Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 27, 1895, Page 11

[ THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, JANUARY 27 1895 11 Boys and Girls. ——— — == . T P T > T WOLF GLEN hills. Montieth gave it only a glance when | Now, they ought to be able to take care of GLEN. he skimmed past at (he same farions pace as | themselves.” before. It looked as it there was hope at| She sat down on the bank and removed Ty Edward * Ellis. last, for those first scen wero all at the rear. | her skates. The slight layer of snow on the (Copyrighted, 1895, by Eaward 8. Eilia) It new danger came, it would be from others | CHAPTER 111 THE FLIGHT OVER THE ICE. The same minute that Monteith Sterry #aw the new peril which threatened them All, he darted out beside the brother and sister, who had slackened their pace at sight of the furious wolves in front. “What shall we do?’ asked cannot push on; let's go up stream. ““You cannot do that,” replied Jennie, they are gathering behind us." A glance in that direction showed that she spoke the truth. It looked as It a few minutes would bring as many there as in advance, “Wo shall have to take to the woods, €ald Fred, “and there's little hope there.’” “It won't do,” added the sister, who seemed to be thinking faster than elther of hier companions, ‘‘The instant we start for the shore they will be at our heels. Make as if we are golng to run In close to the right bank, so as to draw them after us; then turn and dash through them.' The maneuver was a_repetition of the one #he and her brother had exccuted a few min- utes: before and was their only hope. “I will take the lead with my pistol,” said Monteith, “while you keep as close to me as you can. Every second was beyond value. The ravenous wolves were not the creatures to remain idle while a confcrence was under way. At sight of the three figures near the middle of the course they rent the air with howls and came trotting toward them with that light, springy movement shown by a gaunt hound, to whom the gait is as easy as a walk, Monteith Sterry shot forward on his right foot, his revolver with its two precious charges tightly gripped in his naked hand. This was to be called into play only in the last extremity. The Killing of a couple of wolves from such a horde could produce no effect upon the rest, unless, perhaps, to fur- nish some of them a lunch, for one of the curlous traits of the lupus species is that they are cannibals, €0 to speak. His hope was that the flash and report of the weapon would frighten the animals into opening a path for a moment, through which they could dart into the clear space below. Having started, Monteith did not glance behind him. Fred and his sister must look out for themselves, He had his hands more than full. With a swlft, sweeping curve, he shot to- ward the bank, the brutes immediately con- verging to head him off. The slight, fami- Mlar scraping on the ice told him that Fred and Jennie were at his heels. He kept on with slackening speed, until close to the shore, and it would not'do to go any further. An overhanging limb brushed his face. But his eye was on the wolves further out in the stream. The place was one of the few ones where the course was such that no shadow was along either bank. The moment the bull of the creatures were drawn. well over toward the right shore, Sterry did as his friends did a while before, skimming abruptly to the left and almost back over his own trail, and then darting around the pack. The liae was that of a semi-circle, Whose extreme rim on the left was several rods beyond the last of the wolves swarming to the right. “Now!" called Sterry, at the moment of turning with all the speed at his command. Critical as was the moment, he flung one glance behind him. Fred and Jennie were almost nigh enough to touch him with out- stretched hand. No need of shouting any commands to them, for they understood what he was doing or rather trying to do. Young Sterry, as I have said, had cleared the horde of wolves, making his turn so quickly that they slid a rod or more over the jce before able to check themselves and change thelr own course. The strategem seemed as successful as the other had boen, but it was too soon to con- gratulate themselves. At the moment when everything promised well, the most enormous wolt he had ever seen bounded from under the trees on the left bank and galloped di- rectly for him. He was so far in advance that the only way of dodging him was by another radical turn in his course. To do this, however, would bring him 5o near the other brutes that they were almost certain to leap upon every one of the par “Use your revolv rear. Monteith had already decided that this was an exigency demanding one of the remaining charges and he partly raised the weapon in front of him. Meanwhile, the huge wolf had stopped on seeing that the procession was coming in a straight line for him. The youth moderated his speed still more, that he might perfect his aim. He was In the act of leveling his pistol when the animal advanced quickly a couple of steps and made a tremendous leap at his throat. The act was unexpected, but at the snstant of his leaving the ice Monteith let fiy with one chamber at him. The success was better than he had a right 10 expect, for the leaden pellet bored its way through the skull of the wolf, who, wi rasping yelp, made a sidelong plunge, though diying off a bank into the water, and, striking on the side of his head, rolled over on his back, with his 1eg8 vaguely kicking at the moon, and as powerless to do harm as a log of wood, Drief as was the halt, It had given the leading brutes of the main body time to come up. They were fearfully near, when the scent of blood and the sight of their fallen comrade suggested to the foremost that a meal was at their disposal. They flew at the huge fellow with the fury of tigers and rended him to shreds and fragments in a twinkling. The only way of escape was still in front, d, with the utmost energy, power and skill his command, Monteith Sterry darted Fred, we or called Fred from the at SHE REACHED THE MAIN STREAM. abead. His crouching body, the head well in advance, somewhat after the manner of a racing bicyclist on the home stretch, his compressed lips, his flashing eyes, with every muscle tense, were proofs that he knew it bad now become a struggle of life and death If he allowed one of those wolves to ap- proach nigh enough to leap upon him, he would be borne to the earth like a flash and share the fate of the victim of the pistol They wero near, for he could hear that mul- titudinous pattering on the ice, when the din of their cries permitted it, and they were running fast. But, he reasoned, it they were so close to him, they must be still closer to the brother and sister, whose peril, therefore, was corre spondingly greater. He looked around. He was further from the horde than he supposed, but Fred and Jennle were uot directly behind Bim as he had thought + At the moment an awful thrill shot through him; be caught a glimpse of Fred close in shore, aud going like tho wind. The couple was Biill preserved from the fangs of the wolves, but only heaven knew how long it would last. A short way ahead an opening showed where & creek put in from the woods and that. ran out on the ice in frint “It seems to me that all the wolves in Maine a on this little river,” was his thought, “but there may be a few left that will try to get into our path—"" A wild cry came from his friends and he glanced toward them. Not only that, but believing his help was needed, he sheered over to them as quickly as he could, Tho course of the river had changed, so that a ribbon of shadow extended along that bank, partially obscuring the form of Fred Whitney, who seemed to cling to it. as though the:ein lay his safety, The brutes were now so far to the rear that there was little to be feared from them, though they still kept up the pursult, and, while able to follow in a straight line, wer doing so with more pected It struck Sterry that skating with his utmost kil zled and alarmed. “What's the matter, Fred?" drawing quickly near him. ‘0, Jennie! Jennie! what will become of her?" Fred Whitney alone, Forgetful of the savage brutes, Monteith Sterry slackened his pace, and in a scared voice demanded: “What has become of her?" she?" “'She darted into the mouth of that creek “Why didn't you foll:w?" “I could not; it was done In a flash; she alled to me to keep on, and said something else which I could not caleh.” But,” continued the wondering Mon- teith, “how could she do it when she was at your side?" ““She fell a little to the rear and made a lightning turn. 1 attempted to f-llow, but it semed half e pack were in my path, and it was certain death. I was frantic for the moment, and even now do not understand what it all meant."” ‘What a woeful mistake!” wailed Mon- teith; “the chances are a thousand to one that she is los “I think,” himeelf, “‘(hat thing, but— A peculiar cry behind them caused Mon- teith to turn his head. The wolves had gained 5o fast during the last few minutes that one f them was In the act of springing upon Fred Whitney. ‘Stoop quick!” shouted his companion. Fred bent low in the nick of time, and the gaunt, lank body shot over his thead, land- ing on the ice i front. Before he could gather himselt a bullet from the revolver was driven into his vitals and he rolled cver, snapping and yelping in his Geath throe: The skaters swerved aside enough to avoid him and the next instant were skimming over the ice at their utmost speed. It was not a moment too soon, for the halt was well nigh fatal, but they could travel faster than the animals and steadily drew away from them, until, ere long, they were safe so far as those brutes were con- cerned. They continued the pursuit, however, belng a number of rods to the rear and in plain’ sight of the fugitives, who looked back, while speeding forward with undimin- ished swiftness. But the couple could not continue their flight, knowing nothing of the missing one. The wolves were between them and her, and Monteith Sterry had fired the last shot in his revolver. “‘How far back does that tributary reach?” he asked. “I never way." “Its breadth is not half of this.” “No; nothing like it.”” “What has become of her?” “Alas! alas! What shall T answer?” “But, Fred, she is not withot hope; she can skate faster than either of us and T am sure none of them were in front of her on the creek or she would not have made the turn she did.” “If the creek extends for several miles, that is, with enough width to give her room, she will outspeed them, but how Is she to get back?" “What need that she should? When they are thrown behind she can take off her skates and continue homeward through the woods, or she may find her way back to the river and rejoin us.” “God grant that you are right, but some of the wolves may appear in front of her and then—" “Don’t speak of it! We weuld have heard thelr “erics if any of them had overtaken ) No situation could be more trying than that of the two youths, who felt that every rod toward home took them that distance further from the beloved one, whose fate was involved in awful uncertafnty. “This won't do,” added Monteith, after they had skated some distance further; ‘‘we are now so far from the brutes that they cannot trouble us again; we are deserting her in the most cowardly manner.” “But what shall we do? What can we do?” “You know something of this part of the country; let's take off our skates and cut across to the creek; she may have taken refuge in the limbs of a tree and is awaiting his friend He was not was puz- he called, it was now apparent was Where s ald it the brother, may half beside have been a good learned, but probably a good “Isn’t some one coming up stream?” asked Fred, peering forward, where the stralght strelch was 50 extensive that the vision per- mitted them to see unusually far. may be another wolf.”” 0; it is a person. Perhaps Quance has en drawn from his home by the racket. He is a great hunter. I hope it is he, for hie can give us help in hunting for Jennie—" Monteith suddenly gripped the arm of his friend. ‘It is not a man—it is a woman!" Who can it be? Jennle, surely—"" i Hurey”along! are no skaters at all!” It was she! That was her voice, and it was her slight girlish figure skimming like a swallow toward them. Within the following minute Fred Whitney clasped his beloved sister in his arms, both shedding tears of joy and gratitude, Jennie had had a marvelous experience indeed, Controlled by an intuition or in- stinct which often surpasses reason, she was led to dart aside Into the smaller stream, at the critical moment, when the fierce wolves were s0 near that escape seemed impossible. She had fallen slightly to the rear, and a single, terrified glance had showed her a beast In the act of leaping at er, Her dart to the left was cnly the effort to elude him for an instant, and she was not aware of the mouth of the creek until sho had entered it. Then, seeing that It was altogether too late to rejoin her brother, she had no course left but to continue th flight, which, until then, she had not in- tended. The words which she called to Fred, that were n°t understood by him, were to the effect that she would try to rejoin him fur- ther down the stream, with whose many turnings she was more familiar tuan he. She ascended the tributary with all the wonderful skill at ber command. Not only the brute that was at the point of leaping at her, but three others turned as soon as they could poise themselves, and went after her at_their utmost bent. But ‘ner change of directicn was a most Yortunate action. As in the case of abrupt darting aside, when on the surface of the larger stream, it placed her considerably in advance of the nearest pursuers. Add to this her power of outspeeding them when the chance was equal, and it will be seen that her only danger was from the front, The creek was s0 narrow that If any of tho wolves appeared before her she wculd be lost, for there was not room to mancuver a3 on the larger stream. But none presented themselves, The first signals had drawn them to the river, and it there werc any near, they and she were mutually unaware of it. As her brother had sald, she was more acquainted with that section than he, She knew at what polnts the river and its tribu- tary curved so to bring them near each cther. Reaching that place, she buried the heels of her skate runners in the ice, sending the particles about her in a misty shower, and quickly came to a halt. Then, standing motionless, she listened, dn the distance was heard the howling of the animals o repeatedly disappointed of their prey, but none was nigh enough to cause her misgiving. “I hope no harn has come to Fred Monteith,” sho murmured or “Bith can skate fast enough to leave the wolves behind; they would have done so at once If they had nct been bothered by having me with them. | speed than would be ex- leaves caused no inconvenience, for she was well shod, and the walk was nct ter. Her fear was that some of the w-lves m'ght sneak up unseen. Often she stopped and listened, but when half the distance was passed wi‘h- out any alarm from that source, she believed nothing was to be feared. A little further and she reached the main stream, the dis- tance passed being £o much less than was necessary for her escorts, that she knew she was in advance of them, even though they had continued their flight without interrup- tion. Her club skates and then she listened again The cries of the brutes were few and dis- tant, and could nct cause alarm. Hark! A familiar sound reached She recognized it as made by skates gliding over the ice. Rising to her feet, she re- marked with a smile: “I think I will glve them a surprise.” And she did. The meeting was a happy one, and before the stroke of midnight all thrée were at home, where they found the mother anxiously awaiting their return, and greatly relieved to learn that despite their stirting experience no harm had befallen any member of the little part (THE END.) LITTLE MR. THIMBLEFINGER AND HIS QUEER COUNTRY. The Childre n's Necond Visit, BY JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS. (Copyright, 1895, by Joel Chandler Harris.) THE LITTLE BOY OF THE LANTERN. “Ot ccurse,” sald Mr. Thimblefinger, “all of you can tell better stories than I can, be- cause you are larger. Being taller, you can think if I were to climb a tree I'd as any of you." “Well, 1 hope your feelings are not hurt,” remarked Mr. Rabbit, sympathetically, “It's not the 'fault of your stories that I fall asleep when you are telling them. It's my habit to sit and nod at certain hcurs of the see as far see that I sometimes drop off when I'm tell- ing a story myself. “I'll try and keep awake the next time you tell one."” “I'm afraid I'lll have to prop Mr. Rab- bit's eyelids open Meadows, laughing. “I'll just try you with a little Thimblefinger declared. “I'll tell you one 1 heard when I was younger. I want to see whether Mr. Rabbit will keep awake, and I Wll"l to see whether there's a moral in the tale. So he took off his little hat, with straw,” said Mrs. one,” Mr. which was the feather ornaments to straighten it out. Then ho began: ““A long time ago when there was a great deal more room in the country next door than there is now, there lived a man who had a wife, one son, a horse, a cow and a calf. He was a hard-working man, €0 much so that he had were securely refastened | her. | see farther and talk louder, but I sometimes | day, and if you'll watch me right close ycu'll | shaped like a thimble, and run his hand over “YOU HAVE COME When you want me' go l% the whispering poplar (hat stands on the RNl and whisper my mame.’ ‘Who are you? asked Johnny, forgetting to be polite, if he ever knew how. ““‘“The Keeper of the Qo that roam in the night,’ replied the lady.. ‘When you go to the whispering poplae that stands on the hill whisper this: ‘0, Keeper of Cows that roam in the night ‘Come over the hill and lend me your light.” ' “Johnny would have thanked the woman, but in the twinkling of an eye she was gone without making a sound, amd not a blade of grass shook to show that she had been there, Johnny turned In his tracks and started | home the way he came. | Before he had gone far he stopped to look back, but the strange country was nowhere to be seen—only the old familiar hills and . trees that he had always known. “When he got home there was a strange woman cooking and fixing his father's supper. The table was set, and everything was almost as neat and as tidy as it used to be when his mother was alive, Even his own little plate was In its place, and his mug with the | plcture of a blue castle painted on it was sit- ting near, But Johnny had no appetite. He | went to the door and looked in, and then went | to the stable. Once there he suddenly re- | membered that he had forgotten to drive the | cow in from the pasture. He went running to get her, but found her coming along of her {own accord—something she was not in the | habit of doing | “Johnny wondered a little at this, but it | soon passed out of his mind, and he got be- | bind the cow and made her go faster. He drove the cow into the lot, and waited awhile for the woman to come and milk. But she delayed o long, he went to the house and found his father eating supper. Instead of going to the table, he went and sat by the fire. ‘Have something to eat?’ said the woman. ‘I am not hungry,' he replied. ‘Have a glass of fresh milk, then,’ she said, « ‘Not tonight,’ he answered. ‘I have just driven the cow in from the pasture. [ brought her from the pasture myselt,’ sald the woman, ‘milked her and turned her out again.’ “Johnny said nothing to this, but he knew the cow had not been milked, and he won- dered where the woman got the milk that his father was drinking. He thought about it | until he forgot all about his grief. He no- ticed that as soon as his father drank the milk he began to smile at the woman. He smiled at the woman, but was cross to | Johnny. | *“After supper the woman went out, and after awhile Johnny went out, too, leaving his father sitting by the fire smoking his | pipe. Johnny went to the lot, thinking the | woman had gone there. He wanted to see whether she would milk the cow. He crept alongside of the fence, and soon was near enough to peep through a crack without being seen, He saw the woman rubbing the cow on the back while the calf was getting all the milk. ““You see how good I am to your sister,’ sald the woman. ‘Now I want you to be good to me. When that boy Jack goes after you to the pasture 1 want you to lead him a chase. I saw him beating your calf today. But see how good I am to your calf sister. I let it have all the milk.’ ““The cow $hook her horn and switched her tail, and Johnny, sitting in the fence corner, wondered what it all meant. “ see,’ said the cow, after awhile. ‘You want to anarry the boy’s father and the boy Is in the way. ~But suppose they find you out. What then? ““Trust me for that, woman; ‘trust me for that." *Johnny waited to héar no more, but crept sister,” sald the FAST AND FAR.” little or no time to devote to his family. He worked hard in the fields all day, and when night came he was too tired to trouble much about his son. His wife, too, having no serv- ant, was always busy about the house, sew- ing, washing, cooking, cleaning, atching, milking and sweeping. Day in and day out it was always the same. The man was al- ways working and the woman was always working. - They had no rest except on Sun- day, and then they were too tired to pay much attention to their son. The consequence was that while the boy was a very bright lad, he was full of mis- chief, up to all sorts of tricks and pranks that some people call meanness. By hook or crook, or maybe by book, he had learned how to spell and read.” But the only beok he had to read was one with big pictures of men dressed in red clothes, and armed with yel- called them pikes, and he tied a shingle to his side and called it a cutlass, and he got him a broom handle and called it a horse, of helping his mother. “Maybe he didn't know any better be- cause Lie wasn't taught any better. But one morning h's mother was so tired that she couldn't get out of bed. She had worn herself out with work. The next morning she couldn't get up, nor the next, and then the neighbors, who had come in to see what the matter was, said that she could never get up any more. 8o one day Johnny found where he was going, and he didn't care. went on and on, until finally, when he took heart to look around, he found himself in a part of the country that was new to him This caused him to dry bis eyes, for he was perfectly sure that he had traveled fast nor far enough to be beyond the limits of the numberless journeys he had made in that was altogether new to him trees were different, the gravels were of never seen before woudering how all these strange things when he had jour- neyed this way before, @ lady, richly dressed came out of the woods and stood before him She neither smiled nor looked and even Suddenly, while he was He neither the sand and clors that Johnny had he could have missed seeing away and went to bed. He was dressed and out by sun up next morning, but the woman was up before him, and had break- fast nearly ready. Johnny asked her if she had milked the cow, and she replied that she had forgotten about it. Johnny saw the milk- pail sitting on the shelf and when he looked at it he knew the cow had not been milked, clse the sides of tho pail would have been spattered, “But the cow had been turned out and the calt was sleeping contentedly in the fence corner instead of nibbling the grass. Johnny drank no milkc at breakfast, but his father did, and smiled at the woman more than ever. During the day Johnny forgot all about the cow, but when night came he knew she must be brought up, so he went to the pasture after her. She was not to be found. He hunted over the hills and fields, low cutlasses. The book was called “The 8 euhyniadiorer: the illK. an¢ Pirooters of Peruvia. . , began . ey et St uddenly the lady he had seen the day roMaybe the name Was oime Pirates of | yefore stepped out of the wood and spoke Beru! 2t puggented Buster: John, wp|to him. She held in her hand a tiny “Oh, mno” replied Mr. Thimblefinger, “I| {0 N dow't 'suppose any such country as Peru e i had been found on the map when that book Take this’ she said, holding out the lantern. was written. But never mind about that. | N1 2 i 3 SR Tho Doy read only that book and he be: | " ‘You wouldn't call me, and so I came to came rather wild in his mind. He wanted Lot g to be a pirooter, whatever that was, and so | ..} foreot: whispered Johnny — = he armed himself with old hoe helves and o B Ay Wore, . ‘Take this lantern and run to the whisp ing poplar that stands on the hill. You'll find your cow tied there, Drive her home and don't spare her.’ hat boy's name was Johnny, but some- | 471 y “Johnny found the cow tied to the poplar times they called him Jack for short. Some £ 916 48 ‘ ut I don't say that, He was fonder o a8 _sho could, L ) ¥ empering. over the country than he was | lantern before he got in sight of the house, but it dropped from his hand and he could find it no more. He ceased to hunt for it after awhile and drove tie cow to the lot, where the woman was waiting. “‘Go got your supper,’ she said to Johnny. “ ‘Yes'm,' replied Jobnny, ‘but he went off only to creep back to,see what the woman would do. He could sep that she was angry. “She abused the cow, terribly. ‘You are a nice sister,’ she exclaimed, ‘to let that boy everything very still in the house, and the [ PrINE you lome so earlyl. - neighbors who wera there were kinder to |, ‘Don't sister me, ‘joaned the cow. i 'than thew had ever been. and. then he | 1'm nearly famished and that boy has nearly knew that his mother would never get tired | Fun me off my legs. Somebody that I 80y more. couldn’t see caught me and tied me to a He felt so bad that he wandered off into | tree this morning and there I've been all the woods, crying as he went. | His eyes | 4. We'd better go away from here. That were so full of tears that he couldn't see | P0Y Wil find you out yet “Then Johnny creptaway, ate his supper and went to bed. He slept late the next morning, but when he awoke he found that his father, instead of being at work, as was his habit,'was smoking bis pipe and talking to the woman, and both were smiling at each other very sweetly. That afternoon Johnny went to bring the cow home before sundown, but all directions from his father's house, and he couldn’t find her. He Yet here he was. suddenly and without | bunted and hunted for her until long after knowing how he got there, in & country | 4ark and then he went to the whispering poplar that stands on the hill and said: “It was just llke when you camo down | ' ‘O, keeper of cows that roam in the night, through our spring gate,” said Mr. Thimble- | Come over the hills and lend me your light!' finger. “The grass was different and the | ‘“Instantly, Johnny heard the cow lowing in the valley and saw a light glimmering faintly in the distance. In & ltte while he heard a tremendous clatter of hoofs up the hill and the rushing of some large animals through the bushes. It seemed to have one eye only and that eye shone as flercely as a flame of fire, as its head swayed from side severe, but | to side. It came rushing to the poplar tree, pity seemed to shine in her face. where Johuny stood, and stopped there. * ‘What now?" she said, ralsing her hand | Johnny peeped from behind the tree and saw to her head, ‘You have come fast and | that the frightful animal was nothing more come far, You are in trouble, Ga back. | than bis cow, with a tiny lantern banging 24,20, o CUT PS5 Py ] ‘U‘- - S - CUT P TR This check must be pre- sented when order is placed. Tlis cheek must be pre- sen'ed when order is placed- 29, 20 1A, A, A s i THIS OUT _IT'S WORTH $5.00 TO YOU! Thiis check will entitle bearer to a ve duction of $5.00 on any Order for Suit vt T e st i " e 444 O n THIS _I1’S WORTH $1.00 TO YOU! 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Then Johnny would drive her home by the light of his little lantern. This hap- pened so often that the neighbors and in- deed the people in all that country, when they saw a light bobbing around at night, would shake their heads and say, ‘There goes Jack and his lantern,’ and then after a whila they called ‘Jack of the lantern.’ “One day he heard two of the neighbors talking about him, saying it was a pity that s0 bright a boy should have such a step- mother as the woman his father was about to marry. Then Johnny (or Jack, as he was sometimes called) knew that his father was preparing to marry the woman who was keeping house for him, and it made the boy feel very wretched to think that this woman was to take the place of his mother. That very day he went to the whispering poplar that stands on the hill and called for the keeper of the cows that roam in the night. The lady made her appearance and then Johnny told her his troubles. The lady smiled for the first time. Then she told Johnny that if he would follow her direc- tions, his troubles would disappear. She gave him a roll of blue ribbon, and told him what to say when he presented it to the woman Just before the marriage took place. She told him also what to do with his little lantern. Johnny went home feeling very much better, and that night his father told him he was to have a new mother the next day. He said nothing in reply, but smiled as if the news pleased him. Johnny lay awake that night a long time, and once he thought the woman came and leaned over his bed as if to listen, but just then a cow not far away lowed once, twice, thrice. Then the woman went away, mutter- ing something. “The next day the invited guests began to assemble early, and after awhile the preacher came. The women neighbors would have the bride to stand up in the middle of the floor to admire her just before the ceremony, and when she stood up Johnny began to march around her, waving his lantern and his blue ribbon and singing: “4 have for the bride ten yards of blue ribbon, Ten yards of blue ribbon, ten yards of blie ribhon- I have for the bride ten yards of blue rib- bon, So rich and so soft and so_rar Five yards to pin on her snowy white bosom— Her snowy white bosom, her snowy white bosom-— Five yards to pin on her snowy white bosom, And five to tie in her hair. I have a lantern to light her along with— To light her along with, to light her along with— I have a lantern to light her along with, When forth she fares in the night; out in the dark, the ribbon will ‘rustle— The ribbon will rustle, the ribbon will rustle Out in the dark the ribbon will rustle, 'And the lantern will lend her its light! “Johnny threw the blue ribbon over the woman's shoulder and around her neck and A his lantern, and instantly the woman ppeared, and in her place stood a cow. Before the people could recover their surprise, the lady that Johnny had seen at the whisper- ing poplar came into the room and bowed to the company. “Phis is the most malicious cow In all my herd,’ said she, ‘and this brave boy has caught her. Here Is a purse of gold for his roward. As for you, sir,’ turning to Johnny's father, ‘you may thank your son for saving you from this witch.” Then she bowed again, and went away, leading the cow, and neither hem was ever seen in that country again. ‘But to this day, when people see a light bobbing up and down in the fields at night they say, ‘Yonder's Jack of the Lantern!'* (To be Continued.) GEORGE How the Famous Philanthroplst Won i Victorious Way in the World, It is simply wonderful what can be ac- complished with perseverance when the end in view is praisoworthy, Who would have thought as they saw the boy George Peabody behind the counter in a grocery store in Danvers, welghing out a few pounds of sugar, that the day would come when he would leave $9,000,000 to bless humanity. He id not gain his money from his parents, for they were poor, hard working people, who could not afford to glve George an education. That he might help them, they found for him a place in a store when he was only 11 years old While his mother lived he was very fond of her, ready to obey her at all times, so | that he was often called “mammy's boy" | by his playmates. If there were a few more man of the same stuff the world would better for them. ¥'s boys be all the It was a pretty picture to see the young lad after the week's hard work, placing his earnings in his mother's hand. It is strange how the world gets to know when a_boy Is devoted to his mother, and always has a place open for euch lads. When George's father died he had not a dollar in the world, but he had what was far better, the estcem and respect of his neighbors, and it was not long before ho way offered work at Newburyport, and when the store where he was employed was burned he was soon hard at work again in George- town, D. C. He was a genial, happy lad ,and 6o re- spectful to his superiors and had such tact with buyers that he soon made friends. His employer always felt he could rely on him, he was always punctual in business. There are at all times men looking out for such bright boys, and as soon as his habits of energy, honesty and perserverance became known, though he had no other cap- ital, ho was offered a partnership when only \ and send It touawithyournamoand 11lsend youthiswateh by express for examination. A ‘GUARANTEE for b Y EARS sent with it. ou examino 16 and iryou think it bargaln Day oir samplo prico §1.85 l onditisyours. It jsthohands Somest and bost timekeeper in tho world for (he money and better than many watches thoprice. FREEN! ™ orery watchwa send_atsolutely frea Turge o lovely rold platel 'and charm.alco curbig 8 catalogue full of bargals ‘Writeto-day, thisoffer wil® notappear agafn. Add: EASTLAKE MFG. CO. Cor. Adams and Stata Ste.e e CHICAGO, ILL. 19 years of age. It was not many years after this George found himself head of an enormous and wealthy business. His trade often carried him to London, so that after awhile he established himself there as a banker. Success and fortune fol- lowed his footsteps, and before long he was enabled to give $15,000 as a present to the World's fair of 1851 in the Crystal Palace, that American inventions might have a good exhibition, His success and fortune are mainly due to the fact that he was a wide reader, a total abstainer from liquors and tobacco. He had a deep love for humanity. He was not like those old fogies who hoard up their money until they die, and then leave it in haste to some institution, but he tried to lighten the cares of those who suffered the poverty which he had known as a boy. Many a poor widow and child have been made happy by his generosity. His name is known nearly all over the world, even in the far north, we find a large tract of land called Peabody’s land, in honor of him, for in 1852 he gave $10,000 to help to fit out’ the second expedition under Kane in search of Sir John Franklin. The same year he sent a check of $2 000 to Danvers, his birthplace, for the purpe of building an institute with a free library = SEARLES & SEARLES. Chronic, Nervous, Private Disases, TREATMENT BY MALL, Consultation Frea ‘We cure Catarrh, all diseases of the Nose, Throat, Chest, Stomach, Liver, Blood, Skin and Kidney Diseases, Fe= male Weaknesses, Lost Manhood, and ALL PRIVATE DISEASES OF MEN. WEAK ME ARE VICTIMS TO NERVOUS and free course of lectures. Debiiity” or, Exhaustion, Wasting Weakness, In S foro Croaig g! 150 . | Yoluntary Losses, with Early Decay in yo Before long he increased the gift to $250,- | ¥PH'MeAT SRR A A 000, prematurcly in ‘approaching old’ age. All yelld Peabody's words to American boys can- | Feadlly o sur new treatment for loss of Vvital not be too often repeated. When he opened the Institute at Danvers, he said: “Though Providence has granted me an unvaried and unusual success in the pur suit of fortune in other lands, T am still in heart the humble boy who left yonder un- pretending dwelling many, very many | n power., culars; free Dr. Searles and Searles, Cast o or_addre with stamp for clre 0ok and rece 1416 Farnam, Omaha. No mittee probably heard through General Ros years ago. There is not a youth within the | who was a member of the committee and sound of my voice whose early oppor- | uncle of Mrs. Ross' husband. tunities and “advantages are not very much [ The first flag was similar to the flag today greater than were my own. I have since achieved nothing that is impossible to the 50 far as the red and white stripes are cone cerned, but instead of our forty-four starg most humble boy among you. v placed in rows on the blue field in the corner , Bear In mind that to be truly great, it | (here were in those days but thirteen stars, ls ot necessary (hat you should gain wealth | ung ey were arranged in . clrolo, Goneral and importance. Steadfast and undeviating | Washine a AW -pointed sta) A AIDDOL Washington had drawn six-pointed stars in and stralghtforward integrity, | } and an honor ever unsuliied by an unworthy word or action, make their possessor greater | ¢ iis design for the flag, and Mrs. Ross sald hat instead of that kind of a star which than worldly success or prosperity. These | W& England’s way of making it, she thought aualities eonstitus srcatnem o verit THESe | (" prench five-polnted star preferable, and His gifts to the poor of London are so | the first president to be agreed, and sat well known that there is no need to men. |down in the back parlor behind the shop tion them, they are a growing witness of his | and drew the design over again in flves generosity. pointed s Mrs, ' Ross was not around England’s queen keeps his memory fresh | € in her heart by still speaking of him as one |t pvidently when our coins were designed, fon ley have the six-pointed stars, who while living was her ““friend." There are everal opinions as to whera The mother George loved s0 well was | the design of the American flag originated. called away long before his departure. But | Some people think it was modelled after tha lis devotion to her was always the same | siripes of the Dutch flag which was well gincere love. To her memory s built tho | known to the colonists and held by theml beautiful church at Georgetown, Mass, [y kindly repute. Some think the stripes where in years to come others may worship the God she taught her boy to worship. n the coats of the continental soldiers sug= Tt was November 4. 1805, st ‘mianioht he | ested the etripes for the flag. Curlously assed av | enough the coat-of-arms of the family of passed away from us to receive his reward, 4 , 5 W, STURTEVA RAFTER the Father of his Country was made up of 2. RANMEHE AL A L stars and stripes and other people ha The Star Spangled Banner, thought this device was selected for the fi Young America ought to know th of the Star Spangled Banner. It & us today, of course, as if the stars stripes had always been in existence. But the fact of the matter is the Mayflower came salling over here under a flag borrowed | | from King James of England and it was 150 years after that before America had a flag of its very own t Even that borrowed flag of King James was not the Union Jack of England today. The royal gentleman had just succeeded in getting a new flag for his country, one that history to and as a complime spangled great wo know any t to Washington, Red to tell of the blood shed for freedomj white for the purity of the prineiples fought Ifor; blue for the protection of hea stars in a circle to tell of the unity of the states; ven; and this was the way still others trans= the orlgin of the idea of the stam banner. It seems probable that & many people made different sugges fons for a national flag, and that the one and revere is the outcome not of one but of the multitude of models. It was fn June, 1777, & year from the time ated that Washington and the others on the comnm united the upright red cross on a white | mittee called upon Mrs. Ross with the des ground of England with the X cross of [slgn before congress formally declared th white on a blue ground of Scotland. These | flag adopted officially s the flag of the were the banners respectively dedicated to | United States, showing that it took time St. George and St, Andrew, and we here were | even in those days to unwind the red tape crowing over our independence before the [with which official deeds are tied up. Unfon Jack was finally made by adding on | Mrs. Ross made the sample flag %o well the red X cross of St. Patrick, the patron | saint of Ireland, at the time it became part sho was made flag maker to the nation, and t for many years thereafter manufactured the of Great Britain flags of the country. ' At the battle of Lexington the American e soldiers dld not have even colors of their | prooklyn Bagle: The America of the prege own to fight under, and at the battle of | oy gy truly as and more intelligently tham Bunker Hill, while thero were several| ;o “American of the elghteenth century streamers of varied colors apportioned among | the colonlsts, they had no distinctive flag of thelr own. But the time for » national flag came at | length. In June of 1 the Father of his | Country and a few other gentlemen to whom | the duty had been officially delegated drew up a plan for a flag and carried it off to be || made. Thia first American flag was manu- | ! factured in the very city where independence | ! was declared, and by a woman. The maker ! was @ Mrs. Ross, who carried on an up- holstery business, and of whom the com-' wishes well for France and believes well of French possibilities and of French character, despite its mercurlal denotements. These onsiderations on this side of the sea form nto a body of good wishes for the new prems dent and the people whom he will rule, and t 19 to be hoped that those good wishes may, appreclated where the events of whiok hey are the subject have occurred, and where consequénces of them will be watched with hardly less interest by France than bp the world at large,