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"Yes. Then there's six months' interest, at six per cent., makes fifteen dollars more." "When do you expect Major Sturgis to call?" "This morning. It's almost time for him." "I met Sam on my way here," said Ben. "He told me I'd come just in the nick of time. I didn't know what he meant, but I know now."
"The major offers to buy the house, paying me two hundred and fifty dollars over and above the note." "Why, that's robbery!" said Ben, indignantly. "So it is, Ben; but what can I do?" "I think," said Ben, smiling, "you'd better borrow five hundred and fifteen dollars of your rich nephew."
"What do you mean, Ben?" asked Job, in surprise. "I mean this, Uncle Job--that I'll lend you the money to pay up this shark." "You don't mean to say you've got money enough?" ejaculated Uncle Job. "Yes, I do, uncle, and a little over. I'll prove it to you."
He produced a wallet, from which he drew out five one-hundred-dollar bills and three fives. "Take them, uncle, and ask me questions afterward, for I see through the window that the major is coming." Indeed, a knock was heard directly, and Job, answering it himself, ushered in the stately figure of Major Sturgis. The ma...
"Don't you remember Ben, Major Sturgis?" asked Job. "When did you come home, Benjamin," asked the major, taken by surprise. "I have just arrived, sir." "Tired of California, eh?"
"For the present, yes, sir." "I think my son Sam wishes to see you. He thinks of offering you a place." Ben bowed and smiled. He understood what sort of a place Sam was likely to offer. "Well, Mr. Stanton," asked the major, pompously, "have you decided to accept my offer for the house?"
"No, major. Your offer is too small." "You are quite at liberty to look around for a higher bid, or rather you were. Now it is too late." "Just so, major. On the whole I don't think I want to sell." "'Don't want to sell'?" repeated the major, frowning; "you will have to sell."
"Why will Uncle Job have to sell?" demanded Ben, irritated by the major's tone. "Young man," said the major, grandly, "this is not a matter with which you have anything to do. Your uncle and I can arrange it between ourselves." "Still, I shall advise Uncle Job to pay the mortgage, though he was swindled into agreeing t...
"I guess I can manage to do it, major," said Job, mildly. "I don't believe you," said the major, hastily. "Have you got the mortgage with you?" asked Job. "Yes; here it is."
"And here is your money," said the shoemaker, producing the bills. Major Sturgis received them in amazement bordering upon stupefaction, and counted them over three times. "I guess they're all right," said Job. "Where did you get them?" inquired the major, unable to control his curiosity.
"I guess that doesn't matter so long as they're good," answered Job. "Still, I've no objection to tellin' you that it's Ben's money that he's kindly lent to me." "Did you bring this from California?" asked the major, turning to our hero. "Yes, sir," answered Ben. "Have you any more?"
"I've got enough more, so that I don't expect to need the situation Sam thought of offering me." When Major Sturgis left the cottage his grand air had passed off, and he looked disappointed and mortified. Sam's spirits, too, were perceptibly dashed when he learned that the boy he disliked had been successful in Califor...
"He hasn't got any conscience, Aunt Clarissa," said Ben.--"Jake, will you ride over with me to the next town this afternoon?" "I shall be glad to, Ben." Ben went at once to the office of an able lawyer, engaged his services, and put the matter into his hands. The result was, that John Richmond received a note by messen...
And he did. With a crestfallen air John Richmond had to confess himself defeated in his mean attempt at swindling, for he had obtained Uncle Job's indorsement with the deliberate intention of leaving him to pay the note, supposing that the old man would be too timid to do anything about it. Ben remained in Hampton a we...
Major Sturgis is dead, and Sam, it is understood, has wasted a considerable portion of the handsome property that was left him. It is quite possible that he may end in poverty and destitution, and be forced at last to work for a living. This he would regard as a misfortune, but it will probably be a blessing in disguis...
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Books on etiquette are not generally of such a character as to be worth the notice of self-respecting men. They are generally left to the "young misses" and "gents" who live in mortal fear of being found out to be what they feel themselves to be. "Good Form for Men," however, is above the average of its kind, for it is...
The writer addresses the great mass who make up the backbone of our country and takes no account of the passing fads of fashion. Etiquette at its best means consideration and fair treatment of every one, and every womanly woman should have an understanding of its rules to help her over difficult places. This book conta...
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In Chapter VI, "Here's the cord, Tom, Tie his hands and feet" has been changed to "Here's the cord, Tom, tie his hands and feet". In Chapter IX, "these follows have tied me hand and foot" has been changed to "these fellows have tied me hand and foot"; a missing period has been inserted after ""It'll do as far as it goe...
In Chapter XVI, a superfluous quotation mark has been removed preceding "There's some of us want to see you." In Chapter XVIII, a missing quotation mark has been added preceding "We will make your share equal to that of the luckiest miner among us." In Chapter XXI, a missing quotation mark has been added preceding "Her...
In Chapter XXXIII, a missing period has been inserted after "All this happened soon after Ben went away"; "red cotton handkerkerchief" has been changed to "red cotton handkerchief". In Chapter XXXIV, "Why, Uncle Ben" has been changed to "Why, Uncle Job".] = = = PG10024 = = =
BENEATH THE BANNER: BEING NARRATIVES OF NOBLE LIVES AND BRAVE DEEDS Produced by Imran Ghory, Stan Goodman, Josephine Paolucci and PG Distributed Proofreaders BENEATH THE BANNER BEING NARRATIVES OF NOBLE LIVES AND BRAVE DEEDS
BY F.J. CROSS _ILLUSTRATED_ "I have done my best for the honour of our country."--GORDON
SECOND EDITION 1895 _BY THE SAME AUTHOR_. GOOD MORNING! GOOD NIGHT!
TRUE STORIES PURE AND BRIGHT. In this work will be found a Series of upwards of sixty Chats with Children, suitable for morning and evening reading. The book abounds with anecdotes, and contains numerous illustrations. _Ready about May, 1895_. CONTENTS.
_Only a Nurse Girl_,--ALICE AYRES _A Slave Trade Warrior_,--SIR SAMUEL BAKER _Two Working Men Heroes_,--CASE AND CHEW _The Commander of the Thin Red Line_,--SIR COLIN CAMPBELL
_A Sailor Bold and True_,--LORD COCHRANE _A Rough Diamond that was Polished_,--JOHN CASSELL "_A Brave, Fearless Sort of Lass_,"--GRACE DARLING _A Friend of Lepers_,--FATHER DAMIEN
_A Great Arctic Explorer_,--SIR JOHN FRANKLIN _A Saviour of Six_,--FIREMAN FORD _A Blind Helper of the Blind_,--ELIZABETH GILBERT _A Great Traveller in the Air_,--JAMES GLAISHER
_The Soldier with the Magic Wand_,--GENERAL GORDON "_Valiant and True_,"--SIR RICHARD GRENVILLE _One who Left All_,--BISHOP HANNINGTON _A Man who Conquered Disappointments_,--SIR HENRY HAVELOCK
_A Friend of Prisoners_,--JOHN HOWARD _A Hero of the Victoria Cross_,--KAVANAGH _The Man who Braved the Flood_,--CAPTAIN LENDY _A Temperance Leader_,--JOSEPH LIVESEY
_A Great Missionary Explorer_,--DAVID LIVINGSTONE _From Farm Lad to Merchant Prince_,--GEORGE MOORE _A Man who Asked and Received_,--GEORGE MÜLLER _A Labourer in the Vineyard_,--ROBERT MOFFAT
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_STORIES OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN STEADY WHEN "UNDER FIRE_". ONLY A NURSE GIRL! THE STORY OF ALICE AYRES. On the night of Thursday, 25th April, 1886, the cry rang through Union Street, Borough, that the shop of Chandler, the oilman, was in flames.
So rapid was the progress of the fire that, by the time the escapes reached the house, tongues of flame were shooting out from the windows, and it was impossible to place the ladders in position. The gunpowder had exploded with great violence, and casks of oil were burning with an indescribable fury. As the people rush...
Once again they frantically entreated her to jump down herself; and once again she staggered back blinded and choking into the fiery furnace; and for the third time emerged, bearing the last of her charges, whose life also was saved. Then, at length, she was free to think of herself. But, alas! her head was dizzy and c...
A SLAVE TRADE WARRIOR. SOME STORIES OF SIR SAMUEL BAKER. Sir Samuel Baker, who died at the end of the year 1893, aged seventy-three, will always be remembered for the splendid work he did in the Soudan during the four years he ruled there, and for his explorations in Africa. In earlier life he had done good service in ...
Then, at the age of forty, he turned his attention to African travel. Accompanied by his wife, he left Cairo in 1861; and, after exploring the Blue Nile, arrived in 1862 at Khartoum, situated at the junction of the White and Blue Nile. Later on he turned southward. In spite of the opposition of slave owners, and withou...
Still, in spite of all obstacles, he made steady progress. At Sobat, situated on the Nile above Khartoum, he established a station, and had a watch kept on passing ships to see that no slaves were conveyed down the river. One day a vessel came in sight, and keeping in the middle of the river would have passed by withou...
Soon the irons were knocked off and the poor slaves set free, to their great wonder and delight. Sir Samuel arrived at Gondokoro on the 15th of April, 1871. Already two years of his time had expired. In addition to checking the slave trade, he had been commissioned to introduce a system of regular commerce. He set to w...
His own soldiers were nearly as troublesome as the natives. They were lazy and mutinous; the sentries went to sleep, the scouts were unreliable, they were full of complaints; whilst round about him were the natives, ready to steal, maim, and murder whenever they could get an opportunity. His life was daily in danger; a...
He had arranged with one of the chiefs to supply him with two thousand porters to carry the goods of the expedition; but when the time came not a single man was forthcoming. So his soldiers had to be their own carriers for a time. At a later date he was enabled to hire five hundred men to assist him to transport his go...
[Illustration: Burning the king's Divan and Huts.] A few days later a very strange thing happened. The king sent Sir Samuel a present of some jars of cider. This he gave to his troops. A little while afterwards one of his officers rushed in to say the men had been poisoned. It was really so. The men who had drunk of th...
The fort was surrounded by thousands of natives, who kept up a continuous fire, and the bushes near at hand were full of sharp-shooters. But the fort was strong, and its defenders fought bravely; the woods were gradually cleared of sharp-shooters, and the natives, ere long, broke and fled. Then Sir Samuel sent a detach...
Then it was discovered that the country through which they had to pass was full of concealed foes. From the long grass and bushes spears were constantly hurled at them, and not a few of the men were mortally wounded. Sir Samuel saw several lances pass close to his wife's head, and he narrowly escaped being hit on vario...
THE STORY OF CASE AND CHEW. The large gasholders, which are often a source of wonder to youthful minds as they rise and fall, are the places in which gas is stored for the use of our cities. By day, when they are generally receiving more gas than they are giving out, they rise; and again at night, when less is being pu...
The holder was being repaired, the gas had been removed, and air had been pumped into it instead of gas so that men could work inside, and the holder had risen about fifty feet. Two men were working inside the holder, one a foreman, and the other a labourer named Case, the latter in a diver's helmet. They were standing...
Such deeds are so often done by our working men that they think nothing about it. They do not know that they are heroes--that's the best of it! It is a fact to be thankful for that everywhere throughout the land, beneath the rough jackets of our artisans and labourers, beat hearts as true and fearless as those which ha...
It was his "baptism of fire". Colin was in the rear company. His captain came for him, and taking the lad's hand walked with him up and down in front of the leading company for several minutes, whilst the enemy's guns were commencing to fire. Then he told the youngster to go back to his place. "It was the greatest kind...
Battle after battle followed ere the French troops were driven out of Spain, and Colin Campbell, young as he was, fought like a veteran. At Barossa his bravery brought him into special notice, and at the San Sebastian he led a storming party, and was twice wounded in doing so. First of all he was shot through the right...
A few weeks later the troops moved on, and fought at the battle of Bidassoa, Colin Campbell being left in the hospital to recover from his wounds. But so little was it to his liking to stay in the rear that he escaped from the hospital, and managed not only to fight at Bidassoa, but to get wounded again! He was, of cou...
In the Chinese war of 1842 he was in command of the 98th Regiment. The tremendous heat of the country during the summer terribly thinned the ranks of his forces, and he lost over 400 men in eighteen months. He himself was struck down by sunstroke and fever; but, owing probably to his temperate and careful habits, he so...
The 42nd (the Black Watch) were the first of the three regiments across the river Alma. Whilst ascending the height on the Russian side of the river, Sir Colin's horse was twice wounded, the second shot killing it; but he was soon mounted on another horse, leading his men to victory. The Guards and Highlanders strove i...
"Now, men," Sir Colin had said before the engagement, "you are going into battle. Remember this: Whoever is wounded--I don't care what his rank is--must lie where he falls till the bandsmen come to attend to him.... Be steady. Keep silent. Fire low. Now, men, the army will watch us. Make me proud of the Highland brigad...
The Alma had been fought on 20th September, 1854, and on the 25th October was fought the battle of Balaclava, memorable for the "Thin Red Line". It looked, at one time, as if the heavy masses of Russian cavalry must entirely crush Sir Colin's Highlanders; and their commander, riding down the line of his troops, said: "...
Before the Crimean war was over, Sir Colin resigned his command, and returned to England, as a protest against an affront he had received. Honoured by the Queen with a command to attend her at Windsor, he was asked by her Majesty to return to the Crimea; and the veteran assented at once, declaring he would serve under ...
For his able conduct of the war he was warmly thanked by the Queen; and at its conclusion was raised to the peerage, under the title of Lord Clyde. Colin Campbell was an admirable soldier, firm in discipline, setting a good example, ever thoughtful for the comfort and well-being of his men, sharing in all the hardships...
He prepared for his end with a humility as worthy of example as his deeds in the army had been. "Mind this," he said to his old friend General Eyre, "I die at peace with all the world." He frequently asked Mrs. Eyre to pray with him, and to read the Bible aloud. "Oh! for the pure air of Heaven," he once exclaimed, "tha...
"I am ready!" And so; when he passed away on the 14th August, 1863, in his seventy-first year, "lamented by the Queen, the army, and the people," he was quite ready to meet that last enemy, death, whom he had faced so often on the field of battle. A SAILOR BOLD AND TRUE. STORIES OF LORD COCHRANE.
All who, forgetful of self, have striven to render their country free and glorious are true heroes. Of those who have been ready to lay down their lives for the welfare of Great Britain the number is legion. From them let us select one as a type of thousands of brave men who have helped to make Britain mistress of the ...
Ship after ship he took, till his name became a terror to the Spaniards and French; for he was so audacious, that no matter how big was the vessel he came across, nor how small his own, he "went at them," as Nelson had told him to do; and many a stately prize brought he home as the result of his daring and bravery. One...
Cochrane however, with an immense quantity of sandbags, palisades, and barrels, made it pretty secure. But he did a cleverer thing even than this. There was a piece of steep rock, up which the besiegers would have to climb. This he covered with grease, so as to make it difficult to get a foothold, and planks with barbe...
When he was not fighting his country's battles at sea, he was besieging Parliament to bring about reforms in the Navy. This naturally brought him a good many enemies amongst rich and powerful people, who were making plenty of money out of the Government, and doing nothing for it. So, when these persons had a chance of ...
THE STORY OF JOHN CASSELL. "I were summat ruff afore I went to Lunnon," said John Cassell. He had called to see his friend Thomas Whittaker, who was staying at Nottingham, and John was announced as "the Manchester carpenter". He was dressed on the occasion in a suit of clothes which a Quaker friend had given him; but C...
The trousers were too short, and the hat too big; accordingly, John's legs came a long way through the trousers, and his head went a good way in at the top. "It was something like taking a tin saucepan with the bottom out and using it as a scabbard for a broad sword," remarked one who knew him. He had on an old overcoa...
It is true that when he ought to have been at school he was often at play, or seeing something of the world, its sights and festivities, on his own account. True, also, that he tumbled into the river, and nearly ended his career at a very early age. Still he survived his river catastrophe; and, though he gained little ...
In 1836 John Cassell made his first move towards London. He worked his way to town, and lectured on the road. He carried a bell, and with that brought together his audiences. At times he was very roughly handled by the crowd; yet this had no effect upon him, except to make him the more determined. His clothes became th...
He was three weeks accomplishing the journey; and when he arrived in London spent the first day in search of work, which he failed to obtain. In the evening, seeing that a temperance meeting was to be held in a hall off the Westminster Road, he went to it; and asked to be allowed to speak. Some of those on the platform...
Struck by his manifest sincerity, the gentleman introduced him next day to a friend who took a warm interest in the temperance cause. "Which wouldst thou prefer, carpentering or trying to persuade thy fellow-men to give up drinking, and to become teetotalers?" he asked. Without hesitation John Cassell replied:-- "The w...
"Then thou shalt have an opportunity, and I will stand thy friend." John Cassell now went forth as a disciple of the temperance cause. Remembering his experiences on the way to London he furnished himself with a watchman's rattle, with which he used to call together the people of the villages he visited. A temperance p...
Cassell had a great regard for Thomas Whittaker. It was an address given by this gentleman which had first made him wish to become a public man. When he called on Mr. Whittaker in Nottingham, as already related, after some conversation had taken place, he remarked:-- "I should like to hear thee again, Tom". "Well," rem...
John accepted the invitation forthwith, much to his friend's chagrin, who was bothered to know what to do with him; for he was under the impression that some members of the family where he expected to lodge would not give a very hearty welcome to this rough fellow. This is Mr. Whittaker's narrative of the sequel:-- "We...
"'Well,' I said, 'I have no objection; but, you know, _I_ am only a lodger.' "However, go with me he _would_, and _did_. That was the man. When John made up his mind to do a thing he did it; and to that feature in his character, no doubt, much of his future success may be attributed. The gentleman at whose house he met...
The Rev. Charles Garrett, the celebrated teetotal President of the Wesleyan Conference, writing several years after John Cassell's death, says:-- "I signed the pledge of total abstinence in 1840, after hearing a lecture on the subject by the late John Cassell. I have therefore tried it for more than thirty years. It ha...
"The remedy is education. Educate the working men and women, and you have a remedy for the crying evil of the country. Give the people mental food, and they will not thirst after the abominable drink which is poisoning them." He had hitherto been doing something to assist the temperance cause by the sale of tea and cof...
He never forgot that he had been a working man, and one of the first publications he started was called _The Working Man's Friend_. It is not necessary to say more. Though John Cassell died comparatively young--he was only forty-eight when his death took place in 1865--he had done a grand life's work; and the soundness...
"A BRAVE, FEARLESS SORT OF LASS." THE STORY OF GRACE DARLING. She was not much of a scholar, she could not spell as well as a girl in the third standard, she lived a quiet life quite out of the busy world; and yet Grace Darling's name is now a household word. Let us see how that has come about.
William Darling, Grace's father, was keeper of the Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands, off the coast of Northumberland. Longstone is a desolate rock, swept by the northern gales; and woe betide the ship driven on its pitiless shores! Mr. Darling and his family had saved the lives of many persons who had been shi...
The captain made every effort to run the ship in between the Islands and the mainland, but in vain; and about three o'clock on the morning of the 6th September the vessel struck on the rock with a sickening crash. A boat was lowered, into which nine of the passengers got safely, whilst others lost their lives in attemp...
That morning Grace was awakened by the sound of voices in distress, and dressing quickly she sought her father. They listened, and soon their worst fears were confirmed. Near at hand, but still quite beyond reach of help, could be heard the despairing shrieks of the shipwrecked crew. To attempt to rescue them seemed qu...
But Grace entreated: "Father, we must not let them perish. I will go with you in the boat, and God will give us success." In vain Mrs. Darling urged that the attempt was too perilous to be justified, and reproached Grace for endeavouring to persuade her father to run such unwarrantable risks. William Darling saw plainl...
But Grace was quite firm. This girl of three and twenty, never very robust, had marvellous strength of will; and, her mind being set on attempting the rescue, she prevailed over both her father's judgment and her mother's entreaties; and into that awful sea the boat was at length launched. Though every billow threatene...
George Darling, Grace's brother, speaking of this deed fifty years after, says: "She always considered, as indeed we all did, that far too much was made of what she did. She only did what was her duty in the circumstances, brought up among boats, so to speak, and used to the sea as she was. Still she was always a brave...