Chapter III: Part 3

Wheels had gone over them, and they had to be sent down to Burton's to be bent into shape--that was all.

Alf Coombs is still in his cousin's store, where he does well, but Dave has come home to Butternut Hill. He says he isn't sure that he shall ever be a minister or a farmer, but he is sure he shall never be wild again. The awful suspicion that fell upon him cured him of that. Miser Jensen was found and arrested, and confessed the theft; he escaped from prison, but there is no fear that he will ever return to Butternut Corner. Dr. Nutting wished to send Tilly to the Academy with Ruby--the whole story of the ravelled mitten was told after the spoons were found; no one could expect a human girl like Patty to keep it--but Tilly thought she had a knack for millinery, and she liked to be independent, and Miss Farnham wanted her; she says she is a good business woman, although she is only fifteen.

The doctor always takes off his hat to Tilly Coombs, while he gives only a careless nod to the other fifteen-year-old girls. The minister, who is his great friend, and hears a good deal about Butternut Corner people through him, does so too, and just now the young people of the Corner are making preparations for another birthday surprise party. They have hired the new Town-hall, because the little house at the foot of the hill wouldn't begin to hold Tilly's troops of friends, and everything is to be in the very best style that is known to Butternut Corner, because they want Tilly to feel that she is "just like other folks."

The All-Boston interscholastic football eleven for 1895 is as follows:

JACK HALLOWELL, _Hopkinson_ end.
J. J. PURTELL, _English High-School_ tackle.
L. WARREN, _Cambridge High-School_ guard.
G. CALAHAN, _English High-School_ centre.
W. D. EATON, _English High-School_ guard.
R. C. SEAVER, _Brookline High-School_ tackle.
LEE BEARDSELL, _Cambridge High-School_ end.
A. D. SAUL, _Cam. High-School_ quarter-back.
T. H. MAGUIRE, _Boston Lat. School_ half-back.
A. C. WHITTEMORE, _Eng. H.-S._ half-back.
C. WATSON, _Cam. High-School_ full-back.

The substitutes for this team are S. W. Lewis, Brookline High-School, end; A. P. Martin, Hopkinson, tackle; Oliver Talbot, Brookline High-School, guard; Brayton, Boston Latin School, centre; E. H. Sherlock, English High-School, quarter-back; and W. W. Aechtler, Brookline High-School, back.

The first requirement that has been considered in selecting the players for this representative All-Boston eleven has been sand. By sand is meant not only physical fearlessness, but even more than that--the moral courage to go into every game and play the hardest kind of football to the end, whether the team is winning or is being overwhelmingly beaten. That is the spirit that is worth more to a team than muscle or science, for without it muscle and science are powerless. It is that which has had more influence than anything else in determining the selection of the All-Boston team. Not that the eleven _sandiest_ boys have been chosen, but the eleven who combine sand and skill in the best ratio. There are no quitters in this combination.

For centre, there is no doubt that Calahan of English High is the most capable man. His playing is as aggressive and lively as any boy's in the League; for he makes himself felt in tackle and end plays, and opens up holes in beautiful style for his backs. The best man for substitute centre would be Brayton of Boston Latin. Warren of Cambridge High is probably the best guard the League has ever developed. He has unlimited sand and endurance, understands the theory of his position perfectly, and is a most valuable rusher and interferer. Close behind him in prowess comes Eaton of English High. Before this year he has played centre, but now he has turned out to be a powerful guard. English High's surest play was to rush Eaton through the other guard. When the referee would call "third down, three yards to gain," Eaton almost invariably would make it first down. Far behind these two guards, but next best, is Talbot of Brookline.

For tackles, one is easily decided on; that is Seaver of Brookline High, who has played a steady, sandy, reliable game throughout the year. The other tackle is harder to choose. I give the place to Purtell of English High, because, while not so valuable a man on the attack as Martin of Hopkinson, his defence is much more reliable. At end one man has shown a decided superiority in all the duties of the position; that, is Hallowell of Hopkinson. He keeps his eye on the ball every moment that it is in play, gets down on kicks beautifully, and I doubt if the aggregate gains round his end in all the League games would amount to ten yards. The other end I give to Beardsell of Cambridge High. He is not so brilliant as Lewis of Brookline High, but is much steadier and more aggressive. Lewis is apt to weaken when his team is losing ground, while Beardsell can be depended upon at any stage of the game.

Everybody admits that Arthur Saul, of Cambridge High, is the best quarter-back of the year, and everybody is full of praise for his plucky work. Not since the days when Bob Wrenn played quarter for this same team have such hard tackling and clever passing been seen. In only one thing does Sherlock of English High, his nearest rival, outclass him; that is in running his team. But giving signals, while very important, is not essentially the duty of a quarter-back, as in many of the 'varsity teams some other player calls them. And Saul is far and away ahead of all the other quarters in every other respect.

The trio of backs I would select are Whittemore of English High, Maguire of Boston Latin, and Watson of Cambridge High. On offence, it would not matter much just who took the middle position; but on defence Whittemore and Maguire should play rush-line half-backs, and Watson full-back, for he is the surest man to tackle and handle punts. All three of these men can kick well; but the brunt of this work would fall to Maguire, as he gets the ball away much more quickly than the others. Whittemore and Watson could both buck the centre, and all three are exceptionally good 'round-the-end men. For substitute half we have Aechtler of Brookline, who is just a trifle behind the others. It is his weak defence that deprives him of a regular place.

Maguire should be Captain of this team. After his work with the Boston Latin team there can be little doubt of his capability. To be sure, Calahan was Captain of the winning team, and did all manner of fine work in that capacity. But his team was much better supported by the school, and had the services of a thoroughly competent coach, while Maguire did all the work of getting his team together. Moreover, Maguire has the advantage of position and of experience, having been Captain part of last season. And Calahan has never been really put to the test, as his men have always been victorious, and never even in danger of losing a game. In Maguire the team would have a courteous, energetic, brainy Captain, and, above all, a Captain for whom they would always instinctively do their best work.

The standing of the teams in the Senior League is as follows:

Games Games Games Points Points
Won. Lost. Tied. Won. Lost.
E. H. S. 5 0 0 56 14
Hop. 4 1 0 40 36
B. L. S. 3 2 0 14 14
B. H. S. 2 3 0 22 16
C. H. & L. 0 4 1 8 40
C. M. T. S. 0 4 1 14 36

SCORES OF GAMES PLAYED.

English High 4 -- Brookline 0
English High 18 -- Hopkinson 6
English High 4 -- Boston Latin 0
English High 16 -- Cambridge High and Latin 0
English High 14 -- Cambridge Manual 8
Hopkinson 6 -- Boston Latin 2
Hopkinson 6 -- Brookline High 4
*Hopkinson 6 -- Cambridge High and Latin 8
Hopkinson 16 -- Cambridge Manual 6
Boston Latin 6 -- Brookline 0
*Boston Latin 0 -- Cambridge High and Latin 4
Boston Latin 6 -- Cambridge Manual 0
Brookline High 18 -- Cambridge High and Latin 0
*Brookline High 4 -- Cambridge Manual 0
Cambridge High 0 -- Cambridge Manual 0

* Protested; ordered to be played over; forfeited by Cambridge.

The standing in the Junior League is:

Games Games Games Points Points
Won. Lost. Tied. Won. Lost.
Somerville High 5 0 1 106 10
Newton High 4 1 1 69 32
Chelsea High 4 2 0 76 74
Roxbury Latin 3 3 0 82 41
Dedham High 1 3 1 16 40
Hyde Park High 1 4 1 20 84
Roxbury High 0 5 0 6 70

The results of the New York, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut Interscholastic League schedules are here given for the purpose of record:

NEW YORK I.S.F.B.A.

FIRST SECTION.

Cutler 24 -- Hamilton 0
Trinity 16 -- Columbia Grammar 0
Trinity 54 -- Hamilton 0
Trinity 24 -- Cutler 4

Colombia Grammar forfeited to Cutler.

SECOND SECTION.

Berkeley 30 -- Barnard 0
Berkeley 34 -- De La Salle 0

Barnard forfeited to De La Salle.

FINAL GAME.

Berkeley 38 -- Trinity 0

PHILADELPHIA I.S.F.B.A.

October 18 -- De Lancey 22 -- Adelphi 6
" " Penn Charter 68 -- Cheltenham 0
" " Germantown 30 -- Haverford 0
" 25 -- De Lancey 34 -- Haverford 0
" " Germantown, by forfeit from Cheltenham.
" " Penn Charter 28 -- Adelphi 0
November 1 -- Penn Charter 54 -- De Lancey 0
" " Cheltenham 40 -- Haverford 0
" " Germantown 12 -- Adelphi 2
" 8 -- Adelphi 12 -- Haverford 4
" " De Lancey 34 -- Cheltenham 0
" 15 Germantown 18 -- De Lancey 6
" " Penn Charter 34 -- Haverford 0
" " Cheltenham 4 -- Adelphi 0
" 22 -- Germantown 6 -- Penn Charter 4

CONNECTICUT I.S.F.B.A.

NORTHERN DIVISION.

October 26 -- Hartford 22 -- New Britain 12
" " -- Norwich F. A. 4 -- Conn. Lit. Inst. 4
" 30 -- Conn. Lit. Inst. 14 -- Norwich F. A. 0
November 2 -- Hartford 22 -- Conn. Lit. Inst. 0

SOUTHERN DIVISION.

October 26 -- Bridgeport 14 -- Hillhouse H.-S. 4
" " -- Meriden 54 -- Waterbury 0
November 2 -- Bridgeport 42 -- Meriden 0

FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP.

November 9 -- Bridgeport 10 -- Hartford 10
" 16 -- Bridgeport 4 -- Hartford 4
" 28 -- Bridgeport 16 -- Hartford 12

If we may judge from the number of protests continually cropping up in the New York League, there must be something radically wrong with school sport in this town. The unhealthy desire to win seems to characterize the young athletes of New York to a far greater extent than the healthy spirit of indulging in sport for sport's sake. The greed for medals and pennants seems to overshadow the true object of all these contests, and this develops a spirit of professionalism, which, if not smothered at once, will, in a very short while, put an end to every kind of inter-school contests that are now known.

When I speak of the greed for medals I am not talking at random. I am telling of what I know. Last spring, at some games on the Berkeley Oval, two young men who were tied for second place in a certain event sat on the turf near where I stood, talking over the commercial aspect of their prowess. They were trying to arrange a deal. One proposed to the other to surrender second place if his rival would allow him to keep the medal. The second mercenary, however, would not agree to this. He, too, wanted the medal, and was perfectly willing that the first "sport" should take the "empty honor" of second place. Both athletes being therefore so morally corrupt, no deal could be arranged as to who should have the medal, and they were thus forced by their very spirit of unsportsmanship to decide the tie by actual contest. This is a true story, in spite of its apparent enormity, and I know the names of both young men.

When such a spirit exists among individuals, it is easy to see how entire teams may be led into a misconception of the ethics of sport. I have no doubt, too, that a good many young men look upon it as clever work to evade the rules and to compass an end in some unfair way, provided they can do it without entailing punishment. A great deal of this sort of thing doubtless started from ignorance, but nowadays it is done because former breaches of honesty have been allowed to pass unpunished. This sort of thing could not happen if the principals of the schools were unanimous in their determination to keep sport clean and absolutely honest. There are two or three head-masters, I know, who feel this way, but the others wink at a great many small infractions, and by so doing encourage greater ones which they know nothing of.

Now that athletics have become such an important feature in the life of American boys and men, I believe that it is just as important for school athletes to be instructed and advised in these matters as it is in any other branch of endeavor where morals and honesty and similar qualities are involved. The trouble is that young men hitherto have been left entirely too much to shift for themselves in athletics. It is not to be expected that they should always do the right thing, and so those who are responsible for these young men are to blame if they have not counselled them as they should.

In other words, the time has now come when every school that recognizes athletics must recognize that there is a moral as well as a muscular development to be looked to, and those pedagogues are unfaithful to their trusts who do not give a greater amount of attention to the former than they do to the latter.

To bring a general discussion to a point with specific examples, let me cite St. Paul's School, Concord, and Lawrenceville. At both of these institutions the professors give personal attention to sport, and there are especial and particular men--men of position, education, integrity--in charge of the moral side of the scholars' athletic development. Because of the clamlike attitude of the authorities of St. Paul's, I know less of the particular methods in vogue up there. But with the conditions at Lawrenceville I am familiar.

Several years of experience there have shown the authorities that the sports of the students can be kept in better condition if expert players are detailed to manage the coaching and the games, but yet they do not believe in hiring a man for the football season regardless of his character and career in college. Since 1889 the policy of Lawrenceville has been to have men as instructors who were not only the best all-'round athletes of their college, but also the best scholars, and held in high esteem for character. In 1889, for instance, George, Princeton's centre-rush, went to Lawrenceville to teach mathematics. After school hours he coached the football team, following up the players day after day throughout the season. This is done in the just conviction that boys should be taught how to play as well as how to study. Two years ago Mr. George retired from active work in football, and is now only an adviser, holding his position in the mathematical department.

In 1893 Lawrenceville secured Street, who played with Garfield on the Williams team for three seasons, and received the cup given to the man who made the best record in athletics during his college course. Street was engaged to teach Latin and English, and incidentally he has taken up the control of athletics. To him has been intrusted the responsibility of allowing certain men to engage in football and baseball; he gets up all the plays the boys use; he also follows up the team every day in its practice, being practically Captain at all times, except when a match-game is in progress. Street is a man of most excellent character, and will not allow boys on the various teams to use profane language for a moment.

Evert unfair dodge and trick which a boy exhibits is instantly stopped, and the men are urged to play perfectly straight, honest ball. Such a thing as slugging, therefore, is unknown. The same thing is done in the baseball season. This year Ward, the Princeton player, went to the school to teach mathematics. He was the Latin salutatorian of his class last year, and won the Fellowship in Mathematics, besides being considered the brightest man Princeton has graduated in fifteen years. He is to help the Lawrenceville students in football and baseball just as Street is doing.

Now the point of this recital is to show that Lawrenceville has at present on its pedagogic staff representatives of five large college teams, each one of whom is known as well for the honesty as for the quality of the game he played on the field. I believe that the future of our college athletics rests with the schools that are this year, and next year, and so on, sending out to the larger institutions men who will control the athletic organizations. Boys who learn bad tricks in schools will play them in a more outlandish and stronger way when they reach college teams. I believe, therefore, that it is the duty of schoolmasters to see to it that their wards are instructed in the ethics of sport as well as in the rule of three; for boys who have been left to themselves to learn, and have learned to win by unfair means, will turn out badly, as far as their future in athletics is concerned, and they may then justly look back to their school days, and blame those whose duty it was to teach them the truth of sport. Beneath the surface of these words are a wanting and a suggestion which I sincerely trust may be heeded and accepted.

It is pleasant to learn that all the world is not hunting after medals, and that the spirit of true sportsmanship is still alive in the land--even if it is in the minority! As a consequence of my sermons of the last few weeks I have received a number of letters. One correspondent says: "I won a swimming match once, and got a ribbon for it, and I prize that just as highly as though it were a gold medal. I think the old Grecian and Roman method of awarding wreaths a striking lesson for this age, and I hope they will play a prominent part in the forth-coming Olympian games."

The poor showing made by the Cambridge Manual-Training School team this fall was largely due to poor management. They had for manager and coach a graduate who knew nothing of football nor of training a team. As a consequence, they went into the games a pitifully overworked and spiritless set, depending upon fantastic tricks to win victories. The futility of it caused the appointment of a coach who had played football and understood the game. It was too late, however, to do any better than tie the demoralized Cambridge High team in the Thanksgiving-day game.

Owing to a delay in the receipt of the photographs, the announcement of the All-New-York interscholastic football team has been necessarily postponed until next week.

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Having now given the better part of a dozen of the finest bicycle trips in the vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts, we must turn our attention to the completion of the trip from New York to Washington. The reader, by referring to the note at the foot of this column, will there be able to find in what numbers of HARPER'S ROUND TABLE the stages from New York to Philadelphia were printed. We therefore take up the route from Philadelphia, the first stage being from Market and Broad streets, Philadelphia, to Compassville, a distance of forty-five miles. Leaving City Hall by Broad and Twenty-second streets, proceed to Hamilton, thence by Twenty-fifth Street to T. A. B. Fountain, thence to Fifty-second Street, and there run into the Lancaster Pike, which is a fine road for many miles from Philadelphia. Nine miles out you pass through Ardmore. Then continuing on the Lancaster Pike a short two miles, you run through Bryn-Mawr, and four miles further on pass through Wayne. You should keep to the Lancaster Pike, crossing the railroad at Eagle. After passing through Devon there is some hilly work until Paoli is reached. All this time the rider has kept to the Lancaster Pike, but it would be wiser for him to leave the Pike and bear to the left at a fork less than a mile out of Paoli and just before reaching the West Chester Intersection. The route then runs by a straight and fine road out to Downington, where by a sharp turn to the right you cross the tracks and again join the Lancaster Pike. The run from Downington to Coatesville is direct and unmistakable. If the rider desires, he can put up here for the night. If he is doing 60 to 100 miles in a day, he can stop here for the noon meal. But it is wiser for both to go on to Compassville. On leaving the hotel you should run along by the railroad track almost due north, having crossed the main line at right angles. The road winds about somewhat, and there are one or two hills out to Wagontown, but with care and some inquiry there is no difficulty in getting started on the road which runs quite direct to Compassville, making a distance of forty-five miles from Philadelphia. Compassville is a reasonably good place to spend the night, the hotel being clean and the food good.

The direct route from Philadelphia to Washington leaves the Lancaster Pike at Paoli, and taking the left fork just beyond that town, runs out to West Chester, and thence through Sager's Mills, Chad's Ford, Double Bridge, to Wilmington. This route to Washington is shorter, but for several reasons the longer route, of which we have above given the first stage, is far more interesting to the bicycle tourist. In the first place, the road is better. Then the hills are much less frequent. Furthermore, the rider passes through much historic territory connected with the Rebellion, and the field of Gettysburg is easily included; and, finally, the scenery and the towns through which you pass are far more interesting.

NOTE.--Map of New York city asphalted streets in No. 809. Map of
route from New York to Tarrytown in No. 810. New York to Stamford,
Connecticut, in No. 811. New York to Staten Island in No. 812. New
Jersey from Hoboken to Pine Brook in No. 813. Brooklyn in No. 814.
Brooklyn to Babylon in No. 815. Brooklyn to Northport in No. 816.
Tarrytown to Poughkeepsie in No. 817. Poughkeepsie to Hudson in No.
818. Hudson to Albany in No. 819. Tottenville to Trenton in No.
920. Trenton to Philadelphia in No. 821. Philadelphia in No. 822.
Philadelphia--Wissahickon Route in No. 823. Philadelphia to West
Chester in No. 824. Philadelphia to Atlantic City--First Stage in
No. 825; Second Stage in No. 826. Philadelphia to Vineland--First
Stage in No. 827; Second Stage in No. 828. New York to
Boston--Second Stage in No. 829; Third Stage in No. 830; Fourth
Stage in No. 831; Fifth Stage in No. 832; Sixth Stage in No. 833.
Boston to Concord in No. 834. Boston in No. 835. Boston to
Gloucester in No. 836. Boston to Newburyport in No. 837. Boston to
New Bedford in No. 838. Boston to South Framingham in No. 839.
Boston to Nahant in No. 840. Boston to Lowell in No. 841. Boston to
Nantasket Beach in No. 842. Boston Circuit Ride in No. 843.

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Probably most of you have heard of Helen Keller, but I have seen and talked with her, and to see Helen and hear her sweet voice, which she, dear child, cannot hear, is to have an experience which you never can forget. "Come and take a cup of tea with me, and meet Helen Keller," wrote my dear friend, and I went.

It was on a winter day, late in the afternoon, when I entered my friend's drawing-room. I saw, sitting beside her teacher, a fair young girl, perhaps fifteen years old. Helen is straight and robust. She carries herself finely, her head held up, her shoulders thrown back. Her little hands are very white and finely shaped, with tapering fingers, which are to her what eyes and ears are to us. Helen sees and hears with those wonderful delicate hands of hers, and everything they tell her is reflected in an instant on her sweet sensitive face. She has a very merry laugh, and responds in a moment to the moods of others, whether they are happy or sorrowful moods. Helen has fair curling hair and a lovely complexion, and you would select her in any group of girls for her beauty and air of grace and distinction. Better than looks is, what her teacher says she possesses, a very sweet, patient, and loving disposition. You discover this as you watch her, for there is so much sunshine in her face, and her manners are so gentle and natural. Then, too, she is very quick to express her thanks for any kindness shown, or gift presented to her, and at any bit of fun her laugh is like a peal of silvery bells.

Helen Keller was a baby not two years old when she had the illness which shut her into darkness and silence for the rest of her life. With sight gone and hearing gone, it seemed as if a very mournful fate would be hers. At eight years of age she was deaf, dumb, and blind, and knew no more than some little docile animal, for nobody had found out how to waken up her brain, or to enable her to communicate her ideas to her fellow-creatures.

It was at this period that her father and mother brought their little girl to Boston, to place her in an institution designed for such helpless children as she was then. Here she came under the immediate care of the lady who has ever since been her friend, sister, and teacher. Miss Sullivan says she had not taught Helen a single week before she was aware that she had an extraordinary pupil. The child learned so fast that her progress was amazing. Something of what Helen has gained you will understand, girls, when I tell you that she reads beautifully in the raised type the blind spell out with their fingers, that she writes a clear, fine, strong hand, operates perfectly three different typewriters, and is now beginning French and German in addition to her English studies. She writes a very creditable letter in French, and translates fables and stories with ease.

Her contact with the world is, of course, through touch, and her senses of smell and taste are acute. She lays her fingers on the lips of the one speaking to her, and rapidly repeats whatever is said, answering at once as any other child would, only Helen's answers are usually quicker and brighter than those of girls of her age. Her teacher talks with her by means of the mute alphabet, taking Helen's hand in her own, and in this way Helen "sees" all sorts of things, Miss Sullivan being her interpreter. When Miss Sullivan is talking to Helen, the latter has a look of the most genuine attention; her whole face is full of interest. You forget that she cannot see, so alert and alive are the features.

Every day this dear young girl writes in her journal, and she puts into this book just the same confidences, and tells it the same happy stories, which other girls write and tell in their diaries. Helen Keller is a happy, contented, merry girl. I am glad I know her, and I wish you all might know her too.

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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 in 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.

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The St. Ives Puzzle Contest.

The St. Ives story excited much interest. To new readers we must explain that it was a tale of the man who came from St. Ives, related to the famous person bound for that place. There were four riddles in it, and the rest of the questions were double meanings of names, chiefly geographical. On the journey the man of wives said he saw "an island of Greece that wouldn't hold water"--Poros; and speaking of the character of his many children, the man said not one was "an island off the Mexican coast"--Angel.

A great many solvers wrote to ask if a mistake had not been made in Question No. 2, "because there were not one hundred words in the paragraph." No mistake was made. The "99th" word is the one preceding the c--100. Here are the answers:

1, Wake; 2, Be just before you are generous; 3, Fife; 4, Tietar; 5, Vilaine; 6, Wigtown; 7, Bureau; 8, Poros; 9, Net and Racquet; 10, Fad; 11, There is no wisdom like frankness; 12, Oka; 13. Mercury (quicksilver); 14, Gull: 15, Yule; 16, Sasa; 17, Angel; 18, Faro and Fortune; 19, Lard; 20, Book; 21, Clinch; 22, Palm; 23, Box-car.

Of the twenty-three questions in the story, twenty-one were correctly answered by William C. Thayer, aged 13, Michigan, and Pearl A. Coyle, aged 13, Pennsylvania. The former missed Nos. 13 and 23, and the latter Nos. 2 and 23. We divide the $10 prize between them, giving $5 to each. The other $15 of the $25 offered is divided among other high solvers thus: Frederic W. Darling and Joslyn Z. Smith, New York (Buffalo); Royal J. Davis. Indiana; Edward L. Lyon, New York; J. M. Espey and Nora B. Tucker, Pennsylvania, $2 each; and Ethel Ruth Sherman, New York; Mabel Josephine Frye, District of Columbia; and Amy Erickson, Wisconsin, $1 each. The money has been forwarded, and reached most of the winners by Christmas day.

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The Quarter is in the Fund.

DEAR KNIGHTS AND LADIES,--I am a great black dog, and I have more
to do with the Round Table Department than you imagine. I have
helped one of your contributors prepare scores of articles for you,
and you have me to thank for their briefness. Whenever a manuscript
threatened to become too long, I would insist on having a door
opened for me, or would beg for a drink of water. So that my wants
might be supplied a long story had to be cut short.

I am a lazy old fellow, but I am as good as I can be, and goodness
means everything with people, and dogs as well. Some little
children who once had a society called "Peacemakers" let me join
their club because I never fight.

I am glad to hear that you are to build an Industrial School for
the Good Will Farm boys, for they have a Band of Mercy, and have
promised to be kind to all dumb animals. This means that when
everything does not go just right in the neat shops you are to fit
up for them, they will not lose their tempers and throw their tools
at any stray cat or dog which happens near. Kind boys will make
kind men; and I think that all the pets that read the ROUND TABLE
ought to raise a fund to help build that school for their mutual
friends. I enclose twenty-five cents for this purpose. If I were a
dog that could perform a great many tricks I would send a larger
amount, but I will leave such an honor to my accomplished brothers.
I suppose the little dogs would consider a dime as their proper
offering; and, by-the-way, what if we adopt that as our standard?
Will all the pets--dogs, kitties, rabbits, lambs, biddies, birds,
ponies--which are interested in boys who are bound to ever protect
them send ten cents for that Good Will School?

I suppose my letter will be published as long as it is the first
from a dumb animal; but the rest of you must not be disappointed if
yours do not appear in print. This magazine is for children, and
they like it too well to give it over to us. However, I should not
be surprised if the most interesting letters should be printed; and
perhaps the pet that writes the most pleasing one will receive a
reward--a pretty collar, it may be. Hoping to see a long list of
"pet names" in the contributors' list for the School Fund, I will
now say

Bow-wow,
BILLY.
BATH, ME.

P. S.--Any pet that wishes boys to keep on abusing them should not
send their dimes.

B.

Any questions in regard to photograph matters will be willingly
answered by the Editor of this column, and we should be glad to
hear from any of our club who can make helpful suggestions.

One of our Round Table patrons sends the following formula for a soda developer, which he says he has used successfully for years:

Hot Water 10 oz.
Sulphite of Soda Crystals 2 "
Sal Soda Crystals 2 "
Bromide Potassium 30 grs.

This will take about twelve hours to dissolve. Keep bottle tightly corked, and it will keep for two or three years, and be as good as if not better than when first made. To use, take 5 oz. of cold-water, 1 oz. of this solution, and 12 grs. of pyrogallic acid. This quantity will develop four 5 by 8 plates, or half a dozen 4 by 5 plates.

Several of our members have asked for formulas for developing solutions, and will find the above to give excellent results. In our answers to queries will be found a formula for hydroquinon and eikonogen developer, and either of those formulas will give excellent negatives.

SIR KNIGHT WILLIAM F. TOBEY asks when the prizes are to be
announced, and the grade of bromide paper most used by amateurs.
The prizes will be announced as soon after the close of the
competition as the judges are able to examine the pictures. The
grade of bromide paper most used by amateurs is that made by
Eastman & Co., of Rochester, N.Y. They make a bromide paper, called
platino-bromide, which gives beautiful results. The use of bromide
paper is recommended for winter, as by its use one is practically
independent of sunlight.

SIR KNIGHT JOHN BYRNE, of California, asks what is the best camera
for beginners. A hand camera is the best for a beginner, and one
that is fitted for glass plates instead of film. With a hand camera
one can use a tripod, and make time pictures without the complex
swing-back, which is always more or less trouble to a beginner. A
good size is a camera that takes a 4 by 5 picture.

SIR KNIGHT ALISON MARTIN, who sent a collection of fine photographs
to the contest, asks if those pictures which do not take a prize
can be criticised. If Sir Knight Alison could see the quantity of
pictures which have been sent in he would at once see that special
criticism of each picture would involve more time and space than
could be given to the Camera Club Department. After the contest
closes there will be a general criticism or description of the
pictures submitted.

SIR KNIGHT MILTON E. PEASE, of Suffield, Connecticut, wants the
address of some firm where he can get good supplies, and also
wishes the formula for a good developing solution. Sir Knight
Milton will find reliable firms in Boston and New York, any one of
which will send price-list on application. The editor is not
familiar with firms in Springfield, Connecticut, but would advise
sending to some town near Suffield, as the charges are much less
for transportation. A good developing solution is made as follows:
Solution No. 1. Water, 10 oz.; sulphite of soda, 2 oz.; eikonogen,
165 grs.; hydroquinon, 80 grs.; and add enough water to make the
solution up to 8 oz. Solution No. 2. Water, 10 oz.; carbonate of
potassium, 1 oz.; sodium carbonate, 1 oz.; and enough more water to
make the solution up to 16 oz. For developing take 1 oz. of No. 1,
1 oz. of No. 2, and 4 oz. of water.

SIR KNIGHT EDWIN V. GRISWOLD asks what kinds of trays to use for
developing, fixing, and toning. The best developing trays are made
of rubber, but celuloid makes a very good tray. An amber glass tray
is the best for a fixing-tray, as, being so unlike the other trays,
one never mistakes the hypo-tray for any other. A white porcelain
tray is usually chosen for a toning-tray.

A CORRESPONDENT OF ENGLEWOOD, N.J., who does not sign name, asks a
good and cheap way to make a developer. Our correspondent will find
his question answered in the answer to Sir Knight Milton Pease in
this number, and also at the beginning of this column.

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.

The new U. S. Postage-due stamps are printed in aniline colors, and if wet the colors run badly. Do not soak any of them, as that would ruin them. The higher values of these stamps (30 and 50 cents) are still scarce, as many post-offices had large stocks of the old issue, or of the lower values (1, 2, 3, 5, and 10) of the current issue.

Proofs and essays of U. S. stamps are advancing in value rapidly. A few years ago they brought nominal prices only.

Unused U. S. stamps, with the original gum well centred, are worth from 30 per cent. to 50 per cent. more than when gum has been soaked off, or when not evenly centred.

F. BOGGS.--Write to any of the firms mentioned in our advertising
columns.

E. S. D.--Dealers ask 20c. for the 1835 dime.

J. S. POWELSON.--The 2c. 1869 can be bought for 8c.

RUTH E. CHAMBERLIN.--The 1804 half-cent is quoted at 15c.

GLEN CARTER.--"Helvetia" stamps are those of Switzerland from 1862
to date. They are worth from 1c. to $1 each, according to scarcity.

JOHN H. CAMPBELL.--The last issue of Mexico are the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
10, 12, 15, 20, and 50 centavos; 1, 5, and 10 pesos.

F. WALDRON.--The prices quoted are those _asked_ by dealers, not
the prices paid by dealers for them. Address firms mentioned in our
advertising columns.

R. S. C.--In die A, 1887, 2c. green U. S. envelope the bust points
to the space between the third and fourth "tooth" of the edge. In
die B, the common die, the bust points to space between second and
third "tooth."

BEN B. WOOSTER.--It is frequently difficult to distinguish the two
dies of the 1851 U.S. 1c. stamp, as they were printed with very
small margins. The 1851 extra line U. S. 3c. is identical with the
1851 die, but perforated. The extra line is at top and bottom only.

A. C. G. WILLIAMS.--Die B, fawn, star watermark, is very common,
and worth very little. The rare envelope has the die C stamp. In
this the head of Washington is egg shaped.

JOSIE S. GREY.--There is no 1775 Washington U. S. cent. For the
prices of the cents and half-cents see ROUND TABLE No. 842. The
other coins and tokens mentioned have no premium value. I do not
know the "Veto" token.

E. M. FAREWELL.--Old English telegraph and revenue stamps are not
collected in this country.

A. J. SELOVER.--The flying eagle cent, 1856, is worth $5. The other
dates do not bring any premium.

A. WALTER.--No premium on the coins mentioned.

S. M.--The legend "One Hundred Years" appears on the stamps of New
South Wales.

H. B. BARBER.--The only way is to buy an illustrated catalogue,
which will give you prices also.

Have you noticed when discussing household affairs with other ladies that each one has found some special use for Ivory Soap, usually the cleansing of some article that it was supposed could not be safely cleaned at home.

THE PROCTER & GAMBLE CO., CIN'TI.

GEO. F. CRANE,

90 Nassau St.,

NEW YORK,

will pay cash for collections or scarce stamps.

BAKER sells recitations and PLAYS

23 Winter St., Boston

CATALOGUES FREE.

THE

BALTIMOREAN PRINTING-PRESS

has earned more money for boys than all other presses in the market. Boys, don't idle away your time when you can buy a self-inking printing-press, type, and complete outfit for $5.00. Write for particulars, there is money in it for you.

THE J. F. W. DORMAN CO.,

Baltimore, Md., U.S.A.

FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

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"HARPER'S ROUND TABLE" FOR 1895

Volume XVI. With 1096 Pages, and about 750 Illustrations. 4to, Cloth, Ornamental, $3.50.

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A LIFE OF CHRIST FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

In Questions and Answers. By MARY HASTINGS FOOTE. With Map. Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1.25.

The Rev. DR. DAVID H. GREER writes:

"I believe it to be one of the most satisfactory manuals of that
character which I have ever seen. It meets a need both in the
family and the Sunday-school, and I am sure that its merits will be
very quickly and widely appreciated. It is not often that I can
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OAKLEIGH

A Story for Girls. By ELLEN DOUGLAS DELAND. Illustrated, Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1.25.

The story is told in a simple and direct manner that enlists the
sympathy and attention of the reader.--_Saturday Evening Gazette_,
Boston.

A story for girls, charmingly written, and illustrated throughout
with pictures dainty enough to please the most fastidious
damsel.... The incidents are full of life, the characters are very
natural, and the conversations well sustained, so that the story is
full of intense interest from beginning to end.--_Chicago
Inter-Ocean_.

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By KIRK MUNROE.

=Snow-Shoes and Sledges=, a Sequel to "The Fur-Seal's Tooth." Illustrated. Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1.25.

Will hold the interest of its readers from beginning to end.--_N. Y.
Evening Post_.

The young folks will take delight in it.... We confess to have read
every word of the journal with as much interest as we once read
"Robinson Crusoe" or the "Swiss Family Robinson."--_Christian
Intelligencer_, N.Y.

_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_:

THE FUR-SEAL'S TOOTH.--RAFTMATES.--CANOEMATES.--CAMPMATES.--DORYMATES. Each one volume. Illustrated. Post 8vo, Cloth, $1.25.

WAKULLA.--THE FLAMINGO FEATHER.--DERRICK STERLING.--CHRYSTAL, JACK & CO., and DELTA BIXBY. Illustrated. Square 16mo, Cloth, $1.00 each.

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By MRS. SANGSTER

=Little Knights and Ladies.= Verses for Young People. By MARGARET E. SANGSTER, Author of "On the Road Home," etc. Illustrated. 16mo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1.25.

These verses for young people are brimful of sweetness and
tenderness; they will find generous welcome.... All through the
little volume runs a graceful current of personal influence, sunny
and gentle and sympathetic.--_Independent_, N. Y.

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By W. J. HENDERSON

=Afloat with the Flag.= By W. J. HENDERSON, Author of "Sea Yarns for Boys," etc. Illustrated. Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1.25.

Mr. W. J. Henderson's latest sea-story for boys is one of the best
we have seen.... The story has been read with eager interest by
thousands of ROUND TABLE readers, and it will have an additional
charm to them and others in its present book form.--_Boston
Advertiser_.

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REGGIE'S CONVALESCENCE.

MAMMA. "Don't imagine you're sick, Reggie, or you'll never get well."

REGGIE. "All right, mamma; then I'll play off well, and go skating just to stop my sickness."

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"How is your little sister, Robbie?"

"She's getting well, she's taking celuloid milk." And he marched off proud of having accomplished such a big word, for sterilized or celuloid was all one to this little man of five.

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"Mamma," said Clara, "the minister always says amen; when a lady prays does she say awoman?"

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BOBBY'S COMPOSITION.

PARENTS.

Parents are things which boys have to look after them. Most girls also have parents. Parents consist of Pas and Mas. Pas talk a good deal about what they are going to do, but mostly it's Mas that make you mind.