the different bearings to talk very much; and, although we didn’t drop the pilot until well past Cape Santiago, I could see that my friend preferred to know himself just how his ship was being navigated. After a six-o’clock breakfast we turned in and slept until noon. Then we went below and sat down at our first meal with the passengers, only four of whom spoke our language, so that the conversation was mostly carried on in rudimentary Spanish. 4 - CHAPTER IL ' The captain’s cabin was an exceedingly comfortable one, with a large chart table in the middle, cushioned transoms around the sides, and several luxurious rattan chairs. It was situated upon the hurricane deck directly under the wheel-house, and had large windows instead of the usual vorts, so that we had an uninterrupted view of everything that was going on. ‘While I smoked an after-dinner cigar ond enjoyed the breeze which blew through our quarters, the strange and rapid succession of events that had resulted in my being bound for the most forgotten corner of the earth’s surface struck me very forcibly. Every few moments some reminiscence of cld times would occur to one or the othe- of us, and I finally asked Halsiead if he were married.

“No,” he said; “I'm not. I was just going to ask the same question. It seems rather odd that we two should Yave reached the age of—let’ssee; I'm 35, and you can’t be/ far from it—without settling down. Do you know, cld chap, I'm Dbeginning to think I haven’t made much of a success in life.?

“Oh, I don’t know. You're likely to have a ship as long as you want to go to sea, aren’t you? And the house would probably offer a fairly good Lerth ashore, if you felt like taking it.” “] suppose so, as long as the present management remains unchanged. Dut, even so, there’s no chance of making a fortune at it. lere we are, you and I, two men in the prime of life, and able thoroughly to enjoy all the good things in it, yet I suppose we are likely to kcep on drudging for some one else as long as we live. In the long run tke fellow who persistently drudges comes out ahead, and then he’s too old to enjoy his good fortune, It takes a young man to appreciate the things that money will buy.. Now why can’t we strike a bit of luck somewhere, find a buried treasure or something of tke sort, and then live like princes in London or New York, instead of frying our gizzards out in the East Indies? Isn’t there a fairy godmother that we might propitiate?”

“M-m-m, I don’t seem to remember any in my family. - But, speaking of treasure, aren’t we sailing over pretty much the same track as that followed by the old galleons?” : “That’s right; same track, to a mile. To-morrow morning I'll show you Port San Jacibto, on the island of Ticao, where they used to wait for a favorable wind in beating through the San Bernardino passage. Anson’s ships watched for them just outside ‘he ‘Embocadero,’” as it is called in Spanish, and they all stopped at the Ladrones for pigs and water on the voyage across.” “Well, weren’t they usually loaded with a pretty rich cargo?” “Rich! Why, man, the Acapulco gallcon brought between two and three millions—in silver dollars, gold doubloons, and indigo—to Manila, once or twice every year. You see, the junks used to come down from Hong-Kong in March or April, loaded with silk brocades, fine linen, gold ornaments and jewels, which the Manila Spaniards bought and, after keeping what they wanted for personal use, shipped to Acapulco oun speculation. Mexico was a viceregal province then, and the Philippines was a subdependency. The return galleon brought the proceeds of these speculations; though, as the boletas, or shipping permits for transportaticn space, were issued by the gobernadors for revenue, they practically amounted to a Philippine subsidy.” . ' “That’s about as I remember it. There were a good many galleons wrecked on the coral islands, weren’t there?” :

“Lots of them; they were great unwieldy tubs, always loaded beyond their carrying capacity. And, by the way, that reminds me of an instance which I happen to know about, more or less directly. Last voyage, Padre Julian, who has been in charge of the mission on Saipan for 30 or 40 years, came home with me., The old chap is a good deal of a student, and has the history of these islands at his finger-ends—best judge of rum and sherry I ever saw. I used to fill him up with good liquor, just to see him enjoy it and hear the stories he told when the stuff got into his blood.” - [To BE CONTINUED.] : Another Explanation. “We were married in that hasty way,” explained the girl .who had eloped, “because we objected to ihe display and the Bother and the cost of a big wedding, you know.” “Indeed ?” answered the girl who had hoped to be married first, speaking in a most insinuating voice. “I'm glad tc hear that. It disposes of that foolish -rumor.” ' “What foolish rumor?”’ asked the girl who had eloped. ; “That you didn’t dare give him time to think it over.”—Chicago Post. 014 Obligation of Uncle Sam. L. H. Pray, of North Conway, N. H., has a United States note for the sum ol $3O which was issued May 10, 1775, and the printing and signatures are all -

A RED LETTER DAY. Triamph of the Democrats Over Republicans in the Cuban - Tariff Battle, The democrats in the house of representatives have scored a signal vietory over their opponents. Standing at last, with a few unimportant exceptions, shoulder to shoulder, the democrats divided and disorganized the republicans, broke the autocracy of the speaker and amended the Cuban rec‘i'procity measure with a provision abolishing the differential tariff on sugar. ; This is certainly more than the most optimistic democrat dared hope to accomplish two weeks ago, and is only a foretaste of what the minority may yet do if it shall continue to present the compact front which it maintained in the battle, says the Louisville CourierJournal. ~ It had been feared that there would be serious division among the democrats themselves o the proposition to reduce the tariff in favor of Cuba; but on the final vote only ten stood against it. The result is a brilliant victory for the united party, and whether or not the bill as passed by the house gets through the senate, the party victory remains, and its inspiriting effect is bound to be lasting and great. - The differential duty on Bugar, asall who are posted in tariff legislation understand, is the difference between the duty on raw sugar and the higher duty on refined sugar: This is the duty which the sugar trust has always demanded and has always got. The democrats now, in passing through the house a repeal of that differential rate, have struck the trust a strong blow and have taken an important step toward making the sugar tariff more a tariff for revenue and less a tariff for protection, while they have forced the republicans to align themselves openly in defense of the trust. It is from every standpoint the most tefiing triumph achieved by the democratic minority in years. . Mr. Payne, the leader of the republican majority, says that this amendment to the reciprocity bill carries with it a repeal of the countervailing duty as well as of the differential duty. If that is true, so much the better. The countervailing duty is the extra duty which must be placed upon sugar on which the government of the producer pays an export bounty; in other words, it is the result of that phase of protection which refuses to allow the American consumer to get the benefit of the generosity of a foreign sugar producer’s government in partially paying the American tariff tax. If Mr. Payne is right, the democrats did a bigger day’s work than they were aware of themselves. : . It is likely that the amended bill will have rough sailing in the senate. The sugar trust is very strong in that body, but even though the measure be finally ‘passed without the house amendment the tactical advantage which the house democrats have won cannot be diminished. It was a red-letter day for the democrats in congress. - IT TROUBLES THE STOMACH. The Trust Question Begins to Come Close Home to the Pockets of the People, : The trust question threatens to resolve itself into a mnational stomach trouble. And if it does the popular view of it will be rapidly and radically changed. , As to iron, steel, copper, tin, wire, nails and hardware generally, the people may listen more or less patiently to the proposition that trusts are beautiful and beneficent agencies for lessening the cost of production, raising wages and cheapening prices. But no argument will avail to reconcile the mass of mankind to the disappearing beefsteak, the vanishing lamb stew and the shrinking ration of pork, says the New York World. Owen Meredith shrewdly says of man that— ¢ ‘““He may live without love—what is passion : bait pining? But where is the man that can live without dining?"’ The beef trust has done more in a fortnight to set the people thinking keenly and deeply on the problem of monopoly than all the trusts that manipulate unedible things put together could possibly do. Steak at 25 cents a pound is the “price that staggers humanity.” It is the anti-climax of “the full dinner pail.” The subtleties of the economists will be swept away like cobwebs when people are forced to weigh them against a lean larder and a pinched bill of fare. History abounds with \illustrations of the fact that whoeverand whatever interfere between man and his meals invite disaster. The French revolution began with a ery for food under the windows of the king’s palace. It was the bread riots of half-fed England that forced a tory government to repeal the taxes on corn in very fear of what might happen if it did not. The American people, having always been the best-fed people in: the world, will resent all the more fiercely the artificial dearness and scarcity of feod which the trusts are conspiring to create. : :

If there is any practical remedy for this piratical raid on the people’s food supplies in the federal anti-trust laws President Roosevelt and Attorney General Knox cannot move to apply it too quickly. ‘“The full dinner pail” was a conquering cry. ‘“The empty dinner plate” would be a still more decisive slogan. “Prosperity” will lose all its spell-binding power if the trusts are able to maintain extortionate prices on meat, poultry, butter and eggs and put the people on short food allowance amid the overflowing plenty of the most plentiful land on which the sun shines. '

——Trusts are run for the benefit of the capitalists, not for the benefit of the workingmen, Senator Hanna to the contrary notwithstanding. Just as was the case when the tariff shut out foreign competition, so now when the gigantic combinations recently formed have shut out domestic competition, dividends increase, not wages.— Houston Post. o

- ——Either the immediate passage of the ship subsidy bill, or its postponement till next session, will be in the nature of a democratic campaign doeument.—Cincinnati Enquirer,

- IT 1S UP TO MR. ROOT, The Military Head Is Charged with Withhelding Information Reg&arding Philippine Frauds. After the treaty of Paris had been signed and the Philippines thereby ceded to the United States, the Spanish prime minister, Senor Sagasta, said: *“Now Spain is avenged.” This was laughed at as a fine bit of cynicism; but events have established Sagasta as a highly respectable authority. The *“gift” has cost us hundreds of millions and the prediction that the end is at hand is no more sanguine than it has been scores of times within the last two years. After the task of establishing peace and quiet in a broken and scattered territory there is the problem of protecting it. In the event of a foreign war we would not have the comparatively easy work ol defending a continuous empire. To attack a compact nationality fighting for home and country is a very different proposition and far less inviting than the inauguration of aswar which may be forced and fought 7,000 miles from our shores, says the Detroit Free Press. :

. That congress appreciates what a stupendous menace we have bought appears in the fact that it is trying to make appropriations to fortify the seaboard cities in towns where the costly maintenance of garrisons will be necessary even after the internal troubles are quieted. For the same reason the navy must be largely increased. There is nothing to do so long as we cling to the Philippines but to establish and maintain a largely increased fighting equipment both for the reasons cited and because the respect formerly had for the Monroe doctrine is greatly weakened by the invasion of the other hemisphere. Some idea of what it would mean to have to defend our new possessions in the event of war appears in the fact that the aggregate land of the Philippines is about equal to that in New Mexico, while the seacoast they have is almost equal to that of all our states bordering on the two great oceans.

Figures of the expenses that we must carry are overwhelming, and the most sanguine do not predict that the generation is yet b’o‘rn that will see the balance in favor of this country. Yet these considerations are far from covering the material considerations involved. Charges of fraud in the Philippines have been passed over with a lightness that invites its repetition. Some of the ugliest stories connected with modern civilized warfare are under investigation. The senate committee is encountering extreme difficulty in getting vital facts as to the true situation in the islands. Gen. Taft is charged with the suppression of important information bearing upon the military government. There is no valid excuse for this, but there is the creditable explanation that he, as the head of the civil government, shrank from condemning those with whom he is allied in control.

Now itis alleged in open senate that the secretary of war is withholding material information from the committee. If this be true he is without an apology. He is the power behind the military government, and to cover its derelictions is to become a party to them. If the charges are true Mr. Root has ignored acts for the people, and that it is they who are demanding an unabridged and explicit statement of conditions in our new possessions. Conceding the right of military control in the Philippines it does not follow that it can be exercised at honie in the slightest degree. Congress has a right to know everything, and of course will know everything.

POINTS AND OPINIONS. ———Should the paramount issue in the next campaign be the control of the trusts and the related questions of the tariff and the shipping subsidy steal it will mean victory for the democratic ticket. — Peoria HeraldTranscript. o

———Protectionists in this country who jubilate over the protectionist trend of the British budget ought not to forget that the new grain duties will hit the American farmer in the corn belt worse thama drought. And that can be nothing to be glad about. —~Springfield (Mass.) Republican. ——Unless we read the signs of the times altogether incorrectly all efforts to make anti-imperialism the paramount issue will fail, although it will be an important issue. On the tariff reform proposition all democrats can get together, no matter how widely they split in 1896. And when they get together on a sane platform they will be reenforced by thousands of republicans who now see the error of their protection ways.—Toledo Bee. ——A tariff for protection to “infant industries” and to ‘“maintain American wages” is one thing; a tariff that breeds trusts and empowers them to take the American people by the throat and make them pay more for the products of their own soil and industry than foreigners 3,000 miles away is guite another thing. The days of the tariff for trusts omnly are numbered. The people are ready to demand a share in their own prosperity.—N. Y. World. . : :

——lt is time that congress stripped the mask of “benevolent assimilation” from this administration. Letthe people have ‘all the facts 50 carefully concealed and so unblushingly denied by the war department. Let them see what really has been done in their name in the torture of noncombatants, the murder of prisoners, the burning indiscriminately of all dwellings in villages where some few “insurgents” have been found. It is a badstory, but when the people find out how bad it is they will also find a remedy.—BostonPost.” - :

——The solution of the trust problem will be provided once the intelligence of the American people is thoroughly aroused to the necessity of grappling with this great evil. It is not to be ‘“controlled,” because give the selfish few an ell and they will take a mile. Give them the power to organize in “communities of interest” and when the people become thoroughly aroused they -will loosén the screws a bit only to tighten them up again when the people once more slumber. Destruction, not regulation, is the remedy for the trusts. — Omaha w%”"d e A e

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THE LAUGHALOT BOY. The Laughalot boy is a gay little tad ‘Who lives in a gay little place ‘Where all the good people who meet him are glad For just looking into his face; And the birds that sing there from the dawn until night Warble only such songs as give people delight— : '\ Sing to add to the joy - Of the Laughalot boy, , g Each with all of its glad little might. Oh, the Laughalot boy always runs to obey, And never is rude or unkind, And only good people go smiling his way, And woes never darken his mind; The Laughalot boy is a gay little tad Who has many more joys than the boys who are bad— - *All the winds seem to go As hey,wants them to blow, And his la:zmng makes everything glad. —S. E. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Herald.

-BURIED BY A COUGAR. Hunter Has an Experience with Hun-' gry Wild Beast That He Will : Not Soon Forget, - A hunter who was trailing after bear meat in British Columbia reports to the Western Sportsman an experience which he calls a ‘“narrow graze.” If the incident happened as the hunter tells it, it was indeed a narrow graze; but one cannot help suspecting that some of the invigorating ozone of the northwest has got into the story., Nevertheless it is worth hearing. : : “It was a warm day, and along in the middle of the afternoon I began to pine for rest and a pipe. It was all quiet and no traces of game, and so when I'd had a comfortable smoke I stretched out for a nap. “It must have been an hour later that I woke up and found myself covered with two feet of leaves, snug as the babes in the wood. I was all tucked in that cozy that nobody else could have done it but a cougar, and most likely a female cougar at that. It occurred to me with some force that I'd been filed away for future reference, and that I hadn’t waked up any too soon. I didn't soothe me to figure on that cougar stowing me away as a dog hides a bone. ; It seemed that the best thing for me to do was to countermine that cougar’s mine, as it were. So I hunted up a log about my size and covered it with leaves—a nice, fat hump on the ground. Then I shinned a tree close by, assuring myself beyond any doubts or peradventures that nobody: had meddled with the working of my repeater. ; “Well, that cougar circled around the pile of leaves for a matier ' of minutes, ecrouching and picking a nice select place to spring from. When she got satisfied and made the leap she went through the air tremendous, throwing the leaves in a whirlwind and scratching and snarling. It was some of a shock when she found the log, but she didn’t display any disappointment. She just took the scent and came to the foot of my tree and looked up, real venomous. “It seemed to her an awkward job to handle, I having my gun ready so, and the cougar had an inspiration. She went to a tree about ten feet away and started to go up. She was after that meal and not to be discour‘aged by any trifles. It was her idea to elimb up above me on the other tree and then bring me down with a flying leap. “I didn’t lose any more time with experiments or speculations, but let her have it the first time she came round the tree. The ball went through her jaw and breast, and the varmint went to the ground: The young ones were running around, and I knocked them over, too, with the gun.

~ “Since then I haven’t gone to sleep in the woods so careless and casual like.”! = :

MATCH GUN FOR BOYS. Here’s a Toy That Will Affiord Fun to Youngsters Who Are Bright - Enought to Make One, We wiil show you how to make-a real gun. Take a glass tube of onehalf inch in diameter and about five inches long, and close it at one end with sealing wax. Wheels and gun carriage are made of cigar-box wood. To fasten the barrel, glue a hollow piece of cork on the gun carriage, as =it — / e , > (///f 7 e, ’ ik <3 \\\}7’.’.‘\,' /.7\\\\ N "\\mu..l : ///%\\\\\“\* A N NN\ .:f" l\‘§\\ / i ; \”"" i I ==/ /f‘:éf:'-’ < ; ' (= — M mpr— THE MATCH GUN. figure shows. The wooden parts of the gun are connected by tacks and glue; as axle for the wheels use a strong knitting needle or a piece of wire. To prevent the wheels from coming off the axle, stick a large glass bead on each of the axle ends. Load the gun with a parlor match, inserting it head first, and closing the opening of the barrel with a piece of cork or bread kneaded into a small ball, to make it airtight. Do not insert too tightly, or it will prevent the match from flying out. o The gun is fired with a second match, as shown in figure. The match will explode with the report of a Miniatare canon apd fly from three to five yards, envelgedin a blue

- PRETTY LITTLE TOY. How to Make a Candle-Light Merrpe Go-Round That Will Delight - : All Who See It - Now boys and girls, here is the prettiest merry-go-round you eves saw, and you will all think so yourselves after you have made one, unless I am very much mistaken. Just imagine it, too! This merry-go-round is made entirely of paper, with the exception of the two upper disks, or floors, which are of thin cardboard. _ : . The lighted candles make it geo round, and you will all be surprised how quickly it does go round. To most of you it will be news that a flat piece of paper will float for an almost indefinite period, and a surprise, too, to learn that it will carry an astonishing amount of weighs while afloat. For the fun of it place a piece of writing paper in a dish of water and just see how much it wiil carry. 5

By careful distribution of the weight I have placed on a single sheet of floating writing paper a table knife and fork, a small pair of scissors, a large wooden spool, besides a number of one cent pieces! It hardly seems possible, does it? But try it for yourselves and see. _ ~ As for the merry-go-round, when it is set in a pan of water, and in = L - I =AP ’7 . 7 &1% ( N WLA U L& | W =TH B = s L E —%& = BNy = U- O SIS e =2 CANDLE LIGHT MERRY-GO-ROUND. darkened room, a prettier sight yom never saw. Why, the picture does not begin to do justice to it. Now all try and see what you can do. Cut out a disk of writing paper, any size. you- please, and fasten to this in an upright position four narrow columns of rolled writing paper, with sealing wax. These columns should be carefully rolled and fastened with sealing wax. Now cut out two light cardboard disks—very stiff wrapping paper will answer—for the second and third floors. Place one disk on top of first set of columns, fasten it with sealing wax, and on top of this set four more spaper columns exactly in position as shown in picture. On top of this set amnother.disk, and on top of this again a paper wheel, which should be made as follows: Whittle out a delicate stick about six inches in length and fasten these crosswise on top of the longest stick; now slip over these cross sticks square pieces of writing paper at angles as shown in illustration. After this fasten the whole in an upright position in exact center of top disk."

Cut out four more delicate sticks, attach these in horizontal positions to disk on second story—see picture —and slip over ends of these triangalar pieces of paper at angle as shown in picture. Now place candles in position under these four pieces of projecting papers, and also two candles on top, under the wheel, but before placing candles in position set your merry-go-round very carefully into a pan of water.

Light the candles, turn out all other lights in the room, and you will have a merry-go-round that ~will please and delight -you. - e By varying the angles of the papers’ projection beyond the second story and the papers on the wheel, you will be enabled to make the merry-go-round travel faster or slower, as you may wish.—Meredith Nu- _ gent, in N. Y. Herald. ’ A TOUCH IN PASSING. —

Girl’s Experience That Furnishes & Powerful Argument Upon the " Choice of Companions,

“It’s queer the way different people make you feel,” the girl said, thoughtfully. “I don’t mean people you know or love, but people that you just brush up against. The other day, for imstance, when I went over to see Helen, Sadie Graves was there calling. She stayed an hour or more, and the whole time she talked about nothing but ‘style. Now, usually, you know, the clothes question doesn’t bother me a bit—l like to be well dressed, of course —but I don’t worry over it, for there are always so many better things to think about. But it was two whole days before I could shake off Sadie Graves, and then it was only because somebody else helped me. I just lived and breathed clothes, fretted overdresses that were made last year, and planning how I could fix them over and longing for all sorts of new things; it seemed to me that I must be stylish; that Icouldn’t stand it not to be. Sadie made you feel as if it were the ome thing in the world that a girl should live for.

“But the second evening Uncle James had a caller, and I happened to be in the parlor. After the first greetings they didn’t notice me at all, and I just curted up in my corner and listened. Uncle James had been reading Mr. Riis’ Ten Years’ War, and he and father had talked it over a good deal. That had been intensely interesting, but this man had lived it and helped. Oh, if you could have heard the things he told! All my little. selfish, contemptible thoughts about clothes, and what people thought of me, just shriveled up and blew away. Ihad gotback to the real ‘worth whiles’—the being glad and grateful for all the rich things one has in one’s life, and the trying to help wherever one can. It didn’t seem as if I ever could be small again. And yet I suppose I should be —if I were with Sadie Graves. I wish I might never meet her again, until T've grown big enough in my thoughta RaEA A e B SEd R e