Show I things out while he holds his LITTLE l PEOPL Beech nuts are the little fe I food and he likes to store quantity of these nice thr When the long cold days himself up in his cosy homo Interesting Sh rt Stories quiet vinter with plenty to I a Pretty Poem A Great Snafee 8to As is VeIl known the reJ fires havo driven out of their numbers ofsnakes but the E TER WITH A PANTHER Philadelphia and Reading I work beyond Lorbery near Schuylkill county is entirely a Reading Pa dispatch to Story A little Storekeeper phia Ledger They were Ins by the Future Sovereigns leave the mountain in u hu the great number of snakes ereigns of the Laud driven to the hill occupied by fierce fires raging on the m site They swarmed in c part of this century Jar Pius bers rattlers copperheads famous hunter of Alexandria snakes ranging in length from when his traps were sot for half to seven feet The ar it out on a tour of inspection swooped down upon the su out warning The men waited iaed to see a panther apr lug but seeing the numbers it i away with one of the tr Bps picked up their instruments is bind leg Eo fired but I 1 the mountain followed by tIe tI-e creature made off ino the When the surveying corps road they halted and tV as went to the neighbors there they saw thousands and returned to the woods almost OUR L Some Inte rand and AX ENCOUNTER Great Snako Sharp ay ere In the early Rich was a f N y Once wolves he went and was surprised up and bound hitcbed to hIssed missed and the thu Ket Jarius rowed a dog un dOUR trapped brute had disappeared his quIck cyo detected a panthers bead protruding ircm some bushes a few rods ahead He toot hasty aim fired and tcj creature fell dead Examination revealed the tact that this was cot the panther in the trap and tho excited ex-cited barking of the dog a few rods in advance 1 ad-vance snowed that another game was near Leaving the dead panther ho hurried on bn1 soon camo in sight of the entrapped boast which stood at bay snarling fiercely ut te dog which kept at a safe distance lr Rich fired at the panther but only E wounded it slightly In the excitement of the moment he threw down his gun seized his hatchet and ran forward hinking to make short work of his game ut in that he was mistaken The panther made a i Eddoeh spring knocked the hatchet from thc Ljaters hand and furious with rage am lain began tearing and mtlng him l lm defended himself to the boat of his rb iy but there was nogetting away from the lroo animal A fearful struggle en bued and flnnily the panihei cot one of the i hunters hands in mouthish Wth his free hand Rich succeeded In Ret op his irtck knife from his pocket He opened t with his teeth end with it put an end to the life of the ugly brute ben he crawled to the nearest house tvLere his wounds were cared for It was aenll weeks before ho was able to leave hia < e1 l and the scars of the conflict he I hero to his grave I w hat the school HIll OaTs It wonderful That unlika things 1 w CLooi hall says to inc boys when it n i I Ir ttDCC the Inward who drags along C a 1h5 way in Mhooi Lrarj this sortof thing lhIouzhum it by did 1 couC Study lout I oobs an a bore Dhow I wii 1 could run 01 and fish See thtre the brooU Heie lnc and hook N hats hut you say Hurry uieti im hmi LO posei trust go btuny tin four books lire < i bore TFri tltf boy who lotos to be faithful and true W d i > vrhat his parent think best he 1 Li J i doC do-C < IlL > uravely along with satchel and books Tlj breeze in his wiiintie the sun in his looks Au thee are the thoughts tent well up like a bLg As t Lears the old hti with its faithful ding dong Cling clang cl og a am so id 1 < 1 could sing heaven so clue Duty to < to Jird < in the art rclythh far t VCIl a tI V = Finds stu1 a jy Whea nv words done Im r Rev tor ran 1etaerrypay For the laslis oftho aftj Cine clan cnnc I in to glad 1 cn bine A Little StoreKeeper A little storekeeper only four inches high and the happiest friskiest little follow fol-low you ever saw He lives near my house and I see him every morning dressed in a warm brown coat striped with blackas nattv a little squirrel as ever frisked j thrt ugh the woods In tno summer and I fall be goes out to gather seeds and nuts j I and packs them away in his two leather I bags Ihese two tiny bogs are in his mouth ust back of those sharp teeth that cracK I the nuts It is very funny to see him sit I i up strs gnt and crowd the nuts into the little aes with his fore feet When the I bsg is fall be shuts his mouth tight which clou s tho oap and away he scampers i BiI homo is hidden away under the roots of 8 tree and the door is very small First them IR a ujngslanunghall ana then comes the osiest room imaginable It is lined with oioss and has u soft warm carpet of I leaver His storeroom is just out of the parlor It has a sort of earthen shelf I where he packs away the seeds and nuts for wintsr When ho gets into this little piorprooin be sits jp puts his little forefeet fore-feet behind the bigs where the nuts are tucked away and just crowds all the good mouth open fellows favorite away a good threesided nuts come he shuts and spends a eat Story recent mountain ir lairs groat experience of a corpp while at ar Prackville y unique says the Philadel compelled to hurry owing toes to-es that were them by the mountain oppo countless num s and black m a foot and amy a-my of snakes surveyors with ed some time increasing they and fled down the snakes s reached the while standing of snakes of every kind rapidly glide across tho I road and into the underbrush on the other side As they were about leaving they witnessed a deadly combat between a rattler rat-tler and a huge black snake tho latter almost al-most as thick around as a mans arm The rattler was five and a half feet long and the black snake fully seven feet long The rattler was cutting across the road diagonally j diagon-ally as the other came from the same side straight across In a moment they were in each others embrace The black snake gave a sudden twist of his body and caught the rattler in his coils another twist and it was all up with the rattler The blacksnake black-snake quickly uucoilod himself and hurriedly hur-riedly darted into the woods I Juvenile Cute fcaylnas Good Hews Little GirlWhy do tho flies j I bite so today Mother Its going to rain Little GirlWell they might know taint my fault I JeiLelers1 weekly Teacher fin mineralogy classJohnny give me the name of the 1 I largest known diamond Johnny The ace InterOcean Teacher Now Johnny you may toll us if you live In the temperate I I zone or Johnny Haw you can get all the beer you want right next door Boston Courier A sneeze aint got much I business enterprise said Tommy every ones got to stutter in the nose a minute fore it goes oIL How could you thin of calling auntie stupid Go to her immediately and tell her you are sorry Freddie goes to auntie and says Auntie I am sorry you are so stupid Good News MotherWhy arent you and Georgie as good boys as your little brother Young Hopeful guess its cause youd bad more experience brmgiu7 up boys wen you commenced on him Tommy did you hear your mother call you Couree I did Then why dont you go to hor at once Well yer see shes nervous and Id shock her awful I should go too sudden Once tree Now which of tho great past men would you rathor be Robert after a long and interesting talk on the celebrities of history None of em replied re-plied ttobert None of them Why not Cause theyre all dead |