| Show 1 i THE LITTLE PEOPLE A Boy Who Would Not Do to Make Linen ALL OF US HAVE OUR TROUBLES A lIce and InicrestineIiotor Stories About Animals but Chiefly About Smart ana Wonderful Dogs There was a lad in Ireland who was put to work In a linen factory While ho was at work there a piece of cloth was to bent I be-nt out which was short of the length It ought to have been but the master thought It might be made a little longer by stretching stretch-ing Ho thereupon unrolled the cloth taking one end of it himself and the boy the other He then said Pull Adam pulL The boy said I cant Why not said the master Because it is wrong and ho didnt pulL Upon this the master said he would not do for a linen manufacturer But that boy became the Her Adam Clarke and the strict principle of honesty of his youthful days laid the foundation of his future greatness We All Have Our Troubles a This is a hard family to live with I pouted the piano Mss Susie pounds mo every day for an hour or two 1 Well at least you dont have to work csciaimod the clock My hands are never idle They keep them moving every minute min-ute and second TaUt about work cried the table why almost everything is put on ma I wouldnt mind work observed tho lamp out Im sensitive and it isnt pleasant pleas-ant when youre quite bright to be turned co vn once or twice every evening Sensitive sneered the mirror think of the ugly faces often turned on me I And I think also said the carpet how the children jump on me Still Im not worn out yet You may oil talk till youre tired yet you must admit that net one of you is so cat upon as I am finished the chair decisively de-cisively Harpers Young People In NinetyThree 1 I From St Nicholas This Is my birthdayIm almost a man Exactly eight Im growing up says my Uncle Van At an awful rae But I cant know teverniiing quite clear Not quite says he Before my birthday comes round next year I Ninetythree I What makes the moon grow thin and long Like a paper boat How did they get the canarys song In his little throat Why hasnt the butterfly something to dot Or why ban the bee What trill become or Ninetytwo In Ninetythree i Pm always thinking and wondering As hard as I can But there isnt much use In questioning My Uncle Van For ho only Bay with a funny look 1 shall probably see If I keep on growing and mind my book In Ninety three Its long ahead till a fellows nine When hes only eight But the days keep passing rain or shine And I can wait For all these puzzles that seem so queer Just now to me Ill understand by another year In Ninetythree Australian Shark and Direr On one occasion a big shark came along aide me when I was working I stopped of course and stepped back quietly to le him pass But ho did not Ho came nearer I then tnought ho was curious but soon found that another feeling than curiosity was moving him As 1 retreated i ho still advanced until I found myself jammed up against the rock I could retreat re-treat no further and yet the brute came on determinedly But instead of approachIng approach-Ing me with his long nosefor you dont E see his jaws he turned his side and began to rub up against me I had a small jumper in my hand which I held with the point outward against his skin as I did not wish to have his rough skin scoring along my dress It was something like what a cow would be rubbing againstyou Tho iron on his sKin was however the very thing he wanted as he soon gave me f to understand I vas kept thero half an hour scratching that monster with a sharp i iron He took it like a pig bending his rt body and turning over on his side so as to present fresh surface to the jumper 1 suppose he must have felt easier for the operation for after a time ha moved away 1 k I had one or two further visits from him on following days on which I was obliged to scratch him for a time I think he must have recognized me as a kindly and effectual 5 effect-ual Bcratcner I imagine he was suffering I A from some parasitical or skin disease to ti which he may have fallen a victim Otherwise i Other-wise I might be in that scratching billet I still C7iamcrs Journal t In an Alligators Mouthy Mouth-y Uncle Caisar was standing a few days ago with his old flintlock musket in his hand near an oldfashioned rail fence i when all at onca ne beard a terrible rattling f rat-tling and yelping up in the woods near the it saw grass and looking up ao saw old Snip k < bis favorite benchlegged fice dog making kt the leaves fly like a whirlwind and imme diately in front of him a swamp rabbit was flying The rabbit shot through the fence like an arrow the same instant the little dog darted through tho same hole and nIl f was quietS quiet-S Uncle Cassar says that he ran to the spot t and saw a huge alligator lying with his f mouth open into which both the hare and the dog had run perhaps thinking it a hole L J i I I trrir r JtgiSJS i JKS in a log Ho at once sent a bullet into the right eye of the gator who whirled over on his back when Uncle Csasar pulled out his old pruning knife and made a long and deep incialon in the stonach of the gator i when to hU astonishment the rabbit and dog both jumped out and flew down toward the water Xew York Telegram A Blind Plans Dog I A blind man piloted about the centre of the city by a dog attracted a great deal of attention The man was neatly dressed and carried a satchel containing article to soil swung over his shoulder He carried a stick in order to enable him to feel his way up or down a step The dog a plump wellfad brown animal had on a sort of I harness to which a stout cord was attached at-tached from his back He was apparently in a hurry to do business for he tugged at the cord vigorously as he went along Every few steps be would look around at his master in the most intelligent way as if to discover whether he was coming along safely I As soon as he got to the door ho stopped and looked up to his master If the door was one on which was posted the sign The other door the man would try the knob and as soon as the dog saw that his master could not go in he would immediately immedi-ately move on to the next door When a door a aa opened tho dog appeared to un derstauu exactly how to transact business He would pilot his master straight to the office in the back or front part of the house stop and look up > When anybody bought anything and Good day was said the animal would lead the way out again often looking around at his companion compan-ion and when the street was reached ho would be sure to start exactly where he left off and try tho next door If the animal ani-mal was not fond of that man the looks and actions of a doii go for nothing Baltimore Balti-more AmericanA American-A Canine Suit Carrier A little postofflce near Witmers on the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad enjoys the unique distinction of being the only office in the country wherein a dog officiates as assistant postmaster says the Philadelphia Record Postmaster Mussel mans canine assistant little Charles i spaniel called Beauty upon whom has devolved de-volved for five years the task of bringing from Witmers station a half mile distant the bundle of morning papers from Philadelphia Phila-delphia Two bundles a large and a small one are thrown off at the station Regularly every morning Beauty trots over the fields to the station and patiently awaits the ar rival of the train When the two bundles are thrown off Beauty siezes the smaller one in her mouth and trots directly home She never makes a mistake always taking the small bundle neither does she loiter along by the roadside but covers the distance dis-tance between Witmers and the crossroads cross-roads postoffice at a speed that would almost al-most do credit to Nancy Hanks herself Beauty has been assistant postmaster almost > al-most since her birth and could hardly be replaced A Dos That Deserves a Medal In tho district of Samland near Konigs berg a dog has just saved the lives of the two children of a landed proprietor A German contemporary describes tho incident inci-dent Two youngstersa boy of ten and a girl of 11 years woro playing on the brink of a deep piece of water and while trying to reach a piece of wood overbalanced over-balanced themselves and fell into the water The dog began to bark but created little attention The animal then sprang into the stream and swam to the childred Seizing the clothes of ono with his teeth he brought it to shore and plunging again succeeded in bringing the other likewise Then Jordan for so the dog was named ran to the manor house and howled Thinking something some-thing amiss the dog was followed to the scene The children were on tho shore senseless Whet they regained consciousness conscious-ness the dog began to lick their faces and hands and pranced about with the utmost delight The next day the boy apparently none the worse clambered as usual on to the back of the faithful Mount St Bernard But the dog now took its youthful ride in an opposite direction iron the water Jordan Jor-dan is to be rewarded with a brand new collar with the date of the rescue engraved en-graved upon it and will receive a lifelong pension from the family for his sagacity London JYeww A Doz Well Trained Sir John Lubbock has succeeded in training train-ing his dog to distinguish a card with water on It if it wants water one with food if it wants food and so on The dog soon learnedto distinguish the blank from the written ones then ho learned to attach an idea to somo of the latter and was finally able to fetch to bis master the card which corresponded with his wish To get a single meal he bad to fetch some eighteen or twenty of these cards He made no mistakes OUT OF SIGHT The traveling public are now fully alive to the tact that the Chicago Union Pacific Northwestern line offers the very best accommodations to the public from and to Chicago Omaha Denver aDd intermediate inter-mediate points w HAD HOI SlJSlI FUJI YFAPp Mr A Jackson an old resident of Rusks Texas ant 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