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THE YOUNG MEN OF AMERICA.
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And so the youth had aroused for action.
He consulted with an emioent lawyer who
ha ad een bis father’s frien
papers are strletly authentic and legal,
I Na “bo after your sister’s intereet my:
self; in the meantime the person who tore
her from ber home must be placed in custody
at once,” the lawyer
Wailo this consultation was in
Gregg Gorman was preparing to leave his
aristoeratic boarding-house for his afternoon
men
bar fle a5 Sill brooding over his ignominious
defeat et the » previous day; there was a scowl
upo: rthy features, and a malignant
sleam | in nis S sbifting black ey
“Til be even with Fred Poliet. Til make
his turn come before the day is out,” he was
declaring to himself, as he finally drew a pair
of elegant rloves over his sallow hands and
took up his natty cane,
At that moment he heard some one asking
rogress,
acco! nied by an elderly gentleman of dis-
tinguished appoara:
“ Our business is with your father,” the lat-
ter said to Gregg, whose swarthy countenance
expressed an almost ludicrous admixture of
supercilious curiosity and blank surprise,
“* Grega’s father—an unprepossessing per-
sonage with 8 pompous airand an insignifi-
eant countenance—at the instant emerged
from an inner room.
ced at his visitors, pe cowered
back, the ee of guilt confesse
Tse that t you have guessed the object of
our visit,” Fred’s companion—who was the
lawyer he had consulted—said. ‘ Yours wuilt
has been exposed by the man tow
sold the chil fa siole from her tradte, the
child you would have robbed of her inherit-
ance, For four years you have been living
upon the procesds of certain papers you ab-
ee from her father’s desk; the more im-
apers Which secures to her the prin-
epal ot t hoe fortune have just been discovered.
The man muttered an ejaculation of rage and
baffled greed which interrupted the Speaker
for an instan
“The -papers were discovered in a locket
worn by the unhappy child whom your fohu-
man act had dcomed toa life of agony untold—
the life of a blind beggar girl, turning a hand-
organ eye the streets for the charity of
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ker to paves again. va
n,
trusion, just because I ‘objected to this Foilet
fllew meddling with my amusements,” he
yociferated, with a threatening gesture of his
cane-toward Fred. “Don’t listen to them,
ther.”
Fred maintained a dignifled indiffereneo; the
lawyer smiled.
“Tt is Fred Follet—your victim’s brave and
noble brother—who has succeeded in ferreting n
the truth and tracing your guilt,” the lat
continued. “The handsome income you hare
been fraudulently enjoying is ended ‘the pun-
ishment for your crime
open door.
Io Tos ponse to his glance an offcer stepped
into the ro
A moment t later Gregg Gorman’ 8 father was
riso
ree “himself dropped into the nearest
chair, his supercilious air changed to an ex-
pression of abject discomfiture,
Fred went slowly toward him
“T shan’t show any ill-will toward - you,
Gregg. I will got something for you to do so
‘ou can support yourself, ” our gallant young
hero said in honest pity.
But Gregg repulsed his noble pity with a
venomous scowl.
at his career was alterward no one could
fain; he disappeared entirely after the
conviction of his father and the man to whom
his father had sold the stolen child,
was speedily enjuying her
ont the cate ofa aidtot oulist her sight’ was
also restored to her.
How she had managed to keep the silver
locket by wh shit fe had been identified was
pse ved
a had been very rlikely regarded as a worth-
loss ttowet by even the child herself.
yas the means, however, of righting her
wromes sad working the punishment of them
who had wronged her.
In her happiness an nd prosperity Nelly re-
rards, one particular friend with the deepest
affectio
That. friend is pretty Minna, who is now the
wife of the brave and inanly Fred Follet.
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7
Life at, Willet’s Point.
Brack-movruep cacnon gape and yawn at
the fleets of oyster smacks and coasters that
dodge around the neck of iand that thrusis
itself from the Long Island shore and sepa-
rates the wide expanse of the found from the
villa-dotiod shores of the East River. A senti-
es upand down on the dock that juls
out St from the big, gray, stone fortification, and
» keeps the guns company at yawning; at the
commerce, The fortification is
Wiltev’s P Point, the engineer battalion head-
quarters and the place where many on the ‘ara
periments with torpedoes are sade:
The lawyer looked expectantly ‘toward the in
ing sign, legible at Fort Schuyler, the opposite
fortification, reads;
TORPEDO:
Don't Anchor Mere.
About five hundred people live at Willet’s
Point. They are officers with their familles,
soldiers of the United States Exgineer Bat-
talion, and a very few civilian employves
The military Teservation comprises upward of
one hundred acres. { the entrance to the
@ the never-
is earried on, and the fentinels meee up their
constant pacing. only ai fference in the
appearance of Sntinals at Willet’s Polnt from
those at other stations is the color of the
facings of the uniforms, which are *oranwe,
and the trowel bayonet,was an {innovation of
General Henry L. Abbott, who commanded
the post for seventeen yrs after the close of
the Civil War. Major William R. King is at
resent the post commander and the com-
manding officer of the United States Engineer
Battalion. Instruction is given at the post in
defending the coast with torpedoes, sapping,
miniog, military bride building, fleid fortill-
eations, military 5 ‘ie military map
printing, The soldiers '3 life at Willet’s Point is
anything | but an idle
There isa‘ Sehool. « of Application ” at Wil-
let’s Point, Here all the branches of military
science are imparted to subaltern officers of
ongineers, who serve a {wo years’ course
after graduation at West Poi
The Sims fish torpedo is experimented with
at this station. It isa long, black object very
like a whale. It is worked, propelled and
manipulated by electricity, None are accept-
ed by the goverament that cannot attain a
rate of speed of at least ten miles an hour,
The natives do not like these modern engines
of warfare. Oue day this summer when ex-
periments were bein e, a sherman in
a boat off Bayside Baw: a wicked appearing,
shark-like rapidly ppProaching.
Nearer and nearer it came, and
directly upon him. ‘My God! here comes a
whale,” he cried, and was about to leap
overboard, when the directing hand at the
wire on the shore turned its course and left
the lone fisherman in peace, Ten of Sims’ ish
rpedoes have been accepted and purchased
by the government, they baving been brought
0 that stage of perfection required b by the on
. The
torpedoes are aretully packed ‘a stored
rendy. for immediate use when r .
officers of-the fort have their quarters
built’ on three sides e spacious parade
ground, which is really a beaut fullawn. The
barrucks, or men's quarters, are on the north
side of the square, A spacious mess hall and
officers’ club is about completed, which stands
ear the commanding officer’s house, and *
pretty little church stands pear tho
ground. There isa post library and reading
room, where "b00 ks and papers are ut the dis-
osal'of the
A theater is n "feature of the post, and dur-
ing the winter months numbers of plays are
euacted. Surprising talent is here sometimes
displayed, and it is not an uncommon occur-
rence to discover one or more professional
actors among the rank and file. Musicians,
too, of no mean attaiament, are found iv all
the companies. A very good band fs not to
forgotten. This is composed of enlisted
ata and its music enlivens the surroundings
ames have been played this season, among
others one against a nine from the Marine
Barracks at Brooklyn, in which the engineers
were victori
‘Altogether | lite is rather pleasant than other-
wise at Willet’s Point. © men are remark-
ably healthy; the number of deaths there
from accident or disease, with the single ex-
“| ception of drowning, bein,
‘he post and battalion hee y under the gene-
ral command of Brigadier-General James C.
Duane, Chief of Engineers, United States Army,
and Willet’s Point is not’ within the military
jurisdiction of Major-General Schofleld’s com-
mand, the military division of the Atlantic.
meme
A Successful Clerk.
In the town of O——_, in one of the States
which border on the great lakes, lives a very
successful country merchant. He employs half
ascore of clerks and does a large general busi-
ness. As atraveling man, Lealled upon Mr.
C., the merchant of whom I epeak, and after
doing our business we began conversation, as
we sat in his easy office chairs.
Said he: ‘* Do you see that young man over
there by the desk? He holds the highest po-
sition | in our store, and, I guess, is the
ehave, Ten years ago this very night,
he cate to this place, a poor little ragged chap
of eleven years, to sell me some bickory nuts,”
“You don’t say,” said I. “ How came heto
get into your employ?” ow
g
Vell,” continued iho merchant. “law {6
have time T ‘want to tell you his Baa to be
you the kind of stall Iwentéh years ago to-
t was, dw called to a little rag:
ade
mish. re alia into the store with something
“He came Umtaly to By desk. Isaw he
had been crying, ai : ‘My boy. what
can I do for you to night? " ‘On! sald Phe, “fi
you will buy my bicker-nuts~I havea peck —
and I have tried to sell them everywhere else,
and { wantthe money so bad.’ Here be be-
gantoecry, I was interested in the boy, and
Tbegan to question him, I learned that bis
mother was a widow, und they had only been
in town a lew weeks and were ver:
seers he went to school, and his mother found
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the books, paper, poncila and the ike boys
need in school. Now the object of his anxsy-
ty to sell the nuts he had gathered was this
in his way home the da: fore he had
thrown a stone while passing a house and
broken a window glass, Well, I tuok the
nuts, andina day crso I opened my door
one morning to receive the money again
{rom his hands, for it was my window he had
eu,
“ In this wey Iwas convinced that he was
an honest boy, and as the days and weeks
went by I kept watch of bim in school, i
made the acquaintance of his mother, and
found them to be very poor but hovest, God-
fearing people. Well, Geurge, for that’ is his
bame, kept on in school, I Belped the family |
some and kept mye eye on the boy. e four
years went by. then came to my yatore and
served as errand boy, ma! and kept the
floor swept, emptied the ash-pans; in fact, did
all the dirty work around the establishment.
Here, you know, is where I tested him,
that will commence at the bottom and trudge
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face, is the one who gets on. Well, time went
on, as it always does, my busivess increasing,
and allthe time this boy going up from errand
boy ia assistant clerk in one of the depart-
“ ve have had a great many clerks in the
course of my past life, and I never saw one
who had the push and go-ahead he has. Day
before yesterday he was twenty-one, and he
was placed at the head with the largest salary ;
but to-day he is not afraid tu take up a broom
and sweep the floor,
“ Now, we want young
ness who have the spirit he has,
afraid of work and a Jitte dirton their bands,
who are willing to begin at tbe bottom, and go
up the ladder, round by ro!
“The market is full of you ng men, who
have a desire to ‘ get a position ;’ and the de-
mand is very dull for that kind. The young
man who has fifo, and a go-ahead way with
him, can usually find a place jn the sphere he
belongs, but be must not skip the details; that
means the dark part; and al things have di ark
men for our busi-
sides, Then when the slack comes, theclerks
who remain the longest, are those like
George.”
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