A Romaacejn Real Life. plished. To get the load of hay Tale of fhe Selfish Giant. succeeded in saving a small amount Roach Remembere TTimt beautiful garden they had everseeiiy. against the building, that it might of money—about half the price asked All day long they played, and in From the Milwaukee Sentinel. be set on fire, was still more difficult, —and offered to buy it if his note By James Otis *, the evening they came to the Giant An intimate friend of John: Roach and in this ease unsuccessful, for before would be accepted for the balam e. Eobert Myron was the son of an Every afternoon, as they were comMgflftfrom to bid Mm good-bye. told this of him at the time of his assignment: it could be done both husband The bargain was made, and Myron "But where is your little company English tenant-farmer, who in the "At Iwenty-two he had a school, the children and wife had shot an enemy, while still continued to work by the day ion?" he said "the boy I put intothe wife and two children. At this time ir 1848 found his family expenses the fifth and only remaining one used to go and play in the Giant's for any one who would hire him, tilling tree." The Giant loved him thebest he was a slight slip of a fellow and did sought safety in precipitate flight. his own farm when he could find increasing so much faster than his garden, &F2c S- because he had kissed him. not weiyh much over 120 pounds. He no other work. Then he invested in Each moment the conflict lasted »""ome that it was absolutely necsary One day the Giant came back. He "We don't know," answered the became ill and was confined to his bed the husband grew weaker, and medical a very small way in stock, buying to decrease the former, since had been to visit his friend the Cornish children "he has gone away." until all of his moderate savings were aid could not be procured without when he could get decided bargains "You must tell him to be sure and latter could not be made longer. ogre, and had stayed with Mm gone. One nient, when there was a journey of 180 miles. To only. Year by year he added to his come here tomorrow," said the Giant. In the hope of being able to assist traverse this distance there was no possessions, and his neighbors called scarcely a penny the house, the for seven years. When he arrived he But the children said they did not him a "thrifty'' man. other conveyance than the oxcart. physician came to see him, and after his father in some way, Kobert came saw the children playing in the garden. know where he lived, and never seen. In this rude vehicle Mrs. Myron examining him said 'John Roach, you to this country, and, failing to find All his investments weregood ones, Mm before and the Giant felt very placed her husband and childdren, should know the truth. You must since none were made save with the employment near the metropolis, "WhatTare you doing there?" he sad. J^ and not once during die. Your lung3 are hopelessly affected. view of converting everything into Years went over, and the Giant, ilked from town to town until when that tedious journey, made painful cried in a very gruff voice, and the I tell you this so that if you can I cash at a moment's notice if necessary, grew very old and feeble. He could by the differing of the man for whom ir Rochester, New York, he was children ran away. make any provision for your wife and and Robert Myron became a not play about any more, so he safr she had braved the dangers and discomforts children you will yet have time.' Roach •das a farm laborer by Judge wealthy man. As is usual, with "My own garden is my own garden," in a huge armchair and watched thechildren of a frontier life, was a halt wealth came the respect of his neighbors, was in despair. He saw absolutely no mes E. Berry. During six years said the Giant "anyone can play at their games, and admired made. who,to showtheir appreciation hope for him in the future. He did his garden. "I have many fling Myron worked industriously, understand that, and I will allow nobody At St. Cloud surgical aid was procured, of money, elected him to the office of net fear death, but the thought ol beautiful flowers," he said, "but the sending nearly all of his earnings to to play in it but myself." So he and there, after Mr. Myron's county judge. leaving his wife and children to a destitute, children are the most beautiful flowers Jii parents, and then came the sad recovery, he sought work of any built a high wall all around it and poverty-stricken life pierced During the year 1870 the inhabitants of all." i*« kind that would bring in sufficient Vews that both father and mother him to the heart. He prayed all night put up a notice board: of Tower Hill witnessed the destruction One winter morning he looked out for the support of his family, since that he might live. In the night a had died on the same day. After recovering of another steamer by fire of Ms window as he was dressing. He "Trespassers will be prosecuted." the depredations of the Indians had vision came to him. It seemed as ii at almost the exact place where the did not hate the winter now, for he from this shock it was but He was a very selfish Giant. impoverished him. It was only by Tidal Wave went down. Among he were looking directly into heaven, knew that it was merely the Springasleep, natural the young man should begin the greatest exertions that Mr. Myron The poor children had nowhere to those men who labored to save life and from that abode of happiness and that the flowers wereresting. could keep his family from actual to think of establishing a home for play. They tried to play on the none was more active than Robert came a promise to him that he would want and hearing that laborers were himself, and quite as natural that Myron, and his house was convertec road, but the road was very dusty Suddenly he rubbed his eyes in live. The next day a fellow-workmen in greater demand at Cape Giradeau, into a hospital for the reception of wonder, and looked and looked. I his love should go out to the daughter came to see him. The workman was and full of hard stones, and they did he, with his wife and children, embarked those who were injured, but saved certainly was a marvelous sight. Ini going West. not like it. Then the spring came, of his employer, who plainly on the steamer Tidal Wave from death. the fartherest corner of the garden and all over the country there were showed her preference for the young for that place, after having remained "He came to see John Koach, he was a tree quite covered with lovelywhite Mrs. Myron was as earnest in her little blossoms and little birds. Only thought, for the last time. He bent at St. Cloud nearly a year. man who had so devoted himself to blossoms. Its branches were efforts to comfort the distressed people over him and kissed him good-bye before in the garden of the selfish Giant it The voyage was never completed, bfis parents. But Judge Berry, while all golden, and silver fruit hung as was her husband, and her labor he went away. After his departure was still winter. The birds did not invaluablehowever, for "when Tower Grove, Missouri, down from them, and underneath iir $**" recognized in Myron an was signally rewarded by finding John Roach found that he had care to sing in it as there were no was reached, a fire broke out stood the little boy he had loved. left under his pillow his weed's wages tetrm laborer, had not the same views among the unfortunate ones whom on the ill-fated steamer, and in a children, and the trees forgot to blossom. Downstairs ran the Giant in great in the very envelope given at the she was nursing her father, whom she regarding him as a son-in-law that very short time she was burned to Once a beautiful flower works. John Roach did not die. joy. and out into the garden. Hehastened she had not heard from since the day Miss Bessie had, and the consequence the water's edge. The loss of life was put its head out from the grass, With the modest help of his friend he across the grass, and came she left his home to found another considerable, and among the missing was that the lovers, finding it impossible got a start. Thirty-three years after he but when it saw the noticeboard near to the child. And when he camequite with the man she loved above all others. ones were the two Myron cMldren. was walking down Broadway when he close his face grew red with, to change the father's opinion, it was so sorry for the The daughters heart was made For the second time Kobert Myron saw the back of a plainly-dressed man anger, and he said: "Who hath children that it slipped back into the resolved to elope, and build up for still more glad when the old gentleman was homeless and penniless, with his whose figure seemed familiar to him. dared to wound thee?" For on the ground again, and went off to sleep. told her and her husband that themselves a home in the far West. sufferings intensified by the loss of his He was moved by some spirit or desire palms of the child's hands were he he had been searching for them The only people who were pleased to speak to this man. He stopped children. Perhaps it was fortunate In 1885, with but a few hundred prints of two nails, and the prints of several months in the hope of inducing were the Snow and the Frost. "Spring him and said- 'I do not know for him that he was obliged to work dollars and the judge's curse, the two nails were on the little feet. them to return to his lonely your name, but I ought to know it. has forgotten this garden," they very hard simply to keep the wolf young couple were married and setat "Who hath dared to wound thee?'^ home, or allow him to remain with What is it?' The man gave it. It was from the door, for it prevented him cried, "so we will live here all the Green Lake, Michigan, where, cried the Giant "tell me, that I may them. the name of the workman who had from brooding over his misfortunes, year round." The Snow covered up at the beginning of the year 1862, take my big sword and slay him." befriended him on his dying bed. Said as even a stronger man might have Then he told a strange story, and the grass with her great white cloak, they were in reasonably prosperous "Nay!" answered the child "but, Roach 'Do you know me?' 'No.' 'I am done. one which lifted a load that had and the Frost painted all the trees circumstances, with two children to these are the wounds of love.'* John Roach,' was his reply, 'the shipbuilder.' grown heavier with each succeeding During the two years that elapsed make glad their humble log cabin. 'Yes, I have heard of you silver. Then they invited the North "Who art thou?" said the Gianty year from his son-in-laws heart. after the burning of the Tide Their farm was situated several miles the newspapers. But you must excuse and a strange awe fell on Mm, and he Wind to stay with them, and he came. In 1861, Mrs. Myron's aunt had Wave, Kobert Mryon labored me, I have in hand a very pressing knelt before the little child. from any settlement, and although He was wrapped in furs, and he roared died, bequeating to her niece the sum matter of business.' 'Wait a moment,' industriously, but without success, And the child smiled on the Giant, the Indians were rising against the all day about the garden, and of five thousand dollars. Judge said Mr. Roach. 'Did you ever know so far as the accumulation of worldly and said to him "You let me play whites in many portions of the State, blew the chimney-tops down. another John Roach?' 'Yes, but he Berry, half relenting that he had not goods was concerned he had been once in your garden, to-day von neither Mr. nor Mrs. Myron felt any died some thirty odd years ago.' 'No, "lea not understand why the looked with favor upon his daughter's able to pay the rent of a rude cabin shall comev with me to my garden,, uneasiness, because they believed he didn,t I am that same John Spring is so late in coming," said marriage, had sent his clerk to carry three miles from the village of Tower which is Paradise." had succeeded in establishing Roach,' was the shipbuilder's reply. the Selfish Giant, as he sat at the to her this legacy. The messenger Hill, and to furnish it scantily. But And when the children ran in at Tihe most friendly relations with such "The man was very much astonished, window and looked out at his cold had written to his employer from the expenses attendent upon the afternoon they found the Giant lying of the "forest children" as they came but tie again made a move to white garden: "I hope there will be a St. Cloud in 1862, stating that he birth of two children, and his own dead under the tree, all covered witbl in contact with. Therefore they were pass on, as he was pressed for time. change in the weather." had traced Mr. and Mrs. Myron to severe illness, during which he was white blossoms.—Oscar Wilde. by no means alarmed when one day But Mr. Roach made him stop and that place, but from there they had But the Spring never came, nor the confined to his bed two months, had five Indians stalked gravely into the tell what his bnsiness was. He found gone, as he had reason to believe, to Summer. The Autumn gave golden exhausted the small fund he had succeeded cabin, just as the noonday meal was that his friend had a small house and In a Bad Fix. Cape Girardeau, which place he was fruit to every garden, but the Giant's in saving to enable him to served. It had ever been Mr, Myron's shop in Brooklyn. It was to be sold about to start for in the steamer garden she gave none. "He is too remove to Cape Girardeau. One hot day recently, says the NewYork under the hammer to redeem a mortgage custom to invite such visitors to partake Tidale Wave. From that time Mr. selfish," she said. So it was always Sun, a young man wearing at 12 o'clock that day. It was Then came a time when he could of food, and on this, as]on other Berry had never heard from Ms clerk, Winter there, and the North Wind, 11 o'clock. The man was hurrying side light whiskers, and a long,, no longer find employment near his occasions, they readily accepted the and he believed he had lost his life and the Hail, and the Frost, and the to see the sheriff to ask him if he wretched home, and he sought it crooked nose, betook himself to the invitation but greatly to the surprise when the steamer was burned. Snow danced about through the trees. could not'put of the sale a little longer. some miles up the river, going and classic sands of Isle de Conie with the and uneasiness of their host, instead One morning the Giant was lying Mr. Roach said to him: I know As the old gentleman finished his returning each day in a small boat. of placing their rifles in one corner sole intention of taking a plunge inr awake in bed when he heard some that sheriff well. You will lose no story, the husband and wife gazed Even when it appeared that misfortunes of the room, as usual, they held to the outstrtched arms of old Father time stopping with me.' He dragged lovely music. It sounded so sweet at each other with an almost despairing was not wearied with pursuing them between their knees, the muzzles Ocean. Having deposited a 25cent him into a restaurant, where they to his ear that he thought it must hope in their eyes, audit was only him, for one night when returning pfthe weapons showing jtust above had a hurried lunc h. During the stay be the King's musicians passing by. niece with the man who is not with the greatest difficulty Judge from his work, a storm came jjfhe edge of the table. in this place Mr. Roach made out a It was really only a little linnet singing satisfied with the earth, but wants Myron could ask the question, "What up, which overturned his frail skiff, check for the full amount of the mortgage. outside his window, but it was so was the man's name?" to own the ocean, he received a bathing- and, nearly exhausted, he was thrown He then took bis old friend in long since he had heard a bird sing "Henry Parker." suit made of Kentucky jeans. upon a narrow bar of sand that a carriage and they reached the sheriff's Mr. Myron was too well versed in in his garden that it seemed to him made out from a bank of the river office in time to redeem the property. The suit had seen its best days, and The load was lifted for evermore Indian customs not to know that to be the most beautiful music in the at the spot where the Tidal Wave One of the sons or Mr. Roach the money which they believed was was rapidly becoming bottomlessand such action on the part of his guests world. Then the Hail stopped danceingover afterward married a daughter of his was burned. On this frail and another's belonged rightfully to them very holey. meant mischief. With the view of his head, and the North old friend." treacherous foothold he managed to the investments made with a View to showing them that he understood Wind ceased roaring, and a delicious The long-nosed young man a remain during the night, in full sight being able to restore the principal at the meaning of this breach of hospitality, perfume came to him through the aged to hold the suit together until mt of the town, but unable to attract any time insured their own prosperity, and in the slight hope of intimidating open casemate. "I believe the Spring he had buried himself in the surfl. A.n Eccentric Wester Character. attention to his desperate condition. and by purloining their own from them, he arose from the has eome at last," said the Giant Then he took a little dive, swam under The dawn of day revealed still more the dead they had honestly relieved Henry Clay Dean, who died at his table, took from the rack on the wall and he jumped out of bed and looked water for a little distance, and. horrors, for close beside him, having themselves from the thraldom oj home in Putnam county, Missouri, ESk. his rifle and fowling piece, and carefully out. when his head reached the surface evidently been unearthed by the poverty. was probably one of the most eccentric examined them to show they once more he found himself surrounded What did he see? waves, was a skebton of a human characters in the West. A few were loaded. Why the savages did by a bevy of mermaids. He saw a most wonderful sight. being. At first Myron felt that fear years ago, when he erected a new •not attack him then is one of the inexplicable felt something entangling his feet, Through a little hole in the wall the Yellow Fever Experiences. which seems to be natural in man dwelling, most of the house was built and reaching down he discovered that things in Indian warfare. children had crept in, and they were when he sees the deserted tenement of From the New York Commercial Traveler. tn Missouii and the rest of it in Iowa —oh, horrors!—that the lower part Instead of making any hostile sitting in the branches of the trees. one of his kind but the resting-place "How is the fever usually treated?" but as Missouri had the largest part, of Ms suit had dissolved partnership demonstrations, they stalked gravely In every tree that he could see there which the waves gave to the living It isn't generally treated in any particular he claimed that state at his home. with the upper part. He was in a but of the house, disappearing behind was a little child. And the trees were and the dead was so small that he For a number of years he had been a pretty fix. Summoning a friend he a clump of bushes. way. Every time it breaks so glad to have the children back was obliged to remain almost in actual commissioned Mm to go after another delegate to the Democratic national For the moment Myron believed he out the doctors have to experiment, again that they had covered themselves contact with the yellow bones. suit of Kentucky jeans. While conventions either for Missouri or had wronged his guests and that under guidance offormer experiences, with blossoms, and were waving As he sat by the skeleton waiting for waiting for the return of the friend Iowa. He never failed to attract attention they had taken umbrage at his their arms gently above the children's of course, until they find out what help from the shore, which seemed so the young man modestly swam out movements when their intentions in these bodies by bis eccentric heads. The birds were flying treatment is best, for what answers tardy in coming, he saw about the beyond the ropes and came near being were peaceful. Still holding his rifle ways. A writer in the New York about twittering with delight, and well in one outbreak frequently won't ribs ofthefleshless frame a leather drowned. in his hand Myron stepped to the Star says: the flowers were looking up through answer at all well in another. Sometimes, belt. Curiosity overcame his terror, The friend returned with the newsuit the green grass and laugMng. It was open door for the purpose of ascertaining He claimed to be a farmer, although and, unfastening the belt, he found as in Savaunah the last time and then began a struggle with a lovely, scene, oMy in one corner it whether his guests had really he also practiced law, but, above all within it gold coin to the amount of the fever was there, dry quinine on the the waves that has never before been things, he was astudent. He was considered was still winter. It was the farthest departed. When the farmer appeared $5,000. tongue seems to answer best. Sometimes equaled. The young man raised at an eminent scholar in his part corner of the garden, and in it was on the threshold the report of a rifle That Kobert Myron was in a fever other means are more effective. of the country, and had a very fine leg in order to incase it in the newsuit. standing a little boy. He was so was heard, and Myron fell, with a of excitement hardly needs to be told. The champagne treatment is perhaps library of rare works. He probably A heavy wave came along and small that he could not reach up to dangerous but not necessarily fatal He had struggled to the full strength had the bitterest tongue of any man more generally effective than any knocked Mm over. The spectators the branches of the tree, and he was wound in his side. of man many years, and was hardly in the West, and he never was so happy other, but there is scarcely enough ol tittered. The girls blushed and the wandering all round it, crying bitterly. Women who live on the border, more than a pauper when he should as when abusing some one or some action was repeated. At last, after that costly medicine at command to The poor tree was still qmte covered p^here they are constantly menaced have had at least a spot of God's thing. Probably his most marked an hour ©f hard work, with the as with frost and snow, and the supply the need in an epidemic. The by danger, learn early imlife that they footstool he could call his own. The feature was his dirty habits. It is an sistance of no less than twelve persons, North Wind was blowing and roaring late Dr. Gabriel Disosway Ayres, of must deny themselves woman's privilege dead had brought him what theliving actual fact that he would go at least the young swimmer managed above it. "Climb up! little boy," Brooklyn, once told me that on one of fainting. When Mr. Myron six months without changing his shirt, had refused. To take the gold for to get into the new smt. The young said the Tree, and it bent its branches fell, his wife sprang t© his defense occasion he was in a British West India and he was as frequently referred to his own purposes seemed a theft, and man was very bashful and concluded4 down as low as it could but the boy rather than assistance. To close and as "dirty shirt" Dean as by his proper town when the fever was present yet he who had fastened it about his he had enough of salt water batMng. was too tiny. name. He had a very strong face, full barricade windows and doors was there. He was traveling with a body could no longer use it. The Once more he stood upon the classic of character and determination, and And the Giant's heart melted as he but the work of a moment where struggle between his •conscience\ friend and the two remained a week sands of the island inwardly betting with a certain charm of manner, so looked out. "How selfish I have •everything was prepared for and his necessity was a long one but on the island. One evening they himself 50 cents that he*d never be that his habits did not bury his attractiveness. been!" he said "now I know why the such occasions, and then (the when those who came to rescue him dined with a physician there, and caught again in a suit of Coney Island He was in some respects Spring would not come here. I will heroic woman turned her attention arrived at the sand bar they found next morning learned that he had Kentucky jeans. a miser. He would 'Stay in one of put that poor little boy on the top of to her husband and children. him with a skeleton on whieh nothing died during the night with the fever. these little towns at the leading hotel, thetree, and then I will knock down the The father's wound bled but little, could be seen, and no one could have and always manage not to pay any "I thought it time for men who had wall, and my garden shall be the children's and save to stanch the blood, the devoted fancied that the half-drowned man board. He would insist to the landlord Able to Bead in the Dark. no business there to get away," said playground for ever and ever." wife could not aid Mm, except had found a treasure. That the bones that he was an attraction to the Dr. Ayres, "and we took sMp the He was really very sorry for what he From the Indianatiolis News. by piling the bedding around him in were those of one of the passengers of house, and therefore, should not be next day far Havana. In the night had done. "You have heard of men with catrs^ •sueti a way that, in a sittingposture, the Tidal Wave., no one doubted, and expected to pay anything. I remember my friend was seized with the fever, So he crept down stairs and opened he icould face the closed door. The they were given a resting-place meeting him once in Ottumwa, eyes?' asked Federal Marshal a and I treated him with champagne the front door quite softly, and went Iowa. Everybody there knew him temporary safety of the children was among the nameless graves of those kins. out into the garden. But when the without saying anything about it to and considered him one of the strongest 4^ousred by fastening them in the cellar, who had lost their lives in the (disaster. "Well, this man Johnson, alias E men in debate they had ever children saw him they were so frightened No one save Kobert Myrom and alarm the passengers. When he waf where they would be beyond the wards, alias Brown, who was released heard. It was very difficult then to that they all ran away and the his wife knew of the money-belt, or out of danger I told the captain,whc reach of any bullets their late visitors get him into a discussion, and if he under the poor convict lawhas garden became Winter again. Only that on the inside of it, cut deep in might *end, and after she had perfected at once and very impressively said: did not feel called upon to speak no the little boy did not run, for his eyes a pair of that variety. They sayup the tMck leather, was the name their plan of defence sJae began 'If you let anybody in Havana know amount of persuasion could induce were so full of tears that he did not at the Pemtentiary that he can. "Henry Parks." to assume the offensive. that you poured champagne into a him. -r- *. N see the Giant coming. And the Giant read in the dark and that Ms eyes are By removing the mud that filled man with yellow fever they'll hang But Myron, havingtMs money, did stole up behind him and took him fairly luminous. One of the guarda the crevices of the logs at the end of not dare to use it openly lest people you?' The doctor inferred that the gently in Ms hand, and put him up Here is a story said to be a true one. the house loop-holes were formed, said that Johnson, alias Edward**,^ should question how he got it. He champagne treatment, though a favorite into the tree. And the tree broke at At any rate it is good enough to be flaad through these the husband and alias Brown, could see a guards had agreed with his wife that they one with British physicians, once into blossom, and the birds came true: Ifr was at Liverpool docks. A wife began an assault upon theirfoes. should use the gold for their own through a brick wall." "H^T** was at that time unknown among and sang on it, and the little boy party of American tourists were about With his rifle Myron shot one of the benefit, but.do it with the view of returning the Spanish. jCuriously enough, I stretched out Ms two arms and flung to take the steamer for home. As Indians, and at the same time his wife it if they should ever find the them around the Giant's neck, and believe any other form of alcoholic they sailed along the gangway to the A curious fact revealed by the* killed another with the fowling piece. dead man's heirs. This he hoped to kissed him. And the other children, stimulation in yellow fever kills with tender's deck one of the three" paused phonographer is that people generally By this time the foe, finding their intended do by making such investments as when they saw the Giant was not sometMngofthe precision of a Remington in the centre, and stretching out his victims more tenacious of life do not know their own voicesThe could be readily realized upon, so wicked any longer,came running back, encumbered hands, dramatically addressed rifle, and, of course, men who than they had supposed, resorted to that they might show themselves to husband will recognize the wife's and with them came the spring. "It the surrounding scenery. "If are harddrinkers are doomed if they stratagem to accomplish the massa,- be good, even if self-elected, stewards. voice in a phonograph, and the wife is your garden now, little children," there is," he hoarsely exclaimed, "one once get yellow fever. For that mat. I fieId a a cart half filled The cabin they lived in, and the will recognize the husband's, butneither said the Giant, and he took a great* blarsted Britisher on this confounded ter such men are doomed whenever with hay in the stable yard stood a five acres ofland surrounding it, was will recognize their own axe and knocked down the wall. And island that I haven't given a shilling yoke of oxen quietly eating. To for sale at a price below its real value. they get any virulent disease, and when the people weregoing to market speech. This must be mighty disappointing to, let him come forward and get it. fasten the animals to the cart and Myron represented to the owner upon reflection I may say they are at 12 o'clock they found the Giant to the man who thinks himself It's his last chance!" Then he stalked not expose themselves to the deadly that, despite appearances he had doomed anyhow. playingjyith. the children in the most on board with an air of great relief. a silvery-tongued orator.—Troyr pirn of those in the house was accom- m&wm&8Bmmm I=L mmm iPini'mrrr