University of South Carolina Libraries
?T THE PARTING OF THE WAYS. ?.?Go forth, in thy torn.? said the Lord of the years to the year vre greet today. "Go forth to succor my people, who are thronging the world's highway. "Carry them health and comfort, carry them Joy and light. The grace of the eager dawning, the ease 'of the" restful night. "Tate ih??m the flying snowflake, and the jth?po'Of the hastening spring, ?ho green of the leaf unrolling, the gleam of the bluebird 's wing. **Give them the gladness of children, the strength of sinew and nerve. The .'pluck of the man in battle who may fall, but will never swerve. "Sena them the lilt of the singer, the sword that ls swift to smite in the headlong rush of the onset, when the wrong resists the right.'' "5our on them peace that crowneth hosts which have-bravely striven. Over them throw the mantle they wear who are God forgiven. "Shrive them of sin and of blunders. Oh, make my people free! list this year among years be thought of as a time of jubilee.. "Throbbing with notes triumphant, wav ing with banners fair. * A year of the grace of the Highest to vanoulsh human despair. *3fer Borrow and sighing send them, O year, the dance of mirth And banish the moan* and the crying from the struggling, orphaned earth. *H3o forth in thy turn. O blithe new year," said the Lord of the passing days. ?ad tho angels in heaven heard him and lifted a paean of praise. -?Margaret E. Bangster in Harper's Ba zar. . . _ TEM DIVER'S STORY. gaiter, 8011 for six here! W?d ?rspin's going to give us that deadly ?xperience of his. Now, captain, .forge ahead. It's glasses round for the first man who interrupts. Touch ?id go with death, you say, and yet TOUT hair kept its original color. fioroB earth was it?" Another laugh rippled along the' ^?ahle,rbut it-soon rabbled. wThe".old diverts twitching lips.made it clear that his thoughts were elsewhere. H? simply sat; hack, stared fixedly at thesh?ded candle before him and fcro&e.into the silence with a steady impressiveness that soon had the company spellbound. "You'll please yourselves about swallowing this when you've stood in my pallor and seen the newspa per cuttings on the wall, framed in a bit pf the Witch's timber. As for j . excitement you mightn't care to ] sleep through a"few of the dreams Fve had since. Aye, hut the real extraordinary part about it was, ii' yon like, that I should have walked into Lacy Truman's office in Hobart ?bwa as the clock struck ll that j niorning, for I'd Leen hanging about j the docks hungry and savage for 1 weeks, and I'd left Jess-my young ' wife-with the words that, come no luck, I was simply going to steal the . money to take us back to England by the next week's steamer. And I 'meant that. ' "They were ship brokers, Lacy truman and his brother. I walked into their oater office without being invited, up to the boss clerk and told him in so many words I'd come to the end of my tether in that coun try. '^Tfae.old tale! What are you? Anything, eh? Sit.down there,' he lays: I went to do it when the door * flies open and the senior partner-I know them both by sight-staggers jin wkk a face lise-likadeath itself. *?s stood there and rattled out: *Wi3?, quick! She's gone down town, within a mile of dock!' '?Thatwas it BaaggoestheHnner ?ocr, and the other steps out, white enough, too, in a trice. 'What, the Ogsbt' he says almost lower than ;?:wi?3?ner. 'I'll never believe it * Sighted at 7 this morning and form feed-Lacy, you're fooling! We've |?? ???D9 down V repeats his broth ?r as if he wanted to thatch some body 's throat '?rnet Coorabi' derk coming up here. Raced back and saw the owners and the captain him ! self. - There's no log saved-nothing at all. They simply say that water was pouring in at the fore hold all <* liay yesterday, no one knows how, and-they just had time to put off in the boats before she lurched and set tled down at 10 o'clock. That's four since Marchi We're absolutely ruined!' . "The clerks sat there like bits of tfton?.V The two partners stared at each other. ??u could have heard a feather drop. They were rich, as : things go, I'd heard. But four since .Marchi ", - " *Never believe it, 'says Will Tru man again, waking up. 'There's something wrong. Old she was, but ' good for years yet, I'll Swear. My hat! Within a mile? Lacy, surely we can get some of the cargo up be lore' " 'Yes,, to light fires with. The salt will spoil those silk bales in less than three days, man. ' He was a sight, I tell you. 'To go down like that in smooth water ! I told Coombes ?plainly I woludn't pay out a f arching , cantil an investigation had been made, arid if I suspected anything I'd take action at once.' " 'You were a fool to hint at any thing of the; sort' " 'Aye, perhaps I was. We ought to have sent a man down straight away to look at her. Who is there? Here, Johnson, run to Saunders, the diver^ in-Market street. Tell hi m to come here'thi8 minute. I'll know . ^the truth of this.' . "They, went into the inner office together. I sat there hanging on to ."the buzz of their talk and fairly inching to do or bay something. Then in about ?5 minutes back tears their clerk-with the word that Saunders was very sorry, but the owners had that very minute engaged him to make'an investigation next morn . lng, arid he didn't think there wa? another diver worth a cent in tho -plaee"'just then? He'd find out. "The two partners 'spun round arid" looked at *ach other, and it didn't need wordo to show" what tiiey were unmK?ng. 'mac was i? chance if ever, and before I knew I'd spoken. 44 'Yes, there is! Mr. Truman, I' go down and welcome. If you thin there's anything underhanded, lea^ it to me. ' 14 * You !' They'd never noticed mi 'Who aro you, then?' asked the sei ior dully. 'What might you kno about it?' " 'A good deal, sir-that's to sa] I haven't done any deep sea work 1 speak of, but I was five years ovt in Sunderland going down and sto] ping leaks and strains before the had the drydock built. That's som< thin. sir. I was here to ask for worl and there it is. If the silk can L saved-or that ?8,000-I'm you man. Try me.' " 'Well, if this isn't a coincidence says he, incredulous like. 'Will, whs do you think? There's no timet lose, that's certain. We must ai range to have our man down wit theirs, you know. Come, I'll tak you at your word, MT.-er-Wildei spin. I want that fore hold quiet! inspected, you understand. Af te that the cargo. Got an outfit! The: we'll see to that. Come in here, wi] you? I hardly know what I'n about. ' "It seemed past believing one wa; and another. I left that office, mates with my full instructions and a con pie of s hiners as well and just sailei home on air. And, would any on believe it, when I'd blurted out th morning's tale to Jess she hang round my neck; didn't*waEt met? do it '["here's a woman all over fo: you. I can see her poor, pinche* face, white and gloomerous as any thing, just as if it was against rm shoulder this very minute. But there, I mustn't talk. I came nig] never seeing it again in this world. "Dead to the minute*? was dowi at the docks nest morning ready foi anything. Lacy Truman-he'd beei on his feet all night I could tell had made all the arrangements, anc he meant business. So did the otbei party, it was plain. Saunders and I it was agreed, were to go do wi together and report afterward, They'd hired a small cutter between them, and appeared to be friendly enough on the outside. But there was something in the air right enough. Oh, aye! "Well, the moment the tide had turned off we started, with the sal vage boat and a dozen others after us to see what there might bo to see. I knew Mr. Lacy had an idea the other party meant to hamper us if possible, but it didn't appear so. In less than an hour they'd made the spot Saunders and some of tho Witch's crew were straining their eyes over the side. "'There she lies, mate, in ten fathoms or I'm a Dutchman, ' he says quietly to me. 'Can ye go the dep th ? Bight Nothing like pluck, eh? We'll soon know all about her cargo now. Get your things on. ' "Down below I goes and was ready as soon as he. Course, being what he was, he had the sneer of me the minute he knew I was no expert But he seemed affable enough, and even a little friendly. Just before we stuck our headgear on and Mr. Truman was seeing my tube extra fast to the pumper he pulls out a brandy bottle and offers me a mouthful offhand. I had it to my lips when somehow I caught his eyes and: that man-well, he flinched. " 'Have some yourself,1 says I hand?ng it back. ",*I always do-well, no, I won't jost yet,' he Bays, with a laugh, and tosses the bottle overboard. "I couldn't quite get the grip of that, and perhaps it was this action that gfave me a nasty, sinking sensa tion when I stood ready, with the helmet on and 30 pounds of solid lead ch my boots, watching him go down the ladder and coolly slide in to that green ten fathoms. It was a lot over my old dock depths, and I felt a bit dreamy, so to speak, when I heard the engine start pumping away from ma But there it was. had no notion of backing out then. Down I stepped, let myself go, and knew not a thing more till I found myself standing still on the bottom, dizzy with the depth, sick after the suspense, and with a noise in my head as if a hundred throats had started screeching. That lasted about half a minute. Then I pulled myself together, took another kink of the life line and knew I was all right for Lacy Truman's job. "Where was Saunders? "I looked round. It wasn't like harbor water. You could see as well as looking at daylight through thick glasses, and there was he, standing a few yardc off, flashing his diving lamp ahead. We'd tumbled on a bed of sand white as snow. I could make out mighty worms and shellfish crawling over it-everything looks twice its size at that depth-and great castles of rock here and there, with sea creepers swaying about something lovely, and shoals of small fish zigzagging in and out like silver spearpoints. But ne'er a sign of our ship. Then presently I saw Saunders shaking his light and pointing. Ho'd located it straight away with his experience. "After him I goes for about, I should reckon, 50 or 60 yards over slimy hillocks and down bits of val leys, and there was'the. Witch, tying threo parts over on a bit of rising ground, her mainmast pointing down at our heads-a sad enough sight. Saundors, he was up to her deckrail in a jiffy, got his grappling hook over it, and had climbed over befora I could take it in. When I followed, I stopped half way, be catiso I felt tho timbers shaking, and could almost swear thero was Tho dull sound of a?'axe hacki.ug away like fury. 1 just vyuiteu, tua presently he comes clambering bacii to put his heimat against mine, and there was a splinter of wood stick ing to his axe, and he was panting. " 'Rotten, mate ! A three foot leal? in the outer hold,' was what he shouted. 'Hatches blocked, I'm afraid. We'll have to come down again and blow a hole in her side to get at the silk. Got your line? Say when. ' 14 'Half a minute,' I shouted back Perhaps ho thought Fd had enough of it, and reckoned I should be glad to take his word tor everything. As it was, being afraid to go too neal the rigging, I walked round by the forepeak as smart as I could, swung myself up to the keelboard and crawled along there, feeling and looking both sides for the hole he had made it his business to hack. "I couldn't find it, but I found something else that made the blood tingle in me very queerly. I hadn't really expected it, and only the sheerest bit of luck could have pul it in my way by that light But there, a couple of yards up the side of the f orehold, were three big splin-.. tered holes that nothing but an au gur had worked through. I made quite sure of that, got my nerves set and turned to crawl back, and there was Saunders stooping behm 1 me. And I was fool enough to take hold of his fingers and plug them ia the holes to make him feel the in side smoothness. "He seemed startled himself, and j didn't say a word till we had clam bered down to the sand again. Then i as I went to tug my line, feeling a 1 bit nervous, he catches my arm and put his glass against mine. "'Scuttled," he said. * " 'Aye, scuttled, ' I yelled back, and the next thing I knew was that ; I lay on my back empty handed. He had tripped me and jerked away my lifeline. Well, all the blood rushed to my head. That's about all I know. I lay there stunned most by the thought that such villainy could find a place in any man's I mind. But he was not quite quick enough. AP he went to step back I caught him behind the knees with one hand, and down he came. Then came. the st uggle for life and death, and it doesn't bear describing. I had tumbled to the whole thing in a flash. He had been offered a price not to let me go up if by chance 1 found out anything black, and it had been big enough to make a rogue of him. That was it, and let any man here imagine a deadlier position if he can. "1 held ou to him for a minute or so like a vice. But I was undermost, the weight of him on my chest and the notion of what he intended do ing suffocating me almost Clouds of the white sand went whirling up about us, and the red mist in my eyes made them seem real blood col or, I recollect. Aye, he meant it that day. He knew he'd gone too far to draw back, the mad fool. Through the glass I made out his axe going up, as if he could see no way for it but to smash in my helmet and lea;ve the water to do the rest I just had strength enough to give one mighty screech. Then I was done. Closed my eyes and waited for the thud. "It never came, mates. But if it wasn't touch and go with death, what was it? That he was going to do the thing I've never had a doubt But all of a sudden there was a jerk of his lina Up he went, and I, hang ing on to his ankles, had sufficient sentie'not to let go. Up, up-very slowly, for the line had a double weight that they didn't know of above. Up, up, and in my dreams since I've often felt the kicks he gave to get free of me. But heaven wouldn't allow it I've no recollec tion of reaching the blessed surface and being hauled aboard. But it goes without saying, or I wouldn't be telling the tale now. "Mr. Lacy told me afterward that when they unstrapped my things I was black in the face and dead to the world. They thought I was go ing, and put back to shore at once. But, however, once in my bed at home I got back enough sense to gasp ort something that sent him off to the police, hot foot. The next thing I knew was that I'd been ill for a wi?ek, and that they were wait ing for me to give evidence at the trial-Truman Bros. versus the Owners and Captain of the Witch. "It lasted days and days, and at first seemed as if it was going against us. An export diver had goni? down and made his report. But the owners calmly swore that tho auger holes were a revelation to them, and the crew did the same. Only one thing did" it. Their cayrtain wasn't to be found or heard of, and in the end they got off with the sus picion of conspiracy to defraud and. the loss of the insurance money and costs. Of course it was morally clear asdaylight. They'd ovcrinsurcd the cargo and arranged with tho cap tain to scuttle the'old vessel at a certain point, and it hadn't turned out quite as they meant. But all that liad to be proved, and it wasn't properly done to the court's satis faction. "Saunders? Well, there-my blood boilB how at thought of -it-ho got off scot free, and for all I know walks Hobart Town to this day aa an honest man. I see him now standing up thcro in the (Jock and persisting that I'd dreamed it all; that IM?gone insensible, and really owed my lifo to him. Never mind. It's haunted his sleep once or twice since, 1 will lay. You'll hardly be lieve that I stuck to tho work after that, but l did. And whal's moro, mates, I've got the best part of the, ?'?00 that Lacy-Tr?Blt??*?inniked for me, just put Dy tor mo aay wnen J have to give up business as a deep sea diver. "-London Tit-Bits. A Much Used Bible. Acting under orders from the au thorities of the town of Bradford, England, a chemist niado an analy sis of a Testament which has been used in the Ripon court for CO years and which is said to have been kiss ed by 40,000 people. The analysis was made with a view to ascertain ing what danger there is in the prac tice of "kissing the book." No germs of typhoid fever, tuberculosis or diphtheria were found. Tho chem ist reports that he identified seven species of micro-organisms which in a very interesting manner cover the three divisions of the fungi order. The only germ of a dubious charac ter was one which is usually found on wounded or sore skin. Although this germ is not necessarily harm ful, there are conditions in which it might produce unpleasant compli cations, and the chemist said he would not kiss any surface upon which they were spread. If salivary germs could be left in that manner, other microbes of a more dangerous character could be left, which was a strong argument against 'kissing the book." Nights Oat or Days In. A Manchester correspondent tells me of one of the latest developments of the servants' craze for imitating their mistresses,' which occurred here recently. "It was," she says, "the night out of the cook of a friend of mine. The front doorbell rang, and, hearing the housemaid having a somewhat angry colloquy at the door, the. lady went herself to see what it was about She' met the maid with a calling card in her hand, and on asking who had been at the door the girl replied, 'Only visitors for Miss -,' naming the cook, and carried the card to the kitchen. Out of curiosity the lady went later on into the kitchen and found the card (a bonafide printed visiting one), and on it inscribed as followsj 'Miss E-W-, first and third Tuesdays.' The mystery re mains as yet unrevealed whether these dates represent 'nights out' or 'days at norna ' "-London Gentle woman. ? American Bamboo. . Experiments in Florida and Lou isiana have bhown that bamboo will grow in those states almost as well as in the hotter countries. Around Fort Myers there are bamboos that have attained to a height of 50 or 60 feet They are of a variety which usually grows to about 70 feet in India. In Orange- county there is one clump of bamboos, said to bo only 10 years o?d, in which, the stalks have attained to the height of 65 feet, the stalks averaging 13 inches in circumference. . There are 80 stalks in che clump. This partic ular c tump is of a variety from Ben gal, where the wood is used for buildi.ig purposes and for light spars ior vessels.-Savannah Newa A Little Roach. "How is the razor, sir?" asked the barber. "Didn't know I was being shaved," said-the victim. "Very glad, I'm sure, sir," began the barber, feeling flattered. But the victim cut him short: "I thought I was being sandpa pered. "-Strand Magazine. K?pt ? Good Table, Brown-Keeps a good table, does she not? . ' Robinson-Excellent. Solid oak. Eas liad it for years -Jiew York Tribuna \ CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Signa turo of -.No man. has any right to wish he bad never been boro. Let other peo ple do that for him. ROVND ?) K?k Munroe fl SOM X * 1.C0UTING ON THE PL 0) .d?Spfek f; WOLVES vs. D1SCIPLI! 8 fflffN *M8B ty A DANDY AT IIIS BFS 3 - % TUE RESCUE OF HEDI f?) ?jTU?.?.A<law . . ........ v.. 7 ^?f***^ ? A 5GARED FIGHTEn % ^%k. % A WAU ill3J? ^ r,i tWpy^t ARTICLES 'fl Julian Ralph fi ALASKAN FISH ER ?? A? 8 ? .... 1 S J^^K ABT OF FLY-FISHING fl [W ~- . ft TREE-TOP CLUB-H0U? ;. ! giC M Sj TUT! RDITO^STA '?' Vj '(Jr I fl) STA?IP5 AM> COU (?) in A'l will receive ?tte U Mi ??j : Hi ' .if) At?Uress HARPER & Grant's Toilet In Camp. General Horace Porter, in his "Campaigning With Grant," in .The Century, says: In thc night of th*o 14th Lee began to move troops to his right. Grant now directed Hancock's corps to he withdrawn and massed behind the center of our line, so that it could be moved promptly in either direction. When the general got back to camp that evening, his clothes were a mass of mud from head to foot, his uniform being scarcely recognizable. He sat until bedtime without making any change in his dress. He never seemed par ticularly incommoded by tho travel stained condition of his outer gar ments, but was scrupulously careful, even in the most active campaigns, about the cleanliness of his linen and his person. The only chance for a bath was in having a barrel sawed in two and using the half of it as a sort of sitz bath. During most of this campaign the general, like the staff officers, used this method of bathing, or, as our English friends would say, "tubbing." Afterward he supplied himself with a portable rubber bathtub. While campaign life is not a good school for the cultivation of squeam ishness, and while the general was always ready to rough it in camp, yet he was particularly modest in performing his toilet, and his tent fronts were always tied close, and the most perf ect privacy was secured when he was washing or changing his clothes. While thus engaged even his servant was not allowed to enter his quarters. The Crow and the Golfers. A crow which haunts the Mid-Sur rey links at Richmond is a bit of a humorist. He has played such pranks with the golfers' balls that the subject has been discussed by' the committee. He appears to hover in attendance on players who use nice, new, white balls. "Remades," or balls that have been played with before, and on which the paint has chipped, receive none of his embar rassing attentions. Recently two players were ap proaching one of the holes, one play er using a new ball, the other a ball that had been played with before. On walking toward their balls the players were astonished to seethe crow alight near them, examine first one ball and then the other, even tually rejecting the older ball and flying away with the new one in his beak. The crow took the ball over into some marshy ground, beyond the boundary of the hnks, where the eaddio in hot pursuit could not fol low him. The bird dropped the ball foran instant, looked sideways with a merry twinkle in his eye, as much as tosay,'"Don't you wish youmay get it?" picked the ball up again, and, with offensive assurance, flew back over the heads of the players to his haunt in Kew gardens.-Lon don Golf, How It Came to Pass. "Old Shilark says he is the man who started you on the road to for tune." "The old villain tells the truth. All I had when I was a young man was a five acre farm, and he cheated me out of that Then I had to come to town to get something to do and got into business and got rich." Indianapolis Journal. Mr. Grate bar to Phillp. "It is unquestionably true, Phil ip," said Mr. Gratebar, "that it is better to be a live dog than a dead lion, but that doesn't mean, Philip, that you should be satisfied to re main a dog."-New York Sim. T. B. Rice, a prominent druggist of Greensboro, Ga., writes as follows: "I have handled Dr. Pitts' Carmina tive for eight years, and have never known of a single instance where it failed to give perfect satit-faction. Par ties who once use it always make per manent customers. We sell more of this article thau all the other Carmina tives, soothing syrups and colic drops combined." For teething children it has no equal. ?ER'S TABLE io i:ictinn. Trove!, and Sport, nnd will be the around boy's paper published. SERIAL STORIES ch !" Gavin Hamilton >K liv MOLLY ELLIOT S EA WELL iii T .. .-. is a story of the time of King Frederick the < ?rea? E SHORT STORIES AIN5 AN EXCHANGE OF SHIPS Hy GKOKGE E. WALSH JA ME THE GUNSHOT MINE f) ii KI? I5y CHARLES F. LUMMIS (? T THE KING'S TREASURE-SHIP 92 By KECINAI.II GOUKLAV MES OF THE WAR ft on fact, and i-i many cases ure the actual expert- (? unca ol the authors. 10 VAY CRUISING WITH DEWEY ? I!) \\ . \\. STONE 91 BILLY OF BATTERY B ? rs By COLGATE I: \ KEI? Q) CORRESPONDENT AFLOAT $ . i 'AMI TON ''. CHAPMAN 91 I CAPRON AT EL CANEY m\ I i. H ??II C. UAN?OME ((f ON SPORT AND TRAVEL S : i il i nore*. : ? evi rj live md energetic boy who 91 adi i uti r, md mil door RIV rt. )S ! ARCTIC WAYFARERS ?J: ?' (.YKi.'s C. AKAMS B) TWO-FOOTED FIGURE-SKATING & Kv W. G. VAN i*. SlJTl'llEN J? 3ES BICYCLE POLO $ Hy A. I :. i ?OBI \w.\ (6 BLG TH!: CA M HR A CLl'P. (fl S'5 PR0BL!:M5 ANO PUZZLES 9) ?ukin each month in thc ROUND TABLE ^ Subscription, fl '.'<> <? Year rfl BROTHERS, Publishers, New York N.Y. ^ i HARPERS MAGAZINE will bc of more than usual interest during ?So> Besides a series of articles on noteworthy subjects, it will contain a comprehensive political and narrative Jchn Fox, Jr. If. S. Williams HISTORY OF THE SPANISH=AMERICAN WAR* By HENRY CABOT LODGE, U. S. SENATOR who is eminently fitted for the task, not alone because of his ability a* .1 writer of American history, but for the position he has held in ourgovernnwnt. There will also appear such articles as * Admiral Sampson's Fleet Battle of Marnia Bay By Lieut. A. R. STAUNTON-, U.S.N. By Lieut. J. M. EACOTT, U.S.N. THEIR SILVER-WEDDING JOURNEY By William Dean Howells A serial story-to appear-containin- all thru characteristic charm that has endeared Mr. Howells to thc reading public. The Princess Xenia By H. B. M. WATSON A serial story full of adventure and strong situation. SHORT UNDER AN APRIL SKY By Brander Matthews THE RENTED HOUSE By Octave Thanet THE LOVE OF PARSON LORD By Mary E.. Wilkins Spanish War Story By JOHN FOX, JK. A serial story the scenes of which, are laid during our recent war. STORIES GHOSTS OF JERUSALEM By "Kym Crinkle" WAY OF THE CROSS By Stephen Bonsai THE CUCKOO CLOCK By Ellen Douglas Deland THE CENTURY'S PROGRESS IN SCIENCE By Henry Smith Williams, M.D. These papers will thoroughly review thc work accomplished by scientists throughout the nineteenth century. Other series of papers to appear are: White Man's Asia Republics of South America By POULTNEY BIGELOW By JULIAN- RALPH S3 Cents a Copy Subscription, $4 00 a Year Address HARPER & BROTHERS, Publishers, New York, N.Y. HARPEKSBAZAR S. K. Crocket! Katherine De Forest der Matthews A thoroughly up-to-date weekly periodical devoted to fashions for women, will bc, during 1S99, as heretofore, A MIRROR OF FASHIONS Exclusive models of gowns from Paris, London, and New York will be published each week. The Paris Letter The London Letter By KA TH ARI NE DE FOREST By a Special Correspondent The New York Letter By ANNIE T. ASHMORE will aid women in all those little points of fashion matters that are such help? keeping one dressed in good taste. Cut Paper Patterns of selected gowns will be furnished at a nominal cost. Outline Patterns \ will be published free every other week in supplementary form. COLORED FASHION PLATES published once a month, will assist women itt selecting the proper colors for dress. H ^ FICTION ?5? ^ Kit Kennedy - The Meloon Farm By S. R. CROCKETT By MARTA LOUISE POOL A Confident To = Morrow By BRANDER MATTHEWS . nr<- tlux". -?erial Glories to appear in tSgo, that luve seldom been equalled in plot 2nd treatment. SHORT STORY CONTRIBUTORS ' Christine T. Herrick Harriet P. Spofford Mary E. Wilkins Margaret S. Briscoe Elia W. Peattio Caroline TIcknor Marion Harland Ruth McEnery Stuart SPECIAL ARTICLES TO APPEAR Thc Busy flottier The Deaf Child ? By A. IF. MCCULLOUGH By Mrs. ANNIE RAMSET Women Earning a Living After, College, What? - By HELEN DOUGLAS By ADALINE W. STERLING 1 In addition tc these there will be many others, all of instructive value to womeA. A SPECIAL OFFER: . FOUR WEEKS FOR ?O CtS. 'td* Cents a Copy S-i 00 a Year -: Address HARPER & BROTHERS. Publishers, New York, N..Y. t i .\. W. Chambers Will continue to give week by week during 1899, by means of illustration? and text, all the important news of thc world in a clear and concise manner. POLITICS Independent of parties, devoted to good government, it will not hesitate to approve or disapprove, whatever. the situation may bc. ART The leading artists of thc country will contribute to the pages of the WEEKLY, as heretofore, making, it the foremost illustrated weekly. ?j?; Cuba and the Philippines Hawaii and Porto Rico " Srccial articles will appear on these These places will be similarly treated two countries by Messrs. Phil, by Caspar Whitney and W. Robinson and F. D. Millet, both Dinwiddie, who likewise made a o? whom made special journeys to the study of the places, islands- > ...THE BEST... PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE YEAR ' i, what HARPER'S WEEKLY has been in the pas: and will bc in the future Thc great work accomplished in Jthc bte ISp.-.nish-Arncncan war. is cluMCtcristic of thc WEEKLY'S live and energetic policy.. SERIAL STORIES ] WHEN THE SLEEPER WAKES. By H. (i. Welts WITH SWORD AND CRUCIFIX. By E. S. Vari Zile THE CONSPIRATORS By R. WVCha.r.bcr.s iomc Short-Story Contributors W F No-'s Owen Ur!: R J. McCarthy ?. S. Kerrin?? E-Vr-mVcri !!. S. Wilhams Jo\v.\ Covy.n H. S. C.-;s.coo? ....... y r- ALAS VA , .- :>: j ......lj, ....-J .ts res..u-,.-. v%:;. ^ ike >ubfcct ; "1 : . ir ra?...in -;i -i ?tries ' . PP?? inward J. Matthew.-.. ' r-.iurr. The Londen Letter This Busy World will bc written bv ArnoU White. by E. S. Martin, will continue, to and will !M- full of timely, matter, amuse and mstruct its readers. AMATEUR ATHLETICS will bc continued weekly bv its well-known editor, Mr. Caspar Whitney IO Cents a Copy Subscription, ?4 00 ? Year Address HARPER & BROTHERS, Publishers, New Yorick Y. 8 J GLASS FOR WINDOWS, GLASS FOR HOT HOUSES, GLASS FOR SHOW CASES. GLASS FOR!CRAVAT AND GLOVE CASES. CUT ANY SHAPE WITHOUT: EXTRA 'CHARGE. EVANS PHARMACY. RILEY'S x)iisri:isra ROOM - Ie the place to buy - A"Dollaip's Worth of COFFEE if want something?Richland Stroit. :J. G.-RILEY.