office of the latter, now in successful practice. In due time he
was admitted to the bar. He spent a year in Cincinnati, but was led
then to remove to Wisconsin, Bessie Benton accompanying him as his
wife. Here he soon began to win reputation, and at this moment he holds
a position of high official trust in his adopted State.

We take leave of "Tom, the Bootblack," trusting that the record of his
struggles and final success may inspire all boys who read it to emulate
him in bold and manly effort.

THE BURIED TREASURE.

Davie Cameron was only a poor peasant, and the cottage or _sheiling_
where he dwelt was a humble one, even for that wild Scottish valley;
but though he had a small habitation, and was poor in worldly goods, he
had a large heart, and was rich in that contentment which is better
than gold. He often averred that he envied not the king on his throne,
though, considering what very poor luck the Scottish monarchs have had,
you may think that wasn't saying much.

Davie was gardener to the Laird of Lanarkville, just as his father had
been gardener to a former Laird of Lanarkville, and his grandfather to
one still more remote.

If the testimony of Davie's old grandmother was to be trusted, the
ancient glories of the house of Lanark had dwindled away from
generation to generation, so that nowadays there was nothing to be
compared with the splendors she had seen when she was a lassie. She was
greatly scandalized because the present laird not only superintended
the affairs of his estate, but had even been known to labor with his
own hands.

"His forbears wad hae scorned to do the like," she would exclaim,
adding, with a mysterious shake of the head, "but gin the young laird
had a' that belanged to him, he wad na need to dicker and delve like
ane o' his ain sarvants, forsooth!"

The story which lay concealed in these words was this:

In the year 1745, when the then existing laird forsook his home to
follow the fortunes of Prince Charles Edward--for he was a staunch
Jacobite--he enclosed his treasure in an iron box and buried it in the
earth. The sole witness and aid to this transaction was his faithful
follower, Hugh Cameron.

At the battle of Culloden Lanark was killed, and Hugh received a wound
which proved mortal. Before he died he confided the secret of the
buried treasure to his younger brother, Archie, and would fain have
directed him to its hiding-place, but when he had uttered the words
"u