Chapter IX (2)

In earning money by the exercise of any art, as, for instance, painting on china, embroidering on linen, or designing book-covers, a girl's ambition should be to do the very best and finest work she can. She must compete with skilled workers, and she must not be satisfied with slipshod work of her own. Then, whether she be a rich or a poor girl, she must ask the price given by the best houses, not underselling other people. For instance, simply because a young girl has a nice home and no expenses to speak of, and is in want of pin-money, she should not dispose of a doily worth ten dollars for five, even if the purchaser be her aunt Mary. She has no right in any case to undersell another girl, though she may give her work away freely if she chooses.

It may be extravagant for Marjorie to take a street car, when she is quite able to walk, while it would be quite proper for Elsie to go delicately to and fro in a carriage. All this depends on circumstances, and on the margin you can honestly afford for expenses.

When you happen to meet a friend in a public conveyance, you do not pay her fare, nor does she pay yours. Each person defrays her own expenses. Never permit chance acquaintances to pay for your railway tickets, nor to be in any way out of pocket on your account.

THE IMP OF THE TELEPHONE.

BY JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.

VI.--THE CIRCUS (_Concluded_).

"Hullo," said Jimmieboy. "Back again?"

"Do I look it?" asked the Imp.

"Yes, I think you do," returned Jimmieboy. "Unless you are your twin brother; are you your twin brother?"

"No," laughed the Imp, "I am not. I am myself, and I am back again just as I appear to be, and I've had a real dull time of it since I went away from you."

"Doing what?" asked Jimmieboy.

"Well, first I had to tell your mother that the butcher couldn't send a ten-pound turkey, but had two six-pounders for her if she wanted them; and then I had to tell him for her that he could send mutton instead. After that I had to blow up the grocer for your father, whose cigars hadn't come, and then tell your father what wasn't so--that the cigars hadn't been ordered--for the grocer. After that, just as I was leaving, the cook came to the 'phone and asked me to tell your Aunt Susan's cook that her cousin in New York was very ill with a broken wheel on his truck, and that if she would meet her in town at eleven o'clock they could go to the matinée together, which she said she would do, and altogether it has been a very dull twenty minutes for me. Have you enjoyed yourself?"

"Hugely," said Jimmieboy, "and I hope now that you've come back I haven't got to stop enjoying myself in the same way. I'm right in the middle of the Fish Circus."

"Oh, are you," said the Imp, with a smile. "I rather enjoy that myself. How far have you got?"

"The Shark and the Lobster had just gone off when you came back."

"Good," returned the Imp. "The best part of the performance is yet to come. Move over there in the chair, and make room for me. There--that's it. Now let's see what's on next. Oh yes. Here comes the Juggling Clam; he is delightful. I like him better that way than if he was stewed."

The Book interrupted the Imp at this point, and observed:

"Now glue your eyes upon the ring,
And see the Juggling Clam
Transform a piece of purple string
Into a pillow-sham.

"Nor think that when he has done so
His tricks are seen and done,
For next he'll turn a jet-black crow
Into a penny bun.

"Next from his handsome beaver hat
He'll take a piece of pie,
A donkey, and a Maltese cat,
A green bluebottle fly;

"A talking doll, a pair of skates,
A fine apartment-house,
A pound of sweet imported dates,
A brace of roasted grouse;

"And should you not be satisfied
When he has done all that,
He'll take whatever you decide
Out of that beaver hat.

"And after that he'll lightly spring
Into the atmosphere,
And show you how a Clam can sing
If he but persevere.

"When he has shown all this to you,
If you applaud him well
He'll be so glad he'll show you through
His handsome pinky shell."

Jimmieboy didn't believe the Clam could do all this, and he said so to the Imp, but the Imp told him to "wait and see," and when the boy did wait he certainly did see, for the Clam did everything that was promised, and when Jimmieboy, just to test the resources of the wonderful hat, asked the Clam to bring out three dozen jam tarts, the Clam brought out the three dozen jam tarts--only they were picture jam tarts, and Jimmieboy could only decide that it was a wonderful performance, though he would have liked mightily to taste the tarts, and see if they were as good as they looked.

"What comes next?" queried Jimmieboy, as the Clam bowed himself out of the ring.

"Listen, and the Book will tell," returned the Imp.

The Book resumed:

"We now shall have the privilege
Of witnessing the Whale
Come forth, and set our teeth on edge
By standing on his tail.

"When this is done, he'll open wide
That wondrous mouth of his,
And let us see how the inside
Of such great creatures is;

"And those who wish to take a trip--
Like Jonah took one time--
Can through his mammoth larynx slip
For one small silver dime.

"For dollars ten, he'll take you to
The coast of Labrador,
The Arctic Ocean he'll go through
For dollars twenty-four;

"And should you wish to see the Pole,
He'll take you safely there,
If you will pay the usual toll--
Ten thousand is the fare."

"I'd like to go to the North Pole," said Jimmieboy.

"Got ten thousand dollars in your pocket?" queried the Imp, with a snicker.

"No; but I've got a dollar in my iron bank," said Jimmieboy; "perhaps he'd take me for that."

"Very likely he would," said the Imp. "These circus fellows will do almost anything for money; but when he got you there he would tell you you could stay there until you paid the other $9999; and think how awful that would be. Why, your ears would be frozen solid inside of four weeks."

"Is it as cold as that at the Pole?" said Jimmieboy.

"Colder!" ejaculated the Imp. "Why, when I was there once I felt chilly in spite of my twenty-eight seal-skin sacques and sixty-seven mufflers, so I decided to build a fire. I got the fagots all ready, lit the match, and what do you suppose happened?"

"What?" queried Jimmieboy, in a whisper, for he was a little awed by the Imp's manner. "Wouldn't the match light?"

"Worse than that," replied the Imp. "It lit, but before I could touch it to the fagots the flame froze!"

Jimmieboy eyed the Imp closely. This seemed to him so like a fairy story, in which the first half is always untrue and the last half imaginary, that he did not exactly know whether the Imp meant him to believe all he said or not. It did him no particular good, though, to scrutinize the Imp's countenance, for that worthy gave not the slightest sign that there was any room for doubt as to the truth of this story; indeed, he continued:

"Why, the last time I went to the North Pole I took forty-seven thermometers to register the coolth of it, and the mercury not only went down to the very bottom of every one of them, but went down so quickly that it burst through the glass bulb that marked 4006 below zero, and fell eight miles more before it even began to slow up. It was so cold that some milk I carried in a bottle was frozen so hard that it didn't thaw out for sixteen months after I got back, although I kept it in boiling water all the time, and one of the Esquimaux who came up there in midsummer to shoot polar bears had to send for a plumber after his return home to thaw out his neck, which had frozen stiff."

"Maybe that is why the whale charges so much to take people there," suggested Jimmieboy.

"It is, exactly. There is no risk about it for him, but he has to eat enough hot coal and other things to warm him up, that really it costs him nearly as much as he gets to make the trip. I don't believe that he clears more than half a dollar on the whole thing, even when he is crowded," said the Imp.

"Crowded?" echoed Jimmieboy. "What do you mean by that?"

"Crowded? Why, crowded is an English word meaning jamful and two more," said the Imp.

"But crowded with what?" queried Jimmieboy.

"Why, passengers, of course. What did you suppose? Ink bottles?"

"Then he takes more than one passenger at a time," said Jimmieboy.

"Certainly he does. He'll hold twenty-five boys of your size in comfort, thirty-five in discomfort, forty-five in an emergency, and fifty at a pinch," said the Imp. "But see here, we are losing a lot of circus. There goes the Educated Scallop out of the ring now. I'm sorry you missed him, for he is a tender."

"A what?"

"A tender. That is, he is ten times as marvellous as a wonder. Why that Scallop is the finest comic actor you ever saw. His imitation of a party of sharks off manning is simply the most laughable thing I ever saw," said the Imp, enthusiastically.

"I wish I could understand half of what you say," said Jimmieboy, looking wistfully at the Imp. "Because if I did, you know, I might guess the rest."

"What is it you don't understand now?" asked the Imp.

"What is a party of sharks off manning?" queried Jimmieboy.

"Did you ever see a man fishing?" questioned the Imp.

"Yes."

"Well, if a man can fish, why shouldn't a fish man? Sharks can catch men just as easily as men can catch sharks, and the Scallop shows how sharks behave when they catch men--that's all."

"I wish I'd seen it; can't you turn back to that page in the book, and have it done all over again?" asked the boy.

"No, I can't," said the Imp. "It's against the rules of the Library. It hurts a book to be turned back, just as much as it hurts your little finger to be turned back, and in nine cases out of ten turning back pages makes them dogeared; and dogs, or anything that even suggests dogs, are not allowed here. Why, if the other Imps who own this Library with me knew that I had even mentioned dogs they would suspend me for a week. But, my dear boy, we really must stop talking. This time we've missed the Crab with the iron claw--why, that Crab can crack hickory nuts with that claw when he's half asleep; and when he's wide awake he can hold a cherry stone a hundred miles a minute, and that's holding mighty fast, I can tell you. Let's hear what the Book has to say now."

"Bang!" said the Book.

"Dear me!" cried the Imp. "Did you hear that?"

"Yes," said Jimmieboy. "What does it mean?"

"It means the circus is all over," said the Imp. "That was the shutting up of the Book we heard. It's too bad; but there are other things quite as well worth seeing here. I'll tell you what we'll do--I'll find the Pixyweevil Poetry Book, and turn that on, and while you are listening, I'll see who that is ringing, for I am quite sure the bell rang a minute ago."

[TO BE CONTINUED.]

The game between the elevens from the Carlisle Indian School and the Y.M.C.A., at Manhattan Field, Thanksgiving day, was one that I wish could have been witnessed by every football player in the country. For real earnest football play I have never seen the Indians' performance beaten. They went on the field not to talk, not to slug, not to wrangle with the officials, but to play football. And they did play football. They attended strictly to their business from whistle to whistle, and not a word did one of them say, except to call out the signals. I will make another exception. One player did make a remark. Some of the Y.M.C.A. men were talking and objecting in a manner unfortunately too common with some football players, when one of the red men tapped his opponent quietly on the shoulder and said, "Ugh, too much talk!"

Irwin, r.t., Gros-Ventre. Cayou, l.h.-b., Omaha. Metoxen, f.b., Oneida. Pierce, l.-g. and Capt., Seneca. McFarland, r.h.-b., Nez-Percé. Seneca, sub., Seneca.

Leighton, sub., Crow. Schanandore, Oneida. Hudson, q.-b., Pueblo. Miller, l.e., Stockbridge. Jamison, r.e., Seneca.

CARLISLE INDIAN FOOTBALL ELEVEN.]

When one considers that these Indians had never played football, nor had even seen a game, before they came East from their reservations--some of them three years, some only one year ago--their work and behavior are all the more notable. Their first knowledge of the game came from watching the Dickinson College men. That was four or five years ago. Now the Indians can defeat Dickinson in a majority of games played. This year's eleven is the strongest the school has ever put into the field, and it has been the most successful. Most of the players are from the Western tribes, and they are a strong, wiry lot. Their quick movements and splendid muscular development enable them to make great gains in bucking the centre, which is the play more favored by the Indians than running around the ends. Their early life and training have hardened them, too, so that they are able to stand the strain of football much better than their white brethren.

The Captain of the eleven, Bemos Pierce, a Seneca, is over six feet tall, and weighs 203 pounds. He is at left guard; the right guard, Wheelock, an Oneida, is likewise a six-footer, and weighs 185 pounds. Lone Wolf stands in the centre, completing a trio unprofitable to buck. Lone Wolf specially is a hard man for an opponent to handle, being as hard as iron and as lithe as a serpent. He stood as model for the statue of the Indian killing a buffalo in front of the Fine Arts Building at the World's Fair. Metoxen (or more properly Met-the-Oxen) is the full-back, and has made a reputation for himself as a clever punter. He is also a swift runner, and invariably makes a gain when he takes the ball. In a game last year he made a 95-yard run. The half-backs are noted more for the strength of their running than for swiftness, and the linemen are models for quick play and sharp following of the ball.

Lawrenceville's victory over the Hill School was somewhat of a fore-gone conclusion, but in spite of the advantage the Jerseymen had from the start, the game was a most exciting one. Twelve points were scored by Lawrenceville in each half, and as the ball was but a few inches from the Hill's line when time was called, the score came near being 30-0. The home team was much the lighter, but they played good football. As soon as the ball had been kicked off by Lawrenceville, the Hill began an offensive game, which was most effective, carrying the ball down to the ten-yard line. They used the U. of P. system of interference, and had six men back of the line in all their offensive plays. Lawrenceville had not come against this system before, and it was not until well along in the second half that they were able to meet it well. The line held excellently, however, and the Hill failed to push the ball over the line.

The Hill's interference was quickly formed (as it could be, with all the men necessary for it grouped back of the line), and runs of five to fifteen yards around the ends were frequent. Most of their gains through the line were at left tackle. Here Lowndes outplayed Cadwalader. It seemed as though Cadwalader were asleep, and he consistently failed to hold his man. He was weak in running, too, for when given the ball he struck the line only to be tumbled immediately. Richards, the Lawrenceville left guard, was also outplayed by Mills. At centre the Jerseymen held their own, and gained through Chadwick frequently. Kiefer, at half-back, ran well, and captained his team in faultless style. The tackling of the Hill players was sharp and effective, and fully equal to that of Lawrenceville.

Few punts were exchanged, but Kafer excelled Monypeny in this respect, although the latter ran well with the ball. For Lawrenceville, the dashes of Kafer and Davis through Hill's line were noteworthy. Indeed, I have seldom seen a full-back gain at the line as Kafer did in that game. The best all-round playing was done by Emerson. He made wide holes for his backs, and when given the ball, never failed to gain. Emerson is, beyond a doubt, the best tackle on any of the school teams. Edwards, at right guard, outplayed his opponent, Dean, and made repeated gains with the ball. Dibble made a number of end runs, and tackled better than he has ever been known to do, even on his own campus. He ran his team admirably, showing good generalship, which plays so important a part in strong matches nowadays. Powell and Fincke, at quarter, played an equally good game.

The result, of course, shows that Lawrenceville played a winning game. The whole team worked together in a manner that ought to be gratifying to its coaches. Cadwalader deserves especial mention for his goal-kicking, which was of an even excellence. He has done uniformly good work at goal-kicking in all the games this fall, and it will be remembered that by his kicking of goals in the Andover game the score was turned in favor of his team. The Hill School used a very aggressive sort of back field-work, which against lighter teams this fall scored readily. Lawrenceville's stout line, however, was able to withstand it at all points of the game.

The one point of superiority Lawrenceville's team shows this year over last year's team is her defensive work. Her ends were a trifle superior, breaking up the Hill School's interference successfully, except once, when the full-back, protected by the two halves, ran twenty yards, and would have made a touch-down had not Kafer broken up the interference and downed the man with the ball. The Hill School ends were tried for some respectable gains, though no long run was made around them. In this, as in the Andover game, Dibble was unable to run down the field for a touch-down as was done against the Berkeley eleven and other school teams so repeatedly earlier in the year.

After playing two tie games, for the championship of the Connecticut League, the Bridgeport and Hartford High-Schools met for the third time on the Yale field, Thanksgiving day, and victory was carried back to Bridgeport. Hartford opened the game with a kick-off. Bridgeport caught and advanced very near the centre. In three successive plays they failed to make five yards. A signal was then given (as Hartford supposed) for a kick, but instead of the ball being passed to Keane for a punt, Foster took it, and advanced it thirty-five yards through a hole in the centre, which must have been six feet wide. This brought the leather within a few yards of Hartford's goal. After two plays Foster pushed it over the line between Hartford's left tackle and end, and the goal was kicked by Foster. The second touch-down was made by a criss-cross play. De Forest took the ball and passed it to Foster, who circled around Hartford's left end for another gain of thirty or forty yards, the ball being a few yards beyond centre in Hartford's territory when this play was made. After one or two unimportant plays Foster again carried the ball over the line, but no goal was kicked.

Bridgeport's third and last touch-down was obtained partly by a fumble of Goodell's, and by a criss-cross play. The ball was a short distance in Bridgeport's territory, and after three downs, Keane punted. Goodell made an attempt to catch, but missed, and Ives dropped on the ball. Then the same criss-cross play was tried again with perfect success, Foster running around Hartford's left end and over the line for a touch-down. Foster also kicked the goal, and thereafter Bridgeport scored no more.

Hartford's scoring was done in the second half. The first points were earned by steady rushes down the field, Lyman was finally sent with the ball between right tackle and guard for a touch-down, and Ingalls kicked the goal. The second score was made in about the same way--Luce going through left guard and centre, and Ingalls again kicking the goal.

As in the first of the three games, left end was Hartford's weakest spot, and Bridgeport took advantage of this to fire their interference frequently into Morcom. In the first half the Hartford men were decidedly sleepy, which may have been due to their lack of practice, and the ball was kept almost entirely in their territory. In the second half they took a remarkable brace, and not only scored twice, but kept Bridgeport from doing anything. In individual play Foster did the best work for Bridgeport, making all her touch-downs and all the long runs. He was also very good on the defense. Ives played a good game in both aggressive and defensive work. Keane made some fine punts, and bucked the line as well as any man on Bridgeport's team. Bill played a good aggressive game, but was a little weak on the defense. For Hartford, Lyman, Goodell, Luce, Chapman, and Ingalls played first-class football. Lyman tackled well, and made sure gains when sent with the ball. Goodell, notwithstanding his fumbles in trying to catch kicks in the first half, did good work in the second. Luce punted strongly, and Ingalls got in more tackles for his team than any other man.

Hartford's ends were very weak, as I have said, and Bridgeport's were very strong. The other linemen from Hartford were superior to their opponents, and the backs of both teams were about equal in skill. The interference of both elevens was strong, and there was less fumbling done than in any game I have seen this fall. Hartford showed commendable pluck, and displayed not the slightest discouragement when they left the field at the end of the first half with the score 16-0 against them. They died game, and need not feel ashamed of being the losers. Bridgeport has cause for pride, and the entire Connecticut League may well feel that theirs has been a profitable and notable season.

Champions of the N.Y.I.S.F.B.A.]

The Inter-city game was played on the Berkeley Oval, a week ago Saturday, between the Berkeley and Pratt Institute teams, as the champions of their respective leagues. Both teams were in first-class condition, and during the first half the spectators were treated to hard, fast football. The game was a remarkably clean one, and the penalties imposed were only for off-side play, using hands, and a forward pass. Pratt kicked off to Bien, who immediately returned the ball to Pratt's thirty-five yard line, where Higgins was downed in his tracks by Hasbrouck. In eight trials Pratt could only advance the ball fifteen yards, Berkeley securing it on downs. Berkeley then sent her backs at Pratt's right end for a gain of seven yards, and then three yards through the centre. The right end was again tried, netting twenty-five yards. Pratt then took a brace, and recovered the ball seven yards from her goal-line. Berkeley's line held well, and her men soon had the ball again in their possession. They found a weak spot between left guard and tackle, and through this hole, in three trials, E. Irwin-Martin was pushed over the line for a touch-down, from which a goal was kicked. The Pratt team rallied after having been scored on, and dashed at Berkeley's line so persistently, and with such good judgment, that in eight minutes they tied the score. In the second half, however, Berkeley's superior condition told, and the final score was rolled up to 16-6.

Berkeley met another team from the Long Island League on Thanksgiving day. She had played St. Paul's twice before this season, and the two schools had broken even. The rubber was a hot contest, full of sharp and snappy work. The score, 16-6, gives no indication of the kind of game put up by the losing team. They excelled Berkeley in team-work, and displayed a beautiful defence. By defeating Trinity the following Saturday, Berkeley closed the championship season, and took the pennant for 1895.

The English High-School eleven expected an easy time with C.M.T.S. team in their championship game two weeks ago. The Cambridge boys, however, gave them the hardest game they have played; 14-8 was the score. Cambridge scored twice on straight play, and English High once on straight play and twice on flukes.

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FIGURE STUDIES.

Figure studies are the most difficult as well as the most interesting pictures made with a camera, and therefore the prizes are always higher which are offered in this class. To make a good figure study, which shall be a real picture, requires special skill and tact, for though one is constantly seeing charming and original subjects, it is quite another thing to fix them on gelatine plates.

To make a success of figure studies one should begin by selecting a subject, the simpler the better, and make a photograph of it twenty times if necessary, till one is obtained which is satisfactory. The habit of giving up after one or two unsuccessful trials is what makes the work of the average amateur of so little pictorial value. One figure study repeated till it is right makes the taking of all others of the same class easier.

Choose some simple subject--something which you are familiar with in every detail, and know when the picture is correct. Do not try to arrange the folds of the dress or of any drapery which you may use. Lift the drapery and drop it again, and have the subject rise and sit till the folds of both gown and drapery are graceful. If one tries to arrange the lines they are almost sure to look stiff, while if the folds are allowed to fall of themselves they are usually artistic. Only in rare cases should the subject look toward the camera or show the full face. A half or three-quarters view of the features is more artistic, and sometimes if the face is turned almost away from the camera the pose is more effective. This is the case if a picture is being made of a person reading, writing, or drawing.

The amateur living in the country has perhaps the advantage over his co-worker in the city in the choice of subjects for figure studies. Several excellent subjects, appropriate to the season, are just now within the reach of the country amateur. One which would be sure to please is that of a girl coming across the field laden with wood treasures, such as autumn leaves, ferns, mosses, etc. In making such a study care should be taken that the branches and ferns are not massed too heavily.

Another subject becoming more and more rare as steam takes the place of hand labor, is the interior of an old-fashioned cider-mill, with a curly-headed boy sucking cider through a straw thrust into the bung-hole of a cider barrel. Still another country figure study could be made of two or three boys cracking butternuts or hickory nuts under the tree that bore them. In taking such a picture be sure that at least one of the boys has his back to the camera, for unless such is the case the group looks too stiff. Choosing the Christmas turkey is an excellent subject just now, and one easily made.

Homely occupations make good subjects for figure studies. Grandmother darning stockings, Katherine trimming a hat, Ellen mixing bread or baking pies, George chopping or sawing wood, Benny building a bonfire, and like subjects, which will suggest themselves, are easy to make, and are always attractive pictures.

In making figure studies where the objects have to be arranged do not crowd too many into the picture. Try for the best, and do not send anything to the contest of which you can say, "This would have been better if I had--" Make it the very best of its kind.

SIR KNIGHT W. H. TOBEY wishes to know when the results of the
competition will be published. The successful contestants will be
announced in the January number of the ROUND TABLE.

SIR KNIGHT AUSTIN O. OLMSTEAD, of Wisconsin, wishes to know how to
make enlargements on bromide paper, or, if the directions have been
published, to know in what number to find it. Sir Austin will find
directions in No. 801, March 5th, 1895.

SIR KNIGHT RALPH E. COTTER asks how to take pictures of sunsets,
and also if the negative does not affect the tone of the picture,
for, he says, some negatives he can tone a good color and others he
cannot. To take pictures of sunsets use a slow non-halation plate,
a very small diaphragm, and an instantaneous exposure. Make the
exposure when the sun is hidden behind a cloud, but shows light
through the breaks in them. There is nothing much prettier in the
way of out-door photographs than sunset views. Pictures made from
different negatives take different tones, according to the density
of the negative. A thin plate will take a tone a sort of slaty
gray, while with a good negative showing sharp contrasts almost any
color or tone wished may be obtained.

SIR KNIGHT EMILE LOW sends blue prints of two pictures showing a
dark circle in the centre, and asks what is the trouble with his
camera. It evidently leaks light, and to find out if such is the
case a plate should be put in the holder, the slide drawn, and with
the shutter closed expose the camera to strong sunlight. Develop
the plate, and if it is fogged examine the bellows for a pin-hole,
and look to see if the lens board fits tightly.

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CARDS

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Postage Stamps, &c.

1000

Mixed Foreign Postage Stamps, including Fiji Islands, Samoa, Hawaii, Hong Kong, for 34c. in stamps; 10 varieties U. S. Columbian stamps, 25c.; entire unused 5c. and 10c. Columbian Envelopes, 25c. the pair. Only a limited number were issued by U. S. Government. E. F. GAMBS, Box 2631, San Francisco, Cal. Established, 1872.

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An Appeal for a School-house.

Come, dear readers of the Table--Ladies, Knights, Patrons, and their friends--let us make possible the laying of the corner-stone of Good Will School next spring. The task is not a difficult one. It can be accomplished in this way:

Get one subscriber to HARPER'S ROUND TABLE. Remit the $2 for it for one year. Attach the accompanying Coupon. Say in your letter that you wish the 50 cents turned into the Fund. And the thing is done. The Fund is complete. The corner-stone will be laid. The boys will have an industrial school-house. The Order will have performed a grand, a chivalrous deed.

At this holiday-time every person who reads these lines has it within his or her power to build this school-house. Because, if _you_ get the one subscriber, the house will be built. If you do not, it will not--not now. All depends on you.

Go out and ask your friends about it. Ask them to help you get the subscriber. Your parents and teachers will help you. Ask them to do so. Set your heart on getting this one subscriber. Go to a Sunday-school or church committee, a day school, some well-to-do man or woman who has young persons in the household. Ask the well-to-do neighbor. Relate the merits of the paper, and show a sample copy and Prospectus. We furnish them free. Ask us to do so.

But do more than this. Relate the story of Good Will. Tell the person whom you are asking to subscribe why you want the subscription, and why you want it now. Tell him or her that Good Will Farm, while in Maine, takes boys from any part of the country, and is therefore not a local, but a national enterprise. Say that it is a house for an industrial school that the Order is to build. The Farm is in good hands, and the school itself will be well conducted. Our task is only to put up the building, not to conduct the school. Say that during the last few years--two or three--more than 700 poor boys have applied for admission to Good Will, and had to be refused it for lack of room. These boys were deserving. Say further that if you get the subscription the school will be built, and, by turning a house now used for the school into a dwelling, more boys can be taken--boys of five, six, and seven years of age, who are now homeless, may be given homes, school advantages, and a chance to become useful Christian men.

During the next two weeks will _you_ get this subscription? Talk it up--and get it. The appeal is not made to the Order. It is made to _you_. If you do not wish to cut out the coupon, make a pen one nearly like it, ask us for duplicates, or send on the subscription without a coupon, simply saying that you got it to help the school, and that you want 50 cents of the $2 given to the Fund. Be sure to give the subscription address, and your own name for the Honor Roll.

Come on, dear friends, let us build this school-house.

THIS COUPON

Will be received by the publishers of HARPER'S ROUND TABLE as

when accompanied by an order for a NEW subscription to HARPER'S ROUND TABLE and One Dollar And Fifty Cents. The intent of this Coupon is to pay you for inducing another person, _not now a subscriber_, to subscribe for HARPER'S ROUND TABLE for one year. This Coupon has nothing whatever to do with your own subscription; that is, with the copy you expect to read next year, it matters not in whose name it be ordered, and will not be accepted as payment for any part of it. It is good for its face in the hands of any person who performs the work indicated, whether said person is a subscriber or not. HARPER & BROTHERS.

How Tortillas are Made.

I was recently looking through some of my old copies when I came
across a morsel contributed by Lady Rebekah Phillips Dixon. In
describing some Indians of Arizona she spoke of them making
tortillas, but could not describe how they were made, as there was
an obstruction to her view. I have very often watched the Indians
preparing them.

They first get a large bread-pan (and it doesn't particularly
matter whether it is scrupulously clean or not), and dump in a
quantity of flour without measuring it, and which, by-the-way, has
generally been done up in the corner of an old shawl, and hidden in
the brushy part of the wick-i-up, or stowed under the bed. From the
corner of the shawl she has on, or perhaps the hem of her skirt,
the squaw extracts a can from which she takes, also without
measurement, a bit of yeast. From still another portion of the
shawl she gets a little salt and mixes the whole together with
water.

The dough thus made is divided into balls, a trifle smaller than a
biscuit, and laid out in a row until she resurrects from a
neighboring cactus, or from under a saddle, or, still more likely,
out of the bed, a very greasy frying-pan which, often without
washing, is transferred to the fire to heat. The squaw seats
herself in front of it, and taking one of the small lumps of dough
she very swiftly tosses it from one palm to the other until it is
very thin, when it is transferred to the frying-pan, where it
remains until slightly browned, when it is tossed up very
dexterously about two feet and comes down again in the pan--turned.
When it is done it is laid on the coals, where it completes its
baking. The tortillas are about a quarter of an inch thick, and to
my taste about as near to sole-leather as anything not leather can
be.

FLORENCE E. COWAN.
KINGMAN, ARIZONA.

Questions and Answers.

Joseph Cook, 3311 Howell Street, Wissinoming Philadelphia, is engaged in the commendable task of looking up names of his ancestry, and he wants all the Cooks in the country to write him. If all do, his mail will be large. "M. T." is here again for further information. She asks for yells and colors of the following colleges: Pennsylvania State, Grinnell, Stevens Institute, St. Albans Military, Georgetown, Lake Forest, and the State universities of Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, and Wisconsin.

Henry B. Foss asks if Chicago is not now the richest of all American colleges. Hardly, we think, but it is among the very wealthiest. The last gift of its chief founder, $3,000,000, was, we believe, contingent upon the people of Chicago, or at least the friends of the university, raising an equal sum. Should they do so, the plant of the university would be worth about $13,000,000--a vast sum, which can make Chicago a great factor in educational matters. "Who writes our puzzles!" asks Victor Landrum. A score or more different persons. Some authors furnish material, and one of the editors puts that material together. Some of our cleverest puzzle work has been done by women--Ellen Douglas Deland, Mrs. Pollie Pemberton Bermann, Mrs. Clara J. Denton, Mrs. H. E. Banning, Miss J. M. Cox, Mrs. M. E. Saffold, and Miss L. E. Johnson.

Fred Hayden asks if we think young men should study politics. We answer, yes. "Is an electric locomotive for heavy traffic doing successful work anywhere?" inquires Emanuel Parrish. Yes, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, hauling freight trains through the tunnel under the city of Baltimore. "Do members of the House of Representatives at Washington get the same salary as United States Senators?" asks J. B. G. Yes, $5000 a year, besides some allowances for stationery and travelling expenses. No, the members of the British Parliament, either Lords or Commons, are not paid. Yes, the young Duke of Marlborough is a full member of the British House of Lords.

This Department is conducted in the interest of stamp and coin
collectors, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question
on these subjects so far as possible. Correspondents should address
Editor Stamp Department.

I promised to give illustrations of the Confederate stamps, and I begin with those issued by the authority of the general government. These are all very common in comparison with the "Local stamps," which were issued by postmasters for use at their own post-offices exclusively. These "Local stamps" will be illustrated in a subsequent number of the ROUND TABLE.

There are seven dies, from which eleven distinct varieties were printed, and three minor varieties. In addition there is a 1c. yellow stamp which was printed but never used.

Taking the stamps in the order of their issue, we find,

1. The 5c. green. (Illustration No. 1.)

2. The 10c. blue, die A. (Illustration No. 3.)

3. The 2c. green. (Illustration No. 2.)

4. The 5c. blue. (Illustration No. 1.) This is the same stamp as No. 1, except in color.

5. The 10c. red, die A. (Illustration No. 3.)

6. The 10c. blue, die B. (Illustration No. 3.) In die B the letter A in the word STATES has no crossbar; it is simply an inverted V.

7. The 5c. blue. (Illustration No. 6.) This was printed in London, and looks like an engraved stamp.

8. The 5c. blue. (Illustration No. 6.) This is identical with No. 7, except that it was printed in Richmond. It looks like a lithograph.

9. The TEN c. blue. (Illustration No. 7.) Instead of figures 10, the lower label reads TEN.

10. The 10c. blue, die A. (Illustration No. 7.) In this die the scrolls at the four corners are full and clearly printed.

11. The 10c. blue, die B. (Illustration No. 7.) The same as No. 10, except that the scrolls are scanter, and there is a flaw in the beard.

12. The 10c. blue. (Illustration No. 7.) This stamp has a rectangular plain blue line surrounding the entire stamp.

13. The 2c. red-brown. (Illustration No. 4.)

14. The 20c. green. (Illustration No. 5.)

Taking the stamps in the order of scarcity, we find them to be as follows:

1. The 2c. green. (Illustration No. 2.)

2. The 10c. with outer line. (Illustration No. 7.)

3. The TEN c. (Illustration No. 7.)

4. The 2c. red-brown. (Illustration No. 4.) Those four stamps are about equally scarce.

5. The 10c. red. (Illustration No. 3.)

6. The 20c. green. (Illustration No. 5.)

7. The 10c. blue, die A. (Illustration No. 3.)

8. The 10c. blue, die B. (Illustration No. 3.)

9. The 5c. blue. (Illustration No. 1.)

10. The 5c. green. (Illustration No. 1.)

11. The 5c. blue, Richmond print. (Illustration No. 6.)

12. The 5c. blue, London print. (Illustration No. 6.)

13. The 10c. blue, die A. (Illustration No. 7.)

14. The 10c. blue, die B. (Illustration No. 7.)

The last four are extremely common, both used and unused. None of the fourteen stamps are as scarce as any of the "Postmaster's Stamps."

I get so many inquiries concerning half-cents and cents that I purpose in an early issue to give a list of all those which are bought by dealers.

PHILATUS.

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INTERNATIONAL EDITION.

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A Companion to the Stamp Album.

Prepared for the American collector by Henri Pène du Bois, Esq.

How this Book is Divided.