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Show ; ..Our Hoys and ffirls.. Edited by Aunt Busy. I j Thi3 department is conducted solely in the inter ests of our girl and boy "readers. Aunt BuFy Is glad to hear any time from the r.ieces and nephews who read this page, and to give ; them all the advice and help in her xver ; Write on one side of the paer only. Do not have letters too long:. ; Original stories and verses will be gladly received and carefully edited. received 1 ' beT1heeturnn?dUSCriPS f COntlibutios accepted will CalT t T'V Aunt Bu5y' mountain j tatnoJig, Salt Lake City. I M MTSTEBIOUS DISA"pt- . - f I A Dy stood on the quarterdeck 1 ! And spied a teninch gun. I Wa8 ellstening in u,.; s-n. " " " i w,'th curious, eager eyes the boy Into the gun did peep, 1 -And then he clambered1 in oh joy' j f Anl soon was fast asleep. ' ' j I For target practice cam along f I Five jolly tars oh.ho! If And with a mighty bomty-bbosip- I The ten-inch gun let go: I I Xo,v in the town of Aiutohum i 1 The papers want to know i I 1,1 Paring headlines what's become f .Of.-little Tommy Snow! I . i I ATNT BUSY HAS HER SAY. ' ? Dear Xiows and Nephews: Aunt Busy is I awaiting with much interest to hear from the girls ; and hoys vho intend to try for the prize she is of- jj nn5 lor the bcst composition ou "Thanksgiving j Several of her nieces and nephews have nlreadv 1 entered the contest. One dear cirl wrote Aunt I Busy a personal letter, in which she said that Aunt Jusy would giro the prize to the. nephews localise I she 1,ked lhn the best. Aunt Busy just felt so sorry that for a few minutes she feared that the j tears might run down over the tip of her funny I "Id nose. Just think of any girl ha vine such an 1 opinion of poor old Aunt Busy! Why, Aunt Busy I always tries to be just, and would not think of "be- :ng partial to the boys; although she thinks them the dearest, fellows in the world. So now she has decided to give a prize for the nieces and one for I 1h0 nephews just to prove that she means to be fair, i p'n& for tne judges she has selected three bright," j . lever newspaper men of the Salt Lake Herald! ? One of the judges has two dear boys, each of the others has a dear little daughter, so surely now Aunt Busy's dear girls and boys will be treated with ' I justice. I Enter your names soon as contestants, dear j children, and do win the prizes given by vour de- g V vo1ed' AUXTBUSY. CONTESTANTS FOR ATJNT BUSY'S PRIZES. Miss Elizabeth Burns, Oil Center street, Salt j Lake City. John E. Dueey of Denver. Miss Xelie Clancy of. But to. Miss Mary Vezzette of Brookside, Colo. LETTERS AND ANSWERS. Cherry Creek, Xew, Oct. 31. Dear Aunt Busy: I wrote to you a long time ago and have looked in every paper' but could not see it. How is Uncle Busy I am going to school and mv. teacher's name 13 Miss O'lTare. I have two dogs, three little calves, two cats and a whole lot of chickens. Our dolls' names are Gladys, Xola. Alice and Cora. Sister's name is Ella. Ella and I have two little girl friends. Their names arc Ber-Iha Ber-Iha and Gene. I have lots of studies. They are reading, writing, spelling, grammar, physiology, arithmetic and geography. I remain .vour loving niece, MAUDIE PHALAX. Aunt Busy never received your letter, Maud, or she would certainly have published it. Aunt Busy i would love to see your many pets. What pretty names your dollies have, too! Aunt Busy had a j funny old rag doll once and she called it "Minerva i Jane." Write soon again, dear. Cerr, Colo., Sept. 11. Dear Aunt Busy: As I said I would write about what I saw at Ringling Bros.' show, I saw two giraffes, a black bear, one camel and a baby camel, tigers, leopard, seal, gnus or horned horses, ibex, I zebra, yaks, zebu. African antelope, deer, rhinos- ' cerous, gazella, lions, hippopotamus and forty elephants. I saw the street parade, which was three miles long. I saw in a cage a woman with three or four snakes, holding one snake on her lap. 1 saw a wonderful lightning leap, six bicycle experts ex-perts and twelve persons riding on one wheel; elephants ele-phants standing on their head, and . they would lie down when the master cracked his whip. I saw forty-eight ponies hitched on one wagon in the parade: one woman stood on a loose wire and swung back and forth and then she laid down and swung seals tossing caps in the air end letting f them fall on their heads; fifty clowns one clown '"ame around and introduced us to his wife and oldest old-est son and their hired girl; two little dogs playing play-ing see-saw; some bars fastened near the top of the lent and three people hanging by, their feet and throwing a little girl, one holding the girl bv the hands and then catching her by the feet. There were over fifty girls dancing. This is all I remember remem-ber that I saw it the shew. So, good-bve. From your niece. AGXES MAXTEY. Aunt Busy has been anxiously waiting to hear from you, Agnes. You certainly must hove seen everything at the circus that could possibly be soon. Aunt Busy used to enjoy lhe circus, too, a long time ago. and peanuts, candy, lemonade and lts of other good things. About your story, dear, it is very nice, but Aunt Busy is only publishing Thanksgiving stories at present. She would like to receive one from you. Write soon again, and love to all the little Mauteys. Brookside, Colo., Oct. 2). Dear Aunt Busy: t is a very long time since I wrote to you last, but I have not forgot you. I am in the eighth grade now, and I am 12 years old. My father is candidate for float representative for, Fremont Fre-mont and Chaffee counties. I am now writing you a composition on Thanksgivinff. I think 1 will close now. Yours trulv, MARY YEZZETI. 4 TILVXIvSGTYIXG DAY. Thanksgiving day comes on the 24th of Xo-v.mbor. Xo-v.mbor. It was started by the Pilgrim fathers, when they came from England to America. They came to America and when they got here their provisions pro-visions gave out and they were all hungry, but had nothing to eat. They all knelt dewn and prayed iird in a little while a ship came loaded with food for-the Pilgrims. They all thought it was a godsend god-send and were all very glad. They named it Thanksgiving, thanking God for his gift. Then they killed turkeys and roasted them and that is whv we kill turkevs on Thanksgiving. MAKY VEZZETI, Brookside, Colo. Aunt Busy is delighted to hear from her long-lost long-lost niece once more. She is pleased that you did y not forget her: she never forgets her dear girls and boys of Colorado. Aunt Busy hopes that your good papa will be elected, although you do nor;' say to which rarty he belongs, but Aunt Busy would not ; understand anyhow; she is a very stupid old person about politics. She cannot give her opinion of your story yet, dear, but she appreciates your prompt entry into the contest. Perhaps Colorado will carry off the prize. A MERITED REBUKE. A gentleman prominent in legal circles in Pittsburg Pitts-burg was recently riding in a train, and in the seat before him was a young and well-dressed girl. The car was pretty full and presently an elderly Avoman entered, and, finding no scat vacant but one beside the young girl mentioned, sat down beside her. She was a decently dressed woman, but apparently appar-ently of humble station, and she carried several clumsy bundles, which were evidently a serious annoyance to her seatmate. The girl made no effort to conceal her vexation, but in the most conspicuous manner showed the passengers around that she considered it an im-irtinent im-irtinent intrusion for the newcomer to presume sit down beside her. In a few moments the old woman, depositing her package upon the seat, went across the car to speak to an acquaintance, whom she discovered on the opposite side of the aisle. The. 'lawyer leaned forward to the offended young lady and courteously courteous-ly asked if she would change scats with him. A smile of gratified vanity showed how pleased she was at the suggestion from so distinguished-looking distinguished-looking a gentleman. 'Oh, thank you ever so much," she said, effusively. "I should like to, but it would be as bad for you as for me to sit beside such an old woman." "I beg your pardon," he responded with undiminished undi-minished deference of manner, ''it was not your comfort I Avas thinking of, but the old lady's." A SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENTS. Impulsive small James, somewhat out 'of breath and with his blue eyes fairly bulging, rushed home after the temperance lecture and threw himself upon his mother. 4'0h, mother," he cried, "find a safe place, quick, and hide the baby!" ''Why, James!" demanded astonished Mrs. Bell, "what in the world is the matter J" "Hide her quick," panted James. "That man that talked today is coming right after her. lie boards next door, and just as soon as I heard him I say: 'I intend to devote my life to eradicating the! crying evil,' I know he meant our baby." A COSTLY C03OIA. "Have you your examples all right, Tom V asked Mr. Walker, as his son closed the arithmetic and came to say good-night. '"XVar enough," was the reply, "and I'm thankful, thank-ful, for they were a tough lot." "But ' I don't understand," said his father, ''what do you mean by near enough. Do you mean that they are almost right r" ''Why, I mean they are as good as right. There's a point wrong in one, and two figures wrong in another, an-other, but there's no use in fussing over such trifles. tri-fles. I'm most sure the method's right, and that's the main thing." "Yes," returned his father. lI admit that the method is important, but it is not the only thing. Let me see how much difference the point makes in this example." Tom brought his paper, and after looking it over Mr. Walker said: ''That point makes a differ ence of $5,000. Suppose it represented money that some one was going to pay you. Then you'd bo pretty anxious to have the point right, wouldn't your" "Oh. of course, in that case I would have looked it over again." said Tom, carelessly. "But this is -only an example in school, and it would never make any differenre to anybody whether the point was right or not." . "To any one but you," returned Mr. Walker, "lor a habit a carelessness and inaccuracy once fixed upon you will make a difference all.your life, and may prevent you from ever succeeding in the business world. You may not realize it, but what employers want, and must have, is accuracy in little lit-tle things as well as in great, and, indeed, things that seem small are often far more important than they look. A comma seems about as unimportant as anything, but let me tell you a story about one. "Some years ago there were enumerated in a tariff bill certain articles that might be admitted free of duty. Among them were foreign fruit plants. What would that mean :" "Why, I suppose," said Tom, "plants that bear fruit." "Yes," said Mr. Walker, "but the lerk who copied the bill never had been taught accuracy, and, instead of copying the hyphen, he changed-it. to a comma, making it read 'fruitplanis,' etc. It was a trifling error not worth noticing you would say but before it could be remedied the government govern-ment lost $2,000,000, as well as all foreign 'fruits' had to be admitted free of duty. Xow, whenever you are inclined to be careless, I hope you will re-" member that two-million-dollar comma." Tom did not say much, but, he went upstairs, thinking that if a little comma could make all that difference, it might be worth while to fuss over trifles, tri-fles, after all. i '. Lincoln Steffens, the magazine writer. who gave world-wide publicity to civic corruption in St. Louis and Minneapolis, has contributed interesting conclusions as a result of his studies. His investigations investi-gations practically amount to these few dicta : "(1) The American citizen doesn't want to be bothered with politics, and invariably will let the bosses have their own way so long. as his own business is benefited ben-efited or not injured. (2) The big business. man, seeking profitable franchises, furnishes the incentive incen-tive to graft by paying to secure legislation such as he desires; and, although this is good business, it is corruption in politics. (3) The politician learns from reform to apply business principles of supply and demand to giving the municipality those things it honestly desires, but he will give as little, as he can, although he prefers to give clean streets and remain in power to not giving them and losing ofSee. (4) The boss is almost always without office and responsibility. (5) The ordinary reformer is too idealistic to be practical, and the people will ' reform their government only by spurts, so that the best, hepe of permanent improvement in municipalities munici-palities is the boss reformer who will use political machinery for his worldly. ends." . . , - : Piscovered By Priest Scientist. Three large spots were discovered upon the sun recently by the Rev. Jerome Ricardo, S. J., director of the meteorological observatory at Santa Clara college. San Jose, Cal. One of the spots is several times larger than the earth, and the other two are still of greater magnitude. The larger of the spots is a slight distance below the sun equator, and the two smaller ones 10 degrees above the equator. The size of the larger spot is very great in comparison com-parison with the earth. One of the small spots is a double one, being composed of two smaller ones, and, compared with thecarth, is very large. These spots on the day of discovery appeared to grow in size, and the discoverer believes they will further increase. . ' 4 ( Fake Story of Barefoot Princess. Xaples, Xov. 10. Some news agency perpetrated an awful fake on American newspapers some little time ago to the effect that Princess Alice of Bourbon,, Bour-bon,, divorced, from Prince Schoenburg, was going on a, pilgrimage through Italy. in her bare feet, to do penauce for running away with a coachman. Prince Schoenburg, it is claimed, accompanied Alice, also on bare feet, though it is not recorded that he ran away with anybody. As a matter of. cold fact,' her royal highness has been living -here for the last six months under the assumed name of Mme. Blucher. Prince Schoenburg she has wt seen for two-years, but does not conceal the fact that the stork is again hovering over her villa. The father-to-be is Baron1 del Predc, captain of horse, Eleventh cavalry. Alice and Del. Predc hope to marry some day, but don't worry. - Prede is good looking, but poor, and the princess' income is extremely ex-tremely limited, as she depends almost entirely upon the generosity of her father, Don Carks, pretender pre-tender to the Spanish crown. |