e cannon had been in the fort for many years, and as it was never
supposed that they would be stolen, there had been no special guard
placed over them.

No one had the slightest idea how the guns had been stolen. Every
attempt was made to discover the thieves, and at last Colonel Ernst, who
is the commander of the post, obtained a clue which may lead to the
discovery of the miscreants.

It seems that a carter, who has been going back and forth to West Point
for a very long time, carrying packages and supplies, is the suspected
person.

He has lately taken to lingering around the post until after dark.

The sentries have stated that on several occasions it was quite late
when he drove past them.

He always gave a good excuse for his delay, and being a well-known
character at the Point, he was allowed to pass.

Colonel Ernst thinks that the cannon have been carried off one by one by
this man, and sold to some junk-dealer as old metal.

It is supposed that he must have had some accomplices to help him lift
the cannon into his cart, and that he carefully steadied them so that
they would not rumble and betray him, covered them up with tarpaulin,
and drove out with them, under the very nose of the sentry, returning to
fetch another at the next favorable opportunity.

Word has been sent to every junk-dealer, in hopes of finding the
Monterey cannon before it has been put into the melting-pot.

GENIE H. ROSENFELD.

LETTERS FROM OUR YOUNG FRIENDS.

DEAR EDITOR:

Is it asking too much of you, or is it out of your line of work to
give your readers some information in regard to the old library at
Tel-el-Amarna; and something about the present reigning family of
Egypt, as to its origin and its political relations to the European
powers?

If you have not room for a note on these, where could I obtain best
account of them?

(Mrs.) A.H.B.V.

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., May 7th, 1897.

DEAR MADAM:

Tel-el-Amarna is the ruin of a residence of Amenophis IV. in Central
Egypt. In the winter of 1887-88 there were discovered there about three
hundred clay tablets, covered with cuneiform inscriptions which have
since been deciphered.

They contain the diplomatic correspondence of Kings of Babylon, Assyria,
Palestine, and other countries of Western Asia with the Egyptian court.

The