him. The young man wept freely as they
faded from sight. But, happily, the magical splendor of night on the
Mississippi broke in on the tumult of his feelings. Hundreds of lights
gleamed from the shore in every direction; from village, and city, and
town; from cottage and homestead; while steamer after steamer,
illuminated within and without, came sweeping, sounding, thundering
on, like some monster leviathan spouting fire. It was as a dream of
enchantment to him, and soon stirred his brain wonderfully. With
singular vividness the eventful past of his pioneer life flitted
before his mental vision, and again he experienced the terrible
anxieties and thrills of horror and of heroic resolve connected with
the Indian uprising. And now his tears flow as he revisits in
imagination the lonely grave of his father on the far-off prairie.
Would the dear ones that survived the fearful outbreak be long safe?
Might they not soon need his aid once more? And the glowing future
for which he had so panted, would it be to him all he had fancied?
Would he pass safely the dangers his far-seeing mother had sketched?
Would he realize her ideal? And the kind missionary and the eccentric
money-lender, they had high expectations of what he should become.
Would he disappoint their hopes? Tom, wearied with thought, sought his
state-room, and fell asleep, dreaming that he was hearing, as on the
morning of his first visit to the fort, the bird-like notes of the
song that then floated through the open window, and that fairy Alice
looked out and said,--

"Don't forget me, Tom, while you are away."

Thus does divine and human love ever intertwine. How strange, how
unvarying the experience! Farewell, Tom! Farewell, Charlie! Good by,
Bub! Perhaps we may meet again.

THE LOOKOUT ISLAND CAMPERS

By WARREN L. ELDRED

Illustrated by Arthur O. Scott--Large 12mo--Cloth $1.50

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This is a story of active boys of fifteen or so. They are very fortunate
in the friendship of the principal of their school and his friend, an
athletic young doctor. Under the care of these two they go into camp on
an island well suited to the purpose, and within easy distance of a
thronged summer resort. A series of exciting ball games and athletic
contests with the boys at the hotel naturally follows, and the boys
display as many varieties of human nature as could their elders. The
author is a man who knows boys thoroughly, and by his work is known to a